13级英国文学史及选读练习(新)

北京交通大学海滨学院外语系2013级英国文学史及选读练习题1ExercisesforHistoryEnglishLiteratureandSelectedReadingsI.Choosethebestanswer:1．_________,atypicalexampleofOldEnglishpoetry,isconsideredthegreatestnationalepicoftheAnglo-Saxons.a.PiersPlowmanb.TheCanterburyTalesc.TheHouseofFamed.Beowulf2．Itwas_________whomadeLondondialectthefoundationofthemodernEnglishspeech.a.Chaucerb.Shakespearec.Wyattd.Boccaccio3．PiersPlowmanis__________thatgivesapictureofthelifeinfeudalEngland.a.anovelb.apoemc.adramad.aballad4．ChaucerisacclaimednotonlyasthefatherofEnglishpoetrybutalsoasthefatherofEnglishfiction.Hismasterpieceis__________.a.TroilusandCressieb.RomanceoftheRosec.TheCanterburyTalesd.Decameron5．TheCanterburyTalesisChaucer'sgreatestworkwrittenforthegreaterpartin________coupletandcontains_________stories.a.iambic….29b.pentameter....21c.metrical....20d.heroic….246．________areanonymousnarrativesongsthathavebeenpreservedbyoraltransmission.a.Balladsb.Epicsc.Odesd.Folklores7．DivineComedywasoneofthegreatestRenaissanceliteraryworksbytheItalianpoet_______.a.Boccacciob.Dantec.daVinccid.Petrarch8．AftertheoldEnglisharistocracyhadbeenexterminatedinthecourseofWarof_______inthe15thcentury,anewnobility,totallydependentontheKing’spower,cameintobeing.a.theChurchesb.theHolyAlliesc.Troyansd.Roses9．___________foundedtheTudorDynasty,acentralizedmonarchyofatotallynewtype,whichmettheneedsoftherisingbourgeoisie.A.JamesIB.HenryVC.HenryVIID.HenryVIII10.ThomasMorewrotehisfamousprosework________,inwhichhegaveaprofoundandtruthfulpictureofthepeople’ssufferingsandputforwordhisidealofafuturehappysociety.a.Utopiab.TheFairyQueenc.Eupheusd.GeorgeGreen11.SpenserisgenerallyregardedasthegreatestnondramaticpoetoftheElizabethanAge.Hisfameischieflybasedonhismasterpiece_________.a.Cymbelineb.Love'sLabour'sLostc.TheWinter'sTaled.TheFairyQueen12.Claudius,OpheliaandLaertesarecharactersin_________.a.KingLearb.Hamletc.JuliusCaesard.HenryIV13.“Comelivewithmeandbemylove,Andwewillallthepleasureprove”arethefirsttwolinesofapoemwrittenby__________.北京交通大学海滨学院外语系2013级英国文学史及选读练习题2a.Shakespeareb.Miltonc.Marlowed.Spenser14.Hamlet,_________,KingLearandMacbetharegenerallyregardedasShakespeare'sfourgreattragedies.a.RomeoandJulietb.TimonofAthensc.ALover'sComplaintd.Othello15._________wasthefirsttointroducethesonnetintoEnglishliterature.a.ThomasWyattb.Shakespearec.Miltond.Wordsworth16.PhilipSidney’s_________isaproseromancefilledwithlyricsandregardedasaforerunnerofthemodernworld.a.Arcadiab.DefenseofPoetryc.Tamburlained.TheSunRising17._________isJohnMilton’sfamoussonnetinwhichhelamentshisblindness.a.ParadiseLostb.OnHisBlindnessc.SamsonAgonistesd.Lycidas18.OfBacon’sliteraryworks,themostimportantishis________.a.NovumOrganumb.AdvancementofLearningb.Essaysd.DeAugmentisScientiarum19.________saidinhisOfStudies“Somebooksaretobetasted,otherstobeswallowed,andsomefewtobechewedanddige,sted”.a.ThomasMoreb.FrancisBaconc.JohnDonned.JohnMilton20.MostoftheliteraryworksduringtheEnlightenmentperiodaremoreorless________,intendingtoteachsomemorallessons.a.didacticb.descriptivec.denouementald.Dadaistic21.MiltonandBunyan,representingtheextremeofEnglishlifeinthe17thcentury,wrotetwoworksthatstandtodayforthemighty___________spirit.A.classicalB.CatholicC.PuritanD.Renaissance22.Miltonwrotehismasterpiece_________duringhisblindness.a.HistoryOfBrittainb.SamsonAgonistsc.ParadiseRegainedd.ParadiseLost23.__________wrotehismasterpieceThePilgrim'sProgressduringhissecondimprisonment.a.Bunyanb.Miltonc.Donned.Dryden24.“Iftheyaretwo,theyaretwoso/Asstifftwincompassesaretwo;/Thysoul,thefixedfoot,makesnoshow/Tomove,butdoth,ifth’otherdo.”TheselinesarefromJohnDonne’sAValediction:ForbiddingMourning,whichisagoodexampletomanifesthisprincipleof_________.a.metaphysicalpoetryb.thePetrarchantraditionc.Elizabethanlyricistsd.lyricalballads25.Bunyan’sThePilgrim’sProgressandGolding’sLordoftheFliesaretwoexamplesof__________.a.allegoricalnovelsb.metaphysicalpoetryc.Universitywitsd.dramaticmonologue北京交通大学海滨学院外语系2013级英国文学史及选读练习题326.Inbothdramaandfiction,_________isamethodusedtobuildsuspensebyprovidinghintsforwhatistohappen.a.foreshadowingb.foregroundc.plotd.denouement27.The________wasaprogressiveintellectualmovementthroughoutthewesternEuropeinthe18thcentury.a.Renaissanceb.ReligiousReformationc.Enlightenmentd.ChartistMovement28.Defoe'smasterpiece________isbasedupontheexperiencesofAlexanderSelkirk,whohadbeenmaroonedintheislandofJuanFernadezoffthecoastofChileandwhohadhadlivedhereinsolitudeforfiveyears.a.CaptainSingletonb.RobinsonCrusoec.MollFlandersd.Gulliver’sTravels29.Sentimentalismisapejorativetermtodescribefalseorsuperficialemotion,assumedfeeling,self-regardingposturesofgriefandpain._________,anovelbyOliverGoldsmith,isacaseinpoint.a.TheVicarofWakefieldb.Alexander’sFeastc.AJournalofthePlagueYeard.TheHistoryofTomJones,aFoundling30.Inthe18thCenturyneo-classicEnglishliterature,thebestrepresentativepoetofneo-classicismis_________.a.AlexanderPopeb.DanielDefoec.MatthewArnoldd.JohnMilton31._________,writteninheroiccoupletbyPope,isamanifestoofEnglishneo-classicismasheputsforwar