英国文学测试题.docx

2006--2007学年第二学期外语系2004级本科、2006级专科接本科英语专业 英国文学史及选读（2）期末考试（A卷） I. Complete the following statements with a proper word or a phrase. (20=1*20) 1. Oscar Wilde established himself both as a writer and as a spokesman for the school of “__________”. 2. Bernard Shaw’s play ________ is a poignant satire in which the refined bourgeois aristocrats are mocked while a simple flower-girl is lovingly portrayed. 3. Joseph Conrad, the Polish-born British novelist has been placed by many critics as a forerunner of ________. 4. “Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer” are lines taken from W. B. Yeats’s _________. 5. Araby is the third short story taken from James Joyce’s short-story collection _________. 6. ___________tells the story of a boy’s gift for picking the winners in horse races. An omniscient narrator relates the tale of a boy whose family is always short of money. 7. Forster anchors his story The Road from Colonus in Greek tragedy, explicitly identifying Mr. Lucas with ________ and Ethel with his daughter, Antigone. 8. One of W. Golding’s stories begins following a plane crash that left the pilot dead and a bunch of young boys, aged five to twelve, scattered throughout a tropical island. This story is entitled ____________. 9. Doris Lessing’s short story ________ allows us to understand how some men view woman in the modern society. 10. The French Lieutenant’s Woman has two protagonists: ______ and Charles Smithson. Both of them are character types commonly found in a nineteenth century romantic novel. 11. Postmodern literature arose after World War II as a series of reactions against the perceived norms of ________ literature. 12. 1941, the year Irish novelist James Joyce and British novelist Virginia Woolf both died, is sometimes used as a rough boundary for __________’s start. 13. The most famous poet Wales has ever produced is __________, whose Under Milk Wood became popular afte