英国文学史及选读试题
考试科目： 英国文学史及选读 考试时间：120分钟 使用班级： 考试形式：■闭卷 □开卷 Ⅰ. Fill in the following blanks (1′×35=35分)
1. _______________ can be justly termed England’s national epic.
2. In the year of _____, at the battle of _________, the Normans headed by ______ , Duke of _________, defeated the ___________ . 3. ________________, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest ______________ poets of England. The representative work of him is ____________________ .
4. Renaissance means __________ and _________ . 5. The key note of renaissance : _________________.
6. The term Renaissance originally indicated a revival of ___________ ( _______ and _________ ) and_____________.
7. Thomas More was the outstanding________ at the beginning of ___ century. His wrote ____________ in 1516.
8. Edmund Spenser was the author of the greatest____________— _________ (作品)
9. The highest glory of Renaissance is ______________ . 10. Christopher Marlowe was one of the _____________ and made ____________ the principal vehicle of expression in____________ .
11. Thomas Wyatt was the first to introduce the ___________ into English literature. 12. At the end of the 16th century, the great English scientist and philosopher Francis Bacon wrote his famous ____________ and______________. 13. William Shakespeare：
Four tragedies: ____________, ____________, ____________, ____________.
Four comedies: ___________ _, ___________ _, ___________
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_, ___________ _.
Shakespeare produced ____ plays, two _________ and 154 __________. 14. Francis Bacon was the founder of ____________in England——Knowledge is power. He was famous for his essays: ________________. 15. John Donne—_____________school, was the author of ________________ . 16. John Milton was the author of ______________, _____________. The first one was written in___________. Here Paradise means “_________________ ”.
17. The 18th Century— The Age of______________ in England—was distinctively an age of ____________.
18. ______________ was the writer of Robinson Crusoe.
19. ______________ was the writer of Gulliver’s Travels, A modest Proposal. 20. ______________ was the writer of _____________, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, _______________________, The Songs of Innocence.
21. ______________was the writer of ________________, Auld Lang Syne. 22. The Romantic Period was from _____ to _____ in England and was decidedly an age of ___________.
23. Romanticism began with the publication of_________________ Lyrical Ballads, ended with __________________. 24. _____________________, ___________________ and ________________were ___________(湖畔诗人).
25. _____________,____________ ,______________were active romanticists (激进浪漫主义诗人).
26. ________________ —If winter comes, can Spring be far behind? ——Percy Bysshe _____________. 27. ______________ —Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
30. ______________was the writer of On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, __________________, Ode on a Grecian Urn, __________________, Bright Star. 31. ________________was the writer of Pride and Prejudice. 32.
_____________was the
writer
of
Dream-Children;
a
Reverie,
_____________________.
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33. The Victorian Age— ______________ in England. The dominant literal genre was ____________. 34. _____________ was the writer of _____________, David Copperfield, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities (_________ and ________), Great Expectation. 35. William Makepeace Thackeray was the writer of __________________. 36. George Eliot, a ___________ writer, devoted herself to ______________. 37. Charlotte Bronte was the author of ______________; Emily Bronte was the writer of __________________. 38. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, was regarded as the most important poet of the_________________.
39. _____________was the author of Far from Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, The Major of Casterbridge, Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure.
40. Oscar Wilde, a __________ and a ___________, was a spokesman for ________________ (唯美主义).
41. George Bernard Shaw was the greatest writer of ____________—after Shakespeare. He was the writer of _______________ and Mrs. Warren’s Profession.
42. ______________ was the writer of Sons and Lovers. 43. ______________ was the writer of Mrs. Dalloway. 44. James Joyce was the writer of _____________. 45. _________________: 2007 winner of Nobel Prize for Literature.
Ⅱ. Interpret the following terms. (10′×2=20分)
1. The English Renaissance
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2. Metaphysical poetry
Ⅲ. Answer the following questions. (15′×3=45分)
1. In your opinion, why does Satan in Paradise Lost choose the Garden of Eden for his battlefield? Give your reasons in brief words, pay attention to logic and precision.
2. Read sonnet 18 answer the following questions.
Sonnet 18
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: Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines And often is his gold complexion dimed; And every fair form fair sometimes declines, By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed;
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 men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
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Questions:
(1) Who is the author of this sonnet?
(2) Write the rhyme scheme of the poem.
(3) What is the theme of the poem?
(4) What kind of rhetorical devices the author adopted in the sonnet? For each
rhetorical device you list, examples from the poem must be given.
3. Illustrate the political satire Jonathan Swift made in Gulliver’s Travells?
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