英国文学试题

Instructions： This examination consists of 5 parts， and the total time for the examination is 2 hours. All the answers should be entered onto the Answer Sheet.

Part I：Multiple Choices （10%）

Choose the best answer to the following sentences.

1.Which of the following is NOT a feature of Beowulf？

A. Alliteration

B. Anglo-Saxons’ early life in England

C. Germanic language

D. The national epic of Anglo-Saxon people

2.English Renaissance Period was an age of.

A. prose and novel

B. poetry and drama

C. essays and journals

D. ballads and songs

3.The main literary form of the early 17th century was poetry. John Milton was acknowledged as the greatest. Besides him， there were two groups of poets. They were the Cavalier poets and.

A. the lake poets

B. the university wits

C. the Metaphysical poets

D. the Romantic poets

4. Pamela is widely considered to be the first novel and was written by ___________.

A. Thomas Hardy

B. James Joyce

C. Samuel Richardson

D. Henry Fielding

5.The publication of， which was the joint work of William Wordsworth and Samuel T. Coleridge， marked the beginning of the Romantic Age in England.

A. Don Juan

B. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

C. Lyrical Ballads

D. Queen Mab

6.Among the most famous realistic novelists of the Victorian age are， W. M. Thackeray， Bronte sisters， etc.

A. Joseph Conrad

B. Henry Fielding

C. Charles Dickens

D. D. H. Lawrence

7.In James Joyce’s ____________ the story “Eveline” paints a portrait of a young woman from Dublin deciding whether or not to leave her hometown.

A. Ulysses

B. Orlando

C. Dubliners

D. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

8.In the 18th century England， satire was much used in writing. Literature of this age produced some excellent satirists， such as Jonathan Swift， Henry Fielding and.

William Blake B. Robert Burns C.Alexander Pope D. Daniel Defoe

9.William Wordsworth never used “gaudy and inane phraseology” because he felt that poetry should ____________.

A. be read only by the well-educated

B. use difficult vocabulary to express complicated emotions

C. use simple speech to communicate the truths of human experience

D. rely on strange and uncommon words to bring people new experiences

10. Virginia Woolf is renowned for adopting the technique， which displays the sequence of thoughts and impressions in a person’s mind.

A. mind-reading

B. third-person narration

C. stream-of-consciousness

D. feminist

Part II：Gap Filling （10%）

Complete the following sentences and write your answers on the Answer Sheet.

1.Geoffrey Chaucer’s work gives us a picture of the condition of English life of his day， such as its work and play， its deeds and dreams， its fun and sympathy.

2.During the Norman Conquest， the most important form of literary composition is

， the representative of which is the legend of King Arthur and the round table knights.

3.Epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English drama. It was William Shakespeare and who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama.

4.Hamlet， Othello， Macbeth and are generally regarded as William Shakespeare’s four great tragedies.

5.Edmund Spenser is generally regarded as the greatest nondramatic poet of the Elizabethan Age. His fame is chiefly based on his masterpiece.

6.In Elizabethan Period，wrote more than 50 excellent essays， which made him one of the best essayists in English literature.

7.The was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century.

8.In the latter part of the 18th century， there appeared， as a reaction against Reason，

___________ novel and literature of sentimentality.

9.Thomas Gray’s highly p raised poem shows the poet’s sympathy for the poor， and condemns the great ones who despise the poor and bring sufferings to the common people.

10.The Romantic movement in England had two significant movements as its background： the French Revolution and.