英语学习英美文学试题

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一、选择题（在每个小题四个备选答案中选出一个正确答案，填在题末的括

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（本大题共

15

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1.

Beowulf

is a ___ poem, describing an all-round picture of the tribal society.

A. pagan

B. Christain

C. romantic

D. lyric

2.

The

work

that

presented,

for

the

first

time

in

English

literature,

a

comprehensive

realistic

picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all

walks of life is most likely___.

A. William Langland

’

s Piers the Plowman

B. Geoffrey Chaucer

’

s

The Canterbury Tales

C. John Gower

’

s

Confessio Amantis

D. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

3.

Which of the following plays does NOT belong to Shakespeare

’

s great tragedies?

A.

Othello

B.

Macbeth

C.

Romeo and Juliet

D.

Hamlet

4.

Which of the following poetic forms is the principle form of Shakespeare

’

s drama?

A. lyric

B. sonnet

C. blank verse

D. quatrain

5.

Which of the following statements best illustrate the theme of Shakespeare

’

s Sonnet 18?

A. The speaker eulogizes the power of nature.

B. The speaker satirizes human vanity.

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A. Lilliput

B. Brobdingnag

C. Laputa

D. Houyhnhnms

7.

Which of the following is NOT true about

Robinson Crusoe

?

A.

It is written in the autobiographical form.

B.

It is a record of Defoe

’

s own experiences.

C.

Robinson spends 28 years of isolated life on the island.

D.

It is set in the middle of the 17

th

century.

8.

Many of Burn

s’

songs deal with friendship.____ has long become a universal parting-song of

all the English speaking countries.

A. A

Red, Red Rose

B. Auld Lang Syne

C. My Heart

’

s in the Highlands

D. John Anderson, My Jo

9.

“

Beauty is truth, truth beauty

”

is an epigrammatic line by___.

A. John Keats

B. William Blake

C. William Wordsworth

D. Percy Shelley

10.

“

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

”

is taken from___

A. The Solitary Reaper

B. Ode to the West Wind

C. To Autumn

D. Song to the Man of England

11.

The

revolutionary

Romantic

poet___ went

to

Greece

to

help

that country

in

its

struggle

for

liberty and died of fever there.

A. Shelley

B. Byron

C. Keats

D. Burns

12.

At the beginning of

Pride and Prejudice

, the attitude of Darcy and Elizabeth toward each other

is that of ___.

A. mutual affection

B. mutual repulsion

C. mutual hatred

D. mutual indifference

13.

“

Ode to the West Wind

”

is concluded with ____ mood.

A. triumphant and hopeful

B. pessimistic and skeptical

C. desperate and sad

D. indifferent

14.

The following are the common characters shared by the three Bronte sisters EXCEPT___.

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A. unmarried

B. literary

C. talented

D. dying young

15.

___ is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist.

A. W.B. Y

eats

B. John Galsworthy

C. James Joyce

D. G

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二、 填空（本大题共

10

小题，每小题

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1. Chaucer employed the_______ couplet in writing his greatest work

The Canterbury tales

.

2.

Shakespeare

’

s plays have been traditionally divided into four categories according to dramatic

type: histories, _______, tragedies and romances.

3.

A

Shakespearean sonnet is composed of three quatrains and a concluding________.

4.

John

Donne

is

the

founder

of

the

school

of__________.

His

works

are

characterized

by

mysticism in content and fantasticality in form.

5. John Milton

’

s

Paradise Lost

opens with the description of a meeting among the fallen angels,

and ends with the departure of Adam and_____from the Garden of Eden.

6.

“

Till a

’

the seas gang dry

, my dear,

And the roacks melt wi

’

the sun:

I will luve thee still, my dear,

While the sands of life shall run

”

The above lines are taken from the famous poem

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_________________________

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.

7.

In

Gulliver

’

s Travels

, Y

ahoos are the creatures living in__________________.

8.

As

an

age

of

romantic

enthusiasm,

the

Romantic

Age

began

in

1798

when

Wordsworth

and

__________________published

Lyrical Ballads

9.

___________are generally regarded as Keats

’

most important and mature works.

10.

Wuthering

Heights

is

written

by___________.

It

is

a

morbid

story

of

love,

but

a

powerful

attack on the bourgeois marriage system. It shows true love ion a class society is impossible of

attainment.

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三、

诗歌分析（本大题共

4

个小题，每小题 分值见各小题，共

20

分）

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,

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5

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They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A

poet could not but be gay

,

In such a jocund company:

I gazed--and gazed--but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:

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Who is the poet of this part of a poem? What is the title of the poem?(4

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)

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What is the meter and rhyme of each stanza?

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Analyze the rhythm of the second stanza (The first line is done as a model).(5

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The waves | beside | them danced; | but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A

poet could not but be gay

,

In such a jocund company:

I gazed-- and gazed--but little thought

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