一、单项选择题
1.D. Father and son in the medieval period, it is Chaucer alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive _____ picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of valid _________ from all walks of life in his masterpiece “the Canterbury Tales”. A. visionary/women B. romantic/men
C. realistic/characters D. natural/figures
2.Humanism sprang from the endeavor to restore a medieval reverence for the antique authors and is frequently taken as the beginning of the Renaissance on its conscious, intellectual side, for the Greek and Roman civilization was based on the conception that man is the _____ of all things. A. measure B. king
C. lover D. rule
3.Many people today tend to regard the play “The Merchant of Venice” as a satire of the hypocrisy of ___________ and their false standards of friendship and love, their cunning ways of pursuing worldliness and their unreasoning prejudice against _____.
A. Christians/Jews B. Jews/Christians
C. oppressors/oppressed D. people/Jews
4.Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare’s great tragedies? A. Romeo and Juliet B. King Lear
C. Hamlet D. Macbeth
5.Which statement about the Elizabethan age is not true? A. It is the age of translation.
B. It is the age of bourgeois revolution C. It is the age of exploration
D. It is the age of the protestant reformation.
6.Una in The Faerie Queene stands for ______.
A. chastity B. holiness C. truth D. error
7._____ first make blank verse the principle instrument of English drama. A. Shakespeare B. Wyatt
C. Sidney D. Marlowe
8.“The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” is an example of _____. A. allegory B.simile
C. metaphor D. irony
9.In “Not only sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, /Thou mak’st thy knife keen”, Gratiano (a character in The Merchant of Venice) uses a rhetorical device called _____.
A. hyperbole B. homonym
C. paradox D. pun
10.In The Faerie Queene Spenser impresses us with his skillful blending of religious and historical _____ with chivalric _____. A. symbolism „ lyricism B. allegory „ romance
C. elegy „ narrative D. personification „ irony
11.Milton’s paradise Lost took its material from ______. A. the Bible B. Greek myth
C. Roman myth D. French romance
12.Christopher Marlowe wrote all the following plays except _____. A. Tamburlaine the Great B. The Jew or Malta
C. Cymbeline
D. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
13.Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is NOT a comedy? A. The Merchant of Venice
B. A Midsummer Night’s Dream C. As You like It D. The dactyl
14._____ is the most common foot in English poetry. A. The iamb B. The anapest
C. The trochee D. The dactyl
15.“In a dream vision, Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana, and upon awakening resolves to seek her.” The two literary figures “Arthur” and “Gloriana” are from ______. A. The Fairie Queene B. Remeo and Juliet C. Dr. Faustus D. Paradise Lost
16.In “Sonnet 18”, William Shakespeare _____. A. meditates on man’s mortality.
B. eulogizes the power of artistic creation C. satirizes human vanity D. presents a dream vision
17.The 18th century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties, _____, which were satirized by Swift in his “Gulliver’s Travels.” A. the Whigs and Tories
B. the Senate and the House of Representative C. the upper House and lower House
D. the House of Lords and the House of Commons
18._____ compiled the “The Dictionary of the English language” which became the foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries. A. Ben Johnson B. Samuel Johnson C. Alexander Pope D. John Dryden
19.The publication of “______” marked the beginning of Romantic Age. A. Don Juan
B. the Rime of the Ancient Mariner C. The Lyrical Ballads
D. Queen Mab
20.In 1805, Wordsworth completed a long autobiographical poem entitled “_____”. A. Biographic literary B. The Prelude
C. Lucy Poems D. The Lyrical Ballads
21.Which is Shelley’s masterpiece? A. Queen Mab B. Prometheus Unbound C. Prometheus Bound D. The Revolt of Islam
22.Which is Shelley’s work of literary criticism? A. An Essay on criticism B. A Defence of Poetry
C. On the Necessity of Atheism D. Of studies
23.In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend ______ appeared and it flourished in the forties and in the early fifties. A. Romanism B. naturalism
C. realism D. critical realism
24.The greatest English critical realist novelist was _____, who criticized the bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people. A. William Makepeace Thackeray B. Charles Dickens
C. charlotte Bronte D. Emily Dickinson
25._____ was a critical realist and also a severe exposer of contemporary society. His novels, such as “Vanity Fair” , are mainly a satirical portrayal of the upper strata of society.
A. George Eliot B. Elizabeth Gaskell
C. William Makepeace Thackeray D. John Bunyan
26.Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of the novel “______”. A. A Tale of Two Cities
B. Great Expectations
C. Hard Times D. David Copperfield
27.The renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is not such an event? A. The rediscovery of ancient roman and Greek culture. B. England’s domestic rest.
C. new discovery in geography and astrology.
D. the religious reformation and the economic expansion.
28.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,/ so long lives this , and this gives life to thee.” What does “this” means? A. lover B. time C. summer
D. poetry
29.The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all except . A mystery of the universe B sin of the whale
C power of the great nature D evil of the world
30.In Shelley’s to a skylark”, the bird, suspended between reality and poetic image, pours forth an exultant song which suggests to the poet . A. both celestial rapture and human limitation B. both image creation and profound meaning C. both music and words
D. both inspiration and skill of writing
31.“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?...”
The above quoted passage is most probably taken from . A Great Expectations B Wuthering Heights C Jane Eyre
D Pride and Prejudice
32.“And now he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of is gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish, they did not melt” are found in . A. Wuthering Heights B. Jane Eyre
C. Gulliver’s Travels
D. Paradise Lost
33.Theodore Dreiser is generally regarded as one of America’s . A. naturalist B. realists C. modernists D. romanticists
34.The first two lines of Dennison’s poem “Break, Break, Break” on thy cold grey stones, o sea!” the repeated word “ break” suggests . A. joy B. fear C. fondness D. hatred
35.“O prince, O chief of my throned powers,/ that led th’embattled seraphim to war/Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds/ Fearless, endangered heaven’s perpetual king’” In the third line of the above passage quoted from Melton’s Paradise Lost, the phrase “thy conduct” refers to conduct. A. god’s B. Satan’s C. Adam’s D. Eve’s
36.Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism? A. Emerson
B. jack London
C. Theodore Dreiser D. Darwin
37.In terms of Elegy written in a country churchyard, which is wrong? A. the author employs metaphor in this poem
B. the author excessively expresses his personal melancholy
C. here he reveals his sympathy for the poor and the unknown.
D. he mocks the great ones who despise the poor and bring havoc on them.
38.Most of Thomas Hardy’s novels are set in Wessex-- . A. a crude region in England B. a fictional primitive region C. a remote rural area
D. Hardy’s hometown
39.“place me on sunium’s marbled steep,/ where nothing, save the waves and I, /
may hear our mutual murmurs sweep;/ there, swan- like, let me sing and die;/ a land of slaves shall neer be mine --- dash down you cup of samian wine!” these lines are taken from .
A. The Isles of Greece by Byron
B. Elegy Written In a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray C. The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth D. Song for the Luddites by George Gordon Byron 二、综合题
1.Reading Comprehension:
It was you that broke the new wood, Now is a time for carving. We have one sap and one root--- Let there be commerce between us.
Questions:
A. What is the title from which these lines are taken? B. Who does “you” refers to?
C. What is the meaning of “broke are new wood”?
2.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.
By this time Mrs. Morel was trembling violently. Struggles of this kind often took place between her and her son, when she seemed to fight for his very against his own will to die. He took her in his arms. She was ill and pitiful.
“Never mind, Little,” he murmured. “So long as you don’t feel life’ paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn’t matter, happiness or unhappiness.” She pressed him to her.
“But I want you to be happy,” she said pathetically. “Eh, my dear ----- say rather you want me to live.” A. This passage is taken from the novel “_____”. B. The author of the novel is _____.
C. “He” in the passage refers to _____, and he is the _____ of Mrs. Morel. D. The relationship of the two characters as implied in the passage is something of the type of _____.
3.Reading Comprehension:
“This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me---
The simple News that Nature told--- With tender Majesty”.
A. Who is the author of the stanza?
B. Which period does the poem belongs to? C. What idea does the poem express?
4.Reading Comprehension:
“Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay ye low?
Wherefore weave with toil and care The rich robes your tyrants wear?” Questions:
A. Identify the poem and the poet.
B. In one or two sentences interprets the implied meaning of the stanza. C. Which period does the poem belongs to?
5.Questions and Answers:
What do you think of the relationship between William Faulkner and American south literature？
6.Questions and Answers:
Being a period of the great flowering of American literature, the romantic period is called “the American renaissance”. Briefly discuss what the features of American literature in this period are.
7.Questions and Answers:
What are the characteristics of the romantic literature? Please discuss the above question in relation to one or two examples.
8.Questions and Answers:
George Bernard Shaw is the leading playwright of his time, what’s his viewpoint on literature?
9.Topic Discussion, write no less than 150 words in English.
Moby-dick is one of the few books in American literature that has produced an exciting effect upon readers, try to discuss the symbolism in the book.
10.Topic Discussion, write no less than 150 words in English. Discuss “ enlightenment movement”.
答案部分
一、单项选择题 1.
【正确答案】 C 2.
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【正确答案】 C D B A C D A A B A B C B B B D B C
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【正确答案】 A 27.
【正确答案】 B 28.
【正确答案】 D 29.
【正确答案】 B 30.
【正确答案】 A 31.
【正确答案】 C 32.
【正确答案】 A 33.
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【正确答案】 A 35.
【正确答案】 B 36.
【正确答案】 D 37.
【正确答案】 B 38.
【正确答案】 B 39.
【正确答案】 A 二、综合题 1.
【正确答案】 A. A Pact B. Walt whit man
C. made experiments with the conventions of the traditional poetry. 2.
【正确答案】 A. Sons and Lovers B. D. H. Lawrence C. Paul / Son D. Oedipus Complex 3.
【正确答案】 A. Emily Dickinson B. the realistic period
C. the poem expresses Dickinson’s anxiety about her communication with the outside world. 4.
【正确答案】 A. A song: men of England, Percy Bysshe Shelley
B. the poem is not only a cry calling upon the working people of England to rise up against their political oppressors, but also an address to point out to them the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation, C. The romantic period.
5.
【正确答案】 A. Most of his works are set in the American south.
B. He emphasizes the southern subjects and consciousness in his works.
C. His works has managed successfully to show a panorama of the experience and consciousness of the whole southern society. 6.
【正确答案】 A. The whole nation had a strong sense of optimism and the mood of “feeling good”, Giving birth to the spectacular out burst of romantic feeling. B. The English counterpart exerted a stimulating impact on the writers of the young nation.
C. Taking foreign influence into consideration, the great works of American writers still carried typically American Romanist color.
D. The young nation had brought forth its own philosophy, transcendentalism, stressing man’s capacity of knowing truth intuitively, and of attaining knowledge transcending the reach of the sense. 7.
【正确答案】 A. In poetry writing, the romanticist employed new theories and innovated new techniques, for example, the Preface to the second edition of the “Lyrical Ballads” acts as a manifesto for the new school.
B. The romanticist not only extols the faculty of imagination, but also elevates the concepts of spontaneity and inspiration.
C. They regarded nature as the major source of poetic imagery and the dominant subject.
D. Romantics also tend to be nationalistic. 8.
【正确答案】 A. His playwrights have a variety of subjects. His early plays were mainly concerned with social problems and directed towards the criticism of the contemporary social, economic, moral and religious evils.
B. Shaw followed the great traditions of realism. As a realistic dramatist, he took the modern social issues as his subjects with the aim of directing social reforms. C. One feature of his characterization is that he makes the trick of showing up one character vividly at the expense of another; another one is that his characters are the representatives of ideas and points of view.
D. Much of Shavian drama is constructed around the inversion of a conventional theatrical situation. 9.
【正确答案】 A. The Pequod is the microcosm of human society and the voyage becomes a search for truth.
B. The white whale, Moby Dick, symbolizes nature for Melville, for it is complex,
unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.
C. For the character Ahab, however, the whale represents only evil.
D. Moby Dick is like a wall, hiding some unknown, mysterious things behind. E. Ahab wills the whole crew on the Pequod to join him in the pursuit of the big whale so as to pierce the wall, to root out the evil, but only to be destroyed by evil.
F. In this case, by his own consuming desire, his madness. Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe, inscrutable and ambivalent, and the voyage of the mind will forever remain a search, not a discovery, of the truth. 10.
【正确答案】 It was a progressive intellectual movement, which flourished in France and swept through the whole Western Europe, the movement was a furtherance of the renaissance from the 14th century to the mid-17th century. The purpose of the movement was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas, it celebrated reason of rationality, equality and science, and it advocated universal education. Literature at the time became a very popular means of public education.
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