考试课程：英国文学史及选读 考核类型：A 卷 考试方式：闭卷 出卷教师: XXX 考试专业：英语 考试班级：英语xx班
choice (30 points, 1 point for each) select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.
，a typical example of old English poetry ,is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.
Canterbury Tales Ballad of Robin Hood Song of Beowulf Gawain and the Green Kinght
the most common foot in English poetry. anapest trochee iamb dactyl
Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is NOT such an event
rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture. ’s domestic rest
discovery in geography and astrology
religious reformation and the economic expansion
the most successful religious allegory in the English language.
Pilgrims Progress
Abounding to the Chief of Sinners Life and Death of Holy War
, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14 and mid-17 centuries, its essence
th
th
is _____.
6.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,/So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”(Shakespeare, Sonnets18)What does“this”refer to
. . . .
7.“O prince, O chief of my throned powers, /That led th’ embattled seraphim to war/Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds/Fearless, endangered Heaven’s perpetual king”In the third line of the above passage quoted from Milton’s Paradise Lost, the phrase“thy conduct”refers to _____conduct.
’s ’s ’s ’s
8. It is generally regarded that Keats’s most important and mature poems are in the form of ______.
9.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day”The sentence is the beginning of Shakespeare’s_______.
10. Daniel Defoe’s novels mainly focus on _____. struggle of the unfortunate for mere existence struggle of the shipwrecked persons for security
struggle of the pirates for wealth desire of the criminals for property
11. Francis Bacon is best known for his_____which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.
12. Most of Thomas Hardy’s novels are set in Wessex____. crude region in England fictional primitive region remote rural area ’s hometown
13. In terms of Pride and Prejudice, which is not true
and Prejudice is the most popular of Jane Austen’s novels. and Prejudice is originally drafted as “First Impressions”. and Prejudice is a tragic novel.
this novel, the author explores the relationship between great love and realistic benefits. 14. Chronologically the Victorian Period refers to _____
Neoclassical Period
15. In the following figures, who is Dickens’s first child hero . Twist. Sikes
16. “And where are they And where art thou,” My country On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now-
The heroic bosom beats no more! (George Gordon Byron, Don Juan) In the above stanza,“art thou”literally means_____.
A.“art you ” B.“are though” C.“art though” D.“are you ”
17. Of the following writers, which is not the representative of the Romantic period Blake. Bunyan. Auten. Keats.
18. In Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, what is the utmost concern of Blake Experience
19. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from____. Renaissance Old Testament Mythology New Testament 20. Jane Austen’s first novel is _____.
and Prejudice and Sensibility
of a Noel
21. Of the following poets, which is not regarded as “Lake Poets’” Taylor Coleridge. Southey. Wordsworth. Shakespeare.
Defoe describes____as a typical English middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.
Crusoe Flanders Jones
23. The lines“Death, be not proud, though some have calld thee/Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;”are found in ______.
Wordsworth’s writings Keats’ writings
Donne’s writings Bysshe Shelley’s writings
Pilgrim’s progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for_____.
salvation
wealth truth
so many poems such as “The Sparrow’s Nest,”“To a Skylark,”“To the Cuckoo”and “To a Butterfly”,William Wordsworth is regarded as a “______”.
of genius. poet. of nature. poet.
the first part of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver told this experience in ____.
of the following can not describe“Byronic hero” . . origin. .
poetic form which Browning attached to maturity and perfection is ____. monologue of symbol of ironic language of lyrics
term “metaphysical poetry”is commonly used to name the work of the 17-century writers who wrote under the influence of ____.
Milton Donne Keats Bunyan
30. Which of the following writings is not created by William Wordsworth
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Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways Solitary Reaper. Chimney Sweeper.
II. Find the relevant match from colunm B for each item in Colomn A (10 points in all. 1 point for each)
A B
英国文学史及选读 期末试题及答案
