英国文学选读练习题含答案(推荐文档)

Exercise for English Literature (2)

Choose the best answer for each blank.

1. ” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in A. C.

2. A. C.

3. A. C.

4.

A.

C.

5. A. C.

6.

A.

C.

7. A.

C. 8. A. C. E. 9. A. C.

__________ , the “ father of English p oetry London about 1340. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Sir Gawa in Fran cis Bac on

D. Joh n Dryde n Chaucer died on the 25th October 1400, and was buried in ___________________ . Fla nders B. France Italy D. Westmi nster Abbey The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansion abroad. expIo rati on and travel, which were comp atible with the in terest of the En glish mercha nts. Henry V B. Henry VII Henry VIII

D. Queen Elizabeth Exce pt being a victory of En gla nd over ____________ , the rout of the fleet triu mph of the rising young bourgeoisie over the decli ning old feudalism. Spain B. France

America D. Norway At the beg inning of the 16th cen tury the outsta nding huma nist ______________ w rote his Utopia in which he gave a profound and truthful picture of the people andp utsoffeanghis ideal of a future happy society. Thomas More B. Thomas Marlowe Fran cis Bac on D. William Shakes pear Absolute mon archy in En gla nd reached its summit duri ng the reig n of Quee n _________ Mary B. Elizabeth William D. Victoria En glish Ren aissa nee P eriod was an age of ______________ . p rose and novel

B. po etry and drama essays and journ als D. ballads and songs From the follow ing, choose the one which is not Francis Bacon The Adva nceme nt of Lear ning B. The New In strume nt Essays D. The New Atla ntics Venus and Adonis

“ Shall I compare thee to a summer songs comedies en couraged “ /XrmsadaO the nvin

cible)

s work:

10. The heroines of Shakespeare 'reat comedies,

's day? ” This is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare B. plays D.

sonn ets

are the daughters of the Renaissanee, whose

images and stories will rema in a legacy to readers and audie nces of all time. A. Portia B. Roseland C. Viola D. Beatrice 11. Choose the four great tragedies of Shakespeare from the following ___________________ .

A. Hamlet

B. Othello

C. Macbeth

D. King Lear

E. Tim on of Athe ns

12. Which play is not a comedy? _________ A. A Midsummer Night ' s Dream C. Twelfth Night E. As You Like It 13.

“ Denmark is a prison ” .In which p lay

dossohsummarise his observatio n of his world into such a bitter sentence? __________

A. Charles I C. Henry VIII

14. The works of ________

En glish Ian guage. A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Edmund Spenser C. William Shakespeare

D. Ben Johnson

15. In which play does the hero show his profound reverence for man through the sentence:

wok is a man! How nobel in reason! How finite in faculty! ” _______

A. Romeo and Juliet

B. Hamlet

C. Othello

D. The Merchant of Venice 16. In 1649, ____________ w as beheaded. En gla nd became a com mon wealth.

A. James I

B. James II

B. The Mercha nt of Ven ice

D. Romeo and Juliet

B. Othello

D. Hamlet and the Authorised Versio n of the En glish

Bible are the two great treasuries of the

"Wha

C. Charles I

D. Charles II

17.The revolution of 1688 meant three of the following things: _______________

A.

B.

C.

D.

E.

the sup remacy of Parliame nt

the beg inning of moder n En gla nd

the triu mph of the principal liberty

the triu mph of the principle of p olitical liberty

the Restorati on of mon archy

18.Who of the follow ing were the important meta physical p oets? ____________

A. John Donne

B. George Herbert

C. John Milt on

D. Richard Lovelace

19.Which work was NOT writte n by John Milt on? _________________

A. Paradise Lost

C. Sams on Ago ni stes

20.Paradise Lost is _

A.

B.

C.

D.

B. Paradise Rega ined D.

Vol pone

Joh n Milt on ' s master pi ece a great epic in

12 books written in bla nk verse about the heroic

revolt of Sata n aga inst God

's authority

21.John Milton is

A.

B.

C.

D.

a great revoluti onary poet of the 17th cen tury

an outsta nding p olitical pamp hleteer a great

stylist

a great master of bla nk verse

22.From the Old Testame nt, Joh n Milt on took his stories of P aradise Lost, i.e.

A.

B.

C.

D.

E.

F.

G.

the creati on

the rebelli on in Heave n of Sata n and his fellow-a ngels

their defeat and expu Isi on from Heave n

the creati on of the death and of adam and Eve

the falle n an gels in hell pl ott ing aga inst God

Satan ' s temptation of Eve

the dep arture of Adam and Eve from Ede n

is ofte n regarded as the real hero of

23.The finest thing in Paradise Lost is the description of hell, and _

the p oem.

A. God

B. Sata n

C. Adam

D. Eve

24.Who is the greatest of the Meta physical school of p oetry? ____________

A. John Donne

B. George Herbert

C. An drew Marvell

D. He nry Vaugham

25.___________ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.

A. The Renaissanee

B. The Enlightenment

C. The Religious Reformation

D. The Chartist Movement

26.The main literary stream of the 18th century was . What the writers described in their works were

mai niy social realities.

n aturalism

classicism

sen time ntalism

B. roma nticism

D. realism

A.

C.

E.

27.The eighteenth century was the golden age of the English ______________ .The novel of this p eriod sp oke the truth

about life with an uncompro mis ing courage.

A. drama

B. poetry

C. essay

D. novel

28.In 1704, Jonathan Swift published two works together, ________________

known as a satirist.

and ,which made him well-

A. A Tale of a Tub

B. Bickerstaff Almanac

C. Gulliver ' s Travels

D. A Modest Proposal

29.“ Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a style.

of the greatest masters of En glish p rose.

A. Alexander Pope

B. Henry Fielding

C. Daniel Defoe

D. Jonathan Swift

30.As a journalist, _____________ had learned how to make his reporting vivid and credible by a skillful use of

circumsta ntial detail. This po wer to make his characters alive and his stories credible is an ini mitable gift.

” This sentence is said by _

A. Jose ph Addis on

B. Daniel Defoe

C. Samuel Richarson

D. Tobias Smollett

31. Which of the following are NOT written by William Blake? ___________________

A. C. E. G.

32. In the 18th century English literature, the representative poets of pre-romanticism were _ A. William Wordsworth B. William Blake

C. Robert Burns

D. Jonathan Swift

33. The Romantic Age begab with the publication of The Lyrical Ballads which was written by

A. William Wordsworth

B. Samuel Johnson

C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

D. Wordsworth and Coleridge 34. The Romantic Age came to an end with the death of the last well-known romantic writer _

A. Jane Austen

B. Walter Scott

C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

D. William Wordsworth 35. The glory of the Romantic Age lies in the poetry of ________________ .

A. William Wordsworth

B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

C. George Gordon Byron

D. Percy Bysshe Shelley

E. John Keats 36. The English Romantic Age produced two major novelists. They are .

A. B. C. D.

37. Which poets belong to the Active Romantic group? ___________________ A. George Gordon Byron B. William Wordsworth

C. Percy Bysshe Shelley

D. John Keats

E.

John Milt on

38. Which poets belong to the Lakers? __________________ A. William Wordsworth C. John Keats E. Walter Scott

39. Which of the folloeing were written by Wordsworth ONLY? ____________________ A. To the Cuckoo B. The Lyrical Ballads

C. Lucy Poems

D. The Solitary Reaper

E. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

40. The publication of ______________ marked the break with the conventional poetical tradition of the 18th century,

i.e., with classicism, and the begi nning of the Roma ntic revival in En gla nd. A. The Lyrical Ballads

B. The Prelude

C. Childe Harold ' s Pilgrimage

D. Don Juan

41. As contrasted with the classicists who made reason, order and the old, classical traditions the criteria in their

poetical creations, ____________ based his own poetical principle on the premise that “ allgood poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerf ul feeling. ”

A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. George Gordon Byron

C. Percy Bysshe Shelley

D. William Wordsworth 42. ___________ w as the first critic of the Romantic School.

A. William Wordworth

B. Samuel Johnson

C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

D. Wordworth and Coleridge

43. Which of the following statements is (are) NOT true about George Gordon Byron? ________________________

Poetical Sketches B. Songs of Innocence Songs of Exp erie nee

D. Auld Lang Syne The Marriage of Heave n and Hell

F. Prop hecis

Visio ns of the Daughters of Albio n and America, a Prop hecy

George Gordon Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge Walter Scott and

Ja ne Auste n

Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt

B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge D. Robert Southey

A.

Byron ' s early years had been far from happy for he was born with a clubfoot, in the frequent family scenes his mother called him “ you

lame brat. ”

Byron died in Italy annd was dee ply mourned by the Italia n people and by all p rogressive people throughout the world.

The reactionary criticism of the 19th century tried to belittle Byron ' s genius and his role in the de En glish literature, but Byron rema ins one of the most popu lar En glish po ets both at home and abroad. Since the May 4 Movement in 1919, more and more of Byron ‘ s poems have been translated into Chinese anc well received by the po ets and young readers. Byron has now become one of the best-k nown En glish po ets in our coun try. 44. In 1805, Wordsworth completed a long autobiographical poem entitled ______________________ .

B. C. D.

A. Biographia literaria

B. The Prelude

C. Lucy Poems

D. The Lyrical Ballads

45. ___________ is regarded as the most wonderful lyricist England has ever produced mainly for his poems on

n ature, on love, and on p olitics. A. William Wordsworth B. John Keats

C. George Gordon Byron

D. Percy Bysshe Shelley

46. Which of the following statements is (are) NOT true about Percy Bysshe Shelley? ______________________ A. B.

C. D. 47.

A. Percy Bysshe Shelley

B. George Gordon Byron

C.

William Wordsworth

D. John Keats

48. Choose the four immortal odes written by John Keats. ___________________ A. Ode to the West Wind B. Ode to a Nightingale

C. To Autumn

D. Ode on Melancholy

E.

Ode on a Grecian Urn

49. Choose the works written by Jane Austen. __________________ A. Pride and Prejudice B. Sense and Sensibility C. Northanger Abbey C. Emma

E. Mansfield Park

F. Persuasion

50. In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend called ______________ appeared. And it flourished in the

forties and in the early fifties. A. romanticism B. naturalism

C. realism

D. critical realism

51. English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of _____________ . The critical realists, most of

who were novelists, described with vividness and artistic skill the chief traits of the English society and criticised the cap italist system from a democratic view point. A. novel B. drama C. poetry

D. essay

52. The greatest English critical realist novelist was ___________________ , who criticised the bourgeois civilisation and

showed the misery of the com mon people. A. William Make peace Thackeray B. Charles Dicke ns

C. Charlotte Bronte

D. Emily Bronte 53. Which of the following writers belong to critical realists? ____________

A. Charles Dicke ns

B. Charlotte Bronte

C. Emily Bronte

D. Thomas Hardy

54. ___________ w rote a number of little sketches of “ cockney characters

” . Hew^ige^eWasehlhs

nickn ame for his young brother. His first book, Sketches by Boz app eared in 1836. A. Elizabeth Gaskell C. Charles Dicke ns

55. ___________ h as been called

A. A Tale of Two Cities C. Pickwick Papers 56. The theme underlying _________ A. A Tale of Two Cities C. Pickwick Papers

P rometheus Unbound is Percy By sshe Shelley ' s master pi ece, a long epic p oem. At Eton Percy Bysshe Shelley was known as “ Mad Shelley ” , for his obst in ate oppo siti on to the brutal faggi

ng

system, accord ing to which the youn ger school-boys were obliged to obey the older boys and bear a great deal of cruel treatme nt. George Gordon Byron alled P ercy Bysshe Shelley

“ the best and least selfish man I ever kn ew.

Percy Bysshe Shelley loved the people and hated their opp ressors and expl oiters.

__________ ' pursuit of beauty in all things bespoke an aspiration after a better life than the sordid reality under capitalism. His leading principle is: “ Beauty is truth, truth beauty. ”

“Boz ”

B. William M. Thackeray

D. Jane Auste n

“ the sup reme epic of En glish life.

B. David Copp erfield

D. Oliver Twist

is the idea

“ Where there is opp ressi on, there is revoluti

on

B. David Copp erfield

57.In the Victorian Age, poetry was not a major art intended to change the world. The main poets of the age

were ___________

Alfred Tennyson Mrs. Brow ning William Blake B. Robert Brow ning D. Robert Burns

A.

C.

E.

58. The ______________ M ovement appeared in the thirties of the 19th century. It showed the English workers were

able to app ear as an independent p olitical force and were already realis ing the fact that the in dustrial bourgeoisie was their principal en emy.

A. Enlightenment

B. Ren aissa nee

C. Chartist

D. Romanticist

59. Which novel is a great satire upon the society and those people who dream to enter the higher society

regardless of the social reality? ____________ A. A Tale of Two Cities B. David Copperfield C. Great Expectation D. Dombey and Son 60. Charles Dicke ns takes the French Revoluti on as the backgro und of the novel ___________________ .

A. A Tale of Two Cities

B. Great Expectation

C. Hard Times

D. David Copperfield

61. ___________ i s ofte n regarded as the semi-autobiogra phy of the author Dicke ns in which the early life of the

hero is largely based on the author ' s early life. A. Tom Jones B. David Copperfield C. Oliver Twist D. Great Expectation

62. The Bronte sisters are ______________ . They were all talented writers and all of them died young.

A. Charlotte Bronte

B. Emily Bronte

C. Anne Bronte

D. Jane Austen

E. Catherine

63. Charlotte Bronte produced four novels: __ A. Professor C. Shirley E. Agnes Grey

64. Emily Bronte wrote only one novel entitled A. Wuthering Heights B. Jane

Eyre C. Emma D. Agnes Grey 65. Choose the names appear in the novel Jane Eyre. ____________________

A. Jane Eyre

B. Mr. Rochester

C. Mary Barton

D. Silas Marner

66. Which characters appear in the novel Wuthering Heights? ____________________

A. Heathcliff

B. Catherine

C. Hindley

D. Cathy

E. Hareton

67. In the novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte ________________ . A. B. C. D. 68. Women novelists began to appear in England during the second half of the A. 17th B. 18th C. 19th D. 20th

69. Anne Bronte also wrote two novels __________________ a nd ____________ .

A. Shirley

B. Villette

C. The Tenant of the Wildfell Hall

D. Agnes Grey

70. Which of the following statements are true about Jane Eyre? ___________________ A. B. C. D.

71. Most of Robert Browning ' important works, including ________________________ , are written in the form of dramatic

mono logue. A. Dramatic Lyrics B. Dramatic Romances

C. Men and Wome n

D. dramatics Personae

72. Thomas Hardy is one of the representatives of English ___________________ a t the turn of the 19th century.

A. critical realism

B. pre-romanticism

C. neo-classicism

D. new romanticism

73. Which statement is true?

B. Jane Eyre D. Villette

pours a great deal of her own exp erie nee criticises the bourgeois system of educati on shows that true love is the foun dati on of marriage shows that wome n should have equal rights with men

cen tury.

One of the cen tral themes of the book is the criticism of the bourgeois system of educati on. Ano ther p roblem raised in the novel is the p ositi on of wome n in society. This book is Charlottel Bronte

' s best literary production.

In this book, the author attacked the greed, petty tyranny and lack of culture among the bourgeoisie and symp athised with the sufferi ngs of the poor peop le. Her realism was coloured by p etty-bourgeois p hila nthropy.

A.

B.

C.

D. Thomas Hardy is a famous no velist.

Thomas Hardy is also a p oet.

Thomas Hardy is a critical realist.

Fatalism is stron gly reflected in Thomas Hardy no vels.

74. Accordi ng to Thomas Hardy ' s own classification, his novels divided themselves into three groups. They are Novels of character and environment Roma nces and Fan tasies Novels of Ingenuity

Worki ng class literature

75. Novels of character and environment are also called Wessex novels, taking the southwest counties of En gla nd for their sett ing. They

in clude: Un der the Gree nwood Tree The Mayor of Casterbridge Jude the Obscure

's novels, which are true?

His Wessex no vels are of great sig ni fica nee.

The Southwest coun ties of En gla nd are the sett ing of his Wessex no vels. There is p essimism in his no vels.

Mankind is subjected to hostile and mysterious fate. There are eleme nts of n aturalism in his works.

77. Oscar Wilde is one of the important dramatists in the 19th century.In his comedies, he criticises the upper

class of the En glish bourgeois society. His best comedies are ________________ . Lady Windermere s'Fan A Woma n of No Imp orta nee An Ideal Husba nd

The Imp orta nee of Being Earn est The Pi cture of Doria n Gray

78. Oscar Wilde was the representative among the writers of __________________ . A. aestheticism B. decade nee

C. critical realism

D. pre-romanticism

79. Alfred Tennys on ' s po etic out put was vast and varied. His main po ems are ____________________ .

A. The Princess

B. Maud

C. In Memoriam

D. Idylls of the Ki ng

E.

Crossing the Bar

80. Which of the following short poems was/were written by Alfred Tennyson? ______________________ A. Break, Break, Break B. Crossing the Bar

C. The Eagle

D. Sweet and Low

E.

Tears, Idle Tears

81. Which lame nt was writte n by Alfred Tennyson for the death of his friend Hallam? ___________________ A. In Memoriam B. Lycidas

C. Adodais

D. Elegy written in a Country Churchyard 82. My Last Duchess is _______________ . A. a dramatic monologue B. a short lyric C. a novel

D. an essay

83. ___________are gen erally regarded as Jose ph Conrad ' s fin est no vels.

A. Lord Jim

B. Nostromo

C. Youth

D. The Old Wives ' Tale

84. Who is regarded as a forerunner of the “ stream of consciousness

A. John Galsworthy

B. Henry James

C. Thomas Stearns Eliot

D. James Joyce

85. George Bernard Shaw ' s essay _____________________ , a commentary on Henrik Ibsen

author ' s own program of dramaticeartion. A. Widower ' s Houses B. Mrs. Warren

' s Profession

C. Major Barbara

D. The Quintessenee of Ibsenism

86. In English literature, _______________ and _________ are the two best-known novelists

con scious ness

” school.

A. David Herbert Lawrenee

B. Robert Tressell

C. James Joyce

D. Virginia Woolf

87. ___________' s admirers have praised him as

“ second only to Shakespeare in his mastery of English Ianguage.

A. B. C. D. B. The Retur n of the Native D. Tess of the D ' Urbervilles

A. C. E.

76. The following state ments are about Thomas Hardy A. B. C. D. E.

A. B. C. D. E. literature in the 20th cen tury?

's dramatic works, served also a

of the “ streamof

and

A. D.H. Lawrenee

B. T.S. Eliot

C. James Joyce

D. W.B. Yeats

88.___________is the climax of Virginia Woolf experimentssin novel form.

A. The Window

B. Time Passes

C. To the Lighthouse

D. The Waves

89. Which of the following novels belong(s) to the “ stream of consciousness

A. Ulysses

B. Finnegans Wake

C. To the Lighthouse

D. The Waves

90. A. B. C. D. 90. _________ D .H. Lawrenee ' representative work was positively taken as a typical

example and lively

mani festatio n of the Oedi pus Comp lex in fiction, as the result of Lawre nee ' Isn g -ra nge study of the p sychologic theories of Sigm und Freud. A. Sons and Lovers

B. The Rainbow

C. Lady Chatterley ' s Lover

D. Women in Love

91. Which of the characters are in the novel Sons and Lovers? A. Mrs. Morel

B. Paul

C. Miriam

D. Clara

92. Which of the following writers were from Ireland?

A. George Bernard Shaw C. James Joyce E. W.

B. Yeats

93. Which of the following play(s) was/were NOT written

by George Bernard Shaw?

A.

C. Major Barbara E. The Man of Property

94. Which of the following plays deals with the story that a linguist trains a flower girl to speak the so-called high-civilised En glish? A. Major Barbara

B. Pygmalion

C. Mrs. Warren ' s Profession

D. Man and Superman 95. In 1923, ____________ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.

A. William Butler Yeats

B. Samuel Butler

C. Thomas Stearns Eliot

D. David Herbert Lawrenee 96. William Butler Yeats was _____________ .

A. an Irish poet

B. a dramatist

C. a critic

D. a senator in the Irish Free State in 1921 97. Thomas Stearns Eliot defined his belief as _______________ . A. classicist in literature B. royalist in politics C. Anglo-Catholic in religion

D. all of the above

98. Which of the following statement is NOT true? Thomas Stear ns Eliot was born in America.

Thomas Stear ns Eliot became a British subject in 1927.

Thomas Stear ns Eliot was educated in Harvard Uni versity and Oxford Uni versity.

Thomas Stear ns Eliot was a po et, a critic and a p laywright. Thomas Stear ns Eliot was also a great no velist.

100. In which poem are the sterility and chaos of the contemporary world after 1st World War exp ressed? A. Ode to the West Wind C. Lamia Keys:

I- 5: A, D, D, A, A II- 15:ABCD, D, D, C, B 21-25: ABCD, ABCDEFG, B, A, B 31-35: D, BC, D, B, ABCDE 41-45: D, C, B, B, D 51-55: A, B, ABCD, C, C 61-65: B, ABC, ABCD, A, AB 71-75: ABCD, A, ABCD, ABC, ABCDE 76-80: ABCDE, ABCD, AB, ABCED, ABCDE 81-85: A. A. AB, B, D 91-95: A, ABCE, ABCDE, E, B

” school of novel writi ng?

__________

w as writte n by James Joyce. The P ortrait of an Artist as a Young Man P ortrait of a Lady

The Pi cture of Doria n Gray To the Lighthouse

B. Jon athan Swift

Oscar Wilde

B. Widower ' s Houses D. P

ygmali on

Mrs. Warren ' s Profession A. B. C. D. E. B. The Solitary Reaper

D. The Waste Land

6-10: B, B, D, D, ABCD 16-20: C, ABC, AB, D, ABCD

26-30: D, D, AD, D, B 36-40: C, ACD, ABD, ACDE, A

46-50: A, D, BCDE, ABCDEF, D 56-60: A, ABC, C, C, A

66-70: ABCDE, ABCD, C, CD, ABCD 86-90: CD, C, D, ABCD, A 96-100: A, ABCD, D, E, D

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