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__1__T.S. Eliot is most famous for____.
    A The Waste Land
    B A Vision
    C The Unknown Citizen
    D The North Ship
    __2__William Butler Yeats is the writer of the following works but____.
    A A Vision
    B The Waste Land
    C The Tower
    D Responsibilities
    __3__Murder on the Orient Express is written by_____ a novelist of detective fiction.
    A Arthur Conan Doyle
    B Edgar Allan Poe
    C Agatha Christie
    D John Fowels
    __4__Death on the Nile is written by____ a novelist of detective fiction.
    A Arthur Conan Doyle
    B Edgar Allan Poe
    C Agatha Christie
    D John Fowels
    __5__A Handful of Dust was_____ best novel and it took its title from T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (I have seen fear in a handful dust) and it was a modern Gothic comic-tragedy.
    A Graharn Greene’s
    B Evelyn Waugh’s
    C Robert Graves’
    D John Fowels’
    __6__Robert Graves wrote all the following novels except____.
    A 1, Claudius
    B Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina
    C Count Belisarius
    D The Power of the Glory
    __7__The Power and the Glary was written by_____.
    A Graharn Greene
    B Evelyn Waugh
    C Robert Graves
    D John Fowels
    __8__Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four were written by____.
    A George Orwell
    B William Golding
    C Graham Greene
    D Robert Graves  
    __9__Which of the following group of authors is sometimes referred to as belonging to the “angry young man”?
    A Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeek
    B Kingsley Amis, John Wain
    C William Golding, John Steinbeck
    D John Wain, William Golding
    __10__ ______ is the representative work of the school of “the angry young man”.
    A Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
    B Jim by Rudyard Kipling
    C Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
    D Heart of Darkness
    答案:
    1-5ABCCB 6-10DAABA
    1.選A。T.S. 艾略特1922年發(fā)表《荒原》,運用大量的神話繪站后西方精神失落的景象,表達人的再生的希望,他的詩作代表了現(xiàn)代主義詩歌創(chuàng)作的突出成就。
    2.選B。 愛爾蘭詩人威廉?巴特勒?葉芝(William Butler Yeats)的詩歌構(gòu)建出自己神秘主義象征體系,詩作具有強烈的個人風格,充滿辯證的思考極具張力,曾獲得1923年度的諾貝爾文學(xué)獎?!痘孟蟆?A Vision),《塔》(The Tower),《責任》(Responsibilities)都為葉芝的詩作?!痘脑?The Waste Land)是同期現(xiàn)代詩人T.S.艾略特的代表作。
    3.C.阿加莎?克里斯蒂( Agatha Christie )被譽為“偵探小說女皇”,她在《東方快車謀殺案》Murder on the Orient Express等偵探小說里為讀者逃避嚴峻的社會現(xiàn)實提供一個想象的世界。
    4.阿加莎?克里斯蒂( Agatha Christie )被譽為“偵探小說女皇”,她在《尼羅河的慘案》Death on the Nile等偵探小說里為讀者逃避嚴峻的社會現(xiàn)實提供一個想象的世界。
    5.選B。伊夫林?沃在他的作品《一捧塵土》A Handful of Dust中描述英國社會婚姻、家庭、學(xué)校、宗教、政治生活中的荒唐、邪惡與墮落。該小說的標題取自TS艾略特1922年發(fā)表的《荒原》中的詩句“我從一捧塵土中看到恐懼”。
    6.選D。羅伯特?格雷夫斯,詩人兼小說家,他的古羅馬帝國三部曲《我,克勞斯蒂》(I, Claudius)《克勞斯蒂和他的妻子梅薩利納》(Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina),《貝利薩里烏伯爵》(Count Belisarius)是現(xiàn)代歷史小說經(jīng)典之作,現(xiàn)實主義的表現(xiàn)手法在古代的任務(wù)具有親切感,同時又保持了歷史性。
    7.選A。格雷爾姆?格林(Graham Greene)致力于探究現(xiàn)代社會中人類的精神危機,記錄個人靈魂在善惡之間的煎熬,并將探索人類內(nèi)心世界與反映當代政治和社會問題結(jié)合起來。他的《權(quán)力與光榮》(The Power and the Glory)奠定了他作為20世界英國重要小說家的地位。
    8.選A。喬治?奧威爾的代表作有的政治寓言小說《動物農(nóng)場》(Animal Farm),《一九八四年》(Nineteen Eighty Four),作品中表現(xiàn)出強烈的責任心和對極主義的憂慮。
    9.選B。20世紀50年代英國文壇涌現(xiàn)出一批具有現(xiàn)實主義傾向的作家。金斯利?埃米斯(Kingsley Amis)和約翰?韋恩(John Wain)等人被稱為“憤怒的青年”,因為他們在小說中抒發(fā)了對英國社會等級森嚴,貧富不均現(xiàn)狀的憤怒和不滿。
    10.選A?!逗诎档男摹?Heart of Darkness)和《吉姆老爺》(Lord Jim)都是約瑟夫?康拉德(Joseph Conrad)的小說?!都贰?Jim)是同期另一位作家拉迪亞德?吉卜林(Rudyard Kipling)的作品。金斯利?埃米斯(Kingsley Amis)在《幸運兒吉姆》(Lucky Jim)中編織的“不幸者意向不到地得到幸運”是“憤怒青年”一派的代表作。