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《英国文学》课程考试试卷 (A卷)专业：英语年级：2010级考试方式：闭卷学分：3 考试时间：110分钟Ⅰ. Multiple Choices (每小题1分，共20分)that best answers the question.1. It was during the ________ that Christianity was introduced to Britain.A. Roman ConquestB. Norman ConquestC. English ConquestD. Anglo-Saxon Conquest2. Which one of the following statements about Beowulf is False?A. Beowulf is the first epic in the English history.B. The most striking feature in its poetical form is the use of alliteration.C. Other features of Beowulf are the use of similes and of overstatements.D. Beowulf is a folk legend brought to England by Anglo-Saxons.3. _____ marks a turning point in the literary creation of Mrs. Gaskell, who now abandoned critical realism for a kind of writing more acceptable to the bourgeois public.A. Mary BartonB. All the Year RoundC. CranfordD. North and South4. _________ is one of Dickens’s masterpieces of social satire, famous for its criticism of both the British and American bourgeoisie.A. Dombey and SonB. Martin ChuzzlewitC. Hard TimesD. Bleak House5. The romantic poet, _______ maintains that “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”.A. Samuel ColeridgeB. George ByronC. William WordsworthD. Robert Burns6. In Renaissance period, ______ wrote the first English blank verse, the form of poetry to be later masterly handled by Shakespeare.A. Earl of SurreyB. Thomas WyattC. Sir Philip SidneyD. Christopher Marlowe7. In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer used the rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter inEnglish, which is to be called later _________.A. the Spenserian StanzaB. the heroic coupletC. the blank verseD. the free verse8. Dr. Faustus is a play based on the _______ legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil. A. British B. DanishC. GermanD. French9. _________ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English novel”for its contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.A. Daniel DefoeB. Jonathan SwiftC. GermanD. Henry Fielding10. The poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”is regarded as the most representative work of _______.A. the Metaphysical SchoolB. the Gothic SchoolC. the Romantic SchoolD. The Graveyard School11. Jonathan Swift is a master of satire. He satirizes philosophers and projectors and also makes a reference to the relationship between Ireland and England. It is obvious in _______ in Gulliver’s Travels.A. LilliputB. BrobdingnagC. Flying IslandD. Horse Island12. The two major novelists of the English Romantic Period are ________ and Walter Scott.A. Washington IrvingB. Jane AustenC. Charles DickensD. George Eliot13. Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama, ________.A. Childe Harold’s PilgrimageB. The Revolt of IslamC. Prometheus UnboundD. Ode to the West Wind14. Most of Hardy’s novels are set in _______, the fictional primitive and crude region which is really the home place he both loves and hates.A. LondonB. ParisC. YoknapatawphaD. Wessex15. John Galsworthy’s masterpiece, The Forsyte Saga includes the following except ________.A. The White MonkeyB. T he Man of PropertyC. In ChanceryD. To Let16. In his famous essay “Tradition and Individual Talent,” ________ puts great emphasis on the importance of tradition both in creative writing and in criticism.A. D.H. LawrenceB. James JoyceC. George Bernard ShawD. T.S. Eliot17. “And where are they? And where art thou,My country? On thy voiceless shoreThe heroic lay is tuneless nowThe heroic bosom beats no more!” (George Gordon Byron, Don Juan)In the above stanza, “art thou” literally means ________.A. art thoughB. are thoughC. are youD. art you18. G.B. Shaw’s play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, is a realistic exposure of the ______ in the English society.A. inequality between men and womenB. slum landlordismC. economic exploitation of womenD. political corruption19. We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley’s poem “Ode to the West Wind”with all the following terms except _______.A. swiftB. tamedC. proudD. wild20. The enlighteners of the 18th century believed that _______ should be usedas the yardstick for the measurement of all human activities and relations.A. educationB. scienceC. emotionD. reasonⅡ.Identification of Fragments (每小题10分，共30分)Directions: please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly comment on it. Please writedown the answers on the Answer Sheet.21. “Now might I do it pat, now he is praying:And now I’ll do it: and so he goes to heaven:And so am I revenged. That would be scanned.”22. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.However little known the feelings or views of views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.”23. “All is not lost; the unconquerable will,And study of revenge, immortal hate,And courage never to submit or yield,And what is else not to be overcome;That glory never shall his wrath or might extort (夺取) from me.”Ⅲ.Short Essay Questions （每小题10分，共30分） Directions: Please write down the answers on the Answer Sheet .24. Write a short essay on Byron ’s Don Juan .25. Please comment on Charles Dickens ’ literary achievements .26. Why is Jane Eyre a successful novel?Ⅳ.Appreciating a Literary Work (共20分) Directions : In this part, you are required to write a commentarypaper in no less than 150 words.27. The Rocking-Horse Winner (by D.H. Lawrence)There was a woman who was beautiful, who started with all the advantages, yet she had no luck. She married for love, and the love turned to dust. She had bonny （漂亮的） children, but she did not love them. They looked at her coldly, as if they were finding fault with her. Nevertheless, when her children were present, she was all the more gentle and anxious for her children, as if she loved them very much. Only she herself knew that at the centre of her heart was a hard little place that could not feel love, no, not for anybody. Everybody else said of her: “She is such a good mother. She adores her children.” Only she herself, and her children themselves, knew it was not so. They read it in each other ’s eyes.There were a boy and two little girls. They lived in a pleasant house, with a garden, and they had servants, and felt themselves superior to anyone in the neighborhood. Although they lived in style, they felt always an anxiety in the house. There was never enough money. The mother had a small income, and the father had a small income, but not nearly enough for the social position which they had to keep up. There was always the grinding sense of the shortage of money, though the style was always kept up.The children were growing up, they would have to go to school. There must be more money. The father, who was always very handsome and expensive in his tastes, seemed as if he never would be able to do anything worth doing. And the mother, who had a great belief in herself, did not succeed any better, and her tastes were just as expensive.And so the house came to be haunted by the unspoken phrase: There must be more money! There must be more money! The children could hear it all the time though nobody said it aloud. They heard it at Christmas, when the expensive and splendid toysfilled the nursery. Yet nobody ever said it aloud. The whisper was everywhere, and therefore no one spoke it. Just as no one ever says: “We are breathing!” in spite of the fact that breath is coming and going all the time.“Mother,” said the boy Paul one day, “why don’t we keep a car of our own? Why do we always use uncle’s, or else a taxi?”“Because we’re the poor members of the family,” said the mother.“But why are we, mother?”“Well - I suppose,”she said slowly and bitterly, “it’s because your father has no luck.”“Oh!” said the boy. “Then what is luck, mother?”“It’s what c auses you to have money. If you’re lucky you have money. That’s why it’s better to be born lucky than rich. If you’re rich, you may lose your money. But if you’re lucky, you will al ways get more money.’“Well, anyhow,” he said stoutly, “I’m a lucky person.”“Why?” said his mother, with a sudden laugh.He stared at her. He didn't even know why he had said it. “God told me,” he asserted. “I hope He did, dear!”, she said, again with a laugh, but rather bitter.“He did, mother!” Paul assertedHe went off by himself, and in his room he would sit on his big rocking-horse, driving madly. “Now!”he would silently command the horse. “Now take me to where there is luck! Now take me!” He knew the horse could take him to where there was luck, if only he forced it. At last he stopped forcing his horse and slid down. “Well, I got there!”he announced fiercely, his blue eyes still flaring. “Where did you get?” asked his uncle, “Could you know its name?”“Well, he has different names. He was called Sa nsovino last week.”“Sansovino, eh? Won the Ascot horse-racing. How did you know this name?” asked his uncle.“My horse told me and now I have won 300 pounds by betting the race already. You won’t tell others, right?” answered the boy.“Now, son,” Uncle Oscar said doubtedly, “Let’s check it. There will be a race today. I’m putting twenty on Mirza, and I’ll put five on any horse you fancy. What’s your pick?”“Daffodil this time, uncle.”At last, Daffodil came in first, Lancelot second, Mirza third. His uncle brought himfour five-pound notes, four to one. （四比一的胜率）“What am I to do with these?” the uncle cried, waving the money before boys’ eyes.“I suppose we’ll talk to Bassett, our gardener and he is also my partner in horse-racing,” said the boy. “I expect I have had fifteen hundred now.”Uncle Oscar turned to Bassett and asked how they wined in horse racing. “It’s Master Paul, sir,” said Bassett in a secret, religious voice. “It’s as if he had the news from heaven.” Later, his uncle joined them and Paul even had made ten thousand in a race.“But what are you going to do with your money?” asked the uncle.The boy said, “I started it for mother. She said she had no luck, because father is unlucky, so I thought if I was l ucky, it might stop whispering.”“What might stop whispering?”“Our house. I hate our house for whispering.”“What does it whisper?”The boy answered: “I don't know. But it’s always short of money, you know, uncle. The house whispers, like people laughing at you behind your back. It's awful, that is! I thought if I was lucky,…”“You might stop it,” added the uncle.“Well, then!” said the uncle. “What are we doing?”“I shouldn't like mother to know I was lucky,” said the boy.“All right, son! We’ll manage it without her knowing.”They managed it very easily. Paul, at the other’s suggestion, handed over five thousand pounds to his uncle, who deposited (存入) it with the family lawyer, who was then to inform Paul's mother that a relative had put five thousand pounds into his hands, which sum was to be paid out a thousand pounds at a time, on the mother’s birthday, for the next five years.“So she’ll have a birthday present of a thousand pounds for five succes sive years,”said Uncle Oscar. “I hope it won’t make it all the harder for her later.”Paul’s mother had her birthday in November. The house had been “whispering”worse than ever lately, and, even in spite of his luck. She was down to breakfast on the morning of her birthday. Paul watched her face as she read her letters. He knew the lawyer’s letter. As his mother read it, her face hardened and became more expressionless. Then a cold, determined look came on her mouth. She hid the letter under the pile of others, and said not a word about it.But in the afternoon Uncle Oscar appeared. H e said Paul’s mother had had a longinterview with the lawyer, asking if the whole five thousand could not be advanced at once, as she was in debt.“What do you think, uncle?” said the boy. The uncle said, “I leave it to you, son.”“Oh, let her have it, then! We can get some more with the other,” said the boy.So Uncle Oscar signed the agreement, and Paul’s mother touched the whole five thousand. Then something very curious happened. The voices in the house suddenly went mad, like a chorus of frogs on a spring evening. “There must be more money! Oh-h-h; there must be more money. More than ever! More than eve r!”“I’ve got to know the result for the Derby horse-racing! I’ve got to know for the Derby!” the child reiterated (反复说), his big blue eyes blazing with a sort of madness.Paul’s secret of secrets was his wooden horse, that which had no name. To keep it, he had his rocking-horse removed to his own bedroom at the top of the house.“Surely you’re too big for a rocking-horse!” his mother had remonstrated.（告诫）“Well, you see, mother, till I can have a real horse, I like to have some sort of animal about,” had been his answer.The Derby was drawing near, and the boy grew more and more tense. He hardly heard what was spoken to him, he was very frail, and his eyes were really strange.Two nights before the Derby, she was at a big party in town. But an unrest was so strong that she had to leave the dance and go downstairs to telephone her house. “Are the c hildren all right, Miss Wilmot?”“Oh yes, they are quite all right.”Paul’s mother said: “It's all right. Don’t sit up. We shall be home fairly soon.”It was about one o’clock when Paul’s mother and father drove up to their house. All was still. Pau l’s mother went to her room and slipped off her white fur cloak. She had told her maid not to wait up for her. She heard her husband downstairs, mixing a whisky and soda.And then, because of the strange anxiety at her heart, she stole upstairs to her son’s room. Noiselessly she went along the upper corridor. Was there a faint noise?Then suddenly she switched on the light, and saw her son, in his green pajamas, madly surging on the rocking-horse. The blaze of light suddenly lit him up, as he urged the wooden horse, and lit her up, as she stood, blonde, in her dress of pale green and crystal, in the doorway.“Paul!” she cried. “Whatever are you doing?”“It’s Malabar!” he screamed in a powerful, strange voice. “It’s Malabar!”“What does he mean by Malabar?” asked the heart-frozen mother.“I don’t know,” said the father stonily. “What does he mean by Malabar?” she asked her brother Oscar, who came here as soon as he heard Paul was ill.“It’s one of the horses running for the Derby,” was the answer.The third day of the illness was critical: they were waiting for a change. The boy, with his rather long, curly hair, was tossing ceaselessly on the pillow. He neither slept nor regained consciousness, and his eyes were like blue stones. His mother sat, feeling her heart had gone, turned actually into a stone.The gardener tiptoed into the room and stole to the bedside, staring with glittering, smallish eyes at the tossing, dying child.“Master Paul!” he whispered. “Master Paul! Malabar came in first all right, a clean win. I did as you told me. You've made over seventy thousand pounds, you have; you’ve got over eighty thousand. Malabar c ame in all right, Master Paul.”“I never told you, mother, that if I can ride my horse, and get there, then I’m absolutely sure - oh, absolutely! Mother, did I ever tell you? I am lucky!”“No, you never did,” said his mother. But the boy died in the night.And even as he lay dea d, his mother heard her brother’s voice saying to her, “My God, Hester, you’re eighty thousand to the good, and a poor devil of a son to the bad. But, poor devil, poor devil, he’s best gone out of a life where he rides his rocking-horse to find a winner.”ABC大学2012-2013学年第一学期《英国文学》课程考试试卷答案适用班级：英语系2010级卷型：（A卷）Part I Multiple Choices (每小题 1分，共20分)Part II Identification of Fragments (每小题10分，共30分)21. From William Shakespeare’s Hamlet; (5分)Hamlet has a good chance to kill his uncle, but he hesitated. The reason Hamlet gives for his refusing to kill the king is that if he kills the villain now, he would send his soul to heaven; he would fain kill soul as well as body. What he considers now is no longer his personal wrong but the fate of his country.（5分）22. From Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice; (5分)This is the beginning sentences of the novel. During that time, girls’ marriage is the most important thing in a family, especially in those families whose daughters don’t have much pension. These sentences are ironical. It is not those single man who needs a wife but those young maids who are in need of a rich husband. 5分)23. From John Milton’s Paradise Lost; (5分)It’s through Satan’s mouth. Although defeated, he prevails. Since he has won from God the third part of his angels. Though wounded, he triumphs, for the thunder which hit upon his head left his heart invincible. (5分)Part III Short Essay Questions (每小题10分，共30分)24. Don Juan is Byron’s masterpiece, written in Italy during the years 1818-1823. （2分）It is 16,000 lines long, in 16 cantos, and written in ottava rima, each stanza containing 8 iambic pentameter lines rhymed abababcc.（2分）The story of the poem takes place in the latter part of the 18th century. Don Juan, its hero, is a Spanish youth of noble birth. The vicissitudes of his life and his adventures in many countries are described against varied social backgrounds, and he is seen to take part in different historical events, thus giving a broad panorama of contemporary life. (2分)Don Juan, a noble man, falls in love with Julia, a married woman. But the affair is soon discovered and Juan is sent abroad. Juan alone comes out alive and swims to a Greek island, where he is saved by Haidee. Haidee dies, heart-broken and Juan is sold as a slave to Turkey and then to St. Peterburg. The writer intended to let Don Juan go on a tour through Europe, take part in the French Revolution and die fighting against the reigning tyranny. He called this poem an “epic satire.” (4分)25. Charles Dickens is the greatest writer in critical realism. He wrote lots of novels. (2分)Dickens’s literary creation can be divided into three periods: in the first period, Dickens shows strong belief that social evils can be settled if only every employer reformed himself according to the model set by the benevolent gentlemen in his novels, such as The Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist. In the second period, Dickens came back from America. His travel to America impressed him most there was the rule of dollars and the enormously corrupting influence of wealth and power, such as Martin Chuzzlewit and Dombey and Son. In the third period, Dickens became pessimistic and his major works include Bleak House and Hard Times etc. (4分)As a novelist, Dickens is remembered first of all for his character-portrayal. Another feature of Dickens’s fictional art is his humor and satire. In Dickens’s novels’’construction, the main plot is often interwoven with more than one sub-plot so that some interesting minor characters as well as a broader view of life may be introduced. (4分) 26. The work is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian age. It is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society, e.g. the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions, the social discrimination and the false social convention as concerning love and marriage. At the same time, it is an intense moral fable. (4分)Jane, like Mr. Rochester, has to undergo a series of physical and moral tests to grow up and achieve her final happiness. The success of the novel is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine. （2分）Jane Eyre is a completely new woman image. She represents those middle-class working women who are struggling for recognition of their rights and equality as a human being. The vivid description of her intense feelings and her thought and inner conflicts brings her to the heart of the audience. （4分）Part IV Appreciating a Literary Work (计20分)答题要点：Plot. Theme：desire for money causes alienation of human relationship, 3rd person point of view, repletion, language features, short conversations, character analysis, your personal ideas about luck.《英国文学》A卷第11页共11页。
英国文学试题及答案
英国文学试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 英国文学史上被誉为“英国文学之父”的诗人是：A. 乔叟B. 莎士比亚C. 弥尔顿D. 拜伦答案：A2. 下列哪部作品不是简·奥斯汀的作品？A. 《理智与情感》B. 《傲慢与偏见》C. 《曼斯菲尔德庄园》D. 《简·爱》答案：D3. 英国浪漫主义文学的代表人物包括以下哪些？A. 华兹华斯B. 雪莱C. 拜伦D. 以上都是答案：D4. 以下哪位作家不是英国文学中的“湖畔诗人”？A. 华兹华斯B. 柯勒律治C. 雪莱D. 南希答案：C5. “荒原”是哪位英国诗人的代表作？A. 艾略特B. 奥登C. 叶芝D. 狄兰·托马斯答案：A6. 下列哪部作品是弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的代表作？A. 《到灯塔去》B. 《乌托邦》C. 《美丽新世界》D. 《1984》答案：A7. 英国现代主义文学的代表作家T.S.艾略特的代表作是：A. 《荒原》B. 《老人与海》C. 《了不起的盖茨比》D. 《太阳照样升起》答案：A8. 以下哪部作品是乔治·奥威尔的代表作？A. 《动物农场》B. 《杀死一只知更鸟》C. 《查泰莱夫人的情人》D. 《美丽新世界》答案：A9. 英国文学中“黑色幽默”的代表作家是：A. 弗朗西斯·培根B. 约瑟夫·海勒C. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫D. 乔治·奥威尔答案：B10. 英国文学中的“哥特式小说”起源于哪部作品？A. 《弗兰肯斯坦》B. 《呼啸山庄》C. 《简·爱》D. 《德古拉》答案：A二、填空题（每题2分，共20分）1. 英国文学史上的“文艺复兴”时期，代表作家有________和________。
答案：莎士比亚；克里斯托弗·马洛2. 英国文学中的“维多利亚时代”是指________年到________年。
答案：1837；19013. 英国文学中的“湖畔诗人”包括威廉·华兹华斯、________和________。
英国文学简答题问答题资料
英国文学简答题问答题资料英国文学简答题问答题英国文学问答题Shakespeare:Questions:I.1. Why sleep is so frightening, according to Hamlet, since it can “end” the heartache and the thousand natural shocks”?2. Why would people rather hear all the sufferings of the world instead choosing death to get rid of them, according to Hamlet?3. What, after all, makes people lose their determination to take action? Please explain in relation to the so-called hesitation of Hamlet.II. 1. What does Romeo compare Juliet to in the beginning passage of the selection?2. What is Romeo and Juliet’s attitude toward being a Montague or a Capulet?3. What does Romeo mean when he says “Look thou but sweet, /And I am proof against their enmity”?Answers for reference:I. 1. Nobody can predict what he will dream of after he falls asleep.2.Death is so mysterious that nobody knows what death will bring to us. Maybe bittersufferings, great pains, heartbreaking stories…3.1) Conscience and over-considerations. 2) He wants to revenge, but doesn’t know h ow; 2) Hewants to kill his uncle, but find it too risky; 3) He lives indespair and wants to commit suicide,4)however, he knows if he dies, nobody will comfort his father’s ghost. He is in face of greatdilemma.I. 1. Sun.2. They would give up their names for love’s sake.3. Only if you are kind to me, their hatred cannot hurt me.Daniel Defoe:Questions:1.Do you find the description of Crusoe’s setting up the tent convincing? Could youthink of better ways to build a shelter in his situation?2.W hat do you think of Crusoe’s way of marking time? Why is it important for himto keep track of time?3.From this excerpt, what do you find admirable in Robinson Crusoe?Answers for reference:1.Yes.2.1) He doesn’t want to forget time ; 2) For a civilized man, time is precious ; 3) Hewants to remember Sabbath days to show his respect and piety to God.3.strong-minded, careful, capable, persevering, optimistic, ambitious, self-reliant,clever, practical, adventurous, patient, rational, sympathetic, hardworking, imaginative, energetic, courageous, amiable (kind-hearted)Jane Austen:Questions:1. Why do you think of Mrs.Bennet? How can you characterize her?2. What do you known about Jane Austen’s writing style?Answers for reference:1. 1) She is mean, her only care is to marry her daughter to rich young men ; 2) She is simple and foolish, even cannot understand her husband’s ironical words. 3) She loves her daughter , though she doesn’t understa nd them ,but what she do is only for their happiness rather than herself.2. 1) keen observation of society around her , good ear for conversation, use of mild, irony and penetrating analysis.2)Style, clarity, economy, skillful dialogue, tight plotting, simple and clear. 3）Readers can find sth of themselves, comfort, tranquility, escape in her novels.Charlotte Bronte:Questions:1.What’s the theme in Jane Eyre?2.Please show your understanding on the love between Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester . Answers for reference:1.1) Jane Eyre is not only a love story; 2) it is also a plea for the recognition of theindividual’s worth and 3) sex equality that Women attempt to assert their own identity within the male-dominated society.2.Though poor and plain, Jane Eyre, who had a strong will of life, tried hard to get herrights of equality. She left the man very much who was about 20 years older than she and richer. She just wanted him to treat her equally. She was great because her love made disillusioned Rochester happ y again. Mr. Rochester was a man full of life’s misery, yet he loved Jan e truly and respected her very much.That’s why he got her love.Charles Dickens:Questions:1. How do you understand Pip’s so called “Great Expectation”?2. Please explain the reason that Great Expectation is a so-called bildungsroman or growth novel.Answers for reference:1. 1) when he was young,he wanted to become a blacksmith like Joe, his brother in law. 2) H is meeting with Havisham changed his attitude towards life, and he admired he decent way of living likea gentleman. H e met Estella and fell love with her,but he cannot marry her because of his inferior status and his expectations changed:raise his social status and to become a gentleman,get a bettereducation and then marry Estella. 3) When Pip discovers that his benefactor is in fact a convi ct, his “great expectation” turns out to be bubble, beautiful but transient. Pip finally realized the money and social status is not the most important thing in life. W hat is important is love and loyalty. M an's true value has nothing to do with his money and status.(简略版)1.1) W hen he was young,he wanted to become a blacksmith like Joe, his brother in law. 2) Whenhe met Havisham and fell in love with Estella, his expectations changed: to raise his socialstatus and become a gentleman,get a better education and then marry Estella. 3) When Pip discovered that his benefactor was in fact a convict, his “great expectation” turned out to bebubble, beautiful but transient. Pip finally realized the money and social status is not the most important thing in life. W hat’s important is love and loyalty. M an's true value has nothing to do with his money and status.2.It is the novel of the growth and development of the hero Pip. There is absence ofparents for Pip who is raised by his sister and brother-in-law; As a gentleman, Pip condescends people of lower class, losing sight of the generous, kind aspect of beinga gentleman; He is tested and drawn to destructive love etc.Thomas Hardy:Questions:1.What do you think causes Tess’s tragedy?2.Please comment briefly on the fa te of Tess in Tess of the D’Urbervilles.Answers for reference:1.1) Tess was an innocent, pure girl. She was honest and sweet-natured and full of love for herfamily and sympathy for others.2) the poverty of her family, the social environment and the collapse of the Agricultural economy; horse killed---claim kin 3) the double moral standard between men and women of that patriarchal society, “chastity =purity” is only for women.4) For such a girl as Tess, her life was something that she couldn’t control, chan ce of some unknown forces determined everything.2. Tess is actually a victim of her society. Hardy created the heroine Tess just to criticize the societyin his time. Tess is a tragic person simply because she is not accepted by the society in which agricul ture is menaced by the forces of invading capitalism. So in a way, Tess’ fate is decidedby her society.。
英国文学期末测试题(C)I.
英国文学期末测试题（C）I. Authors and their works (one point for each)A. Try to give one of the works by the following writers1. Thomas More _________________________2. Daniel Defoe _________________________3. John Milton _________________________4. Henry Fielding _________________________5. Percy Bysshe Shelley _________________________6. Charlotte Bronte _________________________7. G. Bernard Shaw _________________________8. Virginia Woolf _________________________B. Please point out the author of the following works9. The Canterbury Tales _________________________10. Macbeth _________________________11. The Pilgrim’s Progress _________________________12. Gulliver’s Travels _________________________13. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud _________________________14. Hard Times _________________________15. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists ___________________ ______II. Multiple Choice（one point for each）1. The only complete piece of epic in old English is ________.A. The Geste of Robin HoodB. BeowulfC. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD. Mort d’Arthur2. ________ is the main literary trend in the first period of the English Enlightenment.A. RealismB. RomanticismC. Neo-classicismD. Sentimentalism3. Robert Burns wrote his poems chiefly in the ________ dialect.A. IrishB. LondonC. DublinD. Scottish4. The rise and growth of the ________ is the most prominent achievement of the 18thcentury English literature.A. romantic poetryB. realistic novelC. neo-classical poetryD. sentimental novel5. Most of Shakespeare’s best plays were written in the ________ period of his dramaticcareer.A. firstB. secondC. thirdD. fourth6. John Milton is a great poet in the period of English ________.A. feudalismB. RenaissanceC. Bourgeois RevolutionD. Enlightenment7. ________ is regarded as“Father of English Prose”, who was the first to write essays inthe English language.A. BedeB. AlfredC. Francis BaconD. Samuel Johnson8. The well-known soliloquy by Hamlet“To be or not to be…”shows his ________.A. hatred for his uncleB. love for lifeC. resolution of revengeD. inner strife9. The impact of ________ upon Bernard Shaw was important and far reaching, whichcould find evident expression in many of his literary efforts.A. socialismB. capitalismC. UtopiaD. Fabianism10. “Don Juan”was written by Byron in ________. Don Juan, the hero in the poem, is a（an）________ youth of noble birth.A. Italy; SpanishB. Span; ItalianC. England; ItalianD. Italy; EnglishIII. Blank-filling （one point for each）1. The story in“Hamlet”comes from an old ________________ legend.2. Sir Thomas Wyatt first brought the sonnet to England from ________________.3. “The Geste of Robin Hood”is the best known ________________ in the MiddleEnglish period.4. Paradise Lost is a long ________________ divided into 12 books.5. Robert Browning’s principal achievement lies in his introducing to English poetry________________.6. The most important poet in the Age of Elizabeth was ________________.7. English literature began with the ________________ settlement in England.8. ________________ was the representative poet of passive romanticism.9. Richard Brinsley Sheridan was the most important English dramatist of the 18thcentury. His masterpiece is ________________.10. In his novel“A Tale of Two Cities”, Dickens takes the ________________ as thebackground.IV. Explain the following terms (five points for each)1. Oxford Reformers2. Romanticism3. Enlightenment4. HumanismV. Talk about the following topics1. Analyze the theme of “Oliver Twist”. (15 points)2. Analyse the image of Maggie in “The Mill on the Floss”. (20 points)VI. Analyze the following lines (10 points)“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,”—that is allYe know on earth, and all ye need to know英国文学试题(C)参考答案及评分细则I.A.1. Thomas More Utopia2. Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe3. John Milton Paradise Lost4. Henry Fielding The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling5. Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound6. Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre7. G. Bernard Shaw Widowers’ Houses8. Virginia Woolf To the LighthouseB.9. The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer10. Macbeth William Shakespeare11. The Pilgrim’s Progress John Bunyan12. Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift13. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud William Wordsworth14. Hard Times Charles Dickens15. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell每小题1分,共15分, 作家名字中姓拼写错的扣1分, 名拼写错的扣0.5分; 作品中拼写错单词酌情扣0.25-0.5分, 作家代表作之外的作品与代表作一样得全分.II. （每小题1分,共10分）1.B2.C3.D4.B5.B6.C7.C8.D9.D10.AIII. 填空。
英国文学试题及答案
英国文学试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 以下哪位作家被誉为“英国文学之父”？A. 乔治·奥威尔B. 威廉·莎士比亚C. 查尔斯·狄更斯D. 托马斯·哈代2. 英国浪漫主义文学运动的代表人物不包括以下哪一位？A. 威廉·华兹华斯B. 塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治C. 乔治·奥威尔D. 珀西·比希·雪莱3. 《傲慢与偏见》是哪位作家的作品？A. 简·奥斯汀B. 勃朗特三姐妹C. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫D. 乔治·艾略特4. 现代主义文学的代表作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的代表作是？A. 《到灯塔去》B. 《简·爱》C. 《呼啸山庄》D. 《雾都孤儿》5. 以下哪部作品被认为是英国现代主义文学的里程碑？A. 《乌托邦》C. 《百年孤独》D. 《追忆似水年华》二、填空题（每空2分，共20分）6. 威廉·莎士比亚的四大悲剧包括《哈姆雷特》、《奥赛罗》、《李尔王》和________。
7. 19世纪英国现实主义文学的代表作家之一是________，其代表作有《艰难时世》等。
8. 20世纪英国文学中，被称为“愤怒的青年”的作家是________，其作品反映了当时英国社会的不满和反抗。
9. 英国文学中，被称为“湖畔诗人”的是________，他们的作品强调自然美和个人情感。
10. 英国文学中的“哥特式小说”起源于18世纪末，其代表作品是________的《弗兰肯斯坦》。
三、简答题（每题15分，共30分）11. 简述威廉·莎士比亚的戏剧创作特点。
12. 描述19世纪英国现实主义文学的主要特征。
四、论述题（30分）13. 论述20世纪英国文学中的现代主义文学运动，并举例说明其对后世的影响。
英国文学试题答案一、选择题1. B. 威廉·莎士比亚2. C. 乔治·奥威尔3. A. 简·奥斯汀4. A. 《到灯塔去》二、填空题6. 《麦克白》7. 查尔斯·狄更斯8. 约翰·奥斯本9. 威廉·华兹华斯、塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治等10. 玛丽·雪莱三、简答题11. 威廉·莎士比亚的戏剧创作特点包括深刻的人性探讨、丰富的人物性格、复杂的情节构造、以及语言的韵律美和形象性。
英国文学1考试题及答案
英国文学1考试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 英国文学史上第一位伟大的诗人是：A. 乔叟B. 莎士比亚C. 弥尔顿D. 拜伦答案：A2. 下列哪位作家被誉为“英国小说之父”？A. 简·奥斯汀B. 亨利·菲尔丁C. 查尔斯·狄更斯D. 乔治·艾略特答案：B3. 《坎特伯雷故事集》的作者是：A. 乔叟B. 斯宾塞C. 雪莱D. 拜伦答案：A4. 莎士比亚的“四大悲剧”中不包括以下哪部作品？A. 《哈姆雷特》B. 《奥赛罗》C. 《李尔王》D. 《威尼斯商人》答案：D5. 以下哪位诗人不属于浪漫主义诗人？A. 华兹华斯B. 柯勒律治C. 拜伦D. 布朗宁答案：D6. 《简·爱》的作者是：A. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特B. 艾米莉·勃朗特C. 安妮·勃朗特D. 乔治·艾略特答案：A7. 以下哪部作品是现代主义文学的代表作？A. 《荒原》B. 《尤利西斯》C. 《好兵之帅之帅》D. 《到灯塔去》答案：B8. 以下哪位作家是“愤怒的青年”运动的代表人物？A. 金斯利·艾米斯B. 约翰·奥斯本C. 哈罗德·品特D. 艾伦·西利托答案：B9. 《动物农场》的作者是：A. 乔治·奥威尔B. 阿道司·赫胥黎C. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫D. 威廉·戈尔丁答案：A10. 以下哪位作家是后现代主义文学的代表人物？A. 托马斯·品钦B. 萨尔曼·鲁西迪C. 伊恩·麦克尤恩D. 朱利安·巴恩斯答案：A二、填空题（每空1分，共20分）1. 英国文学史上的“文艺复兴”时期，涌现出了许多伟大的作家，其中被誉为“英国戏剧之父”的是______。
答案：莎士比亚2. 19世纪英国现实主义文学的代表作家查尔斯·狄更斯的代表作之一是______。
英国文学试题及答案2(1)(1)(1)
重庆交通大学外国语学院精选课程《英美文学史及选读》样题答案：英国文学部分I、 Multiple Choice. (40%)There are 15 questions in this part. Choose A,B,C, or D on your answer sheet.A 1. Beowulf is a ___ poem, describing an all-round picture of the tribal society.A. paganB. ChristainC. romanticD. lyricB 2.The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, acomprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created awhole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely___.A. William Langland’s Piers the PlowmanB. Geoffrey Chaucer ’s The Canterbury TalesC. John Gower ’s Confessio AmantisD. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC 3. In“ Sonnet 18，Shakespeare” has a profound meditation on the destructivepower of __C___ and the eternal __________ brought forth by poetry to the one he loves .A. death/ lifeB. time / beautyC. death/ loveD. hate / loveC. 4. Which of the following poetic forms is the principle form of Shakespeare’sdrama?A. lyricB. sonnetC. blank verseD. quatrainC 5. Which of the following statements best illustrate the theme of Shakespeare’sSonnet 18?A. The speaker eulogizes the power of nature.B. The speaker satirizes human vanity.C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.D. The speaker meditates on man ’s salvation.A 6. Which of the following place does Gulliver visit first in Gulliver ’s Travels?A. LilliputB. BrobdingnagC. LaputaD. HouyhnhnmsB 7. Which of the following is NOT true about Robinson Crusoe ?A. It is written in the autobiographical form.B. It is a record of Defoe ’s own experiences.C. Robinson spends 28 years of isolated life on the island.D. It is set in the middle of the 17th century.B.8. Many of Burn s’songs deal with friendship.____ has long become auniversal parting-song of all the English speaking countries.A. A Red, Red RoseB. Auld Lang SyneC. My Heart ’s in the HighlandsD. John Anderson, My JoA9.The Tiger was written by___.A . William Blake B. John KeatsC. William WordsworthD. Percy ShelleyB10. “One short sleep past, we wake eternally”is taken from___A. The Solitary ReaperB. Death be not proudC. To AutumnD. Song to the Man of EnglandA11. _____ is not a famous translator in the English Renaissance.A. Thomas NorthB. Thomas WyattC. George ChapmanD. John FlorioC 12. _____is considered to be the summit of Shakespeare’s art.A. Romeo and JulietB. The Comedy of ErrorsC. HamletD. The TempestC13. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful lovelyrics and the later sacred verses.A. John MiltonB. John BunyanC. John DonneD. John DrydenD 14. The main literary stream of the 18th century was ____ .What the writers described in their works were mainly social realities.A. romanticismB. classicismC. realismD. SentimentalismD 15. Which of the following works are not written by Oliver Goldsmith?____.A. The TravellerB. The Deserted VillageC. The Vicar of WakefieldD. The School for ScandalA16. In the 18th century English literature，the representative writer ofneo-classicism is _A___ .A. PopeB. SwiftC. DefoeD. MiltonB17. The __B_ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century .A. RenaissanceB. EnlightenmentC. Religious ReformationD. Chartist MovementB18. Blake ， Wordsworth ， __B__ ， Byron ， Shelley and _________ are the major Romantic poets .A. Coleridage / SoutheyB. Coleridge / KeatsC. Keats / ScottD. Scott / ColeridgeB19. The Canterbury Tales was written in_____A. Old EnglishB. Middle EnglishC. Modern EnglishD. Current Modern EnglishA20. “The father of English poetry ”is _____.A. Geoffrey ChaocerB. Edmund SpenserC. Francis Bacon D Henry Fielding得分II. Fill in the Blanks in the following summary statement according to what you have learnt of British history and literature. (20%)1.Chaucer employed the_ Heroic _couplet in writing his greatest work TheCanterbury tales .2.Shakespeare’s plays have been traditionally divided into four categoriesaccording to dramatic type: histories, _comedies _, tragedies and romances.3. A Shakespearean sonnet is composed of three quatrains and a concluding_couplet .4. John Donne is the founder of the school of_ metaphysical poetry _ . His worksare characterized by mysticism in content and fantasticality in form.5.John Milton ’s Paradise Lost opens with the description of a meeting among thefallen angels, and ends with the departure of Adam and _ Eve _from theGarden of Eden.6. Othello,__ Hamlet _ , Kinglear, and Macbeth are the four greatest tragedies ofWilliam Shakespeare.7. Literature can be divided into poetry, fiction/novel and_Drama ____ __.8. Joseph Addison and Richard Steele jointly created _The Spectator _ _.9._ Odes __ are generally regarded as Keats’most important and mature works.10.The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is written by_ Daniel Defoe .得分III. Explain the following literary terms in your own words.(10%)1． Ballad: A narrative poem, often of folk origin and intended to be sung.2．Tragedy : A literary work in which the protagonist meets an unhappy or disastrous end.3．Sonnet: A 14-line verse form usually written in iambic pentameter. 4．Sentimentalism: A sentimental expression or idea.5．Lyric: A short poem of songlike quality.得分四 . Short AnswersRead the materials first ， and then answer the questions according to the requirements .Remember you should write your answers correctly ， completely and briefly (20%)“ Historiesmake men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep, moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”Questions:1）What kind of rhetorical devices does the sentence used?Analogy ( 类比 )2）Please translate this sentence.读史令人理智，读诗令人灵秀，数学令人周祥，科学令人深刻，伦理学令人隆重，逻辑修辞令人善变。
英国文学试题加答案
英国文学史试题Ⅰ. Identification. (15%)1. Identify each writer on the left column with what is written on the right column. (10%)(1) John Lyly a. pre-romanticism(2) William Blake b. impressionism(3) Laurence Sterne c. Angry Young Man(4) Kingsley Amis d. comic epic in prose(5) Joseph Conrad e. historical novel(6) Walter Scott f. University Wit(7) Pamela g. sentimentalism(8) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man h. Oedipus Complex(9) Sons and Lovers i. Künstlerroman(10) The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling j. epistolary novel2. Identify the author with his or her work. (5%)(1) Charles Dickens a. Don Juan(2) E. M. Foster b. Hard Times(3) John Milton c. Mrs. Warren’s Profession(4) Henry Fielding d. The Faerie Queene(5) George Bernard Shaw e. “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”(6) Oscar Wilde f. The Pilgrim’s Progress(7) John Bunyan g. A Passage to India(8) Edmund Spencer h. Paradise Regained(9) Thomas Gray i. Jonathan Wild the Great(10) George Gordon Byron j. The Importance of Being EarnestⅡ. Choose the best answer for each blank. (20%)1. The hero in the romance is usually a .A. kingB. knightC. ChristD. churchman2. Modern English novel, as a product of the 18th century Enlightenment and industrialization, really came with the rising of the class.A. workingB. aristocraticC. bourgeoisD. capitalist3. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens is written in the form of a novel.A. epistolaryB. picaresqueC. GothicD. psychological4. Which of the following is NOT from Ireland?A. Jonathan SwiftB. Daniel DefoeC. George Bernard ShawD. James Joyce5. is the most accomplished example of medieval romance, dealing with Arthurian romance.A. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightB. The Canterbury TalesC. Piers the PlowmanD. The Song of Beowulf6. by Alexander Pope is taken as a manifesto of the English Neo-classicism as Pope put forward his aesthetic theories in it.A. Essay on CriticismB. The Rape of the LockC. DunciadD. An Essay on Man7. “Some books are to be tasted, others are to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested” is taken from ’s work.A. Thomas MoreB. Francis BaconC. John BunyanD. Matthew Arnold8. Literature of Neo-classicism is different from that of Romanticism in that .A. the former is an intellectual movement, the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for politicalrights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivationB. the former is heavily religious but the latter secularC. the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as anexpression on an individual’s feelings and experiencesD. the former advocates the “return to nature” whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Romanwriters for its models9. Which of the following places does Gulliver visit last in Gulliver’s Travels?A. LilliputB. BrobdingnagC. LaputaD. Houyhnhnms10. defined poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”.A. William WordsworthB. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC. Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. T. S. Eliot11. could be classified to be both a naturalistic and a critical realistic writer.A. Charles DickensB. George EliotC. Thomas HardyD. Emily Brontë12. are Nobel Prize winners.A. James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, D. H. LawrenceB. Rudyard Kipling, T. S. Eliot, John GalsworthyC. W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, Thomas HardyD. Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce13. Christopher Marlowe first made the principal instrument of English drama.A. blank verseB. heroic coupletC. free verseD. monologue14. William Langland’s is written in the form of a dream vision.A. Kubla KhanB. Piers the PlowmanC. The Dream of John BullD. The Faerie Queene15. The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from .A. Gulliver’s TravelsB. The Pilgrim’s ProgressC. Childe Harold’s PilgrimageD. The Canterbury Tales16. In the chaos of the contemporary world and the despair and despondency among the westerners after the First World War are expressed.A. Ode to the West WindB. I Wandered Lonely as a CloudC. The Waste LandD. Tess of the D’Urbervilles17. Which of the following is NOT true about The Canterbury Tales?A. It is written in the form of a dream.B. Chaucer chose a pilgrimage as the framework for the stories involved in it.C. It is written for the greater part in heroic couplet.D. “The General Prologue” introduces the pilgrims and the time and occasion of the pilgrimage.18. Robert Louis Stevenson is the representative of the literary school .A. aestheticismB. neo-romanticismC. euphuismD. sentimentalism19. Which of the following is a Gothic novel?A. Northanger AbbeyB. The Mysteries of UdolphoC. Tristram ShandyD. Robinson Crusoe20. Which is correct according to the time when they appeared?A. romanticism, neo-classicism, humanism, critical realismB. humanism, neo-classicism, romanticism, critical realismC. romanticism, humanism, realism, naturalismD. realism, critical realism, romanticism, humanismⅢ. Fill in the blanks. (15%)1. wrote under the influence of Scottish folk traditions and old Scottish poetry.2. The slogan of aesthetic literature is .3. The Romantic Age is said to have begun in 1798 when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their joint work .4. In “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”, John Donne compares the souls of lovers to .5. A play presents the conflicts between good and evil with allegorical personages such as Mercy, Peace and Hate.6. The narrator in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is a(n) one.7. is the oldest poem in the English language and also the national epic.8. The dominant influence over modernist poetry came from two traditions: and .9. The three unities followed by neo-classical dramatists are the unity of , the unity of time and the unity of place.10. The most famous English ballads of the 15th century is the Ballads of , a legendary outlaw.11. The Rape of the Lock takes the form of a , which describes the triviality of high society in a grand style.12. is usually taken as the Father of English Prose.13. Modernism upholds a new view of time by emphasizing the time over the chronological time.14. written by Charles Dickens is generally taken as a semi-autobiographical novel.Ⅳ. Define the following terms. (16%)1. Omniscient narrator2. Heroic couplet3. Allegory4. Metaphysical poetry5. Naturalism6. Sonnet7. Comedy of manners8. Byronic heroⅤ. Short-answer questions. (24%)1. What are the major themes of modernist literature?2. Analyse the character of Tom Jones in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling.3. What are the essential features of Medieval Romance?4. Name three Romantic poets and state their chief characteristics.5. Make a comparison between the two volumes of William Blake: The Songs of Innocence and The Songs of Experience.6. How many groups does Old English poetry fall into? Briefly explain.7. What are the general features of English Romanticism?8. Make a comparison between James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence.Ⅵ. Essay question. (10%)Write an essay on the following poem so as to demonstrate your understanding as well as your Englishproficiency. You’re expected to write a well-organized essay in about 150 words, with your thesis clearly stated, effectively developed and properly concluded.The Garden of LoveI went to the Garden of Love,And saw what I never had seen:A Chapel was built in the midst,Where I used to play on the green.And the gates of this Chapel were shut,And “Thou shalt not” writ over the door;So I turn’d to the Garden of Love,That so many sweet flowers bore.And I saw it was filled with graves,And tomb-stones where flowers should be:And Priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,And binding with briars my joys and desires.Notes: 1. shalt: shall2. writ: written3. Chapel: 小教堂4. bind: 束缚Part IV. Short questions (20 points).1.What does the story “The Garden Party” tell you about the class system?2.How might the plot structure of “The Dead” best be described?3.The sub-title of “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” is “A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented”. What is youropinion about the heroine?4.Mention one example of symbolism in Tess, and explain.5.What is the symbolic significance of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange in the novel?6.What is the main idea of the poem “The Second Coming”? How does it reflect Yeats’view of thecivilization of his time?7.In what way is the west wind in The West Wind by Shelley both a destroyer and a preserver?8.What are the major themes of Pride and Prejudice? List at least two and elaborate them in a fewsentences.9.What significances have Clarissa attached to her parties?10.What purpose does the rain shower serve in the first act of Pygmalion?Final Examination Paper for Grade 2002History of English LiteratureDate: January 10, 2005Ⅰ. Identification (10%)1. Identify each writer on the left column with what is written on the right column.1) Jonathan Swift A. Neo-romanticism2) John Donne B. Euphuism3) Alexander Pope C. Historical novel4) Anne Radcliff D. Lake poet5) John Lyly E. English satire6) R. L. Stevenson F. Gothic novel7) Walter Scott G. Neoclassicism8) Thomas Gray H. Metaphysical poetry9) Southey I. Epistolary novel10) Pamela J. Sentimentalism2. Identify the author with his or her work.1) William Langland A. Utopia2) Thomas More B. Paradise Lost3) Daniel Defoe C. “Of Studies”4) Francis Bacon D. Piers, the Plowman5) John Milton E. The Faerie Queen6) Byron F. Sentimental Journey7) Laurence Sterne G. Don Juan8) Edmund Spencer H. Mary Barton9) D. H. Lawrence I. Sons and Lovers10) Elizabeth Gaskell J. Robinson CrusoeⅡ.Choose the best answer for each blank. (20%)1. The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from .A. The Pilgrim’s ProgressB. Gulliver’s TravelsC. Childe Harold’s PilgrimageD. The Canterbury Tales2. The story of is the highest point of the Arthurian romances.A. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightB. The Song of BeowulfC. Piers, the PlowmanD. The Canterbury Tales3. is the only novel written by Oscar Wilde.A. The Importance of Being EarnestB. The Picture of Dorian GrayC. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManD. The Picture of a Lady4. was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature .A. Thomas WyattB. William ShakespeareC. Henry HowardD. John Lyly5. eulogized imperialism in his works, esp. in his poems.A. John GalsworthyB. Joseph ConradC. Rudyard KiplingD.E.M. Foster6. English Renaissance Period was an age of .A. prose and novelB. poetry and dramaC. romance and balladD. essay and drama7. The major form of Chcrtist literature is in .A. proseB. dramaC. verseD. novel8. “ Shall I compare thee to a summer’s eay”`is the opening line of one of Shakespeare’s .A. songsB. plays K. sonnets D. tragedies9. In Gulliver’s Travels, Yahoos are the creatures living on .A. LilliputB. BrobdingnagC. LaputaD. Houyhnhnms10. List the following terms according to the time when they appeareD.A. romanticism , neoclassicism , humanism , critical realismB.humanism , neoclassicism , romanticism , critical realismC.romanticism , humanism , realism , naturalismD.r ealism , critical realism , romanticism , humanism11. wrote under the influence of Scottish folk tradition and old Scottish poetry.A. Jonathan SwiftB. Robert BurnsC. William BlakeD. Geoffrey Chaucer12. first made blank verse the principal instrument of English drama in the Renaissance perioD.A. William ShakespeareB. Thomas WyattC. Christopher MarlowD. Henry Howard13. The greatest English critical realist novelist was , who criticized thebourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people .A. Emily BronteB. Charles DickensC. W.M. ThackerayD. Charlotte Bronte14. were made poets Laureates in the 18th and 19th century .A. Wordsworth and BrowningB.Byron and ShelleyC.Keats and BrowningD.W ordsworth and Tennyson15. The principal elements of novel are mystery, horror and suspense.A. GothicB. RomanticC. SentimentalD. Realistic16. English critical realism found its expression chiefly in .A. essayB. dramaC. poetryD. novel17. Which of the following is NOT true about The Canterbury Tales?A. It is written for the great part in heroic couplets.B. It is written in the form of a dream vision.C. Chaucer chose a pilgrimage as the framework for the stories involved in it.D. “The General Prologue” introduces the pilgrims and the time and occasion of the pilgrimage.18. John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress is a(n) .A. allegoryB. romanceC. comedy of mannersD. realistic novel19. Friday is a character in the novel .A. Tom Jones, a FoundlingB. Robinson CrusoeC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. Rob Roy20. The Chartist writers introduced a new theme into English literature, the struggle of the for itsrights.A. soldiersB. peasantsC. bourgeoisieD. proletariatⅢ. Fill in the blanks. (20%)1. Old English poetry can be divided into two groups: poetry andpoetry.2. and are the two factors that had large influence on contemporary English literature.3. The slogan of aesthetic literature is .4. Modern English novel is a natural product of the Industrial Revolution and a symbol of the growing importance of the English class.5. The Romantic Age began in 1798 when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their joint work .6. “And I will luve thee still, my dear./ Till a’ the seas gang dry.” is taken from the famous poem .7. The central character in a romance is usually a .8. A play is chiefly based on the biblical stories or the stories of the saints.9. is called the father of English poetry.10. It is in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling that Henry Fielding succeeds best in creating a in prose.11. Dickens takes the French revolution as the background of the novel .11. In “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”, John Donne compares the souls of lovers to .12. Bacon’s Essays has been recognized as an important landmark in the development of English (genre).13. The most important poet in the Victorian age is . Next to him was Robert Browning.14. Three kinds of irony are verbal irony, and .15. Popular ballad is an important stream of English medieval literature. Of all the ballads, those of are of paramount importance.16. The Pickwick Papers takes the form of a novel.Ⅳ. Define the following terms. (12%)1. Epic2. Iambic pentameter3. Intrusive narrator4. Bildungsroman5. Naturalism6. Conceit答案及评分标准Final Examination Paper for Grade 2003History of English LiteratureⅠ. Identification. (15%)1. (10%) f a g c b e j i h d2. (5%) b g h I c j g d e aⅡ.Choose the best answer for each blank. (20%)1-5: B C B B A 6-10: A B C D A11-15: C B A B B 16-20: C A B B BⅢ. Fill in the blanks. (15%)1. Robert Burns2. art for art’s sake3. Lyrical Ballads4. compasses5. morality6. intrusive7. Beowulf8. Metaphysical poetry; French symbolism9. action 10. Robin Hood 11. mock epic12. John Dryden 13. psychic 14. David CopperfieldⅣ. Define the following terms. (16%)1.Omniscient narrator is a third-person narrator, who is not a character in the story. The narrator is “all-knowing”, who can describe and comment on all the characters and actions in the story.2. Heroic couplet is the rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter.3. Allegory is a tale in verse or prose in which characters, actions, or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities. Thus, an allegory is a story with two meaning, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.4. Metaphysical poetry: the poetry of John Donne and other 17th-century poets who wrote ina similar style. It is characterized by verbal wit and excess, ingenious structure, irregular meter, colloquial language, elaborate imagery, and a drawing together of dissimilar ideas .5. Naturalism is a post—Darwinian movement of the late 19th century that tried to apply the laws of scientific determinism to fiction. The naturalists went beyond the realists’ insistence onthe objective presentation of the details of everyday life to insist that the materials of literature should be arranged to reflect a deterministic universe in which a person is a biological creature controlled by environment and heredity.6. Sonnet is a verse form of fourteen lines, in English characteristically in iambic pentameter and most often in one of the two rhyme schemes: the Italian(or Petrarchan) or Shakespearean ( or English ).7. Comedy of manners is a kind of comedy representing the complex and sophisticated code of behavior current in fashionable circles of society, where appearances count for more than true moral character. Its humor relies chiefly on elegant verbal wit and repartee. In England, the comedy of manners flourished as the dominant form of Restoration comedy in the works of Etheredge, Wycherley and Congreve. It was revived in a more subdued form in the 1770s by Goldsmith and Sheridan, and later by Oscar Wilde.8. Byronic hero is a character-type found in Byron’s narrative Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. He is a boldly defiant but bitterly self-tormenting outcast, proudly contemptuous of social norms but suffering for some unnamed sin. Emily Bronte’s Heathcliff is a later example.Ⅴ. Short-answer questions. (24%)1. The distorted, alienated and ill relationship between man and nature, man and society, man and man, and man and himself.2. Tom Jones is the pattern of the good-natured unheroic hero of the age. He is a very handsome young man of manly virtues: kind, frank, generous, high-spirited, loyal and courageous, but impulsive, wanting prudence and full of animal spirits and sensuality. He represents everyman. (He is of manly virtues and yet not without fault.)3. 1) The hero is usually a knight using sword, who sets out on a journey to seek adventures and accomplish some goal. He is devoted to the church and the king.2) It lacks general resemblance to truth or reality. (liberal use of the improbable or even the supernatural things)3) It exaggerates the vices of human nature and idealizes the virtues. (standardizedcharacterization)4) It lays emphasis on the supreme devotion to a fair lady. (Romantic love is an important part of the plot.)4. Wordsworth:the great theme remains the world of simple, natural things, in the countryside or among people.Coleridge: his interest is towards the strange, the exotic, and the mysterious things. Shelley: expresses two main ideas --- the external tyranny is the main enemy; the inherent human goodness will eliminate evil form the world.Byron: example of a personality in tragic revolt against society; prototype of romantic hero. Keats: his poetry is a response to sensuous impressions; cares about beauty.5. The two books hold the similar subject matter, but the tone, emphasis and conclusion differ.1) Songs of Innocence is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy and innocent world, though not without its evils and sufferings.2) Songs of Experience paints a different world, a world of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression with a melancholy tone.6. Religious (Christian) poetry and secular (pagan) poetry.1) Religious poetry is mainly on biblical themes and saints’ lives, represented by Caedmon and Cynewulf.2) Secular poetry emphasizes the harshness of the circumstance and the helplessness of humans before the power of fate, represented by Beowulf.7. 1) the emphasis on imagination2) the idealization of nature3) the praise of individualism4) the glorification of the commonplace5) the lure of the exotic8. Both are modernist novelists. James Joyce is interested in technical innovation. He introduced three new techniques into English literature: the use of myth, stream-ofconsciousness and epiphany. Lawrence is interested in the tracing of the psychological development of his major characters and the criticism of the dehumanizing effect of industrialization on human nature.Ⅵ. Essay question. (10%)Part IV. Short questions. (20 points)1.The story shows strict class system, the differences and lack of communication between the rich and thepoor.2.The story is comprised of four episode, which are quite unified with Gabriel’s frustration, and eachepisode witnesses more serious conflict than the previous, thus, it is a climaxing order in terms of structure.3.Tess is a pure woman, although society and other people believed otherwise. She has done nothingwrong. She is seduced, but does not have sex of her own accord with Alec. She is sacrificed to society, yet she has no evil intensions when she go across the threshold of her parents’ and enters the world. She is a victim.4.An example of symbolism would be the ribbon Tess wears at the may day dance, the read spot of bloodon the ceiling at the Herons, Sandbourne, that the landlady sees, the Stonehenge, the black flag at Tess’s hanging, the spoiled milk by garlic, or the dying pheasants Tess sees in the woods.5.a). The two houses embody the two major principles of life in the book: storm and calm. WutheringHeights is located on a hill and is constantly attacked by wild winds. The inhabitants are constantly being torn by strong passions and violence is their natural language. Thrushcross Grange is comparatively sheltered from the wild elements. It is delicate and refined. The people of the Grange are gentle and seek not so much wild sparkle and dance of life. b). They also represent nature and culture.6.The poem expresses Yeats’ thought that modern civilization is in a state of decay, and that a long cycleof history is ending while another is approaching. But the new historical age might be led by a monster.It expresses his disillusionment of the civilization of his time.7.The west wind is both a destroyer and a preserver because it destroys in autumn (blowing the leaves offthe trees and bury them beneath the earth) in order to revive in the spring (the seeds grow and bring new life to the Earth). It marks the cycle of the seasons. It is around this image the poem weaves various cycles of death and regeneration—vegetational, human, and divine.8.marriage and women’s fate, self-acknowledge, manners, virtue and sense of responsibility9.Richard thinks the party childish and he thinks that it is foolish of Clarissa to like excitement in spite ofher heart; Peter thinks her snobbish, liking to have famous people around her. But to Clarissa, the party is an offering, to combine and to create. The parties are her effort to create some human connection and dialogue. She hopes to be remembered even after her death.10.It helps to create a chaotic world of confusion. The crowd gather under the portico to seek shelter; theyrepresent slice of society of people from different social strata. It also provides a opportunity for themain characters to meet in an unlikely circumstance.KeysFinal Examination for Grade 2002History of English LiteratureⅠ. Identification (10%)1. 1) e2) h3) g4) f5) b6) a7) c8) j9) d10) c2. 1) d2) a3) j4) c5) b6) g7) f8) e9) i10) hⅡ.Choose the best answer for each blank. (20%)1—5 : a a b a c 6—10 : b c c d b11—15 : b c b d a 16—20 : d b a b dⅢ. Fill in the blanks. (20%)1. pagan, Christian2. Imperialism, demand for social reform3. art for art’s sake4. (bourgeois) middle5. The Lyrical Ballads6. “A Red Red Rose”7. knight 8. miracle9. Geoffrey Chaucer 10. comic epic11. A Tale of Two Cities12. a pair of compasses13. essay 14. Alfrd Tennyson15. situational, dramatic 16. Robin Hood17. picaresqueⅣ. Define the following terms. (12%)1.Epic: a long narrative poem telling about the deeds of a great hero and reflecting the values of the society from which it originated. The two most famous English epics are Beowulf and John Milton’s Paradise Lost.2.Iambic pentameter: a poetic line consisting of five verse feet, with each foot an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Iambic pentameter is the most common verse line in English poetry.3.Intrusive narrator: an omniscient narrator who, in addition to reporting the events of a novel’s story, offers further comments on characters and events, and who sometimes reflects more generally upon the significance of the story.4.Bildungsroman: a novel that traces the initiation, development, and education of a young person. Examples are Dickens’s David Copperfield and James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.5.Naturalism: a post--Darwinian movement of the late 19th century that tried to apply the laws of scientific determinism to fiction. The naturalists went beyond the realists’ insistence on the objective presentation of the details of everyday life to insist that the materials of literature should be arranged to reflect a deterministic universe in which a person is a biological creature controlled by environment and heredity.6. Conceit: a kind of metaphor that makes a comparison between two startlingly different things. A conceit usually provides the framework for an entire poem. An especially unusual and intellectual kind of conceit is the metaphysical conceit, used by certain 17th-century poets, such as John Donne.。
《英国文学》题库及答案
《英国文学》题库及答案I.Choose the best to complete the following statements1.“O Wind/If winter comes,can spring be far behind?” The two lines are from _______.A. “To Autumn”B. “To a Nightingale”C. “Ode to the West Wind”D. “To a Skylark”2. “To be or not to be----that is the question” is taken from_______.A.HamletB.Romeo and JulietC.The Merchant of theVeniceD.Macbeth3. _______ is romantic love tragedy.A. Romeo and JulietB. MacbethC.The Merchant of the VeniceD. Hamlet4. Beowulf. is considered as _______.A. the best epic in English literatureB. the national epic of the Anglo-SaxonsC. the best narrative poem in English literatureD.the best romance5. In_____,Chaucer created a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society and a whole gallery of vivid characters.A.The Canterbury TalesB.The Romaunt of the RoseC.The Legend of Good WomenD.Troilus and Criseyde6. ___ marks a transition from the medieval to the modern world.A. Enlightenment MovementB. The Glorious RevolutionC. The RenaissanceD. Reformation7. _____is not a writer in the Renaissance.A .Francis BaconB .William Shakespeare C. John Milton D .Jonathan Swift8. __ is NOT the style of Bacon’s essays.A. brevityB. compactness C .powerfulness D .high-flowness9 ______ is generally accepted as an English epic besides Beowulf.A.Samson AgonistesB.Paradise LostC.Paradise RegainedD. “Lycidas”10.The Neo-classicism is markedly characterized by the emphisis of__________.A.realismB.didactic functionC.elegant styleD. lyricism11.____________ is not a picaresque novel.A. Great Expectations B Gulliver’s TravelsC. Robinson CrosueD. The Pilgrim’s Progress12. “Death, Be not Proud” is an Italian sonnet by____.A.ShakespeareB.John MiltonC.John DonneD. Drydon13. In Paradise Lost, Milton doesn’t refers God to____.A.KingB.FoeC.VictorD. Friend14._________ is not a Lake poet?A.SoutheyB.WordworthC.ShelleyD.Coleridge15. ____is a typical Byronic heroe.A.Don JuanB.ShelleyC. BeowulfD. Iliad16.He was the 1st important Romantic poet,showing a contempt for rationalism and bringing somethingfresh to British poetry.He is __.A .Wordsworth B.Blake C.Keats D.Coleridge17. “Did he smile his work to see? /Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”, the 2 lines are from___.A. “the Lamb”B. “The Tyger”C. “The Cheminey Sweeper”D. “The Sick Roes”18. In the above quoted lines, “the Lamb” refers to____.A .Nature B.Jesus Christ C.God D.Uncertain19. “The waves beside them danced; but they /Outdid the sparking waves in glee; ” here, “they ”refer to____.A. rosesB.voletsC.daffodilsD.girls20.The pleasure dome is described in ____.A. “Kubla Khan”B. “Christabel”C. “Frost at Midnight”D. “Dejection:An Ode”21.“Ode to the West Wind” is in____.A.abb bbcB.terza rimaC.aab bcbD.free verse22.In“Ode to the West Wind”, west wind is the biggest symbol; it symbolizes______.A. destroyer and preserverB.boundless freedomC.a lyreD.both A and B23. “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard /Are sweeter;therefore,ye soft pipes,play on;”the2 lines are from“Ode on a Grecian Urn”by _____.A. John KeatsB.William WordsworthC.ByronD.Sheelley24.The striking characteristic of the Victorian fiction lies in___.A.critical realismB.a return to rationalismC.naturalismD.an overall negation of society25.____is not a character created by Charles Dickens.A.Oliver TwistB.David CopperfieldC.PipD. Ishmael26. Tess is sandwiched between and murdered by two so-called gentlemen: one is Alec, and the other is ______.A. Angel ClareB. Alec’s brotherC. LouisD. Babalou27.Linguist Higgins appears in____.A.Widower’s HousesB. Mrs. Warren’s ProfessionC. St. JoanD. Pygmalion28.In “Auld Lang Syne”, the poet is singing for ______.A.loveB.friendshipC.patriotismD.his mother29.In “The Rocking Horse Winner”, Lawrence attacks____.A.money-worshippingB.hypocricyC.industrialismmercialism30. “My Last Duchess” is a famous ______ by ______.A. love lyric; WordsworthB.dramatic monologue;TennysonC.dramatic monologue; BrowningD.tragedy; ShawII.Please explain the following terms briefly1. Neo-classicism:2.The Waste Land3. blank verse4.The Great Expectation 34.heroic couplet5. Shakespearean Sonnet6.Critical Realism7. dramatic monologueIII.Answer the following questions1.Why is Shakespeare great in the history of British literature?2.What does Wordsworth want to say in “I Wandered as A Lonely Cloud”?3.Please explain the theme of Tess of the D’Urbevilles.4. In what a way is Renaissance significant in the history of Europe?5. What does T.S. Eliot want to say in “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock”?6. What does Wordsworth describe in “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways”?7. What is the major theme of the novels of Lawrence?8. What does Byron want to say in “She Walks in Beauty”?《英国文学》作业参考答案I.1.C2.A3.A4.B5.A6.C7.D8.D9.B 10.B11.A 12.C 13.D 14.C 15.A 16.B 17.B 18.B 19.C 20.A21.B 22.D 23.A 24.A 25.D 26.A 27.D 28.B 29.A 30.CII.1. Neo-classicism is revival of interest in the old classical works.According to theneo-classicists,all forms of literature werw to be modeled after the classical works of Greek and Roman writers and those of the contemporary French ones.They believed that the artisical ideals should be judged in terms of its service to humanity.This belief led them to seek proption,unity,harmony and grace in literary expression.Thus a polite,urbane,witty and intellectual art developed.2. The Waste Land has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry,comparable to Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads. With bold technical innovations in versification andstyle,the poem not only presents a panorama of physical disorder and spiritual desolation in the modern Western world, but also reflects the prevalent mood of disillusionment and despair of a wholepost-war generation. The poem is about the spiritual breakup of a modern civilization in which humanlife has lost its meaning, significance and purpose. It is regarded as a reflection of the 20th century people’s disillusionment and frustration in a sterile and futile society.3. blank verse refers to unrhymed verse of iambic pentametre.4.Heroic couplet refers to two lines of iambic pentameter rhyming with each other.5. Sonnet is a lyric poem almost invariably of 14 lines and following one of several set rhyme-schemeThere are 2 widely accepted rhyme-schemes:Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet and English (Shakespearean)sonnet.The former consists of a octave(abbaabba) and a sestet (cdecde,cdccdc or cdedce).The English is made up of 3 quatrains and an heroic couplet.It rhymes in ababcdcdefefgg.6. It is a literary movement in the 2nd half of the 19th century and the beginning decade of the 20thcentury as a reaction to Romanticism.The realists holds that literature should be faithful to andwrite about the possibilty of reality.They on one hand expose the social problems,on the other hand,try to find solutions to the problems.Most of them are democratic social reformers.7. Dramatic monologue refers to a lyrical poem which reveals “a soul in action” through the conversation of one character in a dramatic situation. The character is speaking to an identifiablebut silent lis tener at the dramatic moment of the speaker’s life.III.1.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is one of the most remarkable playwrightsand poets the world hasever known.With his 38 plays,154 sonnets and 2 long poems,he has established his giant position inworld literature.The influence of Shakespeare upon British literature is hard to measure and it isnot exegerated to say that all the writers after him have been influenced by him directly or indirectly.A. As a humanist, Shakepeare enthuiastically eulogizes humanity and writes in the spirit of Renaissance.He was against feudal tyranny ,religious persecution,racial discrimination,social inequality and the corrupting influence of money and gold.B. Shakespeare holds that literature should be a combination of beauty, kindness and truth,and shouldreflect nature and reality;he believes that only this kind of literature can reach immortality.C.Shakespeare is a great master of the English language2. This poem is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature, and one that takes usto the core of Wordsworth’s poetic beliefs. In his eyes, nature is sublime and sacred and willexert a lasting influence upon a soul. The poem is a record of his sublime communion with nature .3. This novel is one of the best and most popular work by Hardy. It is a fierce attack on the hypocritical morality of the bourgeois society and the capitalist invasion into the country and destruction of the English peasantry towands the end of the century.Tess, as a pure woman, broughtup with the traditional idea of womanly virtues, is abused and destroyed by both Alec and Angel,agents of the destructive force of the society. And the misery, the poverty and the heartfelt painshe suffers and her final tragedy give rise to a most bitter cry of protest and denunciation of the society.4. The Renaissance marks a transition from the medieval to the modern world.Generally ,it refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries.It first started in Italy,with the flowering of painting,sculpture and literature.From Italy the movement went to embrace the rest of Europe.The Renaissance ,which means rebirth or revival,is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events,such as the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture,the new discovery in geography and astrology,the religious reformation and the economic expansion.The Renaissance,therefore,in essence ,is a historical period in which the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to get rid of those old feudalist ideas in medieval Europe,to introduce new ideas that expressed the interest of the rising bourgeeoisie,and to recover the purity of early church from the corruption of Roman Catholic Church.5. The poem is Eliot’s most striking early achievement. It presents the meditation of an aging young man over the business of proposing marriage.The poem is in a form of dramatic monologue, suggesting an ironic contrast between a pretended “love song”and a confession of the speaker’s incapability facing up to love and to life in a sterile upper-class world. Prufrock, the protagonist of poem, is neurotic, self-important, illogical and incapable of action. He is a kind of tragic figure caught in asense of defeated idealism and tortured by unsatisfied desires. The poem is intensely anti-romantic with visual images of hard, gritty objects and evasive hellish atmosphere.6. (main points)He reveals his sympathy for the poor woman in rural area.7. In his novels he writes about the dehumanization brought about by the industrial civilization and he believes that individual’s psychological development lies in the sexual impulse—Life Force. Consequently, he frequently touches upon the sexual relationship between man and woman in most of hios novels.8. see textbook.。
《英国文学》题库及答案
《英国文学》题库及答案《英国文学》题库及答案I.Choose the best to complete the following statements1.“O Wind/If winter comes,can spring be far behind?” The two lines are from _______.A. “T o Autumn”B. “To a Nightingale”C. “Ode to the West Wind”D. “To a Skylark”2. “To be or not to be----that is the question” is taken from_______.A.HamletB.Romeo and JulietC.The Merchant of theVeniceD.Macbeth3. _______ is romantic love tragedy.A. Romeo and JulietB. MacbethC.The Merchant of the VeniceD. Hamlet4. Beowulf. is considered as _______.A. the best epic in English literatureB. the national epic of the Anglo-SaxonsC. the best narrative poem in English literatureD.the best romance5. In_____,Chaucer created a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society and a whole gallery of vivid characters.A.The Canterbury TalesB.The Romaunt of the RoseC.The Legend of Good WomenD.Troilus and Criseyde6. ___ marks a transition from the medieval to the modern world.A. Enlightenment MovementB. The Glorious RevolutionC. The RenaissanceD. Reformation7. _____is not a writer in the Renaissance.A .Francis BaconB .William Shakespeare C. John Milton D .Jonathan Swift8. __ is NOT the style of Bacon’s essa ys.A. brevityB. compactness C .powerfulness D .high-flowness9 ______ is generally accepted as an English epic besides Beowulf.A.Samson AgonistesB.Paradise LostC.Paradise RegainedD. “Lycidas”10.The Neo-classicism is markedly characterized by the emphisis of__________.A.realismB.didactic functionC.elegant styleD. lyricism11.____________ is not a picaresque novel.A. Great Expectations B Gulliver’s TravelsC. Robinson CrosueD. The Pilgrim’s Progress12. “Death, Be not Proud” is an Italian sonnet by____.A.ShakespeareB.John MiltonC.John DonneD. Drydon13. In Paradise Lost, Milton doesn’t refers God to____.A.KingB.FoeC.VictorD. Friend14._________ is not a Lake poet?A.SoutheyB.WordworthC.ShelleyD.Coleridge15. ____is a typical Byronic heroe.A.Don JuanB.ShelleyC. BeowulfD. Iliad16.He was the 1st important Romantic poet,showing a contempt for rationalism and bringing somethingfresh to British poetry.He is __.A .Wordsworth B.Blake C.Keats D.Coleridge17. “Did he smile his work to see? /Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”, the 2 lines are from___.A. “the Lamb”B. “The Tyger”C. “The Cheminey Sweeper”D. “The Sick Roes”18. In the above quoted lines, “the Lamb” refers to____.A .Nature B.Jesus Christ C.God D.Uncertain19. “The waves bes ide them danced; but they /Outdid the sparking waves in glee; ” here, “they ”refer to____.A. rosesB.voletsC.daffodilsD.girls20.The pleasure dome is described in ____.A. “Kubla Khan”B. “Christabel”C. “Frost at Midnight”D. “Dejection:An Ode”21.“Ode to the West Wind” is in____.A.abb bbcB.terza rimaC.aab bcbD.free verse22.In“Ode to the West Wind”, west wind is the biggest symbol; it symbolizes______.A. destroyer and preserverB.boundless freedomC.a lyreD.both A and B23. “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard /Are sweeter;therefore,ye soft pipes,play on;”the2 lines are from“Ode on a Grecian Urn”by _____.A. John KeatsB.William WordsworthC.ByronD.Sheelley24.The striking characteristic of the Victorian fiction lies in___.A.critical realismB.a return to rationalismC.naturalismD.an overall negation of society25.____is not a character created by Charles Dickens.A.Oliver TwistB.David CopperfieldC.PipD. Ishmael26. Tess is sandwiched between and murdered by two so-called gentlemen: one is Alec, and the other is ______.A. Angel ClareB. Alec’s brotherC. LouisD. Babalou27.Linguist Higgins appears in____.A.Widower’s HousesB. Mrs. Warren’s ProfessionC. St. JoanD. Pygmalion28.In “Auld Lang Syne”, the poet is singing for ______.A.loveB.friendshipC.patriotismD.his mother29.In “The Rocking Horse Winner”, Lawrence attacks____.A.money-worshippingB.hypocricyC.industrialism/doc/8411870195.html,mercialism30. “My Last Duchess” is a famous ______ by ______.A. love lyric; WordsworthB.dramatic monologue;TennysonC.dramatic monologue; BrowningD.tragedy; ShawII.Please explain the following terms briefly1. Neo-classicism:2.The Waste Land3. blank verse4.The Great Expectation 34.heroic couplet5. Shakespearean Sonnet6.Critical Realism7. dramatic monologueIII.Answer the following questions1.Why is Shakespeare great in the history of British literature?2.What does Wordsworth want to say in “I Wandered as A Lonely Cloud”?3.Please explain the theme of Tess of the D’Urbevilles.4. In what a way is Renaissance significant in the history of Europe?5. What does T.S. Eliot want to say in “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock”?6. What does Wordsworth describe in “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways”?7. What is the major theme of the novels of Lawrence?8. What does Byron want to say in “She Walks in Beauty”?《英国文学》作业参考答案I.1.C2.A3.A4.B5.A6.C7.D8.D9.B 10.B11.A 12.C 13.D 14.C 15.A 16.B 17.B 18.B 19.C 20.A21.B 22.D 23.A 24.A 25.D 26.A 27.D 28.B 29.A 30.CII.1. Neo-classicism is revival of interest in the old classical works.According to theneo-classicists,all forms of literature werw to be modeled after the classical works of Greek and Roman writers and those of the contemporary French ones.They believed that the artisical ideals should be judged in terms of its service to humanity.This belief led them to seek proption,unity,harmony and grace in literary expression.Thus a polite,urbane,witty and intellectual art developed.2. The Waste Land has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry,comparable to Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads. With bold technical innovations in versification andstyle,the poem not only presents a panorama of physical disorder and spiritual desolation in the modern Western world, but also reflects the prevalent mood of disillusionment and despair of a wholepost-war generation. The poem is about the spiritualbreakup of a modern civilization in which humanlife has lost its meaning, significance and purpose. It is regarded as a reflection of the 20th century people’s disillusionment and frustration in a sterile and futile society.3. blank verse refers to unrhymed verse of iambic pentametre.4.Heroic couplet refers to two lines of iambic pentameter rhyming with each other.5. Sonnet is a lyric poem almost invariably of 14 lines and following one of several set rhyme-schemeThere are 2 widely accepted rhyme-schemes:Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet and English (Shakespearean)sonnet.The former consists of a octave(abbaabba) and a sestet (cdecde,cdccdc or cdedce).The English is made up of 3 quatrains and an heroic couplet.It rhymes in ababcdcdefefgg.6. It is a literary movement in the 2nd half of the 19th century and the beginning decade of the 20thcentury as a reaction to Romanticism.The realists holds that literature should be faithful to andwrite about the possibilty of reality.They on one hand expose the social problems,on the other hand,try to find solutions to the problems.Most of them are democratic social reformers.7. Dramatic monologue refers to a lyrical poem which reveals “a soul in action” through the conversation of one character in a dramatic situation. The character is speaking to an identifiablebut silent lis tener at the dramatic moment of the speake r’s life.III.1.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is one of the most remarkable playwrightsand poets the world hasever known.With his 38 plays,154 sonnets and 2 long poems,he has established his giant position inworld literature.The influence of Shakespeare upon British literature is hard to measure and it isnot exegerated to say that all the writers after him have been influenced by him directly or indirectly.A. As a humanist, Shakepeare enthuiastically eulogizes humanity and writes in the spirit of Renaissance.He was against feudal tyranny ,religious persecution,racial discrimination,social inequality and the corrupting influence of money and gold.B. Shakespeare holds that literature should be a combination of beauty, kindness and truth,and shouldreflect nature and reality;he believes that only this kind of literature can reach immortality.C.Shakespeare is a great master of the English language2. This poem is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature, and one that takes usto the core of Wordsworth’s poetic beliefs. In his eyes, nature is sublime and sacred and willexert a lasting influence upon a soul. The poem is a record of his sublime communion with nature .3. This novel is one of the best and most popular work by Hardy. It is a fierce attack on the hypocritical morality of the bourgeois society and the capitalist invasion into the country and destruction of the English peasantry towands the end of the century.Tess, as a pure woman, broughtup with the traditional idea of womanly virtues, is abused and destroyed by both Alec and Angel,agents of the destructive force of the society. And the misery, the poverty and the heartfelt painshe suffers and her final tragedy give rise to a most bitter cry of protest and denunciation of the society.4. The Renaissance marks a transition from the medieval to the modern world.Generally ,it refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries.It first started in Italy,with the flowering of painting,sculpture and literature.From Italy the movement went to embrace the rest of Europe.The Renaissance ,which means rebirth or revival,is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events,such as the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture,the new discovery in geography and astrology,the religious reformation and the economic expansion.The Renaissance,therefore,in essence ,is a historical period in which the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to get rid of those old feudalist ideas in medieval Europe,to introduce new ideas that expressed the interest of the rising bourgeeoisie,and to recover the purity of early church from the corruption of Roman Catholic Church.5. The poem is Eliot’s most striking early achievement. It presents the meditation of an aging young man over the business of proposing marriage.The poem is in a form of dramatic monologue, suggesting an ironic contrast between a pretended “love song”and a confession of the speaker’s incapability facing up to love and to life in a sterile upper-class world. Prufrock, the protagonist of poem, is neurotic, self-important, illogical and incapable of action. He is a kind of tragic figure caught in asense of defeated idealism and tortured by unsatisfied desires. The poem is intensely anti-romantic with visual images of hard, gritty objects and evasive hellish atmosphere.6. (main points)He reveals his sympathy for the poor woman in rural area.7. In his novels he writes about the dehumanization brought about by the industrial civilization and he believes that individual’s psychological development lies in the sexual impulse—Life Force. Consequently, he frequently touches upon the sexual relationship between man and woman in most of hios novels.8. see textbook.。
大学英国文学考试题及答案
大学英国文学考试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 英国文学中，被誉为“英国诗歌之父”的诗人是：A. 乔叟B. 莎士比亚C. 弥尔顿D. 拜伦答案：A2. 下列哪部作品不是简·奥斯汀所著？A. 《傲慢与偏见》B. 《理智与情感》C. 《曼斯菲尔德庄园》D. 《呼啸山庄》答案：D3. 威廉·莎士比亚的《哈姆雷特》中，主人公哈姆雷特的著名独白是：A. “生存还是毁灭，这是一个问题。
”B. “人生如梦，一切皆虚妄。
”C. “听我说，霍拉旭，我将讲述一个故事。
”D. “我将归来，我的爱人。
”答案：A4. 以下哪位诗人是浪漫主义时期的代表人物？A. 约翰·多恩B. 托马斯·哈代C. 威廉·华兹华斯D. 约翰·弥尔顿答案：C5. 《坎特伯雷故事集》是由哪位英国作家创作的？A. 乔叟B. 莎士比亚C. 弥尔顿D. 拜伦答案：A6. 以下哪部作品是查尔斯·狄更斯的代表作？A. 《大卫·科波菲尔》B. 《简·爱》C. 《呼啸山庄》D. 《远大前程》答案：A7. “To be, or not to be, that is the question” 是哪部戏剧中的台词？A. 《麦克白》B. 《李尔王》C. 《哈姆雷特》D. 《奥赛罗》答案：C8. 以下哪部作品是托马斯·哈代的“威塞克斯系列”之一？A. 《德伯家的苔丝》B. 《简·爱》C. 《呼啸山庄》D. 《远大前程》答案：A9. “Do not go gentle into that good night” 是哪位诗人的诗句？A. 约翰·济慈B. 威廉·华兹华斯C. 威廉·巴特勒·叶芝D. 珀西·比希·雪莱答案：C10. 下列哪部作品是乔治·奥威尔的反乌托邦小说？A. 《动物农场》B. 《1984》C. 《美丽新世界》D. 《我们》答案：B二、简答题（每题10分，共30分）11. 简述约翰·弥尔顿的《失乐园》中，撒旦的形象及其对人类历史的影响。
英国文学试题及答案
英国文学试题及答案在英国文学领域有许多经典作品和重要的作家，这些作品和作家对于英国文学的发展产生了深远影响。
本篇文章将为您介绍一些英国文学的试题及答案，希望能够对您的学习有所帮助。
试题一：请简要介绍威廉·莎士比亚的作品和他在英国文学中的地位。
答案：威廉·莎士比亚（William Shakespeare）被认为是英国文学史上最伟大的戏剧作家之一。
他的作品包括戏剧、诗歌和史诗。
莎士比亚共创作了37个戏剧作品，包括悲剧、喜剧、历史剧和十四行诗。
他的作品以丰富的人物形象、深入的情感描写和复杂的剧情而闻名。
莎士比亚的作品深刻地揭示了人性的善恶、爱恨和欲望等诸多主题，对于英国文学及全球文学的发展都产生了巨大影响。
试题二：简要介绍查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》及其在英国文学中的地位。
答案：《雾都孤儿》是查尔斯·狄更斯（Charles Dickens）的一部重要小说作品。
这部小说于1859年首次出版，以伦敦的贫民窟为背景，通过讲述主人公奥利弗·特威斯特的成长历程，揭示了当时社会的不公和贫困问题。
《雾都孤儿》描写了贫富悬殊、社会阶级问题以及人性的善恶等主题，对于英国社会的改革起到了重要的推动作用。
该小说深受读者的喜爱，被誉为狄更斯最伟大的作品之一，也是英国文学中的经典之作。
试题三：请简要介绍简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》及其在英国文学中的地位。
答案：《傲慢与偏见》是简·奥斯汀（Jane Austen）的代表作之一，被视为英国文学史上最伟大的小说之一。
这部小说于1813年首次出版，以描写19世纪英国社会的阶级观念和婚姻观念为主题。
《傲慢与偏见》通过讲述女主人公伊丽莎白·本内特与达西先生之间的爱情故事，探讨了社会的偏见、男女间的相互误解以及人性的盲目等问题。
奥斯汀以幽默和讽刺的手法展现了社会的虚伪和愚昧，对当时英国社会的改革产生了积极的影响。
通过以上试题及答案，我们可以了解到威廉·莎士比亚、查尔斯·狄更斯和简·奥斯汀等作家对于英国文学的重要地位以及他们作品所揭示的社会问题和人性的思考。
英国文学题库2（含正确答案）
英国文学题库2（含正确答案）1.______ is not a novel written by Jane Austen.A. Jane EyreB. Sense and SensibilityC. Pride and PrejudiceD. Emma2. Alexander Pope worked painstakingly on his poems and finally brought to its last perfection ______ Dryden had successfully used in his plays.A. the heroic coupletB. the free verseC. the bland verseD. the Spenserian stanza3. ______ has been regarded by some as the “Father of the English Novel” for hi s contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.A. John BunyanB. Henry FieldingC. Daniel DefoeD. Alexander Pope4. ______ defines the poet as a “man speaking to men,” and poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, whi ch originates in emotion recollected in tranquility.”A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. John Keats5. Romanticism does not emphasize ______ .A. the special qualities of each individual’s mindB. the inner world of the human spiritC. individualityD. the features that men have in common6. Which of the following is NOT a typical aspect of Defoe’s language?A. Elegant.B. Colloquial.C. Vernacular.D. Smooth.7. The Rivals and ______ are generally regarded as important links between the masterpieces of Shakespeare and those of Bernard Shaw.A. The School for ScandalB. The DuennaC. Widowers HousesD. The Doctor’s Dilemma8. ______ was the only important dramatist of the 18th century.A. Alexander PopeB. Richard Brinsley SheridanC. Samuel JohnsonD. George Bernard Shaw9. What makes Jonathan Swift’s satire all the more bitter, biting and poignant is that his satire is often masked by ______ on the part of the author.A. an apparent eagerness, gravity, sincerity and detachment in toneB. a softness and persuasiveness in manner and firmness and thoroughness in actionC. a strong indignation in tone and open defiance and challengeD. a friendliness and frankness in tone and the seeming indifference and nonchalance10. The middle of the 18th century was predominated by a newly rising literary form, that is the modern English ______, which gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people.A. proseB. tragicomedyC. short storyD. novel11. ______ is a sharp satire on the moral degeneracy of the aristocratic-bourgeois society in the 18th-century England.A. The RivalsB. Gulliver’s TravelsC. Tom JonesD. The School for Scandal12. The novel, which prospered in the hands of Swift, Defoe and Fielding, gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people. This is quite contrary to the traditional ______ of aristocrats.A. elegyB. epicC. romanceD. morality play13. Henry Fielding adopted “the third-person narration,” which enables the author to present as the ______ not only the characters external behavior but also the internal workings of their minds. A. “all-knowing God” B. intimate participant C. invisible man D. ignorant narrator14. In his novel Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the heroof the ______ .A. aristocratic classB. enterprising landlordsC. rising bourgeoisieD. hard-working people15. As the representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce ______ to England.A. rationalismB. criticismC. romanticismD. realism16. Alone with the fast economic development in the 18th century in England, the British ______ also grew very rapidly.A. bourgeoisB. proletariansC. aristocratic classD. royal family17. The Enlightenment Movement did not advocate ______ .A. rationality, reason, order and rulesB. return to the ancient classical worksC. inner feelings of individualsD. universal education18. ______ is not written by Alexander Pope.A. An Essay on CriticismB. The EssaysC. An Essay on ManD. The Dunciad19. “He has a servant called Friday”. “He” in the quoted sentence is a character in ______ .A. Henry Fielding’s Tom JonesB. John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s ProgressC. Richard Bringsley Sheridan’s The School for ScandalD. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe20. Joh n Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress is a(n) ______ .（北京师范大学2004年）A. allegoryB. romanceC. comedy of mannersD. realistic novel21. The tone of Jonathan Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travels is ______ .A. sadB. sarcasticC. praisingD. detached22. In field of literature, the Enlightenment brought about a(n) ______ the old classical works. This tendency is known as neoclassicism.A. rebellion againstB. indifference toC. revived interest inD. rational scrutiny of23. The ______ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century.A. RenaissanceB. EnlightenmentC. Religious ReformationD. Chartist Movement24. In the 18th-century English literature, the representative writer of neoclassicism is ______ .A. Alexander PopeB. Jonathan SwiftC. Daniel DefoeD. John Milton25. John Bunyan’s style was modeled after that of the English ______ , with concrete and living language and carefully observed and vividly presented details.A. romanceB. folkloreC. dramaD. Bible26. Which of the following plays is regarded as the best English comedy since Shakespeare?A. The School for Scandal.B. She Stoops to Conquer.C. The Rivals.D. The Conscious Lover27. The statement “______ ” is NOT true in describing Gothic novel.A. Gothic novel is a type of romantic fictionB. Gothic novel predominated in the early 18th centuryC. Its principal elements are violence, horror and supernaturalD. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe is typical Gothic romance28. ______ is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.A. The RivalsB. The Pilgrim’s ProgressC. The Life and Death of Mr. BadmanD. Paradise Lost29. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for ______ .A. material wealthB. spiritual salvationC. universal truthD. self-fulfillment30. In The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan describes “the Vanity Fair” in a ______ tone.A. delightfulB. satiricalC. sentimentalD. solemn31. The 18th century witnesses a new literary form—the modern English novel, which, contrary to the medieval romance, gives a ______ presentation of life of the common English people.A. romanticB. idealisticC. propheticD. realistic32. Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the ______ century.A. 17thB. 18thC. 19thD. 20th33. Daniel Defoe describes ______ as a typical English middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.A. Tom JonesB. GulliverC. Moll FlandersD. Robinson Crusoe34. Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that ______ .A. the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual’s feelings and experiencesB. the former is heavily religious but the latter secularC. the former is an intellectual movement the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivation.D. the former advocates the return to nature whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models.35. ______ is a typical feature of Swift’s writings.A. Bitter satireB. Elegant styleC. Casual narrationD. Complicated sentence structure36. You may have met the term “yahoo” on the Internet, but you may also have met it in English literature. It is found in ______ .A. John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s ProgressB. Samuel Johnson’s The Vanity of Human Wish esC. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s TravelsD. Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones37. Alexander Pope strongly advocated ______ , emphasizing that literary works should be judged by classical rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.A. neoclassicismB. sentimentalismC. idealismD. romanticism38. The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels are ______ .A. horses that are endowed with reasonB. pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC. giants that are superior in wisdomD. hairy, wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways39. The phrase “to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils” may well sum up the implied meaning of ______ .A. Gulliver’s TravelsB. The Rape of the LockC. Robinson CrusoeD. The Pilgrim’s Progress40. Which of the following statements on The Neoclassical Period is NOT true?A. The Neoclassical Period is prior to the Romantic Period.B. Henry Fielding is one of the representatives of the Neoclassical Period.C. The modern English novel came into being in the Neoclassical Period.D. The Neoclassical Period is also known as the Age of Enlightenment.41. In the first part of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver told hisexperience in ______ .A. LilliputB. BrobdingnagC. HouyhnhnmD. England42. The following comments on Daniel Defoe are true EXCEPT ______ .A. in his novels, his sympathy for the downtrodden, unfortunate poor is shownB. he was a member of the upper classC. Robinson Crusoe is universally considered his masterpieceD. Robinson Crusoe is his first novel43. Which of the following comments on the Enlightenment Movement is NOT true?A. It advocated individual education.B. The purpose of the movement was to enlighten the whole world.C. The Enlightenment Movement flourished in France.D. The Enlightenment Movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance.44. English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have ended in 1832 with ______ .A. Sir Walter Scott’s death and the passage of the first Reform Bill in the ParliamentB. the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s L yrical BalladsC. the publication of The Sketch BookD. the publication of Leaves of Grass45. “You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are ashandsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley might like you the best of the party.” The above passage is taken from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. The figure of speech used here is ______ .A. paradoxB. ironyC. simileD. hyperbole46. Which of the following is taken from John Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn?A. “I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!”B. “They are both gone up to the church to pray.”C. “Earth has not anything to show more fair.”D. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.”47. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” is an epigrammatic line by ______ .A. J. KeatsB. W. BlakeC. W. WordsworthD. P. B. Shelley48. ______ is a poem based on a traditional Spanish Legend of a great lover and seducer of women.A. AdonaisB. Don JuanC. Prometheus UnboundD. The Revolt of Islam49. Of the following poets, which is NOT regarded as “Lake Poets”?A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.B. Robert Southey.C. William Wordsworth.D. Alfred Tennyson.50______ is written in the terza rima form Shelley derived from his reading of Dante.A. Prometheus UnboundB. Ode to the West WindC. AdonaisD. Men of England。
英国文学试题及答案
英国文学试题及答案英国文学作为世界文学的重要组成部分，以其丰富的内容和独特的魅力吸引着无数读者和学者。
本文将围绕英国文学的一些经典试题进行解析，并提供相应的答案，以帮助学习者更好地理解和掌握英国文学的精髓。
一、选择题1. 威廉·莎士比亚的《哈姆雷特》中，主角哈姆雷特的著名独白“生存还是毁灭”出现在第几幕？A. 第一幕B. 第二幕C. 第三幕D. 第四幕答案：C. 第三幕2. 简·奥斯汀的小说《傲慢与偏见》中，达西先生最初对伊丽莎白·班纳特的印象是什么？A. 聪明机智B. 傲慢无礼C. 温柔善良D. 普通平凡答案：B. 傲慢无礼3. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的《到灯塔去》中，灯塔象征着什么？A. 希望与指引B. 孤独与隔绝C. 家庭与亲情D. 艺术与创造答案：A. 希望与指引二、简答题1. 请简述查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》中，卡顿牺牲自己的生命以救露西的情节及其意义。
答案：在《双城记》的结尾部分，卡顿为了拯救他深爱的露西及其家人，自愿替代露西的丈夫达尼，并接受了死刑。
卡顿的这一行为体现了无私的爱和牺牲精神，他的自我牺牲展示了人性中的高尚与伟大，同时也反映了狄更斯对于社会不公和人性的深刻批判。
2. 描述托马斯·哈代的《德伯家的苔丝》中，苔丝悲剧命运的起因及其对社会的批判。
答案：苔丝的悲剧命运起因于她被亚历克·德伯维尔欺骗失身，之后又因误会而与她真正爱的人安吉尔·克莱尔分离。
哈代通过苔丝的悲剧命运批判了维多利亚时代的道德伪善和对女性的双重标准，揭示了社会对个体命运的残酷影响。
三、论述题1. 分析乔治·奥威尔的《1984》中，对极权主义社会的描绘及其对现代社会的警示意义。
答案：《1984》通过对一个全面监控、言论受限、个人自由被剥夺的极权主义社会的描绘，展示了一个被“大哥”统治的恐怖世界。
奥威尔通过小说对极权主义进行了深刻的批判，警示现代社会警惕政府权力的无限扩张和对个人自由的侵蚀。
英国文学试题及答案
英国文学试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 英国文学史上第一位伟大的诗人是：A. 威廉·莎士比亚B. 乔叟C. 约翰·弥尔顿D. 托马斯·哈代2. 以下哪部作品是乔治·奥威尔所著？A. 《1984》B. 《简·爱》C. 《傲慢与偏见》D. 《呼啸山庄》3. 被称为“英国文学之父”的是：A. 约翰·多恩B. 亚历山大·波普C. 威廉·华兹华斯D. 乔叟4. 以下哪位作家是维多利亚时代的代表人物？A. 威廉·布莱克B. 查尔斯·狄更斯C. 托马斯·哈代D. 约翰·弥尔顿5. 英国浪漫主义文学的代表人物包括以下哪些？A. 威廉·华兹华斯和塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治B. 威廉·莎士比亚和本·琼森C. 托马斯·哈代和乔治·艾略特D. 奥斯卡·王尔德和罗伯特·布朗宁二、填空题（每题2分，共10分）6. 威廉·莎士比亚的戏剧作品分为______、______和历史剧。
7. 《鲁滨逊漂流记》的作者是______。
8. 英国现代主义文学的代表人物之一是弗吉尼亚·______。
9. 《简·爱》的作者是______。
10. 《傲慢与偏见》的作者是简·奥斯汀，这部小说属于______文学。
三、简答题（每题10分，共20分）11. 简述威廉·莎士比亚的四大悲剧及其主要特点。
12. 描述查尔斯·狄更斯的写作风格及其对社会的影响。
四、论述题（每题25分，共50分）13. 论述托马斯·哈代的自然主义在《德伯家的苔丝》中的体现。
14. 分析《1984》中乔治·奥威尔对极权主义社会的批判。
答案一、选择题1. B2. A3. D4. B5. A二、填空题6. 喜剧、悲剧7. 丹尼尔·笛福8. 伍尔夫9. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特10. 现实主义三、简答题11. 威廉·莎士比亚的四大悲剧包括《哈姆雷特》、《奥赛罗》、《李尔王》和《麦克白》。
英国文学试题及答案
英国文学试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 威廉·莎士比亚是英国文学史上的一位重要剧作家，他的作品包括以下哪些？A. 《哈姆雷特》B. 《悲惨世界》C. 《麦克白》D. 《罗密欧与朱丽叶》答案：A, C, D2. 以下哪位作家被认为是现代主义文学的先驱？A. 乔治·奥威尔B. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫C. 简·奥斯汀D. 托马斯·哈代答案：B3. 《傲慢与偏见》是哪位作家的作品？A. 简·奥斯汀B. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特C. 艾米莉·勃朗特D. 玛丽·雪莱答案：A4. 以下哪部作品是查尔斯·狄更斯的代表作之一？A. 《大卫·科波菲尔》B. 《简·爱》C. 《呼啸山庄》D. 《弗兰肯斯坦》答案：A5. 以下哪部作品被认为是英国文学中的“现代史诗”？A. 《荒原》B. 《尤利西斯》C. 《追忆似水年华》D. 《百年孤独》答案：A二、填空题（每空2分，共20分）6. 英国浪漫主义诗人威廉·华兹华斯在《_______》中表达了对自然的热爱。
答案：《抒情歌谣集》7. 《简·爱》的作者是_______，她通过这部小说探讨了女性独立和自尊的主题。
答案：夏洛蒂·勃朗特8. 乔治·奥威尔的《1984》描绘了一个_______的社会，其中“老大哥”是无所不在的统治者。
答案：极权主义9. 托马斯·哈代的《德伯家的苔丝》讲述了一个关于_______、爱情和社会道德的故事。
答案：命运10. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的《到灯塔去》是一部_______小说，以其流意识的叙述技巧而著名。
答案：现代主义三、简答题（每题10分，共30分）11. 简述威廉·莎士比亚的戏剧创作特点。
答案：威廉·莎士比亚的戏剧创作特点包括深刻的人性探讨，丰富的人物性格，复杂的情节构造，以及对语言的精湛运用。
(完整word版)英国文学问答题
英国文学问答题Chapter I Renaissance Period1.What are the common characteristics shared by the characters created by Marlowe? In what wayis Marlowe a humanist writer? (p。
21)Marlowe reveals man’s pursue of happiness, knowledge and power。
In this way， Marlowe a humanist writer2.What kind of character is Faustus？Dr。
Faustus is the hero created by Marlowe。
He is one of the Renaissance heroes in Marlowe’s plays. He is individualistic and full of ambition, facing bravely the challenge from God. He shows Marlow’s human istic idea of human dignity and capacity. In portraying Faustus, an introspective and philosophical figure, Marlowe praises his soaring aspiration of knowledge while warning against the sin of pride since Faustus's downfall was caused by his despair in God and trust in Devil.3.Please analyze briefly Hamlet’s character features。
遗留问题-英国文学试题
《英国文学》期中试题（适用于本科学生闭卷考试时间120分钟）I．Choose the best answer from the four choices.（1´×25=25´）1. _______ can be justly termed England’s national epic and its hero Beowulf --- one of thenational heroes of the English people.a. Seafarerb. The Song of Beowulfc. Wildsithd. Cynewulf2. The most important work of Alfred the Great is _______, which is regarded as the bestmonument of the old English prosea. The song of Beowulfb. The ecclesiastical history of the English peoplec. Apollonius of Tyred. The Anglo-Saxon chronicles3. _____ was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.a. Thomas Wyattb. William Shakespearec. Phillip Sidneyd. Thomas Campion4. Great popularity was won by John Lyly’s prose romance_______ which gave rise to the term“euphuism”, designating an effected style of court speech.a. Arcadiab. Venus and Adonis.c. Eupheusd. Lucrece5. At the beginning the 16th century the outstanding humanist_____ wrote his Utopia in which hegave a profound and truthful picture of the people’s suffering and put forward his ideal of afuture happy society.a. Christopher Marloweb. Thomas Morec. Phillip Sidneyd. Edmund Spencer6. Renaissance Period was an age of ____.a. prose and novelb. poetry and dramac. essays and journalsd. ballads and songs7. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”This line is taken from one ofShakespeare’s____________.a. Sonnet 18b. the tragedy King Learc. a long poem Venus and Adonisd. the comedy As You Like It8. From the following choose the one______ that is not written by Francis Bacon.a. The Advancement of Learningb. The New Instrumentc. Of Studiesd. The rape of the Lock9. The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus is one of ______’s best plays.a. Shakespeareb. Thomas Kydc. Ben Jonsond. Christopher Marlowe10. The name “the father of English poetry” was given to the greatest poet born in Londonabout 1340 and the one who did much in making the dialect of London the foundation for modern English language.a. Shakespeareb. Spenserc. Philip Sidneyd. Chaucer11.Piers the Plowman written by William Langland is in the form of ______a. allegory and medieval dream visionb. dramac. satirical noveld. sentimental novel12. Robinson Crusoe is a _________.a. historical novelb. satirical novelc. realistic noveld. allegorical novel13. Pamela is a___________.a. historical novelb. romanceb. novel of naturalism d. novel of epistles and psychology14. Gulliver’s Travels is a ________.a. sentimental novelb. novel of satire and allegoryc. Gothic noveld. novel of stream of consciousness15. The father of the school of Metaphysical poets is _______.a. Thomas Moreb. Spenserc. John Donned. Wyatt16. In Paradise Lost the author praises the spirit of ______ that is though lost, but the______cannot be conquered, and the pursuit of revenge, immortal hate towards god will never be overcome.a. pessimism, knowledgeb. optimism, idealc. rebellion, willd. cynicism, concept17. ________ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18thcentury.a. The Renaissanceb. The Enlightenmentc. The Religious Reformationd. The Chartist Movement18. The 18th century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties, ________,which were satirized by Swift in his Gulliver’s Travels.a. the Whigs and the Toriesb. the Senate and the House of Representativesc. the Upper House and Lower Housed. the House of Lords and the House of Commons19. Which are not Pope’s works?a. An Essay on Criticismb. An Essay on Manc. The Rape of the Lockd. The Rape of Lucrece20. Which two periodicals were Steele and Addison’s chief contribution to English literature?a. “The Tatler” and “The Spectator”b. “The Rambler” and “The Spectator”c. “The Tatler” and “The Review”d. “The Spectator” and “The Review”21. In the last twenty years of the 18th century, England produced two great pre-romantic poets.They are _____.a. Johnson and Blakeb. Gray and Youngc. Pope and Goldsmithd. Blake and Burns22. Choose the long novel which was not written by Henry fielding.a. Joseph Andrewsb. The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Greatc. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundlingd. Pamela23. Who was the greatest dramatist in the 18th century?a. Goldsmithb. Sheridanc. Sterned. Fielding24. The first place visited by Gulliver in Gulliver’s Travel is ______.a. The kingdom of Horsesb. Flying Islandc. Brobdingnagd. Lilliput25. Which of the following is regarded as the most successful religious allegory in the Englishlanguage?a. The Pilgrim's Progressb. The Life and Death of Mr. Badmanc. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinnersd. The Holy WarII. Identify each writer on the left column with what is written on the right column. （1´×10=10´）1. Geoffrey Chaucer a. The Tragic History of Dr.Faustus2. John Bunyan b. Pamela3. Samuel Richardson c. Tom Jones4. Jonathan Swift d. Canterbury Tales5. Daniel Defoe e. Faerie Queen e6. John Milton f. Robinson Crusoe7. Henry Fielding g. Gulliver’s Travel s8. Thomas More h. Pi lgrim’s Pro gress9. Edmund Spenser i. Utopia10. Christopher Marlowe j.Paradise LostIII. Explain the following literary terms.（4´×3=12´）1. Renaissance2. Pre-romanticism3. Heroic coupletIV．Fill in the blanks. （1.5´×10=15´）1. The Song of Beowulf is not a Christian but a ________poem.2. ________died in 1400 and was buried in Westminster Abbey, thus founding the “Poets’ Corner”.3. _________ is often referred to as "the poets' poet"4. _________ first made blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) the principal instrument of English drama.5, __________was the representative writer of the neo-classical school and a master in satire and heroic couplet6. ____________ has been regarded as the discoverer of the modern novel.7. Yahoos appeared in the fourth part of _____________ which was written by Jonathan Swift.8. Henry Fielding wrote his first novel Joseph Andrews with the intention of ridiculing Richardson’s novel _________.9. _________is called the “Father of English Novel”.10. The principal elements of the ______novel are mystery, horror and suspense.V. Identify the following pieces. (2´×10=20´)Passage 1To die, to sleep;No more and by a sleep to say we endThe heartache and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummationDevotedly to be wished. To die, to sleep;To sleep-perchance to dream: ay there’s the rub;For in that sleep of death what dream may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us a pause: there’s the respectThat makes calamity of so long life;For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumelyThe pangs of despised love, the law’s delay,The insolence of office, and the spurns,The patient merit of the unworthy takes,Questions:1. These lines are taken from a famous play named________.2. The author of the play is____________.3. In the play these lines are uttered by ____________. Passage 2As soon as April pierces to the rootThe drought of March, and bathes each bud and shootThrough every vein of sap with gentle showersFrom whose engendering liquor spring the flowers;When zephyrs have breathed softly all aboutInspiring every wood and field to sprout,And in the zodiac the youthful sunHis journey halfway through the Ram has run;When little birds are busy with their songWho sleep with open eyes the whole night longLife stirs their heart and tingles in them so,Then off as pilgrims people long to go，And palmers to set out for distant strandsAnd foreign shrines renowned in many lands.Questions:4. The above stanzas are taken from _________.5. The author of the poem is ______.6. The rime scheme of this poem is _______.Passage 3I lay down on the grass, which was very short and soft, where I slept sounder than ever I remember to have done in my life, and as I reckoned,above nine hours; for when I awaked, it was just daylight. I attempted to rise, but was not able to stir: for as I happened to lie on my back, I found my arms and legs were strongly fastened on each side to the ground; and my hair, which was long and thick, tied down in the same manner. I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my armpits to my thighs. I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes. I heard a confused noise about me, but in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky. In a little time, I felt something alive moving on my left leg, which advancing gently forward over my breast, came almost up to my chin; when bending my eyes downwards as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human creature not six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands, and a quiver at his back.Questions:7. This passage is taken from a well-known book written by______.8. The “I” in the passage was dropped in a strange country, the name of which is _______.9. The title of the well-known book is__________.10. The “I¨” in the passage refers to ________.VI. Summarize the novel Gulliver’s Travels and comment briefly on its satirical meaning. (At least 200 words) (18´×1=18´)。
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《英国文学》期中试题（适用于本科学生闭卷考试时间120分钟）I．Choose the best answer from the four choices.（1´×25=25´）1. _______ can be justly termed England’s national epic and its hero Beowulf --- one of thenational heroes of the English people.a. Seafarerb. The Song of Beowulfc. Wildsithd. Cynewulf2. The most important work of Alfred the Great is _______, which is regarded as the bestmonument of the old English prosea. The song of Beowulfb. The ecclesiastical history of the English peoplec. Apollonius of Tyred. The Anglo-Saxon chronicles3. _____ was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.a. Thomas Wyattb. William Shakespearec. Phillip Sidneyd. Thomas Campion4. Great popularity was won by John Lyly’s prose romance_______ which gave rise to the term“euphuism”, designating an effected style of court speech.a. Arcadiab. Venus and Adonis.c. Eupheusd. Lucrece5. At the beginning the 16th century the outstanding humanist_____ wrote his Utopia in which hegave a profound and truthful picture of the people’s suffering and put forward his ideal of afuture happy society.a. Christopher Marloweb. Thomas Morec. Phillip Sidneyd. Edmund Spencer6. Renaissance Period was an age of ____.a. prose and novelb. poetry and dramac. essays and journalsd. ballads and songs7. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”This line is taken from one ofShakespeare’s____________.a. Sonnet 18b. the tragedy King Learc. a long poem Venus and Adonisd. the comedy As You Like It8. From the following choose the one______ that is not written by Francis Bacon.a. The Advancement of Learningb. The New Instrumentc. Of Studiesd. The rape of the Lock9. The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus is one of ______’s best plays.a. Shakespeareb. Thomas Kydc. Ben Jonsond. Christopher Marlowe10. The name “the father of English poetry” was given to the greatest poet born in Londonabout 1340 and the one who did much in making the dialect of London the foundation for modern English language.a. Shakespeareb. Spenserc. Philip Sidneyd. Chaucer11.Piers the Plowman written by William Langland is in the form of ______a. allegory and medieval dream visionb. dramac. satirical noveld. sentimental novel12. Robinson Crusoe is a _________.a. historical novelb. satirical novelc. realistic noveld. allegorical novel13. Pamela is a___________.a. historical novelb. romanceb. novel of naturalism d. novel of epistles and psychology14. Gulliver’s Travels is a ________.a. sentimental novelb. novel of satire and allegoryc. Gothic noveld. novel of stream of consciousness15. The father of the school of Metaphysical poets is _______.a. Thomas Moreb. Spenserc. John Donned. Wyatt16. In Paradise Lost the author praises the spirit of ______ that is though lost, but the______cannot be conquered, and the pursuit of revenge, immortal hate towards god will never be overcome.a. pessimism, knowledgeb. optimism, idealc. rebellion, willd. cynicism, concept17. ________ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18thcentury.a. The Renaissanceb. The Enlightenmentc. The Religious Reformationd. The Chartist Movement18. The 18th century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties, ________,which were satirized by Swift in his Gulliver’s Travels.a. the Whigs and the Toriesb. the Senate and the House of Representativesc. the Upper House and Lower Housed. the House of Lords and the House of Commons19. Which are not Pope’s works?a. An Essay on Criticismb. An Essay on Manc. The Rape of the Lockd. The Rape of Lucrece20. Which two periodicals were Steele and Addison’s chief contribution to English literature?a. “The Tatler” and “The Spectator”b. “The Rambler” and “The Spectator”c. “The Tatler” and “The Review”d. “The Spectator” and “The Review”21. In the last twenty years of the 18th century, England produced two great pre-romantic poets.They are _____.a. Johnson and Blakeb. Gray and Youngc. Pope and Goldsmithd. Blake and Burns22. Choose the long novel which was not written by Henry fielding.a. Joseph Andrewsb. The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Greatc. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundlingd. Pamela23. Who was the greatest dramatist in the 18th century?a. Goldsmithb. Sheridanc. Sterned. Fielding24. The first place visited by Gulliver in Gulliver’s Travel is ______.a. The kingdom of Horsesb. Flying Islandc. Brobdingnagd. Lilliput25. Which of the following is regarded as the most successful religious allegory in the Englishlanguage?a. The Pilgrim's Progressb. The Life and Death of Mr. Badmanc. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinnersd. The Holy WarII. Identify each writer on the left column with what is written on the right column. （1´×10=10´）1. Geoffrey Chaucer a. The Tragic History of Dr.Faustus2. John Bunyan b. Pamela3. Samuel Richardson c. Tom Jones4. Jonathan Swift d. Canterbury Tales5. Daniel Defoe e. Faerie Queen e6. John Milton f. Robinson Crusoe7. Henry Fielding g. Gulliver’s Travel s8. Thomas More h. Pi lgrim’s Pro gress9. Edmund Spenser i. Utopia10. Christopher Marlowe j.Paradise LostIII. Explain the following literary terms.（4´×3=12´）1. Renaissance2. Pre-romanticism3. Heroic coupletIV．Fill in the blanks. （1.5´×10=15´）1. The Song of Beowulf is not a Christian but a ________poem.2. ________died in 1400 and was buried in Westminster Abbey, thus founding the “Poets’ Corner”.3. _________ is often referred to as "the poets' poet"4. _________ first made blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) the principal instrument of English drama.5, __________was the representative writer of the neo-classical school and a master in satire and heroic couplet6. ____________ has been regarded as the discoverer of the modern novel.7. Yahoos appeared in the fourth part of _____________ which was written by Jonathan Swift.8. Henry Fielding wrote his first novel Joseph Andrews with the intention of ridiculing Richardson’s novel _________.9. _________is called the “Father of English Novel”.10. The principal elements of the ______novel are mystery, horror and suspense.V. Identify the following pieces. (2´×10=20´)Passage 1To die, to sleep;No more and by a sleep to say we endThe heartache and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummationDevotedly to be wished. To die, to sleep;To sleep-perchance to dream: ay there’s the rub;For in that sleep of death what dream may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us a pause: there’s the respectThat makes calamity of so long life;For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumelyThe pangs of despised love, the law’s delay,The insolence of office, and the spurns,The patient merit of the unworthy takes,Questions:1. These lines are taken from a famous play named________.2. The author of the play is____________.3. In the play these lines are uttered by ____________. Passage 2As soon as April pierces to the rootThe drought of March, and bathes each bud and shootThrough every vein of sap with gentle showersFrom whose engendering liquor spring the flowers;When zephyrs have breathed softly all aboutInspiring every wood and field to sprout,And in the zodiac the youthful sunHis journey halfway through the Ram has run;When little birds are busy with their songWho sleep with open eyes the whole night longLife stirs their heart and tingles in them so,Then off as pilgrims people long to go，And palmers to set out for distant strandsAnd foreign shrines renowned in many lands.Questions:4. The above stanzas are taken from _________.5. The author of the poem is ______.6. The rime scheme of this poem is _______.Passage 3I lay down on the grass, which was very short and soft, where I slept sounder than ever I remember to have done in my life, and as I reckoned,above nine hours; for when I awaked, it was just daylight. I attempted to rise, but was not able to stir: for as I happened to lie on my back, I found my arms and legs were strongly fastened on each side to the ground; and my hair, which was long and thick, tied down in the same manner. I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my armpits to my thighs. I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes. I heard a confused noise about me, but in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky. In a little time, I felt something alive moving on my left leg, which advancing gently forward over my breast, came almost up to my chin; when bending my eyes downwards as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human creature not six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands, and a quiver at his back.Questions:7. This passage is taken from a well-known book written by______.8. The “I” in the passage was dropped in a strange country, the name of which is _______.9. The title of the well-known book is__________.10. The “I¨” in the passage refers to ________.VI. Summarize the novel Gulliver’s Travels and comment briefly on its satirical meaning. (At least 200 words) (18´×1=18´)。