I.Multiple choice:(15×1=15%)
(In this part,there are 15 sentences;in each of them,there are four choices marked by A.B.C. and D.Choose the ONE answer that is the most suitable to the sentence and put the letter in the bracket.) ( )1.The greatest poet of the Middle English period is ______,the father of English poetry. A.Geoffrey Chaucer B.John Lyly C.William Langland D.John Milton
( )2.Portia,the heroine in \of rising to an emergency.
A.\ B.\ C.\ D.\
( )3.\notable\
A.Thomas Hardy B.James Joyce C.Joseph Conrad D.T.S.Eliot
( )4.\______monologue.
A.private B.personal C.dramatic D.poetic
( )5.______develops around the life of a middle-class Irish boy,Stephen Dedalus,from his infancy to his departure from Ireland some twenty years later.
A.\ B.\ C.\ D.\
( )6.In \agitators and tried.
A.Vanity Fair B.Doubting Castle C.Celestial City D.hell
( )7.John Milton's \eight-line stanza) and a sestet(a six-line stanza)
A.English B.Italian C.Russian D.Chinese
( )8.In \ A.Tom B.Blifil C.Mr.Allworthy D.Sophia
( )9.The heroine Tess in \______,as Hardy says at the end of the novel:\sport with Tess.\
A.Angel Clare B.Alec C.Fate D.Jude
( )10.Which of the following novels by D.H.Lawrence shows the influence of Freud's theory of psychoanalysis,especially that of the \
A.\ B.\ C.\ D.\Lover\
( )11.\ A.John Keats B.William Wordsworth C.Percy Bysshe Shelley D.William Blake
( )12.Jonathan Swift's\epiction of the vices of his age. A.religious B.romantic C.satirical D.comic
( )13.John keats' famous poem______expresses the contrast between the happy world of natural loveliness and human world of agony.
A.\ B.\ C.\ D.\
( )14.The story of \ A.in a series of letters B.in the third-person narration C.by Tom Jones D.in the form of diary
( )15.\Shakespeare.
A.tragedy B.prose C.comedy D.fable
II Fill in the following blanks:(10×1=10%)
1.John Milton wrote \2.Walter Scott has been universally regarded as the founder and great master of the ______ novel. 3.Though ______ is not the first English novelist,he has generally been considered as \novel\
4.Richard Brinsley Sheridan is the only important English_______of the eighteenth century,In his plays,morality
is the constant theme.
5.The_______couplet is a pair of rhymed iambic pentameter lines,a verse form first used by the 14th-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
6.Oscar Wilde,who advocated the idea of \century.
7.\
8.In England,the literary technique of \and _______.
9.In his novels,Arnold Bennett depicts life and society with a strong_______tendency influenced by the French writer Zola and Guy de Maupassant.
10.Charles Dickens and William Thackeray were the two great representatives of the English critical realism in the _______century.
III.Find the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A.(10×1=10%)
A Writers
( )1.Oscar Wilde ( )2.John Osborne ( )3.Kingsley Amis ( )4.Katherine Mansfield ( )5.William Somerset
a.Lucky Jim
B Works
b.Life of Ma Parker c.A passage to India d.An Ideal Husband
e.Of Human Bondage
Maugham
( )6.Edward Morgan Forster ( )7.John Galsworthy ( )8.Jane Austen ( )9.William Blake ( )10.Graham Greene
f.Look Back in Anger g.The Heart of the Matter h.The Forsyte Saga i.Pride and prejudice j.The Tyger
IV.Read the following quotations and then answer the questions.(30%) 1.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.
In every cry of every Man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice,in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.
How the Chimney-sweeper's cry Every black'ing Church appalls; And the hapless Soldier's sign Runs in blood down Palace walls.
But most thro'midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlot's curse Blasts the new born Infant's tear,
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.
1)Who is the author of this poem and what is its title?(2×2=4%)
2)Explain the following phrases coined by the author.(3×2=6%) a.chartered;
b.the mind forged manacles;
c.the marriage hearse.
3)What does the poem gain by repeating \
2.Let us go then,you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go,through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells; Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question……
1)This stanza is selected from a very famous English poem.What is its title and author?(2×2=4%)
2)It is said that the \3=6%)
3)The basic emotions of this stanza are fear and malice.Can you point out the suggest these emotions?(5%)
V.Give brief answers to the following questions;(20%) 1.What are the distinct features of Charles Dickens' novels?(12%)
2.What are the major themes of Lawrence's \
VI.Short essay:(1×15=15%)
(In this part you are asked to write a short essay.You should concentrate on those important points and demonstrate your ideas with brief,apt episodes or quotations from the novel.Try your best to be logical in your essay.)
Give a brief analysis to Jane Eyre,the main character in Charlotte Brontě's \
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