The flee was wrote by England famous writer John Donne
英国文学复习题
• Byron’s Byronic hero appears first in ________.
A. Don Juan
B. Oriented Tales
C. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage D. Manfred
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner tells an adventurous story of ________.
D. Piers the Plowman
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Choose the right answer.
5. In his literary development, Chaucer was influenced
by three literatures.Which one is not true?
A.The Wife’s Complaint
B.Beowulf
C.The Dream of the Rood
D.The Seafarer
B
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Complete the uage in the Anglo-Saxon period was influenced by the Northern ______________.
_______ culture, the new discoveries in geography and astrology, the religious reformation and the economic expansion.
3. A. Chinese/ Indian
4. B. Hebrew / Egyptian
The Faerie Queen
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诗人雪莱介绍英文版Percy Bysshe Shelley
狂暴的精神！奋勇者呵，让我们合一！
Drive my dead thoughts over the universe 请把我枯死的思想向世界吹落，
Like wither'd leaves to quicken a new birth! 让它像枯叶一样促成新的生命！
And, by the incantation of this verse,
哦，请听从这一篇符咒似的诗歌，
Scatter, as from an unextinguish'd hearth 就把我的话语，像是灰烬和火星
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! 从还未熄灭的炉火向人间播散！
Be through my lips to unawaken'd earth
•To The Lord Chancellor（1817） 《致大法官》 •Laon and Cythna (The Revolution of the Golden City) (1818)《莱昂和西斯那》 •The Revolt of Islam (1818) 《伊斯兰的反叛》
Ode to the West Wind (1819) Prometheus Unbound (1819) 《解放了的普罗米修斯》 The Cenci(1819) 《倩契》 The Masque of Anarchy(1819) 《暴政的假面游行》 Men of England (1819) 《英格兰人》
雪莱笔下的普罗米修斯的形象，既概括了工人阶级和劳动人 民反抗专制统治（against despotism）、争取自由解放（fight for freedom and liberation）的革命精神和不畏强暴的英雄气 概，也体现了诗人自己坚定的立场、伟大的品格、崇高的精 神境界。
英国文学试卷+答案
《英国文学》课程考试试卷 (A卷)专业：英语年级：2010级考试方式：闭卷学分：3 考试时间：110分钟Ⅰ. Multiple Choices (每小题1分，共20分)that best answers the question.1. It was during the ________ that Christianity was introduced to Britain.A. Roman ConquestB. Norman ConquestC. English ConquestD. Anglo-Saxon Conquest2. Which one of the following statements about Beowulf is False?A. Beowulf is the first epic in the English history.B. The most striking feature in its poetical form is the use of alliteration.C. Other features of Beowulf are the use of similes and of overstatements.D. Beowulf is a folk legend brought to England by Anglo-Saxons.3. _____ marks a turning point in the literary creation of Mrs. Gaskell, who now abandoned critical realism for a kind of writing more acceptable to the bourgeois public.A. Mary BartonB. All the Year RoundC. CranfordD. North and South4. _________ is one of Dickens’s masterpieces of social satire, famous for its criticism of both the British and American bourgeoisie.A. Dombey and SonB. Martin ChuzzlewitC. Hard TimesD. Bleak House5. The romantic poet, _______ maintains that “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”.A. Samuel ColeridgeB. George ByronC. William WordsworthD. Robert Burns6. In Renaissance period, ______ wrote the first English blank verse, the form of poetry to be later masterly handled by Shakespeare.A. Earl of SurreyB. Thomas WyattC. Sir Philip SidneyD. Christopher Marlowe7. In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer used the rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter inEnglish, which is to be called later _________.A. the Spenserian StanzaB. the heroic coupletC. the blank verseD. the free verse8. Dr. Faustus is a play based on the _______ legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil. A. British B. DanishC. GermanD. French9. _________ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English novel”for its contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.A. Daniel DefoeB. Jonathan SwiftC. GermanD. Henry Fielding10. The poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”is regarded as the most representative work of _______.A. the Metaphysical SchoolB. the Gothic SchoolC. the Romantic SchoolD. The Graveyard School11. Jonathan Swift is a master of satire. He satirizes philosophers and projectors and also makes a reference to the relationship between Ireland and England. It is obvious in _______ in Gulliver’s Travels.A. LilliputB. BrobdingnagC. Flying IslandD. Horse Island12. The two major novelists of the English Romantic Period are ________ and Walter Scott.A. Washington IrvingB. Jane AustenC. Charles DickensD. George Eliot13. Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama, ________.A. Childe Harold’s PilgrimageB. The Revolt of IslamC. Prometheus UnboundD. Ode to the West Wind14. Most of Hardy’s novels are set in _______, the fictional primitive and crude region which is really the home place he both loves and hates.A. LondonB. ParisC. YoknapatawphaD. Wessex15. John Galsworthy’s masterpiece, The Forsyte Saga includes the following except ________.A. The White MonkeyB. T he Man of PropertyC. In ChanceryD. To Let16. In his famous essay “Tradition and Individual Talent,” ________ puts great emphasis on the importance of tradition both in creative writing and in criticism.A. D.H. LawrenceB. James JoyceC. George Bernard ShawD. T.S. Eliot17. “And where are they? And where art thou,My country? On thy voiceless shoreThe heroic lay is tuneless nowThe heroic bosom beats no more!” (George Gordon Byron, Don Juan)In the above stanza, “art thou” literally means ________.A. art thoughB. are thoughC. are youD. art you18. G.B. Shaw’s play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, is a realistic exposure of the ______ in the English society.A. inequality between men and womenB. slum landlordismC. economic exploitation of womenD. political corruption19. We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley’s poem “Ode to the West Wind”with all the following terms except _______.A. swiftB. tamedC. proudD. wild20. The enlighteners of the 18th century believed that _______ should be usedas the yardstick for the measurement of all human activities and relations.A. educationB. scienceC. emotionD. reasonⅡ.Identification of Fragments (每小题10分，共30分)Directions: please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly comment on it. Please writedown the answers on the Answer Sheet.21. “Now might I do it pat, now he is praying:And now I’ll do it: and so he goes to heaven:And so am I revenged. That would be scanned.”22. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.However little known the feelings or views of views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.”23. “All is not lost; the unconquerable will,And study of revenge, immortal hate,And courage never to submit or yield,And what is else not to be overcome;That glory never shall his wrath or might extort (夺取) from me.”Ⅲ.Short Essay Questions （每小题10分，共30分） Directions: Please write down the answers on the Answer Sheet .24. Write a short essay on Byron ’s Don Juan .25. Please comment on Charles Dickens ’ literary achievements .26. Why is Jane Eyre a successful novel?Ⅳ.Appreciating a Literary Work (共20分) Directions : In this part, you are required to write a commentarypaper in no less than 150 words.27. The Rocking-Horse Winner (by D.H. Lawrence)There was a woman who was beautiful, who started with all the advantages, yet she had no luck. She married for love, and the love turned to dust. She had bonny （漂亮的） children, but she did not love them. They looked at her coldly, as if they were finding fault with her. Nevertheless, when her children were present, she was all the more gentle and anxious for her children, as if she loved them very much. Only she herself knew that at the centre of her heart was a hard little place that could not feel love, no, not for anybody. Everybody else said of her: “She is such a good mother. She adores her children.” Only she herself, and her children themselves, knew it was not so. They read it in each other ’s eyes.There were a boy and two little girls. They lived in a pleasant house, with a garden, and they had servants, and felt themselves superior to anyone in the neighborhood. Although they lived in style, they felt always an anxiety in the house. There was never enough money. The mother had a small income, and the father had a small income, but not nearly enough for the social position which they had to keep up. There was always the grinding sense of the shortage of money, though the style was always kept up.The children were growing up, they would have to go to school. There must be more money. The father, who was always very handsome and expensive in his tastes, seemed as if he never would be able to do anything worth doing. And the mother, who had a great belief in herself, did not succeed any better, and her tastes were just as expensive.And so the house came to be haunted by the unspoken phrase: There must be more money! There must be more money! The children could hear it all the time though nobody said it aloud. They heard it at Christmas, when the expensive and splendid toysfilled the nursery. Yet nobody ever said it aloud. The whisper was everywhere, and therefore no one spoke it. Just as no one ever says: “We are breathing!” in spite of the fact that breath is coming and going all the time.“Mother,” said the boy Paul one day, “why don’t we keep a car of our own? Why do we always use uncle’s, or else a taxi?”“Because we’re the poor members of the family,” said the mother.“But why are we, mother?”“Well - I suppose,”she said slowly and bitterly, “it’s because your father has no luck.”“Oh!” said the boy. “Then what is luck, mother?”“It’s what c auses you to have money. If you’re lucky you have money. That’s why it’s better to be born lucky than rich. If you’re rich, you may lose your money. But if you’re lucky, you will al ways get more money.’“Well, anyhow,” he said stoutly, “I’m a lucky person.”“Why?” said his mother, with a sudden laugh.He stared at her. He didn't even know why he had said it. “God told me,” he asserted. “I hope He did, dear!”, she said, again with a laugh, but rather bitter.“He did, mother!” Paul assertedHe went off by himself, and in his room he would sit on his big rocking-horse, driving madly. “Now!”he would silently command the horse. “Now take me to where there is luck! Now take me!” He knew the horse could take him to where there was luck, if only he forced it. At last he stopped forcing his horse and slid down. “Well, I got there!”he announced fiercely, his blue eyes still flaring. “Where did you get?” asked his uncle, “Could you know its name?”“Well, he has different names. He was called Sa nsovino last week.”“Sansovino, eh? Won the Ascot horse-racing. How did you know this name?” asked his uncle.“My horse told me and now I have won 300 pounds by betting the race already. You won’t tell others, right?” answered the boy.“Now, son,” Uncle Oscar said doubtedly, “Let’s check it. There will be a race today. I’m putting twenty on Mirza, and I’ll put five on any horse you fancy. What’s your pick?”“Daffodil this time, uncle.”At last, Daffodil came in first, Lancelot second, Mirza third. His uncle brought himfour five-pound notes, four to one. （四比一的胜率）“What am I to do with these?” the uncle cried, waving the money before boys’ eyes.“I suppose we’ll talk to Bassett, our gardener and he is also my partner in horse-racing,” said the boy. “I expect I have had fifteen hundred now.”Uncle Oscar turned to Bassett and asked how they wined in horse racing. “It’s Master Paul, sir,” said Bassett in a secret, religious voice. “It’s as if he had the news from heaven.” Later, his uncle joined them and Paul even had made ten thousand in a race.“But what are you going to do with your money?” asked the uncle.The boy said, “I started it for mother. She said she had no luck, because father is unlucky, so I thought if I was l ucky, it might stop whispering.”“What might stop whispering?”“Our house. I hate our house for whispering.”“What does it whisper?”The boy answered: “I don't know. But it’s always short of money, you know, uncle. The house whispers, like people laughing at you behind your back. It's awful, that is! I thought if I was lucky,…”“You might stop it,” added the uncle.“Well, then!” said the uncle. “What are we doing?”“I shouldn't like mother to know I was lucky,” said the boy.“All right, son! We’ll manage it without her knowing.”They managed it very easily. Paul, at the other’s suggestion, handed over five thousand pounds to his uncle, who deposited (存入) it with the family lawyer, who was then to inform Paul's mother that a relative had put five thousand pounds into his hands, which sum was to be paid out a thousand pounds at a time, on the mother’s birthday, for the next five years.“So she’ll have a birthday present of a thousand pounds for five succes sive years,”said Uncle Oscar. “I hope it won’t make it all the harder for her later.”Paul’s mother had her birthday in November. The house had been “whispering”worse than ever lately, and, even in spite of his luck. She was down to breakfast on the morning of her birthday. Paul watched her face as she read her letters. He knew the lawyer’s letter. As his mother read it, her face hardened and became more expressionless. Then a cold, determined look came on her mouth. She hid the letter under the pile of others, and said not a word about it.But in the afternoon Uncle Oscar appeared. H e said Paul’s mother had had a longinterview with the lawyer, asking if the whole five thousand could not be advanced at once, as she was in debt.“What do you think, uncle?” said the boy. The uncle said, “I leave it to you, son.”“Oh, let her have it, then! We can get some more with the other,” said the boy.So Uncle Oscar signed the agreement, and Paul’s mother touched the whole five thousand. Then something very curious happened. The voices in the house suddenly went mad, like a chorus of frogs on a spring evening. “There must be more money! Oh-h-h; there must be more money. More than ever! More than eve r!”“I’ve got to know the result for the Derby horse-racing! I’ve got to know for the Derby!” the child reiterated (反复说), his big blue eyes blazing with a sort of madness.Paul’s secret of secrets was his wooden horse, that which had no name. To keep it, he had his rocking-horse removed to his own bedroom at the top of the house.“Surely you’re too big for a rocking-horse!” his mother had remonstrated.（告诫）“Well, you see, mother, till I can have a real horse, I like to have some sort of animal about,” had been his answer.The Derby was drawing near, and the boy grew more and more tense. He hardly heard what was spoken to him, he was very frail, and his eyes were really strange.Two nights before the Derby, she was at a big party in town. But an unrest was so strong that she had to leave the dance and go downstairs to telephone her house. “Are the c hildren all right, Miss Wilmot?”“Oh yes, they are quite all right.”Paul’s mother said: “It's all right. Don’t sit up. We shall be home fairly soon.”It was about one o’clock when Paul’s mother and father drove up to their house. All was still. Pau l’s mother went to her room and slipped off her white fur cloak. She had told her maid not to wait up for her. She heard her husband downstairs, mixing a whisky and soda.And then, because of the strange anxiety at her heart, she stole upstairs to her son’s room. Noiselessly she went along the upper corridor. Was there a faint noise?Then suddenly she switched on the light, and saw her son, in his green pajamas, madly surging on the rocking-horse. The blaze of light suddenly lit him up, as he urged the wooden horse, and lit her up, as she stood, blonde, in her dress of pale green and crystal, in the doorway.“Paul!” she cried. “Whatever are you doing?”“It’s Malabar!” he screamed in a powerful, strange voice. “It’s Malabar!”“What does he mean by Malabar?” asked the heart-frozen mother.“I don’t know,” said the father stonily. “What does he mean by Malabar?” she asked her brother Oscar, who came here as soon as he heard Paul was ill.“It’s one of the horses running for the Derby,” was the answer.The third day of the illness was critical: they were waiting for a change. The boy, with his rather long, curly hair, was tossing ceaselessly on the pillow. He neither slept nor regained consciousness, and his eyes were like blue stones. His mother sat, feeling her heart had gone, turned actually into a stone.The gardener tiptoed into the room and stole to the bedside, staring with glittering, smallish eyes at the tossing, dying child.“Master Paul!” he whispered. “Master Paul! Malabar came in first all right, a clean win. I did as you told me. You've made over seventy thousand pounds, you have; you’ve got over eighty thousand. Malabar c ame in all right, Master Paul.”“I never told you, mother, that if I can ride my horse, and get there, then I’m absolutely sure - oh, absolutely! Mother, did I ever tell you? I am lucky!”“No, you never did,” said his mother. But the boy died in the night.And even as he lay dea d, his mother heard her brother’s voice saying to her, “My God, Hester, you’re eighty thousand to the good, and a poor devil of a son to the bad. But, poor devil, poor devil, he’s best gone out of a life where he rides his rocking-horse to find a winner.”ABC大学2012-2013学年第一学期《英国文学》课程考试试卷答案适用班级：英语系2010级卷型：（A卷）Part I Multiple Choices (每小题 1分，共20分)Part II Identification of Fragments (每小题10分，共30分)21. From William Shakespeare’s Hamlet; (5分)Hamlet has a good chance to kill his uncle, but he hesitated. The reason Hamlet gives for his refusing to kill the king is that if he kills the villain now, he would send his soul to heaven; he would fain kill soul as well as body. What he considers now is no longer his personal wrong but the fate of his country.（5分）22. From Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice; (5分)This is the beginning sentences of the novel. During that time, girls’ marriage is the most important thing in a family, especially in those families whose daughters don’t have much pension. These sentences are ironical. It is not those single man who needs a wife but those young maids who are in need of a rich husband. 5分)23. From John Milton’s Paradise Lost; (5分)It’s through Satan’s mouth. Although defeated, he prevails. Since he has won from God the third part of his angels. Though wounded, he triumphs, for the thunder which hit upon his head left his heart invincible. (5分)Part III Short Essay Questions (每小题10分，共30分)24. Don Juan is Byron’s masterpiece, written in Italy during the years 1818-1823. （2分）It is 16,000 lines long, in 16 cantos, and written in ottava rima, each stanza containing 8 iambic pentameter lines rhymed abababcc.（2分）The story of the poem takes place in the latter part of the 18th century. Don Juan, its hero, is a Spanish youth of noble birth. The vicissitudes of his life and his adventures in many countries are described against varied social backgrounds, and he is seen to take part in different historical events, thus giving a broad panorama of contemporary life. (2分)Don Juan, a noble man, falls in love with Julia, a married woman. But the affair is soon discovered and Juan is sent abroad. Juan alone comes out alive and swims to a Greek island, where he is saved by Haidee. Haidee dies, heart-broken and Juan is sold as a slave to Turkey and then to St. Peterburg. The writer intended to let Don Juan go on a tour through Europe, take part in the French Revolution and die fighting against the reigning tyranny. He called this poem an “epic satire.” (4分)25. Charles Dickens is the greatest writer in critical realism. He wrote lots of novels. (2分)Dickens’s literary creation can be divided into three periods: in the first period, Dickens shows strong belief that social evils can be settled if only every employer reformed himself according to the model set by the benevolent gentlemen in his novels, such as The Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist. In the second period, Dickens came back from America. His travel to America impressed him most there was the rule of dollars and the enormously corrupting influence of wealth and power, such as Martin Chuzzlewit and Dombey and Son. In the third period, Dickens became pessimistic and his major works include Bleak House and Hard Times etc. (4分)As a novelist, Dickens is remembered first of all for his character-portrayal. Another feature of Dickens’s fictional art is his humor and satire. In Dickens’s novels’’construction, the main plot is often interwoven with more than one sub-plot so that some interesting minor characters as well as a broader view of life may be introduced. (4分) 26. The work is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian age. It is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society, e.g. the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions, the social discrimination and the false social convention as concerning love and marriage. At the same time, it is an intense moral fable. (4分)Jane, like Mr. Rochester, has to undergo a series of physical and moral tests to grow up and achieve her final happiness. The success of the novel is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine. （2分）Jane Eyre is a completely new woman image. She represents those middle-class working women who are struggling for recognition of their rights and equality as a human being. The vivid description of her intense feelings and her thought and inner conflicts brings her to the heart of the audience. （4分）Part IV Appreciating a Literary Work (计20分)答题要点：Plot. Theme：desire for money causes alienation of human relationship, 3rd person point of view, repletion, language features, short conversations, character analysis, your personal ideas about luck.《英国文学》A卷第11页共11页。
英国文学简史练习
英国文学简史练习材料一．填空Fill the following blanks with proper information.1．"The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus"（浮士德博士的悲剧）is one of ____'s best plays. 2．_____ wrote his masterpiece "The Pilgrim's Progress"（天路历程）during his second imprisonment.3.The Preface to ____ by Wordsworth and Coleridge served as the manifesto of ________.4. In the last adventure, Gulliver came to a country where ________ were possessed of reason while ________ were brute beasts.5. Hamlet’s weakness which leads to his final trag ic fall is ________.6. “Read nor to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted” is one of the epigrams found in Bacon’s “________________”.7. “ O, wind, / If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” is a famous line in Shelley’s “______________”.8. “He has a servant called Friday.” “He” in the quoted sentence is a Character in Defoe’s “____________________”.9. The poem “Auld Lang Syne” was written by the Scottish poet ________________10. William Blake’s The Little Black Boy is taken from a book of poem published at the end of the century, between 1789 and 1794. It is one of a group called Song of ___________.11. Many of Robert Burns’ poems are based on ________ songs and ballads. By using a burden or a chorus from an old song, Burns provides the poems with a higher thematic and artistic effect.12. In the play, “Othello”, written by ________,Othello was innocent of the slightest wrong doing.13. “To be or not to be, that is the question:” This quotation is from William Shakespeare’s play “__________”.14. As a leading Romanticist, G. Byron’s chief contribution is his creation of the _________, a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.15. ____________, the full title being The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling,is considered as Henry Fielding’s masterpiece.16. D. H. Lawrence’s autobiographical novel is entitled _____________.17. _____________ is often taken as William Makepeace Thackeray’s masterpiece.18. “______________” is the most popular of F. Bacon’s 58 essays. It analy ses what studies chiefly serve for, the different ways adopted by different people to pursue studies, and have studies exert influence over human character.19. The publication of “______________” by W. Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge in 1798 is often taken as the formal beginning of Romanticism.20. John Bunyan was imprisoned again in 1675. It was during this second term in prison that he wrote ____________, which was published in 1678 after his release.21. W. Wordsworth is regarded as a “______________”. He can penetrate to the heart of things and give the reader the very life of nature.22. P. C. Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama, “_______________”(1820). According to the Greek mythology, Prometheus, the champion of humanity, who has stolen the fire from the heaven, is published by Zeus to be chained on Mount Caucasus and suffers the vulture’s feeding on his liver.23. In Pride and Prejudice the misunderstanding happens between _________ and _________. 二．判断Decide whether the following statements are true or false.1．The English people were the first residents in England.2. Beowulf is the oldest poem in the English language, and also the oldest surviving epic in the English language.3. After the Roman Conquest, the English language developed very quickly.4. Christianity was not introduced to England until after the English Conquest.5. The Norman Conquest marked the rise of feudalism in England.6. Paradise Lost took its material from Greek mythology.7. William Burns wrote two volumes of poems:” The Songs of Innocence” and “The Songs of Experience”.8. In the first part of“Gulliver’s Travels”, the hero is cast upon the shore of the island of Lilliput.9. John Bunyan’s masterpiece, “The Pilgrim’s Progress” is an allegory, a nar rative in which general concepts such as sins, despair, and faith are represented as people or as aspects of the natural world.10. In the 18th century English literature, satire is much used in writing. English literature of this age produced a distinguished satirist Jonathan Swift.11. Robert Burns wrote two volumes of poems: "The Songs of Innocence" and “The Songs of Experience”.12. Swift’s masterpiece is “Robinson Crusoe” which contains three parts.13. In the 18th century, novel writing made a great advance. The main characters in the novel were no longer common people, but the kings and nobles.14. Another good example of Swift's satire is his novel: A Modest Proposal.15. Blank verse was most widely used in the history of English poetry and drama up to the twentieth century.16. In the 18th century, satire is much used in writing, English literature of this age produced a distinguished satirist Defoe.17. Robinson Crusoe was actually based on a real fact.18. W. Shakespeare once was an actor.19. J. Milton was greatly influenced by Bible throughout his life.20. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” is a line from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18.21. G. Chaucer did much in making the London dialect the foundation for the Modern English language.22. The Faerie Queene was a long poem written by E. Spenser.23. J. Donne was the founder of the metaphysical poetry.24. Tom Jones, a novel which contains eighteen books and which took Fielding “some thousands ofhours” to complete, is generally considered to be h is masterpiece.25. Robert Burns is the national poet of Ireland. His poetry is unsurpassed for its beautiful lyricismand sincerity of emotions, and is characterized by a profound sympathy for the down-trodden man.26.Tess of the D’Urbervilles is the truthful portrayal of the tragic lot of a poor girl, a pure woman,ruined by the bourgeois society.三．选择Multiple Choice：Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.1．The English Renaissance period was an age of ______ .A. poetry and dramaB. drama and novelC. novel and poetryD. romance and poetry2. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18?A. The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.B. The speaker satirizes human vanity.C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.D. The speaker meditates on man’s salvation.3. The Metaphysical Poetry is characterized by its extensive use of ________.A. the impersonal voiceB. conceitsC. traditional symbolsD. literary allusions4. John Donne was the founder of the Metaphysical Poetry, and his followers include the following poets except ________.A. Richard CrashawB. George HerbertC. Andrew MarvellD. John Milton5. In Paradise Lost, Milton was unconsciously in sympathy with ________.A. GodB. SatanC. AdamD. Eve6. In addition to The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Defoe also wrote ______.A. Tom JonesB. PamelaC. The Adventures of Roderick RandomD. Moll Flanders7. Gulliver's Travels consists of ______ voyages.A. oneB. twoC. threeD. four8. Lilliput is a country of ______.A. tiny inhabitantsB. giantsC. flying islandsD. rational horses9. Which of the following statements best describes Gulliver's Travels?A. Gulliver's Travels is a book of satire.B. Gulliver's Travels is a book of adventurous journeys.C. Gulliver's Travels is a realistic representation of 18th century England.D. Both A and B.10. Robert Burns came from ________.A. EnglandB. WalesC. ScotlandD. Ireland11. Lyrical Ballads (1798) was a collection of poems by ________.A. James Thomson and William CollinsB. Thomas Gray and Robert BurnsC. Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Gordon ByronD. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge12. “The Lamb” is included in William Blake’s ________.A. Poetical SketchesB. The Songs of InnocenceC. The Songs of ExperienceD. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell13. William Wordsworth is frequently referred to as ________.A. a religious poetB. a worshipper of natureC. a modern poetD. a worshipper of beauty14. Of the following definitions of poetry, the one which is incorrectly paired with its author is ________.A. “Poetry is the most beautiful and effective mode of saying things”—Matthew ArnoldB. “Poetry—the best words in their best order”—Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC. “The record of the best and happiest moment of the happiest and best minds”—Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. “The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”—Robert Burns15. The description of “a man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow, and misery in his heart, a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affect ion” may be applied to ________.A. an epic heroB. an antiheroC. a Byronic heroD. a modern hero16. John Keats wrote the following except ______.A. EndymionB. The Eve of St. AgnesC. "Ode to a Nightingale"D. "Ode to Duty"17. In “Ode to the West Wind”, the wild west wind is referred to as the wind of ________.A. springB. summerC. autumnD. winter18. The Canterbury Tales was written in ________.A. Old EnglishB. Middle EnglishC. Modern EnglishD. Current Modern English19. Pilgrims travel to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury in ________.A. MarchB. AprilC. MayD. June20. ________ pilgrims plus Chaucer are assembled at the Tabard Inn in the southern part of London.A. 25B. 27C. 29D. 3121. Chaucer was a master of the heroic couplet which consists of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter meansA. the line has 6 feet, and an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable.B. the line has 6 feet, and a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable.C. the line has 5 feet, and an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable.D. the line has 5 feet, and a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable.22. Shakespeare’s fou r great tragedies are _________A. Anthony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, King Lear, Timon of AthensB. Twelfth Night, Cynbeline, The Winter’s Tale, and The TempestC. Hamlet, Othello, King John, and MacbethD. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth23. The story of Hamlet takes place in ________.A. EnglandB. DenmarkC. ItalyD. Germany24. Romeo and Juliet belongs to Shakespeare’s ________.A. romantic comedyB. comedyC. tragedyD. historical plays25. A sonnet is a poem of ________ lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to a certain definite patterns.A. 8B. 6C. 14D. 2426. The phrase “a single man in possession of a good fortune” is applied to a single man with _____.A. luckB. statusC. wealthD. health27. In 1066, _________led the Norman army to invade and defeat England.A. William the ConquerorB. Julius CaesarC. Alfred the GreatD. Claudius28. Chaucer died on the 25th of October 1400, and was buried in _______.A. FlandersB. FranceC. ItalyD. Westminster Abbey29. From the following, choose the one, which is not Francis Bacon's work.A. The advancement of LearningB. The New InstrumentC. EssaysD. Venus and Adonis30. "The Canterbury Tales" is Chaucer's greatest work and written for the greater part in ________ couplet.A. iambicB. pentameterC. metricalD. heroic31. "Hamlet", "______", "King Lear" and "Macbeth" are generally regarded as Shakespeare's four great tragedies.A. Romeo and JulietB. Timon of AthensC. A Lover's ComplaintD. Othello32. ________ wrote his masterpiece "The Pilgrim's Progress" during his second imprisonment.A. BunyanB. MiltonC. DonneD. Dryden33. Emily Bronte wrote only one novel: entitled ________.A. ProfessorB. Jane EyreC. Wuthering HeightsD. Shirley34. Defoe's masterpiece ________ is based upon the experiences of Alexander Selkirk, who had been marooned in the island of Juan Fernadez off the coast of Chile and who had had lived here in solitude for five years.A. Captain SingletonB. Robinson CrusoeC. Colonel jackD. Captain Avery35. Which of the followings was not written by Blake?A. The Songs of ExperienceB. The Songs of InnocenceC. Elegy Written in a Country ChurchyardD. The Chimney Sweepers36. ____was a critical realist and also a severe exposer of contemporary society .His novels, such as "Vanity Fair", are mainly a satirical portrayal of the upper strata of society.A. George Eliot.B. Elizabeth GaskellC. William Makepeace ThackerayD. John Bunyan37. The title of the novel "Vanity Fair" was taken from Bunyan's masterpiece "____________".A. The Pilgrim's ProgressB. Childe Harold's PilgrimageC. Gulliver's TravelsD. The Canterbury Tales38. _______ can be justly termed England's national epic and its hero Beowulf --- one of the national heroes of the English people.A. SeafarerB. BeowulfC. WildsithD. Cynewulf39. _______ are anonymous narrative songs that have been preserved by oral transmission.A. balladsB. romancesC. sonnetsD. prose40. Which work has employed subjects from the Greek mythology?A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Prometheus Unbound41. In the 18th century English literature, the representative poet of pre-romanticism were ______.A. Alexander PopeB. William BlakeC. Jonathan SwiftD. John Keats42. Beowulf was written in ___________.A. FrenchB. Modern EnglishC. Old EnglishD. Middle English43. Chaucer was the first important poet of a royal court to write in _______.A. FrenchB. EnglishC. LatinD. Spanish44. Shylock is a character in the play ___________ by Shakespeare.A. The Merchant of VeniceB. Romeo and JulietC. As You Like ItD. Hamlet45. Of all the romantic poets in the 18th century, ___ is the most independent and the most original.A. Thomas GrayB. William BlakeC. Alexander PopeD. Daniel Defoe46. The story of “___________” is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.A. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightsB. Piers the PlowmanC. The story of BeowulfD. The Canterbury of Tales47. "When , in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes," This is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare's ________.A. songsB. playsC. comediesD. sonnets48. The 18th century witnessed a new literary form－the modern English novel, which, contrary to the medieval romance, gives a ______ presentation of life of the common people.A. romanticB. realisticC. propheticD. idealistic49. As a whole, ______is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the then English and European life—socially, politically, religiously, philosophically, scientifically, and morally.A. Moll FlandersB. Gulliver’s TravelsC. Pilgrim’s ProgressD. The School for Sc andal50. Which of the following works best represents the national spirit of the 18th-century England?A. Robinson CrusoeB. Gulliver’s TravelsC. Jonathan Wild the GreatD. A Sentimental Journey51. In the first part of the novel Pride and prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a (n) ____ of the Bennet family .A. high opinionB. great admirationC. low opinionD. erroneous view52. Wordsworth’s poetry is distinguished by the simplicity as well as theA. purity of his languageB. ornateness of his languageC. elegant of languageD. coarseness of his language53. The Romantic Age came to an end with the death of the last well-known romantic writer ___________.A. Jane AustenB. Walter ScottC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. William Wordsworth54. Austen was the first woman writer to touch the following themeA. The struggle between the working classB. the predicament of the womenC. the torture of human soulD. the freedom of marriage55. ________is not Shakespeare’s wo rk.A. HamletB. King LearC. OthelloD. The Faerie56. The Four Greatest Tragedies of Shakespeare’s do not include_______.A. Romeo and JulietB. HamletC. MacbethD. Othello57. _______is the essence of Renaissance.A. RealismB. RomanticismC. RomanceD. Humanism58. _______ is not written by John Milton.A. Paradise lostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Beowulf59. In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero of the ______A. aristocratic classB. enterprising landlordC. rising bourgeoisieD. hard-working people60. Romanticism doesn’t emphasize ______.A. the special qualities of each individual’s mindB. the inner world of the human spiritC. individualityD. the features that men have in common61. _______ Publish Lyrical Ballads in 1789 with Coleridge.A. ByronB. WordsworthC. ShelleyD. Keats62. Don Juan is the masterpiece of _________.A. Lord Byron’sB. P. B. Shelley’sC. John Keats’sD. Samuel Coleridge’s63. ________ is not a work by Charles DickensA. Oliver TwistB. David CopperfieldC. MiddlemarchD. A Tale of Two Cities64. Wuthering Heights is a masterpiece written by _____.A. Charlotte BronteB. Emily BronteC. Ann BronteD. Branwell Bronte65. _______ is not D. H. Lawrence’s work.A. Finnegan’s WakeB. Sons and LoversC. Lady Chatterley’s LoverD. The Rain Bow66. _______ frequently applied conceits in his poems.A. SpenserB. DonneC. BlakeD. Thomas Gray67. _______ is known as "the poet's poet".A. ShakespeareB. MarloweC. SpenserD. Donne68. The middle of the 18th century was predominated by a newly rising literary form, that is the modern English ______, which gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people.A. proseB. short storyC. novelD. tragicomedy69. Dickens' works are characterized by a mingling of _______ and pathos.A. humorB. satireC. passionD. metaphor70. The success of Jane Eyre is not only because of its sharp criticism of the existing society, but also due to its introduction to the English novel the first ______ heroine.A. explorerB. peasantC. workerD. governess。
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实用文档Exercise for English Literature (2)Choose the best answer for each blank.1.________, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born inLondon about 1340.A.Geoffrey ChaucerB. Sir GawainC.Francis BaconD. John Dryden2.Chaucer died on the 25th October 1400, and was buried in ________.A.FlandersB. FranceC.ItalyD. Westminster Abbey3.The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansion abroad. ________ encouragedexploration and travel, which were compatible with the interest of the English merchants.A.Henry VB. Henry VIIC.Henry VIIID. Queen Elizabeth4.Except being a victory of England over ________, the rout of the fleet “Armada” (Invincible) was also thetriumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over the declining old feudalism.A.SpainB. FranceC.AmericaD. Norway5.At the beginning of the 16th century the outstanding humanist ________ wrote his Utopia in which he gave aprofound and truthful picture of the pe ople’s suffering and put forward his ideal of a future happy society.A.Thomas MoreB. Thomas MarloweC.Francis BaconD. William Shakespear6.Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of Queen ________.A.MaryB. ElizabethC.WilliamD. Victoria7.English Renaissance Period was an age of ________.A.prose and novelB. poetry and dramaC.essays and journalsD. ballads and songs8.From the following, choose the one which is not Francis Bacon’s work: ________.A.The Advancement of LearningB. The New InstrumentC.EssaysD. The New AtlanticsE.Venus and Adonis9.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” This is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s ________.A.songsB. playsediesD. sonnets10.The heroines of Shakespeare’s great comedies, ________ are the daughters of the Renaissance, whoseimages and stories will remain a legacy to readers and audiences of all time.A.PortiaB. RoselandC.ViolaD. Beatrice11.Choose the four great tragedies of Shakespeare from the following ________.A.HamletB. OthelloC.MacbethD. King LearE.Timon of Athens12.Which play is not a comedy? ________A.A Midsummer Night’s DreamB. The Merchant of VeniceC.Twelfth NightD. Romeo and JulietE.As You Like It13.“Denmark is a prison”. In which play does the hero summarise his observation of his world into such a bittersentence? ________A.Charles IB. OthelloC.Henry VIIID. Hamlet14.The works of ________ and the Authorised Version of the English Bible are the two great treasuries of theEnglish language.A.Geoffrey ChaucerB. Edmund SpenserC.William ShakespeareD. Ben Johnson15.In which play does the hero show his profound reverence for man through the sentence: “What a piece ofwok is a man! How nobel in reason! How finite in faculty!” ________A.Romeo and JulietB. HamletC.OthelloD. The Merchant of Venice16.In 1649, ________ was beheaded. England became a commonwealth.A.James IB. James IIC.Charles ID. Charles II17.The revolution of 1688 meant three of the following things: ________.A.the supremacy of ParliamentB.the beginning of modern EnglandC.the triumph of the principal libertyD.the triumph of the principle of political libertyE.the Restoration of monarchy18.Who of the following were the important metaphysical poets? ________A.John DonneB. George HerbertC.John MiltonD. Richard Lovelace19.Which work was NOT written by John Milton? ________A.Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC.Samson AgonistesD. Volpone20.Paradise Lost is ________.A.John Milton’s masterpieceB.a great epic in 12 booksC.written in blank verseD.about the heroic revolt of Satan against God’s authority21.John Milton is ________.A.a great revolutionary poet of the 17th centuryB.an outstanding political pamphleteerC.a great stylistD.a great master of blank verse22.From the Old Testament, John Milton took his stories of Paradise Lost, i.e. ________.A.the creationB.the rebellion in Heaven of Satan and his fellow-angelsC.their defeat and expulsion from HeavenD.the creation of the death and of adam and EveE.the fallen angels in hell plotting against GodF.Satan’s temptation of EveG.the departure of Adam and Eve from Eden23.The finest thing in Paradise Lost is the description of hell, and ________ is often regarded as the real hero ofthe poem.A. GodB. SatanC. AdamD. Eve24.Who is the greatest of the Metaphysical school of poetry? ________A.John DonneB. George HerbertC.Andrew MarvellD. Henry Vaugham25.________ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.A.The RenaissanceB. The EnlightenmentC.The Religious ReformationD. The Chartist Movement26.The main literary stream of the 18th century was ________. What the writers described in their works weremainly social realities.A.naturalismB. romanticismC.classicismD. realismE.sentimentalism27.The eighteenth century was the golden age of the English ________. The novel of this period spoke the truthabout life with an uncompromising courage.A.dramaB. poetryC.essayD. novel28.In 1704, Jonathan Swift published two works together, ________ and ________, which made him well-known as a satirist.A.A Tale of a TubB. Bickerstaff AlmanacC.Gulliver’s TravelsD. A Modest Proposal29.“Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a style.” This sentence is said by ________, oneof the greatest masters of English prose.A.Alexander PopeB. Henry FieldingC.Daniel DefoeD. Jonathan Swift实用文档30.As a journalist, ________ had learned how to make his reporting vivid and credible by a skillful use ofcircumstantial detail. This power to make his characters alive and his stories credible is an inimitable gift. A.Joseph Addison B. Daniel DefoeC.Samuel RicharsonD. Tobias Smollett31.Which of the following are NOT written by William Blake? ________A.Poetical SketchesB. Songs of InnocenceC.Songs of ExperienceD. Auld Lang SyneE.The Marriage of Heaven and HellF. ProphecisG.Visions of the Daughters of Albion and America, a Prophecy32.In the 18th century English literature, the representative poets of pre-romanticism were ________.A.William WordsworthB. William BlakeC.Robert BurnsD. Jonathan Swift33.The Romantic Age begab with the publication of The Lyrical Ballads which was written by ________.A.William WordsworthB. Samuel JohnsonC.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. Wordsworth and Coleridge34.The Romantic Age came to an end with the death of the last well-known romantic writer ________.A.Jane AustenB. Walter ScottC.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. William Wordsworth35.The glory of the Romantic Age lies in the poetry of ________.A.William WordsworthB. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC.George Gordon ByronD. Percy Bysshe ShelleyE.John Keats36.The English Romantic Age produced two major novelists. They are ________.A.George Gordon Byron and Percy Bysshe ShelleyB.William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC.Walter Scott and Jane AustenD.Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt37.Which poets belong to the Active Romantic group? ________A.George Gordon ByronB. William WordsworthC.Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. John KeatsE.John Milton38.Which poets belong to the Lakers? ________A.William WordsworthB. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC.John KeatsD. Robert SoutheyE.Walter Scott39.Which of the folloeing were written by Wordsworth ONLY? ________A.To the CuckooB. The Lyrical BalladsC.Lucy PoemsD. The Solitary ReaperE.I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud40.The publication of ________ marked the break with the conventional poetical tradition of the 18th century,i.e., with classicism, and the beginning of the Romantic revival in England.A.The Lyrical BalladsB. The PreludeC.Childe Harold’s PilgrimageD. Don Juan41.As contrasted with the classicists who made reason, order and the old, classical traditions the criteria in theirpoetical creations, ________ based his own poetical principle on the premise that “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling.”A.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. George Gordon ByronC.Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. William Wordsworth42.________ was the first critic of the Romantic School.A.William WordworthB. Samuel JohnsonC.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. Wordworth and Coleridge43.Which of the following statements is (are) NOT true about George Gordon Byron? ________A.Byron’s early years had been far from happy for he was born with a clubfoot, in the frequent family scenes hismother called him “you lame brat.”B.Byron died in Italy annd was deeply mourned by the Italian people and by all progressive people throughoutthe world.C.The reactionary criticism of the 19th century tried to belittle Byron’s genius and his role in the development ofEnglish literature, but Byron remains one of the most popular English poets both at home and abroad.D.Since the May 4 Movement in 1919, more and more of Byron’s poems have been translated into Chinese andwell received by the poets and young readers. Byron has now become one of the best-known English poets in our country.44.In 1805, Wordsworth completed a long autobiographical poem entitled ________.A.Biographia literariaB. The PreludeC.Lucy PoemsD. The Lyrical Ballads45.________ is regarded as the most wonderful lyricist England has ever produced mainly for his poems onnature, on love, and on politics.A.William WordsworthB. John KeatsC.George Gordon ByronD. Percy Bysshe Shelley46.Which of the following statements is (are) NOT true about Percy Bysshe Shelley? ________A.Prometheus Unbound is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s masterpiece, a long epic poem.B.At Eton Percy Bysshe Shelley was known as “Mad Shelley”, for his obstinate opposition to the brutal faggingsystem, according to which the younger school-boys were obliged to obey the older boys and bear a great deal of cruel treatment.C.George Gordon Byron alled Percy Bysshe Shelley “the best and least selfish man I ever knew.”D.Percy Bysshe Shelley loved the people and hated their oppressors and exploiters.47.________’s pursuit of beauty in all things bespoke an aspiration a fter a better life than the sordid realityunder capitalism. His leading principle is: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.”A.Percy Bysshe ShelleyB. George Gordon ByronC.William WordsworthD. John Keats48.Choose the four immortal odes written by John Keats. ________A.Ode to the West WindB. Ode to a NightingaleC.To AutumnD. Ode on MelancholyE.Ode on a Grecian Urn49.Choose the works written by Jane Austen. ________A.Pride and PrejudiceB. Sense and SensibilityC.Northanger Abbey C. EmmaE.Mansfield ParkF. Persuasion50.In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend called ________ appeared. And it flourished in theforties and in the early fifties.A.romanticismB. naturalismC.realismD. critical realism51.English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of ________. The critical realists, most ofwho were novelists, described with vividness and artistic skill the chief traits of the English society and criticised the capitalist system from a democratic viewpoint.A.novelB. dramaC.poetryD. essay52.The greatest English critical realist novelist was ________, who criticised the bourgeois civilisation andshowed the misery of the common people.A.William Makepeace ThackerayB. Charles DickensC.Charlotte BronteD. Emily Bronte53.Which of the following writers belong to critical realists? ________A.Charles DickensB. Charlotte BronteC. Emily BronteD. Thomas Hardy54.________ wrote a number of little sketches of “cockney characters”. He signed them “Boz”, which was hisnickname for his young brother. His first book, Sketches by Boz appeared in 1836.A.Elizabeth GaskellB. William M. ThackerayC.Charles DickensD. Jane Austen55.________ has been called “the supreme epic of English life.”A.A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC.Pickwick PapersD. Oliver Twist56.The theme underlying ________ is the idea “Where there is oppression, there is revolution”.A.A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC.Pickwick PapersD. Oliver Twist57.In the Victorian Age, poetry was not a major art intended to change the world. The main poets of the agewere ________.A.Alfred TennysonB. Robert BrowningC.Mrs. BrowningD. Robert BurnsE.William Blake实用文档58.The ________ Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th century. It showed the English workers wereable to appear as an independent political force and were already realising the fact that the industrial bourgeoisie was their principal enemy.A.EnlightenmentB. RenaissanceC.ChartistD. Romanticist59.Which novel is a great satire upon the society and those people who dream to enter the higher societyregardless of the social reality? ________A.A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC.Great ExpectationD. Dombey and Son60.Charles Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of the novel ________.A.A Tale of Two CitiesB. Great ExpectationC.Hard TimesD. David Copperfield61.________ is often regarded as the semi-autobiography of the author Dickens in which the early life of thehero is largely based on the author’s early life.A.Tom JonesB. David CopperfieldC.Oliver TwistD. Great Expectation62.The Bronte sisters are ________. They were all talented writers and all of them died young.A.Charlotte BronteB. Emily BronteC.Anne BronteD. Jane AustenE.Catherine63.Charlotte Bronte produced four novels: ________.A.ProfessorB. Jane EyreC.ShirleyD. VilletteE.Agnes Grey64.Emily Bronte wrote only one novel entitled ________.A.Wuthering HeightsB. Jane EyreC.EmmaD. Agnes Grey65.Choose the names appear in the novel Jane Eyre. ________A.Jane EyreB. Mr. RochesterC.Mary BartonD. Silas Marner66.Which characters appear in the novel Wuthering Heights? ________A.HeathcliffB. CatherineC.HindleyD. CathyE.Hareton67.In the novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte ________.A.pours a great deal of her own experienceB.criticises the bourgeois system of educationC.shows that true love is the foundation of marriageD.shows that women should have equal rights with men68.Women novelists began to appear in England during the second half of the ________ century.A.17thB. 18thC.19thD. 20th69.Anne Bronte also wrote two novels ________ and ________.A.ShirleyB. VilletteC.The Tenant of the Wildfell HallD. Agnes Grey70.Which of the following statements are true about Jane Eyre? ________A.One of the central themes of the book is the criticism of the bourgeois system of education.B.Another problem raised in the novel is the position of women in society.C.This book is Charlottel Bronte’s best literary production.D.In this book, the author attacked the greed, petty tyranny and lack of culture among the bourgeoisie andsympathised with the sufferings of the poor people. Her realism was coloured by petty-bourgeois philanthropy.71.Most of Robert Browning’s important works, including ________, are written in the form of dramaticmonologue.A.Dramatic LyricsB. Dramatic RomancesC. Men and WomenD. dramatics Personae72.Thomas Hardy is one of the representatives of English ________ at the turn of the 19th century.A.critical realismB. pre-romanticismC.neo-classicismD. new romanticism73.Which statement is true? ________A.Thomas Hardy is a famous novelist.B.Thomas Hardy is also a poet.C.Thomas Hardy is a critical realist.D.Fatalism is strongly reflected in Thomas Hardy’ novels.74.According to Thomas Hardy’s own classification, his novels divided themselves into three groups. They are________.A.Novels of character and environmentB.Romances and FantasiesC.Novels of IngenuityD.Working class literature75.Novels of character and environment are also called Wessex novels, taking the southwest counties ofEngland for their setting. They include: ________.A.Under the Greenwood TreeB. The Return of the NativeC.The Mayor of CasterbridgeD. Tess of the D’UrbervillesE.Jude the Obscure76.The following statements are about Thomas Hardy’s novels, which are true? ________A.His Wessex novels are of great significance.B.The Southwest counties of England are the setting of his Wessex novels.C.There is pessimism in his novels.D.Mankind is subjected to hostile and mysterious fate.E.There are elements of naturalism in his works.77.Oscar Wilde is one of the important dramatists in the 19th century. In his comedies, he criticises the upperclass of the English bourgeois society. His best comedies are ________.dy Windermere’s FanB.A Woman of No ImportanceC.An Ideal HusbandD.The Importance of Being EarnestE.The Picture of Dorian Gray78.Oscar Wilde was the representative among the writers of ________.A.aestheticismB. decadenceC.critical realismD. pre-romanticism79.Alfred Tennyson’s poetic output was vast and varied. His main poems are ________.A.The PrincessB. MaudC.In MemoriamD. Idylls of the KingE.Crossing the Bar80.Which of the following short poems was/were written by Alfred Tennyson? ________A.Break, Break, BreakB. Crossing the BarC.The EagleD. Sweet and LowE.Tears, Idle Tears81.Which lament was written by Alfred Tennyson for the death of his friend Hallam? ________A.In MemoriamB. LycidasC.AdodaisD. Elegy written in a Country Churchyard82.My Last Duchess is ________.A.a dramatic monologueB. a short lyricC.a novelD. an essay83.________ are generally regarded as Joseph Conrad’s finest novels.A.Lord JimB. NostromoC.YouthD. The Old Wives’ Tale84.Who is regarded as a forerunner of the “stream of consciousness” literature in the 20th century?A.John GalsworthyB. Henry JamesC.Thomas Stearns EliotD. James Joyce85.George Bernard Shaw’s essay ________, a commentary on Henrik Ibsen’s dramatic works, served also as theauthor’s own program of dramatic creation.A.Widower’s HousesB. Mrs. Warren’s ProfessionC.Major BarbaraD. The Quintessence of Ibsenism86.In English literature, ________ and ________ are the two best-known novelists of the “stream ofconsciousness” school.A.David Herbert LawrenceB. Robert TressellC.James JoyceD. Virginia Woolf87.________’s admirers have praised him as “second only to Shakespeare in his mastery of English language.”实用文档A.D.H. LawrenceB. T.S. EliotC.James JoyceD. W.B. Yeats88.________ is the climax of Virginia Woolf’s experiments in novel form.A.The WindowB. Time PassesC.To the LighthouseD. The Waves89.Which of the following novels belong(s) to the “stream of consciousness” school of novel writing?A.UlyssesB. Finnegans WakeC.To the LighthouseD. The Waves90.________ was written by James Joyce.A.The Portrait of an Artist as a Young ManB.Portrait of a LadyC.The Picture of Dorian GrayD.To the Lighthouse91. D.H. Lawrence’s representative work ________ was positively taken as a typical example and livelymanifestation of the Oedipus Complex in fiction, as the result of Lawrence’s long-range study of the psychologic theories of Sigmund Freud.A.Sons and LoversB. The RainbowC. Lady Chatterley’s LoverD. Women in Love92.Which of the characters are in the novel Sons and Lovers?A.Mrs. MorelB. PaulC. MiriamD. Clara93.Which of the following writers were from Ireland?A.George Bernard ShawB. Jonathan SwiftC.James Joyce Oscar WildeE.W.B. Yeats94.Which of the following play(s) was/were NOT written by George Bernard Shaw?A.Mrs. Warren’s ProfessionB. Widower’s HousesC.Major BarbaraD. PygmalionE.The Man of Property95.Which of the following plays deals with the story that a linguist trains a flower girl to speak the so-calledhigh-civilised English?A.Major BarbaraB. PygmalionC.Mrs. Warren’s ProfessionD. Man and Superman96.In 1923, ________ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.A.William Butler YeatsB. Samuel ButlerC.Thomas Stearns EliotD. David Herbert Lawrence97.William Butler Yeats was _______.A.an Irish poetB. a dramatistC. a criticD. a senator in the Irish Free State in 192198.Thomas Stearns Eliot defined his belief as ________.A.classicist in literatureB. royalist in politicsC.Anglo-Catholic in religionD. all of the above99.Which of the following statement is NOT true?A.Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in America.B.Thomas Stearns Eliot became a British subject in 1927.C.Thomas Stearns Eliot was educated in Harvard University and Oxford University.D.Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, a critic and a playwright.E.Thomas Stearns Eliot was also a great novelist.100.In which poem are the sterility and chaos of the contemporary world after 1st World War expressed?A.Ode to the West WindB. The Solitary ReapermiaD. The Waste LandKeys:1-5: A, D, D, A, A 6-10: B, B, D, D, ABCD11-15:ABCD, D, D, C, B 16-20: C, ABC, AB, D, ABCD21-25: ABCD, ABCDEFG, B, A, B 26-30: D, D, AD, D, B31-35: D, BC, D, B, ABCDE 36-40: C, ACD, ABD, ACDE, A41-45: D, C, B, B, D 46-50: A, D, BCDE, ABCDEF, D51-55: A, B, ABCD, C, C 56-60: A, ABC, C, C, A61-65: B, ABC, ABCD, A, AB 66-70: ABCDE, ABCD, C, CD, ABCD71-75: ABCD, A, ABCD, ABC, ABCDE76-80: ABCDE, ABCD, AB, ABCED, ABCDE81-85: A. A. AB, B, D 86-90: CD, C, D, ABCD, A 91-95: A, ABCE, ABCDE, E, B 96-100: A, ABCD, D, E, D。
2024年中考英语热点阅读练习专题5 外国文学作品(含解析)
2024年中考英语新热点时文阅读-外国文学作品01（2023·江苏淮安·校考一模）Huck is my name, Huckleberry Finn. The story started when my best friend, Tom Sawyer and I found $12,000 in a cave. That money made us rich. We got $6,000 each. Judge Thatcher, an important man in St. Petersburg, put it in the bank, and now we get a dollar a day interest (利息).Then a kind old lady called Douglas invited me to live with her because I haven’t got a family or a home. My mother died a long time ago, then my dad, Pap, disappeared. He was a violent (暴力的) man especially when he drank a lot, which was most of the time, and he often beat me. I was scared of him. I didn’t go to school like the other boys of my age. I lived on the streets and in the woods.My life changed after I lived with Douglas. She gave me a bed to sleep in and bought new clothes for me. She read stories to me and taught me how to eat at a table. But then her sister Miss Watson arrived. She brought her black slave (奴隶) Jim with her. I liked Jim but I didn’t like Miss Watson very much. She often shouted at me.Douglas sent me to school every day. I didn’t like going there at first because learning was very difficult. But when I could read and write a bit, I didn’t mind going.The months passed and winter came. The weather got cold. One morning I woke up and there was snow on the ground. On my way to school I saw some footprints outside Douglas’s house. There was a cross on the heel (脚后跟)of the left one. My heart jumped. Only one person wore boots with a cross on the left heel! Pap!“He’s heard about my ________” I thought. “And he wants it!”That night I went to see Jim. Jim had a magic ball made of animal hair. There was a spirit inside the ball that could answer people’s questions about the future.—Adapted from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn1．How did Huck get the money which was put in the bank?A．Huck’s father gave it to him.B．Huck’s mother left it to him before she died.C．Douglas gave it to him.D．He and Tom Sawyer found it in a cave.2．How did Huck feel about the life with Douglas?A．He hated his new life.B．He didn’t mind his new life.C．He felt satisfied with his new life.D．He wanted to get away from his new life.3．Which word can be put in the “__________”?A．life B．spirit C．secret D．money4．Which is the right order of what happened in the story?①Douglas sent Huck to school.②Huck’s mother died.③Douglas invited Huck to live with her.④Douglas read stories to Huck.A．③②④①B．②③④①C．③④②①D．②④③①02（2023·江苏镇江·统考中考真题）Katie was waiting for Gulliver’s calls. Instead, she just heard sparrows making noise in the bushes. “Maybe Gulliver missed the harbour.” Dad said. After breakfast, Katie took her camera to the harbour. All the colourful boats made pretty pictures, but not the one she wanted most.Katie waved to Ernest, her uncle’s neighbour, on the boathouse. The gull’s name, Gulliver, was given by him.The gull’s size and his single leg made the bird itself different. But Ernest told Katie what Gulliver did that first summer Katie and her dad came caught everyone’s attention. Young Katie lay in her stroller (婴儿车) on the floating dock (码头) when Uncle Ralph and Dad were repairing boats nearby. The waves from the passing boat made Katie’s stroller shake strongly. “Kee-aah! Kee-aah!” Gulliver made the loudest cry. Dad and uncle rushed to Katie and stopped the stroller from falling into the water. They kept a close eye at Katie after that. Another summer Katie was three years old, she liked to touch everything. But Dad didn’t watch her every minute when she tried to catch small ducks around or fish from water. “Kee-aah! Kee-aah!” The gull’s cry brought Dad back in time. He stopped Katie as she tried to follow the small ducks running towards water. Several summers passed, and Gulliver continued to call out as Katie tried new things.This summer Katie did the usual by-the-sea things she’d learned to do. One day, she rowed a boat out but was trapped on a rock by a storm. As she looked up and tried to catch the last warmth of the sunshine through dark clouds, she saw a single white feather. A gull feather? She searched the sky for an answer. Putting her arms around knees, she closed eyes to hold in the tears (眼泪). “Kee-aah! Kee-aah!” Katie sat up. “Katie! Katie!” Soon, Dad and Uncle Ralph appeared. “How lucky! We heard Gulliver as we came around the rocks,” Uncle Ralph said, “At least… it sounded like him. Strange, he was nowhere in sight.” Katie remembered the feather. “I thought I heard him, too.”—Adapted from the story by Gillian Richardson5．Katie took a camera to the harbour in order to take a picture of ________.A．Gulliver B．Ernest C．sparrows D．boats6．What’s the right order of the following events about Katie?①She was trapped on a rock by a storm.②She lay in her stroller on the floating dock.③She followed the small ducks running towards water.A．①②③B．①③②C．②③①D．②①③7．Which of the following can show the change of Katie’s feelings in Paragraph 3?A．sad—peaceful—excited B．sad—excited—nervousC．helpless—hopeful—thankful D．helpless—thankful—nervous8．What’s the best title for the story?A．Katie and Gulliver B．Katie’s HolidaysC．Katie and Dad D．Katie’s Tears03（2023·江苏宿迁·校联考一模）Marie didn’t like Eva’s friendship with Tom, so she told her husband that she didn’t want any smell of horses in the house. St Clare told Tom to stop working with the horses. Eva told her father she liked going for walks with Tom. So Tom had orders to leave what he was doing when Eva needed him. Eva and Tom spent a lot of time together.Tom noticed that St Clare didn’t look after his money and his house very well, and that he spent too much money on the wrong things. He started making some suggestions, and soon St Clare understood that Tom’s business advice was very good. After some time Tom started to look after the house expenses（费用）.Tom also noticed that his master didn’t take anything seriously and didn’t live well, and this worried him. One night St Clare went to a party where he drank too much. He came home very late, and Tom and another slave（奴隶）had to help him to get into bed. Tom went into his room and prayed（祈祷）for his master.The morning after, St Clare gave Tom some money to do some business for him. Tom took the money but he didn’t move.“Well, Tom, what are you waiting for?” said St Clare. “Is everything alright?”“I’m afraid not, Master,” said Tom.“What’s the problem? You look very serious.”“I feel very bad, Master. I thought that Master was always going to be good to everybody.”“Well, Tom, am I not? Do you need anything?”“No, Master is always good to me. But there is someone that Master isn’t good to.”“What do you mean?”“I thought about it last night. Master isn’t good to himself.”St Clare felt his face become red, then he laughed. “Oh, Tom!” said St Clare, with tears in his eyes. “Well, you’re right. Never again, Tom, I promise.”—Adapted from Uncle Tom’s Cabin9．Tom was asked to, leave what he was doing to ________A．work with horses B．go for walks with EvaC．spend some time with St Clare D．look after money for St Clare10．In Paragraph 3, the thing that worried Tom is ________.A．St Clare asked Tom to look after his moneyB．St Clare drank too much every dayC．St Clare didn’t look after himself well and didn’t live wellD．St Clare didn’t look after Tom well11．The underlined word “himself ” in Paragraph 12 is ________.A．Maria B．St Clare C．Eva D．Tom12．According to the passage, the correct order of the story is ________.a. Maria was unhappy with Eva’s friendship with Tom.b. St Clare felt moved and joyful when he laughed.c. St Clare gave Tom some money to do some business for him.d. Tom’s master spent too much money on the wrong things.A．adcb B．abcd C．badc D．dabc13．From the passage, we know that Tom was a ________ person.A．lazy but smart B．kind but stupid C．caring and brave D．lazy and stupid04（2023·湖南长沙·统考二模）The Adventures of Huckleberry Fine by Mark Twain is one of the first Great American Novels. It was also one of the first major American novels ever written by using Local Colorism（地方色彩主义）. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is famous for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River.This book is about how a boy called Huck set the slave（奴隶）free and realized his dream of living an adventures life. In order to get out of his father’s control. Hook pretended that he was dead by Jim, who is practical and loyal to friends. Jim went together with Huck in the journey, and they became friends after experience. scenes of adventures. In their voyage, they met two frauds（骗子）. One called himself king, the other duke. Because of the king, Jim got caught by his master. By an expected chance, Huck and Tom, best friend of Hack. Got together, and they decided to set Jim free. At last, they made it.Although the book has been popular with young readers since it came out, the book immediately became controversial（有争论的）and has remained so today because the Southern society that it satirized（讽刺）had already been history.14．Where did the story happen in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? ________A．Along the Mississippi River.B．In the southern states.C．In Canada.15．What is the plot（情节）of the story? ________①Huck met a run-away slave. Jim.②Huck met two frauds.③Huck pretended to be dead.④Jim was caught by his master and then set free.A．①②③④B．③①②④C．③②①④16．What does the underlined word “pretended” mean in Paragraph 2 ________.A．否定B．承认C．假装17．We can read the following in the passage EXCEPT ________.A．history of Local ColorismB．Huck’s life experienceC．popularity of the book18．What can we learn from the passage? ________A．It’s Buck’s dream to live a peaceful life.B．The book has gained a lot of attention.C．Huck succeeded in setting Jim free on his own.05（2023·吉林长春·统考一模）They left the busy streets and went to a part of the town Scrooge never visited. It was a terrible place. The streets were dirty, and the smell was very bad. The houses and shops were of the poorest kind. The people were all thin, dirty, and they looked very ill. Everything was ugly.They came to where an old man sat. He was selling dirty pieces of cloth, smelly old bones, and all kinds of old and useless things. As they watched, two old women and an old man, equally dirty, smelly, and ugly came into the shop. They carried large bags.“Come and sit by the fire,” the shopkeeper said. “Tell me what you have to sell me.”“Nothing a dead man will miss,” the first woman said with a nasty（让人讨厌的）laugh.“If he wanted to keep them after he was dead, why wasn’t he a good man when he was alive? If he had been, he would have had someone to look after him. He would not have died alone.”“That’s very true,” said the second woman, putting a few clothes on the floor. “He got the death he deserved.” She pointed at the clothes. “What will you give me for those, Joe?” She asked the shopkeeper, adding, “I did nowrong taking them from the dead man’s house.”The shopkeeper looked at everything the woman wanted to sell him and put a price on it. Then he added everything up. The final amount was very small.“That’s not much,” the woman said.“Take it or leave it,” the shopkeeper said. “I won’t pay a penny（便士）more.”—Taken from A Christmas Carol根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。
Henry_Fielding亨利。菲尔丁简介
Novel
appreciation
• Novels in addition to Jones and SuFei ya successively runaways plot as the center, describes all kinds of sporting events outside, also describes some incidental story and characters. If the pitiless 1691Christians in the mountains of the recluse, pessimistic, gypsy life ,the relationship between the couples, the low man's relationship with Neville court family father to contradictions etc. Gail These stories and characters and the main plot constitute an organic whole. • 小说中除了以琼斯和苏菲娅先后离家出走的情节为中 心，描写形形色色的冒险事件外，也描叙了一些附带 的故事和人物。如教友会教徒的铁石心肠，山中隐士 的悲观厌世，吉卜赛人的生活，菲茨派屈里克夫妇的 关系，本勒夫人的家庭和奈庭盖尔父子的矛盾等等。 这些故事和人物都与主要的情节构成一个有机的整体。
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• He first tried his luck at play writing and turned out 26 plays during 9 years (172937), and became the most successful playwright of the time. • He wrote plays, farces 滑稽剧and buffooneries 滑稽for the stage with political and social satire. • Fielding mercilessly exposed the corruption, hypocrisy and cruelty of the officials.
William Wordsworth生平简介
He initially refused the honour, saying he was too old, but accepted when Prime Minister Robert Peel assured him "you shall have nothing required of you"
In 1790, he took a walking tour of Europe, during which he toured the Alps extensively, and visited nearby areas of France, Switzerland, and Italy.
From 1795 to 1797, he wrote his only play, The Borderers, a verse tragedy during the reign of King Henry III of England
1779 - 1797
From 1779 until 1787 William attended the Grammar School in Hawkshead, lodging with Ann Tyson initially, then with his brothers.
He then went to St John's College Cambridge
Lake Poets
The Lake Poets are a group of English poets who all lived in the Lake District of England at the turn of the nineteenth century. As a group, they followed no single "school" of thought or literary practice then known, although their works were uniformly disparaged by the Edinburgh Review. They are considered part of the Romantic Movement.
威廉.华兹华斯WilliamWordsworth
威廉.华兹华斯WilliamWordsworth1．华兹华斯（WilliamWordsworth,1770-1850）的生平及创作生涯华兹华斯（1770～1850）英国诗人，华兹华斯生于律师之家，1783年他的父亲去世，他和弟兄们由舅父照管，妹妹多萝西（Dorothy）则由外祖父母抚养。
多萝西与他最为亲近，终身未嫁，一直与他作伴。
1787年他进剑桥大学圣约翰学院学习，大学毕业后去法国，住在布卢瓦。
他对法国革命怀有热情，认为这场革命表现了人性的完美，将拯救帝制之下处于水深火热中的人民。
在布卢瓦他结识了许多温和派的吉伦特党人。
1792年华兹华斯回到伦敦，仍对革命充满热情。
但他的舅父对他的政治活动表示不满，不愿再予接济。
正在走投无路时，一位一直同情并钦佩他的老同学去世，留给他900英镑。
于是在1795年10月，他与多萝西一起迁居乡间，实现接近自然并探讨人生意义的宿愿。
多萝西聪慧体贴，给他创造了写作条件。
1798年9月至1799年春，华兹华斯同多萝西去德国小住，创作了《采干果》、《露斯》和短诗《露西》组诗，同时开始写作长诗《序曲》。
1802年10月，华兹华斯和相识多年的玛丽·郝金生结婚。
这段时间，华兹华斯写了许多以自然与人生关系为主题的诗歌，中心思想是大自然是人生欢乐和智慧的源。
1803年华兹华斯游苏格兰，写了《孤独的收割人》和记游诗。
1807年他出版两卷本诗集，这部诗集的出版，结束从1797至1807年他创作生命最旺盛的10年。
华兹华斯与柯尔律治（Samuel TaylorColeridge）、骚塞（Robert Southey）同被称为“湖畔派”诗人（LakePoets）。
他们也是英国文学中最早出现的浪漫主义作家。
他们喜爱大自然，描写宗法制农村生活，厌恶资本主义的城市文明和冷酷的金钱关系，他们远离城市，隐居在昆布兰湖区和格拉斯米尔湖区，由此得名“湖畔派”。
“湖畔派”三诗人中成就最高者为华兹华斯。
智慧树知到《英文名著轻松学》章节测试【完整答案】
智慧树知到《英文名著轻松学》章节测试【完整答案】智慧树知到《英文名著轻松学》章节测试答案第一章1、Deucalion and Pyrrha threw ( ) to create men and women after the Great Flood.A:ArksB:arrowsC:ThemselvesD:Stones正确答案：Stones2、Beauty and Beast is adopted from the story of ( ).A: Eros and PsycheB: Apollo and DaphneC:Pygmalion and GalateaD:Zeus and Europa正确答案：Eros and Psyche3、The golden fleece symbolizes ( ).A:power and loveB:treasure and loveC:authority and treasureD: power and treasure正确答案：authority and treasure4、A sop to Cerberus refers to means of ( ).A:sadnessB:happinessC:tragedyD:bribery正确答案：bribery5、Achilles”s heel implies ( ).A:vitalsB:wisdomC:fateD:love正确答案：fate6、Prometheus and Epimetheus were brothers.A:对B:错正确答案：对7、“The virgin is destined for the bride of no mortal over. Her future husband awaits her on the top of the mountain. He is a monster whom neither gods nor man can resist.” is an oracle of ( ).A: ErosB:ApolloC:PygmalionD:Hera正确答案：Apollo8、Midas” ear or ass” ear is used to describe a person foolish.A:对B:错正确答案：对9、Labors of Hercules refers to an extremely difficult task requiring great strength or effort to accomplish.A:对B:错正确答案：对10、Which one is Homer”s epic?A:A1.pngB:B1.pngC:C.pngD:D1.png正确答案：D1.png第二章1、第二章1.pngA:SophoclesB:AeschylusC:EuripidesD:Shakespeare正确答案：Euripides2、( ) was the most-awarded playwright in ancient Roman time.A:SophoclesB:AeschylusC:EuripidesD:Shakespeare正确答案：Sophocles3、Zeus presented Pandora to ( ).A:PrometheusB:Prometheus” brotherC:ApolloD:Hemers正确答案：Prometheus” brother4、Oedipus solves the ( ) of the Sphinx.A:fateB:identityC:riddleD:game正确答案：riddle5、Jason claimed his inheritance and throne by retrieving the( ).A:Golden FleeceB:golden coronetC:dragonD:fiery oxen正确答案：Golden Fleece6、”Prometheus Bound” was written by ( ).A:SophoclesB:AeschylusC:EuripidesD:Shakespeare正确答案：Aeschylus7、Whose work is known primarily for having reshaped the formal structure of Athenian tragedy by portraying strong female characters?A:ShakespeareB:AeschylusC:EuripidesD:Sophocles正确答案：Euripides8、Who presented Pandora to Prometheus” brother?A:PrometheusB:AthenaC:ApolloD:Zeus正确答案：Zeus9、”Oedipus Rex” was written by ( ).A:ShakespeareB:AeschylusC:EuripidesD:Sophocles正确答案：Sophocles10、Who claimed his inheritance and throne by retrieving the Golden Fleece?A:JasonB:Medea”s brotherC:MedeaD:Medea”s father正确答案：Jason第三章1、According to the Bible, the world was created by God in ( ).A:one dayB:ten daysC:seven daysD:six days正确答案：six days2、The man and his wife should be of one flesh because( ). A:the woman was made of the man”s ribB:God made both the man and the womanC:the man made the womanD:the woman made the man正确答案：the woman was made of the man's rib3、Why did the Lord want to destroy man?A:Man was too smartB:Man was too slothfulC:Men was sa perfect.D:Men was too wicked.正确答案：Men was too wicked.4、If the angel of the Lord had not told him what had really happened to Mary, Joseph perhaps would not have married Mary. A:对B:错正确答案：对5、Good Friday honors the day that Jesus was:A:CrucifiedB:BaptizedC:ResurrectedD:Borne正确答案：Resurrected6、Bible has a great influence on English language and literature.A:对B:错正确答案：对7、According to the Bible, the story of Creation - How the World Was Made is a story in the New Testment.A:对B:错正确答案：错8、According to the Bible, Eve comes to the world before Adam.A:对B:错正确答案：错9、God loved Abel more than Cain.A:对B:错正确答案：对10、According to the Bible, the Last Supper was a story happened on passover.A:对B:错正确答案：对第四章1、4.11.pngA:HoratioB:PoloniusC:MercutioD:Claudius正确答案：Mercutio 2、4.2.pngA:EdmundB:Earl KentC:EdgarD:Lear正确答案：Edgar3、4.3.pngA:ScotlandB:DenmarkC:EnglandD:Italy正确答案：Scotland 4、4.4.pngA:friendshipB:loveC:hatredD:good正确答案：hatred5、4.5.pngA: a kind of poisonB:a bottle of potion to play deadC:a kind of flowerD:a kind of perfume正确答案：a kind of flower6、英文 4.6.pngA:对B:错正确答案：对7、“All the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”from Shakespeare”s drama“In As You Like it”.A:对B:错正确答案：对8、Revenge play is very popular at Shakespearean time. A:对B:错正确答案：对9、”King Lear” is not only a tragedy of a family and a country, but also a tragedy of human nature.A:对B:错正确答案：对10、”Othello“ is said to be the most saddest tragedy of Shakespeare.A:对B:错正确答案：对第五章1、Which is not the fairy tale by Oscar Wilde?A:A.pngB:B.pngC:C.pngD:D.png正确答案：C2、Oscar Wilde became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism.A:对B:错正确答案：对3、5.3.pngA:对B:错正确答案：对4、5.4.pngA:对B:错正确答案：A5、5.5.pngA:对B:错正确答案：A6、”The Ballad of Reading Gaol“ is the novel by Oscar Wilde. A:对B:错正确答案：错7、”The Picture of Dorian Gray“ is the novel by Oscar Wilde.A:对B:错正确答案：对8、”The true perfection of man lies not in what man has ,but what man is.“describes the fairy”The Selfish Giant“A:对B:错正确答案：对9、英文5.9.pngA:对B:错正确答案：A10、In the story of“the Happy Prince”,the little Swallow died at the feet of the little prince .A:对B:错正确答案：对第六章1、According to the poem“Leisure” , what is the most important thing in life is money.A:对B:错正确答案：错2、According to the poem”Leisure”, which one of the following is the most important thing in life?A: moneyB:free timeC:beautyD:social status正确答案：free time3、William Wordsworth is a realistic poet.A:对B:错正确答案：错4、William Wordsworth is a ( )A:Romantic poetB:Realistic poetC:nature loverD:leading figure of Romantic movement正确答案：CD5、Which one of the stages is the most pathetic stage? A:babyB:loverC:soldierD:pantaloon正确答案：pantaloon6、According to the poem“on Marriage”， between husband and wife there must be no space.A:对B:错正确答案：错7、Which one of the following image is mot mentioned in the poem“on Marriage”?A:breadB:cupC:treeD:moon正确答案：moon8、Byron is not a (an) :A:realistic poetB:Romantic poetC:American poetD:British poet正确答案：American poet9、Which of the following images are not mentioned in the poem“To the Virgin, to Make Much of time”?A:sunB:flowerC:rainbowD:bird正确答案：bird10、 To whom the poem“To the Virgin, to Make Much of time”is written ?A:young womenB:old womenC:soldierD:dying men正确答案：young women第七章1、O ▪ Henry was sent to prison because ____.A:he was committed adultory with another woman.B:people thought he had stolen money from the bankC:he wanted to write stories about prisonersD:people thought he had stolen money from the newspaper 正确答案：O ▪ Henry was sent to prison because ____.2、7.2.pngA:对B:错正确答案：A3、7.3.pngA:How to celebrate a happy Christmas for a young and rich couple.B:How to choose Christmas presents for couples.C:A love story between a young and rich couple.D:A love story between a young and poor couple.正确答案：D4、As with many other homeless people in the United States, Soapy is psychologically experienced in thinking of the local jail as a homeless shelter.A:对B:错正确答案：对5、7.5.pngA:对B:错正确答案：A6、O ▪ Henry lived a very rich life in Britain.A:对B:错正确答案：错7、The important theme of the story” After Twenty Years”is revealing a distinct contrast between the loyalty to the friends and devotion to the duty.A:对B:错正确答案：对8、Why did Della weep before Christmas?A:She couldn”t see Jim during Christmas.B:She had little money to buy herself a gift.C:Jim didn”t give her a Christmas gift.D:She had little money to buy Jim a present.正确答案：She had little money to buy Jim a present.9、The gift Della bought Jim was ___. Which of the following is NOT right.A:Something fine and rare-- something worthy of the honor of being owned by Jim.B:A gold watch chain that was at her great expense.C:A gift that Della had been planning for a month.D:A gift for which Della spent two hours searching all the stores.正确答案：A gift that Della had been planning for a month.10、7.10.pngA:How to celebrate a happy Christmas for a young and rich couple.B:How to choose Christmas presents for couples.C:Money is love.D:A love story between a young and poor couple.正确答案：A love story between a young and poor couple.。
william wordsworth
william wordsworthWilliam Wordsworth: A Revolutionary Poet and Nature EnthusiastIntroductionWilliam Wordsworth, born in 1770 in England, is widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of the Romantic movement. His works explored human emotions, the beauty of nature, and the power of the imagination. Wordsworth’s poetry broke away from the traditional norms of the time and introduced a new perspective on the role of poetry and its relationship with nature. This document aims to delve into Wordsworth’s life, his poetic style, and the impact of his works on the literary world.Life and Early InfluencesWordsworth was raised by his mother after losing his father at an early age. Growing up in the picturesque Lake District, he developed a deep appreciation and love for nature. His childhood experiences surrounded by the stunninglandscapes of mountains, forests, and lakes later became a prominent theme in his poetry.In 1787, Wordsworth attended St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he developed his love for poetry. His fascination with the works of Milton, Shakespeare, and Nature writers like James Thomson and John Milton greatly influenced his own style and subject matter. However, it was a tour of the Alps during his college years that profoundly impacted Wordsworth, shaping his later works and philosophies.The Romantic RevolutionWordsworth, along with fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, spearheaded the Romantic Revolution in English literature. They published a joint collection of poetry titled \。
关于the famous five的英文阅读
关于the famous five的英文阅读The Famous Five is a series of children's novels written by the English author Enid Blyton. The series was first published between 1942 and 1961, and features five adventurous children—Julian, Dick, Anne, George, and Timmy the dog—who go on exciting expeditions and solve mysteries.One of the most famous adventures in the series is the mystery of the Purple House, which takes place in the fictional town of Kirrin Island. The children discover that the purple house is haunted by a ghost, and they embark on a mission to揭露the ghost's identity and set it free.The Famous Five novels have been popular for decades, and they continue to be enjoyed by children all over the world. The books have been translated into many languages, and they have also been adapted for television and radio.The Famous Five novels are notable for their fast-paced plots, exciting adventures, andBlyton's characteristic humor and warmth.The books also feature a strong moral message, teaching children about honesty, bravery, and loyalty.In conclusion, The Famous Five is a classic series of children's adventures that has been enjoyed by generations. The books are full of excitement, fun, and valuable life lessons that make them a worthwhile addition to any child's library.。
ThePhoenixbySilviaWarner
ThePhoenixbySilviaWarnerThe Phoenix by Silvia WarnerLord Strawberry, a nobleman, collected birds. He had the finest aviary in Europe, so large that eagles did not find it uncomfortable, so well laid out that both humming birds and snow-buntings had a climate that suited them perfectly. But for many years the finest set of apartments remained empty, with just a label saying: “PHOENIX. Habitat: Arabia.”Many authorities on bird life had assured Lord Strawberry that the phoenix is a fabulous bird, or that the breed was long extinct. Lord Strawberry was unconvinced: his family had always believed in phoenixes. At intervals he received from his agents (together with statements of their expenses) birds which they declared were the phoenix but which turned out to be orioles, macaws, turkey buzzards dyed orange, etc., or stuffed cross-breeds, ingeniously assembled from various plumages. Finally Lord Strawberry went himself to Arabia, where, after some months, he found a phoenix, won its confidence, caught it, and brought it home in perfect condition.It was a remarkably fine phoenix, with a charming character – affable to the other birds in the aviary and much attached to Lord Strawberry. On its arrival in England it made a greatest stir among ornithologists, journalists, poets, and milliners, and was constantly visited. But it was not puffed by these attentions, and when it was no longer in the news, and the visits fell off, it showed no pique or rancor. It ate well, and seemed perfectly contented.It costs a great deal of money to keep up an aviary. When Lord Strawberry died he died penniless. The aviary came on the market. In normal times the Rarer birds, and certainly the phoenix,w ould have been bid for by the trustees of Europe’s great zoological societies, or by private persons in the U.S.A.; but as it happened Lord Strawberry died just after a world war, when both money and bird-seed were hard to come by (indeed the cost of bird-seed was one of the things which had ruined Lord Strawberry). The London Times urged in a leader that the phoenix be bought for the London Zoo, saying that a nation of bird-lovers had a moral right to own such a rarity; and a fund, called the Strawberry Phoenix Fund, was opened. Students, naturalists, and school-children contributed according to their means; but their means were small, and there were no large donations. So Lord Strawberry’s executors (who had the death duties to consider) closed with the higher offer of Mr. T ancred Poldero, owner and proprietor of Poldero’s Wizard Wonderworld.For quite a while Mr. Poldero considered his phoenix a bargain. It was a civil and obliging bird, and adapted itself readily to its new surroundings. It did not cost much to feed, it did not mind children; and though it had no tricks, Mr. Poldero supposed it would soon pick up some. The publicity of the Strawberry Phoenix Fund was now most helpful. Almost every contributor now saved up another half-crown in order to see the phoenix. Others, who had not contributed to the fund, even paid double to look at it on the five-shilling days.But then business slackened. The phoenix was as handsome as ever, and amiable; but, as Mr. Poldero said, it hadn’t got Edge. Even at popular prices the phoenix was not really popular. It was too quiet, too classical. So people went instead to watch the antics of the baboons, or to admire the crocodile who had eaten the woman.One day Mr. Poldero said to his manager, Mr. Ramkin:“How long since any fool paid to look at the phoenix?”“Matter of three weeks,” replied Mr. Ramkin.“Eating his head off,” said Mr. Poldero. “Let alone the insurance. Seven shillings a week itcosts me to insure the Archbishop of Canterbury.”“The public don’t like him.He’s too quiet for them, that’s the trouble. Won’t mate nor nothing. And I’ve tried him with no end of pretty pollies, ospreys, and Cochin-Chinas, and the Lord knows what. But he won’t look at them.”“Wonder if we could swap him for a livelier one,” said Mr. Poldero.“Impossible. There’s only one of him at a time.”“Go on!”“I mean it. Haven’t you ever read what it says on the label?”They went to the phoenix’s cage. It flapped its wings politely, but they paid no attention. They read:“PANSY. Phoenix phoenixissima formossisima arabiana. This rare and fabulous bird is unique. T he World’s Old Bachelor. Has no mate and doesn’t want one. When old, sets fire to itself and emerges miraculously reborn. Specially imported from the East.”“I’ve got an idea,” said Mr. Poldero. “How old do you suppose that bird is?”“Looks in its prime to me,” said Mr. Ramkin.“Suppose,” continued Mr. Poldero, “we could somehow get him alight? We’d advertise it beforehand, of course, work up interest. Then we’d have a new bird, a nd a bird with some romance about it, a bird with a life story. We could sell a bird like that.”Mr. Ramkin nodded.“I’ve read about it in a book,” he said. “You’ve got togive them scented woods and what not, and they build a nest and sit down on it and c atch fire spontaneous. But they won’t do it till they’re old. That’s the snag.”“Leave that to me, “ said Mr. Poldero. “You get those scented woods, and I’ll do the ageing.”It was not easy to age the phoenix. Its allowance of food was halved, and halved again, but though it grew thinner its eyes were undimmed and its plumage glossy as ever. The heating was turned off; but it puffed out its feathers against the cold, and seemed none the worse. Other birds were put into its cage, birds of a peevish and quarrelsome nature. They pecked and chivied it; but the phoenix was so civil and amiable that after a day or two they lost their animosity. Then Mr. Poldero tried alley cats. These could not be won by manners, but the phoenix darted above their heads and flapped its golden wings in their faces, and daunted them.Mr. Poldero turned to a book on Arabia, and read that the climate was dry. “Aha!” said he. The phoenix was moved to a small cage that had a sprinkler in the ceiling. Every night the sprinkler was turned on. The phoenix began to cough. Mr. Poldero had another good idea. Daily he stationed himself in front of the cage to jeer at the bird and abuse it.When spring was come, Mr. Poldero felt justified in beginning a publicity campaign about the ageing phoenix. The old public favorite, he said, was nearing its end. Meanwhile he tested the bird’s reactions every few days by putting a few tufts of foul-smelling straw and some strands of rusty barbed wire into the cage, to see if it were interested in nesting yet. One day the phoenix began turning over the straw. Mr. Poldero signed a contract for the film rights. At last the hour seemed ripe. It was afine Saturday evening in May. For some weeks the public interest in the ageing phoenix had been working up, and the admission charge had risen to five shillings. The enclosure was thronged. The lights and the cameras were trained on the cage, and a loud-speaker proclaimed to the audience the rarity of what was about to take place.“The phoenix,” said the loud-speaker, “is the aristocrat of bird-life. Only the rarest and most expensive specimens of oriental wood, drenched in exotic perfumes, will tempt him to construct his strange love-nest.”Now a neat assortment of twigs and shavings, strongly scented, was shoved into the cage.“The phoenix,” the l oud-speaker continued, “is as capricious as Cleopatra, as luxurious as la du Barry, as heady as a strain of wild gypsy music. All the fantastic pomp and passion of the ancient East, its languorous magic, its subtle cruelties…”“Lawks!” cried a woman in the crowd. “He’s at it!”A quiver stirred the dulled plumage. The phoenix turned its head from side to side. It descended, staggering, from its perch. Then wearily it began to pull about the twigs and shavings. The cameras clicked, the lights blazed full on the cage. Rushing to the loud-speaker Mr. Poldero exclaimed:“Ladies and gentlemen, this is the thrilling moment the world has breathlessly awaited. The legend of centuries is materializing before our modern eyes. The phoenix…”The phoenix settled on its pyre and appeared to fall asleep.The film director said:“Well, if it doesn’t evaluate more than this, mark instructional.”At that moment the phoenix and the pyre burst into flames.The flames streamed upwards, leaped out on every side. In a minute or two everything was burned to ashes, and some thousand people, including Mr. Poldero, perished in the blaze.Questions:1.What is the theme of this story? What is the author trying to tell us, or why would shewrite this story?2.Identify at least three points either from or about The Phoenix you would be interested indiscussing in class.。
华兹华斯简介英文版
华兹华斯简介英文版华兹华斯，英国浪漫主义诗人，曾当上桂冠诗人。
其诗歌理论动摇了英国古典主义诗学的统治，下面是店铺为你整理的华兹华斯简介英文版，希望对你有用!华兹华斯简介William Wordsworth (1770-1850), the British romantic poet, was a laureate poet. His poetry theory shook the rule of British classical poetics, which effectively promoted the innovation of British poetry and the development of romanticism. He is one of the most important English poets since the Renaissance movement. His verse "plain living and high thinking" was used as the motto of the University of Oxford's Kibble College.华兹华斯诗人生平Walsworth was born in the lawyer's house, studied at the University of Cambridge, St. John's College, after graduation to travel to Europe, in France, a personal experience of the Great Revolution of the storm. In 1783 his father died, he and his brothers by the uncle care, sister Dorothy (Dorothy) by the grandparents raised. Dorothy is the closest to him.In 1787 he went to the University of Cambridge, St. John's College, after graduating from college to France, living in Blois. He is passionate about the French revolution and believes that this revolution represents the perfection of human nature and will save the people under the imperial system in dire straits. In Blois he met many moderates of the Girondes. In 1792, Wordsworth returned to London, still full of enthusiasm for the revolution. But his uncle expressed dissatisfaction with his political activities, unwilling to help. Is desperate, one has been sympathetic and admired his old classmate died, leaving him 900pounds. So in October 1795, he moved to the country with Dorothy, to achieve close to nature and explore the meaning of life. Dorothy was clever and thoughtful, and created the conditions for his creation. Later she became a poet. Has been with his companion, life is not married.华兹华斯创作生涯From September 1917 to the spring of 1799, Wordsworth and Dorothy went to Germany to live in a small country. He created poems of "picking dried fruit", "Ruth" and short poem "Lucy", and began writing "Overture". In October 1802, Wordsworth and Mary Hutchinson were married for many years.During this time, Wordsworth wrote many poems on the theme of the relationship between nature and life. The central thought was that nature was the source of joy and wisdom of life. In 1803, Wordsworth traveled Scotland and wrote "Lonely Harvesters". In 1807 he published two volumes of this collection of poems, which were published, from 1797 to 1807, he created the most productive ten years of life.Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey are known as the "Lake Poets". They are also the earliest romantic writers in British literature. They love nature, describe the patriarchal rural life, dislike the capitalist urban civilization and the cold money relationship, they stay away from the city, seclusion in the Quebland Lake and Lake Glasmir Lake, hence the name "lakeside"."Lakeside" three poets in the highest achievements for the Wordsworth. He collaborated with Coleridge in 1798 to publish a "lyrical ballad", and Wordsworth and Coleridge turned from opposition to the French revolution, and the former fondered the landscape and sought comfort in nature. Exotic and ancient, witha dream for the end. The collection of two poems titled "Lyric Songs", published in 1798, "lyric songs" declared the birth of romantic poetry. After two years of reprint, Wordsworth added a long sequence. In this order, Wordsworth elaborated his Romantic literary claims, advocating the civilian language, the thoughts and feelings of civilians, known as the romantic poems of the declaration.In the poem of "Resolution and Independence" (1802), Wordsworth described a fishing and leeches who had to keep abreast of the old body and mind.Since then, Wordsworth's poetry has been further developed in depth and breadth, in the description of natural scenery, among the civilian things have deep meaning, sustenance of self-reflection and life to explore the philosophical thinking. Completed in 1805 published in 1850 long poem "Overture" is his most representative works.Wordsworth's most productive period was 10 years from 1797 to 1807. After the masterpiece is not much, to 1843 was appointed "laurel poet" when there is no work. However, through his life, his poetry is outstanding, worthy of Shakespeare, Milton after the generation of everyone.。
英国文学John Donne the flea
Life & Career
b)1601 was the turningpoint to Donne.In 1601, he
secretly married his employer's niece, seventeen-year-old Anne More, daughter of Sir George More, and effectively committed career suicide. Donne was thrown in Fleet Prison by Sir George for some weeks, and then was dismissed from his post, and for the next decade had to struggle near poverty to support his growing family.These were bitter years for a man who knew he could have risen to the highest posts, and yet found no preferment. It was not until 1609 that a reconciliation (和解） was effected between Donne and his father-in-law.
The Flea 英国文学史 paraphrase 解释 跳蚤
The Flea1 Mark but this flea, and mark in this,2 How little that which thou deny’st me is;Look at the flea, you will know that it is unworthy of mentioning the fact that you refuse to sleep with me.3 Me it suck'd first, and now sucks thee,It sucked me first and it sucks you now.4 And in this flea our two bloods mingled be;Our bloods are mingled in this flea.5 Confess it, this cannot be said6 A sin, or shame, or loss of maidenhead,You must admit the fact that which can’t be called a sin or shame or loss of virginity.7 Yet this enjoys before it woo,But the flea enjoys you without wooing you.8 And pamper'd swellswith one blood made of two;The pregnancy mingled with our bloods,9 And this, alas, is more than we would do.We, alas, don’t dare to hope for his consummation for our love, nevertheless the flee accepts it.10 Oh stay, three lives in one flea spare,Please stop! Don’t kill the flea with three lives.11 Where we almost, nay more than married are:In this flea, we are not just married.12 This flea is you and I, and this13 Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is;The flea is you and I, and it’s also our marriage bed and our marriage temple.14 Though parents grudge, and you, we're met,15 And cloister'd in these living walls of jet.Although our parents disagree on our marriage, and we meet each other and secluded in this flea.16 Though use make you apt to kill me,17 Let not to that self-murder added be,18 And sacrilege, three sins in killing three.You tend to kill me out of inclination, but don’t add the sin of self-murder and sacrilege to the three sins of killing you, I and our coming baby by killing this flea.19 Cruel and sudden, hast thou since20 Purpled thy nail, in blood of innocenceYou are so cruel and impulsive since you have made your nail red with blood of innocence.21 In what could this flea guilty be,22 Except in that drop which it sucked from theeExcept for the fact that it sucked a drop from you, what other guilt does it have23 Yet thou triumph'st, and say'st that thou24 Find'st not thyself nor me the weaker now;But you are complacent about it, and say that you find neither yourself nor me are weaker now.25 Tis true, then learn how false fears be;It is true. Now you know how unnecessary your fears are.26 Just so much honour, when thou yield'st to me,27 Will waste, as this flea's death took life from thee.The harm to your reputation if you accept our consummation of love is as much asthe harm of the flea’s death to you.。
高中英语-阅读理解练习
高中英语-阅读理解练习一、知识点简介阅读理解是英语学习中必不可少的一项技能，也是英语考试中常见的题型之一。
阅读理解要求学生在一定时间内，通过阅读一篇英语文章，理解文章内容、意图和信息，回答相关问题。
高中英语阅读理解难度逐渐增加，题目类型也多种多样，需要学生具备良好的英语阅读能力。
二、阅读理解练习题（共10题）1. 阅读下面短文，按照要求回答问题。
(共10分)Belgium is famous for its chocolate. In Belgium, people eat chocolate for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Belgians also love chocolate for snacks. They are so proud of their chocolate that they have a museum about chocolate in Brussels. The museum is very popular with tourists.Question 1: What is Belgium famous for?Question 2: What do Belgians eat chocolate for?2. 阅读下面短文，回答问题。
(共10分)Tea is the most popular beverage in the world after water. It is made from the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant. There are six main types of tea: green, black, oolong, white, pu-erh, and yellow. Tea has many health benefits, such as reducing the risk of heart disease and cancer.Question: What are the six main types of tea?3. 阅读下面短文，判断正误。
TheFlea
TheFlea“The Flea”SummaryThe speaker tells his beloved to look at the flea before them and to note “how little” is that thing that she denies him. For the flea, he says, has sucked first his blood, then her blood, so that now, inside the flea, they are mingled; and that mingling cannot be called “sin, or shame, or loss of maidenhead.” The flea has joined them together in a way that, “alas, is more than we would do.”As his beloved moves to kill the flea, the speaker stays her hand, asking her to spare the three lives in the flea: his life, her life, and the flea’s own life. In the flea, he says, where their blood is mingled, they are almost married—no, more than married—and the flea is their marriage bed and marriage temple mixed into one. Though their parents grudge their romance and though she will not make love to him, they are nevertheless united and cloistered in the living walls of the flea. She is apt to kill him, he says, but he asks that she not kill herself by killing the flea that contains her blood; he says that to kill the flea would be sacrilege, “three sins in killing three.”“Cruel and sudden,” the speaker calls his lover, who has now killed the flea, “purpling” her fingernail with the “blood of innocence.” The speaker asks his lover what the flea’s sin was, other than having sucked from each of them a drop of blood. He says that his lover replies that neither of them is less noble for having killed the flea. It is true, he says, and it is this very fact that proves that her fears are false: If she w ere to sleep with him (“yield to me”), she would lose no more honor than she lost when she killed the flea.FormThis poem alternates metrically between lines in iambic tetrameter and lines in iambic pentameter, a 4-5 stress pattern ending with two pentameter lines at the end of each stanza. Thus, the stress pattern in each of the nine-line stanzas is 454545455. The rhyme scheme in each stanza is similarly regular, in couplets, with the final line rhyming with the final couplet: AABBCCDDD. CommentaryThis f unny little poem again exhibits Donne’s metaphysical love-poem mode, his aptitude for turning even the least likely images into elaborate symbols of love and romance. This poem uses the image of a flea that has just bitten the speaker and his beloved to sketch an amusing conflict over whether the two will engage in premarital sex. The speaker wants to, the beloved does not, and so the speaker, highly clever but grasping at straws, uses the flea, in whose body his blood mingles with his beloved’s, to show ho w innocuous such mingling can be—he reasons that if mingling in the flea is so innocuous, sexual mingling would be equally innocuous, for they are really the same thing. By the second stanza, the speaker is trying to save the flea’s life, holding it up as “our marriage bed and marriage temple.”But when the beloved kills the flea despite the speaker’s protestations (and probably as a deliberate move to squash his argument, as well), he turns his argument on its head and claims that despite the high-minded and sacred ideals he has just been invoking, killing the flea did not really impugn his beloved’s honor—and despite the high-minded and sacred ideals she has invoked in refusing to sleep with him, doing so would not impugn her honor either.This poem is the cleverest of a long line of sixteenth-century love poems using the flea as an erotic image, a genre derived from an older poem of Ovid. Donne’s poise of hinting at the erotic without ever explicitly referring to sex, while at the same time leaving no doubt as to exactly what he means, is as much a source of the poem’s humor as the silly image of the flea is; the idea that being bitten by a flea would represent “sin, or shame, or loss of maidenhead” gets the point across with a neat conciseness and clarit y that Donne’s later religious lyrics never attained.“A Valediction: forbidding Mourning”SummaryThe speaker explains that he is forced to spend time apart from his lover, but before he leaves, he tells her that their farewell should not be the occasion for mourning and sorrow. In the same way that virtuous men die mildly and without complaint, he says, so they should leave without “tear-floods” and “sigh-tempests,” for to publicly announce their feelings in such a way would profane their love. The spea ker says that when the earth moves, it brings “harms and fears,” but when the spheres experience “trepidation,” though the impact is greater, it is also innocent. Thelove of “dull sublunary lovers” cannot survive separation, but it removes that which cons titutes the love itself; but the love he shares with his beloved is so refined and “Inter-assured of the mind” that they need not worry about missing “eyes, lips, and hands.”Though he must go, their souls are still one, and, therefore, they are not enduring a breach, they are experiencing an “expansion”; in the same way that gold can be stretched by beating it “to aery thinness,” the soul they share will simply stretchto take in all the space between them. If their souls are separate, he says, they are l ike the feet of a compass: His lover’s soul is the fixed foot in the center, and his is the foot that moves around it. The firmness of the center foot makes the circle that the outer foot draws perfect: “Thy firmness makes my circle just, / And makes me en d, where I begun.”FormThe nine stanzas of this Valediction are quite simple compared to many of Donne’s poems, which utilize strange metrical patterns overlaid jarringly on regular rhyme schemes. Here, each four-line stanza is quite unadorned, with an ABAB rhyme scheme and an iambic tetrameter meter. Commentary“A Valediction: forbidding Mourning” is one of Donne’s most famous and simplest poems and also probably his most direct statement of his ideal of spiritual love. For all his erotic carnality in poe ms, such as “The Flea,” Donne professed a devotion to a kind of spiritual love that transcended the merely physical. Here, anticipating a physical separation from his beloved, he invokes the nature of that spiritual love to ward off the “tear-floods” and “sigh-tempests” that might otherwise attend on their farewell. The poem is essentially a sequence of metaphors and comparisons, each describing a way of looking at their separation that will help them to avoid the mourning forbidden by the poem’s title.First, the speaker says that their farewell should be as mild as the uncomplaining deaths of virtuous men, for to weep would be “profanation of our joys.” Next, the speaker compares harmful “Moving of th’ earth” to innocent “trepidation of the spheres,”equating the first with “dull sublunary lovers’ love” and the second with their love, “Inter-assured of the mind.” Like the rumbling earth, the dull sublunary (sublunary meaning literally beneath the moon and also subject to the moon) lovers are all physical, unable to experience separation without losing the sensation that comprises and sustains their love. But the spiritual lovers “Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss,” because, like the trepidation (vibration) of the spheres (the concentric globes that surrounded the earth in ancient astronomy), their love is not wholly physical. Also, like the trepidation of the spheres, their movement will not have the harmful consequences of an earthquake.The speaker then declares that, since the lovers’ two souls are one, his departure will simply expand the area of their unified soul, rather than cause a rift between them. If, however, their souls are “two” instead of “one”, they are as the feet of a drafter’s compass, connected, with the center foot fixing the orbit of the outer foot and helping it to describe a perfect circle. The compass (the instrument used for drawing circles) is one of Donne’s most famous metaphors, and it is the perfect image to encapsulate the values of Donne’s spiritual love, which is balanced, symmetrical, intellectual, serious, and beautiful in its polished simplicity.Like many of Donne’s love poems (including “The Sun Rising” and “The Canonization”), “A Valediction: forbidding Mourning”creates a dichotomy between the common love of the e veryday world and the uncommon love of the speaker. Here, the speaker claims that to tell “the laity,” or the common people, of his love would be to profane its sacred nature, and he is clearly contemptuous of the dull sublunary love of other lovers. The effect of this dichotomy is to create a kind of emotional aristocracy that is similar in form to the political aristocracy with which Donne has had painfully bad luck throughout his life and which he commented upon in poems, such as “The Canonization”: This emotional aristocracy is similar in form to the political one but utterly opposed to it in spirit. Few in number are the emotional aristocrats who have access to the spiritual love of the spheres and the compass; throughout all of Donne’s writing, the mem bership of this elite never includes more than the speaker and his lover—or at the most, the speaker, his lover, and the reader of the poem, who is called upon to sympathize with Donne’s romantic plight.。
Ernest Hemingway 海明威英文简介
Ernest Hemingway1899-1961, American novelist and short-story writer, one of the great American writers of the 20th cent.The son of a country doctor, Hemingway worked as a reporter for the Kansas City Star after graduating from high school in 1917.During World War I he served as an ambulance driver in France and in the Italian infantry and was wounded just before his 19th birthday. Later, while working in Paris as a correspondent for the Toronto Star, he became involved with the expatriate literary and artistic circle surrounding Gertrude Stein.During the Spanish Civil War, Hemingway served as a correspondent on the loyalist side. He fought in World War II and then settled in Cuba in 1945. In 1954, Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.After his expulsion from Cuba by the Castro regime, he moved to Idaho. He was increasingly plagued by ill health and mental problems, and in July, 1961, he committed suicide by shooting himself.Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American writer and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as "the Lost Generation." He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.Hemingway's distinctive writing style is characterized by economy and understatement, and had a significant influence on the development of twentieth-century fiction writing. His protagonists are typically stoical men who exhibit an ideal described as "grace under pressure." Many of his works are now considered classics of American literature.Hemingway's fiction usually focuses on people living essential, dangerous lives, soldiers, fishermen, athletes, bullfighters,who meet the pain and difficulty of their existence with stoic courage. His celebrated literary style, influenced by Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein , is direct, terse, and often monotonous, yet particularly suited to his elemental subject matter.Hemingway's first books, Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923), In Our Time (short stories, 1924), and The Torrents of Spring (a novel, 1926), attracted attention primarily because of his literary style. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises (1926), he was recognized as the spokesman of the “lost generation” (so called by Gertrude Stein). The novel concerns a group of psychologically bruised, disillusioned expatriates living in postwar Paris, who take psychic refuge in such immediate physical activities as eating, drinking, traveling, brawling, and lovemaking.His next important novel, A Farewell to Arms (1929), tells of a tragic wartime love affair between an ambulance driver and an English nurse. Hemingway also published such volumes of short stories as Men without Women (1927) and Winner Take Nothing (1933), as well as The Fifth Column, a play. His First Forty-nine Stories (1938) includes such famous short stories as “The Killers,” “The Undefeated,” and “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.” Hemingway's nonfiction works, Death in the Afternoon (1932), about bullfighting, and Green Hills of Africa (1935), about big-game hunting, glorify virility, bravery, and the virtue of a primal challenge to life.From his experience in the Spanish Civil War came Hemingway's great novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), which, in detailing an incident in the war, argues for human brotherhood. His novella The Old Man and the Sea (1952) celebrates the indomitable courage of an aged Cuban fisherman. Among Hemingway's other works are the novels To Have and Have Not (1937) and Across the River and into the Trees (1950); he also edited an anthology of stories, Men at War (1942). Posthumous publications include A Moveable Feast (1964), a memoir of Paris in the 1920s; the novels Islands in the Stream (1970) and True at First Light (1999), a safari saga begun in 1954 and edited by his son Patrick; and The Nick Adams Stories (1972), a collection that includes previously unpublished piecesErnest Hemingway (1899-1961), born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. After the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. Serving at the front, he was wounded, was decorated by the Italian Government, and spent considerable time in hospitals. After his return to the United States, hebecame a reporter for Canadian and American newspapers and was soon sent back to Europe to cover such events as the Greek Revolution.During the twenties, Hemingway became a member of the group of expatriate Americans in Paris, which he described in his first important work, The Sun Also Rises (1926). Equally successful was A Farewell to Arms (1929), the study of an American ambulance officer's disillusionment in the war and his role as a deserter. Hemingway used his experiences as a reporter during the civil war in Spain as the background for his most ambitious novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Among his later works, the most outstanding is the short novel, The Old Man and the Sea (1952), the story of an old fisherman's journey, his long and lonely struggle with a fish and the sea, and his victory in defeat.Hemingway - himself a great sportsman - liked to portray soldiers, hunters, bullfighters - tough, at times primitive people whose courage and honesty are set against the brutal ways of modern society, and who in this confrontation lose hope and faith. His straightforward prose, his spare dialogue, and his predilection for understatement are particularly effective in his short stories, some of which are collected in Men Without Women (1927) and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938). Hemingway died in Idaho in 1961.。
安徒生简介英文版
安徒生简介英文版安徒生简介英文版安徒生，9世纪丹麦著名童话作家，世界文学童话创始人，下面是店铺为你整理的安徒生简介英文版，希望对你有用!安徒生简介Hans Christian Andersen (1805--1875), the famous Danish fairy tale writer of the 19th century, the founder of the world literary fairy tale, the representative works are "ugly duckling", "little girl selling matches", "new clothes of the emperor", "thumb girl" Etc., far-reaching impact.Andersen has been tribute to the royal family of Denmark, highly praised for the whole of Europe children brought joy. So far, his works have been translated into more than 150 languages, thousands of fairy tales published in the world after another release. His fairy tale also inspired a large number of films, stage plays, ballet and movie animation and other derivatives.安徒生人物生平Born poor and talentedOn April 2, 1805, Andersen was born in the slums of Odense, a small town in the town of Odense, in the island of Fernand, Denmark, where a family lives in a narrow house. Father is a shoemaker, read a lot of books, imagination rich romantic temperament, Andersen childhood from the influence of his father, the impact.In the spring, the storks fly again, the curcula in the courtyard re-wrinkles the small new leaves, and the little Andersen knows that he is 6 years old. He pretending to walk in his father's side, pointing to pack the old nest of stork Ukraine. When I heard the summer, the frail little storks were unable to fly to Egypt for thewinter, and when they were pecking, he was sad: "Let them go to our top floor, and in winter I will have something to give them food."Odense is a closed town where people believe in God and witches. Many mysterious legends are endless in the air. The lady of the spinning room sometimes speaks of the bizarre story of the "thousand and one night" to the little Andersen who plays, and he sees that everything he has heard is magical, as if it is true, Sometimes he will be the forest of their own imagination out of the wizard scared to run home, souls do not possess. Years later, these ancient legends and childhood fantasies have become the source of his creation. In the free educational environment, especially the mother's encouragement, so Andersen has long demonstrated its imagination. He picked up the toy theater at home and made clothes for his puppet, and he also read all the possible drama scripts, including Ludvig Holberg 1684- 1754 and William Shakespeare William Shakespeare 1564-1616), and later he even wrote down all the scriptures of Shakespeare.The devotion is writtenAndersen's father had volunteered to fight against Napoleon Bonaparte's aggression and died in 1816. After the death of his father, the next day, the mother's only means of making a living is to others to wash clothes. In the cold winter the temperature of the river can not imagine, she had to drink a few wines to drive cold. This is a decent person's view, is very vulgar behavior, harsh rumors gone, people in the city are whispering - "shoemaker's wife Mary is a woman like alcohol!" Not only that, the town In the long tongs who ridicule Andersen idle, the mother had reluctantly to the shy little son to the factory to do child labor. 11-year-old Andersen was dizzy with heavy work, but his songsaved him. He went to Copenhagen in September 1819, and he was hired by the Danish royal theater, but soon because of his voice Was dismissed, a series of setbacks so that he found that he did not belong to the stage. Later he received the help of the musicians Christoph Weyse and Siboni and the poet Frederik Hoeg Guldberg 1771-1852, by the Royal Dutch Theater Accepted as a dance apprentice while he began to write. As a result of the later became lazy, so gradually lost Frederick's love for him, but then Andersen began to get the royal theater director Jonathan Collin (Jonas Collin) help, then the two of them become friends for life.In 1822, several critics read a script called "Aphroso", which was sent by a bold young man. The script is rhythmic, there are many grammatical mistakes - of course, the author is no cultivation is obvious to all. But there are many sparks that are genuinely and vividly flashing, and perhaps this insignificant little guy can bring something clear to the theater. So, the author of the script, Hans Andersen was sent to the Latin school for further study, the state consultant Mr. Gu Lin for his application for a royal fee to pay the cost. 4 years of struggle so that Andersen deeply felt this more broad, full of joys and sorrows of society. In the school, he read the Shakespeare, Goethe and other famous works and Danish classical works, deeply experience the charm of writing, he suddenly knew he wanted to pursue the "lamp" is what - that is " Literature ", as long as there is indomitable courage and a sincere sense of the soul, it will be able to climb the peak of literature.17-year-old Andersen tall and thin, sitting in the lower class classroom and the children with classes for him is not a pleasant thing. The children laughed at his country as a stupid man,because he did not understand the courtesy of the upper class, in their eyes, he is the unpopular "ugly duckling." After the test and suffering, he finally passed the graduation exam in 1828. And in the past few years, he has read many poets and writers' works, Byron, Heine, Scott, in school, Andersen did not forget his creation, his poems "evening" and "dying children" Published in the writer Heidelberg publications, greatly acclaimed. In 1829, Andersen's comedy "Love on Nikolay Yevta", listening to the applause of the audience, the young playwright rolling tears - ten years ago, it was in the same theater, he had By the sharp subtle and negative, and today, he finally succeeded, has been recognized and cheered by the public. This year he wrote "Young Try," a book, published under the pseudonym of William Christian Walter. 1827 published the first poem "dying child", in 1829, he entered the University of Copenhagen to study. His first important work "1828 and 1829 from the Hormon Canal to Amai Island East Side walk in mind" came out in 1829. This is a humorous sense of travel, quite the German writer Hoffman's style, the publication of this travel to Andersen had the initial recognition of society, then he continued to engage in drama creation. In 1829, Andersen's long fantasy travel "Amag Island Travel" published, the first edition sold out, the publisher immediately to the favorable conditions to buy the second edition, Andersen so hungry from the oppression.Travel career creation fairy tale"Travel is life", Andersen said so. After the failure of the first love, from 1831, Andersen began his first foreign roaming, his life, he carried an umbrella, a cane and a simple luggage to visit all the countries of Europe, has completed the "Amag Island Travels "," fantasy sketch "," travel silhouette "and other works. In 1835,with autobiographical novel "improvisation poet" published, shortly after the publication of the novel, was translated into German and English, Andersen began to enjoy international reputation.In 1835, Andersen wrote to his girlfriend, "I want to create for the next generation." From his childhood experience, Andersen deeply understand the loneliness and suffering of the poor children's life. In the same year, Andersen's first fairy tale collection came out, including the income "hit box", "small Klaus and the big Kraus", "pea on the princess", "small Italian flower" four fairy tale. These fairies come from Andersen's own life experience, "they are like 'seeds' hidden in my mind, a trickle, a bunch of sunshine, or a bit of bitter wine, you can make them break out." In 1844, Write autobiographical works "ugly duckling". In 1846, write "little girl selling matches". 1847 and wrote a "no painting album", "the emperor's new clothes" spicy satirical emperor's stupid incompetence and courtiers flattery ugly. In 1870 published the longest work of a "lucky Peer", a total of more than 70,000 words, is based on his own feelings of life as written, but not entirely autobiography. In 1867, was hometown of Odense as the honor of the public. August 4, 1875 at 11 am, because of liver cancer died in a friend's country house. The funeral is very beautiful, at the age of 71 years old. He wrote for 43 years, until the end of life created a total of 168 works, that poetic language, wandering twists and turns of the plot, so that his fairy tale in his lifetime has become the world's readers with the most readers. "Ugly duckling", "firm tin soldiers", "wild swan", "nightingale" ... ... he gave all things fresh soul, let them sing. He deduces them to all the people - the children are fascinated by the story of the strange and moving; adults are hovering betweenhis deep life philosophy, lingering. He believes that in the field of poetry, no one can be as infinite as the fairy tale.。
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The claim of love
--- The feeling of reading flea The flea was wrote by England famous writer John Donne,leading English poet of the Metaphysical school and dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London (1621–31). Donne is often considered the greatest love poet in the English language. He is also noted for his religious verse and treatises and for his sermons, which rank among the best of the 17th century. The theme of the flea is about love and in the poem .The hero try his best to persuade his lover to make love with him.
The speaker tells his beloved to look at the flea before them and to note ―how little‖ is that thing that she denies him. For the flea, he says, has sucked first his blood, then her blood, so that now, inside the flea, they are mingled; and that mingling cannot be called ―sin, or shame, or loss of maidenhead.‖ The flea has joined them together in a way that, ―alas, is more than we would do.‖
As his beloved moves to kill the flea, the speaker stays her hand, asking her to spa re the three lives in the flea: his life, her life, and the flea’s own life. In the flea, he says, where their blood is mingled, they are almost married—no, more than married—and the flea is their marriage bed and marriage temple mixed into one. Though their parents grudge their romance and though she will not make love to him, they are nevertheless united and cloistered in the living walls of the flea. She is apt to kill him, he says, but he asks that she not kill herself by killing the flea that contains her blood; he says that to kill the flea would be sacrilege, ―three sins in killing three.‖―Cruel and sudden,‖ the speaker calls his lover, who has now killed the flea, ―purpling‖ her fingernail with the ―blood of innocence.‖ The speaker asks his lover wh at the flea’s sin was, other than having sucked from each of them a drop of blood. He says that his lover replies that neither of them is less noble for having killed the flea. It is true, he says, and it is this very fact that proves that her fears are fa lse: If she were to sleep with him (―yield to me‖), she would lose no more honor than she lost when she killed the flea.
In this poem, the "I" of the poem is lying in bed with his lover, and trying to get her to give her virginity to him. While lying there, he notices a flea, which has obviously bitten them both. Since the 17-century idea was of sex as a "mingling of the blood", he realises that by mixing their bloods together in its body, the flea has done what she didn't dare to do.Then, he argues, since the flea has done it, why shouldn't they? To back up his argument, he refers to the marriage ceremony, which states that "man and woman shall be one flesh". He argues that since they have mingled their bloods and are therefore "one blood", they are practically "one flesh" and are therefore married!
This poem borrows a lot of religious imagery, because it helps add an aburd authority to the poem, as Donne tries to argue that what they are about to do is not only supported by God, but to not do it would be heretical.The poem uses much imaginery ，for example, ―one blood made of two implies sex and pregnancy, include the child which was made up of their mixed blood ,so there are three lives in one flea-holy trinity.
To me，this is a really good love poem, due to the leading character express his love and feelings directely , so that is the natural personality.
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