英国文学试卷

Questions 1-10 (10 points)

There are 10 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the answer that best completes the sentence. Then circle the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

1. Scrooge is a character created by ______.

A. Jane Austen

B. William Shakespeare

C. Charles Dickens

D. William Wordsworth

2. Which type of the text would you consider as literature?

A. newspaper stories

B. short stories

C. business letter

D. memo

3. “Pygmalion” is a ______ by ______.

A. short story, Bernard Shaw

B. play, Bernard Shaw

C. poem, W. B. Y eats

D. play, W. B. Y eats

4. “A Red Red Rose” is known as “ballad stanza”. This poetic form usually contains ______ rhymed lines in each stanza.

A. 4

B. 6

C. 2

D. 8

5. In literary language, especially, in the language of poetry, poets are “privileged” to break some of the commonly observed rules in their use of language. This is what is known as ______.

A. dramatic measurement

B. artistic ways

C. poetic licence

D. reader’s Digest

6. A speech, often of some length, in which a character, alone on the stage, expresses his

thoughts and feelings, is known as ______.

A. speculation

B. figure of speech

C. soliloquy

D. flashback

7. Hamlet, Othello and King Lear are well-known tragedies by Shakespeare, together with ______.

A. Merchant of V enice

B. Midsummer Night’s dream

C. As you Like it

D. Macbeth

8. The term ______ is the jargon used to indicate the essential structure in a story, the pattern, the order which a story is built up and which holds it together, the storyline.

A. exposition

B. plot

C. climax

D. classic plot structure

9. “Wuthering Heights” is a house where the main characters live ______ according to the novel.

A. on a plain

B. on a moor

C. in a valley

D. in a hill

10. The method that the writer uses to start his story in the middle of the event, rather than in the beginning is called ______, a latin phrase, literally translated as “in the middle of things.”

A. tension

B. elaboration

C. denouement

D. in media rest

Questions 11-15 (15 points)

There are 5 incomplete sentences in this part. Fill in the blanks with proper words or phrases to complete each sentence. Write your answers on the answer sheet.

11. Please list 3 types of literary genre ______, ______, ______.

12. In discussing themes of the literary works, the writer usually uses four ways of giving his or her ideas, please write at least 3 of them ______, ______, ______.

13. There are usually 5 elements involved in reading fictions and dramas. They are setting, ______, ______, ______ and conflict.

14. Is Jane Eyre a round character or flat character? Give at least one reason to support your point. ____________.

15. List at least 3 different types of conflicts mentioned in the textbook. ______, ______, ______.

Section II: Checking Understanding of English Poems (16 points) (Questions 16-19)

Here is a short poem by American poet Joyce Kilmer. He talks about trees in the poem. Read the poem carefully and answer questions below. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.

Trees

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest

Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,

And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in Summer wear

A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;

Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,

But only God can make a tree.

—— Joyce Kilmer