英国文学I期末考试试题B
英国文学期末复习题目
I. Each of the following below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would bet complete the statement.1. The long poem ______ in Anglo-Saxon period was termed England’s national epic.A. The Canterbury TalesB. Paradise LostC. The Song of BeowulfD. The Fairy Queen2. Romance, which uses verse or prose to describe the adventures and life of the knights, is the popular literary form in ______.A. RomanticismB. RenaissanceC. medieval periodD. Anglo-Saxon period3. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of____.A. Piers PlowmanB. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC. Confessio AmantisD. The Canterbury Tales4. _______ is regarded as the father of English poetry.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Edmund SpenserC. John MiltonD. W. Wordsworth5. It is _____ alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Martin LutherC. William ShakespeareD. John Gower6. One of Chaucer’s main contributions to English poetry is ______.A. he introduced the rhymed stanzas from France to English poetryB. he created striking brilliant panorama of his time and his countryC. he wrote in blank verseD. he was the first to write sonnet7. During the Renaissance, _______ was the first one to introduce the sonnet into English poetry.A. ChaucerB. John DonneC. Thomas WyattD. Earl of Surrey8. During the Renaissance, _______ wrote the first English blank verse.A. ChaucerB. Edmund SpencerC. Thomas WyattD. Earl of Surrey9. Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance Movement？A. The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman cultureB. The new discoveries in geography and astrologyC. The Glorious revolutionD. The religious reformation and the economic expansion10. 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 astrology.D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.11. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between ______ and ______ centuries.A. 14th...mid-17thB. 14th...mid-18thC. 16th...mid-18thD. 16th...mid-17th12. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is_______.A. scienceB. philosophyC. artsD. humanism13. _______ frequently applied conceits in his poems.A. Edmund SpenserB. John DonneC. William BlakeD. Thomas Gray14. _______ is known as “the poet’s poet”.A. William ShakespeareB. Christopher MarloweC. Edmund SpenserD. John Donne15. Romance，which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of____ adventures or other heroic deeds，is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A. ChristianB. knightlyC. pilgrimsD. primitive16. ________ and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the English humanism.A. Edmund Spenser, Christopher MarloweB. Thomas More, Christopher MarloweC. John Donne, Edmund SpenserD. John Milton, Thomas More17. Among the following plays which is not written by Christopher Marlowe?A. Dr. FaustusB. The Jew of MaltaC. TamburlaineD. The School for Scandal18. Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are _______.A. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and MacbethB. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Romeo and JulietC. Hamlet, Coriolanus, King Lear and MacbethD. Hamlet, Julius caesar, Othel lo and Macbeth19. The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the line of one of Shakespeare’s ________.A. comediesB. tragediesC. historiesD. sonnets20. “So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.” (Shakespeare, Sonnets 18) What does “this” refer to?A. LoverB. TimeC. SummerD. Poetry21. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18？A. The speaker eulogizes the power of NatureB. The speaker satirizes human vanityC. The speaker praises the power of artistic creationD. The speaker meditates on man’s salvation22. “Bassani Antonio，I am married to a wife Which is as dear to me as life itself；But life itself，my wife，and all the world，Are not with me esteem’d above thy life；I would lose all，ay，sacrifice them all，Here to the devil，to deliver you. Portia：Your wife would give you little thanks for that，ff she were by to hear you make the offer.” The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare’s comedy The Merchant of Venice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrateA. dramatic ironyB. personificationC. allegoryD. symbolism23. “The Fairy Queen” is the masterpiece written by____.A. John MiltonB. Geoffrey ChaucerC. Edmund SpenserD. Alexander Pope24. Which of the following work did Bacon NOT write?A. Advancement of LearningB. Novum OrganumC. De AugmentisD. Areopagitica25. The greatest of pioneers of English drama in Renaissance is _______, one of whose drama is “Doctor Faustus”.A. William ShakespeareB. Christopher MarloweC. Oscar WildeD. R. Brinsley Sheridan26. “Euphues” was written by ________, the style of the novel was called “Euphuism”.A. John BunyanB. John LylyC. John DonneD. John Milton27. The most famous dramatist in the 18th century is ______, who is famous for “The School for Scandal”.A. Oliver GoldsmithB. Thomas GrayC. R. Brinsley SheridanD. G.eorge Bernard Shaw28. The most distinguished literary figure of the 17th century was ______, who was a critic, poet, and playwright.A. Oliver GoldsmithB. John DrydenC. John MiltonD. T. G. Coleridge29. The representative of the “Metaphysical” poetry is ______, whose poems are famous for his use of fantastic metaphors and extravagant hyperboles.A. John DonneB. John MiltonC. William BlakeD. Robert Burns30. Which of the following has / have associations with John Donne’s poetry?A. reason and sentimentB. conceits and witsC. the euphuismD. writing in the rhymed couplet31. _____ is the successful religious allegory in the English language.A. The Pilgrim’s ProgressB. The Canterbury TalesC. Paradise LostD. Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded32. The 18th century England is known as the ______ in the history.A. RenaissanceB. ClassicismC. EnlightenmentD. Romanticism33. Of all the eighteenth-century novelists, who was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specially a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its s tructure and style?A. Thomas GrayB. Richard Brinsley SheridanC. Johathan SwiftD. Henry Fielding34. Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “_______________”, for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.A. Best writer of the English novelB. The father of English novelC. The most gifted writer of the English novelD. conventional writer of English novel35. Among the pioneers of the 18th century novelists were Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry fielding and _______.A. Laurence SterneB. John DrydenC. Charles DickensD. Alexander Pope36. John Milton’s masterpiece—Paradise Lost was written in the poetic style of _____.A. rhymed stanzasB. blank verseC. alliterationD. sonnets37. Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out____，both in theory and practice，to write specifically a “ ______ in prose,” the first to giv e the modern novel its structure and style. (Refer to 19)A. tragic epicB. comic epicC. romanceD. lyric epic38. Besides Sheridan, another great playwright in the 18th century is ______.A. Oliver GoldsmithB. Thomas GrayC. T. G. SmolletD. Laurence Sterne39. She Stoops to Conquer was written by _____.A. Oliver GoldsmithB. R. Brinsley SheridanC. John DrydenD. George Bernard Shaw40. The middle of the 18th century was predominated by a newly rising literary form, that is the modern English ______, which gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people.A. proseB. short storyC. novelD. tragicomedy41. The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels are _____.A. horses that are endowed with reasonB. pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC. giants that are superior in wisdomD. hairy，wild，low and despicable creatures，who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways42. The unquenchable spirit of Robinson Crusoe struggling to maintain a substantial existence ona lonely island reflects ____.A. man’s desire to return to natureB. the author’s criticism of the colonizationC. the ideal of the rising bourgeoisieD. the aristocrats’ disillusionment of the harsh social reality43. Gothic novels are mostly stories of_____, which take place in some haunted or dilapidated Middle Age castles.A. love and marriageB. sea adventuresC. mystery and horrorD. saints and martyrs44. “The father of English novel” is __________.A. Henry FieldingB. Daniel DefoeC. Jonathan SwiftD. John Donne45. The greatest Scottish poet in the pre-romanticism is ________.A. William WordsworthB. Oliver GoldsmithC. Thomas GrayD. Robert Burns46. _______ is written by William Blake, a great poet in the pre-romanticism.A. The Songs of InnocenceB. Reliques of Ancient English poetryC. Songs and SonnetsD. Kubla Khan47. The Rights of Man, a pamphlet, was written by ______, in which he advocated that politics was the business of the whole mass of common people and not only of a government oligarchy.A. John MiltonB. Jonathan SwiftC. Robert BurnsD. Thomas Paine48. William Wordsworth，a romantic poet，advocated all the following EXCEPT ___.A. the use of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC. the use of humble and rustic life as subject matterD. the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech49. Which of the following is taken from John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”？A. “I fall upon the tho rns of life！I bleed！”B. “They are both gone up to the church to pray.”C. “Earth has not anything to show more fair.”D. “Beauty is truth，truth beauty.”50. “If Winter comes，can Spring be far behind.” is an epigrammatic line by___.A. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. P. B. Shelley51. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” shows the contrast between the______ of art and the____ of human passion.A. glory，uglinessB. permanence, transienceC. transience，sordidnessD. glory，permanence52. One of the great essay writers of the early 19th century is ______.A. Jane AustenB. Charles LambC. Walter ScottD. George Eliot53. Tales form Shakespeare was written by _____.A. Charles LambB. William HazlittC. Charles Lamb and Mary LambD. Wordsworth and Coleridge54. Charles Dickens’ works are characterized by a mingling of _______ and pathos.A. humorB. satireC. passionD. metaphor55. In Chapter III of Oliver Twist, Oliver is punished for that “impious and profane offence of asking for more”. What did Oliver ask for more?A. More time to playB. More food to eatC. More books to readD. More money to spend56. In ____ ’s hands, “dramatic monologue” reaches its maturity and perfection.A. Alfred TennysonB. Robert BrowningC. William ShakespeareD. George Eliot57. The success of Jane Eyre is not only because of its sharp criticism of the existing society, but also due to its introduction to the English novel the first ______ heroine.A. explorerB. peasantC. workerD. governess58. The three trilogies of _____ ’s Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century.A. John GalswortryB. Arnold BennettC. James JoyceD. H. G. Wells59. The Victorian Age was largely an age of________ eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.A. poetryB. dramaC. novelD. prose60. The title of Alfred Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses” reminds the reader of the following EXCEPT_________.A. the Trojan WarB. Homer’s OdysseyC. adventures over the seaD. religious quest61. The work ____ written by Alfred Tennyson was about the question of higher education of women.A. Crossing the BarB. The PrincessC. Break, Break, BreakD. Ulysses62. The bard of imperialism was ____, who glorified the colonial expansion of Great Britain in his works.A. R. L. StevensonB. Rudyard KiplingC. H. G. WellsD. Daniel Defoe63. The Dynasts was a gigantic epic drama written by ______.A. George Bernard ShawB. Thomas HardyC. Oscar WildeD. John Galsworthy64. The major concern of____ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his character sand in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.A. D. H. Lawrence’sB. J. Galsworthy’sC. W. Thackeray’sD. T. Hardy’s65. A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of_______, who never pays any attention to human feelings.A. propertyB. justiceC. moralityD. humor66. _____is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare，and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.A. Richard SheridanB. Oliver GoldsmithC. Oscar WildeD. George Bernard Shaw67. “Art for art’s sake” was put forth by ______.A. aestheticismB. naturalismC. realismD. neo-romanticism68. James Joyce is the author of all the following novels EXCEPT________.A. DublinersB. Jude the ObscureC. A portrait of the Artist as a Young ManD. UlyssesII. Fill in the blanks with correct information1. Angles, ___, and ___ were the Teutonic tribes came from the northern continent.3. The long poem _________ in Anglo-Saxon period was termed England’s national epic.4. Grendel, a monster half-human, appeared in the story of ______.6. The literature of the Anglo-Saxon Period falls into two kinds—___ and ___.7. The 3182-line The Song of Beowulf can be divided into two parts with a(n) _____ between the two and the whole song is essentially ___ in spirit and matter.8. The songs and poems in the Anglo-Saxon period were written in the style of ______ as could be seen from The Song of Beowulf.10. The greatest influence made by the Normans in England is on ___ and ____.11. The most popular literary form in the Anglo-Norman period was _____, in which the central character was _____.12. Sir Gawain and Green Knight employs the form of ____________.13. The story of Sir Gawain and Green Knight is the culmination of the ___________.15. Apart from original poems, Chaucer translated various works of French authors; among them is the famous _______________ and The House of Fame.16. The one who propose the story-telling in The Canterbury Tales is the _____________.17. Geoffrey Chaucer is considered the “________” and is one of the greatest narrative poets of England.18. “The father of English poetry” is ______.20. The pilgrims described in The Canterbury Tales met at _____ in Southwark, a suburb of London.22. Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is written in the style of ______ instead of alliteration in the Anglo-Saxon period.23. A ballad is written in _________stanzas with the second and fourth lines rhymes.24. Most of English ballads were collected in the 18th century and one of the famous ballads is ___.26. The Canterbury Tales opens with a _________ where are told of a group of vivid sketches ofa company of pilgrims that gathered at _________ in Southwark, a suburb of London.29. One of the striking features of Renaissance is the keen interest in the life and activities of human. So the arose _____— which was the keynote of the Renaissance.31. The story of Utopia was written by in two books, in which he gave a profound and truthful picture of the people’s sufferings in the first book and put forward his ideal future happy society—_____ in the second book.32. The one who first made blank verse the principal instrument of English drama is _________33. The greatest of the pioneers of English drama is _______.34. The difference of Earl of Surrey’s contribution to English poetry from that of Thomas Wyatt lies in that Surrey wrote the first English _________ while Thomas Wyatt was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.35. English Renaissance period was an age of _________and _________.38. The title “poet’s poet” is given to Edmund Spencer.39. _________ wrote The Faerie Queene.41. The greatest epic poem of the 16th century was _____ written by ______.45. William Shakespeare is a poet, playwright and an actor.49. The Renaissance, which began in the _________century in Italy, was a great cultural and ideological movement that swept the whole of Europe. All in all, the chief characteristic of the Renaissance literature is the expression of secular values with men instead of God as the center of the universe.50. Francis Bacon was praised by Marx as “the progenitor of English Materialism”.51. William Shakespeare produced _________ plays, two _____, and 154 sonnets.52. Sonnet is a poem of 14 lines Iambic pentameter. It mainly has two types and the Shakespearean has three quatrains plus _________—often rhymed as _________.53 Shakespeare’s main tragedies were written during the second period of gloom and depression which dated from 1601 to 1608. His main tragedies are: “_________”, “_________”, “_________”, and “_________”. All of these plays show the struggle and conflicts between good and evil of the time, between justice and injustice.55. John Milton wrote his masterpieces _________, _________, and _________ after blindness.56. Paradise Lost presents the author’s views in the form of _____ and _____ and the poetic style of ____ and presents the exposure of reactionary forces of his time and passionate appeal for _____.57. In Paradise Lost, _________ tempts Eve to eat an apple from the forbidden tree.60. _________ is a character in Paradise Lost with a strong desire for freedom.61. _________Poetry is characterized by fantastic metaphors and extravagant hyperboles.62. “Conceit” is a term applied in particular to the _________.65. The Pilgrims Progress is the masterpiece of _____, written in the old-fashioned, medieval form of ____ and ____, in which the main character is ____.66. The Revolution period produced one of the most important poets in English literature, whose name is _________and an important prose wrier, _________.68. In The Pilgrims Progress, Christian makes his way to the Holy city with two objects: ____ and ___.72. John Dryden, critic, poet, and playwright, was the most distinguished literary figure in the Restoration.73. The Enlightenment was a progressive _________ movement, which first began in France and had a wide impact throughout Europe in the 18th century.74. People in the 18th century believed in reason.76. Jonathan Swift wrote the famous story _________ and the famous pamphlet “A Modest Proposal” on Ireland in the style of satire.86. Daniel Defoe’s famous navel was ________.87. The main literary stream of the 18th century was _________.92. In the last adventure, Gulliver came to a country where horses were possessed of reason while Yahoos were brute beasts.88. _________was considered as the “father of English novel”.89. _________ found its representative writers in the field of poetry, such as Thomas Gray, but it manifested itself chiefly in the novels of Laurence Sterne and Oliver Goldsmith.90. The appearance and development of sentimentalism marked the midway in the transition from classicism to its opposite, _________.95. Among his other contributions to the theory and practice of prosody, _____ made popular the so-called heroic couplets.97. Thomas Gray wrote the famous poem _________, which was considered “the best known poem in the English language”.100. In the 18th century English literature, the representative poets of Pre-romanticism were William Blake and _________.103. “The poet of the peasants” is a title given to the great est Scottish poet _________.105. Robert Burns is famous for his poetry written in _________ dialect.111. The watchwords of the French Revolution are _________, ______, and________.112. The English Romanticism began with the publication of The Lyrical Ballads which was written in collaboration by _________and _________.113. Romanticism extended from 1798 when _________was published and in 1832 when _________ died.116. “The Lake Poets” include Wordsworth, _________ , Southey.120. In the revised version of _________, Wordsworth held that poetry is the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”.10. William Makepeace Thackeray was another important writer in the 19th century, whose novels mainly contained a satirical portrayal of _______.14. In the novel _________, Dr. Manette is a typical bourgeois intellectual. He sympathizes with the poor and defends the oppressed people, but feels terrified before the fire of revolution.15. The two cities in A Tale of Two Cities written by _________ are London and Paris.18. The main female character in Vanity Fair written by ______ is Rebecca Sharp.19. The title of the novel Vanity Fair was borrowed by ____ from The Pilgrims Progress written by ____.20. The subtitle of Vanity Fair is _______.27. Both Jane Eyre by _____ and Wuthering Heights _____ brought to the novel an introspection and an intense concentration on the inner life of emotion.28. Wuthering Heights deals with a story of love and violence.38. Robert Browning’s style was highly individual and often more intent on meaning than on form.44. The end of the 19th century is a period of struggle between realistic trend and anti-realistic trend in art and literature (, the latter reflected the crisis of bourgeois culture at the period of imperialism).49. The important writer who started as a poet and ended as a poet is _________51. _________believes that man’s fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of “nature”, both inside and outside.52. The writer who figured his hometown—the Wessex country in his works is _____.55. “A Pure Woman(Faithfully Presented)” is the subtitle of the novel ______.III. Give answers to the following questions.1. How do you understand “To be, or not to be”? Give your evidence to support your ideas.2. Why did Hamlet delay in revenging for his father’s death? Give evidence to support your idea.3. What are Chaucer’s contributions to English literature?4. Analyze Shakespeare’s contributions to English literature.5. What is the theme o f “Paradise Lost”?6. What is the image of Satan in Paradise Lost?7. What are the characteristics of metaphysical poetry?8. Give an analysis of the significance of Preface to Lyrical Ballads?9. What does “She” (referring to Lucy) in “She Dwelt Among the Untroden Ways” imply?10. What does “West Wind” mean in Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind?11. Give an analysis of Keats and his works.12. What are Austen’s writing features Jane Austen?13. Why does William Makepeace Thackeray give one of his novels the title Vanity Fair and the subtitle “Novel without a Hero”? Why does William Makepeace Thackeray give one of his novels the title Vanity Fair and the subtitle “ Novel without a Hero”?14. What is your opinion on the character Rebecca Sharp?15. What does the subtitle “A Pure Woman” of the novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles mean?16. Give a brief analysis of the character—Tess.17. What are the major contributions made by the 19th century critical realists?18. What is Paul’s relation with three women in Sons and Lovers?。
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。
英国文学期末考试-诗歌鉴赏分析部分
英国⽂学期末考试-诗歌鉴赏分析部分莎⼠⽐亚1.Sonnet 18(B1,P118)（theme：It talks about the poet’s faith in the permanence of poetry.The message is that in this world no beauty (in Nature) can stay except poetry or art; and your beauty can only last if I write it down in my poetry. Transiency of time is also the themes of Sonnet 18. Content: On the surface, the poem is a statement of praise about the beauty of the beloved woman. The beloved's "eternal summer" shall not fade precisely because it is embodied in the sonnet. To him, her beauty must be like the eternal summer, but he does not want it to fade with time. Thus the best way to preserve her beauty is to keep it in this poem. The final couplet explains that the beloved’s ―eternal summer‖ will continue as long as there are people alive to read this sonnet. Comments: Actually, the writer wanted to express his view that art can keep the beauty forever. Art not only can make people enjoy the beauty by reading it, but also be a beauty itself. Natural beauty would be knocked out with the passing of the time. Only the art brings the eternity. For the speaker, love transcends nature. The poet’s love is so powerful that even death is unable to curtail(减少) it. The speaker’s love lives on for future generations to admire through the power of the written word-through the sonnet itself.Figures of Speech:Rhetorical questioning: the 1st line, to used to create a tone of respect, and to engage the audience;Metaphor: Shakespeare opens the poem with a metaphor, comparing the woman he loves to all of the best characteristics of a summer's day and she is far more beautiful and even tempered than the most desirable summer weather; Personification:It is worth mentioning Shakespeare's use of personification here. He gives the sun an eye, a human attribute, and in the next line, a complexion.Parallelism:The final couplet, used to emphasize the message: the beauty of the subject will be immortalized by the power of his art.）2.Sonnet 29(B1,P119)(theme: The theme of Sonnet 29 is to show the importance of love which can overpower the feelings of self-hate. Content: it starts with the speaker talking about how much he dislikes his life. The speaker sites many examples of why this is how he feels. Then the speaker talks about how he by change thinks about his love and it lifts his spirits. The whole poem expresses the changes of the author's inner feelings,which are from disappoint to hopeful,from negative to positive ,from desperate to affectionate ,from self-abased to confident.Figures of Speech:Metaphors: It were used in lines 10-12. In these lines, he compares his love to the lark who sings songs to the heavens. Shakespeare uses this metaphor because he wants to show the reader how happy the thought of his true love makes him feel. Symbolizes: In the first three lines, he symbolizes that he is jealous of everything in society. He uses symbolism here because he wants the reader to know that the speaker feels like an outcast compared to the rest of society.symbolism In the eleventh line, the symbolism is that the speaker is describing his lover as a lark. He uses this symbolism because he is portraying that his lover is as lovely as a songbird singing to the heavens.Personification: It can be found in line 3. Shakespeare is giving Heaven human like characteristics, such as the ability to hear. He includes this in his sonnet because this adds to the lonesomeness the speaker is feeling, since even God will not answer his wishes.Repetition:―like him‖ and ―mans‖ in lines 6 and 7, This emphasizes that he wants to me like the other men other than remaining like himselfAlliteration(头韵): ―think, thee, then‖ in line 11Rhyme:follows pattern: abab cdcd ebeb ff, ex. ―state, fate, gate‖ and ―brings, kings‖ The use of rhyme is very common in sonnets.)弥尔顿3.On His Blindness(B1，P148）(Theme: Its theme is that people use their talent for God, and they serve him best so can endure the suffering best. This sonnet is written as a result of Milton’s grief, as he lost his eye sight at his middle age.Content:Lines 1-8: Milton gets rather impatient at the thought of his blindness in the middle age. Blindness prevents him from using his poetic talent by writing something great to glorify God. In an impatient mood Milton doubts if God would be just in demanding work from a blind man like him.Lines 8-14: Milton’s attitude of doubt passes off in a moment. His inner conscience rises up with its faith in God’s justice. He realizes that God does not need man’s work by way of service to him; nor does he care whether man uses His gifts. He has a lot of angels working for him. So, patient submission to His will is the best service to Him.Figures of Speech:Alliteration: my days in this dark world and wide (line 2)Metaphor: though my soul more bent / To serve therewith my Maker (lines 3-4). The author compares his soul to his mind. Personification/Metaphor: But Patience, to prevent / That murmur, soon replies . . . (lines 8-9).Paradox: They also serve who only stand and wait.Rhyme: This sonnet is written in iambic pentameter rhymed in abba abba cde cde, typical of Italian sonnet. )多恩4.Song(B1, P134)（Theme：Negative view about love. Content: The whole poem focus on the argument of whether beautiful women will be loyalty to love. In the first stanza, he use 6 impossible things to clarify his view that such women who both beautiful and loyalty do not exist in the world. In the second stanza, he describes the journey of a man who was born to strange sights and sware that there were no women true, and fair. In the last stanza, he agreed that it would be sweet if there were women true, and fair, but he won’t change his belief that there exist no women who are both true and fair. Figures of Speech: 第⼀节中⽤了imperative sentence祈使句，像在对话；metaphor将找到美丽⽽忠贞的⼥⼦⽐作第⼀节中的做那些离奇怪诞的事）5.Valediction: Forbidding Mourning: (B1,P135)（Theme:farewell and love. Content:In the first two stanzas the departure of the lovers is compared with the death of virtuous men. Then, he clarify that their love is high to the soul and the body departure cannot influence them any more. Their two souls are united into one like the gold that has excellent ductility. If souls are still two, then they will just like the compasses, separated but never really divided. At last, he asked his wife to take care of the family so that he can complete his missions without worries, just like the moving compass complete a full circle with the help of the fixed point.Figures of Speech:comparison⾼尚男⼈的死和他们的分离；Metaphor(Conceit):The two lovers are likened to the two points of a compass. The idea of the wife staying and minding the house while the husband goes away is old-fashioned now, but we can still comprehend it.Pun: Take the lines Thy firmness makes my circle just,/ And makes me end, where I begun.. Here the compass is doing two different things, and both have significance. "End where I begun" implies the finish of a circle as drawn by a compass; only through his wife's stability in the centre, Donne argues, can his circle be drawn correctly. However it also implies the closing of the compass - and Donne coming home to be with his wife.Symbolism: symbolism of gold is very important, as it is also the most precious and noble of all the metals. It is also the least reactive of all metals, which ties in with Donne's placing of the lovers above the emotional layer and makes their love difficult to destroy.Comments:Donne's basic argument was that most people's relationships are built on purely sensual things - if they are not together at all times, the relationship breaks down. I agree with him, because a real love should have no restrictions of distance or time, so long as lovers’ hearts and souls are bound to each other, there will be no reason for them to worry abouta temporary separation.）布莱德6.Songs of Innocence-The Chimney Sweeper(Theme: This poem protest the living working and conditions, and the overall treatment of youngchimney sweepers in the cities of England; also it expresses sympathy for these young chimney sweepers. Content:The first stanza tells the narrator's life story: abandoned by parents, working in thedark chimney and sleeping in dark, dirty soot. Probably it's the reflection of all the little chimney sweepers' life story. In the thir d line, the cry "'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!" is actually the child's attempt at saying "Sweep! Sweep! Sweep!", which was the c himney sweeper's street cry.The poem goes on to talk about Tom Dacre, one of the narrator's fellows in the second and third stanzas. The second stanza intr oduces Tom Dacre, who acts as a foil to the speaker. Tom is upset about his lot in life, then the narrator comforts little Tom, sha ving his curl white hair and getting bare, so that he needn't worry that his hair would get spoiled until Tom falls asleep. Here To m's family name "Dacre" is a homophone for the word "dark". In next three stanzas, the poem describes Tom's dream. He drea ms of an angel opening the coffins and freeing the sweepers. It shows the freeing of Tom and other sweeps from the oppressive lifestyle.When the angel tells Tom that ―if he’d be a good boy, He’d have God for his father and never want joy‖, he gives Tom hope that if he is good and does his job, God will be his father and bless him in the next life. Figures of Speech:symbolism,irony)7.Songs of Experience-The Chimney Sweeper(B1，P289)(Theme: This poem protest the living working and conditions, and the overall treatment of youngchimney sweepers in the cities of England; also it expresses sympathy for these young chimney sweepers.Content: In the first two lines, Blake gives us an image of an anguished child in a state of agony. In the second stanza, the child is pictured in a very more happier and playful mood. This soon changes when he decides to tell the stranger more about his parents. They are showed to be punishing their child for being so happy by "clothing in clothes of death and teaching him to sing notes of woe." It is very obvious the sweeper’s feels hate towards his parents for putting him in such sadness, but inst ead he chooses to hide it by making himself look happy and satisfied.It is clear in the last Stanza that Blake’s criticizing the Church, especially, and the state for letting a lot of these things happen. During this time many children were dying from being, either, worked to death or from malnutrition. Neither the state or the church did any thing to stop this and is obviously why Blake feels so much anger towards them. The sweeper’s parents are really no help towards their own child. This makes the reader wonder, if they are worshiping god, the source of good doings, why do they chose to ignore their own child. They would rather turn their heads the other way and instead find love at church. Figures of speech:partial tone:T he cry "'weep! 'weep! " is actually the child's attempt at saying "Sweep! Sweep! ‖,whichwas the chimney sweeper's direct cry. The use of the partial tone creates an ironic effect. It makes readers feel that the chimney children are weeping for their living and working conditions.symbolism,Contrast:In the first two lines, t he color black seems to be very important because it is used to represent sin against innocence, the color of the white snow.)8.Holy Thursday --From Songs of Innocence'(Theme: portrays unfortunate children as blessings to society and shows their gratitude towards God for all that he has done. Figures of speech: simile, metaphor, symbolismBlake tries to express an optimistic and hopeful image of innocent children singing to Christ onthe day of ascension. The poem’s rhythm is playful and childish and effectively carries out Blake’s image.In the first four lines, colorful children are marching into St Paul’s cathedral for the celebration of the ascension of Christ. From the footnote, one learns that these children are from the charity s chools in London, meaning that they are very poor and probably don’t have a family. Despite their hardships, the children are still described in a joyful, harmonic wayWith an ABAB rhyming pattern, the poem starts with a bouncing, nursery rhyme quality. The children’s problems are not an iss ue; they are still cute, innocent, and alive, like a river. The beadles that must keep the kids in order are portrayed as old and lifel ess men who have lost their childhood innocence. Even though these children are poor and homeless, they are showing hopeful ness and optimism when they go to sing the Lord’s praisesIn the next stanza, the children are again portrayed as sweet and innocent, and there is no mention of the hardships they must fa ce every other day in their life. There are a few different images that Blake gives the reader to express his idea that children are pure and free–flowing characters:Here, the children are a beautiful and vital part of the London society. They are ―flowers‖ that give pleasure to all men and wom en. Blake fails to mention that these children are a blight and burden to mankind. They are victims of a cruel and harsh world, a nd as a result, they reflect images of misery and poverty. However, in this stanza, the children are innocent lambs who have a ―r adiance all their own.‖ They are beautiful flowers and are pleasing to the entire world.In the final stanza, the children are singing to the heavens with songs of joy. They are singing the praises of the Lord to heaven on this glorious day.Here, the children are powerful and mighty and are capable of communicating with the heavens above. They believe that God tr uly loves them in spite of the fact that they are really the wretched of the earth. Even though they are penniless and homeless, the children raise their hands and sing their praise and thanks to Jesus.)9.Holy Thursday---From Songs of Experience(Theme: the condemn for the church or the god; sympathy for the poor childrenFigures of speech: contrast, irony, metaphorThis poem is negative and pessimistic and it questions the nature or existence of a God. The children are rejected and abused by society and they are exactly the opposite of the children in the first poem.This procession into the cathedral has religious intentions, but the speaker wonders how holy it is to have so many pitiful and m iserable children in a world that is so rich and prosperous. It doesn’t seem possible to him that these children are singing to the Lord out of pure happiness and thanksgivingThe speaker finds it hard to believe that these children are actually singing out praises of the Lord. He sees them so unhappy an d so poor, and yet they are thanking Jesus for all that he has done for them. The series of questions by the speaker in this stanza implies a tone of disbelief and amazement that heightens throughout the poem.In the last two stanzas, the speaker offers an explanation as to why these children are so poor and pitiful.The speaker believes that the life of the children is always dark, bleak, and bare. It will always be difficult, cold, and barren. He believes that the children are poor because they never have any sunshine or any rain. In other words, these kids don’t have the wonderful and plentiful eye of the Lord upon them. Blake believes that man could not decline into such a pitiful state if God is constantly watching over him. Throughout the ceremony, the children are praising God and all of His works. This prai se now seems very ironic since these children are not under the watchful eye of the Lord)10.The Lamb" --From Songs of Innocence(Theme: the origin of human, blessing for the human and GodContent: The poem begins with the question, ―Little Lamb, who made thee?‖ The speaker, a child, asks the lamb about its origins: how it came into being, how it acquired its particular manner of feeding, its ―clothing‖ of wool, its ―tender voice.‖ In the next stanza, the speaker attempts a riddling answer to his own question: the lamb was made by one who ―calls himself a Lamb,‖ one who resembles in his gentleness both the child and the lamb. The poem ends with the child be stowing a blessing on the lamb.Figures of speech:repetition:Repetition in the first and last couplet of each stanza makes these lines into a refrain, and helps to give the poem its song-like quality.rhetoric questionsSymbolism:The lamb symbolizes Jesus and the image of the child is also associated with Jesus.Comment:The poem is a child’s song, in the form of a question and answer. The first stanza is rural and descriptive, while the second focuses on abstract spiritual matters and contains explanatio n and analogy. The child’s question is both naive and profound. The question (―who made thee?‖) is a simple one, and yet the child is also tapping into the deep and timeless questions that all human beings have, about their own origins and the nature of cr eation. The poem’s apostrophic form contributes to the effect of naivety, since the situation of a child talking to an animal is a believable one, and not simply a literary contrivance. Yet by answering his own question, the child converts it into a rhetorical one, thus counteracting the initial spontaneous sense of the poem. The answer is presented as a puzzle or riddle, and even though it is an easy one—child’s play—this also contributes to an underlying sense of ironic knowingness or artifice in the poem. The child’s answer, however, reveals his confidence in his simple Christian faith and his innocent acceptance of its teachings.)11.The Tiger(B1,P288)(Theme:humans are incapable of fully understanding the mind of God and the mystery of his handiwork.But considering the social background of this poem, It could destroy the old system and establish a new one.Content:This poem begins with the author presents a series of questions that embodies the central problem: Who created the tiger? Or w as it Satan? Blake presents his question in Lines 3 and 4: What immortal hand or eye/ Could frame thy fearful symmetry? However, to express his bewilderment that the God who created the gentle lamb also created the terrifying tiger, he includes Satan as a possible creator while raising his rhetorical questions, the one he asks in Lines 5 and 6: In what distant deeps orskies/Burnt th e fire of thy eyes?Figures of speech:Symbolism:The tiger is symbolic of the revolutionary forces:the French people in the French Revolution to which Blake was a s upporter and it can also symbolizes evil, or the incarnation of evil.And that the lamb represents goodness, or Christ. Metaphor&alliteration:In Lines 3 and 4the author uses alliteration and metaphor to make comparison the tiger and his eyes to fi re.Symbol&Allusion:In Lines 5 and 6: In what distant deeps or skies/Burnt the fire of thy eyes? In these sentences, “Deeps” ap pears to refer to hell and “skies” refer to heaven which is the expression of symbol and Allusion.Comments:It is said that human souls have two sides: a good side, and an evil side."The Lamb" and "The Tyger," by William B lake, are both poems of deep meaning. They seem to explain both sides of human nature: the light and the dark, the yin and the yang, the good and the evil. They can also represent the transition from a child to an adult or even Heaven and Hell. "The Lamb " is a poem that is referring to the good side of the human soul, while "The Tyger" is referring to the dark side. The lamb brings to mind innocence,purity,children,or Jesus; the tiger brings to mind viciousness, cunning, danger, or death. )彭斯12.John Anderson my jo, John(B1, P294)（theme: love. Content:It’s a simple but warm poem about the commonplace feeling of a ordinary couple. The old wife recalls their encounter at their young ages and compare her husband’s young appearance with that of now. They has gone through so many years, and she blesses her husband and wishes joint happiness until their death.Figures of Speech:Metaphor/contrast: In line3 and line6, John’s locks are said to be as black as the raven when young but as white as snow now. The metaphor is so properly used, while the contrast between John’s young and aged years is also very vivid in delivering the massage of their peaceful and lasting marriage.Rhyme:Comments: This poem is very simple, but it remind me of a Chinese saying, ― I’ll take your hand and grow old with you.‖The love I dreamed of is just like this, more stability and less impulsion.）华兹华斯13.The Solitary Reaper(B2，P22)（theme：T he poet is fascinated with a Scottish peasant girl’s beautiful song.Content: Stanza 1: The poet heard a Scottish girl singing while reaping in the wheat field.Stanza 2: The poet is surprised to hear such a beautiful song in so remote aplace.Stanza 3: The poet doesn’t understand her song but knows it is about something sad. Stanza 4: The poet was so moved by her song that he could never forget it.Figures of Speech:Contrast:反衬⽤夜莺和杜鹃反衬少⼥歌声的优美Metaphor/synaesthesia：暗喻、通感声⾳在作者眼中变为有形的事物Vocative：呼语BEHOLD HER /O LISTEN，像在与⼈对话，拉近读者和说话者的距离Repetition：反复同源词反复Analogy：少⼥的歌声与夜莺和杜鹃的歌唱诗⼈与旅⼈及赫布⾥群岛Symbolism: 象征MOUNT UP THE HILL象征着⼈⽣的旅途Rhyme：iniambic tetrameter with the rhyme of ababccdd (except lines 1 & 3 In stanzas 1 and 4）Comments:⽣活中有时停下匆匆的脚步可能会有惊喜。
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英国文学1考试题及答案
英国文学1考试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 英国文学中，被誉为“英国文学之父”的诗人是：A. 乔叟B. 莎士比亚C. 弥尔顿D. 拜伦答案：A2. 以下哪位作家是现代主义文学的代表人物？A. 狄更斯B. 哈代C. 伍尔夫D. 奥斯汀答案：C3. 《荒原》是哪位诗人的作品？A. 雪莱B. 济慈C. 艾略特D. 叶芝答案：C4. 《简·爱》的作者是：A. 勃朗特B. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特C. 艾米莉·勃朗特D. 安妮·勃朗特答案：B5. 英国文学中的“湖畔诗人”是指：A. 华兹华斯、柯勒律治和骚塞B. 雪莱、拜伦和济慈C. 奥斯汀、勃朗特和艾略特D. 狄更斯、哈代和萨克雷答案：A6. 《乌托邦》的作者是：A. 托马斯·莫尔B. 弗朗西斯·培根C. 约翰·弥尔顿D. 乔纳森·斯威夫特答案：A7. 《呼啸山庄》的作者是：A. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特B. 艾米莉·勃朗特C. 安妮·勃朗特D. 乔治·艾略特答案：B8. 以下哪位作家是维多利亚时代的代表？A. 简·奥斯汀B. 托马斯·哈代C. 查尔斯·狄更斯D. 乔治·奥威尔答案：C9. 《坎特伯雷故事集》的作者是：A. 乔叟B. 莎士比亚C. 弥尔顿D. 拜伦答案：A10. 《鲁滨逊漂流记》的作者是：A. 丹尼尔·笛福B. 亨利·菲尔丁C. 乔纳森·斯威夫特D. 亚历山大·蒲柏答案：A二、填空题（每空1分，共20分）1. 英国文学史上第一部现实主义小说是________的《鲁滨逊漂流记》。
答案：丹尼尔·笛福2. 英国浪漫主义文学的代表诗人有________、雪莱和拜伦。
答案：济慈3. 英国现代主义文学的代表作之一是弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的________。
英国文学1考试题及答案
英国文学1考试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 英国文学史上第一位伟大的诗人是：A. 乔叟B. 莎士比亚C. 弥尔顿D. 拜伦答案：A2. 下列哪位作家被誉为“英国小说之父”？A. 简·奥斯汀B. 亨利·菲尔丁C. 查尔斯·狄更斯D. 乔治·艾略特答案：B3. 《坎特伯雷故事集》的作者是：A. 乔叟B. 斯宾塞C. 雪莱D. 拜伦答案：A4. 莎士比亚的“四大悲剧”中不包括以下哪部作品？A. 《哈姆雷特》B. 《奥赛罗》C. 《李尔王》D. 《威尼斯商人》答案：D5. 以下哪位诗人不属于浪漫主义诗人？A. 华兹华斯B. 柯勒律治C. 拜伦D. 布朗宁答案：D6. 《简·爱》的作者是：A. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特B. 艾米莉·勃朗特C. 安妮·勃朗特D. 乔治·艾略特答案：A7. 以下哪部作品是现代主义文学的代表作？A. 《荒原》B. 《尤利西斯》C. 《好兵之帅之帅》D. 《到灯塔去》答案：B8. 以下哪位作家是“愤怒的青年”运动的代表人物？A. 金斯利·艾米斯B. 约翰·奥斯本C. 哈罗德·品特D. 艾伦·西利托答案：B9. 《动物农场》的作者是：A. 乔治·奥威尔B. 阿道司·赫胥黎C. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫D. 威廉·戈尔丁答案：A10. 以下哪位作家是后现代主义文学的代表人物？A. 托马斯·品钦B. 萨尔曼·鲁西迪C. 伊恩·麦克尤恩D. 朱利安·巴恩斯答案：A二、填空题（每空1分，共20分）1. 英国文学史上的“文艺复兴”时期，涌现出了许多伟大的作家，其中被誉为“英国戏剧之父”的是______。
答案：莎士比亚2. 19世纪英国现实主义文学的代表作家查尔斯·狄更斯的代表作之一是______。
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英国⽂学期末考试题⽬（英语专业必备）⼀．中古英语时期?Beowulf is theoldestpoem intheEnglishlanguage,andthemostimportantspecimen (范例、典范)ofAnglo-Saxonliterature,andalsotheoldestsurvivingepicintheEnglishlangua ge.Theromance isapopularliteraryforminthemedievalperiod（中世纪）.Itusesverseorprosetosing knightly adventuresorotherheroicdeeds.GeoffreyChaucer,oneofthegreatestEnglishpoets,whosemasterpiece,TheCanterA.EdmundSpenserB.WilliamShakespeareC.FrancisBaconD.GeoffreyChaucer3.____isnotaplaywrightduringtheRenaissanceperiodonEngland.A.WilliamShakespeareB.GeoffreyChaucerC.ChristopherMarloweD.BenJohnson三．莎⼠⽐亚WilliamShakespeare“Alltheworld'sastage,andallthemenandwomenmerelyplayers.”——WilliamShakespeare WilliamShakespeareisconsideredthegreatestplaywrightintheworldandthefinestpo etwhohaswrittenintheEnglishlanguage.Shakespeareunderstoodpeoplemorethananyotherwriters.Hecouldcreatecharactersthathavemeaningbeyondthetimeandplaceo fhisplays.Hisfourtragediesare Hamlet(《哈姆雷特》),Othello(《奥赛罗》),KingLear(《李尔王》)andMacbeth(《麦克⽩》).Shakespeare’s sonnets,154innumber,aretheo nlydirectexpressionofthepoet’sownfeelings;Sonnet18deservesitsfamebecauseitisoneofthemostbeautifullywrittenvers esintheEnglishlanguage诗选Sonnet18A.GeographicalexplorationB.ReligiousreformationC.PublishingandtranslationD.Humanism.3.In“Sonnet18”,Shakespeare_________________.A.Meditateonthedestructivepoweroftimeandeternalbeautybypoetry.B.Satirize(讽刺)human’svanity.C.Predict(预测)theeternityoflove.D.Eulogize(颂扬)thepowerofthebeauty.4.WhichofthefollowingstatementbestillustratesthethemeofShakespeare’sSonnet1 8A.ThespeakereulogizesthepowerofNature.B.Thespeakersatirizeshumanvanity.C.Thespeakerpraisesthepowerofartisticcreation.D.Thespeakermeditatesonman’ssalvation.5.TheRenaissancereferstobetween14th-mid-17thcentury,whichwasunderthereignofQueen___andabsolutemonarchyinEnglandreacheditssummit,andinwhichthe’re almainstream(真正的⽂学主流)’was____.A.Victoria/poetryB.Elizabeth/dramaC.Mary/novelGulliver'sTravels,JonathanSwift'sbestfictionalwork,containsfourparts,eachab outoneparticularvoyageduringwhichGulliverhasextraordinaryadventuresonsomer emoteislandafterhehasmetwithshipwreckorpiracyorsomeothermisfortune.相关练习1.Inwhichofthefollowingworkscanyoufindthepropernames"Lilliput","Brobdingn ag",Houyhnhnm"and"Yahoo”A.ThePilgrim’sProgressB.TheFarrieQueeneC.Gulliver’sTravelsD.TheSchoolofScandal2.______isatypicalfeatureofSwift’swritings.A.ElegantstyleB.Causalnarration/doc/786579943.htmlplicatedsentencestructure3.TheHouyhnhnmsdepictedbyJonathanSwiftinGulliver’sTravelsare________.A.horsesthatareendowedwithreason.B.pigmiesthatareendowedwithadmirablequalitiesC.giantsthataresuperiorinwisdom.D.Hairy,wild,lowanddespicablecreatures,whoresemblehumanbeingsnotonlyinappe arancebutalsoinsomeotherways.五．浪漫主义诗歌（⼀）先驱：RobertBurns罗伯特·彭斯，WilliamBlake威廉·布莱克RobertBurns is anationalpoetofScotland,apoetofpeasants,hispoemsarewritteninesthedominantsubjectmatter.A.loveB.manC.natureD.death3.IntheRomanticperiod,____isthemostprosperousliteraryform.A.proseB.poetryC.fictionD.play4.RomanticismisaperiodofBritishliteratureroughlydatedfrom__.A.1660-----1798B.1798----1832C.1483-----1546D.1836-----19015.ThetwomajornovelistsoftheEnglishRomanticPeriodare_____andWalterScott. A.WashingtonIrving B.JaneAustenC.HermanMelvilleD.CharlesDickens6.WilliamWordsworth,aromanticpoet,advocatedallthefollowingEXCEPT___.A.theuseofeverydaylanguagespokenbythecommonpeopleB.theexpressionofthespontaneousoverflowofpowerfulfeelingsC.theuseofhumbleandrusticlifeassubjectmatterD.theuseofelegantwordingandinflatedfiguresofspeech7.Thepublicationof“_______”markedthebeginningofRomanticAge.A.DonJuanB.TheRimeoftheAncientMarinerC.TheLyricalBalladsD.QueenMab8.ThemajorrepresentativesofthepoeticrevolutioninEnglishRomanticperiodwereSTheyflashuponthatinwardeyeWhichistheblissofsolitude;Andthenmyheartwithpleasurefills,Anddanceswiththedaffodils.我好似⼀朵孤独的流云，⾼⾼地飘游在⼭⾕之上，突然我看到⼀⼤⽚鲜花，是⾦⾊的⽔仙遍地开放。
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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 themost 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 mostbeautifully 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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Romanticism in England ：ExercisesI.Choose one or more from a, b, c, d, e, or f to complete each statement.1.The Romantic Age began with the publication of “The Lyrical Ballads” which was written by _____.a. William Wordsworthb. Samuel Johnsonc. Samuel Taylor Coleridged. Wordsworth and Coleridge2.The Romantic Age came to an end with the death of the last well-known romantic writer _____.a. Jane Austenb. Walter Scottc. Samuel Taylor Coleridged. William Wordsworth3. The publication of “ _____ ” marked the beginning of Romantic Age.a. Don Juanb. The Rime of the Ancient Marinerc. The Lyrical Balladsd. Queen Mab4. The glory of the Romantic Age lies in the poetry of _____.a. Wordsworthb. Coleridgec. Byrond. Shelleye. Keats5. The English Romantic Age produced two major novelists. They are_____.a. Byron and Shelleyb. Wordsworth and Coleridgec. Scott and Austend. Lamb and Hazlitt6. Which of the following works are elegies?a. Adonaisb. Lycidasc. Lamiad. Isabellae. Queen Mab7. The prose writing of the Romantic Period was represented by _____.a. Lambb. Hazlittc. De Quinceyd. Humee. Keats8. Which poets belong to the Active Romantic group?a. Byronb. Wordsworthc. Shelleyd. Keatse. Milton9. Which poets belong to the lakers?a. Wordsworthb. Coleridgec. Keatsd. Southeye. Scott10. Which of the following were written by Wordsworth only?a. To the Cuckoob. The Lyrical Balladsc. Lucy Poemsd. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloude. The Solitary Reaper11. Choose the poems written by Wordsworth with the theme on Nature and country life.a. To the Cuckoob. We Are Sevenc. Lucy Poemsd. The Solitary Reapere. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud12. The first poem in “The Lyrical Ballads” is Coleridge’s masterpiece “ _____ ”.a. Kubla Khanb. The Preludec. The Rime of Ancient Marinerd. Tintern Abbey13. In 1805, Wordsworth completed a long autobiographical poem entitled “ _____ ”.a. Biographia Literariab. The Preludec. Lucy Poemsd. The Lyrical Ballads14. Choose Byron’s two long poems.a. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimageb. Don Juanc. Tom Jonesd. The Pilgrim’s Progresse. The Isle of Greece15. Which short lyrics were written by Byron?a. She Walks in Beautyb. When We Two Partedc. Hebrew Melodiesd. One Word is Too Often Profanede. A Red, Red Rose16. Which is Shelley’s masterpiece?a. Queen Mabb. Prometheus Unboundc. Prometheus Boundd. The Revolt of Islam17. The following statements are about “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”. Which statement is true?a. Byron used his own experiences as the material of the long poem.b. The first canto deals with the hero’s journey in Portugual andSpain.c. The second canto describes Albania and Greece.d. In the third canto appeared his description of Waterloo.e. The fourth canto describes Italy.18. Choose the works written by Coleridge himself.a. The Rime of Ancient Marinerb. Kubla Khanc. Biographia Literariad. The Fall of the Bastillee. The Lyrical Ballads19. Choose the works written by Byron.a. Ode to the Framers of the Frame-billb. Oriental Talesc. Manfredd. Caine. Prometheus Unbound20. Choose the poetic dramas written by Byron.a. Hours of Idlenessb. Manfredc. Caind. Oriental Talese. Prometheus Unbound21. Which were Shelley’s poetic dramas?a. Prometheus Unboundb. The Cencic. The Masque of Anarchyd. Queen Mabe. Cain22. Which were Shelley’s lyrics on nature?a. Ode to the West Windb. To a Skylarkc. The Cloudd. Ode to the Nightingalee. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud23. Shelley’s fine love lyrics include such well-known poems as _____.a. Love’s Philosophyb. One Word is Too Often Profanedc. When We Two Partedd. A Red, Red Rosee. Song to Celia24. Which were Shelley’s political lyrics?a. A Defence of Poetryb. To a Skylarkc. Song to the Men of Englandd. England in 1819e. The Masque of Anarchy25. Which is Shelley’s work of literary critici sm?a. An Essay on Criticismb. A Defence of poetryc. On the Necessity of Atheismd. of Studies26. Choose the historical novels written by Scott.a. Rob Royb. Ivanboec. Marmiond. The Lady of the Lakee. Waverly27. Choose the four immortal odes written by Keats.a. Ode to the West Windb. Ode to a Nightingalec. Ode to Autumnd. Ode on Melancholye. Ode on a Grecian Urn28. Which sonnets were written by Keats?a. London, 1802b. When I Have Fearsc. Bright Stard. On the Grasshopper and Cricket29. Choose the long poems by Keats.a. Endymionb. Lamiac. Isabellad. The Eve of St. Agnese. Ode to a Nightingale30. Which of the following deal with the theme of love and the cost of true lovers in the society of tyranny and oppression?a. Romeo and Julietb. Lamiac. Isabellad. The Eve of St. Agnese. Adonais31. Which poem tells a story similar to Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”?a. Isabellab. The Eve of St. Agnesc. Lamiad. All for Love32. Which works are based on ancient Greek mythology?a. Prometheus Boundb. Prometheus Unboundc. Endymiond. Paradise Loste. The Rime of Ancient Mariner33. Which works have employed the subjects from the Bible?a. Paradise Lostb. Paradise Regainedc. Samson Agonistesd. Caine. Prometheus Unbound34. Choose the works written by Austen.a. Pride and Prejudiceb. Sense and Sensibilityc. Northanger Abbeyd. Emmae. Mansfield Parkf. PersuasionII. Fill in the blanks.1. The Roma ntic Age began in 1798 when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their joint work “_____”.2. The Romantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last Romantic writer _____ died.3. The publication of “The Lyrical Ballads” marked the break with classicism and t he beginning of the _____.4. Women as _____ appeared in the romantic age. It was during this period that women took, for the first time, an important place in English literature.5. The greatest historical novelist _____ was produced in the Romantic Age.6. The English Romantic period produced two major novelists: _____ and _____.7. _____ was regarded as the best essayist during the Romantic Age.8. Among Wordsworth’s longer poems, the best-known one is “_____”.9. _____ marked the transition from romanticism to the period of realism which followed it.10. In 1817, _____ finished his literary criticism, “Biographia Literaria”.11. The first poem in the collection “The Lyrical Ballads” is _____’s masterpiece “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”.12. On the death of Robert Southey in 1843, _____ was made poet laureate.13. In 1805, Wordsworth completed “_____”, containing all together 14 books.14. In 1807 Byron published his lyric poems in a small V olume called “Hours of Idleness”. The V olume was sharply attacked in the influential Edinburgh Review. Byron responded with his first important poem, a biting satire called “_____”.15. Byron is chiefly known for his two long poems, one is “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”, the other is _____.16. In 1824, the Revolutionary Romantic poet _____ went to Greece to help that country in its struggle for liberty against Turks. Not long, he died of fever there.17. The poem “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” contains _____ cantos. It is written in Spenserian stanza.18. Byron wrote _____ in Italy. It contains sixteen cantos.19. Byron’s masterpiece is _____.20. _____ is Byron’s philosophical poetic drama.21. _____ is Byron’s poetic drama with the material taken from Biblical story.22. Byron’s first volume of poems is “_____”.23. _____ was expelled after only six months at Oxford, because he had written the pamphlet “The Necessity of Atheism”.24. “_____”, a lyrical drama, is Shelley’s masterpiece. The story was taken from Greek mythology.25. After the death of Shelley’s first wife, he was compelled to leave England in 1818, and spent all the rest of his life in _____.26. “_____” is Shelley’s first long poem of importance. It was written in the form of a fairy tale dream.27. “The Masque of Anarchy” is one of Shelley’s political ly rics. It deals with the infamous _____ which happened on August 16, 1819.28. “_____” is Shelley’s well-known political lyric which calls upon the working class to fight against their rulers and exploiters.29. Shelley wrote an elegy _____ lamenting the early death of his fellow-poet _____.30. “Ode to a Nightingale” was written by _____.31. Jane Austen’s masterpiece is “_____”.32. “Ivanhoe” is the masterpiece of the historical novelist _____.III. Error correction.1.The Romantic Age began in 1798 when Wor dsworth and Coleridge published their joint work “Kubla Khan”.2.The Romantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last romantic writer Jane Austen died.3.The publication of “The Lyrical Ballads” marked the break with classicism and the beginning of the age of Reason.4.The Romantic Age is emphatically an age of novel. Many young enthusiastic writers turned to poetry.5.The glory of the Romantic Age lies in the prose of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats.6.Women as poets appeared in the Romantic Age, such as Jane Austen.7.Romantic novel of the romantic age was represented by Lamb, Hazlitt, De Quincey and Hume.8. “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” is written by Coleridge.9. The first poem in “The Lyrical Ballads” is Wordsworth’s masterpiece“The Rime of Ancient Mariner”.10. The brillant literary criticism “Biographia Literaria” is written by Samuel Johnson.11. In 1805, Southey completed a long autobiographical poem entitled “The Prelude”.12. Byron’s masterpiece is “Tom Jones”.13. “Manfred” and “Cain” were Byron’s two poems.14. “The Isle of Greece” is taken from the 3rd canto of “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”.15. “Queen Mab” is the first long poem written by Keats.16. Shelley’s masterpiece is “Prometheus Bound”.17. “Prometheus Unbound” i s a novel.18. “Song to the Men of England” is Byron’s political lyric.19. “Ode to a Nightingale” is Shelley’s best poem.20. Jane Austen is the first historical novelist in English literature.21. “The Pride and Prejudice” is the masterpiece of Charles D ickens.22. Chronologically, Jane Austen’s career belongs to the Renaissance period. She was a contemporary of Wordsworth and Coleridge.23. Jane Austen is one of the naturalist novelists. She drew vivid and realistic pictures of everyday life of the country society in her novels.24. Walter Scott is the greatest historical novelist whose masterpiece is “Richard I”.25. Charles Lamb is one of the great novelists of the Romantic Age. “Tales from Shakespeare” was written by him and his sister Mary Lamb.IV. Find the relevant match from column B for each item in column A.A1.( ) George Gordon Byron2.( ) Percy Bysshe Shelley3.( ) John Keats1.( ) Charles Lamb2.( ) William Hazlitt3.( ) Walter Scott4.( ) Jane Austen5.( ) Samuel Taylor Coleridge6.( ) Robert Southey7.( ) William WordsworthBa.Endymionb.Tales From Shakespearec.The Characters of Shakespeare’s Playsd.Don Juane.Prometheus Unboundf.Ivanhoeg.Kubla Khanh.Pride and Prejudicei.The Preludej.Life of NelsonV. Answer the following questions.1.What is Romanticism?2.What are the main features of the works of the romanticists?3.Make a contrast between the two generations of Romantic poets during the Romantic Age.4.What are Austen’s writing features?5.Make a comment on Wordsworth.6.Make a comment on Byron.7.Make a comment on Keats.Part VIII The Victorian Age ExerciseIn the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend ______appeared. And it flourished in the forties and in the early fifties.a. romanticismb. naturalismc. realism d,critical realism2. English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of______. The critical realists, most of whom were novelists, described with vividness and artistic skill the chief traits of the English society and criticized the capitalist system from a democratic viewpoint.a. novelb. dramac. poetryd. Sonnet3. The greatest English critical realist novelist was _______,who criticized the bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people.a. William Makepeace Thackerayb. Charles Dickensc. Charlotte Bronted. Emily Dickinson4,______was a critical realist and also a severe exposer of contemporary society . His novels, such as “Vanity Fair”, are mainly a satirical portray of the upper strata of society.a. George Eliotb. Elizabeth Caskellc. William Makepeace Thackerayd. John Bunyan5. Which of the following writers belong to critical realists?a. Charles Dickensb. William Makepeace Thackerayc. Elizabeth Caskelld. Thomas Hardy6. Which of the following writers belong to English critical realists?a. George Eliotb. Emily Brontec. Thomas Hardyd. Charles Dickens7. Which of the following writers don’t belong to English critical realists?a. Oliver Goldsmithb. Charles Dickensc. William Makepeace Thackerayd. Jonathan Swifte. Daniel Defoe8. In the 19th century, the social contradictions were also reflected in the prose writing. The important prosewriters who criticized the evils of the capitalist society were ______.a. Thomas Carlyleb. John Ruskinc. Matthew Arnoldd. Charles Lambe. John Dryden9.In the Victorian age, poetry was not a major art intended to change the world. The main poets of the age were ______.a. Tennysonb. Robert Browningc. Mrs. Browningd. Robert Burnse. William Blake10. The _____ Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th century. It showed the English workers were able to appear as an independent political force and were already realizing the face that the industrial bourgeoisie was their principal enemy.a. Enlightenmentb. Renaissancec. Chartistd. Romanticist11. The Chartist writers introduced a new theme into literature, the struggle of the ______for its rights.a. soldiersb. peasantsc. bourgeoisied. proletariat12. The heroic and revolutionary Chartist poetry played an important role in the development of English proletarian literature in connection with the working class movement. The greatest of Chartist poets was______.a. Ernest Jonesb. John Miltonc. Thomas Hardyd. John Keats13. The main poets of the Chartist poetry were______.a. Ernest Jonesb. Thomas Hoodc. Thomas Cooperd. John Miltone. Robert Browning14. In 1864, the First International was formed in London. Under the leadership of_____, the working class movement developed quickly.a. Marx and Englesb. Byron and Shelleyc. Milton and Cromwell d, Tennyson and Browning15.______ was the first English poet and writer who voiced the revolutionary ideal of Socialism in his poetry and prose.a. William Makepeace Thackerayb. William Shakepearec. William Wordsworthd. William Morris16. Dickens’ first literary career is referred to those years from 1836 to 1841. It is marked for youthful optimis m. The main novels written in this period by Dickens are ______.a. The Pickwick Papersb. Oliver Twistc. Nicholas Nicklebyd. Hard Times17. The story of “______” deals with the adventures of a retired old merchant.a. A tale of Two Citiesb. David Copperfieldc. Pickwick Papersd. Oliver Twist18. The novel “______”exposes the terrible conditions of English private schools.a. Nicholas Nicklebyb. Oliver Twistc. Hard Timesd. Great Expectations19. The story of “______”deals with the sufferings and hardships of an man named Trent, and his grand-daughter, Nell.a. Pickwick Papersb. The Old Curiosity Shopc. Great Expectationsd. Hard Times20.The second period of Dickens’s literary career, which be gan from 1842.and ended in 1849,was a period of excitement and irritation. Dickens’s naïve optimism toward the capitalist society was profoundly shaken. The main novels produced in this period are______.a. “Martin Chuzzlewit”b.“Dombey and Son”c. “David Copperfield”d.“Pickwick Papers”e.“Oliver Twist”21.In the third period of Dickens’s literary career, his works showed the intensifying pessimism. His main novels produced in this period are ______.a. “Hard Times”b.“Great Expectations”c. “A Tale of Two Cities”d.“Bleak House”e.“David Copperfield”22. Which novel makes a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education and bourgeois utilitarianism?a. “Oliver Twist”b.“Hard Times”c.“Great Expectations”d.“A Tale of Two Cities”23. Which novel is a great satire upon the society and those people who dream to enter the higher society regardless of the social reality?a. “Oliver Twist”b.“David Copperfield”c.“Great Expectations”d.“Dombey and Son”24. In the novel “______” , Dickens describes the Chartist Movement. He shows that the Chartist Movement is the just struggle of the workers for better conditions, and expresses his sympathy for the workers.a. Great Expectationsb. A Tale of Two Citiesc. Hard Timesd. Oliver Twist25. Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of the novel”______”.a. A Tale of Two Citiesb. Great Expectationsc. Little Dorritd. Bleak House26. In the novel “_____”, the revolutionaries are represented by Defarge (Dr. Manette’s servant) and Madame Defarge.a. Dombey and Sonb. A Tale of Two Citiesc. Little Dorritd. Bleak House27. In the novel “_____”, Dr. Manette i s a typical bourgeois intellectual. He sympathizes with the poor and defends the oppressed people, but feels terrified before the fire of revolution.a. David Copperfieldb. Wuthering Heightsc. The Forsyte Sagad. A Tale of Two cities28. “______” is often regarded as the semiautobiography of the author Dickens in which the early life of the hero is largely based on the author’s early life.a. Tom Jonesb. David Copperfieldc. Oliver Twistd. Great Expectations29. In the novel “_____”, Dickens gives a truthful presentation of the sufferance of the poor, and makes a complete exposure of the terrible conditions in the English workhouse of the time and the brutality and corruption of the oppressors under the mask f philanthropy.a. David Copperfieldb. Oliver Twistc. Great Expectationsd. Hard Times30.In 1864,Dickens published his last complete novel “_____”.a. The Old Curiosity Shopb. The Pickwick Paperc. Our Mutual Friendd. Little Dorrit31. Which is Thackeray’s masterpiece?a. “The Virginians”b.“Vanity Fair”c. “The Books of Snobs”d.“The Newcomes”32. The sub-title of “Vanity Fair” is “_____”.a. A Pure Woman Faithfully Portrayedb. The Spirit and the Fleshc. A Novel Without a Herod. Sense and Sensibility33. The title of the novel “Vanity Fair” was taken from Bunyan’s masterpiece “_____” .a. The Pilgrim’s Progressb.Childe Harold’s Pilgrimagec. Gulliver’s Travel sd. The Canterbury Tales34. Which characters are in the novel “Vanity Fair”?a. Amelia Sedleyb. Rebecca Sharpc. George Osborned. Joseph Sedley35. The Bronte sisters are ______. They were all talented writers and all of them died young.a. Charlotte Bronteb. Emily Brontec. Anne Bronted. Jane Eyree. Catherine36. Charlotte Bronte produced four novels: “______”.a. Professorb. Jane Eyrec. Shirleyd. Villettee. Agnes Grey37. Emily Bronte wrote only one novel entitled “_____”.a. Wuthering Heightsb. Jane Eyrec. Emmad. Agnes Grey38. Choose the names appearing in the novel Jane Eyre.a. Jane Eyreb. Mr. Rochestec. rMary Bartond. Silas Marner39. Which characters appear in the novel “Wuthering Heights”?a. Heathcliffb. Catherinec. Hindleyd. Cathye. Hareton40. In the novel “Jane Eyre”, Charlotte______.a. Pours a great deal of her own experienceb. Criticizes the bourgeois system of educationc. Shows that true love is the foundation of marriaged. Shows that women should have equal rights with men41. The author of “Mary Barton” is Mrs.Gaskell, whose full name is _______.a. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskellb. Elizabeth Barrett Browningc. Harriet Beecher Stowed. Samuel Langhorne Clemens42. Mrs.Gaskell was the friend of Charlotte Bronte. Her “______” is one of the best biographies in English Literature.a. Life of Charlotte Bronteb. Life of Johnsonc. Tales of Skakespeared. Adonais43. Mrs. Gaskell wrote the novel “Mary Barton”______.a. with the idea of making it the social instrument of social reformb. to show her Sympathy toward the working classc. to reflect the class conflict of her timed. with realistic description of the social and political life of that periodwhich was criticized by the bourgeois critics as a book hostile to the employers44. Which of the novels belongs to critical realism?a. “Mary Barton”b.“North and South”c. “Cranford”d.“Life of Charlotte Bronte”45. The novel “Mary Barton”______.a. is about the class struggle between the workers and the capitalistsb. is one of the important social novels of that periodc. reflects something about Chartist Movementd. contains such characters as John Barton, Mary, Wilson and Carson46. George Eliot was the pseudonym of ______.a. Mark Twinb. Mary Ann Evansc. Ellis Bell d,Samuel Langhorne Clemen47. George Eliot produced three remarkable novels which made her famous. They are “______”.a. Adam Bedeb. The Mill on the Flossc. Silas Marnerd. Mary Bartone. Pamela48. Hardy is one of the representatives of English ______ at the turn of the 19th century.a. critical realism.b. preromanticismc. neo-classicismd. new romanticism49. Which statement is true?a. Thomas Hardy is a famous novelist.b. Hardy is also a poet.c. Hardy is a critical realist.d. Fatalism is strongly reflected in Hardy’ s novels.50. According to Hardy’ s own classification, his novels divide themselves into three groups. They are_______.a. Novels of character and Environmentb. Romances and Fantasiesc. Novels of Ingenuityd. Working class literature51. Novels of character and Environment are also called Wessex novels, taking the southwest counties of England for their setting. They include: “_______”.a. Under the Greenwood Treeb. The Return of the Nativec. The Mayor of Casterbridged. Tess of the D’Urbervillese. Jude the Obscure52. The following statements are about Hardy’s novels, which is ture?a. His Wessex novels are of great significance.b. The Southwest counties of England are the setting of his Wessex novels.c. There is pessimism in his novelsd. .Mankind is subjected to hostile and mysterious fate.e. There are elements of naturalism in his works.53. Hardy was not only a novelist, but also a poet. Which are Hardy’ s poetic works?a. “Wessex Poems and Other Verses”b.“Poems of the Past and the Present”c. “The Dynasts”d.“The Queen of Cornwall” e,“Under the Greenwood Tree”54. George Meredit h published a number a number of poems and novels. His main novels are “_______”.a. The Ordeal of Richarh Feverelb. Beauchamp’s Careerc. The Egoistd. Mary Bartone. Diana of the Crossways55. George Meredith’ s main poems are “______”.a. Modern Loveb. Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earthc. The Idea of Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spiritd. The Egoist56. In the novel “______” ,Samuel Butler satirizes the religion, school education and the theory of posit ivism.a. News and Nowhereb. Utopiac. Gulliver’s Travelsd.Erewhon57. The novel “______” describes a country where disease is considered to be a kind of crime while theft and other vices are considered to be diseases.a. Erewhonb. Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Laterc. The way of All Fleshd. News From Nowhere58. ______ is the representative of New Romanticism in novel writing at the end of the 19th century.a. Robert Louis Stevensonb. Lawrence Sternec. Robert Browning d,Percy Bysshe Shelley59. Stevenson’s writings include novels, short stories, essays and poems. His main novels are “______”.a. Treasure Islandb. The Strange Case of Dr. Jeykell and Mr. Hydec. Kidnappedd. A Child’s Garden of Verses60. “The Way of All Flesh” was written by ______.a. Samuel Johnsonb. Samuel Butlerc. William Butler Yeatsd. Ben Jonsn61. Oscar Wilde is one of the important dramatists in the 19th century. In his comedies, he criticizes the upper class of the English bourgeois society. His best comedies are “ ______”.a. Lady Windermere’s Fanb. A Woman of No Importancec. An Ideal Husbandd. The Importance of Being EarnesteThe Picture of Dorian Gray62. Which of the following was written by Wilde?a. “Lady Windermere’s Fan”b.“The Merry Wives of Windsor”c. “The Portrait of a Lady”d.“A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”e. “The Picture of Dorian Gray”63. Oscar Wilde was the representative among the writers of ______.a. aestheticismb. decadencec. critical realismd. preromanticism64. Tennyson’s poetic output was vast and varied. His main poems are:a. “The Princess”b.“Maud”c. “In Memoriam”d.“Idylls of the King”e.“Crossing the Bar”65. Which short poem was written by Tennyson?a. “Break, Break, Break”b.“Crossing the Bar”c. “The Eagle”d.“Sweet and Low”e.“Tears, Idle Tears”66. Which of the following concerns the story of King Arther.a. “Idylls of the King”b.“Morte d’Arthur”c. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”d.“The History of the Kings of Britain”e.“Brut”67. Which lament was written by Tennyson for the death of his friend Hallam?a. “In Memoriam”b.“Lycidas”c. “Adodais”d.“Elegy written in a Country”68. Which of the following were written by Robert Browning?a. “The Ring and the Book’b.“My Last Duchess”c. “Men and Women”d.“Sonnets from the Portuguese”e.“Pauline”69. Which is Robert Browning’s short poem?a. “Home Thought, from Abroad”b.“Home Thought, from Sea”c. “Meeting at Night”d.“Cry of the Children”e.“Pauline”70.Which of the following belong to the working class literature in the 19th century?a. “The Song of the Lower Classes’ sb.“The Song of the Wage-Slave”c. “The poor Man’s Guardian”d.“A Dream of John Ball”e. “News From Nowhere”71. “My Last Duchess” is ______.a. a dramatic monologueb. a short lyricc. a noveld. an essay72. Ernest Jones was the greatest Chartist poet. His main works are:a. “The Song of the Lower Classes’ s”b.“The Song of the Wage-Slave”c. “The New World”d.“A Dream of John Ball”73. Which of the following is Chartist poet?a. Ernest Jonesb. Thomas Cooperc. William James Lintond. Mary Barton74. Which of the following is written by Morris?a. “A Dream of John Ball”b.“News From Nowhere”c. “Chants for Socialism”d.“Pilgrims of Hope”e.“The Earthly Paradise”Fill in each blank.1. English ______of the 19th century flourished in the forties and in the early fifties.2. In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend _____appeared after the romantic poetry.3.ritical realism found its fine expression in the form of novel. Most of the critical realists were______4. The greatest English realist of the 19th century was ______, who pictures bourgeois civilization, and shows the misery and sufferings of the common people.5. ______ was also a critical realist. His novels are mainly a satirical portrayal of society.6.Critical realism reveals the corrupting influence of the rule of cash upon human nature. Here lies the essentially democratic and humanistic character of______.7. The Victorian Age in English Literature was largely an age of prose, especially of the ______.8.The most important poet of the Victorian Age was ______. Next to him were Robert Browning and his wife.9. The ______Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th century.10.The Chartist writers introduced a new theme into literature: the struggle of the ______for its rights.11.The Chartist poetry played an important role in the development of English proletariat literature, the greatest Chartist poet was______.12.In 1864, the ______ International was formed in London, under the leadership of Marx and Engels.13.______ was the first writer who voiced the ideal of Socialism in his poetry and prose in the 19th century.14. ______ was the greatest representative of English critical realism.15.The novel“______” deals with the adventures of Mr. Pickwick, a retired old merchant, who is the founder and chairman of the Pickwick Club.16.The novel “Oliver Twist” tells the story of a poor child named ______who is born in a workhouse and brought up under miserable conditions.17.The novel “______” touches upon a burning question of Dickens’s time: the education of children in the private school.18. Of all of Dickens’s novels, “______” is regarded as his masterpiece.19. Mr. Peggotty and Steerforth are two characters in Dickens’s novel “______”’20.In the novel “David Copperfield”, the hero h as undergone a series of love adventures. He falls in love with, and then marries a pretty, empty-headed girl called Dora. After his wife’s death, David marries ______, the daughter of his aunt’s lawyer.21.The novel “Hard Times” makes fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education and the bourgeois philosophy.22. In the novel “A Tale of Two Cities”, the two cities are ______ in the time of revolution.23. Madame Defarge is relentless revolutionary in the novel “______”.24.In 1847,Thackeray published his masterpiece “______”, which marks the peak of his literary career.25.The sub-title of “Vanity Fair” is ______.The writer’s intention was not to portray individuals, but the bourgeois and aristocratic society as a whole.26.The title of the novel “Vanity Fair” is suggestive of that Vanity Fair in Bunyan’ s “______”, where all sorts of vanity vanities are on sale.27.The main plot of “Vanity Fair” centers on the story of two women: Amelia Sedley and ______. Their characters are in sharp contrast.28. The Bronte sisters are Charlotte Bronte,______ and Anne Bronte.29. Charlotte Bronte’s masterpiece is “______”.30. Emily Bronte’s masterpiece is “______”.31. Heathcliff is a character in the novel of _______.32. Mr. Rochester is a character in the novel of _______.33. The novel “______” shows that pure and true love in a class society is impossible of attainment. Its author is Emily Bronte.34. The author of “Mary Barton” is ______.35. Mrs. Gaskell’s novel “______” is undoubtedly her best novel because of its realistic description of the social and political life of that period.36. Mrs. Gaskell’s novel “______”makes a turning point in her literary creation, for in his this novel she abandoned critical realism for a kind of writing acceptable to the bourgeois public.37.With sympathy, keen observation and humor, Mrs.Gaskelldescribes the small affairs of a country village, Cranford, in her novel “______”.38. In “Mary Barton”,_______ is an active Chartist. He kills a capitalist called Carson.39. George Eliot was the pseudonym of _______’40. The author of “The Mill On the Floss” is _______.41. George Eliot produced three remarkable novels including “Adam Bede”, “The Mill on the Floss” and ______.42. In the novel “Adam Bede”, Adam fa lls in love with a village girl called ______.43. The central characters of “The Mill on the Floss” are Tom and his sister _______.44. Hardy’ s novels of character and environment, which are also called ______, are of great significance.45. Among Hardy’ s novels, the best-known are “______” and “Jude the Obscure”.46. Hardy’ s novel “______”, tells the story about a school mistress’ s unhappy love affairs with a clergyman.。
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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。
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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。
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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 “_____ _”.3. is a playwright & poet who is considered above all writers in the past and in the present time 4。
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英国文学期末试卷I.Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.1.The greatest poet of the Middle English period is __________________ , the fatherof English poetry.A.Geoffrey ChaucerB. John LylyC. William LanglandD. John MiltonIn “The PiIgrims Progress" Christian and Faithful come to the where both are arrested as alien agitators and tried.A.Vanity FairB. Doubting CastleC. Celestial CityD. hell2.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.The keynote of the Renaissance is ______________________ .A. humanismB. realismC. naturalismD. skepticism4.The English Renaissance period was an age of _________________ •A. poetry and dramaB. drama and novelC. novel and poetryD. romance and poetry5.The predominated metaphor in The Pilgrim' s Progress is that ____________________ .A. Life is a journey Life is a dreamC.Life is to endure hardshipD. none of the above6._____ is a typical feature of Swift' s writings.A. Bitter satireB. Elegant styleC. Casual narrationD. Complicated sentence structure7.Do you thinks because I am poor, obscure, plain , and little,I am soulless and heartless? And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. The above quoted passage is most probable taken from ・A. Pride and PrejudiceB. Jane EyreC. Wuthering HeightsD.Great Expectations8.After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may cometo know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of __________________ .A. simple character and quick witB. simple character and poor understandingC. intricate character and quick witD. intricate character and poor understanding9.The work that presented , for the first time in English literature,a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gal lery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely .A.William Langland ' Piers PlowmanB.Geoffrey Chaucer' s The Canterbury TalesC.BeowulfD. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightII ・Decide whether the following statements are true or false. Write Tfor true and F for false on your answer sheet.( )1. William Wordsworth is one of the representative writers of Critical Realism.( )2. Geoffrey Chaucer is regarded as the father of English poetry.( )3. Paradise Lost is one of Milton' s novels.( )4. The Romantic Age began in 1798 when Wordsworth and Coleridge copublished their joint work “Kubla Khan”( )5. Renaissance is also called the Age of Reason.( )6. Mr. Rochester is a character in the novel Jane Eyre, which was written by Emily Bronte.( )7. In English literature, the Elizabethan period is traditionally called "Age of Shakespeare”.( )8. The greatest English critical realist was Charles Dickens.( )9. English literature in the Renaissance Period is usually regarded as the highlight in the history of English literature.( )10. Gulliver' s Travels is a novel mainly about love and friendship.III.Matching.Writers and worksA B(1 )Charlcs Dickens A. Battle of Books(2)Charlotte Bronte B. Pride and Prejudice(3)William Shakespeare C. Romeo and Juliet(4)Jane Austen D. Oliver Twist(5) Jonathan Swift E. Jane Eyre(6) William ThackerayF. Farie Queen(7) Edmund SpenserG. Ivanhoe(8) Sir. Walter Scott H. Mrs. Dalloway(9) Virginia Woolf I. Tom Jones(1 0) Henry Fielding J. Vanity FairB. Characters and works(1)Banquo A. Oliver Twist(2) Lydia B. Macbeth(3) NancyC. Robinson Crusoe(4) Friday D. Pride and Pejudice(5) Marianne E. Mrs. Warren' s Profession(6) Pip F. Sense and Sensibility(7) Vivie G. Great Expectations(8) Satan H. Paradise Lost(9) Sophia I. Wuthcring Heights(1 0) Catherine J. Tom JonesC Quotations and worksB.(3) I am Heathcliff!C. William ShakespeareD. T. S. Eliot(1) Shall I compare thee to a summer ? s day ? A. Jane Austen (2) It is a truth universallyacknowledged that every single manin possession of a good fortune. must be in want of a wife. William Wordsworth(4) My love is like a red, red rose.E. Emily Bronte(5)I wandered lonely as a cloud.(6)She walks in beauty like the night. F. Robert Burns(7)If winter comes, can spring be far behind? H. Percy Bysshe Shelly(8)Awake, arise, or be forever fallen. I. John Keats(9)Beauty is truth, truth beauty. J. John Milton(10)Let us go then, you and I K. George Gordon ByronIV.Terms. (You can choose four of the followings to give your definition.)1 .Sonnet2.Renaissance3.Alliteration4.British Romanticismke Poets/Lakers6.The Metaphysical SchoolV.Interpretation : Read the following selections and then answer the questions.Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.1.For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffodils.Questions ：(1 )What docs the poem describe?(2)Can you paraphrase the meaning o f “the bliss of the solitude?(3)What is the relation between man and nature, and in what way does the poem reflect some characteristics of Romanticism?2.It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.My dear Mr. Bennet, said his lady to him one day, have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?Mr. Bennet replied that he had not.But it is, returned she; for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it.Mr. Bennet made no answer.Do not you want to know who has taken it? cried his wife impatiently.You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.This was invitation enough.Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week.What is his name? Bingley. Is he married or single?Oh! single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year.What a fine thing for our girls!Questions：(1 )Why Mrs. Bennet insist Mr. Bennet visiting Netherfield and Mr. Bingley?(2)What kind of people are Mr. and Mrs. Bennet ?(3)The underlined sentence reveals the subject that interests Mrs.Bennet most. From the sentence can you discern why she is so excited?IV. Essay Question:In this part you arc asked to choose one topic from the followings and write a short essay. You should concentrate on those important points and demonstrate your ideas with brief, apt episodes or quotations from the Text. Try your best to be logical in your essay, (within 500 words)1 .Gulliver has made four travels to Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the land of Houyhnhnms. His travels away from England bring the readers closer to the problems of the English society. Use two or three examples to explain what kinds of problems the novel has revealed.e examples from Oliver Twist or Jane Eyre to illustrate the majorthemes of the novel.3.Select two major characters from Pride and Prejudice or Sense andSensibility to analyze the characteristics of these characters.4.Who is the real victim of Macbeth? How to understand its tragic factors? Use relative quotations to illustrate your viewpoints.。
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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.。
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Part I Multiple Choice (30 points, 30×1)Directions: In this part of the test, there are thirty items. Choose the best answer and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.1.Which of the following is NOT a feature of Beowulf?2. English Renaissance Period was an age of .3. The main literary form of the early 17th century was poetry. John Milton was acknowledgedas the greatest. Besides him, there were two groups of poets. They were the Cavalier poets and .4 .The greatest poet of the Middle English period is__________ ,the father of Englishpoetry.5. Which of the following can be said of the essence of the Renaissance?6. In Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, which of the following is the typical characte ristic the heroes share in common?7. In the field of literature, the Enlightenment Movement brought about the tendency of _______8. “The curfew tolls the knell of parting day/ The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea” These lines are taken from ________.9. One of the distinct features of the Elizabethan time is __________.10. The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events,which one of the following is not such an event?11. Don Juan is written by __________.12. Heathcliff is character of the novel ____________.13. Which of the following works were not written by Defoe?14. Which of the following statements about Paradise Lost is true?15. The 18th-century England is known as ________16. ________ compiled The Dictionary of the English Language which became the foundation ofall the subsequent English dictionaries.17. English Romanticism began in 1798 with the publication of ________and ended in 1832with’s ________ death and the passage of the first Reform Bill.18. Which of the following statements about Paradise Lost is true? ________.19. Which of the following statements is true about John Keats’ poetry? ________.20. Jane Austen’s main literary concern is about the following except ________.21. What makes Jane Eyre one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age arethe followings except ________.22. Which of the following groups is not written by Charles Dickens? ________.23. The name of Robert Browning is often associated with the term ________.24. In many of Hardy’s novels, the fate of the characters is always driven by ________.25. Murder in the Cathedral, with its purely dramatic power, remains the most popularof________ verse plays in spite of its primarily religious purpose.26. The overall style of Yeats’ early poetry is ________.27. Much of Bernard Shaw’s drama is constructed around the ________of a conventionaltheatrical situation. The device is an integral part of an interpretation of life.28. In her works, George Eliot is deeply concerned with the people and life of her time and tries topursue________.29. Which of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of 20th century literature?________.30. In his novels, Lawrence made a bold psychological exploration of various human relationshipsand believed that ________.31. The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of one ofShakespeare’s ________.32. “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 _______ .33. Which of the following can be said of the essence of the Renaissance? ________.34. The major concern of _______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development ofhis characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.35. Daniel Defoe describes _______ as a typical English Middle-class man of the eighteenthcentury, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.36. _______ is a typical feature of Swift's writings.37. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?…Andif God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you.”The above quoted passage is most probably taken from _______ .39. The Pilgrim’s Pr ogress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for_______ .40. Alexander Pope strongly advocated _______, emphasizing that literary works should bejudged by rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.41. After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennetis a woman of _______ .42. Of all the eighteenth-century novelists, _______ was the first to set out, both in theory andpractice, to write specifically a “comic epic in prose,” and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.43. In Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent _______ touch in his description of the simpleand beautiful though primitive rural life.44. We can perhaps describ e the west wind in Shelley’s poem “Ode to the West Wind” with allthe following terms except _______.45. In his novels, Lawrence made a bold psychological exploration of various human relationshipsand believed that ________.46. Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that ________.47. ________was composed in a dream after Coleridge took opium.48. Britain witnessed two major romantic poets in the latter half of the 18th century. They are________.49. Jane Austen’s main li terary concern is about the following except ________.50. What makes Jane Eyre one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age arethe followings except ________.51. The name of Robert Browning is often associated with the term ________.52. The overall style of Yeats’ early poetry is ________.53. In her works, George Eliot is deeply concerned with the people and life of her time and tries topursue________.54. Which of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of 20th century literature?________.55. In the last few decades of the 18th century, the neoclassicism was gradually replaced by________.Part II Match ( 10 points, 10×1)Directions: Choose the correct letters from the list of the authors for the following works and put them into the Table.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Henry FieldingC. Walter ScottD. George Gorden ByronE. William Makepeace ThackerayF. Thomas HardyG. James JoyceH. Charles DickensI. T. S. EliotJ. Oscar WildePart III TermsDirections: In this part of the test, there are five terms. Please give the definition for these terms. Scores will be given for the related contents. (20 points, 4x5)1. Epic2. Soliloquy3. Romanticism4. Realism5. Modernism6. Renaissance7. Classicism8.Romanticism 9. Stream of consciousness 10. Heroic coupletPart IV Appreciation(20 points 6, 7, 7)Directions: In this part of the test, there are three excerpts. Each of the excerpts is followed by several questions. Read the excerpts and answer the questions.Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, William Wordsworth: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, William Shakespeare ：Sonnet 18 William Blake：The Typer Robert Burns：A Red Red RosePART V COMMENT(20 points 1×20)Directions: Choose one of the following questions to write an ESSAY of at least 200 words. 1. Elizabeth Bennet, the heroine in Pride and Prejudice, is often regarded as the most successful character created by Jane Austen. Make a brief comment on Elizabeth’s character.2. Make a brief comment on Pride and Prejudice.。
英国文学期末考试题四川大学锦江学院
英国文学期末考试题四川大学锦江学院I. Multiple Choice（50 points in all, 1for each）Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completesthe statement. Write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.1.The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?"is the beginning line of one ofShakespeare’s .A. comediesB. tragediesC. sonnetsD. histories2.The major concern of fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of hischaracters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalistindustrialization on human nature.A. Charles Dickens’sB. D. H. Lawrence’ｓC. Thomas Hardy’sD. John Galsworthy’ｓ3.Daniel Defoe describes as a typical English middle-class man of the eighteenth century, thevery prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.A. Tom JonesB. GulliverC. Moll FlandersD. Robinson Crusoe4."She lived unknown, and few could knowWhen Lucy ceased to be;But she is in her grave, and, oh,The difference to me?""She Dwelt The word "me" in the last line of the above stanza quoted from Wordsworth’s poem Among the Untrodden Ways" may possibly refer to .A. the poetB. the readerC. her one-sided loverD. everybody5. is a typical feature of Sw ift’s writings.A. Bitter satireB. Elegant styleC. Casual narrationD. Complicated sentence structure6.The statement "It reveals the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminalunderworld life" may well sum up the main theme of Dickens’s .A. David CopperfieldB. Bleak HouseC. Great ExpectationsD. Oliver Twist7."Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? ... Andif God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for meto leave you."The above quoted passage is most probable taken from .A. Pride and PrejudiceB. Jane EyreC. Wuthering HeightsD. Great Expectations8.The short story“Eveline”is one of the stories in James Joyce’s collection .A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManB. UlyssesC. Finnegans WakeD. Dubliners9.In William Blake’s poetry, the father (and any other in whom he saw the image of the fathersuch as God, priest, and king) was usually a figure of .A. benevolenceB. admirationC. loveD. tyranny10.After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet isa woman of .A. simple character and quick witB. simple character and poor understandingC. intricate character and quick witD. intricate character and poor understandingfor more, Oliver11.“For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of askingOliver Twist) What did remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room ...”(Dickens,Oliver ask for?A. More time to play.B. More food to eat.C. More book to read.D. More money to spend.is a (n) .12.Christopher Marlow’ｓ“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”A. pastoral lyricB. elegyC. folk songD. epicthere is a apparent touch in his description of the simple and13.In Hardy’s Wessex novels,beautiful though primitive rural life.A. humorousB. romanticC. nostalgicD. sarcastic“Brobdingnag,”14.In which of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput,”“Houyhnhnm,” and “Yahoo”?Ulysses. B. Charles Dickens’sBleak House.A. James Joyce’sWomen in love.s Travels. D. D. H. Lawrence’sGulliver’C. Jonathan Swift’s"Ode to the West Wind" with all the15.We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley’s poemfollowing terms except .A. tamedB. swiftC. proudD. wild16.“When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table.”(T.s.) What does the image in the quoted lines suggest?Eliot, “The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock”A. Violence.B. Horror.C. Inability.D. Indifference.17.Which of the following qualifies does NOT feature Jane Austen's style?A.Austen's main literary concern is about human beings in their personal relationships.B.Everything in Austen's novel results in an observation, of a quiet, uneventful and contentedlife of the English country.C.Austen is a great realist and her characters are from all walks of life.D.Austen's works show clearly her firm belief in the predominance of reason over passion.18.The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic pictureof the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks oflife is most likely .Piers Plowman B. Geoffrey Chaucer’ｓThe Canterbury TalesA. William Langland’sConfession Amantis D. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC. John Gower’19." Damn the fool! There he is’, cried Heathcliff, sinking back into his seat. ’HusHush, hush, Catherine! I’ll stay. If he shot me so, I’d expire with a blessing in my lips.novel from which the passage is taken must be .Pride and PrejudiceA.Jane Austen’sThe Old Curiosity ShopB.Charles Dickens’sPamelaC.Samuel Richa rdson’sWuthering HeightsD.Emily Bronte’s20.James Joyce is the author of all the following novels except .A. DublinersB. Jude the ObscureC. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManD. Ulysses21.Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious aless sympathetic but more ironic and more .A. rationalB. humorousC. optimisticD. pessimistic22."He was afraid of her - the small, severe woman with graying hair suddenly bursting out in suchfrenzy. The postman came running back, afraid something had happened. They saw his trippedcap over the short curtains. Mrs. Morel rushes to the door." The above passage is taken from.Domebey and SonThe Professor B. Ch arles Dickens’ｓA. Charlotte Bronte’sThe Forsyte SagaC. D. H. Lawrence ’s Sons and Lovers D. John Galsworthy’s23.Tess of the D’Urbervilles, one of Thomas Hardy’s best known novels, portrays man as.A. being hereditarily either good or badB. being self-sufficientC. having no control over his own fateD. still retaining his own faith in a world of confusion24.Romance, which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of adventures or other heroicdeeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A. ChristianB. KnightlyC. GreekD. Primitive25."Bassanio: Antonio, I am married to a wifeWhich is as dear to me as life itself;But life itself, my wife, and all the world,Are not with me esteem’d above thy life;I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all,Here to the devil, to deliver you.Portia: Your wife would give you little thanks for that,If she were by to hear you make the offer."The Merchant of Venice. The quoted The above is a quotation taken from Shakesp eare’s comedypart can be regarded as a good example to illustrate .A. dramatic ironyB. personificationC. simileD. symbolism26."If Winter comes, can spring be far behind?"is an epigrammatic line by .A. J. KeatsB. W. BlakeC. W. WordsworthD. P. B. Shelley27.The Victorian Age was largely and age of , eminently represented by Dickens andThackeray.A. poetryB. dramaC. proseD. novel28.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?A. To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.B. To put the stress on traditional values.C. To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment.D. To advocate a conscious break with the past.29."And we will sit upon the rocks, /Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, /By shallow rivers towhose falls/ Melodious birds sing madrigals." The above lines are probably taken from .Paradise LostA. John Milton’s"The Sun Rising"B. John Donne’s"Sonnet 18"C. Shakespeare’ｓ"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"D. Marlowe’s30.The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the in theAmerican literary history.A. individual feelingsB. idea of survival of the fittestC. strong imaginationD. return to nature31.The essence of humanism is to .A. restore a medieval reverence for the churchB. avoid the circumstances of earthly lifeC. explore the next world in which men could live after deathD. emphasize human qualities32.The poetic view of can be best understood from his remark about poetry, that is, "allgood poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings."A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. John KeatsC. William WordsworthD. Percy Bysshe Shelly33.In his poem, "Ode to the West Wind," Shelley intends to present his wind as a centralaround which the poem weaves various cycles of death and rebirth.A. conceptB. symbolC. simileD. personificationhis deepest tone, speaking in 34.“Come to me－come to me entirely now,” said he ; and added, inhappiness－I will make yours.” The above my ear as his cheek was laid on mine, “Make mypassage presents a scene in .Jane EyreA. Emily Bronte’sWithering Height s B. Charlotte Bronte’sTess of the D′ Urbervilles The Forsyte Saga D. Thomas Hardy’sC. John Galswo rthy’s35.Which of the following best describes the nature of Thomas Hardy’s later works?A. Sentimentalism.B. Tragic sense.C. Surrealism.D. Comic sense.36.A possible theme of James Joyce’s short story"Araby" is .A. hopeB. disillusionmentC. puppy loveD. loss37.The Normans brought the Mediterranean civilization, include to England.A. Greek cultureB. Roman lawC. the Christian religionD. all of above38.The Enlighteners believed in EXCEPT .A.They believed in self-restraint, self-reliance and hard work.B.They believed in God and fate.C.They celebrated reason/rationality, equality and science.D.They advocated universal education, which could make people rational and perfect, theybelieved.39.In the poem “A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye!－Fair as a star, when onlyone Is shining in the sky.” What literary devices are used?A. simile and personificationB. simile and metaphorC. metaphor and symbolD. simile and pun40.In Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed fromShylock, because .A．his money was all invested in the newly-emerging textile industryB．his enterprise went bankruptC．Bassanio was able to pay his own debtD．his ships had all been lost41. In the first part of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver told his experience in .A. BrobdingnagB. LilliputC. Flying IslandD. Houyhnhnm42. All of the following novels by Thomas Hardy reveal the conflict between the traditional and themodern EXCEPTA. The Mayor of CasterbridgeB. Tess of the D’UrbervillesC. Jude the ObscureD. Under the Greenwood Tree43. D. H. Lawrence’s novel is a rema rkable novel in which the individual consciousness i ssubtly revealed and strands of themes are intricately wound up.A. Sons and LoversB. The RainbowC. Woman in LoveD. Lady Chatterley’s Lover44. All of the following plays are among Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies EXCEPT。
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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)。
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.。
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1. Hamlet, , King Lear and Macbeth are generally regarded as Shakespeare's four great tragedies.
2.___________ was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.
3. Of Bacon‟s literary works, the most important are the ___________.
4. Milton gave us the only _________ since Beowulf, and Bunyan gave us the only great _________.
5. Defoe's masterpiece ___________ is based upon the experiences of Alexander Selkirk, who had been marooned in the island of Juan Fernadez off the coast of Chile and who had had lived there in solitude for five years.
6. Alexander Pope was called the representative poet in the ________ Age.
7. ________is regarded as the “father of English prose”, who was the first to write essays in the English language.
8. In the 17th century, John Donne, Andrew Marvell, and George Herbert were the typical poets in the school of .
9. Name three types of sonnet in English literature. They are , , . 10. As a whole, the 18th century is an age of _________ rather than of _________, and in this respect it differs from all the preceding ages of English literature.
III. Explain the following literary terms in your own words. (20%)
A. 1. epic
2. romance
3.Blank verse
4.Sonnet
5.Allegory
B. C-E translation:
1. 人文主义
2. 喜剧
3．感伤主义 4 史诗5．十四行诗
IV. Identify the names of the works from which the characters come: (15%):
1. Christian and Faithful from___________________
2. Portia, Bassanio and Shylock from___________________
3. Robinson and Friday from____________________
4. The Nun and Wife of Bath from____________________
5. Satan, Adam and Eve from____________________
6. Ophelia and the Prince of Denmark from__________________
7. Beowulf and Grendal, the monster from__________________
IV. Identify the following quotations by indicating the FULL NAMES of the authors and the WORKS from which they are taken. (15%)
1. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.
Author Work
2.When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide
Author Work
3. Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of the town is Vanity; Author Work
4. Shall I compare thee to a summer‟s day?
Thou are more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer‟s lease hath all too short a date:
Author Work
5.Go and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root,
Tell me where all past years are,
Or who cleft the Devil‟s foot,
Author Work
6. As soon as April pierces to the root
The drought of March, and bathes each bud and shoot
Author Work
7. All is not lost: the unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to be submit or yield:
And what is else not to be overcome?
Author Work
V.(20%)
A)The following stanza is taken from Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
Rewrite them in your own words and tell briefly the main idea conveyed in these lines.
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether …tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them.
B) The following lines are taken from Sonnet 18 by William
Shakespeare. Rewrite them in your own words and tell briefly the main idea conveyed in these lines.
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow‟st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wand‟rst in his shade,
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.。