1. The sentence "shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare's_____.

A comedies

B tragedies

C sonnets

D histories

2. The three dialects spoken by____ _____and _____mixed into a single language called Anglo-Saxon, or old English.

A Anglos, Saxons jutes

B Anglos, Saxons, Irish

C Anglos, Saxons, Scottish

D Anglos, Saxons, welsh

3. contribution to English lies chiefly in the fact that he introduced from France the rhymed stanza of various types, especially the rhymed couplet of 5 accents in iambic meter---the heroic couplet to English poetry.

A William Shakespeare's

B Geoffrey Chaucer's

C Thomas more's

D Edmund Spenser's

4. Spenserian stanza is a form of poetry first employed by Edmund Spenser in his long poetry_____.

A the faerie queene

B the shepherd's calendar

C epithalamion

D amoretti

5. Francis bacon is a ____.

A poet

B playwright

C essayist

D novelist

6. We can perhaps describe the west wind in shelly's poem "ode to the west wind" with all the following terms except_____.

A tamed

B swift

C proud

D wild

7. The novel starts with "it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune ,must be in want of a wife." The novel is Jane Austen'____.

A Emma

B persuasion

C sense and sensibility

D pride and prejudice

8. The major concern of ____ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.

A Charles dickens's

B D.H .Lawrence's

C Thomas hardy's

D john Galsworthy's

9. "do you think, because I am poor ,obscure ,plain and little ,I am soulless and heartless? And if god had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me , as it is now for me to leave you." the above Is quoted from_______.

A pride and prejudice

B Jane Eyre

C Wuthering heights

D great expectations

10. Which of the following is not one of the Bronte sisters?

A charlotte Bronte

B Anne Bronte

C jenny Bronte

D Emily Bronte

答案

【答案】

1 C

这句诗来自莎士比亚十四行诗第十八首。

2 A

公元五世纪，Anglos, Saxons， jutes开始迁入不列颠，这个部落融合成统一的民族英格兰，他们的语言也发展成一种叫Anglo-Saxon, 或者 old English.

3 B

Geoffrey Chaucer被誉为英国诗歌之父，是第一位用中古英语写作的大诗人。他的诗行以五音部抑扬格为基本节奏，每两行押韵，被称为heroic couplet

4. A

Spenser的长诗仙后每节有九行，具有音乐性，被称为Spenserian stanza。

5. C

培根是文艺复兴最重要的散文家。

6. A

ode to the west wind是雪莱最著名的抒情诗歌，西风是破坏旧世界，创造新世界的革命力量。

7. D

pride and prejudice的名言。

8. B

D.H .Lawrence将视线投向两性，对西方文明进行反思，将社会批评与性心理探索结合在一起，抨击资本主义工业文明。

9. B

简爱中的片断。

10. C

除jenny Bronte其他为在英国文学史占独特地位的Bronte三姐妹