专八备考人文知识题―英国文学部分汇总
英语专业八级(TEM)英国文学复习资料.doc
英语专业八级(TEM )英国文学复习资料Chapter One ( 一般掌握)Chapter Two English Literature of the Late Medieval AgesI.可出选择题有：( ) 1. Apart from original poems, Chaucer translated various works of French authors, among them is the famousA.The Canterbury TalesB.The Romance of the RoseC.The Parliament of FowlsD.The House of Fame()2. Generally speaking, Chaucer's works fall into three main groups corresponding roughly to the three periods of his adult life, which period is wrong?A.The period of French influenceB.The period of Italian influenceC.The period of his maturityD.The period of American influence( ) 3. Which of the following information about Chaucer is wrong?A.He died on the 25th of October 1400, he was the first to be buried in the writer's corner of Westminster AbbyB.He was considered as "father of English Poetry"C.He was one of the narrative poets of EnglandD.His masterpiece is The Canterbury Tales( ) 4. Of the following, the one which employs the form of romance is.A.AmorettiB. Venus and AdonisC. The TempestD. Sir Gawain and Green Knight( ) 5. The characters in the Canterbury Tales can be divided into thefollowing groups except.A.rural dwellersB. church membersC. tradesmanD. nobles()6. Piers the Plowman is similar in form to the work written byA.ChaucerB. ShakespeareC. MarloweD. BunyanChapter Three English Literature in the RenaissanceI.可出选择题有：( ) 1. English Renaissance Period was an age ofA.prose and novelB.poetry and dramaC.essays and journalsD.ballads and songs()2. "Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore art thou Romeo?" is one of the most famous lines from Romeo and Juliet. Which of the following comments on the line is NOT true?A.Juliet speaks the line in the balcony scene.B.She is unaware of Romeo's presence.C.She asks him to deny his family for her love.D. A major theme in Romeo and Juliet is the tension between social and family identity and one's inner identity (represented by one's name).( ) 3. The Elizabethan literatureA.had a marked unity and the feeling of patriotism and devotion to the queen.B.witnessed a decline of degenerationC.expressed age and sadness, even the brightest hours were followed by gloom and pessimism.D.was not romantic.()4. One of the following plays takes its subject matter from Chinese historyA.Henry IVB. MacbethC. TamburlaineD. Alchemist( ) 5. Dr Faustus sells his soul to the devil because he.A.is faced by MephistophelesB.wants to gain more moneyC.wants to live an extravagant lifeD.wants to know more about the world()6. Shakespeare is a poet, playwright and.A.criticB. novelistC. an actorD. both b and c( ) 7. Of the following, the one which employs the form of romance is.A.AmorettiB. Venus and AdonisC. The TempestD. Sir Gawain and Green Knight( ) 8. The difference of Surrey's contribution to English poetry from that of Wyatt lies in that Surrey.A.wrote the first English sonnetB.introduce the couplet into EnglandC.wrote the first English blank verseD.made the sonnet popular()9. The one who first made blank verse the principal instrument of English drama isA.SurreyB. MarloweC. ShakespeareD. Jonson( ) 10. The recurrent theme of Marlowe* s play is the praise of.A.capitalismB. feudalismC. individualismD. nationalismII.可出填空题有：1.Rough winds do shake the of May,And has all too short a date.2.Sometimes too hot the shines, and often is his__________ dimmed.3.Shakespeare produced plays and sonnet.4.is praised by Marx as “the progenitor of English Materialism,^.III.可出简答题有：Analyze Shakespeare's four periods of career concisely.Chapter Four English Literature of the Seventeenth CenturyI.可出选择题有：( ) 1.was a progressive intellectual movement which began inFrance and had a wide impact throughout Europe in 18th century.A.The RenaissanceB.The EnlightenmentC.The Religious ReformationD.The Chartist Movement( ) 2. Which of the following comment on the image of Satan in Paradise Lostis NOT correct?A.The finest thing in Paradise Lost is the description of Hell and Satan was the real hero.B.He is firmer than the rest of the fallen angelsC.He remains obeyed and admired by all the angelsD.It is he who makes man revolt against God.( ) 3. Which of the following information about John Donne is NOT true?A.He was born in a Roman Catholic family.B.He received his education at Oxford and Cambridge.ter he gave up his Catholic faith and took orders in the Anglican Church.D.He wrote only religious poems.()4. Dryden's contribution to English literature lies in the following except.A.he established the heroic couplet as one of the principal English verse formB.he clarified the English proseC.he raised the English literature criticism to a new levelD.he raised English comedy to a higher level( ) 5. Apology for Poetry is.A. a poemB. a romanceC. a criticismD. a sonnetII.可出判断题有：( ) 1. John Donne is famous for his metaphysical conceit, that is, a comparison between the two strikingly resemblant objects.()2. Newspaper was born in 17th century.( ) 3. One of the characteristics of the English bourgeois revolution was that it was carried out under the cloak of religion.III.可出填空题有：1.is the glorious pioneer to introduce blank verse into non-dramatic poetry.IV.可出术语有：metaphysical poetsChapter Five English Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyI.可出选择题有:( ) 1. In the 18th century, satire was much used in writing, English literature of this age produced some excellent satirists, such asA.SwiftB. DefoeC. BlakeD. Burns( ) 2. In the 18th century English literature, the representative poets of Pre-romanticism wereA.Blake and WordsworthB.Bums and ColeridgeC.Blake and BurnsD.Wordsworth and Coleridge()3. Which of the following information about William Blake is NOT true?A.He was born in London, the son of Irish hosier.B.He was a poet as well as an engraver.C.His first book of poem was Songs of Innocence.D.His later poems are mysterious and hard to understand.( ) 4. The main literary stream of the 18th century was.A.RomanticismB.RealismC.Pre-romanticismD.Critical realism( ) 5.was considered as “father of English Novel".A.SwiftB.FieldingC.ChaucerD.Jane Austin() 6. In 1704,founded the periodicals "the Review".A. SwiftB. BlakeC. MiltonD. DefoeII.可出判断题有：( )1. Pope established the heroic couplet as one of the principal English verse forms.( ) 2. Burn's poems are largely based on imitation and revision of folk balladsof his motherland.( ) 3. Neo-classicism means restraint, thus it is unfit for the requirement of French Revolution, which aroused the age of Romantic Revival to unfetter spirit of humankind.( )4. Swift is known as a pioneer novelist of English and also a prolific writer ofbooks and pamphlets on variety of subjects.( ) 5. The Houyhnhnms represent an ideal rational existence, a life governedby sense.III.可出填空题有：1.is the glorious pioneer to introduce blank verse into non-dramatic poetry.2.People in 18th century believed in and their watchword was“common sense".V.可出术语有：EnlightenmentChapter Six English Literature of the Romantic AgeI.可出选择题有：( ) 1. The Roman tic Age began with the publication of “The Lyrical Ballads^, which was written byA.William WordsworthB.Samuel JohnsonC.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD.Wordsworth and Coleridge( ) 2. Which poet does not belong to the Active Romantic Poet?A. ByronB. ShelleyC. KeatsD. Blake( ) 3. The first poem in “The Lyrical Ballads" is Coleridge's masterpieceA.Kubla KhanB.The PreludeC.The Rime of Ancient MarinerD.Tintern Abbey( )4. In 1805, Wordsworth completed a long auto-biographical poem entitledA. Biographia LiterariaB. The PreludeC. Lucy PoemsD. The Lyrical Ballads( ) 5. The following stanza is from a poem written by ____ .When we two partedIn silence and in tears,Half broken-hearted,To sever for years.Pale grew thy cheek and coldColder than thy kiss;Truly that hour foretoldSorrow to this!A.Percy Bysshe ShellyB.William BlakeC.George Gordon ByronD.Robert Browning()6. The Lake Poets include all the following members except the author of the following work.A. The PreludeB. Don JuanC. The Ancient MarinerD. Joan of Arc()7. Scott's chief contribution to English literature lies in his novels of.A. warB. historyC. cityD. romanceII.可出判断题有：( ) 1. With the establishment of the Jacobin dictatorship in France, Wordsworth's attitude toward revolution changed into active.( ) 2. In the revised version of Lyrical Ballads, Coleridge held that poetry isthe66spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”.()3. Romanticism is a literary trend. It prevailed in England in the period (1798——1832)( ) 4. The most important impetus of the Romantic movement was the French Revolution()5. The ideals of French Revolution are liberty, democracy, and equality.()6. The brilliant literary criticism “Biographia Literaria^, is written by Wordsworth.III.可出填空题有：1.marked the transition from romanticism to the period of realism which followed it.2.In 1843 Wordsworth was made.IV可出术语有：lake poetsV.可出简答题有：What are the qualities of Romanticism?Chapter Seven English Literature of the Victorian AgeI.可出选择题有：( ) 1. The following statements are features of Dickens's novels except.A.The power of exposureplicated and fascinating plotC.Broad humor and penetrating satireD.Tragic mood and feeling of depressionII.可出判断题有：( ) 1. A Tale of Two Cities belongs to the first writing phase of Dickens's career, and the two cities are London and Paris.( ) 2. Though the Victorian poets are called The Third Generation of Romanticism, they showed no vigor and power in production of poetry as their previous poets.III.可出填空题有：1.In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend appeared after the romantic poetry.2.The title of the novel Vanity Fair is suggestive of that Vanity Fair in Bunyan's masterpiece, where all sorts of vanities are on sale.3 ・ The central characters of The Mill on Floss are Tom and his sister4.is the representative of New Romanticism in the novel writing at the end of the 19th century.IV.可出术语有：Dramatic monologueV.可出简答题有：The contribution of the setting to the expression of the speaker's situation in"'Crossing the Bar".Chapter Eight English Literature of the First Half of the Twentieth CenturyI.可出判断题有:( T ) 1. Symbolism, Surrealism, Imagism, Expressionism, etc, all belong to School of Modernism.( T ) 2. The Rainbow is D. H. Lawrence's autobiographical work.II.可出简答题有：The significance of the theme of Araby.March the works in column A and authors in column B and write the letter of your choice in the bracketsA BA B。
英国文学知识（专八人文知识必备）
英国文学知识（专八人文知识必备）英国文学知识一、中古英国文学1.Beowulf : the oldest poem in the English language and the most importantspecimen of Anglo-Saxon literature.2.Geoffrey Chaucer: he is acclaimed as the father of English Poetry and father ofEnglish fiction. His masterpiece。
The Canterbury TalesThe Romaunt of the RoseThe Legend of good WomenThe House of Fame二、文艺复兴时期时间：14世纪到17世纪中后期特点：Humanism became the keynote of English Renaissance著名作家：1.Thomas More: Utopia2.Edmund Spenser (a poet):The Faerie QueenThe Shepherd Calendar3.Christopher Marlowe( a poet and dramatist):Edward IIDr. FaustusTamburlaineThe Jew of Malta4.William Shakespeare喜剧：A Midsummer Night’s DreamAs you like itMerchant of VeniceThe Twelfth night悲剧：Romeo and JulietThe Tempest四大悲剧：Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet主要历史剧：Henry IV, Henry V5.Francis BaconEssaysThe advancement of learning6.John DonneThe Elegies and SatiresThe Songs and Sonnets7.John Milton (poet)晚年三首长诗Paradise lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes三：新古典主义时期时间：17世纪中后期到18世纪特点：The neoclassicists held that all forms of literature were to be modeled after the classical works of the ancient Greek and Roman writers. They believed that the artistic ideals should be order, logic and restrained emotion and accuracy.著名作家：1.John Dryden: All for Love2.John Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s ProgressThe Holy WarThe life and Death of Mr. Badman3.Alexander Pope An Essay on CriticismAn Essay on ManThe Rape of the LockOdyssey4.Daniel Defoe(who is called the father of English and European novels)Robison CrusoeA journal of the Plague yearCaptain Singleton5.Jonathan SwiftGulliver’s TravelA Tale of a TubA Modest proposalThe Drapier’s letters6.Henry FieldingThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling7.Samuel Johnson (著名词汇家，第一部英语字典的编者)A Dictionary of the English LanguageThe Vanity of Human WishesLondon8.Richard Brinsley SheridanThe school for the scandalThe Rivals9.Thomas GrayElegy Written in a country churchyardOde on the spring四：浪漫主义时期时间：18世纪中期到19世纪中期特点：Romanticism gave primary concern to passion, emotion, and natural beauty and is marked by a strong reaction and protest against the bondage of rule and custom. The Romanticism period is an age of Poetry and poets.主要作家1.William BlakeSongs of ExperienceSongs of InnocencePoetical SketchesThe marriage of heaven and hell 2.William WordsworthLyrical BalladsTo the CuckooMy Heart leaps up3.Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan 忽必烈汗三巨头1.George Gordon ByronCainDon JuanChilde Harold’s Pilgrimage2.Percy Bysshe ShelleyOde to the West WindOde to the Skylark Prometheus unboundedThe Necessity of Atheism Queen Mab3.John KeatsOde to AutumnOde to a nightingaleOde on a Grecian um 希腊古瓷颂Isabella以下各位不太重要：1.Charles LambTales from ShakespeareEssays of Elia2.Mary ShelleyFrankenstein3.Robert SoutheyJoan of Arc 圣女贞德小说家Jane AustinEmmaSense and SensibilityPride and PrejudiceMansfield ParkPersuasion五、VICTORIA PERIOD时间：维多利亚1837年继位，1901年去世。
专八人文知识(英国文学)
The old and medieval English literature(8th-14th century )The renaissance period(14th –mid17th c)The neoclassical period(mid17th -18th c)The romantic period(mid18th -mid19th c)The Victorian period(1836-1901)Modern period(20th - )注：【后面的Matp指主要作品】一．The old and medieval English literature(8th-14th century)1.The Venerable Bede(A.D673-735) “father of English history”《the essiesiastical history of the English people》《the anglo-sarxon chronic》epic——Beowulf2.mid11th-mid14th 亚瑟王和圆桌骑士《Sir Gawain and the Green Knight，高文爵士和绿衣骑士》3.Geoffy Chaucer（杰弗利·乔叟，1343-1400）“the father of English poetry” ；“the first one who used London dialect ” in《The Canterbury Tales，坎特伯雷故事集》（1387-1400,a prologue\24 tales,描写14th 英国现状）二．The renaissance period (14th –mid17th c)1.Sonnet:contains 14 lines of iambic pentameter rhymed in various patterns 14行5音步抑扬格诗行（ababcdcdefefgg）e.g: So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.2.Thomas More(托马斯·莫尔1478-1535) Matp:《Utopia,乌托邦》（in Latin）3.Francis Bacon(培根1561-1626) “杰出essayist in English history”《the essays》4.Edmund Spenser(埃德蒙·斯宾赛,1552-1599) “the poet’s poet”；Matp:《The Faerie Queen,仙后》（1579）；create “Spencerian Stanza ,斯宾塞诗体”。
人文知识—英国文
• 4. 文学形式：
A. 诗歌： 代表作家: Thomas Wyatt: Sonnet. Henry Howard: Blank verse Sir Philip Sidney: ①Astrophel and Stella 《爱星者与星》 ②Apology for Poetry 《为诗一辩》 Edmund Spenser: The poets’poet （诗人中的诗人） Poet Laureate （桂冠诗人）
Two remarkable historical plays: ①Henry Ⅳ 《亨利四世》 ②Henry Ⅴ 《亨利五世》 Besides the 37 plays,Shakespeare wrote some long poems and 154 sonnets. He was one of the founders of realism in English literature. Two long narrative poems are: ①Venus and Adonis 《维纳斯和阿多尼斯》 ②The Rape of Lucrece 《露易丝受辱记》 Ben Johnson: Of many successors of Shakespeare, Ben Johnson is the most important dramatist. Volpone 《狐狸》: Satirical comedy
The Victorian Period The Modern Period
The Renaissance Period
• 1. 时间界定: the 14th and mid-17th centuries 1)The beginning (1516-1578) 2)The flowering period (1578-1625) 3)The epiogue (1625-1660) • 2. 核心: Humanism • 3. 文化背景： A. 场所: English schools and universities were established in place of the old monasteries. B. 印刷术的引进: William Caxton introduced printing into England . C. 翻译的时代的出现（With the introduction of printing, an age of translation came into being.）
专八人文知识之英国文学（2）
专八人文知识之英国文学（2）专八人文知识之英国文学14、奥利弗·哥德史密斯Oliver Goldsmith：《好心人》The Good-Natur'd Man;《屈伸求爱》She Stoops to Conquer;《威客菲尔德牧师传》The Vicar of Wakefield ，属感伤主义文学;其诗歌《荒村》 The Deserted Village从新古典主义neoclassicism向浪漫主义romanticism过渡的标志;散文作品《世界公民》The Citizen of the World15、谢里丹Richard Brinsley Sheridan：《造谣学校》The School for Scandal，为莎士比亚之后最杰出的英国喜剧British comedy，是整个英国史上最优秀的作品之一，达到英国“风俗喜剧”a comedy of manners 之巅五、维多利亚时期的英国文学(19世纪)1、威廉·华兹华斯William Wordsworth：湖畔派诗人“Lake Poets”代表(湖畔派诗人有华兹华斯，柯勒律治，骚赛)，曾为桂冠诗人Poet Laureate(是经由政府官方任命的诗人及其称号);著有《独自云游》I wandered lonely as a cloud，《孤独的割麦女》The Solitary Reaper，《抒情歌谣集》(与柯勒律治Samuel Taylor Coleridge合出)Lyrical Ballads，宣告了浪漫主义新诗的诞生。
其最具有代表性的作品为《序曲》Prelude2、柯勒律治Samuel Taylor Coleridge：《古舟子咏》(亦作《古舟子之歌》)The Rime of the Ancient Mariner，《忽必烈汗》Kubla Khan，《克里斯特贝尔》Christabel3、骚赛Robert Southey：消极浪漫主义negative Romanticism诗人，被封为桂冠诗人;《毁灭者萨拉巴》Thalabathe destroyer 是骚赛最重要的长篇史诗epic之一4、乔治·戈登·拜伦 George Gordon Byron：是英国19世纪初期伟大的浪漫主义诗人Romantic poets，著有《唐璜》Don Juan。
专八人文知识总结(终)
11、E.M．Forster: 《通往印度之路》
12、George Bernard Shaw萧伯纳：Widowers' Houses《鳏夫的房产》，Heartbreak House《伤心之家》，Mrs. Warren's Profession《华伦夫人的职业》
4、Ballads 民谣：Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale《罗宾汉和阿林代尔》。
三、 The Renaissance文艺复兴时期的英国文学（伊丽莎白时代）（14-16世纪）
1、 Thomas More托马斯·莫尔： Utopia《乌托邦》
2、 Thomas Wyatt 最先将sonnet引入英国文学。
2、 Coleridge柯勒律治：The Rime of the Ancient Mariner《古舟子咏》Christabel《克里斯特贝尔》, Kubla Khan《忽必烈汗》
3、 Southey骚赛：桂冠诗人；
4、 George Gordon Byron乔治·戈登·拜伦： Don Juan《唐璜》
悲观时期： David Copperfield《董贝父子》，David Copperfield《大卫科波菲尔》
后期：Bleak House《荒凉山庄》，Hard Times《艰难时世》A Tale of Two Cities《双城记》，Great Expectations《远大前程》
14、Thackeray萨克雷：Vanity Fair《名利场》
2、Yeats叶芝：爱尔兰使人 《芦苇的风》《库尔的野天鹅》《驶向拜占庭》。
专八人文常识辅导材料(英国文学)
专八人文常识辅导材料（英国文学）British Literature: A Concise HistoryI. Review (P.162) 补充091. Ode to the West Wind was written by _____. (2009) A. William Blake.B. William Wordsworth.C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.D. Percy B. Shelley.2. The novel Sons and Lovers was written by __. (2009) A. Thomas Hardy.B. John Galsworthy.C.D.H. Lawrence. D. James Joyce.3. The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, is an important poetic work by ______. (2008)A. William LanglandB. Geoffrey ChaucerC. William ShakespeareD. Alfred Tennyson4. All of the following are well-known female writers in 20th-century Britain EXCEPT ______. (2008) A. George Eliot B. Iris Jean Murdoch C. Dons Lessing D. Muriel Spark5. Which of the following novels was written by Emily Bronte? (2007)A. Oliver TwistB. MiddlemarchC. Jane EyreD. Wuthering Heights6. William Butler Yeats was a(n) ____ poet and1playwright. (2007)A. AmericanB. CanadianC. IrishD. Australian7. Which of the following writers is a poet of the 20th century? (2006)A. T.S. EliotB. D. H. LawrenceC. Theodore DreiserD. James Joyce8. _____is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed into 14 lines. (2006) A. Free verse B. Sonnet C. Ode D. Epigram 9. Thenovel Emma is written by____. (2005) A. Mary Shelly B. Charlotte BronteC. Elizabeth GaskellD. Jane Austen10. Which of the following is NOT a romantic poet? (2005)A. William WordsworthB. George EliotC. George ByronD. Percy Shelly II. Historical Periods (P. 10)1. Old and Medieval Times: 5th-15ththth2. The Period of Renaissance: late 15-early 17th3. The Period of Revolution and Restoration: 17th4. The Neo-classical Period: 18 (Enlightenment)5. The Romantic Period: at the turn of the 18th and 19thth6. The Victorian Period: 19th7. The Modern Period: 202III. Key Figures 1. Geoffrey Chaucer2. William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Francis Bacon, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe3. John Milton, John Dryden4. Richard Sheridan, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe5. William Wordsworth, George Byron, P.B Shelly, John Keats, Jane Austen6. Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, the Bronte sisters, George Eliot, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Oscar Wilde7. G.B. Shaw, Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, William Yeats, T.S. EliotIV. Sample1. It is________alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.A. William LanglandB. Geoffrey ChaucerC. William ShakespeareD. Charles Dickens2. _______ is called “the poets’ poet” whose masterpiece is _________.3A. Edmund Spencer, The Faerie QueeneB. William Wordsworth, The PreludeC. George Byron, Don JuanD. John Milton, Paradise Lost3. It is generally regarded that Keats’s most important and mature poems are in the form of . A. elegy B. ode C. epic D. sonnet4. ________ embodies both Puritanism and Humanism in mid-17th century England.A. John BunyanB. John DrydenC. John MiltonD. John Donne5. Who is NOT the major figure of modernist movement?A. T.S. EliotB. James JoyceC. William YeatsD. George Eliot6. Who is considered to be the best known English dramatist since Shakespeare?A. Oscar WildeB. Richard SheridanC. Christopher MarloweD. George Bernard Shaw7. Of the following poets, which is NOT regarded as “Lake Poets”?4A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. Robert SouthyC. William WordsworthD. William Yeats8. In the first part of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver told his experience in .A. LilliputB. BrobdingnagC. the country of HouyhnhnmsD. Laputa9. Which of the following works is NOT written by G.B. Shaw?A. PygmalionB. Mrs. Warren’s ProfessionC. Heartbreak HouseD. The Old Curiosity Shop10. “The Vanity Fair” is a well-known part in ______. A. The Pilgrim’s ProgressB. Grace Abounding to the Chief of SinnersC. The Life and Death of Mr. BadmanD. The Holy War11. Which of the following writing is NOT a work byCharles Dickens?A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. Hard TimesC. Oliver TwistD. Sons and Lovers12. Who is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”? A. John Keats B. William Blake5。
专八考试人文知识英美文学部分
英国文学知识点总结一、中古世纪时期和文艺复兴时期1.The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on theirway to Canterbury, is an important poetic work by ______. (2006)A.William LanglandB. Geoffrey ChaucerC. William ShakespeareD. AlfredTennyson2.______ is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed intofourteen lines. (2006)A.Free verseB. sonnetC. odeD. epigram重要文学术语一句话定义：Ballad 民谣：Ballad is a story in poetic form to be sung or recited. It was handed down from generation to generation. 代表作：Robin HoodEpic 史诗：Epic, in poetry, refers to a long work dealing with the actions of gods and heroes. 代表作：BeowulfRenaissance 文艺复兴：It meant the reintroduction into Western Europe of the full cultural heritage of Greece and Rome.Humanism 人文主义：Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance.Spenserian stanza 斯宾塞诗节：it refers to a stanza of nine lines, with the first eight lines in iambic pentameter, the last line in iambic pentameter, rhyming ababbcbcc. 代表作：the Faerie QueeneSonnet 十四行诗: A sonnet is a lyric consisting of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter. 代表人物：William Shakespeare重要人物和其代表作的一句话评价：Geoffrey Chaucer 乔叟：He is regarded as the father of modern English poetry. 英国诗歌之父代表作：Canterbury Tales: A collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims.Philip Sidney 菲利普锡尼：He stands for the spirit of the Elizabeth age. 伊莉莎白时代精神的代表代表作：Defense of Poetry, Arcadia.Edmund Spenser 斯宾塞：the poet s’ poet. He created Spenser Stanza. 诗人中的诗人，斯宾塞诗节的创作者。
专八人文知识考题英国文学
英国文学练习题1.Utopia is the work of ______.A. SpenserB. DonneC. BlakeD. More2.Swift invented famous ____ in his famous Gulliver’s Travels.A. LilliputB. BrobddingagC. Celestial cityD. Morality Pool3.______ 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 More4. The middle of the 18th century was predominated by a newly rising literary form, that is the modern English _____, whichgives a realistic presentation of life of the common people.A. proseB. short storyC. novelD. tragedy5. The Tale of Two Cities is about a story happened in time of _______.A. Napoleon WarB. British Civil WarC. WWⅡD. French Revolution6._____ is the central concern to Blake’s concern in the Song of Innocent and Song of Experience.A. ChildhoodB. WomanC.M2MD. U27. Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are ______.A. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and MacbethB. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Romeo and JulietC. Hamlet, Carolinas, King Lear and MacbethD. Hamlet, Julius, Caesar, Othello and Macbeth8.Among the Pioneers of the 18th century novelists were Daniel, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding and______A. Laurance SterneB. John DrydenC. Charles DickensD. Alexander Pope9.The writer of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage isA. ByronB. ShellyC. KeatsD. Wordsworth10. Who is famous for his historical novel of Rob Roy?A. ScottB. Richard SheridanC. Ben JohnsonD. Bernard Shaw11. Dickens’ works are characterized by a mingling of ______ and pathos.A. humorB. satireC. passionD. metaphor12.The success of Jane Eyre is not only because of its sharp criticism of the existing society, but also due to its introduction to theEnglish novel the first _____heroine.A. explorerB. peasantC. workerD. governess13. Browning introduced a new form to English poetry, that is ____.A. dramatic monologueB. heroic coupletC. sonnetD. lyrical14._____ is the outstanding representative of Aestheticism in British literature history?A. WildeB. YeatsC. T.S. EliotD. Rossetti15.Strong affinity to the Chinese and oriental literature can be found in the works of ______.A. Mark TwainB. Ezra PoundC. Emily DickinsonD. Arthur Miller16. Which of the following novels was written by Emily Bronte?A. Oliver TwistB. MiddlemarchC. Jane EyreD. Wuthering Heights17. William Butler Yeats was a(n) ______ poet and playwright.A. AmericanB. CanadianC. IrishD. Australian18. Ode to the West Wind was written by________A. William Blake.B. William Wordsworth.C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.D. Percy B. Shelley.19. The novel Sons and Lovers was written by_______.A. Thomas Hardy.B. John Galsworthy.C.D.H. Lawrence. D. James Joyce.20. All of the following are well-known female writers in 20th -century Britain EXCEPT_____.A. George Eliot.B. Iris Jean Murdoch.C. Doris Lessing.D. Muriel。
专八备考人文知识题―英国文学部分汇总
第一阶段:中古英国文学(8世纪——14世纪1. Which of the following does not belong to the works of Geoffrey Chaucer?A. The Canterbury T alesB. The Vision of Piers PlowmanC. Troilus and CriseydeD. The Romaunt of the Rose2. “_____” brings the readers into a world that be longs to the Celtic legend of King Arthur and his knights of the Round T able.A. The Vision of Piers PlowmanB. The House of FameC. The Romaunt of the RoseD. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight3. Which of the following is the translation work of Geoffrey Chaucer?A. The Canterbury T alesB. Troilus and CriseydeC. The Romaunt of the RoseD. The House of Fame4. In the 14th century, the most important writer is _____.A. LanglandB. WyclifC. GowerD. Chaucer5. In Anglo-Saxon period, “Beowulf” rep resented the _____ poetry.A. paganB. religiousC. romanticD. sentimental6. When we speak of the old English prose, we might think of _____, who is the first scholar in English literature and has been regarded as father of English learning.A. William ShakespeareB. BeowulfC. Julius CaesarD. Venerable Bede7. _____ is not only a prose writer but also a king of Wessex.A. Alfred the GreatB. Venerable BedeC. Adam BedeD. king Arthur8. _____ is the culmination of the Arthurian romance.A. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightB. The Story of BeowulfC. Piers the PlowmanD. The Canterbury T ales9. William Langland’s “_____” is written in the form of a dream vision.A. Kublai KhanB. Piers the PlowmanC. The Dream of John BullD. Morte d’Arthur10. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is the _____.A. FrenchB. LatinC. RomanceD. Science11. In which century were Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury T ales written?A. FourteenthB. FifteenthC. SixteenthD. Seventeenth12. William Langland wrote for _____.A. the royal familyB. the courtC. the monksD. the common people13. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight focuses on _____.A. immediate social issuesB. the real life as well as people’s feelings and desiresC. a remote world belongs to the Celtic Legend of King Arthur and his knightsD. the imagination of the future world14. King Alfred’s Anglo Saxon Chronicle was written in _____ form.A. poeticB. dramaticC. proseD. none of the above【答案及题解】1. B The Vision of Piers Plowman 是作家威廉·兰格伦的作品。
专八人文知识经典总结——英国文学
James Joyce 乔伊斯
Dubiners都柏林人
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 青年艺术家的画像;
Ulysess尤利西斯
Songs of Experience 经验之歌
The Tiger
William Wordsworth
An Evening Walk 黄昏漫步
LyricaΒιβλιοθήκη Ballads 抒情歌谣集Lucy Poems露西组诗
Ode on Intimations of Immorality 不朽颂
The Prelude 序曲
New Instrument 新工具
Essays 论文集（Of Studies 论学习;Of Wisdom for a Man’s Self）
William Shakespeare
Henry the Sixth
The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Hamlet
The Tempest 暴风雨
Romeo andJulet
Part 3. The English Bourgeois revolution period
John Milton
L‘Allegro 欢乐的人
IlPenseroso沉思的人
Paradise Lost 失乐园;
Paradise Regained 复乐园;
Pride and Prejudice 傲慢与偏见;
Sense and Sensibility 理智与情感;
Emma 爱玛;
MansfieldPark曼斯菲尔德公园
专八人文知识英美文学复习材料
专业八级备考英美文学知识纲要注：黄色部分为往年已考过的内容。
英国文学Old and Medieval English literature (5th-15th century) 10661. Beowulf oldest English epic2. medieval romance Arthurian romances, knight3. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales in heroic couplet4. popular ballads Robin Hood stories and the ballad meterThe English Renaissance—Humanism, drama (16th century)1. Edmund Spenser Faerie Queene in the Spenserian stanza, allegorical romance2.Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine the Great3.William Shakespearea)Major tragedies: Hamlet; Othello; King Lear; Macbethb)Major comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Merchant of V enice; As YouLike It; The Twelfth Night; Romeo and Julietc)Sonnet 184.Francis Bacon Essays“Of Studies” some quotes from the essay5.King James’s or The Authorized Bible (1604)The 17th Century—Turbulent and gloomy1.John Donne and Metaphysical Poetry “The Flea”, “Valediction: ForbiddingMourning”2.John Milton: Paradise Lost rebellious spirit, Miltonic style, blank verse3.John Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s Progress allegory, satire, Vanity FairThe 18th Century—Age of Reason and common sense1.Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders2.Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels, “A Modest Proposal”3.Neoclassicism and Alexander Pope4.Samuel Johnson Letter to the Right Honourable The Earl of Chesterfield5.Henry Fielding The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling6.Robert Burns: “A Red, Red Rose”“Auld Lang Syne”7.William Blake: Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, “The Tyger”The Age of Romanticism—Poetry, individualism, nature, emotion (1798-1832)1.William Wordsworth: “The Preface to Lyrical Ballads” as declaration of Romanticism,nature poet “The Solitary Reaper”, “Tintern Abbey”, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” or“Daffodils” , “Composed upon Westerminster Bridge”2.Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan3.George Gorgon Byron: the Byronic hero; Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Don Juan4.Percy Bysshe Shelley: Queen Mab, Prometheus Unbound, “Ode to the West Wind”5.John Keats：“Ode to a Nightingale”, “To Autumn”, “Ode on an Grecian Urn”, truth isbeauty, beauty is truth6.Walter Scott: historical romance, Ivanhoe7.Jane Austen: realistic writing about family life, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense andSensibilityThe Victorian Age (1832-1901) 19th century1.general features: utilitarianism, middle class urban literature, conservative morality2.Charles Dickens: Dombey and Son, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations,Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Bleak House, Little Dorrit3.William Thackeray: Vanity Fair4.The Bronte sisters: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte; Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte5.George Eliot: Silas Marner, The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch6.Thomas Hardy: the Wessex novels; Tess of the D’urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, TheReturn of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, naturalist ideas7.Alfred Tennyson: poet8.Robert Browning: poet, dramatic monologue, “My Last Duchess”9.George Bernard Shaw: dramatist, 1925 Nobel Prize winnerThe Twentieth Century1.The features of modernism: alienation and loneliness2.T. S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; The Waste Land 1948 Nobel Prizewinner3.James Joyce: Ulysses, The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Irish, Dublin, stream ofconsciousness4.Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway5. D. H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers(Oedipus Complex), Lady Chatterley’s Lover6.W. B. Yeats: Irish poet, modernism 1923 Nobel Prize winner7.Angry Young Men (1950s): Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim8.The Theatre of the Absurd: Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot9.Women writers: Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark10.Doris Lessing: The Golden Notebook, 2007 Nobel Prize winner11.contemporary writers: Martin Amis, Ian McEvan, Julia Barnes, A. S. Byatt, MargaretDrabble, Anita Brookner, V. S, Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, Philip Larkin(poet), Seamus Heaney (poet), Harold Pinter (dramatist)12.V. S. Naipaul: Indian-British novelist, 2001 Nobel Prize winner13.Seamus Heaney: Irish Poet 1995 Nobel Prize winner美国文学Colonial Period (1607-1800) –Rise of the American Dream1.Puritanism, Enlightenment, Independence War2.Jonathan Edwards3.Benjamin Franklin:Poor Richard’s Almanac, AutobiographyRomanticism (1800-1865) –Prime of the American Dream1.Washington Irving: “Rip Van Winkle”, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”2.James Fenimore Cooper: Leather stocking Tales, American Westward movement3.New England Transcendentalism: Oversoul4.Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Nature”(The Bible for Transcendentalism), “The AmericanScholar” (intellectual independence), prose5.Henry David Thoreau: Walden, prose6.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: poet, “A Psalm of Life”7.Edgar Allan Poe: poet and short story writer, “The Raven”, The Fall of the House ofUsher, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Purloined Letter8.Walt Whitman: free verse, Leaves of Grass, “Song of Myself”, “O Captain! MyCaptain!”, national poet of America, social and national topics, strongly influenced byEmerson9.Emily Dickinson: poet, regional and inner world, topics on religion, death, love, nature10.Nathaniel Hawthorn: novelist, dark side of human beings, The Scarlet Letter, “YoungGoodman Brown”, “The Minister’s Black Veil”11.Herman Melville: novelist, sea life, Moby DickRealism and Naturalism (1865-1918)—Questioning the American Dream1.William Dean Howells: middle class, The Rise of Silas Lapman2.Mark Twain: Samuel Clemens, lower class, local colorism, The Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn/Tom Sawyer, The Gilded Age3.Henry James: rich class, international theme, psychological descriptions, The Portrait ofa Lady, The Ambassadors, The American, Daisy Miller4.Stephen Crane: pioneer writing in the naturalistic tradition, Maggie: A Girl of theStreets, The Red Badge of Courage5.Frank Norris: McTeague, the first full-bodied naturalistic American novel, a case studyof the inevitable effect of environment and heredity on human lives6.Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, The Financier, An American Tragedy7.Jack London: The Call of the Wild, Martin Eden8.O Henry: short story writer, the American Maupassant, surprise endings, “The Gift ofthe Magi”, “The Cop and the An them”Modernism (1918-1945)—Disillusionment of the American Dream1.Imagist poetry: imagism, direct treatment of the thing, use as few words as possible2.Ezra Pound: “In a Station of the Metro”, The Cantos3.T. S. Eliot: referring to the British part4.Wallace Stevens: “Anecdote of the Jar”, “The Idea of Order at Key West”5.William Carlos Williams: “The Red Wheelbarrow”6.Robert Frost: New England poet, “The Road Not Taken”, “Mending Wall”, “AfterApple-picking”7.Modernist Novels: the Lost Generation8. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, the Jazz age9.Ernest Hemingway: the Lost Generation, Hemingway hero, iceberg theory, The Sun AlsoRises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, 1954Nobel Prize winner10.William Faulkner: the Southern Renaissance/myth, Yoknapatawpha, The Sound and theFury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, stream of consciousness1949 Nobel Prize winner11.Sherwood Anderson: Winesburg, Ohio; describing the grotesque12.Sinclair Lewis: Main Street, sociological writer, first American Nobel Prize winner,(1930)13.Willa Cather: female writer, writing about the Old West in traditional way, My Antonio14.John Dos Passos: 1930s, Depression, U.S.A.15.John Steinbeck: 1930s, Depression, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, The Pearl1962 Nobel Prize winner16.Drama: A renaissance of drama in 1920s—Eugene O’Neill, The theatre of theDepression in 1930s17.Eugene O’Neill: American dram began in 1916 when O’Neil’s first play Bound East forCardiff was produced, The Hairy Ape, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day’s Journey intoNightPost-War American Literature—Multi-faceted1.The Beat Generation in 1950s: Howl by Allen Ginsberg (poet), On the Road by JackKerouac (novelist)2.Black Humor: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller3.Post-war Realism: Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger4.Jewish literature: Herzog by Saul Bellow5.African-American literature: Richard Wright, Native Son; Ralph Ellison, The InvisibleMan; Toni Morrison, Beloved6.Post-war drama: Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire;Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman7.Theatre of the Absurd: George Albee, Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Literary Terms:1. Alliteration: repetition of the same sound or sounds at the beginning of two or more wordsthat are next to or close to each other.2. Iambic pentameter: poetic meters of five iambs or feet. Iambic means the stress is on thesecond syllable.3. Heroic couplet: a pair of rhyming iambic pentameter lines.4. Blank verse: unrhymed poetic lines in iambic pentameters.5. Sonnet: a lyric poem consisting of a single stanza of fourteen iambic pentameter lines linkedby an intricate rhyme scheme. Italian or Petrarchan sonnet is composed of an octave and a sestet (rhyming abbaabba cdecde). Shakespearean sonnet consists of three quatrains and a couplet (rhyming abab cdcd efef gg).6. Assonance: repetition of related vowel sounds7. Ode: a long lyric poem that is serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style and elaboratein its stanzaic structure.8. Spenserian stanza: a nine-line stanza of eight lines in iambic pentameter plus an iambichexameter. The rhyme scheme is abab bcbc c.9. Romance: a tale in verse, embodying the life and adventures of knights.10. Ballad: a narrative poem that tells a story.11. Ballad meter: a quatrain in alternate four- and three-stress lines; usually only the second andfourth lines rhyme.12. Allegory: a story or description in which the characters and events symbolize some deeperunderlying meaning, and serve to spread moral teaching.13. American Puritanism: Puritanism is a Protestant movement which spread its influence intothe New England colonies in 17th century. The American Puritans believed that the Church should be restored to the “purity” of the Church as established by Christ himself. They accepted the doctrine of predestination, original sin, total depravity, and limited atonement. 14. American Romanticism: American Romanticism is the literary movement stretching from theend of the 18th century through the outbreak of the Civil War. It was in essence the expression of “a real new experience” and contained “an alien quality”. There was American Puritanism as a cultural heritage to consider. The features can be found in the major works by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman.15. Transcendentalism: Transcendentalism is a literary and philosophical movement, associatedwith Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality that transcended the empirical and scientific and was knowable through intuition.16. American Realism: First, American realist authors described life truthfully. Second, they putthe typical characters under typical circumstances. Third, they were objective rather than idealized, in a close observation and investigation life. Finally, realistic works were concerned with social and psychological problems. The famous realistic works include Henry James’s The Ambassadors and Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.17. Local Colorism: As a literary trend, local colorism made its presence felt in the late 1860s toearly 70s. Local colorists concerned themselves with presenting and interpreting the local characters of their regions. The representative works of local colorism include Bret Hart’s “The Luck of Roaring Camp” and H. B. Stowe’s Oldtown Folks.18. American Naturalism: American naturalism is a literary tendency that prevailed in 1890s.Under the influence of social Darwinism and inspired by French naturalism, American naturalists wrote about the helplessness of man in a cold, amoral world, and his lack of dignity in face of the crushing forces of environment and heredity. The features of naturalism can be found in the major works by Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser.19. Lost Generation: The Lost Generation refers to the group of American writers who came ofage during World War I and established their reputations in the 1920s. The writers considered themselves “lost” because their inherited values could not operate in the postwar world. The term is commonly applied to Hart Crane, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and others.20.Image(in Pound’s poetry): An image is defined by Pound as that which presents anintellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time, “a vortex or cluster of fused ideas”“endowed with energy”.21. Stanza: Stanza is a recurrent grouping of two or more lines or more lines of a poem in termsof length, metrical form, and rhyme-scheme.22. Code Hero: Code hero is the Hemingwayan hero, an average man of decidedly masculinetastes, sensitive and intelligent, a man of action, and one of few words.23. Southern Literature: Southern Literature is defined as American literature about the SouthernUnited States or by writers from this region. The Southern literature meets its renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s, and the famous Southern writers include Ellen Glasgow and William Faulkner.24. “Anti-hero”(as in William Faulkner’s works): A central character in a work of literature wholacks traditional heroic qualities such as courage, physical prowess, and fortitude. Anti-heroestypically distrust conventional values and are unable to commit themselves to any ideals.Anti-heroes usually accept, and often celebrate, their positions as social outcasts.25. Allusion: Allusion is a figure of speech that makes brief, often casual reference to a historicalor literary, event, or object.26. Beat Generation: Beat generation is a term applied to a group of American poets andnovelists of the 1950s and 1960s who were in romantic rebellion against the culture and value systems of America. They expressed their revolt through the literary works of loose structure and slang diction. Among the leading members of the loose group were the poet Allen Ginsberg and the novelist Jack Kerouac.27. Black Humor: Black humor is a term applied to a large group of American novels beginningin the 1950s, represented by Joseph Heller’s Catch 22. In the novelists’ opinion, their society is full of institutionalized absurdity. Therefore, all of them hold a cynical attitude toward society and the conventional moral values. This despondency is reflected in their novels by the use of exaggeration as a vehicle for satire.28. Satire: Satire is a literary manner which blends a critical attitude with humor and with wit forthe purpose of improving human institutions or humanity. Catch-22, satirizes bureaucracy and the military, and is frequently cited as one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century.29. Motif:Motif is a theme, character type, image, metaphor, or any other verbal element thatrecurs throughout a single work of literature or occurs in a number of different works over a period of time. For example, the disillusionment of “American Drama” is one of the important motifs in Death of a Salesman.30. Theatre of the Absurd: The Theatre of the Absurd is an avant-garde kind of drama in the1950s and 1960s that represents the absurdity of the human condition by abandoning rational devices and realistic form. Some playwrights in the school are Samuel Beckett and Edward Albee.。
英国文学知识(专八人文知识必备)
英国文学知识一、中古英国文学1.Beowulf : the oldest poem in the English language and the most importantspecimen of Anglo-Saxon literature.2.Geoffrey Chaucer: he is acclaimed as the father of English Poetry and father ofEnglish fiction. His masterpiece。
The Canterbury TalesThe Romaunt of the RoseThe Legend of good WomenThe House of Fame二、文艺复兴时期时间：14世纪到17世纪中后期特点：Humanism became the keynote of English Renaissance著名作家：1.Thomas More: Utopia2.Edmund Spenser (a poet):The Faerie QueenThe Shepherd Calendar3.Christopher Marlowe( a poet and dramatist):Edward IIDr. FaustusTamburlaineThe Jew of Malta4.William Shakespeare喜剧：A Midsummer Night’s DreamAs you like itMerchant of VeniceThe Twelfth night悲剧：Romeo and JulietThe Tempest四大悲剧：Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet主要历史剧：Henry IV, Henry V5.Francis BaconEssaysThe advancement of learning6.John DonneThe Elegies and SatiresThe Songs and Sonnets7.John Milton (poet)晚年三首长诗Paradise lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes三：新古典主义时期时间：17世纪中后期到18世纪特点：The neoclassicists held that all forms of literature were to be modeled after the classical works of the ancient Greek and Roman writers. They believed that the artistic ideals should be order, logic and restrained emotion and accuracy.著名作家：1.John Dryden: All for Love2.John Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s ProgressThe Holy WarThe life and Death of Mr. Badman3.Alexander Pope An Essay on CriticismAn Essay on ManThe Rape of the LockOdyssey4.Daniel Defoe(who is called the father of English and European novels)Robison CrusoeA journal of the Plague yearCaptain Singleton5.Jonathan SwiftGulliver’s TravelA Tale of a TubA Modest proposalThe Drapier’s letters6.Henry FieldingThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling7.Samuel Johnson (著名词汇家，第一部英语字典的编者)A Dictionary of the English LanguageThe Vanity of Human WishesLondon8.Richard Brinsley SheridanThe school for the scandalThe Rivals9.Thomas GrayElegy Written in a country churchyardOde on the spring四：浪漫主义时期时间：18世纪中期到19世纪中期特点：Romanticism gave primary concern to passion, emotion, and natural beauty and is marked by a strong reaction and protest against the bondage of rule and custom. The Romanticism period is an age of Poetry and poets.主要作家1.William BlakeSongs of ExperienceSongs of InnocencePoetical SketchesThe marriage of heaven and hell2.William WordsworthLyrical BalladsTo the CuckooMy Heart leaps up3.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeKubla Khan 忽必烈汗三巨头1.George Gordon ByronCainDon JuanChilde Harold’s Pilgrimage2.Percy Bysshe ShelleyOde to the West WindOde to the SkylarkPrometheus unboundedThe Necessity of AtheismQueen Mab3.John KeatsOde to AutumnOde to a nightingaleOde on a Grecian um 希腊古瓷颂Isabella以下各位不太重要：1.Charles LambTales from ShakespeareEssays of Elia2.Mary ShelleyFrankenstein3.Robert SoutheyJoan of Arc 圣女贞德小说家Jane AustinEmmaSense and SensibilityPride and PrejudiceMansfield ParkPersuasion五、VICTORIA PERIOD时间：维多利亚1837年继位，1901年去世。
专八人文的知识(英国文学)
专八人文知识（英国文学）Part 1. Old and medievalBeowulf 贝尔武甫(the national epic of the English people) stricking feature: alliteration, metaphors and understatements.William Langland 威廉。
兰格伦Piers the Plowman耕者皮尔斯Geoffrey Chaucer杰佛利•乔叟1340-1400 长诗：The House of Fame声誉之堂;Troilus and Criseyde特罗勒斯与克丽西德小说：Canterbury Tales坎特伯雷故事集----英国文学史上现实主义第一部杰作（他是最早有人文主义思想的作家，现实主义文学的奠基人）his contribution to English poetry: introduced from france the rhymed couplet of 5 accents in iambic meter (the heroic couplet), is the first great poet who wrote in the English language. Who making the dialect of London the standard for the modern English speech.Part 2. The English renaissanceThomas More托马斯。
莫尔Utopia乌托帮Philip Sidney菲力普。
锡德尼Astrophel and Stella Apology for Poetry诗辩Edmond Spenser埃德蒙。
斯宾塞The Faerie Queene 仙后The Shepherds’s Calender 牧羊人日历Francis Bacon培根1561-1626 Advancement of Learning学术的进展;Novum Organum新工具;New Atlantic新大西岛;Essays论文集（Of Studies论学习;Of Wisdom for a Man’s Self）The founder of English materialist philosophyChristopher Marlowe克里斯托夫。
英语专业八级人文知识(题集) — 英国文学部分
英语专业八级人文知识（题集）—英国文学部分一古英语及中世纪文学（8—14 世纪）1. Who is the "father of English poetry" and one of the greatest narrative poets of England?a. William Shakespeareb. Alfred the Greatc. Geoffrey Chaucerd. Christopher Marlow2. When he died, Chaucer was buried in ________ the Poet' s Corner.A .Southwarkb. Westminster Abbeyc. Normandyd. Canterbury3. ________is not only a prose writer but also a king of Wessex.a. Adam Bedeb. Alfred the Greatc. Venerable Beded. King Arthur4. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named “________” based onBoccaccio' s poem"Filostrato".a. The Legend of Good Womenb. Sir Gawain and the Green Knightc. Beowulfd. Troilus and Gressie5. In his literary development, Chaucer was influenced by three literatures, which one is not true?a. English literatureb. German literaturec. Italian literatured. French literature6. The epic, The Song of Beowulf, represents the spirit of________.a. romanticistsb. monksc. pagand. sentimentalists7. Who is the first important religious poet in English literature?a. Caedmonb. Adam Bedec. Cynewulfd. Shakespeare8. Who is the monster half-human who had mingled thirty warriors in The Song of Beowulf?a. Heorotb. Beowulfc. Grendeld. Hrothgar9. King Alfred' s Anglo Saxon Chronicle was written in________form.a. poeticb. dramaticc. prosed. none of the above10. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight focuses on________.a. the imagination of the future worldb. immediate social issuesc. the real life as well as people' s feelings and desiresd. a remote world belongs to the Celtic Legend of King Arthur and his knights11. Geoffi'ey Chaucer develops hischaracterization to a higher artistic level by presenting characters withboth typical qualities and________dispositions.a. individualb. collectivec. sociald. natural12. Among the great Middle English poets,Geoffrey Chaucer is known for hisproduction of________.a. Piers Plowmanb. Sir Gawain and the Green knighte. Confession Amantisd. The Canterbury Tales13. The period of________literatureextends from about 450 to 1066, theyear of the Norman conquest ofEngland.a. the Old Englishb. the Middle Englishc. the Modern Englishd. Queen Victoria14. Romance, which uses narrative verseor prose to sing________adventuresor other heroic deeds is a popularliterary form in the medieval period.a. knightlyb. christiane. Greek d. primitive15. Geoffrey Chaucer introduced fromFrance the rhymed stanzas of varioustype to English poetry to replace theold English________verse.a. rhymedb. alliterativec. romanticd. visionary16. The work that presented, for the firsttime in English literature, acomprehensive realistic picture of themedieval English society and createda whole gallery of vivid charactersfrom all walks of life is mostlikely________.a. Geoffrey Chaucer' s The Canterbury Tablesb. William Langland' s Piers Plowmanc. John Gower' s Confession Amantisd. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight17. In the early part of the medieval periodin English literature, i. e. from 1006up to the mid-14th century, there wasnot much to say about literature inEnglish, for it was almost a________period in literay creation.a. flourishingb. barrenc. historicald. romantic18. Generally speaking, the Old English poetry that has survived can be divided into two groups:the religious group and the________one.a. secularb. lyricalc. politicald. romantic19. Thematically the poem Beowulfpresents a vivid picture of how theprimitive people wage heroicstruggles against the hostile forces ofthe________world under a wise andmighty_______.a. spiritual / herob. natural / leaderc. spiritual / goldd. natural / monster20. Beowulf, a typical example of OldEnglish poetry, is regarded today asthe national________ of theAnglo-Saxons.a. epic h. novelc. playd. song21. In the stories told in Beowulf, Beowulf (the hero) is shown not only as a glorious hero but alsoas a ________of the people.a. protectorb. sonc. fatherd. servant22. The hero and setting of Beowulf have nothing to do with________, for the story took place inScandinavia.a. Englandb. Denmarkc. Norwayd. Sweden23. With the Norman conquest starts themedieval period in English literature,which coversabout________centuries.a. fourb. threec. fived. two24. It can be said that though essentially still a medieval writer, Geoffrey Chaucer bore marks ofhumanism and anticipated a new________to come.a. manb. theoryc. doctrined. era二文艺复兴时期（14—17世纪）1. The English Renaissance period was an age of________.a. novel and poetryb. poetry and dramac. drama and noveld. romance and poetry2. Which of the following is not among Shakespeare' s four great tragedies?a. King Learb. Macbethc. Hamletd. Romeo and Juliet3. What flourished in Elizabethan age more than any other form of literature?a. Dramab. Novelc. Poetrvd. Essay4. Paradise Lost is written by________.a. William Blakeb. William Shakespearec. Robert Burnsd. John Milton5. During the twenty-two years of his literary work, Shakespeare produced many works, which ofthe following is not true?a. 37 playsb. 2 narrative poemsc. 154 sonnetsd. 1 novel 6. In the________Period, William Shakespeare is the ueatest writer of England.a. Elizabethanb. Medievalc. Victoriand. Dark7. " Shall I compare thee to a summer' s day" is one of________' s best known sonnets.a. John Miltonb. John Donnec. Edmund Spenserd. William Shakespeare8. The poem Paradise Lost consists of ________books.a. 12b. 14c. 13d. 159. Milton wrote his masterpiece________during his blindness.a. Lycidasb. Paradise Lostc. Samson Agonistesd. Paradise Regained10. Which of the following plays written by Shakespeare is history play?a. King Learb. Henry IVc The Merry Wives of Windsord. Juliet Caesar11. Which of the following does notbelong to Shakespeare' s great comedies?a. The Tempestb. As You Like Itc. The Merchant of Veniced. Twelfth Night12. The Flea was written by________.a. Philip Sidneyb. William Shakespearec. Thomas Mored. John Donne13. ________is the first important English essayist and the founder of modem science in England.a. Francis Baconb. Philip Sidneyc. Edmund Spenserd. William Carxton14. In the 16th century, Thomas More's work________became immediately popular after itspublication.a. The Faerie Queenb. A Pleasant Satire of the Throe Estatesc. Utopiad. Paradise Lost15. Which is Christopher Marlowe's first famous play?a. EdwardⅡb. The Jew of Maltac. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustusd. Tamburlaine16. The literary form of The Faerie Queen is________.a. narrative poemb. ironic poemc. allegorical poemd. lyric poem17. the first official version of Bible known as the Great Bible, was revised in________.a. 16th centuryb. 17th centuryc. 18th centuryd. 19th century18. Most of the ballads of the 15th century focused on the legend about________as a heroicfigure.a. Hamletb. Robin Hoodc. Gawaind. Green Nights19. The nine-line verse stanza was originated from________.a. William Shakespeareb. Thomas Morec. Philip Sidneyd. Edmund Spenser20. Which of the following is NOT the work of Sir Philip Sidney?a.Defense of Poetryb. Astrophet and Stellac. Samson Agonistesd. Arcadia21. The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, such as therediscovery of ancient________and________culture, the new discoveries in geography andastrology, the religious reformation and the economic expansion.a. Chinese / Indianb. Hebrew / Egyptian c Roman / Greek d. Britain /American22. William Shakespeare' s history playsare mainly written underthe________that national unity undera ighty and just sovereign isa________.a. fact / possibilityb. story / probabilityc. principle / necessityd. reality / truth23. ________is the essence of the Renaissance.a. Poetryb. Dramac. Humanismd. Reason24. Generally the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries. Itfirst started in Italy, with the flowering of painting, sculpture and literature. From________ the movement went to embrace the rest of Europe.a. Germanyb. Greekc. Britaind. Italy25. Milton' s Paradise Lost took its material from________.a. the Bibleb. Greek mythc. Roman mythd. French romance26. The Renaissance was________in reaching England not only because of England' s separationfrom the Continent but also because of its domestic unrest.a. quickb. slowc speedy d. deep27. Which of the following statements best illustrates 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.28. " To be, or not to be-that is thequestion" is a line taken from________.a. Hamletb. Othelloc. King Leard. The Merchant of Venice 29. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are________, William Shakespeareand Ben Johnson.a. Christopher Marloweb. John Marlowec. John Miltond. Edmund Spenser30. ________'s Essays is the first example of that genre in English literature, which has beenrecognized as an important landmark in the development of English prose.a. John Donneb. John Miltonc. Francis Bacond. Edmund Spenser31. According to Edmund Spenser' s own explanation, his The Faerie Queen is a “________”,but it is also an allegory.a. imaginary poemb. historical poemc. romantic poemd. poetic drama32. In his The Advancement of Learning, ________divided knowledge into two kinds: the oneobtained from Divine Revelation, and the other from the workings of human mind.a. Chaucerb. Francis Baconc. Edmund Spenserd. John Milton33. ________'s literary achievements can be divided into three groups, the early poetic works, themiddle prose pamphlets and the last great poems.a. William Shakespeareb. Christopher Marlowec. John Donned. John Milton34. The English Renaissance was perhaps England' s ________Age, especially in literature.a. Goldenb. Fruitfulc. V olcanicd. Dark35. In the early stage of the English Renaissance, poetry and________were the most outstandingliterary forms and they were carried on especially by William Shakespeare and Ben Johnson.a. fictionb. dramatic fictionc. poetic dramad. novel36. In Canto I, Book I of The FaerieQueen the Redcross knightsymbolizes the church of England,and he is the protector of the VirginUna who stands for________or thetrue religion.a. loveb. friendshipc. truthd. honest37. Paradise Regained shows how mankind, in the person of ________, withstands the tempterand is established once more in the divine favor.a. Godb. Zeusc. Christd. Santa Claus38. Francis Bacon's essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and________.a. complicityb. complexityc. powerfulnessd. mildness39. In Samson Agonistes, Milton againborrows his story from the________.But this time he turns to a more vitaland personal theme.a. historyb. religionc. legendd. Bible40. ________was known as "the poets' s poet".a. William Shakespeareb. Edmund Spenserc. John Donned. John Milton三新古典主义时期（17—18世纪）1. The neoclassical period in English literature refers to the one between the return of the Stuarts to the English throne in 1660 and the full assertion of ________which came with the publication of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798.a. realismb. humanismc romanticism d. neoclassicism2. As a representative of the Enlightenment,________was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.a. Swiftb. Defoec Milton d. Pope3. Christian, Faithful and Pliable are the literary figures in________.a. Daniel Defoe' s Moll Flandersb. John Bunyan' s The Pilgrim' s Progressc. Richard Brinsley Sheridan' s The School for Scandald. Jonathan Swift' s Gulliver' s Travels4. Pope' s "An Essay on Criticism" is a didactic poem written in________.a. blank verseb. heroic couplets c free verse d. dramatic monologue5. Sheridan' s plays, especially The Rivals and The School for Scandal, are generally regarded asimportant links between the masterpieces of Shakespeare and those of________, and as trueclassics in English comedy.a. Christopher Marlowb. John Galsoworthc Bernard Shawd. James Joyce6. ________, written by Alexander Pope, satirized the foolish, meaningless life of the lords andladies in the aristocratic bourgeois society of the eighteenth century England.a. The Rape of the Lockb. The Rape of Lucrecec The School for Scandald. Every Man in His Humor7. The Pilgrim's Progress by________is often said to be concerned with the search for spiritualsalvation.a. John Miltonb. John Bunyanc Daniel d. Thomas Gray8. John Bunyan' s style was modeled after that of the English________.a. historyb. religionc society d. Bible9. Backbite, Sneerwell, and Lady Teazle are characters in the play The School for Scandalby________.a. Christopher Marloweb. Ben Johnsonc. Richard Brinsley Sheridand. George Bernard Shaw10. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the searchfor________.a. material wealthb. spiritual salvationc. universal truthd. self-fulfillment11. Robinson Crusoe, ________story, is universally considered as Daniel Defoe' s masterpiece.a. a historicalb. a fictionalc. an imaginaryd. an adventure12. Alexander Pope strongly advocated________, emphasizing that literary works should bejudged by rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.a. Sentimentalismb.Romanticism c. Idealism d. Neoclassicism13. In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe traces the growth of________from a naive and artless youth into ashrewd and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life.a. Robinsonb. Gulliverc. Tom Sawyerd. Huckleberry Finn14. Gulliver' s Travels contains________parts, each part dealing with one particular voyage duringhis extraordinary adventures on some remote island.a. twob. threec. fourd. five15. Henry Fielding has been regarded ad "Father of the English________, " for his contributionto the establishment of the form of the modern novel.a. Novel h. Poetryc. Playd. Essay16. As a lexicographer, Samuel Johnson distinguished himself as the author of the first English________by an Englishman.a. novelb. dramae. poetry d. dictionary17. Richard Brinsley Sheridan was the only important English________of the eighteenth century.a. poetb. novelistc essayist d. dramatist18. "An Essays on Criticism" was writtenby________, which first establishedhis reputation as a________a. Francis Bacon, criticb. Francis Bacon, essayistc. Alexander Pope, playwrightd. Alexander Pope, essayist19. "Yahoos" from the novel________written by Jonathan Swift are described to be very muchsimilar to human beings in outward appearance and their unworthy actions as well.a. Gulliver' s Travelsb. The Adventures of Robison Crusoec. The Wuthering Heightsd. Sons and Lovers20. ________' s masterpiece Tom Jones provides a vivid and truthful panoramic view of the life ofthe English society in the 18th century.a. Daniel Defoeb. Jonathan Swifte. Henry Fielding d. Jane Austin21. The ________was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18thcentury.a. Renaissanceb. Enlightenmentc. Religious Reformationd. Chartist Movement22. The 18th century England is known as the Age of________in the history.a. Romanticismb. Classicismc. Renaissanced. Enlightenment23. The________movemertt in the eighteenth century Europe was a furtherance of theRenaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.a. Enlightenmentb. Renaissancec. Sentimentald. Transcendental24. The Enlightenment movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classical works inthe field of literature. This tendency is known as________.a. humanismb. realismc. symbolismd. neoclassicism25. (The) ________was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the18th century.a. Romanticismb. Humanismc. Enlightenmentd. Sentimentalism26. The School for Scandal has been regarded as the best ________since Shakespeare.a. comedyb. tragedyc. playd. novel27. Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory andpractice, to write specifically a "________in prose", the first to give the modem novel itsstructure and style.a. tragic epicb. comic epicc. romanced. lyric epic四浪漫主义时期（18世纪中期—19世纪中期）1. The two collections of poems written by William Blake, ________and________, hold thesimilar subject-matter, but the tone, emphasis and conclusion differ.a. Songs of Innocence/ Songs of Experienceb. Poetical Sketches / Songs of Innocencec. Poetical Sketches/ Marriage of Heaven and Helld. Songs of Innocence/ Songs of Experienced2. John Keats' Ode to a Nightingale expresses the contrast between the happy world of________loveliness and human world of agony.a. fairyb. naturalc. pastorald. optimistic3. As a leading Romanticist, George Gordon Byron ' s chief contribution is his creation of the"________hero", a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.a. Byronicb. Romanticc. Orientedd. Optimistic4. The ________are generally regarded as John Keats' most important and mature works.a. epicsb. lyricsc. odesd. poetry5. On the whole, ________' s poetry is one of experiences. His heroes are more or less surrogatesof himself. Childe Harold' s Pilgrimage is such an example.a. William Blakeb. William Wordsworthc. George Gordon Byrond. Samuel Taylor Coleridge6. ________is Byron's masterpiece, a great comic epic of the early 19th century.a. Childe Harold's Pilgrimageb. Cainc. Don Juand. Song for the Luddites7. Romanticism is a period of Britishliterature roughly dated from________.a. 1660 - 1798b. 1798 - 1832c. 1483 - 1546d. 1836 - 19018. A number of poems from Songs of Innocence find a counterpart in Songs of Experience. Infant Joy is matched with Infant Sorrow, and the pure Lamb is paired with the flaming________.a. The Chimney Sweeperb. Londonc. Sheepd. Tyger9. The unifying principle in________written by George Gordon Bryon is the basic ironic theme ofappearance and reality.a. Child Harold' s Pilgrimageb. Cainc.Don Juand. Hours of Idleness10. Jane Austen' s main literary concern is about human beings intheir________relationships.Because of this, her novels have a universal significance.a. personalb. naturalc. satisfiedd. hostile11. Returning to England from Germany in1799, William Wordsworth and his sister settled at Dove Cottage in Grasmere, Westmoreland. The poet________as well as________lived nearby, and the three became known as the "lake poets".a. Samuel Taylor Coleridge / George Gordon Byronb. Robert Southey / Samuel Taylor Coleridgec. John Keats / Robert Southeyd. George Gordon Byron / Percy Bysshe Shelley12. Percy Bysshe Shelley is one of theleading________poets, an intense and original 1yrical poet in the Englishlanguage.a. realisticb. symbolice. romantic d. imagist13. In his________ , Shelley eulogized the powerful west wind and expressed his eagerness toenjoy the boundless freedom from the reality.a. Promethus Unboundb. Ode to the West Windc.Adonaisd. In Defence of Poetry14. The novel Pride and Prejudice mainly deals with the five Bennet sisters and their search forsuitable husbands, centering on the love story between________and________.a. Jane / Bingleyb. Lydia / Wickhamc. Elizabethd. Jane / Rochester15. Ode on a Grecian Urn shows the contrast between the ________of art andthe________ ofhuman passion.a. glory / uglinessb. permanence / transiencec. transience / sordidnessd. glory / permanence16. The English Romantic period produced two major novelists. They are________.a. Lamb and Hazlitt .b. Byron and Shelleyc. Scott and Austend. Keats and Coleridge17. As a novelist Jane Austen writes withina very narrow sphere. The subject matter, thecharacter range, the social setting, and plots are all restricted to the provincial life of the late________a. 18thb. 19the. 17th d. 20th18. Among the________group of Samuel Taylor Coleridge' s Poems, Frost atMidnight is themost important.a. demonicb. conversationalc. pastorald. optimistic19. It is said that the poem________written by S. T. Coleridge was composed in a dream afterthe poet took the opium. But when he was writing the lines down, a stranger interrupted himand only 54 lines survived.a. The Rime of the Ancient Marinerb. Frost at Midnightc.Kubla Khand. Don Juan20. ________puts into Don Juan his rich knowledge of the world and the wisdom gained fromexperience. It presents brilliant pictures of life in its various stages of love, joy, suffering,hatred and fear.a. Percy Bysshe Shelleyb. William Wordsworthc. george Gordon Byrond. John Keats21. "Poetry is Spontaneous" was put forward by________.a. Percy Bysshe Shelleyb. William Blakec. William Wordsworthd. Charles Lamb22. In the mid-18th century, a new literary movement called________came to Europe and then toEngland.a. romanticismb. classicismc. realismd. restoration23. The famous poem "'A Red Red Rose" was written by________.a. William Wordsworthb. George Gordon Byronc. Robert Burnsd. John Keats24. Whose infomal essays observed life with humor, and often in a gloomy tone?a. Joseph Addisonb. Charles Lambc. Lord Chesterfieldd. Thomas Hardy25. The English poets________, William Wordsworth, and Robert Southey, were known as"Lake Poets'" because they lived in the Lake District Northwestern England at the beginning of the 19th century.a. George Gordon Byronb. John Keatse. Percy Bysshe Shelley d. Samuel Taylor Coleridge五维多利亚时期（19世纪中期—20世纪早期）1. The novel Jane Eyre mainly tells a story about the love affair Jane Eyre and Mr. ________。
答案英国文学专八人文知识模拟80题
答案英国文学专八人文知识模拟80题1.What is the name of the dictionary compiled by Samuel Johnson?A) First English Dictionary B) Dictionary of English Language.C) A Dictionary of the English Language. D) Dictionary of the English Language.2. _____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 Beowulf；B sir Gawain；C the Canterbury tale；D king Arthur and his knights3. The father of English poetry, the author of Troilus and Criseyde is also the one of ____.A Romeo and Juliet；B the faerie queen；C Tamburlainc；D the Canterbury tales4. The group of Shakespeare plays known as “romance”or “reconciliation plays”is ______.A merchant of Venice, as you like it；B the tempest, pericles, the winter’s taleC Romeo and Juliet, antonym and Cleopatra5. Which of the following are regarded as Shakespeare’s four great tragedies?A Romeo and Juliet, hamlet, Othello, King Lear；B Romeo and Juliet, hamlet, Othello, MacbethC hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth；D Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Macbeth, Timon of Athens6. Which of the following is not the work of Francis bacon?A advancement of learning；B new instrument；C songs of innocence；D essays7. At the beginning of 17th century appeared a school of poets called metaphysics by Samuel Johnson, ____is the founder of metaphysical poetry.A Ben Johnson；B john Milton；C john Bunyan；D john Donne8. Daniel Defoe is a famous____.A poet；B novelist；C playwright；D essayist9. “He has a servant called Friday.”“he”in the quoted sentence is a character in______.A Henry fielding’s tom jones；B john Bunyan’the pilgrim’s progressC Richard brinsley Sheridan’s the school for scandal；D Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe10. Guiiliver’travel was written by____.A Daniel Defoe；B Charles dickens；C Jonathan swift；D Joseph Addison11. William Wordsworth is generally known as a ____poet.A romantic；B realistic；C naturalistic；D neo-classic12. “Ode to the west wind”was written by the author of ___.A “I wandered lonely as a cloud”；B “Kubla Khan”；C “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”D “As Defense of Poetry”13. #Which of the following poets does not belong to the school of romantic poets?A William Wordsworth；B Percy Bysshe Shelley；C George Gordon Byron；D John Donne14. Charles Dickens wrote all of the following except ___.A Oliver Twist；B David Copperfield；C A Tale of Two Cities；D Heart of Darkness15. “A Red, Red Rose”was written by ___.A Alexandra Pop；B Robert Burns；C William Blake；D John Keats16. Pip is the character of Charles Dickens’novel ___.A Oliver Twist；B David Copperfield；C A Tale of Two Cities；D Great Expectations17. Sense and Sensibility is a ___ by ___.A play…Jane Austen；B novel…Jane Austen；C play…Emily Bronte；D novel…Anne Bronte18. In reading Shakespeare, you must have come across the line “T o be or not to be---that is the question”by___.A Iago in Othello;B Lear in King Lear;C Shylock in the Merchant of Venice;D Hamlet in Hamlet19. Robert Browning’s “My last Duchess”is composed in the form of a(n) ___.A dramatic monologue；B extended metaphor；C syllogistic argument；D dialogue20. Thomas Hardy wrote novels of __.A character and environment；B pure romance；C “stream of consciousness”；D psychoanalysis21. “Wessex novels”refers to the novels written by ___.A Charles DickensB D.H. LawrenceC James JoyceD Thomas Hardy22.The sentence “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s_____.A comediesB tragediesC sonnetsD histories23. contribution to English lies chiefly in the fact that he introduced from France the rhymed stanza of various types, especially the rhymed couplet of 5 accents in iambic meter---the heroic couplet to English poetry.A William Shakespeare’s；B G eoffrey Chaucer’s；C Thomas more’s；D Edmund Spenser’s24. Spenserian stanza is a form of poetry first employed by Edmund Spenser in his long poetry_____.A the faerie queene；B the shepherd’s calendar；C epithalamion；D amoretti25. Francis bacon is a ____.A poet；B playwright；C essayist；D novelist26. We can perhaps describe the west wind in shelly’s poem “ode to the west wind”with all the following t erms except_____.A tamed；B swift；C proud；D wild27. The novel starts with “it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a goodfortune ,must be in want of a wife.”The novel is Jane Austen’____.A Emma；B persuasion；C sense and sensibility；D pride and prejudice28. The major concern of ____ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.A Charles dickens’s；B D.H .Lawrence’s；C Thomas hardy’s；D john Galsworthy’s29. “do you think, because I am poor ,obscure ,plain and little ,I am soulless and heartless? And if god had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me , as it is now for me to leave you .”the above Is quoted from_______.A pride and prejudice；B Jane Eyre；C Wuthering heights；D great expectations30. Which of the following is not one of the Bronte sisters?A charlotte Bronte；B Anne Bronte；C jenny Bronte；D Emily Bronte31. Shakespeare wrote all the following works EXCEPT _____A. HamletB. King LearC. OthelloD. Wuthering Heights32. ____was NOT written by Charles Dickens.A. David CopperfieldB. Oliver Twist、C. Sons and LoversD. A Tale of Two Cities33. In which novel can "Yahoo" be found?A John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress；B Edmund Spencer’s The Faerie QueenC Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels；D Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones34.Dover Beach is written by ____A Robert BrowningB Alfred TennysonC Mathew ArnoldD Dylan Thomas35. Wordsworth’s poetry, divided by the subjects, falls into two major groups: one about ___ and the other about ___..A nature, human life;B society, human nature;C human life, social system;D universe, human spirit36 The reading of the first chapter of the novel Pride and Prejudice has led the reader to the understanding of Mrs. Bennet as a woman of ___.A simple character and mean understanding;B intricate character and short temperC simple character and good education ;D intricate character and outstanding talent37 As a romantic poet, William Wordsworth advocated the following EXCEPT ___.A the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings;B the use of colloquialism spoken by the massesC elegant wordings and inflated figures of speech;D the humble and rustic life as subject matter38The following plays are comedies by Shakespeare EXCEPT ___.A A Midsummer Night’s DreamB As You Like ItC The Merchant of VeniceD Romeo and Juliet39 “The novel is structured around the discovery of the hero’s origin.”Probably this refers to the novel ___.A Wuthering Heights;B The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling;C David Copperfield;D Gulliver’s Travels 40#___ was considered to be the greatest dramatist in the 18th century.A Henry Fielding;B Laurence Sterne;C Oliver Goldsmith;D Richard B. Sheridan41 “Pamela”by Samuel Richardson is written in forms of ____.A diary;B letter;C autobiography;D reminiscences42 “Clarissa harlowe”by Samuel Richardson is written in forms of ____.A diary ;B letter;C autobiography;D reminiscences43 The adventure of Roderick random is written by___.A Samuel Richardson;B Tobias smolett;C Lawrence sterne ;D henry fielding44The life and opinions of Tristan shandy is written by___.A Samuel Richardson;B Tobias smolett;C Lawrence sterne;D henry fielding45 __ named his own realistic novels as “comic epic in prose”.A Henry fielding;B Charles dickens ;C jack London;D Tobias smolett46 “Lyrical ballads”were written by___ and Samuel T aylor Coleridge.A Robert burns;B Robert southey ;C William wordsworth;D percy bysshe shelley47 George Gordon byron was most famous for_____.A don juan;B ode to the west wind;C kubla khan;D ode to a nightingale48 George Gordon byron created a “Byronic hero”firstly in his____.A Prometheus unbound;B childe herald’s pilgrimage;C kubla khan ;D ode on a Grecian urn49 Prometheus unbound was written by___ who also wrote____.A George Gordon byron …childe herald’s pilgrimage;B percy bysshe shelley..ode to a nightingaleC George Gordon byron …ode to west wind;D percy bysshe shelley…ode to west wind50 John keats is the author of____.A ode to a skylark and ode to a nightingale;B ode on a Grecian urn and ode to west windC ode on a Grecian urn and ode to a nightingale;D ode to west wind and ode to a nightingale 的美女编辑们51 “The Graveyard Poets”got the name because ___.A they chose to live near graveyards;B they often wrote about death and melancholyC they always wrote about dead people;D they often use “graveyard”as the title52It is generally understood that the recurrent theme in many of Thomas Hardy’s novel is ___.A man against nature;B love and marriage;C social criticism;D fate and destiny53 The Romantic Period in English literature began with the publication of ___.A William Blake’s Songs of Innocence;B Jane Austen’s Pride and PrejudiceC Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads;D a piece of land54 It is generally regarded that Keats’most important and mature poems are in the form of ___.A odeB elegyC epicD sonnet55G.B. Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a realistic exposure of the ___ in the English society.A slum landlordism;B inequality between men and womenC political corruption;D economic exploitation of women56 The Preface to Shakespeare and Lives of the Poets are the works of critic ___.A G.B. ShawB Samuel JohnsonC Ben JohnsonD E.M. Foster57The Ring and the Book is a masterpiece of ___.A Alfred TennysonB Robert BrowningC Thomas HardyD Ralph Waldo Emerson58 Matthew Arnold is the writer of ___.A Dover BeachB My last DuchessC Break, Break, BreakD The Eagle59 The writer of Heart of Darkness is also the one of ___.A Time of MachineB JimC Lord JimD A Passage to India60 Of Human Bondage is a novel by ___.A Herbert George Wells;B Arnold Bennett;C William Somerset Maugham;D John Galsworthy61 Percy Bysshe Shelly is famous for ___.A Ode to a Skylark and Ode to a Nightingale;B Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode to the West Wind;C Ode to a;Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian Urn;D Ode to the West Wind and Ode to a Skylark62 “Three of four families in a country village is something to work.”This statement was presented by ___.A Emily Bronte;B Jane Austen;C Mrs. Gaskell;D George Eliot63George Eliot wrote all the following except ___.A The Mill of Floss;B Silas Marner;C Middlemarch;D Agnes Grey64 The novel Vanity Fair was written by ___.A William Makepeace Thackeray;B Charles Dickens;C O. Henry;D Henry James65 Vanity Fair was a novel written by William Makepeace Thackeray, and the term “vanity fair”firstly appeared in ___ by ___.A Canterbury Tales …Geoffrey Chaucer;B The Pilgrim’s Progress …John BunyanC Tome Jones …Henry Fielding;D Dubliner s …James Joyce66 The novel Vanity Fair was written by William Makepeace Thackeray who also wrote ___.A The Way of all life;B The History of Henry Esmond;C Sister Carrie;D Howard’s End67 Barchester Series is a series of novels written by ___.A Barchester;B Thomas Hardy;C Anthony Trollope;D Mark Twin68 Erehwon is a satiric novel written by ___.A Samuel Butler;B Henry Fielding;C Thomas More;D Mark Twin69In “the lake Isle of Innisfree”William Butler Yeats Express his ___?A desire to escape from the materialistic society;B fear caused by the impending warC interest in the Irish legend;D Love for Maud Gonne, a beautiful Irish actress70 Walter Scott’s historical novels cover a long period of time, from the Middle Ages to 18th century. His work Ivanhoe deals an epoch of ___ history.A English;B French;C Scotland;D Irish71 As a literary figure, Stephen Dedalus appears in two novel by____.A D.H Lawrence;B John Galsworthy;C George Eliot;D James Loyce72 The French lieutenant’s woman is the m asterpiece of ____.A john Fowles;B Doris lessing;C Muriel spark;D Joseph Conrad73 The golden notebook was written by____.A john fowels;B Doris lessing;C Muriel spark;D Joseph Conrad74 Waiting for Godot is a(an)____by Samuel beckett.A novel;B poem;C play;D essay75 “kitchen sink realism”is referred to as the works of ___.A novel;B poem;C play;D essay76 Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize of literature in 1995 and most of his poems focused on the ___.A city life;B legend;C country;D history77 an article on “the observer”describes the bursting of all these young ___as a kind of “the movement”.A poets;B playwright;C novelist;D critic78 The novel ___told a story of a Nazi war criminal, in this novel Martin Amis set the narrative clock in reverse.A money, a suicide note;B time’s arrow;C London fields;D dead bodies79 satanic verses was written by___who was born in a muslin family in Bombay, India.A salman Rushdie;B kazoo ishguro;C julian barnes;D grahm swift80 the novel The Remains Of The Day won the booker prize for its author ___who was born in Japan.A Salman Rushdie;B kazoo ishguro;C Julian Barnes;D grahm swift。
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专八人文：英国文学部分精选习题1.The Renaissanee is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is not such an event?A.The rediscovery of ancient Rome and Greek culture・B・ England's domestic rest.C.New discovery in geography and astrology.D.The religious reformation and the economic expansion.2.Which of the following is regarded as the most successful religious allegory in the English language ・A.The Pilgrim^ Progress B・ Grace Abounding to the Chief of SinnersC. The Life and Death of Mr. Bad manD. The Holy War3.It is alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic 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 LanglandD. John Gower4.All of the following four except are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England.A. Francis BaconB. Christopher MarloweC. William ShakespeareD. Ben Jonson5.It is generally regarded that Keats's most important and mature poems are in the form of . A. elegy B・ode C. epic D. sonnet6.Daniel Defoe's novels mainly focus onA.the struggle of the unfortunate for mere existenceB.the struggle of the shipwrecked persons for securityC.the struggle of the pirates for wealthD.the desire of the criminals for property7.1n Beowulf, fought against the mon ster Grendel and a five breathing drag on.A. the Anglo-SaxonsB. BeowulfC. the ScandinavianD. the Winter Dragon8.Francis Bacon is best known for his which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.A. essays B・ poems C. works D plays8.Most of Thomas Hardy's novels are set in WessexA. a crude region in EnglandB. a fictional primitive regionC. a remote rural areaD. Hardy's hometown10.We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelleys poem n Ode to the West Wind" with all the following terms except ・A. swiftB. proudC. tamed D・ wild11."Blindness1', ''partiality", "prejudice1', and "absurdity" in the novel "Pride and Prejudice" aremost likely the characteristics of ・A. ElizabethB. DarcyC. Mr. BennetD. Mrs. Bennet12.The modern English novel came into being in ・A. the middle of the 17th centuryB. the 17th centuryC. the late 18th centuryD. the middle of the 18th century13.Who is not the major figure of modernist movement?A. EliotB. JoyceC. Charles DickensD. Pound14.Who is considered to be the best known English dramatist since Shakespeare?A. Oscar WildeB. John GalsworthyC. W.B. YeatsD. George Bernard Shaw15.Of the following poets, which is not regarded as "Lake Poets11?A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. Robert SouthyC. William Words worthD. William Shakespeare I6.1n the first part of Gullivefs Travels, Gulliver told his experience in ・A. LilliputB. Brobdingnag C・ Houyhnhnm D・ England17.Which of the following cannot describe n Byronic hero1'?A. proudB. mysterious C・ noble origin D progressive18.In the history of literature, Romanticism is gen erally regarded as ・A.the thought that designates a literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experience・B.the thought that designates man as a social animalC.the orientation that emphasizes those features which men have in commonD.the modes of thinking19.The term "metaphysical poetry11 is commonly used to name the work of the 17th century writers who wrote under the influence ofA. John MiltonB. John DonneC. John KeatsD. John Bunyan20."The Vanity Fair” is a well-known part in .A. The Pilgrim's ProgressB. Grace Abounding to the Chief of SinnersC. The Life and Death of Mr. BadmanD. The Holy War2l.In Oliver Twist, Charles criticizesA. money worshipping tendencyB. dehumanizing of workhouse systemC. hypocrisy of the upper societyD. distortion of human heart22.Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is history play?A. Julius CaesarB. The Merry Wives of WindsorC. Henry IVD. King Lear23.Who is regarded as a "worshipper of nature,f.A. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Jane Austen24.Which of the following writing is not the work by Charles Dickens?A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. Hard TimesC. Oliver TwistD. Sons and Lovers25.The 18th century England is known as the in the history.A. RomanticismB. ClassicismC. RenaissanceD. Enlightenment专八人文：美国文学部分精选习题l.In American literature, the eighteen century was the age of the Enlightenment. was the dominant spirit.2・A. Humanism B. Rationalism C. Revolution D. EvolutionWhich statement about Franklin is not true?A. He instructed his countrymen as a printer.B. He was a scientist.C・ He was a master of diplomacy. D. He was a Puritan.Who is regarded as the first American prose epic.A. NatureB. The Scarlet LetterC. WaldenD. Moby-DickThe Romanic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving's and ended with Whiteman's Leaves of Grass・A. The Sketch BookB. Tales of a TravelerC. The AlhambraD. A history of New YorkIn Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, n A H may stand for .A. AdulteryB. AngelC. AmiableD. All the aboveThe period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as ・A. the Naturalist PeriodB. the Modern PeriodC. the Romantic PeriodD. the Realistic PeriodThe Age of Realism is the literary history of the United States refers to the period from to ・ A. 1861 - 1914 B. 1863 - 1918 C. 1865- 1914 D. 1865- 1918Who is described by Mark Twain as a boy with n a sound heart and a deformed conscienee?”A. Tom SawyerB. Hucklebeiry Finn C・ Jim D. TonyMark Twain, one of the greatest 19th cerHury American writers, is well known for his .A. international theme B・ waste-land imagery C. local color D. symbolismThe impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American .A. modernismB. nalundismC. vernacularismD. local colorismIn 1900, London published his first collection of short stories, named ・A. The son of the WolfB. The Sea WolfC. The Law of LifeD. White FangIn which of the following works, Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bull-fight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy?A. The Green Hills of Africa.B. The Snows of Kilimanjaro.C. To Have and Have Not.D. Death in the Afternoon.Which of the following figures does not belong to "The Lost Generation”？A. Ezra PoundB. William Carlos WilliamsC. Robert FrostD. Theodore DreiserWho is a dramatist that holds the central position in American drama the modernistic period?A. Sinclair LevisB. Eugene O'NeilC. Arthur MillerD. Tennessee WilliamsThe following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except .A. William FaulknerB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. John SteinbeckD. Ernest HemingwayIn 1954, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his H mastery of the art of modern narration11.A. T.S. EliotB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. William FaulknerWho is the author of the work: "The Grapes of Wrath"?A. John SteinbeckB. Eugene ONeilC. F. Scott FitzgeraldD. Theodore DreiserIn 1920 Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation of American small-town provincialism in・A. Main Street B・ An American Tragedy C・ Winesburg, Ohio D. Sister Carrie专八人文知识：语言学部分精选试题Which of the following statements about language is NOT true?A. Language is a systemB. Language is symbolicC・ Animals also have language D. Language is arbitraryWhich of the following features is NOT one of the design features of language?A. SymbolicB. DualC. ProductiveD. ArbitraryWhat is the most important function of language?A. In terpersonalB. PhaticC. InformativeD. MetalingualWho put forward the distinction between Langue and Parole?A. SaussureB. ChomskyC. HallidayD. AnonymousAccording to Chomsky, which is the ideal usefs internalized knowledge of his language?A. competenceB. parole C・ performance D. langueThe function of the sentence H A nice day, isrft it?'1 is ・A. informative B・ phatic C. directive D. performativeArticulatory phonetics mainly studies ・A. the physical properties of the sounds produced in speechB・ the perception of soundsC.the combi nation of soundsD.the production of soundsThe distinction between vowels and consonants lies in ・A. the place of articulationB. the obstruction of airstreamC・ the position of the tongue D. the shape of the lipsWhich is the branch of linguistics which studies the characteristics of speech sounds and provides methods for their description, classification and transcription?A. PhoneticsB. Phonology C・ Semantics D. PrtigmaticsWhich studies the sound systems in a certain language?A. PhoneticsB. PhonologyC. Semantics D・ PragmaticsMinimal pairs are used to .A.find the distinctive features of a languageB.find the phonemes of a languageC・ compare two wordsD. find the allophones of languageUsually, suprasegmental features include Jength and pitch・A. phonemeB. speech sounds C・ syllables D. stressWhich is an in dispensable part of a syllable?A. CodaB. OnsetC. StemD. PeakWhich is the smallest un让of language in terms of relationship between expression and content?A. WordB. MorphemeC. AllomorphD. RootWhich studies the internal structure of words, and the rules by which words are formed?A. MorphologyB. SyntaxC. PhonologyD. SemanticsLexeme is ・A. a physically definable unitB・ the comm on factor underlying a set of formsC.a grammatical unitD.an indefinable unitWhich of the following sounds does not belong to the allomorphs of the English plural morpheme ? A. [s] B. [iz] C. [ai] D. [is]All words contain a ・A. root morphemeB. bound morphemeC. prefixD. suffixThe relationship between n fruit n and "apple" is .A. homonymyB. hyponymyC. polysemyD. synonymyThe part of the grammar that represents a speaker's knowledge of the structure of phrases and sentencesis calledA. lexiconB. morphologyC. syntaxD. semanticsWhich of the following items is not one of the grammatical categories of English pronouns?A. genderB. number C・ case D. voiceThe pair of words "lend” and n borrow n are .A. gradable oppositesB. converse opposites C・ co-hyponyms D. synonymsH Big n and "Small" are a pair of opposites・A. complementary B・ gradable C・ complete D. converseAccording to C・ Morris and R. Carnap, which is studies the relationship between symbols and their interpreters?A. syntaxB. semantics C・ pragmatics D. sociolinguisticsThere are deixis in the sentence she has sold it here yesterday・A. 3B.4C.5D. 6In the following conversation:-Beirut is in Peru, isn't it?-And Rome is in Romania, I suppose・The second person violates the .A. Quantity MaximB. Quality MaximC. Relation MaximD. Manner MaximThe maxim of requires that a participants contribution be releva nt to the conv ersatio n.A. quantityB. quality C・ manner D. relation专八人文知识考前模拟试题1. Which one of the four is NOT correct?A)English-speaking countries are UK, USA, Canada, Barbados, etc.B)English-speaking countries are UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc.C)English-speaking countries are USA, Canada, Australia, the Republic of Ireland, etc.D)English-speaking countries USA, Canada, Australia, Egypt, etc.2• The famous short story The Fall of the House of Usher was written byA)Charles Dickens B) Edgar Allen PoeC) John Richards on (Canadian no velist) D) Henry Savery3• Which one of the following Ivy League Schools is sit uated in Connecticut?A) Yale University. B) Harvard.C) Princeton. D) Columbia.4• The branch of linguistics which studies the forms of words is — MORPHOLOGY.・A) phoneme B) morphemeC) semantics D) morphology5• Who wrote a highly-acclaimed Novel Moby Dick?A) William James. B) Herman Melville・C) E「n est Hemi ng way. D) Cooper.6• What is the name of the Lake in northern Utah of the U.S.A.?A) Lake Michigan. B) Lake Superior.C) Lake Erie. D) the Great Salt Lake.7• Who wrote Pygmalion which later was transf ormed into the highly popular New York Broadway musical My Fair Lady in 1956?A) Edgar Allen Poe. B) Charles Lamb.C) George Bernard Shaw. D) Alfred Tennyson.8• Among the four pillars of English literature, who was NOT born and raised in I「eland?A) Jonathan Swift. B) W'filiam Buffer Yeats.C) James Joyce. D) Robert Browning.9• Alaska lies in the of North America, stretching southward from the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific. A) northwestern part B) southwestern partC) northeastern part D) southeastern part1 0 • Who is a satirist and the first writer in America to win the Nobel Prize in literature・A) Eugene O' Neill B) Sinclair LewisC) TS. Eliot D) W'dliam Fanlkner专八人文知识考前模拟试题2The first cap让al of the young nation of the USA is ・A) Boston B) Philadelphia C) New York D) WashingtonWhich one of the following American cities is the birthplace of jazz?A) New Orleans. B) New York. C) Boston. D) Chicago.Who wrote one of the most enduring classic poem Ode to the West Wind ?A) Wifiliam Wordsworth. B) Alfred Tennyson. C) Percy Shelley. D) David Bum.When was Elizabeth I came to the throne of England?A) 1538. B) 1548. C.1568. D) 1558.When was Oxford University founded?A) 1167 in Oxford, B) 1267 in Oxford.C) 1367 in Oxford. D) 1467 in Oxford.Canada is often described as a huge 〜centered on the Hudson and James Bay.A) plate B) saucer C) cup D) bowlIn the literature of sociolinguistics, refers to a group of institutionalized social situations typically con strained by a common set of behavioural rules.A) domain B) distribution C) dissimilation D) discourseis a process in which part of the form is native and part is borrowed, but the meaning is fully borrowe d.A) loanshifting B) loanblending C) loan translation D) logical connectionWhat is the name of the woman poet who had her The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America?A) Anne Bradstreet. B) Maria Edgeworth・ C) Jane Austen. D) Emily Dickinson.Who wrote and published the philosophical work Essay Concerning Human Understanding?A) John Milton. B) John Locke. C) Richard Steele. D) Joseph Addison. 专八人文知识考前模拟试题3_ is the branch of linguistics which studies the characteristics of speech sounds and provides methods for their description, classification and sportation.A) Phonetics B) Phonology C) Phoneme D) Phonetic typologyThe sounds in the production of which there is an obstruction of the air-stream at some point the vocal tract are called ・A) consonanee B) consonant cluster C) consistency D) consonantsIn its technical sense here, — deals with the analysis and creation of words, idioms and collocatio ns. A) pictogram B) lexicon C) word-formation D) ideogramWhen was Longman Group UK Ltd was founded?A) 1721. B).1722. C) 1723. D).1724.What is the name of the dictionary compiled by Samuel Johnson?A) First English Dictionary. B) Dictionary of English Language.C) A Dictionary of the English Language. D) Dictionary of the English Language.Who wrote and publish Poor Richard^ Almanack?A) Benjamin Franklin. B) John Gay. C) David Hume. D) Samuel Richardson.Which one of the following four books was written by Harriet Stowe?A) Roughing It in the Bush. B) Walden, or Life in the Woods.C) Adam Bede. D) Uncle Tom's Cabin._ _ the capital of New South Wales, is the oldest and largest city in Australia.A) Melbourne B) Sydney C) Darwin D) Canberra、Valentine's Day, is sweethearts1 day, on which people in love w让h each other express their tender emotions・A) February 10th B) February 12th C) February 14th D) February 16thMajor Newspapers and Magazines in the USA are , etc.A)New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, TimesB)New York Times, Washington Post, The Sun, TimesC)New York Times, Washington Post, The Evening Post, TimesD)New York Times, Washington Post, Sun day Times, Times答案：A D B D C A D B C A。
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1.What is the name of the dictionary compiled by Samuel Johnson?A) First English Dictionary B) Dictionary of English Language.C) A Dictionary of the English Language. D) Dictionary of the English Language.2. _____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 Beowulf；B sir Gawain；C the Canterbury tale；D king Arthur and his knights3. The father of English poetry, the author of Troilus and Criseyde is also the one of ____.A Romeo and Juliet；B the faerie queen；C Tamburlainc；D the Canterbury tales4. The group of Shakespeare plays known as “romance”or “reconciliation plays”is ______.A merchant of Venice, as you like it；B the tempest, pericles, the winter’s taleC Romeo and Juliet, antonym and Cleopatra5. Which of the following are regarded as Shakespeare’s four great tragedies?A Romeo and Juliet, hamlet, Othello, King Lear；B Romeo and Juliet, hamlet, Othello, MacbethC hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth；D Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Macbeth, Timon of Athens6. Which of the following is not the work of Francis bacon?A advancement of learning；B new instrument；C songs of innocence；D essays7. At the beginning of 17th century appeared a school of poets called metaphysics by Samuel Johnson, ____is the founder of metaphysical poetry.A Ben Johnson；B john Milton；C john Bunyan；D john Donne8. Daniel Defoe is a famous____.A poet；B novelist；C playwright；D essayist9. “He has a servant called Friday.”“he”in the quoted sentence is a character in______.A Henry fielding’s tom jones；B john Bunyan’the pilgrim’s progressC Richard brinsley Sheridan’s the school for scandal；D Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe10. Guiiliver’travel was written by____.A Daniel Defoe；B Charles dickens；C Jonathan swift；D Joseph Addison11. William Wordsworth is generally known as a ____poet.A romantic；B realistic；C naturalistic；D neo-classic12. “Ode to the west wind”was written by the author of ___.A “I wandered lonely as a cloud”；B “Kubla Khan”；C “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”D “As Defense of Poetry”13. #Which of the following poets does not belong to the school of romantic poets?A William Wordsworth；B Percy Bysshe Shelley；C George Gordon Byron；D John Donne14. Charles Dickens wrote all of the following except ___.A Oliver Twist；B David Copperfield；C A Tale of Two Cities；D Heart of Darkness15. “A Red, Red Rose”was written by ___.A Alexandra Pop；B Robert Burns；C William Blake；D John Keats16. Pip is the character of Charles Dickens’novel ___.A Oliver Twist；B David Copperfield；C A Tale of Two Cities；D Great Expectations17. Sense and Sensibility is a ___ by ___.A play…Jane Austen；B novel…Jane Austen；C play…Emily Bronte；D novel…Anne Bronte18. In reading Shakespeare, you must have come across the line “To be or not to be---that is the question”by___.A Iago in Othello;B Lear in King Lear;C Shylock in the Merchant of Venice;D Hamlet in Hamlet19. Robert Browning’s “My last Duchess”is composed in the form of a(n) ___.A dramatic monologue；B extended metaphor；C syllogistic argument；D dialogue20. Thomas Hardy wrote novels of __.A character and environment；B pure romance；C “stream of consciousness”；D psychoanalysis21. “Wessex novels”refers to the novels written by ___.A Charles DickensB D.H. LawrenceC James JoyceD Thomas Hardy22.The sentence “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s_____.A comediesB tragediesC sonnetsD histories23. contribution to English lies chiefly in the fact that he introduced from France the rhymed stanza of various types, especially the rhymed couplet of 5 accents in iambic meter---the heroic couplet to English poetry.A William Shakespeare’s；B G eoffrey Chaucer’s；C Thomas more’s；D Edmund Spenser’s24. Spenserian stanza is a form of poetry first employed by Edmund Spenser in his long poetry_____.A the faerie queene；B the shepherd’s calendar；C epithalamion；D amoretti25. Francis bacon is a ____.A poet；B playwright；C essayist；D novelist26. We can perhaps describe the west wind in shelly’s poem “ode to the west wind”with all the following terms except_____.A tamed；B swift；C proud；D wild27. The novel starts with “it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune ,must be in want of a wife.”The novel is Jane Austen’____.A Emma；B persuasion；C sense and sensibility；D pride and prejudice28. The major concern of ____ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.A Charles dickens’s；B D.H .Lawrence’s；C Thomas hardy’s；D john Galsworthy’s29. “do you think, because I am poor ,obscure ,plain and little ,I am soulless and heartless? And if god had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me , as it is now for me to leave you .”the above Is quoted from_______.A pride and prejudice；B Jane Eyre；C Wuthering heights；D great expectations30. Which of the following is not one of the Bronte sisters?A charlotte Bronte；B Anne Bronte；C jenny Bronte；D Emily Bronte31. Shakespeare wrote all the following works EXCEPT _____A. HamletB. King LearC. OthelloD. Wuthering Heights32. ____was NOT written by Charles Dickens.A. David CopperfieldB. Oliver Twist、C. Sons and LoversD. A Tale of Two Cities33. In which novel can "Yahoo" be found?A John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress；B Edmund Spencer’s The Faerie QueenC Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels；D Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones34.Dover Beach is written by ____A Robert BrowningB Alfred TennysonC Mathew ArnoldD Dylan Thomas35. Wordsworth’s poetry, divided by the subjects, falls into two major groups: one about ___ and the other about ___..A nature, human life;B society, human nature;C human life, social system;D universe, human spirit36 The reading of the first chapter of the novel Pride and Prejudice has led the reader to the understanding of Mrs. Bennet as a woman of ___.A simple character and mean understanding;B intricate character and short temperC simple character and good education ;D intricate character and outstanding talent37 As a romantic poet, William Wordsworth advocated the following EXCEPT ___.A the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings;B the use of colloquialism spoken by the massesC elegant wordings and inflated figures of speech;D the humble and rustic life as subject matter38The following plays are comedies by Shakespeare EXCEPT ___.A A Midsummer Night’s DreamB As You Like ItC The Merchant of VeniceD Romeo and Juliet39 “The novel is structured around the discovery of the hero’s origin.”Probably this refers to the novel ___.A Wuthering Heights;B The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling;C David Copperfield;D Gulliver’s Travels 40#___ was considered to be the greatest dramatist in the 18th century.A Henry Fielding;B Laurence Sterne;C Oliver Goldsmith;D Richard B. Sheridan41 “Pamela”by Samuel Richardson is written in forms of ____.A diary;B letter;C autobiography;D reminiscences42 “Clarissa harlowe”by Samuel Richardson is written in forms of ____.A diary ;B letter;C autobiography;D reminiscences43 The adventure of Roderick random is written by___.A Samuel Richardson;B Tobias smolett;C Lawrence sterne ;D henry fielding44The life and opinions of Tristan shandy is written by___.A Samuel Richardson;B Tobias smolett;C Lawrence sterne;D henry fielding45 __ named his own realistic novels as “comic epic in prose”.A Henry fielding;B Charles dickens ;C jack London;D Tobias smolett46 “Lyrical ballads”were written by___ and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.A Robert burns;B Robert southey ;C William wordsworth;D percy bysshe shelley47 George Gordon byron was most famous for_____.A don juan;B ode to the west wind;C kubla khan;D ode to a nightingale48 George Gordon byron created a “Byronic hero”firstly in his____.A Prometheus unbound;B childe herald’s pilgrimage;C kubla khan ;D ode on a Grecian urn49 Prometheus unbound was written by___ who also wrote____.A George Gordon byron …childe herald’s pilgrimage;B percy bysshe shelley..ode to a nightingaleC George Gordon byron …ode to west wind;D percy bysshe shelley…ode to west wind50 John keats is the author of____.A ode to a skylark and ode to a nightingale;B ode on a Grecian urn and ode to west windC ode on a Grecian urn and ode to a nightingale;D ode to west wind and ode to a nightingale 的美女编辑们51 “The Graveyard Poets”got the name because ___.A they chose to live near graveyards;B they often wrote about death and melancholyC they always wrote about dead people;D they often use “graveyard”as the title52It is generally understood that the recurrent theme in many of Thomas Hardy’s novel is ___.A man against nature;B love and marriage;C social criticism;D fate and destiny53 The Romantic Period in English literature began with the publication of ___.A William Blake’s Songs of Innocence;B Jane Austen’s Pride and PrejudiceC Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads;D a piece of land54 It is generally regarded that Keats’most important and mature poems are in the form of ___.A odeB elegyC epicD sonnet55G.B. Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a realistic exposure of the ___ in the English society.A slum landlordism;B inequality between men and womenC political corruption;D economic exploitation of women56 The Preface to Shakespeare and Lives of the Poets are the works of critic ___.A G.B. ShawB Samuel JohnsonC Ben JohnsonD E.M. Foster57The Ring and the Book is a masterpiece of ___.A Alfred TennysonB Robert BrowningC Thomas HardyD Ralph Waldo Emerson58 Matthew Arnold is the writer of ___.A Dover BeachB My last DuchessC Break, Break, BreakD The Eagle59 The writer of Heart of Darkness is also the one of ___.A Time of MachineB JimC Lord JimD A Passage to India60 Of Human Bondage is a novel by ___.A Herbert George Wells;B Arnold Bennett;C William Somerset Maugham;D John Galsworthy61 Percy Bysshe Shelly is famous for ___.A Ode to a Skylark and Ode to a Nightingale;B Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode to the West Wind;C Ode to a;Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian Urn;D Ode to the West Wind and Ode to a Skylark62 “Three of four families in a country village is something to work.”This statement was presented by ___.A Emily Bronte;B Jane Austen;C Mrs. Gaskell;D George Eliot63George Eliot wrote all the following except ___.A The Mill of Floss;B Silas Marner;C Middlemarch;D Agnes Grey64 The novel Vanity Fair was written by ___.A William Makepeace Thackeray;B Charles Dickens;C O. Henry;D Henry James65 Vanity Fair was a novel written by William Makepeace Thackeray, and the term “vanity fair”firstly appeared in ___ by ___.A Canterbury Tales …Geoffrey Chaucer;B The Pilgrim’s Progress …John BunyanC Tome Jones …Henry Fielding;D Dubliners …James Joyce66 The novel Vanity Fair was written by William Makepeace Thackeray who also wrote ___.A The Way of all life;B The History of Henry Esmond;C Sister Carrie;D Howard’s End67 Barchester Series is a series of novels written by ___.A Barchester;B Thomas Hardy;C Anthony Trollope;D Mark Twin68 Erehwon is a satiric novel written by ___.A Samuel Butler;B Henry Fielding;C Thomas More;D Mark Twin69In “the lake Isle of Innisfree”William Butler Yeats Express his ___?A desire to escape from the materialistic society;B fear caused by the impending warC interest in the Irish legend;D Love for Maud Gonne, a beautiful Irish actress70 Walter Scott’s historical novels cover a long period of time, from the Middle Ages to 18th century. His work Ivanhoe deals an epoch of ___ history.A English;B French;C Scotland;D Irish71 As a literary figure, Stephen Dedalus appears in two novel by____.A D.H Lawrence;B John Galsworthy;C George Eliot;D James Loyce72 The French lieutenant’s woman is the masterpiece of ____.A john Fowles;B Doris lessing;C Muriel spark;D Joseph Conrad73 The golden notebook was written by____.A john fowels;B Doris lessing;C Muriel spark;D Joseph Conrad74 Waiting for Godot is a(an)____by Samuel beckett.A novel;B poem;C play;D essay75 “kitchen sink realism”is referred to as the works of ___.A novel;B poem;C play;D essay76 Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize of literature in 1995 and most of his poems focused on the ___.A city life;B legend;C country;D history77 an article on “the observer”describes the bursting of all these young ___as a kind of “the movement”.A poets;B playwright;C novelist;D critic78 The novel ___told a story of a Nazi war criminal, in this novel Martin Amis set the narrative clock in reverse.A money, a suicide note;B time’s arrow;C London fields;D dead bodies79 satanic verses was written by___who was born in a muslin family in Bombay, India.A salman Rushdie;B kazoo ishguro;C julian barnes;D grahm swift80 the novel The Remains Of The Day won the booker prize for its author ___who was born in Japan.A Salman Rushdie;B kazoo ishguro;C Julian Barnes;D grahm swift。
专业八级英国美国文学知识考点
英国文学一、古英语时期的英国文学〔499-1066〕1、贝奥武夫2、阿尔弗雷德大帝：英国散文之父二、中古英语时期的英国文学1、allegory体非常盛行2、Romance开场上升到一定的高度3、高文爵士和绿衣骑士4、Willian Langlaud "农夫皮尔斯的幻象"5、乔叟坎特伯雷故事集〔英雄双韵体〕6、托马斯.马洛礼"亚瑟王之死"三、文艺复兴时期的英国文学〔伊丽莎白时代〕〔14-16世纪〕1、托马斯.莫尔"乌托邦"2、Thomas Wyatt 和Henry Howard引入sonnet3、Philips Sidney "The defense of Poesie""阿卡迪亚"描述田园生活；现代长篇小说的先驱4、斯宾塞"仙后" 诗人中的诗人；斯宾塞体诗节；5、莎士比亚：长篇叙事诗："维纳斯和阿多尼斯"、"露克丝受辱记"四大悲剧：哈姆雷特、尔王、奥赛罗、麦克白7、本.琼森风俗喜剧〔edy of manners〕"人性互异"8、约翰.多恩"玄学派〞诗歌创始人9、George Herbert 玄学派诗圣10、弗朗西斯.培根现代科学和唯物主义哲学创始人之一"Essays"英国开展史上的里程碑"学术的推进"和"新工具"四、启蒙时期〔18世纪〕1、约翰、弥尔顿："失乐园"、"为英国人民争辩"2、约翰、班扬："天路历程"religious allegory3、约翰、德莱顿：英国新古典主义的出色代表、桂冠诗人；"论戏剧诗"4、亚历山大.蒲柏：英国新古典主义诗歌的重要代表；英雄双韵体的使用到达登峰造极的使用；"田园组诗"是其最早田园诗歌代表作5、托马斯、格雷：感伤主义中墓园诗派的代表人物"墓园挽歌"6、威廉、布莱克：天真之歌、经历之歌；7、罗伯特、斯：格兰最出色的农民诗人；8、Richard Steel和Joseph Addison合作创办"The tatler"和"the spectator"9、Samuel defoe 英国现实主义小说的奠基人之一；"鲁滨逊漂流记"；"铲除非国教徒的捷径"，仪表达自己的不满；10、Jonathan Swift "一个小小的建议"；"格列佛游记"；"桶的故事"；11、Samuel Richardson 英国现代小说的创始人；帕米拉；克拉丽莎；查尔斯.格蓝迪森爵士的历史；12、Henry Fielding 英国现实主义小说理论的奠基人；"约瑟夫。
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第一阶段:中古英国文学(8世纪——14世纪1. Which of the following does not belong to the works of Geoffrey Chaucer?A. The Canterbury T alesB. The Vision of Piers PlowmanC. Troilus and CriseydeD. The Romaunt of the Rose2. “_____” brings the readers into a world that be longs to the Celtic legend of King Arthur and his knights of the Round T able.A. The Vision of Piers PlowmanB. The House of FameC. The Romaunt of the RoseD. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight3. Which of the following is the translation work of Geoffrey Chaucer?A. The Canterbury T alesB. Troilus and CriseydeC. The Romaunt of the RoseD. The House of Fame4. In the 14th century, the most important writer is _____.A. LanglandB. WyclifC. GowerD. Chaucer5. In Anglo-Saxon period, “Beowulf” rep resented the _____ poetry.A. paganB. religiousC. romanticD. sentimental6. When we speak of the old English prose, we might think of _____, who is the first scholar in English literature and has been regarded as father of English learning.A. William ShakespeareB. BeowulfC. Julius CaesarD. Venerable Bede7. _____ is not only a prose writer but also a king of Wessex.A. Alfred the GreatB. Venerable BedeC. Adam BedeD. king Arthur8. _____ is the culmination of the Arthurian romance.A. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightB. The Story of BeowulfC. Piers the PlowmanD. The Canterbury T ales9. William Langland’s “_____” is written in the form of a dream vision.A. Kublai KhanB. Piers the PlowmanC. The Dream of John BullD. Morte d’Arthur10. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is the _____.A. FrenchB. LatinC. RomanceD. Science11. In which century were Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury T ales written?A. FourteenthB. FifteenthC. SixteenthD. Seventeenth12. William Langland wrote for _____.A. the royal familyB. the courtC. the monksD. the common people13. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight focuses on _____.A. immediate social issuesB. the real life as well as people’s feelings and desiresC. a remote world belongs to the Celtic Legend of King Arthur and his knightsD. the imagination of the future world14. King Alfred’s Anglo Saxon Chronicle was written in _____ form.A. poeticB. dramaticC. proseD. none of the above【答案及题解】1. B The Vision of Piers Plowman 是作家威廉·兰格伦的作品。
2. D 《高文爵士与绿色骑士》是由一无名作者所做的一部关于亚瑟王时期的圆桌骑士的故事。
3. C 《玫瑰罗曼史》是杰弗里·乔叟翻译的一部法国作品。
其他全为他自己的作品。
4. D 十四世纪最伟大的作家是乔叟。
5. A 《贝尔武甫》代表的是盎格鲁撒克逊时期的异教英雄主义。
6. D 比德(673-735是英国著名的历史学家及神学家,是古英国文学史上的先驱。
7. A 阿尔弗雷德大帝(849-899是一位君王,也是杰出的散文学家。
8. A 亚瑟王浪漫主义文学的顶峰是《高文爵士与绿色骑士》,这是一部描述当时圆桌骑士故事的作品。
9. B 威廉·兰格伦的《农夫皮尔斯之幻象》是用梦幻的意象来写的。
10. C 纵观中世纪文学的作品,我们不难看出,这一时期作品多采用典故、神话、寓言以及梦幻意象等形式,主要采用的是浪漫主义的笔风。
11. A12. D 威廉·兰格伦主要是为平民百姓而写,这一点在他的代表作《农夫皮尔斯之幻象》中可以看出来,表达了对现实社会的抗议。
13. C 该作品是关于亚瑟王时期的圆桌骑士的故事。
14. C 阿尔弗雷德大帝所做的《盎格鲁撒克逊编年史》采用的写作体例是散文。
第二阶段:文艺复兴时期(14世纪——17世纪中期1. The publication of Philip Sidney’s _____ made sonnet sequence a popular literary form in England.A. ArcadiaB. Astrophel and StellaC. Defense of PoetryD. Utopia2. The nine-line verse stanza was originated from _____.A. Edmund SpenserB. Philip SidneyC. Thomas MoreD. William Shakespeare3. Here is a sentence form an essay, “Read not to contradict and confuse, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider”. The essay must be _____.A. Of Studies by Francis BaconB. The Advancement of Learning by Francis BaconC. Novum Organum by Francis BaconD. Essays by Francis Bacon4. The literary form of The Faerie Queen is _____.A. lyric poemB. ironic poemC. narrative poemD. allegorical poem5. All of the following are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England except _____.A. William ShakespeareB. Ben JonsonC. Christopher MarloweD. Francis Bacon6. The English Renaissance period was an age of _____.A. poetry and dramaB. drama and novelC. novel and poetryD. romance and poetry7. In Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylock, because _____.A. his money was all invested in the newly-emerging textile industryB. his enterprise went bankruptC. Bassanio was able to pay his own debtD. his ships had all been lost8. Which of the following is not among Shakespeare’s four great tragedies?A. HamletB. Romeo and JulietC. MacbethD. King Lear9. _____ is the first important English essayist and the founder of modern science in England.A. Francis BaconB. Edmund SpenserC. William CarxtonD. Sidney10. What flourished in Elizabethan age more than any other form of literature?A. NovelB. DramaC. EssayD. Poetry11. _____ exposes the corruption of vicious ambition.A. OthelloB. King LearC. HamletD. Macbeth12. Sir Thomas More wrote Utopia in _____ in 1516.A. FrenchB. EnglishC. LatinD. Italian13. William Shakespeare is one of the giants of _____.A. RomanticismB. critical realismC. AestheticismD. the Renaissance14. Paradise Lost is the masterpiece of _____.A. William ShakespeareB. Robert BurnsC. John MiltonD. William Blake15. How many lines does a sonnet have?A. 10B. 12C. 14D. They vary.16. Which of the following plays written by Shakespeare is history play?A Juliet CaesarB. The Merry Wives of WindsorC. Henry IVD. King Lear17. Which is Christopher Marlowe’s first famous play?A. T amburlaineB. Edward ⅡC. The Tragical History of Doctor FaustusD. The Jew of Malta18. Which of the following is NOT the work of Sir Philip Sidney?A. Astrophel and StellaB. Defense of PoetryC. ArcadiaD. Samson Agonists19. Spenserian stanza is a _____.A. 14 line stanzaB. 8 line stanzaC. 9 line stanzaD. 12 line stanza20. Which of the following is not the feature of Metaphysical poems?A. They use conceits to express ideas in sharp and harsh manner.B. They reject the romantic exaggeration of Elizabethan love poetry.C. Their metaphors are commonly used in daily life.D. The form of them is often a n argument with the poet’s lover, God of himself.21. “To be or not to be” has become a universal question puzzling every intellectual mind. This is a quotation from _____.A. King LearB. HamletC. Romeo and JulietD. Othello22. The first official version of bible known as the Great Bible, was revised in _____.A. 16th centuryB. 17th centuryC. 18th centuryD. 19th century【答案及题解】1. B 《阿斯特罗菲尔与斯特拉》是菲利普·雪尼所著的140多首十四行诗和其他诗篇的总和。