专业英语八级（人文知识）模拟试卷12 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有： 3. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question.
1． Break, Break, Break was written by A．Alfred Tennyson. B．Robert Browning. C．John Keats.
D．Elizabeth Browning.
正确答案：A 解析：《拍吧，拍吧，拍吧》(Break,Break,Break)的作者是阿尔弗雷德.丁尼生(Alfred Tennyson)，选A。 知识模块：英美文学
2． Alfred Tennyson wrote a lament named ______ for the death of his friend Hallam.
A．Lycidas B．Adonais
C．Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard D．In Memoriam
正确答案：D 解析：《悼念》(In Memoriam)是阿尔弗雷德.丁尼生(Alfred Tennyson)为纪念友人哈勒姆(Hallam)而作的挽歌，选D。《墓园挽诗》(Elegy Written in aCountry Churchyard)是托马斯.格雷(Thomas Gray)的作品，注意排除C。 知识模块：英美文学
3． Mary Barton was a masterpiece of A．Jane Austen.
B．Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. C．George Eliot.
D．Elizabeth Browning.
正确答案：B 解析：《玛丽.巴顿)(Mary Barton)是盖斯凯尔夫人(Mrs．Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell)的作品，选B。 知识模块：英美文学
4． Great Expectations was written by A．William M. Thackeray. B．Alfred Tennyson.
C．Charles Dickens. D．George Eliot.
正确答案：C 解析：《远大前程》(Great Expectations)是查尔斯.狄更斯(Charles Dickens)的作品，选C。 知识模块：英美文学
5． Thomas De Quincey’s ______ has impacted influence on James Joyce and T. S. Eliot.
A．On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth
B．On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts C．Confessions of an English Opium-Eater D．Literary Reminiscences
正确答案：C 解析：《一个抽鸦片的英国人的自白)(Confessions of an English Opium—Eater)是托马斯.德.昆西(Thomas De Quincey)的作品，对后来的詹姆斯.乔伊斯(JamesJoyce)和T．S．艾略特(T．S．Eliot)都产生一定的影响，所以选C。 知识模块：英美文学
6． In ______, Dickens has made good use of his own experience to expose the social evils of the day and given readers a broad picture of the society of his day.
A．David Copperfield
B．The Old Curiosity Shop C．Sketches by Boz D．Oliver Twist
正确答案：A 解析：《大卫.科波菲尔)(David Copperfield)全书采用第一人称叙事语气，其中融进了作者本人的许多生活经历，故选A。 知识模块：英美文学
7． Dickens took the French Revolution as the subject in A．Great Expectations. B．Hard Times.
C．A Tale of Two Cities. D．Bleak House.
正确答案：C 解析：《双城记》(A Tale of Two Cities)用法国前后法国的情况来暗示当时英国国内情况，故选C。 知识模块：英美文学
8． All the following works were written by Thackeray EXCEPT A．The Newcomes. B．Vanity Fair.
C．Henry Esmond. D．American Notes.
正确答案：D 解析：《美国札记)(American Notes)是狄更斯(Dickens)的作品，不是萨克雷(Thackeray)的作品，选D。 知识模块：英美文学
9． Robert Browning was a(n) A．playwright. B．novelist. C．essayist. D．poet.
正确答案：D
解析：罗伯特.布朗宁(Robert Browning)是个诗人，选D。 知识模块：英美文学
10． George Eliot was the pen-name of A．Mark Twain. B．Mary Ann Evans. C．Ellis Bell.
D．Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
正确答案：B
解析：乔治.艾略特(George Eliot)的原名是玛丽.安.伊万斯(Mary Ann Evans)，选B。 知识模块：英美文学
11． Among his famous novels, Tess of the D’Urbervilles and ______ are regarded as the summit of Hardy’s realism.
A．Jude the Obscure
B．The Mayor of Casterbridge C．Far from the Madding Crowd D．The Return of the Native
正确答案：A 解析：哈代(Hardy)的作品中，和《德伯家的苔丝》(Tess of the D’Urbervilles)齐名的是《无名的裘德)(Jude the Obscure)，选A。 知识模块：英美文学
12． Lawrence’s representative work ______ was positively taken as a typical example and lively manifestation of the Oedipus Complex in fiction.
A．Sons and Lovers B．The Waste Land
C．Lady Chatterley’s Lover D．Women in Love
正确答案：A 解析：《儿子与情人)(Sons and Lovers)体现了弗洛伊德精神分析理论中典型的恋母情结(Oedipus Complex)，选A。 知识模块：英美文学
13． Which of the following plays deals with the story that a linguist trains a flower girl to speak the so-called civilized English?
A．Major Barbara. B．Pygmalion.
C．Mrs. Warren’s Profession. D．Man and Superman.
正确答案：B 解析：《皮格马利翁》(Pygmalion)讲述一个满口伦敦土语的卖花女如何在一位语言学教授的教导和培训下变成一位上流社会的贵妇，选B。 知识模块：英美文学
14． George Bernard Shaw’s ______ is a commentary on Ibsen’s dramatic works and also served as the author’s own program of dramatic creation.
A．Widower’s Houses
B．Mrs. Warren’s Profession C．Saint Joan
D．The Quintessence of Ibsenism
正确答案：D 解析：《易卜生主义精华》(The Quintessence of Ibsenism)是萧伯纳(George BernardShaw)对易卜生剧作的赏析与评论，也是他自己戏剧创作思想的表白与宣言，选D。 知识模块：英美文学
15． All the following works were written by W.B.Yeats EXCEPT A．The Wild Swans at Coole. B．The Waste Land.
C．The Wind Among the Reeds. D．Sailing to Byzantium.
正确答案：B 解析：《荒原》(The Waste Land)是T．S．艾略特(T．S．Eliot)的作品，选B。 知识模块：英美文学
16． D.H. Lawrence wrote all the following EXCEPT A．Sons and Lovers. B．The Rainbow.
C．A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. D．Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
正确答案：C 解析：《一个青年艺术家的画像》(A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)是詹姆斯.乔伊斯(James Joyce)的作品，选C。 知识模块：英美文学
17． All the following works were written by T. S. Eliot EXCEPT A．The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. B．The Waste Land. C．Four Quartets. D．To the Lighthouse.
正确答案：D 解析：《到灯塔去》(To the Lighthouse)是弗吉尼亚.伍尔芙(Virginia Woolf)的作品，选D。 知识模块：英美文学
18． ______ is Maugham’s best-known work which is also regarded as his autobiographical novel.
A．The Razor’s edge
B．The Moon and Sixpence C．Cakes and Ale
D．Of Human Bondage
正确答案：D 解析：《人性的枷锁》(of Human Bondage)是威廉-萨默赛特.毛姆(William SomersetMaugham)最重要的作品，也是自传性小说，选D。 知识模块：英美文学
19． The Old Wives’ Tale was written by A．Samuel Beckett. B．Arnold Bennet.
C．George Bernard Shaw. D．Arnold Wesker.
正确答案：B 解析：《老妇谭》(The Old Wives’Tale)是阿诺德.贝内特(Arnold Bennet)的作品，选B。 知识模块：英美文学
20． Harold Pinter who was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contributions in play wrote all the following EXCEPT
A．The Dumb Waiter. B．The Caretaker.
C．Lady Windermere’s Fan. D．Betrayal.
正确答案：C 解析：《温德米尔夫人的扇子》(Lady Windermere’s Fan)是奥斯卡.王尔德(OscarWilde)的作品，选C。 知识模块：英美文学
21． According to the theory of______, literature must be true to life and exactly reproduces real life, including all its details without any selection.
A．Realism
B．Romanticism C．Naturalism D．Aestheticism
正确答案：C
解析：自然主义(Naturalism)追求绝对的客观性，崇尚单纯地描摹自然，着重对现实生活的表面现象作记录式的写照，所以选C。 知识模块：英美文学
22． The most important transcendentalist in the 19th century America is A．Thoreau. B．Emerson. C．Hawthorne. D．Whitman.
正确答案：B
解析：爱默生(Emerson)是把超验主义思想引入新英格兰的先驱，被看作是超验主义运动的领袖，故选B。 知识模块：英美文学
23． In American literary history, ______ is the first black female poet who published her collection of poems and won the praise of George Washington.
A．Anne Bradstreet B．Jonathan Edwards C．Phillis Wheatley D．Emily Dickenson
正确答案：C
解析：菲丽丝.惠特利(Phillis Wheatley)是美国文学史上第一位出版诗集的黑人女诗人，被华盛顿赞誉为具有“了不起的诗才”，故选C。 知识模块：英美文学
24． The Song of Hiawatha was written by A．Philip Freneau. B．John Woolman. C．William Dunlap.
D．Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
正确答案：D
解析：《海华沙之歌)(The Song of Hiawatha)是亨利.沃兹沃思.朗费罗(Henry WadsworthLongfellow)的作品，选D。 知识模块：英美文学
25． ______ doesn’t belong to the Leatherstocking Tales by Cooper? A．The Pioneers
B．The Last of the Mohicans C．The Pathfinder D．The Pilot
正确答案：D 解析：《领航者)(The Pilot)不属于《皮袜子故事集)(Leatherstocking Tales)，它是海上传奇小说(Sea Adventure Tale)，选D。 知识模块：英美文学
26． Called the “Wordsworth of America”, ______ was the founder of the 19th century American romantic poetry.
A．Ezra Pound
B．Edward Estlin Cummings C．William Cullen Bryant D．Edgar Allen Poe
正确答案：C
解析：威廉.柯伦.布莱恩特(William Cullen Bryant)是美国19世纪浪漫主义诗歌的创始人，也有“美国的华兹华斯”(Wordsworth of America)之称，故选C。 知识模块：英美文学
27． Moby Dick is written by A．Herman Melville. B．Ernest Hemingway. C．Francis Scott Fitzgerald. D．John Steinbeck.
正确答案：A 解析：《白鲸)(Moby Dick)是赫尔曼.梅尔维尔(Herman Melville)的作品，选A。 知识模块：英美文学
28． All of the following are written by Nathaniel Hawthorne EXCEPT A．Fanshawe. B．Walden.
C．The Scarlet Letter.
D．The Blithedale Romance.
正确答案：B 解析：《瓦尔登湖)(Walden)是亨利.大卫.梭罗(Henry David Thoreau)的作品，不是纳撒尼尔.霍桑(Nathaniel Hawthorne)的作品，选B。 知识模块：英美文学
29． Daisy Miller is written by A．William Dean Howells. B．Henry James. C．Mark Twain. D．Hamlin Garland.
正确答案：B 解析：《黛西.米勒)(Daisy Miller)是亨利.詹姆斯(Henry James)的作品，选B。 知识模块：英美文学
30． The works of all the following writers feature Naturalism EXCEPT A．Frank Norris. B．Stephen Crane. C．Jack London. D．Mark Twain.
正确答案：D
解析：马克.吐温(Mark Twain)是乡土文学的杰出代表，杰克.伦敦(Jack London)、斯蒂芬.克莱恩(Stephen Crane)和弗兰克.诺里斯(Frank Norris)均是自然主义的代表，选D。 知识模块：英美文学
