英国文学试题及答案2.doc

, .I、Multiple Choice. (40%) There are 15 questions in this part. Choose A,B,C, or D on your answer sheet.A 1. Beowulf is a _ poem, describing an all-round picture of the tribal society.A. pagan B. Christain C. romantic D. lyricB 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 Langlands Piers the PlowmanB. Geoffrey Chaucers The Canterbury TalesC. John Gowers Confessio AmantisD. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC 3. In “ Sonnet 18 ” ， Shakespeare has a profound meditation on the destructive power of _C_ and the eternal _ brought forth by poetry to the one he loves . A. death/ life B. time / beauty C. death/ love D. hate / love C. 4. Which of the following poetic forms is the principle form of Shakespeares drama?A. lyric B. sonnet C. blank verse D. quatrainC 5. Which of the following statements best illustrate the theme of Shakespeares Sonnet 18?A. The speaker eulogizes the power of nature. B. The speaker satirizes human vanity. C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation. D. The speaker meditates on mans salvation.A 6. Which of the following place does Gulliver visit first in Gullivers Travels? A. Lilliput B. Brobdingnag C. Laputa D. HouyhnhnmsB 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 Defoes own experiences.C. Robinson spends 28 years of isolated life on the island.D. It is set in the middle of the 17th century.B. 8.Many of Burns 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 SyneC. My Hearts in the Highlands D. John Anderson, My JoA 9.The Tiger was written by_.A. William Blake B. John Keats C. William Wordsworth D. Percy ShelleyB 10.“One short sleep past, we wake eternally” is taken from_A. The Solitary Reaper B. Death be not proudC. To Autumn D. Song to the Man of England A 11. _ is not a famous translator in the English Renaissance.A. Thomas North B. Thomas Wyatt C. George Chapman D. John Florio C 12. _is considered to be the summit of Shakespeares art.A. Romeo and Juliet B. The Comedy of Errors C. Hamlet D. The Tempest C 13. _ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred verses. A. John Milton B. John Bunyan C. John Donne D. John DrydenD 14. The main literary stream of the 18th century was _ . What the writers described in their works were mainly social realities. A. romanticism B. classicism C. realism D. Sentimentalism D 15. Which of the following works are not written by Oliver Goldsmith? _.A. The Traveller B. The Deserted Village C. The Vicar of Wakefield D. The School for ScandalA 16. In the 18th century English literature ， the representative writer of neo-classicism is _A_ . A. Pope B. Swift C. Defoe D. Milton B 17. The _B_ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century . A. Renaissance B. Enlightenment C. Religious Reformation D. Chartist Movement B 18. Blake ， Wordsworth ， _B_ ， Byron ， Shelley and _ are the major Romantic poets . A. Coleridage / Southey B. Coleridge / Keats C. Keats / Scott D. Scott / Coleridge B 19. The Canterbury Tales was written in_ A. Old English B. Middle EnglishC. Modern English D. Current Modern English A 20. “The father of English poetry” is _. A. Geoffrey Chaocer B. Edmund SpenserC. Francis Bacon D Henry Fielding 得分II. Fill in the Blanks in the following summary statement according to what you have learnt of British history and literature. (20%)1. Chaucer employed the_ Heroic _couplet in writing his greatest work The Canterbury tales.2. Shakespeares plays have been traditionally divided into four categories according to dramatic type: histories, _ comedies _, tragedies and romances.3. A Shakespearean sonnet is composed of three quatrains and a concluding_ couplet .4. John Donne is the founder of the school of_ metaphysical poetry _. His works are characterized by mysticism in content and fantasticality in form.5. John Miltons Paradise Lost opens with the description of a meeting among the fallen angels, and ends with the departure of Adam and _ Eve _from the Garden of Eden.6. Othello,_ Hamlet _ , Kinglear, and Macbeth are the four greatest tragedies of William Shakespeare.7. Literature can be divided into poetry, fiction/novel and_ Drama _. 8. Joseph Addison and Richard Steele jointly created _ The Spectator _.9. _ Odes _are generally regarded as Keats most important and mature works.10. The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is written by_ Daniel Defoe .得分III. Explain the following literary terms in your own words. (10%)1Ballad: A narrative poem, often of folk origin and intended to be sung.2Tragedy: A literary work in which the protagonist meets an unhappy or disastrous end.3Sonnet: A 14-line verse form usually written in iambic pentameter.4Sentimentalism: A sentimental expression or idea.5Lyric: A short poem of songlike quality.得分四. Short AnswersRead the materials first， and then answer the questions according to the requirements .Remember you should write your answers correctly，completely and briefly (20%)“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep, moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”Questions: 1） What kind of rhetorical devices does the sentence used?Analogy (类比)2） Please translate this sentence.读史使人明智，读诗使人灵秀，数学使人周密，科学使人深刻，伦理学使人庄重，逻辑修辞使人善变。3） From which essay does the above sentence come, what is the essay mainly about?The sentences are from “Of Studies” (Francis Bacon). It is the most popular of bacons essays. It analyzes what studies chiefly serve for, the different ways adopted