4. 2015 5 英国文学 B卷试卷
课程编号:99900145北京理工大学2014-2015 学年第二学期
英国文学期末试题B卷
班级学号姓名成绩
I. Multiple Choice（50 points in all, 1for each）
Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answer the question or completes the statement. Write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
1.The Renaissance refers to between 14 th ---mid--17 th century ,which was under the reign of
Queen and absolute monarchy in England reached its summit, and in which the real mainstream was drama.
A. Victoria
B. Elizabeth
C. Mary
D. James
2."So much the worse for me, that I am strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be
when you -oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?"
In the above passage quoted from Emily Bronte’s "Wuthering Heights", the word "soul"
apparently refers to________.
A. Heathcliff
B. Catherine
C. Catherine’s ghost
D. one’s sp iritual life
3.The essence of Renaissance, the most significant intellectual movement, was ______.
A. geographical exploration
B. religious reformation
C. publishing and translation
D. humanism
4.Shakespeare’s greatest tragedie s are the following works except _________ .
A. Hamlet
B. King Lear
C. Romeo and Juliet
D. Othello
5.Daniel Defoe describes____ as a typical English middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the
very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.
A. Tom Jones
B. Gulliver
C. Moll Flanders
D. Robinson Crusoe
6.__________ is not written by John Milton.
A. Samson Agonistes
B. Paradise lost
C. Paradise Regained D .Tamburlaine
7.Although _______ was essentially a medieval writer, he bore marks of humanism and
anticipated a new era of literature to come.
A. William Langland
B. John Gower
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. Edmund Spenser
8.The poetic view of ______ can be best understood from his remark about poetry, that is, "all
good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings."
A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B. John Keats
C. William Wordsworth
D. Percy Bysshe Shelly
9.The statement "It reveals the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal
underworld life" may well sum up the main theme of Dickens’s____ .
A. David Copperfield
B. Bleak House
C. Great Expectations
D. Oliver Twist
10.In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet finds out some weak points about herself in the
process of judging others. Which of the following is NOT a weak point of hers?
A. Blindness.
B. Partiality.
C. Snobbishness.
D. Prejudice.
11.In the conversation with his wife in Chapter One of Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Bennet uses a(n)
______ tone with sarcastic humor.
A. solemn
B. harsh
C. arrogant
D. teasing
12.Prometheus Unbound is Shelley’s greatest achievement. Prometheus, according to the _____
mythology, was chained by Zeus on Mo unt Caucasus and suffered the vulture’s feeding on his liver .
A. Greek
B. Roman
C. the Bible
D. German legend
13.Charles Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of his novel ______.
A. Great Expectations
B. A Tale of Two Cities
C. Bleak House
D. Oliver Twist
14.The statement “A demanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all her affection to
her sons” sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrence’s____.
A. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
B. Women in love
C. Sons and Lovers
D. The Plumed Serpent
15.Crusoe is the hero in The life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York,
Mariner (also known as Robinson Crusoe)by_____ .
A. Jonathan Swift
B. Daniel Defoe
C. George Eliot
D. D. H. Lawrence
16.Which of the following best describes the nature of Thomas Hardy’s later works?
A. Sentimentalism.
B. Tragic sense.
C. Surrealism.
D. Comic sense.
17.Which of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of 20th century literature?
A. Friedrich Nietzche’s assertions: "God is dead"
B. Arther Schopenharuer’s and Henry Bergson’s philosophical ideas of irrationality.
C. Oscar Wilde’s idea of "Art for Art’s Sake".
D. Freudian-Jungian psycho-analysis
18.In which of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput,” “Brobdingnag,”
“Houyhnhnm,” and “Yahoo”?
A.James J oyce’s Ulsses.
B. Charles Dickens’s Bleak House.
C. Jonathan Swift’s Gu lliver’s Travels.
D. D. H. Lawrence’s Women in love.
19.Which of the following best describes the speaker of T. S. Eliot’s " The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock"?
A. He is an man of a action.
B. He is a man of apathy.
C. He is a man of passion.
D. He is a man of inactivity
20.Which of the following qualifies does NOT feature Jane Austen's style?
A. Austen's main literary concern is about human beings in their personal relationships.
B. Everything in Austen's novel results in an observation, of a quiet, uneventful and contented
life of the English country.
C. Austen is a great realist and her characters are from all walks of life.
D. Austen's works show clearly her firm belief in the predominance of reason over passion.
21.Which of the following statements is NOT a typical feature of Charles Dickens?
A. The settings of his stories have an extraordinary vividness.
B. His novels achieve psychological depth.
C. His humor and wit seem inexhaustible.
D. His character portrayal is the most distinguishing feature.
22.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?
A. To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.
B. To put the stress on traditional values.
C. To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment.
D. To advocate a conscious break with the past.
23.The English Renaissance period was an age of_____.
A．poetry and drama B．drama and novel
C．novel and poetry D．romance and poetry
24.In Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from
Shylock, because____.
A．his money was all invested in the newly-emerging textile industry
B．his enterprise went bankrupt
C．Bassanio was able to pay his own debt
D．his ships had all been lost
25.Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?
A. The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.
B. The speaker satirizes human vanity.
C．The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.
D. The speaker meditates on man's salvation.
26.In the first part of the novel Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a(n)____ of the Bennet family.
A. high opinion
B. great admiration
C. low opinion
D. erroneous view
27."He was silent with conceit of his son. Mrs. Morel sniffed, as if it were nothing." (Sons and
Lovers by D. H. Lawrence) From the above quotation, we can see that Mrs. Morel's attitude to her husband is ___.
A．sincerely warm B．genuinely kind
C．seemingly angry D．merely contemptuous
28.A boy makes a quest of his idealized childish love through painful experience up to the point of
losing his innocence and coming to see the drabness and harshness of the adult world. The above sentence may well sum up the major theme of____.
A．Eliot's poem The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock
B．Bernard Shaw's play Mrs. Warren's Profession
C．Joyce's story Araby
D．Lawrence's story The Horse Dealer's Daughter
29.Shakespeare’s tragedies include all the following EXCEPT_____.
A. Hamlet and King Lear
B. Macbeth
C. Othello
D. The Merchant of Venice
30.Realism was a reaction against Romanticism and paved the way to ______.
A. Modernism B．Scientism
C. Post-Modernism D．Feminism
31.“What is his name?” “Bingley.” “Is he married or single?” “Oh! Single, my dear, to
be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!”
The above dialogue must be taken from______.
A. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
B. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
C. John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga
D. George Eliot’s Middlemarch
32.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” is an epigrammatic line by_____.
A. J. Keats
B. W. Blake
C. W. Wordsworth
D. P. B. Shelley
33.The poems such as“The Chimney Sweeper” are found in both Songs of Innocence and Songs of
Experience by______.
A. William Wordsworth
B. William Blake
C. John Keats
D. Lord Gordon Byron
34.The story starting with the marriage of Paul’s parents Walter Morel and Mrs. Morel must be
____.
A. Thomas Hardy’s Te ss of the D’Urbervilles
B. D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers
C. George Eliot’s Middlemarch
D. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
35.In subject matter, William Wordsworth' s poems have two major concerns. One is about nature.
The other is about ______
A. French Revolution
B. literary theory
C. death
D. common life of ordinary people
36.Through the character of Elizabeth, Jane Austen emphasizes the importance of _____for
women,
A. marriage
B. physical attractiveness
C. independence and self-confidence
D. submissive character
37.The major theme of Jane Austen's novels is love and marriage. Which of the following is not a
couple that appeared in Pride and Prejudice?
A. Catherine and Heathcliff
B. Lydia and Wickham
C. Jane and Binley
D. Charlotte and Collins
38.T.S. Eliot' s early poems are marked by ____ in comparison to his later ones.
A. a philosophical and emotional calm
B. a set of historical, cultural and religious themes
C. a dreamy quality, expressing melancholy and serf- indulgent feelings
D. a mood of disillusionment and the sufferings of modem people
39.Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from ________.
A. the Renaissance
B. the Old Testament
C. Greek Mythology
D. the New Testament
40.“ To be, or not to be —that is the question ” is a line taken from______________.
A. Hamlet
B. Othello
C. King Lear
D. The Merchant of Venice
41. The English Renaissance period was an age of _____.
A．poetry and drama B．drama and novel
C．novel and poetry D．romance and poetry
42. In the first part of the novel Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a(n) _____ of the Bennet family.
A．high opinion B．great admiration C．low opinion D．erroneous view 43. In Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from
Shylock, because ______.
A．his money was all invested in the newly-emerging textile industry
B．his enterprise went bankrupt
C．Bassanio was able to pay his own debt
D．his ships had all been lost
44. "He was silent with conceit of his son. Mrs. Morel sniffed, as if it were nothing." (Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence) From the above quotation, we can see that Mrs. Morel's attitude to her husband is ().
A．sincerely warm B．genuinely kind
C．seemingly angry D．merely contemptuous
45. The preface to the second edition of the _____ acts as a manifesto for the Romantic school in England.
A. Poetical Sketches
B.Lyrical Ballads
C. The Prelude
D. An Essay on Criticism
46.“A violet by mossy stone / Half hidden from the eye!---Fair as a star, when only one / is shining
in the sky.” These lines are taken from
A. “The Solitary Reaper”
B.“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
C.“She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways”
D.“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
47.“Come to me－come to me entirely now,” said he ; and added, in his deepest tone, speaking in my ear as his cheek was laid on mine, “Make my happiness－I will make yours.”The above passage presents a scene in_____ .
A. Emily Br onte’s Withering Heights
B. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
C. John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga
D.Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D′ Urbervilles
48.“Drive my dead thought over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth.”(Percy Bysshe Shelley,“Ode to the West Wind”)
What rhetorical device does the poet use in the quoted lines?
A. Synecdoche.
B.Metaphor.
C.Simile.
D. Onomatopoeia.
49. Which of the following best describes the nature o f Thomas Hardy’s later works?
A. Sentimentalism.
B.Tragic sense.
C. Surrealism.
D. Comic sense.
50.“When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table.”(T. s.
Eliot,“The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock”) What does the image in the quoted lines suggest?
A. Violence.
B. Horror.
C. Inactivity.
D. Indifference.
II．Reading Comprehension （20 points in all, 10 for each）
Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.
51. "Then naked &white, all their bags left behind
they rise upon clouds, and sport in the wind.
And the angle told Tom, if he'd be a good boy,
He'd have God for his father, and never want joy.
Questions:
(1) Identify the poem and its poet;
(2) What does the poem implies?
52.“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulles s and heartless? —You think wrong!… 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…—it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal—as we are!”Questions:
(1) Identify the author and the novel from which the quoted part is taken.
(2) What does the quoted part imply about the speaker?
III. Topic Discussion（30 points in all, 10 for each）
Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.
53. Please analyze the style of Charles Dickens:
54. Briefly discuss William Shakespeare's artistic achievements in characterization, plot
construction and language.
55. How do you know about Renaissance? Give a summary about English literature in the
period.
英国文学期末考试题目(英语专业必备)
.. ;.. 一．中古英语时期 Beowulf is the oldest poem in the English language, and the most important specimen (范例、典范)of Anglo-Saxon literature, and also the oldest surviving epic in the English language. The romance is a popular literary form in the medieval period（中世纪）. It uses verse or prose to sing knightly a dventures or other heroic deeds. Geoffrey Chaucer, one of the greatest English poets, whose masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales（《坎特伯雷故事集》）,was one of the most important influences on the development of English literature. Chaucer is considered as the father of English poetry and the founder of English realism. 二．文艺复兴Renaissance Renaissance r efers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries. It marks a transition(过渡) from the medieval to the modern world. It started in Italy with the flowering of painting, sculpture（雕塑）and literature, and then spread to the rest of Europe. Humanism is the essence of Renaissance -----Man is the measure of all things. This was England’s Golden Age in literature. Queen Elizabeth r eigned over the country in this period. The real mainstream of the English Renaissance i s the Elizabethan drama. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance E ngland are Christopher Marlowe and W illiam Shakespeare. The greatest of the pioneers of English drama was Christopher Marlowe. Francis Bacon was the best known essayist of this period. “Of Studies” is the most popular of Bacon’s 58 essays. Thomas More ——Utopia Edmund Spenser——The Faerie Queene 相关练习 1. Which is the oldest poem in the English language? A. Utopia B. Faerie Queene C. Beowulf D. Hamlet 2. _____ is the father of English poetry. A. Edmund Spenser B. William Shakespeare C. Francis Bacon D. Geoffrey Chaucer 3. ____ is not a playwright during the Renaissance period on England. A. William Shakespeare B. Geoffrey Chaucer C. Christopher Marlowe D. Ben Johnson 三．莎士比亚William Shakespeare “All t he world 's a stage, a nd all the men and women merely p layers.”——William Shakespeare William Shakespeare is considered the greatest playwright in the world and the finest poet who has written in the English language. Shakespeare understood people more than any other writers. He could create characters that have
英国文学期末考试题目(英语专业必备)
一．中古英语时期 ?Beowulf is the oldest poem in the English language, and the most important specimen (范例、典范)of Anglo-Saxon literature, and also the oldest surviving epic in the English language. ?The romance is a popular literary form in the medieval period（中世纪）. It uses verse or prose to sing knightly adventures or other heroic deeds. ?Geoffrey Chaucer, one of the greatest English poets, whose masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales（《坎特伯雷故事集》）,was one of the most important influences on the development of English literature. ?Chaucer is considered as the father of English poetry and the founder of English realism. 二．文艺复兴Renaissance ?Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries. It marks a transition(过渡) from the medieval to the modern world. ?It started in Italy with the flowering of painting, sculpture（雕塑）and literature, and then spread to the rest of Europe. ?Humanism is the essence of Renaissance -----Man is the measure of all things. ?This was England’s Golden Age in literature. Queen Elizabeth reigned over the country in this period. The real mainstream of the English Renaissance is the Elizabethan drama. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England ? ?“Of Studies” is the most popular of Bacon’s 58 essays. ?Thomas More ——Utopia ?Edmund Spenser——The Faerie Queene 相关练习 ? 1. Which is the oldest poem in the English language? ? A. Utopia B. Faerie Queene ? C. Beowulf D. Hamlet ? 2. _____ is the father of English poetry. ? A. Edmund Spenser B. William Shakespeare ? C. Francis Bacon D. Geoffrey Chaucer ? 3. ____ is not a playwright during the Renaissance period on England. ? A. William Shakespeare B. Geoffrey Chaucer ? C. Christopher Marlowe D. Ben Johnson 三．莎士比亚William Shakespeare ?“All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”——William Shakespeare ?William Shakespeare is considered the greatest playwright in the world and the finest poet who has written in the English language. Shakespeare understood people more than any other writers. He could create characters that have
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