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12. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essenceis_______.A. scienceB. philosophyC. artsD. humanism13. _______ frequently applied conceits in his poems.A. Edmund SpenserB. John DonneC. William BlakeD. Thomas Gray14. _______ is known as “the poet’s poet”.A. William ShakespeareB. Christopher MarloweC. Edmund SpenserD. John Donne15. Romance，which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of____ adventures or other heroic deeds，is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A. ChristianB. knightlyC. pilgrimsD. primitive16. ________ and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the English humanism.A. Edmund Spenser, Christopher MarloweB. Thomas More, Christopher MarloweC. John Donne, Edmund SpenserD. John Milton, Thomas More17. Among the following plays which is not written by Christopher Marlowe?A. Dr. FaustusB. The Jew of MaltaC. TamburlaineD. The School for Scandal18. Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are _______.A. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and MacbethB. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Romeo andJuliet C. Hamlet, Coriolanus, King Lear and Macbeth D. Hamlet, Julius caesar, Othello and Macbeth19. The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the line of one of Shakespeare’s ________.A. comediesB. tragediesC. historiesD. sonnets20. “So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.” (Shakespeare, Sonnets 18) What does “this” refer to?A. LoverB. TimeC. SummerD. Poetry21. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18？A. The speaker eulogizes the power of NatureB. The speaker satirizes human vanityC. The speaker praises the power of artistic creationD. The speaker meditates on man’s salvation22. “Bassani Antonio，I am married to a wife Which is as dear to me as life itself；But life itself，my wife，and all the world，Are not with me esteem’d above thy life；I would lose all，ay，sacrifice them all，Here to the devil，to deliver you. Portia：Your wife would give you little thanks for that，ff she were by to hear you make the offer.” The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare’s comedy The Merchant of Venice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrateA. dramatic ironyB. personificationC. allegoryD. symbolism23. “The Fairy Queen” is the masterpiece written by____.A. John MiltonB. Geoffrey ChaucerC. Edmund SpenserD. Alexander Pope24. Which of the following work did Bacon NOT write?A. Advancement of LearningB. Novum OrganumC. De AugmentisD. Areopagitica25. The greatest of pioneers of English drama in Renaissance is _______, one of whose drama is “Doctor Faustus”.A. William ShakespeareB. Christopher MarloweC. Oscar WildeD. R. Brinsley Sheridan26. “Euphues” was written by ________, the style of the novel was called “Euphuism”.A. John BunyanB. John LylyC. John DonneD. John Milton27. The most famous dramatist in the 18th century is ______, who is famous for “The School for Scandal”.A. Oliver GoldsmithB. Thomas GrayC. R. Brinsley SheridanD. G.eorge Bernard Shaw28. The most distinguished literary figure of the 17th century was ______, who was a c ritic, poet, and playwright.A. Oliver GoldsmithB. John DrydenC. John MiltonD. T. G. Coleridge29. The representative of the “Metaphysical” poetry i s ______, whose poems are famous for his use of fantastic metaphors and extravagant hyperboles.A. John DonneB. John MiltonC. William BlakeD. Robert Burns30. Which of the following has / have associations with John Donne’s poetry?A. reason and sentimentB. conceits and witsC. the euphuismD. writing in the rhymed couplet31. _____ is the successful religious allegory in the English language.A. The Pilgrim’s ProgressB. The Canterbury TalesC. Paradise LostD. Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded32. The 18th century England is known as the ______ in the history.A. RenaissanceB. ClassicismC. EnlightenmentD. Romanticism33. Of all the eighteenth-century novelists, who was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specially a “comic epic讽刺史诗in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style?A. Thomas GrayB. Richard Brinsley SheridanC. Johathan SwiftD. Henry Fielding34. Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “_______________”, for his contributi on to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.A. Best writer of the English novelB. The father of English novelC. The most gifted writer of the English novelD. conventional writer of English novel35. Among the pioneers of the 18th century novelists were Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry fielding and _______.A. Laurence SterneB. John DrydenC. Charles DickensD. Alexander Pope36. John Milton’s masterpiece—Paradise Lost was written in the poetic style of _____.A. rhymed stanzasB. blank verseC. alliterationD. sonnets37. Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out____，both in theory and practice，to write specifically a “ ______ in prose,” the first to give the modern novel its structure and style. (Refer to 19)A. tragic epicB. comic epicC. romanceD. lyric epic38. Besides Sheridan, another great playwright in the 18th century is ______.A. Oliver GoldsmithB. Thomas GrayC. T. G. SmolletD. Laurence Sterne39. She Stoops to Conquer was written by _____.A. Oliver GoldsmithB. R. Brinsley SheridanC. John DrydenD. George Bernard Shaw40. The middle of the 18th century was predominated by a newly rising literary form, that is the modern English ______, which gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people.A. proseB. short storyC. novelD. tragicomedy41. The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels are _____.A. horses that are endowed with reasonB. pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC. giants that are superior in wisdomD. hairy，wild，low and despicable creatures，who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways42. The unquenchable无法消除的spirit of Robinson Crusoe struggling to maintain a substantial existence ona lonely island reflects ____.A. man’s desire to return to natureB. the author’s criticism of the colo nization XC. the ideal of the rising bourgeoisie XD. the aristocrats’ disillusionment of the harsh social reality43. Gothic novels are mostly stories of_____, which take place in some haunted or dilapidated Middle Age castles.A. love and marriageB. sea adventuresC. mystery and horrorD. saints and martyrs44. “The father of English novel” is __________.A. Henry FieldingB. Daniel DefoeC. Jonathan SwiftD. John Donne。

英国文学试题及答案

英国文学试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 以下哪位作家被誉为“英国文学之父”？A. 乔治·奥威尔B. 威廉·莎士比亚C. 查尔斯·狄更斯D. 托马斯·哈代2. 英国浪漫主义文学运动的代表人物不包括以下哪一位？A. 威廉·华兹华斯B. 塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治C. 乔治·奥威尔D. 珀西·比希·雪莱3. 《傲慢与偏见》是哪位作家的作品？A. 简·奥斯汀B. 勃朗特三姐妹C. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫D. 乔治·艾略特4. 现代主义文学的代表作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的代表作是？A. 《到灯塔去》B. 《简·爱》C. 《呼啸山庄》D. 《雾都孤儿》5. 以下哪部作品被认为是英国现代主义文学的里程碑？A. 《乌托邦》C. 《百年孤独》D. 《追忆似水年华》二、填空题（每空2分，共20分）6. 威廉·莎士比亚的四大悲剧包括《哈姆雷特》、《奥赛罗》、《李尔王》和________。

7. 19世纪英国现实主义文学的代表作家之一是________，其代表作有《艰难时世》等。

8. 20世纪英国文学中，被称为“愤怒的青年”的作家是________，其作品反映了当时英国社会的不满和反抗。

9. 英国文学中，被称为“湖畔诗人”的是________，他们的作品强调自然美和个人情感。

10. 英国文学中的“哥特式小说”起源于18世纪末，其代表作品是________的《弗兰肯斯坦》。

三、简答题（每题15分，共30分）11. 简述威廉·莎士比亚的戏剧创作特点。

12. 描述19世纪英国现实主义文学的主要特征。

四、论述题（30分）13. 论述20世纪英国文学中的现代主义文学运动，并举例说明其对后世的影响。

英国文学试题答案一、选择题1. B. 威廉·莎士比亚2. C. 乔治·奥威尔3. A. 简·奥斯汀4. A. 《到灯塔去》二、填空题6. 《麦克白》7. 查尔斯·狄更斯8. 约翰·奥斯本9. 威廉·华兹华斯、塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治等10. 玛丽·雪莱三、简答题11. 威廉·莎士比亚的戏剧创作特点包括深刻的人性探讨、丰富的人物性格、复杂的情节构造、以及语言的韵律美和形象性。

英国文学选择题(1)

1.The Canterbury Tales was written in________.BA.Old EnglishB.Middle EnglishC.Modern EnglishD.Current Modern English2.Pilgrims travel to the shrine of St.Thomas Becket at Canterbury in________.BA.MarchB.AprilC.MayD.June3.________pilgrims plus Chaucer are assembled at the Tabard Inn in the southern part of London.CA.25B.27C.29D.314.Chaucer was a master of the heroic couplet which consists of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter.Iambic pentameter meansCA.the line has6feet,and an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable.B.the line has6feet,and a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable.C.the line has5feet,and an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable.D.the line has5feet,and a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable.1.Shakespeare’s four great tragedies are_________DA.Anthony and Cleopatra,Coriolanus,King Lear,Timon of AthensB.Twelfth Night,Cynbeline,The Winter’s Tale,and The TempestC.Hamlet,Othello,King John,and MacbethD.Hamlet,Othello,King Lear,and Macbeth2.The story of Hamlet takes place in________.BA.EnglandB.DenmarkC.ItalyD.Germany3.Romeo and Juliet belongs to Shakespeare’s________.CA.romantic comedyedyC.tragedyD.historical plays4.A sonnet is a poem of________lines,usually in iambic pentameter,with rhymes arranged according to a certain definite patterns.CA.8B.6C.14D.241.Francis Bacon was________contemporaryA.Geoffrey Chaucer’sB.Thomas More’sC.William Shakespeare’sD.John Milton’s2.The following works belong to the type of literature in which an ideal society is depicted except________.A.UtopiaB.The New AtlantisC.ErewhonD.Treasure Island3.In Novum Organum(New Instrument),Bacon discussed the method of________.A.deductionB.inductionC.analogyD.reading4.According to Bacon,if one is unable to discuss matters thoroughly,he should study________.A.historyB.rhetoricC.natural philosophyD.the lawyer’s cases1.______has been regarded as the father of the novel.A.Geoffrey ChaucerB.Daniel DefoeC.Henry FieldingD.Samuel Richardson2.In addition to The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,Defoe also wrote______.A.Tom JonesB.PamelaC.The Adventures of Roderick RandomD.Moll Flanders3.Which of the following is not taken into consideration when Robinson Crusoe looks for a place to set up his tent:______.A.health and fresh waterB.shelter from the heat of the sunC.a lot of treesD.a view to the sea4.Robinson Crusoe set foot upon the island in______of1659.A.springB.summerC.autumnD.winter1.Gulliver's Travels consists of______voyages.A.oneB.twoC.threeD.four2.Lilliput is a country of______.A.tiny inbabitantsB.giantsC.flying islandsD.rational horses3.Some critics believe that Swift was a"misanthrope".The word"misanthrope" means______.A.a person who admires mankind.B.a person who likes mankindC.a person who dislikes mankindD.a person who frightens mankind4.Which of the following statements best describes Gulliver's Travels?A.Gulliver's Travels is a book of satire.B.Gulliver's Travels is a book of adventurous journeys.C.Gulliver's Travels is a realistic representation of18th century England.D.Both A and B.1.Among the following,the one who was also an artist is________.A.William BlakeB.Robert BurnsC.William WordsworthD.Samuel Taylor Coleridge2.“The Lamb”is included in William Blake’s________.A.Poetical SketchesB.The Songs of InnocenceC.The Songs of ExperienceD.The Marriage of Heaven and Hell3.The central image of“The Tyger”is________.A.hammerB.chainC.anvilD.fire1.Robert Burns came from________.A.EnglandB.WalesC.ScotlandD.Ireland2.Authors and poems are correctly paired in all of the following except ________.A.William Wordsworth—“The Solitary Reaper”B.William Blake—“A Red,Red Rose”C.Samuel Taylor Coleridge—“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”D.Robert Burns—“The Tree of Liberty”3.“Auld Lang Syne”means________.A.old songB.old acquaintanceC.long friendshipD.long ago1.The Lake Poets include the following except________.A.Robert SoutheyB.William WordsworthC.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD.William Blake2.William Wordswoth is frequently referred to as________.A.a religious poetB.a worshipper of natureC.a modern poetD.a worshipper of beauty3.Of the following definitions of poetry,the one which s incorrectly paired with its author is________.A.“Poetry is the most beautiful and effective mode of saying things”—Matthew ArnoldB.“Poetry—the best words in their best order”—Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC.“The record of the best and happiest moment of the happiest and best minds”—Percy Bysshe ShelleyD.“The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”—Robert Burns1.Lyrical Ballads(1798)was a collection of poems by________.A.James Thomson and William CollinsB.Thomas Gray and Robert BurnsC.Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Gordon ByronD.William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge2.The poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge may be characterized by its________.A.plain languageB.supernatural colorC.scenes of common lifeD.traditional images3.That supernatural and fantastic stories call for“a willing suspension of disbelief”was a statement made by________.A.Sir Arthur Conan DoyleB.Mary ShelleyC.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD.H.G.Wells4.The setting for“Kubla Khan”is in________.A.EnglandB.FranceC.JapanD.China1.Jane Austen’s first novel was________.A.Pride and PrejudiceB.Sense and SensibilityC.EmmaD.Mansfield Park2.The following characters are correctly paired according to the works in which they appear except________.A.Elizabeth—Pride and PrejudiceB.Mr.Knightley—EmmaC.Catherine—Northanger AbbeyD.Elinor—Mansfield Park3.One of the important themes of Jane Austen’s novels is________.A.warB.urban lifecationD.marriage4.The phrase“a single man in possession of a good fortune”is applied to a single man with________.A.luckB.statusC.wealthD.health1.An attack on Byron’s early poetry was launched by the editors of________.A.The London GazetteB.The Manchester GuardianC.The Liverpool PressD.The Edinburgh Review2.Byron wrote the following except________.A.Childe Harold’s PilgrimageB.ManfredC.Don JuanD.The Revolt of Islam3.The description of“a man proud,moody,cynical,with defiance 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 heroB.an antiheroC.a Byronic heroD.a modern hero1.All the following have written plays in verse except________.A.George Gordon ByronB.Percy Bysshe ShelleyC.George Bernard ShawD.T.S.Eliot2.Shelley’s source for Prometheus Unbound was a play by________.A.William ShakespeareB.AeschylusC.EuripidesD.Sophocles3.In“Ode to the West Wind”,the wild west wind is referred to as the wind of ________.A.springB.summerC.autumnD.winter1.John Keats wrote the following except______.A.EndymionB.The Eve of Saint AgnessC."Ode to a Nightingale"D."Ode to Duty"2.In"Ode on a Grecian Urn"the references to Tempe and Arcady are______.A.ItalianB.BritishC.GreekD.Persian3.The individuals mentioned in"Ode on a Grecian Urn"______.A.appear in the poet's dreamB.appear on a vaseC.are acquaintances of the poetD.pass the poet's window while he is musing1.The following are frequently referred to as the Victorian realist novelists except______.A.Charles DickensB.Jane AustenC.George EliotD.Anthony Trollope2.The two cities in A Tale of Two Cities refer to______.A.London and BerlinB.London and New YorkC.London and ParisD.London and Tokyo3.The following characters are correctly paired according to the works in which they appear except______.A.Doctor Manette—Bleak HouseB.Fagin—Oliver TwistC.Mr.Micawber—David CopperfieldD.Miss Havisham—Great Expectations4.Magwitch works hard in______to make Pip a gentleman.A.AustraliaB.CanadaC.BritainD.The United States1.Matthew Arnold wrote all the following except______.A.Essays in CriticismB.Culture and AnarchyC.The Stones of VeniceD.Literature and Dogma2.Matthew Arnold borrowed the phrase"sweet and light"from a work by______.A.John MiltonB.John BunyanC.John KeatsD.Jonathan Swift3."A disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world"is the definition of criticism by______.A.Samuel JohnsonB.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC.Matthew ArnoldD.T.S.Eliot1.Robert Browning distinguished himself in______.A.lyricsB.dramatic monologuesC.sonnetsD.odes2."My Last Duchess"is written in______.A.irregular meterB.heroic coupletsC.blank verseD.iambic tetrameter3.Neptune is the Roman god of______.A.loveB.warC.the sunD.the sea1.Alfred Tennyson was appointed poet laureate in______.A.1840B.1850C.1860D.18702.The line"He clasps the crag with crooked hands"illustrates the use of______.A.simileB.hyperboleC.alliterationD.repetition3.The line"To strive,to seek,to find,and not to yield"is from Tennyson's______.A.Idylls of the KingB.In MemoriamC.MaudD."Ulysses"1.“All his novels present the losing struggle of individuals against the obscure power which moves the universe”best illustrates the work of________.A.Arnold BennettB.H.G.WellsC.John GalsworthyD.Thomas Hardy2.“A Pure Woman”is the subtitle of________.A.Far from the Madding CrowdB.The Return of the NativeC.Tess of the D’UrbervillesD.Jude the Obscure3.The following characters are correctly paired according to the works in which they appear except________.A.Eustacia—The Return of the NativeB.Sue—Jude the ObscureC.Henchard—The Mayor of CasterbridgeD.Bathsheba—A Pair of Blue Eyes4.Stonehenge is believed to be constructed by the heathens to offer sacrifice to ________.A.GodB.the sunC.the moonD.kings1.“Art for art’s sake”expresses the prevailing literary philosophy of________.A.Alfred Lord TennysonB.Robert BrowningC.Oscar WildeD.George Bernard Shaw2.Oscar Wilde was the author of the following works except________.A.The Picture of Dorian GrayB.Salomédy Windermere’s FanD.My Fair Lady3.In The Importance of Being Earnest,________.A.Algernon is Cecily’s guardianB.Jack is Gwendolen’s cousinC.Algernon invents a younger brother called Ernest,and Jack invents a patient called BunburyD.Jack invents a younger brother called Ernest,and Algernon invents a patient called Bunbury1.Both Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw came from________.A.EnglandB.ScotlandC.IrelandD.Wales2.The following information about Shaw is true except________.A.he was a member of the Fabian SocietyB.he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in1925C.he visited China in1933D.his best plays were comedies3.Pygmalion,King of Cyprus,was a sculptor who fell in love with________.A.sculptureB.the statue of a woman he had sculptedC.the statue of himselfD.Aphrodite the goddess of love and beauty1.James Joyce was born in________.A.EdinburghB.LondonC.DublinD.Paris2.In Joyce’s Ulysses,the character who represents the last Ulysses is________.A.Stephen DedalusB.Leopold BloomC.Buck MulliganD.Blazes Boylan3.Joyce’s short story“Araby”is characterized by the following except________.A.realistic descriptionB.symbolic detailsC.epiphanyD.excitement of the plot1.Both Virginia Woolf and Jame Joyce died in_________.A.1939B.1940C.1941D.19422.The“Bloomsbury group”included the following except________.A.Lytton StracheyB.J.M.KeynesC.E.M.Forsterwrence3.The term“stream of consciousness novel”can be applied to Virginia Woolf’s following works except________.A.Mrs.DallowayB.To the LighthouseC.A Room of One’s OwnD.The Waves1.Both Virginia Woolf and Jame Joyce died in_________.A.1939B.1940C.1941D.19422.The“Bloomsbury group”included the following except________.A.Lytton StracheyB.J.M.KeynesC.E.M.Forsterwrence3.The term“stream of consciousness novel”can be applied to Virginia Woolf’s following works except________.A.Mrs.DallowayB.To the LighthouseC.A Room of One’s OwnD.The Waves。

英国文学史100题

100 Selected Questions on English Literature1.The most significant idea of the Renaissance is（）.A. humanismB. realismC. naturalismD. skepticism2.Shakespeare’s tragedies include all the following except（）.A. Hamlet and King LearB. Antony and Cleopatra and MacbethC. Julius Caesar and OthelloD. The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream3. The statement “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability”opens one of well-known essays byA. Francis BaconB. Samuel JohnsonC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift4.In Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent（）touch in his description of the simple though primitive rural life.A. nostalgicB. humorousC. romanticD. ironic5.Backbite, Sneerwell, and Lady Teazle are characters in the play The School for Scandal by（）.A. Christopher MarloweB. Ben JonsonC. Richard Brinsley SheridanD. George Bernard Shaw6.Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a“（）in prose,”th e first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. tragic epicB. comic epicC. romanceD. lyric epic7.In his poem “Tyger, Tyger,”William Blake expresses his perception of the“fearful symmetry”of the big cat. The phrase“fearful symmetry”sug gests（）.A. the tiger’s two eyes which are dazzlingly bright and symmetrically setB. the poet’s fear of the predatorC. the analogy of the hammer and the anvilD. the harmony of the two opposite aspects of God’s creation8. “What is his name?”“Bingley.”“Is he married or single?”“Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousanda year. What a fine thing for our girls!”The above dialogue must be taken from（）.A. Jane Austen’s Pride and PrejudiceB. Em ily Bronte’s Wuthering HeightsC. John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte SagaD. George Eliot’s Middlemarch9.The short story“Araby”is one of the stories in James Joyce’s collection（）.A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManB. UlyssesC. Finnegans WakeD. Dubliners10.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following except （）.A. the using of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC. the humble and rustic life as subject matterD. elegant wording and inflated figures of speech11. Here are two lines taken from The Merchant of Venice:“Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew/Thou mak’st thy knife keen.”What kind of figurative device is used in the above lines? （）A. Simile.B. Metonymy.C. Pun.D. Synecdoche.12. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”is an epigrammatic line by （）.A. J. KeatsB. W. BlakeC. W. WordsworthD. P. B. Shelley13. The poems such as“The Chimney Sweeper”are found in both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience byA. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. John KeatsD. Lord Gordon Byron14.John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is often regarded as a typical example of （）.A. allegoryB. romanceC. epic in proseD. fable15.Alexander Pope strongly advocated neoclassicism, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by（）rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.A. classicalB. romanticC. sentimentalD. allegorical16.In his essay“Of Studies,”Bacon said:“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and（）.”A. skimmedB. perfectedC. imitatedD. digested17.“For I have known them all already, known them all—/Have known the evenings,mornin gs, afternoons,/I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”The above lines are taken from（）.A. Wordsworth’s “The Solitary Reaper”B. Eliot’s“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”C. Coleridge’s“Kubla Khan”D. Yeats’s“The Lake Isle of Innisfree”18.(The)（）was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.A. RomanticismB. HumanismC. EnlightenmentD. Sentimentalism19.A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of （）, who never pays any attention to human feelings.A. moralityB. justiceC. propertyD. humor20.The typical feature of Robert Browning’s poetry is the （）.A. bitter satireB. larger-than-life caricatureC. Latinized dictionD. dramatic monologue21. G eorge Bernard Shaw’s play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a grotesquely realistic exposure of the（）.A. slum landlordismB. political corruption in EnglandC. economic oppression of womenD. religious corruption in England22. The story starting with th e marriage of Paul’s parents Walter Morel and Mrs. Morel must beA. Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’UrbervillesB. D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and LoversC. George Eliot’s MiddlemarchD. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre23. She smiled, no doubt, when’ver I passed her…/ …. This grew, I gave commands, Then all simles stopped together.’The above quoted lines imply that she________.A. obeyed his order and sopped smiling at everybody, including the dukeB. obeyed his order and stopped smiling at anybody except the dukeC. refused to obey and the order and never smiled againD. was murdered at the order of the duke24. The true subject of John Donne’s poem, “The sun Rising,” is to _________.A. attack the sun as an unruly servantB. give compliments to the mistress and her power of beautyC. criticicize the sun’s intrusion into the lover’s private lifeD. lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie25. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’s sonnet 18?A. The speaker meditates on man’s moralityB. The speaker satirizes human vanityC. The speaker eulogizes the power of artistic creationD. The speaker tells one of his dream visions.26. Among the great writers of the modern period, ____might be the greatest in radical experimentation of technical innovations in novel writing.A. Joseph ConradB. D.H, LawrenceC. E.M, ForsterD. James Joyce27. “For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room ...”(Dickens, Oliver Twist) What did Oliver ask for?A. More time to play.B. More food to eat.C. More book to read.D. More money to spend.28. Mrs. Warren’s Profession is one of George Bernard Shaw’s plays. What is Mrs. Warren’s profession then ?A. Real estate.B. Prostitution.C. House-keeping.D. Farming.29. The statement “A demanding mother turns away from her husband and g ives all her affection to her sons” sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrence′s .A. Lady Chatterley’s LoverB. Women in loveC. Sons and LoversD. The Plumed Serpent30. “Drive my dead thought over the universeLike withe red leaves to quicken a new birth.”(Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”)What rhetorical device does the poet use in the quoted lines?A. Synecdoche.B. Metaphor.C. Simile.D. Onomatopoeia.31. Crusoe is the hero in The life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Grusoe, of York, Mariner (also known as Robinson Crusoe)by .A. Jonathan SwiftB. Daniel DefoeC. George EliotD. D.H. Lawrence32.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by .A. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Percy Bysshe Shelley33. Christopher Marlow’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is a (n) .A. pastoral lyricB. elegyC. eulogyD. epic34. Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance humanism?A. Cultivation of the art of this world and this life.B. Tolerance of human foibles.C. Search for the genuine flavor of ancient culture.D. Glorification of religious faith.35.. “In dream vision Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana, and upon awaking resolves to seek her.” The two literary figures Arthur and Gloriana are form .A. Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie QueeneB. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and JulietC. Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His love”D. John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”36. Which of the following best describes t he nature of Thomas Hardy’s later works?A. Sentimentalism.B. Tragic sense.C. Surrealism.D. Comic sense.37.In which of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput,” “Brobdingnag,” “Houyhnhnm,” and “Yahoo”?A. James Joyce’s Ulsses.B. Charles Dickens’s Bleak House.C. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.D. D. H. Lawrence’s Women in love.38. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following except .A. normal contemporary speech patternsB. humble and rustic life as subject matterC. elegant wording and inflated figures of speechD. intensely subjective feeling toward individual experience39. In Samuel Taylor Coleridge′s “Kubla Khan,” “A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice” .A. refers to the palace where Kubla Khan once livedB. vividly describes a building of poor qualityC．is the gift given to a beautiful girl called AbyssinianD. symbolizes the reconciliation of the conscious and the unconscious40. The Glorious Revolution in ________ meant three things: the supremacy of parliament, the beginning of modern England, and the final triumph of the principle of political liberty.A. 1640B. 1688C. 1660D. 164941. After ________’s death, monarch was again restored (1660). It was called the period of Restoration.A. CromwellB. CharlesC. MiltonD. James42. The essays and stories of Addison and Steels devoted not only to social problems, but also to private life and ________.A. businessB. public clubsC. gossipsD. adventures43. The Puritans believed in _________ of life.A. extravaganceB. simplicityC. humblenessD. Arrogance44. Fielding’s work unfolds a spread _________ of life in a ll sections of English society.A. pictureB. imageC. panoramaD. painting45. No sooner were the people in control of the government than they divided into hostile parties: the liberal Whigs, and the conservative_________ .A. RepublicansB. DemocratsC. LaborersD. Tories46. Pope was a man of extraordinary wit, extensive ________, and his contemporaries considered him as the highest authority in matters of literary art.A. sightB. adventureC. learningD. thinking47. The philosophy of the enlighteners, though ________ and materialistic in its essence, did not exclude senses, or sentiments, as a means of perception and learning.A. RomanticB. rationalC. realisticD. metaphysical48. The mysterious element plays an enormous role in the Gothic novel; it is soreplete with bloodcurdling scenes and unnatural feelings that it is just called “a novel of ________”.A. happyB. loveC. SentimentalistD. Horror49. Along with the depiction of morals and manners and social mode of life the writers of the Enlightenment began to display an interest in the ________ life of an individual.A. exteriorB. urbanC. poorD. innermost50 Lyrical Ballads is composed by William Wordsworth in collaboration with _________ .A. ColeridgeB. SoutheyC. BlakeD. Byron51. After the Industrial revolution, __________ became the “workshop of the world”.A. BritainB. FranceC. GermanyD. Northern Europe52. The quotation “I wandered lonely as a cloud, / That floats on high o’er vales and hills, / When all at once I saw a crowd , / a host , of golden daffodils ;” is composed by __________.A. ShakespeareB. WordsworthC. SpenserD. Keats53. “If Winter comes , can __________ be far behind ?”.A. AutumnB. West windC. SummerD. Spring54. “Beauty is _________ , truth beauty ”.A. realityB. loveC. truthD. ability55. Romanticism as a literary movement came into being in England in the later half of the _________ century.A. 10B. 16C. 18D. 1956. The Romantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last Romantic writer __________ died .A. Jane AustenB. Walter ScottC. William WordsworthD. De Quincy57. Which poet belongs to the Lakers ? ___________A. ColeridgeB. KeatsC. ByronD. Shelley58. Choose the one from the four immortal odes which is not written by Keats . __________A. Ode to the West WindB. Ode to a NightingaleC. Ode to AutumnD. Ode on a Grecian Urn59. Which work is based on ancient Greek mythology ? __________A. Paradise LostB. Jane EyreC. IvanhoeD. Prometheus Unbound60. In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the following EXCEPT ______.A. getting rid of those old feudalist ideasB. getting control of the parliament and governmentC. introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisieD. recovering the purity of the early church, from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church2. The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ______.A. SurreyB. WyattC. SidneyD. Shakespeare61. As the best of Shakespeare's final romances,______ is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.A. The TempestB. The Winter's TaleC. CymbelineD. The Rape of Lucrece62. John Milton's greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literarure since Beowulf.A. AreopagiticaB. Paradise LostC. LycidasD. Samson Agonistes63. The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT ______.A. self - esteemB. self - relianceC. self - restraintD. hard work64. “Graveyard School”writers are the following senti mentalists EXCEPT ______.A. James ThomsonB. William CollinsC. William CowperD. Thomas Jackson65. The best model of satire in English literary history is Jonathan Swift's ______.A. A Modest ProposalB. A Tale of a TubC. Gulliver's TravelsD. The Battle of the Books66. As a representative of the Enlightenment,¬¬¬______ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.A. John BunyanB. Daniel DefoeC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift67. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel,______ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel”.A. Daniel DefoeB. Henry FieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD. Samuel Richardson68. Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correct?A. It predominated in the early eighteenth century.B. It was one phase of the Romantic movement.C. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.D. Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic romance.69. “Byronic hero”is a figure of the following traits EXCEPT ______.A.being proudB. being of humble originC.being rebelliousD. being mysterious70. Robert Browning created ______ by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters.A. the verse novelB. the blank verseC. the heroic coupletD. the dramatic poetry71. Charles Dickens' novel ______ is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life of the underworld in the nineteenth- century London.A. The Pickwick PaperB. Oliver TwistC. David CopperfieldD. Nicholas Nickleby72. Charlotte Bronte's works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards ______, about some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.A. self - relianceB. self - realizationC. self - esteemD. self - consciousness73. The symbolic meaning of “Book” in Robert Browning's long poem The Ring and the Book is ______.A. the common senseB. the hard truthC. the comprehensive knowledgeD. the dead truth74. Thomas Hardy's pessimistic view of life predominated most of his later works and earns him a reputation as a ______ writer.A. realisticB. naturalisticC. romanticD. stylistic75. After the First World War, there appeared the following literary trends of modernism EXCEPT ______.A. expressionismB. surrealismC. stream of consciousnessD. black humor76. The masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century are the three trilogies of ______.A. Galsworthy's Forsyte novelsB. Hardy' s Wessex novelsC. Greene's Catholic novelsD. Woolf's stream-of-consciousness novels77. In the mid - 1950s and early 1960s, there appeared “______” who demonstrated a particular disillusion over the depressing situation in Britain and launched a bitter protest. against the outmoded social and political values in their society.A. The Beat GenerationB. The Lost GenerationC. The Angry Young MenD. Black Mountain Poets78. The following are English stream-of-consciousness novels EXCEPT ______.A.PilgrimageB. UlyssesC.Mrs.DallowayD. A Passage to Inida79. The leader of the Irish National Theater Movement in the early 20th centurywas ______.A. W.B.Yeats B. Lady GregoryC. J.M.SyngeD. John Galworthy80. T.S.Eliot's most popular verse play is ______.A. Murder in the CathedralB. The Cocktail PartyC. The Family ReunionD. The Waste Land81._______ is regarded as “worshipper of nature.”A. ColeridgeB. WordsworthC. T.S.EliotD. Robert Browning82.Marlowe’s play Dr.Faustus is based on _______ of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the devil.A. the ScandinavianB. the GermanC. the ancient EnglishD. the French83.Who defined a good style as “proper words in proper places?”A. Jonathan SwiftB. Charles DickensC. Edmund SpencerD. George Bernard Shaw84._______ is central to Blake’s concern in the Sogns of Innocence and Songs of Experience?A. innocence and experienceB. the poorC. societyD. childhood85. As a novelist _______ wrote within a very narrow sphere, the provincial life of the late 1818-century England.A. Jonathan SwiftB. Jane AustenC. Thomas HardyD. Henry Fielding86. ________ employed the heroic couplet with true ease and charm for the first time in thehistory of English Literature.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. George Gordon ByronC. Edmund SpenderD. Robert Browning87. Which of the following is William Shakespeare’s history play?A. MacbethB. Henry IVC. Romeo and JulietD. King Lear88. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ________ has beenregarded as “Father of the English Novel”.A. Henry FieldingB. Daniel DefoeC. John BunyanD. James Joyce89. Jane Austen wrote within a very narrow sphere. The subject matter, the social setting, and plots are all restricted to the provincial life of the ________.A. late 19th -centuryB. 17th -centuryC. 20th -centuryD. late 18th –century90.The most significant idea of the Renaissance is（）.A. humanismB. realismC. naturalismD. skepticism91.Shakespeare’s tragedies include all the following except（）.A. Hamlet and King LearB. Antony and Cleopatra and MacbethC. Julius Caesar and OthelloD. The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream92.The statement “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability”opens one of well-known essays by（）.A. Francis BaconB. Samuel JohnsonC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift93. In Hardy’s Wessex novels, t here is an apparent（）touch in his description of the simple though primitive rural life.A. nostalgicB. humorousC. romanticD. ironic94. Backbite, Sneerwell, and Lady Teazle are characters in the play The School for Scandal by （）.A. Christopher MarloweB. Ben JonsonC. Richard Brinsley SheridanD. George Bernard Shaw95.Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a“（）in prose,”the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. tragic epicB. comic epicC. romanceD. lyric epic96. In his poem “Tyger, Tyger,”William Blake expresses his perception of the“fearful symmetry”of the big cat. The phrase“fearful symmetry”suggests（）.A. the tiger’s two eyes which are dazzlingly bright and symmetrically setB. the poet’s fear of the predatorC. the analogy of the hammer and the anvilD. the harmony of the two opposite aspects of God’s creation97. Hawthorne’s view of man and human history originates, to a great extent in _______.A. PuritanismB. TranscendentalismC. his childhoodD. his unhappy marriage98. As _______ saw it, poetry could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation.A. EmersonB. HawthorneC. WhitmanD. Emily Dickinson99. 1．The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical eventsEXCEPT_________.A．the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek cultureB．the vast expansion of British colonies in North AmericaC．the new discoveries in geography and astrologyD．the religious reformation and the economic expansion100. All of the following works are known as Hardy’s “novels of character and environment”EXCETP_______.A．The Return of the Native B．Tess of the D’UrbervillesC．Jude the Obscure D．Far from the Madding CrowdTrue or false1. Donne is mostly famous for his popular use of conceit.( )2. Paradise Lost tells how Adam rebelled against God and how Satan and Eve were driven out of Eden.( )3. Bunyan’s most important work is The Pilgrim’s Progress, written in the old-fashioned, medieval form of allegory and dream.( )4. The story of Robinson Crusoe is real enough to have come straight from a sailor’s logbook.( )5. Gulliver’s Adventures begins with Lilliputians, who are so small that Gulliver is a pigmy among them.( )6. The Spectator and The Tatler by Steele and Addison are the first important recognitions by literature of the special interests of women readers.( )7. Fielding’s first novel, Joseph Andrews, war inspired by the success of Defoe’s novel Pamela.( )8. The author of the famous Elegy is the most scholarly and well-balanced of all the early romantic poets.( )9. Of all the romantic poets of the 18th century, Blake is the most independent and the most original.( )10. The Tiger as an excellent short poem is not composed by Blake .( )。

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1.____ is the greatest representative of English critical realism.A. Jane AustenB. ThackerayC. DickensD. Charlotte2.Pride and Prejudice’s first title is ____.A. First ImpressionB. A Book Without a HeroC. The NewcomesD. Persuasion3.Vanity Fair has a sub-title. It is ____.A. First ImpressionB. A Book Without a HeroC. The NewcomesD. Persuasion4.In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend ____ appeared. And it flourished in the forties andin the early fifties.A. romanticismB. naturalismC. realismD. critical realism5.English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of ____ .A. novelB. dramaC. poetryD. sonnet6.______’s V anity Fair is a satirical portrayal of the upper strata(阶层) of society.A. George EliotB. Elizabeth GaskellC. W. M. ThackerayD. John Buyan7._______ deals with the sufferings and hardships of an old man named Trent and his granddaughter Nell.A. Pickwick PapersB. The Old Curiosity ShopC. Great ExpectationsD. Hard Times8.Which novel makes a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education?A. Oliver TwistB. Hard TimesC. Great ExpectationsD. A Tale of Two Cities9.Which novel is a great satire upon the society and those people who dream to enter the higher societyregardless of the social reality?A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC. Great ExpectationD. Dombey and Son10.In the novel ______, Dickens describes the Chartist Movement and shows his sympathy for the workers.A. Great ExpectationsB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Hard TimesD. Oliver Twist11.In the novel ___ , Defarge and Madame Defarge represent the revolutionaries.A. Dombey and SonB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Little DorritD. Bleak House12._____ is often regarded as the semi-autobiography of the author Dickens in which the early life of the hero islargely based on the author’s early life.A. The Curiosity ShopB. David CopperfieldC. Oliver TwistD. Great Expectations13.Which of the following is Th ackeray’s masterpiece?A. The VirginiansB. The Books of Snobs. The Newcomes D. Vanity Fair14.The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from Bunyan’s masterpiece _____.A. The Pilgrim’s ProgressB. Child Harold’s PilgrimageC. Gulliver’s Trave lsD. The Canterbury Tales15.Emily Bronte wrote only one novel entitled ______.A. Jane EyreB. Agnes GreyC. Wuthering HeightsD. Emma16.Dickens’ third literary period shows intensifying ______.A. optimismB. excitementC. irritationD. pessimism17.The Victorian Literature began in____ and ended in _____.A. 1837...1900 B. 1835...1901 C. 1832...1902 D. 1830 (1903)18.The conflicts between the capitalists and the proletarian in industrial England caused the _____.A. Enlightenment MovementB. Industrial RevolutionC. Chartist MovementD. Romantic Movement19._____ is the greatest among the critical realists of the Victorian Age.A. Earnest JonesB. Emily BrontёC. Charlotte BrontёD. Charles Dickens20.Charles Dickens was impressive for his _____.A. wide spread of critical realismB. his spirit of democracy and humanismC.his unforgettable figures with satire and simple and clear languageD. including A, B and C21.The two cities in A Tale of Two Cities refer to ____.A. London and New YorkB. London and ParisC. Paris and New YorkD. Brussels and Washington22.____ is the major literary form in the Victorian Period.A. essayB. poetryC. novelD. drama23.____ is the main hero in the novel of Wuthering Heights.A. RochesterB. HeathcliffC. ManetteD. Martin24.Both Charlotte and Emily wrote about the ____ around them.A. familiar thingsmon peopleC. neighborsD. evils25._____ is an autobiographical novel and loved by Dickens himself most.A. Great ExpectationsB. David CopperfieldC. Bleak HouseD. The Pickwick Papers26. The greatest Scottish poet in the pre-romanticism is ________.A. William WordsworthB. Oliver GoldsmithC. Thomas GrayD. Robert Burns27. _______ is written by William Blake, a great poet in the pre-romanticism.A. The Songs of InnocenceB. Reliques of Ancient English poetryC. Songs and SonnetsD. Kubla Khan28.____ has a another name called “The Daffodils”.A. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”B. “Tintern Abbey”C. “Revolution”D. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”29.Byron’s ____ is regarded as the great poem of the Romantic Age.A. Childe Harold’s PilgrimageB. Hours of IdlenessC. LaraD. Don Juan30..Prometheus Unbound is ____ masterpiece.A. Wordsworth’sB. Byron’sC. Shelley’sD. Keats31.Keats’ best ode is ____.A. “On a Grecian Urn”B. “To Autumn”C. “To Psyche”D. “To a Nightingale”32. The publication of ______ marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement in England.A. “Tintern Abbey”B. Lyrical BalladsC. Frost at NightD. “The Daffodils”33.The themes of Pride and Prejudice are _____.A. pride and prejudiceB. the writer’s own personalitiesC. love and marriageD. Both A and C34._____ is considered the father of historical novelist in the English Romantic Age.A.Jane AustenB. Charles LambC. William HazlittD. Waler Scott35.Critics agree that ____ is a great romantic poet, standing with Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth in thehistory English literature.A. KeatsB. WordsworthC. ColeridgeD. William36. Romantic Age began in____ and came to an end in _____.A. 1789...1821 B. 1778...1823 C. 1798...1832 D. 1768 (1819)37. Byron, Shelley and Keats belong to Romantic poets of ___ generation.A. the firstB. the secondC. the thirdD. the forth38.____ is the greatest representative of English critical realism.A. Jane AustenB. ThackerayC. DickensD. Charlotte39.Pride and Prejudice’s first title is ____.A. First ImpressionB. A Book Without a HeroC. The NewcomesD. Persuasion40.Vanity Fair has a sub-title. It is ____.A. First ImpressionB. A Book Without a HeroC. The NewcomesD. Persuasion41.In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend ____ appeared. And it flourished in the fortiesand in the early fifties.A. romanticismB. naturalismC. realismD. critical realism42.English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of ____ .A. novelB. dramaC. poetryD. sonnet43.______’s V anity Fair is a satirical portrayal of the upper strata(阶层) of society.A. George EliotB. Elizabeth GaskellC. W. M. ThackerayD. John Buyan44.Yeats’s fame rests chiefly on his ______, using a lot of symbols in his poem.A. novelsB. poetryC. dramasD. prose45.____ was a leader of the modernist movement in English poetry and a great innovator of verse technique.A. W.B. Yeats B. T. S. EliotC.D. H. Lawrence D. G. B. Shaw46.Which of the following is Not written by D. H. Lawrence?A. The Waste LandB. The RainbowC. Lady Chatterley’s LoverD. Women in Love47. _____ is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.A. Jane Eyre B Emma C. Wuthering Height D. Middlemarch48.The typical feature of Robert Browning’s poetry is the _____.A. bitter satireB. Larger-than-life caricatureC. Latinized dictionD. dramatic monologue49. The modernist writers such as Richardson, Joyce and Woolf are mainly concerned with the __.A. external worldB. public life of an individualC. social activities of human beingsD. inner life of an individual50. Eliot’s poem, the Waste Land, is mainly concerned with the _____of a modern civilization.A. social corruptionB. spiritual breakupC. physical breakupD. religious corruption51. Among the great writers of the modern period, ____might be the greatest on radical experimentation oftechnical innovation in novel writing.A. Joseph ConradB. D. H. LawrenceC. Virginia WoolfD. James Joyces52. According to D. H. Lawrence, the ____is the most responsible for the alienation of the human relationshipsand the perversion of human personality.A. pride of the aristocratic classB. vanity of the middle classC. man’s desire for power and moneyD. capitalist mechanical civilization53. The Victorian age was largely an age of _____, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.A. pessimismB. naturalismC. modernismD. critical realism54. The Romantic Age in England came to an end with the death of ____.A. Jane AustinB. Walter ScottC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. William Wordsworth55. Who is the father of English poetry?A. William Shakespeare.B. Edmund Spencer.C. John Milton.D. Geoffrey Chaucer.56. ____ is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed into fourteen lines.A. Free VerseB. SonnetC. OdeD. Epigram57. Which of the following poems is NOT written by George Gordon Byron?A. She Walks in Beauty.B. The Solitary Reaper.C. When We Two Parted.D. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.58. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between ____ centuries.A. 14th and mid 17thB. 14th and mid-18thC. 16th and mid-18thD. 16th and mid-17th59. ____ is the greatest songwriter in the world and the national poet of Scotland.A. William BlakeB. Robert BurnsC. ByronD. Keats60. William Blake's The Tiger is collected in ____.A. Songs of InnocenceB. Songs of ExperienceC. Marriage of Heaven and HellD. Poetical Sketches61. Among the following poets, which is NOT a lake poet?A. William Wordsworth.B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.C. Robert Southey.D. William Collins.62. _____is a fork legend brought to England by Anglo-Saxons from their continental homes, it is a long poem ofover 3000 lines and the national epic of the English people.A. BeowulfB. Sir GawainC. The Canterbury TalesD. King Arthur and His Knights63. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" is an epigrammatic line by ____.A. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Percy Bysshe Shelley64. Lyrical Ballad s is the joint work between Wordsworth and his friend ____.A. ColeridgeB. ByronC. KeatsD. Shelly65. ____ is D. H. Lawrence's semi-autographical novel.A. Sons and LoversB. Women in LoveC. RainbowD. Lady Chatterlay’s Lover。

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英国文学期末考试试题大三### 英国文学期末考试试题一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 以下哪位作家是英国浪漫主义文学的代表人物？A. 莎士比亚B. 简·奥斯汀C. 乔治·奥威尔D. 威廉·华兹华斯2. 托马斯·哈代的《德伯家的苔丝》中，苔丝的悲剧命运主要反映了哪种社会问题？A. 阶级冲突B. 性别歧视C. 宗教信仰D. 个人命运3. 英国文学中的“黑色幽默”主要体现在哪位作家的作品中？A. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫B. 乔治·奥威尔C. 约瑟夫·海勒D. 威廉·戈尔丁4. 以下哪部作品不是查尔斯·狄更斯的代表作？A. 《雾都孤儿》B. 《双城记》C. 《傲慢与偏见》D. 《大卫·科波菲尔》5. 英国文学中的“现代主义”运动，主要受到哪位哲学家的影响？A. 弗里德里希·尼采B. 亚瑟·叔本华C. 格奥尔格·威廉·弗里德里希·黑格尔D. 伊曼努尔·康德二、简答题（每题10分，共30分）6. 简述《简·爱》中简·爱的性格特点及其对女性独立精神的体现。

7. 描述《荒原》中T.S.艾略特对现代文明的批判及其文学手法。

8. 论述《乌托邦》对后世理想社会构想的影响及其在文学史上的地位。

三、论述题（每题25分，共50分）9. 以《呼啸山庄》为例，分析艾米莉·勃朗特如何通过人物关系和情节发展来探讨爱与恨的主题。

10. 探讨《1984》中乔治·奥威尔对极权主义社会的描绘及其对个人自由的威胁。

四、作文题（共30分）11. 选择一部你感兴趣的英国文学作品，从文学、社会、心理等角度出发，写一篇不少于1000字的论文，分析该作品的主题、人物、结构和语言风格。

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WORD格式整理版Exercise for English Literature (2)Choose the best answer for each blank.1.________, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets ofEngland, was born in London about 1340.A.Geoffrey ChaucerB. Sir GawainC.Francis BaconD. John Dryden2.Chaucer died on the 25th October 1400, and was buried in ________.A.FlandersB. FranceC.ItalyD. Westminster Abbey3.The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansion abroad. ________encouraged exploration and travel, which were compatible with the interest of the English merchants.A.Henry VB. Henry VIIC.Henry VIIID. Queen Elizabeth4.Except being a victory of England over ________, the rout of the fleet “Armada”(Invincible) was also the triumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over the declining old feudalism.A.SpainB. FranceC.AmericaD. Norway5.At the beginning of the 16th century the outstanding humanist ________ wrote his Utopiain which he gave a profound and truthful picture of the people’s suffering and put forward his ideal of a future happy society.A.Thomas MoreB. Thomas MarloweC.Francis BaconD. William Shakespear6.Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of Queen ________.A.MaryB. ElizabethC.WilliamD. Victoria7.English Renaissance Period was an age of ________.A.prose and novelB. poetry and dramaC.essays and journalsD. ballads and songs8.From the following, choose the one which is not Francis Bacon’s work: ________.A.The Advancement of LearningB. The New InstrumentC.EssaysD. The New AtlanticsE.Venus and Adonis9.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” This is the beginning line of one ofShakespeare’s ________.A.songsB. playsediesD. sonnets10.The heroines of Shakespeare’s great comedies, ________ are the daughters of theRenaissance, whose images and stories will remain a legacy to readers and audiences of all time.A.PortiaB. RoselandC.ViolaD. Beatrice11.Choose the four great tragedies of Shakespeare from the following ________.A.HamletB. OthelloC.MacbethD. King LearE.Timon of Athens12.Which play is not a comedy? ________A.A Midsummer Night’s DreamB. The Merchant of VeniceC.Twelfth NightD. Romeo and JulietE.As You Like It13.“Denmark is a prison”. In which play does the h ero summarise his observation of hisworld into such a bitter sentence? ________专业学习参考资料A.Charles IB. OthelloC.Henry VIIID. Hamlet14.The works of ________ and the Authorised Version of the English Bible are the two greattreasuries of the English language.A.Geoffrey ChaucerB. Edmund SpenserC.William ShakespeareD. Ben Johnson15.In which play does the hero show his profound reverence for man through the sentence:“What a piece of wok is a man! How nobel in reason! How finite in faculty!” ________ A.Romeo and Juliet B. HamletC.OthelloD. The Merchant of Venice16.In 1649, ________ was beheaded. England became a commonwealth.A.James IB. James IIC.Charles ID. Charles II17.The revolution of 1688 meant three of the following things: ________.A.the supremacy of ParliamentB.the beginning of modern EnglandC.the triumph of the principal libertyD.the triumph of the principle of political libertyE.the Restoration of monarchy18.Who of the following were the important metaphysical poets? ________A.John DonneB. George HerbertC.John MiltonD. Richard Lovelace19.Which work was NOT written by John Milton? ________A.Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC.Samson AgonistesD. Volpone20.Paradise Lost is ________.A.John Milton’s masterpieceB.a great epic in 12 booksC.written in blank verseD.about the heroic revolt of Satan against God’s authority21.John Milton is ________.A.a great revolutionary poet of the 17th centuryB.an outstanding political pamphleteerC.a great stylistD.a great master of blank verse22.From the Old Testament, John Milton took his stories of Paradise Lost, i.e. ________.A.the creationB.the rebellion in Heaven of Satan and his fellow-angelsC.their defeat and expulsion from HeavenD.the creation of the death and of adam and EveE.the fallen angels in hell plotting against GodF.Satan’s temptation of EveG.the departure of Adam and Eve from Eden23.The finest thing in Paradise Lost is the description of hell, and ________ is oftenregarded as the real hero of the poem.A. GodB. SatanC. AdamD. Eve24.Who is the greatest of the Metaphysical school of poetry? ________A.John DonneB. George HerbertC.Andrew MarvellD. Henry Vaugham25.________ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18thcentury.A.The RenaissanceB. The EnlightenmentWORD格式整理版C.The Religious ReformationD. The Chartist Movement26.The main literary stream of the 18th century was ________. What the writers describedin their works were mainly social realities.A.naturalismB. romanticismC.classicismD. realismE.sentimentalism27.The eighteenth century was the golden age of the English ________. The novel of thisperiod spoke the truth about life with an uncompromising courage.A.dramaB. poetryC.essayD. novel28.In 1704, Jonathan Swift published two works together, ________ and ________, which madehim well-known as a satirist.A.A Tale of a TubB. Bickerstaff AlmanacC.Gulliver’s TravelsD. A Modest Proposal29.“Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a style.” This sentenceis said by ________, one of the greatest masters of English prose.A.Alexander PopeB. Henry FieldingC.Daniel DefoeD. Jonathan Swift30.As a journalist, ________ had learned how to make his reporting vivid and credible by askillful use of circumstantial detail. This power to make his characters alive and his stories credible is an inimitable gift.A.Joseph AddisonB. Daniel DefoeC.Samuel RicharsonD. Tobias Smollett31.Which of the following are NOT written by William Blake? ________A.Poetical SketchesB. Songs of InnocenceC.Songs of ExperienceD. Auld Lang SyneE.The Marriage of Heaven and HellF. ProphecisG.Visions of the Daughters of Albion and America, a Prophecy32.In the 18th century English literature, the representative poets of pre-romanticismwere ________.A.William WordsworthB. William BlakeC.Robert BurnsD. Jonathan Swift33.The Romantic Age begab with the publication of The Lyrical Ballads which was written by________.A.William WordsworthB. Samuel JohnsonC.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. Wordsworth and Coleridge34.The Romantic Age came to an end with the death of the last well-known romantic writer________.A.Jane AustenB. Walter ScottC.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. William Wordsworth35.The glory of the Romantic Age lies in the poetry of ________.A.William WordsworthB. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC.George Gordon ByronD. Percy Bysshe ShelleyE.John Keats36.The English Romantic Age produced two major novelists. They are ________.A.George Gordon Byron and Percy Bysshe ShelleyB.William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC.Walter Scott and Jane AustenD.Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt37.Which poets belong to the Active Romantic group? ________A.George Gordon ByronB. William WordsworthC.Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. John KeatsE.John Milton专业学习参考资料38.Which poets belong to the Lakers? ________A.William WordsworthB. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC.John KeatsD. Robert SoutheyE.Walter Scott39.Which of the folloeing were written by Wordsworth ONLY? ________A.To the CuckooB. The Lyrical BalladsC.Lucy PoemsD. The Solitary ReaperE.I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud40.The publication of ________ marked the break with the conventional poetical traditionof the 18th century, i.e., with classicism, and the beginning of the Romantic revival in England.A.The Lyrical BalladsB. The PreludeC.Childe Harold’s PilgrimageD. Don Juan41.As contrasted with the classicists who made reason, order and the old, classicaltraditions the criteria in their poetical creations, ________ based his own poetical principle on the premise that “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerf ul feeling.”A.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. George Gordon ByronC.Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. William Wordsworth42.________ was the first critic of the Romantic School.A.William WordworthB. Samuel JohnsonC.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. Wordworth and Coleridge43.Which of the following statements is (are) NOT true about George Gordon Byron? ________A.Byron’s early years had been far from happy for he was born with a clubfoot, in thefrequent family scenes his mother called him “you lame brat.”B.Byron died in Italy annd was deeply mourned by the Italian people and by all progressivepeople throughout the world.C.The reactionary criticism of the 19th century tried to belittle Byron’s genius and hisrole in the development of English literature, but Byron remains one of the most popular English poets both at home and abroad.D.Since the May 4 Movement in 1919, more and more of Byron’s poems have been translatedinto Chinese and well received by the poets and young readers. Byron has now become one of the best-known English poets in our country.44.In 1805, Wordsworth completed a long autobiographical poem entitled ________.A.Biographia literariaB. The PreludeC.Lucy PoemsD. The Lyrical Ballads45.________ is regarded as the most wonderful lyricist England has ever produced mainlyfor his poems on nature, on love, and on politics.A.William WordsworthB. John KeatsC.George Gordon ByronD. Percy Bysshe Shelley46.Which of the following statements is (are) NOT true about Percy Bysshe Shelley?________A.Prometheus Unbound is Percy By sshe Shelley’s masterpiece, a long epic poem.B.At Eton Percy Bysshe Shelley was known as “Mad Shelley”, for his obstinate oppositionto the brutal fagging system, according to which the younger school-boys were obliged to obey the older boys and bear a great deal of cruel treatment.C.George Gordon Byron alled Percy Bysshe Shelley “the best and least selfish man I everknew.”D.Percy Bysshe Shelley loved the people and hated their oppressors and exploiters.47.________’s pursuit of beauty in all things bespoke an a spiration after a better lifethan the sordid reality under capitalism. His leading principle is: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.”A.Percy Bysshe ShelleyB. George Gordon ByronWORD格式整理版C.William WordsworthD. John Keats48.Choose the four immortal odes written by John Keats. ________A.Ode to the West WindB. Ode to a NightingaleC.To AutumnD. Ode on MelancholyE.Ode on a Grecian Urn49.Choose the works written by Jane Austen. ________A.Pride and PrejudiceB. Sense and SensibilityC.Northanger Abbey C. EmmaE.Mansfield ParkF. Persuasion50.In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend called ________ appeared.And it flourished in the forties and in the early fifties.A.romanticismB. naturalismC.realismD. critical realism51.English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of ________. Thecritical realists, most of who were novelists, described with vividness and artistic skill the chief traits of the English society and criticised the capitalist system froma democratic viewpoint.A.novelB. dramaC.poetryD. essay52.The greatest English critical realist novelist was ________, who criticised thebourgeois civilisation and showed the misery of the common people.A.William Makepeace ThackerayB. Charles DickensC.Charlotte BronteD. Emily Bronte53.Which of the following writers belong to critical realists? ________A.Charles DickensB. Charlotte BronteC. Emily BronteD. Thomas Hardy54.________ wrote a number of little sketches of “cockney characters”. He signed them“Boz”, which was his nickname for his young brother. His first book, Sketches by Boz appeared in 1836.A.Elizabeth GaskellB. William M. ThackerayC.Charles DickensD. Jane Austen55.________ has been called “the supreme epic of English life.”A.A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC.Pickwick PapersD. Oliver Twist56.The theme underlying ________ is the idea “Where there is oppression, there isrevolution”.A.A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC.Pickwick PapersD. Oliver Twist57.In the Victorian Age, poetry was not a major art intended to change the world. The mainpoets of the age were ________.A.Alfred TennysonB. Robert BrowningC.Mrs. BrowningD. Robert BurnsE.William Blake58.The ________ Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th century. It showed theEnglish workers were able to appear as an independent political force and were already realising the fact that the industrial bourgeoisie was their principal enemy.A.EnlightenmentB. RenaissanceC.ChartistD. Romanticist59.Which novel is a great satire upon the society and those people who dream to enter thehigher society regardless of the social reality? ________A.A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC.Great ExpectationD. Dombey and Son60.Charles Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of the novel ________.专业学习参考资料A.A Tale of Two CitiesB. Great ExpectationC.Hard TimesD. David Copperfield61.________ is often regarded as the semi-autobiography of the author Dickens in which theearly life of the hero is largely based on the author’s early life.A.Tom JonesB. David CopperfieldC.Oliver TwistD. Great Expectation62.The Bronte sisters are ________. They were all talented writers and all of them diedyoung.A.Charlotte BronteB. Emily BronteC.Anne BronteD. Jane AustenE.Catherine63.Charlotte Bronte produced four novels: ________.A.ProfessorB. Jane EyreC.ShirleyD. VilletteE.Agnes Grey64.Emily Bronte wrote only one novel entitled ________.A.Wuthering HeightsB. Jane EyreC.EmmaD. Agnes Grey65.Choose the names appear in the novel Jane Eyre. ________A.Jane EyreB. Mr. RochesterC.Mary BartonD. Silas Marner66.Which characters appear in the novel Wuthering Heights? ________A.HeathcliffB. CatherineC.HindleyD. CathyE.Hareton67.In the novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte ________.A.pours a great deal of her own experienceB.criticises the bourgeois system of educationC.shows that true love is the foundation of marriageD.shows that women should have equal rights with men68.Women novelists began to appear in England during the second half of the ________century.A.17thB. 18thC.19thD. 20th69.Anne Bronte also wrote two novels ________ and ________.A.ShirleyB. VilletteC.The Tenant of the Wildfell HallD. Agnes Grey70.Which of the following statements are true about Jane Eyre? ________A.One of the central themes of the book is the criticism of the bourgeois system ofeducation.B.Another problem raised in the novel is the position of women in society.C.This book is Charlottel Bronte’s best literary production.D.In this book, the author attacked the greed, petty tyranny and lack of culture among thebourgeoisie and sympathised with the sufferings of the poor people. Her realism was coloured by petty-bourgeois philanthropy.71.Most of Robert Browning’s important works, including ________, are written in the formof dramatic monologue.A.Dramatic LyricsB. Dramatic RomancesC. Men and WomenD. dramatics Personae72.Thomas Hardy is one of the representatives of English ________ at the turn of the 19thcentury.A.critical realismB. pre-romanticismC.neo-classicismD. new romanticismWORD格式整理版73.Which statement is true? ________A.Thomas Hardy is a famous novelist.B.Thomas Hardy is also a poet.C.Thomas Hardy is a critical realist.D.Fatalism is strongly reflected in Thomas Hardy’ novels.74.Accordi ng to Thomas Hardy’s own classification, his novels divided themselves intothree groups. They are ________.A.Novels of character and environmentB.Romances and FantasiesC.Novels of IngenuityD.Working class literature75.Novels of character and environment are also called Wessex novels, taking the southwestcounties of England for their setting. They include: ________.A.Under the Greenwood TreeB. The Return of the NativeC.The Mayor of CasterbridgeD. Tess of the D’UrbervillesE.Jude the Obscure76.The following state ments are about Thomas Hardy’s novels, which are true? ________A.His Wessex novels are of great significance.B.The Southwest counties of England are the setting of his Wessex novels.C.There is pessimism in his novels.D.Mankind is subjected to hostile and mysterious fate.E.There are elements of naturalism in his works.77.Oscar Wilde is one of the important dramatists in the 19th century. In his comedies, hecriticises the upper class of the English bourgeois society. His best comedies are ________.dy Windermere’s FanB.A Woman of No ImportanceC.An Ideal HusbandD.The Importance of Being EarnestE.The Picture of Dorian Gray78.Oscar Wilde was the representative among the writers of ________.A.aestheticismB. decadenceC.critical realismD. pre-romanticism79.Alfred Tennys on’s poetic output was vast and varied. His main poems are ________.A.The PrincessB. MaudC.In MemoriamD. Idylls of the KingE.Crossing the Bar80.Which of the following short poems was/were written by Alfred Tennyson? ________A.Break, Break, BreakB. Crossing the BarC.The EagleD. Sweet and LowE.Tears, Idle Tears81.Which lament was written by Alfred Tennyson for the death of his friend Hallam?________A.In MemoriamB. LycidasC.AdodaisD. Elegy written in a Country Churchyard82.My Last Duchess is ________.A.a dramatic monologueB. a short lyricC.a novelD. an essay83.________ are generally regarded as Joseph Conrad’s finest novels.A.Lord JimB. NostromoC.YouthD. The Old Wives’ Tale84.Who is regarded as a forerunner of the “stream of consciousness” literature in the20th century?专业学习参考资料A.John GalsworthyB. Henry JamesC.Thomas Stearns EliotD. James Joyce85.George Bernard Shaw’s essay ________, a commentary on Henrik Ibsen’s dramatic works,served also as the author’s own program of dramatic cr eation.A.Widower’s HousesB. Mrs. Warren’s ProfessionC.Major BarbaraD. The Quintessence of Ibsenism86.In English literature, ________ and ________ are the two best-known novelists of the“stream of consciousness” school.A.David Herbert LawrenceB. Robert TressellC.James JoyceD. Virginia Woolf87.________’s admirers have praised him as “second only to Shakespeare in his mastery ofEnglish language.”A.D.H. LawrenceB. T.S. EliotC.James JoyceD. W.B. Yeats88.________ is the climax of Virginia Woolf’s experiments in novel form.A.The WindowB. Time PassesC.To the LighthouseD. The Waves89.Which of the following novels belong(s) to the “stream of consciousness” school ofnovel writing?A.UlyssesB. Finnegans WakeC.To the LighthouseD. The Waves90.________ was written by James Joyce.A.The Portrait of an Artist as a Young ManB.Portrait of a LadyC.The Picture of Dorian GrayD.To the Lighthouse91.D.H. Lawrence’s representative work ________ was positively taken as a typical exampleand lively manifestation of the Oedipus Complex in fiction, as the result of Lawrence’s long-range study of the psychologic theories of Sigmund Freud.A.Sons and LoversB. The RainbowC. Lady Chatterley’s LoverD. Women in Love92.Which of the characters are in the novel Sons and Lovers?A.Mrs. MorelB. PaulC. MiriamD. Clara93.Which of the following writers were from Ireland?A.George Bernard ShawB. Jonathan SwiftC.James Joyce Oscar WildeE.W.B. Yeats94.Which of the following play(s) was/were NOT written by George Bernard Shaw?A.Mrs. Warren’s ProfessionB. Widower’s HousesC.Major BarbaraD. PygmalionE.The Man of Property95.Which of the following plays deals with the story that a linguist trains a flower girlto speak the so-called high-civilised English?A.Major BarbaraB. PygmalionC.Mrs. Warren’s ProfessionD. Man and Superman96.In 1923, ________ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.A.William Butler YeatsB. Samuel ButlerC.Thomas Stearns EliotD. David Herbert Lawrence97.William Butler Yeats was _______.A.an Irish poetB. a dramatistC. a criticD. a senator in the Irish Free State in192198.Thomas Stearns Eliot defined his belief as ________.A.classicist in literatureB. royalist in politicsWORD格式整理版C.Anglo-Catholic in religionD. all of the above99.Which of the following statement is NOT true?A.Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in America.B.Thomas Stearns Eliot became a British subject in 1927.C.Thomas Stearns Eliot was educated in Harvard University and Oxford University.D.Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, a critic and a playwright.E.Thomas Stearns Eliot was also a great novelist.100.In which poem are the sterility and chaos of the contemporary world after 1st World War expressed?A.Ode to the West WindB. The Solitary ReapermiaD. The Waste LandKeys:1-5: A, D, D, A, A 6-10: B, B, D, D, ABCD11-15:ABCD, D, D, C, B 16-20: C, ABC, AB, D, ABCD21-25: ABCD, ABCDEFG, B, A, B 26-30: D, D, AD, D, B31-35: D, BC, D, B, ABCDE 36-40: C, ACD, ABD, ACDE, A41-45: D, C, B, B, D 46-50: A, D, BCDE, ABCDEF, D51-55: A, B, ABCD, C, C 56-60: A, ABC, C, C, A61-65: B, ABC, ABCD, A, AB 66-70: ABCDE, ABCD, C, CD, ABCD71-75: ABCD, A, ABCD, ABC, ABCDE76-80: ABCDE, ABCD, AB, ABCED, ABCDE81-85: A. A. AB, B, D 86-90: CD, C, D, ABCD, A91-95: A, ABCE, ABCDE, E, B 96-100: A, ABCD, D, E, D专业学习参考资料。

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一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 以下哪位作家被誉为“英国文学之父”？A. William ShakespeareB. Geoffrey ChaucerC. Jane AustenD. Charles Dickens2. 以下哪部作品被认为是英国文学史上第一部小说？A. "The Canterbury Tales"B. "Pride and Prejudice"C. "Great Expectations"D. "Don Quixote"3. 在以下哪部作品中，作者通过描述一个虚构的岛屿来探讨社会、政治和人性问题？A. "Utopia"B. "The Tempest"C. "The Great Gatsby"D. "1984"4. 以下哪位作家是英国浪漫主义文学的代表人物之一？A. William WordsworthB. Emily BrontëC. Thomas HardyD. John Keats5. 以下哪部作品是英国维多利亚时期最著名的哥特式小说之一？A. "Dracula"B. "Jane Eyre"C. "Wuthering Heights"D. "Oliver Twist"6. 在以下哪部作品中，作者通过描绘一个小镇的生活来反映社会问题？A. "Wuthering Heights"B. "Great Expectations"C. "Middlemarch"D. "To Kill a Mockingbird"7. 以下哪位作家是20世纪英国文学的代表人物之一？A. Virginia WoolfB. James JoyceC. Aldous HuxleyD. D.H. Lawrence8. 在以下哪部作品中，作者通过描述一个家庭的悲剧来探讨爱与死亡的主题？A. "Wuthering Heights"B. "Madame Bovary"C. "The Great Gatsby"D. "The Catcher in the Rye"9. 以下哪位作家是20世纪美国文学的代表人物之一？A. F. Scott FitzgeraldB. Ernest HemingwayC. J.D. SalingerD. John Steinbeck10. 在以下哪部作品中，作者通过描述一个人物的内心世界来探讨孤独和自我认同的问题？A. "The Great Gatsby"B. "The Catcher in the Rye"C. "On the Road"D. "1984"二、填空题（每题2分，共20分）1. 《罗密欧与朱丽叶》是莎士比亚的______剧作。

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I.Multiple choice:(15×1=15%)(In this part,there are 15 sentences;in each of them,there are four choices marked by A.B.C. and D.Choose the ONE answer that is the most suitable to the sentence and put the letter in the bracket.)( )1.The greatest poet of the Middle English period is ______,the father of English poetry.A.Geoffrey ChaucerB.John LylyC.William LanglandD.John Milton( )2.Portia,the heroine in "______"is one of Shakespeare's ideal women-beautiful,prudent,cultured and capable of rising to an emergency.A."The Merchant of Venice"B."As You Like It"C."King Lear"D."Twelfth Night"( )3."Modern Fiction" is one of Woolf's important critical essays,in which the writer praises______ as "the most notable"of"several young writers."A.Thomas HardyB.James JoyceC.Joseph ConradD.T.S.Eliot( )4."The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock" is T.S.Eliot's most striking early achievement.The poem is a sort of ______monologue.A.privateB.personalC.dramaticD.poetic( )5.______develops around the life of a middle-class Irish boy,Stephen Dedalus,from his infancy to his departure from Ireland some twenty years later.A."Ulysses"B."A Portrait of the Aritist as a Young Man"C."Finnegans Wake"D."Dubliners"( )6.In "The Pilgrim's Progress" Christian and Faithful come to the ______where both are arrested as alien agitators and tried.A.Vanity FairB.Doubting CastleC.Celestial CityD.hell( )7.John Milton's "On His Blindness" is written in the form of ______sonnet which consists of an octave(an eight-line stanza) and a sestet(a six-line stanza)A.EnglishB.ItalianC.RussianD.Chinese( )8.In "Tom Jones"______ is depicted as a hypocritical,wicked man who is outwardly good but inwardly bad.A.TomB.BlifilC.Mr.AllworthyD.Sophia( )9.The heroine Tess in "Tess of the D'urbervilles"seems to be led to her final destruction step by step by______,as Hardy says at the end of the novel:"Justice was done,and the President of the Immortals had ended his sport with Tess."A.Angel ClareB.AlecC.FateD.Jude( )10.Which of the following novels by wrence shows the influence of Freud's theory of psychoanalysis,especially that of the "Oedipus complex"?A."The Rainbow"B."Women in Love"C."Sons and Lovers"D."Lady Chatterley's Lover"( )11."If Winter comes,can Spring be far behind?"This is written by ______,one of the leading Romantic poets.A.John KeatsB.William WordsworthC.Percy Bysshe ShelleyD.William Blake( )12.Jonathan Swift's"Gulliver's Travels" gives an unparalleled______depiction of the vices of his age.A.religiousB.romanticC.satiricalic( )13.John keats' famous poem______expresses the contrast between the happy world of natural loveliness and human world of agony.A."Endymion"B."Ode to a Nightingale"C."Ode on a Grecian Urn"D."Ode to Psyche"( )14.The story of "Tom Jones"by Henry Fielding is told _______.A.in a series of lettersB.in the third-person narrationC.by Tom JonesD.in the form of diary( )15."The School for Scandal"by Richard Brinsley Sheridan has been regarded as the best ______since Shakespeare.A.tragedyB.proseedyD.fableII Fill in the following blanks:(10×1=10%)1.John Milton wrote "Paradise Lost"in the form of epic,which describes the fall of______in a grand style.2.Walter Scott has been universally regarded as the founder and great master of the ______ novel.3.Though ______ is not the first English novelist,he has generally been considered as "the father of English novel",for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.4.Richard Brinsley Sheridan is the only important English_______of the eighteenth century,In his plays,moralityis the constant theme.5.The_______couplet is a pair of rhymed iambic pentameter lines,a verse form first used by the 14th-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer.6.Oscar Wilde,who advocated the idea of "______",represented the literary school of decadence in the late 19th century.7."Pilgrim's Progress" is written as a book of religious instructions in the form of_______and dream.8.In England,the literary technique of "stream of consciousness" is best represented in the works of James Joyce and _______.9.In his novels,Arnold Bennett depicts life and society with a strong_______tendency influenced by the French writer Zola and Guy de Maupassant.10.Charles Dickens and William Thackeray were the two great representatives of the English critical realism in the _______century.III.Find the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A.(10×1=10%)A BWriters Works( )1.Oscar Wilde a.Lucky Jim( )2.John Osborne b.Life of Ma Parker( )3.Kingsley Amis c.A passage to India( )4.Katherine Mansfield d.An Ideal Husband( )5.William Somersete.Of Human BondageMaugham( )6.Edward Morgan Forster f.Look Back in Anger( )7.John Galsworthy g.The Heart of the Matter( )8.Jane Austen h.The Forsyte Saga( )9.William Blake i.Pride and prejudice( )10.Graham Greene j.The TygerIV.Read the following quotations and then answer the questions.(30%)1.I wander thro each charter'd street,Near where the charter'd Thames does flow,And mark in every face I meetMarks of weakness,marks of woe.In every cry of every Man,In every Infant's cry of fear,In every voice,in every ban,The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.How the Chimney-sweeper's cryEvery black'ing Church appalls;And the hapless Soldier's signRuns in blood down Palace walls.But most thro'midnight streets I hearHow the youthful Harlot's curseBlasts the new born Infant's tear,And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.1)Who is the author of this poem and what is its title?(2×2=4%)2)Explain the following phrases coined by the author.(3×2=6%)a.chartered;b.the mind forged manacles;c.the marriage hearse.3)What does the poem gain by repeating "every" in the second stanza?(5%)2.Let us go then,you and I,When the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table;Let us go,through certain half-deserted streets,The muttering retreatsOf restless nights in one-night cheap hotelsAnd sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells;Streets that follow like a tedious argumentOf insidious intentTo lead you to an overwhelming question……1)This stanza is selected from a very famous English poem.What is its title and author?(2×2=4%)2)It is said that the "you and I"can be taken in two ways,What are the two ways do you think?(2×3=6%)3)The basic emotions of this stanza are fear and malice.Can you point out the suggest these emotions?(5%)V.Give brief answers to the following questions;(20%)1.What are the distinct features of Charles Dickens' novels?(12%)2.What are the major themes of Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers"?(8%)VI.Short essay:(1×15=15%)(In this part you are asked to write a short essay.You should concentrate on those important points and demonstrate your ideas with brief,apt episodes or quotations from the novel.Try your best to be logical in your essay.)Give a brief analysis to Jane Eyre,the main character in Charlotte Brontě's "Jane Eyre".。

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1.____ is the greatest representative of English critical realism.A. Jane AustenB. ThackerayC. DickensD. Charlotte2.____ is Thackeray’s one of the best known works.A. Sense and SensibilityB. The Book of SnobsC. The Pickwick PapersD. The Song of Lower Class3.Pride and Prejudice’s first title is ____.A. First ImpressionB. A Book Without a HeroC. The NewcomesD. Persuasion4.Vanity Fair has a sub-title. It is ____.A. First ImpressionB. A Book Without a HeroC. The NewcomesD. Persuasion5.In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend ____ appeared. And it flourished in the forties andin the early fifties.A. romanticismB. naturalismC. realismD. critical realism6.English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of ____ .A. novelB. dramaC. poetryD. sonnet7.______’s Vanity Fair is a satirical portrayal of the upper strata(阶层) of society.A. George EliotB. Elizabeth GaskellC. W. M. ThackerayD. John Buyan8.The ____ Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th century.A. EnlightenmentB. RenaissanceC. ChartistD. Romanticist9.The Chartist writers introduced a new theme into literature, the struggle of the ___ for its rights.A. soldiersB. peasantsC. bourgeoisieD. proletariat10.The greatest of Chartist poets was _____.A. Earnest JonesB. John MiltonC. Thomas HardyD. John Keats11.The story of ______ deals with the adventures of a retired old merchant.A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC. Pickwick PapersD. Oliver Twist12._______ deals with the sufferings and hardships of an old man named Trent and his granddaughter Nell.A. Pickwick PapersB. The Old Curiosity ShopC. Great ExpectationsD. Hard Times13.Which novel makes a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education?A. Oliver TwistB. Hard TimesC. Great ExpectationsD. A Tale of Two Cities14.Which novel is a great satire upon the society and those people who dream to enter the higher societyregardless of the social reality?A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC. Great ExpectationD. Dombey and Son15.In the novel ______, Dickens describes the Chartist Movement and shows his sympathy for the workers.A. Great ExpectationsB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Hard TimesD. Oliver Twist16.In the novel ___ , Defarge and Madame Defarge represent the revolutionaries.A. Dombey and SonB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Little DorritD. Bleak House17.In the novel _____, Dr. Manette is a typical bourgeois intellectual.A. David CopperfieldB. Wuthering HeightsC. Bleak HouseD. A Tale of Two Cities18._____ is often regarded as the semi-autobiography of the author Dickens in which the early life of the hero islargely based on the author’s early life.A. The Curiosity ShopB. David CopperfieldC. Oliver TwistD. Great Expectations19.In 1864, Dickens published his last complete novel _______.A. The Old Curiosity ShopB. The Pickwick PaperC. Our Mutual FriendD. Little Dorrit20.Which of the following is Thackeray’s masterpiece?A. The VirginiansB. The Books of Snobs. The Newcomes D. Vanity Fair21.The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from Bunyan’s masterpiece _____.A. The Pilgrim’s ProgressB. Child Harold’s PilgrimageC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. The Canterbury Tales22.Emily Bronte wrote only one novel entitled ______.A. Jane EyreB. Agnes GreyC. Wuthering HeightsD. Emma23.Dickens’ third literary period shows intensifying ______.A. optimismB. excitementC. irritationD. pessimism24.______is Dickens’ best of social satires.A. American NotesB. Martin ChuzzlewitC. Dombey and SonD. David Copperfield25.The Chartists refer to those _____ in the early Victorian AgeA. Romantic writersB. working class writersC. realistic poetsD. bourgeois writers26.The Victorian Literature began in____ and ended in _____.A. 1837...1900 B. 1835...1901 C. 1832...1902 D. 1830 (1903)27.The conflicts between the capitalists and the proletarian in industrial England caused the _____.A. Enlightenment MovementB. Industrial RevolutionC. Chartist MovementD. Romantic Movement28._____ is the greatest among the critical realists of the Victorian Age.A. Earnest JonesB. Emily BrontёC. Charlotte BrontёD. Charles Dickens29.Charles Dickens was impressive for his _____.A. wide spread of critical realismB. his spirit of democracy and humanismC.his unforgettable figures with satire and simple and clear languageD. including A, B and C30. “The pride of wealth” or “purse-pride” is the theme of _____.A. Dombey and SonB. Nicholas NicklebyC. The Old Curiosity ShopD. Martin Chuzzlewit31.The two cities in A Tale of Two Cities refer to ____.A. London and New YorkB. London and ParisC. Paris and New YorkD. Brussels and Washington32.____ is the major literary form in the Victorian Period.A. essayB. poetryC. novelD. drama33.____ is the main hero in the novel of Wuthering Heights.A. RochesterB. HeathcliffC. ManetteD. Martin34.Both Charlotte and Emily wrote about the ____ around them.A. familiar thingsmon peopleC. neighborsD. evils35.The most important poet in the Victorian Age was _____.A. Earnest JonesB. Elizabeth GaskellC. Mr. BrowningD. Alfred Tennyson36.______ made Dickens famous overnight.A. Sketches by BozB. The Pickwick PapersC. Oliver TwistD. The Old Curiosity Shop37._____ is Dickens’ first novel of social history reflecting the sharp social contradictions.A. Sketches by BozB. American NotesC. Martin ChuzzlewitD. Barnaby Rudge (《巴纳比·拉奇》)38._____ is an autobiographical novel and loved by Dickens himself most.A. Great ExpectationsB. David CopperfieldC. Bleak HouseD. The Pickwick Papers39.Dickens’ writing is an encyclopedic knowledge of _____.A. ParisB. New YorkC. LondonD. Portsmoth40.The head of the gang of thieves is _____.A. FaginB. GradgrindC. PecksmiffD. Manette41._____ has been called “the supreme epic of English life”.A. Nicholas NicklebyB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Hard TimesD. The Pickwick Papers42._____marked a great advance in Dickens’ art of novel-writing with closely knit and logical plot of hismaturer works.A. David CopperfieldB. Dombey and SonC. Little DorritD. The Chimes43．____is Oscar Wilde’s only novel.A. Lady Windermere’s FanB. A Woman of No ImportanceC. The Picture of Dorian GrayD. The Importance of Being Earnest44. The greatest Scottish poet in the pre-romanticism is ________.A. William WordsworthB. Oliver GoldsmithC. Thomas GrayD. Robert Burns45. _______ is written by William Blake, a great poet in the pre-romanticism.A. The Songs of InnocenceB. Reliques of Ancient English poetryC. Songs and SonnetsD. Kubla Khan46.The main literary stream of the 18th century was ____. What the writers described in their works were mainlysocial realities.A. romanticismB. classicismC. realismD. sentimentalism48. In a series of pamphlets Jonathan Swift denounced the cruel and unjust treatment of Ireland by the Englishgovernment. One of the most famous is ____.A. Essays on CriticismB. A Modest ProposalC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. The Battle of the Books49.“Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a style.” This sentence is said by ____, one of the greatest masters of English prose.A. Alexander PopeB. Henry FieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD. Daniel Defoe50._____’s best-known pamphlet was The Trueborn Englishman—A Satire, which contained a causticexposure of the aristocracy and the tyranny of the church.A. Alexander PopeB. Henry Fielding . Jonathan Swift D. Daniel Defoe51.The sentence of “The plowman homeward plods his weary way, /And leaves the world to darkness and to me” is written by ____.A. William CowperB. George CrabbeC. Thomas GrayD. William Blake52.____ has a another name called “The Daffodils”.A. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”B. “Tintern Abbey”C. “Revolution”D. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”53.Coleridge’s _____ is a “conversation” poem.A. Frost at MidnightB. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”C. ChristabelD. Biographia Literaria54.Byron’s ____ is regarded as the great poem of the Romantic Age.A. Childe Harold’s PilgrimageB. Hours of IdlenessC. LaraD. Don Juan55.Prometheus Unbound is ____ masterpiece.A. Wordsworth’sB. Byron’sC. Shelley’sD. Keats56.Keats’ best ode is ____.A. “On a Grecian Urn”B. “To Autumn”C. “To Psyche”D. “To a Nightingale”57.The best works of William Hazlitt is ____.A. The Spirit of the AgeB. Table TalkC. The Characters of Shakespeare’s PlaysD. On the English Poets58 The publication of ______ marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement in England.A. “Tintern Abbey”B. Lyrical BalladsC. Frost at NightD. “The Daffodils”59._____ is considered Wordsworth’s masterpiece.A. The PreludeB. EndymionC. Don JuanD. Biographia Literaria60.The best essayist in the English Romantic Age is _____.A. KeatsB. Walter ScottC. Charles LambD. William Hazlitt61.The themes of Pride and Prejudice are _____.A. pride and prejudiceB. the writer’s own personalitiesC. love and marriageD. Both A and C62._____ is considered the father of historical novelist in the English Romantic Age.A.Jane AustenB. Charles LambC. William HazlittD. Waler Scott63.Critics agree that ____ is a great romantic poet, standing with Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth in thehistory English literature.A. KeatsB. WordsworthC. ColeridgeD. William64．The reader can get a broad panorama of the social life of the English Romantic Age from ___.A. Dun JuanB. The PreludeC. Kubla KhanD. Isabella65.Some critics think that some of Byron’s poems show his _____.A. individual heroism and pessimismB. love of nature and optimismC. love of old writersD. hatred for the imperialism66____ is Shelley’s masterpiece.A. ZastrozziB. The Necessity of AtheismC. Queen MabD. Prometheus Unbound67. Romantic Age began in____ and came to an end in _____.A. 1789...1821 B. 1778...1823 C. 1798...1832 D. 1768 (1819)68.Byron, Shelley and Keats belong to Romantic poets of ___ generation.A. the firstB. the secondC. the thirdD. the forth69.____ is the greatest representative of English critical realism.A. Jane AustenB. ThackerayC. DickensD. Charlotte70.____ is Thackeray’s one of the best known works.A. Sense and SensibilityB. The Book of SnobsC. The Pickwick PapersD. The Song of Lower Class71.Pride and Prejudice’s first title is ____.A. First ImpressionB. A Book Without a HeroC. The NewcomesD. Persuasion72.Vanity Fair has a sub-title. It is ____.A. First ImpressionB. A Book Without a HeroC. The NewcomesD. Persuasion73.In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend ____ appeared. And it flourished in the fortiesand in the early fifties.A. romanticismB. naturalismC. realismD. critical realism74.English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of ____ .A. novelB. dramaC. poetryD. sonnet75.______’s Vanity Fair is a satirical portrayal of the upper strata(阶层) of society.A. George EliotB. Elizabeth GaskellC. W. M. ThackerayD. John Buyan76.The greatest of Chartist poets was _____.A. Earnest JonesB. John MiltonC. Thomas HardyD. John Keats77.The story of ______ deals with the adventures of a retired old merchant.A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC. Pickwick PapersD. Oliver Twist78.The novel _____ exposes the terrible conditions of English private schools.A. Nicholas NicklebyB. Oliver TwistC. Hard TimesD. Great Expectations79.The story of _____ deals with the sufferings and hardships of an old man named Trent, and hisgranddaughter, Nell.A. Pickwick PapersB. The Old Curiosity ShopC. Great ExpectationsD. Hard Times80.Which novel makes a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education?A. Oliver TwistB. Hard TimesC. Great ExpectationsD. A Tale of Two Cities81.Which novel is a great satire upon the society and those people who dream to enter the higher societyregardless of the social reality?A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC. Great ExpectationsD. Dombey and Son82.In the novel ______, Dickens describes the Chartist Movement and shows his sympathy for the workers.A. Great ExpectationsB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Hard TimesD. Oliver Twist83.In the novel ___ , Defarge and Madame Defarge represent the revolutionaries.A. Dombey and SonB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Little DorritD. Bleak House84._____ is often regarded as the semi-autobiography of the author Dickens in which the early life of the herois largely based on the author’s early life.A. The Curiosity ShopB. David CopperfieldC. Oliver TwistD. Great Expectations85.In the ____ period, Charles Dickens believed that all the evils of the capitalist world would be remedies ofonly men who behaved to each other with kindliness, justice, and sympathetic understanding.A. firstB. secondC. thirdD. fourth86.____ is the most class-conscious book among the Christmas books.A. A Christmas CarolB. The ChimesC. The Cricket on the HearthD. The Battle of Life87.____is Oscar Wilde’s only novel.A. Lady Windermere’s FanB. A Woman of No ImportanceC. The Picture of Dorian GrayD. The Importance of Being Earnest88.News from Nowhere is a prose work which ____ describes a dream of the future classless society.A. MorrisB. GissingC. StevensonD. Wilde89. Katharine Mansfield is a master of ____ at the turn of the century.A. short story writerB. dramatic poetryC. realistic novelsD. humor90.After writing _____, Hardy turned to poetry.A. Under the Greenwood TreeB. The Return of the NativeC. Jude the ObscureD. The Mayor of Casterbridge91.Yeats’s fame rests chiefly on his ______, using a lot of symbols in his poem.A. novelsB. poetryC. dramasD. prose92.____ was a leader of the modernist movement in English poetry and a great innovator of versetechnique.A. W.B. Yeats B. T. S. EliotC.D. H. Lawrence D. G. B. Shaw93.____ is a great novel spending James Joyce 7 years of hard working to complete.A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManB. UlyssesC. Finnegans WakeD. Dubliners94.____ is a collection of short stories which reflect three aspects of life in politics, culture and religion.A. A Portrait of the Artrist as a Young ManB. UlyssesC. Finnegans WakeD. Dubliners95.Which of the following is Not written by D. H. Lawrence?A. The Waste LandB. The RainbowC. Lady Chatterley’s LoverD. Women in Love96.Which of the following is not written by Yeats?A. Four QuartetsB. A VisionC. The Winding StairD. The Tower97.____ is the climax of Virginia Woolf’s experiments through the novel form of “stream of consciousness”.A. Jacob’s RoomB. To the LighthouseC. OrlandoD. The Waves139. _____ is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.A. Jane Eyre B Emma C. Wuthering Height D. Middlemarch140. Which of the following best describes the nature of Hardy’s later novels?A. SentimentalismB. SurrealismC. Comic senseD. Tragic sense.141.The typical feature of Robert Browning’s poetry is the _____.A. bitter satireB. Larger-than-life caricatureC. Latinized dictionD. dramatic monologue142. The modernist writers such as Richardson, Joyce and Woolf are mainly concerned with the __.A. external worldB. public life of an individualC. social activities of human beingsD. inner life of an individual143. Eliot’s poem, the Waste Land, is mainly concerned with the _____of a modern civilization.A. social corruptionB. spiritual breakupC. physical breakupD. religious corruption144. Among the great writers of the modern period, ____might be the greatest on radical experimentation of technical innovation in novel writing.A. Joseph ConradB. D. H. LawrenceC. Virginia WoolfD. James Joys145. The mission of ______ drama was to reveal the moral, political and economic truth from a radical reformist point of view.A . T. S. Eliot B. J. Galsworthy’s C. B. Shaw’s D. W. B. Yeats’146. According to D. H. Lawrence, the ____is the most responsible for the alienation of the human relationships and the perversion of human personality.A. pride of the aristocratic classB. vanity of the middle classC. man’s desire for power and moneyD. capitalist mechanical civilization147. The Victorian age was largely an age of _____, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.A. pessimismB. naturalismC. modernismD. critical realism148. The Romantic Age in England came to an end with the death of ____.A. Jane AustinB. Walter ScottC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. William Wordsworth149. Who is the father of English poetry?A. William Shakespeare.B. Edmund Spencer.C. John Milton.D. Geoffrey Chaucer.150. ____ is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed into fourteen lines.A. Free VerseB. SonnetC. OdeD. Epigram151. John Galsworthy won the 1932 Nobel Prize for his work ____.A. UlyssesB. Hard TimesC. The Forsyte SagaD. Jude the Obscure 152. Which of the following poems is NOT written by George Gordon Byron?A. She Walks in Beauty.B. The Solitary Reaper.C. When We Two Parted.D. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. 153. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between ____ centuries.A. 14th and mid 17thB. 14th and mid-18thC. 16th and mid-18thD. 16th and mid-17th154. ____ is the greatest songwriter in the world and the national poet of Scotland.A. William BlakeB. Robert BurnsC. ByronD. Keats155. William Blake's The Tiger is collected in ____.A. Songs of InnocenceB. Songs of ExperienceC. Marriage of Heaven and HellD. Poetical Sketches 156. Among the following poets, which is NOT a lake poet?A. William Wordsworth.B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.C. Robert Southey.D. William Collins. 157. _____is a fork legend brought to England by Anglo-Saxons from their continental homes, it is a long poem of over 3000 lines and the national epic of the English people.A. BeowulfB. Sir GawainC. The Canterbury TalesD. King Arthur and His Knights158. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" is an epigrammatic line by ____.A. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Percy Bysshe Shelley 159. Lyrical Ballad s is the joint work between Wordsworth and his friend ____.A. ColeridgeB. ByronC. KeatsD. Shelly160. Which of the following writers has once won the Nobel Prize?A. William Butler Yeats.B. Thomas Hardy.C. Wystan Hugh Auden.D. Dylan Thomas. 161. Which of the following is NOT Virginia Woolf's novel?A. To the Lighthouse.B. Mrs. Dalloway.C. The Waves.D. Modern Painters.162. ____ was the greatest poet between Milton and Pope and was Poet Laureate for 20 years.A. Edmund SpencerB. John DrydenC. John DonneD. George Herbert163. ____ is D. H. Lawrence's semi-autographical novel.A. Sons and LoversB. Women in LoveC. RainbowD. Lady Chatterlay’s Lover。

英国文学试题及答案

英国文学试题及答案英国文学作为世界文学的重要组成部分，以其丰富的内容和独特的魅力吸引着无数读者和学者。

本文将围绕英国文学的一些经典试题进行解析，并提供相应的答案，以帮助学习者更好地理解和掌握英国文学的精髓。

一、选择题1. 威廉·莎士比亚的《哈姆雷特》中，主角哈姆雷特的著名独白“生存还是毁灭”出现在第几幕？A. 第一幕B. 第二幕C. 第三幕D. 第四幕答案：C. 第三幕2. 简·奥斯汀的小说《傲慢与偏见》中，达西先生最初对伊丽莎白·班纳特的印象是什么？A. 聪明机智B. 傲慢无礼C. 温柔善良D. 普通平凡答案：B. 傲慢无礼3. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的《到灯塔去》中，灯塔象征着什么？A. 希望与指引B. 孤独与隔绝C. 家庭与亲情D. 艺术与创造答案：A. 希望与指引二、简答题1. 请简述查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》中，卡顿牺牲自己的生命以救露西的情节及其意义。

答案：在《双城记》的结尾部分，卡顿为了拯救他深爱的露西及其家人，自愿替代露西的丈夫达尼，并接受了死刑。

卡顿的这一行为体现了无私的爱和牺牲精神，他的自我牺牲展示了人性中的高尚与伟大，同时也反映了狄更斯对于社会不公和人性的深刻批判。

2. 描述托马斯·哈代的《德伯家的苔丝》中，苔丝悲剧命运的起因及其对社会的批判。

答案：苔丝的悲剧命运起因于她被亚历克·德伯维尔欺骗失身，之后又因误会而与她真正爱的人安吉尔·克莱尔分离。

哈代通过苔丝的悲剧命运批判了维多利亚时代的道德伪善和对女性的双重标准，揭示了社会对个体命运的残酷影响。

三、论述题1. 分析乔治·奥威尔的《1984》中，对极权主义社会的描绘及其对现代社会的警示意义。

答案：《1984》通过对一个全面监控、言论受限、个人自由被剥夺的极权主义社会的描绘，展示了一个被“大哥”统治的恐怖世界。

奥威尔通过小说对极权主义进行了深刻的批判，警示现代社会警惕政府权力的无限扩张和对个人自由的侵蚀。

英国文学试题及答案

英国文学试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 英国文学史上第一位伟大的诗人是：A. 威廉·莎士比亚B. 乔叟C. 约翰·弥尔顿D. 托马斯·哈代2. 以下哪部作品是乔治·奥威尔所著？A. 《1984》B. 《简·爱》C. 《傲慢与偏见》D. 《呼啸山庄》3. 被称为“英国文学之父”的是：A. 约翰·多恩B. 亚历山大·波普C. 威廉·华兹华斯D. 乔叟4. 以下哪位作家是维多利亚时代的代表人物？A. 威廉·布莱克B. 查尔斯·狄更斯C. 托马斯·哈代D. 约翰·弥尔顿5. 英国浪漫主义文学的代表人物包括以下哪些？A. 威廉·华兹华斯和塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治B. 威廉·莎士比亚和本·琼森C. 托马斯·哈代和乔治·艾略特D. 奥斯卡·王尔德和罗伯特·布朗宁二、填空题（每题2分，共10分）6. 威廉·莎士比亚的戏剧作品分为______、______和历史剧。

7. 《鲁滨逊漂流记》的作者是______。

8. 英国现代主义文学的代表人物之一是弗吉尼亚·______。

9. 《简·爱》的作者是______。

10. 《傲慢与偏见》的作者是简·奥斯汀，这部小说属于______文学。

三、简答题（每题10分，共20分）11. 简述威廉·莎士比亚的四大悲剧及其主要特点。

12. 描述查尔斯·狄更斯的写作风格及其对社会的影响。

四、论述题（每题25分，共50分）13. 论述托马斯·哈代的自然主义在《德伯家的苔丝》中的体现。

14. 分析《1984》中乔治·奥威尔对极权主义社会的批判。

答案一、选择题1. B2. A3. D4. B5. A二、填空题6. 喜剧、悲剧7. 丹尼尔·笛福8. 伍尔夫9. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特10. 现实主义三、简答题11. 威廉·莎士比亚的四大悲剧包括《哈姆雷特》、《奥赛罗》、《李尔王》和《麦克白》。

英国文学试题及答案

英国文学试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 威廉·莎士比亚是英国文学史上的一位重要剧作家，他的作品包括以下哪些？A. 《哈姆雷特》B. 《悲惨世界》C. 《麦克白》D. 《罗密欧与朱丽叶》答案：A, C, D2. 以下哪位作家被认为是现代主义文学的先驱？A. 乔治·奥威尔B. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫C. 简·奥斯汀D. 托马斯·哈代答案：B3. 《傲慢与偏见》是哪位作家的作品？A. 简·奥斯汀B. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特C. 艾米莉·勃朗特D. 玛丽·雪莱答案：A4. 以下哪部作品是查尔斯·狄更斯的代表作之一？A. 《大卫·科波菲尔》B. 《简·爱》C. 《呼啸山庄》D. 《弗兰肯斯坦》答案：A5. 以下哪部作品被认为是英国文学中的“现代史诗”？A. 《荒原》B. 《尤利西斯》C. 《追忆似水年华》D. 《百年孤独》答案：A二、填空题（每空2分，共20分）6. 英国浪漫主义诗人威廉·华兹华斯在《_______》中表达了对自然的热爱。

答案：《抒情歌谣集》7. 《简·爱》的作者是_______，她通过这部小说探讨了女性独立和自尊的主题。

答案：夏洛蒂·勃朗特8. 乔治·奥威尔的《1984》描绘了一个_______的社会，其中“老大哥”是无所不在的统治者。

答案：极权主义9. 托马斯·哈代的《德伯家的苔丝》讲述了一个关于_______、爱情和社会道德的故事。

答案：命运10. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的《到灯塔去》是一部_______小说，以其流意识的叙述技巧而著名。

答案：现代主义三、简答题（每题10分，共30分）11. 简述威廉·莎士比亚的戏剧创作特点。

答案：威廉·莎士比亚的戏剧创作特点包括深刻的人性探讨，丰富的人物性格，复杂的情节构造，以及对语言的精湛运用。

英国文学选读试题

英国文学选读试题英国文学选读试题PART ONE I. Multiple Choice 1. Although _______ was essentially a medieval writer, he bore marks of humanism and anticipated a new era of literature to come. A. William Langland B. John Gower C. Geoffrey Chaucer D. Edmund Spenser Answer: C 2. The religious reformation in the early 16th-century England was a reflection of the class struggles waged by the _____. A. rising bourgeoisie against the feudal class and its ideology B. working class against the corruption of the bourgeoisie C. landlord class against the rising bourgeoisie and its ideology D. feudal class against the corruption of the Catholic Church Answer: A 3. The statement that a man gained the whole world but lost his own soul makes a good summary of the main plot of ______. A. Paradise Lost B. The Merchant of Venice C. Hamlet D. The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus Answer: D 4. "Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?" The above passage is taken from _______. A. Francis Bacon’s "Of Studies"B. William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of VeniceC. Samuel Johnson’s "To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield"D. Jonathan Swift’s "A Modest Proposal"Answer: C 5. The essence of humanism is to ______. A. restore a medieval reverence for the church B. avoid the circumstances of earthly life C. explore the next world in which men could live after death D. emphasize human qualities Answer: D 6. In The Pilgrim’s Progress, Jo hn Bunyan describes The Vanity Fair in a ______ tone. A. delightful B. satirical C. sentimental D. solemn Answer: B 7. The 18th century witnessed a new literary form -the modern English novel, which, contrary to the medieval romance, gives a ______ presentation of life of the common English people. A. romantic B. idealistic C. prophetic D. realistic Answer: D 8. As a literary figure, John Rivers appears in _______. A. Fielding’s Tom JonesB. Dickens’s Oliver TwistC. Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Prejudice D. Austen’s Pride and Prejudice Answer: C 9. Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the ______ century. A. 17th B. 18th C. 19th D. 20th Answer: B 10. In "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," Thomas Gray compares the common folk with the great ones, wondering what the commons could have achieved if they had had the ______. A. chance B. love C. money D. material sources Answer: A 11. The poetic view of ______ can be best understood from his remark about poetry, that is, "all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings." A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge B. John Keats C. William Wordsworth D. Percy Bysshe Shelly Answer: C 12. Pip, Estella, Havisham, Magwitch, and Joe Gargery are most likely names of characters in _______. A. Oliver Twist B. David Copperfield C. Bleak House D. Great Expectations Answer: B 13. In English poetry the _______ is regarded as the most common foot. A. iamb B. anapest C. trochee D. dactyl Answer: A 14. In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet finds out some weak points about herself in the process of judging others. Which of the following is NOT a weak point of hers? A. Blindness. B. Partiality. C. Snobbishness. D. Prejudice. Answer: C 15. In Byron’s poe m "Song for the Luddites," the word "Luddite" refers to the _______. A. workers who destroyed the machines in their protest against unemployment B. rising bourgeoisie who fought against the aristocratic class C. descendents of the ancient king, King Lud D. poor country people who suffered under the rule of the landlord class Answer: A 16. "Five miles meandering with a mazy motion\ Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean." The above lines are taken from ______. A. Wordsworth’s "The Solitary Reaper"B. Blake’s "The Chimney Sweeper"C. Coleridge’s "Kubla Khan"D. Keats’s "Ode on an Grecian Urn"Answer: C 17. In his poem, "Ode to the West Wind," Shelley intends to present his wind as a central _______ around which the poem weaves various cycles of death and rebirth. A. concept B. symbol C. simile D. metonymy Answer: B 18. In the conversation with his wife in Chapter One of Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Bennet uses a(n) ______ tone with sarcastic humor. A. solemn B. harsh C. arrogant D. teasing Answer: D 19. Charles Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of his novel ______. A. Great Expectations B. A Tale of Two Cities C. Bleak House D. Oliver Twist Answer: B 20. A typical feature of the English ______ literature is that writers became social and moral critics, exposing all kinds of social evils. A. Renaissance B. Romantic C. Victorian D. Medieval Answer: C 21. The statement that those extraordinary people, seeking something beyond the provincial life, have finally to subject themselves to the limitations of the reality either due to their own weakness or the social environment may well sum up one of the major themes of ______. A. Fielding’s Tom J ones B. Defoe’s Robinson CrusoeC. Austen’s Pride and PrejudiceD. Eliot’s MiddlemarchAnswer: D 22. A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of ______, who never pays any attention to human feelings. A. justice B. property C. morality D. humor Answer: B 23. Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is NOT true? A. It explores man’s never-ending search for the satisfaction of materialistic desires. B. It relates the conflicts between the society and the individual. C. It is about the effect of sin on the people involved and the society as a whole. D. It presents a psychological analysis of the inward tensions of the characters. Answer: B mind" is a famous quote from _______’s 24. "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own writings. A. Walt Whitman B. Henry David Thoreau C. Herman Melville D. Ralph Waldo Emerson Answer: D 25. Which of Hemingway’s novels describes the drifting life of American exiles in Europe?A. The Sun Also Rises. B. A Farewell to Arms. C. For Whom the Bell Tolls. D. The Old Man and the Sea. Answer: B 26. The theme of _______ may be well stated as "It sings of nationalism and of the nature of the self in relation to the cosmos and the meaning and purpose of birth and death." A. Edgar Allan Poe’s "To Helen"B. Robert Frost’s "The Road Not Taken"C. Walt Whitman’s "Song of Myself"D. Emily Dickenson’s "Because I could not stop for Death"Answer: C 27. The American Puritanism as a cultural heritage benefited the Americans in _______. A. strengthening their moral values B. weakening their religious faith C. knowing truth intuitively D. developing their science and technology Answer: A 28. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ______. A. international theme B. waste-land imagery C. local color D. symbolism Answer: C 29. "Strange names were over the doors -strange faces at the windows -every thing was strange. His mind now began to misgive him, that both he and the world around him were bewitched. Surely this was his native village, which he had left but the day before." The above passage is taken from ______. A. Irving’s "Rip V an Winkle"B. Hawthorne’s "Young Goodman Brown"C. James’ "Daisy Miller"D. Hemingway’s "Ind ian Camp" Answer: A 30. According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter "A" which originally stood for "_______" finally obtained the meaning of "able" or "angel" through Hester’s efforts.A. adultery B. arrogance C. accomplishment D. agony Answer: A 31. As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly influenced by _______. A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. Charles Darwin C. Henry James D. Ralph Waldo Emerson Answer: B 32. In Sister Carrie, Hurstwood, extremely hopeless and totally devastated, ends his life by turning on the gas, while at the same time Carrie is rocking comfortably in her luxurious hotel room before she boards a ship for _______. A. New York B. London C. Paris D, Geneva Answer: B ortray the protagonist as an embodiment of 33. In Henry James’ "Daisy Miller," the author tries to p______. A. the force of convention B. the decline of aristocracy C. the free spirit of the New World D. the corruption of the new rich Answer: C 34. American writers of the first postwar era who were devoid of faith and alienated from the civilization were commonly called "______." A. sons of liberty B. fatherless children C. a beat generation D. a lost generation Answer: D 35. The raft with which Huck and Jim make their voyage down the Mississippi River may symbolize all the following EXCEPT ______. A. a return to nature B. an escape from evils, injustices, and corruption of the civilized society C. the heavenly kingdom of Christianity D. a small world where people of different colors can live friendly and happily Answer: C 36. Of the following American poets in the twentieth century, the one who has the best knowledge of Chinese culture is _______. A. Robert Frost B. Allen Ginsberg C. Ezra Pound D. E. E. Cummings Answer: C 37. Emily Grierson, the pro tagonist in Faulkner’s story "A Rose for Emily," can be regarded as a symbol standing for all the following qualities EXCEPT _______. A. no prejudice against the northerners B. rigid ideas of social status C. bigotry and eccentricity D. grace and integrity Answer: D 38. Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the _______. A. life in New York B. country life in New England C. sea adventures D. life on the Mississippi Answer: B 39. In Hemingway’s story "Ind ian Camp" Nick, the protagonist, witnesses _______. A. a tragic killing of the Indians by the white man B. real friendship between the white men and the Indians C. men’s senseless killing of each otherD. terrible scenes of birth and death Answer: D 40. Great Gatsby, written by Fitzgerald in 1925, is a story about ______ who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him. A. a vagabond B. an idealist C. an eccentric D. an opportunist Answer: B P ART TWO II. Reading Comprehension 41. "Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows and through curtains call on us?" Questions: A. Identify the poem and the poet. B. What does the word "fool" refer to? C. What idea does the quotation express? 参考答案：参考答案：A It is taken from Jone Donne’s "The Sun Rising" (P66) B. "fool" refers to the sun. C. Donne’s great prose works are his sermons, the quotation expresses a strong sense of rebellious spirit, the author tried to break away from the conventional fashion of the Elizabethan love poetry. (P63+66) 42. "Most mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of the universe, whose dominions extend five thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference) to the extremities of the globe; Monarch of all Monarchs; taller than the sons of men; whose feet press down to the center, and whose head strikes against the sun; at whose nod the princes of the earth shake their knees; pleasant as spring, comfortable as summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter." Questions: A. Identify the work and the author. B. What is the tone of the author? C. What does the author parody here? Answers: A. The passage comes from "Gulliver’s Travels" written by Jonanthan Swift. (P115) B. The author used the Ironic tone of the passage. C. Romance (prose)/ Adventurous prose is the parody here. 43. "She thanked men -good! but thanked Somehow -I know not how -as if she ranked My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name With anybody’s gift."Questions: A. Identify the poem and the poet. B. What kind of tone does the speaker use here? C. What idea does the quoted passage express? Answers: A. The poem is "My Last Duchess", by Robert Browning. (P286) B. The speaker is Duke, he is a villain. The speaker uses the tone of arrogant (傲慢的) here. C. The quoted passage reveals the duke is a self-conceited, cruel and tyrannical man. (P287) 44. "This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me - The simple News that Nature told - With tender Majesty" Questions: A. Identify the poet B. What does the word "World" refer to? C. What idea does the quoted passage express? Answers: A. The poet is Emily Dickinson. (P520) B. "World" refers to the outside world. ide world. (P520) C. The poem expresses Dickinson’s anxiety about her communication with the outsIII. Questions and Answers 45. "For herein Fortune shows herself more kind Than in her custom; it is still her use To let the wretched man outlive his wealth, To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow ring penance An age of poverty; from which ling’Of such misery doth she cut me off." The above lines are taken from a speech made by Antonio, a major character in Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice. Why does Antonio say that Fortune is more kind to him than in her custom? 参考答案: This sentence means she, Lady Fortune, is more kind to him because she is taking away both his wealth and life. The speaker is Antonio, it’s said that his ship have all been lost, and he is penniless, and will have to pay the pound of flesh. (Because Shylock has made a strange bond that requires Antonio to pay him a pound of flesh if he can’t repay him, the money that he borrowed for his friend in due time.) (P38) 46. "The first shot I made among these creatures, I killed a she-goat which had a little kid by her which she gave suck to, which grieved me heartily; but when the old one fell, the kid stood stock still by her till I came and took her up, and not only so, but when I carried the old one with me upon my shoulders, the kid followed me quite to my enclosure, upon which I laid down the dam, and took the kid in my arms, and carried it over my pale, in hopes to have it bred up tame, but it would not eat, so I was forced to kill it and eat it myself; these two supplied me with flesh a great while, for I ate sparingly; and saved my provisions (my bread especially) as much as possibly I could." This is a very significant sentence with great details that reveals the character of Robinson Crusoe. vealed then? What aspects of Crusoe’s character are re参考答案: 1) In most of his works, Defoe gave his praise to the hard-working, sturdy middle class and showed his sympathy for the lower-class people. Robinson Crusoe was such a character. 2) Robison goes out to sea, gets shipwrecked and marooned/landed on a lonely island, struggles to live for 24 years there and finally is saved by a ship and returns to England. During the period Robinson leads a harsh and lonely life and survives by growing corps, taming animals, etc. growing from a na?ve young man into a hardened man. 3) With a great capacity for work, inexhaustible energy (精力充沛), courage and persistence in overcoming difficulties（在克服困难方面持之以恒）, in struggling against nature, Crusoe becomes the prototype / representative of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist. （他是大英帝国缔造者的完美典范，同时也是殖民者的先驱）．4) In the novel, Defoe glorified human labor and the puritan fortitude which the middle class praised highly, so he can be regarded as a spokesman of the bourgeois. (P98-100) 47. Situational irony occurs when what happens turns out to be quite different from what is expected; sometimes what happen is just the opposite of what is expected. In "Indian Camp," Hemingway makes a successful use of this kind of irony. Please illustrate it with some examples. (本题属于超纲题，书上没有现成的答案，可忽略不计) 48. "The only thing I don’t like, she proceeded, is the society." ("Daisy Miller" by Henry James)What kind of society does Daisy not like? Why? 参考答案: ---European life. Because she is the American Girl in Europe, a She doesn’t like the old world celebrated cultural type who embodies the spirit of the New World. However, innocence, the keynote of her character, turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality and her defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures. (P499---500) IV Topic Discussion 49. List three distinctive features of English Renaissance movement in literature and then illustrate each with proofs from either the concerned chapter in your textbook or your own reading. 参考答案: 1) The first period of the English Renaissance was one of imitation and assimilation. Petrarch was regarded as the fountainhead of literature by the English writers. Wyatt introduced the Petrachan sonnet into England and Surrey brought in blank verse. 2) The Elizabethan drama, in its totality, is the real mainstream of the English Renaissance. The Greek and Roman Drams had a great influence on the Elizabeth Drama, especially on Shakespeare’s tragedies. E.g. Hamlet, the first of the great tragedies, is regarded as Shakespeare’s most popular play on the stage. 3) Francis Bacon, the first important English essayist, is best known for his essays which greatly influenced the development of his literary form. He was the founder of modern science in England. (P10---12) 50. "My faith is gone!" cried he (Goodman Brown), after one stupefied moment. "There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil! for to thee is this world given." Comment on t his passage from Hawthorne’s "Young Goodman Brown".this passage from Hawthorne’s "Young Goodman Brown".参考答案: 1) Allegorically, Young Goodman Brown becomes an Everyman called Brown, who will be aged in one night by an evil adventure, and the evilness makes everyone a fallen idol in the world. 2) "My Faith is gone" is a pun, it means my wife has disappeared or my faith to God has gone. In the angle of Symbol: "Brown look up to the Heaven and resist the wicked one" symbols Brown has the force to resist the evilness of the Nature and he still has the faith to God; but "he is alone in the forest" symbol symbols the society is the place full of sins and evilness, Brown’s strength is not enough at all; then s the society is the place full of sins and evilness, Brown’s strength is not enough at all; then after returning, he lives a dismal and gloomy life symbols he has been crushed down by the social evilness and lost his belief in goodness and piety. (P434—435)。

英国文学选择题

英国文学选择题Old & Medieval Ages1.The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about a legendary outlaw called ____.A. Morted’ ArthurB. Robin HoodC. The Canterbury TalesD. Piers the Plowman2.The story of is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.A. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightB. BeowulfC. Piers the PlowmanD. The Canterbury Tales3.In his literary development, Chaucer was influenced by three literatures, which one is not included?_______A. French literatureB. Italian literatureC. English literatureD. German literature4. It is _______ alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive re；alistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Martin LutherC. William ShakespeareD. John Gower5. Chaucer's earliest work of any length is his _____, a translation of French Roman de la Rose by Gaillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, which was a love allegory enjoying widespread popularity in the 13th and 14th centuries not only in France but throughtout Europe.A. Troilus and CriseydeB. Romance of the RoseC. A Red, Red RoseD. Piers the Plowman6. , is a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.A. The Wife’s ComplaintB. BeowulfC. The Dream of the RoodD. The Seafarer7.In 1066, _ _, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeating England.A. William the ConquerorB. Julius CaesarC. Alfred the GreatD. Claudius8. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____.A. FlandersB. FranceC. ItalyD. Westminster Abbey9. In his lifetime Chaucer served in a great variety of occupations that had impact on the wide range of his writings. Which one is not his career? ____.A. engineerB. office holderC. ambassadorD. Legislator10.Romance, which uses verse or prose to describe the adventures and life of the knights, is the popular literary form in ____.A. RomanticismB. RenaissanceC. medieval periodD. Anglo-Saxon period11.One of Chaucer’s main contributions to English poetry is ______.A. he introduced the rhymed stanzas from France to English poetryB. he created striking brilliant panorama of his time and his countryC. he wrote in blank verseD. he was the first to write sonnet12.______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London in about 1340.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Sir GawainC. Francis BaconD. John Dryden13.Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _____ based on Boccaccio’s poem “Filostrato”.A. The Legend of Good WomenB. Troilus and CriseydeC. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD. Beowulf14.The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances.A. loyaltyB. revoltC. obedienceD. Mockery15.In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ .A. LanglandB. WycliffeC. GowerD. Chaucer16.The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____.A. novelB. dramaC. romanceD. Essay17.The most important work of ______ is The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, which is regarded as the best momument of the old English prose.A. Alfred the GreatB. CaedmonC. CynewulfD. Venerable Bede18.After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at that time. The Normans spoke _____.A. FrenchB. EnglishC. LatinD. Swedish19.Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are the following works except____.A. HamletB. King LearC. Romeo and JulietD. Othello20.____ made “blank verse ” the principal vehicle of expression in English drama.A.Ben JohnsonB. William ShakespeareC. Thomas MoreD. Christopher Marlowe21.Shakespeare’s plays written between _____ are sometimes called “romances” and all end in reconciliation and reunion.A. 1590 and 1599B. 1595 and 1600C. 1601 and 1608D. 1609 and 161222.______was one of "the university wits", and was famous for his prose romance Euphues.A.LylyB. PeeleC. GreeneD. Marlowe23.Shakespeare is one of the founders of ____.A.romanticismB.realismC.naturalismD.ClassicismThe Renaissance1.Shakespeare is one of the founders of __B__.A.romanticismB.realismC.naturalismD.Classicism2.___B__ founded the Tudor Dynasty, a centralized monarchy of a totally new type, which met the needs of the rising bourgeoisie.A.Henry VB. Henry VIIC. Henry VIIID. James I3.The absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of __D___.A.Henry V.B. Henry VIIC. Henry VIIID. Queen Elizabeth I4.___A____was one of "the university wits", and was famous for his prose romance Euphues.A. LylyB. PeeleC. GreeneD. Marlowe5.Except being a victory of England over _A_, the rout of the fleet “Armada” (Invincible) was also the triumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over the declining old feudalism.A.SpainB. FranceC. AmericaD. Norway6.Shakespeare’s plays written between __D___ are sometimes called “romances” and all end in reconciliation and reunion.A. 1590 and 1599B. 1595 and 1600C. 1601 and 1608D. 1609 and 16127.__D__ made “blank verse ” the principal vehicle of expression in English drama.A.Ben JohnsonB. William ShakespeareC. Thomas MoreD. Christopher Marlowe8.Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are the following works except__C__.A. HamletB. King LearC. Romeo and JulietD. Othello9.___C___ was the founder of English materialist philosophy and modern science.A. W. ShakespeareB. Thomas MoreC. Francis BaconD. Edmund SpenserThe Period of Revolution and Restoration1.Shakespeare’s greatest comedies are the following works exc ept__ C__.A.As you like itB.The merchant of VeniceC.Much ado about nothingD.Twelfth Night2. ___D__is not written by John Milton.A. Samson AgonistsB. Paradise LostC. Paradise regainedD. Tamburlaine3.Portia, the heroine in "__A__"is one of Shakespeare's ideal women-beautiful, prudent, cultured and capable of rising to an emergency.A. "The Merchant of Venice"B." As You Like It"C."King Lear"D." Twelfth Night"4.__C__is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.A. Paradise LostB. The Holy WarC. The Pilgrim’s progressD. Exodus5. English Renaissance Period was an age of __B___.A. prose and novelB. poetry and dramaC. essays and journalsD. ballads and songs6.From the following , choose the one which is not Francis Bacon’s work. DA.The Advancement of LearningB.The New InstrumentC.EssaysD.The New Atlantics7. The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English drama. It was ____D___who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama.A. Edmund SpenserB. Thomas MoreC. William ShakespeareD. Christopher Marlowe8.In The Legend of Good Women, Chaucer used for the first time in English the rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter, which is to be called later_B_.A. The Spenserian stanzaB. The heroic coupletC. The blank verseD. The free verse9.___A____was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.A. Thomas WyattB. William ShakespeareC. Philip SidneyD. Thomas Campion10.The period of the old English literature extends from about 450 to 1066 ,the year of the _B _ of England .A. religious ReformationB. Norman ConquestC. Roman InvasionD. the centralization of power11. In Anglo-Saxon period, “Beowulf” represented the ___A__ poetry.A. paganB. religiousC. romanticD. Sentimental12.__A__ is the founder of Metaphysical poetry.A.John DonneB.George HerbertC.Andre MarvellD.Henry Vaughan13.The greatest poet of the Middle English period is ___A __,the father of English poetry.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. John LylyC. William LanglandD. John Milton14.__B__, is a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.A. The Wife’s ComplaintB. BeowulfC. The Dream of the RoodD. The Seafarerton's Paradise Lost took its material from ___A____ .A. the BibleB. Greek mythC. Roman mythD. French romance16. Which play is not a comedy? DA. A Midsummer Night’s DreamB. The Merchant of VeniceC. Twelfth NightD. Romeo and Juliet17. Apart from original poems, Chaucer translated various works of French authors, among them is the famous “_____B______”.A. The Canterbury TalesB. The Romance of the RoseC. The Parliament of FowlsD. The House of Fame18.The following belong to the characteristics of ’metaphysical poetry’ represented by ’John Donne’ except__D_.A. ConceitsB. Actual imagery and simple dictionC. Argumentative formD. Elegant style19. ___D__ , as a declaration of people’s freedom of the press, has been a weapon in the later democratic revolutionary struggles.A. O n the Morning of Christ’s NativityB. ComusC. Of Reformation in EnglandD. Areopagitica20.It’s Chaucer alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English Society in his masterpiece ____ A____.A. The Canterbury TalesB. The Legend of Good WomenC. Troilus and CriseydeD. The Romaunt of the Rose.Age of Enlightenment1.__B__ compiled the A Dictionary of the English Language which became the foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries.A.Ben JohnsonB.Samuel JohnsonC.Alexander PopeD.John Dryden2.The 18th century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties, ___A___, which were satirized by Jonathan Swift in his Gulliver’s Travels.A. the Whigs and the ToriesB. the senate and the House of RepresentativesC. The upper House and lower HouseD. the House of Lords and the House of Commons3._D_ was an intellectual movement in the first half of the 18th century.A. The Enclosure MovementB. The Industrial RevolutionC. The Religious ReformD. The Enlightenment4. ___C___is a typical feature of Swift’s writings.A. Elegant styleB. Causal narrationC. Bitter satireD. Complicated sentence structure5.___C___ is not written by William Blake.A.The Marriage of Heaven and HellB.Songs of ExperienceC. Auld Lang SyneD. Poetical Sketches6. Of all the 18th century novelists _A__was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specially a “comic epic in prose.”A. Henry FieldingB. Daniel DefoeC. Jonathan SwiftD. John Bunyan7.Which is the most popular newspaper published by Steele? AA. The TatlerB. The SpectatorC. The TheatreD. The English8. __B__was the only important dramatist of the 18th century, in his plays, morality is the constant theme.A. Alexander PopeB. Richard Brinsley SheridanC. Samuel JohnsonD. George Bernard Shaw9.Henry Fielding’s novel __B__ was written in connection with Pamela of Samuel Richardson. But after the first 10 chapters, Henry Fielding became so interested and absorbed in his own hovel as to forget his original plan of ridiculing Pamela.A.Tom JonesB.Joseph AndrewsC.Jonathan WildD.Amelia10.Which play is regarded as the best English comedy since Shakespeare? CA.She Stoops to ConquerB.The RivalsC. The School for ScandalD. The Conscious Lovers11. “As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit: For works may have more wit than does’em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.” With the above lines, Pope tries to say that_______.A.plainness is more important than wit in poetryB.too much wit will destroy good poetryC.plainness will make wit dullD.wit will make better poetry12.The 18th century was the golden age of the English __D_. The novel of this period spoke the truth about life with an uncompromising (unbending) courage.A.dramaB.poetryC.essayD.novel13. In which of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput”, “Brobdingnag”, “Houyhnhnm” and “Yahoo”? CA. The Pilgrim’s ProgressB. The Faerie QueeneC. Gulliver’s travelsD. The School of Scandal14.__A__ the first important work by Tobias Smollett, is based on his own experience as a naval doctor and in part autobiographical.A.Roderick RandomB.Humphry ClinkerC. Peregrine PickleD. A Sentimental Journey15. __D__ were looked upon as the model of English composition by British authors all through the 18th century.A. Jeremy Taylor’s Holy LivingB. Thomas Browne’s Religio MeidicC. Samuel Pepys’s diariesD. Addison’s Spectator essays16. __B__has been regarded by some as “Father of the English novel” for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.A.John BunyanB.Henry FieldingC.Daniel DefoeD.Johnathan Swift17.Which of the following novels is not epistolary (written in letter form) novels? DA.Clarissa HarloweB.PamelaC. Sir Charles GrandisonD. Tome Jones18.The sentence of “The plowman homeward plods his weary way, /And leaves the world to darkness and to me” is written by __C__.A.William CowperB.George CrabbeC.Thomas GrayD.William Blake19.In a series of pamphlets Jonathan Swift denounced the cruel and unjust treatment of Ireland by the English government. One of the most famous is _B___.A.Essays on CriticismB.A Modest ProposalC.Gulliver’s TravelsD.The Battle of the Books20.Which of the following works are not written by Oliver Goldsmith? __D__.A.The TravellerB.The Deserted VillageC.The Vicar of WakefieldD.The School for Scandal21.The most important classicist in the Enlightenment Movement is ___C__.A.SteeleB.AddisonC.PopeD.Dryden22.The main literary stream of the 18th century was __C__ . What the writers described in their works were mainly social realities.A.romanticismB.classicismC.realismD.Sentimentalism23.The literature of the Enlightenment in England mainly appealed to the __B__ readers.A. aristocraticB. middle classC. low classD. intellectual24.__C__ found its representative writers in the field of poetry, such as Edward Young and Thomas Gray, but it manifested itself chiefly in the novels of Lawrence Sterne and Oliver Goldsmith.A.Pre-romanticismB.RomanticismC.SentimentalismD.NaturalismRomantic Period1. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a ____C____.”This quotation in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice sets the tone of the novel.A. houseB. titleC. wifeD. Fame2.__D___ is considered the father of historical novelist in the English Romantic Age.A.Jane AustenB.Charles LambC.William HazlittD.Walter Scott3.The best essayist in the English Romantic Age is __C___.A.KeatsB.Walter ScottC.Charles LambD.William Hazlitt4.English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have begun with the publication of Wordsworth and Col eridge’s__C___.A. Poetical SketchesB. A Defence of PoetryC. Lyrical BalladsD. The Prelude5. Among the following British Romantic poets ___B___ is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”.A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. George Gordon ByronD. John Keats6. In his poem “Tyger, Tyger,” William Blake expresses his perception of the “fearful symmetry” of the big cat. The phrase “fearful symmetry” suggests____D___.A. the tiger’s two eyes which are dazzlingly bright and symmetrically setB. the poet’s fear of the predatorC. the analogy of the hammer and the anvilD. the harmony of the two opposite aspects of God’s creation7. Through the character of Elizabeth, Jane Austen emphasizes the importance of ____C__ for woman.A. marriageB. physical attractivenessC. independence and self-confidenceD. submissive character8. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!” is an epigrammatic line by _D_.A. J.KeatsB. W.BlakeC. W.WordsworthD. P.B.Shelley9.__A__ lived the longest life.A.WordsworthB.ByronC.ShelleyD.Keats10.Best of all the Romantic well- known lyric pieces is Shelley’s___D__.A. “The Cloud”B.“To a Skylark”C. “Ode to a Nightingale”D. “Ode to the West Wind”11.Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that ______B______.A.the former is heavily religious but the latter secularB. the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual’s feeling and experiencesC. 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 cultivationD.the former advocates the “return to nature” whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models.12. Jane Austen’s main literary concern is about ___A__.A. human beings in their personal relationshipsB. the love story between the rich and the poorC. maturity achieved through the loss of illusionsD. the daily country life of the upper-middle-class English13.“What is his name?”“Bingley.”“Is he married or single?”“Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!”The above dialogue must be taken from____A____.A.Pride and PrejudiceB. Wuthering HeightsC.Jane EyerD.Robinson Crusoe14.The two major novelists of the Romantic period are __C__.A. William Wordsworth and John KeatsB. John Keats and Jane AustenC. Jane Austen and Walter ScottD. William15.All of the following poets are regarded as “Lake Poets” EXCEPT ___D___.A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. Robert SoutheyC. William WordsworthD. William Blake16.The Romantic period is an age of ___C__.A. proseB. dramaC. poetryD. both a and c17.All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT _____.A.“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”B.“An Evening Walk”C.“Tintern Abbey”D.“The Solitary Reaper”18. The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is love and marriage. Which of th e following is not a couple that appeared in Pride and Prejudice? AA. Catherine and HeathcliffB. Lydia and WickhamC. Jane and BinleyD. Charlotte and Collins19. The major representatives of the poetic revolution in English Romantic period were Samuel Taylor Coleridge and __B__.A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. John KeatsD. Percy Bysshe Shelley20.Critics agree that __A__ is a great romantic poet, standing with Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth in the history English literature.A.KeatsB.WordsworthC.ColeridgeD.William21. In the first part of the novel Pride and prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a (n) ___C___ of the Bennet family .A. high opinionB. great admirationC. low opinionD. erroneous view22.The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is ____D____.A.proseB.dramaC.novelD.Poetry23.Romanticism was a literary trend prevailing in English during the period from 1798 to 1832. The Romantic writers______A_______.A. paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of manB. were discontent with the development of industrialism and capitalism, and presented the social evils minutely in their worksC. took pains to portray a world of harmony and balanceD. tended to glorify Rome and advocated rational Italian and French art as superior to the native traditions24.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT _D_.A.the use of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB.the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC.the use of humble and rustic life as subject matterD.the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech25.Because of ___C____, Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University.A.The Masque of AnarchyB.A Defence of PoetryC. The Necessity of AtheismD. The Triumph of Life26. The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is___D__.A. love and moneyB. money and social statusC. social status and marriageD. love and marriage27.Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correct? AA. It predominated in the early eighteenth century.B. It was one phase of the Romantic movement.C. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.D. Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic romance.28.The poems such as “The Chimney Sweeper” are found in both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by_____B______.A. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. John KeatsD. Lord Gordon Byron29.English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have ended in 1832 with ___A___.A.the passage of the first Reform Bill in the ParliamentB.the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical BalladsC.the publication of T．S．Eliot’s The waste LandD.the passage of the Bill of Rights in the Parliament30.“Drive my dead thoughts over the universeLike withered leaves to quicken a new birth.”What rhetorical device does the poet use in the quoted lines? BA.SynecdocheB.SimileC.MetaphorD. Onomatopoeia.31. Jane Austen wrote within a very narrow sphere. The subject matter, the social setting, and plots are all restricted to the provincial life of the ____D____.A. late 19th -centuryB. 17th –centuryC. 20th -centuryD. late 18th -century32. Prometheus Unbound is __C__ masterpiece.A. Wordsworth’sB. Byron’sC. Shelley’sD. Keats’33. Byron’s __D__ is regarded as the great poem of the Romantic Age.A.Childe Harold’s PilgrimageB.Hours of IdlenessC. LaraD. Don JuanThe Victorian Age1.Which of the following is Thackeray’s masterpiece?A. The VirginiansB. The Books of SnobsC. The NewcomesD. Vanity Fair2.Vanity Fair has a sub-title. It is ____.A. First ImpressionB. A Book Without a HeroC. The NewcomesD. Persuasion3.In the novel ___ , Defarge and Madame Defarge represent the revolutionaries.A. Dombey and SonB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Little DorritD. Bleak House4.The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from Bunyan’s masterpiece _____.A. The Pilgrim’s Progress5.Pride and Prejudice’s first title is ____.A. First ImpressionB. A Book Without a HeroC. The NewcomesD. Persuasion6.____ is Thackeray’s one of the best known works.A. Sense and SensibilityB. The Book of SnobsC. The Pickwick PapersD. The Song of Lower Class7.In the novel ___ , Defarge and Madame Defarge represent the revolutionaries.A. Dombey and SonB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Little DorritD. Bleak House8.The Victorian Literature began in____ and ended in _____.A. 1837...1900 B. 1835...1901 C. 1832...1902 D. 1830 (1903)9.Emily Bronte wrote only one novel entitled ______.A. Jane EyreB. Agnes GreyC. Wuthering HeightsD. Emma10.The Chartist writers introduced a new theme into literature, the struggle of the ___ for its rights.A. soldiersB. peasantsC. bourgeoisieD. proletariat11.In the novel ______, Dickens describes the Chartist Movement and shows his sympathy for the workers.A. Great ExpectationsB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Hard TimesD. Oliver Twist12._____ is often regarded as the semi-autobiography of the author Dickens in which the early life of the hero is largely based on the author’s early life.A. The Curiosity ShopB. David CopperfieldC. Oliver TwistD. Great Expectations13.Which novel is a great satire upon the society and those people who dream to enter the higher society regardless of the social reality?A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC. Great ExpectationD. Dombey and Son14.English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of ____ .A. novelB. dramaC. poetryD. sonnet15.____ is the greatest representative of English critical realism.A. Jane AustenB. ThackerayC. DickensD. Charlotte16.____ is the major literary form in the Victorian Period.A. essayB. poetryC. novelD. drama17._____ is an autobiographical novel and loved by Dickens himself most.A. Great ExpectationsB. David CopperfieldC. Bleak HouseD. The Pickwick Papers18.Robert Browning's first poetic work Pauline modeled on Shelley.19._____ is Dickens’ first novel of social history reflecting the sharp social contradictions.A. Sketches by BozB. American NotesC. Martin ChuzzlewitD. Barnaby Rudge (《巴纳比·拉奇》)20.Charles Dickens was impressive for his _____.A. wide spread of critical realismB. his spirit of democracy and humanismC.his unforgettable figures with satire and simple and clear languageD. including A, B and C21.The story of ______ deals with the adventures of a retired old merchant.A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC. Pickwick PapersD. Oliver Twist22.____ is the main hero in the novel of Wuthering Heights.A. RochesterB. HeathcliffC. ManetteD. Martin23.The two cities in A Tale of Two Cities refer to ____.A. London and New YorkB. London and ParisC. Paris and New York24.The greatest of Chartist poets was _____.A. Earnest JonesB. John MiltonC. Thomas HardyD. John Keats25.The conflicts between the capitalists and the proletarian in industrial England caused the _____.A. Enlightenment MovementB. Industrial RevolutionC. Chartist Movement26.Charlotte's Villette is based on her sad days in Brussels.27.Vanity Fair has a sub-title. It is ____.A. First ImpressionB. A Book Without a HeroC. The NewcomesD. Persuasion28.The novel _____ exposes the terrible conditions of English private schools.A. Nicholas NicklebyB. Oliver TwistC. Hard TimesD. Great Expectations29.Dickens’ third literary period shows intensifying ______.A. optimismB. excitementC. irritationD. pessimism30.Which novel makes a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education?A. Oliver TwistB. Hard TimesC. Great ExpectationsD. A Tale of Two Cities31._______ deals with the sufferings and hardships of an old man named Trent and his granddaughter Nell.A. Pickwick PapersB. The Old Curiosity ShopC. Great ExpectationsD. Hard Times32.In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend ____ appeared. And it flourished in the forties and in the early fifties.A. romanticismB. naturalismC. realismD. critical realism33.______’s Vanity Fair is a satirical portrayal of the upper strata(阶层) of society.A. George EliotB. Elizabeth GaskellC. W. M. ThackerayD. John Buyan34.In 1864, Dickens published his last complete novel _______.A. The Old Curiosity ShopB. The Pickwick PaperC. Our Mutual FriendD. Little Dorrit。

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Homework11.The name “the father of English poetry” was given to the greatest poet born i n London about 1340 and the one who did much in making the dialect of London (Midland dialect the language of the court, the learned and the well-to do) the foundation for modern English language.a. Shakespeareb. Spenserc. Philip Sidneyd. Chaucer2.The basic note of Chaucer’s style is_______.a. the fusion of humor and genial satireb. the fusion of irony with sarcasmc. the fusion of humor with epigramsd. the fusion of humor with irony3. _____was the first buried in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abby.a. Southyb. Francis Baconc. Shakespeared. Chaucer4. The seco nd period of Chaucer’s literary career includes mainly the three longer poems written prior to The Canterbury Tales. Choose the one from the following.a. The legend of Good Womanb. The Book of the Duchesc. The Rape of Lucreced. The Romaunt of the Rose5.The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is the _______.a. playsb. Romancec. essaysd. masques6. Piers the Plowman written by William Langland is in the form of ______a. allegory and medieval dream visionb. dramac. satirical noveld. sentimental novel7. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a _____.a. travel bookb. romance in versec. romance in prosed. narrative poem8. Beowulf is the most important and the first epic in the Old English ever written. It was written in _______.a. sonnetsb. balladsc. alliterationd. heroic couplet9. Chaucer was the first important poet of a royal court to write in______ after the Norman conquest.a. Frenchb. Latinc. Englishd. Celt10. Though Beowulf was introduced by Angles, the events and _____ are Scandinavian.a. beliefb. charactersc. idead. God11. In 1066, ___ led the Norman army to invade and defeat England.a. William the conquerorb. Julius Caesarc. Alfred the Greatd. Claudius12. In the 14th century, the most important writer is ______.a. Langlandb.Wyclifc. Gowerd. Chaucer13. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is the ______.a. epicb. mystery playc. romanced. sonnet14. The story of “_______” is written in the culmination of the Arthurian romances.a. Sir Gawain and the Green Knightb. Beowulfc. Piers the Plowmand. The Canterbury Tales15.William Langland’s “________” is written in the form of a dream vision.a. Kubla Khanb. Piers the Plowmanc. The Dream of John Bulld. Morte d’ Arthur16. As to the main writing features of Beowulf, of the following is not true.A. teutonic in subject-matterB. the oldest epic in EnglandC. no composerD. religious or Christian17. The Anglo-Saxon poems are divided into two groups. One is religious, the other is .A. ChristianB. puritanC. paganD. Catholic18. _____ was the first to introduce rhyming couplet into English literature.A. ChaucerB. William ShakespeareC. Phillip SidneyD. Thomas Champion19. When we speak of the old English prose, the first name that comes into our mind is , who is the first scholar in English literature and has been regarded as father of learning.A. William ShakespeareB. BeowulfC. Julius CaesarD. Venerable Bede20. Romance is the most prevailing literary form in Anglo- Norman period. There are _____ cycles of it and thematters of is the most important.A. 4, GreeceB. 3, BritainC. 2, RomeD. 8, France21. Regarding the prose of Anglo-Saxon period, two names worth mentioning. One is Venerable Bede, the otheris .A. Alfred the GreatB. BeowulfC. Julius CaesarD. William ShakespeareHomework21. When we speak of the old English prose, the first name that comes into our mind is , who is the first scholarin English literature and has been regarded as father of learning.A. William ShakespeareB. BeowulfC. Julius CaesarD. Venerable Bede2. _____ was the first to introduce blank verse into English literature.A. Henry HowardB. William ShakespeareC. Phillip SidneyD. Thomas Champion3. Romance is the most prevailing literary form in Anglo- Norman period. There are _____ cycles of it and thematters of is the most important.A. 4, GreeceB. 3, BritainC. 2, RomeD. 8, France4. The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English Drama. It was _____ who made blankverse the principal vehicle of expression in drama.A. Christopher MarloweB. Thomas LogeC. Edmund SpenserD. Thomas More5. Renaissance Period was an age of .A. prose and novelB. poetry and dramaC. essays and journalsD. ballads and songs6. Choose the play that doesn’t belong to the “Great Tragedies” by Shakespeare.A. HamletB. MacbethC. Romeo and JulietD. King Lear7. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a _____.A. travel bookB. romance both in verse and in prose formC. romantic poemD. narrative poem8. and Shakespeare are regarded the greatest two treasures of language.A. Francis BaconB. The Authorized Version of BibleC. Thomas MoreD. Lyrical Ballads9. Paradise Lost is a (n) .A. lyrical poemB. hymnC. epicD. narrative poemC. Gothic novelD. novel of stream of consciousness10. Shakespeare is known to have used different words. His coinage of new words and distortion of the meaning of the old ones also create striking effects on the reader.A. 16,000B. 1600C. 20,000D. 200011. Sir Philip Sidney is known both as a poet and as a .A. essayistB. dramatistC. a critic of poetryD. novelist12. As to the main writing features of Beowulf, of the following is not true.A. teutonic in subject-matterB. the oldest epic in EnglandC. no composerD. religious or Christian13. _____ was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.A. Thomas WyattB. William ShakespeareC. Phillip SidneyD. Thomas Champion14. _____ was the greatest achievement of the epoch of Renaissance and _____ was regarded as the summit of it.A. drama, MarloweB. essay, BaconC. poetry, SpenserD. drama, Shakespeare15. Great popularity was won by John Lyly’s prose romance_____ which gave rise to the term “euphuism”,designating an effected style of court speech.A. ArcadiaB. Venus and AdonisC. EupheusD. Lucrece25. _____ doesn’t belong to the four “Johns” of the 17th century England.A. John MiltonB. John KatesC. John BunyanD. John Donne16. Choose the play that doesn’t belong to the “Great Comedies” by Shakespeare.A. The Twelfth NightB. As You Like ItC. Romeo and JulietD. The Merchant of Venice17. Sidney as a poet and a critic of poetry is known mainly for his three principal works. _____ of the following isnot written by him.A. ArcadiaB. Apology for PoetryC. Of TruthD. Astrophel and Stella18. From the following choose the one _____ that is not written by Francis Bacon.A. The Advancement of LearningB. The New InstrumentC. Of StudiesD. The rape of the Lock19. _____ introduced printing to England in the 16th century, which accelerated the step of Renaissance.A. Francis BaconB. William CaxtonC. Thomas MoreD. Henry James20. _____ was the first buried in Westmins ter Abby, where later the Poet’s Corner appeared.A. SoutheyB. Francis BaconC. ShakespeareD. Chaucer21. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is _____.A. playsB. romanceC. essaysD. Masques22. _____ is regarded as the tour de force in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.A. Part oneB. Part twoC. Part threeD. Part four23. _____, the melancholic scholar, prince, faces the dilemma between action and mind.A. OthelloB. MacbethC. HamletD. Antonio24. “He was not of an age, but for all the time”. “He” here refers to _____.A. ShakespeareB. ChaucerC. John MiltonD. Ben JonsonHomework 31. _____ are the two periodicals of started by Richard Steele and Joseph Addison.A. The Idler, The TatlerB. The Spectator, The RamblerC. The Review, The TatlerD. The Tatle，r The Spectator2. In the 18th century English literature, the representative writer of neo-classicism is_____.A. Jonathan SwiftB. Alexander PopeC. Daniel DefoeD. 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A Red, Red Rose was written by , a peasant poet.A. Robert BurnsB. William BlakeC. John KeatsD. Alexander Pope19. The death of Walter Scott, the last romantic writer, marked the ending of in England.A. Realistic AgeB. Romantic AgeC. Age of Critical RealismD. Age of Modernism20. Which play is regarded as the best English comedy since Shakespeare?A. She Stops to ConquerB. The School for ScandalC. The RivalsD. The Conscious Lover21. is Laurence Sterne’s masterpiece.A. A Sentimental Journey Through France and ItalyB. The Life and Opinions of Tristram ShandyC. The Vicar of WakefieldD. Clarissa Harlowe22. The term "Lakers" is commonly used to name those romantic poets, such as Wordsworth, Coleridge and .A. SoutheyB. Thomas KydC. ShelleyD. Laurance Sterne23. is not written by Percy Bysshe Shelley.A. Queen MabB. Prometheus UnboundC. Prometheus BoundD. The Revolt of Islam24.Gulliver’s Travels is a .A. sentimental novelB. novel of satire and allegoryC. Gothic novelD. novel of stream of consciousness25. “Auld Lang Syne” is written in the well-known “ballad stanza”. This poetic form usually contai ns _____ rhymed lines in each stanza.A. 4B. 6C. 2D. 8。

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