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第一章 章节测试

1、English literature began with the ( ) settlement in England.

A:Anglo-Saxon

B:English

C:Roman

D:Celtic

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2、Beowulf, written about the life of England in the ( ) society, is said to be the national epic of the English people.

A:medieval

B:feudal

C:primitive

D:agricultural

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3、Beowulf is written in the form of ( ), a popular form of poetry in Anglo-Saxon literature.

A:blank verse

B:alliterative verse

C:ballad

D:couplet

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第二章 章节测试

1、The medieval period is often called the Dark Age for the dominating power of ( ) over everything in the society.

A:the King

B:the knights

C:the Church

D:feudal lords

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2、The central character of a romance is ( ), who follows the code of behavior called chivalry.

A:a soldier

B:the warrior

C:the Gladiator

D:the knight

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3、The stories of ( ) are the most well-known ballads, songs of stories told orally in 4-line stanzas.

A:the green knights

B:King Arthur

C:Robin Hood

D:the Vikings

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4、Piers the Plowman written by William Langland in the form of ( ) represents the achievements of popular literature of Medieval England.

A:a dream

B:allegory

C:epic

D:symbolism

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5、( ) is considered the father of English poetry, whose most representative work is The Canterbury Tales.

A:John Milton

B:William Langland

C:Geoffrey Chaucer

D:Edmund Spenser

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6、The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories strung together and told by 30 pilgrims on their way to pilgrimage, is written in the form of ( ).

A:ballad

B:blank verse

C:heroic couoplet

D:alliterative verse

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7、The key-note of the Renaissance is ( ).

A:romanticism

B:asceticism

C:humanism

D:realism

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第三章 章节测试

1、It was ( ) who first introduced and reformed the English drama which reached its climax in the hands of William Shakespeare.

A:University Wits

B:Ben Johnson

C:John Wycliff

D:Christopher Marlowe

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2、Great writers of the English Renaissance who are known for humanism, took ( ) as the centre of the world and voiced the human aspirations for freedom and equality.

A:power

B:God

C:man

D:the world

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3、Shakespeare is hailed by ( ), contemporary with Shakespeare, as “not of an age, but for all time”.

A:Ben Jonson

B:Christopher Marlowe

C:Robert Greene

D:Thomas Nash

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4、Hamlet is characterized as a(an) ( ) on that, he loves good and hates evil; he is a man free from prejudice and superstition; he has unbounded love for the world and firm belief in the power of man.

A:humanist

B:Puritan

C:patriot

D:idealist

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5、Edmund Spenser was considered the ( ) for his achievements in poetry.

A:“father of English poetry”

B:“the saint of English poetry”

C:”the greatest English poet”

D:“the Poets’ Poet”

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6、( ) is a distinctive verse form adopted by Edmund Spenser in his works incluiding his masterpiece The Faerie Queene. It has 9-line stanzas, rhyming in ababbcbcc.

A:blank verse

B:sonnet

C:”The mighty lines”

D:“The Spenserian Stanza”

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7、Francis Bacon won for himself the first English ( ) for his achievements in English literature of the Renaissance.

A:prose writer

B:poet

C:dramatist

D:essayist

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8、The most representative work of Francis Bacon is ( ), which is the first collection of English essays.

A:Advancement of Learning

B:Novum Organum

C:Essays

D:The Interpretation of Nature

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第四章 章节测试

1、( ) is regarded as the greatest prose writer in the English literature of the 17th century, who is best known for his work The Pilgrim’s Progress.

A:George Herbert

B:John Bunyan

C:John Dryden

D:Francis Bacon

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2、The Pilgrim’s Progress is written in the form of ( ) .

A:symbols

B:allegory

C:allusions

D:aggressions

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3、”The Metaphysical Poets” refer to the loose group of 17th-century English poets whose work was characterized by the inventive use of ( )

A:symbols

B:conceit

C:metaphor

D:imagination

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4、In his “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”, John Donne makes a most impressive comparison between love and ( ) as the dominant conceit of the poem.

A:an earthquake

B:a farewell to a dying person

C:a piece of gold

D:a pair of compasses

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5、The 17th century of English history was marked mainly by the English Bourgeois Revolution which ended with the establishment of ( ) as a compromise between the bourgeoisie and the monarchy.

A:the Tory Party

B:institutional monarchy

C:the United Kingdom

D:the Whig Party

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6、(     ) was the religious cloak of the English Bourgeois Revolution which advocated God’s supreme authority over human beings.

A:Humanism

B:Puritanism

C:Calvinism

D:Republicanism

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7、Puritan poetry in the 17th-century English literature is represented best by ( ), who produced Paradise Lost as his representative work.

A:John Miltion

B:John Dryden

C:Robert Herrick

D:John Donne

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8、Throughout his life, Milton showed strong rebellious spirit agaisnt many things he thought unjust and acted as the voice of ( ) of England under Oliver Cromwell.

A:the Royalists

B:the Commonwealth

C:the Parliament

D:the Monarch

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9、“On his Blindness” and “On his Deceased Wife” are the two best-known of Milton’s ( ).

A:blank verses

B:alliterative verses

C:sonnets

D:elegies

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10、Milton’s Paradise Lost employs the themes taken from ( ) of the Christian Bible.

A:Luke

B:Matthew

C:Genesis

D:Exodus

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11、The central theme of Paradise Lost is ( ).

A:resurrection

B:the fall of man

C:final judgment

D:the creation of man

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第五章 章节测试

1、The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century which was an expression of the struggle of bourgeoisie against ( ).

A:classicism

B:humanism

C:puritanism

D:feudalism

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2、Among the English Enlighteners of the 18th century, there were chiefly two groups: the ( ) group and the radical group.

A:moderate

B:conservative

C:royalist

D:revolutionary

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3、The Tatler, a British literary and society journal begun by Richard Steele in 1709, featured cultivated essays on ( ).

A:contemporary manners

B:cultural state

C:social evils

D:class struggles

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4、As a distinctive way, ( ) are adopted by the neo-classicist playwrights in the 18th-century English literature.

A:satires

B:heroic couplets

C:three unities

D:realistic techniques

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5、( ) writers in the 18th-century English literature modelled themselves on the Greek and Roman writers in their dramatic writings.

A:Pre-romanticist

B:Realist

C:Enlightenment

D:Neo-classicist

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6、Alexaner Pope was a master of poetry in heroic couplet. He strongly advocated ( ), emphasizing that literary works should be judged by classical rules.

A:classicism

B:naturalism

C:realism

D:aestheticism

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7、Daniel Defoe is an early proponent of the ( ) novel whose masterpiece Robinson Crusoe tells about the adventures of a sailor on the sea and on an island.

A:epistolary

B:Gothic

C:sentimentalist

D:realist

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8、As one of the greatest satirists in the 18th century, (     ) made use of satire to attack social evils and call for social changes in his Gulliver’s Travels.

A:Henry Fielding

B:Johnathan Swift

C:Daniel Defoe

D:Samuel Richardson

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9、Gulliver’ s Travels tells about the adventures of Gullliver through the fairy tale of fantasy which is a great satire on ( ).

A:human heart

B:human spirit

C:human nature

D:human mind

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10、( ), the greatest realist novelist of the 18th-century English literature, is also considered the father of the English novel.

A:Oliver Goldsmith

B:Daniel Defoe

C:Henry Fielding

D:Jonathan Swift

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11、Tom Jones shows Fielding’s philosophical view of “return to ( )”. Thus, in characterization, a contrast is made between Tom Jones, the good-nautured though flawed man, and Bilfil, the hypocritical villain.

A:childhood

B:motherland

C:countryside

D:nature

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12、Sentimentalism of English literature got its name from Lawrence Stern’s novel (     ) in which Sterne tries to catch the actual flow of human mind and sentiment.

A:A Sentimental Journey

B:Pamela

C:The Vicar of Wakefield

D:Tristram Shandy

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13、Sentimetalism is also found in Samuel Richardson’s ( ) novels which convey female characters’ feelings and sentiments.

A:adventure

B:epistolary

C:realist

D:historical

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14、The only poet of the sentimentalist school of literature is Thomas Gray, whose well-known “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” earned for him the name of a “( ) Poet”.

A:Graveyard

B:Lake

C:National

D:Local

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15、Oliver Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield conveys his reflections on the relations between sentimentalism and ( ) in the 18th-century English literature.

A:romanticism

B:realism

C:localism

D:satire

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16、The latter half of the 18th century English literature was marked by a strong protest against the bondage of classicism and a recognition of the claims of passion and emotion which is later known as ( ).

A:realism

B:neo-classicism

C:pre-romanticism

D:sentimentalism

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17、Robert Burns is the best known of the poets who have written in the ( ) dialect.

A:Scottish

B:Irish

C:London

D:Celtic

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第六章 章节测试

1、Romanticism preferred ( ) to reason and rationalism. To William Wordsworth, poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.

A:emotion

B:rhetoric

C:art

D:devices

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2、The joint publication of  (     ) in 1798 by Wordsworth and Coleridge marked the beginning of the Romantic movement in England.

A:‘Rime of Ancient Mariner’

B:‘Lines Composed upon Tinten Abbey’

C:‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads’

D:Lyrical Ballads

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3、To Wordsworth, the theme of poetry should be concerned with ( ), the language of peotry should be plain, and the people poetry should deal with are country folk.

A:fantastic life

B:city life

C:common life

D:country life

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4、In “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, “the inward eye” refers to ( ), which is a metaphor to appeal to the reader’s imagination of the author’s inner feelings.

A:”emotians”

B:”heart”

C:”mind”

D:”reason”

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5、In “The Solitary Reaper”, the feeling of ( ) is clearly conveyed to the reader, especially in the first stanza.

A:disillusionment

B:homesickness

C:melancholy

D:loneliness

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6、Percy Bysshe Shelley belongs to the school of ( ) romantic poets, whose masterpiece Prometheus Unbound owes much to the Greek tragedy Prometheus Bound.

A:lyrical

B:revolutionary

C:passive

D:active

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7、( ) is Shelley’s bestknown lyric in which he calls forth the overthrowing of the old social system and bringing destruction to it.

A:“The Cloud”

B:”To a Skylark”

C:“Ode to the West Wind”

D:”Song to the Man of England”

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8、Walter Scott is the only novelist of the romantic literature of the 19th-century England and his novels are mainly ( ) novels as far as genre is concerned.

A:realist

B:historical

C:psychoanalytical

D:sentimentalist

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9、Scott’s historical novels touch upon the subject matters of the history of ( ), the history of England and the history of European countries.

A:Wales

B:Scotland

C:France

D:Ireland

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第七章 章节测试

1、Jane Austen’s novels mainly concern such issues as the ( ) of young women. Because of the use of satire and criticism of social prejudices, she is considered as a realist novelist rather than a romantic writer.

A:morals

B:ethics

C:feminism

D:manners

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2、The Bronte sisters refer to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte, with the elder two represented by Jane Eyre and ( ) respectively.

A:Wuthering Heights

B:Agnes Grey

C:The Professor

D:Villette

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3、Of the women writers in the 19th century English literature, ( ) is the only one that deals with the life of the working-class people, represented by her novel Mary Barton.

A:Jane Austen

B:Charlotte Bronte

C:Mrs. Gaskell

D:George Eliot

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4、The novels of George Eliot mostly deal with ( ) problems and contain psychological studies of the characters.

A:cultural

B:social

C:moral

D:psychological

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第八章 章节测试

1、In response to the social, political and economic problems associated with industrialisation, ( ) novel becomes the leading genre of the Victorian literature.

A:aestheticist

B:critial realist

C:psychoanalytical

D:new romanticist

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2、The first period of Charles Dickens’s literary career is characterized mainly by (     ) and the novels are filled with moral teachings.

A:pessimism

B:mysticism

C:fatalism

D:optimism

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3、Thomas Hardy is the most representative realist in the later decades of the Victorian era, whose principal works are the ( ) novels, i.e., the novels describing the characters and environment of his native countryside.

A:Bildungsroman

B:character and environment

C:realist

D:modernist

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4、In the aesthetic movement of the 19th century, “Art for Art’s Sake” can simply mean the focus on ( ) rather than on deep meaning of literary works.

A:technique

B:form

C:beauty

D:impression

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5、( ) is a type of poetry written in the form of a speech of an individual character whose spiritual world is conveyed to the reader through the author’s subtle psychological analysis.

A:Free association

B:Interior monologue

C:Psycho-analysis

D:Dramatic monologue

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6、“Break, Break, Break” is a short lyric poem written by Alfred Tennyson which is a(n) ( ) for the poet to reveal his grief over the death of his friend.

A:sonnet

B:lyric

C:ode

D:elegy

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7、Thomas Carlyle’s non-fiction The French Revolution: A History  was the inspiration for Charles Dickens‘ s novel (    ).

A:Hard Times

B:A Tale of Two Cities

C:Great Expectations

D:Oliver Twist

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8、John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era. In his Modern Painters, he argued that the principal role of the artist is ( ).

A:”truth to nature“

B:innovation

C:”art for art’s sake”

D:creativity

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9、In his Culture and Anarchy, ( ) showed his deepest contempt for and most frequent attack on the middle-class Philistines who he thought lacked culture.

A:Matthew Arnold

B:Thomas Carlyle

C:John Ruskin

D:Charles Kinsley

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