吴伟仁《英国文学史及选读》模拟试题及详解(一)【圣才出品】

第二部分模拟试题

吴伟仁《英国文学史及选读》模拟试题及详解（一）

I. Fill in the blanks

1. The fifteenth century has been traditionally described as the barren age in English literature. But it is the spring tide of English _______.

【答案】ballads

【解析】十五世纪英国歌谣开始兴起。

2. _______ is the representative among the writers of aestheticism and decadence. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a typical decadent novel written by him.

【答案】Oscar Wilde

【解析】奥斯卡·王尔德（Oscar Wilde）是19世纪末英国唯美派剧作家、诗人、小说家和文学批评家。《道林·格雷的画像》（The Picture of Dorian Gray）是王尔德最出色的作品，最为详细地阐述了他的颓废主义思想。

3. Thomas Hardy’s novel _______tells a story about a poor villager’s love affairs with a married school mistress named Sue.

【答案】Jude the Obscure

【解析】《无名的裘德》讲述的是一个穷村妇爱上了一个已婚女教师的故事。

4. Cordelia is a character in ______.

【答案】King Lear

【解析】Cordelia是莎士比亚著名悲剧《李尔王》中的李尔王最小的女儿。

5. Emma was written by .

【答案】Jane Austen

【解析】《爱玛》是简·奥斯汀较有影响的一部长篇小说。

II. Multiple Choice

1. _______ creative work vividly reflected the changes which had taken root in English culture of the second half of the 14th century.

A. Chaucer’s

B. Byron’s

C. Shelley’s

D. Eliot’s

【答案】A

【解析】乔叟的作品栩栩如生地反映了14世纪下半叶英国文化发生的变化。

2. “Marriage of Heaven and Hell” was written by .

A. Robert Burns

B. Christopher Marlow

C. Thomas Percy

D. William Blake

【答案】D

【解析】《天堂与地狱的婚礼》是英国前浪漫主义诗人布莱克的著名诗歌。

3. “Denmark is a prison.” In which play does the hero summarize his observation of his world into such a bitter sentence?

A. Charles I

B. Othello

C. Henry VIII

D. Hamlet

【答案】D

【解析】《哈姆雷特》是莎士比亚著名的四大悲剧之一，丹麦王子哈姆雷特目睹了国家统治阶级的残暴与黑暗，人民生活在水深火热之中，由此感慨道：“丹麦就是一座监狱。”

4.During the 1950s，there appeared a group of young writers in Britain who were fiercely critical of the established order. They were called _______.

A. Angry Young Fellows

B. Critical Young Writers

C. Angry Young Men

D. Cynical Young Writers

【答案】C

【解析】“Angry Young Men”来自于John Osborne的戏剧Look Back in Anger, 属

于这一群体的还有Kingsley Amis, John Wain, John Braine, Alan Sillitoe. 他们大多来自工人或低中等阶层，作品主要显示了生活的艰辛和黑暗，揭露了上层阶级的虚伪。

5. The epic of Paradise Lost is based on the stories from ______.

A. The New Testament

B. The Old Testament

C. The Ancient Greek Myths

D. The Ancient Roman Myths

【答案】B

【解析】《失乐园》的故事取材于《圣经·旧约》Genesis 3:1-24。

III. Explain the following term

1.blank verse

【答案】Blank verse:Blank verse is a type of poetry, distinguished by having a regular meter, but no rhyme. In English, the meter most commonly used with blank verse has been iambic pentameter （as used in Shakespearean plays）. The first known use of blank verse in the English language was by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. Christopher Marlowe was the first English author to make full use of the potential of blank verse, and also established it as the dominant verse form for English drama in the age of Elizabeth I and James I. The major achievements in English blank verse were made by William Shakespeare, who wrote much of the content of his plays in unrhymed iambic pentameter, and Milton, whose Paradise