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英美文学作品选读试题
1
I. Multiple choice
（
40 points in all, 1 for each
）
Select
from
the
four
choices
of
each
item
the
one
that
best
answers
the
question or completes the statement.
1. Romance, which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or
other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.
A.
Christian
B.
knightly
C.
Greek
D.
primitive
2.
Among
the
great
Middle
English
poets,
Geoffrey
Chaucer
is
known
for
his
production of ___.
A.
Piers Plowman
B.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
C.
Confessio Amantis
D.
The Canterbury Tales
3.
Which
of
the
following
historical
events
does
not
directly
help
to
stimulate
the
rising of the Renaissance Movement?
A.
The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.
B.
The new discoveries in geography and astrology.
C.
The Glorious revolution.
D.
The religious reformation and the economic expansion.
4.
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.
5.
“Bassanio:
Antonio, I am married to a wife
Which is as dear to me as life itself;
But life itself, My wife, and all the world.
Are not with me esteem'd above thy life;
I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all,
Here to the devil, to deliver you.
Portia: Your wife would give you little thanks for that,
If she were by to hear you make the offer.”
The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare's comedy
The Merchant of Venice
.
The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate ____.
A.
dramatic irony
B.
personification
C.
allegory
D.
symbolism
6. The true subject of John Donne's poem,
“The Sun Rising,” is to ___.
A.
attack the sun as an unruly servant
B.
give compliments to the mistress and her power of beauty
C.
criticize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private life
D.
lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie
7.
“And
we
will
sit
upon
the
rocks,/
Seeing
the
shepherds
feed
their
flocks,/By
shallow rivers to whose falls/
Melodious birds sing madrigals.”
The above lines are
probably taken from __.
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A. Spenser's
The Faerie Queene
B.
John Donne's “The Sun Rising”
C.
Shakespeare's “Sonnet 18”
D.
Marlowe's “The Passionate Shepherd to His
Love”
8. The theme of
The Faerie Queene
is
.
A.
“arms and the man”
B.
“fierce warres and faithfull loves”
C.
“Redcosse Knight”
D.
“morals and vices”
9
. Shakespeare’s ____ are mainly written under the prin
ciple that national unity under
a mighty and just sovereign is a necessity.
A. history plays
B. tragedies
C. comedies
D. plays
10
.
“Reading
maketh
a
full
man,
conference
a
ready
man,
and
writing
a(n)
man.” The
sentence is quoted from Bacon’s
Of Studies
.
A.
intelligent
B.
exact
C.
thrifty
D.
eloquent
11
. Though John Donne’s poems were not well accepted in his lifetime, the early 20
th
century saw a
renewed interest in him and other
poets.
A.
sentimental
B.
rational
C.
metaphysical
D.
neoclassical
12.
In
of
Gulliver’s
Travels
,
Jonathan
Swift
satirizes
the
western
civilization
including
false
illusions
about
science,
philosophy,
history
and
even
immortality
．
A.
the
first
voyage
to
Lilliput
B.
the
second
voyage
to
Broddingnag
C.
the
third
voyage
to
the
Flying
Island
D.
the
fourth
voyage
to
Houyhnhnm land
13. Christian, Faithful and Pliable are the literary figures in
.
A.
Daniel Defoe’s
Moll Flanders
B.
John Bunyan’s
Pilgrim’
s Progress
C.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s
The School for Scandal
D.
Jonathan Swift’s
Gulliver
’
s Travels
14. ____ is the first important English essayist and the founder of modern science in
England.
A.
Francis Bacon
Spenser
C.
William Carxton
15. The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in
Gulliver's Travels
are ___.
A. horses that are endowed with reason
B. pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualities
C. giants that are superior in wisdom
D.
hairy,
wild,
low
and
despicable
creatures,
who
resemble
human
beings
not
only in appearance but also in some other ways.
16.
Here
are
four
lines
from
a
literary
work:
“Others
for
language
all
their
care
express, / And value books,
as women men, for dress.”
The work is ___.
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A.
Thomas Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
B. John Milton's
Paradise Lost
C. Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism
D. Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream
17.
The phrase “to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation
through
constant
struggles with
their own weaknesses and all
kinds of
social evils”
may well sum up the implied meaning of ___.
A.
Gulliver's Travels
B.
The Rape of the Lock
C.
Robinson Crusoe
D.
The pilgrim's Progress
18.
Of
all
the
18
th
century
novelists
Henry
Fielding
was
the
first
to
set
out,
both
in
theory
and
practice,
to
write
specifically
a
“__
in
prose,”
the
first
to
give
the
modern novel its structure and style.
A. tragic epic
B. comic epic
C. romance
D. lyric epic
19. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT ___.
A. the use of everyday language spoken by the common people
B. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
C. the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter
D. the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
20.
Which of the following is taken from John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”?
A.
“I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!”
B.
“They are both gone up to the church to pary.”
C.
“Earth has not anything to show more fair.”
D.
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”.
21.
“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!” is an epigrammatic line by __.
A.
J. Keats
B.
W. Blake
C.
W. Wordsworth
D.
P. B. Shelley
22.
“Ode o
n
a Grecian Urn”
shows the contrast between the ___ of art and the ___ of
human passion.
A.
glory …ugliness
B.
permanence…transience
C.
transience…sordidness
D.
glory…permanence
23.
In the statement“—
oh, God! W
ould you like to live with your soul in the grave?”
the term
“soul” apparently refers to ___.
A. Heathcliff himself
B. Catherine
C. one's spiritual life
D. one's ghost
24. The typical feature of Robert Browning's poetry is the ___.
A. bitter satire
B. larger-than-life caricature
C. Latinized diction
D. dramatic monologue
25.
Among
the
famous
novelists
of
the
Victorian
Age
were
the
____
Dickens
and
Thackeray.
A. critical realists
B. modernists
C. romanticists
D. epic prose writers
26. ___is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.
A.
Jane Eyre
B.
Emma
玄孙女-英语成语故事
玄孙女-英语成语故事
玄孙女-英语成语故事
玄孙女-英语成语故事
玄孙女-英语成语故事
玄孙女-英语成语故事
玄孙女-英语成语故事
玄孙女-英语成语故事
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