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Chapter One

（一般掌握）

Chapter Two English Literature of the Late Medieval Ages

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可出选择题有：

( ) 1. Apart from original poems, Chaucer translated various works of

French authors, among them is the famous __________________

A. The Canterbury Tales

B. The Romance of the Rose

C. The Parliament of Fowls

D. The House of Fame

( ) 2. Generally speaking, Chaucer’s works fall into three main groups

corresponding

roughly

to

the

three

periods

of

his

adult

life,

which

period

is wrong?

A. The period of French influence

B. The period of Italian influence

C. The period of his maturity

D. The period of American influence

( ) 3. Which of the following information about Chaucer is wrong?

A. He died on the 25

th

of October 1400, he was the first to be buried in

the write

r’s corner of Westminster Abby

B. He was considered as “father of English Poetry”

C. He was one of the narrative poets of England

D. His masterpiece is The Canterbury Tales

(

)

4.

Of

the

following,

the

one

which

employs

the

form

of

romance

is____.

A. Amoretti B. Venus and Adonis

C. The Tempest D. Sir Gawain and Green Knight

( ) 5. The characters in the Canterbury Tales can be divided into the

following groups except_____.

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A. rural dwellers B. church members C. tradesman D. nobles

( ) 6. Piers the Plowman is similar in form to the work written by

A. Chaucer B. Shakespeare C. Marlowe D. Bunyan

Chapter Three English Literature in the Renaissance

I

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可出选择题有：

( ) 1. English Renaissance Period was an age of ______________

A. prose and novel

B. poetry and drama

C. essays and journals

D. ballads and songs

(

)

2.

“Romeo,

Romeo,

Wherefore

art

thou

Romeo?”

is

one

of

the

most

famous

lines from Romeo and Juliet.

Which

of the following comments on the line

is NOT true?

A. Juliet speaks the line in the balcony scene.

B.

She is unaware of Romeo’s presence.

C. She asks him to deny his family for her love.

D. A major theme in Romeo and Juliet is the tension between social and

family identity and one’s inner identity (represented by one’s name).

( ) 3. The Elizabethan literature____________

A. had a marked unity and the feeling of patriotism and devotion to the

queen.

B. witnessed a decline of degeneration

C. expressed age and sadness, even the brightest hours were followed by

gloom and pessimism.

D. was not romantic.

( ) 4. One of the following plays takes its subject matter from Chinese

history

A. Henry IVB. Macbeth C. Tamburlaine D. Alchemist

( ) 5. Dr Faustus sells his soul to the devil because he_________.

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A. is faced by Mephistopheles

B. wants to gain more money

C. wants to live an extravagant life

D. wants to know more about the world

( ) 6. Shakespeare is a poet , playwright and ______.

A. critic B. novelist C. an actor D. both b and c

(

)

7.

Of

the

following,

the

one

which

employs

the

form

of

romance

is____.

A. Amoretti B. Venus and Adonis

C. The Tempest D. Sir Gawain and Green Knight

( ) 8. The difference of Surrey’s contribution to English poetry from

that of Wyatt lies in that Surrey________.

A. wrote the first English sonnet

B. introduce the couplet into England

C. wrote the first English blank verse

D. made the sonnet popular

( ) 9. The one who first made blank verse the principal instrument of

English drama is

A. Surrey B. Marlowe C. Shakespeare D. Jonson

( ) 10. The recurrent theme of Marlowe’ s play is the p

raise of ____.

A. capitalism B. feudalism C. individualism D. nationalism

II

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可出填空题有：

1. Rough winds do shake the _______________of May,

And _____________has all too short a date.

2.

Sometimes

too

hot

the

______________shines,

and

often

is

his

__________dimmed.

3. Shakespeare produced __________plays and ____________sonnet.

4.

___________is

praised

by

Marx

as

“the

progenitor

of

English

Materialism”.

III

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可出简答题有：

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Analyze Shakespeare’s four periods of career concisely.

Chapter Four English Literature of the Seventeenth Century

I

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可出选择题有：

( ) 1. __________was a progressive intellectual movement which began in

France and had a wide impact throughout Europe in 18

th

century.

A. The Renaissance

B. The Enlightenment

C. The Religious Reformation

D. The Chartist Movement

( ) of the following comment on the image of Satan in Paradise

Lost is NOT correct?

A.

The

finest

thing

in

Paradise

Lost

is

the

description

of

Hell

and

Satan

was the real hero.

B. He is firmer than the rest of the fallen angels

C. He remains obeyed and admired by all the angels

D. It is he who makes man revolt against God.

( ) 3. Which of the following information about John Donne is NOT true?

A. He was born in a Roman Catholic family.

B. He received his education at Oxford and Cambridge.

C. Later he gave up his Catholic faith and took orders in the Anglican

Church.

D. He wrote only religious poems.

(

)

4.

Dryden’s

contribution

to

English

literature

lies

in

the

following

except_____.

A.

he

established

the

heroic

couplet

as

one

of

the

principal

English

verse

form

B. he clarified the English prose

C. he raised the English literature criticism to a new level

D. he raised English comedy to a higher level

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( ) 5. Apology for Poetry is ______.

A. a poem B. a romance C. a criticism D. a sonnet

II

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可出判断题有：

( ) 1. John Donne is famous for his metaphysical conceit, that is, a

comparison between the two strikingly resemblant objects.

( ) 2. Newspaper was born in 17

th

century.

(

)

3.

One

of

the

characteristics

of

the

English

bourgeois

revolution

was

that it was carried out under the cloak of religion.

III

．

可出填空题有：

1

．

________________is

the

glorious

pioneer

to

introduce

blank

verse

into

non-dramatic poetry.

IV

．

可出术语有：

metaphysical poets

Chapter Five English Literature in the Eighteenth Century

I

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可出选择题有：

( ) 1. In the 18

th

century, satire was much used in writing, English

literature

of

this

age

produced

some

excellent

satirists,

such

as

____________

A. Swift B. Defoe C. Blake D. Burns

( ) 2. In the 18

th

century English literature, the representative poets

of Pre-romanticism were_____________

A. Blake and Wordsworth

B. Burns and Coleridge

C. Blake and Burns

D. Wordsworth and Coleridge

(

)

3.

Which

of

the

following

information

about

William

Blake

is

NOT

true?

A. He was born in London, the son of Irish hosier.

B. He was a poet as well as an engraver.

C. His first book of poem was Songs of Innocence.

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