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1、___________ I. Multiple Choice: from a, b, c or d, choose the best one to complete the statements below. (150, 50 points) 1. ---- ----- is the first important religious poet in English literature. a. John Donne b. George Herbert c. Caedmon d. Milton 2. The literature of the Anglo-Saxon

2、 period falls naturally into two divisions, ---------- and Christian. a. Pagan b. Roman c. French d. Danish 3. “----------” is the oldest poem in the English language, and also the surviving epic in the English language. a. Beowulf b. Sir Gawain and Green Knight c. The Cant

3、erbury Tales d. Hamlet 4. Fielding has been regarded by some as the “----------” for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel. a. Best Writer of English Novel b. Father of English Novel c. Father of English Poetry d. Father of English Essay

4、5. All of the following three writers except ---------- are the most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England. a. Marlowe b. Shakespeare c. Bacon d. Thomas Kyd 6. Byronic Hero was created by Lord Byron in one of his following works ---------. a. Don Juan b. Od

5、e to the West wind c. She Walks in Beauty d. Daffodils 7. Which play is not Shakespeare’s tragedy? ---------- a. Othello b. The Merchant of Venice c. Romeo and Juliet d. King Lear 8. The literary form of The Faerie Queen is ----------. a. lyric poem b. na

6、rrative poem c. epic poem d. elegy 9. Which of the following cannot correctly describe the English Enlightenment Movement ----------? a. It flourished in France. b. It was a furtherance of the Renaissance. c. Its purpose was to enlighten the whole world. d. It emphasized “

7、reason & order.” 10. “Blindness, partiality, prejudice and absurdity” in the novel Pride and Prejudice are most likely to be the characteristics of ----------. a. Elizabeth b. Darcy c. Mrs. Bennet d. Lydia 11. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is the --------

8、--. a. French b. Latin c. romance d. science 12. The story of “----------” is the culmination of the Arthurian metrical romances. a. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight b. Beowulf c. Piers the Plowman d. The Canterbury Tales 13. Chaucer, the ‘father of English poetry’ and

9、one of the greatest ---------- poets of England, was born in London about 1340, and was the first to be buried in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey. a. lyrical b. blank verse c. narrative d. ballad 14. Which kind of metrical form was adopted by Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales? a. Lon

10、don dialect b. Heroic Couplet c. sonnet d. elegy 15. 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 (1359-1372) b. The period of Italian influence (1372-13

11、86) c. The period of English influence (1386-1400) d. The period of American influence (1371-1382) 16. --------- was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature. a. Thomas Wyatt b. William Shakespeare c. Philip Sidney d. Thomas Campion 17. The epoch of Renaissance witness

12、ed a particular development of English drama. It was ---------- who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama. a. Edmund Spenser b. Thomas Lodge c. Christopher Marlowe d. Thomas More 18. Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of Queen ----------.

13、 a. Mary b. Elizabeth c. Victoria d. William 19. English Renaissance Period was an age of ----------. a. prose and novel b. poetry and drama c. essays and journals d. ballads and songs 20. From the following, choose the one that is not Francis Bacon’s work. ---------- a. Th

14、e Advancement of Learning b. Essays c. Maxims of the Law d. Othello 21. English Renaissance Period was not an age of prose, but Thomas More wrote his famous prose work ----------. a. Of Studies b. Robinson Crusoe c. Gulliver’s Travels d. Utopia 22. Which play is not Shakespea

15、re’s comedy? --------- a. A Midsummer Night’s Dream b. The Merchant of Venice c. Romeo and Juliet d. As You Like It 23. ----------,considered John Milton’s masterpiece, vividly tells the story of Satan’s rebellion against God and his tempting of Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit of th

16、e tree of knowledge. a. Paradise Regained b. Bible c. The Pilgrim’s Progress d. ParadiseLost 24. ---------- was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century. a. The Renaissance b. The Enlightenment c. The Religious Reformation

17、 d. The Chartist Movement 25. In the last 20 years of the 18th century, England produces two great pre-romantic poets. They were ----------. a. Johnson and Blake b. Grey and Young c. Pope and Goldsmith d. Blake and Burns 26. The 18th-century witnessed that in Engl

18、and there appeared two political parties, ----------, which were satirized by Swift in his Gulliver’s Travels. a. The Whigs and the Tories b. The senate and the House of Representatives c. The upper House and lower House d. The House of Lords and the House of Commons 27. The critical realism in

19、 19th-century England has been considered as the 3rd important literary achievement after the ancient Greek tragedy and the Renaissance drama. It has some basic characteristics as follows except: ---------- a. Truthful reflection of the society with superb artistic style b. Violent exposure and cr

20、iticism with profound humanism c. Harmonious unity between the characters and situation d. The use of simple and common language 28. The Romantic Age began with the publication of Lyrical Ballads, which was written by ----------. a. William Wordsworth b. Samuel Johnson c. Samue

21、l Taylor Coleridge d. Wordsworth and Coleridge 29. Which poet did not belong to the Lakers? a. Coleridge b. Wordsworth c. Southey d. Keats 30. Choose the ode that is not written by Keats. ---------- a. Ode to the West Wind b. Ode to a Nightingale c. To Autumn

22、 d. Ode on a Grecian Urn 31. Choose the work that was not written by Jane Austen. ---------- a. Emma b. Sense and Sensibility c. Mansfield Park d. Jane Eyre 32. English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of ----------. a. novel b. drama

23、 c. poetry d. prose 33. Which of the following writers did not belong to English critical realists? a. Charles Dickens b. Charlotte Bronte c. Daniel Defoe d. W. M. Thackeray 34. Dickens’s David Copperfield is often regarded as the semi-autobiography of the writer in which the early

24、 life of the hero is largely based on the author’s early life, while his --------- is set against the backdrop of the French Revolution. a. Oliver Twist b. Great Expectations c. Hard Times d. A Tale of Two Cities 35. The sub-title of Vanity Fair is ‘---------’. a. A Pure Woman Faithfully

25、 Portrayed b. The Spirit and the Flesh c. A Novel Without a Hero d. Sense and Sensibility 36. In the novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte has some basic subject matters to express as follows except ----------. a. pours a great deal of her own experience b. criticizes the American bourgeois system of

26、education c. shows that true love is the foundation of marriage d. shows that women should have equal rights with men 37. James Joyce was one of the foremost writers of --------- novels. a. critical realist b. Gothic c. stream of consciousness d. romantic hi

27、storical 38. The first English essayist Francis Bacon composed, during his lifetime, numerous prose work, and --------- is unmistakably among the most eloquent and elegant essays produced in English Renaissance. a. Of Studies b. Ode to the West Wind c. The Tiger d. Don J

28、uan 39. Among the following 20th-century Irish writers, who is the spokesman for the school of “Art for Art’s Sake”? ---------- a. Bernard Shaw b. Oscar Wilde c. James Joyce d. W. B. Yeats 40. Wordsworth believes that ---------- can inspires poetry, and it is his nurse, guide, guardian and an

29、chor of his thoughts. a. nature b. God c. love d. wealth 41. Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques, writers in the Victorian Period shared one thing in common, that is, they were all concerned about ----------. a. the love sto

30、ry of the rich b. the future of their country c. the fate of common people d. the love-making of the middle class people 42. --------- lays the foundation for modern science with his insistence on scientific way of thinking and fresh observation rather than authority as a basis for obtai

31、ning knowledge. a. Charles Dickens b. Francis Bacon c. Thomas Hardy d. Thomas More 43. The following comments on Daniel Defoe are true except ---------. a. Robinson Crusoe is his first novel. b. He is a member of the upper class. c. Robinson Crusoe is universally considered his mas

32、terpiece. d. He embarked on a new career—the writing of novel—when he was 60. 44. The term “metaphysical poetry” is commonly used to name the work of the 17th-century writers who wrote under the influence of ----------. a. John Donne b. John Keats c. John Milton d. John Bunyan 45

33、. The cradle of the Renaissance is ----------. a. Germany b. England c. Italy d. France 46. The middle of the 18th century was predominated by a newly rising literary form that is the modern English ----------, which gives a realistic presentation of life of the common Engl

34、ish people. a. prose b. novel c. tragicomedy d. drama 47. Which of the following writings did Wordsworth not create? ------c-- a. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud b. The Solitary Reaper c. The Chimney Sweeper d. The Prelude 48. Which of the following writings i

35、s not the work by Dickens? c a. A Tale of Two Cities b. Hard Times c. Sons and Lovers d. Oliver Twist 49. The Victorian Age was largely an age of ---------, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray. a. poetry b. drama c. essay d. novel 50.

36、 The 23-year-old Austen composed three novels, and among them, First Impressions was early version of --00------. a. Pride & Prejudice b. Sense & Sensibility c. Emma d. Northanger Abbey Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension: read the following selected parts carefully, and give the best answer to t

37、he relevant questions. (0.550, 25 points) Part 1 Shall I compare thee to a summers day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summers lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gol

38、d complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or natures changing course untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owst, Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time tho

39、u growst, So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Questions: 51. This is one of Shakespeare’s best known ----------. a. sonnets b. ballads c. songs 52. It runs in iambic pentameter rhymed ----------. a. abba abba cd

40、cd cd b. abab cdcd efef gg 53. The 14 lines include three quatrains together with the last two lines as ---------- which completes the sense of the lines above. a. prelude b. couplet c. epigraph 54. The theme of this poem is ----------. a. love b. friendship c. immortal

41、ity of arts Part 2 I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high oer vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle

42、on the milky way, 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. Questions: 55. This is the first two stanza of a poem that is written by --------. a. Byron b. Wordsworth c.

43、Keats 56. The title of the poem is ----------. a. To Autumn b. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud c. The Solitary Reaper 57. The poem’s theme is about ----------. a. beauty of nature b. country life c. love 58. The poet adopts one kind of figure of speech: ---------- to describe the

44、 flowers in the poem. a. personification b. alliteration c. conceit 59. The rhyme scheme in each stanza is ----------. a. ababab b. ababcc c. abcdcd Part 3 IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must b

45、e in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters. Questions: 60.

46、 This passage is the opening of a novel entitled ----------. a. Sense and Sensibility b. Pride and Prejudice c. Jane Eyre 61. The writer of the novel is the first famous woman novelist—---------. a. George Eliot b. Charlotte Bronte c. Jane Austen 62. The story in this novel i

47、s based on the lovemaking of the young people in the ------- families in 18th-century England. a. upper-middle-class b. aristocratic c. royal Part 4 Thats my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Fr Pandolfs hands

48、 Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Will t please you sit and look at her? I said Fr Pandolf by design, for never read Strangers like you that pictured countenance, Questions: 63. These lines are quoted from the poem entitled-------. a. Song b. My Last Duchess c.

49、 When We Two Parted 64. It was composed by the outstanding poet -------. a. Robert Browning b. Lord Byron c. William Wordsworth 65. In the famous piece, the form of ------- is skillfully employed. a. ballad b. dramatic monologue c. blank verse Part 5 GO and

50、catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the devils foot, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envys stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. If thou best born to strange sights, T

51、hings invisible to see, Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age snow white hairs on thee, Thou, when thou returnst, wilt tell me, All strange wonders that befell thee, And swear, No where Lives a woman true and fair. Questions: 66. These are the first 2 stanzas of the po

52、em written by ------- in 17th-century England. a. John Milton b. John Donne c. John Bunyan 67. The poet is the most outstanding figure of the poetic school of “-------” during this period. a. Graveyard Poets b. Metaphysical Poets c. Romantic poets 68. He was appointed

53、by King James I in 1621 as the dean of ------- and he held this post till his last day. a. Westminster Abbey b. St. Paul Cathedral c. Canterbury Cathedral 69. Besides his unique love poetry, he is also famous for his religious -------. a. poetry b. sermons c. plays 70

54、. This group of poets prefers to use an elaborate and surprising figure of speech, -------, to express ideas in a sharp and harsh manner, by comparing two very dissimilar things. a. conceit b. similar c. alliteration Part 6 "I tell you I must go!" I retorted, roused to s

55、omething like passion. "Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton?--a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and l

56、ittle, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!--I have as much soul as you,--and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of

57、 custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh;--it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at Gods feet, equal,--as we are!" Questions: 71. This passage is taken from the novel “-------”. a. Emma b. Wuthering Heights

58、 c. Jane Eyre 72. The author of the work is -------. a. Jane Austen b. Emily Bronte c. Charlotte Bronte 73. The speaker in the passage is -------. a. Cathy b. Lydia c. Jane 74. The character is passionately emphasizing the significance of ------- between

59、men and women. a. marriage b. equality c. relationship 75. The character is speaking to -------. a. Mr. Rochester b. Mr. Bingley c. Mr. Bennet Part 7 `I have been hoping, longing, praying, to make you happy! I have thought what joy it will be to do it, what an u

60、nworthy wife I shall be if I do not! Thats what I have felt, Angel! `I know that. `I thought, Angel, that you loved me - me, my very self! If it is I you do love, O how can it be that you look and speak so? It frightens me! Having begun to love you, I love you for ever - in all changes, in all d

61、isgraces, because you are yourself. I ask no more. Then how can you, O my own husband, stop loving me? `I repeat, the woman I have been loving is not you. `But who? `Another woman in your shape. Questions: 76. This passage is taken from the novel “-------”. a. Sons and Lovers b. Tess o

62、f the D’Urbervilles c. Jane Eyre 77. The author of the work is -------. a. William Thackeray b. Thomas Hardy c. Charles Dickens 78. The female speaker in the passage is --------. a. Tess b. Elizabeth c. Jane 79. The novel reveals women’s dreadful life in ------

63、- England. a. 19th-century b. 18th-century c.17th-century Part 8 Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with some one, up went her back like a cat’s; or she purred. Devonshire House, Bath House, the house with the china co

64、ckatoo, she had seen them all lit up once; and remembered Sylvia, Fred, Sally Seton—such hosts of people; and dancing all night; and the waggons plodding past to market; and driving home across the Park. She remembered once throwing a shilling into the Serpentine. But every one remembered; what she

65、loved was this, here, now, in front of her; the fat lady in the cab. Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely; all this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death e

66、nded absolutely? Questions: 80. This passage is taken from the novel “-------”. a. Sons and Lovers b. Mrs. Dalloway c. Dubliners 81. The author of the work is -------. a. James Joyce b. D. H. Lawrence c. Virginia Woolf 82. The writer is the representative figure of ------- novelists in 20th-century England. a. steam-of-consciousness b. critical realism c. aestheticism 83. This passage reveals t