英国文学 2
英国文学一
1．第1题
A metaphysical poem will not _____
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B.employ strict logic
C.create a musical effect
D.take the form of an argument
答案:C
2．第6题
Irene and Jolyon are characters from _________.
A.The Forsyte Saga
B.The Time Machine
C.Pygmalion
D.The Root
答案:A
3．第7题
The Canterbury Tales contains in fact a general prologue and only ___tales.
A.24
B.120
C.60
D.40
答案:A
4．第8题
Which of the following is not a character in Hamlet?
A.Ophelia
B.Claudius
C.Leo
D.Horatio
答案:C
5．第9题
Much of Charles Dicke ns…s youth is infused into his novel____, making it highly autobiographical.
A.Great Expectations
B.David Copperfield
C.Shirley
D.Oliver Twist
答案:B
6．第10题
James Joyce?s masterpiece_____was banned in both Britain and Americaon its first appearance in 1922.
A.Stephen Hero
B.Finnegans Wake
C.Dubliners
D.Ulysses答案:D
_____ was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.
A.Thomas Wyatt
B.Shakespeare
C.Phillip Sidney
D.Thomas Campion
答案:A
8．第12题
Pope described _____as the the wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind.
A.Shakespeare
B.Francis Bacon
C.Spencer
D.Thomas Wyatt
答案:B
9．第13题
Defoe depicted _____as a faithful servant to Robinson Crusoe in his novel.
A.Friday
B.Jack
C.Natty
D.Takak
答案:A
10．第18题
_____ tells a fantastic story of how a youth sold his soul to pursue beauty and fulfillment of the senses by having his portrait age instead of his very person, but his vainness finally driven him into evil.
A.The Picture of Dorian Gray
B.The Picture of Doris Gray
C.The Way of All Flesh
D.The Way of Flesh
答案:A
11．第19题
. James Joyce?s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man did not _______.
A.describe what the author?s life is like.
B.deal with the relation between the artist and society in modern world.
C.contain autobiographical elements.
D.show how carefully Joyce compressed his material for maximum effect.
答案:B
12．第20题
Chaucer died in 1400 and was buried in _______.
A.Flanders
B.France
C.Italy
D.Westminster Abbey
答案:D
Many critics called ________the greatest of Victorian novels.
A.Bleak house
B.Middle March
C.Great Expectations
D.Adam Bede
答案:B
14．第29题
After Wordsworth and Southey had died, _____ succeeded to the title of poet-laureate.
A.Thomas Hardy
B.Lord Tennyson
C.Robert Browning
D.Oscar Wilde
答案:B
15．第34题
___ cannot be a sentimentalist among the following writers.
A.Jonathan Swift
B.Thomas Gray
C.O Goldsmith
D.George Crabbe
答案:A
16．第35题
The first realistic writer in English literature was _______.
A.Charles Dickens
B.Chaucer
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D.Shakespeare
答案:B
17．第36题
The chapter about Yahoos and horses of wisdom is in the story of ____.
A.Lilliput
B.Brobdinag
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D.Houyhnm
答案:D
18．第37题
…Thou still unravish?d bride of quietness,/ Thou foster-child of silece and slow time,” This bride refers to ______.
A.a maiden
B.a Grecian urn
C.a nightingale
D.a water-nymph
答案:B
19．第41题
____ is an earnest attack on the vulgarity and materialism of the rising middle class industrialists.
A.Hard Times
B.Little Dorrit
C.Bleak House
D.Oliver Twist
答案:A
20．第42题
The first completely su ccessful novel in Virginia Woolf?s own style is __
A.To the Lighthouse
B.The Waves
C.Three Guineas
D.Mrs. Dalloway
答案:D
21．第43题
_____ is considered to be the summit of Shakespeare?s art.
A.King Lear
B.Macbeth
C.Hamlet
D.Othello
答案:C
22．第46题
The last and one of the greatest of Victorian novelist was______.
A.H.G. Wells
B.Bernard Shaw
C.Thomas Hardy
D.George Eliot
答案:C
23．第47题
牋_____, the father of English poetry was born in London about 1340.
A.Sir Gawain
B.Francis Bacon
C.Geoffrey Chaucer
D.John Dryden
答案:C
24．第48题
The greatest epic poem of the English Renaissance period was _____.
A.King Lear
B.The Fairy Queen
C.Macbeth
D.George Green
答案:B
25．第49题
牋牋John Milton wrote a play in which the hero___ passed his last days in blindness.
A.Satan
B.Adam
C.Samson
D.Raphael
答案:C
二
1．第1题
Charles Dickens was said to be best at ____ probably because of some similar experience.
A.child portrayal
B.depiction of poor workers
C.picturing the mean middle class
D.creating images of poor women
答案:A
2．第2题
_____was not one of the founders of the genre of the bourgeois realistic novel.
A.Daniel Defoe
B.Thomas Hardy
C.T. S. Smollet
D.Henry Fielding
答案:B
5．第5题
Many of Wordsworth’s poems in his Lyrical Ballads were devoted to ____.
A.his patrons
B.Queen Victoria
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D.Coleridge
答案:C
6．第6题
The sentence "three or four families in a country village are the very thing to work on" can best reflect the writer' s personal knowledge and range of writing. This writer is _________.
A.Walter .Scott
B.Thomas Hardy
C.Jane Eyre
D.Jane Austen
答案:D
8．第14题
Thomas More gave a profound and truthful picture of the people’s sufferings and put forward his ideal of a future happy society in his ___.
A.The Shepherd’s Calendar
B.Utopia
C.The Rights of Men
D.Sade
答案:B
．第26题
“The curfew tolls the knell of parting day/ The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea”These lines are taken from ________.
A.Ode on a Grecian Urn
B.Ode to the West Wind
C.Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
D.Elegy on a Sore Toe
答案:C
10．第27题
The best-known of all Shelley’s lyrics is ______.
A.Ode to a Skylark
B.Ode to the Nightingale
C.Prometheus Unbound
D.Ode on a Grecian Urn
答案:A
12．第35题
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”This is the beginning line of ____.
A.Sonnet 29
B.Sonnet 16
C.Sonnet 18
D.Sonnet 14
答案:B
14．第41题
In Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence presented Paul as a(n) man and artist.
A.independent
B.ambitious
C.strong-willed
D.sensitive
答案:D
16．第44题
________ is not a character in the novel Ivanhoe.
A.Rowena
B.Rebecca
C.Guilbert
D.Joseph Addison
答案:D
17．第45题
Historic events in the period of _______ won’t have appeared in Scott’s novels.
A.the Crusades
B.Puritan revolution
C.restoration
D.Victorian age
答案:D
第46题
Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of ___.
A.Mary
B.Elizabeth
C.William
D.Victoria
答案:B
19．第47题
The eighteenth century is an age of _____ as a whole.
A.prose
B.stories
C.poetry
D.drama
答案:A
20．第48题
Lord Byron work up one morning and found himself famous with the publication of his ________.
A.When We two Parted
B.She Walks in Beauty
C.Don Juan
D.Child Harold Pilgrimage
答案:D
21．第49题
_______ was not considered to be a great critical realist.
A.William Thackeray
B.George Eliot
C.Emily Bronte
D.Dickens
答案:C
22．第50题
“All is not lost: the unconquerable will, /And study of revenge, immortal hate. This line is said by_____.
A.Satan
B.Adam
C.Samson
D.Seraph
答案:A
23．第51题
Charles Lamb cannot be the author of ________.
A.Essays of Elia
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C.Pamela
D.Dream-Children
答案:C
25．第53题
The central character in Vanity Fair is _______, who is shrewd, unscrupulous and sophisticated
beyond her years.
A.Miss Amelia
B.Miss Sharp
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答案:B
三
4．第6题
John Lyly’s ___gave rise to the term “euphemism.,’designating an affected style of court speech.
A.Cymbeline
B.Venus and Adonis
C.Lucrece
D.Euphues
答案:D
7．第10题
Henry Fielding’s first novel was a satire of Samuel Richardson’s ____.
A.Pamela
B.Tom Jones
C.Clarissa
D.Amelia
答案:A
8．第15题
The Victorian Age ________.
A.closed at the end of the Punic War in 1902.
B.witnessed the confirmation of the Reform Bill in 1832.
C.saw the surge of the Chartist movement.
D.watched the rise and fall of critical realism.
答案:C
11．第19题
The Age of Wordsworth---like the Age of Shakespeare---was decidedly an age of _____.
A.Prose
B.Criticism
C.Poetry
D.Drama
答案:C
15．第23题
The poem _____ asked implicitly if God was the maker of both good and veil.
A.The Tiger
B.The Chimney Sweeper
C.London
D.The Lamb
答案:A
16．第29题
The greatest among the peots living in the second half of the 19th century in England was ______.
A.Robert Browning
B.Alfred Tennyson
C.Swinburne
D.Rossetti
答案:A
17．第30题
In Thomas Hardy's works, the conflict between the old and the modern is very pervasive. His attitude toward those, traditional characters is__.
A.contemptuous
B.sympathetic
C.indifferent
D.exotic
答案:B
19．第40题
It was ____ who made blank verse the principle vehicle o expression in drama.
A.Christopher Marlowe
B.Christopher Marlowe
C.Edmund Spencer
D.Thomas More
答案:A
20．第41题
The indomitable Puritan spirit finds its noblest expression in ____.
A.John Dryden
B.John Bunyan
C.John Donne
D.John Milton
答案:D
21．第44题
The poem Ozymandias written by _____ is essentially about the transience of the powers and glory once enjoyed by the king.
A.Shelley
B.Byron
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D.Blake
答案:A
22．第47题
The most controversial novel by D. H. Lawrence is ______.
A.The Rainbow
B.Sons and Lovers
C.The White Peacock
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答案:D
四
1．第14题
_______ by Bernard Shaw belonged to what he called “Plays Unpleasant.”
A.You Can Never Tell
B.Widower’s House
C.Man and Superman
D.Mrs. Warren’s Profession
答案:D
4．第17题
Daniel Defoe did not write ______
A.Captain Singleton
B.Moll Flanders
C.Colonel Jack
D.Joseph Andrews
答案:D
7．第20题
____ is not a novel written by Thomas hardy
A.The Return of the Native
B.The Mayor of Casterbridge
C.Far from the Madding Crowd
D.Little Dorrit
答案:D
10．第23题
Lake Poets did not include_________.
A.. Coleridge
B.Southey
C.Wordsworth
D.Byron
答案:D
11．第24题
“A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed/ One too like thee: tamelss, and swift, and proud.”This is from ________.
A.Ode to the Nightingale
B.Ode to the West Wind
C.Ode on a Grecian Urn
D.Ozymandias
答案:B
13．第37题
In the late nineteenth century, modernism flourished in English literature. Unlike modern poets and novelists, modem dramatists____
A.a. showed an optimistic emotion toward life
B.did not make innovations in techniques and forms at all.
C.inherited fully the romantic spirit of the early 19th century.
D.borrowed a lot from the irrational philosophy and psychoanalysis.
答案:B
14．第38题
“Thous wast not born for death, immortal bird!/No hungry generation tread thee down;”This immortal bird refers to ________.
A.a nightingale
B.a skylark
C.a raven
D.a sparrow
答案:A
18．第44题
Romanticism as a literary movement came into being in England early in the latter half of the 18th century. It first made its appearance in England as a renewed interest in _____.
A.poetry
B.medieval literature
C.classical learning
D.painting
答案:B
24．第50题
______ tells of the love, estrangement and eventual reconciliation of the daughter and son of a country miller.
A.Silas Marner
B.Middle March
C.The Mill on the Floss
D.Adam Bede
答案:C
五
12．第36题
牋？Though living in a tempestuous age, ____ did not have a prison experience.
A.John Milton
B.John Bunyan
C.John Donne
D.牋？Oliver Cromwell
答案:B
六
14．第28题
Virginia Wolf wrote the following except_______
A.Women in Love
B.Mrs Dalloway
C.Orlando
D.To the Lighthouse
答案:A
15．第29题
The most controversial novel by D. H. Lawrence is ______.
A.The Rainbow
B.Sons and Lovers
C.The White Peacock
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答案:D
17．第31题
The major theme of Jane Austen's novels is love and marriage. Which of the following is not a couple that appeared in Pride and Prejudice?
A.Catherine and Heathcliff
B.Lydia and Wickham
C.Jane and Binley
D.Charlotte and Collins
答案:A
25．第49题
Water Scott did not write _______.
A.Rob Roy
B.Ivanhoe
C.Waverly
D.The Spy
答案:D
判断题
1. Grendel, Beowulf?s rival, was a monster half-human.
答案:正确
1.English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of drama.
答案:错误
Lancelot, Merlin, Camelot and Gawain are characters in tales of Arthur
答案:错误
1. My Heart?s in the Highlands is one of the best known poems written by Byron in which he poured his unshakable love for his homeland.
答案:错误
1. oscar wilde is the representative among the writers of aestheticism ａnd critical realism.
答案:错误
1. Britain had been a Roman province since 410 A.D
答案:错误
1. The greatest English playwright of the eighteenth century was Goldsmith, whose best play is The School
答案:错误
Mrs. Warren?s Profession is one of Bernard Shaw?s novels.
答案:错误
26．第7题
John Bunyan is the most excellent representative of English classicism in the Restoration period. 答案:错误
1. chronologically, jane austen’s career belongs to the renaissance period. she was a contemporary of wordsworth ａnd coleridge.
答案:错误
1.？？？？？The Man of Property was a landmark in the development of Thackeray’s art. The novel established his place in literature as representative of bourgeois realism in the twentieth English novel.
答案:错误
1. all the best poems in latin, french ａnd italian were well known to chaucer.
答案:正确
1. jane austen is one of the naturalist novelists. she drew vivid ａnd realistic pictures of everyday life of the country life in her novels.
答案:错误
1. paradise lost took its material ｆrom greek mythology.
答案:错误
1. james joyce has an almost life-long exile ｆrom his native ireland, but no writer has been more soaked in dublin.
答案:正确
1. Blake is the greatest poet Scotland has ever produced.
答案:错误
1. virginia woolf ａnd james joyce belonged to the bloomsbury group, a small elite literary circle. 答案:错误
1. the chief representatives of moderate enlighteners are swift, fielding, smollet ａnd gray.
答案:错误
1. The greatest Chartist poet was Alfred Tennyson.
答案:错误
1. Satan is the hero in Milton’s masterpiece Prometheus Unbound.
答案:错误
1. bacon’s works fall in to three classes, the religious, the philosophical, ａnd the literary.
答案:错误
填空题
6. In the year of 1066, the Normans headed by ___ defeated the Anglo-Saxons.
答案:William
__ gave a vivid and satirical description of Vanity Fair which is the symbol of London at the time of restoration.
答案:John Bunyan
牋Of all the romantic poets of the eighteenth century, ___ is the most independent and the most original.
答案:William Blake
？The title of the novel Vanity Fair is suggestive of the namesake chapter in John Bunyan?s ____, where all sorts of vanities are on sale.
答案:Pilgrim?s Progress
？？？The central heroes of Water Scott?s novels are young men of valor, usually of ____ birth.答案:noble
The second part of Tess of the D?Urbervilles has a title ____ to su ggest that What hardy of his heroine, who is seduced, abandoned and finally driven to murder for which she is hanged.
答案:A pure Woman
Hardy?s first masterpiece was _________, a story of fortitude and of suffering brought about by the capriciousness of a country girl.
答案:Far from the Madding Crowd
牋In the Anglo-Norman period, English literature is a combination of ___ and Sxon elements.
答案:French
___ is Oliver Goldsmith?s comedy.
答案:She Stoops to Conquer
？？“ In every cry of every man,/in every infant?s cry of fear.” This line is from the poem
entitled_____.
答案:London
Tales from Shakespeare was _______?s first successful literary adventure.
答案:Charles Lamb
牋The English Romanticism did not begin with the publication of a collection of poems called ____________.
答案:Lyrical Ballads
Great Expectations is told in the first person by _________, a young man who learns through adversity to discard his own superficial snobbishness.
答案:Pip
In 1896, Thomas Hardy announced that ________ was his last novel and then turned to writing of vigorously intellectual and experimental lyrical poetry.
答案:Jude and Obscure
48．第44题
牋The revolution period produced one of the most important poets in English literature, whose name is ____.
答案:. John Milton
_______ is R. B. Sheridan?s masterpiece which has been known as a great comedy of manners.
答案:School for Scandal
？Among the Arthurian romances, Sir ___ and the Green Knight was the best known one.
答案:Gawain
牋？Charles Dickens was very prolific, and his first true novel should be ____.
答案:Oliver Twist
____ was born of English parents in Dublin, speaking on behalf of the poor Irish people in his pamphlets
答案:Jonathan Swift
？________, the greatest of Scottish poets, was born in a peasant’s clay-built cottage.
答案:Robert Burns
？？The years between 1832 and the early fifty’s saw an important series of events known as the _____ movement.
答案:Chartist
___ is the founder of the “Stream of Consciousness”school of writing.
答案:James Joyce
？Mary Ann Evans was the pseudonym of ______.
答案:George Eliot
Mr. ___ is a character in pride and Prejudice, who is sarcastic, reserved, and so capricious that his wife has difficulty understanding him though they have been married for twenty-three years.
答案:Bennet
In his short stories, poems and novels, _____ the bard of imperialism, glorified the colonial expansion of Great Britain.
答案:R. Kipling
？？？？England’s national ______ is The Song of Beowulf.
答案:epic
38．第33题
牋Ballads are anonymous ____ songs that have been preserved by oral tradition.
答案:narrative
40．第35题
？Water Scott was made famous for his novel_______, published in 1814.
答案:Waverley
.___ was much concerned about the crying contradictions of bourgeois civilization and made protests against imperialism and fascism, but he believed in the possibilities of improving the conditions with a system a technocracy. ‘The Time Machine”is one of his novels.
答案:H.G. Wells
_________, the first novel of the Forsyte Saga, was the highest point of social criticism ever attained by Galsworthy.
答案:The Man of Property
The ___Bill of 1832 shifted the center of political power to the middle class, which was a historical event of great significance.
答案:Reform
_______ is Dickens’s novel dealing with the tumult of the French Revolution.
答案:A Tale of Two Cities
The Song of Beowulf is essentially ______in spirit and matter.
答案:pagan
牋牋A unique figure in the early seventeenth century who took the lead in writing metaphysical
poems was ________.
答案:John Donne
？The Revolution Period is also called ___, because the English Revolution was carried out under a religious cloak.
答案:The Puritan Age
？？？The Tatler and ____ were Stele and Addison’s chief contribution to English literature. 答案:Spectator
“Sunset and evening star, / And one clear call to me!”This is from ___ written by Alfred Tennyson to present his placid attitude towards death.
答案:Crossing the Bar
？？_________ is the allegorical protagonist character in The pilgrim’s Progress.
答案:. Christian
牋England was named after the Teutonic tribes of ___, Saxons, and Jutes who came from the continent and settled in the island after the fall of Roman Empire.
答案:Angles
“Should auld acquaintance be forgot,/ And never brought to min’?”This famous line is from the ballad entitled ___________.
答案:. Auld Lang Syne 7
____, who lived in the latter half of the 7th century, wrote the poetic Paraphrase of the Bible.
答案:Caedmon
_________’s death marked the end of the English Romanticism.
答案:Water Scott
牋？Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliff are writers who launched ___ novels in the latter half of the 18th century.
答案:Gothic
_________’s death marked the end of the English Romanticism.
答案:Water Scott
An advocate of “art for art’s sake,”_____ became the acknowledged poet of the English decadence.
答案:Oscar Wilde
____, who lived in the latter half of the 7th century, wrote the poetic Paraphrase of the Bible.
答案:Caedmon
牋？Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliff are writers who launched ___ novels in the latter half of the 18th century.
答案:Gothic
“Should auld acquaintance be forgot,/ And never brought to min’?”This famous line is from the ballad entitled ___________.
答案:. Auld Lang Syne 7
3．第3题
________ is not a character in the novel Ivanhoe.
A.Rowena
B.Rebecca
C.Guilbert
D.Joseph Addison
您的答案：D
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此题得分：2.0
4．第4题
The sentence "three or four families in a country village are the very thing to work on" can best reflect the writer' s personal knowledge and range of writing. This writer is _________.
A.Walter .Scott
B.Thomas Hardy
C.Jane Eyre
D.Jane Austen
您的答案：D
题目分数：2
此题得分：2.0
5．第5题
The Victorian Age ________.
A.closed at the end of the Punic War in 1902.
B.witnessed the confirmation of the Reform Bill in 1832.
C.saw the surge of the Chartist movement.
D.watched the rise and fall of critical realism.
您的答案：C
题目分数：2
此题得分：2.0
6．第6题
Many critics called ________the greatest of Victorian novels.
A.Bleak house
B.Middle March
C.Great Expectations
D.Adam Bede
您的答案：B
题目分数：2
此题得分：2.0
7．第7题
____ is an earnest attack on the vulgarity and materialism of the rising middle class industrialists.
A.Hard Times
B.Little Dorrit
C.Bleak House
D.Oliver Twist
您的答案：A
题目分数：2
此题得分：2.0
8．第8题
Much of Charles Dickens‘s youth is infused into his novel____, making it highly autobiographical.
A.Great Expectations
B.David Copperfield
C.Shirley
D.Oliver Twist
您的答案：B
题目分数：2
此题得分：2.0
9．第9题
______ tells of the love, estrangement and eventual reconciliation of the daughter and son of a country miller.
A.Silas Marner
B.Middle March
C.The Mill on the Floss
D.Adam Bede
您的答案：C
题目分数：2
此题得分：2.0
10．第10题
Among the following writers, ______ was known for his/her psychological insight into the development of character and falir for country scenes and speech.
A.Emily Bronte
B.Charlotte Bronte
C.. Dickens
D.George Eliot
您的答案：D
题目分数：2
此题得分：2.0
11．第11题
In Thomas Hardy's works, the conflict between the old and the modern is very pervasive. His attitude toward those, traditional characters is__.
A.contemptuous
B.sympathetic
C.indifferent
D.exotic
您的答案：B
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此题得分：2.0
12．第12题
The greatest among the peots living in the second half of the 19th century in England was ______.
A.Robert Browning
B.Alfred Tennyson
C.Swinburne
D.Rossetti
您的答案：A
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此题得分：2.0
13．第17题
In the late nineteenth century, modernism flourished in English literature. Unlike modern poets and novelists, modem dramatists____
A.a. showed an optimistic emotion toward life
B.did not make innovations in techniques and forms at all.
C.inherited fully the romantic spirit of the early 19th century.
D.borrowed a lot from the irrational philosophy and psychoanalysis.
您的答案：B