英国文学填空练习

英国文学填空练习
1._Beowulf______ is the representative works in the Anglo-Saxon Literature.
2._Humanism____ is the central theme of the English Renaissance.
3. English language in the Anglo-Saxon period was influenced by the Northern _mythology___
4.The Anglo-Saxon poetry belongs to secular poetry, that is __non-religious poems but with Christian coloring.
5. ____Alliteration________ is the most important feature in Beowulf.
6. Another writing feature in Beowulf is the frequent use of ___metaphors__ and __understatements_ for ironical humor.
7.In 55 B. C., Britain was invaded by ___Julius Caesar_______, the Roman conqueror. Along with the invasion came the ____Roman mode of life______ into Britain.
8.The __Anglo-Saxon_________ period witnessed a transition from tribal society to feudalism.
9.The first Englishmen are usually known as ___Angles, Saxons and Jutes_________ Language spoken by them is called___Old English_______, which is the foundation of English language and literature.
10. The literature of the Anglo-Saxon period falls naturally into two divisions, _pagan___ and Christian.
11. ___Beowulf_ is the oldest surviving epic in the English language.
12.King Alfred the Great encouraged ___education_______ and literature.
13. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was a monument of ____Old
English prose_________, encouraged and supervised by King Alfred the Great.
14. The peasants Rising of 1381 had shaken the __feudal__ system in England to the root.
16. The most prevailing kind of literature in feudal England was the ___romance______.
17. The theme of the romances is the __loyalty____ to king and lord.
18. Malory’s ___Le Morte D’Arthur___ was a 15th-century masterpiece which influenced the later writers.
19. Malory used simple and idiomatic English prose to translate The Death of King Arthur from ___French___ into __English_____.
20. Shakespeare’s narrative poem, V enus and Adonis, is full of vivid images of the ___countryside________, and aphorisms on life.
21.Shakespeare’s dramatic creation often used the method of __adaptation (revision)____.
22.Shakespeare’s drama becomes a monument of the English ___Renaissance
23. Shakespeare was a ____master-hand (能手)_____ _ for play-writing.
25. Shakespeare was a great __master______ of the English language.
26. The ___Latin Bible______ was universally used by the Catholic Churches.
27.The English translation of the Bible emerged as a result of the struggle between __Protestantism_____ and ____Catholicism______.
28. The Bible was notably translated into English by the
__Protestants_________.
29. The first complete English Bible was translated by ___John Wycliffe__________, “the morning star of the ___Reformation______”.
30.William T yndale_ translated the New T estament and portions of the Old T estament, which is known as T yndale’s Bible.
31.After T ydale’s Bible, then appeared the _Authorized Version__, which was made in 1611
under the auspices of __James I___. And so it was sometimes called the ___King James Bible__
32.Apart from the religious influence, the Authorized V ersion has had a great influence on English __Language_____ and ___literature_____.
33.With the widespread influence of the English Bible, the standard modern English has been __fixed______ and ____confirmed______.
34.A great number of ___Bible coinages__ _and phrases have passed into daily English speech as household words.
35.The __simple_____ and ___dignified_____ language of the Authorized V ersion has colored the style of the English prose for the last 300 years.
49. English Renaissance is an age of __poetry___ and ____drama
50.The best representative of the essay writing in the English Renaissance is __Francis Bacon___
51.In the English Renaissance, classical and Italian and French works were translated into __English_____.
52.Humanists emphasize the capacities of the human _mind__ and the achievements of human __culture_
53.. The rhythm scheme of Spenserian S tanza is ____abab, bcbcc_________.
54.. The first complete English Bible was translated by ____John Wycliffe______.
55.Thomas More was a prose writer in the English ____Renaissance
56.Thomas More was one of the best representatives of the English ___humanists
57.More’s ___Utopia______ was written in the form of a ___conversation_______ between a returned and experienced voyager, Hythloday, and More himself.
58.Utopia is about a detailed description of the ____social condition______ of England and a detailed presentation of an ideal communist society of Utopia, a Greek word, with the me aning of “__No Place_______”.
59.Thomas More was one of the first to see the relation between wealth and poverty to understand: the rich were becoming rich by __“robbing”_______ the poor.
60.More points out that the root of poverty is the private _ownership____ of ___social wealth__
61.In Utopia,___Book Two_______, More provided us a sketch of an ideal commonwealth where property was held in common and there was no poverty.
62.More showed a principle that “From every one according to his _capacities____, to everyone according to his __needs_____”.
63..Thomas More was a great humanist and far-sighted thinker, a learned scholar, an expert of Latin, a forceful talker, a lover of music, an honest statesman, a man of nobility, a lover of nature and mankind, and a forerunner of __socialist______ theory.
64.Spenser’s The shepherd’s Calendar marked the
budding of the ____Renaissance____. 66.T ranslations occupied an important role in the English Renaissance, and many classical and __Italian______ and _____French_____ works were put into English.
67.Modernism and medievalism are blended (mixed) and harmonized by the beauty of sound and of color in the ___Spenserian________ poetry.
68.Sonnet was introduced from Italy by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.
69.Mainly sonnet has two types: the __Italian_or Petrarchan sonnet and _Shakespearean_ sonnet.
70.The first period made Shakespeare __famous__; in the second period, his position was secured as a dramatist_and highly successful _poet_, admired, praised and revered by everyone.
71.The comedies written in the third period are known as __dark___because they give __somber__pictures of the world.
Ⅱ. Choose the best answer.
1._____ founded the Tudor dynasty, a centralized monarchy of
a totally new type,
which met the needs of the rising bourgeoisie.
A. Henry V
B. Henry VII
C. Henry VIII
D. James I
2.The first complete English Bible was translated by _______, “the morning star
of the Reformation” and his followers.
A. William Tyndal
B. James I
C. John Wycliffe
D. Bishop Lancelot Andrews
3.The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansion abroad.
____ encouraged exploration and travel, which were compatible with the interests of the English merchants.
A. Henry V.
B. Henry VII
C. Henry VIII
D. Queen Elizabeth
4.The most gifted of the “university wits” was ____.
A. Lyly
B. Peele
C. Greene
D. Marlowe
5.Morality plays appeared after____.
A. miracle plays
B. mystery plays
C. interlude
D. Classical plays
6.____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.
A. Phillip Sidney
B. Edmund Spenser
C. Thomas More
D. Walter Raleigh
7.___ was one of the first to see the relation between wealth and poverty to
understand that the rich were becoming richer by robbing the poor.
A. John Wycliffe
B. William Caxton
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. Thomas More
8.Utopia was written in the form of _____.
A. prose
B. drama
C. essay
D. dialogue
9.One of the popular morality plays was ___.
A. The Shepherds
B. Everyman
C. The Play of the Weather
D. Gammer Gurton’s Needle
10.Shakespe are’s plays written between _____ are sometimes called “romances”
and all end in reconciliation and reunion.
A. 1590 and 1594
B. 1595 and 1600
C. 1601 and 1607
D. 1608 and 1612
11.Miranda is a heroin in Shakesp eare’s ______.
A. Pericles
B. Cymbeline
C. The Winter’s T ale
D. The Tempest
12.Shakespeare is one of the founders of ___.
A. romanticism
B. realism
C. naturalism
D. classicism
13.Among many poetic forms, Shakespeare was especially at
home (good at) with
the ______.
A. dramatic blank verse
B. song
C. sonnet
D. couplet
14.In the plays, Shakespeare used about ____words.
A. 15000
B. 16000
C. 17000
D. 18000
15._B____has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.
A. Christopher Marlow
B. Francis Bacon
C. W. Shakespeare
D. Ben Johnson
Ⅲ. Fill in the blanks.
1. 1. The _ Latin Bible was universally used by the Catholic Churches.
2. The English translation of the Bible emerged as a result of the struggle between
__ Protestantism __ and _ Catholicism __.
2. 3. The Bible was notably translated into English by the _ Protestants.
4. The first complete English Bible was translated by _ John Wycliffe ___, “the
morning star of the _ Reformation ____”.
5. _ William Tyndal __ translated the New Testament and portions of the Old
Testament, which is known as Tyndale’s Bible.
6. After Tydale’s Bible, then appeared the Authorized V ersion,which was made in
1611 under the auspices of James I _. And so was sometimes called the _ King James Bible.__
7. Apart from the religious influence, the Authorized V ersion has had a great
influence on English _ Language __ and __ literature __.
8. With the widespread influence of the English Bible, the standard modern English
has been _ fixed ____ and _ confirmed ____.
9. A great number of _ Bible coinages ___and phrases have passed into daily
English speech as household words.
10. The _ simple ___and _ dignified ___ language of the Authorized V ersion has
colored the style o the English prose for the last 300 years.
20. The Renaissance started in the __14____ century and ended in the
_17_____century.
21. The word, “renaissance” means ________, which was stimulated by a series of
historical events, such as __ reformation ______.
22. In the Renaissance, the humanist thinkers and scholars tried to get rid of those old
_ feudalist ideas ___in medieval Europe, to introduce new ideas that expresses _interest___ of the rising bourgeoisie, and to recover the _purity___of the early
church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church.
23. humanism____ is the theme of the English Renaissance,
which emphasized the
capacities of _human mind___and the achievements of __human culture__. 24. spenserian____ Stanza is a verse form created by __Edmund spenser___ for his
poem, _the faerie queene_____, in which the rhyme scheme is __ababbcbcc__. 25.The Wars of the Roses (1455—1485) between the House of _Lancaster__ and
the House of _Y ork__ struggling for the Crown continued for 30 years.
26.Because of the conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and the King of
England, the far-reaching movement of the Reforment___ took place in England, started by Henry VIII.
27.After the Enclosure Movement_ in England, the helpless, dispossessed peasants,
being compelled to work at a low wage, became hired laborers for the merchants.
28.The 16th century in England was a period of the breaking up feudal____of
relations and the establishing of the foundations of capitalism_.
29.Because the wool trade was rapidly growing in bulk, it was
a time when,
according to Thomas More, “sheep devours men___”.
30.Together with the development of bourgeois relationships and formation of the
English national state this period is marked by a flourishing of national culture known as Renaissance____.
31._Henry Howard_, in his translation of Vir gil’s Aeneid, wrote the first English
blank verse.
32.Philip Sidney thought that _poetryhad superiority over philosophy and history.
33._Utopia book one____ is a picture of contemporary England with forcible
exposure of the poverty___ among the laboring classes.
34.Sonnets contain _ Italian ____ sonnets and _Shakespearean ___ sonnets.
35.The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its
_drama___.
36.The “miracles” were simple plays based on _bible_____stories.
37.Through the revival of classical literature, English playwrights came into contact
with _Greek_____ and __latin____drama.
38.English comedies and tragedies on classical models appeared in the middle of
the _16___ century.
39.Miracle plays, morality plays, interludes and classical plays paved the way for
the flourishing of _drama___.
. Say true or false.
1.Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of Queen
Elizabeth. .
2.The Protestant Reformation was in essence a religious movement in a political
guise.
3.Before the Reformation, the English Bible was universally
used by the Catholic
churches. F
6.Walter Raleigh wrote his History of the World in imprisonment. T
7.More the man is even more interesting than More the writer. F
8.Utopia, Book One, describes an ideal communist society. T
9.Translations occupied an important place in the English Renaissance. T
10.Philip Sidney’s collection of love sonnets is Astrophel and Stella.T
11.The Miracle plays were not forbidden to perform in churches after the actors
introduced secular and even comical elements into the performance. T
12.The writer of Gammer Gurton’s Needle is unknown. T
13.Two lawyers wrote Gorboduc who were Thomas Sackville (托马斯·萨克维尔)
and Thomas Norton（托马斯·诺顿）. F
14.Shakespeare’s sonnets are divided into three groups: Numbers 1—17, Numbers
18—126, and Numbers 127—154. T
15.Shakespeare’s sonnets are written for variety of virtue s. T
16.Engels said “Realism implies, besides truth in detail, the truthful reproduction of
typical characters under typical circu mstances.” T
17.Shakespeare wrote about his own people and for his own time. T
18.Shakespeare’s one play contains one theme. (contain s
more than one theme)F
19.To reproduce the real life, Shakespeare often combines the majestic with the
funny, the poetic with the prosaic(散文体的) and tragic with the comic. T
20.Engels called Shakespeare’s plays the “Shakespearean vivacity(活泼、快活) and
wealth of (大量的) action”. T
21.The Protestant Reformation was in essence a political movement in a religious
guise. T
22.Before the Reformation, the English Bible was universally used by the Catholic
churches.F
23.Utopia is More’s masterpiece, written in the form of letters between More and
Hythloday, a voyage. F
24.Sir Philip Sidney is well-known as a poet and dramatist. F
25.Carl Marx commented highly on More’s Utopia and mentioned it in his great
work, The Capital.F
26.The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its poetry. F
27.The miracle plays were simple plays based on Bible stories, such as the creation
of the world, Noah and the flood, and the birth of Christ. T
28.Grammer Gurton’s Needle is the first English comedy, Gorboduc the first English
tragedy. T
29.Both the gentlemen and the common people went to the
theatres. But the upper
class was the dominant force in Elizabethan theatre. T
30.After Shakespeare’s death, Herminge and Condell collected and published his
plays in 1623. T
31.From Shakespeare’s history plays, it can be seen that Shakespeare took a great
interest in the political questions of his time. T
32.In Shakespeare’s historical plays, historical accuracy is not strictly regarded. T
33.King Lear is a tragedy of ambition, which drives a brave soldier and national hero
to degenerate into a bloody murder and despot right to his doom. F
/doc/1f13535558.html,ing from an old Danish legend, Othello is considered the summit of
Shakespeare’s art. F
35.Shakespeare is one of the founders of romanticism in world literature. F
36.Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama was undergoing a
process of prosperity. F
37.English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and was an age of
prose. F
38.There are two main characters in As You Like It: Orlando and Rosalind. T
39.Ben Johnson’s comedies are “comedies of humors”and eve ry character in his
comedies personifies a definite “humor”. F
40.In Ben Johnson’s later years he became the “literary king” of his time.T
. Questions on the English Renaissance
/doc/1f13535558.html,ment on the image of Henry V and Sir John Falstaff.
/doc/1f13535558.html,ment on the character of Hamlet.
3.What are the features of Shakespeare’s drama?
4.Remember Shakespeare’s major plays in each literary career.
/doc/1f13535558.html,ment on Marlowe’s social significance and literary achievement.
/doc/1f13535558.html,ment on The Faerie Queene.。