英国文学考试复习资料。

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Multiple choices
1, which of the following is not a feature of Beowulf? B
A. one of the earliest of Old English literary works.
B. new language
C. story about battles with monsters and dragons
D. the epic of anglo-saxon people
2. English Renaissance Period was an age of ……B
A. prose and novel
B. poetry and drama
C. essays and journals D the Romantic poets
3.The main literary form of the early 17th century was poetry. John Milton was acknowledged as the greatest, besides him, there were two groups of poets. They were the Cavalier poets and…….C
A.the lake poets B the university wits C the Metaphysical poets D the romantic poets
4. Robinson Crusoe, widely considered to be the first modern novel, was written by…….D
A. Geoffrey Chaucer B, Charles Dickens C, Henry Fielding D, Daniel Defoe
5. The publication of …..C, which was the joint work of William Wordsworth and Samuel T.Coleridge, marked the beginning of the Romantic Age in England.
A. Joseph Conrad
B.The Rime of the Ancient Marinet
C. Lyrical Ballads
D.Queen Mab
6.Among the most famous realistic novelists of the Victorian age are ….C, W.M.Thackeray, Bronte sisters, etc.
A. Joseph Conrad
B.Henry Fielding
C. Charles Dickens
D. Charlotte Bronte
7. …..C in his novels such as Hard Times and Oliver Twist describes the misery and sufferings of common people.
A. Francis Bacon
B. Jane Austen
C. Charles Dickens
D. Pride and Prejudice
8. Which of the following is not Shakespeare’s play?
A. Hamlet
B.King Lear
C. Othello plays
D. Pride and Prejudice
9. Here is a sentence from an essay, “Read not to contradict and confuse, nor to believe and confuse, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider”. The essay must be…D..
A.”Of Studies” by Francis Bacon
B. Ghe Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon
C. Novum Organum by Francis Bacon
D. “On Reading”by Francis Bacon
10. Paradise Lost is the masterpiece of ….C.
A. William Shakespeare
B. Robert Burns
C. John Milton
D. William Blake
11. The novel Gulliver’s Travels was written by…B..
A. Tobias Smollett
B. Jonathan
C. Laurence Sterne
D. John Milton D. William Blake
12. The author of “Ode to the West Wind”is ….A…
A. Shelley
B. Byron
C. Keats
D. Coleridge
13. Wuthering Heights is the masterpiece by ….B..
A. Jane Austen
B. Emily Bronte
C. Charles Dickens
D. William Makespeace Thackeray
14. Which of the following is not a typical feature of Romanticism in England? B
A. Spontaneity in expressing feelings
B. Emphasis on reason
C. Worship of nature
D. Simplicity in language
15. Which of following can be said of the essence of the Renaissance? A
A. Humanism
B. Capitalism
C. Feudalism
D. Enilightenment
16. William Wordsworth never used “gaudy and inane phraseology”because he felt that poetry
should …..C…
A. he read only by the well-educated
e difficult vocabulary to express complicated emotions
C. use simple speech to communicate the truths of human experience
D. rely on strange and uncommon words to bring people new experences.
17. Virginia Woolf is renowned for adopting the ….C…technique, which displays the sequence of thoughts and impressions in a person’s mind.
A.mind-reading
B. shird-person narration
C. stream-of-consciousness
D.feminist
18.The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, is an important poetic work by….B..
A.William Langland
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. William Shakespeare
D. Alfred Teeyson
19. William Blake wrote all the following except….D. ..
A. Poetical Sketches
B. Songs of Innocence
C. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
D.The Tree of Libery
20.Which of the following writing is not the work by Charles Dickens? D
A. A Tale of Two Cities
B. Hard Times
C.Oliver Twist
D. Vanity Fair。