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一选择题
1.
_____ was the first to introduce the sonnet into
English literature.
a.
Thomas Wyatt
b. William Shakespeare
c.
Phillip
Sidney
d. Thomas Campion
2. The
epoch
of
Renaissance
witnessed
a
particular
development
of
English Drama. It was _______ who made
blank verse the principal
vehicle of
expression in drama.
a. Christopher
Marlowe
b. Thomas Loge
c. Edmund Spenser
d.
Thomas More
3.
Great
popularity
was
won
by
John
Lyly?s
prose
romance_______
wh
ich
gave
rise
to
the
term
“euphuism”,
designating
an
effected
style of court
speech.
a. Arcadia
b.
V
enus and Adonis.
c. Eupheus
d.
Lucrece
4. At
the
beginning
the
16
th
century
the
outstanding
humanist_____
wrote his Utopia in which he gave a
profound and truthful picture of
the
people?s suffering
and
put
forward
his
ideal
of
a
future
happy
society.
a. Christopher
Marlowe
b. Thomas More
c. Phillip Sidney
d. Edmund
Spencer
5.
English absolute
monarchy
was once again adopted in the reign
of
________after the Queen Elizabeth.
a.
Edward VI
b. James I
c. Charles I
d. Queen Ann
6.
Beowulf is the most important and the
first epic in the Old English
ever
written. It was written in _______.
a.
sonnets
b. ballads
c.
alliteration
d. heroic
couplet
7.
Paradise Lost is a (n)________.
a. lyrical poem
b. hymn
c. epic
d. narrative
poem
8.
Pamela
is a___________.
a. historical novel
b. romance
b.
novel
of
naturalism
d.
novel
of
epistles
and
psychology
9.
Gulliver’
s
Travels
is a ________.
a.
sentimental
novel
b.
novel
of
satire
and
allegory
c.
Gothic
novel
d.
novel
of
stream
of
consciousness
10.
I
Wandered lonely as a Cloud
is a ________.
a. lyrical poem
b. lyrical prose
c. romance
in prose
d. sonnet
11.
T
he School of Scandal
is a ______.
a.
tragedy
b. comedy of manners
c. novel
d. romance
12.
The Merry Wives of Windsor
is a ______.
a. comedy
b.
tragedy
c. historical play
d. morality
play
13.
A Red, Red Rose is a______.
a. lyric
b. satirical poem
c. epic
d
ode
14.
Clarrisa
is a (n)
____________.
a. historical novel
b. epistolary novel
c. metrical romance
d.
satirical novel
15.
The
title of “Poet?s poet” is given to the writer of
the following work
__ _____.
a.
Death Be Not Proud
b.
Venus and Adonis
c.
Romeo and Juliet
d.
The Faerie
Queen
16.
The
Merchant of Venice
belongs to
Shakespearian plays of_______.
a.
comedy
b. sequence of
sonnets
c.
tragedy
d. historical play
17.
Chaucer
was
the
first
important
poet
of
a
royal
court
to
write
in______ after the
Norman conquest.
a.
French
b.
Latin
c.
English
d.
Celt
18.
“He
was
not of
an
age,
but
for
all
the
time”.
“He”
here
refers
to
_____.
a.
Shakespeare
b. Chaucer
c.
John Milton
d. Ben Jonson
19.
The father of the school
of Metaphysical poets is _______.
a.
Thomas More
b. Spenser
c.
John Donne
d. Wyatt
20.
The most important prose
writer of Elizabethan Age was _______,
who was also the founder of the English
materialistic philosophy.
a.
Thomas More
b. Spenser
c.
John Donne
d. Francis
Bacon
21. During the medieval time,
there were several types of drama, among
which the ______ denotes only dramas
based on Saint?s lives.
a.
miracle play
b. morality play
c. mystery play
ude
22.
Morality
plays
were
dramatized
_______of
the
life
of
man,
his
temptation and sinning, his
quest for salvation and his confrontation
with death.
a. elegy
b.
dream
c. ambition
d. allegories
23. The hero
in morality plays usually represents Mankind or
_______.
a. Devil
b.
God
c. valiant
d. everyone
24.
The
rhyme
schem
e
of
Spenser?s
Amorretti
is
created
by
Spenser
himself,
and
it
is
now
called
____,
rhyme
pattern
of
which
is
______.
a. English sonnet/ abab cdcd, efef gg
b.
Italian sonnet/ abba abba cde cde
c.
Miltonic sonnet/ abab bcbc cde cde
d. Spenserian sonnet/ abab bcbc cdcd ee
25.
In
the
Faerie
Queene,
Spenser
signifies
glory
in
abstract,
and
the
Queen Elizabeth______ in
particular.
a. Glory
b. fame
c.
honesty
d. virtue
26.
Spenser
not
only
wrote
in
Spenserian
sonnet,
he
also
invented
Spensrian stanza, a nine-line stanza
used by him in Faerie Queene, the
rhyme
scheme of which
is
________.
a. abab ababa
b.
abab bcbcc
c. abcb cdcdc
d. aabb ccddd
27
.
Spenser
is
usually
considered
“poets? poet”,
because
of
his
superb
technical skill,
perfect melodies, rare senses of beauty. However,
in
his poetry there still remain two
defects: _______.
a. power
and unity
b. power and steadiness
c. steadiness and unity
d.
unity and melody
28. The Tragic History of Dr. Faustus
is based on a _____.
a. German legend
b.
Greek legend
c. Roman
Legend
d. Celtic Legend
29. The
hero of Dr. Fustus is a young ______.
a.
scholar
b. doctor
c.
philosopher
d. magician
30
.
The
significance
of
Marlowe?s
plays
lies
in
the
playwright?s
presenting of, in various ways, the
spirit of ________.
a. feudal lords
b.
the rising bourgeoisie
c.
the intellectuals
d. common people
31. Who
was the greatest dramatist in the
18
th
century?
a.
Goldsmith
b. Sheridan
c. Sterne
d. Fielding
32. Which
play
is
regarded
as
the
best
English
comedy
since
Shakespeare?
a.
She Stoops to Conquer
b.
The Rivals
c.
The
School
for
Scandal
d.
The
Conscious
Lovers
33. Chaucer
was
the
first
important
poet
of
royal
court
to
write
in
______
after the Norman Conquest.
a. French
b.
Latin
c. English
d. Greek
34. Shylock is a character in the
play _______.
a.
T
amburlain written by Marlowe
b.
Othello written by Shakespeare
c.
The Jew of
Malta written by Marlowe
d.
The Merchant of Venice by
Shakespeare
35.
“To
err,
is
human,
to
forgive,
divine”
and
“
A
little
learning
is
a
dangerous
thing.” are taken from the poems written by
______.
a. John Milton
b. Francis Bacon
c. William Shakespeare
d. Alexander Pope
36.
The Deserted Village
is a ___________.
a. sentimental poem
b. romantic poem
c. neo-classical poem
d.
allegorical poem
37.
In
English Poetry the phrase ?the deep? is often
referred to _______.
a. the
hell
b. the heart
c. the sea
d. the grave
38.
At the turn of the 18
th
and
19
th
century, ______
appeared as a new
literary trend in
England.
a. Renaissance
b. Reformation
c.
Romanticism
d. Sentimentalism
39.
Of Truth
was written by a British essayist_______.
a. William Shakespeare
b. George Bernad Shaw
c.
Francis Bacon
d. John Donne
40.
“Gold?
Y
ellow,
glittering,
precious
gold!
Thus
much
of
this
will
make
black
white,
fool
fair,
wrong
right,
base
noble,
old
young,
coward
valiant…”
These lines are
taken from ________
by
Shakespeare.
a.
Volpone
b.
As you like it
c.
The School
for Scandal
d.
Timon of
Athens
41.
“
Conceit”
is a term applied in
particular to the school represented
by_______.
a. Herrick
b. Ben Jonson
c.
Pope
d. John Donne
42.
The general spirit of Shakespeare?s
first period comedies is _______.
a. youthfulness with melancholy
b. pessimism with youthfulness
c.
optimism with youthfulness
d.
optimism with melancholy
43.
_____ is one
of
Shakespeare?s famous four tragedies.
a.
Romeo and Juliet
b.
Julius Caesar
c.
Anthony and Claopatra
d.
Othello
44.
The Merchant
of Venice
belongs to
Shakespeare?s play
s of ______in
which
Shakespeare
highly
praises
the
wits
and
wisdom
of
the
heroin______ .
a. Sophia
b.
Portia
c. Ophilia
d. Olivia
45. One of the following
plays takes its subject matter
from Chinese
history.
a.
Henry VI
b. Everyone in His Humor
c. The Riva
ls
d.
Tamburlain
46.
Piers
the Plowman
is
a
realistic
picture
of
_____
England,
which
indignantly
satirized
the
____ prevailing
among
the
ruling
classes,
ecclesiastical and secular world.
a. Renaissance/ corruption
b.
medieval /reality
c. medieval
/corruption
d. Renaissance/ reality
47.
One
of
the
following
writers
is
not
known
as
a
sonnet
poet
is
_______.
a. Wyatt
b. Shakespeare
c. Greene
d. Spencer
48.
Mephistophilis is a _______.
a. soldier
b. devil?s servant
c. king?s clown
d. noble man
49. Thomas More was killed because of
______.
a. his disagreement with the
prince
b. his treason of England
c. his plot against King Henry VIII
d.
his
disagreement
with
the
king?s
divorce
and
the
religious
belief
50. More is known as a writer,
statesman and _______.
a.
humanist
b. merchant
c. socialist
d. soldier
51. All the
following writers created the sonnet sequence
except______.
a.
Shakespeare
b.
Thomas More
c. Spenser
c. Sidney
52. Apology for Poetry is a_______.
a. sonnet
b. literary criticism
c. novel
d. play
53. Of
the
following,
the
one
that
employs
the
form
of
romance
is
_______.
a. Euphues
b.
Amoretti
c. Of Studies
d.
V
enus and Adonis
54.
The “Mighty line” in Marlowe?s play
means________.
a. blank
verse
b. sonnet
c. couplet
d. free verse
55. The
one
who
first
made
blank
verse
the
principal
instrument
of
English drama is ______.
a. Surry
b. Marlowe
c. Shakespeare
d. Ben Jonson
56.
The recurrent theme of Marlowe?s plays
is the praise of _____
_.
a.
capitalism
b. church
c.
feudalism
d. individualism
57.
All the
heroes of Marlowe?s plays end with
______.
a. happiness
b. triumph
c. tragedy
d. insult
58. The literary genre which best
represents the literary achievement in
Renaissance is _____.
a.
novel
b. drama
c. poetry
d. romance
59.
Thomas More?s masterpiece
Utopia
was written in
_______.
a. French
b. English
c. Latin
d. Greek
60. Astrophel and Stalla was written
by the author who also wrote _____.
a.
Amoretti
b.
As Y
ou like It
c. Apology for Poetry
d.
Dr
. Faustus
61.
The
poet
who
wrote
the
first
sonnet
sequence
in
English
literature also wrote _____.
a. The Shepherds’ calendar
b. Apology for
Poetry
c. Hamlet
d. Alchemist
62.
The soldier
, the poet, the
critic, the courtier
, all the titles
can be
applied to one of the following
writers.
a. Spenser
b. Marlowe
c. Sidney
d. Ben Jonson
63.
Spenser
is famous for his _______.
a. musical
rhythm
b.
colorful images
c. symbols
d. all of the above
64.
Test of courage, faith and loyalty is
the theme of a _____.
a. romance
b. novel
c. play
d. ballad
65. La
Mort
e’d Arthur describes the
war
, the tournament, illicit love
and the quest for ______.
a.
Christ
b. Holly Grail
c. Bible
d. King Arthur
6
6.
All the following figures appear in the work La
Morte’d Arthu
r
,
except_______.
a. King
Arthur
b.
Guenevere
c. Lancelot
d. Tamburlain
6
7. La Moret’d Arthur marked
the ____ of the romance in England.
A. falling
b. rising
c. summit
d.
ending
68.
The
English
Romantic
Movement
began
in
the
1798
when
“Lyrical Ballads” was published, and
ended in1832 when ______.
a.
Jane Austain died
b.
Scott died
c. Wordsworth died
d. Shelley
69. Quotation and the author are
correctly paired in all the followings
except______.
a.
a.
“I might boast
myself La V
ainqueur”
-----
Johnson
b.
b.
“A little learning
is a dangerous thing.”
------ Pope
c.
c.
A
Truthful
artist’s
duty
was
to
produce
human
n
ature”
------
Wordsworth
d.
d.
Shall
I
compare
thee
to
a
summer’s
day?”
---------
Shakespeare.
70. Virtue Rewarded in the novel by
Richardson means___________.
a.
a.
Shopia was married to Mr
. B
finally.
b.
b.
Pamela was kicked out of Mr
.
B’s place
.
c.
c.
Shopia was married
to Tom Jones at last.
d.
d.
Pamela was married
to T
om Jones.
71. The
Spectator was started in the ______century.
a. early 18
th
b. late 19
th
c. the late
18
th
d. early 19
th
72.
The
figure
of
speech
used
in
the
article
A
modest
Proposal
is
called _____.
a.
satire
b. paradox
c. irony
d.
pun
73. The Rape of the
Lock gives an account of ______.
a.
bull fighting
b. a knight duel
c.
a
writer’s
life
d.
an
anecdote
of
the
court
74. At the end of the
History of T
om Jones, a
Foundling,________.
a.
Blifil
was
hanged
b.
T
om
was
put
in
jail
again
c. Shopia divorced
with T
om
d.
None of the above
75. Richardson was
noted as a storyteller
, letter-writer
and a ______
as well.
a.
critic
b. moralizer
c. poet
d. playwright
76. The couplet, originally French, was
made full use by ______.
a.
Pope
b. Donne
c.
Chaucer
d. Johnson
77. All of the followings were from
Ireland except________.
a. Sheridan
b. Goldsmith
c. Swift
d. Blake
78. The pair not
correct associated is _______.
a. Blake
----engraver
b.
Goldsmith______poet
and novelist
c.
Fielding
____playwright
d.
Richardson
_____poet
Sentimental
School
includes
all
of
the
following
writers
except_______.
a. Thomas
Cowper
b. Thomas Gray
c. Richardson
d.
Swift
8
0. Milton was
nicknamed “the lady of the Christ” because he was
______.
a. a lady
b. as serious as a lady
c.
as hansom as a lady
d. as gentle as
a lady
答案；
1-5 a
a
c
b
b
6-10
c
c
d
b
a
11-15 b
a
a
b
d
16-20
a
c
a
c
d
21-25 c
d
d
d
d
26-30
b
a
a
a
b
31-35 b
c
c
d
d
36-40. a
c
d
b
d
41-45. d
c
d
b
d
46-50. b
c
b
d
a.
51-55. b
b
a
a
b
56-60. d
c
b
c
c
61-65. b
c
d
a
b
66-70. d
c
b
c
b
71-75. a
c
d
d
b
76-80. a
d
d
d
c
二，名词解释
1.
Enlightenment
Enlightenment
is
a
progressive
intellectual
movement,
which
swept over England and
other lands in Western Europe in the
18
th
century. Enlightenment freed and reformed the
thinking of
man.
Enlighteners
strove
to
clear
away
the
feudal
remnants
and replace them by
bourgeois ideologue.
2.
Blank
verse
Unrhymed iambic
pentameter. See also Meter. In the 1540s
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, seems to
have originated it in
English as the
equivalent of Virgil's unrhymed dactylic
hexameter. In Gorboduc (1561), Thomas
Sackville and Thomas
Norton introduced
blank verse into the drama, whence it
soared with Marlowe and Shakespeare in
the 1590s. Milton
forged it anew for
the epic in Paradise Lost (1667).
3. Fable
(1) A
short, allegorical story in verse or prose,
frequently of
animals, told to
illustrate a moral. (2) The story line or plot of
a
narrative
or
drama.
(3)
Loosely,
any
legendary
or
fabulous
account.
4. Romance
Any imaginative literature that is set
in an idealized world and
that
deals
with
heroic
adventures
and
battles
between
good characters
and
villains or
monsters.
Originally,
the
term referred to a medieval tale
dealing with the loves and
adventures
of
kings,
queens,
knights,
and
ladies,
and
including
unlikely
or
supernatural
happenings.
Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight is the best
of the medieval
romances.
5.
Comedy of
manners
Its
concern
is
to
bring
the
moral
and
social
behavior
of
its
characters to the test of comic
laughter.
The male hero lives
not for military glory but for pleasure
and the conquests that
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