英国文学练习题附答案

.ThenationalepicoftheAnglo-Saxonsis.

ARobinHoodBSirGawainandtheGreenKnight

CTheCanterburyTalesDBeowulf

.wasthemostoutstandingsingleromanceontheArthurianlegendwritteninalliterativeverse.

ATheCanterburyTalesBPiersthePlowman

CSirGawainandtheGreenKnightDBeowulf

.wasfamousforTheCanterburyTales.

AGeoffreyChaucerBJohnMilton

CWilliamShakespeareDFrancisBacon

.Mostoftheballadsofthe

15thcenturyfocusedonthelegendaboutasaheroic

figure.

AGreenNightsBGawain

CRobinHoodDHamlet

5.Inthe16thcentury,ThomasMore,sworkbecameimmediatelypopularafterits

publication.

AParadiseLostBAPleasantSatireoftheThreeEstates

COfStudiesDUtopia

6.wasEdmundSpencer,smasterpiecewhichhasbeenregardedasoneofthegreatpoemsintheEnglishlanguage.

AAmorettiBTheShepherd,sCalendar

CTheFaerieQueeneDFourHymns

7.isfromShakespeare,ssonnetNo.18.

A“Letmenottothemarriageoftrueminds”

B“Tobeornottobe:thatisthequestion”

C“ShallIcomparetheetoasummer,sday”

D“NolongermournformewhenIamdead”

8.,the“fatherofEnglishpoetry”andoneofthegreatestnarrativepoetsof

England,wasborninLondonabout1340.

A.GeoffreyChaucerB.SirGawainC.FrancisBaconD.JohnDryden

9.ThefourgreattragedieswrittenbyShakespeareareHamlet,Macbeth,Othelloand

A.AntonyandCleopatraB.JuliusCaesar

CTwelfthNightDKingLear

10.WhichofthefollowingdoesnotbelongtoShakespeare,romanticlovecomedies?ATwelfthNightBTheTempest

CAsYouLikeItDTheMerchantofVenice

DCACDCCADB

1.AllofthefollowingarethemosteminentdramatistsintheRenaissanceEnglandexcept.

a.WilliamShakespeare

b.BenJonson

c.ChristopherMarlowe

d.FrancisBacon

TheEnglishRenaissanceperiodwasanageof.

a.poetryanddrama

b.dramaandnovel

c.novelandpoetry

d.romanceandpoetry

ParadiseLostthemasterpiece of

a.WilliamShakespeare

b.RobertBurns

c.JohnMilton d.WilliamBlake

4.WhichofthefollowingplayswrittenbyShakespeareishistoryplay?

a.AMidsummerNight’sDream

b.TheMerryWivesofWindsor

c.HenryIV d.KingLear

5.ThefirstofficialversionofBibleknownastheGreatBible,wasrevisedin

a.16thcentury b.17thcentury

c.18thcentury d.19thcentury

6.FrancisBacon,sEssaysfirstpublishedin1597hasbeenconsideredasanimportantlandmarkinthedevelopmentofEnglish,andasthefirstcollectionofessaysintheEnglishlanguage.

■se

7.DanielDefoewasfamousforhisnovelwhichfirstestablishedhis

reputation.

a.Gulliver,sTravels

b.TheAdventureofRobinsonCrusoe

c.ThePilgrim'sProgress

d.OliverTwist

8.Thefamouspoem“ARedRedRose”waswrittenby

a.WilliamWordsworth

b.GeorgeByron

c.RobertBurns

d.WilliamBlake

9.MaryShelley,snovelFrankensteinbelongstothetypeofwhichis

oftensetingloomycastleswherehorrifying,supernaturaleventstakeplace.

a.Gothic b.Realism

c.Romanticismd.Classicism

10.ThefirstcompleteEnglishBiblewastranslatedby,“themorningstaroftheReformation”andhisfollowers.

A.WilliamLanglandB.JamesI

C.JohnWycliffe

D.BishopLancelotAndrews

DACCBDBCAC

TheliteratureoftheAnglo-Saxonperiodfallsnaturallyintotwodivisions,andChristian.

a.Pagan b.Roman

c.Frenchd.Danish

“PoetryisSpontaneous”wasputforwardby

RobertBurns b.WilliamBlake

WilliamWordsworth

CharlesLamb

WhichofthefollowingwritingscanberegardedastypicalbelongingtotheschoolofRomanticliterature?

DonJuan b.Ulysses

JaneEyre

SonsandLovers

isthefirstimportantEnglishessayistandthefounderofmodernscienceinEngland.

FrancisBacon

EdmundSpenser

ThomasMore d.Sidney

WhatisflourishedinElizabethanagemorethananyotherformofliterature?

novelb.drama

c.essayd.poetry

ThepublicationofmarkedthebeginningoftheRomanticAge.

DonJuan

TheRimeoftheAncientMariner

TheLyricalBallads

OdetotheWestWind

WhichofthefollowingdidnotbelongtoRomanticism?

JohnKeats

PercyShelley

WilliamWordsworth

AlfredTennyson

Frankensteinwasfilmedmanytimes.Whowrotethebook?

EdgarAllanPoe

JamesJoyce

MaryShelley

WalterScott

Inthemid-18thcentury,anewliterarymovementcalledcameto

EuropeandthentoEngland.

a.Romanticismb.Classicism

c.Realism d.Restoration

WhichofthefollowingpoemwasnotwrittenbyJohnKeats?

OdetotheWestWind

OdetoAutumn

OdeonaGrecianUrn

OdetoaNightingale

ACAABCDCAA

WilliamShakespeareisoneofthegiantsof

Romanticism

CriticalRealism

Aestheticism

theRenaissance

2.isthefirstimportantreligiouspoetinEnglishliterature.

a.JohnDonneb.GeorgeHerbert

c.Caedmond.Milton

■ 3.

wasthefirsttointroducethesonnetintoEnglish

literature.

a.ThomasWyattb.WilliamShakespeare

c.PhilipSidneyd.ThomasGray

4.TheEnglishpoets,WilliamWordsworth,andRobert

Southey,wereknownas“LakePoets”becausetheylivedintheLakeDistrictNorthwesternEnglandatthebeginningofthe19thcentury.

a.GeorgeByronb.JohnKeats

c.PercyShelleyd.SamuelColeridge

5.Themostgiftedofthe“UniversityWits”was.

■A.JohnLily B.ThomasKyd

ThomasGreene

ChristopherMarlowe

6.isoneoftheforerunnersofmodernsocialistthought.

A.PhillipSidney

B.EdmundSpenser

C.ThomasMore

D.ChristopherMarlowe

7.Moralityplaysappearedafter.

A.miracleplays

B.mysteryplays

C.interlude

D.Classicalplays

8.WhichofthefollowingisNOTregardedasoneofcharacteristicsofRenaissance?

a.Exaltationofman,spursuitofhappiness inthislife.

Cultivationofthegenuineflavorofancientculture.

Toleranceofhumanweaknesses.

Praiseofman,seffortsinhavinghissouldelivered.

9.ThemostintellectualmovementoftheRenaissancewas

A.theReformation

B.Humanism

C.theItalianrevival

D.Geographicalexploration

10.WhatistherelationshipbetweenClaudiusandHamlet?

A.CousinsB.Uncleandnephew

C.Father-in-lawD.Fatherandson

DCADDCADBB

WhichofthefollowingisatypicalfeatureofSwift,swritings?

A.Greatwit. B.Bittersatire.

Richmythicallusions.

Complicatedsentencestructures.

istheleadingfigureofMetaphysicalpoetry.

A.JohnDonne B.GeorgeHerbert

C.AndreMarvellD.HenryVaughan

ThewasaprogressiveintellectualmovementthroughoutWestern

Europeinthe18thcentury.

A.RomanticismB.Humanism

C.EnlightenmentD.Sentimentalism

Whowasthegreatestdramatistinthe18thcentury?

OliverGoldsmith

RichardSheridan

LaurenceSterne

D.HenryFielding

5.Inwhichofthefollowingworkscanyoufindthepropernames“Lilliput”,“Brobdingnag“，“Houyhnhnm”and“Yahoo”？

A.ThePilgrimsProgress

B.TheFaerieQueene

C.GulliverSTravels

D.TheSchoolforScandal

6.poemscanbedividedintotwocategories:theyouthfullovelyricsandthelatersacredverses.

■A.JohnMiltonB.JohnBunyan

C.John