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英国文学史及选读试题I. Identifying the following items. (1x10 points) ( Examples: John Webster: a dramatist during the reign of James IThe Dunciad: a satirical poem by Alexander Pope)1.Beowulf 2.William Wordsworth3.As You Like It4.Tiger5.Charlotte Bronte6.Mrs. Warrens Profession7.John Milton8.A Modest Proposal9.Sons and Lovers10.Jane AustenII. Select the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. (1x5 points)1. “For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more， Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room ” What did Oliver ask for？ _A More time to play B More food to eat C More books to read D More money to spend2. Crusoe is the hero in The life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York，Mariner（also known as Robinson Crusoe ）by _.A Jonathan Swift B Daniel Defoe C George Eliot D D. H. Lawrence3.“Beauty is truth ， truth beauty .” is an epigrammatic line by _.A John Keats B William Blake CWilliam Wordsworth D Percy Bysshe Shelley4. Which of the following best describes the nature of Thomas Hardys later works? _A Sentimentalism. B Tragic sense. C Surrealism. D Comic sense.5. In which of the following works can you find the proper names“Lilliput，”“Brobdingnag，”“Houyhnhnm ，” and“Yahoo ”？ _A James Joyces Ulysses B Charles Dickens s Bleak HouseC Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels D D. H. Lawrences Women in loveIII. Explain briefly the following terms. (3x5points)1.sonnet 2.the Lake Poets 3. Aestheticism 4.Symbolism 5. Stream-of-consciousnessIV. Match the author in Column A with his or her work in Column B. (2x10points)1. Geoffrey Chaucer a. Ivanhoe 2. Henry Fielding b. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 3. Walter Scott c. The House of Fame 4. George Gorden Byron d. Thy Mayor of Casterbridge 5. William Makepeace Thackeray e. Dubliners 6. Thomas Hardy f. Vanity Fair 7. James Joyce g. Don Juan 8. Charles Dickens h. The Waste Land 9. T. S. Elioet i. The Importance of Being Earnest 10. Oscar Wilde j. The Great Expectation1.-_ 2.-_ 3.-_ 4.-_ 5.-_ 6.-_ 7.-_ 8.-_ 9.-_ 10.-_Exercise One I. Name the Writers by the given passages. (10%)( ) 1. What man art thou,quoth he, That lookest as thou wouldst find a hare; For ever on the ground I see thee stare.( ) 2. Here where nothing is private, the common affairs be earnestly looked upon.There where all things be common to every man, It is not to be doubted that any an shall lack anything necessary for his private use, so that the common storehouses bars be sufficiently stored( ) 3. Can honor set to a leg ?no, or an arm? No:.what is honor? A word, what is that word, honor? Air.( ) 4. .What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield.( ) 5. It sucked me first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea, our two bloods mingled be; This flea is you & I,& this Our marriage-bed, marriage temple is.( ) 6. To err is human, to forgive ,divine( ) 7. Imitation here will not to do the business. The picture must be after Nature herself.( ) 8. Mother bore me in the southern wild And I am black, but O ! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child But I am black, as if bereaved of light( ) 9. Farewell my friend ! farewell my foes ! My peace with these, my love with those: The bursting tears my heart declare- Farewell the bonnie banks of Ayr!( ) 10. I love all that thou lovest Spirit of Delight ! The fresh earth in new leaves dressed And the stary night Autumn evening, the moon When the golden mists are bornII.True & False statement. (20%)( ) 1. Chancers contribution to English poetry lies chiefly in the fact he introduced from France the rhymed stanza in Iambic meter to English poetry.( ) 2. Hamlet,the great tragedy of Shakespear, with perfect artistry, studys the big question to be or no to be.( ) 3. Bacon was the founder of modern science & also famous for his essays.( ) 4. Miltons Areopagistica is a pamphlet about religious abuse.( ) 5. University wits contribute a lot in prose writing as well as drama writing.( ) 6. Romance is a typical kind of noble literature & has nothing to do with common people.( ) 7. Spersers Faerie Queene, Sidneys Astrophel & Stella & ShakespearesSonnets are the most famous sonnet sequences of Elizabethan Age.( ) 8.Blank verse is the most popular literary form in 11th-14th century.( ) 9. Marlowe was the greatest pioneer of English drama & it was Marlowe who first made blank verse the principal instrument of English drama.( ) 10.The eighteenth century is an enlightenment century that most of the writers show great interest on reasoning, rationality & classicism (Neo-classicism)( ) 11.Swift was born in London, England. He was a national literary figure & well-known by his humorous work-Gullivers Travels.( ) 12.Defoe is the author of Robinson Crusoe, which is a scientific and fantastic work.( ) 13.Richardison wrote his first novel when he was very young, he is thought as the follower of English psycho-analytical novelist.( ) 14.Shelley is among the worlds greatest lyric poets. He is the most wonderful lyric poet England has ever produced.( ) 15.Tom Jones is the masterpiece of Henry Fielding & it offers a panoramic picture of 18th century England with the life of people in London, in the countryside & on the open road.( ) 16.Robert Burns is a peasant poet & is famous for his songs written in the Scottish dialect on a variety of subjects.( ) 17.Lamb,Hunt,Hazlitt & De Quincy are among the most famous prose writers in romantic period.( ) 18.Sentimentalism is the transition period from realism to romanticism.( ) 19.The best known historical novel created by Walter Scott is Ivanhoe.( ) 20.Charles Dickens is the best known representative of critical realism.III. Put the literary terms into Chinese. (20%) 1. alliteration 2. Romance 3. allegory 4. blank verse 5. euphuism 6. tragic-comedy 7. ballad 8. elegy 9. pastoral 10. picaresque novel 11. heroic couplet 12. lyrics 13. metaphysical poets 14. Spenserian stanza 15. realistic fiction 16. Romanticism 17. canto 18. soliloquy 19. neo-classicism 20. interludeIV. With the character of the book giving out, write down the name of the book. (10%) 1. The Wife of Bath 2. Bassanio ,Antonio 3. Sir John Falstaff 4. Friday 5. Joseph Andrews 6. Clarissa 7. Sophia 8. Don Juan 9. Cythna 10. LilliputiansV. Match the following information. 1. William Shakespeare a. To Daffodils 2. Walt Scott b. Ode to West Wind 3. Percy Bysshe Shelley c. Ivanhoe 4. William Longland d. Pilgrims Progress 5. Geoffrey Chaucer e. Oliver Twist 6. Charles Dickens f. Piers the Plowman 7. John Milton g. Troilus & Criseyde 8. John Bunyan h. Utopia 9. Thomas More i. Samson Agonistes 10. William Wordsworth j. OthelloVI. Listing. (20%)1. List the most important dramas created by William Shakespeare (At least 8 of them) (8%)2. List the famous women characters appearing in the works in each important literary periods.(5%)3. List five important poets of different literary periods (5%)4. List two best English elegies in English literary history(2%)VII. William Wordsworths literary theory of poetry.(10%) 参考答案：I1. Geoffrey Chaucer 2. Thomas More 3. Shakespeare 4. John Milton 5. John Donne 6. Alexander Pope 7.Henry Fielding 8. William Blake 9. Robert Burns 10. Percy Bysshe ShelleyII. 1-5 T T T F T 6-10 T F F T T 11-15 F F F T T 16-20 T T F T T III. 1. 头韵 2. 传奇文学/罗曼司 3. 讽寓 4. 无韵诗/白体诗 5. 夸饰文体 6. 悲剧 7. 遥曲/民谣/民歌 8. 挽歌/诗 9. 田园牧歌作品 10. 流浪汉小说 11. 英雄双行/韵体 12. 抒情诗 13.玄学派诗人 14. 斯宾塞诗节 15. 现实主义小说 16. 浪漫主义 17. 诗章 18. 独白 19.新古典主义 20. 插剧IV. 1. Canterbury Tales 2. The Merchant of Venice 3. Henry IV 4. Robinson Crusoe 5.Joseph Andrews 6. Clarissa Harlowe 7. Tom Jones 8. Don Juan 9. The Revolt of Islam 10. Gullivers TravelsV. 1-5 JCBFG 6-10 EIDHAVI.1. A Midsummer Nights Dream As You Like It The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night Hamlet macbeth Othello King Lear 2. Wife of Bath,Portia,Betrice, Pamela, Clarissa, Cythna 3. Chaucer ,Edmund Spenser ,John Milton, Alexander Pope, William Wordsworth 4.Shelleys Adonais & Mitton Lycidas.VII. 1. All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings 2. The theme is to be situations & incidents chosen from common life 3. The language used is to be a selection of language really used by men 4. Ordinary things are to be presented in an unusual way 5. finding of universal signicance in human societyExercise Two+I. With the following passages, please name the writers.(10%)( ) 1.Farewell,my friends ! Farewell, my foes ! My please with these, my love with those: The bursting tears my heart declare_ Farewell the bonnie banks of ayr ! ( ) 2. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day. The lowing herd wind slowly oer the lea; The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to blackness and to me.( ) 3. My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but o ! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if brereavd of light.( ) 4. Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind. Why have I strayed from pleasure and repose To seek a good each government bestows ?( ) 5. When I had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncouthly scholar can possess.Is not a Patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ?( ) 6. Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, sea ! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.( ) 7. The years at the spring And days at the morn; Mornings at seven; The will-sides few-pearled; The lards on the wing; The snails on the thorn: Gods in the heaven _ Alls right with the world !( ) 8. If thou must love me, let it be for naught Except for loves sake only. Do not say I love her for her smile.her look.her way Of speaking gently.For a trick of thought( ) 9. I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale Sing on as if in pain.( ) 10.Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by !II. Some of the following statements are true, some false. Mark them out.(20%)( ) 1. W.B.Yeats was a poet and dramatist, who was born in Ireland.( ) 2. Thomas Hardy was only a novelist, who didnt write any poem at all.( ) 3. John Galsworthy was one of the most prominent of the 20th century English realistic writers.( ) 4. Mrs Warrens profession is one of the Plays Unpleasent by Bernard Shaw.( ) 5. Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, dramatist and a critic.( ) 6. Alfred Tennyson was the only English poet ever to have been ennobled purely for poetry.( ) 7. Ben Jonson was a famous poet-dramatist, who advocated reformation in classic drama of old Greek and Roman masters.( ) 8. Shakespeares long experience with the stage and his intimate knowledge of dramatic art thus acquired doesnt make him a master-hand for play-writing but( ) 9. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark,total eclipse Without all hope of day ! The above lines are from Byrons Don Juan, not from John Miltons Samson Agonistes.( )10. Robert Burns and Walter Scott were born in Scotland, both of them are the famous national poets.III. Put the following literary terms into Chinese. (25%) 1. Aesthetic 11. iambus 21. cavalier poets 2. Imagism 12. poet 22. enlighten 3. Modernism 13. romanticism 23. sentimentalism 4. tragedy 14. trochee 24. naturalism 5. comedy 15. Critical Realism 25. historical novel 6. monologue 16. Renaissance 7. blank verse 17. humanism 8. sonnet 18. artistic 9. quatrain 19. literary career 10. anapest 20. metaphysical poetsIV. Write down the name of the book with the given characters. (10%) 1. Lady Chatterley 2. Tess and Angel Clare 3. Edith and Carker 4. Beck Sharp and Amelia Sedley 5. Mr.Rochester 6. Heathcliff and Catherine 7. John Barton and his daughter Mary 8. Adam Bede and Hetty Sorrel 9. Clarissa 10.Joseph AndrewsV. Link the author and the work together.(12%) 1. Shakespeare A. Dombey and Son 2. Dickens B. Ivanhoe 3. W.B.Yeats C. Tess of Durbervilles Villes 4. T.S.Eliot D. Heartbreak House 5. Henry James E. Women in Love 6. Virginia Woolf F. Prometheus Unbound 7. James Joyce G. The Portrait of a Lady 8. Walter Scott H. the Tower 9. Bernard Shaw I. Ullysses 10. Hardy,Thomas J. Night and Day 11. D.H.Lawrence K. Waste Land 12. Shelly L. OthelloVI.Fill in the blanks.(8%)1. _was the work that first make Dickens famous as a popular writer of novel.2.After he went blind,Milton wrote and finished his three great works:epic masterpieces_and _and one biblical tragedy _.3. Words