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PAGE  PAGE 15 本学期英国文学所做练习全部答案 第一章 练习答案Key to the exercises Key to Exercises for Chapter I(文艺复兴时期) A. Multiple-choice questions 1-25 BAACB DACAC BDCBA BCBCC DABDC 11. Reading comprehension: 1. A. Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene. B. The Red Cross Knight. C. It is a description of Virgin Una, who stands for the divine truth and accompanies the Red Cross Knight on his adventures. She is as pure and innocent in life and all moral knowledge as the Lamb of God (Jesus Christ ). She descended of a royal line, which in old days governed the land from east to west and made the whole world subject to the rule (which suggests she derives her lineage from the Church Universal, not from the Papacy), until the dragon ( which represents the powers of Spain and Rome) with wicked tumult devastated all their land and drove them out. So she has summoned the Knight from a remote place to avenge her imprisoned parents. 2. A. Christopher Marlowe : The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus. B. God. C. This is a description of Dr. Faustus practicing black magic in order to seek knowledge and power over the kingdom of this world. He has drawn a magic circle on the ground, within which the spirits are compelled to rise by using the name of God with the letters mixed up, the abbreviated names of holy saints, figures of every heavenly body and signs of the zodiac and wandering stars. Faustus conjuring techniques illustrate his denial and rejection of religion, which is a sin of pride and presumption and thus allows the devil to take possession of his soul. On the other hand, by portraying Faustus trying through the exercise of forbidden knowledge to transcend the bounds of his nature, Marlowe celebrates the Renaissance heros endless aspiration for knowledge, power and happiness. 3: A. William Shakespeare: Hamlet. , B. Hamlet . C These lines mean: thus meditation does turn all of us into cowards; and thus over the natural color of resolution (which is believed of red color) , is thrown t