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英国现代主义时期文学综合练习 (Exercises for the British Modernistic Literature) I. 选择题：Multiple-choice questions 1. “I will arise and go now, for always night and day/I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;” The above two lines are taken from________. [A] The Lake Isle of Innisfree [B] Down by the Sally Gardens [C] The Waste Land [D] The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 2. Bernard Shaws plays are mostly concerned with political, economic, moral or religious problems. Therefore they can be regarded as________. [A] social political plays [B] social problem plays [C] social moral plays [D] social religious plays 3. The following statements all describe the style Shaws plays EXCEPT__________. [A] His language is easy, witty and forceful [B] The conversation takes primacy over mere story [C] The action in his plays is reduced to a minimum [D] Poetic imagination and symbolism are used to express the intimate feelings 4. John Galsworthys The Forsyte Saga appears in the form of__________. [A] epic [B1 trilogy [C] collection of short stories [D]ballad 5. All the following are characterstic of Galsworthy’s The Man of Property EXCEPT__________. [A] Soames [B] Irene [C] Dedalus [D] Bosiney 6. The statement “A demanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all her affection to her sons sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrences__________. [A] Sons and Lovers [B] The Rainbow [C] Women in Love [D] Lady Chatterley.s lover 7. What metrical foot is used in William Butler Yeatss poem “Lake Isle of Innisfree ? [A] Iamb. [BI Anapest. [C] Trochee. [D] Dactyl 8. As a literary figure, Stephen Dedalus appears in two novels written by __________. [A] E. M. Forster [B] Joseph Conrad [C] D. H. Lawrence [D] James Joyce 9. “I believe you are made of stone, “ he said, clenching his fingers so hard that he broke the fragile cup. “You seem to forget, ” she said, “that cup is not!” From the above quotation we might suppose the woma