ssnd英国文学课外习题

2021年1月19日发(作者：garia)
2004
年校级精品课程“英国文学”成果材料之三：英国文学课外习题


主持人：蔡玉辉



Part I: Filling Blanks:

1.

___________has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel” for his contribution
to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.

2.

W. Wordsworth, ___________and R. Southey
are known as “Lake Poets.”


3.

Stories of _________provide the major themes in all Jane Austen’s novels.


4.

_________ is the author of the novel
Jude the Obscure.

5.

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

established ____________’s fame as the leader of the
sentim
ental poetry of the day, especially “the Graveyard School”.


6.

As
a
leading
Romanticist,
G
.
Byron’s
chief contribution
is
his
creation
of
the
_________
a
proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.


7.

Oscar Wilde is famous for his theory of “________________”.


8.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
is in the genre of ____________.

9.

The novel
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
is written by ____________.

10.

Ulysses

gives an account of man’s life during one day in ___________.


11.

Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are
Hamlet, Othello, _________ and King Lear
.

12.

In 1948, T. S. Eliot was awarded the __________ for literature.

13.

The
trilogy
The
Forsyte
Saga

consists
of
The
Man
of
Property,
In
Chancery

and
“___________”.


14.

“____________”is
R.
Browning’s masterpiece which tells a horrible story of a man’s murder
of his beautiful young wife.

15.

Paradise Lost
is a long epic divided
into 12 books. The original story is taken from genesis:
1-
24 of the Bible, the theme is “____________”.


16.

____________, the full title being
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling,
is considered as
Henry
Fielding’s masterpiece.


17.

In novels like
The Rainbow
and
Women in Love
, D. H. Lawrence made a bold psychological
exploration
of
various
human
relationships,
especially
these
between
___________, with
a
great frankness.

18.

Jonathan Swift is one of the greatest masters of English prose. He is almost unsurpassed in the
writing of simple, direct precise. He defined a good style as “________________”.


19.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s plays, especially
The Rivals

and “_____________” are generally
regarded
as
important
links
between
the
masterpieces
of
Shakespeare
and
those
of
Bernard
Shaw, and as true classics in English comedy.

20.

As
a woman
of
exceptional
intelligence
and
life
experience,
Gorge
Eliot
shows
a
particular
concern
for
___________,
especially
those
with
great
intelligence,
potential
and
social
aspirations.

21.

Idylls
of
the
King
is
made
of
12
books
of
narrative
poems,
based
on
the
Celtic
legends
of
_____________ and his knights of the Round Table.

22.

Most
of
G
.
B.
Shaw’s
pla
ys
are
concerned
with
political,
economic,
moral,
or
religious
problems, and thus, can be termed as ______________.

23.

James
Joyce
is
regarded
as
the
most
prominent
____________novelist,
concentrating
on
revealing in his novels the psychic being of the characters.

24.

Realism was a reaction against ___________ or a move away from the bias towards romance
and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.

25.

D. H. Lawrence’s autobiographical novel is entitled _____________.


26.

The name of R. Browning is often associated with the poetic technique
“______________”.


27.

_____________ is often taken as Willliam Makepeace Thackeray
’
s masterpiece.

28.

In
“_____________”, Joyce
presents
a fantastic
picture
of
the
disjointed,
illogical,
illusory
and
mental-emotional
life
of
Leopold
Bloom, who
becomes
the symbol
of
everyman
in
the
post-World-War-I Europe.
29.

“______________”
is
the
most
popular
of
F
.
Bacon’s
58
essays.
It
analyses
what
studies
chiefly serve for, the different ways adopted by different people to pursue studies,
and have
studies exert influence over human character.

30.

T
he publication of “______________” by
W. Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge in 1798 is often
taken as the formal beginning of Romanticism.

31.

John Bunyan was imprisoned again in 1675. It was during this second term in prison that he
wrote ____________, which was published in 1678 after his release.


32.

Sheridan
was
the
only
important
English
dramatist
of
the
eighteenth
century.
His
plays,
especially
The
Rivals

and
“________________”,
are
generally
regarded
as

important
links
between the masterpieces of Shakespeare and those of Bernard Shaw, and as true classics in
English comedy.

33.

W.
Wordsworth is regarded as a “______________”. He can penetrate to the heart of things
and give the reader the very life of nature.

34.

The
demonic
group
of
S.
T.
Coleridge
includes
his
three
masterpieces:
The
Rime
of
the
Ancient Mariner
, Christabel
and “______________”.


35.

P
. C.
Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four
-
act poetic drama, “_______________”(1820).
According to the Greek
mythology, Prometheus, the champion of humanity, who has stolen
the fire from the heaven, is published by Zeus to be chained on Mount Caucasus and suffers
the vulture’s feeding on his liver.


36.

Chronologically the Victorian period roughly coincides with the
reign of Queen V
ictoria who
ruled over England from __________ to 1901. The period has been generally regarded as one
of the most glorious in the English history.

37.

As a woman of exceptional
intelligence and life experience, George Eliot shows a particular
concern
for
__________,
especially
those
with
great
intelligence,
potential
and
social
aspirations.

38.

Thomas
Hardy’s
novels
are
all
Victorian
in
date.
Most
of
them
are
set
in
Wessex.
These
works
,
known
as
“_______________”,
are
the
most
representative
of
h
im
as
both
a
naturalistic and a critical realist writer.

39.

Darwin’s theory of evolution exerted a strong influence upon the people, causing many to lose
their
religious
faith.
The
social
Darwinism,
under
the
cover
of
“_____________”,
is
vehemently advocated by colonialism or jingoism.

40.

T.
S.
Eliot’s
most
famous
poem,
“____________”,
appeared
in
the
first
number
of
the
Criterion, for which he won various awards, including the Nobel Prize and the Order of Merit
in 1948.

41.

Women in Love
is rich in its symbolic meanings. Gerald Crich is a symbolic figure of spiritual
___________ , representing the whole set of bourgeois ethics.

42.

In
1916,
James
Joyce
published
his
first
novel
“______________”.
The
title
of
the
novel