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1、 _ I. Multiple Choice: from a, b, c or d, choose the best one to complete the statements below. (150, 50 points) 1. - - is the first important religious poet in English literature. a. John Donne b. George Herbert c. Caedmon d. Milton 2. The literature of the Anglo-Saxon period falls naturally into t

2、wo divisions, - and Christian. a. Pagan b. Roman c. French d. Danish 3. “-” is the oldest poem in the English language, and also the surviving epic in the English language. a. Beowulf b. Sir Gawain and Green Knight c. The Canterbury Tales d. Hamlet 4. Fielding has been regarded by some as the “-” fo

3、r his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel. a. Best Writer of English Novel b. Father of English Novel c. Father of English Poetry d. Father of English Essay 5. All of the following three writers except - are the most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England. a. Marl

4、owe b. Shakespeare c. Bacon d. Thomas Kyd 6. Byronic Hero was created by Lord Byron in one of his following works -. a. Don Juan b. Ode to the West wind c. She Walks in Beauty d. Daffodils 7. Which play is not Shakespeares tragedy? - a. Othello b. The Merchant of Venice c. Romeo and Juliet d. King L

5、ear 8. The literary form of The Faerie Queen is -. a. lyric poem b. narrative poem c. epic poem d. elegy 9. Which of the following cannot correctly describe the English Enlightenment Movement -? a. It flourished in France. b. It was a furtherance of the Renaissance. c. Its purpose was to enlighten t

6、he whole world. d. It emphasized “reason & order.” 10. “Blindness, partiality, prejudice and absurdity” in the novel Pride and Prejudice are most likely to be the characteristics of -. a. Elizabeth b. Darcy c. Mrs. Bennet d. Lydia 11. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is the -. a. F

7、rench b. Latin c. romance d. science 12. The story of “-” is the culmination of the Arthurian metrical romances. a. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight b. Beowulf c. Piers the Plowman d. The Canterbury Tales 13. Chaucer, the father of English poetry and one of the greatest - 1 poets of England, was born

8、 in London about 1340, and was the first to be buried in the Poets Corner of Westminster Abbey. a. lyrical b. blank verse c. narrative d. ballad 14. Which kind of metrical form was adopted by Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales? a. London dialect b. Heroic Couplet c. sonnet d. elegy 15. Generally speaki

9、ng, Chaucers works fall into three main groups corresponding roughly to the three periods of his adult life. Which period is wrong? a. The period of French influence (1359-1372) b. The period of Italian influence (1372-1386) c. The period of English influence (1386-1400) d. The period of American in

10、fluence (1371-1382) 16. - was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature. a. Thomas Wyatt b. William Shakespeare c. Philip Sidney d. Thomas Campion 17. The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English drama. It was - who made blank verse the principal vehicle of

11、expression in drama. a. Edmund Spenser b. Thomas Lodge c. Christopher Marlowe d. Thomas More 18. Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of Queen -. a. Mary b. Elizabeth c. Victoria d. William 19. English Renaissance Period was an age of -. a. prose and novel b. poetry and d

12、rama c. essays and journals d. ballads and songs 20. From the following, choose the one that is not Francis Bacons work. - a. The Advancement of Learning b. Essays c. Maxims of the Law d. Othello 21. English Renaissance Period was not an age of prose, but Thomas More wrote his famous prose work -. a

13、. Of Studies b. Robinson Crusoe c. Gullivers Travels d. Utopia 22. Which play is not Shakespeares comedy? - a. A Midsummer Nights Dream b. The Merchant of Venice c. Romeo and Juliet d. As You Like It 23. -, considered John Miltons masterpiece, vividly tells the story of Satans rebellion against God

14、and his tempting of Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge. a. Paradise Regained b. Bible c. The Pilgrims Progress d. Paradise Lost 24. - was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western thEurope in the 18 century. a. The Renaissance b. The Enlightenment c. The Re

15、ligious Reformation d. The Chartist Movement 2 th century, England produces two great the last 20 years of the 1825. In pre-romantic poets. They were -. a. Johnson and Blake b. Grey and Young c. Pope and Goldsmith d. Blake and Burns th26. The 18-century witnessed that in England there appeared two p

16、olitical parties, -, which were satirized by Swift in his Gullivers Travels. a. The Whigs and the Tories b. The senate and the House of Representatives c. The upper House and lower House d. The House of Lords and the House of Commons thrd The critical realism in 19-century England has been considere

17、d as the 327. important literary achievement after the ancient Greek tragedy and the Renaissance drama. It has some basic characteristics as follows except: - a. Truthful reflection of the society with superb artistic style b. Violent exposure and criticism with profound humanism c. Harmonious unity

18、 between the characters and situation d. The use of simple and common language 28. The Romantic Age began with the publication of Lyrical Ballads, which was written by -. a. William Wordsworth b. Samuel Johnson c. Samuel Taylor Coleridge d. Wordsworth and Coleridge 29. Which poet did not belong to t

19、he Lakers? a. Coleridge b. Wordsworth c. Southey d. Keats 30. Choose the ode that is not written by Keats. - a. Ode to the West Wind b. Ode to a Nightingale c. To Autumn d. Ode on a Grecian Urn 31. Choose the work that was not written by Jane Austen. - a. Emma b. Sense and Sensibility c. Mansfield P

20、ark d. Jane Eyre 32. English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of -. a. novel b. drama c. poetry d. prose 33. Which of the following writers did not belong to English critical realists? a. Charles Dickens b. Charlotte Bronte c. Daniel Defoe d. W. M. Thackeray 34. Dickenss Dav

21、id Copperfield is often regarded as the semi-autobiography of the writer in which the early life of the hero is largely based on the authors early life, while his - is set against the backdrop of the French Revolution. a. Oliver Twist b. Great Expectations c. Hard Times d. A Tale of Two Cities 35. T

22、he sub-title of Vanity Fair is -. a. A Pure Woman Faithfully Portrayed b. The Spirit and the Flesh c. A Novel Without a Hero d. Sense and Sensibility 36. In the novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte has some basic subject matters to express as follows except -. a. pours a great deal of her own experience b. cr

23、iticizes the American bourgeois system of education c. shows that true love is the foundation of marriage d. shows that women should have equal rights with men 3 37. James Joyce was one of the foremost writers of - novels. a. critical realist b. Gothic c. stream of consciousness d. romantic historic

24、al 38. The first English essayist Francis Bacon composed, during his lifetime, numerous prose work, and - is unmistakably among the most eloquent and elegant essays produced in English Renaissance. a. Of Studies b. Ode to the West Wind c. The Tiger d. Don Juan th-century Irish writers, who is the sp

25、okesman for Among the following 2039. the school of “Art for Arts Sake”? - a. Bernard Shaw b. Oscar Wilde c. James Joyce d. W. B. Yeats 40. Wordsworth believes that - can inspires poetry, and it is his nurse, guide, guardian and anchor of his thoughts. a. nature b. God c. love d. wealth 41. Although

26、 writing from different points of view and with different techniques, writers in the Victorian Period shared one thing in common, that is, they were all concerned about -. a. the love story of the rich b. the future of their country c. the fate of common people d. the love-making of the middle class

27、 people 42. - lays the foundation for modern science with his insistence on scientific way of thinking and fresh observation rather than authority as a basis for obtaining knowledge. a. Charles Dickens b. Francis Bacon c. Thomas Hardy d. Thomas More 43. The following comments on Daniel Defoe are tru

28、e except -. a. Robinson Crusoe is his first novel. b. He is a member of the upper class. c. Robinson Crusoe is universally considered his masterpiece. d. He embarked on a new careerthe writing of novelwhen he was 60. 44. The term “metaphysical poetry” is commonly used to name the work of the th-cent

29、ury writers who wrote under the influence of -. 17a. John Donne b. John Keats c. John Milton d. John Bunyan 45. The cradle of the Renaissance is -. a. Germany b. England c. Italy d. France th46. The middle of the 18 century was predominated by a newly rising literary form that is the modern English

30、-, which gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people. a. prose b. novel c. tragicomedy d. drama 47. Which of the following writings did Wordsworth not create? -c- a. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud b. The Solitary Reaper c. The Chimney Sweeper d. The Prelude 48. Which of the fol

31、lowing writings is not the work by Dickens? c a. A Tale of Two Cities b. Hard Times c. Sons and Lovers d. Oliver Twist 49. The Victorian Age was largely an age of -, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray. a. poetry b. drama c. essay d. novel 4 50. The 23-year-old Austen composed three novel

32、s, and among them, First Impressions was early version of -00-. a. Pride & Prejudice b. Sense & Sensibility c. Emma d. Northanger Abbey . Reading Comprehension: read the following selected parts carefully, and give the best answer to the relevant questions. (0.550, 25 points) Part 1 Shall I compare

33、thee to a summers day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summers lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nat

34、ures changing course untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owst, Nor shall death brag thou wanderst in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growst, So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

35、Questions: 51. This is one of Shakespeares best known -. a. sonnets b. ballads c. songs 52. It runs in iambic pentameter rhymed -. a. abba abba cdcd cd b. abab cdcd efef gg 53. The 14 lines include three quatrains together with the last two lines as - which completes the sense of the lines above. a.

36、 prelude b. couplet c. epigraph 54. The theme of this poem is -. a. love b. friendship c. immortality of arts Part 2 I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high oer vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and d

37、ancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. Questions: 55. This is the first two stanza of a poem that is written by 5 -.

38、a. Byron b. Wordsworth c. Keats 56. The title of the poem is -. a. To Autumn b. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud c. The Solitary Reaper 57. The poems theme is about -. a. beauty of nature b. country life c. love 58. The poet adopts one kind of figure of speech: - to describe the flowers in the poem. a.

39、personification b. alliteration c. conceit 59. The rhyme scheme in each stanza is -. a. ababab b. ababcc c. abcdcd Part 3 IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may

40、be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters. Questions: 60. This passage is the opening of a novel entitled -. a. Sense and Sensibility b. Pride a

41、nd Prejudice c. Jane Eyre 61. The writer of the novel is the first famous woman novelist-. a. George Eliot b. Charlotte Bronte c. Jane Austen 62. The story in this novel is based on the lovemaking of the thyoung people in the - families in 18-century England. a. upper-middle-class b. aristocratic c.

42、 royal Part 4 Thats my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Fr Pandolfs hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Will t please you sit and look at her? I said Fr Pandolf by design, for never read Strangers like you that pictured cou

43、ntenance, Questions: 63. These lines are quoted from the poem entitled-. a. Song b. My Last Duchess c. When We Two Parted 64. It was composed by the outstanding poet -. a. Robert Browning b. Lord Byron c. William Wordsworth 65. In the famous piece, the form of - is skillfully employed. a. ballad b.

44、dramatic monologue c. blank verse Part 5 GO and catch a falling star, 6 Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the devils foot, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envys stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. If thou best

45、born to strange sights, Things invisible to see, Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age snow white hairs on thee, Thou, when thou returnst, wilt tell me, All strange wonders that befell thee, And swear, No where Lives a woman true and fair. Questions: 66. These are the first 2 stanzas of the po

46、em written by - in th17-century England. a. John Milton b. John Donne c. John Bunyan 67. The poet is the most outstanding figure of the poetic school of “-” during this period. a. Graveyard Poets b. Metaphysical Poets c. Romantic poets 68. He was appointed by King James I in 1621 as the dean of - an

47、d he held this post till his last day. a. Westminster Abbey b. St. Paul Cathedral c. Canterbury Cathedral 69. Besides his unique love poetry, he is also famous for his religious -. a. poetry b. sermons c. plays 70. This group of poets prefers to use an elaborate and surprising figure of speech, -, t

48、o express ideas in a sharp and harsh manner, by comparing two very dissimilar things. a. conceit b. similar c. alliteration Part 6 I tell you I must go! I retorted, roused to something like passion. Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton?-a machine without f

49、eelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!-I have as much soul as you,-and full as much heart! And if God had gifted

50、 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. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh;-it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed thr

51、ough the 7 grave, and we stood at Gods feet, equal,-as we are! Questions: 71. This passage is taken from the novel “-”. a. Emma b. Wuthering Heights c. Jane Eyre 72. The author of the work is -. a. Jane Austen b. Emily Bronte c. Charlotte Bronte 73. The speaker in the passage is -. a. Cathy b. Lydia

52、 c. Jane 74. The character is passionately emphasizing the significance of - between men and women. a. marriage b. equality c. relationship 75. The character is speaking to -. a. Mr. Rochester b. Mr. Bingley c. Mr. Bennet Part 7 I have been hoping, longing, praying, to make you happy! I have thought

53、 what joy it will be to do it, what an unworthy wife I shall be if I do not! Thats what I have felt, Angel! I know that. I thought, Angel, that you loved me - me, my very self! If it is I you do love, O how can it be that you look and speak so? It frightens me! Having begun to love you, I love you f

54、or ever - in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself. I ask no more. Then how can you, O my own husband, stop loving me? I repeat, the woman I have been loving is not you. But who? Another woman in your shape. Questions: 76. This passage is taken from the novel “-”. a. Sons and Lover

55、s b. Tess of the DUrbervilles c. Jane Eyre 77. The author of the work is -. a. William Thackeray b. Thomas Hardy c. Charles Dickens 78. The female speaker in the passage is -. a. Tess b. Elizabeth c. Jane 79. The novel reveals womens dreadful life in - England. ththth-century c.17 b. 18 a. 19-centur

56、y -century Part 8 Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with some one, up went her back like a cats; or she purred. Devonshire House, Bath House, the house with the china cockatoo, she had seen them all lit up once; and remembered Sylv

57、ia, Fred, Sally Setonsuch hosts of people; and dancing all night; and the waggons plodding past to market; and driving home across the Park. She remembered once throwing a shilling into the Serpentine. But every one remembered; what she loved was this, here, now, in front of her; the fat lady in the

58、 cab. Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, 8 did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely; all this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely? Questions: 80. This passage is taken from th

59、e novel “-”. a. Sons and Lovers b. Mrs. Dalloway c. Dubliners 81. The author of the work is -. a. James Joyce b. D. H. Lawrence c. Virginia Woolf 82. The writer is the representative figure of - novelists in th-century 20 England. a. steam-of-consciousness b. critical realism c. aestheticism 83. Thi

60、s passage reveals the inner spiritual world of -. a. Clarissa b. Tess c. Jane Eyre 84. The author of the novel committed suicide by drowning because of -. a. her insanity b. marriage c. poverty Part 9 He was a comely handsome Fellow, perfectly well made; with straight strong Limbs, not too large; ta

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