英国文学期末考试复习指南考试题型及分值安排试卷共5部分part I 作家作品搭配10% （该部分全部来自课本讲过的作家及其代表作品）part II 判断正误10%part III单项选择30% （50%出自下面给出的参考题目）part IV作品辨析40% （给出8题中考4题，另有1题出自课堂讲过的作品）part V 简答10% （从下面给出的复习资料中考1题）Part I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement.Chapter 1 The Old and Medieval Period1.______, a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.A. The Wife's ComplaintB. BeowulfC. The Dream of the RoodD. The Seafarer2. It's Chaucer alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society in his masterpiece ______.A. The Canterbury TalesB. The Legend of Good WomenC. The Romaunt of the RoseD. Troilus and Criseyde3. The Elizabethan ______, in its totality, is the real mainstream of the English Renaissance.A. poetryB. novelC.humanismD. drama4. Dr. Faustus is a play based on the ______legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.A. GermanB. BritishC.FrenchD. American5. Christopher Marlowe's greatest achievement lies in the fact that he perfected ______and made it the principal medium of English drama.A. the heroic coupletB. the free verseC.the blank verseD. the Spenserian stanza6. ______, the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded as Shakespeare's most popular play on the stage.A. The Merchant of VeniceB. HamletC. King LearD. Julius Caesar7. ______ is based on a widespread legend in northern Europe.A. TamburlaineB. The Jew of MaltaC. HamletD. The Winter's Tale8. ______ Essays is the first example of that genre in English literature.A. John Milton'sB. Francis Bacon'sC. Montaigne'sD. Thomas Gray's9. ______is the leading figure of the metaphysical school.A. John MiltonB. John DonneC. John BunyanD. John Keats10.______ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. The Faerie QueeneChapter 2 The Neoclassical Period1. ______is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.A. Genesis AB. ExodusC. The Pilgrim's ProgressD. The Holy War2. ______has been regarded by some as "Father of the English novel" for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.A. John BunyanB. Henry FieldingC. Daniel DefoeD. Jonathan Swift3. Of all the 18th century novelists ______was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "comic epic in prose."A. Henry FieldingB. Daniel DefoeC. John BunyanD. Jonathan Swift4.______brings Henry Fielding the name of the "Prose Homer".A. The Pilgrim's ProgressB. Tom JonesC. Robinson CrusoeD. Colonel Jack5. The poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is regarded as the most representative work of______.A. the Metaphysical SchoolB. The Graveyard SchoolC. the Gothic SchoolD. the Romantic school6. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", ______ best and most representative work, has been ranked among the best of the 18th century English poetry.A. Alexander Pope'sB. Thomas Gray'sC. Samuel Johnson'sD. William Blake's7. In his novel, Robinson Crusoe, Defoe describes the hero of the______.A. aristocratic classB. enterprising landlordsC. rising bourgeoisieD. hard-working peopleChapter 3 The Romantic Period1. English Romanticism is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of a joint volume of poetry, Lyrical Ballads, written by Wordsworth and______.A. KeatsB. ColeridgeC. SoutheyD. Byron2. ______defines poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility."A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. John Keats3. For the Romantics, ______ is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter.A. loveB. manC. natureD. death4. The two major novelists of the English Romantic Period are ______and Walter Scott.A. Washington IrvingB. Jane AustenC. Herman MelvilleD. Charles Dickens5. The principal elements of ______ novel are violence, horror, and the supernatural, which strongly appeal to the reader's emotion.A. GothicB. RomanticC. SentimentalD. Realistic6. Byron’s masterpiece is ____.A. Don JuanB. ManfredC. CainD. Queen Mab8. Who is a novelist among the following writers? ____A. Jonathan SwiftB. Christopher MarloweC. Jane AustenD. Alfred TennysonChapter 4 The Victorian Period1. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens's works lies in his ______.A. social criticismB. optimismC. character-portrayalD. social setting2. ______is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life of the underworld in the 19th century London.A. Oliver TwistB. Great ExpectationsC. David CopperfieldD. Hard Times3. ______ is Robert Browning's best-known dramatic monologue.A. "My Last Duchess"B. "Meeting at Night"C. "Parting at Morning"D. "Pippa Passes"4. Most of Hardy's novels are set in______, the fictional primitive and crude region which is really the home place he both loves and hates.A. LondonB. YoknapatawphaC. WessexD. Paris5. ______works are known as "novels of characters and environment. "A. Charles Dickens'sB. Thomas Hardy'sC. Jane Austen'sD. George Eliot's6. ______could be classified to be both a naturalistic and a critical realistic writer.A. Charles DickensB. George EliotC. Thomas HardyD. T. S. Eliot7. ______ believes that man's fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of "nature", both inside and outside.A. Charles DickensB. Thomas HardyC. Bernard ShawD. T. S. Eliot8. During the Victorian period, the____ became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.A dramaB sonnetsC poetryD novel9. “My Last Duchess” is ____.A. a sonnetB. a short lyricC. an essayD. a dramatic monologue10. Choose the literary trend that belongs to Modernism.A expressionismB surrealismC DadaismD all of the above11. Which of the following is not a stream-of-consciousness novel? ____A. Lord JimB. UlyssesC. Mrs. DallowayD. The Wave12. ____was the most gifted dramatist of the Irish National Theater Movement.A. William Butler YeatsB. Lady GregoryC. J.M. SyngeD. George Bernard ShawPart II. Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Passage OneWhen the sweet showers of April fall and shootDown through the drought of March to pierce the root,Bathing every vein in liquid powerFrom which there springs the engendering of the flower,When also Zephyrus with his sweet breathExhales an air in every grove and heathUpon the tender shoots, and the young sunHis half-course in the sign of the Ram has runQuestions:1. Identify the author and the work.2. What’s the form of this passage? Explain it briefly.3. Paraphrase the first four lines in your own words.Passage TwoThe earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light. Rivers and seas were formed to float their ships; rainbows gave them promise of fair weather; winds blew for or against theirenterprises stars and planets circled in their orbits, to preserve inviolate a system of which they were the centre.Questions1. Identify the author and the work.2. What is the personality of the protagonist in this novel?3. What can this passage be classfied? Realism or romanticism?What are thecharacteristics of this literature form?Passage ThreeBut as to myself, having been wearied out for many years with offering vain, idle, visionary thoughts, and at length utterly despairing of success, I fortunately tell upon this proposal, which, as it is wholly new, so it hath something solid and real, of no expense and little trouble, full in our own power, and whereby we can incur no danger in disobliging England. For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, the flesh being of too tender a consistence to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.Questions:1. Identify the author and the work.2. What is the “commodity” mentioned in this passage?3. Wthat does “a country” refer to?4. What is the real purpose of the writing of this article?Passage FourA little black thing among the snowCryi ng “weep! Weep! In notes of woe!”“Where are thy father & mother? Say?They are both gone up to the church to pray.Questions:1. Identify the author and the work.2. What does “a little black thing” in the first line refer to?3. What is the theme of the poem?Passage FiveTess, like her compeers, soon discovered which of the cows had a preference for her style of manipulation, and her fingers having become delicate from the long domiciliary imprisonment to which she had subjected herself at intervals during the last two or three years, she would have been glad to meet the milcher’s views in this respect. Out of the whole ninety-five there were eight in particular--Dumpling, Fancy, Lofty, Mist, Old Pretty, Young Pretty, Tidy, and Loud--who, though the teats of one or two were as hard as carrots, gave down to her with a readiness that made her work on them a mere touch of the fingers. Knowing, however, the dairyman’s wish, she endeavored conscientiously to take the animals just as they came, expecting the very hard yielders, which she could not yet manage.Questions:1. This passage is taken from a novel entitled____.2. The name of the author is____.3. What's the theme of the novel?Passage SixFor oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffdiles.Questions1. Identify the author and the work.2. What does “inward eye” mean?3. What can this poem be classfied? Realism or romanticism? What charactersabout this literature form can you get from the poem?Passage SevenO, well for the fisherman’s boy,That he shouts with his sister at play!O, well for the sailor lad,That he sings in his boat on the bay!And the stately ships go onTo their haven under the hill;But O for the touch of a vanish’d hand,And the sound of a voice that is still!Questions1. Identify the author and the work.2. What kind of feeling is expressed in this poem?3. List at leat three rhetorical devices used in the poem.Passage Eight…Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt,Whene’ver I passed her; but who passed withoutMuch the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;Then all smiles stopped together. There she standsAs if alive.Questions1. Identify the author and the work.2. What’s the form of this poem? Explain this form briefly.3. What happened to the “She” in the poem?4. What kind of person is the speaker in the poem?Part III. Write a short essay on the following topic.1. Give a brief analysis of Satan's characterization in Paradise Lost.2. Comment on the characteristics of Romantic literature in English history.。