英国文学试题及答案2 (1)(1)(1)

I、Multiple Choice. (40%)

There are 15 questions in this part. Choose A,B,C, or D on your answer sheet.

A 1. Beowulf is a ___ poem, describing an all-round picture of the tribal society.

A. pagan

B. Christain

C. romantic

D. lyric

B 2.The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a

comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely___.

A. William Langland’s Piers the Plowman

B. Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales

C. John Gower’s Confessio Amantis

D. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

C 3. In “ Sonnet 18 ” ，Shakespeare has a profound meditation on the

destructive power of __C___ and the eternal __________ brought forth by poetry to the one he loves .

A. death/ life

B. time / beauty

C. death/ love

D. hate / love

C. 4. Which of the following poetic forms is the principle form of Shakespeare’s

drama?

A. lyric

B. sonnet

C. blank verse

D. quatrain

C 5. Which of the following statements best illustrate the theme of Shakespeare’s

Sonnet 18?

A. The speaker eulogizes the power of nature.

B. The speaker satirizes human vanity.

C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.

D. The speaker meditates on man’s salvation.

A 6. Which of the following place does Gulliver visit first in Gulliver’s Travels?

A. Lilliput

B. Brobdingnag

C. Laputa

D. Houyhnhnms

B 7. Which of the following is NOT true about Robinson Crusoe?

A.It is written in the autobiographical form.

B.It is a record of Defoe’s own experiences.

C.Robinson spends 28 years of isolated life on the island.

D.It is set in the middle of the 17th century.

B.8.Many of Burn s’ songs deal with friendship.____ has long become a universal

parting-song of all the English speaking countries.

A. A Red, Red Rose

B. Auld Lang Syne

C. My Heart’s in the Highlands

D. John Anderson, My Jo

A 9.The Tiger was written by___.

A. William Blake

B. John Keats

C. William Wordsworth

D. Percy Shelley

B 10.“One short sleep past, we wake eternally” is taken from___

A. The Solitary Reaper

B. Death be not proud

C. To Autumn

D. Song to the Man of England

A 11. _____ is not a famous translator in the English Renaissance.

A. Thomas North

B. Thomas Wyatt

C. George Chapman

D. John Florio