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大学外国语学院英语系期末考试
《英国文学简史》试卷A卷
_______ 级 ________ 专业 _____ 班学号 ____________ 姓名 ____________ 题号 I II 得分 You are required to write down all your answers on the sheet. m IV V 总分 I ? Multiple choices (50 points, 1 point each)
1. The most important work of Alfred the Great is ________________ , which is
regarded as the best monument of the old English prose. A. The Song of Beowulf B. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles C. Brut D. History of the King of Britain
2. William Lang land\“ ____________ ” is written in the form of a dream vision. A. Kubla Kan B. Piers the Plowman C. The Dream of John Bull D. Morte d，Arthur
3. In 1066, ________ led the Norman army to invade and defeat England.
A. Julius Caesar B? Alexander the Great
C.Wi llieun the Conqueror 4.
was the first to
Westminster Abbey.
D? Claudius
be buried in the Poet， s Corner of
Termyson D. Chaucer A. Keats B. Southey C. 5. composed a long narrative poem named “
on Boccaccio\Filostrato\? A? Shakespeare, Troilus and Criseyde B. Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde C. Chaucer, The House of Fame D. Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose
6. In the fol lowing, which word is not Erench origin?
A. pork B. mutton
C. veal
D. swine
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7. The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of
English drama. It was ___________ who first made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama.
A. Robert Greene C? Christopher Marl owe English Renaissance Period A. prose and novel C. essays and journal
B. Edmund Spenser
9. Great popularity was won by which D? William Shakespeare
? gave rise to the term style of was an age of _________ court speech? A. Cymbeline
C. The Rape of Lucrece
B. poetry and drama D. ballads and songs John Lyly\
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B. Venus and Adonis
D. Euhpues 10? Which one is not the resource of medieval romance? A. advcntures of King Arthur and his Knights of Round Table B? Emperor Chariemagne and his peers C. Alexander the Great and matters of Rome D. The Rising of 1381
11? \is the sermon
of ____________________________ . A. Wat Tyler C. Langland
B. John Ball D? Thomas Malory
12. Which statement about More? s \■” is NOT true?
A? Book One of \
exposure of the poverty among the laboring classes, the greed and luxury among the rich, and an eagerness for war on the part of the rulers B. In Book Two we have a sketch of an ideal commonwea 1th in some unknown ocean,
where prosperity is held in common and there is no poverty?
C. \ s masterpiece, written in the form of a conversation
between More and Ilythloday, a returned voyager.
D. As a great thinker, More had pointed out that the root of poverty
is the private ownership of the social wealth, so he wished to arouse the people to start a revolutionary movement against the ruling classes, which cost his life.
13? Chaucer is the first great poet who wrote in the English lsnguage, and one
of his great contributions is the introduction of the rhymed stanza from France, especially the rhymed couplet of 5 acce nts in iambic meter ，in stead of the old Anglo-Saxon
A. alliterative verse, heroic couplet; B. heroic couplet, sonnels;
C. heroic couplet, alliterative verse; D. alexandrine verse, ballads.
14. Among various English versions of Bible, which one is the best?
A. John Wycliffe' s Bible; B. Wil 1iam Tynda 1' s Bible; C. The King James Bible; D. Miles Coverdales Bible.
15. Among the so-called university wits” , it is __________________ that
A. Peele B. Marlowe, C? Nash D. Greene
satirized William Shakespeare as “an upstart crow” .
that says of Hamlet,
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16. It is
\ The expectancy and rose of the fair state,
The glass of fashion, and the mould of form…\(IIL 1?)
A. Ophelia
B? Polonius C? Claudius D? Gertrude
are cal led
17. \and
the four great tragedies. A. \ C. “Julius Caesar
important and we 11-know was laureate in 1616. A. John Dryden C. Ben Jonson
the horror of death, because A. he experience a ship wreck B. he is tortured with starvation C. he undergoes much suffering D? he kills an albatross 20.
is the central concern to Blake\
of Innocence . A. Woman C. Happiness
B. Poetrv D. Childhood
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B. aAntony and Cleopatra” D. \
, who became the first poet
B. Samuel Johnson D? Robert Southey
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18. Of many con temporaries and successors of Shakespeare, the most
19? In Coleridge\s “Tho Rime of the Ancient Mar in er” , the mar iner suffers
21. “All is not lost: the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal
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