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1、9Part One Early and Medieval English LiteratureI . Fill in the blanks.1. In 1066, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeating England.A. William the ConquerorB. Julius CaesarC. Alfred the GreatD. Claudius2. In the 14比 century, the most important writer (poet) is.A. LanglandB. WycliffeC

2、. GowerD. Chaucer3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is.A. novelB. dramaC. romanceD. essay4. The story of is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight B. BeowulfC. Piers the PlowmanD. The Canterbury Tales5. William Langland?s is written in the for

3、m of a dream vision.A. Kubla KhanB. Piers the PlowmanC. The Dream of John BullD. Morte d?Arthur6. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at that time. The Normans spoke.A. FrenchB. EnglishC. LatinD. Swedish7. was the greatest of English religious reformers and the first transl

4、ator of the Bible.A. LanglandB. GowerC. WycliffeD. Chaucer8. Piers the Plowman describes a series of wonderful dreams the author dreamed, through which, we can see a picture of the lifein the England.A. primitive B. feudalC. bourgeois D. modern9. The theme of to king and lord was repeatedly emphasiz

5、ed in romances.A. loyalty B. revolt C. obedience D. mockery10. The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about a legendary outlaw called.A. Morte d?ArthurB. Robin HoodC. The Canterbury TalesD. Piers the Plowman11., the "father of English poetry" and oneaorfethvegpjoet

6、esif England, was born in London in about 1340.A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Sir Gawain C. Francis Bacon D. John Dryden12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in.A. Flanders B. France C. ItalyD. Westminster Abbey13. Chaucer?s earliest work of any length is his, a translation of the French Ro

7、man de la Rose by Gaillaume de Lorris a nd Jean de Meung, which was a love allegory enjoying widespread popularity in the 13 th and 14th centuries not only in France but throughout Europe.A. The Romaunt of the RoseB. " A Red, Red Rose "C. The Legend of Good WomenD. The Book of the Duchess1

8、4. In his lifetime Chaucer served in a great variety of occupations that had impact on the wide range of his writings. Which one is not his career?.A. engineerB. courtierC. office holderD. soldierE. ambassadorF. legislator (议员)15. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named based on Boccaccio?s poe

9、m" Filostrato ”A. The Legend of Good WomenB. Troilus and Criseyde6-10 ACBAB 11-15 ADAABC. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD. BeowulfKey to the multiple choices：1-5 ADCAB自考真题2002-4.Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular litera

10、ry formin the medieval period.A.ChristianB.knightlyC.Greek D.primitive(B)Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of.A.Piers PlowmanB.Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC.Confessio Amantis D.The Canterbury Tales(D)The work that presented, for the first time in E

11、nglish literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely.A . William Langland? s Piers Plowman B. G eoffrey Chaucer?s The Canterbury TalesC. John Gower?s Confession Amantis D . Sir Gawai

12、n and the Green Knight(B)n . Questions1. What are the features of Beowulf?2. Comment on the social significance and language in The Canterbury Tales.Part Two The English RenaissanceI . Match the writer and his works.1. Thomas More2. Holinshed3. Hakluyt4. Richard Tottel5. Philip Sidney6. Walter Ralei

13、ghA. Apology for PoetryB. Miscellany of Songs and SonnetsC. UtopiaD. Discovery of GuianaE. Principal Navigations, V oyages and DiscoveriesF. ChroniclesThe key: (1 C 2 F3 E4 B5 A6D)n . Choose the best answer.1. founded the Tudor Dynasty, a centralized monarchy of a totally new type, which met the nee

14、ds of the rising bourgeoisie.A. Henry V B. Henry VII C. Henry VIII D. James I2. The first complete English Bible was translated by," the morning star of the Reformation”A. William TyndalB. James IC. John WycliffeD. Bishop Lancelot Andrews3. The progress in industry at home stimulated the commer

15、cial expansion abroad.encouraged exploration and travel, which were compatible with the interests of the English merchants.A. Henry V .B. Henry VIIC. Henry VIIID. Queen Elizabeth4. Except being a vic tory of England over, the rout of the fleet" Armada" (Invincible) was also the triumph oly

16、oung bourgeoisie over the declining old feudalism.A. Spain B. France C. America D. Norway5. Those, both traders and pirates like, established the first English colonies.A. Francis Drake B. Lancelot AndrewsC. William Caxton D. William Tyndal6. was a forerunner of classicism in English literature.A. B

17、en Johnson B. William ShakespeareC. Thomas More D. Christopher Marlowe7. The most gifted of thea university wits " was.A. LylyB. Peele C. Greene D. Marlowe8. Morality plays appeared after.A. miracle plays B. mystery plays C. interlude D. Classical plays9. is used to say and do good things.A. Me

18、rcy B. FollyC. ViceD. Peace10. is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.A. Phillip SidneyB. Edmund SpenserC. Thomas More D. Walter Raleigh11. is not a famous translator in the English Renaissance.A. Thomas NorthB. Thomas WyattC. George Chapman D. John Florio12. had supplied Shakespeare

19、with the material for Julius Caesar.A. Lives of Greek and Roan Heroes希腊罗马名人传B. Miscellany of Songs and SonnetsC. Don QuixoteD. History of the World13. was one of the first to see the relation between wealth and poverty to understand that the rich were becoming richer by robbing the poor.A. John Wycl

20、iffeB. William CaxtonC. Geoffrey Chaucer D. Thomas More14. Utopia was written in the form of.A. prose B. drama C. essay D. dialogue15. One of the popular morality plays was.A. The ShepherdsB. EverymanC. The Play of the WeatherD. Gammer Gurton?s Needle16. Shakespeare?s plays written between are somet

21、imes calleda romances " and all end in reconciliation an(A. 1590 and 1594B. 1595 and 1600C. 1601 and 1607D. 1608 and 161217. Miranda is a heroine in Shakespeare?s.A. Pericles B. Cymbeline C. The Winter?s Tale D. The Tempest18. In appeared Shakespeare?s Sonnet Never before Imprinted (莎士上匕亚十四行诗迄今

22、从未干U印过 ")which contains154 sonnets.A. 1606 B.1607 C.1608160919. Shakespeare is one of the founders of.A. romanticism B. realism C. naturalism D. classicism20. Among many poetic forms, Shakespeare was especially at home (good at) with the.A. dramatic blank verse B. song C. sonnet D. couplet21. I

23、n the plays, Shakespeare used about words.A. 15000 B. 16000 C. 17000 D. 1800022. has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.A. Christopher Marlow B. Francis BaconC. W. ShakespeareD. Ben JohnsonKey to the multiple choices:1-5 BCDAA 6-10 DDCBA 11-15 BDADA 16-22 ACBADDB m . Fill in the blank

24、s.1. The was universally used by the Catholic Churches.2. The English translation of the Bible emerged as a result of the struggle between and.3. The Bible was notably translated into English by the.4. The first complete Engl ish Bible was translated by," the morning star of the".5. transl

25、ated the New Testament and portions of the Old Testament, which is known as Tyndale?s Bible.6. After Tydale?s Bible, then appeared the, which was made in 1611 under the aus pices of. And so was sometimes called the.7. Apart from the religious influence, the Authorized Version has had a great influen

26、ce on English and.8. With the widespread influence of the English Bible, the standard modern English has been and.9. A great number of and phrases have passed into daily English speech as household words.10. The and language of the Authorized Version has colored the style of the English prose for th

27、e last 300 years.11. was the first English printer.12. William Caxton was a prosperous merchant himself, but he was fond of, and his interest was turning to.13. He translated The Recuyell of Historyes of Troy into English from French which was the book printed in English.14. The Recuyell served as a

28、 source for Troilus and Cressida.特洛埃勒斯与克雷雪达15. After having established his printing press, William Caxton devoted himself to the career of a and.16. William Caxton published about books,of which were translated by himself.17. By rendering (翻译)French books into English, Caxton exercised the youthful

29、 language in the airs (曲调),the graces, thecrafts of the elder and contributed to the development of the style of century English.18. The influence of Caxton?s publications is also great in fixing a language in England.19. As the first English printer, Caxton invented in England the profession of, wh

30、ich in fact has had a lasting significance tothe development of English as a whole.20. The Renaissance started in the century and ended in the century.21. The word, a renaissance " means, which was stimulated by a series of historical events, such as.22. Inthe Renaissance, the humanist thinkers

31、 and scholars tried to get rid of those old in medieval Europe, to introducenewideas that expresses of the rising bourgeoisie, and to recover the oftheearly church from the corruptionof theRoman Catholic Church.23. is the theme of the English Renaissance, which emphasized the capacities of and the a

32、chievements of.24. Stanza is a verse form created by for his poem, in which the rhyme scheme is.25. The Wars of the Roses (1455 1485) between the House of and the House of struggling for the Crown continued for30 years.26. Because of the conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and the King of Eng

33、land, the far-reaching movement of tookplace in England, started by Henry VIII.27. After in England, the helpless, dispossessed peasants, being compelled to work at a low wage, became hired laborers forthe merchants. These laborers were the fathers of modern English.28. The introduction of to Englan

34、d by William Caxton (1476) brought classical works within reach of the common multitude.29. The 16th century in England was a period of the breaking up of relations and the establishing of the foundations of.30. Because the wool trade was rapidly growing in bulk, it was a time when, according to Tho

35、mas More,31. broke off with the Pope, dissolved all the monasteries and abbeys in the country, confiscated their lands and proclaimed himself head of the Church of England.32. Together with the development of bourgeois relationships and formation of the English national state this period is marked b

36、y a flourishing of national culture known as.33. , in his translation of Virgil?s Aeneid, wrote the first English blank verse.34. Richard Tottel?s Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets contained poems by and by.35. Philip Sidney thought that had superiority over philosophy and history.36. is a picture of

37、contemporary England with forcible exposure of the among the laboring classes.37. More points out that the root of poverty is the of social wealth.38. Sonnets contain sonnets and sonnets.39. The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its.40. The " miracles " were simpl

38、e plays based on stories.41. There are significant touches of life in the play titled The Shepherds.42. A morality play presented the of good and with personages.43. Vice was the predecessor of the modern.44. Through the revival of classical literature, English playwrights came into contact with and

39、 drama.45. From the contact with Greek and Latin drama, English playwrights learned all the important rules in and, the moreexact conception of and.46. English comedies and tragedies on classical models appeared in the middle of the century.47. The first English comedy is.48. The first English trage

40、dy is.49. Miracle plays, morality plays, interludes and classical plays paved the way for the flourishing of.50. In the 16th century became the centre of English drama.51. By, professional actors were organized into companies.52. were wooden buildings, usually circular in form, with tiers（一排排） of ga

41、lleries surrounding a roofless pit （楼下居U场）53. In the Elizabethan Theater, there were no and women?s parts were always taken by.54. Shakespeare?s narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, is full of vivid images of the, and aphorisms （格言、警句）on life.55. Shakespeare was a great of the English language.56. Shak

42、espeare?s dramatic creation often used the method of.57. Shakespeare?s drama becomes a monument of the English.58. Shakespeare was a for play-writing.59. Shakespeare?s people represent all the complexities and implications of real life.Key to the blanks:1.Latin Bible28.printing2.Protestantism; Catho

43、licism29.feudal; capitalism3.Protestants30.sheep devours men4.John Wycliffe; Reformation31.William VIII5.William Tyndal32.Renaissance6.Authorized Version, James I; King James Bible.33.Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey7.Language; literature34.96, Sir Thomas Wyatt, 40, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey8.fixed;

44、confirmed35.poetry9.Bible coinages36.Utopia, Book One; poverty10.simple; dignified37.private ownership11.William Caxton38.Italian/Petrarchan ; Shakespearean12.Reading; literature39.Drama13.First40.Bible14.Shakespeare41.real15.Printer; publisher42.Conflict; evil; allegorical16.100; 2443.Clown17.15th

45、; prose44.Greek; Latin18.National45.Structure; style; comedy; tragedy19.Publisher; culture46._th1620.14th; 17th47.Gammer Gurton?s Needle 葛顿大娘的缝衣针21.Religious reformation48.Gorboduc同波特克22.feudalist ideas; interests; purity49.Drama23.Humanism; human mind; human culture50.London24.Spenserian; Edmund Sp

46、enser; The Faerie Queene;51.1567ababbcbcc52.Elizabethan theatres25.Lancaster; York53.actress; boys26.The Reformation54.countryside27.the Enclosure Movement; proletarians55.master56. adaptation （revision）57. Renaissance58. master-hand （能手）59. full-bloodIV . Say true or false.1. The old English aristo

47、cracy having been exterminated （wiped out） in the course of the War of the Roses, a new nobility, totally dependent on King?s power, come to the fore.2. Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.3. The progress of bourgeois economy made England a powerful st

48、ate and enabled her in 1588 to inflict a defeat on the Spanish Invincible Armada.4. The Protestant Reformation was in essence a religious movement in a political guise.5. Before the Reformation, the English Bible was universally used by the Catholic churches.6. Walter Raleigh wrote his History of th

49、e World in imprisonment.7. More the man is even more interesting than More the writer.8. Utopia, Book One, describes an ideal communist society.9. Translations occupied an important place in the English Renaissance.10. Philip Sidney?s collection of love sonnets is Astrophel and Stella.11. The Miracl

50、e plays were not forbidden to perform in churches after the actors introduced secular and even comical elements into the performance.12. The writer of Gammer Gurton?s Needle is unknown.13. Two lawyers who wrote Gorboduc were Thomas Sackville （ 托马斯 萨克维尔）and Thomas Norton （托马斯 诺顿）.14. Shakespeare?s so

51、nnets are divided into three groups: Numbers 1 17, Numbers 18 26, and Numbers 127 154.15. Shakespeare?s sonnets are written for variety of virtues.16. Engels said, "Realismimplies, besides truth in detail, the truthful reproduction of typical characters under typical circumstances. ”17. Shakesp

52、eare wrote about his own people and for his own time.18. Shakespeare?s one play contains one theme. （contains more than one theme）19. To reproduce the real life, Shakespeare often combines the majestic with the funny, the poetic with the prosaic（ 散文体的）and tragic with the comic.20. Engels called Shak

53、espeare?s plays the" Shakespearean WaSty） （and wealth of （大量的）action ".21. Utopia is More?s masterpiece, written in the form of letters between More and Hythloday, a voyage.22. Sir Philip Sidney is well-known as a poet and dramatist.23. Carl Marx commented highly on More?s Utopia and menti

54、oned it in his great work, The Capital.24. The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its poetry.25. The miracle plays were simple plays based on Bible stories, such as the creation of the world, Noah and the flood, and the birth of Christ.26. Grammer Gurton?s Needle is the firs

55、t English comedy, Gorboduc the first English tragedy.27. Both the gentlemen and the common people went to the theatres. But the upper class was the dominant force in Elizabethan theatre.28. After Shakespeare?s death, Herminge and Condell collected and published his plays in 1623.29. From Shakespeare

56、?s history plays, it can be seen that Shakespeare took a great interest in the political questions of his time.30. In Shakespeare?s historical plays, historical accuracy is not strictly regarded.31. King Lear is a tragedy of ambition, which drives a brave soldier and national hero to degenerate into

57、 a bloody murder and despot right to his doom.32. Coming from an old Danish legend, Othello is considered the summit of Shakespeare?s art.33. Shakespeare is one of the founders of romanticism in world literature.34. Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama was undergoing a process of prosperity.35. English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and was an age of prose.36. There are two