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1、英国文学期末测试题（ C）I. Authors and their works (one point for each)A. Try to give one of the works by the following writers1. Thomas More _2. Daniel Defoe _3. John Milton _4. Henry Fielding _5. Percy Bysshe Shelley _6. Charlotte Bronte _7. G. Bernard Shaw _8. Virginia Woolf _B. Please point out the author

2、of the following works9. The Canterbury Tales _10. Macbeth _11. The Pilgrims Progress _12. Gullivers Travels _13. IWandered Lonely as a Cloud _14. Hard Times _15. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists _ _II. Multiple Choice（one point for each）1. The only complete piece of epic in old English is _.A.

3、The Geste of Robin HoodB. BeowulfC. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD. Mort dArthur2. _ is the main literary trend in the first period of the English Enlightenment.A. Realism B. RomanticismC. Neo-classicism D. Sentimentalism3. Robert Burns wrote his poems chiefly in the _ dialect.A. Irish B. LondonC.

4、 Dublin D. Scottish4. The rise and growth of the _ is the most prominent achievement of the 18thcentury English literature.A. romantic poetry B. realistic novelC. neo-classical poetry D. sentimental novel5. Most of Shakespeares best plays were written in the _ period of his dramaticcareer.A. first B

5、. secondC. third D. fourth6. John Milton is a great poet in the period of English _.A. feudalism B. RenaissanceC. Bourgeois Revolution D. Enlightenment7. _ is regarded as“Father of English Prose”, who was the first to write essays inthe English language.A. Bede B. AlfredC. Francis Bacon D. Samuel Jo

6、hnson8. The well-known soliloquy by Hamlet“To be or not to be”shows his _.A. hatred for his uncle B. love for lifeC. resolution of revenge D. inner strife9. The impact of _ upon Bernard Shaw was important and far reaching, whichcould find evident expression in many of his literary efforts.A. sociali

7、sm B. capitalismC. Utopia D. Fabianism10. “Don Juan”was written by Byron in _. Don Juan, the hero in the poem, is a（an）_ youth of noble birth.A. Italy; Spanish B. Span; ItalianC. England; Italian D. Italy; EnglishIII. Blank-filling （one point for each）1. The story in“Hamlet”comes from an old _ legen

8、d.2. Sir ThomasWyatt first brought the sonnet to England from _.3. “The Geste of Robin Hood”is the best known _ in the MiddleEnglish period.4. Paradise Lost is a long _ divided into 12 books.5. Robert Brownings principal achievement lies in his introducing to English poetry_.6. The most important po

9、et in the Age of Elizabeth was _.7. English literature began with the _ settlement in England.8. _ was the representative poet of passive romanticism.9. Richard Brinsley Sheridan was the most important English dramatist of the 18thcentury. His masterpiece is _.10. In his novel“A Tale of Two Cities”,

10、 Dickens takes the _ as thebackground.IV. Explain the following terms (five points for each)1. Oxford Reformers2. Romanticism3. Enlightenment4. HumanismV. Talk about the following topics1. Analyze the theme of “Oliver Twist”. (15 points)2. Analyse the image of Maggie in “The Mill on the Floss”. (20

11、points)VI. Analyze the following lines (10 points)“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,”that is allYe know on earth, and all ye need to know英国文学试题(C)参考答案及评分细则I.A.1. Thomas More Utopia2. Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe3. John Milton Paradise Lost4. Henry Fielding The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling5. Percy

12、Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound6. Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre7. G. Bernard Shaw Widowers Houses8. Virginia Woolf To the LighthouseB.9. The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer10. Macbeth William Shakespeare11. The Pilgrims Progress John Bunyan12. Gullivers Travels Jonathan Swift13. IWandered Lonely as

13、 a Cloud WilliamWordsworth14. Hard Times Charles Dickens15. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell每小题 1 分,共15 分, 作家名字中姓拼写错的扣1 分, 名拼写错的扣0.5 分; 作品中拼写错单词酌情扣0.25-0.5 分, 作家代表作之外的作品与代表作一样得全分.II. （每小题1分,共10分）1.B 2.C 3.D 4.B 5.B 6.C 7.C 8.D 9.D 10.AIII. 填空。（每小题1分,共10分）1. Danish 2. Italy3. popu

14、lar ballad 4. epic5. the dramatic monologue 6. Edmund Spenser7. Anglo-Saxon 8. WilliamWordsworth9. The School for Scandal 10. French RevolutionIV.1. Oxford reformers refers to a group of professors, graduates and students of OxfordUniversity, with Thomas More as their representative. (1分) They trave

15、led to Italy orFrance to come into contact with the spirit of the Renaissance humanism and acceptedthe new philosophy and culture which were rising there, and they began to spread thesparkles of the Renaissance in England after they returned. (2分) They made OxfordUniversity as a center of the classi

16、cal studies. (1分) Their new world outlook preparedthe way for the appearance of a new literature in the second half of the 16th century. (1分)2. The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less negative attitude towardsNeo-classicism. (1分) It prevails from 1798 to 1830s. The Romanticist portrays people

17、,scenes and events as they impress him or as he imagines them to be. (1分) A Romanticwork has one or more of the following characteristics: an emphasis on feeling andimagination; a love of nature; a belief in individual and the common man; an interest inthe past, the unusual, the unfamiliar, the biza

18、rre or picturesque; a revolt againstauthority or tradition. (2分) It expresses the ideology and sentiment of the classes andstrata who were dissatisfied with the development of capitalism. Byron, Shelley,Wordsworth and Keats are representatives of the movement. (1分)3. Enlightenment is a progressive i

19、ntellectual movement, (1 分) which swept overEngland and other lands in Western Europe in the 18th century. (1分) Enlightenmentfreed and reformed the thinking of man. (1.5 分) Enlighteners strove to clear away thefeudal remnants and replace them by bourgeois ideology. (1.5分)4. Humanism refers to the ma

20、in literary trend and the key-note of the Renaissance. (2分)Humanists took interest in human life and human activities (2 分) and gaveexpression to the new feeling of admiration for human beauty, human achievement. (1分)V.1. In Oliver Twist, the author exposes the inhumanity of city life under capitali

21、sm. (3分) Oliver is beaten merely because he ventures to ask for an extra portion of gruel toalleviate his gnawing hunger. (3分) The novel also gives strikingly vivid description ofthe thieves den and the London underworld. (3分) Among the characters of the lowerstrata, Oliver is the only one who emerg

22、es happy and successful in the end. (3分) Butwhile sympathizing with the miseries of the people, the author did not know what or whowas responsible for such miseries and even cherished illusions about rich, idle butbenevolent people. Charles Dickens couldnt find the right way out of the misery. (3分)2

23、. Maggie is one of the central characters of the novel The Mill on the Floss. (1分)She is lively, bright, and full of aspirations and ideals, but the people around her crampher independent mood and action. Even her brother Tom scoffs at her poetical nature. (2分) When Maggie falls in love with a defor

24、med young man Philip and rejects StephenGuests suit, Tom turns Maggie out of his house. (2分) But Maggie bears no grudgeagainst her brother, whom she has always loved. (2分) In a great flood, Maggie tries tosave her brothers life. They reconcile with each other but are both drowned. (2分)Maggies noble

25、ideal and poetic image form a sharp contrast to the silliness and pettinessof the people around her. (4分) But she renounces her own love and humiliates herself inseeking forgiveness from her narrow-minded brother. (3分) The tragic doom of thecourageous heroine virtually shows the irreconcilability of a gifted and noble-minedperson with the bourgeois society. (4分)VI.1) John Keats Ode to a Grecian Urn (2分)2) Keats idea of beauty (3分,其中论证2 分)3) meaning of truth (2分)4) Keats longing for an ideal world and his dissatisfaction with the world he lived in (3分,其中论证2分)