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1. Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, and Charlotte Bronte are famous novelists in the _____ period of English Literature, which also produced a host of great prose writers and poets such as _____, _____, _____ and _____. (name two of each) 【答案】Victorian; Charlotte Bront?; Emily Bront?; Alfred Tennyson; Robert Browning 【解析】狄更斯是维多利亚时期伟大的现实主义小说家；同时期著名的小说家还有夏洛蒂·勃朗特（Charlotte Bront?）和艾米莉·勃朗特（Emily Bront?）；19世纪后半叶出现了一批杰出的诗人，包括阿尔弗雷德·丁尼生（Alfred Tennyson），罗伯特·勃朗宁（Robert Browning）等。
2. The typical feature of Robert Browning’s poetry is the _____. 【答案】dramatic monologue
【解析】勃朗宁对英国诗歌的最大贡献，是发展和完善了戏剧独白诗这样一种独特的诗歌形式，并且用它鲜明而生动地塑造了各种不同类型的人物性格，深刻而复杂地展示了人的内在心理。
3. Among the most impressive achievements of Victorian literature is the
large-scale social-anatomy novel. George Eliot’s ________ (1871—1872) is a distinguished instance in a group that includes Thackeray’s Vanity Fair, Dickens’ Bleak House, Mrs. Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters and Trollope’s The 1 / 102
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【答案】Middlemarch
圣才电子书 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 【解析】根据题目中的时间1871—1872可以确定，是艾略特在1872年出版的《米德尔马契》。
4. Realism had originated in_________, a literary doctrine that called for_________ in the depiction of ordinary life.
【答案】France, faithfulness and objectivity
【解析】现实主义起源于法国，它提倡客观地、冷静地观察现实生活，按照生活的本来样式精确细腻地加以描写，力求真实地再现典型环境中的典型人物。
5. “_____” is Browning’s best-known dramatic monologue. 【答案】My Last Duchess
【解析】罗伯特·勃朗宁（1812—1889）是英国诗人、剧作家，其主要成就在于他的诗歌新形式戏剧独白，《我已故的公爵夫人》是勃朗宁早期戏剧独白诗中最著名的一首。
6. George Eliot’s greatest achievement is “_____”. 【答案】Middlemarch
【解析】乔治·艾略特（1819—1880），原名玛丽·安·伊万斯，是英国十九世纪最有影响力的小说家之一，《米德尔马契》是她的代表性著作。
7. During the long reign of _____, England grew from an agricultural country into an
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【答案】Queen Victoria; novel.
【解析】维多利亚时代(Victorian era)，前接乔治时代，后启爱德华时代，被认为是英国工业革命和大英帝国的峰端。在维多利亚时期，英国的文学表现形式主要是小说。
8. Bronte sisters’ works are marked by a new conception of women as heroines of vital strength and passionate feelings. In Jane Eyre, it is Jane’s _____ that makes the book unique. The whole book is about Jane’s _____. Jane Eyre is the said to be the first English novel which represents the modern view of women’s position in society.
【答案】rebelliousness, her dislike for servility, and her insistence on equality; vital strength and passionate feelings.
【解析】《简·爱》是英国女作家夏洛蒂·勃朗特创作的长篇小说，是一部具有自传色彩的作品。作品讲述一位从小变成孤儿的英国女子在各种磨难中不断追求自由与尊严，坚持自我，最终获得幸福的故事。小说引人入胜地展示了男女主人公曲折起伏的爱情经历，歌颂了摆脱一切旧习俗和偏见，成功塑造了一个敢于反抗，敢于争取自由和平等地位的妇女形象。
9. The works by the Bronte sisters are marked by a new concept of women as heroines of vital strength and passionate feelings. In Jane Eyre, it is Jane’s rebelliousness, her dislike for servility, and her insistence on _____ that make the
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www.100xuexi.com book unique. 【答案】equality
圣才电子书 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 【解析】《简·爱》是英国女作家夏洛蒂·勃朗特创作的长篇小说，是一部具有自传色彩的作品。作品讲述一位从小变成孤儿的英国女子在各种磨难中不断追求自由与尊严，坚持自我，最终获得幸福的故事。小说引人入胜地展示了男女主人公曲折起伏的爱情经历，歌颂了摆脱一切旧习俗和偏见，成功塑造了一个敢于反抗，敢于争取自由和平等地位的妇女形象。
10. Although the novel was the predominating genre of literature in the _____ age, there were still some prominent romantic poets like Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning. 【答案】Victorian
【解析】维多利亚时代，诗歌不再像是拜伦、雪莱那个时代的用来改变社会的主要艺术形式。布朗宁和丁尼生是维多利亚时期最重要的两位诗人。
11. The title of Thackeray’s novel Vanity Fair is taken from John Bunyan’s _____, in which the protagonist Christian passes a Vanity Fair, where all sorts of vanity are sold.
【答案】The Pilgrim’s Progress
【解析】“名利场”一词来自班扬的《天路历程》，书中对名利场的描述是这样的：它是一个售卖各种名利的地方，出卖的物品有房子，土地，荣誉，升任，头衔，欲望，欢喜和各种各样的与享乐有关的东西。
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【解析】《呼啸山庄》是艾米丽·布朗特唯一的一部小说。凯瑟琳和希斯克利夫的那种超越自然、刻骨铭心的爱情紧扣读者的心弦，使读者对主人公的遭遇产生很大的同情，对门第观念感到厌恶和憎恨。
13. Though Thackeray and Dickens were contemporaries, they show much more differences than similarities. Thackeray mainly described the people of _____, whereas Dickens’ chief concern was the _____, like the orphan in Oliver Twist, the _____ in Great Expectations.
【答案】upper society; common people; drifter.
【解析】萨克雷和狄更斯是最具代表性的批判现实主义小说家。但二者的风格异大于同，前者擅于用讽刺的口吻描写英国统治阶级不同的阶层。而后者则充满了对穷人和受压迫的人的热爱。
14. The sub-title of Vanity Fair is ______. The writer’s intention was not to portray individuals, but the bourgeois and aristocratic society as a whole. 【答案】A Novel without a Hero
【解析】《名利场》是威廉·梅克比斯的著作。书的副标题“一部没有主人公的小说”强调了作者没有打算描写个人，而是描写整个资产阶级和贵族社会。“名利场”一词来自班扬的《天
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