英国文学期末考精彩试题目(英语专业必备)
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。
英国文学史及选读__期末试题及答案

考试课程:英国文学史及选读考核类型:A 卷考试方式:闭卷出卷教师: XXX考试专业:英语考试班级:英语xx班I.Multiple choice (30 points, 1 point for each) select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.1._____,a typical example of old English poetry ,is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.A.The Canterbury TalesB.The Ballad of Robin HoodC.The Song of BeowulfD.Sir Gawain and the Green Kinght2._____is the most common foot in English poetry.A.The anapestB.The trocheeC.The iambD.The dactyl3.The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is NOT such an event?A.The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture.B.England’s domestic restC.New discovery in geography and astrologyD.The religious reformation and the economic expansion4._____is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.A.The Pilgrims ProgressB.Grace Abounding to the Chief of SinnersC.The Life and Death of Mr.BadmanD.The Holy War5.Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is _____.A.scienceB.philosophyC.artsD.humanism6.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,/So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”(Shakespeare, Sonnets18)What does“this”refer to ?A.Lover.B.Time.C.Summer.D.Poetry.7.“O prince, O chief of my throned powers, /That led th’ embattled seraphim to war/Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds/Fearless, endangered Heaven’s perpetual king”In the third line of the above passage quoted from Milton’s Paradise Los t, the phrase“thy conduct”refers to _____conduct.A.God’sB.Satan’sC.Adam’sD.Eve’s8. It is generally regarded that Keats’s most important and mature poems are in the form of ______.A.elegyB.odeC.epicD.sonnet9.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”The sentence is the beginning of Shakespeare’s_______.edyB.tragedyC.sonnetD.poem10. Daniel Defoe’s novels mainly focus on _____.A.the struggle of the unfortunate for mere existenceB.the struggle of the shipwrecked persons for securityC.the struggle of the pirates for wealthD.the desire of the criminals for property11. Francis Bacon is best known for his_____which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.A.essaysB.poemsC.worksD.plays12. Most of Thomas Hardy’s novels are set in Wessex____.A.a crude region in EnglandB.a fictional primitive regionC.a remote rural areaD.Hardy’s hometown13. In terms of Pride and Prejudice, which is not true?A.Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Jane Austen’s novels.B.Pride and Prejudice is originally drafted as “First Impressions”.C.Pride and Prejudice is a tragic novel.D.In this novel, the author explores the relationship between great love and realistic benefits.14. Chronologically the Victorian Period refers to _____A.1798-1832B.1836-1901C.1798-1901D.the Neoclassical Period15. In the following figures, who is Dickens’s first child hero?A.Fagin.B.Mr.Brownlow.C.Olive Twist.D.Bill Sikes16. “And where are they? And where art thou,”My country? On thy voiceless shoreThe heroic lay is tuneless now-The heroic bosom beats no more! (George Gordon Byron, Don Juan)In the above stanza,“art thou”literally means_____.A.“art you ”B.“are though”C.“art though”D.“are you ”17. Of the following writers, which is not the representative of the Romantic period?A.William Blake.B.John Bunyan.C.Jane Auten.D.John Keats.18. In Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, what is the utmost concern of Blake?A.LoveB.ChildhoodC.DeathD.Human Experience19. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from____.A.the RenaissanceB.the Old TestamentC.Greek MythologyD.the New Testament20. Jane Austen’s first novel is _____.A.Pride and PrejudiceB.Sense and SensibilityC.EmmaD.Plan of a Noel21. Of the following poets, which is not regarded as “Lake Poets’”?A.Saumel Taylor Coleridge.B.Robert Southey.C.William Wordsworth.D.William Shakespeare.22.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.Robinson CrusoeB.Moll FlandersC.GulliverD.Tom Jones23. The lines“Death, be not proud, though some have calld thee/Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;”are found in ______.A.William Wordsworth’s writingsB.John Keats’ writ ingsC.John Donne’s writingsD.Percy Bysshe Shelley’s writings24.The Pilgrim’s progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for_____.A.self-fulfillmentB.spiritual salvationC.material wealthD.universal truth25.With so many poems such as “The Sparrow’s Nest,”“To a Skylark,”“To the Cuckoo”and “To a Butterfly”,William Wordsworth is regarded as a “______”.A.poet of genius.B.royal poet.C.worshipper of nature.D.conservative poet.26.In the first part of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver told this experience in ____.A.LilliputB.BrobdingnagC.HouyhnhnmD.England27.Which of the following can not describe“Byronic hero”?A.Proud.B.Mysterious.C.Noble origin.D.Progressiv e.28.The poetic form which Browning attached to maturity and perfection is ____.e of ironic languagee of lyrics29.The term “metaphysical poetry”is commonly used to name the work of the 17th-century writers who wrote under the influence of ____.A.John MiltonB.John DonneC.John KeatsD.John Bunyan30. Which of the following writings is not created by William Wordsworth?A.I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.B.She Dwelt Among the Untrodden WaysC.The Solitary Reaper.D.The Chimney Sweeper.II. Find the relevant match from colunm B for each item in Colomn A (10 points in all. 1 point for each)A B1.Geoffrey Chaucer E A. A Red, Red Rose2.Francis Bacon C B. Ode to a Nightingale3.Jonathan Swift F C. Of Truth4.William Blake G D.Northanger Abbey5.Robert Burns A E.The Canterbury Tales6.John Keats B F.A Modest Proposal7.Jane Austen D G.The Tiger8.Charles Dickens I H. Ulysses9.Tennyson H I.David Copperfield10.Robert Browning J J.My Last DuchessIII. Fill in the following blanks (10 points in all, 1 point for each)1. In the year__1066__,at the battle of Hastings, the Normans headed by william, Duke of Normandy, defeated the Anglo-saxons.2. Since historical times, England, where the early inhabitants were celts, has been conquered three times. It was conquered by the Romans, the ANGLO-SAXONS____,and the Normans.3.Remeo and Juliet____is regared as shakespeare’s successful romantic tragedy.4. No sooner were the people in control of the government than they divided into hostile parties: the liberal whigs and the conservative__Tories___.5. The Glorious Revolution in 1688___meant three things the supremacy of parliament, the beginning of modern English, and the final triumph of the principle of political liberty.latter half of the 18th___century.7. With the publication of william Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballad____in collaboration with S.T Coleridge, Romanticism began to bloom and found a firm place in the history of English literatare.8. Woman as _novelists ___ appeared in the Romantic age. It was during this period that women took, for the first time ,an important place in English literature.9. The most important poet of the victoria Age was__ Tennyson __, Next to him, were Robert Browning and his wife.10. The ____movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th cenfury.1. 10662. Anglo-Saxons3. Romeo and Juliet4. Tories5. 16886.18th7.Lyrical Ballads 8.novelists 9. Tennyson 10.ChartistIV. Questions and Answers (20 points in all ,10points for each) Give brief answers to each of following questions in English.(1)A selection from a poemWherefore feed and clothe and saveForm the cradle to the graveThose ungrateful drones who wouldDrain your sweat_nay, drink your blood?Whrefore, Bees of England, forgeMany a weepon, chain, and scourgeThat these stingless drones may spoilThe forced produce of your tail?Questions (10’)1. These lines are taken from a poem entitled_A Song: Men of England)written by __ Shelley _2. The rhyme scheme in the selection of the poem is _aabb ccdd___.(1’)3.What idea does the quotation express?(7’)1. 1’) (1’)This poem is a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, it points out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation. The poet calls the exploiters “ungrateful drones”, Who drain the sweat and drink the blood of the labouring people, He illustrates with concrete examples the relationship of economic exploitation between the ruling class and the working people.(7’)(2) A Selection from a workSome books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy and extracts made of them by others, but that would be only in the less important arguments and the meaner sort of books; else distilled bookd are like common distilled waters.Question(10’)1. This passage is taken from a well-known work entiled___,(2’) written by ____.(1’)2. What’s the main idea of the whole work. (7’)V. Topic Discussion (30 points in all,15 points for each). Write no less than 100 words on each of the following topics in English , in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. Based on Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, discuss the theme of her works, the image of woman protagonists and what and how her novels truthfully present.(15’)2. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Aasten explored three kinds of motivations of marriage that the middle-class people had in the second half of the 18th century. Try to make a brief discussion about them with specific examples from the novel. Make comments on Austen’s attitude towards these motivations.(15’)200x-200x学年度第一学期期末考试试卷答案及评分标准考试课程:英国文学史及选读考核类型:A 卷考试方式:闭卷出卷教师: XXX考试专业:英语考试班级:英语xx班I. Multiple Choice (1’×30=30’)01-05 C C B A D 06-10 D B B C A11-15 A B C B C 16-20 D B D B B21-25 D A C B C 26-30 A D A B DII. Find the relevant match from column B for each item in colamn A (1’×10=10’)1-E 2-C 3-F 4-G 5-A6-B 7-D 8-I 9-H 10-JIII. Fill in the following blanks (1’×10=10’)1. 10662. Anglo-Saxons3. Romeo and Juliet4. Tories5. 16886.18th7.Lyrical Ballads 8.novelists 9.Tennyson 10.ChartistIV. Questions and Answers (20 points in all )(1) A PoemQuestions(10’)1. A Song: Men of England(1’) Shelley(1’)2. aabb ccdd (1’)3. This poem is a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, it points out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation. The poet calls the exploiters “ungrateful drones”, Who drain the sweat and drink the blood of the labouring people, He illustrates with concrete examples the relationship of economic exploitation between the ruling class and the working people.(7’)(2) A Selection from a work1. Of Studies(1’) Bacon(1’)2. It analyzes the use and abuse of studies ,the different ways adopted by different people to pursue studies. And how studies exert influence over human character.V .Topic Discussion (30 points in all, 15 points for each)A. Charlotte’s works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards self-realization, about some lonely and neglected young women with a fiece longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.B. All ber heroines’ highest joy arises from some sacrifice of self or some human weakness overcome.C. The image of woman protagonists in her works are mostly the life of the middle-calss working women, particularly governesses.t0D. Her works present a vivid realistic picture of the English society by exposing the cruelty, hypocrisy and other evils of the upper calsses, and by showing the misery and suffering of the poor. Especially in Jane Eyre by her, she sharply criticises theexisting society, e.g. religious hypocrisy of charity institutions.(2) In the novel ,three kinds of attitudes towards marriage are presented for manifestation: marriage merely for material wealth and social position; marriage just for beauty, attraction and passion regardless of economic condition or personal merits; and the ideal marriage for true love with a consideration of the partner’s personal merit as well as his economic and social status. What jane Aasten tries to say is that it is wrong to marry just for money or for beauty, but it is also wrong to marny without consideration of economic conditions.。
英国文学期末考试题目

Part Ⅰ:Choose the relevant match from column B for each itemin column A. (10%)Section Acolumn A column B(1)Charles Dickens A. Oliver Twist(2) Lawrence B. The Forsyte Saga(3)Jonathan Swift C. The Jew of Malta(4)John Galsworthy D. Sons and Lovers(5)Christopher Marlowe E. A Modest ProposalSection Bcolumn A column B(1) Doctor Faustus A. Darcy(2) The Merchant of Venice B. Joseph Surface(3) The School for Scandal C. Portia(4) Pride and Prejudice D. Friday(5) Robinson Crusoe E. MephistophilisPart Ⅱ:Complete each of the following statements with a proper words ora phrase. (10%)1. The Canterbury Tales first time to use“”is Spenser’s idealism, his love of beauty, and his exquisite melody th at made him known as “______”.3. is a playwright & poet who is considered above all writers in the past and in the present time4. Pope is one of the first to introduce to England, for him the supreme value was order.5. The Pilgrim’s Progress is a religious , its purpose is to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and seek salvation(拯救) through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils. Its predominant metaphor –life as a journey.6.The two major novelists of the Romantic period are Jane Austen and ______.7. William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge & Robert Southey are “”.8. James Joyce’s novels and short stories are regarded as his great works , all of which have the same setting: ______.9. Love and are the major themes in Jane Austin’s novels.10. is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist in 20th century English literaturePart Ⅲ:Each of the following statements below is followed by four alt ernative answers. Choosethe one that would best complete the statement. (40%)1. which of the following is regarded as the most successful religious allegory in the English language.?A. The Pilgrim's ProgressB. Grace Abounding to the Chief of SinnersC. The Life and Death of Mr. BadmanD. The Holy War2. Shakespeare’s four great tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, ______ and ___.A. King Lear…Romeo and JulietB. King Lear…MacbethC. King John…Ju lius CaesarD. King John…The Merchant of Venice3. it is generally regarded that keats's most important and mature poems are in the form Of____.A. elegyB. odeC. epicD. sonnet4. Francis bacon is best known for his ____which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.A. essaysB. poemsC. works D plays5. who is not the major figure of modernist movement?A. EliotB. JoyceC. Charles dickensD. Pound6. who is considered to be the best known English dramatist since Shakespeare?A . Oscar Wilde B. john Galsworthy C. . Yeats D. George Bernard Shaw7. Of the following poets, which is not regarded as 'lake poets'?A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. Robert Southy C .William words worth D. William Shakespeare8. Which of the following cannot describe 'Byronic hero'?A. proudB. mysteriousC. noble originD. progressive9. who is regarded as a 'worshipper of nature'.A. john KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Jane Austen10. Thomas Gray’s“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”once and for all established his fame as theleader of the ______ poetry.A. RomanticB. PastoralC. NeoclassicalD. Sentimental11. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”isquoted from Shelley’s______.A. The CloudB. Ode to LibertyC. Ode to the West WindD. To a Skylark12. According to the subjects, Wordsworth’s short poemscan be classified into two groups: poems about ______ and poems about _ _____.A. nature…love& friendshipB. nature…huma n lifeC. Scotland…love& friendshipD. Scotland…human life13. Which of the following is NOT James Joyce’s works?A. The Portrait of a LadyB. DublinersC. UlyssesD. Finnegans Wake14. As a leading Romanticist, Byron’s chief contributionis his creation of the “Byronic hero”, a ______.A. proud, strong-minded rebel under pressureB. proud, mysterious rebel of noble birthC. proud, selfish person with evil heartD. a proud, vindictive person without mercy15. In his works, ______ set out a full map and a large-scalecriticism of 19th century England, particularlyLondon.A. DickensB. HardyC. George EliotD. Walter Peter16. The name of Robert Browning is often associatedwith the term______.A. dramatic monologueB. transferred epitetC. blank verseD. free verse17. In Lawrence’s opinion, the______ is responsible for the unhealthy dev elopment of human personalities, the perversion of love and the failure of human fulfillment in marital relationships.A. the First World WarB. original sinC. Victorian conventionsD. mechanical civilization18. .__________is the pseudonym of Marry Ann Evans.A. Jane AustenB. George EliotC. D. Anne Bronte19. .__________is regarded as the most prominent stream-of-consciousness novelist.A. James JoyceB. Virginia WoolfC. D.20. .__________, a collection of 15 short stories, is the firstimportant work of James Joyce’s life longpreoccupation with Dublin life.A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManB. DublinersD. Finnegans WakePart Ⅳ:Answer the following questions(40%)1. W hat are the reasons for Chaucer’s being honored as “the father of English poetry”?(10 points )2. What is dramatic monologue? (5 points)Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe was a great success partly because the protagonist was a real middle-class hero. Discuss Crusoe, the protagonist of the novel, as an embodiment of the rising middle-class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England. (15points)briefly the character of Elizabeth, the heroine in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.(10 points )。
英国文学期末测试题

英国文学期末测试题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. IWandered Lonely as a Cloud _________________________14. Hard Times _________________________15. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists ___________________ ______II. Multiple Choice(one point for each)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 18th century 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 dramatic career.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 in the 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, which could 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”2. Sir ThomasWyatt first brought the sonnet to England from ________________.3. “The Geste of Robin Hood”is the best known ________________ in the Middle English 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 18th century. His masterpiece is ________________.10. In his novel“A Tale of Two Cities”, Dickens takes the ________________ as the background.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. IWandered Lonely as a Cloud WilliamWordsworth14. 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.D 10.AIII. 填空。
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考试课程:英国文学史及选读考核类型:A 卷考试方式:闭卷出卷教师: XXX考试专业:英语考试班级:英语xx班I.Multiple choice (30 points, 1 point for each) select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.1._____,a typical example of old English poetry ,is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.A.The Canterbury TalesB.The Ballad of Robin HoodC.The Song of BeowulfD.Sir Gawain and the Green Kinght2._____is the most common foot in English poetry.A.The anapestB.The trocheeC.The iambD.The dactyl3.The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is NOT such an event?A.The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture.B.England’s domestic restC.New discovery in geography and astrologyD.The religious reformation and the economic expansion4._____is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.A.The Pilgrims ProgressB.Grace Abounding to the Chief of SinnersC.The Life and Death of Mr.BadmanD.The Holy War5.Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is _____.A.scienceB.philosophyC.artsD.humanism6.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,/So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”(Shakespeare, Sonnets18)What does“this”refer to ?A.Lover.B.Time.C.Summer.D.Poetry.7.“O prince, O chief of my throned powers, /That led th’ embattled seraphim to war/Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds/Fearless, endangered Heaven’s perpetual king”In the third line of the above passage quoted from Milton’s Paradise Los t, the phrase“thy conduct”refers to _____conduct.A.God’sB.Satan’sC.Adam’sD.Eve’s8. It is generally regarded that Keats’s most important and mature poems are in the form of ______.A.elegyB.odeC.epicD.sonnet9.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”The sentence is the beginning of Shakespeare’s_______.edyB.tragedyC.sonnetD.poem10. Daniel Defoe’s novels mainly focus on _____.A.the struggle of the unfortunate for mere existenceB.the struggle of the shipwrecked persons for securityC.the struggle of the pirates for wealthD.the desire of the criminals for property11. Francis Bacon is best known for his_____which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.A.essaysB.poemsC.worksD.plays12. Most of Thomas Hardy’s novels are set in Wessex____.A.a crude region in EnglandB.a fictional primitive regionC.a remote rural areaD.Hardy’s hometown13. In terms of Pride and Prejudice, which is not true?A.Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Jane Austen’s novels.B.Pride and Prejudice is originally drafted as “First Impressions”.C.Pride and Prejudice is a tragic novel.D.In this novel, the author explores the relationship between great love and realistic benefits.14. Chronologically the Victorian Period refers to _____A.1798-1832B.1836-1901C.1798-1901D.the Neoclassical Period15. In the following figures, who is Dickens’s first child hero?A.Fagin.B.Mr.Brownlow.C.Olive Twist.D.Bill Sikes16. “And where are they? And where art thou,”My country? On thy voiceless shoreThe heroic lay is tuneless now-The heroic bosom beats no more! (George Gordon Byron, Don Juan)In the above stanza,“art thou”literally means_____.A.“art you ”B.“are though”C.“art though”D.“are you ”17. Of the following writers, which is not the representative of the Romantic period?A.William Blake.B.John Bunyan.C.Jane Auten.D.John Keats.18. In Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, what is the utmost concern of Blake?A.LoveB.ChildhoodC.DeathD.Human Experience19. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from____.A.the RenaissanceB.the Old TestamentC.Greek MythologyD.the New Testament20. Jane Austen’s first novel is _____.A.Pride and PrejudiceB.Sense and SensibilityC.EmmaD.Plan of a Noel21. Of the following poets, which is not regarded as “Lake Poets’”?A.Saumel Taylor Coleridge.B.Robert Southey.C.William Wordsworth.D.William Shakespeare.22.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.Robinson CrusoeB.Moll FlandersC.GulliverD.Tom Jones23. The lines“Death, be not proud, though some have calld thee/Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;”are found in ______.A.William Wordsworth’s writingsB.John Keats’ writingsC.John Donne’s writingsD.Percy Bysshe Shelley’s writings24.The Pilgrim’s progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for_____.A.self-fulfillmentB.spiritual salvationC.material wealthD.universal truth25.With so many poems such as “The Sparrow’s Nest,”“To a Skylark,”“To the Cuckoo”and “To a Butterfly”,William Wordsworth is regarded as a “______”.A.poet of genius.B.royal poet.C.worshipper of nature.D.conservative poet.26.In the first part of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver told this experience in ____.A.LilliputB.BrobdingnagC.HouyhnhnmD.England27.Which of the following can not describe“Byronic hero”?A.Proud.B.Mysterious.C.Noble origin.D.Progressive.28.The poetic form which Browning attached to maturity and perfection is ____.A.dramatic monologuee of symbole of ironic languagee of lyrics29.The term “metaphysical poetry”is commonly used to name the work of the 17th-century writers who wrote under the influence of ____.A.John MiltonB.John DonneC.John KeatsD.John Bunyan30. Which of the following writings is not created by William Wordsworth?A.I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.B.She Dwelt Among the Untrodden WaysC.The Solitary Reaper.D.The Chimney Sweeper.II. Find the relevant match from colunm B for each item in Colomn A (10 points in all. 1 point for each)A B1.Geoffrey Chaucer A. A Red, Red Rose2.Francis Bacon B. Ode to a Nightingale3.Jonathan Swift C. Of Truth4.William Blake D.Northanger Abbey5.Robert Burns E.The Canterbury Tales6.John Keats F.A Modest Proposal7.Jane Austen G.The Tiger8.Charles Dickens H. Ulysses9.Tennyson I.David Copperfield10.Robert Browning J.My Last DuchessIII. Fill in the following blanks (10 points in all, 1 point for each)1. In the year____,at the battle of Hastings, the Normans headed by william, Duke of Normandy, defeated the Anglo-saxons.2. Since historical times, England, where the early inhabitants were celts, has been conquered three times. It was conquered by the Romans, the ____,and the Normans.3.____is regared as shakespeare’s successful romantic tragedy.4. No sooner were the people in control of the government than they divided into hostile parties: the liberal whigs and the conservative_____.5. The Glorious Revolution in ___meant three things the supremacy of parliament, the beginning of modern English, and the final triumph of the principle of political liberty.6. Romanticism as a literary movement come into being in England early in the latter half of the ___century.7. With the publication of william Wordsworth’s____in collaboration with S.T Coleridge, Romanticism began to bloom and found a firm place in the history of English literatare.8. Woman as ____ appeared in the Romantic age. It was during this period that women took, for the first time ,an important place in English literature.9. The most important poet of the victoria Age was____, Next to him, were Robert Browning and his wife.10. The ____movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th cenfury.IV. Questions and Answers (20 points in all ,10points for each) Give brief answers to each of following questions in English.(1) A selection from a poemWherefore feed and clothe and saveForm the cradle to the graveThose ungrateful drones who wouldDrain your sweat_nay, drink your blood?Whrefore, Bees of England, forgeMany a weepon, chain, and scourgeThat these stingless drones may spoilThe forced produce of your tail?Questions (10’)1. These lines are taken fr om a poem entitled___(1’)written by ___(1’).2. The rhyme scheme in the selection of the poem is ____.(1’)3.What idea does the quotation express?(7’)(2) A Selection from a workSome books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy and extracts made of them by others, but that would be only in the less important arguments and the meaner sort of books; else distilled bookd are like common distilled waters.Question(10’)1. This passage is taken from a well-known work entiled___,(2’) written by ____.(1’)2. What’s the main idea of the whole work. (7’)V. Topic Discussion (30 points in all,15 points for each). Write no less than 100 words on each of the following topics in English , in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. Based on Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, discuss the theme of her works, the image of woman protagonists and what and how her novels truthfully present.(15’)2. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Aasten explored three kinds of motivations of marriage that the middle-class people had in the second half of the 18th century. Try to make a brief discussion about them with specific examples from the novel. Make comments on Austen’s attitude towards these motivations.(15’)200x-200x学年度第一学期期末考试试卷答案及评分标准考试课程:英国文学史及选读考核类型:A 卷考试方式:闭卷出卷教师: XXX考试专业:英语考试班级:英语xx班I. Multiple Choice (1’×30=30’)01-05 C C B A D 06-10 D B B C A11-15 A B C B C 16-20 D B D B B21-25 D A C B C 26-30 A D A B DII. Find the relevant match from column B for each item in colamn A (1’×10=10’)1-E 2-C 3-F 4-G 5-A6-B 7-D 8-I 9-H 10-JIII. Fill in the following blanks (1’×10=10’)1. 10662. Anglo-Saxons3. Romeo and Juliet4. Tories5. 16886.18th7.Lyrical Ballads 8.novelists 9.Tennyson 10.ChartistIV. Questions and Answers (20 points in all )(1) A PoemQues tions(10’)1. A Song: Men of England(1’) Shelley(1’)2. aabb ccdd (1’)3. This poem is a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, it points out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation. The poet calls the exploiters “ungrateful drones”, Who drain the sweat and drink the blood of the labouring people, He illustrates with concrete examples the relationship of economic exploitation between the ruling class and the working people.(7’)(2) A Selection from a work1. Of Studies(1’) Bacon(1’)2. It analyzes the use and abuse of studies ,the different ways adopted by different people to pursue studies. And how studies exert influence over human character.V .Topic Discussion (30 points in all, 15 points for each)A. Charlotte’s works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards self-realization, about some lonely and neglected young women with a fiece longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.B. All ber heroines’ highest joy arises from some sacrifice of self or some human weakness overcome.C. The image of woman protagonists in her works are mostly the life of the middle-calss working women, particularly governesses.D. Her works present a vivid realistic picture of the English society by exposing the cruelty, hypocrisy and other evils of the upper calsses, and by showing the misery and suffering of the poor. Especially in Jane Eyre by her, she sharply criticises the existing society, e.g. religious hypocrisy of charity institutions.(2) In the novel ,three kinds of attitudes towards marriage are presented for manifestation: marriage merely for material wealth and social position; marriage just for beauty, attraction and passion regardless of economic condition or personal merits; and the ideal marriage for true love with a consideration of the partner’s personal merit as well as his economic and social status. What j ane Aasten tries to say is that it is wrong to marry just for money or for beauty, but it is also wrong to marny without consideration of economic conditions.。
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Part Ⅰ: Choose the relevant match from column B for each item in column A. (10%)Section Acolumn A column B(1)Charles Dickens A. Oliver Twist(2)D.H Lawrence B. The Forsyte Saga(3)Jonathan Swift C. The Jew of Malta(4)John Galsworthy D. Sons and Lovers(5)Christopher Marlowe E. A Modest ProposalSection Bcolumn A column B(1) Doctor Faustus A. Darcy(2) The Merchant of Venice B. Joseph Surface(3) The School for Scandal C. Portia(4) Pride and Prejudice D. Friday(5) Robinson Crusoe E. MephistophilisPart Ⅱ: Complete each of the following statements with a proper words or a phrase. (10%)1. The Canterbury Tales first time to use“”2.It is Spenser’s idealism, his love of beauty, and his exquisite melody that made him known as “______”.3. is a playwright & poet who is considered above all writers in the past and in the present time4. Pope is one of the first to introduce to England, for him the supreme value was order.5. The Pilgrim’s Progress is a religious, its purpose is to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and seek salvation(拯救) through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils. Its predominant metaphor –life as a journey.6. The two major novelists of the Romantic period are Jane Austen and ______.7. William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Cole ridge & Robert Southey are “”.8. James Joyce’s novels and short stories are regarded as his great works, all of which have the same setting : ______.9. Love and are the major themes in Jane Austin’s novels.10. is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist in 20th century English literaturePart Ⅲ: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choosethe one that would best complete the statement. (40%)1. which of the following is regarded as the most successful religious allegory in the English language.?A. The Pilgrim's ProgressB. Grace Abounding to the Chief of SinnersC. The Life and Death of Mr. BadmanD. The Holy War2. Shakespeare’s four great tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, ______ and ___.A. King Lear…Romeo and JulietB. King Lear…MacbethC. King John…Julius CaesarD. King John…The Merchant of Venice3. it is generally regarded that keats's most important and mature poems are in the formOf____.A. elegyB. odeC. epicD. sonnet4. Francis bacon is best known for his ____which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.A. essaysB. poemsC. works D plays5. who is not the major figure of modernist movement?A. EliotB. JoyceC. Charles dickensD. Pound6. who is considered to be the best known English dramatist since Shakespeare?A . Oscar Wilde B. john Galsworthy C. W.B. Yeats D. George Bernard Shaw7. Of the following poets, which is not regarded as 'lake poets'?A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. Robert Southy C .William words worth D. William Shakespeare8. Which of the following cannot describe 'Byronic hero'?A. proudB. mysteriousC. noble originD. progressive9. who is regarded as a 'worshipper of nature'.A. john KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Jane Austen10. Thomas Gray’s“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”once and for all established his fame as theleader of the ______ poetry.A. RomanticB. PastoralC. NeoclassicalD. Sentimental11. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” isquoted from Shelley’s ______.A. The CloudB. Ode to LibertyC. Ode to the West WindD. To a Skylark12. According to the subjects, Wordsworth’s short poemscan be classified into two groups: poems about ______ and poems about ______.A. nature…love & friendshipB. nature…human lifeC. Scotland…love & friendshipD. Scotland…human life13. Which of the following is NOT James Joyce’s works?A. The Portrait of a LadyB. DublinersC. UlyssesD. Finnegans Wake14. As a leading Romanticist, Byron’s chief contributionis his creation of the “Byronic hero”, a ______.A. proud, strong-minded rebel under pressureB. proud, mysterious rebel of noble birthC. proud, selfish person with evil heartD. a proud, vindictive person without mercy15. In his works, ______ set out a full map and a large-scalecriticism of 19th century England, particularlyLondon.A. DickensB. HardyC. George EliotD. Walter Peter16. The name of Robert Browning is often associatedwith the term______.A. dramatic monologueB. transferred epitetC. blank verseD. free verse17. In Lawrence’s opinion, the______ is responsible for the unhealthy development of human personalities , the perversion of love and the failure of human fulfillment in marital relationships.A. the First World WarB. original sinC. Victorian conventionsD. mechanical civilization18. .__________is the pseudonym of Marry Ann Evans.A. Jane AustenB. George EliotC. T.S.EliotD. Anne Bronte19. .__________is regarded as the most prominent stream-of-consciousness novelist.A. James JoyceB. Virginia WoolfC. wrence D. E.M.Forster20. .__________, a collection of 15 short stories, is the first important work of James Joyce’s life long preoccupation with Dublin life.A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManB. DublinersC.UlyssesD. Finnegans WakePart Ⅳ: Answer the following questions(40%)1. W hat are the reasons for Chaucer’s being honored as “the father of English poetry”?(10 points )2. What is dramatic monologue? (5 points)3.Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe was a great success partly beca use the protagonist was a real middle-class hero. Discuss Crusoe, the protagonist of the novel, as an embodiment of the rising middle-class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England. (15points)4.Discuss briefly the character of Elizabeth, the heroine in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. (10 points )。
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一.中古英语时期♦Beowulf is the oldest poem in the English language, and the most important specimen (范例、典范)of Anglo-Saxon literature, and also the oldest surviving epic in the English language.♦The romance is a popular literary form in the medieval period(中世纪). It uses verse or prose to sing knightly adventures or other heroic deeds.♦Geoffrey Chaucer, one of the greatest English poets, whose masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales(《坎特伯雷故事集》),was one of the most important influences on the development of English literature.♦Chaucer is considered as the father of English poetry and the founder of English realism.二.文艺复兴Renaissance♦Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries. It marks a transition(过渡) from the medieval to the modern world.♦It started in Italy with the flowering of painting, sculpture(雕塑)and literature, and then spread to the rest of Europe.♦Humanism is the essence of Renaissance -----Man is the measure of all things. ♦This was England’s Golden Age in literature. Queen Elizabeth reigned over the country in this period. The real mainstream of the English Renaissance is the Elizabethan drama. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England♦♦“Of Studies” is the most popular of Bacon’s 58 essays.♦Thomas More ——Utopia♦Edmund Spenser——The Faerie Queene相关练习♦ 1. Which is the oldest poem in the English language?♦ A. Utopia B. Faerie Queene♦ C. Beowulf D. Hamlet♦ 2. _____ is the father of English poetry.♦ A. Edmund Spenser B. William Shakespeare♦ C. Francis Bacon D. Geoffrey Chaucer♦ 3. ____ is not a playwright during the Renaissance period on England.♦ A. William Shakespeare B. Geoffrey Chaucer♦ C. Christopher Marlowe D. Ben Johnson三.莎士比亚William Shakespeare♦“All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”——William Shakespeare♦William Shakespeare is considered the greatest playwright in the world and the finest poet who has written in the English language. Shakespeare understood people more than any other writers. He could create characters that havemeaning beyond the time and place of his plays. His four tragedies are Hamlet(《哈姆雷特》), Othello(《奥赛罗》), King Lear(《李尔王》) and Macbeth(《麦克白》).♦Shakespeare’s sonnets, 154 in number, are the only direct expression of the poet’s own feelings; Sonnet 18 deserves its fame because it is one of the most beautifully written verses in the English language♦诗选♦Sonnet 18♦Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?♦Thou art more lovely and more temperate.♦Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,♦And Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.♦(我怎能将你与夏日相比? /你比它更温和可爱:/动人的花蕾在五月咆哮的风中颤抖,/夏日的美好时光也绝不长久:)♦Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,♦And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;♦And every fair from fair sometime declines,♦By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimm’d;♦(太阳的金色光芒虽然耀眼,/却常常以灰暗的面貌出现;/再美貌的物什都逃不过凋谢,/命运流转或无意间将其拆解;)♦But thy eternal Summer shall not fade,♦Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st♦Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,♦When in eternal line to time thou grow’st.♦So long as men can breath or eyes can see,♦So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.♦(可你如夏日般不会褪色, /你的美貌也将永存; /死神无法夸耀你曾在它的阴影中游荡, /伴随永恒的诗篇你将留存。
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英国文学期末考试题目(英语专业必备)country and her patronage of the arts led to a flourishing of literature。
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Part Ⅰ: Choose the relevant match from column B for each item in column A. (10%)Section Acolumn A column B(1)Charles Dickens A. Oliver Twist(2)D.H Lawrence B. The Forsyte Saga(3)Jonathan Swift C. The Jew of Malta(4)John Galsworthy D. Sons and Lovers(5)Christopher Marlowe E. A Modest ProposalSection Bcolumn A column B(1) Doctor Faustus A. Darcy(2) The Merchant of Venice B. Joseph Surface(3) The School for Scandal C. Portia(4) Pride and Prejudice D. Friday(5) Robinson Crusoe E. MephistophilisPart Ⅱ: Complete each of the following statements with a proper words or a phrase. (10%)1. The Canterbury Tales first time to use“”2.It is Spenser’s idealism, his love of beauty, and his exquisite melody that made him known as “______”.3. is a playwright & poet who is considered above all writers in the past and in the present time4. Pope is one of the first to introduce to England, for him the supreme value was order.5. The Pilgrim’s Progress is a religious, its purpose is to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and seek salvation(拯救) through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils. Its predominant metaphor –life as a journey.6. The two major novelists of the Romantic period are Jane Austen and ______.7. William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge & Robert Southey are “”.8. James Joyce’s novels and short stories are regarded as his great works, all of which have the same setting : ______.9. Love and are the major themes in Jane Austin’s novels.10. is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist in 20th century English literaturePart Ⅲ: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choosethe one that would best complete the statement. (40%)1. which of the following is regarded as the most successful religious allegory in the English language.?A. The Pilgrim's ProgressB. Grace Abounding to the Chief of SinnersC. The Life and Death of Mr. BadmanD. The Holy War2. Shakespeare’s four great tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, ______ and ___.A. King Lear…Romeo and JulietB. King Lear…MacbethC. King John…Julius CaesarD. King John…The Merchant of Venice3. it is generally regarded that keats's most important and mature poems are in the formOf____.A. elegyB. odeC. epicD. sonnet4. Francis bacon is best known for his ____which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.A. essaysB. poemsC. works D plays5. who is not the major figure of modernist movement?A. EliotB. JoyceC. Charles dickensD. Pound6. who is considered to be the best known English dramatist since Shakespeare?A . Oscar Wilde B. john Galsworthy C. W.B. Yeats D. George Bernard Shaw7. Of the following poets, which is not regarded as 'lake poets'?A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. Robert Southy C .William words worth D. William Shakespeare8. Which of the following cannot describe 'Byronic hero'?A. proudB. mysteriousC. noble originD. progressive9. who is regarded as a 'worshipper of nature'.A. john KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Jane Austen10. Thomas Gray’s“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”once and for all established his fame as theleader of the ______ poetry.A. RomanticB. PastoralC. NeoclassicalD. Sentimental11. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” isquoted from Shelley’s ______.A. The CloudB. Ode to LibertyC. Ode to the West WindD. To a Skylark12. According to the subjects, Wordsworth’s short poemscan be classified into two groups: poems about ______ and poems about ______.A. nature…love & friendshipB. nature…human lifeC. Scotland…love & friendshipD. Scotland…human life13. Which of the following is NOT James Joyce’s works?A. The Portrait of a LadyB. DublinersC. UlyssesD. Finnegans Wake14. As a leading Romanticist, Byron’s chief contributionis his creation of the “Byronic hero”, a ______.A. proud, strong-minded rebel under pressureB. proud, mysterious rebel of noble birthC. proud, selfish person with evil heartD. a proud, vindictive person without mercy15. In his works, ______ set out a full map and a large-scalecriticism of 19th century England, particularlyLondon.A. DickensB. HardyC. George EliotD. Walter Peter16. The name of Robert Browning is often associatedwith the term______.A. dramatic monologueB. transferred epitetC. blank verseD. free verse17. In Lawrence’s opinion, the______ is responsible for the unhealthy development of human personalities , the perversion of love and the failure of human fulfillment in marital relationships.A. the First World WarB. original sinC. Victorian conventionsD. mechanical civilization18. .__________is the pseudonym of Marry Ann Evans.A. Jane AustenB. George EliotC. T.S.EliotD. Anne Bronte19. .__________is regarded as the most prominent stream-of-consciousness novelist.A. James JoyceB. Virginia WoolfC. wrence D. E.M.Forster20. .__________, a collection of 15 short stories, is the first important work of James Joyce’s life long preoccupation with Dublin life.A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManB. DublinersC.UlyssesD. Finnegans WakePart Ⅳ: Answer the following questions(40%)1. W hat are the reasons for Chaucer’s being honored as “the father of English poetry”?(10 points )2. What is dramatic monologue? (5 points)3.Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe was a great success partly because the protagonist was a real middle-class hero. Discuss Crusoe, the protagonist of the novel, as an embodiment of the rising middle-class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England. (15points)4.Discuss briefly the character of Elizabeth, the heroine in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. (10 points )。
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英国文学史及选读期末试题及答案考试课程:英国文学史及选读考核类型:A 卷考试方式:闭卷出卷教师: XXX考试专业:英语考试班级:英语xx班I.Multiple choice (30 points, 1 point for each) select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.1._____,a typical example of old English poetry ,is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.A.The Canterbury TalesB.The Ballad of Robin HoodC.The Song of BeowulfD.Sir Gawain and the Green Kinght2._____is the most common foot in English poetry.A.The anapestB.The trocheeC.The iambD.The dactyl3.The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is NOT such an event?A.The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture.B.England’s domestic restC.New discovery in geography and astrologyD.The religious reformation and the economic expansion4._____is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.A.The Pilgrims ProgressB.Grace Abounding to the Chief of SinnersC.The Life and Death of Mr.BadmanD.The Holy War5.Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is _____.A.scienceB.philosophyC.artsD.humanism6.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,/So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”(Shakespeare, Sonnets18)What does“this”refer to ?A.Lover.B.Time.C.Summer.D.Poetry.7.“O prince, O chief of my throned powers, /That led th’embattled seraphim to war/Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds/Fearless, endangered Heaven’s perpetual king”In the third line of the above passage quoted from Milton’s Parad ise Lost, the phrase“thy conduct”refers to _____conduct.A.God’sB.Satan’sC.Adam’sD.Eve’s8. It is generally regarded that Keats’s most important and mature poems are in the form of ______.A.elegyB.odeC.epicD.sonnet9.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”The sentence is the beginning of Shakespeare’s_______.edyB.tragedyC.sonnetD.poem10. Daniel Defoe’s novels mainly focus on _____.A.the struggle of the unfortunate for mere existenceB.the struggle of the shipwrecked persons for securityC.the struggle of the pirates for wealthD.the desire of the criminals for property11. Francis Bacon is best known for his_____which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.A.essaysB.poemsC.worksD.plays12. Most of Thomas Hardy’s novels are set in Wessex____.A.a crude region in EnglandB.a fictional primitive regionC.a remote rural areaD.Hardy’s hometown13. In terms of Pride and Prejudice, which is not true?A.Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Jane Austen’s novels.B.Pride and Prejudice is originally drafted as “First Impressions”.C.Pride and Prejudice is a tragic novel.D.In this novel, the author explores the relationship between great love and realistic benefits.14. Chronologically the Victorian Period refers to _____A.1798-1832B.1836-1901C.1798-1901D.the Neoclassical Period15. In the following figures, who is Dickens’s first child hero?A.Fagin.B.Mr.Brownlow.C.Olive Twist.D.Bill Sikes16. “And where are they? And where art thou,”My country? On thy voiceless shoreThe heroic lay is tuneless now-The heroic bosom beats no more! (George Gordon Byron, Don Juan)In the above stanza,“art thou”literally means_____.A.“art you ”B.“are though”C.“art though”D.“are you ”17. Of the following writers, which is not the representative of the Romantic period?A.William Blake.B.John Bunyan.C.Jane Auten.D.John Keats.18. In Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, what is the utmost concern of Blake?A.LoveB.ChildhoodC.DeathD.Human Experience19. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from____.A.the RenaissanceB.the Old TestamentC.Greek MythologyD.the New Testament20. Jane Austen’s first novel is _____.A.Pride and PrejudiceB.Sense and SensibilityC.EmmaD.Plan of a Noel21. Of the following poets, w hich is not regarded as “Lake Poets’”?A.Saumel Taylor Coleridge.B.Robert Southey.C.William Wordsworth.D.William Shakespeare.22.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.Robinson CrusoeB.Moll FlandersC.GulliverD.Tom Jones23. The lines“Death, be not proud, though some have calld thee/Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;”are found in ______.A.William Wordsworth’s writingsB.John Keats’writingsC.John Donne’s writingsD.Percy Bysshe Shelley’s writings24.The Pilgrim’s progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for_____.A.self-fulfillmentB.spiritual salvationC.material wealthD.universal truth25.With so many poems such as “The Sparrow’s Nest,”“To a Skylark,”“To the Cuckoo”and “To a Butterfly”,William Wordsworth is regarded as a “______”.A.poet of genius.B.royal poet.C.worshipper of nature.D.conservative poet.26.In the first part of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver told this experience in ____.A.LilliputB.BrobdingnagC.HouyhnhnmD.England27.Which of the following can not describe“Byronic hero”?A.Proud.B.Mysterious.C.Noble origin.D.Progressive.28.The poetic form which Browning attached to maturity and perfection is ____.A.dramatic monologuee of symbole of ironic languagee of lyrics29.The term “metaphysical poetry”is commonly used to name the work of the 17th-century writers who wrote under the influence of ____.A.John MiltonB.John DonneC.John KeatsD.John Bunyan30. Which of the following writings is not created by William Wordsworth?A.I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.B.She Dwelt Among the Untrodden WaysC.The Solitary Reaper.D.The Chimney Sweeper.II. Find the relevant match from colunm B for each item in Colomn A (10 points in all. 1 point for each)A B1.Geoffrey Chaucer A. A Red, Red Rose2.Francis Bacon B. Ode to a Nightingale3.Jonathan Swift C. Of Truth4.William Blake D.Northanger Abbey5.Robert Burns E.The Canterbury Tales6.John Keats F.A Modest Proposal7.Jane Austen G.The Tiger8.Charles Dickens H. Ulysses9.Tennyson I.David Copperfield10.Robert Browning J.My Last DuchessIII. Fill in the following blanks (10 points in all, 1 point for each)1. In the year____,at the battle of Hastings, the Normans headed by william, Duke of Normandy, defeated the Anglo-saxons.2. Since historical times, England, where the early inhabitants were celts, has been conquered three times. It was conquered by the Romans, the ____,and the Normans.3.____is regared as shakespeare’s successful romantic tragedy.4. No sooner were the people in control of the government than they divided into hostile parties: the liberal whigs and the conservative_____.5. The Glorious Revolution in ___meant three things the supremacy of parliament, the beginning of modern English, and the final triumph of the principle of political liberty.6. Romanticism as a literary movement come into being in England early in the latter half of the ___century.7. With the publication of william Wordsworth’s____in collaboration with S.T Coleridge, Romanticism began to bloom and found a firm place in the history of English literatare.8. Woman as ____ appeared in the Romantic age. It was during this period that women took, for the first time ,an important place in English literature.9. The most important poet of the victoria Age was____, Next to him, were Robert Browning and his wife.10. The ____movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th cenfury.IV. Questions and Answers (20 points in all ,10points for each) Give brief answers to each of following questions in English.(1) A selection from a poemWherefore feed and clothe and saveForm the cradle to the graveThose ungrateful drones who wouldDrain your sweat_nay, drink your blood?Whrefore, Bees of England, forgeMany a weepon, chain, and scourgeThat these stingless drones may spoilThe forced produce of your tail?Questions (10’)1. These lines are taken from a poem entitled___(1’)written by ___(1’).2. The rhyme scheme in the selection of the poem is ____.(1’)3.What idea does the quotation express?(7’)(2) A Selection from a workSome books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy andextracts made of them by others, but that would be only in the less important arguments and the meaner sort of books; else distilled bookd are like common distilled waters.Question(10’)1. This passage is taken from a well-known work entiled___,(2’) written by ____.(1’)2. What’s the main idea of the whole work. (7’)V. Topic Discussion (30 points in all,15 points for each). Write no less than 100 words on each of the following topics in English , in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. Based on Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, discuss the theme of her works, the image of woman protagonists and what and how her novels truthfully present.(15’)2. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Aasten explored three kinds of motivations of marriage that the middle-class people had in the second half of the 18th century. Try to make a brief discussion about them with specific examples from the novel. Make comments on Austen’s attitude towards these motivations.(15’)200x-200x学年度第一学期期末考试试卷答案及评分标准考试课程:英国文学史及选读考核类型:A 卷考试方式:闭卷出卷教师: XXX考试专业:英语考试班级:英语xx班I. Multiple Choice (1’×30=30’)01-05 C C B A D 06-10 D B B C A11-15 A B C B C 16-20 D B D B B21-25 D A C B C 26-30 A D A B DII. Find the relevant match from column B for each item in colamn A (1’×10=10’)1-E 2-C 3-F 4-G 5-A6-B 7-D 8-I 9-H 10-JIII. Fill in the following blanks (1’×10=10’)1. 10662. Anglo-Saxons3. Romeo and Juliet4. Tories5. 16886.18th7.Lyrical Ballads 8.novelists 9.Tennyson 10.ChartistIV. Questions and Answers (20 points in all )(1) A PoemQuestions(10’)1. A Song: Men of England(1’) Shelley(1’)2. aabb ccdd (1’)3. This poem is a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, it points out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation. The poet calls the exploiters “ungrateful drones”, Who drain the sweat and drink the blood of the labouring people, He illustrates with concrete examples the relationship of economic exploitation between the ruling class and the working people.(7’)(2) A Selection from a work1. Of Studies(1’) Bacon(1’)2. It analyzes the use and abuse of studies ,the different ways adopted by different people to pursue studies. And how studies exert influence over human character.V .Topic Discussion (30 points in all, 15 points for each)A. Charlotte’s works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards self-realization, about some lonely and neglected young women with a fiece longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.B. All ber heroines’highest joy arises from some sacrifice of self or some human weakness overcome.C. The image of woman protagonists in her works are mostly the life of the middle-calss working women, particularly governesses.D. Her works present a vivid realistic picture of the English society by exposing the cruelty, hypocrisy and other evils of the upper calsses, and by showing the misery and suffering of the poor. Especially in Jane Eyre by her, she sharply criticises the existing society, e.g. religious hypocrisy of charity institutions.(2) In the novel ,three kinds of attitudes towards marriage are presented for manifestation: marriage merely for material wealth and social position; marriage just for beauty, attraction and passion regardless of economic condition or personal merits; and the ideal marriage for true love with a consideration of the partner’s personal merit as well as his economic and social status. What jane Aasten tries to say is that it is wrong to marry just for money or for beauty, but it is also wrong to marny without consideration of economic conditions.。
英国文学期末考试题目

Part Ⅰ: Choose the relevant match from column B for each item in column A. (10%)Section Acolumn A column B(1)Charles Dickens A。
Oliver Twist(2)D.H Lawrence B。
The Forsyte Saga(3)Jonathan Swift C。
The Jew of Malta(4)John Galsworthy D. Sons and Lovers(5)Christopher Marlowe E。
A Modest ProposalSection Bcolumn A column B(1) Doctor Faustus A. Darcy(2) The Merchant of Venice B。
Joseph Surface(3) The School for Scandal C. Portia(4) Pride and Prejudice D。
Friday(5)Robinson Crusoe E. MephistophilisPart Ⅱ: Complete each of the following statements with a proper words or a phrase。
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The Canterbury Tales first time to use“"2。
It is Spenser’s idealism, his love of beauty, and his exquisite melody that made him known as “______"。
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is a playwright &poet who is considered above all writers in the past and in the present time4. Pope is one of the first to introduce to England,for him the supreme value was order。
专业英语英国文学与概论期末考试答题及答案

Hamlet—ShakespeareHumanism: broke the tradition of the medieval period. Humanist writers are concerned with worldly subjects rather than strictly religious themes and they glorify human beings, regarding them as measure of all things and most potential in the world.Hamlet is the most representative of Shakespeare‟s creations and the summit of the renaissance drama. It is not a simple revenge play, but a tragedy of humanist ideals crushed by cruel reality. It addresses the fundamental question of the meaning of human existence, with hamlet‟s meditation on life and death at the centre. It portrays the social realities in England at the end of 16th century and the start of the 17th century. For Shakespeare—a Christian—the choice between good and evil represents man‟s basic dilemma; for him, the human are indomitable. Though fate may ultimately win, a man must fight to the death, if necessary, in order to remain the master of his own choices—that ultimately decide if and how his fate defeats him.Paradise lost—John MiltonIambic pentameter in blank verse and including seven parts‟ the creation‟, …the main idea of the poem is the heroic revolt against God‟s authority. In the poems, god is no better than a selfish tyrant. This poem expresses the reactionary forces of his time and shows passionate appeal for freedom. The theme is also about the fall of the man: man‟s disobedience and the loss of Paradise. But having done it, Adam and eve get freedom. Concerned with the social upheavals of the time, Milton defended the English Commonwealth through this book.The English revolution was carried out under a religious cloak. So the English revolution is also called the Puritan revolution, which aimed to make man free.Robinson Crusoe—Daniel DefoeIt is an early tale of European colonial experience. The relationship between Crusoe and Friday is a touchstone for critiques of the cultural representation of colonialism.In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe imagines a true-born Englishman fulfilling his fantasy. Throughout the novel, Defoe makes clear that a man's power over himself and nature depends upon ceaseless labor —this is the secret to the colonial project.Romanticism: the core is individuality, subjectivity and spontaneity. It can be seen as a rejection of the percepts of neo-classicism and some to extent against Enlightenment. It believes in a return to nature and in the innate goodness of humans. They emphasized intuition over reason. Like Wordsworth says, “the good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”.I wandered lonely as a cloud—William Wordsworth“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” was written by William Wordsworth, the representative poet of the early romanticism.The whole poem contains four stanzas of six lines each. In each stanza, the first line rhymes with the third and the second with the fourth. The stanza then ends with a rhyming couplet. Besides, the lines in the poem are in iambic tetrameter that emphasized the excitement and movement when a lonely heart was integrated into Nature. As a great poet of nature, William Wordsworth had been trying to call human back to nature and enjoy the beauty of spiritual richness by his works, such as this short lyric.A red, red rose—Robert burnsThis is one of the best of Burns‟ love poems. Theme: Burns clearly states and restates the theme: The speaker loves the young lady beyond measure. The only way he can express his love for her is through vivid similes and hyperbolic comparisons.The poem takes the form of the ballad stanza, including quatrains with iambic alternating pentameter and trimester line and with rhymes falling of the 2nd and 4th lines of each stanza. It is also abundant with metaphors, Simile in first stanza, hyperbole in second and third stanza and repetition in the last stanza.Ode to the west wind--Percy Bysshe ShelleyIn iambic pentameter, it consists of five cantos written in terza rima, with each canto of four three-line stanzas (aba, bcb, cdc, ded) and a rhyming couplet.To the poet, the west wind, powerful as it is, is not merely a natural phenomenon. It is a …spirit‟, the “breath of Autumn‟being”that can spread messages of freedom far and wide, that both destroys and preserves the revival in the spring.(the west wind is considered the …destoryer‟ who send leaves to their burial and the preserver who encourage the seed‟ spring.) Shelley fuse in this poem a note of optimism for a promising future for humanity as is shown in the last lines of this poem” when winter comes, can spring be far behind?”When we two parted--George Gordon ByronIt was written in 8-line stanza with no meter but rhymed in the way …abababab‟. In the poem, byron make use of the form of monologue and meditates upon the present and the past and expresses the feelings and emotions of a man who lost his love. The feelings and emotions expressed are sincere and touching. The repetition of …silence and tears‟ makes the poem a whole, emphasizing that his feelings and emotions of the present are as they were in the past.。
英国文学期末考精彩试题目(英语专业必备)

一.中古英语时期♦Beowulf is the oldest poem in the English language, and the most important specimen (例、典)of Anglo-Saxon literature, and also the oldest surviving epic in the English language.♦The romance is a popular literary form in the medieval period〔中世纪〕. It uses verse or prose to sing knightly adventures or other heroic deeds.♦Geoffrey Chaucer, one of the greatest English poets, whose masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales〔《坎特伯雷故事集》〕,was one of the most important influences on the development of English literature.♦Chaucer is considered as the father of English poetry and the founder of English realism.二.文艺复兴Renaissance♦Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries.It marks a transition(过渡) from the medieval to the modern world.♦It started in Italy with the flowering of painting, sculpture〔雕塑〕and literature, and then spread to the rest of Europe.♦Humanism is the essence of Renaissance -----Man is the measure of all things. ♦This was England’s Golden Age in literature. Queen Elizabeth reigned over the country in this period. The real mainstream of the English Renaissance is the Elizabethan drama.The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare.♦The greatest of the pioneers of English drama was Christopher Marlowe.♦Francis Bacon was the best known essayist of this period. “Of Studies〞is the most popular of Bacon’s 58 essays.♦Thomas More ——Utopia♦Edmund Spenser——The Faerie Queene相关练习♦ 1. Which is the oldest poem in the English language?♦ A. Utopia B. Faerie Queene♦ C. Beowulf D. Hamlet♦ 2. _____ is the father of English poetry.♦ A. Edmund Spenser B. William Shakespeare♦ C. Francis Bacon D. Geoffrey Chaucer♦ 3. ____ is not a playwright during the Renaissance period on England.♦ A. William Shakespeare B. Geoffrey Chaucer♦ C. Christopher Marlowe D. Ben Johnson三.莎士比亚William Shakespeare♦“All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.〞——William Shakespeare♦William Shakespeare is considered the greatest playwright in the world and the finest poet who has written in the English language. Shakespeare understood people more than any other writers. He could create characters that havemeaning beyond the time and place of his plays. His four tragedies are Hamlet(《哈姆雷特》), Othello(《奥赛罗》), King Lear(《尔王》) and Macbeth(《麦克白》).♦Shakespeare’s sonnets, 154 in number, are the only direct expression of the poet’s own feelings; Sonnet 18 deserves its fame because it is one of the most beautifully written verses in the English language♦诗选♦Sonnet 18♦Shall I pare thee to a Summer’s day?♦Thou art more lovely and more temperate.♦Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,♦And Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.♦〔我怎能将你与夏日相比? /你比它更温和可爱:/动人的花蕾在五月咆哮的风中颤抖,/夏日的美好时光也绝不长久:〕♦Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,♦And often is his gold plexion dimm’d;♦And every fair from fair sometime declines,♦By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimm’d;♦〔太阳的金色光芒虽然耀眼,/却常常以灰暗的面貌出现;/再美貌的物什都逃不过凋,/命运流转或无意间将其拆解;〕♦But thy eternal Summer shall not fade,♦Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st♦Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,♦When in eternal line to time thou grow’st.♦So long as men can breath or eyes can see,♦So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.♦〔可你如夏日般不会褪色, /你的美貌也将永存; /死神无法夸耀你曾在它的阴影中游荡, /伴随永恒的诗篇你将留存。
EnglishLiterature英国文学期末考试卷

英国文学考试复习题:Part I.1. Geoffrey Chaucer is the founder of English ________.A. PoetryB. DramaC. NovelD. Prose2. Percy Bysshe Shelley was a famous __________ poet.A. NaturalistB. RealistC. RomanticistD. Classicist3. Beowulf is the national ________ of Britain.A. balladB. epicC. romanceD. sonnet4. Wuthering Heights is ______________ 's masterpiece.A. Jane AustenB. Emily Bronte C Anne Bronte B George Eliot5. The English Renaissance began in the_____.A. 14th centuryB. 15th centuryC. 16th centuryD. 17th century6. The English Renaissance began during the reign of_____.A. Elizabeth IB. James IC. Henry VIIID. Charles II7. A stanza of nine lines, with the first eight lines in iambic pentameter and the last line in iambic hexameter, rhyming ababbcbcc ic called_____.A. Shakespearean SonnetB. Petrarchan SonnetC. Spenserian StanzaD. Blank V erse8. Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus is a play based on a(n)_____legend.A. GermanB. EnglishC. IrishD. Italian9_____is not Shakespeare’s work.A. HamletB. King LearC. OthelloD. The Faerie Queene10. The Four Greatest Tragedies of Shakespeare’s do not include:A. Romeo and JulietB. HamletC. MacbethD. Othello11._____is not a Metaphysical poet.A. John DonneB. MarloweC. HerbertD. Marvell12._____is not written by John MiltonA. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Beowulf13. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s_____.A. songB. tragedyC. sonnetD. comedy14. English Renaissance Period was an age of_____.A. ballads and songsB. prose and novelsC. essays and journalsD. poetry and drama15. Ode to the Grecian Urn is written by _________ .A. John KeatsB. Walter ScottC. ByronD. Shelley16.Tess of the D’Urbervilles is written by ___________ .A. Charles DickensB. George EliotC. Thomas HardyD. William Thackeray17. Walter Scott has been universally regarded as the founder and great master of _____________.A. the historical novelB. The realistic novelC. the scientific novelD. The gothic novel18. In which poem did Shelley write the following lines: The trumpet of a prophecy! O wind, / If winter comes, can spring be far behind?A. OzymandiasB. A Song: Men of EnglandC. Ode to the West WindD. Queen Mab19. What works of the following were NOT written by Byron?A. Don JuanB. Childe Harold PilgrimageC. CainD. Waverley20. Which of the following poems was written by William Wordsworth?A. The Faerie QueenB. Venus and AdonisC. The PreludeD. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner21. Which of the following poets does not belong to the Lake Poets?A. WordsworthB. SoutheyC. ColeridgeD. Keats22. Which of the following novels, written by Charles Dickens, shows the life experience of the author's youth?A. Great ExpectationB. Hard TimesC. David CopperfieldD. Edwin Drood23. Which of the following plays is not the greatest tragedies of Shakespeare?A. King LearB. Twelfth NightC. MacbethD. Othello24. From the following, choose the poem written by William Blake.A. A Red, Red RoseB. The TigerC. Get Up and Bar the DoorD. I Wander Lonely as a Cloud25. The writer of Utopia is _________ .A. Francis BaconB. Thomas WyattC. Thomas MoreD. Philip Sidney26 Along with the fast economic development in the 18th century in England, the British _____ also grew very rapidly.A. bourgeoisB. proletariansC. aristocratic classD. royal family27. The Enlightenment Movement did not advocate_____.A. rationality, reason, order and rulesB. return to the ancient classical worksC. inner feelings of individualsD. universal education28._____is not written by Alexander Pope.A. An Essay on CriticismB. The EssaysC. An Essay on ManD. The Dunciad29. An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in_____.A. heroic coupletsB. English sonnetC. bland verseD. Italian sonnet30._____by Pope is a comprehensive study of the theories of literary criticism, exerting great influence upon his contemporary writers in advocating the classical rules and popularizing the neoclassicist tradition in England.A. An Essay on ManB. The DunciadC. The EssaysD. An Essay on Criticism31. In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero of the_____.A. aristocratic classB. enterprising landlordC .rising bourgeoisie D. hard-working people32. The tone of Jonathan Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travel is_____.A. sadB. sarcasticC. praisingD. detached33._____has been regarded as “Father of English Novel.”A. Daniel DefoeB. Henry FieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD. Samuel Richardson34. The _____ Period has been generally regarded as one of the most glorious in the English history, producing the literary giants such as Charles Dickens.A. RenaissanceB. NeoclassicalC. RomanticD. Victorian35. The School for Scandal was written by_____.A. Thomas GrayB. Samuel JohnsonC. Richard B. SheridanD. Daniel Defoe36. _____ is not Thomas Hardy’s work.A. The Mill on the FlossB. Tess of the D’UrbervillesC. Jude the ObscureD. The Mayor of Casterbridge37. “My Last Duchess” is _____.A. a dramatic monologueB. a short lyricC. a novelD. an essay38. Tennyson’s “Ulysses” gets its inspiration from the following works or writers except_____.A. Homer’s OdesseyB. Joyce’s UlyssesC. DanteD. Greek Mythology39. In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend _____ appeared. And it flourished in the 1840s and in the early 1950s.A. romanticismB. naturalismC. realismD. critical realism40. The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from_____.A. The Pilgrim’s ProgressB. Childe Ha rold’s PilgrimageC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. The Canterbury Tales41.The rhyming scheme adopted in the English epic Beowulf is _________.A) consonant B) assonant C) heroic couplet D) Alliteration42.The theme of Beowulf is manifested in the spirit of ___________.A) Heroism B) Romanticism C) Fatalism D) Determinism42. Beowulf is the national ________ of Britain.A. balladB. epicC. romanceD. sonnet43. The English Renaissance began during the reign of_____.A. Elizabeth IB. James IC. Henry VIIID. Charles II44. A stanza of nine lines, with the first eight lines in iambic pentameter and the last line in iambic hexameter, rhyming ababbcbcc is called_____.A. Shakespearean SonnetB. Petrarchan SonnetC. Spenserian StanzaD. Blank V erse45. Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus is a play based on a(n)_____legend.A. GermanB. EnglishC. IrishD. Italian46._____is not Shakespeare’s work.A. HamletB. King LearC. OthelloD. T he Faerie Queene47. The Four Greatest Tragedies of Shakespeare’s do not include:A. Romeo and JulietB. HamletC. MacbethD. Othello48._____is not a Metaphysical poet.A. John DonneB. MarloweC. HerbertD. Marvell49._____is not written by John MiltonA. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Beowulf50. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s_____.A. songB. tragedyC. sonnetD. comedy51. Which of the following poems was written by William Wordsworth?A. The Faerie QueenB. Venus and AdonisC. The PreludeD. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner52. Which of the following poets does not belong to the Lake Poets?A. WordsworthB. SoutheyC. ColeridgeD. Keats53. Which of the following novels, written by Charles Dickens, shows the life experience of the author's youth?A. Great ExpectationB. Hard TimesC. David CopperfieldD. The Tale of Two Cities54. Except being a victory of England over ______, the rout of the fleet “Armada”(Invincible) was also the triumph of the rising young bourgeoie over the declining old feudalism.A. SpainB. FranceC. AmericaD. Germany55. From the following, choose the poem written by William Blake.A. A Red, Red RoseB. The TigerC. Get Up and Bar the DoorD. I Wander Lonely as a Cloud56. The writer of Utopia is _________ .A. Francis BaconB. Thomas WyattC. Thomas MoreD. Philip Sidney57 Along with the fast economic development in the 18th century in England, the British _____ also grew very rapidly.A. bourgeoisB. proletariansC. aristocratic classD. royal family58. The Enlightenment Movement did not advocate_____.A. rationality, reason, order and rulesB. return to the ancient classical worksC. inner feelings of individualsD. universal education59. English Renaissance was not an age of prose, but Francis Bacon wrote his famous prose work ___________ ..A. An Essay on CriticismB. The EssaysC. An Essay on ManD. The Dunciad60. An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in_____.A. heroic coupletsB. English sonnetC. bland verseD. Italian sonnetPart II:1. The lyric poem:2. Elegy:3. Ballad:4. Romances:5."Stream of Consciousness":6. Blank verse:7. Sonnet:8. Byronic Hero:9. Alliteration:10. Heroic Couplet:11. Chivalry12. Farce13.Spenserian stanza14. Soliloquy15.Conceit16. Epic:17. Minstrel:18. miracle play19. Stanza20. SatirePart V.I. Write a 200-word essay about Charles Dickens’ no vel, Oliver Twist: 30%1. Who is the hero of the novel? How well does he live his life?2. Why does Dickens end his novel with the final happiness of Oliver Twist?3. Who are responsible for his misfortune?4. Do you think Oliver Twist lives in modern city today?5. Why did Dickens often take children as main characters to describe the society? II. Write a 200-word essay about Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice: 30% 1. Discuss the importance of social class in the novel, especially as it impacts the relationship between Elizabeth and Darcy.2. Analyze how Austen depicts Mr. Bennet. Is he a positive or negative figure?3. Pride and Prejudice is a novel about women who feel they have to marry to be happy. Taking Charlotte Lucas as an example, do you think the author is making a social criticism of her era’s view of marriage?4. Giving special attention to Wickham, Charlotte Lucas, and Elizabeth, compare and contrast male and female attitudes toward marriage in the novel.5. Discuss the relationship between Mrs. Bennet and her children, especially Elizabeth and LydiaIII. Write a 200-word essay about Daniel Defoe’ novel, Robinson Crusoe: 30%1. What are the personal characters of Robinson Crusoe?2. How does Robinson Crusoe set up a new society on the island?3. What example does he set for the later colonists?4. What are the language features in Robinson Crusoe?(Analyzing plot, characterization, theme and language)。
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Part Ⅰ: Choose the relevant match from column B for each item in column A。
(10%)Section Acolumn A column B(1)Charles Dickens A. Oliver Twist(2)D。
H Lawrence B. The Forsyte Saga(3)Jonathan Swift C. The Jew of Malta(4)John Galsworthy D。
Sons and Lovers(5)Christopher Marlowe E. A Modest ProposalSection Bcolumn A column B(1)Doctor Faustus A。
Darcy(2)The Merchant of Venice B。
Joseph Surface(3) The School for Scandal C. Portia(4) Pride and Prejudice D。
Friday(5) Robinson Crusoe E。
MephistophilisPart Ⅱ: Complete each of the following statements with a proper words or a phrase. (10%)1. The Canterbury Tales first time to use“”2.It is Spenser’s idealism, his love of beauty, and his exquisite melody that made him known as “_____ _”。
3. is a playwright &poet who is considered above all writers in the past and in the present time 4。
(完整word版)英国文学期末必备复习题

(完整word版)英国⽂学期末必备复习题Exercises:1. After the fall of the Roman Empire and the withdrawal of Roman troops from Albion , the aboriginal _Cletic____ population of the larger part of the island was soon conquered and almost totally exterminated by the Teutonic tribes of___Angles_ , __Saxons__ , and __Jutes___ who came from the continent and settled in the island , naming its central part __Anglio___ , or England.2. For nearly __400__ years prior to the coming of the English , British had been a Roman province . In__410_, the Rome withdrew their legions from Britain to protect herself against swarms of Teutonic invaders.3. The literature of early period falls naturally into two divisions, __pagan_and__Christian__.4.__The song of Beowulf__ can be justly termed England’s national epic and its hero _Beowulf___—one of the national heroes of the English people.5. The Song of Beowulf reflects events which took place on the _European Continent___ approximately at the beginning of the _6th___ century , whenthe forefathers of the Jutes lived in the southern part of the __ Scandinavian peninsula __ and maintained close relations with kindred tribes ,e.g. with the__Danes__who lived on the other side of the straits.6. Among the early Anglo-Saxon poets we may mention _Caedmon___ who lived in the half of the ___7th_ century and who wrote a poeticParaphrase of the Bible.7. __Caedmon__ is the first know religious poet of Engla nd . He is known as the father of English song.8. The didactic poem The Christ was produced by __Cynewulf__ .9. The most important work of __a__ is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles , which is regarded as the best monument of the old English prose.a. Alfred the Greatb. Caedmonc. Cynewulfd. Venerable Bede10. Who is the monster half-human who had mingled thirty warriors in The Song of Beowulf?ca. Hrothgatb. Heorotc. Grendeld. Beowulf11. ___b_ is the first important religious poet in English literature.a. Gynewulfb. Caedmonc. Shakespeared. Adam Bede12. The epic , The Song of Beowulf ,represents the spirit of _d__.a. Monksb. romanticistsc. sentimentalistsd. pagan13. Define the literary terms listed below. 1). Alliteration 2). Epic14. Please give brief description of The Song of Beowulf.Exercise:1.In the year __1066__, at the battle of _ Hasting___, the ___Normans_ headed by William Duke of Normandy, defeated the Anglo-Saxons.2. The literature with Normans brought to England is remarkable for its bright,__romantic__ tales of ___love_ and adventures, in marked contrast with the__strength__ and __somberness__ of Anglo-Saxon poetry.3. English literature of Anglo-Norman period is also a combination of __French__ and _Saxon___ elements.4. Defines the literary terms listed below.(1) Anglo-Norman Romance (2) Middle EnglishExercise:1. In the 14th century, the two most important writers are __William Langland__ and Chaucer.2. In the 15th century, there is only one important prose writer whose name is __Sir Thomas Malory__ . He wrote an important work called Morte d’Arthur.3. Geoffrey Chaucer ,the “__father of English poetry__” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London in about the year 1340.4. Chaucer’s masterpiece is _The Canterbury Tales__,one of the most works in all literature.5.The _general prologue__ provides a frame work for the tales in The Canterbury Tales, and it comprises a group of vivid pictures of various medieval figures.6. Chaucer created in The Canterbury Tales a strikingly brilliant and picturesque panorama of _his time and his country___.7. The Canterbury Tales opens with a general “prologue” where we are told of a company of pilgrims that gathered at__Tabard__ Inn in Southwark ,a suburbof London.8. Chaucer believes in the right of man to __earthly__ happiness.9.The name of the “jolly innkeeper” in The Canterbury Tales is __Harry Bailey__,who proposes that each pilgrim of the__30__ should tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and two more on the way back.10.The pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales are on their way to the shrine of __St. Thomas Becket’s __ at a place named Canterbury.11.Despite the enormous plan , The Canterbury Tales in fact contains a general “prologue” and only _24__ tale , of which two are left unfinished.12.In contradistinction to the __alliterative__ verse of Anglo-Saxon poetry , Chaucer chose the metrical from which laid the foundation of the English__Tonico-syllabic___ verse.13. Who is the “ father of English poetry ” and one of the greatest narrative poets of English?bA . Christopher Marlow B. Geoffrey ChaucerC. W. ShakespeareD. Alfred the Great14. When he died, Chaucer was buried in _a___ the Poet’s Corner. A.Westminster Abbey B. NormandyC. CanterburyD. Southwark15. Chaucer’s earliest work of any length is his __c__ a translation of the French “Roman de la Rose”, which was a love allegory enjoying widespread popularity in the 13th and 14th centuries throughout Europe.A. Troilus and CriseydeB. A Red Red RoseC. Romance of the RoseD. Piers the Plowman16. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named __b___ based on Boccaccio’s poem “Filostrato”.A. The Legend of Good WomenB. Troilus and CriseydeC. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD. Beowulf17. In his literary development, Chaucer was influenced by three literatures. Which one is not true?dA. French literatureB. Italian literatureC. English literatureD. German literature18. There are various kinds of ballads _historical___, __legendary__,__fantanstical__, __lyrical__ and ___homorous__.19. In the numerous __border ballads__, the age-long struggle between the Scots and the English is reflected.20. Bishop __Thomas Perry__ was among the first to take a literary interestin ballads.21. Robin Hood, a __Saxon__ by birth, was an outlaw, a robber but he robbed only the rich and never molested the poor and needy.22. The first mention of Robin Hood in literature is in Langland’s ___Piers the Plowman__.23. Define the literary terms listed below. (1) Ballad (2) Heroic couplet24. Comment on Geoffrey Chaucer and his The Canterbury Tales.Exercise:1. The 16th century in England was a period of the breaking up of __feudal __ relation and the establishing of the foundations of __capitalism__.2. Because the wool trade was rapidly growing in bulk , it was s timewhen , according to Thomas More , “__shape devoured man__ ”.3. __King Henry the VIII__ broke off with the Pope , dissolved all the monasteries and Abbeys in the country , confiscated their lands proclaimed himself head of __Church of England__.4. Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of __Queen Elizabeth I__.5. Together with the development of bourgeois relationships and formation of the English national state this period is marked by a Flourishing of national culture known as the __Renaissance__.6.__Thomas More_wrote his _Utopia__in which he gave a profound and truthful picture of people’s sufferings and put forwards his ideal of a future happy society.7._Thomas Wyatt__was the first to introduce the Italian sonnet into English literature.8. Edmund Spenser was the author of the greatest epic poem of _The Faire Queene___.9. Define the literary terms listed below. (1)renaissance (2)Spenserian StanzaExercise:1.Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and __Macbeth___ are generally regarded as Shakespeare’s four g reat tragedies.2. During the 22 years of his literary work, Shakespeare produced __37__ plays,__2__ narrative poems and __154___ sonnets.3. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is one of ___Christopher Marlowe__’s best plays.4. __Edmund Spenser__ is often referred to as “ the poet’s poet”.5. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” is one of _Shakespeare’s___ best known sonnets.6. In the __Elizabethan__ Period, William Shakespeare is the greatest writerof England.7. Define the literary terms listed below: Dramatic Irony8. Comment on William Shakespeare and The Merchant of Venice.9. Comment on William Shakespeare and Hamlet.Exercises:1.Pope described Francis Bacon as “ the _wisest__, _brightest__, __meanest_of mankind”.2. Bacon’s works may b e divided into three classes, the _philosophy__, the__professional_, the _literary__ works.3. The final edition of Bacon’s essays contains __58_ essays.4. The 17th century was a period when _absolute monarchy__ impeded the further development of capitalism in England and the _bourgeoisie__ could no longer bear the sway of __landed nobility_.5. The government of James I was a __despotism_ based on the theory of the divine right of kings.6. There were religious division and confusion and a long bitter struggle between the people’s Parliament and the Throne---__Puritans_ fighting against the _Cavaliers__ who helped the king.7. England became a commonwealth under the leadership of __Oliver Cromwell_.8. After _Oliver Cromwell__’s death, monarchy as again restored (1660). It was called the period of the Restoration____.9. The Glorious Revolution in _1688__ meant three things the supremacy of_Parliament__, the beginning of _modern England__, and the final triumph of the principle of _political liberty__.10. The Puritans believed in __simplicity_ of life.11. The Revolution Period is also called _the Puritan Age__, because the English Revolution was carried out under a religious cloak.12. Define the literary term – Blank verse.13. The first thing to stri ke the reader is Donne’s extraordinary _frankness__ and penetrating _realism__. The next is the_cynicism__ which marks certain of thelighter poems and which represents a conscious reaction from the extreme__idealism__ of woman encouraged by the Petrarchan tradition.14. Donne entered the church in 1615, where he rose rapidly to be Dean of _St Paul’s Cathedral__, and the most famous preacher of his time.15. Milton’s father was a __Puritan_, but not so harsh as most of the _Puritans__ of his day.16. Milton opposed the __Monarchic_ party and gave all his energies to the writing of __pamphlets_ dedicated to the people’s liberties.17. Paradise Lost tells how __Satan_ rebelled against God and how _Adam__ and __Eve_ were driven out of Eden.18. Paradise Lost presents the author’s view in an _allegorical__, _religious__ form.19. The poem Paradise Lost consists of _12__ books.20. Paradise Lost is based on the __Bibelical__ legend of the imaginary progenitors of the human race --- __Adam_ and__Eve_ , and involves God and his eternal adversary _Santan__ in its plot.21. In Revolution period __John Milton__ towers over his age as William Shakespeare towers over the Elizabethan Age and as Chaucer over the Medieval period.22. During the civil war and the commonwealth, there were two leadersin England, Cromwell, the man of action, and _John Milton__ the man of thought.23. In 1637Milton wrote the finest pastoral elegy in English, “__Lycidas_”to memorize the tragic death of a Cambridge friend.24. Milton wrote his masterpiece __Paradise Lost_ during his blindness.25. Comment on John Milton and his Paradise Lost.Exercise:1. Milton and Bunyan represented the extreme of English life in the 17th century. One gave us the only epic since_Beowulf___, the other gave us the only great_allegry___.2. Bunyan’s most important work is _Pilgrim’s Progess___, written in theold-fashioned medieval form of __allegory__ and ___dream_.3. In The Pilgrim’s Progress, the story begins with a man called __Christian__setting out with a book in his hand and a great load on his back from the city of__Destuction__.4. Christian has two objects,--- to get rid of his __bureden__, which holds the sins and fears of his life, and to make his way to the __Celestial City_.5. John Bunyan gives a vivid and satirical description of __Vanity Fair__ which is the symbol of London at the time of Restoration.6. The literature of the middle and later periods of the 17th century cultimated in the poetry of _John Milton___, in the prosewriting of __John Bunyan__, and also in the plays and literary criticism of ___John Dryden_.Exercise:1. No sooner were the people in control of the government than they divided into hostile parties: the liberal _Whigs___, and the conservative __Tories__.2. Another feature of the 18th century was the rapid development of __social life__.3. The Enlighteners believed in the power of reason and therefore the 18th century is also called “the age of _Reason___”.4. The Enlightenment on the whole was an expression of struggle of the progressive class of _bourgeoisie__ against__feudalism__.5. The enlighteners repudiate the false religious doctrines about the __viciousness__ of human nature, and prove that man is born ___kind_ and __honest__, and if he becomes depraved, it is only due to the influence of _corrupted__ social environment.6. It is simply for convenience that we study 18th century writings in three main divisions: the reign of so-called __neo-classicism__, the revival of __romatic_poetry, and the beginnings of the ___modern novel__.7. The essays and stories of Addison and Steele devoted not only to social problems, but also to __private_ life_ and__adventures__.8. Pope was a man of extraordinary __wit__ and extensive __learning__, and his contemporaries considered him as the highest __authority__ in matters of literary art.9. The image of an enterprising Englishman of the 18th century was created by Daniel Defoe in his famous novel__Robinson Crusoe__.10. ___Alexander Pope_ is the leading figure of neo-classicism in the early period of the 18th century.11. Robinson Crusoe is largely an _adventure__ story, rather than the study of__human character__ which Defoe probably intended it to be.12. In The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, in a vein of grim _humor__ which recalls Swift’s Modest Proposal Defoe advocated hanging all dissenting ministers, and sending all member of the free churches into exile.13. The full name of Robinson Crusoe is __The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe__.14. The story of Robinson Crusoe itself is real enough to have come straight from a sailor’s __logbook__.15. Robinson named __Friday__ to the saved savage.16. Define the literary term, Picaresque Novels.Exercise:1.The 18th century in English literature is an age of __Prose___.2. Swift is born of English parents in ___Dublin Ireland___.3. Swift was the most remarkable __satirist__ in the 18th centurywho criticized the new bourgeois-aristocratic society of his age with outmercy.4. Jonathan Swift’s masterpiece is __Gulliver’s Travels__.5. Gulliver’s adventures begins with __Liliputians__, who are so small that Gulliver isa giant among them.6. The country in Gulliver’s Travels is __Houyhnhnms__, where horses are the real people and human beings ,__Yahoos___ are their filthy servants.7. In the country of __Brobdingnag __, Gulliver is but pygmy.8. Gulliver’s third voyage is occupied with a visit to the flying island of __Laputa__.9. A Modest Proposal is made to __English__ government to relieve the poverty of _Irish___ people.10. The Tale of a Tub is a satire on the various __churches__ of the day. Exercise:1.Henry Fielding is the greatest novelist of the __18th__ century.2.Fielding’s first novel , _Joseph Andrews___ was inspired by the success ofRichardso n’s novel Pamela.3. Fielding’s later novels are ___Jonathon Wild___, the story of a rogue , which suggests Defoe’s narrative ; __The History of _Tom Jones_, a Foundling_(1749) his best work; and __Amelia____ (1751) , the story of a good wife in contrast with an unworthy husband.1.In his works Fielding strongly criticizes __social relations__ in theContemporary England.5. Fielding hates that hypocrisy which tries to conceal itself under A mask of__morality__.6. The lack of __spirituality__ of the age finds the most ample expression in his page.1.To read Milton’s __Il Penseroso__ and Gray’s is to see the beginning and theperfection of that “literature of melancholy” which largely Occupied Englishpoets for more than a century.8. The author of the famous Elegy is the most scholarly and well-balanced of all the early __romantic__ poets.9. Oliver Goldsmith was one of the most __versatile__ of author and made distinguished contributions in several literary forms.10. Goldsmith was born in __Ireland__ , the son of an __Anglican__ clergyman whose geniality he inherited and whose improvidence he imitated.11. As ___essayest_ ,Goldsmith is among the best of the century.12. As a __poet__ he makes the riming couples as natural and simple as his prose.13. The Deserted Village is a (n )__idylice__ story of the family of a clergy-man after they have lost their money and are living in poverty.14. Goldsmith’s two comedies , The Good-natured Man and She Stoops to Conquer met with opposition because the fashion was then for __sentimental__ comedy. 15. The two plays by Sheridan and _Goldsmith___ are the only plays of the18th century that have been kept alive upon the modem stage.16. Richard Brinsley Sheridan was, like Goldsmith ,a (n) _Irish__man.17. His famous comedy , _The Rivals__ , was written in his twenty-four year.18. Sheridan’s famous comedy _The School of Scadal___, written in 1777, is considered his masterpiece.19. Define the literary term, comedy of humors.20. Of all the romantic poets of the 18th century ,Blake is the most independent and the most _original___.21. For greater part of his life Blake was the poet of inspiration alone , following no man’ s __lead__, obeying no voice but that which be heard in his own mystic__soul__.22. Beyond learning to __read__ and __write__, he received no education.23. His only formal education was in __art__.24. At 14, Blake apprenticed for seven years to a well-known __engraver__ , James Basire.25. After three years at Felpham ,Blake moved back to London , determined to follow his “__Divine Vision___” though it meant a life of isolation , misunderstanding , and poverty.26. The underlying theme in Songs of Innocence is the all-pervading presenceof divine and __sympathy__ , even in trouble and sorrow.27.In 1790 Blake engraved his principal prose , ___The Marriage of Heaven and Hell_ , in which, with vigorous satire and telling apologue , he takes up his Revolutionary position.28. The__Songs of Experienc__ (1794) are in marked contrast with the Songs of Innocence.29. The brightness of the earlier work gives place to a sense of _gloom___ and mystery , and of the power of __evil__.30. In Jerusalem we have expounded Blake ‘s theory of__Imagination__ .31. The greatest of __Scottish__ poets is Robert Burns.32. In 1786. when he was 27 years old ,Burns resolved to abandon the struggle and seek position in the far-off island of__Jamaica__.33.Burns wrote some __patriotic__ poems , in which he expressed his deep love for his motherland ,such as “My Heart’s in the Highlands”.34. Burns’ poetry bone of the bone and flesh of the flesh ofthe __Scottish__ common people。
英语专业-英美文学试卷及答案-期末

英美文学试卷AI.Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F).(10 x 1’=10’)1.( ) Chaucer is the first English short-story teller and the founder of English poetry as well as the founder of English realism.His masterpiece The Canterbury tales contains 26 stories.2.( ) English Renaissance is an age of essay and drama.3.( ) The rise of the modern novel is closely related to the rise of the middle class and an urbanlife.4.( ) The French Revolution and the American War of Independence were two big influencesthat brought about the English Romantic Movement.5.( ) Charlotte’s novels are all about lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longingfor life and love.Her novels are more or less based on her own experience and feelings and the life as she sees around.6.( ) The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of 19th century are Thomas Hardy, John Galsworthy and Bernard Shaw.7.( ) Emily Dickinson is remembered as the “All American Writer”.8.( )The Civil War divides the American literature into romantic literature and realist literature.9.( ) Mark Twain is the first American writer to discover an American language and Americanconsciousness.10.( ) In the decade of the 1910s, American literature achieved a new diversity and reached itsgreatest heights.II.Fill in the blanks.(20 x 1’=20’)11.The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was ___________.12.The War of Independence lasted eight years till__________.13.Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay__________ has been regarded as "America's Declaration of Intellectual Independence". It called on American writers to write about America in a way peculiarly American.14.The American ___________ writers paid a great interest in the realities of life and described the integrity of human character reacting under various circumstances and pictured the pioneers of the Far West, the new immigrants and the struggles of the working class.The leading figures were ____________, ____________, ____________, ____________, etc.15.No period in American history is more eventful than that between the two world wars.The literary features of the time can be seen in the writings of those ________ writers as Ezra Pound, and the writers of the Lost Generation as ___________.16.Two features of English Renaissance are the curiosity for ___________ and the interest in the activities of _____________________.17.Shakespeare’s earliest great success in tragedy is ____________, a play of youth and love, with the famous balcony scene.18.There are three types of poets in 17th century English literature.They are Puritan poets, ___________ poets and ______________ poets.19.Pope’s An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in ___________________.20.___________ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel”for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.21.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”is an epigrammatic line by _______________.wrence’s most controversial novel is ___________, the best probably _________.III.Multiple choice.(20 x 1’=20’)23.Among the three major works by John Milton ________ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.A.Paradise RegainedB.Samson AgonistesC.LycidasD.Paradise Lost24. Francis Bacon’s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and __________.plicityplexityC.powerfulnessdness25.As one of the greatest masters of English prose, _______ defined a good style as “proper words in proper places”.A.Henry FieldingB.Jonathan SwiftC.Samuel JohnsonD.Alexander Pope26.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-fulfillment27.“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”The quoted part is taken from _________.A.Jane EyreB.Wuthering HeightsC.Pride and PrejudiceD.Sense and Sensibility28.Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?A.Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB.“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”by William WordsworthC.“Remorse”by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD.Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman29.The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’works is his _________.A.simple vocabularyB.bitter and sharp criticismC.character-portrayalD.pictures of happiness30.“My Last Duchess”is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning’s ________.A.sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB.excellent choice of wordsC.mastering of the metrical devicese of the dramatic monologue31.________ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, with ______as hisencyclopedia-like masterpiece.A James Joyce, UlyssesB.E.M.Foster, A Passage to Indiawrence, Sons and loversD.Virginia Woolf, Mrs.Dalloway32.Which of the following comments on Charles Dickens is wrong?A.Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Modern PeriodB.His serious intention is to expose and criticize all the poverty, injustice, hypocrisy andcorruptness he sees all around him.C.The later works show the development of Dickens towards a highly conscious artist of themodern type.D.A Tale of Two Cities is one of his late works.33._____was known as “the poets’poet”.A.William ShakespeareB.Edmund SpenserC.John DonneD.John Milton34.Which of the following poet belongs to the active Romantic poet?A.KeatsB.SoutheyC.WordsworthD.Coleridge35.______ is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.A.BeowulfB.The Canterbury TalesC.Don JuanD.Paradise Lost36.___________ is the first modern American novel.A.Tom SawyerB.Huckleberry FinnC.The Sketch BookD.The Leatherstocking Tales37.Which of the following statements is NOT true of American Transcendentalism?A.It can be clearly defined as a part of American Romantic literary movement.B.It can be defined philosophically as “the recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth intuitively”.C.Ralph Waldo Emerson was the chief advocate of this spiritual movement.D.It sprang from South America in the late l9th century.38.The theme of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle is _________.A.the conflict of human psycheB.the fight against racial discriminationC.the familial conflictD.the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past39.The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised ________ for “his powerful style-forming mastery of the art”of creating modern diction.A.Ezra PoundB.Ernest HemingwayC.Robert FrostD.Theodore Dreiser40.Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism?A.EmersonB.Jack LondonC.Theodore DreiserD.Darwin41.________ is NOT true in describing American naturalists.A.they were deeply influenced by DarwinismB.they were identified with French novelist and theorist Emile ZolaC.they chose their subjects for the lower ranks or societyD.they used more serious and more sympathetic tone in writing than realists42.Henry James’s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with ________.A.international themeB.national themeC.European themeD.regional themeIV.Explain the following literary items.(4x 5’=20’)43.Spenserian Stanzake Poets45.Humanism46.BalladV.Questions.(3x 10’=30’)47.“Robinson Crusoe”is usually considered as Daniel Defoe’s masterpiece.Discuss why it became so successful when it was published?48.What is "Byronic hero"?49.Mark Twain and Henry James are two representatives of the realistic writers in American literature.How is Twain’s realism different form James’s realism?参考答案:I.Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F).(本题共10空,每空1分,共10分)1-5: FFTTT 6-10: FFTTFII.Fill in the blanks.(本题共20小题, 每题1分, 共20分)11.(American) Puritanism12.178313.The American Scholar14.realistic; Mark Twain; Henry James; Jack London; Theodore Dreiser.15.Imagist; Hemingway.16.the classical literature; humanity.17.Romeo and Juliet18.Cavalier; Metaphysical19.heroic couplet20.Henry Fielding21.John Keatsdy Chatterley’s lover; The RainbowIV. Ex pla in the foll owi ng lite rar y ite ms.(本题4小题,每小题5分,共20分)43.Spenserian Stanza: it refers to a verse form created by Edmund Spenser for his poems.Each stanza has nine lines.Each of the first eight lines is in iambic pentameter, and the ninth line is an iambic hexameter line.The rhythm scheme is ababbcbccke Poets: it refers to those English romantic poets at the beginning of th e19th century, William Wordsworth, for example, who lived in the heart of the Lake District in the north-western part of England and enjoyed the experience of living close to nature, and these poets were the older generation of Romantic poets who had been deeply influenced by the French Revolution of 1789 and its effects.In their writings, they described the beautiful scenes and the country people of the area.45.Humanism refers to the literary culture in the Renaissance.Humanists emphasize the capacities of the human mind and the achievements of human culture.Humanism became the central theme of English Renaissance.Thomas More and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the English humanists.46.Ballad: a story told in songs, usually in 4-line stanzas, with the second and fourth rhymed. V.Questions.(本题3小题,每小题10分,共30分)47.A: Robinson Crusoe is supposedly based on the real adventure of an Alexander Selkirk who once stayed alone on the uninhabited island for five year4s.Actually, the story is an imagination.B: In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe traces the growth of Robinson from a naïve and artless youth into a shrewd and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life.C.In the novel, Robinson is a real hero and he is an embodiment of the rising middle-class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England.Robinson is a true empire-builder, a colonizer and a foreign trader, who has the courage and will to face hardships and who has determination to preserve himself and improve his livelihood by struggling against nature.D.Robinson Crusoe is an adventure story very much in the spirit of the time.Because of the above reasons, when it was published, people all liked that story, and it became an immediate success.48.Byronic hero is a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.With immense superiorityin his passions and powers, this Byronic hero would carry on his shoulders the burden of righting all the wrongs in a corrupt society, and would rise single-handedly against any kind of tyrannical rules wither in government, in religion, or in moral principles with unconquerable wills and inexhaustible energies.The conflict is usually one of rebellious individuals against outworn social systems and conventions.Such a hero appeared in many of his works, for example, "Don Juan".The figure is somewhat modeled on the life and personality of Byron himself, and makes Byron famous both at home and abroad.49.A.Mark Twain’s realism is tainted with local color, preferring to have his won region and people at the forefront of his stories.B.James’s realism is concerned with the “inner world”of man and the international theme.C.Twain’s language is simple and colloquial and he employs humor in his writing.D.James’s language is elaborate and refined with lengthy psychological analyses.。
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一.中古英语时期♦Beowulf is the oldest poem in the English language, and the most important specimen (范例、典范)of Anglo-Saxon literature, and also the oldest surviving epic in the English language.♦The romance is a popular literary form in the medieval period(中世纪). It uses verse or prose to sing knightly adventures or other heroic deeds.♦Geoffrey Chaucer, one of the greatest English poets, whose masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales(《坎特伯雷故事集》),was one of the most important influences on the development of English literature.♦Chaucer is considered as the father of English poetry and the founder of English realism.二.文艺复兴Renaissance♦Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries. It marks a transition(过渡) from the medieval to the modern world.♦It started in Italy with the flowering of painting, sculpture(雕塑) and literature, and then spread to the rest of Europe.♦Humanism is the essence of Renaissance -----Man is the measure of all things.♦This was England’s Golden Age in literature. Queen Elizabeth reigned over the country in this period. The real mainstream of the English Renaissance is the Elizabethan drama. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare.♦The greatest of the pioneers of English drama was Christopher Marlowe.♦Francis Bacon was the best known essayist of this period. “Of Studies” is the most popular of Bacon’s 58 essays.♦Thomas More ——Utopia♦Edmund Spenser——The Faerie Queene相关练习♦ 1. Which is the oldest poem in the English language?♦ A. Utopia B. Faerie Queene♦ C. Beowulf D. Hamlet♦ 2. _____ is the father of English poetry.♦ A. Edmund Spenser B. William Shakespeare♦ C. Francis Bacon D. Geoffrey Chaucer♦ 3. ____ is not a playwright during the Renaissance period on England.♦ A. William Shakespeare B. Geoffrey Chaucer♦ C. Christopher Marlowe D. Ben Johnson三.莎士比亚William Shakespeare♦“All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”——William Shakespeare♦William Shakespeare is considered the greatest playwright in the world and the finest poet who has written in the English language.Shakespeare understood people more than any other writers. He could create characters that have meaning beyond the time and place of his plays. His four tragedies are Hamlet(《哈姆雷特》), Othello(《奥赛罗》), King Lear(《李尔王》) and Macbeth(《麦克白》).♦Shakespeare’s sonnets, 154 in number, are the only direct expression of the poet’s own feelings; Sonnet 18 deserves its fame because it is one of the most beautifully written verses in the English language ♦诗选♦Sonnet 18♦Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?♦Thou art more lovely and more temperate.♦Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,♦And Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.♦(我怎能将你与夏日相比? /你比它更温和可爱: /动人的花蕾在五月咆哮的风中颤抖, /夏日的美好时光也绝不长久:)♦Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,♦And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;♦And every fair from fair sometime declines,♦By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimm’d;♦(太阳的金色光芒虽然耀眼, /却常常以灰暗的面貌出现;/再美貌的物什都逃不过凋谢,/命运流转或无意间将其拆解;)♦But thy eternal Summer shall not fade,♦Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st♦Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,♦When in eternal line to time thou grow’st.♦So long as men can breath or eyes can see,♦So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.♦(可你如夏日般不会褪色, /你的美貌也将永存; /死神无法夸耀你曾在它的阴影中游荡, /伴随永恒的诗篇你将留存。
/只要人类生生不息我的诗句能被见证, /你就会在传承中得到永生!)♦相关练习♦ 1. Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are the following works except ____.♦ A. Hamlet B. King Lear C. Romeo and Juliet D. Othello♦ 2. The Essence of Renaissance, the most significant intellectual movement, was_____.♦ A. Geographical exploration B. Religious reformation♦ C. Publishing and translation D. Humanism.♦ 3. In “Sonnet 18”, Shakespeare_________________.♦ A. Meditate on the destructive power of time and eternal beauty by poetry.♦ B. Satirize(讽刺) human’s vanity.♦ C. Predict(预测) the eternity of love.♦ D. Eulogize(颂扬) the power of the beauty.♦ 4. Which of the following statement best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18?♦ A. The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.♦ B. The speaker satirizes human vanity.♦ C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.♦ D. The speaker meditates on man’s salvation.♦ 5. The Renaissance refers to between 14th-mid-17th century, which was under the reign of Queen ___and absolute monarchy in England reached its summit, and in which the ’real mainstream (真正的文学主流)’ was ____.♦ A. Victoria/poetry♦B. Elizabeth/ drama♦ C. Mary/ novel♦ D. James/ drama♦ 6. _____, the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded as Shakespeare’s most popular play on the stage, for it has the qualities of a “blood-and-thunder” thriller and a ’philosophical exploration’ of life and death.♦ A. The Merchant of Venice B. Hamlet♦ C. King Lear D. The Winter’s Tale四.18世纪英国文学♦The 18th-century England is known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason.♦17th century writer John Milton ranks as one of the greatest poets in the history of English literature. His masterpiece Paradise Lost (失乐园)was published in 1667. Later another epic poem Paradise Regained(复乐园), sequel to Paradise Lost, was published with the poetic drama Samson Agonistes(力士参孙).♦The mid-18th century was, however, predominated by a newly rising literary form, the modern English novel, which, contrary to the traditional romance of aristocrats, gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people.♦Daniel Defoe is considered to be the father of the English novel.His masterpiece is Robinson Crusoe.It is considered to be the first English novel♦Jonathan Swift is generally considered the greatest prose satirist(讽刺散文家) in English literature. His language is simple,clear and vigorous. He once asserted: “ Proper words in proper place, makes the true definition of a style.”他曾把文字风格定义成“恰到好处的词语用在恰到好处的地方”♦There are no ornaments in his writings. In simple, direct and precise prose, Swift is almost unsurpassed in English literature.♦Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift's best fictional work, contains four parts, each about one particular voyage during which Gulliver has extraordinary adventures on some remote island after he has met with shipwreck or piracy or some other misfortune.♦相关练习♦ 1. In which of the following works can you find the proper names "Lilliput", "Brobdingnag", Houyhnhnm" and "Yahoo”?A. The Pilgrim’s ProgressB. The Farrie QueeneC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. The School of Scandal2. ______is a typical feature of Swift’s writings.A. Elegant styleB. Causal narrationC. Bitter satireD. Complicated sentence structure3. The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels are________.A. horses that are endowed with reason.B. pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC. giants that are superior in wisdom.D. Hairy, wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways.五.浪漫主义诗歌♦(一)先驱:Robert Burns 罗伯特·彭斯,William Blake 威廉·布莱克♦Robert Burns is a national poet of Scotland, a poet of peasants, his poems are written in Scottish dialect. A Red, Red Rose(《红红的玫瑰》) and Auld lang Syne are his most popular poems.♦To see a world in a grain of sand, /And a heaven in a wild flower, /Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, /And eternity in an hour.——William Blake一花一世界,一沙一天国,君掌盛无边,刹那含永劫。