英国文学史考试样卷

英国文学史考试样卷2012-02-19 15:47:40| 分类：默认分类| 标签：|字号大中小订阅卷号：（C）（2007年1月）绝密湖北师范学院外语系专科期末考试试卷英国文学史（03级）考试范围本册全部章节命题人胡泽刚院系外语系考试形式闭卷课程类别任选学期20071专业英语I. Multiple Choice Questions (20 %):1. Which of the following is NOT one of James Joyce’s novels?[A]Finnegans Wake [B]To the Lighthouse[C] Ulysses [D] A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man2.Robinson Crusoe lives on the uninhabited island for _______ years.[A]28 [B] 25 [C] 10 [D] 53.G.B. Shaw follows the tradition of Ibsen and wrote _______ dramas..[A] poetic [B] prose[C] stream-of-consciousness [D] modern4.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a romance about King Arthur and the _____round-table knight.[A] 7 [B] 12 [C] 20 [D] 305.________is often regarded as father of English poetry.[A] Geoffrey Chaucer [B] Edmund Spenser[C] William Shakespeare [D] John Milton6. The Authorized Version of the bible was completed in 1611 under the care of_______[A] Elizabeth I [B] Charles I [C] Henry VII [D] James I7.Francis Bacon was the first English ______.[A] dramatist [B] scientist[C] prose writer [D] essayist8. William Shakespeare’s dates ar e________.[A] 1476--1625 [B] 1478--1535[C] 1564--1616 [D] 1608--16749. The greatest epic in the English language is _________.[A] Beowulf [B] The Faerie Queene[C] Paradise Lost [D] Paradise Regained10. John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is the first ______ in the English language.[A] romance [B] ballad [C] allegory [D] lyric11. The Lilliputians are _____tall while people in Brobdingnag are ______high.[A] three inches, 30 feet [B] 30 inches, three feet[C] six inches, 60 feet [D] 60 inches, six feet12. _________foreshadows the stream of consciousness novels of the 20th century.[A] Pamela [B] Tom Jones[C] Roderick Random [D] Tristram Shandy13. The chief representative of the English Romantic poets is_______________.[A] Wordsworth [B] Coleridge [C] Byron [D] Shelley14. Walter Scott is remembered as father of the _________.[A] epistolary novel [B] historical novel[C] autobiographical novel [D] stream-of-consciousness novel15. The novel which is autobiographical and which Dickens himself liked best is______.[A] David Copperfield [B] The Pickwick Papers[C] A Tale of Two Cities [D] Great Expectations16. ______was living and writing during the Romantic period, but was often classified with Victorian writers because of the style and subject matter of her works.[A] Jane Austen [B] Charlotte Bronte[C] Emily Bronte [D] George Elliot17.Most of ________novels are called “Wessex novels” because they are set in ancient Saxon kingdom of Wessex.[A] Oscar Wilde’s [B] Charles Dickens’[C] Willia m Makepeace Thackeray’s [D] Thomas Hardy’s18.Most of D. H. Lawrence’s novels are known as _________ because of his successful description and analysis the characters’ psychology.[A] autobiographical novels [B] Oedipus Complex novels[C] psychological fiction [D] psychoanalytical fiction19. ___________is often hailed as the greatest English novelist of the 20th century.[A] Oscar Wilde [B] D. H. Lawrence[C] James Joyce [D] Virginia Woolf20. _________is now claimed by both English and American literature.[A] Richard Sheridan [B] T.S. Eliot[C] Oscar Wilde [D] William ShakespeareII. Definitions of literary terms (10%):1. The unconscious tendency for a little boy to be attached to hismother and hostile toward his father___________[A] the beat generation [B] oedipus complex[C] stream of consciousness [D] dramatist of black humour2. A poem of 14 lines in iambic pentameter with various rhyme schemes________[A]a sonnet [B] an epic [C] an ode [D] a satirical poem3. The tendency to indulge in motions for their own sake, i.e. the characters weep not because painful thoughts force them to weep but because they find weeping pleasant __________.[A] sentimentalism [B] Neo-Classicism[C] reason [D] Romanticism4. A natural attraction associated with smoothness, delicacy, smallness and brightness, e.g. the daffodils in William Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”_______[A] the sublime [B] the beautiful[C] sentimentalism [D] Neo-Classicism5. Works in prose or poetry meant to ridicule and correct the follies and vices of the society and of the individuals ___________.[A] sentimentalism [B] Neo-classicism[C] allegory [D] satire6. Traditionally a song that tells a story which became a form of poetry later __________[A] a folk song [B] a sonnet [C] a ballad [D] romance7. A long piece of poetry or prose describing the adventures and love of a medieval knight _________.[A] romance [B] epic[C] ballad [D] narrative poem or prose8.Two lines of poetry in iambic pentameter rhymed aa ____________.[A] sonnet [B] ballad [C] ode [D] heroic couplet9. Unrhymed poetry in iambic pentameter ____________.[A] free verse [B] blank verse[C] sonnet [D] heroic couplet10. Three novels telling a complete story such as Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga ________[A] allegory [B] romance [C] satire [D] trilogyIII. Matching authors with corresponding works (20%)1.Tobias Smollett a.A Midsummer Night’s Dreamurence Sterne b.The Shepherd’s Calendar3. Charlott Bronte c. Tess of the D’Urbervilles4. Christopher Marlowe d. Pride and Prejudice5.George Bernard Shaw e. A Tale of Two Cities6.Ben Jonson f. Ivanhoe7. John Milton g.Vanity Fair8. Jonathan Swift h.Don Juan9. James Joyce i. Ode to the West Wind10. Richard B. Sheridan j. Volpone11.William Wordsworth k.Samson Agonistes12.George Gordon Byron l.Finnegans Wake13.Percy Bysshe Shelley m.The School for Scandal14.Walter Scott n. Lyrical Ballads15.Charles Dickens o..Widowers’ Houses16. William Makepeace Thackeray p.The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus 17.Jane Austen q.Jane Eyre18.Thomas Hardy r.Tristram Shandy19.William Shakespeare s.Humphrey Clinker20. Edmund Spencer t.Gulliver’s TravelsIV. Filling in Blanks (20%):1. Literature of the _______ aimed at teaching people to obey thesocial order and at satirizing those who violated this order.[A] 18th century [B] Victorian Age[C] Romantic Period [D] Renaissance Period2. Writers of the ______ believed that the difference between man and other animals was that man has the power of reason while other animals do not have such power.[A] Renaissance period [B] Bourgeois Revolution period[C] the Victorian Age [D] 18th century3.Writers of the _________ worshipped Nature as the Bible and God himself and as their source of inspiration.[A] Renaissance period [B] Romantic period[C] 18th century [D] the Victorian Age4.People of the ___________ believed that the difference between man and other animals was that the former had the power of reason while the latter did not have such power.[A] Renaissance period [B] 18th century[C] Romantic period [D] the Victorian Age5.In the ___________ people defied the authority of the monarch and that of God. For instance Satan in Milton’s Paradise Lost dares to fight against God..[A] Renaissance period [B] 18th century[C] Bourgeois Revolution period [D] the Victorian Age6.In the ______________the intellectuals were interested in classical literature whereas in the Middle Ages people had been fond of reading the Bible alone.[A] the Victorian Age [B] 18th century[C] Romantic period [D] Renaissance period7.Literature in the medieval period in featured by the worship of God and by the conflict between _____and virtue.[A] mercy [B] vice[C]hate [D] good8. Dickens’ novels are characterized by successful character portrayal, being humorous and satirical, and having always a ______ ending.[A] tragic [B] happy[C] lyric [D] sad9. ______was the last Romanticist and his death marked the end of the Romantic Period.[A] Walter Scott [B] Charles Lamb[C] William Wordsworth [D] Robert Southey10. Lawrence Sterne’s _____________foreshadows the 20th centurystream-of-consciousness novels.[A] Roderick Random [B] Tom Jones[C] Tristram Shandy [D] A Sentimental Journey through France and ItalyV. Essay Questions (40%): Choose only ONE of the following three topics and write a short essay of at least 200 words. 1. Discuss an English novel or an English poem you have read and you like and tell why you like it..2. Describe how you knowledge of English literature is improved through thiscourse...3. Analyze why Shakespeare is the greatest playwright in English literature and how.湖北师范学院专科期末考试答卷（B ）英国文学史(1006班)I. Multiple Choice Questions (20%): 1-5 __________________________ 6-10________________________ 11-15_________________________. 16-20_______________________II. Definitions of literary terms (10%):1-5________________________ 6-10_________________________ III. Matching authors with their works (20%): 1-5 __________________________ 6-10________________________ 11-15_________________________. 16-20_______________________IV. Filling in blanks (20%):1-5______________________ 6-10________________________V. Essay Question (40%):_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________C卷参考答案II. Multiple Choice Questions (20%):1 B2 A3 B 4.B 5.A 6 .D 7.D 8.C 9.C 10.C11.C 12.D 13. A 14.B 15.C 16. A 17.D 18.C 19.C 20.BII. Definitions of literary terms (20%):1 C2 B 3.B 4.B 5.D 6.C 7.A 8.D 9.B 10.AIII. Matching authors with their works (20%):1.s2.r3.q4.p5.o6.j7.k8.t9.l 10.m 11.n 12.h 13.i 14.f 15.e 16.g 17.d 18.c 19.a 20.bIV. Filling in blanks(20%):1A 2.D 3.B 4.B 5.C 6.D 7.B 8.B 9.A 10.CV. Essay Question (30%):1. 文章言之有物，论点鲜明，语言通顺，错误极少，给35至38分。