苏州科技学院期末考试试题（卷）
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姓名： 学号： 题号 得分 得分 评分人 一 二 三 四 五 总分 总分人 I. In this section, there are 15 items. Write in the blanks the letter representing the correct answer from the four options given. 1%*15=15%
1. John Bunyan’s style was modeled after that of ____________. a. Chaucer b. English Bible c. Church service d. French poetry
2. ___________ is the most successful religious allegory in the English language. a. The Pilgrim’s Progress b. The Holy War c. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman d. The Vanity Fair
3. Daniel Defoe had a gift for organizing _______ in such a vivid way that his stories could be both credible and fascinating.
a. minute details b. beautiful words c. imaginations d. exciting event 4. Jonathan Swift’s satire is usually masked by _______, so it becomes even more bitter. a. a smile b. an outward gravity c. kindness d. praise
5. Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “Father of the English _____________.” a. poetry b. novel c. drama d. fiction
6. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife” is the first sentence in the novel _______________. a. Gulliver’s Travels b. Wuthering Heights c. Jane Eyre d. Pride and Prejudice
7. William Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about nature and poems about _________________.
a. love b. human life c. freedom d. social activities 8. Don Juan is Byron’s masterpiece, a great ________ of the early 19th century. a. comedy b. tragedy c. comic epic d. novel 9. The name of the heroine in the play The Merchant of Venice is ______________. a. Emily b. Catherine c. Portia d. Helen 10. John Donne is the leading figure of the English _________________.
a. romantic poets b. realistic poets c. metaphysical poets d. impressionist poets
11. Paradise Lost is regarded as the greatest and the only generally acknowledged _________ in English literature since Beowulf.
a. epic b. elegy c. eulogy d. lyric 12. In Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe glorifies _______________. a. adventures on the sea b. human labor c. English sailors d. universal love
13. Thomas Gray’s poems as a whole are mostly devoted to a sentimental ____________. a. meditation on life b. exposure of the evils c. comments on the society d. revelation of the darkness 14. William Blake writes his poems in _____________ language. a. rich and colorful b. plain and direct c. formal and serious d. elegant and graceful
15. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s _______________.
a. songs b. plays c. comedies d. sonnets 得分 评分人 II. Define the following terms. 5%*3=15% 1. sonnet
2. Byronic hero
3. heroic couplet 得分 评分人 III. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret the italicized parts. If no part is italicized in a quotation, you are required to interpret the whole
quotation. There are altogether 6 items in this part. You are required to choose any 5 of them to answer. If you have done all the 6 items, only the first 5 will be assessed. 6%*5=30%
1. …What though the field be lost?
All is not lost: the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: …
2.
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his wary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. 3.
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. 4.
Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is,
What if my leaves are falling like its own! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies
Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness.
5. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them, for they
teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
6. She wore her cloak with dignity and charm,
And had her rosary about her arm,
The small beads coral and the larger green, And from them hung a brooch of golden sheen, On it a large A and a crown above;
Beneath, “All things are subject unto love.” 得分 评分人 IV. Read the following excerpts and answer the questions, or fill in the blanks or choose the correct answer(s) from the options given. 6%*5=30% 1.
The evening arrived; the boys took their places; the master in his cook’s uniform stationed himself at the copper; his pauper assistants ranged themselves behind him: the gruel was served out, and a long grace was said over the short commons. The gruel disappeared, and the boys whispered to each other and winked at Oliver, while his next neighbors nudged him. Child as he was, he was
desperate with hunger and reckless with misery. He rose from the table, and advancing, basin and spoon in hand, to the master, said, somewhat alarmed at his own temerity— “Please, Sir, I want some more.” Questions:
(1). From which literary work is this excerpt taken? Who wrote it? (2). What does “the short commons” mean? (3). What is the theme of this novel?
2.
To be, or not to be—that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep— No more—and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, ‘Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. Th die, to sleep—
To sleep—perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There’s the respect That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th’unworthly-takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ill we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action.
Questions:
(1). These lines are taken from a famous play named ______________________________.
(2). The author of the play is _____________________________.
(3). In the play these lines are uttered by _____________________________. (4). About the utterer, what does this speech show? 3.
I wander thro’ each charter’d street,
Near where the charter’d Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. Questions:
(1). What is the title of the poem?
(2). This poem is taken form _______________________. a. The Songs of Experience b. The Songs of Innocence c. The Song of the Shirt
(3). This poem is written in quatrains of iambic ____________________________ with alternate rimes.
a. pentameter b. tetrameter c. dimeter
(4). Who is the writer of this poem? (5). What does this poem describe? 4.
Behold her, single in the field, You solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass!
Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; O listen! For the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound.
No nightingale did ever chant
More welcome notes to weary bands Of travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands;
A voice so thrilling ne’er was heard In springtime from the Cuckoo bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. Questions:
(1). This is the first two stanzas of a poem entitled __________________________________. (2). Who wrote this poem?
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