英美英国文学第一章到第三章练习

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Exercises of the First Part of the British Literature

Section One: Multiple-choice questions

1. “Upon a great adventure he was bond, / That greatest Gloriana to him gave.” These two lines are taken from

[A] Milton's Samson Agonistes [B] Spenser's The Faerie Queene

[C] Beowulf [D] Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

2. "O prince, O chief of many throned powers,

That led th' embattled Seraphim to war

Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds

Fearless, endangered Heaven's perpetual King. "

In the first line of the above passage quoted from Milton's Paradise Lost, the phrase "O prince, O chief of many throned powers” refers to________.

[A] Satan [B] God [C] Adam [D] Eve

3. Shakespeare claims through the mouth of Hamlet that the "end" of the dramatic creation is to give ________ of the social realities of the time.

[A] faithful reflection [B] instructive representation

[C] imaginative narration [D] allegorical description

4. Humanists of the Renaissance turned to the spirit of ________ culture for inspiration.

[A] Anglo-Saxon [B] Italian and French

[C] Greeek and Roman [D] medieval

5. Paradise Lost is composed in blank verse, which permits the ________ Milton needed for his subject.

[A] epic grandeur [B] narrative sweep

[C] descriptive subtlety [D] intellectual grasp

6. Donne’s famous analogy of parting lovers to a drawing compass affords a prime example of________

[A] dramatic style [B] exaggeration

[C] paradox [D] conceit

7. ________ is a study of the lust for wealth, which centers on Barabas, the Jew, a terrible old money lender.

[A] The Jew of Malta [B] The Merchant of Venice

[C] Tamburlaine the Great [D] The Tempest

8. In his conception of tragedy, Marlowe perceived that tragic action must issue from, and be reflected in, ________.

[A] the Renaissance hero [B] endless aspiration for knowledge

[C] the individual [D] human dignity and capacity

9. In The Faerie Queene, the Red Cross Knight, who stands for true religion of ________ , sets out on the orders of Queen of Faerie, who represents ________.

[A] the Anglican Church, Queen Elizabeth [B] the Roman Catholic Church, Pope

[C] Christianity, Christ [D] humanism, divine truth

10. What figure of speech is used in the lines: "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, / And summer's lease too short a date"?

[A] Simile [B] Metonymy

[C] Personification [D] Hyperbole

11. The underlined part in "My deeds upon my head! I crave the law, / The penalty and forfeit of my bond. " (from TF, chant of Venice) means ________.

[A] What is done can't be undone [B] Let me responsible for what I do

[C] I would give anything for fulfilling my bond [D] I deserve what I demand

12. The line "When we have shuffled off this mortal coil" be, or not to be" soliloquy means________.

[A] when we have got rid of this coil that is doomed to die

[B] when we have unloaded this heavy burden like a coil

[C] when we have taken off this coat made of coils

[D] when we are relived from the trouble of mortal life wound around us like coils

13. What does the word "humour" mean in the following quotation from "Of Studies": "to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of “a scholar”?

[A] funniness [B] Wit

[C]character [D] A sudden whim

14. The Spenserian stanza is a group of eight lines of iambic pentameter followed by a six-stress line, with a rhyme scheme ababbcbcc.

[A] trochaic [B] iambic

[C] anapestic [D] dactylic

15. In Satan’s speech: …if he, whom mutual league, / United : thoughts and .counsels, equal hope / And hazard in the glorious enterprise, /.joined with me once . . . " What does "the glorious enterprise refer to?

[A] The former scheme to overthrow God.

[B] stealing the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil

[C] Finding means of evil out of good.

[D] corrupting Adam and Eve.

16. What is the tone in the following lines: " Saucy pedantic .go wretch, go chide / Late school-boys, and sour prentices"?

[A] Ironic [B] Sarcastic [C]Humorous [D] Understated

17. In the best metaphysical poetry, feeling and ________ fuse in an image that is always ingenious and appropriate, though it may be disconcerted at first in the shock of bringing incongruities together.

[A] imagery [B] conceit [C] thought [D] colloquialism

18. The sonnet "Death Be Not Proud" is written in the strict______ pattern. It reveals the poet's belief that _________.

[A] Shakespearean, death is only a sleep, after which we live eternally

[B] Petrarchan, death is but momentary while hal v death is eternal

[C] Elizabethan, death is not as strong as people think he is

[D] Portuguese, death is like a long sleep that offer, for the soul

19. In the line "And every fair from fair sometime decline Shakespeare's Sonnet 18), what does the first and second “fair” mean?

[A] Light complexion; beauty. [B] Loveliness; beautiful women.

[C] The beautiful person or thing; beauty. [D] Sound reason; justice.

20. In the court scene of The Merchant of Venice, when says to Shylock: "We all expect a gentle answer, Jew. punning on the word "gentle". He means a merciful but also means ______.

[A] an amiable and tender answer [B] a noble answer

[C] a Gentile's as opposed to a Jew's answer [D] a generous answer

21. In his "To be, or not to be" soliloquy, Hamlet gives the why he wants to commit suicide. Apart from his personal revenge, that he________ is another reason.

[A] is unable to restore his earlier idealized image of his mother

[B] thinks the next world is far better than this one

[C] is mentally tormented by his father's words

[D] cannot bear the social injustice and grievances

22. By advancing the theory of＿＿＿＿＿, Bacon shows the empirical attitudes toward truth about nature and bravely challenges the medieval scholasticists.

[A] inductive reasoning [B] deductive reasoning

[C] education [D] scientific experimentation

23. The central figure of Tamburlaine, the Great represents for infinite _________.

[A] knowledge and happiness [B] power and authority

[C] ambition and conquest [D] success and adventure

24. The shepherd's Calender set the ________ fashion in English literature, and inaugurated the great 16th century.

[A] rustic [B] ornate [C] rustic [D] pastoral

25. In King Leur, Shakespeare has shown to us the two-fold exerted by the feudalisi corruption and

__________ gradually corroded the ordered society.

[A] Anarchy and rebellion [B] supernatural forces

[C] super natural forces [D] tyranny

[B] power and authority success and adventure fashion in English lyrical poetry of the last

Section Two(Reading comprehension)

1.So pure and innocent, as that same lambe,

She was in life and every vertuous lore,

And by descent from royall lynage came

Of ancient Kings and Queenes, that had of yore

Their scepters stretcht from east to westerne shore,

And all the world in their subjection held;

Till that infernall feend with foule uprore

Forwasted all their land, and them expeld;

Whom to avenge, she had this knight from far compeld. "

Questions:

A. Identify the poet and the poem.

B. What does "this knight" refer to?

C. What idea does the quotation express?

2. "Within this circle is Jehovah's name

Forward and backward anagrammatized,

The breviated names of holy saints,

Figures of every adjunct to the heavens

And characters of signs and erring stars,

By which the spirits are enforced to rise. "

Questions:

A. Identify the author and the work.

B. Who does "Jehovah" refer to?

C. What idea does the quotation express?

2."Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;

And thus the native hue of resolution

Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought;

And enterprises of great pith and moment,

With this regard, their currents turn awry

And lose the name of action. "

Questions:

A. Identify the author and the work.

B. Who is the speaker of the quoted passage?

C. What idea does the quotation express?

4."Some men there are love not a gaping pig,

Some that are mad if they behold a cat,

And others, when bagpipe sings i' th' nose,

Cannot contain their urine for affection,

Mistress of passion, sways it to the mood

Of what it likes or loathes. "

Questions:

A. the author and the work.

B. Who is the speaker of the quoted passage?

C. What idea does the quotation express?

5. “If her eyes have not blinded thine,

Look, and tomorrow late, tell me,

Whether both the Indias of spice and mine

Be where thou left'st them, or lie here with me.

Ask for those kings whom thou saw'st yesterday,

And thou shalt hear, all here in one bed lay. "

Questions:

A. Identify the poet and the poem.

B. What does the word "thou" in the last line of the quotation refer to?

C. What idea does the quotation express?

Section Two Questions and answers

1. Make a brief analysis of the "quality of mercy" speech by Portia,.Merchant of Venice, and try to explain why it is regarded most famous speech in the play.

2. Make a brief comment on the theme of Paradise Lost.

3. Make a brief summary of the historical and cultural background to English Renaissance.

4. Make a brief analysis of "Death, Be Not Proud".

5. What is Francis Bacon's contribution to English literature?

Section Four (Topic discussion)

1. Comment on Hamlet's inaction.

2. What are the main characteristics of metaphysical poetry?

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II. Exercises

A. Multiple-choice questions :

(Each of the statements below by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets . )

1. In field of literature, the Enlightenment brought about a(n) _________

the old classical works. This tendency is known as neoclassicism.

A. revived interest in

B. antagonism against

C. rebellion against

D. rational scrutiny of

2. John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress is a ( n ) _________.

A. allegory

B. romance

C. comedy of manners

D. realistic novel

3. As a literary figure, Belinda appears in Alexander Pope's _________.

A. An Essay on Criticism

B. The Dunciad

C. The Rape of the Lock

D. "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot"

4. In lines "With gold jewels cover every part, /And hide with ornaments

their want of art", Pope rejects _________.

A. the "Follow Nature" fallacy

B. artificiality

C. aesthetic order

D. good taste

5.Which of the following is NOT a typical aspect of________ Defoe's

language?

A. Vernacular.

B. Colloquial.

C. Elegant.

D. Smooth.

6. "He has a servant called Friday". "He" in the quoted sentence is a

character in ________.

A. Gulliver's Travels

B. Tom Jones

C. Robinson Crusoe

D. The Rape of the Lock

7. Which of the following is a typical feature of Swift's writings?

A. Great wit.

B. Bitter satire.

C. Rich mythic allusions.

D. Complicated sentence structures

8. In which of the following works can you find the proper names "Lilliput",

"Brobdingnag", "Houyhnhnm" and "Yahoo"?

A. The Pilgrim's Progress

B. The Fairie Queene

C. Gulliver's travels

D. The School for scandel

9. "Of all the 18th-century novelists, he 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 novelists " structure and style. In the above sentence, "he"

refers to ________.

A. Jonathan Swift

B. Daniel Defoe

C. Samuel Richardson

D. Henry Fielding

10. "The novel is structured around the discovery of the hero's origin. " This

novel is most probably________.

A. David Copperfield

B. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

C. Wuthering Heights

D. The Vicar of the Wakefield

11. "To be so distinguished, is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge." T he above sentence is presented in a ( n ) ________ tone.

A. ironic

B. indifferent

C. delightful

D. jealousy

12. The ________ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.

A. Romanticism

B. Humanism

C. Enlightenment

D. Sentimentalism

13. Who was the greatest dramatist in the 18th century?

A. Oliver Goldsmith

B. Richard B. Sheridan

C. Laurence Sterne

D. Henry Fielding

14. "As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit; For works may have more wit than does ’em good As bodies perish through excess of blood. " In the above lines, Pope tries to say that ________.

A. more wit will make better poetry

B. plainness is more important than wit in poetry

C. too much wit will destroy good poetry

D. plainness will make wit dull

15. Fielding's method of presentation, namely________, enables him to write in

the fullest, freest, clearest and most straight-forward manner and also makes it possible for him to add explanations in places when necessary.

A. telling the story through a series of letters

B. telling the story through the mouth of the principal character

C. the author acting as the narrator

D. revealing the story through a framework

16. The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope is written in the form of a mock

________ , which describes the triviality of high society in a grand style.

A. epic

B. elegy

C. sonnet

D. ode

17. Defoe's Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman,

typical of the English bourgeoisie in the________ century.

A. 17th

B. 19th

C. 18th

D. 20th

18. In The Pilgrim's Progress , John Bunyan describes The Vanity Fair in a

________ tone.

A. delightful

B. solemn

C. sentimental

D. satirical

19. Alexander Pope strongly advocated neoclassicism, emphasizing that literary

works should be judged by ________ rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.

A. classical

B. romantic

C. sentimental

D. allegorical

20. Of all the 18th-century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both

in theory and practice, to write specifically a "_______ in prose", the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.

A. tragi-comic

B. comic epic

C. romance

D. romantic epic

21. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Samuel Johnson's language style?

A. His sentences are long and well structured.

B. His sentences are interwoven with parallel phrases.

C. He tends to use informal and colloquial words.

D. His sentences are complicated, but his thoughts are clearly expressed. .

22. The School for Scandal, one of the great classics in English drama, is a

________ on the moral degeneracy of the aristocratic-bourgeois society in the 18th-century England.

A. high praise

B. sharp satire

C. great irony

D. bitter lament

23. In "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" , Thomas Gray compares

the common folk with the great ones, wondering what the commons

could have achieved if they had had the________.

A. love

B. chance

C. money

D. material wealth

24. In his works, Defoe gave his praise to the hard-working, sturdy

________ and showed his sympathy for the downtrodden, unfortunate poor.

A. middle-class people

B. working people

C. Irish farmers

D. aristocrats

25. "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. "

In the above quoted passage, Thomas Gray intends to say that great family, power, beauty and wealth ________.

A. will never make people lead to the same destination-paths of glory

B. will inevitably make people realize their glorious dreams

C. are the very best things to lead people to their glories

D. will never prevent people from reaching their final destination-grave

B. Blank-filling: (Complete each of the following statements with a proper word

or phrase. )

1. The Neoclassical Period is also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age

of ________.

2. Modern English novel is a natural product of the Industrial Revolution and a

symbol of the growing importance of the English ________ class.

3. Joseph Andrews was first intended as a burlesque of the dubious morality and

false sentimentality of Richardson's ________.

4. As a lexicographer, Johnson distinguished himself as the author of the first

English________.

5. ________ was the only important English dramatist of the eighteenth

century. His plays, especially The Rivals and The School for Scandal , are generally regarded as important links between the masterpieces of Shakespeare and those of Bernard Shaw.

6. Jonathan Swift's ________ is generally regarded as a model of the best satire

not only in this time but also in the whole English literary history.

7. The Pilgrim's Progress, which describes a Christian's journey to the Celestial

City, is a well-known religious ________.

8. Henry Fielding was the first 18th century writer to try to realize, both in

theory and practice, “________ the modern novel its structure and style. 9. In "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", Gray reflects on - with a touch

of his personal melancholy.

10. Bunyan's style was modeled after that of the English -, with concrete and

living language and carefully observed and vividly presented details.

C. T-F statements: (Decide whether the following statements are true or false

and write your answers in the brackets. )

( ) 1. Samuel Richardson is regarded as the first writer of the English novel of character.

( ) 2.The Pilgrim's Progress is one of the most popular pieces of Christian writing produced during the Romantic Age.

( ) 3. The Enlightenment was a progressive working-class movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.

( ) 4. John Bunyan’s Pilgrim's Progress, is a typical example of allegory.

( ) 5. Alexander Pope strongly advocated Romanticism, emphasizing the special qualities of each individual's mind.

( ) 6.Jonathon Swift was the most remarkable satirist in the 18th century who criticized the new bourgeois-aristocratic society of his age without mercy.

( ) 7.In contrast to his contemporary writers, Thomas Gray' literary output was small.

( ) 8. In The Pilgrim's Progress, the Celestial City stands for Heaven or the kingdom of God.

( ) 9.In The Rape of the Lock Pope bemoans the fate of the lords and ladies in the aristocratic bourgeois society.

( ) 10. Unlike Pope, Samuel Johnson is seldom didactic and never tries to moralize in his writings.

D. Works-author pairing-up.

l. The Castle of Otranto A. John Bunyan

2. The Mysteries of UdUdolpho B. Alexander Pope

3. The Pilgrim's Progress C. Jonathan Swift

4. The Rape of the Lock D. Henry Fielding

5. Robinson Crusoe E. Horace Walpole

6. Gulliver's Travels F. Richard B. Sheridan

7. The History of Tom Jones, G. Ann Radcliffe

a Foundling H. Thomas Gray

8. The Lives of Poets I. Daniel Defoe

9. The School for Scandal J. Samuel Johnson

10. "Elegy Written in a country

Churchyard"

E. Define the literary terms listed below:

1. The Enlightenment

2. The Gothic Novel

3. Neoclassicism

4. The Heroic Couplet

F. Reading comprehension:

( For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it . )

1. "Here is the Britain Row, the French Row, the Italian Row, the Spanish Row, the German Row, where several sorts of vanities are to be sold. But, as in other fairs, some one commodity is as the chief of all the fair, so the ware of Rome and her merchandise is greatly promoted in this fair: only our English nation, with some others, have taken a dislike thereat. "

2. "True wit is Nature to advantage dressed,

What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed;

Something whose truth convinced at sight we find,

That gives us back the image of our mind. "

3. "`Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?"'

G. Questions: (For each of the following questions you are asked to give a

brief answer, explaining what you know about it. You should write no

more than 100 words for each answer, and, therefore, concentrate on those essential points. )

1. What are the artistic features of Thomas Gray's poetry?

2. What is the theme of Sheridan's The School for Scandal ?

3. What are the features of Swift's prose?

H. Essay questions: ( In this part you are asked to write a short essay on each

of the given topics. You should write no more than 150 words on each one.

Therefore, you should concentrate on those most important Points. try your best to be logical in your essay, and keep your writing clear and tidy. )

1. Comment on the features of "comic epic in prose" in the selected reading of

Tom Jones.

2. Comment on the rope-dances and the leaping and creeping games described in

Gulliver’s Travels.

3. Comment on the theme and images of "Elegy Written in a Country

Churchyard".

E. Define the literary terms listed below:

1. The Enlightenment

2. The Gothic Novel

3. Neoclassicism

4. The Heroic Couplet

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Exercises III

I. Multiple-choice questions

1. The two major English novelists produced in the Romantic Age are

_______.

[A] Byron and Shelley [B] Wordsworth and Coleridge

[C] Scott and Austen [D] Lamb and Hazlitt

2. "And because I am happy and dance and sing, / They think they have

done me no injury, /And are gone to praise God and his priest and king, / Who make up a heaven of our misery. The above four lines are taken from_______.

[A] Song of Experience [B] Song of Innocence

[C] Poetical Sketches [D] Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

3. _______ is central to Blake's concern in his Songs of Innocence and

Songs of Experience .

[A] Politics [B] Religion

[C] Childhood [D] Manhood

4. Which of the following statements about Wordsworth is NOT true?

[A] He is regarded as a "worshipper of nature".

[B] He thinks that common life is the only subject of literary interest.

[C] His deliberate simplicity and refusal to decorate the truth of experience produced a kind of pure and profound poetry.

[D] He changes the course of English poetry by using allusive speech of the

language.

5. Coleridge's actual achievement as a poet can be divided into two

remarkably diverse groups: the demonic and the conversational. Which one of the following poems belongs to the conversational group? [A] The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. [B] Christabel.

[C] Kubla Khan. [D] Frost at Midnight.

6. Which of the following words is NOT appropriate to describe the

characteristic features of the "Byronic hero"?

[A] Proud. [B] Mysterious.

[C] Rebellious. [D] Pious.

7. In the conversation with Mrs. Bennet in Chapter One of Pride and

Prejudice, Mr. Bennet uses a teasing tone and_______ humor.

[A] ironic [B] joyous

[C] black [D] sarcastic

8. Which of the following works is NOT a poetic drama written by Byron?

[A] The Prisoner of Chillon [B] Manfred

[C] Childe Harold's Pilgrimage[D] Don Juan

9. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a

good fortune must be in want of a wife. " This sentence is presented in a(n) _______tone.

[A] ironic [B] indifferent

[C] delightful [D] Jealousy

10. Which of the following works is an elegy written by Shelley?

[A] Adonais[B] Lycidas

[C] Isabella [D] Queen Mab

11. In the poem "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways" ending lines go

like this: "But she is in her grave, and, Oh. The difference to me!" The

word "me" in the quoted line probably refer to _______.

[A] the poet [B ] the reader

[C] her lover [D] her father

12. In the early 19th-century England, the heavily exploited workers

expressed themselves in the popular outbreaks of machine-breaking known as the ______ riots.

[A] Chartist [B] Peterloo

[C] Enclosure [D] Luddite

13. "Those ungrateful drones who would/Drain your sweat—nay, drink your

blood?" The word "drones" in the above two 1ines written by Shelley is used as a(n) ______. .

[A] irony [B] metaphor

[C] metonymy [D] synecdoche

14. In his poem, "Ode to the West Wind", Shelley intends to present his

wind as a central______ around which the poet weaves various cycles of death and rebirth.

[A] synecdoche [B] symbol

[C] simile [ D] metonymy

15. Byron's "Song for the Luddites" contains three five-lined stanzas of

______ movement. The rimes in each stanza are abba .

[A] iambic [B] anapestic

[C] trochee [D] dactylic

16. Byron's masterwork, Don Juan , is based on the _______.

[A] Bible [B] Greek myth

[C] Roman myth [D] Spanish legend

17.. "The Isles of Greece" is among Byron's most effective poetical

utterances on national freedom and consists of sixteen six-lined stanzas of_______ tetrameter, with a rime scheme of ababcc. All the 16 stanzas are supposed to have been sung by a Greek singer at the wedding feast of Don Juan and Haidee.

[A] iambic [B] anapestic

[C] trochee [D] dactylic

18. In Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790), the word "marriage" , to Blake,

means the _______. .

[A] subordination of the one to the other

[B] co-existence of the conflicting parts

[C1 fighting of the conflicting parts

[D] reconciliation of the contraries

19. Wordsworth defines poetry as " the spontaneous overflow of powerful

feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in_______.

[A ] memory [B] observation

[C] tranquility [D1 nature

20. The stanza Shelley invents for this Ode to the West Wind is a highly

complicated fusion of the sonnet and of _______ rima, with no

division into octave and sestet. Shelley's rhyme scheme :or his stanzas may be. represented as aba bcb cdc ded ee.

[A] free [B] end

[C] internal [D] terza

21. The poetic view of _______ can be best understood from his remark

about poetry: " all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. "

[A] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [B] John Keats

[C] William Wordsworth [D] Percy Bysshe Shelley.

22. By contrasting the freedom of the ancient Greece ard the enslavement of

the present Greece in "The Isles of Greece appealed to the Greek people to fight for _______.

[ A ] love [B] happiness

[C] peace [D] liberty

23. Most of the important issues explored in the novel, Pride and Prejudice ,

are presented from the _______ viewpoint.

[A] masculine [B] objective

[C] feminine [D] neutral

24. In the conversation with Mrs. Bennet in Chapter One of Pride and

Prejudice , Mr. Bennet uses a_______ tone and sarcastic humor. [A] solemn [B] harsh

[C] intimate [D] teasing

25. "And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed

many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills,

Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. "

The above lines are probably taken from _______.

[A] Wordsworth's "The Solitary Reaper"

[B] Blake's "The Chimney Sweeper"

[C] Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"

[D] Keats's "Ode on an Grecian Urn"

II.. 阅读理解题(Reading comprehension)

1."Wherefore, Bees of England, forge /many a weapon, chain, and

scourge,

That these stingless drones may spoil?

The forced produce of your toil?"

Questions :

A. Identify the poem and the poet.

B. What is the tone of the poet?

C. What idea does the quotation express?

2. If I were a dead leaf thou mightiest bear;

If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee;

A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share

The impulse of thy strength, only less free

Than thou, O Uncontrollable! "

Questions :

A. Identify the poem and the poet.

B. What does the word "thou" refer to?

C. What idea does the quotation express?

3. "The mountains look on Marathon—

And Marathon looks on the sea;

And musing there an hour alone,

I dreamed that Greece might still be free;

For standing on the Persians' grave,

I could not deem myself a slave. "

Questions :

A. Identify the poem and the poet.

B. What implied meaning does the poet intend to convey when he mentions

"Marathon"?

C. What idea does the quotation express?

4. "No Nightingale did ever chaunt

More welcome notes to weary bands

Of travelers in some shady haunt,

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