1. 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 sonnets¹

　　D histories

 

2. The three dialects spoken by____ _____and _____mixed into a single language called Anglo-Saxon, or old English.

　　A Anglos, Saxons jutes

　　B Anglos, Saxons, Irish

　　C Anglos, Saxons, Scottish

　　D Anglos, Saxons, welsh

 

3. contribution to English lies chiefly in the fact that he introduced from France the rhymed stanza² of various types, especially the rhymed couplet of 5 accents in iambic meter---the heroic couplet to English poetry.

　　A William Shakespeare's　　

　　B Geoffrey Chaucer's

　　C Thomas more's

　　D Edmund Spenser's

 

4. Spenserian stanza is a form of poetry first employed by Edmund Spenser in his long poetry_____.

　　A the faerie queene

　　B the shepherd's calendar

　　C epithalamion

　　D amoretti

 

5. Francis bacon is a ____.

　　A poet

　　B playwright³

　　C essayist

　　D novelist

 

6. We can perhaps describe the west wind in shelly's poem "ode to the west wind" with all the following terms except_____.

　　A tamed

　　B swift

　　C proud

　　D wild

 

7. The novel starts with "it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune ,must be in want of a wife." The novel is Jane Austen'____.

　　A Emma

　　B persuasion⁴

　　C sense and sensibility

　　D pride and prejudice

 

8. The major concern of ____ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.

　　A Charles dickens's

　　B D.H .Lawrence's

　　C Thomas hardy's

　　D john Galsworthy's

 

9. "do you think, because I am poor ,obscure ,plain and little ,I am soulless and heartless? And if god had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me , as it is now for me to leave you." the above Is quoted from_______.

　　A pride and prejudice

　　B Jane Eyre

　　C Wuthering heights

　　D great expectations

 

10. Which of the following is not one of the Bronte sisters?

　　A charlotte Bronte

　　B Anne Bronte

　　C jenny Bronte

　　D Emily Bronte

 

答案

 

【答案】

　

1 C

 

这句诗来自莎士比亚十四行诗第十八首。

 

2 A

 

公元五世纪，Anglos, Saxons， jutes开始迁入不列颠，这个部落融合成统一的民族英格兰，他们的语言也发展成一种叫Anglo-Saxon, 或者 old English.

 

3 B

 

Geoffrey Chaucer被誉为英国诗歌之父，是第一位用中古英语写作的大诗人。他的诗行以五音部抑扬格为基本节奏，每两行押韵，被称为heroic couplet

 

4. A

 

Spenser的长诗仙后每节有九行，具有音乐性，被称为Spenserian stanza。

 

5. C

 

培根是文艺复兴最重要的散文家。

 

6. A

 

ode to the west wind是雪莱最著名的抒情诗歌，西风是破坏旧世界，创造新世界的革命力量。

 

7. D

 

pride and prejudice的名言。

 

8. B

 

D.H .Lawrence将视线投向两性，对西方文明进行反思，将社会批评与性心理探索结合在一起，抨击资本主义工业文明。

 

9. B

 

简爱中的片断。

 

10. C

 

除jenny Bronte其他为在英国文学史占独特地位的Bronte三姐妹

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