1. In the medieval period，it is Chaucer alone who，for the first time in English literature ， presented to usa comprehensive ___________ picture of the English society of his time and created a whole galery of vivid ___________ from all walks of life in his masterpiece “the Canterbury Tales ”。
A. visionary / women B. romantic /men C. realistic / characters D. natural / figures
2. Humanism spmg from the endeavor to restore a medieval reverence for the antique authors and is frequently taken as the beginning of the Renaissance on its conscious，intellectual side ，for the Greek and Roman civilization was based on the conception that man is the __________ of all things .
A. measure B. king C. lover D. rule
3. Many people today tend to regard the play “ The Merchant of Venice ” as a satire of the hypocrisy of __________ and their false standards of friendship and love ， their cunning ways of pursuing worldliness and their unreasoning prejudice against _________ .
A. Christians / Jews B. Jews / Christian C. oppressors / oppressed D. people / Jews
4. In “ Sonnet 18 ”，Shakespeare has a profound meditation on the destructive power of _________ and the eternal __________ brought forth by poetry to the one he loves . A. death/ life B. death/ love C. time / beauty D. hate / love
5. In the 18th century English literature ， the representative writer of neo-classicism is __________ . A. Pope B. Swift C. Defoe D. Milton
6. The ______ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century .
A. Renaissance B. Enlightenmrent C. Religious Reformation D. Chartist Movement
7. Blake，Wordsworth ， ___________ ， Byron，Shelley and __________ are the major Romantic poets
A. Coleridage / Southey B. Coleridge / Keats C. Keats / Scott D. Scott / Coleridge
8. Best of all the well -known lyric pieces written by P.B. Shelley is the poet “________” ， for here his rhapsodic and declamatory tendencies find a subject perfectly suited to him .
A. To a skylark B. The Cloud C. Ode to the West Wind D. Men of England
9.In his early novels，Charles Dickens attacks one or more specific social evils in each ：for example，the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark ， criminal underworld life in “______________” . A.The pickwich Paper B.David Copperfield C.Oliver Twist D.A Tale of Two Cities
10. The title of the novel “ Vanity Fair ” was taken from Bunyan's masterpiece __________. A. The pilgrim's Progres B. Gulliver's Travels C. Hard Times D. Wuthering Heights
11. G.B. Shaw's plays have plots ，but they do not work by plots . It is the vitality of the __________ that takes primacy over mere story .
A. characterization B. Depiction C. talk D. metaphor
12. The title of the novel “ A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ” written by James Joyce suggests a character study with strong _________ elements .
A. autobiographical B. sentimental C. joyful D. bitter
13. A typical Forsyte，according to John Galsworthy ， is a man with a strong sense of __________ ，who never pays any attention to human feelings .
A. property B. justice C. morality D. humor
14. According to D.H. Lawrence，the __________ is most resposible for the alienation of the human relationships and the perversion of human personality .
A. pride of the aristocratic class B. vanity of the middle class
C. man's desire for power and money D. capitalist mechanical civilization
15. G.B. Shaw's play，Mrs . Warren's frofession is a grotesquely realistic exposure of the _______________.
A. slum landlordism B. political corruption in England
C. economic oppression of women D. religious corruption in England
16.In Shaw 's play，Mrs Warren's Profession ， Mrs. Warren once said ：“ If there is a thing I hate in a woman ，it's want of character. ” The
word “want ” here means __________. A.desire B. lack C.possession D. need
17. According to the ideas discussed in Chapter 13 of The Man of Property ， the tense relationship between Soames ， the husband ，and Irene ， the wife ， is caused by __________.
A.Irene's free-minded way of thinking B.Irene's love for Bosinney
C. Soames's love for Irene D. Soames's strong desire to possess Irene
18. Thematically Yeats's poem，“ The Lake Isle of Innisfree ”，__________________.
A. celebrates the rich and colorful life of the modern people
B.criticizes the emptiness of the hermit's life in the remote country .
C. laments the loss of the Irish legendary tradition
D. laments the emptiness of the urban life and advocates a return to the simple and serene life of nature documentary precision are main features of his writing .
19. Eliot's poem0，The Waste Land，is mainly concerned with the _________ of a modern civilization . A. social corruption B. spiritual breakup
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