英国文学期末测试题 C I

英国文学期末测试题（C）

I.

Authors and their works (one point for each)

A. Try to give one of the works by the following writers 1. Thomas More _________________________ 2. Daniel Defoe _________________________ 3. John Milton _________________________ 4. Henry Fielding _________________________ 5. Percy Bysshe Shelley _________________________ 6. Charlotte Bronte _________________________ 7. G. Bernard Shaw _________________________ 8. Virginia Woolf _________________________ B. Please point out the author of the following works 9. The Canterbury Tales _________________________ 10. Macbeth _________________________ 11. The Pilgrim’s Progress _________________________ 12. Gulliver’s Travels _________________________ 13. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud _________________________ 14. Hard Times _________________________ 15. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists ___________________ ______

II. Multiple Choice（one point for each）

1. The only complete piece of epic in old English is ________. A. The Geste of Robin Hood B. Beowulf C. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight D. Mort d’Arthur

2. ________ is the main literary trend in the first period of the English Enlightenment. A. Realism B. Romanticism C. Neo-classicism D. Sentimentalism 3. Robert Burns wrote his poems chiefly in the ________ dialect. A. Irish B. London C. Dublin D. Scottish

4. The rise and growth of the ________ is the most prominent achievement of the 18th

century English literature. A. romantic poetry B. realistic novel C. neo-classical poetry D. sentimental novel

5. Most of Shakespeare’s best plays were written in the ________ period of his dramatic

career. A. first B. second C. third D. fourth

6. John Milton is a great poet in the period of English ________. A. feudalism B. Renaissance C. Bourgeois Revolution D. Enlightenment

7. ________ is regarded as“Father of English Prose”, who was the first to write essays in

the English language. A. Bede B. Alfred C. Francis Bacon D. Samuel Johnson

8. The well-known soliloquy by Hamlet“To be or not to be…”shows his ________. A. hatred for his uncle B. love for life C. resolution of revenge D. inner strife

9. The impact of ________ upon Bernard Shaw was important and far reaching, which

could find evident expression in many of his literary efforts. A. socialism B. capitalism C. Utopia D. Fabianism

10. “Don Juan”was written by Byron in ________. Don Juan, the hero in the poem, is a

（an）________ youth of noble birth. A. Italy; Spanish B. Span; Italian C. England; Italian D. Italy; English

III. Blank-filling （one point for each）

1. The story in“Hamlet”comes from an old ________________ legend.

2. Sir Thomas Wyatt first brought the sonnet to England from ________________.

3. “The Geste of Robin Hood”is the best known ________________ in the Middle

English period.

4. Paradise Lost is a long ________________ divided into 12 books.

5. Robert Browning’s principal achievement lies in his introducing to English poetry

________________.

6. The most important poet in the Age of Elizabeth was ________________. 7. English literature began with the ________________ settlement in England. 8. ________________ was the representative poet of passive romanticism.

9. Richard Brinsley Sheridan was the most important English dramatist of the 18th

century. His masterpiece is ________________.

10. In his novel“A Tale of Two Cities”, Dickens takes the ________________ as the

background.

IV. Explain the following terms (five points for each)

1. Oxford Reformers 2. Romanticism 3. Enlightenment 4. Humanism

V. Talk about the following topics

1. Analyze the theme of “Oliver Twist”. (15 points)

2. Analyse the image of Maggie in “The Mill on the Floss”. (20 points)

VI. Analyze the following lines (10 points)

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,”—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

英国文学试题(C)参考答案及评分细则

I.

A.

1. Thomas More Utopia 2. Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe 3. John Milton Paradise Lost 4. Henry Fielding The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 5. Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound 6. Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre 7. G. Bernard Shaw Widowers’ Houses 8. Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse B.

9. The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer 10. Macbeth William Shakespeare 11. The Pilgrim’s Progress John Bunyan 12. Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift 13. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud William Wordsworth 14. Hard Times Charles Dickens 15. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell

每小题1分,共15分, 作家名字中姓拼写错的扣1分, 名拼写错的扣0.5分; 作品中拼写错单词酌情扣0.25-0.5分, 作家代表作之外的作品与代表作一样得全分.

II. （每小题1分,共10分）

1.B 2.C 3.D 4.B 5.B 6.C 7.C 8.D 9.D 10.A

III. 填空。（每小题1分,共10分）

1. Danish 2. Italy 3. popular ballad 4. epic 5. the dramatic monologue 6. Edmund Spenser 7. Anglo-Saxon 8. William Wordsworth 9. The School for Scandal 10. French Revolution IV.

1. Oxford reformers refers to a group of professors, graduates and students of Oxford

University, with Thomas More as their representative. (1分) They traveled to Italy or France to come into contact with the spirit of the Renaissance humanism and accepted the new philosophy and culture which were rising there, and they began to spread the sparkles of the Renaissance in England after they returned. (2分) They made Oxford University as a center of the classical studies. (1分) Their new world outlook prepared the way for the appearance of a new literature in the second half of the 16th century. (1分)

2. The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less negative attitude towards

Neo-classicism. (1分) It prevails from 1798 to 1830s. The Romanticist portrays people, scenes and events as they impress him or as he imagines them to be. (1分) A Romantic work has one or more of the following characteristics: an emphasis on feeling and imagination; a love of nature; a belief in individual and the common man; an interest in the past, the unusual, the unfamiliar, the bizarre or picturesque; a revolt against authority or tradition. (2分) It expresses the ideology and sentiment of the classes and strata who were dissatisfied with the development of capitalism. Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth and Keats are representatives of the movement. (1分)

3. Enlightenment is a progressive intellectual movement, (1分) which swept over

England and other lands in Western Europe in the 18th century. (1分) Enlightenment freed and reformed the thinking of man. (1.5分) Enlighteners strove to clear away the feudal remnants and replace them by bourgeois ideology. (1.5分)

4. Humanism refers to the main literary trend and the key-note of the Renaissance. (2

分)Humanists took interest in human life and human activities (2分) and gave expression to the new feeling of admiration for human beauty, human achievement. (1分) V.

1. In Oliver Twist, the author exposes the inhumanity of city life under capitalism. (3分) Oliver is beaten merely because he ventures to ask for an extra portion of gruel to alleviate his gnawing hunger. (3分) The novel also gives strikingly vivid description of the thieves’ den and the London underworld. (3分) Among the characters of the lower strata, Oliver is the only one who emerges happy and successful in the end. (3分) But while sympathizing with the miseries of the people, the author did not know what or who was responsible for such miseries and even cherished illusions about rich, idle but benevolent people. Charles Dickens couldn’t find the right way out of the misery. (3分)

2. Maggie is one of the central characters of the novel The Mill on the Floss. (1分) She is lively, bright, and full of aspirations and ideals, but the people around her cramp her independent mood and action. Even her brother Tom scoffs at her poetical nature. (2分) When Maggie falls in love with a deformed young man Philip and rejects Stephen Guest’s suit, Tom turns Maggie out of his house. (2分) But Maggie bears no grudge

against her brother, whom she has always loved. (2分) In a great flood, Maggie tries to save her brother’s life. They reconcile with each other but are both drowned. (2分) Maggie’s noble ideal and poetic image form a sharp contrast to the silliness and pettiness of the people around her. (4分) But she renounces her own love and humiliates herself in seeking forgiveness from her narrow-minded brother. (3分) The tragic doom of the courageous heroine virtually shows the irreconcilability of a gifted and noble-mined person with the bourgeois society. (4分) VI.

1) John Keats' Ode to a Grecian Urn (2分) 2) Keats' idea of beauty (3分,其中论证2分) 3) meaning of truth (2分)

4) Keats' longing for an ideal world and his dissatisfaction with the world he lived in (3分,其中论证2分)