英国文学选择题

12. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essenceis_______.A. scienceB. philosophyC. artsD. humanism13. _______ frequently applied conceits in his poems.A. Edmund SpenserB. John DonneC. William BlakeD. Thomas Gray14. _______ is known as “the poet’s poet”.A. William ShakespeareB. Christopher MarloweC. Edmund SpenserD. John Donne15. Romance，which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of____ adventures or other heroic deeds，is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A. ChristianB. knightlyC. pilgrimsD. primitive16. ________ and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the English humanism.A. Edmund Spenser, Christopher MarloweB. Thomas More, Christopher MarloweC. John Donne, Edmund SpenserD. John Milton, Thomas More17. Among the following plays which is not written by Christopher Marlowe?A. Dr. FaustusB. The Jew of MaltaC. TamburlaineD. The School for Scandal18. Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are _______.A. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and MacbethB. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Romeo andJuliet C. Hamlet, Coriolanus, King Lear and Macbeth D. Hamlet, Julius caesar, Othello and Macbeth19. The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the line of one of Shakespeare’s ________.A. comediesB. tragediesC. historiesD. sonnets20. “So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.” (Shakespeare, Sonnets 18) What does “this” refer to?A. LoverB. TimeC. SummerD. Poetry21. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18？A. The speaker eulogizes the power of NatureB. The speaker satirizes human vanityC. The speaker praises the power of artistic creationD. The speaker meditates on man’s salvation22. “Bassani Antonio，I am married to a wife Which is as dear to me as life itself；But life itself，my wife，and all the world，Are not with me esteem’d above thy life；I would lose all，ay，sacrifice them all，Here to the devil，to deliver you. Portia：Your wife would give you little thanks for that，ff she were by to hear you make the offer.” The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare’s comedy The Merchant of Venice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrateA. dramatic ironyB. personificationC. allegoryD. symbolism23. “The Fairy Queen” is the masterpiece written by____.A. John MiltonB. Geoffrey ChaucerC. Edmund SpenserD. Alexander Pope24. Which of the following work did Bacon NOT write?A. Advancement of LearningB. Novum OrganumC. De AugmentisD. Areopagitica25. The greatest of pioneers of English drama in Renaissance is _______, one of whose drama is “Doctor Faustus”.A. William ShakespeareB. Christopher MarloweC. Oscar WildeD. R. Brinsley Sheridan26. “Euphues” was written by ________, the style of the novel was called “Euphuism”.A. John BunyanB. John LylyC. John DonneD. John Milton27. The most famous dramatist in the 18th century is ______, who is famous for “The School for Scandal”.A. Oliver GoldsmithB. Thomas GrayC. R. Brinsley SheridanD. G.eorge Bernard Shaw28. The most distinguished literary figure of the 17th century was ______, who was a c ritic, poet, and playwright.A. Oliver GoldsmithB. John DrydenC. John MiltonD. T. G. Coleridge29. The representative of the “Metaphysical” poetry i s ______, whose poems are famous for his use of fantastic metaphors and extravagant hyperboles.A. John DonneB. John MiltonC. William BlakeD. Robert Burns30. Which of the following has / have associations with John Donne’s poetry?A. reason and sentimentB. conceits and witsC. the euphuismD. writing in the rhymed couplet31. _____ is the successful religious allegory in the English language.A. The Pilgrim’s ProgressB. The Canterbury TalesC. Paradise LostD. Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded32. The 18th century England is known as the ______ in the history.A. RenaissanceB. ClassicismC. EnlightenmentD. Romanticism33. Of all the eighteenth-century novelists, who was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specially a “comic epic讽刺史诗in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style?A. Thomas GrayB. Richard Brinsley SheridanC. Johathan SwiftD. Henry Fielding34. Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “_______________”, for his contributi on to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.A. Best writer of the English novelB. The father of English novelC. The most gifted writer of the English novelD. conventional writer of English novel35. Among the pioneers of the 18th century novelists were Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry fielding and _______.A. Laurence SterneB. John DrydenC. Charles DickensD. Alexander Pope36. John Milton’s masterpiece—Paradise Lost was written in the poetic style of _____.A. rhymed stanzasB. blank verseC. alliterationD. sonnets37. Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out____，both in theory and practice，to write specifically a “ ______ in prose,” the first to give the modern novel its structure and style. (Refer to 19)A. tragic epicB. comic epicC. romanceD. lyric epic38. Besides Sheridan, another great playwright in the 18th century is ______.A. Oliver GoldsmithB. Thomas GrayC. T. G. SmolletD. Laurence Sterne39. She Stoops to Conquer was written by _____.A. Oliver GoldsmithB. R. Brinsley SheridanC. John DrydenD. George Bernard Shaw40. The middle of the 18th century was predominated by a newly rising literary form, that is the modern English ______, which gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people.A. proseB. short storyC. novelD. tragicomedy41. The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels are _____.A. horses that are endowed with reasonB. pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC. giants that are superior in wisdomD. hairy，wild，low and despicable creatures，who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways42. The unquenchable无法消除的spirit of Robinson Crusoe struggling to maintain a substantial existence ona lonely island reflects ____.A. man’s desire to return to natureB. the author’s criticism of the colo nization XC. the ideal of the rising bourgeoisie XD. the aristocrats’ disillusionment of the harsh social reality43. Gothic novels are mostly stories of_____, which take place in some haunted or dilapidated Middle Age castles.A. love and marriageB. sea adventuresC. mystery and horrorD. saints and martyrs44. “The father of English novel” is __________.A. Henry FieldingB. Daniel DefoeC. Jonathan SwiftD. John Donne。

英国文学试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 以下哪位作家被誉为“英国文学之父”？A. 乔治·奥威尔B. 威廉·莎士比亚C. 查尔斯·狄更斯D. 托马斯·哈代2. 英国浪漫主义文学运动的代表人物不包括以下哪一位？A. 威廉·华兹华斯B. 塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治C. 乔治·奥威尔D. 珀西·比希·雪莱3. 《傲慢与偏见》是哪位作家的作品？A. 简·奥斯汀B. 勃朗特三姐妹C. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫D. 乔治·艾略特4. 现代主义文学的代表作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的代表作是？A. 《到灯塔去》B. 《简·爱》C. 《呼啸山庄》D. 《雾都孤儿》5. 以下哪部作品被认为是英国现代主义文学的里程碑？A. 《乌托邦》C. 《百年孤独》D. 《追忆似水年华》二、填空题（每空2分，共20分）6. 威廉·莎士比亚的四大悲剧包括《哈姆雷特》、《奥赛罗》、《李尔王》和________。

7. 19世纪英国现实主义文学的代表作家之一是________，其代表作有《艰难时世》等。

8. 20世纪英国文学中，被称为“愤怒的青年”的作家是________，其作品反映了当时英国社会的不满和反抗。

9. 英国文学中，被称为“湖畔诗人”的是________，他们的作品强调自然美和个人情感。

10. 英国文学中的“哥特式小说”起源于18世纪末，其代表作品是________的《弗兰肯斯坦》。

三、简答题（每题15分，共30分）11. 简述威廉·莎士比亚的戏剧创作特点。

12. 描述19世纪英国现实主义文学的主要特征。

四、论述题（30分）13. 论述20世纪英国文学中的现代主义文学运动，并举例说明其对后世的影响。

英国文学试题答案一、选择题1. B. 威廉·莎士比亚2. C. 乔治·奥威尔3. A. 简·奥斯汀4. A. 《到灯塔去》二、填空题6. 《麦克白》7. 查尔斯·狄更斯8. 约翰·奥斯本9. 威廉·华兹华斯、塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治等10. 玛丽·雪莱三、简答题11. 威廉·莎士比亚的戏剧创作特点包括深刻的人性探讨、丰富的人物性格、复杂的情节构造、以及语言的韵律美和形象性。

1.The Canterbury Tales was written in________.BA.Old EnglishB.Middle EnglishC.Modern EnglishD.Current Modern English2.Pilgrims travel to the shrine of St.Thomas Becket at Canterbury in________.BA.MarchB.AprilC.MayD.June3.________pilgrims plus Chaucer are assembled at the Tabard Inn in the southern part of London.CA.25B.27C.29D.314.Chaucer was a master of the heroic couplet which consists of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter.Iambic pentameter meansCA.the line has6feet,and an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable.B.the line has6feet,and a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable.C.the line has5feet,and an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable.D.the line has5feet,and a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable.1.Shakespeare’s four great tragedies are_________DA.Anthony and Cleopatra,Coriolanus,King Lear,Timon of AthensB.Twelfth Night,Cynbeline,The Winter’s Tale,and The TempestC.Hamlet,Othello,King John,and MacbethD.Hamlet,Othello,King Lear,and Macbeth2.The story of Hamlet takes place in________.BA.EnglandB.DenmarkC.ItalyD.Germany3.Romeo and Juliet belongs to Shakespeare’s________.CA.romantic comedyedyC.tragedyD.historical plays4.A sonnet is a poem of________lines,usually in iambic pentameter,with rhymes arranged according to a certain definite patterns.CA.8B.6C.14D.241.Francis Bacon was________contemporaryA.Geoffrey Chaucer’sB.Thomas More’sC.William Shakespeare’sD.John Milton’s2.The following works belong to the type of literature in which an ideal society is depicted except________.A.UtopiaB.The New AtlantisC.ErewhonD.Treasure Island3.In Novum Organum(New Instrument),Bacon discussed the method of________.A.deductionB.inductionC.analogyD.reading4.According to Bacon,if one is unable to discuss matters thoroughly,he should study________.A.historyB.rhetoricC.natural philosophyD.the lawyer’s cases1.______has been regarded as the father of the novel.A.Geoffrey ChaucerB.Daniel DefoeC.Henry FieldingD.Samuel Richardson2.In addition to The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,Defoe also wrote______.A.Tom JonesB.PamelaC.The Adventures of Roderick RandomD.Moll Flanders3.Which of the following is not taken into consideration when Robinson Crusoe looks for a place to set up his tent:______.A.health and fresh waterB.shelter from the heat of the sunC.a lot of treesD.a view to the sea4.Robinson Crusoe set foot upon the island in______of1659.A.springB.summerC.autumnD.winter1.Gulliver's Travels consists of______voyages.A.oneB.twoC.threeD.four2.Lilliput is a country of______.A.tiny inbabitantsB.giantsC.flying islandsD.rational horses3.Some critics believe that Swift was a"misanthrope".The word"misanthrope" means______.A.a person who admires mankind.B.a person who likes mankindC.a person who dislikes mankindD.a person who frightens mankind4.Which of the following statements best describes Gulliver's Travels?A.Gulliver's Travels is a book of satire.B.Gulliver's Travels is a book of adventurous journeys.C.Gulliver's Travels is a realistic representation of18th century England.D.Both A and B.1.Among the following,the one who was also an artist is________.A.William BlakeB.Robert BurnsC.William WordsworthD.Samuel Taylor Coleridge2.“The Lamb”is included in William Blake’s________.A.Poetical SketchesB.The Songs of InnocenceC.The Songs of ExperienceD.The Marriage of Heaven and Hell3.The central image of“The Tyger”is________.A.hammerB.chainC.anvilD.fire1.Robert Burns came from________.A.EnglandB.WalesC.ScotlandD.Ireland2.Authors and poems are correctly paired in all of the following except ________.A.William Wordsworth—“The Solitary Reaper”B.William Blake—“A Red,Red Rose”C.Samuel Taylor Coleridge—“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”D.Robert Burns—“The Tree of Liberty”3.“Auld Lang Syne”means________.A.old songB.old acquaintanceC.long friendshipD.long ago1.The Lake Poets include the following except________.A.Robert SoutheyB.William WordsworthC.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD.William Blake2.William Wordswoth is frequently referred to as________.A.a religious poetB.a worshipper of natureC.a modern poetD.a worshipper of beauty3.Of the following definitions of poetry,the one which s incorrectly paired with its author is________.A.“Poetry is the most beautiful and effective mode of saying things”—Matthew ArnoldB.“Poetry—the best words in their best order”—Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC.“The record of the best and happiest moment of the happiest and best minds”—Percy Bysshe ShelleyD.“The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”—Robert Burns1.Lyrical Ballads(1798)was a collection of poems by________.A.James Thomson and William CollinsB.Thomas Gray and Robert BurnsC.Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Gordon ByronD.William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge2.The poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge may be characterized by its________.A.plain languageB.supernatural colorC.scenes of common lifeD.traditional images3.That supernatural and fantastic stories call for“a willing suspension of disbelief”was a statement made by________.A.Sir Arthur Conan DoyleB.Mary ShelleyC.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD.H.G.Wells4.The setting for“Kubla Khan”is in________.A.EnglandB.FranceC.JapanD.China1.Jane Austen’s first novel was________.A.Pride and PrejudiceB.Sense and SensibilityC.EmmaD.Mansfield Park2.The following characters are correctly paired according to the works in which they appear except________.A.Elizabeth—Pride and PrejudiceB.Mr.Knightley—EmmaC.Catherine—Northanger AbbeyD.Elinor—Mansfield Park3.One of the important themes of Jane Austen’s novels is________.A.warB.urban lifecationD.marriage4.The phrase“a single man in possession of a good fortune”is applied to a single man with________.A.luckB.statusC.wealthD.health1.An attack on Byron’s early poetry was launched by the editors of________.A.The London GazetteB.The Manchester GuardianC.The Liverpool PressD.The Edinburgh Review2.Byron wrote the following except________.A.Childe Harold’s PilgrimageB.ManfredC.Don JuanD.The Revolt of Islam3.The description of“a man proud,moody,cynical,with defiance on his brow, and misery in his heart,a scorner of his kind,implacable in revenge,yet capable of deep and strong affection”may be applied to________.A.an epic heroB.an antiheroC.a Byronic heroD.a modern hero1.All the following have written plays in verse except________.A.George Gordon ByronB.Percy Bysshe ShelleyC.George Bernard ShawD.T.S.Eliot2.Shelley’s source for Prometheus Unbound was a play by________.A.William ShakespeareB.AeschylusC.EuripidesD.Sophocles3.In“Ode to the West Wind”,the wild west wind is referred to as the wind of ________.A.springB.summerC.autumnD.winter1.John Keats wrote the following except______.A.EndymionB.The Eve of Saint AgnessC."Ode to a Nightingale"D."Ode to Duty"2.In"Ode on a Grecian Urn"the references to Tempe and Arcady are______.A.ItalianB.BritishC.GreekD.Persian3.The individuals mentioned in"Ode on a Grecian Urn"______.A.appear in the poet's dreamB.appear on a vaseC.are acquaintances of the poetD.pass the poet's window while he is musing1.The following are frequently referred to as the Victorian realist novelists except______.A.Charles DickensB.Jane AustenC.George EliotD.Anthony Trollope2.The two cities in A Tale of Two Cities refer to______.A.London and BerlinB.London and New YorkC.London and ParisD.London and Tokyo3.The following characters are correctly paired according to the works in which they appear except______.A.Doctor Manette—Bleak HouseB.Fagin—Oliver TwistC.Mr.Micawber—David CopperfieldD.Miss Havisham—Great Expectations4.Magwitch works hard in______to make Pip a gentleman.A.AustraliaB.CanadaC.BritainD.The United States1.Matthew Arnold wrote all the following except______.A.Essays in CriticismB.Culture and AnarchyC.The Stones of VeniceD.Literature and Dogma2.Matthew Arnold borrowed the phrase"sweet and light"from a work by______.A.John MiltonB.John BunyanC.John KeatsD.Jonathan Swift3."A disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world"is the definition of criticism by______.A.Samuel JohnsonB.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC.Matthew ArnoldD.T.S.Eliot1.Robert Browning distinguished himself in______.A.lyricsB.dramatic monologuesC.sonnetsD.odes2."My Last Duchess"is written in______.A.irregular meterB.heroic coupletsC.blank verseD.iambic tetrameter3.Neptune is the Roman god of______.A.loveB.warC.the sunD.the sea1.Alfred Tennyson was appointed poet laureate in______.A.1840B.1850C.1860D.18702.The line"He clasps the crag with crooked hands"illustrates the use of______.A.simileB.hyperboleC.alliterationD.repetition3.The line"To strive,to seek,to find,and not to yield"is from Tennyson's______.A.Idylls of the KingB.In MemoriamC.MaudD."Ulysses"1.“All his novels present the losing struggle of individuals against the obscure power which moves the universe”best illustrates the work of________.A.Arnold BennettB.H.G.WellsC.John GalsworthyD.Thomas Hardy2.“A Pure Woman”is the subtitle of________.A.Far from the Madding CrowdB.The Return of the NativeC.Tess of the D’UrbervillesD.Jude the Obscure3.The following characters are correctly paired according to the works in which they appear except________.A.Eustacia—The Return of the NativeB.Sue—Jude the ObscureC.Henchard—The Mayor of CasterbridgeD.Bathsheba—A Pair of Blue Eyes4.Stonehenge is believed to be constructed by the heathens to offer sacrifice to ________.A.GodB.the sunC.the moonD.kings1.“Art for art’s sake”expresses the prevailing literary philosophy of________.A.Alfred Lord TennysonB.Robert BrowningC.Oscar WildeD.George Bernard Shaw2.Oscar Wilde was the author of the following works except________.A.The Picture of Dorian GrayB.Salomédy Windermere’s FanD.My Fair Lady3.In The Importance of Being Earnest,________.A.Algernon is Cecily’s guardianB.Jack is Gwendolen’s cousinC.Algernon invents a younger brother called Ernest,and Jack invents a patient called BunburyD.Jack invents a younger brother called Ernest,and Algernon invents a patient called Bunbury1.Both Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw came from________.A.EnglandB.ScotlandC.IrelandD.Wales2.The following information about Shaw is true except________.A.he was a member of the Fabian SocietyB.he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in1925C.he visited China in1933D.his best plays were comedies3.Pygmalion,King of Cyprus,was a sculptor who fell in love with________.A.sculptureB.the statue of a woman he had sculptedC.the statue of himselfD.Aphrodite the goddess of love and beauty1.James Joyce was born in________.A.EdinburghB.LondonC.DublinD.Paris2.In Joyce’s Ulysses,the character who represents the last Ulysses is________.A.Stephen DedalusB.Leopold BloomC.Buck MulliganD.Blazes Boylan3.Joyce’s short story“Araby”is characterized by the following except________.A.realistic descriptionB.symbolic detailsC.epiphanyD.excitement of the plot1.Both Virginia Woolf and Jame Joyce died in_________.A.1939B.1940C.1941D.19422.The“Bloomsbury group”included the following except________.A.Lytton StracheyB.J.M.KeynesC.E.M.Forsterwrence3.The term“stream of consciousness novel”can be applied to Virginia Woolf’s following works except________.A.Mrs.DallowayB.To the LighthouseC.A Room of One’s OwnD.The Waves1.Both Virginia Woolf and Jame Joyce died in_________.A.1939B.1940C.1941D.19422.The“Bloomsbury group”included the following except________.A.Lytton StracheyB.J.M.KeynesC.E.M.Forsterwrence3.The term“stream of consciousness novel”can be applied to Virginia Woolf’s following works except________.A.Mrs.DallowayB.To the LighthouseC.A Room of One’s OwnD.The Waves。

100 Selected Questions on English Literature1.The most significant idea of the Renaissance is（）.A. humanismB. realismC. naturalismD. skepticism2.Shakespeare’s tragedies include all the following except（）.A. Hamlet and King LearB. Antony and Cleopatra and MacbethC. Julius Caesar and OthelloD. The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream3. The statement “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability”opens one of well-known essays byA. Francis BaconB. Samuel JohnsonC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift4.In Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent（）touch in his description of the simple though primitive rural life.A. nostalgicB. humorousC. romanticD. ironic5.Backbite, Sneerwell, and Lady Teazle are characters in the play The School for Scandal by（）.A. Christopher MarloweB. Ben JonsonC. Richard Brinsley SheridanD. George Bernard Shaw6.Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a“（）in prose,”th e first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. tragic epicB. comic epicC. romanceD. lyric epic7.In his poem “Tyger, Tyger,”William Blake expresses his perception of the“fearful symmetry”of the big cat. The phrase“fearful symmetry”sug gests（）.A. the tiger’s two eyes which are dazzlingly bright and symmetrically setB. the poet’s fear of the predatorC. the analogy of the hammer and the anvilD. the harmony of the two opposite aspects of God’s creation8. “What is his name?”“Bingley.”“Is he married or single?”“Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousanda year. What a fine thing for our girls!”The above dialogue must be taken from（）.A. Jane Austen’s Pride and PrejudiceB. Em ily Bronte’s Wuthering HeightsC. John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte SagaD. George Eliot’s Middlemarch9.The short story“Araby”is one of the stories in James Joyce’s collection（）.A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManB. UlyssesC. Finnegans WakeD. Dubliners10.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following except （）.A. the using of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC. the humble and rustic life as subject matterD. elegant wording and inflated figures of speech11. Here are two lines taken from The Merchant of Venice:“Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew/Thou mak’st thy knife keen.”What kind of figurative device is used in the above lines? （）A. Simile.B. Metonymy.C. Pun.D. Synecdoche.12. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”is an epigrammatic line by （）.A. J. KeatsB. W. BlakeC. W. WordsworthD. P. B. Shelley13. The poems such as“The Chimney Sweeper”are found in both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience byA. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. John KeatsD. Lord Gordon Byron14.John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is often regarded as a typical example of （）.A. allegoryB. romanceC. epic in proseD. fable15.Alexander Pope strongly advocated neoclassicism, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by（）rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.A. classicalB. romanticC. sentimentalD. allegorical16.In his essay“Of Studies,”Bacon said:“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and（）.”A. skimmedB. perfectedC. imitatedD. digested17.“For I have known them all already, known them all—/Have known the evenings,mornin gs, afternoons,/I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”The above lines are taken from（）.A. Wordsworth’s “The Solitary Reaper”B. Eliot’s“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”C. Coleridge’s“Kubla Khan”D. Yeats’s“The Lake Isle of Innisfree”18.(The)（）was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.A. RomanticismB. HumanismC. EnlightenmentD. Sentimentalism19.A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of （）, who never pays any attention to human feelings.A. moralityB. justiceC. propertyD. humor20.The typical feature of Robert Browning’s poetry is the （）.A. bitter satireB. larger-than-life caricatureC. Latinized dictionD. dramatic monologue21. G eorge Bernard Shaw’s play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a grotesquely realistic exposure of the（）.A. slum landlordismB. political corruption in EnglandC. economic oppression of womenD. religious corruption in England22. The story starting with th e marriage of Paul’s parents Walter Morel and Mrs. Morel must beA. Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’UrbervillesB. D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and LoversC. George Eliot’s MiddlemarchD. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre23. She smiled, no doubt, when’ver I passed her…/ …. This grew, I gave commands, Then all simles stopped together.’The above quoted lines imply that she________.A. obeyed his order and sopped smiling at everybody, including the dukeB. obeyed his order and stopped smiling at anybody except the dukeC. refused to obey and the order and never smiled againD. was murdered at the order of the duke24. The true subject of John Donne’s poem, “The sun Rising,” is to _________.A. attack the sun as an unruly servantB. give compliments to the mistress and her power of beautyC. criticicize the sun’s intrusion into the lover’s private lifeD. lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie25. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’s sonnet 18?A. The speaker meditates on man’s moralityB. The speaker satirizes human vanityC. The speaker eulogizes the power of artistic creationD. The speaker tells one of his dream visions.26. Among the great writers of the modern period, ____might be the greatest in radical experimentation of technical innovations in novel writing.A. Joseph ConradB. D.H, LawrenceC. E.M, ForsterD. James Joyce27. “For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room ...”(Dickens, Oliver Twist) What did Oliver ask for?A. More time to play.B. More food to eat.C. More book to read.D. More money to spend.28. Mrs. Warren’s Profession is one of George Bernard Shaw’s plays. What is Mrs. Warren’s profession then ?A. Real estate.B. Prostitution.C. House-keeping.D. Farming.29. The statement “A demanding mother turns away from her husband and g ives all her affection to her sons” sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrence′s .A. Lady Chatterley’s LoverB. Women in loveC. Sons and LoversD. The Plumed Serpent30. “Drive my dead thought over the universeLike withe red leaves to quicken a new birth.”(Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”)What rhetorical device does the poet use in the quoted lines?A. Synecdoche.B. Metaphor.C. Simile.D. Onomatopoeia.31. Crusoe is the hero in The life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Grusoe, of York, Mariner (also known as Robinson Crusoe)by .A. Jonathan SwiftB. Daniel DefoeC. George EliotD. D.H. Lawrence32.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by .A. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Percy Bysshe Shelley33. Christopher Marlow’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is a (n) .A. pastoral lyricB. elegyC. eulogyD. epic34. Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance humanism?A. Cultivation of the art of this world and this life.B. Tolerance of human foibles.C. Search for the genuine flavor of ancient culture.D. Glorification of religious faith.35.. “In dream vision Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana, and upon awaking resolves to seek her.” The two literary figures Arthur and Gloriana are form .A. Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie QueeneB. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and JulietC. Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His love”D. John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”36. Which of the following best describes t he nature of Thomas Hardy’s later works?A. Sentimentalism.B. Tragic sense.C. Surrealism.D. Comic sense.37.In which of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput,” “Brobdingnag,” “Houyhnhnm,” and “Yahoo”?A. James Joyce’s Ulsses.B. Charles Dickens’s Bleak House.C. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.D. D. H. Lawrence’s Women in love.38. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following except .A. normal contemporary speech patternsB. humble and rustic life as subject matterC. elegant wording and inflated figures of speechD. intensely subjective feeling toward individual experience39. In Samuel Taylor Coleridge′s “Kubla Khan,” “A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice” .A. refers to the palace where Kubla Khan once livedB. vividly describes a building of poor qualityC．is the gift given to a beautiful girl called AbyssinianD. symbolizes the reconciliation of the conscious and the unconscious40. The Glorious Revolution in ________ meant three things: the supremacy of parliament, the beginning of modern England, and the final triumph of the principle of political liberty.A. 1640B. 1688C. 1660D. 164941. After ________’s death, monarch was again restored (1660). It was called the period of Restoration.A. CromwellB. CharlesC. MiltonD. James42. The essays and stories of Addison and Steels devoted not only to social problems, but also to private life and ________.A. businessB. public clubsC. gossipsD. adventures43. The Puritans believed in _________ of life.A. extravaganceB. simplicityC. humblenessD. Arrogance44. Fielding’s work unfolds a spread _________ of life in a ll sections of English society.A. pictureB. imageC. panoramaD. painting45. No sooner were the people in control of the government than they divided into hostile parties: the liberal Whigs, and the conservative_________ .A. RepublicansB. DemocratsC. LaborersD. Tories46. Pope was a man of extraordinary wit, extensive ________, and his contemporaries considered him as the highest authority in matters of literary art.A. sightB. adventureC. learningD. thinking47. The philosophy of the enlighteners, though ________ and materialistic in its essence, did not exclude senses, or sentiments, as a means of perception and learning.A. RomanticB. rationalC. realisticD. metaphysical48. The mysterious element plays an enormous role in the Gothic novel; it is soreplete with bloodcurdling scenes and unnatural feelings that it is just called “a novel of ________”.A. happyB. loveC. SentimentalistD. Horror49. Along with the depiction of morals and manners and social mode of life the writers of the Enlightenment began to display an interest in the ________ life of an individual.A. exteriorB. urbanC. poorD. innermost50 Lyrical Ballads is composed by William Wordsworth in collaboration with _________ .A. ColeridgeB. SoutheyC. BlakeD. Byron51. After the Industrial revolution, __________ became the “workshop of the world”.A. BritainB. FranceC. GermanyD. Northern Europe52. The quotation “I wandered lonely as a cloud, / That floats on high o’er vales and hills, / When all at once I saw a crowd , / a host , of golden daffodils ;” is composed by __________.A. ShakespeareB. WordsworthC. SpenserD. Keats53. “If Winter comes , can __________ be far behind ?”.A. AutumnB. West windC. SummerD. Spring54. “Beauty is _________ , truth beauty ”.A. realityB. loveC. truthD. ability55. Romanticism as a literary movement came into being in England in the later half of the _________ century.A. 10B. 16C. 18D. 1956. The Romantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last Romantic writer __________ died .A. Jane AustenB. Walter ScottC. William WordsworthD. De Quincy57. Which poet belongs to the Lakers ? ___________A. ColeridgeB. KeatsC. ByronD. Shelley58. Choose the one from the four immortal odes which is not written by Keats . __________A. Ode to the West WindB. Ode to a NightingaleC. Ode to AutumnD. Ode on a Grecian Urn59. Which work is based on ancient Greek mythology ? __________A. Paradise LostB. Jane EyreC. IvanhoeD. Prometheus Unbound60. In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the following EXCEPT ______.A. getting rid of those old feudalist ideasB. getting control of the parliament and governmentC. introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisieD. recovering the purity of the early church, from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church2. The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ______.A. SurreyB. WyattC. SidneyD. Shakespeare61. As the best of Shakespeare's final romances,______ is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.A. The TempestB. The Winter's TaleC. CymbelineD. The Rape of Lucrece62. John Milton's greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literarure since Beowulf.A. AreopagiticaB. Paradise LostC. LycidasD. Samson Agonistes63. The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT ______.A. self - esteemB. self - relianceC. self - restraintD. hard work64. “Graveyard School”writers are the following senti mentalists EXCEPT ______.A. James ThomsonB. William CollinsC. William CowperD. Thomas Jackson65. The best model of satire in English literary history is Jonathan Swift's ______.A. A Modest ProposalB. A Tale of a TubC. Gulliver's TravelsD. The Battle of the Books66. As a representative of the Enlightenment,¬¬¬______ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.A. John BunyanB. Daniel DefoeC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift67. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel,______ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel”.A. Daniel DefoeB. Henry FieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD. Samuel Richardson68. Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correct?A. It predominated in the early eighteenth century.B. It was one phase of the Romantic movement.C. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.D. Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic romance.69. “Byronic hero”is a figure of the following traits EXCEPT ______.A.being proudB. being of humble originC.being rebelliousD. being mysterious70. Robert Browning created ______ by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters.A. the verse novelB. the blank verseC. the heroic coupletD. the dramatic poetry71. Charles Dickens' novel ______ is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life of the underworld in the nineteenth- century London.A. The Pickwick PaperB. Oliver TwistC. David CopperfieldD. Nicholas Nickleby72. Charlotte Bronte's works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards ______, about some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.A. self - relianceB. self - realizationC. self - esteemD. self - consciousness73. The symbolic meaning of “Book” in Robert Browning's long poem The Ring and the Book is ______.A. the common senseB. the hard truthC. the comprehensive knowledgeD. the dead truth74. Thomas Hardy's pessimistic view of life predominated most of his later works and earns him a reputation as a ______ writer.A. realisticB. naturalisticC. romanticD. stylistic75. After the First World War, there appeared the following literary trends of modernism EXCEPT ______.A. expressionismB. surrealismC. stream of consciousnessD. black humor76. The masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century are the three trilogies of ______.A. Galsworthy's Forsyte novelsB. Hardy' s Wessex novelsC. Greene's Catholic novelsD. Woolf's stream-of-consciousness novels77. In the mid - 1950s and early 1960s, there appeared “______” who demonstrated a particular disillusion over the depressing situation in Britain and launched a bitter protest. against the outmoded social and political values in their society.A. The Beat GenerationB. The Lost GenerationC. The Angry Young MenD. Black Mountain Poets78. The following are English stream-of-consciousness novels EXCEPT ______.A.PilgrimageB. UlyssesC.Mrs.DallowayD. A Passage to Inida79. The leader of the Irish National Theater Movement in the early 20th centurywas ______.A. W.B.Yeats B. Lady GregoryC. J.M.SyngeD. John Galworthy80. T.S.Eliot's most popular verse play is ______.A. Murder in the CathedralB. The Cocktail PartyC. The Family ReunionD. The Waste Land81._______ is regarded as “worshipper of nature.”A. ColeridgeB. WordsworthC. T.S.EliotD. Robert Browning82.Marlowe’s play Dr.Faustus is based on _______ of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the devil.A. the ScandinavianB. the GermanC. the ancient EnglishD. the French83.Who defined a good style as “proper words in proper places?”A. Jonathan SwiftB. Charles DickensC. Edmund SpencerD. George Bernard Shaw84._______ is central to Blake’s concern in the Sogns of Innocence and Songs of Experience?A. innocence and experienceB. the poorC. societyD. childhood85. As a novelist _______ wrote within a very narrow sphere, the provincial life of the late 1818-century England.A. Jonathan SwiftB. Jane AustenC. Thomas HardyD. Henry Fielding86. ________ employed the heroic couplet with true ease and charm for the first time in thehistory of English Literature.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. George Gordon ByronC. Edmund SpenderD. Robert Browning87. Which of the following is William Shakespeare’s history play?A. MacbethB. Henry IVC. Romeo and JulietD. King Lear88. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ________ has beenregarded as “Father of the English Novel”.A. Henry FieldingB. Daniel DefoeC. John BunyanD. James Joyce89. Jane Austen wrote within a very narrow sphere. The subject matter, the social setting, and plots are all restricted to the provincial life of the ________.A. late 19th -centuryB. 17th -centuryC. 20th -centuryD. late 18th –century90.The most significant idea of the Renaissance is（）.A. humanismB. realismC. naturalismD. skepticism91.Shakespeare’s tragedies include all the following except（）.A. Hamlet and King LearB. Antony and Cleopatra and MacbethC. Julius Caesar and OthelloD. The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream92.The statement “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability”opens one of well-known essays by（）.A. Francis BaconB. Samuel JohnsonC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift93. In Hardy’s Wessex novels, t here is an apparent（）touch in his description of the simple though primitive rural life.A. nostalgicB. humorousC. romanticD. ironic94. Backbite, Sneerwell, and Lady Teazle are characters in the play The School for Scandal by （）.A. Christopher MarloweB. Ben JonsonC. Richard Brinsley SheridanD. George Bernard Shaw95.Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a“（）in prose,”the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. tragic epicB. comic epicC. romanceD. lyric epic96. In his poem “Tyger, Tyger,”William Blake expresses his perception of the“fearful symmetry”of the big cat. The phrase“fearful symmetry”suggests（）.A. the tiger’s two eyes which are dazzlingly bright and symmetrically setB. the poet’s fear of the predatorC. the analogy of the hammer and the anvilD. the harmony of the two opposite aspects of God’s creation97. Hawthorne’s view of man and human history originates, to a great extent in _______.A. PuritanismB. TranscendentalismC. his childhoodD. his unhappy marriage98. As _______ saw it, poetry could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation.A. EmersonB. HawthorneC. WhitmanD. Emily Dickinson99. 1．The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical eventsEXCEPT_________.A．the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek cultureB．the vast expansion of British colonies in North AmericaC．the new discoveries in geography and astrologyD．the religious reformation and the economic expansion100. All of the following works are known as Hardy’s “novels of character and environment”EXCETP_______.A．The Return of the Native B．Tess of the D’UrbervillesC．Jude the Obscure D．Far from the Madding CrowdTrue or false1. Donne is mostly famous for his popular use of conceit.( )2. Paradise Lost tells how Adam rebelled against God and how Satan and Eve were driven out of Eden.( )3. Bunyan’s most important work is The Pilgrim’s Progress, written in the old-fashioned, medieval form of allegory and dream.( )4. The story of Robinson Crusoe is real enough to have come straight from a sailor’s logbook.( )5. Gulliver’s Adventures begins with Lilliputians, who are so small that Gulliver is a pigmy among them.( )6. The Spectator and The Tatler by Steele and Addison are the first important recognitions by literature of the special interests of women readers.( )7. Fielding’s first novel, Joseph Andrews, war inspired by the success of Defoe’s novel Pamela.( )8. The author of the famous Elegy is the most scholarly and well-balanced of all the early romantic poets.( )9. Of all the romantic poets of the 18th century, Blake is the most independent and the most original.( )10. The Tiger as an excellent short poem is not composed by Blake .( )。

1.____ is the greatest representative of English critical realism.A. Jane AustenB. ThackerayC. DickensD. Charlotte2.Pride and Prejudice’s first title is ____.A. First ImpressionB. A Book Without a HeroC. The NewcomesD. Persuasion3.Vanity Fair has a sub-title. It is ____.A. First ImpressionB. A Book Without a HeroC. The NewcomesD. Persuasion4.In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend ____ appeared. And it flourished in the forties andin the early fifties.A. romanticismB. naturalismC. realismD. critical realism5.English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of ____ .A. novelB. dramaC. poetryD. sonnet6.______’s V anity Fair is a satirical portrayal of the upper strata(阶层) of society.A. George EliotB. Elizabeth GaskellC. W. M. ThackerayD. John Buyan7._______ deals with the sufferings and hardships of an old man named Trent and his granddaughter Nell.A. Pickwick PapersB. The Old Curiosity ShopC. Great ExpectationsD. Hard Times8.Which novel makes a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education?A. Oliver TwistB. Hard TimesC. Great ExpectationsD. A Tale of Two Cities9.Which novel is a great satire upon the society and those people who dream to enter the higher societyregardless of the social reality?A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC. Great ExpectationD. Dombey and Son10.In the novel ______, Dickens describes the Chartist Movement and shows his sympathy for the workers.A. Great ExpectationsB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Hard TimesD. Oliver Twist11.In the novel ___ , Defarge and Madame Defarge represent the revolutionaries.A. Dombey and SonB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Little DorritD. Bleak House12._____ is often regarded as the semi-autobiography of the author Dickens in which the early life of the hero islargely based on the author’s early life.A. The Curiosity ShopB. David CopperfieldC. Oliver TwistD. Great Expectations13.Which of the following is Th ackeray’s masterpiece?A. The VirginiansB. The Books of Snobs. The Newcomes D. Vanity Fair14.The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from Bunyan’s masterpiece _____.A. The Pilgrim’s ProgressB. Child Harold’s PilgrimageC. Gulliver’s Trave lsD. The Canterbury Tales15.Emily Bronte wrote only one novel entitled ______.A. Jane EyreB. Agnes GreyC. Wuthering HeightsD. Emma16.Dickens’ third literary period shows intensifying ______.A. optimismB. excitementC. irritationD. pessimism17.The Victorian Literature began in____ and ended in _____.A. 1837...1900 B. 1835...1901 C. 1832...1902 D. 1830 (1903)18.The conflicts between the capitalists and the proletarian in industrial England caused the _____.A. Enlightenment MovementB. Industrial RevolutionC. Chartist MovementD. Romantic Movement19._____ is the greatest among the critical realists of the Victorian Age.A. Earnest JonesB. Emily BrontёC. Charlotte BrontёD. Charles Dickens20.Charles Dickens was impressive for his _____.A. wide spread of critical realismB. his spirit of democracy and humanismC.his unforgettable figures with satire and simple and clear languageD. including A, B and C21.The two cities in A Tale of Two Cities refer to ____.A. London and New YorkB. London and ParisC. Paris and New YorkD. Brussels and Washington22.____ is the major literary form in the Victorian Period.A. essayB. poetryC. novelD. drama23.____ is the main hero in the novel of Wuthering Heights.A. RochesterB. HeathcliffC. ManetteD. Martin24.Both Charlotte and Emily wrote about the ____ around them.A. familiar thingsmon peopleC. neighborsD. evils25._____ is an autobiographical novel and loved by Dickens himself most.A. Great ExpectationsB. David CopperfieldC. Bleak HouseD. The Pickwick Papers26. The greatest Scottish poet in the pre-romanticism is ________.A. William WordsworthB. Oliver GoldsmithC. Thomas GrayD. Robert Burns27. _______ is written by William Blake, a great poet in the pre-romanticism.A. The Songs of InnocenceB. Reliques of Ancient English poetryC. Songs and SonnetsD. Kubla Khan28.____ has a another name called “The Daffodils”.A. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”B. “Tintern Abbey”C. “Revolution”D. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”29.Byron’s ____ is regarded as the great poem of the Romantic Age.A. Childe Harold’s PilgrimageB. Hours of IdlenessC. LaraD. Don Juan30..Prometheus Unbound is ____ masterpiece.A. Wordsworth’sB. Byron’sC. Shelley’sD. Keats31.Keats’ best ode is ____.A. “On a Grecian Urn”B. “To Autumn”C. “To Psyche”D. “To a Nightingale”32. The publication of ______ marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement in England.A. “Tintern Abbey”B. Lyrical BalladsC. Frost at NightD. “The Daffodils”33.The themes of Pride and Prejudice are _____.A. pride and prejudiceB. the writer’s own personalitiesC. love and marriageD. Both A and C34._____ is considered the father of historical novelist in the English Romantic Age.A.Jane AustenB. Charles LambC. William HazlittD. Waler Scott35.Critics agree that ____ is a great romantic poet, standing with Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth in thehistory English literature.A. KeatsB. WordsworthC. ColeridgeD. William36. Romantic Age began in____ and came to an end in _____.A. 1789...1821 B. 1778...1823 C. 1798...1832 D. 1768 (1819)37. Byron, Shelley and Keats belong to Romantic poets of ___ generation.A. the firstB. the secondC. the thirdD. the forth38.____ is the greatest representative of English critical realism.A. Jane AustenB. ThackerayC. DickensD. Charlotte39.Pride and Prejudice’s first title is ____.A. First ImpressionB. A Book Without a HeroC. The NewcomesD. Persuasion40.Vanity Fair has a sub-title. It is ____.A. First ImpressionB. A Book Without a HeroC. The NewcomesD. Persuasion41.In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend ____ appeared. And it flourished in the fortiesand in the early fifties.A. romanticismB. naturalismC. realismD. critical realism42.English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of ____ .A. novelB. dramaC. poetryD. sonnet43.______’s V anity Fair is a satirical portrayal of the upper strata(阶层) of society.A. George EliotB. Elizabeth GaskellC. W. M. ThackerayD. John Buyan44.Yeats’s fame rests chiefly on his ______, using a lot of symbols in his poem.A. novelsB. poetryC. dramasD. prose45.____ was a leader of the modernist movement in English poetry and a great innovator of verse technique.A. W.B. Yeats B. T. S. EliotC.D. H. Lawrence D. G. B. Shaw46.Which of the following is Not written by D. H. Lawrence?A. The Waste LandB. The RainbowC. Lady Chatterley’s LoverD. Women in Love47. _____ is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.A. Jane Eyre B Emma C. Wuthering Height D. Middlemarch48.The typical feature of Robert Browning’s poetry is the _____.A. bitter satireB. Larger-than-life caricatureC. Latinized dictionD. dramatic monologue49. The modernist writers such as Richardson, Joyce and Woolf are mainly concerned with the __.A. external worldB. public life of an individualC. social activities of human beingsD. inner life of an individual50. Eliot’s poem, the Waste Land, is mainly concerned with the _____of a modern civilization.A. social corruptionB. spiritual breakupC. physical breakupD. religious corruption51. Among the great writers of the modern period, ____might be the greatest on radical experimentation oftechnical innovation in novel writing.A. Joseph ConradB. D. H. LawrenceC. Virginia WoolfD. James Joyces52. According to D. H. Lawrence, the ____is the most responsible for the alienation of the human relationshipsand the perversion of human personality.A. pride of the aristocratic classB. vanity of the middle classC. man’s desire for power and moneyD. capitalist mechanical civilization53. The Victorian age was largely an age of _____, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.A. pessimismB. naturalismC. modernismD. critical realism54. The Romantic Age in England came to an end with the death of ____.A. Jane AustinB. Walter ScottC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. William Wordsworth55. Who is the father of English poetry?A. William Shakespeare.B. Edmund Spencer.C. John Milton.D. Geoffrey Chaucer.56. ____ is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed into fourteen lines.A. Free VerseB. SonnetC. OdeD. Epigram57. Which of the following poems is NOT written by George Gordon Byron?A. She Walks in Beauty.B. The Solitary Reaper.C. When We Two Parted.D. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.58. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between ____ centuries.A. 14th and mid 17thB. 14th and mid-18thC. 16th and mid-18thD. 16th and mid-17th59. ____ is the greatest songwriter in the world and the national poet of Scotland.A. William BlakeB. Robert BurnsC. ByronD. Keats60. William Blake's The Tiger is collected in ____.A. Songs of InnocenceB. Songs of ExperienceC. Marriage of Heaven and HellD. Poetical Sketches61. Among the following poets, which is NOT a lake poet?A. William Wordsworth.B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.C. Robert Southey.D. William Collins.62. _____is a fork legend brought to England by Anglo-Saxons from their continental homes, it is a long poem ofover 3000 lines and the national epic of the English people.A. BeowulfB. Sir GawainC. The Canterbury TalesD. King Arthur and His Knights63. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" is an epigrammatic line by ____.A. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Percy Bysshe Shelley64. Lyrical Ballad s is the joint work between Wordsworth and his friend ____.A. ColeridgeB. ByronC. KeatsD. Shelly65. ____ is D. H. Lawrence's semi-autographical novel.A. Sons and LoversB. Women in LoveC. RainbowD. Lady Chatterlay’s Lover。

英国文学期末考试试题大三### 英国文学期末考试试题一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 以下哪位作家是英国浪漫主义文学的代表人物？A. 莎士比亚B. 简·奥斯汀C. 乔治·奥威尔D. 威廉·华兹华斯2. 托马斯·哈代的《德伯家的苔丝》中，苔丝的悲剧命运主要反映了哪种社会问题？A. 阶级冲突B. 性别歧视C. 宗教信仰D. 个人命运3. 英国文学中的“黑色幽默”主要体现在哪位作家的作品中？A. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫B. 乔治·奥威尔C. 约瑟夫·海勒D. 威廉·戈尔丁4. 以下哪部作品不是查尔斯·狄更斯的代表作？A. 《雾都孤儿》B. 《双城记》C. 《傲慢与偏见》D. 《大卫·科波菲尔》5. 英国文学中的“现代主义”运动，主要受到哪位哲学家的影响？A. 弗里德里希·尼采B. 亚瑟·叔本华C. 格奥尔格·威廉·弗里德里希·黑格尔D. 伊曼努尔·康德二、简答题（每题10分，共30分）6. 简述《简·爱》中简·爱的性格特点及其对女性独立精神的体现。

7. 描述《荒原》中T.S.艾略特对现代文明的批判及其文学手法。

8. 论述《乌托邦》对后世理想社会构想的影响及其在文学史上的地位。

三、论述题（每题25分，共50分）9. 以《呼啸山庄》为例，分析艾米莉·勃朗特如何通过人物关系和情节发展来探讨爱与恨的主题。

10. 探讨《1984》中乔治·奥威尔对极权主义社会的描绘及其对个人自由的威胁。

四、作文题（共30分）11. 选择一部你感兴趣的英国文学作品，从文学、社会、心理等角度出发，写一篇不少于1000字的论文，分析该作品的主题、人物、结构和语言风格。

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12. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essenceis_______.A. scienceB. philosophyC. artsD. humanism13. _______ frequently applied conceits in his poems.A. Edmund SpenserB. John DonneC. William BlakeD. Thomas Gray14. _______ is known as “the poet’s poet”.A. William ShakespeareB. Christopher MarloweC. Edmund SpenserD. John Donne15. Romance，which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of____ adventures or other heroic deeds，is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A. ChristianB. knightlyC. pilgrimsD. primitive16. ________ and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the English humanism.A. Edmund Spenser, Christopher MarloweB. Thomas More, Christopher MarloweC. John Donne, Edmund SpenserD. John Milton, Thomas More17. Among the following plays which is not written by Christopher Marlowe?A. Dr. FaustusB. The Jew of MaltaC. TamburlaineD. The School for Scandal18. Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are _______.A. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and MacbethB. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Romeo andJuliet C. Hamlet, Coriolanus, King Lear and Macbeth D. Hamlet, Julius caesar, Othello and Macbeth19. The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the line of one of Shakespeare’s ________.A. comediesB. tragediesC. historiesD. sonnets20. “So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.” (Shakespeare, Sonnets 18) What does “this” refer to?A. LoverB. TimeC. SummerD. Poetry21. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18？A. The speaker eulogizes the power of NatureB. The speaker satirizes human vanityC. The speaker praises the power of artistic creationD. The speaker meditates on man’s salvation22. “Bassani Antonio，I am married to a wife Which is as dear to me as life itself；But life itself，my wife，and all the world，Are not with me esteem’d above thy life；I would lose all，ay，sacrifice them all，Here to the devil，to deliver you. Portia：Your wife would give you little thanks for that，ff she were by to hear you make the offer.” The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare’s comedy The Merchant of Venice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrateA. dramatic ironyB. personificationC. allegoryD. symbolism23. “The Fairy Queen” is the masterpiece written by____.A. John MiltonB. Geoffrey ChaucerC. Edmund SpenserD. Alexander Pope24. Which of the following work did Bacon NOT write?A. Advancement of LearningB. Novum OrganumC. De AugmentisD. Areopagitica25. The greatest of pioneers of English drama in Renaissance is _______, one of whose drama is “Doctor Faustus”.A. William ShakespeareB. Christopher MarloweC. Oscar WildeD. R. Brinsley Sheridan26. “Euphues” was written by ________, the style of the novel was called “Euphuism”.A. John BunyanB. John LylyC. John DonneD. John Milton27. The most famous dramatist in the 18th century is ______, who is famous for “The School for Scandal”.A. Oliver GoldsmithB. Thomas GrayC. R. Brinsley SheridanD. G.eorge Bernard Shaw28. The most distinguished literary figure of the 17th century was ______, who was a c ritic, poet, and playwright.A. Oliver GoldsmithB. John DrydenC. John MiltonD. T. G. Coleridge29. The representative of the “Metaphysical” poetry i s ______, whose poems are famous for his use of fantastic metaphors and extravagant hyperboles.A. John DonneB. John MiltonC. William BlakeD. Robert Burns30. Which of the following has / have associations with John Donne’s poetry?A. reason and sentimentB. conceits and witsC. the euphuismD. writing in the rhymed couplet31. _____ is the successful religious allegory in the English language.A. The Pilgrim’s ProgressB. The Canterbury TalesC. Paradise LostD. Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded32. The 18th century England is known as the ______ in the history.A. RenaissanceB. ClassicismC. EnlightenmentD. Romanticism33. Of all the eighteenth-century novelists, who was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specially a “comic epic讽刺史诗in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style?A. Thomas GrayB. Richard Brinsley SheridanC. Johathan SwiftD. Henry Fielding34. Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “_______________”, for his contributi on to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.A. Best writer of the English novelB. The father of English novelC. The most gifted writer of the English novelD. conventional writer of English novel35. Among the pioneers of the 18th century novelists were Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry fielding and _______.A. Laurence SterneB. John DrydenC. Charles DickensD. Alexander Pope36. John Milton’s masterpiece—Paradise Lost was written in the poetic style of _____.A. rhymed stanzasB. blank verseC. alliterationD. sonnets37. Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out____，both in theory and practice，to write specifically a “ ______ in prose,” the first to give the modern novel its structure and style. (Refer to 19)A. tragic epicB. comic epicC. romanceD. lyric epic38. Besides Sheridan, another great playwright in the 18th century is ______.A. Oliver GoldsmithB. Thomas GrayC. T. G. SmolletD. Laurence Sterne39. She Stoops to Conquer was written by _____.A. Oliver GoldsmithB. R. Brinsley SheridanC. John DrydenD. George Bernard Shaw40. The middle of the 18th century was predominated by a newly rising literary form, that is the modern English ______, which gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people.A. proseB. short storyC. novelD. tragicomedy41. The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels are _____.A. horses that are endowed with reasonB. pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC. giants that are superior in wisdomD. hairy，wild，low and despicable creatures，who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways42. The unquenchable无法消除的spirit of Robinson Crusoe struggling to maintain a substantial existence ona lonely island reflects ____.A. man’s desire to return to natureB. the author’s criticism of the colo nization XC. the ideal of the rising bourgeoisie XD. the aristocrats’ disillusionment of the harsh social reality43. Gothic novels are mostly stories of_____, which take place in some haunted or dilapidated Middle Age castles.A. love and marriageB. sea adventuresC. mystery and horrorD. saints and martyrs44. “The father of English novel” is __________.A. Henry FieldingB. Daniel DefoeC. Jonathan SwiftD. John Donne。

WORD格式整理版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 ofEngland, was born in London about 1340.A.Geoffrey ChaucerB. Sir GawainC.Francis BaconD. John Dryden2.Chaucer died on the 25th October 1400, and was buried in ________.A.FlandersB. FranceC.ItalyD. Westminster Abbey3.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 VB. Henry VIIC.Henry VIIID. Queen Elizabeth4.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.A.SpainB. FranceC.AmericaD. Norway5.At the beginning of the 16th century the outstanding humanist ________ wrote his Utopiain which he gave a profound and truthful picture of the people’s suffering and put forward his ideal of a future happy society.A.Thomas MoreB. Thomas MarloweC.Francis BaconD. William Shakespear6.Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of Queen ________.A.MaryB. ElizabethC.WilliamD. Victoria7.English Renaissance Period was an age of ________.A.prose and novelB. poetry and dramaC.essays and journalsD. ballads and songs8.From the following, choose the one which is not Francis Bacon’s work: ________.A.The Advancement of LearningB. The New InstrumentC.EssaysD. The New AtlanticsE.Venus and Adonis9.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” This is the beginning line of one ofShakespeare’s ________.A.songsB. playsediesD. sonnets10.The heroines of Shakespeare’s great comedies, ________ are the daughters of theRenaissance, whose images and stories will remain a legacy to readers and audiences of all time.A.PortiaB. RoselandC.ViolaD. Beatrice11.Choose the four great tragedies of Shakespeare from the following ________.A.HamletB. OthelloC.MacbethD. King LearE.Timon of Athens12.Which play is not a comedy? ________A.A Midsummer Night’s DreamB. The Merchant of VeniceC.Twelfth NightD. Romeo and JulietE.As You Like It13.“Denmark is a prison”. In which play does the h ero summarise his observation of hisworld into such a bitter sentence? ________专业学习参考资料A.Charles IB. OthelloC.Henry VIIID. Hamlet14.The works of ________ and the Authorised Version of the English Bible are the two greattreasuries of the English language.A.Geoffrey ChaucerB. Edmund SpenserC.William ShakespeareD. Ben Johnson15.In which play does the hero show his profound reverence for man through the sentence:“What a piece of wok is a man! How nobel in reason! How finite in faculty!” ________ A.Romeo and Juliet B. HamletC.OthelloD. The Merchant of Venice16.In 1649, ________ was beheaded. England became a commonwealth.A.James IB. James IIC.Charles ID. Charles II17.The revolution of 1688 meant three of the following things: ________.A.the supremacy of ParliamentB.the beginning of modern EnglandC.the triumph of the principal libertyD.the triumph of the principle of political libertyE.the Restoration of monarchy18.Who of the following were the important metaphysical poets? ________A.John DonneB. George HerbertC.John MiltonD. Richard Lovelace19.Which work was NOT written by John Milton? ________A.Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC.Samson AgonistesD. Volpone20.Paradise Lost is ________.A.John Milton’s masterpieceB.a great epic in 12 booksC.written in blank verseD.about the heroic revolt of Satan against God’s authority21.John Milton is ________.A.a great revolutionary poet of the 17th centuryB.an outstanding political pamphleteerC.a great stylistD.a great master of blank verse22.From the Old Testament, John Milton took his stories of Paradise Lost, i.e. ________.A.the creationB.the rebellion in Heaven of Satan and his fellow-angelsC.their defeat and expulsion from HeavenD.the creation of the death and of adam and EveE.the fallen angels in hell plotting against GodF.Satan’s temptation of EveG.the departure of Adam and Eve from Eden23.The finest thing in Paradise Lost is the description of hell, and ________ is oftenregarded as the real hero of the poem.A. GodB. SatanC. AdamD. Eve24.Who is the greatest of the Metaphysical school of poetry? ________A.John DonneB. George HerbertC.Andrew MarvellD. Henry Vaugham25.________ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18thcentury.A.The RenaissanceB. The EnlightenmentWORD格式整理版C.The Religious ReformationD. The Chartist Movement26.The main literary stream of the 18th century was ________. What the writers describedin their works were mainly social realities.A.naturalismB. romanticismC.classicismD. realismE.sentimentalism27.The eighteenth century was the golden age of the English ________. The novel of thisperiod spoke the truth about life with an uncompromising courage.A.dramaB. poetryC.essayD. novel28.In 1704, Jonathan Swift published two works together, ________ and ________, which madehim well-known as a satirist.A.A Tale of a TubB. Bickerstaff AlmanacC.Gulliver’s TravelsD. A Modest Proposal29.“Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a style.” This sentenceis said by ________, one of the greatest masters of English prose.A.Alexander PopeB. Henry FieldingC.Daniel DefoeD. Jonathan Swift30.As a journalist, ________ had learned how to make his reporting vivid and credible by askillful use of circumstantial detail. This power to make his characters alive and his stories credible is an inimitable gift.A.Joseph AddisonB. Daniel DefoeC.Samuel RicharsonD. Tobias Smollett31.Which of the following are NOT written by William Blake? ________A.Poetical SketchesB. Songs of InnocenceC.Songs of ExperienceD. Auld Lang SyneE.The Marriage of Heaven and HellF. ProphecisG.Visions of the Daughters of Albion and America, a Prophecy32.In the 18th century English literature, the representative poets of pre-romanticismwere ________.A.William WordsworthB. William BlakeC.Robert BurnsD. Jonathan Swift33.The Romantic Age begab with the publication of The Lyrical Ballads which was written by________.A.William WordsworthB. Samuel JohnsonC.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. Wordsworth and Coleridge34.The Romantic Age came to an end with the death of the last well-known romantic writer________.A.Jane AustenB. Walter ScottC.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. William Wordsworth35.The glory of the Romantic Age lies in the poetry of ________.A.William WordsworthB. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC.George Gordon ByronD. Percy Bysshe ShelleyE.John Keats36.The English Romantic Age produced two major novelists. They are ________.A.George Gordon Byron and Percy Bysshe ShelleyB.William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC.Walter Scott and Jane AustenD.Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt37.Which poets belong to the Active Romantic group? ________A.George Gordon ByronB. William WordsworthC.Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. John KeatsE.John Milton专业学习参考资料38.Which poets belong to the Lakers? ________A.William WordsworthB. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC.John KeatsD. Robert SoutheyE.Walter Scott39.Which of the folloeing were written by Wordsworth ONLY? ________A.To the CuckooB. The Lyrical BalladsC.Lucy PoemsD. The Solitary ReaperE.I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud40.The publication of ________ marked the break with the conventional poetical traditionof the 18th century, i.e., with classicism, and the beginning of the Romantic revival in England.A.The Lyrical BalladsB. The PreludeC.Childe Harold’s PilgrimageD. Don Juan41.As contrasted with the classicists who made reason, order and the old, classicaltraditions the criteria in their poetical creations, ________ based his own poetical principle on the premise that “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerf ul feeling.”A.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. George Gordon ByronC.Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. William Wordsworth42.________ was the first critic of the Romantic School.A.William WordworthB. Samuel JohnsonC.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. Wordworth and Coleridge43.Which of the following statements is (are) NOT true about George Gordon Byron? ________A.Byron’s early years had been far from happy for he was born with a clubfoot, in thefrequent family scenes his mother called him “you lame brat.”B.Byron died in Italy annd was deeply mourned by the Italian people and by all progressivepeople throughout the world.C.The reactionary criticism of the 19th century tried to belittle Byron’s genius and hisrole in the development of English literature, but Byron remains one of the most popular English poets both at home and abroad.D.Since the May 4 Movement in 1919, more and more of Byron’s poems have been translatedinto Chinese and well received by the poets and young readers. Byron has now become one of the best-known English poets in our country.44.In 1805, Wordsworth completed a long autobiographical poem entitled ________.A.Biographia literariaB. The PreludeC.Lucy PoemsD. The Lyrical Ballads45.________ is regarded as the most wonderful lyricist England has ever produced mainlyfor his poems on nature, on love, and on politics.A.William WordsworthB. John KeatsC.George Gordon ByronD. Percy Bysshe Shelley46.Which of the following statements is (are) NOT true about Percy Bysshe Shelley?________A.Prometheus Unbound is Percy By sshe Shelley’s masterpiece, a long epic poem.B.At Eton Percy Bysshe Shelley was known as “Mad Shelley”, for his obstinate oppositionto the brutal fagging system, according to which the younger school-boys were obliged to obey the older boys and bear a great deal of cruel treatment.C.George Gordon Byron alled Percy Bysshe Shelley “the best and least selfish man I everknew.”D.Percy Bysshe Shelley loved the people and hated their oppressors and exploiters.47.________’s pursuit of beauty in all things bespoke an a spiration after a better lifethan the sordid reality under capitalism. His leading principle is: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.”A.Percy Bysshe ShelleyB. George Gordon ByronWORD格式整理版C.William WordsworthD. John Keats48.Choose the four immortal odes written by John Keats. ________A.Ode to the West WindB. Ode to a NightingaleC.To AutumnD. Ode on MelancholyE.Ode on a Grecian Urn49.Choose the works written by Jane Austen. ________A.Pride and PrejudiceB. Sense and SensibilityC.Northanger Abbey C. EmmaE.Mansfield ParkF. Persuasion50.In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend called ________ appeared.And it flourished in the forties and in the early fifties.A.romanticismB. naturalismC.realismD. critical realism51.English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of ________. Thecritical realists, most of who were novelists, described with vividness and artistic skill the chief traits of the English society and criticised the capitalist system froma democratic viewpoint.A.novelB. dramaC.poetryD. essay52.The greatest English critical realist novelist was ________, who criticised thebourgeois civilisation and showed the misery of the common people.A.William Makepeace ThackerayB. Charles DickensC.Charlotte BronteD. Emily Bronte53.Which of the following writers belong to critical realists? ________A.Charles DickensB. Charlotte BronteC. Emily BronteD. Thomas Hardy54.________ wrote a number of little sketches of “cockney characters”. He signed them“Boz”, which was his nickname for his young brother. His first book, Sketches by Boz appeared in 1836.A.Elizabeth GaskellB. William M. ThackerayC.Charles DickensD. Jane Austen55.________ has been called “the supreme epic of English life.”A.A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC.Pickwick PapersD. Oliver Twist56.The theme underlying ________ is the idea “Where there is oppression, there isrevolution”.A.A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC.Pickwick PapersD. Oliver Twist57.In the Victorian Age, poetry was not a major art intended to change the world. The mainpoets of the age were ________.A.Alfred TennysonB. Robert BrowningC.Mrs. BrowningD. Robert BurnsE.William Blake58.The ________ Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th century. It showed theEnglish workers were able to appear as an independent political force and were already realising the fact that the industrial bourgeoisie was their principal enemy.A.EnlightenmentB. RenaissanceC.ChartistD. Romanticist59.Which novel is a great satire upon the society and those people who dream to enter thehigher society regardless of the social reality? ________A.A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC.Great ExpectationD. Dombey and Son60.Charles Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of the novel ________.专业学习参考资料A.A Tale of Two CitiesB. Great ExpectationC.Hard TimesD. David Copperfield61.________ is often regarded as the semi-autobiography of the author Dickens in which theearly life of the hero is largely based on the author’s early life.A.Tom JonesB. David CopperfieldC.Oliver TwistD. Great Expectation62.The Bronte sisters are ________. They were all talented writers and all of them diedyoung.A.Charlotte BronteB. Emily BronteC.Anne BronteD. Jane AustenE.Catherine63.Charlotte Bronte produced four novels: ________.A.ProfessorB. Jane EyreC.ShirleyD. VilletteE.Agnes Grey64.Emily Bronte wrote only one novel entitled ________.A.Wuthering HeightsB. Jane EyreC.EmmaD. Agnes Grey65.Choose the names appear in the novel Jane Eyre. ________A.Jane EyreB. Mr. RochesterC.Mary BartonD. Silas Marner66.Which characters appear in the novel Wuthering Heights? ________A.HeathcliffB. CatherineC.HindleyD. CathyE.Hareton67.In the novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte ________.A.pours a great deal of her own experienceB.criticises the bourgeois system of educationC.shows that true love is the foundation of marriageD.shows that women should have equal rights with men68.Women novelists began to appear in England during the second half of the ________century.A.17thB. 18thC.19thD. 20th69.Anne Bronte also wrote two novels ________ and ________.A.ShirleyB. VilletteC.The Tenant of the Wildfell HallD. Agnes Grey70.Which of the following statements are true about Jane Eyre? ________A.One of the central themes of the book is the criticism of the bourgeois system ofeducation.B.Another problem raised in the novel is the position of women in society.C.This book is Charlottel Bronte’s best literary production.D.In this book, the author attacked the greed, petty tyranny and lack of culture among thebourgeoisie and sympathised with the sufferings of the poor people. Her realism was coloured by petty-bourgeois philanthropy.71.Most of Robert Browning’s important works, including ________, are written in the formof dramatic monologue.A.Dramatic LyricsB. Dramatic RomancesC. Men and WomenD. dramatics Personae72.Thomas Hardy is one of the representatives of English ________ at the turn of the 19thcentury.A.critical realismB. pre-romanticismC.neo-classicismD. new romanticismWORD格式整理版73.Which statement is true? ________A.Thomas Hardy is a famous novelist.B.Thomas Hardy is also a poet.C.Thomas Hardy is a critical realist.D.Fatalism is strongly reflected in Thomas Hardy’ novels.74.Accordi ng to Thomas Hardy’s own classification, his novels divided themselves intothree groups. They are ________.A.Novels of character and environmentB.Romances and FantasiesC.Novels of IngenuityD.Working class literature75.Novels of character and environment are also called Wessex novels, taking the southwestcounties of England for their setting. They include: ________.A.Under the Greenwood TreeB. The Return of the NativeC.The Mayor of CasterbridgeD. Tess of the D’UrbervillesE.Jude the Obscure76.The following state ments are about Thomas Hardy’s novels, which are true? ________A.His Wessex novels are of great significance.B.The Southwest counties of England are the setting of his Wessex novels.C.There is pessimism in his novels.D.Mankind is subjected to hostile and mysterious fate.E.There are elements of naturalism in his works.77.Oscar Wilde is one of the important dramatists in the 19th century. In his comedies, hecriticises the upper class of the English bourgeois society. His best comedies are ________.dy Windermere’s FanB.A Woman of No ImportanceC.An Ideal HusbandD.The Importance of Being EarnestE.The Picture of Dorian Gray78.Oscar Wilde was the representative among the writers of ________.A.aestheticismB. decadenceC.critical realismD. pre-romanticism79.Alfred Tennys on’s poetic output was vast and varied. His main poems are ________.A.The PrincessB. MaudC.In MemoriamD. Idylls of the KingE.Crossing the Bar80.Which of the following short poems was/were written by Alfred Tennyson? ________A.Break, Break, BreakB. Crossing the BarC.The EagleD. Sweet and LowE.Tears, Idle Tears81.Which lament was written by Alfred Tennyson for the death of his friend Hallam?________A.In MemoriamB. LycidasC.AdodaisD. Elegy written in a Country Churchyard82.My Last Duchess is ________.A.a dramatic monologueB. a short lyricC.a novelD. an essay83.________ are generally regarded as Joseph Conrad’s finest novels.A.Lord JimB. NostromoC.YouthD. The Old Wives’ Tale84.Who is regarded as a forerunner of the “stream of consciousness” literature in the20th century?专业学习参考资料A.John GalsworthyB. Henry JamesC.Thomas Stearns EliotD. James Joyce85.George Bernard Shaw’s essay ________, a commentary on Henrik Ibsen’s dramatic works,served also as the author’s own program of dramatic cr eation.A.Widower’s HousesB. Mrs. Warren’s ProfessionC.Major BarbaraD. The Quintessence of Ibsenism86.In English literature, ________ and ________ are the two best-known novelists of the“stream of consciousness” school.A.David Herbert LawrenceB. Robert TressellC.James JoyceD. Virginia Woolf87.________’s admirers have praised him as “second only to Shakespeare in his mastery ofEnglish language.”A.D.H. LawrenceB. T.S. EliotC.James JoyceD. W.B. Yeats88.________ is the climax of Virginia Woolf’s experiments in novel form.A.The WindowB. Time PassesC.To the LighthouseD. The Waves89.Which of the following novels belong(s) to the “stream of consciousness” school ofnovel writing?A.UlyssesB. Finnegans WakeC.To the LighthouseD. The Waves90.________ was written by James Joyce.A.The Portrait of an Artist as a Young ManB.Portrait of a LadyC.The Picture of Dorian GrayD.To the Lighthouse91.D.H. Lawrence’s representative work ________ was positively taken as a typical exampleand lively manifestation of the Oedipus Complex in fiction, as the result of Lawrence’s long-range study of the psychologic theories of Sigmund Freud.A.Sons and LoversB. The RainbowC. Lady Chatterley’s LoverD. Women in Love92.Which of the characters are in the novel Sons and Lovers?A.Mrs. MorelB. PaulC. MiriamD. Clara93.Which of the following writers were from Ireland?A.George Bernard ShawB. Jonathan SwiftC.James Joyce Oscar WildeE.W.B. Yeats94.Which of the following play(s) was/were NOT written by George Bernard Shaw?A.Mrs. Warren’s ProfessionB. Widower’s HousesC.Major BarbaraD. PygmalionE.The Man of Property95.Which of the following plays deals with the story that a linguist trains a flower girlto speak the so-called high-civilised English?A.Major BarbaraB. PygmalionC.Mrs. Warren’s ProfessionD. Man and Superman96.In 1923, ________ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.A.William Butler YeatsB. Samuel ButlerC.Thomas Stearns EliotD. David Herbert Lawrence97.William Butler Yeats was _______.A.an Irish poetB. a dramatistC. a criticD. a senator in the Irish Free State in192198.Thomas Stearns Eliot defined his belief as ________.A.classicist in literatureB. royalist in politicsWORD格式整理版C.Anglo-Catholic in religionD. all of the above99.Which of the following statement is NOT true?A.Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in America.B.Thomas Stearns Eliot became a British subject in 1927.C.Thomas Stearns Eliot was educated in Harvard University and Oxford University.D.Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, a critic and a playwright.E.Thomas Stearns Eliot was also a great novelist.100.In which poem are the sterility and chaos of the contemporary world after 1st World War expressed?A.Ode to the West WindB. The Solitary ReapermiaD. 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一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 以下哪位作家被誉为“英国文学之父”？A. William ShakespeareB. Geoffrey ChaucerC. Jane AustenD. Charles Dickens2. 以下哪部作品被认为是英国文学史上第一部小说？A. "The Canterbury Tales"B. "Pride and Prejudice"C. "Great Expectations"D. "Don Quixote"3. 在以下哪部作品中，作者通过描述一个虚构的岛屿来探讨社会、政治和人性问题？A. "Utopia"B. "The Tempest"C. "The Great Gatsby"D. "1984"4. 以下哪位作家是英国浪漫主义文学的代表人物之一？A. William WordsworthB. Emily BrontëC. Thomas HardyD. John Keats5. 以下哪部作品是英国维多利亚时期最著名的哥特式小说之一？A. "Dracula"B. "Jane Eyre"C. "Wuthering Heights"D. "Oliver Twist"6. 在以下哪部作品中，作者通过描绘一个小镇的生活来反映社会问题？A. "Wuthering Heights"B. "Great Expectations"C. "Middlemarch"D. "To Kill a Mockingbird"7. 以下哪位作家是20世纪英国文学的代表人物之一？A. Virginia WoolfB. James JoyceC. Aldous HuxleyD. D.H. Lawrence8. 在以下哪部作品中，作者通过描述一个家庭的悲剧来探讨爱与死亡的主题？A. "Wuthering Heights"B. "Madame Bovary"C. "The Great Gatsby"D. "The Catcher in the Rye"9. 以下哪位作家是20世纪美国文学的代表人物之一？A. F. Scott FitzgeraldB. Ernest HemingwayC. J.D. SalingerD. John Steinbeck10. 在以下哪部作品中，作者通过描述一个人物的内心世界来探讨孤独和自我认同的问题？A. "The Great Gatsby"B. "The Catcher in the Rye"C. "On the Road"D. "1984"二、填空题（每题2分，共20分）1. 《罗密欧与朱丽叶》是莎士比亚的______剧作。

I.Multiple choice:(15×1=15%)(In this part,there are 15 sentences;in each of them,there are four choices marked by A.B.C. and D.Choose the ONE answer that is the most suitable to the sentence and put the letter in the bracket.)( )1.The greatest poet of the Middle English period is ______,the father of English poetry.A.Geoffrey ChaucerB.John LylyC.William LanglandD.John Milton( )2.Portia,the heroine in "______"is one of Shakespeare's ideal women-beautiful,prudent,cultured and capable of rising to an emergency.A."The Merchant of Venice"B."As You Like It"C."King Lear"D."Twelfth Night"( )3."Modern Fiction" is one of Woolf's important critical essays,in which the writer praises______ as "the most notable"of"several young writers."A.Thomas HardyB.James JoyceC.Joseph ConradD.T.S.Eliot( )4."The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock" is T.S.Eliot's most striking early achievement.The poem is a sort of ______monologue.A.privateB.personalC.dramaticD.poetic( )5.______develops around the life of a middle-class Irish boy,Stephen Dedalus,from his infancy to his departure from Ireland some twenty years later.A."Ulysses"B."A Portrait of the Aritist as a Young Man"C."Finnegans Wake"D."Dubliners"( )6.In "The Pilgrim's Progress" Christian and Faithful come to the ______where both are arrested as alien agitators and tried.A.Vanity FairB.Doubting CastleC.Celestial CityD.hell( )7.John Milton's "On His Blindness" is written in the form of ______sonnet which consists of an octave(an eight-line stanza) and a sestet(a six-line stanza)A.EnglishB.ItalianC.RussianD.Chinese( )8.In "Tom Jones"______ is depicted as a hypocritical,wicked man who is outwardly good but inwardly bad.A.TomB.BlifilC.Mr.AllworthyD.Sophia( )9.The heroine Tess in "Tess of the D'urbervilles"seems to be led to her final destruction step by step by______,as Hardy says at the end of the novel:"Justice was done,and the President of the Immortals had ended his sport with Tess."A.Angel ClareB.AlecC.FateD.Jude( )10.Which of the following novels by wrence shows the influence of Freud's theory of psychoanalysis,especially that of the "Oedipus complex"?A."The Rainbow"B."Women in Love"C."Sons and Lovers"D."Lady Chatterley's Lover"( )11."If Winter comes,can Spring be far behind?"This is written by ______,one of the leading Romantic poets.A.John KeatsB.William WordsworthC.Percy Bysshe ShelleyD.William Blake( )12.Jonathan Swift's"Gulliver's Travels" gives an unparalleled______depiction of the vices of his age.A.religiousB.romanticC.satiricalic( )13.John keats' famous poem______expresses the contrast between the happy world of natural loveliness and human world of agony.A."Endymion"B."Ode to a Nightingale"C."Ode on a Grecian Urn"D."Ode to Psyche"( )14.The story of "Tom Jones"by Henry Fielding is told _______.A.in a series of lettersB.in the third-person narrationC.by Tom JonesD.in the form of diary( )15."The School for Scandal"by Richard Brinsley Sheridan has been regarded as the best ______since Shakespeare.A.tragedyB.proseedyD.fableII Fill in the following blanks:(10×1=10%)1.John Milton wrote "Paradise Lost"in the form of epic,which describes the fall of______in a grand style.2.Walter Scott has been universally regarded as the founder and great master of the ______ novel.3.Though ______ is not the first English novelist,he has generally been considered as "the father of English novel",for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.4.Richard Brinsley Sheridan is the only important English_______of the eighteenth century,In his plays,moralityis the constant theme.5.The_______couplet is a pair of rhymed iambic pentameter lines,a verse form first used by the 14th-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer.6.Oscar Wilde,who advocated the idea of "______",represented the literary school of decadence in the late 19th century.7."Pilgrim's Progress" is written as a book of religious instructions in the form of_______and dream.8.In England,the literary technique of "stream of consciousness" is best represented in the works of James Joyce and _______.9.In his novels,Arnold Bennett depicts life and society with a strong_______tendency influenced by the French writer Zola and Guy de Maupassant.10.Charles Dickens and William Thackeray were the two great representatives of the English critical realism in the _______century.III.Find the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A.(10×1=10%)A BWriters Works( )1.Oscar Wilde a.Lucky Jim( )2.John Osborne b.Life of Ma Parker( )3.Kingsley Amis c.A passage to India( )4.Katherine Mansfield d.An Ideal Husband( )5.William Somersete.Of Human BondageMaugham( )6.Edward Morgan Forster f.Look Back in Anger( )7.John Galsworthy g.The Heart of the Matter( )8.Jane Austen h.The Forsyte Saga( )9.William Blake i.Pride and prejudice( )10.Graham Greene j.The TygerIV.Read the following quotations and then answer the questions.(30%)1.I wander thro each charter'd street,Near where the charter'd Thames does flow,And mark in every face I meetMarks of weakness,marks of woe.In every cry of every Man,In every Infant's cry of fear,In every voice,in every ban,The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.How the Chimney-sweeper's cryEvery black'ing Church appalls;And the hapless Soldier's signRuns in blood down Palace walls.But most thro'midnight streets I hearHow the youthful Harlot's curseBlasts the new born Infant's tear,And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.1)Who is the author of this poem and what is its title?(2×2=4%)2)Explain the following phrases coined by the author.(3×2=6%)a.chartered;b.the mind forged manacles;c.the marriage hearse.3)What does the poem gain by repeating "every" in the second stanza?(5%)2.Let us go then,you and I,When the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table;Let us go,through certain half-deserted streets,The muttering retreatsOf restless nights in one-night cheap hotelsAnd sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells;Streets that follow like a tedious argumentOf insidious intentTo lead you to an overwhelming question……1)This stanza is selected from a very famous English poem.What is its title and author?(2×2=4%)2)It is said that the "you and I"can be taken in two ways,What are the two ways do you think?(2×3=6%)3)The basic emotions of this stanza are fear and malice.Can you point out the suggest these emotions?(5%)V.Give brief answers to the following questions;(20%)1.What are the distinct features of Charles Dickens' novels?(12%)2.What are the major themes of Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers"?(8%)VI.Short essay:(1×15=15%)(In this part you are asked to write a short essay.You should concentrate on those important points and demonstrate your ideas with brief,apt episodes or quotations from the novel.Try your best to be logical in your essay.)Give a brief analysis to Jane Eyre,the main character in Charlotte Brontě's "Jane Eyre".。