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PAGE  PAGE 9 英美文学习题共享1 Exercise One I. Fill in the following blanks. 1. After the fall of the Roman Empire and the withdrawal of Roman troops from Albion, the aboriginal_______ population of the larger part of the island was soon conquered and almost totally exterminated by the Teutonic tribes of______, __________, and_________ who came from the continent and settled in the island, naming its central part _______, or England. 2. For nearly _________ years prior to the coming of the English , Britain had been a Roman province. In _________, the Romans withdrew their legions from Britain to protect herself against swarms of Teutonic invaders. 3. The literature of early period falls naturally into two divisions, _______ and_______. The former represents the poetry which the Anglo-Saxons probably brought with them in the form of_______, the crude material out of which literature was slowly developed on English soil; the later represents the writings developed under the teaching of___________ . 4. In reading the earliest poetry of English it is well to remember that all of it was copied by_________ , and seems to have been more or less altered to give it a___________ . 5. _________can be justly termed England’s national epic and its hero_________, one of the national heroes of the English people. 6.The song of Beowulf reflects events which took place on the ________approximately at the beginning of the__________ century, when the forefathers of the Jutes lived in the _______and maintained close relations with the kindred tribes, e.g. with the__________ who lived on the other side of the straits. 7. Among the early Anglo-Saxon poets we may mention_________ who lived in the latter half of the____________ century and who wrote a poetic Paraphrase of the Bible. 8. ____________is the first known religious poet of England. He is known as the father of English song. 9. The didactic poem The Christ was produced by____________ . II. Choo