2007级第1学期考卷(B)

2009—2010学年第1学期闽江学院考试试卷
一、Multiple Choice.( 20 %)
1. is central to Blake’s concern in his Songs
Songs of Experience.
A. Politics
B. Religion
C. Childhood
D. Manhood
2. Which of the following words is NOT appropriate to describe the characteristic features of the “Byronic hero”?
A. Proud
B. Mysterious
C. Rebellious
D. Pious
3. In the conversation with Mrs. Bennet in Chapter One of Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Bennet uses a teasing tone and humor.
A. ironic
B. joyous
C. black
D. sarcastic
4. The enlighteners claimed that should be the only, and the final cause of any human thought and activities.
A. reason
B. equality
C. science
D. fraternity
5. What does the word “humour? Mean in the following quotation from “ Of Studies”: “ to make judgement wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar”?
A. Funniness
B. Wit
C. A peculiar character
D. A sudden whim
6.Which of the following statements about the Elizabethan age is NOT true?
A.It is the age of translation.
B. It is the age of bourgeois revolution.
C.It is the age of exploration.
D. It is the age of the protestant
reformation.
7. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT .
A．the using of everyday language spoken by the common people.
B. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
C. the humble and rustic life as subject matter.
D. elegant wordings and inflated figures of speech.
8. Hamlet’s melancholy derives from his .
A. inability to avenge his father’s death timely.
B. fear of being killed in the action of revenge.
C. fear of the consequences if he should fail in the revenge.
D. painful thoughts of being deserted and betrayed by his close relatives and friends.
9．In the first book of Milton’s The Paradise Lost, the image of Satan is that of a(n) .
A. proud and deceitful revolutionary.
B. evil and wretched demon.
C. defeated but not conquered hero.
D. somber and irreconcilable enemy.
10. The unquenchable spirit of Robinson Crusoe struggling to maintain a substantial existence on a lonely island reflects .
A. man’s desire to return to nature.
B. the author’s criticism of the colonization.
C. the ideal of the rising bourgeoisie.
D. the aristocrats’ disillusionment of the harsh social reality.
11. In The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan describes the Vanity Fair in a tone.
A. delightful
B. solemn
C. sentimental
D. satirical
12. Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that .
A. the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction
while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual’s feelings and experiences.
B. the former is heavily religious but the latter secular.
C. the former is an intellectual movement the purpose of which is to
arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivation.
D. the former advocates the “return to nature”whereas the latter
turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models. 13.Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 ?
A. The speaker meditates on man’s morality.
B. The speaker satirizes human vanity.
C. The speaker eulogizes the power of artistic creation
D. The speaker tells one of his dream visions.
14. Which of the following is a typical feature of Swift’s writings?
A. Great wit
B. Bitter satire
C. Rich mythic allusions
D. Complicated sentence structures.
15. In a sense, we can say that Romanticism designates a literary and
philosophical theory which tends to see the as the very center of all life and all experience.
A. society
B. individual
C. family
D. country life
16. was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature .
A. Thomas Wyatt
B. William Shakespeare
C. Henry Howard
D. John Lyly
17. English Renaissance Period was an age of .
A. prose and novel
B. poetry and drama
C. romance and ballad
D. essay and drama
18. It was who made blank verse the principal vehicle of
expression in drama in the Renaissance period.
A. Christopher Marlowe
B. Thomas Lodge
C. Henry Fielding
D. Edmund Spenser
19. Which of the following is NOT true about The Canterbury Tales?
A. It is written in the form of a dream.
B. Chaucer chose a pilgrimage as the framework for the stories
involved in it.
C. It is written for the greater part in heroic couplet.
D. “The General Prologue” introduces the pilgrims and the time and
occasion of the pilgrimage.
20. Hamlet’s melancholy derives from his .
A. inability to avenge his father’s death timely.
B. fear of being killed in the action of revenge.
C. fear of the consequences if he should fail in the revenge.
D. painful thoughts of being deserted and betrayed by his close relatives and friends.
二、Define the following terms. (30 %)
21. Heroic couplet
22. Allegory
23. Neoclassicism
三、Poetry Appreciation. (20 %)
The Tiger
Tiger, Tiger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
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?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp, Dare its deadly terrors clasp! When the stars threw down their spears And water'd heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Who made the Lamb make thee?
Tiger, Tiger burning bright,
In the forests of the night: What immortal hand or eye, Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
24. What is the theme of the poem?
四、Segment Reading (10 %)
“
old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty
years at least.”
26. Identify the author and the novel.
27. What is the tone of the speaker? Who do you think the “I” and “you” in the
quoted sentence refer to? What kind of relationship are “I” and “you” in?
五、Comments.(20 %)
ment on the theme and writing features of
Robinson Crusoe.
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二、Define the following terms. (30 %)
21. Heroic couplet is the rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter.
22. Allegory is a tale in verse or prose in which characters,
actions, or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities.
Thus, an allegory is a story with two meaning, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.
23. Neoclassicism: the tendency the Enlightenment Movement brought about in reviving the interest in old classical works, is known as neoclassicism. On the one hand, neoclassicists took classical works as their models; on the other, they kept to order, logic, restrained emotion and accuracy. They also had specific rules for almost every genre of literature. For example, in drama, they held that plays should be written in the Heroic Couplets, and that , as far as their content is concerned, they should stick to the unities of time, space and action.
三、Poetry Appreciation. (20 %)
24. It is a poem from William Blake’s Song of Experience. Life is short, while
art is long. It is God, the Almighty that creates the artwork of universe.
25. personification, rhetorical questions, repetition, metaphor
四、Segment Reading(10%)
26. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
27. Ironic. In the quoted sentence, “I” refers to Mr. Bennet, and “you” refers to Mrs. Bennet. They are in a relationship of husband and wife.
五、Comments. (20 %)
28. Sing high praise of the uprising of the bourgeois
development, holding that man is good and noble by nature but may succumb to an evil social environment.
Defoe’s intention is that the readers should regard his novels as real stories, for that reason, he deliberately avoids all art, all fine writing, so that the reader should concentrate only on
a series of plausible events. Defoe’s novels all take the form
of memoirs or pretended historical narratives, everything in them gives the impression of reality.。