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I. Multiple Choice: from a, b, c or d, choose the best one to complete the statements below. (150, 50 points) 1. ---- ----- is the first important religious poet in English literature.a. John Donne b. George Herbert c. Caedmon d. Milton2. The literature of the Anglo-Saxon period falls naturally into two divisions, ---------- and Christian.a. Pagan b. Roman c. French d. Danish3. “----------” is the oldest poem in the English language, and also the surviving epic in the English language.a. Beowulf b. Sir Gawain and Green Knight c. The Canterbury Tales d. Hamlet 4. Fielding has been regarded by some as the “----------” for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.a. Best Writer of English Novel b. Father of English Novelc. Father of English Poetry d. Father of English Essay5. All of the following three writers except ---------- are the most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England.a. Marlowe b. Shakespeare c. Bacon d. Thomas Kyd6. Byronic Hero was created by Lord Byron in one of his following works ---------.a. Don Juan b. Ode to the West wind c. She Walks in Beauty d. Daffodils 7. Which play is not Shakespeare’s tragedy? ----------a. Othello b. The Merchant of Venice c. Romeo and Juliet d. King Lear 8. The literary form of The Faerie Queen is ----------.a. lyric poem b. narrative poem c. epic poem d. elegy9. Which of the following cannot correctly describe the English Enlightenment Movement ----------?a. It flourished in France. b. It was a furtherance of the Renaissance.c. Its purpose was to enlighten the whole world. d. It emphasized “reason & order.”10. “Blindness, partiality, prejudice and absurdity” in the novel Pride and Prejudice are most likely to be the characteristics of ----------.a. Elizabeth b. Darcy c. Mrs. Bennet d. Lydia11. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is the ----------.a. French b. Latin c. romance d. science12. The story of “----------” is the culmination of the Arthurian metrical romances.a. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight b. Beowulfc. Piers the Plowman d. The Canterbury Tales13. Chaucer, the ‘father of English poetry’ and one of the greatest ---------- poets of England, was born in London about 1340, and was the first to be buried in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey.a. lyrical b. blank verse c. narrative d. ballad14. Which kind of metrical form was adopted by Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales? a. London dialect b. Heroic Couplet c. sonnet d. elegy15. Generally speaking, Chaucer’s works fall into three main groups corresponding roughly to the three periods of his adult life. Which period is wrong? a. The period of French influence (1359-1372)b. The period of Italian influence (1372-1386)c. The period of English influence (1386-1400)d. The period of American influence (1371-1382)16. --------- was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature. a. Thomas Wyatt b. William Shakespeare c. Philip Sidney d. Thomas Campion17. The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English drama. It was ---------- who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama.a. Edmund Spenser b. Thomas Lodge c. Christopher Marlowe d. Thomas More18. Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of Queen ----------.a. Mary b. Elizabeth c. Victoria d. William19. English Renaissance Period was an age of ----------.a. prose and novel b. poetry and drama c. essays and journals d. ballads and songs20. From the following, choose the one that is not Francis Bacon’s work. ----------a. The Advancement of Learning b. Essaysc. Maxims of the Law d. Othello21. English Renaissance Period was not an age of prose, but Thomas More wrote his famous prose work ----------.a. Of Studies b. Robinson Crusoe c. Gulliver’s Travels d. Utopia22. Which play is not Shakespeare’s comedy? ---------a. A Midsummer Night’s Dream b. The Merchant of Venicec. Romeo and Juliet d. As You Like It23. ----------,considered John Milton’s masterpiece, vividly tells the story of Satan’s rebellion against God and his tempting of Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge. a. Paradise Regained b. Bible c. The Pilgrim’s Progress d. ParadiseLost24. ---------- was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.a. The Renaissance b. The Enlightenmentc. The Religious Reformation d. The Chartist Movement25. In the last 20 years of the 18th century, England produces two great pre-romantic poets. They were ----------.a. Johnson and Blake b. Grey and Youngc. Pope and Goldsmith d. Blake and Burns26. The 18th-century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties, ----------, which were satirized by Swift in his Gulliver’s Travels.a. The Whigs and the Toriesb. The senate and the House of Representativesc. The upper House and lower Housed. The House of Lords and the House of Commons27. The critical realism in 19th-century England has been considered as the 3rd important literary achievement after the ancient Greek tragedy and the Renaissance drama. It has some basic characteristics as follows except: ----------a. Truthful reflection of the society with superb artistic styleb. Violent exposure and criticism with profound humanismc. Harmonious unity between the characters and situationd. The use of simple and common language28. The Romantic Age began with the publication of Lyrical Ballads, which was written by ----------.a. William Wordsworth b. Samuel Johnsonc. Samuel Taylor Coleridge d. Wordsworth and Coleridge29. Which poet did not belong to the Lakers? a. Coleridge b. Wordsworth c. Southey d. Keats30. Choose the ode that is not written by Keats. ----------a. Ode to the West Wind b. Ode to a Nightingalec. To Autumn d. Ode on a Grecian Urn31. Choose the work that was not written by Jane Austen. ----------a. Emma b. Sense and Sensibility c. Mansfield Park d. Jane Eyre32. English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of ----------. a. novel b. drama c. poetry d. prose33. Which of the following writers did not belong to English critical realists? a. Charles Dickens b. Charlotte Bronte c. Daniel Defoe d. W. M. Thackeray34. Dickens’s David Copperfield is often regarded as the semi-autobiography of the writer in which the early life of the hero is largely based on the author’s early life, while his --------- is set against the backdrop of the French Revolution.a. Oliver Twist b. Great Expectations c. Hard Times d. A Tale of Two Cities35. The sub-title of Vanity Fair is ‘---------’.a. A Pure Woman Faithfully Portrayed b. The Spirit and the Fleshc. A Novel Without a Hero d. Sense and Sensibility36. In the novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte has some basic subject matters to express as follows except ----------.a. pours a great deal of her own experienceb. criticizes the American bourgeois system of educationc. shows that true love is the foundation of marriaged. shows that women should have equal rights with men37. James Joyce was one of the foremost writers of --------- novels.a. critical realist b. Gothic c. stream of consciousness d. romantic historical 38. The first English essayist Francis Bacon composed, during his lifetime, numerous prose work, and --------- is unmistakably among the most eloquent and elegant essays produced in English Renaissance. a. Of Studies b. Ode to the West Wind c. The Tiger d. Don Juan39. Among the following 20th-century Irish writers, who is the spokesman for the school of “Art for Art’s Sake”? ----------a. Bernard Shaw b. Oscar Wilde c. James Joyce d. W. B. Yeats40. Wordsworth believes that ---------- can inspires poetry, and it is his nurse, guide, guardian and anchor of his thoughts.a. nature b. God c. love d. wealth41. Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques, writers in the Victorian Period shared one thing in common, that is, they were all concerned about ----------.a. the love story of the rich b. the future of their countryc. the fate of common people d. the love-making of the middle class people42. --------- lays the foundation for modern science with his insistence on scientific way of thinking and fresh observation rather than authority as a basis for obtaining knowledge.a. Charles Dickens b. Francis Bacon c. Thomas Hardy d. Thomas More43. The following comments on Daniel Defoe are true except ---------.a. Robinson Crusoe is his first novel.b. He is a member of the upper class.c. Robinson Crusoe is universally considered his masterpiece.d. He embarked on a new career—the writing of novel—when he was 60.44. The term “metaphysical poetry” is commonly used to name the work of the 17th-century writers who wrote under the influence of ----------.a. John Donne b. John Keats c. John Milton d. John Bunyan45. The cradle of the Renaissance is ----------.a. Germany b. England c. Italy d. France46. The middle of the 18th century was predominated by a newly rising literary form that is the modern English ----------, which gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people.a. prose b. novel c. tragicomedy d. drama47. Which of the following writings did Wordsworth not create? ------c--a. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud b. The Solitary Reaperc. The Chimney Sweeper d. The Prelude48. Which of the following writings is not the work by Dickens? ca. A Tale of Two Cities b. Hard Times c. Sons and Lovers d. Oliver Twist49. The Victorian Age was largely an age of ---------, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.a. poetry b. drama c. essay d. novel 50. The 23-year-old Austen composed three novels, and among them, First Impressions was early version of --00------.a. Pride & Prejudice b. Sense & Sensibility c. Emma d. Northanger AbbeyⅡ. Reading Comprehension: read the following selected parts carefully, and give the best answer to the relevant questions. (0.550, 25 points)Part 1 Shall I compare thee to a summers day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summers lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or natures changing course untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owst, Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growst, So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Questions:51. This is one of Shakespeare’s best known ----------.a. sonnets b. ballads c. songs52. It runs in iambic pentameter rhymed ----------.a. abba abba cdcd cd b. abab cdcd efef gg53. The 14 lines include three quatrains together with the last two lines as ---------- which completes the sense of the lines above.a. prelude b. couplet c. epigraph54. The theme of this poem is ----------.a. love b. friendship c. immortality of arts Part 2 I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high oer vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. Questions:55. This is the first two stanza of a poem that is written by --------.a. Byron b. Wordsworth c. Keats56. The title of the poem is ----------.a. To Autumn b. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud c. The Solitary Reaper57. The poem’s theme is about ----------.a. beauty of nature b. country life c. love58. The poet adopts one kind of figure of speech: ---------- to describe the flowers in the poem.a. personification b. alliteration c. conceit59. The rhyme scheme in each stanza is ----------.a. ababab b. ababcc c. abcdcd Part 3 IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.Questions:60. This passage is the opening of a novel entitled ----------.a. Sense and Sensibility b. Pride and Prejudice c. Jane Eyre61. The writer of the novel is the first famous woman novelist—---------.a. George Eliot b. Charlotte Bronte c. Jane Austen62. The story in this novel is based on the lovemaking of the young people in the ------- families in 18th-century England.a. upper-middle-class b. aristocratic c. royalPart 4 Thats my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Fr Pandolfs hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Will t please you sit and look at her? I said Fr Pandolf by design, for never read Strangers like you that pictured countenance, Questions:63. These lines are quoted from the poem entitled-------.a. Song b. My Last Duchess c. When We Two Parted64. It was composed by the outstanding poet -------. a. Robert Browning b. Lord Byron c. William Wordsworth65. In the famous piece, the form of ------- is skillfully employed. a. ballad b. dramatic monologue c. blank versePart 5 GO and catch a falling star,Get with child a mandrake root,Tell me where all past years are,Or who cleft the devils foot,Teach me to hear mermaids singing,Or to keep off envys stinging, And find What windServes to advance an honest mind. If thou best born to strange sights,Things invisible to see,Ride ten thousand days and nights,Till age snow white hairs on thee,Thou, when thou returnst, wilt tell me,All strange wonders that befell thee, And swear, No where Lives a woman true and fair. Questions:66. These are the first 2 stanzas of the poem written by ------- in 17th-century England.a. John Milton b. John Donne c. John Bunyan 67. The poet is the most outstanding figure of the poetic school of “-------” during this period.a. Graveyard Poets b. Metaphysical Poets c. Romantic poets68. He was appointed by King James I in 1621 as the dean of ------- and he held this post till his last day. a. Westminster Abbey b. St. Paul Cathedral c. Canterbury Cathedral69. Besides his unique love poetry, he is also famous for his religious -------.a. poetry b. sermons c. plays70. This group of poets prefers to use an elaborate and surprising figure of speech, -------, to express ideas in a sharp and harsh manner, by comparing two very dissimilar things.a. conceit b. similar c. alliterationPart 6"I tell you I must go!" I retorted, roused to something like passion. "Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton?--a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!--I have as much soul as you,--and full as much heart! 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. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh;--it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at Gods feet, equal,--as we are!" Questions:71. This passage is taken from the novel “-------”.a. Emma b. Wuthering Heights c. Jane Eyre72. The author of the work is -------.a. Jane Austen b. Emily Bronte c. Charlotte Bronte73. The speaker in the passage is -------.a. Cathy b. Lydia c. Jane 74. The character is passionately emphasizing the significance of ------- between men and women.a. marriage b. equality c. relationship75. The character is speaking to -------.a. Mr. Rochester b. Mr. Bingley c. Mr. BennetPart 7 `I have been hoping, longing, praying, to make you happy! I have thought what joy it will be to do it, what an unworthy wife I shall be if I do not! Thats what I have felt, Angel! `I know that. `I thought, Angel, that you loved me - me, my very self! If it is I you do love, O how can it be that you look and speak so? It frightens me! Having begun to love you, I love you for ever - in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself. I ask no more. Then how can you, O my own husband, stop loving me? `I repeat, the woman I have been loving is not you. `But who? `Another woman in your shape. Questions:76. This passage is taken from the novel “-------”.a. Sons and Lovers b. Tess of the D’Urbervilles c. Jane Eyre77. The author of the work is -------.a. William Thackeray b. Thomas Hardy c. Charles Dickens78. The female speaker in the passage is --------.a. Tess b. Elizabeth c. Jane 79. The novel reveals women’s dreadful life in ------- England.a. 19th-century b. 18th-century c.17th-centuryPart 8 Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with some one, up went her back like a cat’s; or she purred. Devonshire House, Bath House, the house with the china cockatoo, she had seen them all lit up once; and remembered Sylvia, Fred, Sally Seton—such hosts of people; and dancing all night; and the waggons plodding past to market; and driving home across the Park. She remembered once throwing a shilling into the Serpentine. But every one remembered; what she loved was this, here, now, in front of her; the fat lady in the cab. Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely; all this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely? Questions:80. This passage is taken from the novel “-------”.a. Sons and Lovers b. Mrs. Dalloway c. Dubliners81. The author of the work is -------.a. James Joyce b. D. H. Lawrence c. Virginia Woolf82. The writer is the representative figure of ------- novelists in 20th-century England.a. steam-of-consciousness b. critical realism c. aestheticism83. This passage reveals t。