刘意青《简明英国文学史》模拟试题及详解(二)【圣才出品】

刘意青《简明英国文学史》模拟试题及详解（二）

I. Fill in the blanks

1. The term _____ originally indicated a revival of classic Greek and Roman arts and science after the dark ages of medieval obscurantism.

【答案】Renaissance

【解析】Renaissance——文艺复兴起初是指经历了漫长、蒙昧的中世纪后，对古希腊和罗马艺术及科学的复兴。

2. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift is a sharp _____ against the social injustice in _____.

【答案】satire，Ireland

【解析】1729年斯威夫特发表的《一个温和的建议》是对英国政府对爱尔兰人民剥削压迫的极度讽刺。这一宣传册建议爱尔兰的穷人把刚满一周岁的孩子卖给富人，富人可将孩子做成美餐，而穷人也将获得一笔收入。

3. Of the four novels that Charlotte Brontë wrote, _____ has achieved lasting fame. 【答案】Jane Eyre

【解析】在夏洛特·勃朗特所写的四部小说中，《简·爱》获得了持久的名声。

4. The main part of the title of the novel Vanity Fair, or A Novel without A Hero is

taken from the English writer _____’s work _____.

【答案】John Bunyan ;The Pilgri m’s Progress

【解析】《名利场》是萨克雷的代表作，该书名字来自于班扬的《天路历程》。

5. William _____ based his poetic theory on the principle that “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of _____.”

【答案】Wordsworth,powerful feeling

【解析】(William Wordsworth 和Samuel Taylor Coleridge 共同出版的Lyrical Ballads《抒情歌谣集》标志着英国浪漫主义的开始。题中句子属于序言中的引用，是William Wordsworth的浪漫主义的主要原则之一。

6. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! —I have as much soul as you, —and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for, you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you.” This selection is taken from the novel _____.

【答案】Jane Eyre

【解析】文章出自Jane Eyre中女主人公Jane对男主人公Edward Rochester的一段话。

7. The Golden Notebook is considered to be _____’s masterpiece, taken as a milestone work in Feminist Literature.

【答案】Doris Lessing

【解析】《金色笔记》是多丽丝·莱辛（Doris Lessing）的代表作，是一部女权主义作品，莱辛描写了所谓的“自由女性”在男权社会里面对的问题，在女权主义文学中具有里程碑意义。

8. Xury and Friday are characters in the novel entitled _____ written by _____.

【答案】Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe

【解析】“Xury”和“Friday”是笛福的代表作《鲁宾逊漂流记》中的人物。

9. Mr. Peggotty and Steerforth are two characters in Dickens’s novel _____.

【答案】David Copperfield

【解析】Mr. Peggotty 和Steerforth是狄更斯的小说《大卫·科波菲尔》中的两个人物。

10. The Canterbury Tales is Chaucer’s greatest work and the greater part of it was

written in _____ couplets.

【答案】heroic

【解析】《坎特伯雷故事集》大部分采用的是英雄双行体。

II. Multiple Choice

1. Which of the following marked the beginning of Romanticism in English literature?

A. “Poetical Sketches”

B. “Lyrical Ballads”

C. “The Eve of St. Agnes”

D. “The Lady of Shalott”

【答案】B

【解析】1798年William Wordsworth（华兹华斯）和Samuel Taylor Coleridge（柯尔律治）共同出版了“Lyrical Ballads”（《抒情诗歌谣》），标志着英国浪漫主义的开端。

2. The title of the novel that contains the following selection is _____.

A. Tess of the d’Uberville

B. Jude the Obscure

C. Far from the Madding Crowd

D. The Mayor of Casterbridge

“Beautiful city! So venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene! His ineffable charm keeps ever calling us to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection.”

【答案】B

【解析】题中片段选自英国小说家、诗人Thomas Hardy最著名的作品之一《无名的裘德》，作者以悲怆的笔调叙述了乡村青年裘德一生的悲剧。选文译文为：“美丽的城市啊，那样古色古香，那样高雅纯洁，历经我们这个世纪精神生活的激烈纷争，依然那样安然无恙，那样宠辱不惊！……他那无法解释的神奇力量始终号召我们去追求我们大家共有的真正目标，去实现理想，达到尽善尽美的地步。”

3. As a literary trend in Britain, _____ came as a result of discount of certain