怎么了英语英国文学简史练习

2021年1月20日发(作者：水煮)
英国文学简史

练习材料

一．填空

Fill the following blanks with proper information.
1
．

（浮士德博士的悲剧）
is one of __

__'s best plays.
2
．
___

__
wrote
his
masterpiece

Pilgrim's
Progress
（天路历程）
during
his
second
imprisonment.
3.

The Preface to _

___
by Wordsworth and Coleridge served as the manifesto of ____

____.
4.
In
the
last
adventure,
Gulliver
came
to
a
country
where
___

_
____
were
possessed
of
reason
while ____

____ were brute beasts.
5. Hamlet’s weakness which leads to his final trag
ic fall is ____

____.
6. “Read nor to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted” is one of the epigrams
found in Bacon’s “______

__________”.

7.
“
O,
wind,
/
If
Winter
comes,
can
Spring
be
far
behind?”
is
a
famous
line
in
Shelley’s
“______________”.

8.
“He
has
a
servant
called
Friday.”
“He”
in
the
quoted
sentence
is
a
Character
in
Defoe’s
“____________________”.

9. The poem “Auld Lang Syne” was written by the Scottish poet ________________

10. William Blake’s
The Little Black Boy
is taken from a book of poem published at the end of the
century, between 1789 and 1794. It is one of a group called
Song of ___________.


11. Many of Robert Burns’ poems are based on ________ songs and ballads. By using a burden or a
chorus from an old song, Burns provides the poems with a higher thematic and artistic effect.
12. In the play, “Othello”, written by ________,Othello was innocent of the slightest wrong doing.

13. “To be or not to be, that is the question:” This quotation is from William Shakespeare’s
play
“__________”.

14.
As
a
leading
Romanticist,
G
.
Byron’s
chief
contribution
is
his
creation
of
the
_________,
a
proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.
15.
____________,
the
full
title
being
The
History
of
Tom
Jones,
a
Foundling,

is
considered
as
Henry Fielding’s masterpiece.

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

17. _____________ is often taken as William Makepeace Thackeray’s masterpiece.

18. “______________” is the most popular of F. Bacon’s 58 essays. It analy
ses what studies chiefly
serve for, the different ways adopted by different people to pursue studies, and have studies exert
influence over human character.
19. The publication of “______________” by W. Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge in 1798 is often
taken as the formal beginning of Romanticism.
20. 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.

21. W. Wordsworth is regarded as a “______________”.
He can penetrate to the heart of things and
give the reader the very life of nature.
22. 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.
23. In
Pride and Prejudice
the misunderstanding happens between _________ and _________.

二．判断

Decide whether the following statements are true or false.
1
．
The English people were the first residents in England.
2.
Beowulf
is
the
oldest
poem
in
the
English
language,
and
also
the
oldest
surviving
epic
in
the
English language.
3. After the Roman Conquest, the English language developed very quickly.

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4. Christianity was not introduced to England until after the English Conquest.
5. The Norman Conquest marked the rise of feudalism in England.
6.
Paradise Lost
took its material from Greek mythology.
7.
William
Burns
wrote
two
volumes
of
poems:”
The
Songs
of
Innocence
”
and
“The
Songs
of
Experience”.

8. In the first part of

“Gulliver’s Travels”
, the hero is cast upon the shore of the island of Lilliput.
9. John Bunyan’s masterpiece, “The Pilgrim’s Progress” is an allegory, a nar
rative in which general
concepts such as sins, despair, and faith are represented as people or as aspects of the natural world.

10. In the 18
th
century English literature, satire is much used in writing. English literature of this age
produced a distinguished satirist Jonathan Swift.
11. Robert Burns wrote two volumes of poems:
The Songs of Innocence

“The Songs of
Experience”.

12. Swift’s masterpiece is
“Robinson Crusoe”
which contains three parts.
13. In the 18
th
century, novel writing made a great advance. The main characters in the novel were
no longer common people, but the kings and nobles.
14. Another good example of Swift's satire is his novel:
A Modest Proposal.
15. Blank verse was most widely used in the history of English poetry and drama up to the
twentieth century.

16. In the 18
th
century, satire is much used in writing, English literature of this age produced a
distinguished satirist Defoe.
17.
Robinson Crusoe
was actually based on a real fact.
18. W. Shakespeare once was an actor.
19. J. Milton was greatly influenced by Bible throughout his life.
20.
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” is a line from Shakespeare’s
Sonnet 18
.
21.
G
.
Chaucer
did
much
in
making
the
London
dialect
the
foundation
for
the
Modern
English
language.
22.
The Faerie Queene
was a long poem written by E. Spenser.
23. J. Donne was the founder of the metaphysical poetry.
24.
Tom Jones
, a novel which contains eighteen books and which took Fielding “some thousands of
hours” to complete, is generally considered to be h
is masterpiece.
25. Robert Burns is the national poet of Ireland. His poetry is unsurpassed for its beautiful lyricism
and sincerity of emotions, and is characterized by a profound sympathy for the down- trodden
man.
26.

Tess of the D’Urbervilles
is the truthful portrayal of the tragic lot of a poor girl, a pure woman,
ruined by the bourgeois society.


三．选择

Multiple
Choice
：
Select
from
the
four
choices
of
each
item
the
one
that
best
answers
the
question or completes the statement.
1
．
The English Renaissance period was an age of ______ .
A. poetry and drama



B. drama and novel



C. novel and poetry



D. romance and poetry
2. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18?

A. The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.





B. The speaker satirizes human vanity.
C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.

D. The speaker meditates on man’s salvation.

3. The Metaphysical Poetry is characterized by its extensive use of ________.
A. the impersonal voice


B. conceits


C. traditional symbols



D. literary allusions
4. John Donne was the founder of the Metaphysical Poetry, and his followers include the following
poets except ________.


A. Richard Crashaw


B. George Herbert

C. Andrew Marvell



D. John Milton
5. In
Paradise Lost
, Milton was unconsciously in sympathy with ________.
A. God



B. Satan


C. Adam




D. Eve

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6. In addition to The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Defoe also wrote ______.

A. Tom Jones


B. Pamela

C. The Adventures of Roderick Random


D. Moll Flanders
7.
Gulliver's Travels
consists of ______ voyages.
A. one


B. two


C. three


D. four
8. Lilliput is a country of ______.
A. tiny inhabitants


B. giants

C. flying islands
D. rational horses
9. Which of the following statements best describes Gulliver's Travels?

A. Gulliver's Travels is a book of satire.

B. Gulliver's Travels is a book of adventurous journeys.

C. Gulliver's Travels is a realistic representation of 18th century England.
D. Both A and B.
10. Robert Burns came from ________.

A. England

B. Wales


C. Scotland



D. Ireland
11.
Lyrical Ballads
(1798) was a collection of poems by ________.
A. James Thomson and William Collins


B. Thomas Gray and Robert Burns
C. Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Gordon Byron
D. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
12.
“The Lamb” is included in William Blake’s ________.


A.
Poetical Sketches








B.
The Songs of Innocence


C.
The Songs of Experience



D.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

13. William Wordsworth is frequently referred to as ________.

A. a religious poet


B. a worshipper of nature


C. a modern poet

D. a worshipper of beauty
14.
Of
the
following
definitions
of
poetry,
the
one
which
is
incorrectly
paired
with
its
author
is
________.

A. “Poetry is the most beautiful and effective mode of saying things”—
Matthew Arnold

B. “Poetry—the best words in their best order”—
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

C. “The record of the best and happiest moment of the happiest and best minds”—
Percy Bysshe
Shelley

D. “The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”—
Robert Burns
15.
The description of “a man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow, and misery in his
heart, a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affect
ion” may
be applied to ________.

A. an epic hero

B. an antihero


C. a Byronic hero


D. a modern hero
16. John Keats wrote the following except ______.
A.
Endymion



B.
The Eve of St. Agnes



C.

D.
17.
In “Ode

to the West Wind”, the wild west wind is referred to as the wind of ________.


A. spring



B. summer


C. autumn


D. winter
18.
The Canterbury Tales
was written in ________.
A. Old English

B. Middle English

C. Modern English

D. Current Modern English
19. Pilgrims travel to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury in ________.

A. March


B. April
C. May


D. June
20. ________ pilgrims plus Chaucer are assembled at the Tabard Inn in the southern part of London.

A. 25



B. 27


C. 29


D. 31
21.
Chaucer
was
a
master
of
the
heroic
couplet
which
consists
of
two
rhyming
lines
in
iambic
pentameter. Iambic pentameter means
A. the line has 6 feet, and an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable.

B. the line has 6 feet, and a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable.


C. the line has 5 feet, and an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable.

D. the line has 5 feet, and a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable.
22.
Shakespeare’s fou
r great tragedies are _________

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