英国文学习题及答案.doc

第一部分The introduction of the old and medieval periodI.填空1. The time of old English literature is_.2. The period extended from about 450-1066, the year of the Norman-France conquest of England is called_.3. The major achievement of the old and medieval period is_.4. Literature in this period is divided into _and_.5. Beowulf is an epic consist of _lines and is to be divided into _ part.II判断正误1. The father of English song is Caedmon, he wrote a poetic paraphrase of the Bible. ( ).2. Beowulf is England national Poetry ( ).3. The major achievement of The Old and Medieval Period is Epic ( ).4. Beowulf is an epic consists of 3181 lines and is divided into 2 parts ( ).5. Alliteration is a repeated initial consonant to successive words ( ).III.大题Whats the definition of epic?答案.1. (449A.D-1066)2. The Anglo-Saxon Period3. Poetry4. Pagan literature& Christian literature5. 3182, 2判断正误1. T2. F (Epic)3. F (poetry)4. F (3182)5. T大题Whats the definition of epic?It is originally an oral narrative poem, majestic both in the theme and style. Epics deal with legendary or historical events of national or universal significance, involving actions of broad sweep and grandeur. 第二部分Geoffrey ChaucerI.填空1. Geoffrey Chaucer was buried in the _after he died. The place where he was later became the famous _.2. Chaucers literary career is usually divided into three phrases_, _and_.3. Chaucer is the forerunner of _, he affirms mens and womens right to pursue _and opposed asceticism.4. Chaucer is the founder of English _, the presents to the readers comprehensive realistic picture of _of his time and describes a series of vivid character from all walks of life in his major work_.5. _was his most famous but unfinished work.II判断正误6. Chaucer died on the 25th of Oct. 1400 and was the first to be buried in the Poets Corner of Westminster Abbey. ( )7. Chaucers literary career can be divided into four periods corresponding with those of his life. ( )8.Chaucer presented a comprehensive realistic picture of his age and created a whole gallery of vivid characters in his works ( )9. Chaucers reputation has been securely established as one of the best English poets for his wisdom, humor and humanity ( )10. He exposed and satirized the social vices, including religious abuses. ( )III.大题11. What is the contribution of Geoffrey Chaucer?1. The Canterbury Tales was his most famous but unfinished work, it is unique for its variety, humor, grace and realism.2. Chaucer became the first great poet of the English nation and give strong influences over the development of English literature.3. Chaucer affirmed mans right to pursue earthly happiness and opposed asceticism.4. Chaucer bore marks of humanism and anticipated a new era to come.答案：1. Westminster Abbey Poets Corner 2. The French Period The Italian period The English period 3. Humanism earthly happiness 4. Realism English society The Canterbury Tales5. The Canterbury Tales6-10 T F T T T 第三部分Renaissance PeriodI.填空1, Renaissance refers to the period between _ century.2, Renaissance first started in _ with the flowering of _, _, and _.3, _ is the essence of the Renaissance. Another important part of this Renaissance movement was the _.4, The Renaissance of the most important products are _ and _.5, _, _, and _are the best representative of the English humanists.II.判断1, The Renaissance, which means rebirth or revival, is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events. ( )2, Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance. ( )3, The Renaissance period divided into 2 parts. They are Pagan and Christian. ( )4, In the Renaissance period, the literary style are poet, prose and drama. ( )5, The religious reformation was the important part of Renaissance. ( )III.大题How do you understand humanism is the essence of the Renaissance?答案填空1,14th and mid-17th2, Italy, painting, sculpture, literature3, Humanism, religious reformation4, poetry, drama5, Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare判断1，T 2, T 3，F 4， T 5, T大题Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance. Renaissance humanists found in the classics a justification. By emphasizing the dignity of human beings and the importance of the present life, they voiced their beliefs that man did not only have the right to enjoy the beauty of his life, but also had the ability to perfect himself and to perform wonders.第四部分SpenserI.填空题:1. Edmund Spensers most ambitious poetic achievement is _ .2.Each book has a _ who performs noble deeds for a glorious fairy queen whom Spenser intentionally associates with Queen Elizabeth .3. The Knight in each book represents _ . 4. Edmund Spenser has been called_, because of his idealism, his love of beauty, and his exquisite melody.5. Edmund Spenser was strongly influenced by_, but was also earthy and practical. 6. Edmund Spenser was the greatest _ poet of the Elizabethan Age, and the first master of _.II.判断题:1. Edmund Spensers most ambitious poetic achievement is Gloriana.2. Edmund Spenser was born in London to a wealth family.3. Spenser had planned to write 12 book for this great poem, but he completed only six.4. Spenser studied philosophy, rhetoric, Italian, French, Latin and Greek to prepare himself as a poet.5. He spent the rest of his life holding various posts in the government except for three visits to England.III.简答题：Please describe the comments on Spenser.答案填空题1. The Faerie Queene2. Hero knight3. A different moral4. poets poet 5. Non-dramatic, English verse6. Renaissance Neo-Platonism判断题1. F (The Faerie Queene)2. F(poor)3. T4. T5. F(two)简答题（1）the greatest non-dramatic poet of the Elizabethan Age, and the first master of English verse, which he made the natural music of his voice. （2）Spencer has been called the poets poet, because of his idealism, his love of beauty, and his exquisite melody. Spencer has exerted great influence on later poets. （3）Edmund Spenser was a man of his times, and his work reflects the religious and humanistic ideals as well as the intense but critical patriotism of Elizabethan England. His contributions to English literature-in the form of a heightened and enlarged poetic vocabulary, a charming and flexible verse style, and a rich fusing of the philosophic and literary currents of the English Renaissance-entitle him to a rank not far removed from that of William Shakespeare and John Milton.第五部分 MarloweI.填空1.Marlowes three tragedies are_,_ and _.2.Marlowes non-dramatic poetry are_ and _.3.Marlowes verse translation is _.4.Dr. Faustus is a play based on the _ of a magician aspiring for knowledge.5.It is Marlowe who first made _, the principal instrument of English drama and created dramatic effects.II.判断1.Dr. Faustus is Marlowes non-dramatic poetry.2.Marlowes creation of the Renaissance hero for English drama is one of his achievements.3.Marlowe is the greatest of the pioneers of English drama.4.The Jew of Malta is a rich and greedy merchant. He pursues wealth endlessly and finally is betrayed and gets killed.5.Dr. Faustus shows the Renaissance human spirit of pursuing knowledge, as well as the courage to challenge fate and authority. III.大题What is the achievement of Marlowe?答案：填空1.Tamburlaine，The Jew of Malta ，Dr. Faustus 2.Hero and Leander，The Passionate shepherd to His Love3. Amores （Ovid s）4.German legend5.blank verse判断1.F 2.T 3.T 4.T 5.T大题1.It is Marlowe who first made blank verse, the principal instrument of English drama and created dramatic effects.2.His creation of Renaissance hero for English drama.3. His dramatic achievement lies chiefly in his epical and at times lyrical verse. 第六部分 Shakespeare. 填空题：1.Shakespeare is an English () and (), his contributions to the development of () is tremendous.2.It is Shakespeare who breaks the division between () and () and creates () plays that have both tragic and comic elements.3.Shakespeare is one of the founders of ().4.Shakespeare wrote four famous tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, (), and King Lear.5.The dramatic career of Shakespeare is divided into () period.6.In Shakespeares lifetime, he wrote () plays, () sonnets and () long poems.7.The rhyme scheme of Shakespeare is (), (),() and ().8.Shakespeare was regarded as the greatest () in the English language and the worlds pre-eminent ().9.Shakespeares works include history plays, comedy, tragedy, () and ().10. () and （）occupy a central position in the sonnet sequence. 判断题：1.His contributions to the development of poet (drama) are tremendous.2.In the second period of Shakespeares dramatic career, he wrote five histories-Richard ,Henry (), Parts and , and Henry.3.The four tragedies of Shakespeare are Hamlet, Macbeth, Coriolanus (King Lear) and Othello. 4.Shakespeares comedies (tragedies) are often regarded as the greatest accomplishments of the dramatist.5.He also wrote 154 sonnets, which were published in 1600(1609). Shakespeare wrote his sonnets in the popular English form of three quatrains and (a couplet).6.In Shakespeares plays, he did not hesitate to describe the cruelty and anti-natural character of the civil wars, but he did not go all the way against the feudal one. . 论述题1. As a playwright， how different is Ben Johnson from Shakespeare?Johnsons theory of humours reduces his characters to types, who represent greed, vanity, falsehood, etc. They are flat, one-sided and have no development. Unlike him, Shakespeare digs deep into human nature and depicts the complexities of human relations. Also, Ben Johnson advocates classic Roman and Greek masters, strictly observes the three unities and disapproves of any mixture of the tragic with the comic, while Shakespeare creates according to his own judgment and the taste of the audience, and is very flexible in his handling of drama rules set by the predecessors. 2. Please introduce the different periods of Shakespeares literary career.Shakespeares literary career may be divided into 3 major periods which represent respectively his early, mature and late period. In the first period(1590-1600)，he created mainly history plays and comedies: such as Henry IV, The Merchant of Venice and The Twelfth Night. The second period (1601-1608) is the one of great tragedies, namely Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and King Lear. In the last period (1609-1612), he wrote dramatic romances.3. Please translate the following soliloquyTo be, or not to be- that is the question:Whether tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortuneOr to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them. To die- to sleep- No more; and by a sleep to say we endThe heartache, and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh is heir to. Tis a consummationDevoutly to be wishd. To die- to sleep. To sleep- perchance to dream: ay, theres the rub! For in that sleep of death what dreams may comeWhen we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. 生存还是毁灭，这是一个值得考虑的问题；默然忍受暴虐的命运矢石交攻，还是拿起武器勇对无涯的苦难，通过抗争把它们根除，这两种行为，哪一种更高贵？死，就是睡眠 就结束了；如果睡眠能结束我们心灵的创伤和肉体所承受的千百种痛苦，那真是生存求之不得的天大的好事。死，就是睡眠； 睡眠，也许要做梦，这就麻烦了！即使我们摆脱了这尘世的牵缠，可在这死的睡眠里又会做些什么梦呢？一想到就不能不踌躇。4. Whats the theme of this soliloquy?The speech conveys a sense of world-weariness as well as the authors incisive comments on the social reality of his time. Hamlet lives between action and resolution. He is so contemplative that he examines the nature of the action only to deny its possibility. He considers it better for people to die, but then says nobody knows what happens in the afterlife.Answers:.填空题1. Poet, playwright, drama 2. Tragedy, comedy, realistic 3. Realism4. Macbeth5. Four6. 37, 154, 27. abab cdcd efef gg8. Writer, dramatist9. Dramatic romance, poetry10. Love, friendship. 判断题 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.第七部分Henry FieldingI.填空题1. During the next dozen years he produced a number of _, _, and_, ridiculing the society and politics of the time.2. Henry Fielding became editor of a paper called _.3. Henry Fielding was disgusted by the morality of its contents and produced a parody entitled _, 4._was also supposed to be parody of Pamela and it set out just like that.5. Among Fieldings novels, the best known is _. 1. farces burlesques light plays2. The Champion 3. Shamela4. Joseph Andrews5. Tom JonesII.判断题1. Henry Fielding is one of the greatest novelist of the 18 century.( T )2. Henry Fielding is one of the most artistic that America literature has produced.( F )3. Henry Fielding is a versatile man and dramatist, owned 27 plays.(F )4. Henry Fielding has been regard by some as Father of the English novel.( T )5. Henry Fielding s point of view is that he does not believed in the educational function of the novel.( F )III.简答题1. Concluding the comment of Tom Jones .1. Tom Jones is a vivid panorama of eighteenth-century life2. Tom Jones is one of the greatest comic masterpieces of English literature.3. Tom Jones is major farce in the development of the novel form, a picaresque novel. . 第八部分BaconI.填空题1. In Elizabethan Period, ( ) was wrote more than 50 excellent essays. 2. Bacons essays are often of ( ), many of them have become wise old saying.3. Bacons essays are famous for ( ), ( ) and ( ).4. ( ) is the most popular of Bacons 58 essays.5. Generally speaking, Bacons literary style has three prominent qualities :( ), ( ) and ( ).6. Bacons works establish and popularize an ( ) for scientific inquiry, often calledII判断题1. Francis Bacon is the father of experimental philosophy. ( )2. The best philosophical work is The Advancement of Learning. ( )3. Balance and opposition are not the most common strategies he uses. ( )4. Bacon is the first English essayist. ( )5. Collection of 58 essays with wide variety of subjects: love, truth, friendship, parents and children, beauty, studies, riches, youth and age, garden, death, etc. ( )III.解答题1. Please give a brief introduction about The Advancement of Learning.2. Please describe the status of Essays. 答案：一.1. Francis Bacon2. balanced structure3. Brevity，compactness，powerfulness 4. Of studies5. Directness，terseness，forcefulness6. inductive methodology, Baconian method二.1. T 2.T 3.F 4.T 5.T三.1. a).A great book on education; b).He divides knowledge into two kinds. One is the knowledge obtained from the Divine Revelation; the other is the knowledge from the workings of human mind; c).According to Bacon, mans understanding consists of three parts: history to mans memory, poetry to mans imagination and creation, and philosophy to mans reason.2. Essays is the first example of that genre in English literature, which has been recognized as an important landmark in the development of English prose.第九单元John DonneI.填空题1、John Donne is the leading figure of the _. (metaphysical school)2、After his wifes death in 1617,Donne devoted all his time and efforts to his _,_,and _. (priestly duties, writing sermons,religious poems)3、The most striking feature of Donnes poetry is _, in the sense that it seems to reflect life in a real rather than _.(precisely its tang of reality, a poetical world)4、John Donnes poem is _ rather than static with ingenuity of speech, vividness of imagery and vitality of rhythms. (dynamic)5、John Donne s poems give a more inherently theatrical impression by _, and a free range of feelings and moods. (exhibiting a seemingly unfocused diversity of experiences and attitudes)II判断题1、John Donne studied both at Oxford and Cambridge,and take a degree of literature. (F)2、John Donnes poetry shows similar to the other Elizabethan Lyric poems which are pure, serene, tuneful and smooth-running.(F)3、John Donnes magnum opus is Songs and Sonnets.(T)4、Donne was the first poet that allowed to enter the st Pauls cathedral as a Dean.(T)5、In 1591, Donne began his legal studies at the Inns of Court in London, where he spent much of his time studying law, languages, literature and theology.(T)III.解答题 Please enumerate two or three representative metaphysical poets and their magnum opus George Herbert :The Temple John Donne :Songs and Sonnets 第十单元George Herbert一、填空1._ was published at the year when Herbert died, and it was immediately influential in both British poetry and spirituality.2. Herberts devotional poems combine a _with _ and a reverent sense of its magnificence.3. The Temple was published at the year when Hebert died, and it inspired other spiritual poets like _ and _.4. Herbert declared, in his first poem, _ was a more worthy subject for poetry than love of women.5. His poems were favored by_ of poets.二、判断1. Metaphysical poets are noted for their use of conceits. ( ) 2.The Call was published at the year when Herbert died, and it was immediately influential in both British poetry and spirituality.（）3. Herbert wrote two famous works, one is Virtue, another is The Call. （）4. Ben Johnson and George Herbert are the le