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冲刺八级 英美文学试题集粹

PART ONE<br />
I. Multiple Choice<br />
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1. Romance, which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of <br />
adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.<br />
A. Christian<br />
B. Knightly<br />
C. Greek<br />
D. Primitive<br />
Answer: B<br />
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2. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of <br />
A. Piers Plowman<br />
B. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight<br />
C. Confessio Amantis<br />
D. The Canterbury Tales<br />
Answer: D<br />
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3. Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance Movement?<br />
A. The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.<br />
B. The new discoveries in geography and astrology.<br />
C. The Glorious revolution.<br />
D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.<br />
Answer: C<br />
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4. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18?<br />
A. The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.<br />
B. The speaker satirizes human vanity.<br />
C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.<br />
D. The speaker meditates on man’s salvation.<br />
Answer: C<br />
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5. "And we will sit upon the rocks, /Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, /By shallow rivers to whose falls/ Melodious birds sing madrigals." The above lines are probably taken from <br />
A. Spenser’s The Faerie Queene<br />
B. John Donne’s "The Sun Rising"<br />
C. Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 18"<br />
D. Marlowe’s "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"<br />
Answer: D<br />
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6. "Bassanio: Antonio, I am married to a wife<br />
Which is as dear to me as life itself;<br />
But life itself, my wife, and all the world,<br />
Are not with me esteem’d above thy life;<br />
I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all,<br />
Here to the devil, to deliver you.<br />
Portia: Your wife would give you little thanks for that,<br />
If she were by to hear you make the offer."<br />
The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare’s comedy The Merchant of Venice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate <br />
A. dramatic irony <br />
B. personification<br />
C. allegory<br />
D. symbolism<br />
Answer: A<br />
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7. The true subject of John Donne’s poem, "The Sun Rising," is to <br />
A. attack the sun as unruly servant<br />
B. give compliments to the mistress and her power of beauty<br />
C. criticize the sun’s intrusion into the lover’s private life<br />
D. lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie<br />
Answer: B<br />
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8. Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a " in prose," the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.<br />
A. tragic epic<br />
B. comic epic<br />
C. romance<br />
D. lyric epic<br />
Answer: B<br />
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9. The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s travels are <br />
A. horses that are endowed with reason<br />
B. pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualities<br />
C. giants that are superior in wisdom<br />
D. hairy, wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways<br />
Answer: D<br />
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10. Here are four lines from a literary work: "Others for language all their care express,/And value books, and women men, for dress." The work is <br />
A. Thomas Gray’s "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"<br />
B. John Milton’s Paradise Lost<br />
C. Alexander Pope’s Essay on Criticism<br />
D. Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream<br />
Answer: C

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