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英国文学史及选读试卷 Part One I. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each) Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your choice on the answer sheet. 1. The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s____. ( ) A. comedies B. tragedies C. histories D. sonnets 2. _____is the most successful religious allegory in the English language. ( ) A. The Pilgrim’s process B. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners C. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman D. The Holy War 3. Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, who was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England? ( ) A. John Bunyan B. Daniel Defoe C. Alexander Pope D. Jonathan Swift 4. Of all the eighteenth-century novelists, who was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style? ( ) A. Thomas Gray B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan C. Jonathan Swift D. Henry Fielding 5. Generally, the renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is ____( ) A. science B. philosophy C. arts D. humanism 6. Which of the following is not true about Renaissance? ( ) A. Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance. B. Attitudes and feelings which had been characteristic of the 14th and 15th centuries persisted well into the era of humanism and Reformation. C. It was Chaucer, who initiated the Reformation. D. The Elizabethan drama, in its totality, is the real main stream of the English Renaissance. 7. “ So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. ” What does “this ” refer to? ( ) A. lover B. time C. summer D. poetry 8. Fielding has been regarded by some as “____”, for his contribution to the establishment of the for