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《英国文学》A卷 第1页 共11页 ABC大学试卷 院（系、部） 专业 班级 姓名 考号

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2012─2013学年 第一学期

《英国文学》课程考试试卷 (A卷)

专业：英语 年级：2010级 考试方式：闭卷 学分：3 考试时间：110分钟

Ⅰ. Multiple Choices (每小题1分，共20分)

Directions: Select from the four choices of each item the one

that best answers the question.

1. It was during the ________ that Christianity was introduced to Britain.

A. Roman Conquest B. Norman Conquest

C. English Conquest D. Anglo-Saxon Conquest

2. Which one of the following statements about Beowulf is False?

A. Beowulf is the first epic in the English history.

B. The most striking feature in its poetical form is the use of alliteration.

C. Other features of Beowulf are the use of similes and of overstatements.

D. Beowulf is a folk legend brought to England by Anglo-Saxons.

3. _____ marks a turning point in the literary creation of Mrs. Gaskell, who now

abandoned critical realism for a kind of writing more acceptable to the bourgeois

public.

A. Mary Barton B. All the Year Round

C. Cranford D. North and South

4. _________ is one of Dickens’s masterpieces of social satire, famous for its criticism

of both the British and American bourgeoisie.

A. Dombey and Son B. Martin Chuzzlewit

C. Hard Times D. Bleak House

5. The romantic poet, _______ maintains that “all good poetry is the spontaneous

overflow of powerful feeling”.

A. Samuel Coleridge B. George Byron

C. William Wordsworth D. Robert Burns

6. In Renaissance period, ______ wrote the first English blank verse, the form of

poetry to be later masterly handled by Shakespeare.

A. Earl of Surrey B. Thomas Wyatt

C. Sir Philip Sidney D. Christopher Marlowe

7. In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer used the rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter in 题号 Ⅰ Ⅱ Ⅲ Ⅳ 总分

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《英国文学》A卷 第2页 共11页 English, which is to be called later _________.

A. the Spenserian Stanza B. the heroic couplet

C. the blank verse D. the free verse

8. Dr. Faustus is a play based on the _______ legend of a magician aspiring for

knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.

A. British B. Danish

C. German D. French

9. _________ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English novel” for its

contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.

A. Daniel Defoe B. Jonathan Swift

C. German D. Henry Fielding

10. The poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” is regarded as the most

representative work of _______.

A. the Metaphysical School B. the Gothic School

C. the Romantic School D. The Graveyard School

11. Jonathan Swift is a master of satire. He satirizes philosophers and projectors and also

makes a reference to the relationship between Ireland and England. It is obvious in

_______ in Gulliver’s Travels.

A. Lilliput B. Brobdingnag

C. Flying Island D. Horse Island

12. The two major novelists of the English Romantic Period are ________ and Walter

Scott.

A. Washington Irving B. Jane Austen

C. Charles Dickens D. George Eliot

13. Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama, ________.

A. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage B. The Revolt of Islam

C. Prometheus Unbound D. Ode to the West Wind

14. Most of Hardy’s novels are set in _______, the fictional primitive and crude region

which is really the home place he both loves and hates.

A. London B. Paris

C. Yoknapatawpha D. Wessex

15. John Galsworthy’s masterpiece, The Forsyte Saga includes the following except

________.

A. The White Monkey B. The Man of Property

C. In Chancery D. To Let

16. In his famous essay “Tradition and Individual Talent,” ________ puts great emphasis

on the importance of tradition both in creative writing and in criticism.

A. D.H. Lawrence B. James Joyce

C. George Bernard Shaw D. T.S. Eliot 《英国文学》A卷 第3页 共11页 17. “And where are they? And where art thou,

My country? On thy voiceless shore

The heroic lay is tuneless now

The heroic bosom beats no more!” (George Gordon Byron, Don Juan)

In the above stanza, “art thou” literally means ________.

A. art though B. are though

C. are you D. art you

18. G.B. Shaw’s play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, is a realistic exposure of the ______ in

the English society.

A. inequality between men and women B. slum landlordism

C. economic exploitation of women D. political corruption

19. We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley’s poem “Ode to the West Wind”

with all the following terms except _______.

A. swift B. tamed

C. proud D. wild

20. The enlighteners of the 18th century believed that _______ should be used

as the yardstick for the measurement of all human activities and relations.

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英国文学名词解释及课后答案

英国文学名词解释及课后答案

名词解释

Renaissance: The Renaissance indicates a revival of classical (Greek and Roman)

arts and sciences in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th

century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.

Sonnet: A fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter

and most often in one of the two rhyme schemes: the Italian(or Petrarchan) or Shakespearean ( or English ).

A sonnet is a 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme and meter .It has two main

forms :the shakespearean sonnet and the Italian sonnet.

Shakespeare Sonnet: a lyric with three quatrains and one couplet, rhyming

ababcdcdefefgg, consisting of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter restricted to a

definition rhyme scheme.

A Shakespearean sonnet consists of fourteen lines written in iambic pentameter, in

王守仁英国文学选读课后答案

王守仁英国文学选读课后答案

1 1. Heroic Couplet:

A rhyming couplet of iambic pentameter, often “closed”, containing a complete thought, there being a fairly heavy

pause at the end of the first line and a still heavier one at the end of the second. Commonly there is a parallel or

antithesis within a line, or between the two lines.

2. Dramatic monologue is a type of poem writing style in which a character, at some specific and critical moment,

addresses an identifiable but silent audience, thereby unintentionally revealing his or her essential temperament and

personality.（是一种诗的写作形式，是使一个角色在一些特殊的决定性时刻作为可辨认的但沉默的观众，由此无意的显示他或她的基本脾性。）

3. Blank verse is poetry written in regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always iambic pentameters. It has been

described as "probably the most common and influential form that English poetry has taken since the 16th century.

【免费下载】英国文学练习题及答案

【免费下载】英国文学练习题及答案

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 heroicfigure. 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 great 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”

英国文学选读练习题含答案

英国文学选读练习题含答案

Exercise for English Literature (2)

Choose the best answer for each blank.

1. ________, 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

2. Chaucer died on the 25th October 1400, and was buried in ________.

A. Flanders B. France

C. Italy D. Westminster Abbey

3. The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansion abroad. ________ encouraged

exploration and travel, which were compatible with the interest of the English merchants.

A. Henry V B. Henry VII

C. Henry VIII D. Queen Elizabeth

4. Except being a victory of England over ________, the rout of the fleet “Armada” (Invincible) was also the

triumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over the declining old feudalism.