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英国文学史及选读 Chapter1
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The Anglo-Saxon Period
I. Fill in the blanks.
1.After the fall of the Roman Empire and athe withdrawl of Roman troops from Albion， the aboriginal __ population of the larger part of the island was soon conquerered and almost totally exterminated by the Teutonic tribes of ____， _____ ， and _____ who came from the continent and settled in the island， naming its central part a， or England.
2.For nearly ______ years prior to the coming of the English， British had been a Roman province. In _____， the Rome withdrew their legions from Britain to protect herself against swarms of Teutonic invaders.
3.The literature of early period falls naturally into teo divisions， and ____. The former represents the poetry which ____the Anglso-Saxons probably brought with them in the form of _____ ， the crude material out of which literature was slowly developed on English soil； the later represents the writings developed under the teaching of ______ .
4._____can be justly termed England’s national epic and its hero _____---one of the national heros of the English people.
5.The Song of Beowulf reflects events which took place on the ______ approximately at the beginning of the_____century， when the forefathers of the Jutes lived in the southern part of the _____ and maintained close relations with kindred tribes， e.g. with the ______ who lived on the other side of the straits.
6.Among the early Anglo-Saxon poets we may mention______ who lived in the latter half of the ______ century and who wrote a poetic Paraphase of the Blible.
7.____ is the first known religious poets of England. He is known as the father of English song.
8.The didactic poem “The Christ” was produced by ________. II. Choose the best answer for each blank.
9.The most important work of _______ is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles， which is regarded as the best monument of the old English prose.
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a. Alfred the Great b. Caedmon c. Cynewulf d. Venerable Bede
2. Who is the monster half-huamn who had mingled thirty warriors in The Song of Beowulf？ a. Hrothgat. b. Heorot. c. Grendel. d. Beowulf.
3. _____ is the first important religious poet in English Literature. a. Cynewulf b. Caedmon c. Shakepeare. d. Adam Bede
4. The epic， The Song of Beowulf， represents the spirit of ______. a. monks b. romanticists c. sentimentalist d. pagan
III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets.
1. （ ） The author of The Song of Beowulf is Cynewulf. 2. （ ） The setting of The Song of Beowulf is in Scotland. 3. （ ） Alfred the Great compiles The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles.
4. （ ） Venerable Bede wrote The Ecclesiastical History of the English People. 5. （ ） The author of Paraphase is Caedmon. IV. Define the liretary terms listed below. Alliteration Epic.
V. Answer the following questions. 1.What do you know about the Teutors.
2.Please give a brief description of The Song of Boewulf.
英国文学史及选读 Chapter2
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The Anglo-Norman Period
I. Fill in the following blanks.
1.In the year___， at the battle of ___， the ____ headed by William， Duke of Normandy， defeated the Anglo-Saxons.
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2.The literature which Normans brought to England is remarkable for its bright， ____ tales of _______ and _______， in marked contrast with the ___ and ______ of Anglo-Saxon poetry. 3.English literature is also a combination of ____and _____ elements. 4.In the 14 century， the two most important writers are ___ and Chaucer.
5.In the 15 century， there is only one important prose writer whose name is _____. He wrote an important work called Morte d’ Arthur.
II. Define the leterature terms listed below. 1.Canto 2.legend
3.Arthurian Legend.
III. Read the excerpt of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight carefully， and then make a brief comment on it.
IV. Answer the following questions.
1.What is the consequence of the Norman Conquest？ 2.Make a brief survey of the middle English literature.
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英国文学史及选读 Chapter3
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Geoffrey Chaucer
I. Fill in the following blanks.
1.Chaucer’s masterpiece is _____， one of the most famous works in all literature. 2.Chaucer created in The Canterbury Tales a strikingly brilliant and picturesque panorama of _______.
3.There are various kinds of ballads _______， ______， ______， _____， and ______. 4.Bishop ____ was among the first to take a literary interest in ballads.
5.The name of the “jolly innkeeper” in The Canterbury Tales is ______， who proposes that each pilgrim of the ____ should tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and two more on the way back.
6.In contradistinction to the ______ verse of Anglo-Saxon poetry， Chaucer chose the metrical form which laid the foundation of the English _____ verse.
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