英国文学期末复习各种题型

1、英国文学练习题、写出下列作品的作者1、The Canterbury Tales ( Geoffrey Chaucer)2、Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe)3、The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (Henry Fielding)4、The Faerie Queene (Edmund Spenser)5、The Pilgrim ' s Progress (John Bunyan)6、Ode to the West Wind (Percy Bysshe Shelley)7、Wuthering Heights (Emily Bro

2、nte)8、Bleak House (Charles Dickens)9、Tess of the D' Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)10、The Picture of Dorian Gray ( Oscar Wilde)11、Moby Dick (Herman Melville)12、The Last of the Mohicans ( James Fenimore Cooper)13、The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe)14、The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washingto

3、n Irving)15、The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)16、The Portrait of A Lady (Henry James)17、Martin Eden (Jack London)18、Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser)19、The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)20、The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)二、作品辨析，写出节选部分的作品及作家名1. 作品 Annabel Lee 作家 Edgar Allan Poe2. 作品 Bec

4、ause I could not stop for Death- 作家 Emily Dickinson3. 作品 The Road Not Taken作家 Robert Frost4. 作品 The Great Gatsby作家 F. Scott Fitzgerald5. 作品 I wander Lonely as a Cloud作者 William Wordsworth6. 作品 The Picture of Dorian Gray作家 Oscar Wilde7. 作品Hamlet作家William Shakespeare8. 作品 Of Studies作家 Francis Bacon1、w

5、as a child and she was a child,In this kingdom by the sea,But we love with a love that was more than love-I and my ANNABEL LEE-With a love that the winged seraphs of heavenCoveted her and me.作品作者2、cause I could not stop for DeathHe kindly stopped for meThe carriage held out but just Ourselves-And Im

6、mortality.We slowly drove-He knew no hasteAnd I and put awayMy labor and my leisure too,For his Civility作品作者3、Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth作品作者4、There was

7、music from my neighbor 's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.作品作者5、I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o 'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host of gol

8、den daffodilsBeside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.作品作者6、As they entered they saw Dorian Gray. He was seated at the piano, with his back to them, turning over thepages of a volume of Schumann 's Forest Scenes." You must lend me these, Basil,he cried.Want to

9、 learnthem." They are perfectly charming.”作品作者7、To be, or not to be: that is the question,Whether' tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or 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

10、we endThe heartache, the thousand natural shocks作品作者8、Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.作品作者三、选择题1、Which is not the works

11、 of Herman Melville? ()A. Moby DickB. TypeeC. OmooD.The Pioneers2、Which is the central figure in the Leatherstocking Tales? ()A. Natty BumppoB.TomC. DavidD.Uncas3、The author of The Scarlet Letter also writes.()A. ThanatopsisB. The RavenC. The House of the Seven Gables D. Omoo4、Pick up the one that i

12、s not of the same author. ()A. The Sound and the FuryB. As I Lay DyingC. Go Down, MosesD. The Sea Wolf5、The author of A Farewell to Arms also writes.()A. For Whom the Bell TollsB. A Rose for EmilyC. ChicagoD. Uncle Tom's Cabin6、In The Pilgrim ' s Progress, John Bunyan describes The VariityaF

13、a tone.A. delightfulB. satiricalC. sentimentalD. solemn7. The 18th century witnessed a new literary form -the modern English novel, which, contrary to the medievalromance, gives a presentation of life of the common English people.A. romanticB. idealisticC. propheticD. realistic8. As a literary figur

14、e, John Rivers appears in .A. Fielding ' s Tom JonesB. Dickens ' s Oliver TwistC. Bronte ' s Jane EyreD. Austen ' s Pride and Prejudice9. Defoe ' s Robinson Cruscreated the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisiein the century.A. 17thB. 18thC. 19th

15、D. 20th10. In "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," Thomas Gray compares the common folk with the great ones, wondering what the commons could have achieved if they had had the.A. chanceB. loveC. moneyD. material sources11. The poetic view of can be best understood from his remark about

16、 poetry, that is, "all good poetry is thespontaneous overflow of powerful feelings."A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. John KeatsC. William WordsworthD. Percy Bysshe Shelly12. Pip, Estella, Havisham, Magwitch, and Joe Gargery are most likely names of characters in.A. Oliver TwistB. David Copperf

17、ieldC. Bleak HouseD. Great Expectations13. In English poetry the is regarded as the most common foot.A. iambB. anapestC. trocheeD. dactyl14. In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet finds out some weak points about herself in the process of judging others. Which of the following is NOT a weak point

18、of hers?A. Blindness.B. Partiality.C. Snobbishness.D. Prejudice.15. In Byron ' s poem "Song for the Luddites," the word "Luddite" refers to the.A. workers who destroyed the machines in their protest against unemploymentB. rising bourgeoisie who fought against the aristocratic

19、 classC. descendents of the ancient king, King LudD. poor country people who suffered under the rule of the landlord class16. "Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean

20、." The above lines are taken from.A. Wordsworth ' s "The Solitary Reaper"B. Blake ' s "The Chimn§weeper"C. Coleridge ' s "Kubla Khan"D. Keats ' s "Ode on an Grecian Urn"17. In his poem, "Ode to the West Wind," Shelley intend

21、s to present his wind as a central around whichthe poem weaves various cycles of death and rebirth.A. conceptB. symbolC. simileD. metonymy18. In the conversation with his wife in Chapter One of Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Bennet uses a(n)tone with sarcastic humor.A. solemnB. harshC. arrogantD. teasing1

22、9. Charles Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of his novel.A. Great ExpectationsB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Bleak HouseD. Oliver Twist20. A typical feature of the English literature is that writers became social and moral critics, exposing allkinds of social evils.A. RenaissanceB. R

23、omanticC. VictorianD. Medieval21. The statement that those extraordinary people, seeking something beyond the provincial life, have finally to subject themselves to the limitations of the reality either due to their own weakness or the social environment may well sum up one of the major themes of.A.

24、 Fielding ' s Tom JonesB. Defoe ' s Robinson CrusoeC. Austen ' s Pride and PrejudiceD. Eliot ' s Middlemarch22. A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of, who never pays any attention to human feelings.A. justiceB. propertyC. moralityD. humor23.

25、 Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is NOT true?A. It explores man ' ©ndingr search for the satisfaction of materialistic desires.B. It relates the conflicts between the society and the individual.C. It is about the effect of sin on the people involved and the societ

26、y as a whole.D. It presents a psychological analysis of the inward tensions of the characters.24. "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" is a famous quote fromA. Walt WhitmanB. Henry David ThoreauD. Ralph Waldo Emerson25. Which of HemingwayC. Herman Melville's n

27、ovels desdhe drifting life of American exiles in Europe?A. The Sun Also Rises.B. A Farewell to Arms.C. For Whom the Bell Tolls.D. The Old Man and the Sea.四、名词解释1、heroic couplet2、Spenserian stanza3、sonnet4、ode五、问答题1、What are the main characteristics of naturalistic literature in American literature?2

28、、Give a brief comment on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.3、What are the characteristic features of the romantic movement in British literature?4、Give a brief introduction of Charles Dickens ' artistic technique.PART TWOII. Reading Comprehension1. "Busy old fool, unruly sun,Why dost thou

29、thus,Through windows and through curtains call on us?"Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What does the word "fool" refer to?C. What idea does the quotation express?2. "Most mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of the universe, whose dominions extend five tho

30、usand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference) to the extremities of the globe; Monarch of all Monarchs; taller than the sons of men; whose feet press down to the center, and whose head strikes against the sun; at whose nod the princes of the earth shake their knees; pleasant as spring, comfo

31、rtable as summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter."Questions:A. Identify the work and the author.B. What is the tone of the author?C. What does the author parody here?3. "She thanked men -good! but thanked Somehow -I know not how -as if she ranked My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old

32、 name With anybody ' s gift."Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What kind of tone does the speaker use here?C. What idea does the quoted passage express?4. "This is my letter to the World . That never wrote to Me - The simple News that Nature told - With tender Majesty"

33、;Questions:A. Identify the poetB. What does the word "World" refer to?C. What idea does the quoted passage express?III. Questions and Answers5. "For herein Fortune shows herself more kind .Than in her custom; it is still her use .To let the wretched manoutlive his wealth, To view with

34、 hollow eye and wrinkled brow ,An age of poverty; from which ling ' ring penance .Of such misery doth she cut me off." .The above lines are taken from a speech made by Antonio, a major character in Shakespeare ' s play The Merchant of Venice. Why does Antonio say that Fortune is more ki

35、nd to him than in her custom?6. "The first shot I made among these creatures, I killed a she-goat which had a little kid by her which she gave suck to, which grieved me heartily; but when the old one fell, the kid stood stock still by her till I came and took her up, and not only so, but when I

36、 carried the old one with me upon my shoulders, the kid followed me quite to my enclosure, upon which I laid down the dam, and took the kid in my arms, and carried it over my pale, in hopes to have it bred up tame, but it would not eat, so I was forced to kill it and eat it myself; these two supplie

37、d me with flesh a great while, for I ate sparingly; and saved my provisions (my bread especially) as much as possibly I could." This is a very significant sentence with great details that reveals the character of Robinson Crusoe. What aspects of Crusoe ' asteh are revealed then?7. Situation

38、al irony occurs when what happens turns out to be quite different from what is expected; sometimes what happen is just the opposite of what is expected. In "Indian Camp," Hemingway makes a successful use of this kind of irony. Please illustrate it with some examples.8. "The only thing

39、 I don' ltke, she proceeded, is the society." ("Daisy Miller" by Henry James) What kind of society does Daisy not like? Why?IV Topic Discussion9. List three distinctive features of English Renaissance movement in literature and then illustrate each with proofs from either the conc

40、erned chapter in your textbook or your own reading.10. "My faith is gone!" cried he (Goodman Brown), after one stupefied moment. "There is no good on earth; andsin is but a name. Come, devil! for to thee is this world given." Comment on this passage from Hawthorne ' s "Y

41、oung Goodman Brown".练习题答案、选择题1 、D2 A3 C4D5 A6、B7、D 8、C9、B10、A11、21、四、C 12、D 22、名词解释BB13 A23 B1424CD1525A 16、CB17 B18 D 19B20 C1. heroic couplet ( a pair of rhyming iambic pentameter lines)2. Spenserian stanza ( the Spenserian stanza is a group of eight lines of iambic pentameter followed by a s

42、ix-stress iambic line, with a rhyme scheme ababbcbcc)3. sonnet (a sonnet is a short song in the original meaning of the word. Later it became a poem of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter with various rhyming schemes.)4. ode (an ode is a rhymed lyric expressing noble feelings, often addressed to

43、a person or celebrating an event.)五、问答题I. The characteristics of naturalistic literature are that first it seems that the naturalistic writers depicted the socialreality objectively. They turned literary creation into a mechanical record of society, and never made comments on the characters and thei

44、r behaviors.Secondly, the viewpoint from which naturalistic writers understood problems was non-moral," and was not controlled by the contemporary moral and ethical sense.Thirdly, the creative material of a naturalistic writer was infinite. He may make no secret of describing sexual love and ma

45、n 's selfish desire. He not only discarded the traditional morals, but used the language any nasty circumstances needed without scruple.2-4答案见教材PART TWOII. Reading Comprehension1、A It i s taken from Jone Donne ' s "The Sun Rising"B. "fool" refers to the sun.C. Donne '

46、 s great prose works are his sermons, the quotation expresses a strong sense of rebellious spirit, the author tried to break away from the conventional fashion of the Elizabethan love poetry.2、A. The passage comes from "Gulliver' s Travels" written by Jonanthan Swift.B. The author used

47、 the Ironic tone of the passage.C. Romance (prose)/ Adventurous prose is the parody here.3、A. The poem is "My Last Duchess", by Robert Browning.B. The speaker is Duke, he is a villain. The speaker uses the tone of arrogant (傲慢的)here.C. The quoted passage reveals the duke is a self-conceite

48、d, cruel and tyrannical man.4、A. The poet is Emily Dickinson.B. "World" refers to the outside world.C. The poem expresses Dickinson ' s anxiety about her communication with the outside world.III. Questions and Answers5、This sentence means she, Lady Fortune, is more kind to him because

49、she is taking away both his wealth and life.The speaker is Antonio, it ' s said that his ship habeeaillost, and he is penniless, and will have to pay the pound of flesh. (Because Shylock has made a strange bond that requires Antonio to pay him a pound of flesh if he can ' t repay him, the mo

50、ney that he boowed for his friend in due time.)6、1) In most of his works, Defoe gave his praise to the hard-working, sturdy middle class and showed his sympathy for the lower-class people. Robinson Crusoe was such a character.2) Robison goes out to sea, gets shipwrecked and marooned/landed on a lone

51、ly island, struggles to live for 24 years there and finally is saved by a ship and returns to England. During the period Robinson leads a harsh and lonely life and survives by growing corps, taming animals, etc. growing from a nave young man into a hardened man.3) With a great capacity for work, ine

52、xhaustible energy (精力充沛),courage and persistence in overcomingdifficulties (在克月艮困难方面持之以恒)，in struggling against nature, Crusoe becomes the prototype /representative of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist.(他是大英帝国缔造者的完美典范，同时也是殖民者的先驱).4) In the novel, Defoe glorified human labor and the puritan fo

53、rtitude which the middle class praised highly, so he can be regarded as a spokesman of the bourgeois.7、(本题属于超纲题，书上没有现成的答案，可忽略不计 )8、She doesn ' t like the old world-European life. Because she is the American Girl in Europe, a celebrated cultural type who embodies the spirit of the New World. Howev