[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷2
一、填空题
1 The Elizabethan______, in its totality, is the real mainstream of the English Renaissance.
2 ______is the essence of the Renaissance.
3 Among the works by John Milton,______is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.
4 John Donne's famous analogy of parting lovers to a drawing compass provides a prime example of______.
5 ______, the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded as Shakespeare's most popular play on the stage.
6 A stanza of nine lines, with the first eight lines in iambic pentameter and the last line in iambic hexameter, rhyming ababbcbcc is called______.
7 ______refer to a group of scholars during the Elizabethan Age who graduated from either Oxford or Cambridge. They came to London with the ambition to become professional writers. Some of them later became famous poets and playwrights.
8 ______is acclaimed as \
9 ______is the most popular of Bacon's essays.
10 The Pilgrim's Progress is John Bunyan's masterpiece. It is the most successful religious______.
11 _____ was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation in the American literary history.
12 The Romantic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington living's ______and ended with Whitman's Leaves of Grass.
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13 ______was the \England.
14 As a poet,______heralded American literary independence, his close observation of nature distinguished his treatment of indigenous wild life and other native American subjects.
15 ______by Cooper was a rousing tale about espionage against the British during the Revolutionary War.
16 In their order of events, the novels in the Leatherstocking Tales are______,______, ______,______and______.
二、名词解释
17 the poets' poet
18 Metaphysical poetry
19 sonnet
20 blank verse
21 University Wits
22 New England poets
23 Theme
24 Symbol
25 American Puritanism
26 Symbolism
三、单项选择题
27 The first and second parts of Henry IV are undoubtedly the most widely read among Shakespeare's history plays. Shakespeare presents the______spirit in it.
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（A）patriotic
（B）pessimistic
（C）optimistic
（D）ironic
28 The Merchant of Venice takes a step forward in its realistic presentation of human nature and human conflict. All the following characters are all from the play EXCEPT______.
（A）Nick Adams
（B）Portia
（C）Bassanio
（D）Antonio
29 Crafty men contempt studies, simple men admire them, and wise men______them.
（A）make
（B）use
（C）respect
（D）hate
30 The lines \for thou art not so…\
（A）William Wordsworth's writings
（B）John Keat's writings
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（C）John Donne's writings
（D）Percy Bysshe Shelley's writings
31 The following comments on Shakespeare's great works are true EXCEPT ______
（A）The successful romantic comedy is Romeo and Juliet, which eulogizes the faithfulness of love and the spirit of pursuing happiness.
（B）Hamlet, the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded as Shakespeare's most popular play on the stage.
（C）The Merchant of Venice takes a step forward in its realistic presentation of human nature and human conflict.
（D）The three history plays on the reign of Henry VI are the beginning of Shakespeare's epic treatment of English history.
32 \describes ______principal intention.
（A）Edmund Spenser's
（B）Daniel Defoe's
（C）William Shakespeare's
（D）John Milton's
33 Which of the following statements about Shakespeare's greatest tragedies is NOT true?
（A）Macbeth's lust for power stirs up his ambition and leads him to incessant crimes.
（B）The Old King Lear who is willing to totally give up his power makes himself suffer from treachery and infidelity.
（C）Hamlet, the melancholic scholar-prince, faces the dilemma between action and mind.
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（D）Othello's inner weakness is made use of by the outside evil force.
34 In Spenser's masterpiece The Faerie Queene, he speaks of______virtues of the private gentleman.
（A）10
（B）12
（C）15
（D）11
35 Which of the following statements does NOT describe Spenser's poetry?
（A）A perfect melody.
（B）Realism.
（C）A splendid imagination.
（D）A rare sense of beauty.
36 \—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?\
（A）King Lear.
（B）Hamlet.
（C）Macbeth.
（D）Othello.
37 Which writing is a typical example of Shakespeare's pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years?
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