英美文学选读练习 一 英美文学选读练习 一 I Multiple Choice Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement Write the corresponding letter A B C or D on the answer sheet 1 Shelley s political lyrics is not only a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors but an address to them pointing out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation A Ode to Liberty B Ode to Naples C Ode to the West Wind D Men of England 2 Jane Austen s practical idealism is that love should be justified by and disciplined by self control A reason B sense C rationality D sensibility 3 Shakespeare s an elaborate and fantastic story is known as the best of his final romances A The Winter s Tale B The Tempest C The Taming of the Shrew D Love s Labour s Lost 4 To be or not to be that is the question Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end then These lines are taken from A King Lear B Romeo and Juliet C Othello D Hamlet 5 John Milton s most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model is A Paradise Lost B Paradise Regained C Samson Agonistes D Lycidas 6 Because of her sensitivity to universal pattens of human behavior has brought the English novel as an art of form to its maturity A Charlotte Bronte B Jane Austen C Emily Bronte D Henry Fielding 7 Poetry is defined by as the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility A William Wordsworth B William Blake C Percy Bysshe Shelley D Robert Southey 8 Jonathan Swift s is generally regarded as the best model of satire not only of the period but also in the whole English literary history A Gulliver s Travels B The Battle of the Books C A Modest Proposal D A Tale of a Tub 9 Of all the eighteenth century novelists was the first to set out both in theory and practice to write specifically a comic epic in prose the first to give the modern novel its structure and style A Henry Fielding B Daniel Defoe C Jonathan Swift D Laurence Sterne 10 The belief of the eighteenth century neoclassicists in England led them to seek the following EXCEPT A proportion B unity C harmony D spirit 11 The Renaissance marks a transition from to the modern world A the old English B the medieval C the feudalist D the capitalist 12 The great political and social events in the English society of neoclassical period were the following EXCEPT A the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660 B the Great Plague of 1665 C the Great London Fire in 1666 D the Wars of Roses in 1689 13 In Renaissance the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the following EXCEPT A getting rid of those old feudalist ideas B getting control of the parliament and government C introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie D recovering the purity of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church 14 The Petrarchan sonnet 彼特拉克体十四行诗 was first introduced into England by A Surrey B Wyatt C Sidney D Shakespeare 15 As the best of Shakespeare s final romances is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years A The Tempest B The Winter s Tale C Cymbeline D The Rape of Lucrece 16 John Milton s greatest poetical work is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literarure since Beowulf A Areopagitica B Paradise Lost C Lycidas D Samson Agonistes 17 Graveyard School writers are the following sentimentalists EXCEPT A James Thomson B William Collins C William Cowper D Thomas Jackson 18 The best model of satire in the whole English literary history is Jonathan Swift s A A Modest Proposal B A Tale of a Tub C Gulliver s Travels D The Battle of the Books 19 As a representative of the Enlightenment was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England A John Bunyan B Daniel Defoe C Alexander Pope D Jonathan Swift 20 For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel has been regarded by some as Father of the English Novel A Daniel Defoe B Henry Fielding C Jonathan Swift D Samuel Richardson 21 Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correct A It predominated in the early eighteenth century B It was one phase of the Romantic movement C Its principal elements are violence horror and the supernatural D Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic romance Gothic Novel a type of romantic fiction that predominated in the early eighteenth century was one phase of the Romantic movement Its principal elements are violence horror and the supernatural P166 para 2 22 William Blake s central concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience is which gives the two books a strong social and historical reference A youthhood B childhood C happiness D sorrow 23 It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good for tune must be in want of a wife The quoted part is taken from A Jane Eyre B Wuthering Heights C Pride and Prejudice D Sense and Sensibility 24 Shelley s greatest achievement is his four act poetic drama which is an exultant work in praise of humankind s potential A Adonais B Queen Mab C Prometheus Unbound D A Defence of Poetry 25 The assertion that poetry originates from emotion recollected in tranquility belongs to A William Wordsworth B Samuel Taylor Coleridge C Robert Southey D William Blake 26 All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT A I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud B An Evening Walk C Tintern Abbey D The Solitary Reaper 27 Shakespeare s four greatest tragedies are A Romeo and Juliet Othello King Lear Hamlet B Hamlet Othello Macbeth The Merchant of Venice C Hamlet Othello King Lear Macbeth D Romeo and Juliet The Merchant of Venice Othello Hamlet 28 As one of the greatest masters of English prose defined a good style as proper words in proper places A Henry Fielding B Jonathan Swift C Samuel Johnson D Alexander Pope 29 All of the following novels by Daniel Defoe are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower class people EXCEPT A Robinson Crusoe B Captain Singleton C Moll Flanders D Colonel Jack 30 English Romanticism as a historical phase of literature is generally said to have ended in 1832 with A the passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliament B the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge s Lyrical Ballads C the publication of T S Eliot s The waste Land D the passage of the Bill of Rights in the Parliament 31 Contrary to the traditional romance of aristocrats the modern English novel gives a realistic presentation of life of A the common English people B the upper class C the rising bourgeoisie D the enterprising landlords 32 The sentence Shall I compare thee to a summer s day is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare s A comedies B tragedies C sonnets D histories 33 Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from A the Renaissance B the Old Testament C Greek Mythology D the New Testament 34 is the essence of the Renaissance A Poetry B Drama C Humanism D Reason 35 To be or not to be that is the question is a line taken from A Hamlet B Othello C King Lear D The Merchant of Venice 36 Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that A the former celebrates reason rationality order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual s feeling and experiences B the former is heavily religious but the latter secular C the former is an intellectual movement the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivation D the former advocates the return to nature whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models 37 Daniel Defoe describes as a typical English Middle class man of the eighteenth century the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist A Tom Jones B Gulliver C Moll Flanders D Robinson Crusoe 38 is a typical feature of Swift s writings A Bitter satire B Elegant style C Casual narration D Complicated sentence structure 39 Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry A Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge B I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth C Remorse by Samuel Taylor Coleridge D Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 40 The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is A prose B drama C novel D poetry 41 The real mainstream of the English Renaissance is A the Elizabethan drama B the Elizabethan prose C ancient poem D romantic novel 42 Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his plays 154 sonnets and 2 long poems A 47 B 27 C 52 D 38 43 shows how mankind in the person of Christ withstand the tempter and is established once more in the divine favor A Paradise Lost B Paradise Regained C Samson Agonistes D Beowulf 44 In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period was the leading figure among the host of playwrights A William Blake B Richard Brinsley Sheridan C Ben Johnson D George Bernard Shaw 45 The eighteenth century England is also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of A Intellect B Reason C Rationality D Science 46 As a whole Jonathan Swift s
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