英国文学史模拟试题演示教学

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英国文学史模拟试题

I ．Fill in the blanks 1*10

1. Lake Poets refer to three famous poets in Romanticism period, they are ( ), ( ), ( ).

2. Romanticism stared with the Publication of William Wordsworth ' (s ) in collaboration with S.T Coleridge.

3. ( ) is the highest form of literary expression.

4. In his poems Wordsworth ' s aimed at () and ( ) of the language, fighting against

the conventional forms of the 18 th century poetry.

5. ( ), Byron ' s greatest work, was written in the prime of his creative p ower, in the year 1818 -1823.

6. Shelley deemed it his duty to publish his religious views in a pamphlet entitled ( ).

7. The English Romantic period produced two major novelists: Scott and ( ).

II ．Answer the following questions. 5*5

1. What are Romanticism and its typical literary style?

2. What does west wind stand for?

3. Describe the theme of Tintern Abbey

4. What is truth, goodness and beauty in Ode on a Grecian Urn

5. The writing style of Jane Austen?

III ．Translation and comment 5*5+2*10

1. For oft, when on my couch I lie Wordsworth

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude

And then my heart with pleasure fills

And dances with the daffodils

2. And on the pedestal, these words appear: Keats

My name is Ozymandias, Kings of Kings,

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

3. My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one! Shelly

Drive my dead thoughts over the universe

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Like wither'd leaves to quicken a new birth!

And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguish'd hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!

Be through my lips to unawaken'd earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

4. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. 勃朗宁

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal of Grace I love thee to the level of everyday 's Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight I love thee freely, as men strive for Right I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise I love thee with the passion put to use

5. When critics disagree the artist is in accordance with himself 王尔德

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires in intensely. All art is quite useless.

6. Here, where men sit and hear each other groan Keats

Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies

Where but to think is to be full of sorrow

And leaden-eyed despairs

Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes

Or new Love pine at them beyond tomorrow Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three-and-twenty years had been sufficient to make his wife understand his character. Her mind was less difficult to develop. She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. Jane Austin

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VI ．Composition 2*10 2.

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4. Main differences between pure language and instrumental language.

6. How do you understand Aestheticism in Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray