英语文学知识测试题(有答案)

英语文学知识

第一章英国文学

第一阶段中古英国文学( 8 世纪~14 世纪)

Old and Medieval English Literature

*Geoffrey Chaucer(杰弗里.乔叟)(1340~1400)

He is considered the father of modern English poetry because he opened a brilliant page in English literature and had a profound influence on many important English poets. It is him alone who, for the first 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.

II 真题详解

1. The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims

on their way to Canterbury, is an important poetic work by __B .(2005) A. William Langland B. Geoffrey Chaucer

C. William Shakespeare

D. Alfred Tennyson

III 练习题

1. Which of the following does not belong to the works of Geoffrey

Chaucer ?B

A. The Canterbury Tales

B. The Vision of Piers Plowman

C .Troilus and Criseyde D. The Romaunt of the Rose

2. _______ ___D brings the readers into a world that belongs to the Celtic legend of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table.

A. The Vision of Piers Plowman

B. The house of Fame

C. The Romaunt of the Rose

D. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

3. Which of the following is the translation work of Geoffrey Chaucer?

__C___

A. The Canterbury Tales

B. Troilus and Criseyde

C. The Romaunt of the Rose

D. The house of Fame

4.In the 14th century , the most important writer in England is ___D___.

A. Langland

B. Wyclif

C. Gower

D. Chaucer

5.In Anglo-Saxon period, Beowulf represented the ___A___ poetry .

A .pagan B. religious C .romantic D .sentimental

6. ____ When we speak of the old English prose, we might think of __D __ , who is the first scholar in English literature and has

been regarded as father of English learning.

A. William Shakespeare

B. Beowulf

C. Julius Caesar

D. Venerable Bede

7. ______ __A is not only a prose writer but also a king of Wessex .

A. Alfred the Great

B. Venerable Bede

C. Adam Bede

D. King Arthur

8. ______ ___A i s the culmination of the Arthurian romance.

A .Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

B. The Story of Beowulf

C. The Vision of Piers Plowman

D. The Canterbury Tales

9. William Langland 's __B _____ is written in the form of a dream vision.

B. The Vision of Piers Plowman D. Morte d 'Arthur Medieval English literature is the

C. Romance

D. Science 11.In which century was Geoffrey Chaucer 's The Canterbury Tales written? A

A. Fourteenth

B. Fifteenth

C. Sixteenth D .Seventeenth

12. ___________________________ William Langland wrote for __D __________________________ .

A. the royal family

B. the court C .the monks D .the common people

13. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight focuses on ___C___.

A. immediate social issues

B. the real life as well as people 's feelings and desires

C .a remote world belongs to the Celtic Legend of King Arthur and his knights

A .Kublai Khan

C. The Dream of John Bull

10.The prevailing form of

_C ___ .

A .French B. Latin