[单项选择]Henry James was regarded as one of the pioneers of ______, and had great influence on the age that followed.
A. black humour
B. existential novel
C. psychoanalytical novel
D. psychological novel

[单项选择]Henry James was regarded as one of the pioneers of ______, and had great influence on the age that followed.
A. black humour
B. existential novel
C. psychoanalytical novel
D. psychological novel

[单项选择]Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th century______ novels.
A. Surrealistic
B. Critical Realistic
C. Stream-of-Consciousness
D. Existentialistic

[单项选择]Henry James was to some degree interested in voyeuristically exploring his characters' psychologies, though he was ------- this enterprise less by ------- than by sympathy.
A. (A) seduced into … affection
B. (B) impelled to … curiosity
C. (C) goaded into … loath
D. (D) discouraged from … apathy
E. (E) intrigued by … self-pity

[单项选择]Henry James' kind of realism can best be described as _______.
A. psychological realism
B. critical realism
C. naturalism
D. surrealism

[单项选择]Henry James was most famous for ______.
A. his poems
B. his plays
C. his novels
D. his short stories

[单项选择]Henry Ford regarded history as "bunk". This word probably means _______.
A. a narrow bed
B. real knowledge
C. a useful discipline of study
D. nonsense

[单项选择]Who is regarded as one of the two most important playwrights during the Irish Dramatic Revival
A. William Butler Yeats.
B. George Moore.
C. John Millington Synge.
D. Edward Martyn.

[单项选择]On 9 December, James Joyce experienced one of those coincidences which affected him ______ at the time and which later became material for his books.
A. inadequately
B. systematically
C. profoundly
D. simultaneously

[单项选择]on 9 December, James Joyce experienced one of those coincidences which affected him ______ at the time and which later became material for his books.
A. inadequately
B. systematically
C. profoundly
D. simultaneously

[单项选择]It can be inferred from the passage that pioneers differed from city dwellers in that they ______.
A. thought farming would be easy
B. were involved in local government
C. associated land with dignity
D. wanted to get rich quickly

[单项选择]The pioneers' greatest asset was not their material wealth but their ______.
A. fortitude
B. simplicity
C. companions
D. possessions

[单项选择]Among the pioneers of the 18th century novelists were Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry fielding and______.
A. Laurance Sterne
B. John Dryden
C. Charles Dickens
D. Alexander Pope

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In the 1950s, the pioneers of artificial intelligence (AI) predicted that, by the end of this century, computers would be conversing with us at work and robots would be performing our housework. But as useful as computers are, they’re nowhere close to achieving anything remotely resembling these early aspirations for humanlike behavior. Never mind something as complex as conversation: the most powerful computers struggle to reliably recognize the shape of an object, the most elementary of tasks for a ten-month-old kid.
A growing group of A1 researchers think they know where the field went wrong. The problem, the scientists say, is that Al has been trying to separate the highest, most abstract levels of thought, like language and mathematics, and to duplicate them with logical, step-by-step programs. A new movement in Al, on the other hand, takes a closer look at the more roundabout way in which nature came up with intelligence. Many of these researchers study evolut
A. find a roundabout way to design powerful computers
B. build a computer using a clever network of switches
C. find out how intelligence developed in nature
D. separate the highest and most abstract levels of thought