英语专业八级人文知识(题集) — 英国文学部分

英语专业八级人文知识（题集）—英国文学部分

一古英语及中世纪文学（8—14 世纪）

1. Who is the "father of English poetry" and one of the greatest narrative poets of England?

a. William Shakespeare

b. Alfred the Great

c. Geoffrey Chaucer

d. Christopher Marlow

2. When he died, Chaucer was buried in ________ the Poet' s Corner.

a. Southwark

b. Westminster Abbey

c. Normandy

d. Canterbury

3. ________is not only a prose writer but also a king of Wessex.

a. Adam Bede

b. Alfred the Great

c. V enerable Bede

d. King Arthur

4. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named “________” based on Boccaccio' s poem

"Filostrato".

a. The Legend of Good Women

b. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

c. Beowulf

d. Troilus and Gressie

5. In his literary development, Chaucer was influenced by three literatures, which one is not true?

a. English literature

b. German literature

c. Italian literature

d. French literature

6. The epic, The Song of Beowulf, represents the spirit of________.

a. romanticists

b. monks

c. pagan

d. sentimentalists

7. Who is the first important religious poet in English literature?

a. Caedmon

b. Adam Bede

c. Cynewulf

d. Shakespeare

8. Who is the monster half-human who had mingled thirty warriors in The Song of Beowulf?

a. Heorot

b. Beowulf

c. Grendel

d. Hrothgar

9. King Alfred' s Anglo Saxon Chronicle was written in________form.

a. poetic

b. dramatic

c. prose

d. none of the above

10. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight focuses on________.

a. the imagination of the future world

b. immediate social issues

c. the real life as well as people' s feelings and desires

d. a remote world belongs to the Celtic Legend of King Arthur and his knights

11. Geoffi'ey Chaucer develops his characterization to a higher artistic level by presenting

characters with both typical qualities and________dispositions.

a. individual

b. collective

c. social

d. natural

12. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production

of________.

a. Piers Plowman

b. Sir Gawain and the Green knight

e. Confession Amantis d. The Canterbury Tales

13. The period of________literature extends from about 450 to 1066, the year of the Norman

conquest of England.

a. the Old English

b. the Middle English

c. the Modern English

d. Queen Victoria

14. Romance, which uses narrative verse or prose to sing________adventures or other heroic

deeds is a popular literary form in the medieval period.

a. knightly

b. christian e. Greek d. primitive

15. Geoffrey Chaucer introduced from France the rhymed stanzas of various type to English

poetry to replace the old English________verse.

a. rhymed

b. alliterative

c. romantic

d. visionary

16. The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic

picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely________.

a. Geoffrey Chaucer' s The Canterbury Tables

b. William Langland' s Piers Plowman

c. John Gower' s Confession Amantis

d. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

17. In the early part of the medieval period in English literature, i. e. from 1006 up to the mid-14th

century, there was not much to say about literature in English, for it was almost a ________period in literay creation.

a. flourishing

b. barren

c. historical

d. romantic

18. Generally speaking, the Old English poetry that has survived can be divided into two groups:

the religious group and the________one.

a. secular

b. lyrical

c. political

d. romantic

19. Thematically the poem Beowulf presents a vivid picture of how the primitive people wage

heroic struggles against the hostile forces of the________world under a wise and mighty_______.

a. spiritual / hero

b. natural / leader

c. spiritual / gold

d. natural / monster

20. Beowulf, a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded today as the national________

of the Anglo-Saxons.

a. epic h. novel c. play d. song

21. In the stories told in Beowulf, Beowulf (the hero) is shown not only as a glorious hero but also

as a ________of the people.

a. protector

b. son

c. father

d. servant

22. The hero and setting of Beowulf have nothing to do with________, for the story took place in

Scandinavia.

a. England

b. Denmark

c. Norway

d. Sweden

23. With the Norman conquest starts the medieval period in English literature, which covers

about________centuries.

a. four

b. three

c. five

d. two

24. It can be said that though essentially still a medieval writer, Geoffrey Chaucer bore marks of

humanism and anticipated a new________to come.

a. man

b. theory

c. doctrine

d. era

二文艺复兴时期（14—17世纪）

1. The English Renaissance period was an age of________.

a. novel and poetry

b. poetry and drama

c. drama and novel

d. romance and poetry

2. Which of the following is not among Shakespeare' s four great tragedies?

a. King Lear

b. Macbeth

c. Hamlet

d. Romeo and Juliet

3. What flourished in Elizabethan age more than any other form of literature?

a. Drama

b. Novel

c. Poetrv

d. Essay

4. Paradise Lost is written by________.

a. William Blake

b. William Shakespeare

c. Robert Burns

d. John Milton

5. During the twenty-two years of his literary work, Shakespeare produced many works, which of the following is not true?

a. 37 plays

b. 2 narrative poems

c. 154 sonnets

d. 1 novel

6. In the________Period, William Shakespeare is the ueatest writer of England.

a. Elizabethan

b. Medieval

c. V ictorian

d. Dark

7. " Shall I compare thee to a summer' s day" is one of________' s best known sonnets.

a. John Milton

b. John Donne

c. Edmund Spenser

d. William Shakespeare

8. The poem Paradise Lost consists of ________books.

a. 12

b. 14

c. 13

d. 15

9. Milton wrote his masterpiece________during his blindness.

a. Lycidas

b. Paradise Lost

c. Samson Agonistes

d. Paradise Regained

10. Which of the following plays written by Shakespeare is history play?

a. King Lear

b. Henry IV

c The Merry Wives of Windsor d. Juliet Caesar

11. Which of the following does not belong to Shakespeare' s great comedies?

a. The Tempest

b. As You Like It

c. The Merchant of Venice

d. Twelfth Night

12. The Flea was written by________.

a. Philip Sidney

b. William Shakespeare

c. Thomas More

d. John Donne

13. ________is the first important English essayist and the founder of modem science in England.

a. Francis Bacon

b. Philip Sidney

c. Edmund Spenser

d. William Carxton

14. In the 16th century, Thomas More's work________became immediately popular after its

publication.

a. The Faerie Queen

b. A Pleasant Satire of the Throe Estates

c. Utopia

d. Paradise Lost

15. Which is Christopher Marlowe's first famous play?

a. EdwardⅡ

b. The Jew of Malta

c. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

d. Tamburlaine

16. The literary form of The Faerie Queen is________.

a. narrative poem

b. ironic poem

c. allegorical poem

d. lyric poem

17. the first official version of Bible known as the Great Bible, was revised in________.

a. 16th century

b. 17th century

c. 18th century

d. 19th century

18. Most of the ballads of the 15th century focused on the legend about________as a heroic

figure.

a. Hamlet

b. Robin Hood

c. Gawain

d. Green Nights

19. The nine-line verse stanza was originated from________.

a. William Shakespeare

b. Thomas More

c. Philip Sidney

d. Edmund Spenser

20. Which of the following is NOT the work of Sir Philip Sidney?

a. Defense of Poetry

b. Astrophet and Stella

c. Samson Agonistes

d. Arcadia

21. The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, such as the

rediscovery of ancient________and________culture, the new discoveries in geography and astrology, the religious reformation and the economic expansion.

a. Chinese / Indian

b. Hebrew / Egyptian c Roman / Greek d. Britain / American

22. William Shakespeare' s history plays are mainly written under the________that national unity

under a ighty and just sovereign is a________.

a. fact / possibility

b. story / probability

c. principle / necessity

d. reality / truth

23. ________is the essence of the Renaissance.

a. Poetry

b. Drama

c. Humanism

d. Reason

24. Generally the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries. It

first started in Italy, with the flowering of painting, sculpture and literature. From________ the movement went to embrace the rest of Europe.

a. Germany

b. Greek

c. Britain

d. Italy

25. Milton' s Paradise Lost took its material from________.

a. the Bible

b. Greek myth

c. Roman myth

d. French romance

26. The Renaissance was________in reaching England not only because of England' s separation

from the Continent but also because of its domestic unrest.

a. quick

b. slow c speedy d. deep

27. 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.

28. " 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

29. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are________, William Shakespeare

and Ben Johnson.

a. Christopher Marlowe

b. John Marlowe

c. John Milton

d. Edmund Spenser

30. ________'s Essays is the first example of that genre in English literature, which has been

recognized as an important landmark in the development of English prose.

a. John Donne

b. John Milton

c. Francis Bacon

d. Edmund Spenser

31. According to Edmund Spenser' s own explanation, his The Faerie Queen is a “________”,

but it is also an allegory.

a. imaginary poem

b. historical poem

c. romantic poem

d. poetic drama

32. In his The Advancement of Learning, ________divided knowledge into two kinds: the one

obtained from Divine Revelation, and the other from the workings of human mind.

a. Chaucer

b. Francis Bacon

c. Edmund Spenser

d. John Milton

33. ________'s literary achievements can be divided into three groups, the early poetic works, the

middle prose pamphlets and the last great poems.

a. William Shakespeare

b. Christopher Marlowe

c. John Donne

d. John Milton

34. The English Renaissance was perhaps England' s ________Age, especially in literature.

a. Golden

b. Fruitful

c. V olcanic

d. Dark

35. In the early stage of the English Renaissance, poetry and________were the most outstanding

literary forms and they were carried on especially by William Shakespeare and Ben Johnson.

a. fiction

b. dramatic fiction

c. poetic drama

d. novel

36. In Canto I, Book I of The Faerie Queen the Redcross knight symbolizes the church of England,

and he is the protector of the Virgin Una who stands for________or the true religion.

a. love

b. friendship

c. truth

d. honest

37. Paradise Regained shows how mankind, in the person of ________, withstands the tempter

and is established once more in the divine favor.

a. God

b. Zeus

c. Christ

d. Santa Claus

38. Francis Bacon's essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and________.

a. complicity

b. complexity

c. powerfulness

d. mildness

39. In Samson Agonistes, Milton again borrows his story from the________. But this time he turns

to a more vital and personal theme.

a. history

b. religion

c. legend

d. Bible

40. ________was known as "the poets' s poet".

a. William Shakespeare

b. Edmund Spenser

c. John Donne

d. John Milton

三新古典主义时期（17—18世纪）

1. The neoclassical period in English literature refers to the one between the return of the Stuarts to the English throne in 1660 and the full assertion of ________which came with the publication of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798.

a. realism

b. humanism c romanticism d. neoclassicism

2. As a representative of the Enlightenment, ________was one of the first to introduce rationalism

to England.

a. Swift

b. Defoe c Milton d. Pope

3. Christian, Faithful and Pliable are the literary figures in________.

a. Daniel Defoe' s Moll Flanders

b. John Bunyan' s The Pilgrim' s Progress

c. Richard Brinsley Sheridan' s The School for Scandal

d. Jonathan Swift' s Gulliver' s Travels

4. Pope' s "An Essay on Criticism" is a didactic poem written in________.

a. blank verse

b. heroic couplets c free verse d. dramatic monologue

5. Sheridan' s plays, especially The Rivals and The School for Scandal, are generally regarded as

important links between the masterpieces of Shakespeare and those of________, and as true classics in English comedy.

a. Christopher Marlow

b. John Galsoworth

c Bernar

d Shaw d. James Joyce

6. ________, written by Alexander Pope, satirized the foolish, meaningless life of the lords and

ladies in the aristocratic bourgeois society of the eighteenth century England.

a. The Rape of the Lock

b. The Rape of Lucrece

c The School for Scandal d. Every Man in His Humor

7. The Pilgrim's Progress by________is often said to be concerned with the search for spiritual

salvation.

a. John Milton

b. John Bunyan c Daniel d. Thomas Gray

8. John Bunyan' s style was modeled after that of the English________.

a. history

b. religion c society d. Bible

9. Backbite, Sneerwell, and Lady Teazle are characters in the play The School for Scandal

by________.

a. Christopher Marlowe

b. Ben Johnson

c. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

d. George Bernard Shaw

10. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search

for________.

a. material wealth

b. spiritual salvation

c. universal truth

d. self-fulfillment

11. Robinson Crusoe, ________story, is universally considered as Daniel Defoe' s masterpiece.

a. a historical

b. a fictional

c. an imaginary

d. an adventure

12. Alexander Pope strongly advocated________, emphasizing that literary works should be

judged by rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.

a. Sentimentalism

b. Romanticism

c. Idealism

d. Neoclassicism

13. In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe traces the growth of________from a naive and artless youth into a

shrewd and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life.

a. Robinson

b. Gulliver

c. Tom Sawyer

d. Huckleberry Finn

14. Gulliver' s Travels contains________parts, each part dealing with one particular voyage during

his extraordinary adventures on some remote island.

a. two

b. three

c. four

d. five

15. Henry Fielding has been regarded ad "Father of the English________, " for his contribution

to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.

a. Novel h. Poetry c. Play d. Essay

16. As a lexicographer, Samuel Johnson distinguished himself as the author of the first English

________by an Englishman.

a. novel

b. drama e. poetry d. dictionary

17. Richard Brinsley Sheridan was the only important English________of the eighteenth century.

a. poet

b. novelist c essayist d. dramatist

18. "An Essays on Criticism" was written by________, which first established his reputation as

a________

a. Francis Bacon, critic

b. Francis Bacon, essayist

c. Alexander Pope, playwright

d. Alexander Pope, essayist

19. "Y ahoos" from the novel________written by Jonathan Swift are described to be very much

similar to human beings in outward appearance and their unworthy actions as well.

a. Gulliver' s Travels

b. The Adventures of Robison Crusoe

c. The Wuthering Heights

d. Sons and Lovers

20. ________' s masterpiece Tom Jones provides a vivid and truthful panoramic view of the life of

the English society in the 18th century.

a. Daniel Defoe

b. Jonathan Swift e. Henry Fielding d. Jane Austin

21. The ________was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th

century.

a. Renaissance

b. Enlightenment

c. Religious Reformation

d. Chartist Movement

22. The 18th century England is known as the Age of________in the history.

a. Romanticism

b. Classicism

c. Renaissance

d. Enlightenment

23. The________movemertt in the eighteenth century Europe was a furtherance of the

Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

a. Enlightenment

b. Renaissance

c. Sentimental

d. Transcendental

24. The Enlightenment movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classical works in

the field of literature. This tendency is known as________.

a. humanism

b. realism

c. symbolism

d. neoclassicism

25. (The) ________was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the

18th century.

a. Romanticism

b. Humanism

c. Enlightenment

d. Sentimentalism

26. The School for Scandal has been regarded as the best ________since Shakespeare.

a. comedy

b. tragedy

c. play

d. novel

27. 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 modem novel its structure and style.

a. tragic epic

b. comic epic

c. romance

d. lyric epic

四浪漫主义时期（18世纪中期—19世纪中期）

1. The two collections of poems written by William Blake, ________and________, hold the

similar subject-matter, but the tone, emphasis and conclusion differ.

a. Songs of Innocence / Songs of Experience

b. Poetical Sketches / Songs of Innocence

c. Poetical Sketches / Marriage of Heaven and Hell

d. Songs of Innocence / Songs of Experienced

2. John Keats' Ode to a Nightingale expresses the contrast between the happy world of________

loveliness and human world of agony.

a. fairy

b. natural

c. pastoral

d. optimistic

3. As a leading Romanticist, George Gordon Byron ' s chief contribution is his creation of the

"________hero", a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.

a. Byronic

b. Romantic

c. Oriented

d. Optimistic

4. The ________are generally regarded as John Keats' most important and mature works.

a. epics

b. lyrics

c. odes

d. poetry

5. On the whole, ________' s poetry is one of experiences. His heroes are more or less surrogates

of himself. Childe Harold' s Pilgrimage is such an example.

a. William Blake

b. William Wordsworth

c. George Gordon Byron

d. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

6. ________is Byron's masterpiece, a great comic epic of the early 19th century.

a. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

b. Cain

c. Don Juan

d. Song for the Luddites

7. Romanticism is a period of British literature roughly dated from________.

a. 1660 - 1798

b. 1798 - 1832

c. 1483 - 1546

d. 1836 - 1901

8. A number of poems from Songs of Innocence find a counterpart in Songs of Experience. Infant Joy is matched with Infant Sorrow, and the pure Lamb is paired with the flaming________.

a. The Chimney Sweeper

b. London

c. Sheep

d. Tyger

9. The unifying principle in________written by George Gordon Bryon is the basic ironic theme of

appearance and reality.

a. Child Harold' s Pilgrimage

b. Cain

c. Don Juan

d. Hours of Idleness

10. Jane Austen' s main literary concern is about human beings in their________relationships.

Because of this, her novels have a universal significance.

a. personal

b. natural

c. satisfied

d. hostile

11. Returning to England from Germany in 1799, William Wordsworth and his sister settled at

Dove Cottage in Grasmere, Westmoreland. The poet________as well as________lived nearby, and the three became known as the "lake poets".

a. Samuel Taylor Coleridge / George Gordon Byron

b. Robert Southey / Samuel Taylor Coleridge

c. John Keats / Robert Southey

d. George Gordon Byron / Percy Bysshe Shelley

12. Percy Bysshe Shelley is one of the leading________poets, an intense and original 1yrical poet

in the English language.

a. realistic

b. symbolic e. romantic d. imagist

13. In his________ , Shelley eulogized the powerful west wind and expressed his eagerness to

enjoy the boundless freedom from the reality.

a. Promethus Unbound

b. Ode to the West Wind

c. Adonais

d. In Defence of Poetry

14. The novel Pride and Prejudice mainly deals with the five Bennet sisters and their search for

suitable husbands, centering on the love story between________and________.

a. Jane / Bingley

b. Lydia / Wickham

c. Elizabeth

d. Jane / Rochester

15. Ode on a Grecian Urn shows the contrast between the ________of art and the________ of

human passion.

a. glory / ugliness

b. permanence / transience

c. transience / sordidness

d. glory / permanence

16. The English Romantic period produced two major novelists. They are________.

a. Lamb and Hazlitt .

b. Byron and Shelley

c. Scott and Austen

d. Keats and Coleridge

17. As a novelist Jane Austen writes within a very narrow sphere. The subject matter, the

character range, the social setting, and plots are all restricted to the provincial life of the

late________

a. 18th

b. 19th e. 17th d. 20th

18. Among the________group of Samuel Taylor Coleridge' s Poems, Frost at Midnight is the

most important.

a. demonic

b. conversational

c. pastoral

d. optimistic

19. It is said that the poem________written by S. T. Coleridge was composed in a dream after

the poet took the opium. But when he was writing the lines down, a stranger interrupted him and only 54 lines survived.

a. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

b. Frost at Midnight

c. Kubla Khan

d. Don Juan

20. ________puts into Don Juan his rich knowledge of the world and the wisdom gained from

experience. It presents brilliant pictures of life in its various stages of love, joy, suffering, hatred and fear.

a. Percy Bysshe Shelley

b. William Wordsworth

c. george Gordon Byron

d. John Keats

21. "Poetry is Spontaneous" was put forward by________.

a. Percy Bysshe Shelley

b. William Blake

c. William Wordsworth

d. Charles Lamb

22. In the mid-18th century, a new literary movement called________came to Europe and then to

England.

a. romanticism

b. classicism

c. realism

d. restoration

23. The famous poem "'A Red Red Rose" was written by________.

a. William Wordsworth

b. George Gordon Byron

c. Robert Burns

d. John Keats

24. Whose infomal essays observed life with humor, and often in a gloomy tone?

a. Joseph Addison

b. Charles Lamb

c. Lord Chesterfield

d. Thomas Hardy

25. The English poets________, William Wordsworth, and Robert Southey, were known as

"Lake Poets'" because they lived in the Lake District Northwestern England at the beginning of the 19th century.

a. George Gordon Byron

b. John Keats

e. Percy Bysshe Shelley d. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

五维多利亚时期（19世纪中期—20世纪早期）

1. The novel Jane Eyre mainly tells a story about the love affair Jane Eyre and Mr. ________。

a. Rochester

b. Bumble

c. Linton

d. Hindley

2. Charlotte' s works are famous for the depiction of the life of the middle-class working women,

particularly________.

a. clerks

b. governesses

c. baby-sisters

d. managers

3. Chronologically the Victorian period roughly coincides with the reign of________who ruled

over England from 1836 to 1901.

a. Queen V ictoria

b. Queen Elizabeth I

c. King Henry Ⅷ

d. King Edward VI

4. ________represents those middle-class working women who are struggling for recognition of

their basic rights and equality as a human being.

a. Pride and Prejudice

b. Jane Eyre

c. Wuthering Heights

d. Oliver Twist

5, On the whole, Browning' s style is________that of any other V ictorian poets.

a. different from

b. same as

c. good as

d. strange as

6. Among the famous novelists of the V ictorian Period were the critical realism like________，

William Makepeace Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Mrs. Gaskell and Anthony Trollope, etc.

a. Thomas Hardy

b. Charles Dickens

c. Robert Browning

d. Jane Austen

7. ________novel are all Victorian in date. Most of them are set in Wessex, the fictional primitive

and crude rural region which is really the home place he both loves and hates.

a. Hardy' s

b. Bronte' s

c. Lawrence' s

d. Joyce' s

8. In general, Browning' s________are not meant to entertain the readers with the usual acoustic

and visual pleasures: they are supposed to keep them alert, thoughtful and enlightened.

a. novels

b. essays

c. plays

d. poems

9. Charlotte Bronte' s works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards

self-realization, about some lonely and neglected________with a fierce longing for love,

understanding and a full, happy life.

a. young man

b. young women e. children d. old people

10. In the V ictorian period, ________, that Wessex man, not only continued to expose and

criticize all sorts of social iniquities, but finally came to question and attack the Victorian

conventions and morals.

a. Charles Dickens

b. William Makepeace Thackeray

c. Thomas Hardy

d. Charlotte Bronte

11. The publication of________, Robert Browning' s masterpiece, in 1869, finally established

the poet' s position as one of the greatest English poets.

a. In Memorain

b. The Ring and the Book

c. Maud

d. Crossing the Bar

12. Charlotte Bronte' s fi~t novel The Professor was rejected by the publisher, but her second one,

________, won immediate success and today it remains one of the most popular novels.

a. Jane Eyre

b. Wuthering Heights

c. Pride and Prejudice

d. Agnes Grey

13. In the description of sun-rise in Parting at Morning, Robert Browning unconsciously

expresses his helplessness in having to face up his duty as a________.

a. man

b. lover

c. poet

d. novelist

14. Emily Bronte is, first of all, a poet. But she is better known today as the author of that most

fascinating novel________.

a. Jane Eyre

b. Pride and Prejudice

c. Wuthering Heights

d. Agnes Grey

15. The typical feature of Robert Browning' s poetry is the________.

a. bitter satire

b. larger-than-life caricature

c. Latinized diction

d. dramatic monologue

16. Thomas Hardy' s novels are all V ictorian in date. Most of them are set in________, the

fictional primitive and crude rural regions which is really the home place he both loves and hates.

a. Sussex

b. Wessex

c. Casterbride

d. Oxford

17. Dickens' works are characterized by a mingling of________and pathos.

a. humor

b. satire

c. passion

d. metaphor

18. In Hardy's Wessex novles, there is an apparent________touch in his description of the simple

though primitive rural life.

a. nostalgic

b. humorous

c. romantic

d. ironic

19. In Thomas Hardy' s novels, the outside nature, the natural environment or ________ herself, is shown as some mysterious supernatural force, very powerful but half-blind, impulsive and uncaring to the individual' s will, hope, passion or suffering.

a. Nature

b. Fate

c. Fortune

d. God

20. Tess of the D' urbervilles, one of Thomas Hardy' s best known novels, portrays man

as________

a. being hereditarily either good or bad

b. having no control over his own fate

c. being self-sufficient

d. still retaining his own faith in a world of confusion

21. All of the later works written by Charles Dickens, with the exception of________, present a

criticism of the more complicated and yet most fundamental social institutions and morals of the Victorian England.

a. Bleak House

b. A Tale of Two Cities

c. Little Dorrit

d. Oliver Twist

22. ________is a master story-teller. With his first sentence, he engages the reader' s attention

and holds it to the end.

a. Charles Dickens

b. Emily Bronte

c. Thomas Hardy

d. George Eliot

23. The success of the novel________is due to its introduction to the English novel the first

governess heroine.

a. Wuthering Heights

b. Pride and Prejudice

c. Jane Eyre

d. Sister Carrie

24. Charles Dicken' s works are characterized by a mingling of________. He seems to believe

that life is itself a mixture of joy and grief.

a. love and hate

b. friendship and loneliness

c. humor and pathos

d. satire and criticism

25. Charles Dickens' best-depicted characters are those innocent, virtuous, persecuted, helpless

________characters such as Oliver Twist, Little Nell, David Copperfield and Little Dorrit.

a. girl

b. boy

c. woman

d. child

26. The story of Wuthering Heights is told mainly by Nelly, ________' s old nurse, to Mr.

Lockwood, a temporary tenant at Grange. The latter gives an account of what he sees at

Wuthering Heights.

a. Heathcliff

b. Catherine

c. Hindley

d. Jane Eyre

27. A typical feature of the English Victorian literature is that writers became social and moral

________, exposing all kinds of social evils.

a. revolutionaries

b. idealists

c. critics

d. defenders

28. The French revolution is the background of________.

a. Hard Times

b. Tales of Two Cities

c. Great Expectation

d. David Copperfield

29. Charles Dickens is a representative________of English critical realism.

a. novelist

b. dramatist

c. poet

d. essayist

六现代主义时期（20世纪初—二战后）

1. The Waste Land is a poem concerned with the spiritual________of a modem civilization in

human life which has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.

a. breakup

b. conform

c. happiness

d. disappointment

2. Generally speaking, ________is the best of T. S. Eliot' s plays in the sense that it contains the best poetry and the most coherent drama.

a. Murder in the Cathedral

b. The Cocktail Party

c. Hamlet

d. The Family Reunion

3. "________", T. S. Eliot' s most important single poem, has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry.

a. The Waste Land

b. Ask Wednesday

c. Four Quartets

d. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

4. "Down by the Salley Gardens", a short poem by W. B. Y eats, is a reconstruction of an old

________the poet heard from an old peasant woman.

a. story

b. song

c. fairy tale

d. drama

5. T. S. Eliot was born in________in 1888. But in 1927, he became a British subject.

a. America

b. Britain

c. France

d. Italy

6. As a young man in the last decades of the 19th century, W. B. Y eats began his poetic career in

the ________tradition.

a. romantic

b. realistic

c. modernist

d. classic

7. In his short lyric "The Lake Isle of Innisfreee", W. B. Y eats presents to us a picture of an ideal “________” where he could live calmly as a hermit and enjoy the beauty of nature.

a. country

b. home

c. fairyland

d. place

8. The outstanding realistic novelist in the early 20th century England were________, H. G. Wells and Arnold Bennett.

a. George Bernard Shaw

b. John Galsworthy

c. James Joyce

d.T. S. Eliot

9. In 1923, ________was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

a. William Butler Y eats

b.T. S. Eliot

c. D. H. Lawrence

d. James Joyce

10. "The Waste Land",________'s most important single poem, has been hailed as a landmark

and a model of the 20th century English poetry.

a. Fitzgerald

b. Faulkner

c. Hemingway

d. T' S. Eliot

11. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is________'s most striking early achievement.

a. T. S. Eliot

b. George Eliot

c. James Joyce

d.D. H. Lawrence

12. "The Waste Land", T. S. Eliot' s most important single poem, is 433 lines long and is divided

into________sections, which are not logically constructed or connected.

a. four

b. three

c. five

d. six

13. A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of________,

who never pays any attention to human feelings.

a. morality

b. justice

c. property

d. humor

14. James Joyce is one of the most prominent literary figures of the first half of the________

century.

a. 17th

b. 18th

c. 19th

d. 20th

15. The modem English novel, contrary to the medieval romance, gives a________

presentation of life of the common people.

a. romantic

b. realistic

c. prophetic

d. idealistic

16. ________is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist.

a. James loyce

b. John Galsworthy

c. D. H. Lawrence

d. George Bernard Shaw

17. Structurally and thematically, George Bernard Shaw follows the great tradition of________.

a. modernism

b. romanticism

c. realism

d. naturalism

18. John Galsworthy ~as most famous for________.

a. Heart of Darkness

b. Ulysses

c. The Forsyte Saga

d. A Passage to India

19. One of the great names in English poetry in the first four decades of the 20th century is

________, an Irishman whose "Sailing to Byzantium" is considered one of his masterpiece.

a. Thomas Hardy

b. Robert Browning

c. William Butler Y eats

d. Alfred Tennyson

20. ________was the greatest English playwright after Shakespeare whose works like Pygmalion,

Mrs. Warren' s Profession, Heartbreak House and Widower' s Houses won him everlasting reputation.

a. Somerset Maugham

b. Richard Sheridan

c. Oscar Wilde

d. George Bernard Shaw

21. The trilogy "A modem Comedy" was written by ________who was a noteworthy modem

novelist and received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1932.

a. D. H. Lawrence

b. Arnold Bennett

c. John Galsworthy

d. Somerset Maugham

22. The great modern novels The Rainbow and Women in Love were written by________, one of

the greatest figures in English literature who regarded sex and intuition as a key to undistort perception of reality and a way to respond to the inhumanity of the industrial culture.

a. Sigmund Freud; the 19th century ,

b. William Faullmer the 20th century

c. James Joyce; the 19th century

d. D. H. Lawrence; the 20th century

23. James Joyce' s novel________has been highly eulogized in the western literary world as one

of the greatest works of fiction in the 20th century.

a. Ulysses

b. Daisy Miller

c. Sister Carrie

d. The Mayor of Casterbridge

24. E. M. Forster was a famous________whose work________is his acknowledged masterpiece.

a. essayist ; Essay of Elia

b. poet ; Pygmalion

c. novelist ; A Passage to India

d. playwright ; The Land of Heart' s Desire

25. Which one is D. H. Lawrence' s autobiographical novel?

a. Sons and Lovers

b. Women in love

c. The Lost Girl

d. Lady Chatterley' s lover

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英语专八英美文学常识汇总

英语专八英美文学常识汇总

3专八人文知识:英国地理概况 the english channel: the channel is a narrow sea passage which separates england and france and connects the atlantic ocean and north sea. 英吉利海峡：英吉利海峡是一道狭长的海峡，分割英法两国，连接大西洋和北海。 the dee estuary: a small sea ( in irish sea) where the dee river enters. 迪河河口：是迪河流入的一个小海。 "the act of union of 1801": in 1801 the english parliament passed an act by which scotland, wales and the kingdom of england were constitutionally joined as the kingdom of great britain. 1801合并法：1801年英国议会通过法令，规定英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士根据宪法合并成为大不列颠王国。 gaelic: it is one of the celtic language, and is spoken in parts of the highlands. 盖尔语：是盖尔特语言的一种，在高地地区仍有人说这种语言。 the "backbone of england": it refers to the pennies, the board ridge of hills.

大学英语专业八级之人文知识： 英国地理3

大学英语专业八级之人文知识：英国地理3 1.1 2. What is the directive function? The “directive function” means that language may be used to get the hearer to do something. Most imperative sentences perform this function, e. g., “Tell me the result when you finish.” Other syntactic structures or sentences of other sorts can, according to J.Austin and J.Searle’s “indrect speech act theory”(see Hu Zhuanglin et al.,pp271-278) at least, serve the purpose of direction too, e.g., “If I were you, I would have blushed to the bottom of my ears!” 1.13.What is the informative function? Language serves an “informational function” when used to tell something, characterized by the use of declarative sentences. Informative statements are often labelled as true(truth) or false(falsehood). According to P.Grice’s “Cooperative Principle”(see Hu Zhuanglin et al., pp282-283), one ought not to violate the “Maxim of Quality”, when he is informing at all. 1.14.What is the interrogative function? When language is used to obtain information, it serves an “interrogative function”. This includes all questions that expect replies, statements, imperatives etc., according to the “indirect speech act theory”, may have this function as well, e.g., “I’d like to know you better.” This may bring forth a lot of personal information. Note that rhetorical questions make an exception, since they demand no answer, at least not the reader’s/listener’s answer. 1.15.What is the expressive function? The “expressive function”is the use of language to reveal something about the feelings or attitudes of the speaker. Subconscious emotional ejaculations are good examples, like “Good heavens!”“My God!” Sentences like “I’m sorry about the delay” can serve as good examples too, though in a subtle way. While language is used for the informative function to pass judgement on the truth or falsehood of statements, language used for the expressive function evaluates, appraises or asserts the speaker’s own attitudes. 1.16.What is the evocative function? The “evocative function” is the use of language to create certain feelings in the hearer. Its aim is , for example, to amuse, startle, antagonize, soothe, worry or please. Jokes(not practical jokes, though) are supposed to amuse or entertain the listener; advertising to urge customers to purchase certain commodities; propaganda to influence public opinion. Obviously, the expressive and the evocative functions often go together, i.e., you may express, for example, your personal feelings about a political issue but end up by evoking the same feeling in, or imposing it on, your listener. That’s also the case with the other way round. 1.17.What is the performative function? This means people speak to “do things” or perform actions. On certain occasions the utterance itself as an action is more important than what words or sounds constitute the uttered sentence. When asked if a third Yangtze bridge ought to be built in Wuhan, the mayor may say “OK”, which means more than speech, and more than

英语本科专业英美文学方向毕业论文选题参考

1.An Analysis of Hardy’ s Comparisons inTess of the d'Urbervilles 浅析哈代在《德伯家的苔丝》中对比手法的运用 2.The Use of Hemingway’ s Iceberg Theory in The Old Man and the Sea 海明威“冰山原理”在《老人与海》中的运用 3. An Analysis of Alec’ s Personalities Tessin of the d'Urbervilles 解读《德伯家的苔丝》中阿雷克的性格 4.An Interpretation of the Female Character Estella in Great Expectations 《远大前程》中女性形象艾丝黛拉解读 5.An Interpretation of the Female Character Miss Havisham in Great Expectations 《远大前程》中女性形象郝维辛小姐解读 6.The Use of Stream of Consciousness in Mrs. Dalloway 浅析《达洛维夫人》中的意识流运用 7.Fatalism in Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 哈代的宿命论在《德伯家的苔丝》中的体现 8.An Analysis of Thomas Hardy’ s Attitudes towards the Heroine in Tess of the d'Urbervilles 哈代对《德伯家的苔丝》中女主人公的态度解读 9. An Interpretation on the Themes of the Poems Written by Emily Dickenson 艾米莉·狄金森诗歌主题解读 10. A Comparative Study between the Heroines’ Personalities inJane Eyre and Wuthering Heights 《简·爱》与《呼啸山庄》女主人公性格对比研究 11.An Analysis on the Causes of Tess's Tragedy 苔丝悲剧人生的成因分析 12.An Interpretation of the 18th-cen tury English Female’ s Choice of Husbands from Jane Austen ’ s Novels 从简·奥斯丁作品解读十八世纪英国女性择偶观 14.A Comparative Study of Three Chinese Versions of“ Of Studies ” 《论学习》三种汉译本比较研究 15.Translation Strategies and Techniques of Long Sentences in TEM 8 英语专业八级中长句的翻译策略与技巧 16. A Survey on the Status of English and American Literary Classics’ Reading of English Majors 英语专业学生阅读英美文学名著状况调查 17. A Survey on the Current Teaching Situation of English and American Literatures in Universities of China 关于我国高校英美文学教学现状的调查报告 18.A Survey on the English Majors ’ Current Learning Situation of English and American Literatures in Universities of China 高校英语专业学生英美文学学习现状调查报告 19. A Survey on the Current Situation and Countermeasures of the Course of English and American Literatures’ Marginalizatio 英美文学课程“边缘化”现状调查与对策研究 20. A Survey on the English Majors’ Use of Electronic Dictionaries in Learning English and

专业八级人文知识

美国概况 练习题： 1 The traditional dividing line in America between “east” and “west” is_____. 2 The earliest part in America to be found and taken over by early settlers is ____. 3 The largest racial group in the whole population of U.S.A is____. 4 Before 2000, the largest minority group in the United States is____. 5 ____has the world’s oldest written constitution and political party. 6 The economic problem caused by the depression in 1929 was eventually solved by____. 7 In the United States, primary education requires____years. 8 Most college students in the United States are in____institutions. 9 The three main levels of courts of the federal judicial system in America are____________. 10 _____(which state )is not governed by the common law. 练习题答案及题解: 1. The Mississippi River, 密西西比河是美国传统的东方和西方的分界线。 2 .The Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain，最早被早期定居者发现和占领的地方是大西洋及其沿岸平原。 3 .Non-hispanics white，非西班牙裔的白人是美国最大的种族群体。 4 .African Americans，2000年以前非裔美国人是美国最大的少数民族群体。2000年以后，拉丁裔美国人的人数超过了非裔美国人的人数，成为美国第一大少数民族群体。 5 .America，美国拥有世界上最古老的宪法和政党。 6. World War II，第二次世界大战的爆发帮助美国走出了经济困境。 7. Six years，美国的小学要花费大约六年的时间。 8. Public，大部分美国大学生都在公立学校就读。 9 .美国的联邦法院系统包括：the United States District Courts; the United States Courts of Appeal ; the United States Supreme Court. 10 .Louisana，路易斯安娜州不受共同法的约束。 美国概况 练习题： 1 Of the fifty states of America, _____states now have the death penalty as punishment. 2 The four major regions of the United Sates are________________________________. 3 ______ region’s culture character was shaped largely by Puritan spirit. 4 ______is the largest state in terms of size and population in America. 5＂Hollywood＂is often used as a synonym for_____ 6 The most important and largest river in the United States of America is_____. 7 The north-eastern part of the United States ――New England enjoys a _____climate. 8 To the west of mainland American lies the _____ Ocean. 9 Detroit, a U.S. city bordering Lake Erie, is famous for its_____. 10 The natives of the continent of the America are the_____. 练习题答案及题解: 1．38, 美国现有38个州惩罚罪犯采用死刑。 2 ．Northeast, South, Midwest and West, 美国的主要四大部分不包括北部。 3．The New England Region, 美国的新英格兰地区，也就是东北部地区深受清教思想的影响。

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论《雾都孤儿》的幽默艺术 Tom Jones, a Dissipated but Kindhearted Man 放荡而又善良的汤姆琼斯 The Free Will and Rebellious Spirit in Paradise Lost 《失乐园》中的自由意志和反叛精神 On the Development of Shylock’s Character 论夏洛克的性格发展 Morality and Criticism in Tom Jones 评《汤姆?琼斯》中的道德观与批评观 On Imogen，the New Feminine Image in Cymbeline 论《辛白林》中伊慕琴的新女性形象 Burns’View on Love and Friendship 论彭斯的爱情友谊观 The Reflection of Art and Life in Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode on a Nightingale 《希腊古瓮颂》与《夜莺颂》中艺术与生活的对照 The Womanism in "The Color Purple" On the Differences between Chinese and Westerners in Non-language Communication 谈中国人和英美人非语言交际的差异 On the Contribution of the American Blacks during American Civil War 美国黑人在美国历史上的贡献 On American Black English 浅谈美国黑人英语 On the Differences of the Marriage Concept between Chinese and American 浅谈中美婚姻观念的差异 A Contrastive Analysis of Table Manners and Culture between China and Western Countries On the Ideological Content in Bacon’s Essays 论培根散文的思想性 Women's Movement in 1960s in American 美国六十年代的妇女运动 Analysis the negative effects of violent television and movie on children 浅析影视暴力对青少年儿童的负面影响 The Influence of Chinese Cultural Circumstances on English Learning 汉语环境对英语学习的影响 A Comprehension of Male Centrad Literature through A Doll’s House 黑色的坚毅——小说《飘》主人公的性格分析Black Determination——An Analysis of the Personalities of the Main Character in Gone with the Wind 从浪漫走向世俗的新型女性——《理智与情感》中玛丽安的性格分析 人性的扭曲信任的危机--重读《奥》剧杂感Random Thoughts on Othello

专业八级英国美国文学知识考点

英国文学 一、古英语时期的英国文学（499-1066） 1、贝奥武夫 2、阿尔弗雷德大帝：英国散文之父 二、中古英语时期的英国文学 1、allegory体非常盛行 2、Romance开始上升到一定的高度 3、高文爵士和绿衣骑士 4、Willian Langlaud 《农夫皮尔斯的幻象》 5、乔叟坎特伯雷故事集（英雄双韵体） 6、托马斯.马洛礼《亚瑟王之死》 三、文艺复兴时期的英国文学（伊丽莎白时代）（14-16世纪） 1、托马斯.莫尔《乌托邦》 2、Thomas Wyatt 和Henry Howard引入sonnet 3、Philips Sidney 《The defense of Poesie》

《阿卡迪亚》描述田园生活；现代长篇小说的先驱 4、斯宾塞《仙后》诗人中的诗人；斯宾塞体诗节； 5、莎士比亚： 长篇叙事诗：《维纳斯和阿多尼斯》、《露克丝受辱记》 四大悲剧：哈姆雷特、尔王、奥赛罗、麦克白 7、本.琼森风俗喜剧（comedy of manners）《人性互异》 8、约翰.多恩“玄学派”诗歌创始人 9、George Herbert 玄学派诗圣 10、弗朗西斯.培根现代科学和唯物主义哲学创始人之一《Essays》英国发展史上的里程碑 《学术的推进》和《新工具》 四、启蒙时期（18世纪） 1、约翰、弥尔顿：《失乐园》、《为英国人民争辩》 2、约翰、班扬：《天路历程》religious allegory 3、约翰、德莱顿：英国新古典主义的杰出代表、桂冠诗人；

《论戏剧诗》 4、亚历山大.蒲柏：英国新古典主义诗歌的重要代表；英雄双韵体的使用达到登峰造极的使用；《田园组诗》是其最早田园诗歌代表作 5、托马斯、格雷：感伤主义中墓园诗派的代表人物《墓园挽歌》 6、威廉、布莱克：天真之歌、经验之歌； 7、罗伯特、斯：格兰最杰出的农民诗人； 8、Richard Steel和Joseph Addison合作创办《The tatler》和《the spectator》 9、Samuel defoe英国现实主义小说的奠基人之一；《鲁滨逊漂流记》；《铲除非国教徒的捷径》，仪表达自己的不满； 10、Jonathan Swift 《一个小小的建议》；《格列佛游记》；《桶的故事》； 11、Samuel Richardson 英国现代小说的创始人；帕米拉；克拉丽莎；查尔斯.格蓝迪森爵士的历史； 12、Henry Fielding 英国现实主义小说理论的奠基人；《约瑟夫。安德鲁》；《汤姆.琼斯》，英国现实主义小说的最高成就； 13、劳伦斯、斯特恩：感伤主义小说的杰出代表，《项狄传》，第一部开创了意识流小说的先驱之作品；《感伤的旅行》

英语专八人文知识考试总结

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