辽宁师范大学-英国文学(一)

出自:辽宁师范大学-英国文学(一)

(单选题) Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period. (本题3.5分) A、 Christian B、 knightly C、 Greek D、 primitive

(单选题) Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ___. (本题3.5分) A、 Piers Plowman B、 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight C、 Confessio Amantis D、 The Canterbury Tales

(单选题) Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaisssance Movement? (本题3.5分) A、 The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture. B、 The new discoveries in geography and astrology. C、 The Glorious revolution. D、 The religious reformation and the economic expansion.

(单选题) Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare.s Sonnet 18? (本题3.5分) 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 man.s salvation.

(单选题) The ture subject of John Donne.s poem,“The Sun Rising,” is to ___. (本题3.5分) A、 attack the sun as an unruly servant B、 give compliments to the mistress and her power of beauty C、 criticize the sun.s intrusion into the lover.s private life D、 lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie

(单选题) Of all the 18thcentury novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “___ in prose,”the first to give the modern novel its structure and style. (本题3.5分) A、 tragic epic B、 comic epic C、 romance D、 lyric epic

(单选题) The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver.s Travels are ___. (本题3.5分) A、 horses that are endowed with reason B、 pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualities C、 giants that are superior in wisdom D、 hairy,wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways.

(单选题) Here are four lines from a literary work:“Others for language all their care express,/And value books,as women men, for dress.”The work is ___. (本题3.5分) A、 Thomas Gray.s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” B、 John Milton.s Paradise Lost C、 Alexander Pope.s Essay on Criticism D、 Shakespeare.s Midsummer Night.s Dream

(单选题) The phrase “to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils” may well sum up the implied meaning of ___. (本题3.5分) A、 Gulliver.s Travels B、 The Rape of the Lock C、 Robinson Crusoe D、 The pilgrim.s Progress

(单选题) William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT ___. (本题3.5分) A、 the use of everyday language spoken by the common people B、 the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings C、 the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter D、 the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech

(单选题) Which of the following is taken from John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”? (本题3.5分) A、 “I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!” B、 “They are both gone up to the church to pary.” C、 “Earth has not anything to show more fair.” D、 “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”.

(单选题) “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!” is an epigrammatic line by __. (本题3.5分) A、 .J.Keats B、 W.Blake C、 W.Wordsworth D、 P.B.Shelley

(单选题) “Ode o na Grecian Urn”shows the contrast between the ___ of art and the ___ of human passion. (本题3.5分) A、 glory …ugliness B、 permanence…transience C、 transience…sordidness D、 glory…permanence

(单选题) In the statement“—oh,God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?” the term“soul” apparently refers to ___. (本题3.5分) A、 Heathcliff himself B、 Catherine C、 one.s spiritual life D、 one.s ghost

(单选题) The typical feature of Robet Browning.s poetry is the ___. (本题3.5分) A、 bitter satire B、 larger-than-life caricature C、 Latinized diction D、 dramatic monologue

(单选题) The Victorian Age was largely an age of ____,eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray. (本题3.5分) A、 poetry B、 drama C、 prose D、 epic prose

(单选题) ___is the first important governess(家庭女教师) novel in the English literary history. (本题3.5分) A、 Jane Eyre B、 Emma C、 Wuthering Heights D、 Middlemarch

(单选题) The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature. (本题3.5分) A、 D.H.Lawrence.s B、 J.Galsworthy.s C、 W.Thackeray’s D、 T.Hardy’s

(单选题) ___is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are playsinspired by social criticism. (本题3.0分) A、 Richard Sheridan B、 Oliver Goldsmith C、 Oscar Wilde D、 Bernard Shaw

(单选题) Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism? (本题3.0分) A、 To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being. B、 To put the stress on traditional values. C、 To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment. D、 To advocate a conscious break with the past.

(单选题) The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the ___ in the American literary histrory. (本题3.0分) A、 individual feelings B、 idea of survival of the fittest C、 strong imagination D、 return to nature

(单选题) Henry David Thoreau.s work,__,has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism. (本题3.0分) A、 Walden B、 The pioneers C、 Nature D、 Song of Myself

(单选题) The famous 20-years sleep in “Rip Van Winkle”helps to construct the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by Irving.s ___. (本题3.0分) A、 concern with the passage of time B、 expression of transient beauty C、 satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beings D、 idea about supernatural manipulation of man.s life

(单选题) The long poem ______ in Anglo-Saxon period was termed England’s national epic.(本题3.0分) A、 The B、 Paradise Lost C、 The Song of D、 The

(单选题) _____is the most common foot in English poetry.(本题3.0分) A、 The B、 The trochee C、 The iambus D、 The

(单选题) The enlighteners claimed that ______ should be the only, and the final cause of any human thought and activities.(本题3.0分) A、 reason B、 equality C、 science D、 fraternity

(单选题) “To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grad Foe.” (John Milton, Paradise Lost) By what means were Satan and his followers to wage this war against God?(本题3.0分) A、 By planting a tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden. B、 By turning into poisonous snakes to threaten man’s life. C、 By removing God from His throne. D、 By corrupting man and woman created by God.

(单选题) Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from____.(本题3.0分) A、 the Renaissance B、 the Old Testament C、 Greek Mythology D、 the New Testament

(单选题) “Bassanio:Antonio,I am married to a wife Which is as dear to me as life itself; But life itself, My wife, and all the world. Are not with me esteem.d above thy life; I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all, Here to the devil, to deliver you. Portia:Your wife would give you little thanks for that, If she were by to hear you make the offer.” The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare.s comedy The Merchant of Venice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate ____. (本题3.5分) A、 dramatic irony B、 personification C、 allegory D、 symbolism