英国文学复习19957汇编

A. Please point out the author of the following works

1. The Canterbury Tales ______Geoffrey chaucer___________________

2.. Macbeth _______William Shakespeare__________________

3. The Pilgrim’s Progress ___ (John Bunyan) ______________________

4.New instrument Francis bacon

5. Gulliver’s Travels __Jonathan swift_______________________

6 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud _______William

wordsworth__________________

7. Samson Agonistes john milton

8. The Review Daniel Defoe

9.A Modest Proposal jonathan swift_

10. Northanger Abbey

B. Multiple Choice（one point for each）

1. The only complete piece of epic in old English is ________.

A. The Geste of Robin Hood

B. Beowulf

C. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

D. Mort d’Arthur

2. ________ is the main literary trend in the first period of the English Enlightenment.

A. Realism

B. Romanticism

C. Neo-classicism

D. Sentimentalism

3. The rise and growth of the ________ is the most prominent achievement of the 18th century English literature.

A. romantic poetry

B. realistic novel

C. neo-classical poetry

D. sentimental novel

4. Most of Shakespeare’s best plays were written in the ________ period of his dramatic

career.

A. first

B. second

C. third

D. fourth

5. John Milton is a great poet in the period of English ________.

A. feudalism

B. Renaissance

C. Bourgeois Revolution

D. Enlightenment

6. ________ is regarded as“Father of English Prose”, who was the first to write essays in the English language.

A. Bede

B. Alfred

C. Francis Bacon

D. Samuel Johnson

7. The well-known soliloquy by Hamlet“To be or not to be…”shows his ________.

A. hatred for his uncle

B. love for life

C. resolution of revenge

D. inner strife

8. _____ is defined as an expression of human emotion which is

condensed into fourteen lines (2006年真题第37题)

A. Free verse

B. Sonnet

C. Ode

D. Epigram

9. The novel Emma is written by________.（2005年真题第35题）

A. Mary Shelley

B. Charlotte Bronte

C. Gaskell

D. Jane Austen

10.“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” The quoted part is taken from . .

A Jane Eyre

B Wuthering Heights

C Pride and Prejudice

D Sense

and Sensibility

11. Because of her sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior, has brought the English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity.

A. Charlotte Bronte

B. Jane Austen

C. Emily Bronte

D. Ann Radcliffe

12.Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies are.

A. Romeo and Juliet King Lear Othello Hamlet.

B. Othello Hamlet. Macbeth The Merchant of Vice

C. Hamlet Macbeth King Lear Othello

D. Romeo and Juliet The Merchant of Vice Othello Hamlet.

13. The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ______.

A. Surrey

B. Wyatt

C. Sidney

D. Shakespeare

14. “To be, or not to be - that is the question;/Whether’ tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/Or to take arms against a sea of troubles ,/And by opposing end then?” These lines are taken from ______.

A. King Lear

B. Romeo and Juliet

C. Othello

D. Hamlet

15. Daniel Defoe’s ______ is universally considered as his masterpiece.

A. Colonel Jack

B. Robinson Crusoe

C. Captain Singleton

D. A Journal of the Plague Year

16. The Renaissance marks a transition from ______ to the modern world.

A. the old English

B. the medieval

C. the feudalist

D. the capitalist

17. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am

soulless and heartless? ... 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. ” The quoted lines are most probably taken from ________.

A. Great Expectations

B. Wuthering Heights

C. Jane Eyre

D. Pride and Prejudice

18. John Milton’s greatest poetical work ________ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.

A. Areopagitica

B. Paradise Lost

C. Lycidas

D. Samson Agonistes

C. Blank Filling.

1. The story in“Hamlet”comes from an old ___Danish_____________ legend.

2. Sir Thomas Wyatt first brought the sonnet to England from ______Petrarchan__________.

3. Paradise Lost is a long ______poem__________ divided into 12 books.

4 Geoffrey Chaucer is the founder of English poetry, his masterpiece is the Canterbury Tales , written in the form of Heroic couplet , contains 24 tales.

5. Daniel Defoe is the forerunner of English realistic novel.

6. John Donne is the representative of Metaphysical poets.

7.Shakespeare produces38 plays, 154 sonnets.

8.Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, was buried in Westminster Abbey .

9.In describing Robinson’s life on the island, Defoe glorifies human Labor .

10 In Jane Austin’s masterpiece, Pride and Prejudice, Darcy stands for pride, and Elizabeth stands for prejudice.

E．Reading Comprehension