济南大学继续教育学院2016年学位主干课程考试《英国文学史》模拟题（一）（本试题满分100分，时间90分钟）I. Multiple choices: Choose the ONE answer that is the most suitable to the sentence. (20%) （）1.________is Byron's masterpiece, a great comic epic of the early 19th century.A. “She walk s in Beauty”B. “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”C. “Don Juan”D. “The Corsair”( ) 2. "Modern Fiction" is one of Woolf's important critical essays, in which the writer praises______ as "the most notable" of "several young writers."A. Thomas HardyB. James JoyceC. Joseph ConradD. T.S.Eliot( ) 3. _________ achieved fame after the publication of poem----.“Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”.A. WordsworthB. JoyceC. George EliotD. John Galsworthy ( ) 4. John Milton's "On His Blindness" is written in the form of ______sonnet which consists of an octave(an eight-line stanza) and a sestet (a six-line stanza)A. EnglishB. ItalianC. RussianD. Chinese( ) 5. In "Tom Jones"______ is depicted as a hypocritical, wicked man who is outwardly good but inwardly bad.A. TomB. BlifilC. Mr. AllworthyD. Sophia( ) 6. John Keats' famous poem______expresses the contrast between the happy world of natural loveliness and human world of agony.A. "Endymion"B. "Ode to a Nightingale"C."Ode on a Grecian Urn"D."Ode to Psyche"( ) 7. "The School for Scandal "by Richard Brinsley Sheridan has been regarded as the best______since Shakespeare.A. tragedyB. proseC. comedyD. fable( ) 8.The story of "Tom Jones" by Henry Fielding is told _______.A. in a series of lettersB. in the third-person narrationC. by Tom JonesD. in the form of diary( ) 9. The title _______was borrowed by Thackeray from “The Pilgrim’s Progress” by Bunyan.A. “Sons and Lovers”B. “Jane Eyre”C. “Adam Bede”D. “Vanity Fair”( ) 10. Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama,_______________.A.“Prometheus Unbound”B. “The Necessity of Atheism”C.“Ode to the West Wind”D. “Queen Mab”( ) 11.“The Solitary Reaper”. This poet written by _________of eighteenth centuryA. WordsworthB. ByronC. ShelleyD. Keats( ) 12. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” ---that is all . This poet is from _________written by Keats.A. “Ode to a Nightingale”B. “Ode to psyche”C. “Ode to Autumn”D. “Ode on a Grecian Urn”( )13. In "The Pilgrim's Progress" Christian and Faithful come to the ______where both are arrested as alien agitators and tried.A. Vanity FairB. Doubting CastleC. Celestial CityD. hell( ) 14. Which of the following novels by Dickens shows his pessimism?A. “The Old Curiosity Shop”B. “David Copperfield”C. “Oliver Twist”D. “Great Expectations”( ) 15.Hardy’s first masterpiece is ______________.A. “Idylls of the King”B. “Far Form the Madding Crowd”C. “Tess of the D''Urbervilles”D. “In Memoriam”( ) 16.The outstanding realistic novelists of early 20th century were _______，H. G. Wells，and Arnold Bennett.A. LawrenceB. JoyceC. George EliotD. John Galsworthy( ) 17._________ "West Wind" thus seems to symbolize an inspiring spiritual power that moves everywhere, and affects everything.A. Shelley’sB. Keats’C. Wordsworth’sD.Vi rginia Woolf’s( )18. “Ode to a Nightingale”symbolized for _______ a lasting beauty which lured him temporarily away from his great misery into an exquisite desire to the forest with the bird.A. ByronB. KeatsC. WordsworthD. Shelley( ) 19. The term “metaphysical poetry” is commonly used to name the work of the ______ century writers who wrote under the influence of ______.A. 16th…Edmund SpenserB. 17th…John DonneC. 18th…Thomas GrayD. 20th…John Ransom( ) 20.Which of the following novels by D. H. Lawrence shows the influence of Freud's theory of psychoanalysis, especially that of the "Oedipus complex"?A. "The Rainbow"B. "Women in Love"C. "Sons and Lovers"D. "Lady Chatterley's Lover"II. True & False statements. (20%)( ) 1. Chancer's contribution to English poetry lies chiefly in the fact he introduced from France the rhymed stanza in Iambic meter to English poetry.( ) 2. Hamlet, the great tragedy of Shakespeare, with perfect artistry, studies the profound question of "to be or no to be."( ) 3. Bacon was the founder of modern science & also famous for his "essays."( ) 4. Spenser's "Faerie Queene", Sidney's "Astrophel & Stella "& Shakespeare's "Sonnets" are the most famous sonnet sequences of Elizabethan Age.( ) 5. Defoe is the author of Robinson Crusoe, which is a scientific and fantastic work.( ) 6.To the Lighthouse is divided into three sections: “The Window,” “Time Passes,” and “The Lighthouse.”( ) 7. Joyce is regarded as the most prominent stream-of-consciousness novelist，A Portrait of Artist as a Young Man is Joyce's first novel.( )8.George Eliot，pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, was born on Nov. 22, 1819 into an estate agent’s family in Warwickshire，England.( ) 9. Wordsworth uses his poetry to look at the relationship between nature and love. ( ) 10. “Ode to the West Wind” praising and glorifying an individual, commemorating an event, or describing nature.( ) 11. Shelley is among the world's greatest lyric poets. He is the most wonderful lyric poet England has ever produced.( )12.In Hebrew, Latin, Greek, and many other languages, the words for wind, breath, soul, and inspiration are all identical or related. ( )13.The realistic novels in the early 19th century were the continuation of the Victorian tradition，yet its exposing and criticizing power against capitalist evils had been somewhat weakened both in width and depth.( ) 14.Charlotte’s first novel Jane Eyre was rejected by the publisher. But her second one，The Professor，won immediate success when it appeared in 1847.( )15. “The Isles of Greece，” is taken from Canto II, which is sung by a Greek singer at the wedding of Don Juan & Haidee, the pure & beautiful daughter of a pirate.( ) 16.Tom Jones is the masterpiece of Henry Fielding & it offers a panoramic picture of 18th century England with the life of people in London, in the countryside & on the open road.( ) 17.Robert Burns is a peasant poet & is famous for his songs written in the Scottish dialect on a variety of subjects.( ) 18. W. B. Yeats was a poet and dramatist, who was born in Ireland.( ) 19. Thomas Hardy was only a novelist, who didn't write any poem at all.( ) 20. John Galsworthy was one of the most prominent of the 20th century English realistic writers.III. Name the Writers who wrote the following passages. (10%)( ) 1. Imitation here will not to do the business.The picture must be after Nature herself.11.“( )2. Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton? --- a machinewithout feelings? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless andheartless? You think wrong! – I have as much soul as you – and as much heart!( ) ( ) 3. Farewell my friend ! farewell my foes !My peace with these, my love with those:The bursting tears my heart declare-----Farewell the bonnie banks of Ayr!.( ( )4. In poverty, hunger and dirt;And And still with a vcice of dolorous pitchShe sang the “Song of the Shirt!”( ) ( )5. Little Lamb who made theeDost thou know who made theeGave thee life & bid thee feed( ) 6. “ studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.”Spirit of Delight !The fresh earth in new leaves dressedAnd the stary night( ) 8. Can honor set to a leg? no, or an arm? No:...what is honor? A word, what is that word, honor?( ) 9. ...What though the field be lost?All is not lost; the unconquerable willAnd study of revenge, immortal hate,And courage never to submit or yield...( ) 10. What man art thou, quoth he,That lookest as thou wouldst find a hare;For ever on the ground I see thee stare.IV. For items 1 to 14 , write down the name of the book from which the character(s) is taken; while for 15 to 20, give the name of the writer. (20%)1. Mr. Gamfield ，2. Elizabeth Bennet，3.Dalloway4.Mr. Rochester5.Heathcliff & Catherine6. Angel Clare7. Paul8. Amelia Sedley9. Stephen Dedalus 10. Juan 11. Bassanio, Antonio 12. Friday13. Lilliputians14. Sophia 15. The Return of the Native 16. Ullysses 17. The Portrait of a Lady 18. Prometheus Unbound 19. Waste Land 20. Women in LoveV. Explain the following terms briefly and mention some representative authors or literary works for each of them.（30%）1.Critical Realism2. Romanticism3.Realism in the 20th century English literature。