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得分 评卷人 英国文学考试 Part I General knowledge (总分 30 分，每小题 1 分) There are 30 statements in this part. Choose A, B,C or D on your Answer Sheet. 1. Chaucer was a master of the heroic couplet which consists of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter means________. the line has 6 feet, and an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable. the line has 6 feet, and a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable. the line has 5 feet, and an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable. the line has 5 feet, and a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable. 2. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18? The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature. The speaker satirizes human vanity. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation. The speaker meditates on man’s salvation. 3. The story of The Grass is Singing takes place in ______. A. England B. America C. Asia D. Africa 4. Which work was not written by John Milton?______________. A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise Regained C. Samson Agonistes D. Volpone 5. John Donne was a great poet and ________ as well. A. dramatist B. novelist C. preacher D. lawyer 6. John Donne’s “Holy Sonnet 10” expresses ________. the fear of death the admiration of death the triumph over death the pleasure from death 7. In addition to The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Defoe also wrote ______. Tom Jones Pamela The Adventures of Roderick Random Moll Flanders 8. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels is the greatest _________ work in English literature. A. realistic B. satiric C. romantic D. poetic 9. The central image of “The Tyger” is ________. A. hammer B. chain C. anvil D. fire 10. Authors and poems are correctly paired in all of the following except ________. William Wordsworth—“The Solitary Reaper” William Blake—“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” Samuel Taylor Coleridge—“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” Robert Burns—“The Tree of Liberty” 11