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台州学院外国语学院学年第学期
级英语本科专业《英国文学史及选读II》期末试卷（12）(闭卷) 姓名班级学号
考试时间:120 分钟
I. Multiple choice. Choose the best out of the four. (10%=1*10)
1. The subject matters of Romanticism include the following But ____.
A. order
B. mysticism
C. exotic pictures
D. interest in the past
2. ____is one of the “Lakers”, or Lake school poets.
A. John Keats
B. Percy Bysshe Shelley
C. Leigh Hunt
D. William Wordsworth
3. Dickens’ autobiographical novel is ____.
A. Hard Times
B. Bleak House
C. Oliver Twist
D. David Copperfield
4. “The Scian and the Teian muse ”are recalled in____.
A. My Last Duchess
B. Ozymandias
C. The Isles of Greece
D. She Walks in Beauty
5. The followig novels are all written by Thomas Hardy except .
A. The Forsyte Saga
B. Jude the Obscure
C. The Return of the Native
D. Far from the Madding Crowd
6. Lawrence revealed Oedipus complex in his novel __________.
A. Sons and Lovers
B. For Whom the Bell Tolls
C. The Sun Also Rises
D. The Old Man and the Sea
7. ____historical novel paved the path for the development of the realistic novel of the 19th century.
A. Jane Austen’s
B. Walter Scott’s
C. Henry Fielding’s
D. Charles Lamb’s
8. The title of Thackeray’s novel Vanity Fair was borrowed from ____ by John Bunyan .
A. The Roundabout Paper
B. The Newcomers
C.The Pilgrim’s Progress
D. The Four Georges
9. Anne , the youngest of the Brontes , was the writer of ____.
A. Wuthering Heights
B. Jane Eyre
C. The Professor
D. Agnes Grey
10. In the Idylls of the King, ____ painted the character of the first English national hero, King Arthur, and gave a new meaning to the legends.
A. Robert Browning
B. Thomas Hardy
C. Charles Dickens
D. Alfred Tennyson
II. True or False? Put a T before the statement if you think it is true and put an F if you think it is false.(10%=1*10)
____1. Jane Austen is one of the naturalist novelists . She drew vivid and realistic pictures of everyday life of the country society in her novels .
____2.The Satanic school is composed of Byron , Shelley and Keats .
____3.Childe Harold Pilgrimage made Byron famous overnight .
___4. In Tennyson’s Ulysses, Ulysses is the Greek name for the Roman hero Odysseus in Homer’s Odyssey.
____ 5. The Romantic Age is emphatically an age of novel .
____ 6. In his poems Byron aimed at simplicity and purity of the language, fighting against the conventional forms of the 18th century poetry.
____ 7. Tess’s character can be described as treacherous and unfaithful.
____ 8.Charles Lamb is remembered by the later generations as a great poet.
____ 9. Jane Austen is chronologically a contemporary of Wordsworth and Coleridge.
____10.Ozymandias is Shelley’s sonnet on the transient nature of man and the futility of the dream of immortality.
III. Blank Filling. (10%=1*10)
1. Romanticism in England began in 1798, with the publication of ____.
2. Don Juan, the greatest work by , was written in the prime of his creative power, in the year of 1818-182
3.
3. Ode to a Nightingale was written by _______.
4. Ivanhoe is the masterpiece of the historical novelist_______.
5. The greatest English realist of the Victorian Age was ____.
6. The second half of the 19th century in England produced a number of outstanding poets such as____ , Robert Browning, Charles Algernon Swinburne and so on.
7. ____ is the last and one of the greatest of Victorian novelists .
8. D.H. Lawrence’s novel ____is often taken to be largely biographical .
9. Thomas Hardy is a representative of the English , an extreme form of realism.
10.was written by Alfred Tennyson on the question of the immortality of the soul, in memory of Arthur Hallam, the poet’s beloved friend.
IV. Define or explain the following .(15%=5*3)
1. Onomatopoeia
2. Symbol
3. Stream of consciousness
V. Identify (20%=10*2)
Passage I
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Questions
1.Who is the author of the selection?
2.Which novel is this passage taken from?
3.List the other five novels written by the author.
4.Translate the passage into Chinese.
Passage II
That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolf’s hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said
“Fra Pandolf” by design, for never read
Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
The depth and passion of its earnest glance,
……
Questions:
1.The passage is taken from____.
2.The poet is____ .
3.This poem is regular in form . The poetic form used is called____.
A. Blank Verse
B. Free Verse
C. Heroic Couplet
D. Quatrain
4.The poem is a dramatic monologue , who is the speaker in it ? Can you describe his
personality?
VI. Match the characters, works, writers in Boxes A , B and C respectively. Mark the
letters in Box B and the numbers in Box C in front of the characters in Box A.
The example is given. (10%=1*10)
VII. Answer the following questions(25%=10+15)
1. What is “the Wessex Novels”? Refer to one of the Wessex Novels in explaining naturalism.
2. What do you know about the English Romanticism? Comment on the literary current with the following poem.
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
Beside the spring of Dove.
A Maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love;
A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye!
Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.
She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and, oh,
The difference to me!
台州学院外国语学院学年第学期
级英语本科专业《英国文学史及选读II》期末试卷（12）(闭卷)
Answer Sheet
姓名班级学号
考试时间:120 分钟
I. Multiple choice . Choose the best out of the four. (10%=1*10)
II. True or False? Put a T before the statement if you think it is true and put an F if you think it is false. (10%=1*10)
1.____
2.____
3.____
4.____
5.____
6.____
7.____
8.____
9.____ 10.____
III. Blank Filling. (10%=1*10)
1. 2.
3. 4.
5. 6.
7. 8.
9. 10.
IV. Define or explain the following .(15%=5*3)
1.
2.
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V. Identify (20%=10*2)
Passage I
1.
2.
3.
4.
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Passage II
1.
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VI. Match the characters, works, writers in Boxes A , B and C respectively. Mark the letters in Box B and the numbers in Box C in front of the characters in Box A. The example is given.(10%=1*10).
VII. Answer the following questions.(25%=10+15)
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考试课程：英国文学史及选读考核类型：A 卷 考试方式：闭卷出卷教师: XXX 考试专业：英语考试班级：英语xx班 I.Multiple choice (30 points, 1 point for each) select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. 1._____，a typical example of old English poetry ,is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons. A.The Canterbury Tales B.The Ballad of Robin Hood C.The Song of Beowulf D.Sir Gawain and the Green Kinght 2._____is the most common foot in English poetry. A.The anapest B.The trochee C.The iamb D.The dactyl 3.The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is NOT such an event? A.The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture. B.England’s domestic rest C.New discovery in geography and astrology D.The religious reformation and the economic expansion 4._____is the most successful religious allegory in the English language. A.The Pilgrims Progress B.Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners C.The Life and Death of Mr.Badman D.The Holy War 5.Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is _____. A.science B.philosophy C.arts D.humanism 6.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,/So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”(Shakespeare, Sonnets18)What does“this”refer to ? A.Lover. B.Time. C.Summer. D.Poetry. 7.“O prince, O chief of my throned powers, /That led th’ embattled seraphim to war/Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds/Fearless, endangered Heaven’s perpetual king”In the third line of the above passage quoted from Milton’s Paradise Los t, the phrase“thy conduct”refers to _____conduct. A.God’s B.Satan’s C.Adam’s D.Eve’s
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6 ．古希腊被称为“历史之父”的作家是（A ）。 A ．希罗多德 B ．修昔底德 C ．色诺芬 D ．苏格拉底 7 ．西方客观唯心主义的始祖是（ A）。 A ．柏拉图 B ．亚里士多德 C ．西塞罗 D ．卢克莱修 8 ．亚里士多德的文艺理论代表作品是（C ）。 A ．《理想国》 B ．《伊安篇》 C ．《诗学》 D ．《诗艺》 9 ．“希腊化时期”最著名的新喜剧作家是（ A）。 A ．米南德 B ．阿里斯托芬 C ．普劳图斯 D ．泰伦斯 10 ．泰伦斯的代表作品是（C ）。 A ．《双生子》 B ．《一罐黄金》 C ．《婆母》 D ．《恨世者》 11 ．维吉尔的《埃涅阿斯纪》被称为欧洲文学史上的第一部（A ）史诗。 A ．文人 B ．英雄 C ．民族 D ．悲剧
12 ．贺拉斯最重要的文艺理论著作是（ B）。 A ．《诗学》 B ．《诗艺》 C ．《讽刺诗》 D ．《颂歌集》 13 ．奥维德的代表作品是（B ）。 A ．《爱经》 B ．《变形记》 C ．《讽刺诗》 D ．《颂歌集》 14 ．《伊利昂纪》是一部描写部落战争的英雄史诗，开篇写的是（A ）。 A ．阿喀琉斯的愤怒 B ．希腊联军节节败退 C ．阿喀琉斯重上战场 D ．阿喀琉斯杀死赫克托耳 15 ．《奥德修纪》是一部（ B）。 A ．描写部落战争的英雄史诗 B ．反映氏族社会末期至奴隶社会初期人类对自然和社会斗争的史诗 C ．悲剧史诗 D ．英雄传说 16 ．奥德修斯的形象是一个（A ）。 A ．被理性化了的早期奴隶主的形象 B ．足智多谋的政治家形象 C ．战胜自然的形象 D ．漂泊者 17 ．被称为“古希腊悲剧之父”的是（ C）。
英美文学史期末考试资料
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英国文学史期末复习重点
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英国文学史资料British Writers and Works I. Old English Literature & The Late Medieval Ages