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Tess of the d'Urbervilles was set in Wessex, a fictional place in _______ of England.
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D. H. Lawrence is a modernist novelist who makes reflections upon the dehumanizing effects of ( ) in his representative work Sons and Lovers.
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Jade Snow Wong, writing as Sui Sin Far, was one of the first Chinese American authors to publish fiction in English
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Symbols in fiction are images, objects, settings, events, and characters that convey meaning beyond their literal significance.
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What are the two most commonly seen narrative point of view used in fictional writing?
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Thomas Carlyle's non-fiction The French Revolution: A History was the inspiration for Charles Dickens' s novel ( ).
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The major themes of the modernist literature are the distorted, alienated and ill relationships between man and ______, man and society, man and man, and man and himself.
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The Hours is a novel written by Michael Cunningham. It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was later made into a movie of the same name in .
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2. The types of science fiction mentioned in the lecture are ____.
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Essays are non-fictions.
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2. The major themes of the modernist literature are the distorted, alienated and ill relationships between man and ______ man and society, man and man, and man and himself.
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The author's definition suggests that all science fiction deals with ______.
A．the same topics addressed by novels and short stories
B．the unfamiliar or unusual
C．Karel Capek's well-known postulate
D．the conflict between science and fiction
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The theme of the majority of science fiction films made between 1970 and 1977 was ______.
A．space travel
B．life on other planets
C．ecological problems on earth
D．wars between the earth and other planets
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lled the______.◑Charitist Movement◑Romanticist Movement◑Enlightenment Movement◑Modernist Movement
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Science fiction writers often writebout _______will hppen in “tomorrow’s world”.whyB．tht C．whScience fiction writers often writebout _______will hppen in “tomorrow’s world”.why B．tht C．wht D．how
A．why
B．that
C．what
D．how
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The author of the passage objects to the Black fiction made by Addison Gayle because it
A．emphasizes purely literary aspects of such fiction
B．misinterprets the ideological content of such fiction
C．overlooks the notions of Black identity contained in such fiction
D．substitutes sociopolitical criteria for literary criteria in evaluating such fiction
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What type of sentence is “Mark likes fiction, but Tim is interested in poetry.”？
A. A simple sentence.
B. A coordinate sentence.
C. A complex sentence.
D. None of the above.
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______is NOT one of the modernist writers.
A．Virginia Woolf
B．James Joyce
C．T. S. Eliot
D．Thomas Hardy
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Almost Human？ Scientists are racing to build the world’s first thinking robot .This is not science fiction：some
say they will have made it by the year 2020.Carol Packer repots.
Machines that walk，speak and feel are no longer science fiction.Kismet is the name of an android(机器人)which scientists have built at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT).Kismet is different from the tradition。al robot because it can show human emotions.Its eyes.ears and lips move to show when it feels happy.sad or bored.Kismet is one of the first of a new generation of androids—robots that 100k like human beings—which can imitate human feelings.Cog，another android invented by the MIT, imitates the action of a mother However,scientists admit that so far Cog has the mental ability of a two year old.
The optimists(乐观主义者)say that by the year 2020 we will have created humanoids(机器人)with brains similar to those of an adult human being.These robots will be designed to look like people to make them more attractive and easier to sell to the public.What kind of jobs will they do？ In the future，robots like Robonaut ，a humanoid invented by NASA，will be doing dangerous jobs，like repairing space stations They will also be doing more and more of the household work for US.In Japan，scientists are designing androids that will entertain US by dancing and playing the piano.
Some people worry about what the future holds：will robots become monsters(怪物)？Will people themselves become increasingly like robots？ Experts predict that more and more people will be wearing micro-computers，connected to the Internet，in the future.People will have micro-chips in various parts of their body，which will connect them to a wide variety of gadgets(小装置).Perhaps we should not exaggerate(夸大)the importance of technology，but one wonders whether , in years to come，we will still be falling in love，and whether we will still feel pain.Who knows？
第11题：Kismet is different from traditional robots because
A．it thinks for itself
B．it is not 1ike science fiction
C．it Can 100k after two-year—olds
D．it seems to have human feelings
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By saying that many kinds of fiction are self-explanatory （the first sentence of paragraph
By saying that many kinds of fiction are self-explanatory (the first sentence of paragraph 2), the author means ______.
A．they are easy to understand
B．they are meant for ordinary readers
C．they often use horror to develop their plots
D．their categories show what they are about
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What would a research of Black fiction LEAST likely deal with？
A．An analysis of the influence of political events on the personal ideology of Black writers.
B．A critical study that applies sociopolitical criteria to autobiographies by Black authors.
C．A literary study of Black poetry that appraises the merits of poems according to the political acceptability of their themes.
D．An examination of the growth of a distinct Black literary tradition.
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The historical fiction typically conforms to the grand narrative and gives voice to the ruling class.
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Tom is more interested in ______ stories than science fiction.. （detect)
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Everyone（1)of the President of the US（2)the most powerful man in （3).But when the repr
Everyone(1)of the President of the US(2)the most powerful man in (3).But when the representatives of the 13 former British colonies(4)to draw up the constitution of the new country (5) 1788， (6) of them were not sure whether they (7) to have a President at all.There were even (8) who (9) a king， (10) their successful war against the British king，George III.The decision was in doubt (11)the last moment.One group wanted (12) for life，while (13)suggested that )(14) not be a President，because a Committee would govern the country better;a third group (15) a President (16) term of office would last seven years but who could not stand for reelection，because they were afraid he would spend his time (17) votes at the next election.In the end they chose George Washington as President for four years and let him (18) for reelection because they trusted him.But they were (19)to make rules in case a future President (20) badly and these rules were used to get rid of President Nixon two hundreds years later.
1、A.use to think B.think C.thinks D.uses to think
2、A.to be B.being C.like D.as
3、A.western world B.the western world C.accident D.the accident
4、A.found B.met C.encountered D.put together
5、A.at B.by C.on D.in
6、A.a number B.a great deal C.a large amount D.the most
7、A.should B.would C.needed D.must
8、A.few B.a few C.little D.a little
9、A.had preferred B.would have preferred C.should have preferred D.were preferring
10、A.although B.however C.nevertheless D.in spite of
11、A.until B.as far as C.so far as D.by
12、A.that the President was elected B.that the President would be elected C.to elect the President D.to be elected the President
13、A.another B.other C.the other D.some other
14、A.it should B.it would C.there should D.there would
15、A.would have liked B.would rather C.would like D.would be liking
16、A.that's B.whose C.which D.of which
17、A.looking for B.to look for C.to look at D.looking at
18、A.stand B.to stand C.be standing D.that he stood
19、A.so careful B.too careful C.careful enough D.enough careful
20、A.would carry B.carried C.would behave D.Behaved
