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We get the impression that the author seems to be ______. Hardy's impulses as a writer.A．amazed atB．critical ofC．fed up withD．interested in
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Which of the following is an exocentric construction?A．The man in black.B．The old and the young.C．In the river.D．The big house.
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Thomas Hardy's impulses as a writer, all of which he indulged in his novels, were numerous and divergent, and they did not always work together in harmony. Hardy was to some degree interested in exploring his characters' psychologies, though impelled less by curiosity than by sympathy. Occasionally he felt the impulse to comedy (in all its detached coldness) as well as the impulse to farce, but he was more often inclined to see tragedy and record it. He was also inclined to literary realism in the several senses of that phrase. He wanted to describe ordinary human beings; he wanted to speculate on their dilemma rationally (and, unfortunately, even schematically); and he wanted to record precisely the material universe. Finally, he wanted to be more than a realist. He wanted to transcend what he considered to be the banality of solely recording things exactly and to express as well his awareness of the occult and the strange.In his novels these various impulses were sacrificed to each other inevitably and often. Inevitably, because Hardy did not care in the way that novelists such as Flaubert or James cared, and therefore took paths of least resistance. Thus, one impulse often surrendered to a fresher one and, unfortunately, instead of exacting a compromise, simply disappeared. A desire to throw over reality a light that never was might give way abruptly to the desire on the part of what we might consider a novelist-scientist to record exactly and concretely the structure and texture of a flower. In this instance, the new impulse was at least an energetic one, and thus its indulgence did not result in a relaxed style. But on other occasions Hardy abandoned a perilous, risky, and highly energizing impulse in favor of what was for him the fatally relaxing impulse to classify and schematize abstractly. When a relaxing impulse was indulged, the style. —that sure index of an author's literary worth —was certain to become verbose. Hardy's weakness derived from his apparent inability to control the comings and goings of these divergent impulses and from his unwillingness to cultivate and sustain the energetic and risky ones. He submitted to first one and then another, and the spirit blew where it listed; hence the unevenness of any one of his novels. His most controlled novel, Under the Greenwood Tree, prominently exhibits two different but reconcilable impulses —a desire to be a realist-historian and a desire to be a psychologist of love —but the slight interlockings of plot are not enough to bind the two completely together. Thus even this book splits into two distinct parts.The most appropriate title for the passage could be ______.A．Under the Greenwood Tree: Hardy's Ambiguous TriumphB．The Real and the Strange: the Novelist's Shifting RealmsC．Hardy's Novelistic Impulses: the Problem of ControlD．Divergent Impulses: the Issue of Unity in the Novel
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David Copperfield is a novel by ______.A．Charles DickensB．William M. ThackerayC．George EliotD．Mrs. Gaskell
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______'s Leaves of Grass is a collection of poems written in free verse.A．Robert FrostB．T.S. EliotC．Walt WhitmanD．Ezra Pound
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Television is a ______ in the transmission of message.A．senderB．receiverC．transmitting deviceD．none of the above
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The author of "Auld Lang Sync" Robert Burns was a great ______folk poet.A．EnglishB．ScottishC．WelshD．Irish
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What can be concluded about "modem" ?A．It converts data from one form. to another.B．It will be out of date soon.C．It serves as a link between senders and recipients of message.D．It transmits message more efficiently than other devices.