英美英国文学第一章到第三章练习

1、文艺复兴时期练习及答案Exercises of the First Part of the British LiteratureSection One: Multiple-choice questions1. U“pon a great adventure he was bond, / That greatest Gloriana to him gave. Th”ese two lines are taken fromB Spensers The Faerie QueeneD Grays Elegy Written in a Country ChurchyardA Miltons Samson

2、 AgonistesC Beowulf2. O prince, O chief of many throned powers, That led th embattled Seraphim to war Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds Fearless, endangered Heavens perpetual King. In the first line of the above passage quoted from Miltons Paradise Lost , the phrase O prince, O chief of many

3、throned powers ”refers toD EveA Satan B GodC Adam3. Shakespeare claims through the mouth of Hamlet that the endof the dramatic creation is togive of the social realities of the time.A faithful reflectionB instructive representationC imaginative narrationD allegorical description4. Humanists of the R

4、enaissance turned to the spirit of culture for inspiration.A Anglo-Saxon B Italian and FrenchC Greeek and RomanD medievalMilton needed for his5. Paradise Lost is composed in blank verse, which permits the subject.B narrative sweepD intellectual graspA epic grandeurC descriptive subtlety6. Donnes fam

5、ous analogy of parting lovers to a drawing compass affords a prime example ofB exaggerationD conceitA dramatic styleC paradox7. is a study of the lust for wealth, which centers on Barabas, the Jew, a terrible oldmoney lender.B The Merchant of V eniceD The TempestA The Jew of MaltaC Tamburlaine the G

6、reat8. In his conception of tragedy, Marlowe perceived that tragic action must issue from, and be reflected in, .A the Renaissance heroB endless aspiration for knowledgeC the individualD human dignity and capacity, sets out9. In The Faerie Queene, the Red Cross Knight, who stands for true religion o

7、f on the orders of Queen of Faerie, who represents .A the Anglican Church, Queen Elizabeth B the Roman Catholic Church, PopeC Christianity, ChristD humanism, divine truth10. What figure of speech is used in the lines: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, / And summers lease too short a date

8、?B MetonymyD HyperboleA SimileC Personification11. The underlined part in My deeds upon my head! I crave the law, / The penalty and forfeit of my bond. (from TF, chant of V enice) means .A What is done cant be undoneB Let me responsible for what I doC I would give anything for fulfilling my bondD I

9、deserve what I demand12. The line When we have shuffled off this mortal coil be, or not to be soliloquy means.ABCDwhen we have got rid of this coil that is doomed to die when we have unloaded this heavy burden like a coil when we have taken off this coat made of coils when we are relived from the tr

10、ouble of mortal life wound around us like coils13. What does the word humour mean in the following quotation from Of Studies: to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of “ a scholar ”?A funninessB WitCcharacterD A sudden whim14. The Spenserian stanza is a group of eight lines of iambic pe

11、ntameter followed by a six-stress line, with a rhyme scheme ababbcbcc.B iambicD dactylicA trochaicC anapestic15. In Satan speech:if he, whom mutual league, / United : thoughts and .counseis, equal hope / And hazard in the glorious enterprise, /.joined with me once . . . What does the glorious enterp

12、rise refer to?A The former scheme to overthrow God.B stealing the Tree of Knowledge of Good and EvilC Finding means of evil out of good.D corrupting Adam and Eve.16. What is the tone in the following lines: Saucy pedantic .go wretch, go chide / Late school-boys, and sour prentices?CHumorousD Underst

13、atedA IronicB Sarcastic17. In the best metaphysical poetry, feeling and ingenious and appropriate, though it may be disconcerted incongruities together.A imageryB conceitfuse in an image that is always at first in the shock of bringingC thoughtD colloquialismpattern. It reveals the poetsShakespearea

14、n, death is only a sleep, after which we live eternally Petrarchan, death is but momentary while hal v death is eternal Elizabethan, death is not as strong as people think he is Portuguese, death is like a long sleep that offer, for the soul18. The sonnet Death Be Not Proud is written in the strict

15、belief that .ABCD19. In the line And every fair from fair sometime decline Shakespeares Sonnet 18), what does the first and second “fair”mean?B Loveliness; beautiful women.D Sound reason; justice.A Light complexion; beauty.C The beautiful person or thing; beauty.20. In the court scene of The Merchan

16、t of Venice, when says to Shylock: We all expect a gentle answer, Jew. punning on the word gentle. He means a merciful but also means .A an amiable and tender answerB a noble answerC a Gentiles as opposed to a Jews answerD a generous answer21. In his To be, or not to be soliloquy, Hamlet gives the w

17、hy he wants to commit suicide. Apart from his personal revenge, that heis another reason.A is unable to restore his earlier idealized image of his motherB thinks the next world is far better than this oneC is mentally tormented by his fathers wordsD cannot bear the social injustice and grievances22.

18、 By adva ncing the theory of , Bac on shows the emp irical attitudes toward truthabout nature and bravely challenges the medieval scholasticists.A inductive reasoningB deductive reasoningC educationD scientific experimentation23. The central figure of Tamburlaine, the Great represents for infinite A

19、 knowledge and happinessB power and authorityC ambition and conquestD success and adventure24. The shepherds Calender set the great 16th century.A rusticfashion in English literature, and inaugurated theB ornateC rusticD pastoral25. In King Leur, Shakespeare has shown to us the two-fold exerted by t

20、he feudalisi corruption and gradually corroded the ordered society.A Anarchy and rebellionB supernatural forcesC super natural forcesD tyrannyB power and authority success and adventure fashion in English lyrical poetry of the lastSection Two (Reading comprehension)1. So pure and innocent, as that s

21、ame lambe,She was in life and every vertuous lore,And by descent from royall lynage cameOf ancient Kings and Queenes, that had of yoreTheir scepters stretcht from east to westerne shore,And all the world in their subjection held;Till that infernall feend with foule uproreForwasted all their land, an

22、d them expeld;Whom to avenge, she had this knight from far compeld. Questions:A. Identify the poet and the poem.Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene.B. What does this knight refer to?The Red Cross Knight.C. What idea does the quotation express?It is a description of V irgin Una, who stands for the divi

23、ne truth and accompanies the Red Cross Knight on his adventures. She is as pure and innocent in life and all moral knowledge as the Lamb of God (Jesus Christ ). She descended of a royal line, which in old days governed the land from east to west and made the whole world subject to the rule (which su

24、ggests she derives her lineage from the Church Universal, not from the Papacy), until the dragon ( which represents the powers of Spain and Rome) with wicked tumult devastated all their land and drove them out. So she has summoned the Knight from a remote place to avenge her imprisoned parents.2. Wi

25、thin this circle is Jehovahs name Forward and backward anagrammatized, The breviated names of holy saints, Figures of every adjunct to the heavens And characters of signs and erring stars, By which the spirits are enforced to rise. Questions:A. Identify the author and the work. B. Who does Jehovah r

26、efer to? C. What idea does the quotation express?2. Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied oer with the pale cast of thought;And enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry And lose the name of action. Quest

27、ions:A. Identify the author and the work.B. Who is the speaker of the quoted passage?C. What idea does the quotation express?4. Some men there are love not a gaping pig, Some that are mad if they behold a cat, And others, when bagpipe sings i th nose, Cannot contain their urine for affection, Mistre

28、ss of passion, sways it to the mood Of what it likes or loathes. Questions:A. the author and the work.B. Who is the speaker of the quoted passage?C. What idea does the quotation express?5. “If her eyes have not blinded thine, Look, and tomorrow late, tell me, Whether both the Indias of spice and min

29、e Be where thou leftst them, or lie here with me. Ask for those kings whom thou sawst yesterday, And thou shalt hear, all here in one bed lay. Questions:A. Identify the poet and the poem.B. What does the word thou in the last line of the quotation refer to?C. What idea does the quotation express?Sec

30、tion Two Questions and answers1. Make a brief analysis of the quality of mercy speech by Portia,.Merchant of V enice, and try to explain why it is regarded most famous speech in the play.2. Make a brief comment on the theme of Paradise Lost.3. Make a brief summary of the historical and cultural back

31、ground to English Renaissance.4. Make a brief analysis of Death, Be Not Proud.5. What is Francis Bacons contribution to English literature?Section Four (Topic discussion)1. Comment on Hamlets inaction.2. What are the main characteristics of metaphysical poetry?英美文学第二阶段（新古典主义时期）综合练习II. ExercisesA. Mu

32、ltiple-choice questions : (Each of the statements below by four alternative answers. Choose the one thatwould best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets . )1. In field of literature, the Enlightenment brought about a(n)the old classical works. This tendency is known as neoclassic

33、ism.A. revived interest inB. antagonism againstC. rebellion againstD. rational scrutiny ofB. romanceC. comedy of mannersD. realistic novel2. John Bunyans The Pilgrims Progress is a ( n )A. allegory3. As a literary figure, Belinda appears in Alexander PopesA. An Essay on CriticismB. The DunciadC. The

34、 Rape of the LockD. Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot4. In lines With gold jewels cover every part, /And hide with ornamentstheir want of art, Pope rejectsB. artificialityA. the Follow Nature fallacyC. aesthetic orderD. good taste5. Which of the followingis NOT a typical aspect ofDefoeslanguage?A. Vernacular

35、.B. Colloquial.C. Elegant.D. Smooth.6. He has a servant calledFriday. He in the quoted sentence is acharacter inA. Gullivers TravelsB. Tom JonesC. Robinson CrusoeD. The Rape of the Lock7. Which of the following is a typical feature of Swifts writings?A. Great wit.B. Bitter satire .C. Rich mythic all

36、usions.D. Complicated sentence structures8. In which of the following works can you find the proper names Lilliput,Brobdingnag, Houyhnhnm and Yahoo?A. The Pilgrims ProgressB. The Fairie QueeneC. Gullivers travelsD. The School for scandel9. Of all the 18th-centurynovelists, he was the first to set ou

37、t, both in theoryand p ractice, to write sp ecifically a comic epic in p rose , the first to givethe modern novelists structure and style. In the above sentence, herefers toA. Jonathan SwiftB. Daniel DefoeC. Samuel RichardsonD. Henry Fielding10. The novel is structured around the discovery of the he

38、ros origin. Thisnovel is most probablyA. David CopperfieldB. The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingC. Wuthering HeightsD. The Vicar of the Wakefield11. To be so distinguished, is an honor, which, being very little accustomed tofavors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to

39、acknowledge. The above sentence is presented in a ( n )tone.A. ironicB. indifferentC. delightfulD. jealousy12. Thewas a progressive intellectual movement throughoutWestern Europe in the 18th century.A. RomanticismB. HumanismC. EnlightenmentD. Sentimentalism13. Who was the greatest dramatist in the 1

40、8th century?A. Oliver GoldsmithB. Richard B. SheridanC. Laurence SterneD. Henry Fielding14. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit; For works may have more wit than does em good As bodies perish through excess of blood. In the above lines, Pope tries t

41、o say thatA. more wit will make better poetryB. plainness is more important than wit in poetryC. too much wit will destroy good poetry, enables him to write inD. plainness will make wit dull15. Fieldings method of presentation, namelythe fullest, freest, clearest and most straight-forward manner and

42、 also makes it possible for him to add explanations in places when necessary.A. telling the story through a series of lettersB. telling the story through the mouth of the principal characterC. the author acting as the narratorD. revealing the story through a framework16. The Rape of the Lock by Alex

43、ander Pope is written in the form of a mock, which describes the triviality of high society in a grandstyle.A. epicB. elegyC. sonnetD. ode17. Defoes Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman,century .typical of the English bourgeoisie in theA. 17thB. 19thC. 18thD. 20th18. In Th

44、e Pilgrims Progress , John Bunyan describes The Vanity Fair in atone.A. delightfulB. solemnC. sentimental D. satirical19. Alexander Pope strongly advocated neoclassicism, emphasizing that literaryworks should be judged byrules of order, reason, logic,restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.A. cla

45、ssicalB. romanticC. sentimental D. allegorical20. Of all the 18th-century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, bothin prose, the firstin theory and practice, to write specifically a to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. tragi-comic B. comic epic C. romance D. romantic epi

46、c21. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Samuel Johnsons language style?A. His sentences are long and well structured.B. His sentences are interwoven with parallel phrases.C. He tends to use informal and colloquial words.D. His sentences are complicated, but his thoughts are clearly e

47、xpressed. .22. The School for Scandal, one of the great classics in English drama, is aon the moral degeneracy of the aristocratic-bourgeois societyin the 18th-century England.A. high praise B. sharp satireC. great irony D. bitter lament23. In Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard , Thomas Gray comp

48、aresthe common folk with the great ones, wondering what the commonscould have achieved if they had had theA. loveB. chanceC. moneyD. material wealth24. In his works, Defoe gave his praise to the hard-working, sturdy and showed his sympathy for the downtrodden, unfortunate poor. A. middle-class peopl

49、e B. working peopleC. Irish farmersD. aristocrats25. The boast of heraldry , the pomp of power, And all that beauty , all that wealth eer gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.IIIn the above quoted passage, Thomas Gray intends to say that great family, powe

50、r,beauty and wealthA. will never make people lead to the same destina tion-paths of gloryB. will inevitably make people realize their glorious dreamsC. are the very best things to lead people to their gloriesD. will never prevent people from reaching their final destination-graveB. Blank-filling: (C

51、omplete each of the following statements with a proper wordor phrase. )1. The Neoclassical Period is also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Ageof2. Modern English novel is a natural product of the Industrial Revolution and asymbol of the growing importance of the Englishclass.3.Joseph Andrews

52、 was first intended as a burlesque of the dubious morality andfalse sentimentality of Richardsons4.As a lexicographer, Johnson distinguished himself as the author of the firstEnglish5.was the only important English dramatist of the eighteenthcentury. His plays, especially The Rivals and The School f

53、or Scandal , aregenerally regarded as important links between the masterpieces ofShakespeare and those of Bernard Shaw.6. Jonathan Swiftsis generally regarded as a model of the best satirenot only in this time but also in the whole English literary history .7.The Pilgrims Progress, which describes a

54、 Christians journey to the CelestialCity, is a well-known religious8.Henry Fielding was the first 18th century writer to try to realize, both intheory and practice, “_the modern novel its structure and style.9.In Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Gray reflects on - with a touchof his personal m

55、elancholy.10. Bunyans style was modeled after that of the English -, with concrete andliving language and carefully observed and vividly presented details.C.T-F statements: (Decide whether the following statements are true or falseand write your answers in the brackets. ) 1. Samuel Richardson is regarded as the first writer of the English novel ofcharacter.) 2. The Pilgrims Progress is one of the most popular pieces of Christianwriting produced during the Romantic Age.( ) 3. The Enl