英语专业八级英美文学习题

Ⅰ. Multiple choice（40 points, 2 for each）1. ________ employed the heroic couplet with true ease and charm for the first time in the history of English Literature.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. George Gordon ByronC. Edmund SpenderD. Robert Browning2. Which of the following is William Shakespeare's history play?A.MacbethB. Henry IVC. Romeo andJuliet D. King Lear3. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ________ has been regarded as “Father of the English Novel”.A. Henry FieldingB. Daniel DefoeC. John BunyanD. James Joyce4. “The a pparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough. “4. These two lines are quoted from ________'s poem?A. EmilyDickinson B. Robert FrostC. EzraPoundD. William B. Yeats5. 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–century B. 17th -centuryC. 20th–century D. late 18th -century6. Usually basing on her own experiences, Emily Dickinson addresses issues that concern the whole human beings. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?A. Life andDeathB. ReligionC. Love andNatureD. War and Peace7. Walden is a ________.A. Transcendentalistwork B. epic in proseC. lyricpoemD. short story8. Henry James' realism is different from others, because he pays more attention to ________.A. the traditionalstyle B. the common peopleC. the inner world of human beingsD. the class struggle9. ________ is considered Mark Twain's greatest achievement.A. The GildedAge B. Innocents AbroadC. The Adventures of Tom SawyerD. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn10. At the beginning of Faulkner's A Rose for Emily, there is a detailed description of Emily's old house. The purpose of such description is to imply that the person living in it ________.A. is a wealthy ladyB. is a conservative aristocratC. is a prisoner of the pastD. has good taste11. ________ is NOT a Nobel Prize winner.A. Eugene O'NeillB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Faulkner12. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain's language?A.Vernacular B. ElegantC.Colloquial D. Humorous13. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dicken's works lies in his ________.A. social criticismB. optimismC. character－portrayalD. social setting14. As the representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce ________ to England.A. rationalismB. romanticismC. criticismD. realism15. Shelley's greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama ________.A.AdonaisB. To a SkylarkC. A Song: Men of EnglandD. Prometheus Unbound16. The Victorian Age is most famous for its ________.A. playsB. novelsC. poemsD. essays17. Which of the following women does not belong to the famous Bronte Sisters?A. Mary BronteB. Charlotte BronteC. Emily BronteD. Anne Bronte18. “Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. ” This sentence appears in ________.A. The Advancement of LearningB. A Dictionary of the English LanguageC. An Essay on CriticismD. Of Studies19. In his novel, Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero of the ________?A. aristocratic classB. enterprising landlordsC. rising bourgeoisieD. hard-working people20. Which of the following works does not belong to John Milton?A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. AdonaisD. LlycidasII Fill in the following blanks: ( 20 points, 2 for each )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, morality is 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. Match authors in Column A with their literary works in Column B. Please write your answer on the Answer Sheet. （20 points, 2 for each pair）1. JohnMiltonA. The Canterbury Tales2. SamuelJohnson B. Mrs. Warren's Profession3. GeoffreyChaucer C. Joseph Andrews4. JaneAustenD. She Stoops to Conquer5. Richard Brinsley Sheridan E. A Dictionary of the English Language6. George Bernard Shaw F. Song of Innocence7. WilliamBlake G. Samson Agonistes8. RobertBurns H. Pride and Prejudice9. ThomasHardy I. My Heart’s in the Highlands10. HenryFielding J. Tess of the D’UrbervillesⅣ.Give a brief explanation to each of the following items. Please write your answer on the Answer Sheet. (10 points in total, 2 for each)1. Epic2. Popular ballad3. Romance4. Byronic hero5. English RenaissanceⅤ. Answer the followi ng questions.(10 points)What is the theme of The Wasted Land?Ⅰ.Choose the ONE answer that is the most suitable to the sentence. (30 points in total, 2 for each)( )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 idealwomen-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."LadyChatterley'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 the following blanks with proper information. (30 points in total, 2 for each)1. "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus" is one of _____'s best plays.2. The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English drama. Marlowe made ____the principal vehicle of expression in drama.3. Ben Jonson's best works include _______, ________, ______.4. The English drama experienced a process of decline after _________.5. "Tamburlaine" is a story of ________.6. "The Jew of Malta" depicts a man who _______.7. In __________, Marlowe created a man who sells his soul to the Devil.8. In 1642, civil war broke out in England between the royalists and ___________.9. The __________, led by Oliver Cromwell, defeated the royalists decisively in Naseby in 1645.10. The English Revolution was carried out in the disguise of the ________ Revolution.11. The Revolution of 1688 was often called _________. It caused England to become _________.12. As soon as the bourgeoisie won their victory over the monarch, they split with several groups: _________, _______, ________, ________.13. ____ maintained that "the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest."14. ________ led peasants to open up the waste land in several places of England.15. ________ wrote his masterpiece "The Pilgrim's Progress" during his second imprisonment.Ⅱ. Decide whether the followi ng statements are true or false. (10 points in total, 2 for each)( ) 1. The English people were the first residents in England.( ) 2. Beowulf is the oldest poem in the English language, and also the oldest surviving epic in the English language.( ) 3. After the Roman Conquest, the English language developed very quickly. ( ) 4. Christianity was not introduced to England until after the English Conquest. ( ) 5. The Norman Conquest marked the rise of feudalism in England.Ⅲ. Explain the following terms b riefly. (10 points in total, 2 for each)1. The Miracle Play2. The Morality Play3. Sentimentalism4. Sonnet5. Free VerseI.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 idealwomen-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 agrand 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,morality is 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 po em 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".In American literature, the eighteen century was the age of theEnlightenment. was the dominant spirit.A. HumanismB. RationalismC. RevolutionD. EvolutionWhich statement about Franklin is not true?A. He instructed his countrymen as a printer.B. He was a scientist.C. He was a master of diplomacy.D. He was a Puritan.Who is regarded as the first American prose epic.A. NatureB. The Scarlet LetterC. WaldenD. Moby-DickThe Romanic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving's and ended with Whiteman's Leaves of Grass.A. The Sketch BookB. Tales of a TravelerC. The AlhambraD. A history ofNew YorkIn Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, "A" may stand for .A. AdulteryB. AngelC. AmiableD. All the aboveThe period before the American Civil War is generally referred toas .A. the Naturalist PeriodB. the Modern PeriodC. the Romantic PeriodD. the Realistic PeriodThe Age of Realism is the literary history of the United States refers to the period from to .A. 1861 – 1914B. 1863 – 1918C. 1865 – 1914D. 1865 – 1918Who is described by Mark Twain as a boy with "a sound heart and a deformed conscience?"A. Tom SawyerB. Huckleberry FinnC. JimD. TonyMark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his .A. international themeB. waste-land imageryC. local colorD. symbolismThe impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American .A. modernismB. naturalismC. vernacularismD. local colorismIn 1900, London published his first collection of short stories,named .A. The son of the WolfB. The Sea WolfC. The Law of LifeD. White FangIn which of the following works, Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bull-fight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy?A. The Green Hills of Africa.B. The Snows of Kilimanjaro.C. To Have and Have Not.D. Death in the Afternoon.Which of the following figures does not belong to "The Lost Generation"?A. Ezra PoundB. William Carlos WilliamsC. Robert FrostD. Theodore DreiserWho is a dramatist that holds the central position in American drama the modernistic period?A. Sinclair LevisB. Eugene O'NeilC. Arthur MillerD. Tennessee WilliamsThe following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literatureexcept .A. William FaulknerB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. John SteinbeckD. Ernest HemingwayIn 1954, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his "mastery of the art of modern narration".A. T.S. EliotB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. William FaulknerWho is the author of the work: "The Grapes of Wrath"?A. John SteinbeckB. Eugene O'NeilC. F. Scott FitzgeraldD. Theodore DreiserIn 1920 Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation of American small-town provincialism in .A. Main StreetB. An American TragedyC. Winesburg, OhioD. Sister Carrie。

英语专业八级(TEM )英国文学复习资料Chapter One ( 一般掌握)Chapter Two English Literature of the Late Medieval AgesI.可出选择题有：( ) 1. Apart from original poems, Chaucer translated various works of French authors, among them is the famousA.The Canterbury TalesB.The Romance of the RoseC.The Parliament of FowlsD.The House of Fame()2. Generally speaking, Chaucer's works fall into three main groups corresponding roughly to the three periods of his adult life, which period is wrong?A.The period of French influenceB.The period of Italian influenceC.The period of his maturityD.The period of American influence( ) 3. Which of the following information about Chaucer is wrong?A.He died on the 25th of October 1400, he was the first to be buried in the writer's corner of Westminster AbbyB.He was considered as "father of English Poetry"C.He was one of the narrative poets of EnglandD.His masterpiece is The Canterbury Tales( ) 4. Of the following, the one which employs the form of romance is.A.AmorettiB. Venus and AdonisC. The TempestD. Sir Gawain and Green Knight( ) 5. The characters in the Canterbury Tales can be divided into thefollowing groups except.A.rural dwellersB. church membersC. tradesmanD. nobles()6. Piers the Plowman is similar in form to the work written byA.ChaucerB. ShakespeareC. MarloweD. BunyanChapter Three English Literature in the RenaissanceI.可出选择题有：( ) 1. English Renaissance Period was an age ofA.prose and novelB.poetry and dramaC.essays and journalsD.ballads and songs()2. "Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore art thou Romeo?" is one of the most famous lines from Romeo and Juliet. Which of the following comments on the line is NOT true?A.Juliet speaks the line in the balcony scene.B.She is unaware of Romeo's presence.C.She asks him to deny his family for her love.D. A major theme in Romeo and Juliet is the tension between social and family identity and one's inner identity (represented by one's name).( ) 3. The Elizabethan literatureA.had a marked unity and the feeling of patriotism and devotion to the queen.B.witnessed a decline of degenerationC.expressed age and sadness, even the brightest hours were followed by gloom and pessimism.D.was not romantic.()4. One of the following plays takes its subject matter from Chinese historyA.Henry IVB. MacbethC. TamburlaineD. Alchemist( ) 5. Dr Faustus sells his soul to the devil because he.A.is faced by MephistophelesB.wants to gain more moneyC.wants to live an extravagant lifeD.wants to know more about the world()6. Shakespeare is a poet, playwright and.A.criticB. novelistC. an actorD. both b and c( ) 7. Of the following, the one which employs the form of romance is.A.AmorettiB. Venus and AdonisC. The TempestD. Sir Gawain and Green Knight( ) 8. The difference of Surrey's contribution to English poetry from that of Wyatt lies in that Surrey.A.wrote the first English sonnetB.introduce the couplet into EnglandC.wrote the first English blank verseD.made the sonnet popular()9. The one who first made blank verse the principal instrument of English drama isA.SurreyB. MarloweC. ShakespeareD. Jonson( ) 10. The recurrent theme of Marlowe* s play is the praise of.A.capitalismB. feudalismC. individualismD. nationalismII.可出填空题有：1.Rough winds do shake the of May,And has all too short a date.2.Sometimes too hot the shines, and often is his__________ dimmed.3.Shakespeare produced plays and sonnet.4.is praised by Marx as “the progenitor of English Materialism,^.III.可出简答题有：Analyze Shakespeare's four periods of career concisely.Chapter Four English Literature of the Seventeenth CenturyI.可出选择题有：( ) 1.was a progressive intellectual movement which began inFrance and had a wide impact throughout Europe in 18th century.A.The RenaissanceB.The EnlightenmentC.The Religious ReformationD.The Chartist Movement( ) 2. Which of the following comment on the image of Satan in Paradise Lostis NOT correct?A.The finest thing in Paradise Lost is the description of Hell and Satan was the real hero.B.He is firmer than the rest of the fallen angelsC.He remains obeyed and admired by all the angelsD.It is he who makes man revolt against God.( ) 3. Which of the following information about John Donne is NOT true?A.He was born in a Roman Catholic family.B.He received his education at Oxford and Cambridge.ter he gave up his Catholic faith and took orders in the Anglican Church.D.He wrote only religious poems.()4. Dryden's contribution to English literature lies in the following except.A.he established the heroic couplet as one of the principal English verse formB.he clarified the English proseC.he raised the English literature criticism to a new levelD.he raised English comedy to a higher level( ) 5. Apology for Poetry is.A. a poemB. a romanceC. a criticismD. a sonnetII.可出判断题有：( ) 1. John Donne is famous for his metaphysical conceit, that is, a comparison between the two strikingly resemblant objects.()2. Newspaper was born in 17th century.( ) 3. One of the characteristics of the English bourgeois revolution was that it was carried out under the cloak of religion.III.可出填空题有：1.is the glorious pioneer to introduce blank verse into non-dramatic poetry.IV.可出术语有：metaphysical poetsChapter Five English Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyI.可出选择题有:( ) 1. In the 18th century, satire was much used in writing, English literature of this age produced some excellent satirists, such asA.SwiftB. DefoeC. BlakeD. Burns( ) 2. In the 18th century English literature, the representative poets of Pre-romanticism wereA.Blake and WordsworthB.Bums and ColeridgeC.Blake and BurnsD.Wordsworth and Coleridge()3. Which of the following information about William Blake is NOT true?A.He was born in London, the son of Irish hosier.B.He was a poet as well as an engraver.C.His first book of poem was Songs of Innocence.D.His later poems are mysterious and hard to understand.( ) 4. The main literary stream of the 18th century was.A.RomanticismB.RealismC.Pre-romanticismD.Critical realism( ) 5.was considered as “father of English Novel".A.SwiftB.FieldingC.ChaucerD.Jane Austin() 6. In 1704,founded the periodicals "the Review".A. SwiftB. BlakeC. MiltonD. DefoeII.可出判断题有：( )1. Pope established the heroic couplet as one of the principal English verse forms.( ) 2. Burn's poems are largely based on imitation and revision of folk balladsof his motherland.( ) 3. Neo-classicism means restraint, thus it is unfit for the requirement of French Revolution, which aroused the age of Romantic Revival to unfetter spirit of humankind.( )4. Swift is known as a pioneer novelist of English and also a prolific writer ofbooks and pamphlets on variety of subjects.( ) 5. The Houyhnhnms represent an ideal rational existence, a life governedby sense.III.可出填空题有：1.is the glorious pioneer to introduce blank verse into non-dramatic poetry.2.People in 18th century believed in and their watchword was“common sense".V.可出术语有：EnlightenmentChapter Six English Literature of the Romantic AgeI.可出选择题有：( ) 1. The Roman tic Age began with the publication of “The Lyrical Ballads^, which was written byA.William WordsworthB.Samuel JohnsonC.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD.Wordsworth and Coleridge( ) 2. Which poet does not belong to the Active Romantic Poet?A. ByronB. ShelleyC. KeatsD. Blake( ) 3. The first poem in “The Lyrical Ballads" is Coleridge's masterpieceA.Kubla KhanB.The PreludeC.The Rime of Ancient MarinerD.Tintern Abbey( )4. In 1805, Wordsworth completed a long auto-biographical poem entitledA. Biographia LiterariaB. The PreludeC. Lucy PoemsD. The Lyrical Ballads( ) 5. The following stanza is from a poem written by ____ .When we two partedIn silence and in tears,Half broken-hearted,To sever for years.Pale grew thy cheek and coldColder than thy kiss;Truly that hour foretoldSorrow to this!A.Percy Bysshe ShellyB.William BlakeC.George Gordon ByronD.Robert Browning()6. The Lake Poets include all the following members except the author of the following work.A. The PreludeB. Don JuanC. The Ancient MarinerD. Joan of Arc()7. Scott's chief contribution to English literature lies in his novels of.A. warB. historyC. cityD. romanceII.可出判断题有：( ) 1. With the establishment of the Jacobin dictatorship in France, Wordsworth's attitude toward revolution changed into active.( ) 2. In the revised version of Lyrical Ballads, Coleridge held that poetry isthe66spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”.()3. Romanticism is a literary trend. It prevailed in England in the period (1798——1832)( ) 4. The most important impetus of the Romantic movement was the French Revolution()5. The ideals of French Revolution are liberty, democracy, and equality.()6. The brilliant literary criticism “Biographia Literaria^, is written by Wordsworth.III.可出填空题有：1.marked the transition from romanticism to the period of realism which followed it.2.In 1843 Wordsworth was made.IV可出术语有：lake poetsV.可出简答题有：What are the qualities of Romanticism?Chapter Seven English Literature of the Victorian AgeI.可出选择题有：( ) 1. The following statements are features of Dickens's novels except.A.The power of exposureplicated and fascinating plotC.Broad humor and penetrating satireD.Tragic mood and feeling of depressionII.可出判断题有：( ) 1. A Tale of Two Cities belongs to the first writing phase of Dickens's career, and the two cities are London and Paris.( ) 2. Though the Victorian poets are called The Third Generation of Romanticism, they showed no vigor and power in production of poetry as their previous poets.III.可出填空题有：1.In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend appeared after the romantic poetry.2.The title of the novel Vanity Fair is suggestive of that Vanity Fair in Bunyan's masterpiece, where all sorts of vanities are on sale.3 ・ The central characters of The Mill on Floss are Tom and his sister4.is the representative of New Romanticism in the novel writing at the end of the 19th century.IV.可出术语有：Dramatic monologueV.可出简答题有：The contribution of the setting to the expression of the speaker's situation in"'Crossing the Bar".Chapter Eight English Literature of the First Half of the Twentieth CenturyI.可出判断题有:( T ) 1. Symbolism, Surrealism, Imagism, Expressionism, etc, all belong to School of Modernism.( T ) 2. The Rainbow is D. H. Lawrence's autobiographical work.II.可出简答题有：The significance of the theme of Araby.March the works in column A and authors in column B and write the letter of your choice in the bracketsA BA B。

专八英美文学习题-浪漫主义时期Ⅰ. Multiple Choices:1.Romanticism fights against the ideas of ______.A. realismB. RenaissanceC. EnlightenmentD. feudalism2.The main literary stream is ____.A. poetryB. novelsC. proseD. periodicals3.____ 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”4.Coleridge’s _____ is a “conversation” poem.A. Frost at MidnightB. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”C. ChristabelD. Biographia Literaria5.Byron’s ____ is regarded as the great poem of the Romantic Age.A. Childe Harold’s PilgrimageB. Hours of IdlenessC. LaraD. Don Juan6.Prometheus Unbound is ____ masterpiece.A. Wordsworth’sB. Byron’sC. Shelley’sD. Keats’7.____ lived the longest life.A. WordsworthB. ByronC. ShelleyD. Keats8.Keats’ first poem is ____.A. O SolitudeB. On First Looking into Chapman’s HomerC. PoemsD. Endymion9.Keats’ best ode is ____.A. “On a Grecian Urn”B. “To Autumn”C. “To Psyche”D. “To a Nightingale”10.The best works of William Hazlitt is ____.A. The Spirit of the AgeB. Table TalkC. The Characters of Shakespeare’s PlaysD. On the English Poets11.The publication of ______ marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement inEngland.A. “Tintern Abbey”B. Lyrical BalladsC. Frost at NightD. “The Daffodils”12.The Prelude has also been called _____.A. The Last BrazilB. The First ImpressionC. Growth of a Poet’s MindD. The Spirit of the Age13.Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” has also been called _______.A. “The Solitary Reaper”B. “The Daffodils”C. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”D. “O Solitude”14._____ is considered Wordsworth’s masterpiece.A. The PreludeB. EndymionC. Don JuanD. Biographia Literaria15.The prose writers in the English Romantic Age developed a kind of _______.A. models of classicismB. familiar essayC. rules of neo-romanticismD. ways of modernism16.The best essayist in the English Romantic Age is _____.A. KeatsB. Walter ScottC. Charles LambD. William Hazlitt17.The themes of Pride and Prejudice are _____.A. pride and prejudiceB. the writer’s own personalitiesC. love and marriageD. Both A and C18._____ is considered the father of historical novelist in the English Romantic Age.A.Jane AustenB. Charles LambC. William HazlittD. Waler Scottmb’s writings are full of ______for he is especially fond of old writers.A. romanticismB. conversationsC. inspirationsD. archaismsmb is a romanticist of ______.A. the cityB. the countrysideC. natureD. imagination21._____ is based on Boccaccio’s Decameron.A. EndymionB. Isabella D. Hyperion D. Lamia22.Critics agree that ____ is a great romantic poet, standing with Shakespeare,Milton and Wordsworth in the history English literature.A. KeatsB. WordsworthC. ColeridgeD. William23.The reader can get a broad panorama of the social life of the English RomanticAge from _____.A. Dun JuanB. The PreludeC. Kubla KhanD. Isabella24.Some critics think that some of Byron’s poems show his _____.A. individual heroism and pessimismB. love of nature and optimismC. love of old writersD. hatred for the imperialism25.One of Coleridge’s best “conventional” poems is _____.A. Kubla KhanB.Frost at NightC. ChristabelD. Biographia Literaria26.Coleridge’s best literary criticism is _________.A. Kubla KhanB.Frost at NightC. ChristabelD. Biographia Literaria27.____ is Shelley’s masterpiece.A. ZastrozziB. The Necessity of AtheismC. Queen MabD. Prometheus Unbound28._____ is a joint book by Charles Lamb and his sister.A. John WoodvilB.Essays of EliaC. Mr HD. Tales from Shakespeare29.Because of _______, Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University.A. The Masque of AnarchyB. A Defence of PoetryC. The Necessity of AtheismD. The Triumph of Life30.______ is Shelley’s first book written in ____.A. Zastrozzi; EtonB. The Necessity of Atheism; ItalyC. Queen Mab; GreeceD. Prometheus Unbound; Italy31.The Romantic Age began in____ and came to an end in _____.A. 1789...1821 B. 1778...1823 C. 1798...1832 D. 1768 (1819)32.Byron, Shelley and Keats belong to Romantic poets of ___ generation.A. the firstB. the secondC. the thirdD. the forth33.The Examiner is a famous _____ in the English Romantic Age.A. novelB. poemC. periodicalD. newspaperⅡLiterary Terms:1. Romanticism2. Ode3. Pastoral4. Satire5. ImageKey to the multiple choices:1-5 CADAD 6-10 CACDA 11-15 BCBAB16-20 CDDDA 21-25 BAAAB 26-30 BDDCA31-33 CBCKey to the literary terms:1. A movement that flourished in literature, philosophy, music, and art in Western culture during most of the nineteenth century, beginning as a revolt against classicism. The romanticist portrays people, scenes and events as they impress himor as he imagines them to be. A Romantic work has one or more of the following characteristics: an emphasis on feeling and imagination; a love of nature; a belief in individual and common man; and interest in the past, the unusual, the unfamiliar,the bizarre or picturesque, a revolt against authority or tradition. It expresses the ideology and sentiment of the classes and strata that were dissatisfied with the development of capitalism. There have been many varieties of romanticism in many different times and places. Some ideas of English Romanticism were expressed bythe poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and some were showed by Shelley, Byron and Keats.2. A long, stately lyric poem in stanzas of varied metrical pattern, written in a dignified formal style on some lofty or serious subject. Odes are often written for a special occasion, to honor a person or a season or commemorate an event. Two famous odes are Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “ Ode to the West wind” and John Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn.”3. From Latin pastor, a shepherd. The first pastoral poet was Theocritus, a Greekof the 3rd century B.C. The pastoral was especially popular in Europe from the 14th through the 18th centuries, with some fine examples still written in England in the19th century. The pastoral mode is self-reflexive. Typically the poet echoes the conventions of earlier pastorals in order to put "the complex into the simple," asWilliam Empson observed in Some Versions of Pastoral (1935). The poem is notreally about shepherds, but about the complex society the poet and readers inhabit.4. A kind of writing holds up to ridicule or contempt the weaknesses and wrongdoings of individuals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general. The aim of satirists is to set a moral standard for society, and they attempt to persuade the reader to see their point of view through the force of laughter. The most famous satirical work in English literature is Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.5. A concrete picture, either literally descriptive, as in "Red roses covered the white wall," or figurative, as in "She is a rose," each carrying a sensual and emotive connotation. A figurative image may be an analogy, metaphor, simile, personification, or the like. Impressionism, a literary style conveying subjective impressions rather than objective reality, taking its name from the movement in French painting in the mid-19th century, notably in the works of Manet, Monet, and Renoir. The Imagists represented impressionism in poetry; in fiction, writers like Virginia Woolf and James Joyce.。

英语专业八级人文知识练习:美国文学1. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ____. A. Jack London B. Charles Dickens C. Samuel Coleridge D. Ernest Hemingway 2. In which novel can "Yahoo" be found? A. John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress B. Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queen C. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels D Henry Fielding's Tom Jones 3. The Catcher in the Rye is written by ____. A. J. D. Salinger B. Jack London C. Flannery O'Connor D. Saul Bellow 4. The image of the famous "henpecked husband" is created by____ A. Washington Irving B. Fennimore Cooper C. Edith Wharton D. William Dean Howells 5. The literary spokesman of the Jazz Age is often thought to be ____. A. Eugene O'Neill B. Ezra Pound C. Robert Frost D. Scott Fitzgerald 6. ____ is the most important person of the transcendental club. A. Hawthorn B. Whitman C. Emerson D. Hemingway 7. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except____. A. fridendship B. love and marriage C. life and death D. war and peace 8. Robert Frost is a famous ____ A. novelist B. playwright C. poet D. literary critic 9. Dover Beach is written by ____ A. Robert Browning B. Alfred Tennyson C. Mathew Arnold D. Dylan Thomas 10. 10. The The The period period period from from from 1865-1914 1865-1914 1865-1914 has has has been been been referred referred referred to to to as as as the the the ____ ____ ____ in in in the the the literary literary literary history history history of of of the the United States. A. Age of Realism B. Age of Clasicalism C. Age of Romanticism D. Age of Renaissance 重点单词重点单词playwright ['pleirait] n. 剧作家剧作家transcendental [.trænsen'dentl] adj. 超越经验的，形而上学的，先验的超越经验的，形而上学的，先验的pilgrim ['pilgrim] n. 朝圣者朝圣者Pilgrim: 1620年移居年移居联想记忆联想记忆 X 联想记忆：pil 药丸，g 鬼，rim 边上：有药和鬼在边上－鬼就是上帝，朝圣客就是朝圣上帝，药是用来镇定的，万一上帝真是鬼怎么办 renaissance [r [rəə'neis 'neisəəns] n. 文艺复兴，再生文艺复兴，再生联想记忆联想记忆 X 联想记忆：re 反复，nai 奶，ssance ：反复吃奶－新生儿－复兴：反复吃奶－新生儿－复兴literary ['lit ['litəər əri] adj. 文学的文学的联想记忆联想记忆 X 联想记忆：liter=letter 文字,字母+ary →文学的→文学的theme [θi:m] n. 题目，主题题目，主题swift [swift] adj. 快的，迅速的快的，迅速的n. 雨燕，线轴雨燕，线轴1. D. 《老人与海》是海明威的作品。

专业英语八级美国文学（现实主义时期文学）模拟试卷1(题后含答案及解析)题型有： 3. GENERAL KNOWLEDGEPART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question.1．______was the only female American prose writer in the 19th century.A．Emily DickinsonB．Jane AustinC．George EliotD．Harriet Beecher Stowe正确答案：D解析：美国19世纪唯一的女散文作家是Harriet Beecher Stowe(哈利特.比彻.斯托)。

Emily Dickirson(艾米丽.迪金森)是女诗人。

另外两位是英国女作家。

知识模块：美国文学（现实主义时期文学）2．Harriet Beecher Stowe’s works mainly focus on______.A．romanticismB．local colourismC．naturalismD．transcendentalism正确答案：B解析：Harriet Beecher Stowe(哈利特.比彻.斯托)的作品充满了乡土气息。

知识模块：美国文学（现实主义时期文学）3．Which of the following is the masterpiece by Harriet Beecher Stowe?A．Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal SwampB．Sam Lawson’s Fireside StoriesC．Uncle Tom’s CabinD．The Gilded Age正确答案：C解析：Uncle Tom’s Cabin(《汤姆叔叔的小屋》)是斯托夫人最出名的作品。

C 1. ____ is the greatest representative of English critical realism.A. Jane AustenB. ThackerayC. DickensD. CharlotteB 2 ____ is Thackeray’s one of the best known works.A. Sense and SensibilityB. The Book of SnobsC. The Pickwick PapersD. The Song of Lower ClassA 3. Pride and Prejudice’s first title is ____.A. First ImpressionB. A Book Without a HeroC. The NewcomesD. PersuasionB. 4. Vanity Fair has a sub-title. It is ____.A. First ImpressionB. A Book Without a HeroC. The NewcomesD. PersuasionD. 5. In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend ____ appeared. And it flourished in the forties and in the early fifties.A. romanticismB. naturalismC. realismD. critical realismA . 6. English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of ____ .A. novelB. dramaC. poetryD. sonnetC. 7. ______’s Vanity Fair is a satirical portrayal of the upper strata(阶层) of society.A. George EliotB. Elizabeth GaskellC. W. M. ThackerayD. John BuyanC. 8. The ____ Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th century.A. EnlightenmentB. RenaissanceC. ChartistD. RomanticistD. 9 The Chartist writers introduced a new theme into literature, the struggle of the _____ for its rights.A. soldiersB. peasantsC. bourgeoisieD. proletariatA. 10. The greatest of Chartist poets was _____.A. Earnest JonesB. John MiltonC. Thomas HardyD. John KeatsC. 11. The story of ______ deals with the adventures of a retired old merchant.A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC. Pickwick PapersD. Oliver TwistB. 12. The story of _____ 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 TimesB. 13. Which novel makes a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education?A. Oliver TwistB. Hard TimesC. Great ExpectationsD. A Tale of Two CitiesC. 14. Which novel is a great satire upon the society and those people who dream to enter the higher society regardless of the social reality?A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC. Great ExpectationsD. Dombey and SonC. 15. 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 TwistB 16. In the novel ___ , Defarge and Madame Defarge represent the revolutionaries.A. Dombey and SonB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Little DorritD. Bleak HouseD. 17. In the novel _____, Dr. Manette is a typical bourgeois intellectual.A. David CopperfieldB. Wuthering HeightsC. Bleak HouseD. A Tale of Two CitiesB 18. _____ is often regarded as the semi-autobiography of the author Dickens in which the early life of the hero is largely based on the author’s early life.A. The Curiosity ShopB. David CopperfieldC. Oliver TwistD. Great ExpectationsC. 19. In 1864, Dickens published his last complete novel _______.A. The Old Curiosity ShopB. The Pickwick PaperC. Our Mutual FriendD. Little DorritD. 20. Which of the following is Thackeray’s masterpiece?A. The VirginiansB. The Books of SnobsC. The NewcomesD. Vanity FairA. 21. The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from Bunyan’s masterpiece _____.A. The Pilgrim’s ProgressB. Child Harold’s PilgrimageC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. The Canterbury TalesC. 22. Emily Bronte wrote only one novel entitled ______.A. Jane EyreB. Agnes GreyC. Wuthering HeightsD. EmmaD. 23. Dickens’ third literary period shows intensifying ______.A. optimismB. excitementC. irritationD. pessimismB. 24. ______is Dickens’ best of social satires.A. American NotesB. Martin ChuzzlewitC. Dombey and SonD. David CopperfieldB. 25. The Chartists refer to those _____ in the early Victorian AgeA. Romantic writersB. working class writersC. realistic poetsD. bourgeois writersC. 26. The Victorian Literature began in____ and ended in _____.A. 1837...1900 B. 1835...1901 C. 1832...1902 D. 1830 (1903)C. 27. The conflicts between the capitalists and the proletarian in industrial England caused the ______.A. Enlightenment MovementB. Industrial RevolutionC. Chartist MovementD. Romantic MovementD. 28. _____ is the greatest among the critical realists of the Victorian Age.A. Earnest JonesB. Emily BrontёC. Charlotte BrontёD. Charles DickensD. 29. 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 CA. 30. “The pride of wealth” or “purse-pride” is the theme of _____.A. Dombey and SonB. Nicholas NicklebyC. The Old Curiosity ShopD. Martin ChuzzlewitB. 31. The two cities in A Tale of Two Cities refer to ____.A. London and New Y orkB. London and ParisC. Paris and New Y orkD. Brussels and WashingtonC. 32. ____ is the major literary form in the Victorian Period.A. essayB. poetryC. novelD. dramaB. 33. ____ is the main hero in the novel of Wuthering Heights.A. RochesterB. HeathcliffC. ManetteD. MartinA. 34. Both Charlotte and Emily wrote about the ____ around them.A. familiar thingsmon peopleC. neighborsD. evilsD. 35. The most important poet in the Victorian Age was _____.A. Earnest JonesB. Elizabeth GaskellC. Mr. BrowningD. Alfred TennysonB. 36. ______ made Dickens famous overnight.A. Sketches by BozB. The Pickwick PapersC. Oliver TwistD. The Old Curiosity ShopD. 37. _____ is Dickens’ first novel of social history reflecting the sharp social contradictions.A. Sketches by BozB. American NotesC. Martin ChuzzlewitD. Barnaby Rudge (《巴纳比·拉奇》)B. 38. _____ is an autobiographical novel and loved by Dickens himself most.A. Great ExpectationsB. David CopperfieldC. Bleak HouseD. The Pickwick PapersC. 39. Dickens’ writing is an encyclopedic knowledge of _____.A. ParisB. New Y orkC. LondonD. PortsmothA. 40. The head of the gang of thieves is _____.A. FaginB. GradgrindC. PecksmiffD. ManetteD. 41. _____ has been called “the supreme epic of English life”.A. Nicholas NicklebyB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Hard TimesD. The Pickwick PapersB. 42. _____marked a great advance in Dickens’ art of novel-writing with closely knit and logical plot of his maturer works.A. David CopperfieldB. Dombey and SonC. Little DorritD. The ChimesC. 43. ____is Oscar Wilde’s only novel.A. Lady Windermere’s FanB. A Woman of No ImportanceC. The Picture of Dorian GrayD. The Importance of Being Earnest44. The greatest Scottish poet in the pre-romanticism is ________.A. William WordsworthB. Oliver GoldsmithC. Thomas GrayD. Robert BurnsA 45. _______ 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 KhanD. 46. The main literary stream of the 18th century was ____ . What the writers described in their works were mainly social realities.A. romanticismB. classicismC. realismD. sentimentalismB. 47. . In a series of pamphlets Jonathan Swift denounced the cruel and unjust treatment ofIreland by the English government. One of the most famous is ____.A. Essays on CriticismB. A Modest ProposalC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. The Battle of the BooksC. 48. .“Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a style.” This sentence is said by ____, one of the greatest masters of English prose.A. Alexander PopeB. Henry FieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD. Daniel DefoeD. 49. _____’s best-known pamphlet was The Trueborn Englishman—A Satire, which contained a caustic exposure of the aristocracy and the tyranny of the church.A. Alexander PopeB. Henry FieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD. Daniel DefoeC. 50. .The sentence of “The plowman homeward plods his weary way, /And leaves the world to darkness a nd to me” is written by ____.A. William CowperB. George CrabbeC. Thomas GrayD. William BlakeD. 51. .____ 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”A 52. .Coleridge’s _____ is a “conversation” poem.A. Frost at MidnightB. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”C. ChristabelD. Biographia LiterariaD. 53. Byron’s ____ is regarded as the great poem of the Romantic Age.A. Childe Harold’s PilgrimageB. Hours of IdlenessC. LaraD. Don JuanC. 55.Prometheus Unbound is ____ masterpiece.A. Wordsworth’sB. Byron’sC. Shelley’sD. KeatsD. 56.Keats’ best ode is ____.A. “On a Grecian Urn”B. “To Autumn”C. “To Psyche”D. “To a Nightingale”A. 57.The best works of William Hazlitt is ____.A. The Spirit of the AgeB. Table TalkC. The Characters of Shakespeare’s PlaysD. On the English PoetsB. 58 The publication of ______ marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement in England.A. “Tintern Abbey”B. Lyrical BalladsC. Frost at NightD. “The Daffodils”A. 59._____ is considered Wordsworth’s masterpiece.A. The PreludeB. EndymionC. Don JuanD. Biographia LiterariaC. 60.The best essayist in the English Romantic Age is _____.A. KeatsB. Walter ScottC. Charles LambD. William HazlittD. 61.The themes of Pride and Prejudice are _____.A. pride and prejudiceB. the writer’s own personalitiesC. love and marriageD. Both A and CD. 62._____ is considered the father of historical novelist in the English Romantic Age.A.Jane AustenB. Charles LambC. William HazlittD. Waler ScottA. 63. Critics agree that ____ is a great romantic poet, standing with Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth in the history English literature.A. KeatsB. WordsworthC. ColeridgeD. WilliamB. 64．The reader can get a broad panorama of the social life of the English Romantic Age from _____.A. Dun JuanB. The PreludeC. Kubla KhanD. IsabellaA. 65.Some critics think that some of Byron’s poems show his _____.A. individual heroism and pessimismB. love of nature and optimismC. love of old writersD. hatred for the imperialismD. 66____ is Shelley’s masterpiece.A. ZastrozziB. The Necessity of AtheismC. Queen MabD. Prometheus UnboundC. 67. Romantic Age began in____ and came to an end in _____.A. 1789...1821 B. 1778...1823 C. 1798...1832 D. 1768 (1819)B. 68.Byron, Shelley and Keats belong to Romantic poets of ___ generation.A. the firstB. the secondC. the thirdD. the forthC. 69. ____ is the greatest representative of English critical realism.A. Jane AustenB. ThackerayC. DickensD. CharlotteB. 70. ____ is Thackeray’s one of the best known works.A. Sense and SensibilityB. The Book of SnobsC. The Pickwick PapersD. The Song of Lower ClassA. 71. Pride and Prejudice’s first title is ____.A. First ImpressionB. A Book Without a HeroC. The NewcomesD. PersuasionB. 72. Vanity Fair has a sub-title. It is ____.A. First ImpressionB. A Book Without a HeroC. The NewcomesD. PersuasionD. 73. In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend ____ appeared. And it flourished in the forties and in the early fifties.A. romanticismB. naturalismC. realismD. critical realismA. 74. English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of ____ .A. novelB. dramaC. poetryD. sonnetC. 75. ______’s Vanity Fair is a satirical portrayal of the upper strata(阶层) of society.A. George EliotB. Elizabeth GaskellC. W. M. ThackerayD. John BuyanD. 76. The greatest of Chartist poets was _____.A. Earnest JonesB. John MiltonC. Thomas HardyD. John KeatsC. 77. The story of ______ deals with the adventures of a retired old merchant.A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC. Pickwick PapersD. Oliver TwistA. 78. The novel _____ exposes the terrible conditions of English private schools.A. Nicholas NicklebyB. Oliver TwistC. Hard TimesD. Great ExpectationsB. 79. The story of _____ 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 TimesB. 80. Which novel makes a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education?A. Oliver TwistB. Hard TimesC. Great ExpectationsD. A Tale of Two CitiesC. 81. Which novel is a great satire upon the society and those people who dream to enter the higher society regardless of the social reality?A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC. Great ExpectationsD. Dombey and SonC. 82. 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 TwistB. 83. In the novel ___ , Defarge and Madame Defarge represent the revolutionaries.A. Dombey and SonB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Little DorritD. Bleak HouseB. 84. _____ is often regarded as the semi-autobiography of the author Dickens in which the early life of the hero is largely based on the author’s early life.A. The Curiosity ShopB. David CopperfieldC. Oliver TwistD. Great ExpectationsA 85. The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from Bunyan’s masterpiece _____.A. The Pilgrim’s ProgressB. Child Harold’s PilgrimageC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. The Canterbury TalesC. 86. Emily Bronte wrote only one novel entitled ______.A. Jane EyreB. Agnes GreyC. Wuthering HeightsD. EmmaD. 87. Dickens’ third literary period shows intensifying ______.A. optimismB. excitementC. irritationD. pessimismB. 88. The Chartists refer to those _____ in the early Victorian AgeA. Romantic writersB. working class writersC. realistic poetsD. bourgeois writersC. 89. The Victorian Literature began in____ and ended in _____.A. 1837...1900 B. 1835...1901 C. 1832...1902 D. 1830 (1903)C. 90. The conflicts between the capitalists and the proletarian in industrial England caused the ______.A. Enlightenment MovementB. Industrial RevolutionC. Chartist MovementD. Romantic MovementD. 91. _____ is the greatest among the critical realists of the Victorian Age.A. Earnest JonesB. Emily BrontёC. Charlotte BrontёD. Charles DickensD. 92. 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 CA. 93. “The pride of wealth” or “purse-pride” is the theme of _____.A. Dombey and SonB. Nicholas NicklebyC. The Old Curiosity ShopD. Martin ChuzzlewitB. 94. The two cities in A Tale of Two Cities refer to ____.A. London and New Y orkB. London and ParisC. Paris and New Y orkD. Brussels and WashingtonC. 95. ____ is the major literary form in the Victorian Period.A. essayB. poetryC. novelD. dramaB. 96. ____ is the main hero in the novel of Wuthering Heights.A. RochesterB. HeathcliffC. ManetteD. MartinA. 97. Both Charlotte and Emily wrote about the ____ around them.A. familiar thingsmon peopleC. neighborsD. evilsD. 98. The most important poet in the Victorian Age was _____.A. Earnest JonesB. Elizabeth GaskellC. Mr. BrowningD. Alfred TennysonB. 99. ______ made Dickens famous overnight.A. Sketches by BozB. The Pickwick PapersC. Oliver TwistD. The Old Curiosity ShopB. 100. _____ is an autobiographical novel and loved by Dickens himself most.A. Great ExpectationsB. David CopperfieldC. Bleak HouseD. The Pickwick PapersC. 101. Dickens’ writing is an encyclopedic knowledge of _____.A. ParisB. New Y orkC. LondonD. PortsmothD. 102. _____ has been called “the supreme epic of English life”.A. Nicholas NicklebyB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Hard TimesD. The Pickwick PapersB. 103. _____marked a great advance in Dickens’ art of novel-writing with closely knit and logical plot of his maturer works.A. David CopperfieldB. Dombey and SonC. Little DorritD. The Chimes A. 104. In the ____ period, Charles Dickens believed that all the evils of the capitalist world would be remedies of only men who behaved to each other with kindliness, justice, and sympathetic understanding.A. firstB. secondC. thirdD. fourthB. 105. ____ is the most class-conscious book among the Christmas books.A. A Christmas CarolB. The ChimesC. The Cricket on the HearthD. The Battle of LifeC. 106. ____is Oscar Wilde’s only novel.A. Lady Windermere’s FanB. A Woman of No ImportanceC. The Picture of Dorian GrayD. The Importance of Being EarnestA. 107. News from Nowhere is a prose work which ____ describes a dream of the future classless society.A. MorrisB. GissingC. StevensonD. WildeA. 108. Katharine Mansfield is a master of ____ at the turn of the century.A. short story writerB. dramatic poetryC. realistic novelsD. humorC. 109. After writing _____, Hardy turned to poetry.A. Under the Greenwood TreeB. The Return of the NativeC. Jude the ObscureD. The Mayor of CasterbridgeB. 110. Yeats’s fame rests chiefly on his ______, using a lot of symbols in his poem.A. novelsB. poetryC. dramasD. proseB. 111. ____ was a leader of the modernist movement in English poetry and a great innovator of verse technique.A. W.B. Y eats B. T. S. EliotC.D. H. Lawrence D. G. B. ShawB. 112. ____ is a great novel spending James Joyce 7 years of hard working to complete.A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManB. UlyssesC. Finnegans WakeD. DublinersD. 113. ____ is a collection of short stories which reflect three aspects of life in politics, culture and religion.A. A Portrait of the Artrist as a Young ManB. UlyssesC. Finnegans WakeD. DublinersA. 114. Which of the following is Not written by D. H. Lawrence?A. The Waste LandB. The RainbowC. Lady Chatterley’s LoverD. Women in LoveA. 115. Which of the following is not written by Y eats?A. Four QuartetsB. A VisionC. The Winding StairD. The TowerD. 116. ____ is the climax of Virginia Woolf’s experiments through the novel form of “stream of consciousness”.A.Jacob’s RoomB. To the LighthouseC. OrlandoD. The WavesA. 117. _____ is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.A. Jane Eyre B Emma C. Wuthering Height D. MiddlemarchD. 118. Which of the following best describes the nature of Hardy’s later novels?A. SentimentalismB. SurrealismC. Comic senseD. Tragic sense.D. 119. .The typical feature of Robert Browning’s poetry is the _____.A. bitter satireB. Larger-than-life caricatureC. Latinized dictionD. dramatic monologueD. 120. The modernist writers such as Richardson, Joyce and Woolf are mainly concerned withthe _____.A. external worldB. public life of an individualC. social activities of human beingsD. inner life of an individualB. 121. Eliot’s poem, the Waste Land, is mainly concerned with the _____of a moderncivilization.A. social corruptionB. spiritual breakupC. physical breakupD. religious corruption D. 122. . Among the great writers of the modern period, ____might be the greatest on radicalexperimentation of technical innovation in novel writing.A. Joseph ConradB. D. H. LawrenceC. Virginia WoolfD. James JoysC. 123. . The mission of ______ drama was to reveal the moral, political and economic truth froma radical reformist point of view.A . T. S. Eliot B. J. Galsworthy’s C. B. Shaw’s D. W. B. Y eats’D. 124 According to D. H. Lawrence, the ____is the most responsible for the alienation of thehuman relationships and 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 civilizationD. 125. The V ictorian age was largely an age of _____, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.A. pessimismB. naturalismC. modernismD. critical realismB. 126. The Romantic Age in England came to an end with the death of ____.A. Jane AustinB. Walter ScottC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. William Wordsworth D. 127. Who is the father of English poetry?A. William Shakespeare.B. Edmund Spencer.C. John Milton.D. Geoffrey Chaucer.B. 128.____ is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed into fourteen lines.A. Free V erseB. SonnetC. OdeD. EpigramC. 129. . John Galsworthy won the 1932 Nobel Prize for his work ____.A. UlyssesB. Hard TimesC. The Forsyte SagaD. Jude the ObscureB. 130. . 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.A. 131.. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between ____ centuries.A. 14th and mid 17thB.I 4th and mid-18thC. 16th and mid-18thD.I 6th and mid-17thB. 132.____ is the greatest songwriter in the world and the national poet of Scotland.A. William BlakeB. Robert BurnsC. ByronD. KeatsB. 133. . William Blake's The Tiger is collected in ____.A. Songs of InnocenceB. Songs of ExperienceC. Marriage of Heaven and HellD. Poetical SketchesD. 134. Among the following poets, which is NOT a lake poet?A. William Wordsworth.B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.C. Robert Southey.D. William Collins.A. 135.. _____is a fork legend brought to England by Anglo-Saxons from their continental homes, it is a longpoem of over 3000 lines and the national epic of the English people.A. BeowulfB. Sir GawainC. The Canterbury TalesD. King Arthur and His KnightsA. 136. . "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" is an epigrammatic line by ____.A. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Percy Bysshe Shelley A. 137. Lyrical Ballad s is the joint work between Wordsworth and his friend ____.A. ColeridgeB. ByronC. KeatsD. Shelly A. 138 Which of the following writers has once won the Nobel Prize?A. William Butler Yeats.B. Thomas Hardy.C. Wystan Hugh Auden.D. Dylan Thomas.D. 139. Which of the following is NOT V irginia Woolf's novel?A. To the Lighthouse.B. Mrs. Dalloway.C. The Waves.D. Modern Painters.B. 140. . ____ was the greatest poet between Milton and Pope and was Poet Laureate for 20 years.A. Edmund SpencerB. John DrydenC. John DonneD. George Herbert A. 141`.. ____ is D. H. Lawrence's semi-autographical novel.A. Sons and LoversB. Women in LoveC. RainbowD. Lady Chatterlay’s Lover。

英语专业八级人文知识练习题：美国文学第一篇：英语专业八级人文知识练习题：美国文学1.The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ____A Jack LondonB Charles DickensC Samuel ColeridgeD Ernest Hemingway2.In which novel can “Yahoo” be found?A John Bunyan's Pilgrim's ProgressB Edmund Spencer's The Faerie QueenC Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's TravelsD Henry Fielding's Tom Jones3.The Catcher in the Rye is written by ____A J.D.SalingerB Jack LondonC Flannery O'ConnorD Saul Bellow4.The image of the famous “henpecked husband” is created by____A Washington IrvingB Fennimore CooperC Edith WhartonD William Dean Howells5.The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be ____A O'NeilB PoundC Robert FrostD Scott Fitzgerald6.____ is the most important person of the transcendental club.A HawthornB WhitmanC EmersonD Hemingway7.The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except____A fridendshipB love and marriageC life and deathD war and peace8.Robert Frost is a famous ____A novelistB playwrightC poetD literary critic9.Dover Beach is written by ____A Robert BrowningB Alfred TennysonC Mathew ArnoldD Dylan Thomas10.The period from 1865-1914 has been referred to as the ____ in the literary history of the United States.A Age of RealismB Age of ClasicalismC Age of RomanticismD Age of Renaissance答案及解析:1.D 《老人与海》是海明威的作品。

专业英语八级英美文学知识分类模拟题4单项选择题1. ______ was the only female American prose writer in the 19th century.A.Emily DickinsonB.Jane AustinC.George EliotD.Harriet Beecher Stowe答案：D美国19世纪唯一的女散文作家是Harriet Beecher Stowe(哈利特·比彻·斯托)。

Emily Dickirson(艾米丽·迪金森)是女诗人。

另外两位是英国女作家。

2. Harriet Beecher Stowe's works mainly focus on ______.A.romanticismB.local colourismC.naturalismD.transcendentalism答案：BHarriet Beecher Stowe(哈利特·比彻·斯托)的作品充满了乡土气息。

3. Which of the following is the masterpiece by Harriet Beecher Stowe?A.Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal SwampB.Sam Lawson's Fireside Stories'C.Uncle Tom "s CabinD.The Gilded Age答案：CUncle Tom's Cabin(《汤姆叔叔的小屋》)是斯托夫人最出名的作品。

Dred A Tale of the Great DismalSwamp(《德雷德：阴暗大沼地的故事》)和Sam Lawson's Fireside Stories(《山姆·罗森的炉边故事》)也是她的作品，但没有前者有名。

The Gilded Age(《镀金时代》)是Mark Twain(马克·吐温)的作品。

专业英语八级英美文学知识分类模拟题1单项选择题1. Beowulf, dated between the 8th and the early 11th century, is a long English heoric epic ______.A.novelB.poemC.dramaD.essay答案：BBeowulf《贝奥武甫》是英国中古时期的一部长篇叙事史诗，全诗长3182行，主要介绍斯堪的纳维亚的英雄贝奥武甫的英勇事迹。

2. Which rhetorical device is the most important in Beowulf?A.RhymeB.AlliterationC.RepetitionD.Simile答案：BBeowulf《贝奥武甫》中alliteration(押头韵)的修辞手法最为突显，rhyme“押尾韵”；repetition“重复”；simile“明喻”。

3. ______ is the most important work of Geoffrey Chaucer, the father of English poetry.A.The Legend of Good WomenB.The Romaunt of the RoseC.The Parliament of FowlesD.The Canterbury Tales答案：D选项中四部作品都出自杰弗里·乔叟之手。

The Legend of Good Women(《贤妇传说》)和The Parliament of Fowles(《百鸟会议》)是两部早期诗作；The Romaunt of the Rose(《玫瑰罗曼史》)是用伦敦方言翻译的法国中世纪长篇叙事诗；The Canterbury Tales(《坎特伯雷故事集》)是乔叟在生前最后15年里创作的作品，在内容和技巧上都达到了他的顶峰，被誉为乔叟最杰出的诗作。

英语专业考研、专八英美文学习题集锦Chapter I An Introduction to Old and Medieval English Literature & The Renaissance PeriodI. Choose the right answer:1. Dr. Faustus is a play based on the _____legend of a magician aspiring for ____ and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.A.British/ immoralityB.French/moneyC.German/knowledgeD.American/political powerAnswer: C (可参考课本P21)2. _____, is a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.A.The Wife’s ComplaintB.BeowulfC.The Dream of the RoodD.The SeafarerAnswer: B (可参考课本P1)3.It’s Chaucer alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English Society in his masterpiece__________.A.The Canterbury TalesB.The Legend of Good WomenC.Troilus and CriseydeD. The Romaunt of the Rose.Answer: A (可参考课本P4)4. The Essence of Renaissance, the most significant intellectual movement, was_____.A. Geographical explorationB. Religious reformationC. Publishing and translationD. Humanism. Answer: D (可参考课本P8)5. “Prince Arthur’s greatest mission is his search for Gloriana, with whom he has fallen in love througha love vision.”The two figures come from_____.A.Paradise LostB.Dr. FaustusC.The Faerie QueeneD.HamletAnswer: C (可参考课本P13)6. In “Sonnet 18”, Shakespeare_________________.A.Meditate on the destructive power of time and eternal beauty by poetry.B.Satirize human’s vanity.C.Predic t the eternity of love.D.Eulogize the power of the beauty. Answer: A (P37)7. ____ gave new vigor to the blank verse with his “mighty lines” and make ’blank verse’ the principle vehicle of expression in drama.A.SurreyB.WyattC.MarloweD.SidneyAnswer: C (P21)8. Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are the following works except____.A.HamletB.King LearC.Romeo and JulietD.OthelloAnswer: C (P33)9. The Renaissance refers to between 14th----mid-17th century, which was under the reign of Queen___and absolute mona rchy in England reached its summit, and in which the ’real mainstream (真正的文学主流)’ was ____.A.Victoria/poetryB.Elizabeth/ dramaC.Mary/ novelD.James/ dramaAnswer: B (P11)10. In The Legend of Good Women, Chaucer used for the first time in English the rhymed couplet ofiambic pentameter, which is to be called later____.A.The Spenserian stanzaB.The heroic coupletC.The blank verseD.The free verseAnswer: B (P5)11. The Redcrosse Knight in “The Faerie Queene” stands for_____, and Una stands for_____.A.bravery/ chastityB.holiness/ truthC.error/ deliveryD.true gentleman/ lady.Answer: B (P16)12. Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance?A.Rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture.B.Attempt to remove the old feudalist ideas in Medieval Europe.C.Exaltation of man’s pursuit of happiness in his life, and tolerance of man’s foibles.D.Praise of man’s efforts in soul delivery and personal salvation.Answer: D (P7)13. “The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” is an example of ______.A.MetaphorB.SimileC.IronyD.PersonificationAnswer: A (P55)14. _____ introduced the Petrarchan sonnet into England.A.Anglos/ SaxonsB.Normans/ Anglo-SaxonsC.Greeks/ RomansD.Romans/ NormansAnswer: B (P11)15. It is ___ alone who, for the first time in English literature presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.A.Edmund SpenserB.Geoffrey ChaucerC.William ShakespeareD.John DonneAnswer: B (P4)16. The following belong to the characteristics of ’metaphysical poetry’ represented by ’John Donne’ except___.A.ConceitsB.Actual imagery and simple dictionC.Argumentative formD.Elegant styleAnswer: D (P63)17. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from____.A.Greek MythologyB.Roman legendC.The Old TestamentD.The New TestamentAnswer: C (P73)18. In “Paradise Lost”, Satan says “We may with m ore successful hope resolve/ To wage by force or guile eternal war, / Irreconcilable to our grand Foe” What does the “Eternal war” mean?A.To remove God from his throneB.To burn the Heaven DownC.To corrupt God’s creation of man and woman-----Adam and EveD.To beguile into a snake to threaten man’s lifeAnswer: C (P71, 节选部分在P75)19. _____, the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded as Shakespeare’s most popular play on the stage, for it has the qualities of a “blood-and-thunder” thriller and a’philosophical exploration’ of life and death.A.The Merchant of VeniceB.HamletC.King LearD.The Winter’s TaleAnswer: B (P33)20. It was ___and ___ the two conquests that provided the source for the rise and growth of English literature.A.Anglos/ SaxonsB.Normans/ Anglo-SaxonsC.Romans/ NormansD.Greeks/ RomansAnswer: B (P1)21. Paradise Lost is ___’s masterpiece, which is an epic in 12 books, written in blank verse, about the heroic revolt of Satan against God’s authority.A.John DonneB.Christopher MarloweC.John MiltonD.Edmund SpenserAnswer: C (P71)22. The following description fit into Milton ’except’_____.A.a great revolutionary poet of the 17th centuryB.an outstanding political pamphleteerC.a great stylist and master of blank verseD.a kind of elegant and refine style.Answer: D (P70---73)23. _____is not written by John Milton.A.Samson AgonistesB.Paradise LostC.Paradise regainedD.TamburlaineAnswer: D (P71)24. Marlow’s greatest achievement is that he perfected the ’blank verse’, and he is regarded as ’the pioneer of English drama’, which of the following is not written by him?A.TamburlaineB.The Jew of MaltaC.The Passionate to His LoveD.The Sun RisingAnswer: D (P20)25. ____Essays is the first example of that genre in English literature, which has been recognized as an important landmark in the development of English prose.A.John Milton’sB.Francis Bacon’sC.Montaigne’sD.Thomas Gray’sAnswer: B (P58)26. _____Was known as “the poets’ poet”.A.William ShakespeareB.Edmund SpenserC.John DonneD.John MiltonAnswer: B (P15)27. “And we will make thee beds of roses / And a thousand fragrant posies/ A cap of flowers, and a kirtle/ Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.” T he above lines are probably taken from______.A.Spenser’s The Faerie QueeneB.John Donne’s The Sun RisingC.Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18D.Marlow’s The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.Answer: D (P28)28. Which of the following statement best illustrates the t heme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18?A.The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.B.The speaker satirizes human vanity.C.The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.D.The speaker meditates on man’s salvation. Answer: C (P37)II. Read the quoted part and answer the questions:1.“For herein Fortune shows herself more kindThan is her custom. It is still her useTo let the wretched man outlive his wealth,To view with hollow eye and wrinkled browAn age of poverty; from which lin g’ring penanceOf such misery doth she cut me off”1.Identify the title of the works and author.2.Explain “from which…cut me off”.3.What happened to him, which caused the words?参考答案:The lines are from “The Merchant of Venice”,William Shakespeare. (P48)2) This sentence means she, ’Lady Fortune(命运女神)’, is more kind to him because she is taking away both his wealth and life.3) The speaker is Antonio, it’s said that his ship have all been lost, and he is penniless, and will have to pay the pound of flesh. (Because Shylock has made a strange bond that requires Antonio to pay him a pound of flesh if he can’t repay him the money that he borrowed for his friend in due time.) (P38)2.“Read not to contract and confuse, not to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider”1)Identify the work and author.2)What idea does the passage express?参考答案：1) The sentence comes from “Of Studies” written by ’Francis Bacon’. (P61)2) The Sentence talks about the proper way to read: When you read, don’t be puzzled by the content of the book; don’t take it for granted; don’t quote too much from the book; before accepting its idea, you’d better think about its shortcomings and consider it from all sides.3.“ Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.1) Where does the poem comes from? Who wrote it?What does “eternal lines” mean?Interpret it briefly.参考答案：1) The poem is “ Shall I Compare thee to a Summer’s Day”, by Shakespeare. (P38)2) Eternal lines means the lines of the poem and other sonnets. (P38)3) It means: you will not lose your beauty, and death will not threaten you with darkness, either. As long as man can live in the world, they will see your beauty in my lines of my poem, which has given you eternal life. (Or A nice summer’s day is usually transient, but the beauty in poetry can last for ever. (P37)4.“… All is no lost: the unconquerable will,And study of revenge, immortal hate,And courage never to submit or yield:And what is else not to be overcome?……Irreconcilable to our grand Foe”1) Please identify the poem and the poet.2) Interpret“all is not lost”.3) What does the whole passage mean?参考答案：1) It is taken from John Milton’s “Paradise Lost”.(P74)2) “all is not lost” is the word from Satan----Satan and other angels rebel against God, but they are driven from Heaven into hell. In the fire of the hell, Satan is determined to fight back, just like what he says: not all is lost, the unconquerable will, the deep hatred, and the courage to fight till death still remain. (P71)3) This passage shows Satan’s will not to submit (服从), and the desire to long for freedom; to beg God for mercy and worship his power is more shameful and disgraceful than the downfall.(P71)5.“If he be not apt to beat over matters, let him study the lawyer’s cases. So every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.”Questions: 3)What does “beat over matters” mean?4)What does “receipt’ refer to?5)From which essay does the above sentences come, what is the essay mainly about?参考答案：1)It means: make through examinations of things. (P63)2)“Receipt” refers to cure, prescription. (P63)3)The sentences are from “Of Studies” (Francis Bacon). It is the most popular of bacon’s essays. It analyzes what studies chiefly serve for, the different ways adopted by different people to pursue studies, and how studies exert influence over human character. (P60—61)6.“What, is great Mephistophilis to passionateFor being deprived of the joys of heaven?Learn thou of Faustus manly fortitudeAnd scorn those joys thou never shalt possess.……Say he will spare him Four and twenty yearsLetting him live in all voluptuousnessHaving thee ever to attend on me…Questions:1)Identify the passage and author;2)“Say he surrenders up to him his soul”, who will surrender his soul? What for?3)Who are thee? What will he do?参考答案：1) The passage comes from “Dr.Faustus” written by Christopher Marlowe. (P25—26)2) Dr.Faustus will surrender his soul to devil. Because he was a great scholar who has a strong desire to ’get knowledge’ in vain, finally he ’made a bond’ to sell his soul to Devil in return for 24 years of life in which he may get anything he desires. (P22)3) The “thee”, refers to “Mephistophilis”, the Devil’s se rvant.He helped Dr.Faustus to do anything he wants. (P22)7.“Busy old fool, unruly sun,Why does thou thus,Through windows and through curtains call on us?”Questions:6)Identify the work and author.7)What idea does the passage express?参考答案:1)The passage comes from “The Sun Rising”, written by ’John Donne’. (P66)2) The speaker questions the sun’s authority and speaks condescendingly, placing the sun in the status of a subordinate. In the lover’s kingdom, the sun has no right to dictate the time of day or the passing of seasons. His presence in their bedchamber is an intrusion on their privacy.III. Questions and answers:1.How do you know about Renaissance? Give a summery about English literature in the period?参考答案:1.The Renaissance refers to the period between 14th----mid-17th century. It first started in Italy.2.The Renaissance means rebirth or revival----the discovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture.3.In essence, The Renaissance is a historical period in which the European humanist thinkers and scholars tried to get rid of the old feudalist ideas in medieval Europe, to introduce new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie/middle class, and to recover the purity of the early church from the corruption of Roman Catholic church.4.Humanism is the essence of Renaissance -----Man is the measure of all things. The humanism exalted/praised human nature and emphasized the dignity of human beings and the present life. They thought man had the right to enjoy the beauty of life and had the ability to perfect himself and made wonders, which got ready for the appearance of the great Elizabethan writers in Britain. Poetry and drama were the most outstanding literary forms.5.Shakespeare, Marlowe and Francis Bacon etc. were the remarkable representatives of the English Renaissance.(可参考课本P7---12)2. Please give a brief analysis of Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy (独白).参考答案:“To be or not to be” is ’a philosophical exploration of life and death’. The soliloquy condemned the hypocrisy and treachery and general corruption of the world, and revealed the character of Hamlet---so ’speculative, questioning, contemplative and melancholy./gloomy’. It was not because he was not able to take action to revenge, but because of his ’hesitative/hesitant character’, when the chance for action came, it seemed defeat.It can be interpreted as: Hamlet bears the heavy burden of the dut y to revenge his father’s death, he isforced to live in the suspense of facts and fiction, language and action. He considers that it would be better to ’commit suicide’, but being scared of what might happen to him in the afterlife. So he put off the thing because of the sin. He considers the plan carefully only to find reason for not carrying it out. The soliloquy conveys ’the sense of world-weariness (厌世)’ . (P33-34)3. What common features do the characters share in Marlow’s works? (No more than 150 wo rds)参考答案:The creation of The Renaissance hero is one of Marlow’s contributions.1)Such a hero is always individualistic and full of ambition, facing bravely the challenge from god and men. They had human dignity and capacity, trying to get heaven/highest ideas on the earth by their own efforts.2)For example: Tamburlaine is a character written by Marlowe. By depicting a great hero with high ambition and sheer brutal forc4e in conquering, Marlowe voiced the supreme desire of man for infinite/ limitless power and authority. In Dr.Faustus, Marlowe celebrated the human passion for knowledge, power and happiness.3) Tamburlaine and Dr.Faustus are typical in owning such Renaissance spirit, Tamburlaine, being a cruel conquer, found happiness in conquering other kingdom. Only death could defeat him. While Dr.Faustus, a more introspective and philosophical figure, had high spirit for knowledge but he had sin for having despair in God and trust in Devil. (P20—22)4. What are the main themes of Shakespeare’s plays?参考答案：Shakespeare’s plays are divided into 3 types: comedies, tragedies and historical plays.1) His historical plays are with the theme-----national unity under a might and just sovereign/ruler is necessary.2)In his romantic comedies, he takes an optimistic attitude toward love friendship and youth.3)In his tragedies, Shakespeare always portrays some noble heroes, who faces the injustice of life and is caught in a difficult situation and whose fate is closely connected with the fate of his nation. Each hero has his weakness of nature. We also see the conflict between the individual and the evil force in the society. And his major characters are always individuals representing certain types.5. Please comment on the character of Satan in “Paradise Lost.”参考答案：Satan is a rebellious (叛逆的) figure against God in literature, defeated, he and his rebel angels were cast into hell. However, Satan refused to accept his failure, swearing that “all was not lost” and that he would revenge for his downfall. The freed om of the will is the keystone of Satan’s character, which was the important spirit of the rising middle class. While he tempted Adam and Eve, which proved his evilness.6. What are the characteristics of the Humanism?参考答案：1)’Humanism’ is the essence of Renaissance.2)Humanists see that human beings were glorious creatures capable of individual development in the direction of perfection, and that the world they inhabited was theirs not to despise (轻视) but to ’question, explore, and enjoy’.3)They also believe that man did not only have the right to enjoy the beauty of this life, but had the ability to perfect himself and to perform wonders (创造奇迹). (P8)Chapter 2 The Neoclassical PeriodI. Choose the right answer:1. ____brings Henry Fielding the name of the "Prose Homer".A.The Pilgrim’s ProgressB.Tom JonesC.Robison CrusoeD.Colonel JackAnswer: B (P122)2. Alexander Pope worked painstakingly on his poemsand finally brought to its last perfection ______Drydenhad successfully used in his plays.A.the heroic coupletB.the free verseC.the blank verseD.the Spenserian stanzaAnswer: A (P92)3. Of all the 18th century novelists ___was the first to set out,both in theory and practice, to write specially a "comic epic in prose."A.Henry FieldingB.Daniel DefoeC.Jonathan SwiftD.John BunyanAnswer: A (P120)4. ____is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.A.Genesis AB.The Holy WarC.The Pilgrims progressD.ExodusAnswer: C (P85)5. In which of the following works can you find the proper names"Lilliput", "Brobdingnag", "Houyhnhnm" and "Yahoo"?A.The Pilgrim’s ProgressB.The Faririe QueeneC.Gulliver’s travelsD.The School of Scandel Answer: C (P108)6. "As shades more sweetly recommend the light,So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit;For works may have more wit than does’em goodAs bodies perish through excess of blood."In the above lines, Pope tries to sat that_______.A.more wit will make better poetryB.plainness is more important than wit in poetryC.too much wit will destroy good poetryD.plainness will make wit dullAnswer: C (P93-94)7. The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope is written in the form of a mock______, which describes the triviality of high society in a grand style.A.epicB.elegyC.sonnetD.odeAnswer: A (P92)8. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Samuel Johnson’s language style?A.His sentences are long and well structured.B.His sentences are interwoven with parallel words.C.He tends to use informal and colloquial words.D.His sentences are complicated, but his thoughts are clearly expressed.Answer: C (P132)9. "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,And all that beauty, all th at wealth e’er gave,Awaits alike the inevitable hour.In the above quoted passage, Thomas Gray intends to say that great family, power, beauty and wealth___________.A.will never make people lead to the same destination----paths of glory.B.will inevitably make people realize their glorious dreamsC.are the very best things to lead people to their gloriesD.will never prevent people from reaching their final destination---grave.Answer: D (P154)10. ____has been regarded by some as "Father of the English novel" for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.A.John BunyanB.Henry FieldingC.Daniel DefoeD.Johnathan SwiftAnswer: B (P121)11. ____was very much concerned with the theme of the vanity of human wishes and tried to awaken men to this folly and hoped to cure them of it through his writing.A.Samuel JohnsonB.Jonathan SwiftC.Richard Brinsley SheridanD.Thomas GrayAnswer: A (P132)12. ____was the only important dramatist of the 18th century, in his plays, morality is the constant theme.A.Alexander PopeB.Richard Brinsley SheridanC.Samuel JohnsonD.George Bernard Shaw Answer: B (P136)13. As the representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce___to England.A.RationalismB.CriticismC.RomanticismD.RealismAnswer: A (P91)14. The Rivals and ____are generally regarded as important links between the masterpiece of Shakespeare and those of Bernard Shaw.A.The School for ScandalB.The DuennaC.Widower’s HousesD.The Doctor’s DilemmaAnswer: A (P137)15. ____is a sharp satire on the moral degeneracy(道德沦丧) of the aristocratic-bourgeois society in the 18th century England.A.The RivalsB.Gulliver’s TravelsC.Toms JonesD.The School for ScandalAnswer: D (P138)16. The poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray is regarded as the most representative work of _____.A.The Metaphysical SchoolB.The Graveyard SchoolC.The Gothic SchoolD.The Romantic School Answer: B (P152)17. _______, written in heroic couplet by Pope, is considered manifesto of English Neoclassicism.A.An Essay of Dramatic PoetryB.An Essay on CriticismC.The Advancing of learningD.An Essay on FreedomAnswer: B (P93)18. ______is a typical feature of Swift’s writings.A.Elegant styleB.Causal narrationC.Bitter satireplicated sentence structureAnswer: C (P107)19. In the following writings by Henry Fielding, which brings him the name of the "Prose Homer"?A.The Coffee---House Politician.B.The Tragedy of Tragedies.C.The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling.D.The History of Amelia.Answer: C (P120)20. "Hold! See whether it is or not before you go to the door----I have a particular message for you if it should be my brother."The two sentences are found in ________.A.The School for ScandalB.The RivalsC.The CriticD.The Scheming LieutenantAnswer: A (P139)21. In terms of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, which is wrong?A.The author employs metaphor in this poem.B.The author excessively expresses his personal melancholy.C.Here he reveals his sympathy for the poor and the unknown.D.He mocks the great ones who despise the poor and bring havoc on them.Answer: B (P152-153)22. The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels are________.A.horses that are endowed with reason.B.pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC.giants that are superior in wisdom.D.Hairy, wild, low and despicable creatures,who resemble human beings not only in appearancebut also in some other ways.Answer: A (P108)II. Read the quoted part and answer the questions:1. "Words are like leaves;and where they most abound,Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.False eloquence, like the prismatic glass,Its gaudy colors spreads on every place;The face of Nature we no more survey,All glares alike, without distinction gay."Questions:1) Identify the author and the passage;2) Name the devices used in the passage with examples;3) Explain "Words….found".4) What is the mainly implied idea of the passage?参考答案：1) The passage is from Pope’s "An Essay on Criticism". (P94)2) In the passage the author used "Simile" the device, e.g. "Words are like leaves" and "false eloquence, like the prismatic glass’ etc.3) The sentence means: Where/When too many words are used, they seldom express much sense.4) The passage implies authors shouldn’t stress too much the artificial use of Conceit or the external beauty of language, they should pay special attention to True Wit, which is best set in the plain style. (just as too many leaves will cover the fruits,too gaudy/ showy glass will hide the face the Nature, too false and eloquent language will hide the Wit in the articles.) <P93>2. "Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smileThe short and simple annals of the poor.The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,Awaits alike the inevitable hour.The paths of glory lead but to the grave."Questions:1) Identify the author and the works;2) What does "the inevitable hour"?3) Explain the first stanza;4) What does the whole passage imply.参考答案：1) This is Thomas Gray’s "Elegy Written in a C ountry Churchyard".托马斯·格雷的《写在教堂墓地的挽歌》(P154)2) "The inevitable hour" means time of death. (P156)3) The first stanza means: The men with ambition and high position shouldn’t laugh at the ordinary people for their simple life and hard work.4) In the passage, the poet reflects on the death----no matter how poor or wealthy, or how important and humble, every is equal before death, the author gives much sympathy to the poor and unknown (P153)III. Questions and answers:1.Please analyze the Neoclassical period and the characters of the literature.参考答案：1)The Neoclassical period is about 1660-1798, also known as"the Age of Enlightenment" or "the age of Reason".2)Its background was:a.It was an age full of conflicts and difference of values;b.It was an age of fast development for English to becomethe first powerful capitalist country in the world; c.It was an age of economic development, in which bourgeois/middle class grew rapidly.3)In essence, the Neoclassical Period was a progressive intellectual movement.4)The Enlighteners believed in self-restraint, self-reliance and hard work;They celebrated reason/rationality, equality and science.They advocated universal education, which could make people rational and prefect, they believed.5)In literature, The Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the ancient Greek and Roman classical works; theworks at the time, heavily didactic and moralizing; having fixed laws and rules for every type of the literature; among which prose and the modern English novel predominated the age. (At the end of the age sentimentalism and Gothic Novel appeared.) 6) The age was an important age with the remarkable authors Pope, Defoe, etc.<P79- - -83>2.Please cite examples from "Gulliver’s Travels" to explain briefly how did Swift criticized and allude to the government and the society.参考答案:1)In the first part of the "Gulliver’s Travels", Swift described the tricks and practices in the competition held before royal members to allude to the fact that the success of the officials was not for their wisdom and excellence but for their skills in the games;2)In the part 4 of the book, Swift made horses with reason and good qualities.The citizens who are "hairy, wild, low and despicable brutes, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in almost every way" to criticize/satirize all respects of the English and European life, and urge people to consider the nature of the human and life. (P108-109)3. People always say that: "As a member of the middle class, Defoe spoke for and to the members of his class" .How do you understand this sentence? Please explain it with the character of him.参考答案：1) In most of his works, Defoe gave his praise to the hard-working, sturdy middle class and showed his sympathy for the lower-class people. Robinson Crusoe was such a character.2) Robison goes out to sea, gets shipwrecked and marooned/landed on a lonely island, struggles to live for 24 years there and finally is saved by a ship and returns to England. During the period Robinson leads a harsh and lonely life and survives by growing corps, taming animals, etc. growing from a naive young man into a hardened man.3) With a great capacity for work, inexhaustible energy (精力充沛), courage and persistence in overcoming difficulties（在克服困难方面持之以恒）, in struggling against nature, Crusoe becomes the prototype / representative of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist. （他是大英帝国缔造者的完美典范，同时也是殖民者的先驱）．4) In the novel, Defoe glorified human labor and the puritan fortitude which the middle class praised highly, so he can be regarded as aspokesman of the bourgeois. (P98-100)。