英国文学考试试题

英国文学考试
There are 30 statements in this part. Choose A, B,C or D on your Answer Sheet.
1.Chaucer was a master of the heroic couplet which consists of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter. Iambic
pentameter means________.
A.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.
2.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 story of The Grass is Singing takes place in ______.
A. England
B. America
C. Asia
D. Africa
4. Which work was not written by John Milton?______________.
A. Paradise Lost
B. Paradise Regained
C. Samson Agonistes
D. Volpone
5. John Donne was a great poet and ________ as well.
A. dramatist
B. novelist
C. preacher
D. lawyer
6. John Donne’s “Holy Sonnet 10” expresses ________.
A. the fear of death
B. the admiration of death
C. the triumph over death
D. the pleasure from death
7. In addition to The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Defoe also wrote ______.
A. Tom Jones
B. Pamela
C. The Adventures of Roderick Random
D. Moll Flanders
8. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels is the greatest _________ work in English literature.
A. realistic
B. satiric
C. romantic
D. poetic
9. The central image of “The Tyger” is ________.
A. hammer
B. chain
C. anvil
D. fire
10. Authors and poems are correctly paired in all of the following except ________.
A. William Wordsworth—“The Solitary Reaper”
B. William Blake—“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge—“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
D. Robert Burns—“The Tree of Liberty”
11. William Wordsworth asserts that poetry originated from_______________.
A. form
B. thoughts
C. Artistic devices
D. Emotion.
12. That supernatural an d fantastic stories call for “a willing suspension of disbelief” was a statement made by
________.
A. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
B. Mary Shelley
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. H. G. Wells
13. The description of “a man proud, moody, cynical, with def iance on his brow, and misery in his heart, a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection” may be applied to ________.
A. an epic hero
B. an antihero
C. a Byronic hero
D. a modern hero
14. All the following have written plays in verse except ________.
A. George Gordon Byron
B. Percy Bysshe Shelley
C. George Bernard Shaw
D. T. S. Eliot
15. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” This sentence is presented in a(an)__________ tone.
A. ironic
B. indifferent
C. delightful
D. jealousy
16. English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of _____.
A. novel
B. drama
C. poetry
D. sonnet
17. “A Pure Woman” is the subtitle of ________.
A. Far from the Madding Crowd
B. The Return of the Native
C. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
D. Jude the Obscure
18. Charlotte Bronte produced four novels. Which of the following works does not belong to her?___________.
A. Professor
B. Shirley
C. Jane Eyre
D. Wuthering Heights
19. Robert Browning distinguished himself in ______.
A. lyrics
B. dramatic monologues
C. sonnets
D. odes
20. Oscar Wilde was the author of the following works except ________.
A. The Picture of Dorian Gray
B. Salomé
C. Lady Windermere’s Fan
D. My Fair Lady
21. In Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf adopted a writing technique called__________, in which the whole story was presented with the interior monologues of the characters.
A. stream-of-consciousness
B. Expressionism
C. Symbolism
D. Naturalism
22. ___is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.
A.Richard Sheridan
B.Oliver Goldsmith
C.Oscar Wilde
D.Bernard Shaw
23. Joyce’s short story “Araby” is characterized by the following except ________.
A. realistic description
B. symbolic details
C. epiphany
D. excitement of the plot
24. In “The Rocking-Horse Winner”, Paul’s mother defines luck as ________.
A. money
B. the thing that causes one to have money
C. to be born rich
D. to be healthy
25. Lord of the Flies represents _____.
A. the civilization
B. the order
C. the intelligence
D. the dark side of human nature
26. Forster's book on literary criticism is ______.
A. Where Angels Fear to Tread
B. A Room with a View
C. A Passage to India
D. Aspects of the Novel
27. Among the following works written by Graham Swift, which is a collection of short stories?
A. The sweet Shop Owner
B. Out of This World
C. Last Orders
D. Learning to Swim
28. “What though the field be lost?/ All is not l ost: the unconquerable will,/ And study of revenge, immortal hate,/ And courage never to submit or yield”. Here “the unconquerable will” refers to the will of ________.
A. Zeus
B. Satan
C. God
D. Adam
29. Paradise Lost is_______.
A. John Milton’s masterpiece.
B. a great epic in 12 books
C. about the heroic revolt of Satan against God’s authority
D. all of the above
30. The most successful novel of A. S. Byatt is ______.
A. The Game
B. Babel Tower
C. Possession: A Romance
D. Shadow of the Sun
Part ⅡIdentification (总分20分，每小题1分)
There are 20 selections in this part. Choose A, B,C or D on your Answer Sheet.
1. It will be no use to us, if twenty such should come, since you will not visit them.
A. Hamlet’s Solil oquy
B. Pride and Prejudice
C. Death, be not proud
D. Jane Eyre
2. He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
A. Sonnet 18
B. of Marriage and Single Life
C. Of Studies
D. Death, be not proud
3. Till a’the seas gang dry, my dear, /And the rocks melt wi’the sun,/O, I will luve thee still, my dear,/While the sands o’life shall run.
A. The Lamb
B. Death, be not proud
C. A Red, Red Rose
D. Of Studies
4. In what distant deeps or skies / Burnt the fire of thine eyes? / On what wings dare he aspire? / What the hand dare seize the fire? / And what shoulder, & what art, / Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
A. Sonnet 18
B. A Red, Red Rose
C. Death, be not proud
D. The Tyger
5. My master told me there were some qualities remarkable in the Yahoos,which he had not observed me to mention, or at least very slightly, in the accounts I had given of humankind.
A. Robinson Crusoe
B. Gulliver’s Travels
C. Death, be not proud
D. Of Studies
6. One shade the more, one ray the less,/ Had half impair’d the nameless grace/ Which waves in every raven tress,/ Or softly lightens o’er her face;
A. Sonnet 18
B. She walks in Beauty
C. Death, be not proud
D. Ode to the West Wind
7. The waves beside them danced; but they / Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: / A poet could not but be gay, / In such a jocund company: / I gazed---and gazed---but little thought / What wealth the show to me had brought: A. Sonnet 18 B. The Canterbury Tales
C. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
D. Of Studies
8. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
A. Sonnet 18
B. Of Studies
C. Death, be not proud
D. A Red, Red Rose
9.Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,/ And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,/ And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well/ And better than thy stroke; why swell’st thou then?
A. Sonnet 18
B. The Flea
C.Holy Sonnet 10
D. Of Studies
10. I watched my master’s face pass from amiability to sternness; he hope d I was not beginning to idle. I could not call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, …seemed to me child’s play, ugly monotonous child’s play.
A. Death, be not proud
B. Lord of the Flies
C. Araby
D.Jane Eyre
11. “Look’ee here, Pip.I’m your second father. You’re my son - more to me nor any son. I’ve put away money,
only for you to spend. When I was a hired-out shepherd in a solitary hut, not seeing no faces but faces of sheep till I half forgot wot men’s and women’s faces wos like, I see yourn.”
A.Lord of the Flies
B. Great Expectations
C.Wuthering Heights
D. Of Studies
12. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt,/ Whene’er I pass ed her; but who passed without/ Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;/ Then all smiles stopped together.
A.My Last Duchess
B. Great Expectations
C. Death, be not proud
D. Of Studies
13. The morning was wet and foggy, and Clare, rightly informed that the caretaker only opened the windows on fine days, ventured to creep out of their chamber and explore the house, leaving Tess asleep.
A. Jane Erye
B. Robinson Crusoe
C. Gulliver’s Travels
D. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
14. ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty, ---that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know’
A. Ode to the West Wind
B. A Red, Red Rose
C. Ode on a Grecian Urn
D. Of Studies
15. The entrance into this place I made to be not by a door, but by a short ladder to over the top, which ladder, when I was in, I lifted over after me, and I was completely fenced in.
A.Araby
B. Tess of D’Urbervilles
C. Robinson Crusoe
D. Jane Eyre
16. She stood, with arrested muscles, outside his door, listening. There was a strange, heavy, and yet loud noise. Her heart stood still. It was a soundless noise, yet rushing and powerful. Something huge, in violent, hushed motion.
A. Pride and Prejudice
B. The Rocking—horse Winner
C.Great Expectations
D. Araby
17. He gave himself then to thoughts of the future, to practical arrangements. Sarah must be suitably installed in London. They sh ould go abroad as soon as his affairs could be settled,…
A. Pride and Prejudice
B. The Rocking--horse Winner
C.Great Expectations
D. The French Lieutenant’s Woman
18. A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed/ One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud.
A. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
B. Ode to the West Wind
C. Death, be not proud
D. Tyger
19. O, well for the fisherman's boy, / That he shouts with his sister at play! / O, well for the sailor lad, / That he sings in his boat on the bay!
A. Sonnet 18
B. Break, Break, Break
C. Death, be not proud
D. Auld Lang Syne
20. What though the field be lost?/ All is not lost; the unconquerable will,/ And study of revenge, immortal hate,/ And courage never to submit or yield;
A.Paradise Lost
B. Break, Break, Break
C. Death, be not proud
D. Paradise Regained
Part ⅢTrue or false statements. (总分10分，每小题1分)
Decide whether the following statements are true or false. Mark T or F on your answer sheet.
1. John Donne was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 18th century.
2. Robert Burns is remembered mainly for his songs written in the Scottish dialect on a variety os subjects.
3. Mr. Rochester is a character in the novel Great Expectations, which was written by Charles Dickens.
4. To the Lighthouse was written by James Joyce. The Waves was his another novel.
5. The Romantic Age is emphatically an age of poetry. Many young enthusiastic writers turned to poetry.
6. In dream, Samuel Taylor Coleridge composed a poem, which is the dream-poem, the Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
7. English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of novel.
8. Jane Austen is the first historical novelist in English literature.
9. Coming from an old Greek legend, Hamlet is considered the summit of Shakespeare’s art.
10. Geoffrey Chaucer, one of the greatest narrative poets of England, is acclaimed as the “father of English poetry”.
Part ⅣPoem appreciation. (10分)
Analyze the following poem and write an essay within 150 words on the Answer Sheet .
“Holy Thursday”
Is this a holy thing to see,
In a rich and fruitful land,
Babes reduced to misery,
Fed with cold and usurous hand?
Is that trembling cry a song?
Can it be a song of joy?
And so many children poor?
It is a land of poverty!
And their sun does never shine.
And their fields are bleak & bare.
And their ways are fill’d with thorns.
It is eternal winter there.
For where-e’er the sun does shine,
And where-e’er the rain does fall,
Babe can never hunger there,
Nor poverty the mind appall.
—taken from William Blake’s Songs of Experience
Part ⅤEssay writing.(30分)
There are two topics in this part. Please choose either of them and write an essay of 400 words on the Answer Sheet. ( 任选一题)
1. What do you find admirable in Robinson Crusoe? How do you think of the image created by Defoe in his Robinson Crusoe?
2. Analyze and comment on the protagonist in the short story Araby. What does the boy gain and what is the
nature of his sudden realization?。