英语学习_英国文学试题_必备.doc

弃我去者，昨日之日不可留 乱我心者，今日之日多烦忧 得分 一、选择题（在每个小题四个备选答案中选出一个正确答案，填在题末的括号中）（本大题共15小题，每小题1分，总计15分） Beowulf is a ___ poem, describing an all-round picture of the tribal society. A. pagan B. Christain C. romantic D. lyric 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. William Langland’s Piers the Plowman B. Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales C. John Gower’s Confessio Amantis D. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Which of the following plays does NOT belong to Shakespeare’s great tragedies? A. Othello B. Macbeth C. Romeo and Juliet D. Hamlet Which of the following poetic forms is the principle form of Shakespeare’s drama? A. lyric B. sonnet C. blank verse D. quatrain Which of the following statements best illustrate 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. Which of the following place does Gulliver visit first in Gulliver’s Travels? A. Lilliput B. Brobdingnag C. Laputa D. Houyhnhnms Which of the following is NOT true about Robinson Crusoe? It is written in the autobiographical form. It is a record of Defoe’s own experiences. Robinson spends 28 years of isolated life on the island. It is set in the middle of the 17th century. Many of Burns’ songs deal with friendship.____ has long become a universal parting-song of all the English speaking countries. A. A Red, Red Rose B. Auld Lang Syne C. My Heart’s in the Highlands D. John Anderson, My Jo “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by___. A. John Keats B. William Blake C. William Wordsworth D. Percy Shelley “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” is taken from___ A. The