英国文学史及作品选读练习题(The 20th Century)

In Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay

back the money he borrowed from shylock because __________.

所选答案： A.

his ships had all been lost

正确答案： A.

his ships had all been lost

反馈： his ships had all been lost

Which play is not a comedy?

所选答案： C. Romeo and Juliet

正确答案： C. Romeo and Juliet

反馈：Romeo and Juliet

Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare’s great

tragedies?

所选答案： C. Romeo and Juliet

正确答案： C. Romeo and Juliet

反馈：Romeo and Juliet

The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher

Marlowe’s The Tragic History of Dr. Faustus, is the very fact

that __________.

所选答案： D. he became a man without soul after he sold it

正确答案： D. he became a man without soul after he sold it

反馈：he became a man without soul after he sold it

问题5

得2 分，满分2 分 best represented the spirit of the Elizabethan Age.

In many years he stood for the renaissance ideal of “the

complete man.” He held a strong Protestant conviction.

所选答案：Sidney

正确答案：Sir Philip Sidney

Philip Sidney

Sidney

反馈：Sir Philip Sidney; Philip Sidney; Sidney

Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance Movement?

所选答案： A. The Glorious Revolution

正确答案： A. The Glorious Revolution

反馈：The Glorious Revolution

“To be, or not to be—that is the question; whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer. The slings and arrows of outrageous

fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by

opposing end them?” Who said these words?

所选答案： C. Hamlet

正确答案： C. Hamlet

反馈：Hamlet

Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti is a series of 88 sonnets in which he

links each quatrain to the next by a continuing rhyme: abab bcbc

cdcd ee. This form is usually called __________.

所选答案：Spenserian sonnets

正确答案：Spenserian sonnet

问题9得0 分，满分2 分Which is not the works of Christopher Marlowe?

所选答案： C. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

正确答案： D.

Lycidas

The writings of Francis bacon mainly fall into three categories:

__________, purely literary and professional.

所选答案：philosophical

正确答案：philosophical

反馈：philosophical

The Period refers to t he years between the death of Chaucer and the ascension of Queen Elizabethan I.

所选答案：Renaissance

正确答案：

Pre-Elizabethan

The Elizabethan age was one in which transformed Chaucer’s Medieval England into Shakespeare’s modern one.

所选答案：Renaissance

正确答案：Renaissance

反馈：Renaissance

Be n Jonson’s poetic line “not of an age, but for all time” was dedicated to __________.

所选答案： D. William Shakespeare

正确答案： D. William Shakespeare

反馈：William Shakespeare

English Renaissance Period was an age of Poetry and .

所选答案：drama

正确答案：Drama

反馈：Drama

The sentence “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s __________.

所选答案： D. sonnets

正确答案： D. sonnets 反馈：sonnets

In , Shakespeare has not only made a profound analysis of the social crisis in which the evils can be seen everywhere, but also criticized the bourgeois egoism.

所选答案： D. King Lear

正确答案： D. King Lear

反馈：King Lear

Thomas Wyatt is usually regarded as the first great English sonneteer. It is he who first used a __________ for the conclusion of sonnets—a practice followed by Shakespeare.

所选答案：couplet

正确答案：couplet

反馈：couplet

In the Elizabethan Period, is the greatest playwright of England.

所选答案：William Shakespeare

正确答案：William Shakespeare

Shakespeare

反馈：William Shakespeare; Shakespeare

“Not on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh Jew, I thou mak’st thy knife keen”

In the above quotation taken from The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare employs a (n) .

所选答案： C. pun

正确答案： C. pun

反馈：pun

is the essence of the Renaissance.

所选答案： B.

Humani

正确答案： B.

Humani

反馈：Humani

Edmund Spenser is often referred as “the poets’ __________”because of his considerable influence on later poets.

所选答案：poet

正确答案：poet

反馈：poet

Spenser is generally regarded as the greatest nondramatic poet of the Elizabethan Age. His fame is chiefly based on his

masterpiece .

所选答案：The Faerie Queen

正确答案：The Faerie Queen

反馈：The Faerie Queen

lay the foundation for modern science with his insistence on scientific way of thinking and fresh observation rather than authority as a basis for obtaining knowledge.

所选答案：Francis Bacon

正确答案：Francis Bacon

Bacon

反馈：Francis Bacon; Bacon

The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English drama. It was who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama.

所选答案：Marlowe

正确答案：Christopher Marlowe

Marlowe

反馈：Christopher Marlowe; Marlowe

has established his giant position in world literature with his 37 plays.

所选答案：Shakespeare

正确答案：William Shakespeare

Shakespeare

反馈：William Shakespeare; Shakespeare

Sir Philip Sidney is known for the following three works except

__________.

所选答案： A. The Shepherd’s Calendar

正确答案： A. The Shepherd’s Calendar

反馈：The Shepherd’s Calendar

__________is regarded as the earliest popular tragedy of bold and revenge.

所选答案： B. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

正确答案： C. The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd

used wisdom in saving Antonio from being punished by Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.

所选答案： C. Portia

正确答案： C. Portia

反馈：Portia

“Read not to contradict and confuse, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.” comes from Bacon’s essay “ ”.

所选答案：Of Studies 正确答案：Of Studies 反馈：Of Studies

In the English renaissance period, scholars began to emphasize the capacities of the human mind and the achievements of human culture. The most significant intellectual movement was __________.

所选答案： C.

humani

正确答案： C.

humani

反馈：humani

__________ is considered the first great English dramatist and the most important Elizabethan playwright before Shakespeare.

所选答案：Christopher Marlowe

正确答案：Christopher Marlowe

Marlowe

反馈：Christopher Marlowe; Marlowe

In the Elizabethan Period, wrote many excellent essays, such as “Of Studies”.

所选答案：Francis Bacon

正确答案：Francis Bacon

Bacon

反馈：Francis Bacon; Bacon

The following playwrights belong to the “university wits”, Shakespeare’s predecessors, except __________.

所选答案： C. Ben Jonson 正确答案： C. Ben Jonson 反馈：Ben Jonson

A Shakespearean sonnet is composed of three four-line quatrains and a

concluding two-line __________.

所选答案：couplet

正确答案：couplet

反馈：couplet

Which of the following poetic forms is the principal form of Shakespeare’s

dramas?

所选答案： D.

blank

verse

正确答案： D.

blank

verse

反馈：blank

verse

The major, or central, character of the plot is called the __________; his opponent, the character against whom he

struggles or contends, is called the antagonist.

所选答案：protagonist

正确答案：protagonist

反馈：protagonist

问题37得0 分，满分2 分From the following, choose the one which is not Francis Bacon’s work.

所选答案： A.

The Advancement of Learning

正确答案： D.

Venus and Adonis

Francis Bacon is the most important writer of the Elizabethan Age. He is a great scientist, thinker, philosopher

and essayist.

所选答案：prose

正确答案：prose

反馈：prose

is the last great Elizabethan and probably the first poet Laureate (1616) and the first dictator in English history.

所选答案：Jonson

正确答案：Ben Jonson

Jonson

反馈：Ben Jonson; Jonson

William Caxton is important to the development of English literature in

that he introduced __________ into England.

所选答案：printing

正确答案：printing

反馈：printing

问题41得2 分，满分2 分The miracle play had as its subject either a story from the , or else the life and martyrdom of a saint.

所选答案：Bible

正确答案：Bible

反馈：Bible

Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare’s come dies?

所选答案： B. The Winter’s Tale

正确答案： A. Henry V

Shakespeare’s plays have been traditionally divided into four categories according to dramatic type: histories, __________,

tragedies and romances.

所选答案：comedies

正确答案：comedies

反馈：comedies

问题44得2 分，满分2 分Of the following plays, which is not written by Ben Jonson?

所选答案： A. The Shoemaker’s Holiday

正确答案： A. The Shoemaker’s Holiday

反馈：The Shoemaker’s Holiday

The cradle of Renaissance is .

所选答案： D. Italy

正确答案： D. Italy

反馈：Italy

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is one of Christopher Marlowe’s best works in which dr. Faustus seeks __________no

matter at what cost and finally meets his tragic end as a result

of selling his soul to the devil.

所选答案： B. knowledge

正确答案： B. knowledge

反馈：knowledge

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested” is one of the epigrams found

in __________.

所选答案： A. Francis bacon’s “Of Studies”正确答案： A. Francis bacon’s “Of Studies”反馈：Francis bacon’s “Of Studies”

The second period of English renaissance is also called the

__________period or the age of Shakespeare.

所选答案：Elizabethan

正确答案：Elizabethan

反馈：Elizabethan

Soon after the __________ was introduced by the Earl of Surrey

in his t ranslation of Virgil’s The Aeneid, and it became the

standard meter for Elizabethan and later poetic drama.

所选答案：blank verse

正确答案：blank verse

反馈：blank verse

问题50得2 分，满分2 分Which of the following statements best illustrate the theme of Shakespeare’s sonnet 18?

所选答案： A. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.

正确答案： A. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.

反馈：The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.