1. Ode to the west wind was written by the author of ___.
A I wandered lonely as a cloud
B Kubla Khan
C Childe Harolds Pilgrimage
D As Defense1 of Poetry
2. Which of the following poets does not belong to the school of romantic poets?
A William Wordsworth
B Percy Bysshe Shelley
C George Gordon Byron
D John Donne
3. Charles Dickens wrote all of the following except ___.
A Oliver Twist
B David Copperfield
C A Tale of Two Cities
D Heart of Darkness
4. A Red, Red Rose was written by ___.
A Alexandra Pop
B Robert Burns
C William Blake
D John Keats
5. Pip is the character of Charles Dickens novel ___.
A Oliver Twist
B David Copperfield
C A Tale of Two Cities
D Great Expectations
6. Sense and Sensibility is a ___ by ___.
A play Jane Austen
B novel Jane Austen
C play Emily Bronte
D novel Anne Bronte
7. In reading Shakespeare, you must have come across the line To be or not to be---that is the question by___.
A Iago in Othello
B Lear in King Lear
C Shylock in the Merchant of Venice
D Hamlet in Hamlet
8. Robert Brownings My last Duchess is composed in the form of a ___.
A dramatic monologue2
B extended metaphor3
C syllogistic4 argument
D dialogue
9. Thomas Hardy5 wrote novels of __.
A character and environment
B pure romance
C stream of consciousness
D psychoanalysis
10. Wessex novels refers to the novels written by ___.
A Charles Dickens
B D.H. Lawrence
C James Joyce
D Thomas Hardy
1 选D
I wandered lonely as a cloud 的作者是William Wordsworth; Kubla Khan 的作者是 Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Childe Harolds Pilgrimage 的作者是 George Gordon Byron.《西风颂》(Ode to the west wind)是 Percy Bysshe Shelley的代表作,他的文论著作有《诗辩》(A Defense of Poetry。
2 选D
William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, George Gordon Byron都是19世纪浪漫派诗人的代表人物, John Donne 则是17世纪玄学派诗人的代表。
3 选D
Charles Dickens是19世纪英国著名的现实主义小说家,代表作有Oliver Twist(《雾都孤儿》), David Copperfield(《大卫.科波菲尔》),A Tale of Two Cities(《双城记》),Great Expectations等。 Heart of Darkness(《黑暗心灵》)为Joseph Conrad 的小说。
4 选B
A Red, Red Rose 一朵红红的玫瑰是英国苏格兰著名的农民诗人Robert Burns依据苏格兰民谣创作的一首脍炙人口的爱情诗篇,彭斯在仔细研究苏格兰民谣的基础上创作了很多抒情诗,如《我心在高原》(My Hearts in the Highlands),《一朵红红的玫瑰》(A Red, Red Rose),《约翰.安德生,我的爱人》(John Anderson, My Jo),《昔日时光》(Auld Lang Sygn)。
5 选D
Charles Dickens是19世纪英国著名的现实主义小说家,代表作有Oliver Twist(《雾都孤儿》), David Copperfield(《大卫.科波菲尔》),A Tale of Two Cities(《双城记》),Great Expectations等。 Pip是Great Expectations中的主人公,该作品是一部成长小说,使用第一人称叙述,展示了主人公匹普(Pip)的成长过程。
6 选B
《理智与情感》(Sense and Sensibility),原名为《埃莉诺与玛丽安娜》(Elinor and Marriane),《曼斯菲尔德庄园》(Mansfield Park),《诺桑觉寺》,《爱玛》(Emma)等。
7 选D
To be or not to be---that is the question 选自《哈姆雷特》(Hamlet)第三幕第一场,是《哈姆雷特》中最脍炙人口的独白之一。
8 选A
受戏剧创作的影响,Robert Browning 擅长在诗中运用dramatic monologue,戏剧独白并不是布朗宁首创,但戏剧独白诗体却是他对英国诗歌的一大贡献。 My last Duchess 是布朗宁戏剧独白诗中非常有代表性的一首,诗歌语言口语化,夹叙夹议,通过公爵以个人的独白揭示其心理活动。
9 选A
哈代的小说是维多利亚时期的作品,其最具地方色彩的作品就是大家常说的性格特点与环境小说,其中包含:《还乡》(The Return of the Native), 《德伯家的苔丝》(Tess of the DUrbervilles),《无名的裘德》(Jude the Obscure),《卡斯特桥市长》(Mayor of the Casterbridge)等。
10 选D
哈代的小说中,大部分是以一个名为Wessex的乡村为场景的,事实上这个地方就是哈代既爱又恨的家乡。Wessex因此扬名天下,以致于大家常常把哈代以这一区域为场景,描述资本主义进步过程中农村区域渐受资本主义扩张影响的作品称为Wessex novels。