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D. Spenserian stanza, Ottava rima, Shelley
37. We can find a counterpart of China’s “Tale of White Serpent”
in English literature, ________ written by ________. A. Lamia, Keats B. Christabel, Coleridge B. Lamia, Coleridge D. Christabel, Keats
38. Albatross in English culture is an inauspicious symbol, which
originates from __________, the work of _________. A. Kubla Khan, Coleridge
B. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge C. Christabel, Coleridge D. The Preclude, Wordsworth
39. “ O my Luve is like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June; O my Luve's like the melodie That's sweetly play'd in tune.”
The song above is from ________ by _______. A. “A Red, Red Rose”, William Blake B. “A Red, Red Rose”, Robert Burns C. “A Red, Red Rose”, Thomas Gray D. “A Red, Red Rose”, William Cowper
40. Elia is the pseudonym of a famous essayist, _________, who
published “The Essay of Elia” in 1823. A. Hazlitt B. Leigh Hunt C. De Quincey D. Charles Lamb
41. __________ is the major theme from the early seventeenth century
to the end of the eighteenth century in the history of American literature.
A. The Romanticism B. The Puritanism C. The Transcendentalism D. The Sentimentalism
42. The first important writer in American literature, ________ ,
who wrote the fascinating The Sketch Book with both two of his most famous stories, “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” is regarded as “father of American literature\A. Jonathan Edward B. Benjamin Franklin C. Washington Irving D. Fenimore Cooper
43. ________ and ________ were the two major American poets of the
nineteenth century.
A. Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson
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B. Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor C. Roger Williams, Thomas Paine
D. Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson
44. _________ brought the Romantic Period of American literature to
an end.
A. The Independent War B. The Civil War
C. New England Renaissance D. The First World War 45. In the opinion of Ernest Hemingway, ________ of ________， begot
modern American literature.
A. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain B. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, O. Henry C. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain D. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, O. Henry 46. Fitzgerald’s __________ wrote about the frustration and despair
resulting from the failure of the American dream. A. The Side of Paradise B. Tales of the Jazz Age C. Tender Is the Night D. The Great Gatsby 47. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ________, the implication of the
capital letter “A” evolves from “adultery”, “adulteress” to “able” and “angel”. A. Mosses from Old Manse B. Twice Told Tales C. The Scarlet letter D. The House of the Seven Gables 48. In the following poets, which one is not among “New England
poets”？
A. William Cullen Bryant B. Ezra Pound
C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow D. Oliver Wendell Holmes 49. The Hemingway code heroes are best remembered for their ________. A. indestructible spirit B. pessimistic view of life C. war experience D. masculinity 50. When American president Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe,
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he joked, “So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war (the Civil War).” So what is the name of the book? A. The Waste Land B. Uncle Tom's Cabin C. The Bridge
D. Sister Carrie
Ⅱ. Some of the following statements are true, some are false, mark them with “A” for True, “B” for False. (10%)
51. The artistic features in “Beowulf” are the use of alliteration,
metaphors and understatement.
52. The Seven Deadly Sins described in “Piers the Plowman” are
Pride, Lechery, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, Avarice, and Glutton. 53. The most important department of English folk literature is the
ballad, a story told in song, usually in 4-line stanzas, with the second and the fourth lines rhymed. One of the most popular one is “The Robin Hood Ballads”.
54. Miracle plays, morality plays, the interlude and classical plays
were the forms of drama prevailing until the reign of Elizabeth. 55. Satan is the hero in Milton’s masterpiece “Samson Agonistes” 56. Blank verse is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter, which was
employed by some great English poets, such as William Shakespeare and John Milton.
57. Epic is a long narrative poem telling about the deeds of a great
hero and reflecting the values of the society from which it originated. 58. John Donn, the founder of the Metaphysical school of poetry, whose
works are characterized by mysticism in content and fantasticality in form, is also the representative of sentimentalism. 59. Blake is the greatest poet Scotland has ever produced. His “Poems
Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect” is of great significance in English literature.
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60. The greatest English playwright or the 18 century was Goldsmith,
whose best play is “The School for Scandal”.
Ⅲ. Define the literary terms below(10 points, 5 points each)
1. Romanticism
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2. Classicism
Ⅳ. Matching (10 points)
A. Othello
B. The Rape of the Lock C. The Canterbury Tales D. Lycidas
E. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 6. Alexander Pope F. The Faerie Queene 7. John Milton G. Captain Singleton 8. William Wordsworth H. The Prelude
9. George Gordon Byron I. A Modest Proposal 10.Jonathan Swift J. Don Juan
1. Geoffrey Chaucer 2. Henry Fielding 3. Shakespeare 4. Edmund Spencer 5. Daniel Defoe
Ⅴ. Answer the questions (20 points)
1. Read the following words, and then answer questions below. (10’)
（1）Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. …Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.（2） Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; …(3) Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact. …（4）Histories make men wise, poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. … If he be not able to beat over matters and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyer’s cases. So every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.
1). These words are taken from a famous essay written by ___________. (1’)
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2). What is the title of this essay? (1’)
3). Translate the underlined sentences into Chinese.(8’)
(1). ________________________________________________________(2’)
(2). ____________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________(2’)
(3). ____________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________(2’)
(4). ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________(2’) 2. Read the poem below, and answer questions. (3’)
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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of may, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime declines , By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimm’d.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st, Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st. So long as man can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
1). This is one of Shakespeare’s best known __________. (1’) A. sonnets B. ballads C. songs
2). It runs in iambic pentameter rhymed _______________________. (1’)
3). The fourteen lines includes three stanzas according to their content with the
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