[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷1
一、填空题
1 ______, a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded as the greatest national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.
2 Geoffrey Chaucer is the greatest writer of Middle Ages. His
masterpiece______presents, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and creates a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.
3 It was Chaucer who made______the foundation for modern English speech.
4 ______by William Langland is a poem that gives a picture of the life in feudal England. It is a protest against the then social injustice.
5 Beowulf tells of two major adventures in the life of the Geatish hero Beowulf: the first adventure takes place in his youth when he fights and kills a monster named______and his revengeful mother, a sea monster; the second adventure occurs after Beowulf has long been king of the Geats.
6 ______is a dominant form of the Medieval English literature.
7 Though The Canterbury Tales is often referred to as the first collection of short stories in English literature, these stories, unlike modern ones, are written in______rather than in prose.
8 One of Chaucer's most important contributions to English literature is his development of the resources of the English language for______purposes.
9 Knights of the Round Table are characters serving______in legends, which depict chivalry in early literature.
10 ______conquered England on October 14, 1066. From then on began the medieval period.
11 ______was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.
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12 Freedom was won as much by the fiery rhetoric of Thomas Paine's and the eloquence of the ______as by the weapons of Washington or Lafayette.
13 Freneau was______by training and taste yet romantic in essential spirit.
14 ______values were prominent in American politics, art and Philosophy until the Civil War.
15 Cooper's enduring fame rests on his frontier stories, especially the five novels that comprise the______.
16 In 1817, the stately poem called \appear in America up to that time.
17 The______,______ and______for which his poetry was popular during his lifetime were the very qualities that caused the reaction against it after Longfellow's death.
二、名词解释
18 Ballad
19 Epic
20 Romance
21 Alliteration
22 Humanism
23 Calvinism
24 Free verse
25 Symbol
26 American Romanticism
27 Transcendentalism
三、单项选择题
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28 Although______was essentially a medieval writer, he bore marks of humanism and anticipated a new era of literature to come.
（A）William Langland
（B）John Gower
（C）Geoffrey Chaucer
（D）Edmund Spenser
29 The statement that a man gained the whole world but lost his own soul makes a good summary of the main plot of______.
（A）Paradise Lost
（B）The Merchant of Venice
（C）Hamlet
（D）The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus
30 The essence of humanism is to______.
（A）restore a medieval reverence for the church
（B）avoid the circumstances of earthly life
（C）explore the next world in which men could live after death
（D）emphasize human qualities
31 The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely______.
（A）William Langland's Piers Plowman
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（B）Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
（C）John Gower's Confessio Amantis
（D）Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
32 The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe's The Tragic History of Dr. Faustus, is the very fact that______.
（A）man is confined to time
（B）he tried to join Africa to Spain
（C）he became a man without soul after he sold it
（D）he conjured up Helen, the lady who was the very cause of the Trojan War
33 In reading Shakespeare, you must have come across the line \is the question by______.
（A）Iago in Othello
（B）Lear in King Lear
（C）Shylock in The Merchant of Venice
（D）Hamlet in Hamlet
34 \epigrams found in______.
（A）Bacon's Of Studies
（B）Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress
（C）Fielding's Tom Jones
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（D）Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language
35 The sentence \Shakespeare's______.
（A）comedies
（B）tragedies
（C）sonnets
（D）histories
36 Romance, which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of______adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.
（A）Christian
（B）knightly
（C）Greek
（D）primitive
37 Which of the following historical events does NOT directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance Movement?
（A）The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.
（B）The new discoveries in geography and astrology.
（C）The Glorious Revolution.
（D）The religious reformation and the economic expansion.
38 Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 181
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