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第一部分：
Exercises of the First Part
of the British Literature
Section One:
Multiple-choice questions
1.
“
Upon a great adventure he was bond, /
That
greatest Gloriana
to
him gave.”
These two lines
are taken from
[A] Milton's
Samson Agonistes
[C] Beowulf
[B] Spenser's The Faerie
Queene
[D] Gray's Elegy
Written in a Country Churchyard
2.
That led th' embattled Seraphim to war
Under thy conduct, and in
dreadful deeds
Fearless,
endangered Heaven's perpetual King.
In the first line
of the
above passage quoted from Milton's
Paradise Lost
, the phrase
chief of many throned
powers
”
refers to________.
[A] Satan
[B] God
[C]
Adam
[D]
Eve
3. Shakespeare claims
through the mouth of Hamlet that the
of
the dramatic creation is to
give
________ of the social realities of the time.
[A] faithful reflection
[B]
instructive representation
[C]
imaginative narration
4.
Humanists of the Renaissance turned to the spirit
of ________ culture for inspiration.
[A] Anglo-Saxon
[B]
Italian and French
[C]
Greeek and Roman
[D] medieval
5.
Paradise
Lost
is composed in blank verse, which
permits the
________ Milton needed for
his
subject.
[A] epic
grandeur
[C]
descriptive subtlety
[B] narrative
sweep
[D] intellectual grasp
[D] allegorical
description
6.
Donne
?
s
famous
analogy
of
parting
lovers
to
a
drawing
compass
affords
a
prime
example
of________
[A] dramatic style
[C] paradox
[B] exaggeration
[D] conceit
7.
________
is
a study
of
the
lust for wealth, which
centers
on
Barabas,
the Jew,
a terrible
old
money lender.
[A] The Jew of Malta
[C] Tamburlaine the Great
8.
In
his
conception
of
tragedy,
Marlowe
perceived
that
tragic
action
must
issue
from,
and
be
reflected in, ________.
[A]
the Renaissance hero
[C] the individual
[B] endless aspiration for knowledge
[D] human dignity and capacity
[B] The
Merchant of V
enice
[D] The
Tempest
9. In The Faerie Queene, the
Red Cross Knight, who stands for true religion of
________ , sets out
on the orders of
Queen of Faerie, who represents ________.
[A] the Anglican Church, Queen
Elizabeth
[B] the Roman
Catholic Church, Pope
[C]
Christianity, Christ
[D] humanism,
divine truth
10. What
figure of speech is used in the lines:
winds do shake the darling buds of May,
/
And summer's lease too short a
date
[A] Simile
[C] Personification
11. The underlined part in
my bond.
enice) means
________.
[A] What is done can't be
undone
[B] Let me responsible for what I do
[C] I would give anything for
fulfilling my bond
[
D] I deserve what I demand
12.
The
line
we
have
shuffled
off
this
mortal
coil
be,
or
not
to
be
soliloquy
means________.
[A]
when we have got rid of
this coil that is doomed to die
[B]
when we have unloaded this
heavy burden like a coil
[C]
when we have taken off this
coat made of coils
[D]
when we are relived from
the trouble of mortal life wound around us like
coils
13. What does the
word
judgment wholly by their rules is
the humor of
“a
scholar”?
[A] funniness
[B]
Wit
[C]character
[D]
A
sudden whim
14. The
Spenserian stanza is a group of eight lines of
iambic pentameter followed by a six-stress
line, with a rhyme scheme ababbcbcc.
[A] trochaic
[C]
anapestic
[B]
iambic
[D] dactylic
[B]
Metonymy
[D] Hyperbole
15. In Satan
?
s
speech:
…
if he, whom mutual
league, / United : thoughts and .counsels, equal
hope
/
And
hazard
in
the
glorious
enterprise,
/.joined
with
me
once . .
.
What
does
glorious
enterprise refer to?
[A] The
former scheme to overthrow God.
[B]
stealing the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
[C] Finding means of evil
out of good.
[D] corrupting Adam and
Eve.
16.
What
is
the
tone
in
the
following
lines:
Saucy
pedantic
.go
wretch,
go
chide
/
Late
school-
boys, and sour prentices
[A] Ironic
[B] Sarcastic
[C]Humorous
[D] Understated
17.
In
the
best
metaphysical
poetry,
feeling
and
________
fuse
in
an
image
that
is
always
ingenious
and
appropriate,
though
it
may
be
disconcerted
at
first
in
the
shock
of
bringing
incongruities together.
[A] imagery
[B] conceit
[C]
thought
[D]
colloquialism
18. The
sonnet
belief that _________.
[A]
Shakespearean, death is only a sleep,
after which we live eternally
[B]
Petrarchan, death is but
momentary while hal v death is eternal
[C]
Elizabethan,
death is not as strong as people think he is
[D]
Portuguese, death is
like a long sleep that offer, for the soul
19. In the line
the first and second
“
fair
”
mean?
[A] Light complexion; beauty.
[B] Loveliness; beautiful women.
[D] Sound reason; justice.
[C] The beautiful person or thing;
beauty.
20. In the court scene of The Merchant
of V
enice, when says to Shylock:
answer, Jew. punning on the word
______.
[A] an
amiable and tender answer
[B] a noble answer
[C] a Gentile's as opposed to a Jew's
answer
21. In
his
from his personal revenge, that
he________ is another reason.
[A] is
unable to restore his earlier idealized image of
his mother
[B] thinks the next world is
far better than this one
[C] is mentally tormented by his
father's words
[D] cannot bear the
social injustice and grievances
22. By advancing the theory
of
＿＿＿＿＿
, Bacon shows the empirical attitudes
toward truth
about nature and bravely
challenges the medieval scholasticists.
[A] inductive reasoning
[C] education
[B] deductive reasoning
[D] scientific
experimentation
[D] a
generous answer
23. The
central figure of
Tamburlaine, the
Great
represents for infinite
_________.
[A] knowledge and happiness
[C] ambition and conquest
24. The
shepherd's Calender set the ________ fashion in
English
literature, and
inaugurated the
great 16th
century
.
[A] rustic
25. In
King Leur
,
Shakespeare has shown to us the two-
fold exerted by the feudalisi corruption and
__________ gradually corroded the
ordered society.
[A] Anarchy and
rebellion
[B]
supernatural forces
[B] ornate
[C] rustic
[D] pastoral
[B] power and
authority
[D] success and adventure
[C] super natural forces
[D] tyranny
[B] power and
authority success and adventure fashion in English
lyrical poetry of the last
Section T
wo
(Reading comprehension)
1.
So pure and
innocent, as that same lambe,
She was in life and every vertuous
lore,
And by descent from royall lynage
came
Of ancient Kings and Queenes, that
had of yore
Their scepters stretcht
from east to westerne shore,
And all the world in their subjection
held;
Till that infernall feend with
foule uprore
Forwasted all
their land, and them expeld;
Whom to
avenge, she had this knight from far compeld.
Questions:
A. Identify the
poet and the poem.
B. What
does
C. What idea does the quotation
express?
2.
Forward and backward anagrammatized,
The breviated names of holy
saints,
Figures of every
adjunct to the heavens
And
characters of signs and erring stars,
By which the spirits are enforced to
rise.
Questions:
A. Identify the
author and the work. B. Who does
C.
What idea does the quotation express?
2.
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the
pale cast of thought;
And
enterprises of great pith and moment,
With this regard, their currents turn
awry
And lose the name of
action.
Questions:
A.
Identify the author and the work.
B.
Who is the speaker of the quoted passage?
C. What idea does the
quotation express?
4.
Some that are mad if they behold a cat,
And others, when bagpipe
sings i' th' nose,
Cannot
contain their urine for affection,
Mistress of passion, sways it to the
mood
Of what it likes or
loathes.
Questions:
A. the author and the work.
B. Who is the speaker of the quoted
passage?
C. What idea does
the quotation express?
5.
“
If her eyes have not
blinded thine,
Look, and
tomorrow late, tell me,
Whether both the Indias of spice and
mine
Be where thou left'st them, or lie
here with me.
Ask for those
kings whom thou saw'st yesterday,
And thou shalt hear, all here in one
bed lay.
Questions:
A. Identify the poet and the poem.
B. What does the word
C.
What idea does the quotation express?
Section
T
wo
Questions and
answers
1. Make a brief
analysis of the
enice, and try to
explain why it is regarded most famous
speech in the play.
2. Make a brief
comment on the theme of
Paradise
Lost
.
3. Make a brief
summary of the historical and cultural background
to English Renaissance.
4. Make a brief
analysis of
5. What is Francis Bacon's
contribution to English literature?
Section Four
(Topic
discussion)
1. Comment on Hamlet's
inaction.
2. What are the main
characteristics of metaphysical poetry?
英美文学第二阶段（新古典主义时期）综合练习
II. Exercises
A. Multiple-
choice questions :
(Each of the
statements below by four alternative
answers. Choose the one that
would best complete the statement and
put the letter in the brackets . )
1.
In
field
of
literature,
the
Enlightenment
brought
about
a(n)
_________
the old classical
works. This tendency is known as neoclassicism.
A. revived interest in
C. rebellion against
B.
antagonism against
D. rational scrutiny
of
2. John Bunyan's
The
Pilgrim's Progress is
a ( n )
_________.
A. allegory
B. romance
D. realistic novel
C. comedy
of manners
3. As a literary
figure, Belinda appears in Alexander Pope's
_________.
A.
An
Essay on Criticism
C. The
Rape of the Lock
B.
The Dunciad
D.
4.
In
lines
gold
jewels
cover
every
part,
/And
hide
with
ornaments
their want of
art
A. the
C.
aesthetic order
B.
artificiality
D. good taste
of
the
following
is
NOT
a
typical
aspect
of________
Defoe's
language?
A. Vernacular.
C. Elegant.
B.
Colloquial.
D. Smooth.
6.
has
a
servant
called
Friday
in
the
quoted
sentence
is
a
character in ________.
A.
Gulliver's Travels
C. Robinson Crusoe
B.
Tom Jones
D. The Rape of the Lock
7. Which of the following is a typical
feature of Swift's writings?
A. Great
wit.
B. Bitter satire.
D. Complicated sentence structures
C. Rich mythic allusions.
8. In
which
of
the
following
works
can
you
find
the proper
names
A. The Pilgrim's Progress
C. Gulliver's travels
B. The Fairie Queene
D. The
School for scandel
9.
the 18th-century
novelists,
he
was
the
first
to set
out, both
in
theory
and practice, to write specifically a
`comic epic in prose' , the first to give
the
modern
novelists
structure
and
style.
In
the
above
sentence,
refers to ________.
A. Jonathan Swift
B. Daniel Defoe
D. Henry Fielding
C. Samuel
Richardson
10.
novel
is
structured
around
the
discovery
of
the
hero's
origin.
This
novel is most probably________.
A. David Copperfield
C. Wuthering
Heights
B. The History of Tom Jones, a
Foundling
D. The Vicar of
the Wakefield
11.
is
an
honor,
which, being
very
little accustomed
to
favors
from
the
great,
I
know
not
well
how
to
receive,
or
in
what
terms
to
acknowledge.
T
he
above sentence is presented in a ( n ) ________
tone.
A. ironic
C. delightful
B.
indifferent
D.
jealousy
12.
The
________
was
a
progressive
intellectual
movement
throughout
Western Europe in
the 18th century
.
A.
Romanticism
C. Enlightenment
B. Humanism
D. Sentimentalism
13. Who
was the greatest dramatist in the 18th century?
A. Oliver Goldsmith
C. Laurence
Sterne
B. Richard B. Sheridan
D. Henry Fielding
14.
shades
more
sweetly
recommend
the
light,
So
modest
plainness
sets
off
sprightly
wit;
For
works
may
have
more
wit
than
does
?
em
good
As
bodies
perish
through
excess
of
blood.
In
the
above
lines,
Pope
tries
to
say
that
________.
A.
more wit will make better poetry
B. plainness is more
important than wit in poetry
C. too much wit will destroy good
poetry
D. plainness will
make wit dull
15. Fielding's
method of
presentation,
namely________,
enables
him
to
write
in
the
fullest,
freest,
clearest
and
most
straight-forward
manner
and
also
makes it
possible for him to add explanations in places
when necessary.
A. telling the story
through a series of letters
B. telling
the story through the mouth of the principal
character
C. the author acting as the
narrator
D. revealing the story through
a framework
16.
The
Rape
of
the
Lock by
Alexander Pope
is
written
in
the
form
of
a
mock
________
style.
A. epic
B.
elegy
C. sonnet
D. ode
,
which
describes
the
triviality
of
high
society
in
a
grand
17.
Defoe's
Robinson Crusoe
created
the
image
of an
enterprising
Englishman,
typical of the
English bourgeoisie in the________
century
.
A. 17th
B. 19th
C. 18th
D. 20th
18.
In
The
Pilgrim's
Progress
,
John
Bunyan
describes
The
Vanity
Fair
in
a
________ tone.
A. delightful
B. solemn
C. sentimental
D. satirical
19.
Alexander Pope
strongly
advocated
neoclassicism,
emphasizing
that
literary
works
should
be
judged
by
________
rules
of
order,
reason,
logic,
restrained emotion,
good taste and decorum.
A.
classical
B. romantic
C. sentimental
D. allegorical
20. Of all
the 18th-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. tragi-comic
B.
comic epic
C. romance
D. romantic epic
21.
Which
of
the
following
is
NOT
a
typical
feature
of
Samuel
Johnson's
language style?
A. His sentences are long and well
structured.
B. His sentences are
interwoven with parallel phrases.
C. He
tends to use informal and colloquial words.
D. His sentences are complicated, but
his thoughts are clearly expressed. .
22.
The
School
for
Scandal,
one
of
the
great
classics
in
English
drama,
is
a
________
on the
moral degeneracy of
the
aristocratic-bourgeois society
in the 18th-century England.
A. high praise B. sharp
satire
C. great
irony
D. bitter lament
23.
In
Written
in
a
Country
Churchyard
,
Thomas
Gray
compares
the
common
folk
with
the
great
ones,
wondering
what
the
commo
ns
could have achieved if they had had
the________.
A. love
B. chance
C. money
D.
material wealth
24.
In
his
works,
Defoe
gave
his
praise
to
the
hard-working,
sturdy
________
and showed his
sympathy for the downtrodden, unfortunate poor.
A. middle-class people
C.
Irish farmers
B. working people
D. aristocrats
25.
, the pomp of power, And all that
beauty
, all that wealth
e'er
gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour. The paths
of glory lead but to the grave.
In the above quoted passage,
Thomas Gray intends to say that great family,
power,
beauty and wealth ________.
A. will never make people lead to the
same destina
tion-paths of glory
B. will inevitably make people realize
their glorious dreams
C. are the very
best things to lead people to their glories
D. will never prevent people from
reaching their final destination-grave
B. Blank-filling:
(Complete
each
of the following statements with
a proper word
or phrase. )
1. The Neoclassical Period is also
known as the Age of Enlighten
ment or
the Age
of ________.
2.
Modern
English
novel
is a
natural
product
of
the
Industrial
Revolution
and a
symbol of the growing
importance of the English ________ class.
3.
Joseph Andrews
was first intended as a burlesque of
the dubious morality and
false
sentimentality of Richardson's ________.
4.
As
a
lexicographer,
Johnson
distinguished
himself
as
the
author
of
the
first
English________.
5.
________
was
the
only
important
English
dramatist
of
the
eighteenth
century
.
His
plays, especially
The
Rivals
and
The
School for
Scandal ,
are
generally
regarded
as
important
links
between
the
masterpieces
of
Shakespeare and those of Bernard Shaw.
6. Jonathan Swift's
________
is
generally regarded as a
model of
the best satire
not only in this time but also in the
whole English literary history
.
7.
The Pilgrim's Progress,
which describes a Christian's journey
to the Celestial
City, is a well-known
religious ________.
8.
Henry
Fielding
was
the
first
18th
century
writer
to
try
to
realize,
both
in
theory and practice,
“
________ the modern novel
its structure and style.
9.
In
of his personal
melancholy.
10. Bunyan's style was
modeled after that of the English________, with
concrete
and living language and
carefully observed and vividly presented details.
C.
T-F
statements:
(Decide whether the
following statements are true
or false
and write your answers in the brackets.
)
(
) 1. Samuel Richardson is regarded as
the first writer of the English novel of
character.
(
) 2.
The Pilgrim's Progress is
one of the most popular pieces of
Christian
writing produced during the
Romantic Age.
( ) 3. The Enlightenment
was a progressive working-class movement
throughout
Western Europe in the 18th
century
.
allegory.
(
)
5.
Alexander
Pope
strongly
advocated
Romanticism,
emphasizing
the
special qualities of
each individual's mind.
(
)
6.
Jonathon
Swift
was
the
most
remarkable
satirist
in
the
18th
century
who
criticized
the
new
bourgeois-aristocratic
society
of
his
age
without
mercy.
(
) 7.
In
contrast to
his contemporary
writers,
Thomas
Gray'
literary
output
was small.
(
) 8. In
The Pilgrim's Progress,
the
Celestial City stands
for Heaven or the
kingdom of God.
(
) 9.
In
The Rape of the Lock
Pope
bemoans the fate of the lords and ladies
in the aristocratic bourgeois
society
.
(
)
10.
Unlike Pope, Samuel
Johnson
is seldom didactic
and
never tries
to
moralize in his writings.
D. Works-author pairing-up.
l. The Castle of Otranto
A.
John Bunyan
2. The Mysteries of
UdUdolpho
B. Alexander Pope
3.
The Pilgrim's Progress
4.
The Rape of the Lock
5.
Robinson Crusoe
6. Gulliver's Travels
7. The History of Tom Jones,
a Foundling
C. Jonathan Swift
D. Henry Fielding
E. Horace Walpole
F. Richard B. Sheridan
G
. Ann Radcliffe
H. Thomas Gray
I. Daniel Defoe
J. Samuel Johnson
8.
The Lives of
Poets
9. The School for Scandal
10.
Churchyard
E. Define the literary terms listed
below:
1. The Enlightenment
3.
Neoclassicism
F. Reading
comprehension:
(
For each of
the quotations listed below please give the name
of the author and
the title of the
literary work from which it is taken and then
briefly interpret
it . )
1.
is
the
Britain
Row,
the
French
Row,
the
Italian
Row, the Spanish
Row,
the
German
Row,
where several sorts
of
vanities are
to
be
sold.
But,
as
in
other
fairs, some one
commodity is as the chief of all the fair, so the
ware of Rome and
her
merchandise
is
greatly
promoted
in
this
fair:
only
our
English
nation,
with
some
others, have taken a dislike thereat.
2.
What oft was thought, but
ne'er so well expressed;
Something whose truth convinced at
sight we find,
That gives
us back the image of our mind.
3.
for
life
in
the
water,
and
when
he
has
reached
ground,
encumbers
him
with
help?
2.
The Gothic Novel
4. The
Heroic Couplet
G. Questions:
(For each
of the following
questions you are asked to give a
brief
answer
,
explaining
what
you
know
about
it.
You
should
write
no
more
than
100
words
for
each
answer
,
and,
therefore,
concen
trate
on
those essential points. )
1.
What are the artistic features of Thomas Gray's
poetry?
2. What is the
theme of Sheridan's
The School for
Scandal ?
3. What are the
features of Swift's prose?
H. Essay
questions: (
In this part you are asked
to write a short essay on each
of the
giv
en topics. You should write no more
than 150 words on each one.
Therefore,
you
should
concentrate
on
those
most
important
Points.
try
your
best
to
be
logical
in
your
essay,
and
keep
your
writing
clear
and
tidy. )
1. Comment on the
features of
in
prose
in
the
selected reading of
Tom Jones.
2. Comment on the rope-dances and the
leaping and creeping games described in
Gulliver?s Travels.
3.
Comment
on
the
theme
and
images
of
Written
in
a
Country
Churchyard
E.
Define the literary terms listed below:
1. The Enlightenment
2. The Gothic Novel
3. Neoclassicism
4. The
Heroic Couplet
浪漫主义时期文学
Exercises III
I. Multiple-
choice questions
1.
The
two
major
English
novelists
produced
in
the
Romantic
Age
are
_______.
[A] Byron and Shelley
[B] Wordsworth and Coleridge
[C] Scott and Austen
[D] Lamb and Hazlitt
2.
am
happy
and dance
and sing,
/ They
think
they
have
done me no injury, /And
are gone to praise God and his priest and king,
/
Who
make
up
a
heaven
of
our
misery
.
The
above
four
lines
are
taken from_______.
[A] Song of Experience
[C]
Poetical Sketches
[B] Song of
Innocence
[D] Elegy Written in a
Country Churchyard
3. _______ is
central
to
Blake's
concern
in
his
Songs
of
Innocence
and
Songs of Experience .
[A]
Politics
[B]
Religion
[D] Manhood
[C]
Childhood
4. Which of the following
statements about Wordsworth is NOT true?
[A]
He is
regarded as a
[B]
He thinks that common life is the only
subject of literary interest.
[C]
His deliberate simplicity
and refusal to decorate the truth of experience
produced a kind of pure and profound
poetry
.
[D] He
changes the course of English poetry by using
allusive speech of the
language.
5.
Coleridge's
actual
achievement
as
a
poet
can
be
divided
into
two
remarkably diverse groups: the demonic
and the conversational. Which
one of
the following poems belongs to the conversational
group?
[A] The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner.
[B] Christabel.
[C] Kubla Khan.
[D] Frost at Midnight.
6.
Which
of
the
following
words
is
NOT
appropriate
to
describe
the
characteristic features of the
[A]
Proud.
[B] Mysterious.
[D] Pious.
[C]
Rebellious.
7.
In
the
conversation
with
Mrs.
Bennet
in
Chapter
One
of
Pride
and
Prejudice
, Mr. Bennet uses a
teasing tone and_______ humor.
[A]
ironic
[C]
black
[B] joyous
[D] sarcastic
8. Which of the following works
i
s NOT a poetic drama written by Byron?
[A]
The Prisoner of Chillon
[B]
Manfred
[D]
Don Juan
[C]
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
9. It is a truth
universally acknowledged, that a single man in
possession of a
good fortune must be in
want of a wife.
a(n) _______tone.
[A] ironic
[B] indifferent
[D] Jealousy
[C] delightful
10. Which of the following works is an
elegy written by Shelley?
[A]
Adonais
[C]
Isabella
[B]
Lycidas
[D]
Queen Mab
11. In the poem
like this:
word
[A] the poet
[B ] the reader
[D] her father
[C] her lover
12.
In
the
early
19th-
century
England,
the
heavily
exploited
workers
expressed
themselves
in
the
popular
outbreaks
of
machine-breaking
known as the ______ riots.
[A] Chartist
[B] Peterloo
[C] Enclosure
[D] Luddite
13.
—
nay, drink your
blood?
used as a(n) ______.
.
[A] irony
[B] metaphor
[D] synecdoche
[C] metonymy
14.
In
his poem,
to the West
Wind
intends
to
present
his
wind as a
central______ around which the poet weaves various
cycles
of death and rebirth.
[A] synecdoche
[C] simile
[
[B]
symbol
D] metonymy
15.
Byron's
for
the
Luddites
contains
three
five-lined
stanzas
of
______
movement. The rimes in each stanza are abba .
[A] iambic
[C] trochee
[B]
anapestic
[D] dactylic