自考英美文学选读00604考前串讲(2)
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英美文学考前串讲（2）
Part One: English Literature
Chapter I An Introduction to Old and Medieval English Literature & The Renaissance Period
I. Choose the right answer:
1. Dr. Faustus is a play based on the _____legend of a magician aspiring for ____ and finall
y meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.
A.British/ immorality
B.French/money
C.German/knowledge
D.American/political power
Answer: C (可参考课本P21)
2. _____, is a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded today as the national epic
of the Anglo-Saxons.
A.The Wife’s Complaint
B.Beowulf
C.The Dream of the Rood
D.The Seafarer
Answer: B (可参考课本P1)
3.It’s Chaucer alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a compr
ehensive realistic picture of the English Society in his masterpiece__________.
A.The Canterbury Tales
B.The Legend of Good Women
C.Troilus and Criseyde
D. The Romaunt of the Rose.
Answer: A (可参考课本P4)
4. The Essence of Renaissance, the most significant intellectual movement, was_____.
A. Geographical exploration
B. Religious reformation
C. Publishing and translation
D. Humanism.
Answer: D (可参考课本P8)
5. “Prince Arthur’s greatest mission is his search for Gloriana, with whom he has fallen i
n love through a love vision.”The two figures come from_____.
A.Paradise Lost
B.Dr. Faustus
C.The Faerie Queene
D.Hamlet
Answer: C (可参考课本P13)
6. In “Sonnet 18”, Shakespeare_________________.
A.Meditate on the destructive power of time and eternal beauty by poetry.
B.Satirize human’s vanity.
C.Predict the eternity of love.
D.Eulogize the power of the beauty.
Answer: A (P37)
7. ____ gave new vigor to the blank verse with his “mighty lines” and make ’blank verse’
the principle vehicle of expression in drama.
A.Surrey
B.Wyatt
C.Marlowe
D.Sidney
Answer: C (P21)
8. Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are the following works except____.
A.Hamlet
B.King Lear
C.Romeo and Juliet
D.Othello
Answer: C (P33)
9. The Renaissance refers to between 14th----mid-17th century, which was under the reign of Queen___and absolute monarchy in England reached its summit, and in which the ’real mainstr
eam (真正的文学主流)’ was ____.
A.Victoria/poetry
B.Elizabeth/ drama
C.Mary/ novel
D.James/ drama
Answer: B (P11)
10. In The Legend of Good Women, Chaucer used for the first time in English the rhymed coupl