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1、Test for British Literature1Test for British Literature-1Test One Part One Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the bracket.1. _, a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded today as

2、 the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.A The Wifes Complaint B Beowulf C The Dream of the Road D The Seafarer2. Its Chaucer alone who, for the first time in English literature , presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society in his masterpiece_.A The Canterbury Tales B The

3、Legend of Good Women C The Romaunt of the Rose D Troilus and Criseyde3. Dr. Faustus is a play based on the_ legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.A German B British C French D American4. The most important and popu

4、lar comedy written by Shakespeare is _A Romeo and Juliet B Twelfth Night C The Merchant of Venice D As You Like It5. _Essays is the first example of that genre in English literature.A John Miltons B Francis Bacons C Montaignes D Thomas Grays 6. _is the leading figure of the metaphysical school.A Joh

5、n Milton B John Donne C John Bunyan D John Keats7. _is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.A Paradise Lost B Paradise Regained C Samson Agonistes D The Faerie Queene8. Alexander Pope worked painstakingly on his poems and finally brought to its last perfect

6、ion _Dryden had successfully used in his plays.A the heroic couplet B the free verse C the blank verse D the Spenserian stanza9. The object of _novels was to present a faithful picture of life, “the just copies of human manners,” with sound teaching woven into their texture, so as to teach them to k

7、now themselves, their proper spheres and appropriate manners.A John Bunyans B Alexander Popes C Jonathan Swifts D Henry Fieldings 10. _has been regarded by some as “Farther of the English novel for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.A John Bunyan B Henry Fielding C

8、 Daniel Defoe D Jonathan Swift 11. Of all the 18th century novelists _was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specially a “comic epic in prose”.A Henry Fielding B Daniel Defoe C Robinson Crusoe D Colonel Jack12. _brings Henry Fielding the name of the “Prose Homer”.A The Pilgr

9、ims Progress B Tom Jones C Robinson Crusoe D Colonel Jack13. _was very much concerned with the theme of the vanity of human wishes and tried to awaken men to this folly and hoped to cure them of it through his writing.A Samuel Johnson B Jonathan Swift C Richard Brinsley Sheridan D Thomas Gray14._ is

10、 a sharp satire on the moral degeneracy of the aristocratic-bourgeois society in the 18th century England.A The Rivals B Gullivers Travels C Tom Jones D The School for Scandal15. The poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” is regarded as the most representative work of _.A the Metaphysical Scho

11、ol B the Graveyard School C the Gothic School D the romantic School16.In his novel, Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero of the _.A aristocratic class B enterprising landlords C rising bourgeoisie D hard-working people 17. English Romanticism is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the pub

12、lication of a joint volume of poetry, Lyrical Ballads, written by Wordsworth and_.A Keats B Coleridge C Southey D Byron 18. _ defines the poet as a “man speaking to men, and poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility.A William Bla

13、ke B William Wordsworth C Samuel Taylor Coleridge D John Keats19. For the Romantics, _ is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter.A love B man C mature D death20_ is central to Blakes concern in Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.A Poverty B

14、 Life in London C Childhood D NaturePart Two Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook.1. Generally speaking, the Old English poetry that has survived can be divided into two groups: the _ group and the _group.2. Christopher Marlowe gave new v

15、igor to the blank verse with his “_”.3. It is Edmund Spensers idealism, his lore of beauty, and his exquisite melody that make him known as “_”.4. In his romantic comedies, Shakespeare takes a (n) _attitude toward love and youth, and the romantic elements are brought into fully play.5. The most stri

16、king feature of John Donnes poetry is precisely its tang of reality, in the sense that it seems to reflect life in a _ rather than a _world.6. Gullivers Travels contains _parts, each dealing with one particular voyage during which Gulliver meets with shipwreck or piracy or some other _.7. Fielding s

17、hared the contemporary view of the English enlighteners that the purpose of the novel was not just to _, but to _.8. As a lexicographer, Samuel Johnson was rather _, openly showing his dislike for much of the newly rising form of literature.9. Sheridan is much concerned with the current _ issues and

18、 lashes harshly at the social vices of the day.10. Thomas Gray has been remembered as the leader of the _poetry of his day.11. Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge and other major Romantic poets, started a _ against the neoclassical literature, which was later regarded as the poetic revolution.12. Walter Sc

19、ott is the first major _novelist, exerting a powerful literary influence both in Britain and on the Continent throughout the 19th century.13. According to the subjects, Wordsworths short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about _and poems about _.14. Don Juan is Byrons masterpiece, a gre

20、at _of the early 19th century.15. As a leading Romanticist, Byrons chief contribution is his creation of the “Byronic hero,” a proud, mysterious _ figure of _origin.Part ThreeDefine the literary terms listed below.1. Renaissance 2. Neoclassicism 3. The heroic couplet 4.The Romantic Movement 5. The “

21、 Byronic hero”Part FourFor each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it.1. “ But thy eternal summer shall not fade,Nor lose possession of that fair thou owst:Nor shall death brag thou wa

22、nder st in his shade, So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this , and this gives life the thee.”2. “Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.” 3 “ And, moreover, at this fair there is at all times to be seen jugglings, cheats, games, plays, foo

23、ls, apes, knaves, and rogues, and that of every kind, here are to be seen , too, and that for nothing, thefts, murders, adulteries, false wearers, and that of a blood-red color.”A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.B. Identify the name of the fair.C. Sum

24、marize the meaning of the passage.4. “Be through my lips to unawakened EarthThe trumpet of a prophecy! O, Wind,If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”5. “When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woeThan ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say st.“Beauty is t

25、ruth, truth beauty,” that is allYe know on earth, and all ye need to know.” Part Five Give Brief answers to the following questions.1. Briefly comment on Geoffrey Chaucers works and his literary achievements.2. What does Milton intend to tell the reader by writing Paradise Lost?3. What is the theme

26、of The Pilgrims Progress?4. Discuss the subject matter in the odes written by John Keats.Keys Part One 1-5 B A A C B 6-10 B A A D B 11-15 A B A D B 16-20 C B B C C Part Two 1 religious, secular 2 mighty, lines 3 the poets poet 4 optimistic 5 real, poetical 6 four, misfortune 7 amuse, instruct 8 dict

27、ionary 9 moral 10 sentimental 11 rebellion 12 historical 13 nature, human life 14 comic epic 15 rebel, noble Part Three 1. Renaissance:The Renaissance marks a transition from the medieval to the modern world. Generally, it refers to the period between the 14th and mid 17th centuries. It first starte

28、d in Italy, with the flowering of painting, sculpture and literature. From Italy the movement went to embrace the rest of Europe. The Renaissance, which means rebirth or revival, is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, such as the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek cu

29、lture, the new discoveries in geography and astrology, the religious reformation and the economic expansion. The Renaissance, therefore, in essence, is a historical period in which the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to get rid of those old feudalist ideas in medieval Europe, t

30、o introduce new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie, and to recover the purity of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church.2. Neoclassicism:In the field of literature, the Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classica

31、l works. This tendency is known as neoclassicism. According to the neoclassicism, all forms of literature were to be modeled after the classical works of the ancient Greek and Roman writers (Homer, Virgil, and so on) and those of the contemporary French ones. They believed that the artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion and accuracy, and that literature should be judged in terms of its service to humanity. This belief led them to seek proportion, unity