英国文学卷A

聊城东昌学院09-10学年第一学期期末考试
英语系07级英语专业《英国文学》试卷（闭卷A卷）



Ⅰ. Multiple Choice (30 %)


Directions: Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement and write the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.

1. ______can be justly termed England’s national epic.
A. The Canterbury Tales B. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
C. Beowulf D. The Romance of the Rose
2. Who was called “father of English poetry”?
A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. William Shakespeare C. Edmund Spencer D. John Donne
3. Which one of the following is not a feature in the poetical form of Beowulf?
A. the use of alliteration B. the use of metaphors
C. the use of understatement D. the use of personification
4. Despite the enormous plan, The Canterbury Tales in fact contains a general prologue as well as ＿ tales, of which ＿ are left unfinished.
A. 124, 2 B. 124, 24 C. 24, 2 D. 126, 24
5. The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its ＿.
A. sonnets B. drama C. blank verse D. Translation
6. The ＿ sonnet consists of an octave (an eight-line stanza) and a sestet (a six-line stanza).
A. Italian B. English C. Russian D. Chinese
7. The Elizabethan Age was largely one of drama eminently represented by ＿ and Shakespeare.
A. Christopher Marlowe B. John Donne C. John Milton D. Alexander Pope
8. ＿ is the key-note of the Renaissance.
A. Classicism B. Realism C. Romanticism D. Humanism
9. Shakespeare’s earliest great success in tragedy is＿, a play of youth and love, with the famous balcony scene.
A. Hamlet B. King Lear C. Romeo and Juliet D. Othello
10. Among of the following dramas, which is one of Shakespeare’s four tragedies?
A.Macbeth B. As You Like it C. Twelfth Night D. The Merchant of Venice
11. _______ is called as “father of English novels”
A. William Shakespeare B. Christopher Marlowe C. Henry Fielding D. John Donne
12. It was ____who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama.
A. Thomas Wyatt B. William Shakespeare
C. Edmund Spenser D. Christopher Marlowe
13. Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of ____, especially
Britain’s sea power was established.
A. James I B. Henry VIII C. Queen Elizabeth D. Charles I
14. Hamlet, the most popular of Shakespeare's plays for readers and theater audiences, tells about the story of Hamlet, Prince of _______, and son of the dead king, who seeks revenge for his father’s death.
A. England B. Norway C. Scotland D. Denmark
15. Which comment on John Donne is wrong?
A. He is the leading figure of metaphysical poetry.
B. His poetry is characterized by mysticism and peculiar conceit.

C. John Donne’s poetry is characterized regularity among irregularity
D. He never shows positive attitude towards love.
16. Robinson Crusoe can be termed as____.
A. a self-dependent person B. a person with colonial mind
C. an adventurous person D. all of the above
17. Robert Burns is the representative of _____.
A. Sentimentalism B. Pre-Romanticism C. Romanticism D. English Renaissance
18. William Blake’s ____ paint a world of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression with a melancholy tone.
A. Poetical Sketches B. The Book of Thel C. Songs of Experience D. Songs of Innocence
19. Milton’s last work was the poetical drama＿, the hero of which is in much common with the author himself, that is, both of them are blind.
A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise Regained C. Samson Agonistes D. Areopagitica
20. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels is the greatest ＿ work in English literature.
A. realistic B. satiric C. romantic D. poetic
21. The poem ＿ indicates Pope’s political and philosophical views on human nature and relation with the universe, the society and himself.
A. Dunciad B. The Rape of the Lock
C. An Essay on Man D. Essay on Criticism
22. The term “Yahoo” comes from the famous novel ＿.
A. The Vicar of Wakefield B. Jonathan Wild the Great
C. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling D. Gulliver’s Travels
23. ＿ was a progressive intellectual movement going on throughout Europe in the 18th century.
A. The Renaissance B. Puritan Movement
C. Romantic Movement D. The Enlightenment
24. Which of the following is NOT true about Robinson Crusoe?
A. It is written in the autobiographical form.
B. It is a record of Defoe’s own experience.
C. Robinson spends 28 years of isolated life on the island.
D. It is set in the middle of the 17th century.
25. Which play is regarded as the best English comedy since Shakespeare?
A. She Stoops to Conquer B. The Rivals
C. The School for Scandal D. The Conscious Lovers
26. Thomas Gray has been regarded as the leader of the ＿ of the day.
A. romantic poetry B. sentimental poetry
C. religious poetry D. modern poetry
27. As the representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce ＿ to England.
A. rationalism B. criticism C. romanticism D. realism
28. ＿ satirizes the foolish, meaningless life of the lords and ladies in the aristocratic bourgeois society of the 18th England.
A. Dunciad B. The Rape of the Lock
C. An Essay on Man D. Essay on Criticism
29. In his novel, Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero of the ＿.
A. aristocratic class B. enterprising landlords
C.

rising bourgeoisie D. hard-working people
30. Of all the 18th century novelists, ＿ was the first to set out in theory and practice, to write specially a “comic epic in prose”, and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.
A. Daniel Defoe B. Samuel Richardson C. Henry Fielding D. Oliver Goldsmith


Ⅱ. Translate the following literary terms（10%）

Directions: Translate English into Chinese and Chinese into English

1．blank verse 2.Spenserian Stanza 3. heroic couplet 4. soliloquy
5. Puritanism
6. 奇喻 7. 史诗 8. 抑扬格五音步 9. 挽歌
10. 人文主义



Ⅲ. Identify the author and title of the literary work（16%）

1. As soon as April pierces to the foot
The drought of March, and bathes each bud and shoot
Through every vein of sap with gentle showers
From whose engendering liquor spring the flowers;
2. What thought the field be lost?
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?
3. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.
4. Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of the town is Vanity; and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair; it is kept all the year long; it beareth the name of Vanity Fair because the town where it is kept is lighter than vanity; and also because all that is there sold, or that cometh thither, is vanity.
5. It came now very warmly upon my thoughts, and indeed irresistibly, that now was my time to get me a servant, and perhaps a companion, or assistant.
6. I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.
7. O, my Luve’s like a red, red rose,
That’s newly sprung in June;
O, my Luve’s like the melodie
That’s sweetly played in tune.
8. In every cry of every man,
In every Infant’s cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban
The mind-forge’d manacles I hear.



Ⅳ. Define the following literary terms（16%）

Directions: Each term should include the time, the features and representative figures or significance.

1. English Renaissance 2. English Enlightenment 3.Pre-Romanticism 4. Metaphysical Poetry


Ⅴ. Interpreting the following texts and answer the questions followed (28%)

Text 1
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to d

arkness and to me. (stanza 1)
…
The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn,
The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed,
The cock’s shrill clarion, or the echoing horn,
No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. (stanza 5)
Questions:
1. Identify the author and the title of this poem (2分)
2. Examine the poetic form (rhyme, foot and meter should be involved) (3分)
3. Explain the underlined words (3分)
4. What is the tone in stanza 1? How does the poet achieve it? (2分)
5. Stanza 5 involves rich imagery, please classify them and give examples. (3分)
6. Point out the rhetorical devices in the above poem (2分)

Text 2
When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest he returning chide;
“Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?”
I fondly ask; but Patience to prevent
That murmur, soon replies, “God doth not need
Either man’s work or his own gifts; who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
Is kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed
And post o’er land ocean without rest:
They also serve who only stand and wait.”

Questions:
1. Identify the author and title (2分)
2. Identify the poetic form (rhyme, foot and meter should be involved) (3分)
3. Explain the underlined words. (3分)
4. What kind of mood is revealed in Milton’s On his Blindness? Optimistic or pessimistic? (2分)
5. How do you understand “They also serve who only stand and wait.”? (2分)
6. What is the theme? (1分)