专八人文知识模拟试题
1. _____is a folk legend brought to England by Anglo-Saxons from their continental homes, it is a long poem of over 3000 lines and the national epic of the English people.
A Beowulf
B sir Gawain
C the Canterbury tale
D king Arthur and his knights
2. The father of English poetry, the author of Troilus and Criseyde is also the one of ____.
A Romeo and Juliet
B the faerie queen
C Tamburlainc
D the Canterbury tales
3. The group of Shakespeare plays known as “romance” or “reconciliation plays” is ______.
A Merchant of Venice, as you like it
B T he tempest, perils, the winter’s tale
C Romeo and Juliet, antonym and Cleopatra
4. Which of the following are regarded as Shakespeare’s four great tragedies?
A Romeo and Juliet, hamlet, Othello, King Lear
B R omeo and Juli et, hamlet, Othello, Macbeth
C H amlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
D R omeo and Juliet, Othello, Macbeth, Timon of Athens
5. Which of the following is not the work of Francis bacon?
A advancement of learning
B new instrument
C songs of innocence
D essays
6. At the beginning of 17th century appeared a school of poets called metaphysics by Samuel Johnson, ____is the founder of metaphysical poetry.
A Ben Johnson
B john Milton
C john Bunyan
D john Donne
7. Daniel Defoe is a famous____.
A poet
B novelist
C playwright
D essayist
8. “He has a servant called Friday.” “he” in the quoted sentence is a character in______.
A Henry fielding’s tom jones
B john Bunyan’the pilgrim’s progress
C Richa rd brinsley Sheridan’s the school for scandal
D Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
9. Guiiliver’ travel was written by____.
A Daniel Defoe
B Charles dickens
C Jonathan swift
D Joseph Addison
10. William Wordsworth is generally known as a ____poet.
A romantic
B realistic
C naturalistic
D neo-classic
答案详解:
1. A
Beowulf是Anglo-Saxon时代留下的重要的古英语文学作品,它被认为是英国的民族史诗。sir Gawain and the green knight,king Arthur and his knights of the round table是中古英语时期的浪漫传奇。the Canterbury tale是英国大诗人乔叟的一部诗体短篇小说集。
2. D
乔叟被誉为英国诗歌之父,Troilus and Criseyde是他的重要作品之一。
3. D
1608-1612被认为是莎翁的浪漫剧创作时期,包括四部浪漫剧和解剧the tempest, pericles, the winter’s tale,Cymbeline 。merchant of Venice, as you like it,twelfth night,the merry wives of Windsor为莎翁的喜剧,Romeo and Juliet, antonym and Cleopatra为悲剧。
4. C
莎翁最杰出的四大悲剧为hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth。
5. C
songs of innocence是英国18世纪末19世纪初浪漫主义诗人William Blake的著作。
6. D
john Donne是17世纪玄学派诗人的重要代表人物,Ben Johnson是莎翁同时代的剧作家,john Milton,john Bunyan虽都是17世纪著名作家,但作品风格与玄学派大相径庭。
7. B
Daniel Defoe创作的鲁宾逊漂流记为他赢得了英国小说之父的称号。
8. D
Daniel Defoe创作的鲁宾逊漂流记中的主人公Robinson Crusoe有个同伴和仆人叫Friday。9. C
Guiiliver’travel是Jonathan swift一部极具魅力的儿童故事,同时包含深刻的思想内容。10. A
William Wordsworth为英国浪漫派诗人
11. “Ode to the west wind” was written by the author o f ___.
A “I wandered lonely as a cloud”
B “Kubla Khan”
C “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”
D “As Defense of Poetry”
12. 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
13. Charles Dickens wrote all of the following except ___.
A Oliver Twist
B David Copperfield
C A Tale of Two Cities
D Heart of Darkness
14. “A Red, Red Rose” was written by ___.
A Alexandra Pop
B Robert Burns
C William Blake
D John Keats
15. Pip is the character of Charles Dickens’ novel ___.
A Oliver Twist
B David Copperfield
C A Tale of Two Cities
D Great Expectations
16. Sense and Sensibility is a ___ by ___.
A play…Jane Austen
B nove l…Jane Austen
C play…Emily Bronte
D novel…Anne Bronte
17. 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
18. Robert Browning’s “My last Duchess” is composed in the form of a(n) ___.
A dramatic monologue
B extended metaphor
C syllogistic argument
D dialogue
19. Thomas Hardy wrote novels of __.
A character and environment
B pure romance
C “stream of consciousness”
D psychoanalysis
20. “Wessex novels” refers to the novels written by ___.
A Charles Dickens
B D.H. Lawrence
C James Joyce
D Thomas Hardy
31. The sentence “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is th e beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s_____.
A comedies
B tragedies
C sonnets
D histories
32. The three dialects spoken by____ _____and _____mixed into a single language called Anglo-Saxon, or old English.
A Anglos, Saxons jutes
B Anglos, Saxons, Irish
C Anglos, Saxons, Scottish
D Anglos, Saxons, welsh
33. contribution to English lies chiefly in the fact that he introduced from France the rhymed stanza of various types, especially the rhymed couplet of 5 accents in iambic meter---the heroic couplet to English poetry.
A William Shakespeare’s
B Geoffrey Chaucer’s
C Thomas more’s
D Edmund Spenser’s
34. Spenserian stanza is a form of poetry first employed by Edmund Spenser in his long poetry_____.
A the faerie queene
B the she pherd’s calendar
C epithalamion
D amoretti
35. Francis bacon is a ____.
A poet
B playwright
C essayist
D novelist
36. We can perhaps describe the west wind in shelly’s poem “ode
to the west wind” with all the following terms except_____.
A tamed
B swift
C proud
D wild
37. The novel starts w ith “it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of
a good fortune ,must be in want of a wife.” The novel is Jane Austen’____.
A Emma
B persuasion
C sense and sensibility
D pride and prejudice
38. The major concern of ____ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.
A Charles dickens’s
B D.H .Lawrence’s
C Thomas hardy’s
D john Galsworthy’s
39. “do you think, because I am poor ,obscure ,plain and little ,I am soulless and heartless? 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 .” the above Is quoted from_______.
A pride and prejudice
B Jane Eyre
C Wuthering heights
D great expectations
40. Which of the following is not one of the Bronte sisters?
A charlotte Bronte
B Anne Bronte
C jenny Bronte
D Emily Bronte
11 选D
“I wandered lonely as a cloud”的作者是William Wordsworth; “Kubla Khan”的作者是Samuel Taylor Coleridge; “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”的作者是George Gordon Byron.《西风颂》(Ode to the west wind)是Percy Bysshe Shelley(雪莱)的代表作,他的文论著作有《诗辩》(A Defense
of Poetry。
12 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。
13 选D
Charles Dickens(查尔斯.狄更斯)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(《远大前程》)等。Heart of Darkness(《黑暗心灵》)为Joseph Conrad 的小说。
14 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(罗伯特.彭斯)根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大量抒情诗,如《我心在高原》(My H eart’s 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)。
15 选D
Charles Dickens(查尔斯.狄更斯)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(《远大前程》)等。Pip是Great Expectations(《远大前程》)中的主人公,该作品是一部成长小说,采用第一人称叙述,展现了主人公匹普(Pip)的成长过程。
16 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》(Northanger Abbey),《爱玛》(Emma)等。
17 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。
18 选A
受戏剧创作的影响,Robert Browning 善于在诗中运用dramatic monologue(“戏剧独白”),“戏剧独白”并非布朗宁首创,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”诗中很有代表性的一首,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。
19 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人们常说的“性格与环境小说”,其中包括:《还乡》(The Return of the Native), 《德伯家的苔丝》(Tess of the D’Urbervilles),《无名的裘德》(Jude the Obscure),《卡斯特桥市长》(Mayor of the Casterbridge)等。
20 选D
哈代的小说中,大多数是以一个名为Wessex(威塞克斯)的乡村为场景的,实际上这个地方就是哈代既爱又恨的家乡。Wessex因此扬名天下,以致于人们常常把哈代以这一地区为场景,描述资本主义发展过程中农村地区渐受资本主义扩张影响的作品称为“Wessex novels”(威塞克斯小说)。
31 C
这句诗来自莎士比亚十四行诗第十八首。
32 A
公元五世纪,Anglos, Saxons,jutes开始迁入
入不列颠,这个部落融合成统一的民族英格兰,他们的语言也发展成一种叫Anglo-Saxon, 或者old English.
33 B
Geoffrey Chaucer被誉为英国诗歌之父,是第一位用中古英语写作的大诗人。他的诗行以五音部抑扬格为基本节奏,每两行押韵,被称为heroic couplet
34. A
Spenser的长诗仙后每节有九行,具有音乐性,被称为Spenserian stanza。
35. C
培根是文艺复兴最重要的散文家。
36. A
ode to the west wind是雪莱最著名的抒情诗歌,西风是破坏旧世界,创造新世界的革命力量。
37. D
pride and prejudice的名言。
38. B
D.H .Lawrence将视线投向两性,对西方文明进行反思,将社会批评与性心理探索结合在一起,抨击资本主义工业文明。
39. B
简爱中的片断。
40. C
除jenny Bronte其他为在英国文学史占独特地位的Bronte三姐妹
21.The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ____
A Jack London
B Charles Dickens
C Samuel Coleridge
D Ernest Hemingway
22.In which novel can "Yahoo" be found?
A John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress
B Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queen
C Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
D Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
23.The Catcher in the Rye is written by ____
A J.D. Salinger
B Jack London
C Flannery O'Connor
D Saul Bellow
24.The image of the famous "henpecked husband" is created by____
A Washington Irving
B Fennimore Cooper
C Edith Wharton
D William Dean Howells
25.The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be ____
A O'Neil
B Pound
C Robert Frost DScott Fitzgerald
26.____ is the most important person of the transcendental club.
A Hawthorn
B Whitman
C Emerson
D Hemingway
27. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except____
A fridendship
B love and marriage
C life and death
D war and peace
28.Robert Frost is a famous ____
A novelist
B playwright
C poet
D literary critic
29.Dover Beach is written by ____
A Robert Browning
B Alfred Tennyson
C Mathew Arnold
D Dylan Thomas
30.The period from 1865-1914 has been referred to as the ____ in the literary history of the United States.
A Age of Realism
B Age of Clasicalism
C Age of Romanticism
D Age of Renaissance
21.D 《老人与海》是海明威的作品。
22.C Jonathan Swift的Gulliver's Travels(《格列弗游记》)中yahoo暗
指人类,集人类丑陋面于一身,服务于动物的一类生物。
23.A The Catcher in the Rye(《麦田里的守望者》)是J.D. Salinger(J.D. 赛琳格)的名著。
24.A henpecked husband 是指“怕老婆的男人”,改典型形象出自Washington Irving 的Rip Van Winkle。
25.D 二十世纪出现Jazz Age,这一代的年轻人物欲膨胀,沉迷酒色。Scott Fitzgerald的Great Gatsby《了不起的盖茨比》根据时代特征,对深深讽刺了所谓的美国梦。
26.C Emerson是超验主义的重要代表,所著Nature《论自然》代表了他的哲
学观。
27.D Emily Dickinson(1709-1784),美国女诗人,终生未嫁。主要诗歌包括:I Could Not Sto for Death还有,I'm Nobody. Who Are You?
诗歌主题为:爱情,自然,友谊,死亡与不朽。
28.C Robert Frost是十九世纪的美国诗人,后因父亲过世已经英国,在新英
格兰享有很高名望。主要作品有:The Road Not Taken,Mending Wall。
29.C Dover Beach(《多弗的海滩》)是Mathew Arnold 的作品。
30.A 1865-1914,也就是美国内战结束之后,第一次世界大战爆发之前。这个时候涌现的作家,比如Mark Twain刻画出美国经济政治发展引发的社会现实问题,包括“Gold Rush”。