英语专业八级人文知识练习附讲解第32期

【练习】

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