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1、英国文学考试题英语复习提纲一、听力（25）二、根据作家名写出每位作家的两部作品（注：作品不需要加书名号！）（5*2）1、Geoffrey Chaucer（杰弗里乔叟）：The House of Fame 、The book of the Duchess(已考)2、William Shakespeare（威廉莎士比亚）：Othello、Twelfth Night、Romeo and Juliet 、Hamlet3、John Milton （约翰弥尔顿）：Paradise Lost、Paradise Regained(已考)4、Daniel Defoe（丹尼尔笛福）：Roxana、Moll Fla

2、nders、Colonel Jack 5、William Blake（威廉布莱克）：Songs of Innocence、The Song of Los、The Songs of Experience6、Jane Austen（简奥斯汀）：Emma、Pride and Prejudice、Persuasion7、Hawthorne（霍桑）；Twice-Told Tales、The House of Seven Gables8、William Wordsworth（威廉华兹华斯）：Lucy poems、The Prelude(已考)9、Robert Burns（罗伯特伯恩斯）：The Tree

3、of Liberty、A Red, Red Rose10、Percy Bysshe Shelley（雪莱）：Queen Mab、England in 181911、Charlotte Bronte （夏洛蒂勃朗特）：Jane Eyre、The Professor12、Emily Bronte （艾米莉勃朗特）：Wuthering Heights、Some Poems13、Anne Bronte(安妮勃朗特):The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 、Agnes Grey 14、Charles Dickens（查尔斯狄更斯）：Bleak House、Hard Times 三、选择

4、题（10*2）1 Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeares four great tragedies? AA. Romeo and Juliet B. King Lear C. Hamlet D. Macbeth2. In _C_, Shakespeare has not only made a profound analysis of the social crisis in which the evils can be seen everywhere, but also criticized the bourg

5、eois egoism.A. Hamlet B. OthelloC. King Lear D. Macbeth3. The sentence Shall I compare thee to a summers day? is the beginning line of one of Shakespeares _C_ .A. comedies B. tragediesC. sonnets D. histories4. Many people today tend to regard the play “The Merchant of Venice” as a satire of the hypo

6、crisy of _A_ and their false standards of friendship and love, their cunning ways of pursuing worldliness and their unreasoning prejudice against _. A. Christians/Jews B. Jews/ChristiansC. oppressors/oppressed D. people/Jews5. Miltons paradise Lost took its material from _ A _. A. the Bible B. Greek

7、 mythC. Roman myth D. French romance 6. Among the three major poetical works by John Milton, _A_ is the most perfect example of verse drama（叙事诗歌，诗剧） after the Greek style in English. A. Samson Agonistes B. Paradise Lost C. Paradise Regained D. Areopagitica 7.John Miltons greatest poetical work _B_ i

8、s the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.A. Areopagitica B. Paradise Lost C. Lycidas D. Samson Agonistes 8 Hester Pryme, Dimmsdale, Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in _A_.A. The Scarlet Letter B. The House of the Seven Gables C. T

9、he Portrait of a Lady D. The pioneers9. In The Scarlet letter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, The letter A has several symbolic meanings except _C_.A.Adultery B.Avenge C. Awake D. Angel10. Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over _A_.A. Ezra Pound B. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Robert Frost

10、 D. Emily Dickinson11“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by _C_.A. T. S. Eliot B. Robert FrostC. Ezra Pound D. Emily Dickinson12. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT _ D_.A. the use of every

11、day language spoken by the common peopleB. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC. the use of humble and rustic life as subject matterD. the use of elegant wording and inflated言过其实的，夸张的 figures of speech13. The publication of _ C_ marked the beginning of Romantic Age.A. Don

12、 Juan(Byron) B. the Rime of the Ancient Mariner(Coleridge)C. The Lyrical Ballads D. Queen Mab（Shelley）14.All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT _D_.A. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud B. An Evening WalkC. Tinter Abbey丁登寺 D. The Solitary Reaper(已考)15. “If Winte

13、r comes, can Spring be far behind!” is an epigrammatic警句式的 line by _D_.A. J. Keats B. W. Blake C. W. Wordsworth D. P.B. Shelley16. Which is Shelleys masterpiece? BA. Queen Mab B. Prometheus UnboundC. Prometheus Bound D. The Revolt of Islam 17. The Father of American detective story is _B_.A) Herman

14、Melville B) Edgar Allan Poe C) Mark Twain D) Nathaniel Hawthorne18. Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of _C_ , poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. A. blank verse B. heroic coupletC. free verse D. iambic pentameter 19

15、.Walt Whitman believed, by means of “_A_,” he has turned poetry into an open field, an area of vital possibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play. A. free verse B. strict verseC. regular rhyming D. standardized rhyming 20. The themes of Whit Whitmans poems include the following

16、 except _D_.A) democracy B) the cultureC) the land D) the race 21. Emily Dickinsonwrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression? DA）Defeat and pain B）Nature and deathC）Love and passion D）War and peace22. _A_ is the most comm

17、on foot in English poetry. A）The iamb抑楊格 短長格 B）The anapest抑抑扬格C）The trochee扬抑格 D）The dactyl扬抑抑格四、名词解释（2*5）（补考的可能性比较大）1、Humanism人道主义 Humanism is the key-note of the Renaissance. It reflected the new outlook of the rising bourgeois class. Humanists emphasize the dignity of human beings and the importa

18、nce of the present life and believe that man did not only have the right to enjoy the beauty of this life, but had the ability to perfect himself and to perform wonders by removing all the external checks by the exercise of reason. They also expressed their rebellious spirit against the tyranny of f

19、eudal rule and ecclesiastical domination. 以人为本是关键音符文艺复兴时期。它反映了新的前景资产阶级上升。人文主义强调人的尊严和现在的生活的重要性，并相信那人不仅要享受这种生活之美的权利，但必须完善自己，并通过删除所有的外部检查，以创造奇迹的能力演习的原因。他们还表示反对封建统治和教会统治的暴政叛逆精神。2、Heroic Couplet英雄对联Heroic couplet refers to iambic pentameter lines rhymed in pairs. The Rhyme scheme is aa, bb, cc, dd, and s

20、o on. It is named from its use by John Dryden and others in the heroic drama of the late 17th century. It was established earlier by Chaucer as a major English verse-form for narrative poetry, and dominated English poetry of the 18th century. It is called “heroic” because in England, it is usually u

21、sed in heroic poems. 英雄对联是指押韵成对五音步抑扬格线。押韵格式为AA，BB，CC，DD，等等。它是从它的由约翰德莱顿等人在剧中英雄17世纪后期的使用命名。稍早成立由乔叟作为主要英语诗歌形式的叙事诗，并主导了18世纪英国诗歌。它被称为“英雄”，因为在英格兰，它通常是在英雄的诗用3、Lake Poets湖畔诗人Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey were called the Lake Poets, because they lived and knew one another in the last few years of the 18t

22、h century in the district of the great lakes in Northwestern England, and shared a community of literary and social outlook in their work. All three of them had radical inclinations in their youth but later turned conservative.华兹华斯，柯勒律治和骚塞被称为湖畔诗人，因为他们住在英格兰西北部五大湖区知道，在过去的几年里在18世纪的彼此，共同的文学和社会面貌社区在他们的工作

23、。他们三个有激进倾向在自己的青春，但后来转向保守。（补考的可能性比较大）4、The Renaissance文艺复兴The term Renaissance originally indicated a revival of classical (Roman and Greek) arts and sciences after the dark ages of medieval obscurantism. Indeed, a great number of the works of classical authors were translated into English during the

24、 16th century. The study and propagation of classical learning and art was carried on by the progressive thinkers of the humanists. They held their chief interest not in ecclesiastical (教会) knowledge, but in man, thats to say, The most significant idea of the Renaissance is humanism. They pay close

25、attention to their environment and doings and bravely fought for the emancipation (解放) of man from the tyranny of the church and religious dogmas.在文艺复兴一词原先标明的经典（罗马和希腊）的艺术和科学的黑暗时代的中世纪蒙昧主义后的复兴。事实上，古典作家的作品大量在16世纪被翻译成英文。经典的学习和艺术的研究和传播进行由人文主义的进步思想家。他们认为他们的主要兴趣不在教会的知识，但在人，这是说，文艺复兴时期的最显著的想法是人文主义。他们密切关注他们的环

26、境和行为，勇于争取的人从教会和宗教教条的暴政中解放。(已考)5、Enlightenmet启蒙运动The Enlightenment on the whole, was an expression of struggle of the then progressive class of bourgeoisie against feudalism. The enlighteners fought against class inequality, stagnation, prejudices and other survivals of feudalism. They attempted to p

27、lace all branches of science at the service of mankind by connecting them with the actual deeds and requirements of the people.启蒙运动于一体，是当时先进阶级资产阶级反对封建主义的斗争的一种表现。启蒙反抗阶级不平等，停滞，偏见和封建主义的其他残余。他们试图把科学的所有分支在人类的服务通过与实际行动和人民的要求，连接它们。(已考)6、Romanticism浪漫主义English Romanticism is a revolt of the English imaginat

28、ion against the neoclassical 新古典主义reason. The French Revolution of 1789-1794 and the English Industrial Revolution exert great influence on English Romanticism. The romanticists express a negative attitude towards the existing social or political conditions. They place the individual at the center o

29、f art, as can be seen from Lord Byrons Byronic Hero. The key words of English Romanticism are nature and imagination. Sincerity, spontaneity, and originality became the new standards in literature, replacing the imitation of classical models favored by the 18th century neo-classicism. 英国浪漫主义是对新古典主义的

30、原因，英语想象的反抗。的1789年至1794年的法国大革命和英国工业革命产生于英国浪漫主义很大的影响。浪漫主义表达对现有的社会或政治状况持否定态度。他们将个人在艺术的中心，这可以从拜伦的拜伦式英雄可以看出。英国浪漫主义的关键词是自然和想象力。以诚待人，自发性（自发性），及原创成为文学的新标准，取代了18世纪的新古典主义的青睐经典款的仿制品。7、Byronic Hero拜伦式英雄Byronic Heroes, the proud, mysterious rebel figures of noble origin，refer to the men exemplified in the writin

31、gs of Lord Byron. With fiery passions and unbending will, the heroes express the poets own ideal of freedom. These heroes rise against tyranny and injustice , but they are merely lonely fighters striking for personal freedom and some individualistic purposes. 拜伦式英雄，贵族血统的高傲，神秘，反叛人物，是指体现在拜伦勋爵的著作的人。随着火热的激情和不屈的意志，英雄表达了诗人自己的自由的理想。这些英雄们奋起反抗暴政和不公，但他们只是孤独的战士惊人的个人自由和个人主义的一些目的。五、文本分析（2*15）（补考的可能性比较大）1、HamletTo be, or not to be that is the question: Whether tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arr