答案英国文学专八人文知识模拟80题
1.What is the name of the dictionary compiled by Samuel Johnson?
A) First English Dictionary B) Dictionary of English Language.
C) A Dictionary of the English Language. D) Dictionary of the English Language.
2. _____is a fork legend brought to England by Anglo-Saxons from their continental homes, it is a long poem of over 3000 lines and the national epic of the English people.
A Beowulf；
B sir Gawain；
C the Canterbury tale；
D king Arthur and his knights
3. The father of English poetry, the author of Troilus and Criseyde is also the one of ____.
A Romeo and Juliet；
B the faerie queen；
C Tamburlainc；
D the Canterbury tales
4. The group of Shakespeare plays known as “romance”or “reconciliation plays”is ______.
A merchant of Venice, as you like it；
B the tempest, pericles, the winter’s tale
C Romeo and Juliet, antonym and Cleopatra
5. Which of the following are regarded as Shakespeare’s four great tragedies?
A Romeo and Juliet, hamlet, Othello, King Lear；
B Romeo and Juliet, hamlet, Othello, Macbeth
C hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth；
D Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Macbeth, Timon of Athens
6. Which of the following is not the work of Francis bacon?
A advancement of learning；
B new instrument；
C songs of innocence；
D essays
7. At the beginning of 17th century appeared a school of poets called metaphysics by Samuel Johnson, ____is the founder of metaphysical poetry.
A Ben Johnson；
B john Milton；
C john Bunyan；
D john Donne
8. Daniel Defoe is a famous____.
A poet；
B novelist；
C playwright；
D essayist
9. “He has a servant called Friday.”“he”in the quoted sentence is a character in______.
A Henry fielding’s tom jones；
B john Bunyan’the pilgrim’s progress
C Richard brinsley Sheridan’s the school for scandal；
D Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
10. Guiiliver’travel was written by____.
A Daniel Defoe；
B Charles dickens；
C Jonathan swift；
D Joseph Addison
11. William Wordsworth is generally known as a ____poet.
A romantic；
B realistic；
C naturalistic；
D neo-classic
12. “Ode to the west wind”was written by the author of ___.
A “I wandered lonely as a cloud”；
B “Kubla Khan”；
C “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”
D “As Defense of Poetry”
13. #Which of the following poets does not belong to the school of romantic poets?
A William Wordsworth；
B Percy Bysshe Shelley；
C George Gordon Byron；
D John Donne
14. Charles Dickens wrote all of the following except ___.
A Oliver Twist；
B David Copperfield；
C A Tale of Two Cities；
D Heart of Darkness
15. “A Red, Red Rose”was written by ___.
A Alexandra Pop；
B Robert Burns；
C William Blake；
D John Keats
16. Pip is the character of Charles Dickens’novel ___.
A Oliver Twist；
B David Copperfield；
C A Tale of Two Cities；
D Great Expectations
17. Sense and Sensibility is a ___ by ___.
A play…Jane Austen；
B novel…Jane Austen；
C play…Emily Bronte；
D novel…Anne Bronte
18. In reading Shakespeare, you must have come across the line “To be or not to be---that is the question”by___.
A Iago in Othello;
B Lear in King Lear;
C Shylock in the Merchant of Venice;
D Hamlet in Hamlet
19. Robert Browning’s “My last Duchess”is composed in the form of a(n) ___.
A dramatic monologue；
B extended metaphor；
C syllogistic argument；
D dialogue
20. Thomas Hardy wrote novels of __.
A character and environment；
B pure romance；
C “stream of consciousness”；
D psychoanalysis
21. “Wessex novels”refers to the novels written by ___.
A Charles Dickens
B D.H. Lawrence
C James Joyce
D Thomas Hardy
22.The sentence “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s_____.
A comedies
B tragedies
C sonnets
D histories
23. contribution to English lies chiefly in the fact that he introduced from France the rhymed stanza of various types, especially the rhymed couplet of 5 accents in iambic meter---the heroic couplet to English poetry.
A William Shakespeare’s；
B G eoffrey Chaucer’s；
C Thomas more’s；
D Edmund Spenser’s
24. Spenserian stanza is a form of poetry first employed by Edmund Spenser in his long poetry_____.
A the faerie queene；
B the shepherd’s calendar；
C epithalamion；
D amoretti
25. Francis bacon is a ____.
A poet；
B playwright；
C essayist；
D novelist
26. We can perhaps describe the west wind in shelly’s poem “ode to the west wind”with all the following terms except_____.
A tamed；
B swift；
C proud；
D wild
27. The novel starts with “it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune ,must be in want of a wife.”The novel is Jane Austen’____.
A Emma；
B persuasion；
C sense and sensibility；
D pride and prejudice
28. The major concern of ____ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.
A Charles dickens’s；
B D.H .Lawrence’s；
C Thomas hardy’s；
D john Galsworthy’s
29. “do you think, 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 Is quoted from_______.
A pride and prejudice；
B Jane Eyre；
C Wuthering heights；
D great expectations
30. Which of the following is not one of the Bronte sisters?
A charlotte Bronte；
B Anne Bronte；
C jenny Bronte；
D Emily Bronte
31. Shakespeare wrote all the following works EXCEPT _____
A. Hamlet
B. King Lear
C. Othello
D. Wuthering Heights
32. ____was NOT written by Charles Dickens.
A. David Copperfield
B. Oliver Twist、
C. Sons and Lovers
D. A Tale of Two Cities
33. In which novel can "Yahoo" be found?
A John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress；
B Edmund Spencer’s The Faerie Queen
C Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels；
D Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
34.Dover Beach is written by ____
A Robert Browning
B Alfred Tennyson
C Mathew Arnold
D Dylan Thomas
35. Wordsworth’s poetry, divided by the subjects, falls into two major groups: one about ___ and the other about ___..
A nature, human life;
B society, human nature;
C human life, social system;
D universe, human spirit
36 The reading of the first chapter of the novel Pride and Prejudice has led the reader to the understanding of Mrs. Bennet as a woman of ___.
A simple character and mean understanding;
B intricate character and short temper
C simple character and good education ;
D intricate character and outstanding talent
37 As a romantic poet, William Wordsworth advocated the following EXCEPT ___.
A the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings;
B the use of colloquialism spoken by the masses
C elegant wordings and inflated figures of speech;
D the humble and rustic life as subject matter
38The following plays are comedies by Shakespeare EXCEPT ___.
A A Midsummer Night’s Dream
B As You Like It
C The Merchant of Venice
D Romeo and Juliet
39 “The novel is structured around the discovery of the hero’s origin.”Probably this refers to the novel ___.
A Wuthering Heights;
B The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling;
C David Copperfield;
D Gulliver’s Travels 40#___ was considered to be the greatest dramatist in the 18th century.
A Henry Fielding;
B Laurence Sterne;
C Oliver Goldsmith;
D Richard B. Sheridan
41 “Pamela”by Samuel Richardson is written in forms of ____.
A diary;
B letter;
C autobiography;
D reminiscences
42 “Clarissa harlowe”by Samuel Richardson is written in forms of ____.
A diary ;
B letter;
C autobiography;
D reminiscences
43 The adventure of Roderick random is written by___.
A Samuel Richardson;
B Tobias smolett;
C Lawrence sterne ;
D henry fielding
44The life and opinions of Tristan shandy is written by___.
A Samuel Richardson;
B Tobias smolett;
C Lawrence sterne;
D henry fielding
45 __ named his own realistic novels as “comic epic in prose”.
A Henry fielding;
B Charles dickens ;
C jack London;
D Tobias smolett
46 “Lyrical ballads”were written by___ and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
A Robert burns;
B Robert southey ;
C William wordsworth;
D percy bysshe shelley
47 George Gordon byron was most famous for_____.
A don juan;
B ode to the west wind;
C kubla khan;
D ode to a nightingale
48 George Gordon byron created a “Byronic hero”firstly in his____.
A Prometheus unbound;
B childe herald’s pilgrimage;
C kubla khan ;
D ode on a Grecian urn
49 Prometheus unbound was written by___ who also wrote____.
A George Gordon byron …childe herald’s pilgrimage;
B percy bysshe shelley..ode to a nightingale
C George Gordon byron …ode to west wind;
D percy bysshe shelley…ode to west wind
50 John keats is the author of____.
A ode to a skylark and ode to a nightingale;
B ode on a Grecian urn and ode to west wind
C ode on a Grecian urn and ode to a nightingale;
D ode to west wind and ode to a nightingale 的美女编辑们
51 “The Graveyard Poets”got the name because ___.
A they chose to live near graveyards;
B they often wrote about death and melancholy
C they always wrote about dead people;
D they often use “graveyard”as the title
52It is generally understood that the recurrent theme in many of Thomas Hardy’s novel is ___.
A man against nature;
B love and marriage;
C social criticism;
D fate and destiny
53 The Romantic Period in English literature began with the publication of ___.
A William Blake’s Songs of Innocence;
B Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
C Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads;
D a piece of land
54 It is generally regarded that Keats’most important and mature poems are in the form of ___.
A ode
B elegy
C epic
D sonnet
55G.B. Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a realistic exposure of the ___ in the English society.
A slum landlordism;
B inequality between men and women
C political corruption;
D economic exploitation of women
56 The Preface to Shakespeare and Lives of the Poets are the works of critic ___.
A G.B. Shaw
B Samuel Johnson
C Ben Johnson
D E.M. Foster
57The Ring and the Book is a masterpiece of ___.
A Alfred Tennyson
B Robert Browning
C Thomas Hardy
D Ralph Waldo Emerson
58 Matthew Arnold is the writer of ___.
A Dover Beach
B My last Duchess
C Break, Break, Break
D The Eagle
59 The writer of Heart of Darkness is also the one of ___.
A Time of Machine
B Jim
C Lord Jim
D A Passage to India
60 Of Human Bondage is a novel by ___.
A Herbert George Wells;
B Arnold Bennett;
C William Somerset Maugham;
D John Galsworthy
61 Percy Bysshe Shelly is famous for ___.
A Ode to a Skylark and Ode to a Nightingale;
B Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode to the West Wind;
C Ode to a;Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian Urn;
D Ode to the West Wind and Ode to a Skylark
62 “Three of four families in a country village is something to work.”This statement was presented by ___.
A Emily Bronte;
B Jane Austen;
C Mrs. Gaskell;
D George Eliot
63George Eliot wrote all the following except ___.
A The Mill of Floss;
B Silas Marner;
C Middlemarch;
D Agnes Grey
64 The novel Vanity Fair was written by ___.
A William Makepeace Thackeray;
B Charles Dickens;
C O. Henry;
D Henry James
65 Vanity Fair was a novel written by William Makepeace Thackeray, and the term “vanity fair”firstly appeared in ___ by ___.
A Canterbury Tales …Geoffrey Chaucer;
B The Pilgrim’s Progress …John Bunyan
C Tome Jones …Henry Fielding;
D Dubliners …James Joyce
66 The novel Vanity Fair was written by William Makepeace Thackeray who also wrote ___.
A The Way of all life;
B The History of Henry Esmond;
C Sister Carrie;
D Howard’s End
67 Barchester Series is a series of novels written by ___.
A Barchester;
B Thomas Hardy;
C Anthony Trollope;
D Mark Twin
68 Erehwon is a satiric novel written by ___.
A Samuel Butler;
B Henry Fielding;
C Thomas More;
D Mark Twin
69In “the lake Isle of Innisfree”William Butler Yeats Express his ___?
A desire to escape from the materialistic society;
B fear caused by the impending war
C interest in the Irish legend;
D Love for Maud Gonne, a beautiful Irish actress
70 Walter Scott’s historical novels cover a long period of time, from the Middle Ages to 18th century. His work Ivanhoe deals an epoch of ___ history.
A English;
B French;
C Scotland;
D Irish
71 As a literary figure, Stephen Dedalus appears in two novel by____.
A D.H Lawrence;
B John Galsworthy;
C George Eliot;
D James Loyce
72 The French lieutenant’s woman is the masterpiece of ____.
A john Fowles;
B Doris lessing;
C Muriel spark;
D Joseph Conrad
73 The golden notebook was written by____.
A john fowels;
B Doris lessing;
C Muriel spark;
D Joseph Conrad
74 Waiting for Godot is a(an)____by Samuel beckett.
A novel;
B poem;
C play;
D essay
75 “kitchen sink realism”is referred to as the works of ___.
A novel;
B poem;
C play;
D essay
76 Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize of literature in 1995 and most of his poems focused on the ___.
A city life;
B legend;
C country;
D history
77 an article on “the observer”describes the bursting of all these young ___as a kind of “the movement”.
A poets;
B playwright;
C novelist;
D critic
78 The novel ___told a story of a Nazi war criminal, in this novel Martin Amis set the narrative clock in reverse.
A money, a suicide note;
B time’s arrow;
C London fields;
D dead bodies
79 satanic verses was written by___who was born in a muslin family in Bombay, India.
A salman Rushdie;
B kazoo ishguro;
C julian barnes;
D grahm swift
80 the novel The Remains Of The Day won the booker prize for its author ___who was born in Japan.
A Salman Rushdie;
B kazoo ishguro;
C Julian Barnes;
D grahm swift
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英语专八人文知识考试总结 1 专八考试人文知识考试内容总结 其中英美文学包括英国文学和美国文学。英国文学主要分为六个时期： 1. Old and Medieval English Literature（中古英国文学）。 2. The Renaissance Period（文艺复兴时期）。 3. The Neoclassical Period（新古典主义时期）。 4. The Romantic Period（维多利亚时期）。 5. The Victorian Period（维多利亚时期）。 6. The Modern Period（现代时期）。 美国文学主要分为四个时期： 1. The Literature Around the Revolution of Independence（独立革命前后的文学）。 2. American Romanticism（美国浪漫主义文学）。 3. American Realism（美国现实主义文学）。 4. American Modernism（美国现代主义文学）。 语言学，考生不光要知道语言的本质还要掌握语音学，音位学，形态学，句法学，语义学和语言学的知识。 关于英语国家概况，英语专业的学生都会开设英美概况这门课程，但是专八考试的中需要考生了解的是英语国家概况，不光包括英国和美国，还有其他一些说英语的地区，包括爱尔兰概况，加拿大概况，澳大利亚概况和新西兰概况。 3专八人文知识:英国地理概况 the english channel: the channel is a narrow sea passage which separates england and france
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Instructions： This examination consists of 5 parts， and the total time for the examination is 2 hours. All the answers should be entered onto the Answer Sheet. Part I：Multiple Choices （10%） Choose the best answer to the following sentences. 1.Which of the following is NOT a feature of Beowulf？ A. Alliteration B. Anglo-Saxons’ early life in England C. Germanic language D. The national epic of Anglo-Saxon people 2.English Renaissance Period was an age of. A. prose and novel B. poetry and drama C. essays and journals D. ballads and songs 3.The main literary form of the early 17th century was poetry. John Milton was acknowledged as the greatest. Besides him， there were two groups of poets. They were the Cavalier poets and. A. the lake poets B. the university wits C. the Metaphysical poets D. the Romantic poets 4. Pamela is widely considered to be the first novel and was written by ___________. A. Thomas Hardy B. James Joyce C. Samuel Richardson D. Henry Fielding 5.The publication of， which was the joint work of William Wordsworth and Samuel T. Coleridge， marked the beginning of the Romantic Age in England. A. Don Juan B. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner C. Lyrical Ballads D. Queen Mab 6.Among the most famous realistic novelists of the Victorian age are， W. M. Thackeray， Bronte sisters， etc. A. Joseph Conrad B. Henry Fielding C. Charles Dickens D. D. H. Lawrence 7.In James Joyce’s ____________ the story “Eveline” paints a portrait of a young woman from Dublin deciding whether or not to leave her hometown. A. Ulysses B. Orlando C. Dubliners D. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 8.In the 18th century England， satire was much used in writing. Literature of this age produced some excellent satirists， such as Jonathan Swift， Henry Fielding and.
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1.The national epic of the Anglo-Saxons is ____. A Robin Hood B Sir Gawain and the Green Knight C The Canterbury Tales D Beowulf 2. ____was the most outstanding single romance on the Arthurian legend written in alliterative verse. A The Canterbury Tales B Piers the Plowman C Sir Gawain and the Green Knight D Beowulf 3. ____was famous for The Canterbury Tales. A Geoffrey Chaucer B John Milton C William Shakespeare D Francis Bacon 4. Most of the ballads of the 15th century focused on the legend about ____ as a heroic figure. A Green Nights B Gawain C Robin Hood D Hamlet 5.In the 16th century, Thomas More’s work ____became immediately popular after its publication. A Paradise Lost B A Pleasant Satire of the Three Estates C Of Studies D Utopia 6. ____was Edmund Spencer’s masterpiece which has been regarded as one of the grea t poems in the English language. A Amoretti B The Shepherd’s Calendar C The Faerie Queene D Four Hymns 7. ____ is from Shakespeare’s sonnet No.18. A “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” B “To be or not to be: that is the question” C “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” D “No longer mourn for me when I am dead” 8. _____, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London about 1340. A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Sir Gawain C. Francis Bacon D. John Dryden 9.The four great tragedies written by Shakespeare are Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and ___ _. A. Antony and Cleopatra B. Julius Caesar C Twelfth Night D King Lear 10. Which of the following does not belong to Shakespeare’s romantic love comedies? A Twelfth Night B The Tempest C As You Like It D The Merchant of Venice D C A C D C C A D B 1. All of the following are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England except______.
英国文学试题
1．{The Isles of Greece} QUESTIONS: 1. Who is the writer of these lines? Byron 2. It is taken from the writer's masterpiece entitled ___ "Don Juan"_________. 3. Who is "Sappho" in line 2? Sappho is an ancient Greek poetess , known for her passionate love lyrics. 4. Who is "Phoebus" in line 4? It's Apollo, the Greek Sun-god. 5. Whom does the "Scian muse" refer to? Homer, because Scio claimed to be the birthplace of Homer. 6. What does the whole section "The Isles of Greece" write about? The section "The Isles of Greece" is among Byron's most effective poetical utterances on national freedom. All the 16 stanzas are supposed to have been sung by a Greek singer at the wedding feast of Don Juan and Haidee on the isle of Greece. In the song, by contrasting the freedom enjoyed by the Greek ancient people with the enslavement of the early 19th century Greeks under the Turkish rule, the poet calls on the Greeks to struggle for their national freedom and liberation. 7. This selection consists of two six-lined stanzas of iambic tetrameter, with a rime scheme of ___ Ababcc__________ What does the poem mainly write about? This poem is about the beauty of nature. There is a vivid picture of the daffodils, mixed with the poet’s philosophical and somewhat mystical thoughts. What is the rime scheme in each stanza? ababcc 2．I wandered lonely as a cloud 1.What does the poem mainly write about? This poem is about the beauty of nature. There is a vivid picture of the daffodils, mixed with the po et’s philosophical and somewhat mystical thoughts. 2.What is the rime scheme in each stanza? ababcc 3. What is the poet’s view on nature? And how is that view shown in this poem? Wordsworth’s conception of nature is that nature has a lot to do with man, it can not only refresh one’s soul and fill one with happiness, but it can also be reduced into a beautiful memory which will comfort one’s heart when in solitude. In the narrative poem, the poet successfully compared his loneliness with the happy daffodils. The daffodils, the symbol of the nature, bring great joy and relief to the speaker. The diction of this poem is, in general, simple, direct, and clear. The image of the daffodils conveys qualities of movement and radiance through carefully chosen words. At first sight, the flowers are seen as “fluttering and dancing”; then the poet compares the flowers to the “stars that shine and twinkle on the milky way”, and then to the “sparkling waves” of a nearby lake. The daffodils are described as “golden”, not yellow, because “golden” suggests more than a color; it connotes light. These words of movement and radiance create a picture of nature as vital, animated, and glowing. Words for joy (glee, sprightly, gay, jocund, bliss) are used in a crescendo that suggests the intensity of the speaker’s happiness.
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