英国文学选读练习题含答案

ExerciseforEnglishLiterature(2)Choosethebestanswerforeachblank.

1.________,the“fatherofEnglishpoetry”andoneofthegreatestnarrativepoetsofEngland,wasbLondonabout1340.

A.GeoffreyChaucer B.SirGawain

C.FrancisBacon D.JohnDryden

2.Chaucerdiedonthe25thOctober1400,andwasburiedin________.

A.Flanders B.France

C.Italy D.WestminsterAbbey

3.Theprogressinindustryathomestimulatedthecommercialexpansionabroad.________encouragedexplorationandtravel,whichwerecompatiblewiththeinterestoftheEnglishmerchants.

A.HenryV B.HenryVII

C.HenryVIII D.QueenElizabeth

4.ExceptbeingavictoryofEnglandover________,theroutofthefleet“Armada”(Invincible)wasalsothetriumphoftherisingyoungbourgeoisieoverthedecliningoldfeudalism.

A.Spain B.FranceC.America D.Norway

5.Atthebeginningofthe16thcenturytheoutstandinghumanist________wrotehisUtopiainwhichheprofoundandtruthfulpictureofthepeople’ssufferingandputforwardhisidealofafuturehappysociety.

A.ThomasMore B.ThomasMarlowe

C.FrancisBacon D.WilliamShakespear

6.AbsolutemonarchyinEnglandreacheditssummitduringthereignofQueen________.

A.Mary B.Elizabeth

C.William D.Victoria

7.EnglishRenaissancePeriodwasanageof________.

A.proseandnovel B.poetryanddrama

C.essaysandjournals D.balladsandsongs

8.Fromthefollowing,choosetheonewhichisnotFrancisBacon’swork:________.

A.TheAdvancementofLearning B.TheNewInstrument

C.Essays D.TheNewAtlantics

E.VenusandAdonis

9.“ShallIcomparetheetoasummer’sday?”ThisisthebeginninglineofoneofShakespeare’s___

A.songs B.plays

C.comedies D.sonnets

10.TheheroinesofShakespeare’sgreatcomedies,________arethedaughtersoftheRenaissance,whoseimagesandstorieswillremainalegacytoreadersandaudiencesofalltime.

A.Portia B.RoselandC.Viola D.Beatrice

11.ChoosethefourgreattragediesofShakespearefromthefollowing________.

A.Hamlet B.Othello

C.Macbeth D.KingLear

E.TimonofAthens

12.Whichplayisnotacomedy?________

A.AMidsummerNight’sDream B.TheMerchantofVenice

C.TwelfthNight D.RomeoandJuliet

E.AsYouLikeIt

13.“Denmarkisaprison”.Inwhichplaydoestheherosummarisehisobservationofhisworldintosuchabittesentence?________

A.CharlesI B.Othello

C.HenryVIII D.Hamlet

14.Theworksof________andtheAuthorisedVersionoftheEnglishBiblearethetwogreattreasurieEnglishlanguage.

A.GeoffreyChaucer B.EdmundSpenser

C.WilliamShakespeare D.BenJohnson

15.Inwhichplaydoestheheroshowhisprofoundreverenceformanthroughthesentence:“Whatapwokisaman!Hownobelinreason!Howfiniteinfaculty!”________

A.RomeoandJuliet B.Hamlet

C.Othello D.TheMerchantofVenice

16.In1649,________wasbeheaded.Englandbecameacommonwealth.A.JamesI B.JamesII

C.CharlesI D.CharlesII

17.Therevolutionof1688meantthreeofthefollowingthings:________.

thesupremacyofParliament

thebeginningofmodernEngland

thetriumphoftheprincipalliberty

thetriumphoftheprincipleofpoliticalliberty

theRestorationofmonarchy

18.Whoofthefollowingweretheimportantmetaphysicalpoets?________

A.JohnDonne B.GeorgeHerbert

C.JohnMilton D.RichardLovelace

19.WhichworkwasNOTwrittenbyJohnMilton?________

A.ParadiseLost B.ParadiseRegained

C.SamsonAgonistes D.Volpone

20.ParadiseLostis________.

JohnMilton’smasterpiece

agreatepicin12books

writteninblankverse

abouttheheroicrevoltofSatanagainstGod’sauthority21.JohnMiltonis________.

agreatrevolutionarypoetofthe17thcentury

anoutstandingpoliticalpamphleteer

agreatstylist

agreatmasterofblankverse

22.FromtheOldTestament,JohnMiltontookhisstoriesofParadiseLost,i.e.________.

thecreation

therebellioninHeavenofSatanandhisfellow-angels

theirdefeatandexpulsionfromHeaven

thecreationofthedeathandofadamandEve

thefallenangelsinhellplottingagainstGod

Satan’stemptationofEve

thedepartureofAdamandEvefromEden

23.ThefinestthinginParadiseLostisthedescriptionofhell,and________isoftenregardedasththepoem.

A.God B.Satan

C.Adam D.Eve

24.WhoisthegreatestoftheMetaphysicalschoolofpoetry?________

A.JohnDonne B.GeorgeHerbert

C.AndrewMarvell D.HenryVaugham

25.________wasaprogressiveintellectualmovementthroughoutWesternEuropeinthe18thcentury.

A.TheRenaissance B.TheEnlightenment

C.TheReligiousReformation D.TheChartistMovement

26.Themainliterarystreamofthe18thcenturywas________.Whatthewritersdescribedintheirwomainlysocialrealities.

A.naturalism B.romanticism

C.classicism D.realism

E.sentimentalism

27.TheeighteenthcenturywasthegoldenageoftheEnglish________.Thenovelofthisperiodspokeaboutlifewithanuncompromisingcourage.

A.drama B.poetry

C.essay D.novel

28.In1704,JonathanSwiftpublishedtwoworkstogether,________and________,whichmadehimwellknownasasatirist.

A.ATaleofaTub B.BickerstaffAlmanac

C.Gulliver’sTravels D.AModestProposal

29.“Properwordsinproperplaces,makesthetruedefinitionofastyle.”ThissentenceissaidbyofthegreatestmastersofEnglishprose.

A.AlexanderPope B.HenryFielding

C.DanielDefoe D.JonathanSwift

30.Asajournalist,________hadlearnedhowtomakehisreportingvividandcrediblebyaskillfuluseofcircumstantialdetail.Thispowertomakehischaractersaliveandhisstoriescredibleisaninimi

A.JosephAddison B.DanielDefoe

C.SamuelRicharson D.TobiasSmollett

31.WhichofthefollowingareNOTwrittenbyWilliamBlake?________

A.PoeticalSketches B.SongsofInnocence

C.SongsofExperience D.AuldLangSyne

E.TheMarriageofHeavenandHell F.Prophecis

G.VisionsoftheDaughtersofAlbionandAmerica,aProphecy

32.Inthe18thcenturyEnglishliterature,therepresentativepoetsofpre-romanticismwere________.

A.WilliamWordsworth B.WilliamBlake

C.RobertBurns D.JonathanSwift

33.TheRomanticAgebegabwiththepublicationofTheLyricalBalladswhichwaswrittenby________.

A.WilliamWordsworth B.SamuelJohnson

C.SamuelTaylorColeridge D.WordsworthandColeridge

34.TheRomanticAgecametoanendwiththedeathofthelastwell-knownromanticwriter________.

A.JaneAusten B.WalterScott

C.SamuelTaylorColeridge D.WilliamWordsworth

35.ThegloryoftheRomanticAgeliesinthepoetryof________.

A.WilliamWordsworth B.SamuelTaylorColeridge

C.GeorgeGordonByron D.PercyByssheShelley

E.JohnKeats

36.TheEnglishRomanticAgeproducedtwomajornovelists.Theyare________.

GeorgeGordonByronandPercyByssheShelley

WilliamWordsworthandSamuelTaylorColeridge

WalterScottandJaneAusten

CharlesLambandWilliamHazlitt

37.WhichpoetsbelongtotheActiveRomanticgroup?________

A.GeorgeGordonByron B.WilliamWordsworth

C.PercyByssheShelley D.JohnKeats

E.JohnMilton

38.WhichpoetsbelongtotheLakers?________

A.WilliamWordsworth B.SamuelTaylorColeridge

C.JohnKeats D.RobertSouthey

E.WalterScott

39.WhichofthefolloeingwerewrittenbyWordsworthONLY?________

A.TotheCuckoo B.TheLyricalBallads

C.LucyPoems D.TheSolitaryReaper

E.IWanderedLonelyasaCloud

40.Thepublicationof________markedthebreakwiththeconventionalpoeticaltraditionofthe18th

i.e.,withclassicism,andthebeginningoftheRomanticrevivalinEngland.

A.TheLyricalBallads B.ThePrelude

C.ChildeHarold’sPilgrimage D.DonJuan

41.Ascontrastedwiththeclassicistswhomadereason,orderandtheold,classicaltraditionsthecrpoeticalcreations,________basedhisownpoeticalprincipleonthepremisethat“allgoodpoetryisthespontaneousoverflowofpowerulfeeling.”

A.SamuelTaylorColeridge B.GeorgeGordonByron

C.PercyByssheShelley D.WilliamWordsworth

42.________wasthefirstcriticoftheRomanticSchool.

A.WilliamWordworth B.SamuelJohnson

C.SamuelTaylorColeridge D.WordworthandColeridge

43.Whichofthefollowingstatementsis(are)NOTtrueaboutGeorgeGordonByron?________

Byron’searlyyearshadbeenfarfromhappyforhewasbornwithaclubfoot,inthefrequentfamilmothercalledhim“youlamebrat.”

ByrondiedinItalyanndwasdeeplymournedbytheItalianpeopleandbyallprogressivepeopleththeworld.

Thereactionarycriticismofthe19thcenturytriedtobelittleByron’sgeniusandhisroleintheEnglishliterature,butByronremainsoneofthemostpopularEnglishpoetsbothathomeandabroad.

SincetheMay4Movementin1919,moreandmoreofByron’spoemshavebeentranslatedintoChinesewellreceivedbythepoetsandyoungreaders.Byronhasnowbecomeoneofthebest-knownEnglishpoourcountry.

44.In1805,Wordsworthcompletedalongautobiographicalpoementitled________.

A.Biographialiteraria B.ThePrelude

C.LucyPoems D.TheLyricalBallads

45.________isregardedasthemostwonderfullyricistEnglandhaseverproducedmainlyforhispoemsonnature,onlove,andonpolitics.

A.WilliamWordsworth B.JohnKeats

C.GeorgeGordonByron D.PercyByssheShelley

46.Whichofthefollowingstatementsis(are)NOTtrueaboutPercyByssheShelley?________A.PrometheusUnboundisPercyByssheShelley’smasterpiece,alongepicpoem.

AtEtonPercyByssheShelleywasknownas“MadShelley”,forhisobstinateoppositiontothebrutsystem,accordingtowhichtheyoungerschool-boyswereobligedtoobeytheolderboysandbearagrofcrueltreatment.

GeorgeGordonByronalledPercyByssheShelley“thebestandleastselfishmanIeverknew.”

PercyByssheShelleylovedthepeopleandhatedtheiroppressorsandexploiters.

47.________’spursuitofbeautyinallthingsbespokeanaspirationafterabetterlifethanthesordidrealityundercapitalism.Hisleadingprincipleis:“Beautyistruth,truthbeauty.”

A.PercyByssheShelley B.GeorgeGordonByron

C.WilliamWordsworth D.JohnKeats

48.ChoosethefourimmortalodeswrittenbyJohnKeats.________

A.OdetotheWestWind B.OdetoaNightingale

C.ToAutumn D.OdeonMelancholy

E.OdeonaGrecianUrn

49.ChoosetheworkswrittenbyJaneAusten.________

A.PrideandPrejudice B.SenseandSensibility

C.NorthangerAbbey C.Emma

E.MansfieldPark F.Persuasion

50.Inthe19thcenturyEnglishliterature,anewliterarytrendcalled________appeared.Anditflourfortiesandintheearlyfifties.

A.romanticism B.naturalism

C.realism D.criticalrealism

51.Englishcriticalrealismfounditsexpressionchieflyintheformof________.Thecriticalreal

whowerenovelists,describedwithvividnessandartisticskillthechieftraitsoftheEnglishsocietyandcriticisedthecapitalistsystemfromademocraticviewpoint.

A.novel B.dramaC.poetry D.essay

52.ThegreatestEnglishcriticalrealistnovelistwas________,whocriticisedthebourgeoiscivilisationandshowedthemiseryofthecommonpeople.

A.WilliamMakepeaceThackeray B.CharlesDickens

C.CharlotteBronte D.EmilyBronte

53.Whichofthefollowingwritersbelongtocriticalrealists?________

A.CharlesDickens B.CharlotteBronte

C.EmilyBronte D.ThomasHardy

54.________wroteanumberoflittlesketchesof“cockneycharacters”.Hesignedthem“Boz”,whichwashisnicknameforhisyoungbrother.Hisfirstbook,SketchesbyBozappearedin1836.

A.ElizabethGaskell B.WilliamM.Thackeray

C.CharlesDickens D.JaneAusten

55.________hasbeencalled“thesupremeepicofEnglishlife.”

A.ATaleofTwoCities B.DavidCopperfield

C.PickwickPapers D.OliverTwist

56.Thethemeunderlying________istheidea“Wherethereisoppression,thereisrevolution”.

A.ATaleofTwoCities B.DavidCopperfield

C.PickwickPapers D.OliverTwist

57.IntheVictorianAge,poetrywasnotamajorartintendedtochangetheworld.Themainpoetsowere________.

A.AlfredTennyson B.RobertBrowning

C.Mrs.Browning D.RobertBurns

E.WilliamBlake

58.The________Movementappearedinthethirtiesofthe19thcentury.ItshowedtheEnglishworkerabletoappearasanindependentpoliticalforceandwerealreadyrealisingthefactthattheindustrialbourgeoisiewastheirprincipalenemy.

A.Enlightenment B.Renaissance

C.Chartist D.Romanticist

59.Whichnovelisagreatsatireuponthesocietyandthosepeoplewhodreamtoenterthehighersocietyregardlessofthesocialreality?________

A.ATaleofTwoCities B.DavidCopperfield

C.GreatExpectation D.DombeyandSon

60.CharlesDickenstakestheFrenchRevolutionasthebackgroundofthenovel________.

A.ATaleofTwoCities B.GreatExpectationC.HardTimes D.DavidCopperfield

61.________isoftenregardedasthesemi-autobiographyoftheauthorDickensinwhichtheearlyliheroislargelybasedontheauthor’searlylife.

A.TomJones B.DavidCopperfieldC.OliverTwist D.GreatExpectation

62.TheBrontesistersare________.Theywerealltalentedwritersandallofthemdiedyoung.

A.CharlotteBronte B.EmilyBronte

C.AnneBronte D.JaneAusten

E.Catherine

63.CharlotteBronteproducedfournovels:________.

A.Professor B.JaneEyre

C.Shirley D.Villette

E.AgnesGrey

64.EmilyBrontewroteonlyonenovelentitled________.

A.WutheringHeights B.JaneEyre

C.Emma D.AgnesGrey

65.ChoosethenamesappearinthenovelJaneEyre.________

A.JaneEyre B.Mr.Rochester

C.MaryBarton D.SilasMarner

66.WhichcharactersappearinthenovelWutheringHeights?________

A.Heathcliff B.Catherine

C.Hindley D.Cathy

E.Hareton

67.InthenovelJaneEyre,CharlotteBronte________.

poursagreatdealofherownexperience

criticisesthebourgeoissystemofeducation

showsthattrueloveisthefoundationofmarriageD.showsthatwomenshouldhaveequalrightswithmen

68.WomennovelistsbegantoappearinEnglandduringthesecondhalfofthe________century.

A.17th B.18thC.19th D.20th

69.AnneBrontealsowrotetwonovels________and________.

A.Shirley B.Villette

C.TheTenantoftheWildfellHall D.AgnesGrey

70.WhichofthefollowingstatementsaretrueaboutJaneEyre?________

Oneofthecentralthemesofthebookisthecriticismofthebourgeoissystemofeducation.

Anotherproblemraisedinthenovelisthepositionofwomeninsociety.

ThisbookisCharlottelBronte’sbestliteraryproduction.

Inthisbook,theauthorattackedthegreed,pettytyrannyandlackofcultureamongthebourgeoisieandsympathisedwiththesufferingsofthepoorpeople.Herrealismwascolouredbypetty-bourgeoisphil

71.MostofRobertBrowning’simportantworks,including________,arewrittenintheformofdramaticmonologue.

A.DramaticLyrics B.DramaticRomances

C.MenandWomen D.dramaticsPersonae

72.ThomasHardyisoneoftherepresentativesofEnglish________attheturnofthe19thcentury.

A.criticalrealism B.pre-romanticismC.neo-classicism D.newromanticism

73.Whichstatementistrue?________A.ThomasHardyisafamousnovelist.

ThomasHardyisalsoapoet.

ThomasHardyisacriticalrealist.

FatalismisstronglyreflectedinThomasHardy’novels.

74.AccordingtoThomasHardy’sownclassification,hisnovelsdividedthemselvesintothreegroups.

________.

Novelsofcharacterandenvironment

RomancesandFantasies

NovelsofIngenuity

Workingclassliterature

75.NovelsofcharacterandenvironmentarealsocalledWessexnovels,takingthesouthwestcountiesofEnglandfortheirsetting.Theyinclude:________.

A.UndertheGreenwoodTree B.TheReturnoftheNative

C.TheMayorofCasterbridge D.TessoftheD’Urbervilles

E.JudetheObscure

76.ThefollowingstatementsareaboutThomasHardy’snovels,whicharetrue?________A.HisWessexnovelsareofgreatsignificance.

TheSouthwestcountiesofEnglandarethesettingofhisWessexnovels.

Thereispessimisminhisnovels.

Mankindissubjectedtohostileandmysteriousfate.

Thereareelementsofnaturalisminhisworks.

77.OscarWildeisoneoftheimportantdramatistsinthe19thcentury.Inhiscomedies,hecriticiseclassoftheEnglishbourgeoissociety.Hisbestcomediesare________.

LadyWindermere’sFan

AWomanofNoImportance

AnIdealHusband

TheImportanceofBeingEarnest

ThePictureofDorianGray

78.OscarWildewastherepresentativeamongthewritersof________.

A.aestheticism B.decadence

C.criticalrealism D.pre-romanticism

79.AlfredTennyson’spoeticoutputwasvastandvaried.Hismainpoemsare________.

A.ThePrincess B.Maud

C.InMemoriam D.IdyllsoftheKing

E.CrossingtheBar

80.Whichofthefollowingshortpoemswas/werewrittenbyAlfredTennyson?________

A.Break,Break,Break B.CrossingtheBar

C.TheEagle D.SweetandLow

E.Tears,IdleTears

81.WhichlamentwaswrittenbyAlfredTennysonforthedeathofhisfriendHallam?________

A.InMemoriam B.Lycidas

C.Adodais D.ElegywritteninaCountryChurchyard

82.MyLastDuchessis________.

A.adramaticmonologue B.ashortlyric

C.anovel D.anessay

83.________aregenerallyregardedasJosephConrad’sfinestnovels.

A.LordJim B.Nostromo

C.Youth D.TheOldWives’Tale

84.Whoisregardedasaforerunnerofthe“streamofconsciousness”literatureinthe20thcentury?

A.JohnGalsworthy B.HenryJames

C.ThomasStearnsEliot D.JamesJoyce

85.GeorgeBernardShaw’sessay________,acommentaryonHenrikIbsen’sdramaticworks,servedalsoauthor’sownprogramofdramaticcreation.

A.Widower’sHouses B.Mrs.Warren’sProfession

C.MajorBarbara D.TheQuintessenceofIbsenism

86.InEnglishliterature,________and________arethetwobest-knownnovelistsofthe“streamofconsciousness”school.

A.DavidHerbertLawrence B.RobertTressell

C.JamesJoyce D.VirginiaWoolf

87.________’sadmirershavepraisedhimas“secondonlytoShakespeareinhismasteryofEnglishlan

A.D.H.Lawrence B.T.S.Eliot

C.JamesJoyce D.W.B.Yeats

88.________istheclimaxofVirginiaWoolf’sexperimentsinnovelform.

A.TheWindow B.TimePasses

C.TotheLighthouse D.TheWaves

89.Whichofthefollowingnovelsbelong(s)tothe“streamofconsciousness”schoolofnovelwriting?

A.Ulysses B.FinnegansWake

C.TotheLighthouse D.TheWaves

90.________waswrittenbyJamesJoyce.

ThePortraitofanArtistasaYoungMan

PortraitofaLady

ThePictureofDorianGrayD.TotheLighthouse

91.D.H.Lawrence’srepresentativework________waspositivelytakenasatypicalexampleandlivelymanifestationoftheOedipusComplexinfiction,astheresultofLawrence’slong-rangestudyofthepsychologictheoriesofSigmundFreud.

A.SonsandLovers B.TheRainbow

C.LadyChatterley’sLover D.WomeninLove

92.Whichofthecharac