16. "Five miles meandering with a mazy motion\

　　Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,

　　Then reached the caverns measureless to man,

　　And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean."

　　The above lines are taken from ______.

　　A. Wordsworth’s "The Solitary Reaper"

　　B. Blake’s "The Chimney Sweeper"

　　C. Coleridge’s "Kubla Khan"

　　D. Keats’s "Ode on an Grecian Urn"

　　Answer: C

　　17. In his poem, "Ode to the West Wind," Shelley intends to present his wind as a central _______ around

　　which the poem weaves various cycles of death and rebirth.

　　A. concept

　　B. symbol

　　C. simile

　　D. metonymy

　　Answer: B

　　18. In the conversation with his wife in Chapter One of Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Bennet uses a(n) ______

　　tone with sarcastic humor.

　　A. solemn

　　B. harsh

　　C. arrogant

　　D. teasing

　　Answer: D

　　19. Charles Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of his novel ______.

　　A. Great Expectations

　　B. A Tale of Two Cities

　　C. Bleak House

　　D. Oliver Twist

　　Answer: B

　　20. A typical feature of the English ______ literature is that writers became social and moral critics,

　　exposing all kinds of social evils.

　　A. Renaissance

　　B. Romantic

　　C. Victorian

　　D. Medieval

　　Answer: C

　　21. The statement that those extraordinary people, seeking something beyond the provincial life, have

　　finally to subject themselves to the limitations of the reality either due to their own weakness or the

　　social environment may well sum up one of the major themes of ______.

　　A. Fielding’s Tom Jones

　　B. Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

　　C. Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

　　D. Eliot’s Middlemarch

　　Answer: D

　　22. A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of ______, who never

　　pays any attention to human feelings.

　　A. justice

　　B. property

　　C. morality

　　D. humor

　　Answer: B

　　23. Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is NOT true?

　　A. It explores man’s never-ending search for the satisfaction of materialistic desires.

　　B. It relates the conflicts between the society and the individual.

　　C. It is about the effect of sin on the people involved and the society as a whole.

　　D. It presents a psychological analysis of the inward tensions of the characters.

　　Answer: B

　　24. "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" is a famous quote from _______’s

　　writings.

　　A. Walt Whitman

　　B. Henry David Thoreau

　　C. Herman Melville

　　D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

　　Answer: D

　　25. Which of Hemingway’s novels describes the drifting life of American exiles in Europe?

　　A. The Sun Also Rises.

　　B. A Farewell to Arms.

　　C. For Whom the Bell Tolls.

　　D. The Old Man and the Sea.

　　Answer: B

　　26. The theme of _______ may be well stated as "It sings of nationalism and of the nature of the self in

　　relation to the cosmos and the meaning and purpose of birth and death."

　　A. Edgar Allan Poe’s "To Helen"

　　B. Robert Frost’s "The Road Not Taken"

　　C. Walt Whitman’s "Song of Myself"

　　D. Emily Dickenson’s "Because I could not stop for Death"

　　Answer: C

　　27. The American Puritanism as a cultural heritage benefited the Americans in _______.

　　A. strengthening their moral values

　　B. weakening their religious faith

　　C. knowing truth intuitively

　　D. developing their science and technology

　　Answer: A

　　28. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ______.

　　A. international theme

　　B. waste-land imagery

　　C. local color

　　D. symbolism

　　Answer: C

　　29. "Strange names were over the doors -strange faces at the windows -every thing was strange. His mind

　　now began to misgive him, that both he and the world around him were bewitched. Surely this was his

　　native village, which he had left but the day before." The above passage is taken from ______.

　　A. Irving’s "Rip Van Winkle"

　　B. Hawthorne’s "Young Goodman Brown"

　　C. James’ "Daisy Miller"

　　D. Hemingway’s "Indian Camp"

　　Answer: A

　　30. According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter "A" which originally stood for "_______" finally obtained

　　the meaning of "able" or "angel" through Hester’s efforts.

　　A. adultery

　　B. arrogance

　　C. accomplishment

　　D. agony

　　Answer: A