英国文学试题及答案2

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

C 12. _____is considered to be the summit of Shakespeare’s art.

A.Romeo and Juliet

B. The Comedy of Errors

C. Hamlet

D. The Tempest

C 13. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics

and the later sacred verses.

A.John Milton

B. John Bunyan

C. John Donne

D. John Dryden

D 14. The main literary stream of the 18th century was ____ .

What the writers described in their works were mainly social realities.

A. romanticism

B. classicism

C. realism

D. Sentimentalism

D 15. Which of the following works are not written by Oliver Goldsmith? ____.

A. The Traveller

B. The Deserted Village

C. The Vicar of Wakefield

D. The School for Scandal

A 16.In the 18th century English literature ，the representative writer of

neo-classicism is _A___ .

A. Pope

B. Swift

C. Defoe

D. Milton

B 17.The __B_ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western

Europe in the 18th century .

A. Renaissance

B. Enlightenment

C. Religious Reformation

D. Chartist Movement

B18. Blake ，Wordsworth ，__B__ ，Byron ，Shelley and _________ are the major Romantic poets .

A. Coleridage / Southey

B. Coleridge / Keats

C. Keats / Scott

D. Scott / Coleridge

B 19. The Canterbury Tales was written in_____

A. Old English

B. Middle English

C. Modern English

D. Current Modern English

A 20. “The father of English poetry” is _____.

A. Geoffrey Chaocer

B. Edmund Spenser

C. Francis Bacon D Henry Fielding

II. Fill in the Blanks in the following summary statement 得分

according to what you have learnt of British history and literature. (20%)

1. Chaucer employed the_ Heroic _couplet in writing his greatest work The

Canterbury tales.

2.Shakespeare’s plays have been traditionally divided into four categories

according to dramatic type: histories, _ comedies _, tragedies and romances.

3. A Shakespearean sonnet is composed of three quatrains and a concluding_

couplet .

4.John Donne is the founder of the school of_ metaphysical poetry _. His works

are characterized by mysticism in content and fantasticality in form.

5. John Milton’s Paradise Lost opens with the description of a meeting among the

fallen angels, and ends with the departure of Adam and _Eve _from the

Garden of Eden.

6.Othello,__ Hamlet _ , Kinglear, and Macbeth are the four greatest tragedies of