英语知识竞赛题库-英美文学题.docx

B 1. The Canterbury Tales was written in ________. A. Old English B. Middle English C. Modern English D. Current Modern English B 2. Pilgrims travel to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury in ________. A. March B. April C. May D. June C 3. ________ pilgrims plus Chaucer are assembled at the Tabard Inn in the southern part of London. A. 25 B. 27 C. 29 D. 31 C 4. Chaucer was a master of the heroic couplet which consists of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter means____________. A. the line has 6 feet, and an unstressedsyllable is followed by a stressed syllable. B. the line has 6 feet, and a stressedsyllable is followed by an unstressed syllable. C. the line has 5 feet, and an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable. D. the line has 5 feet, and a stressedsyllable is followed by an unstressed syllable. B 5.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 Canterbury Tales C. John Gower ’s Confessio Amantis B. Geoffrey Chaucer ’s The D. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight D 6．Shakespeare ’s four great tragedies are _________ A. Anthony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, King Lear, Timon of Athens B. Twelfth Night, Cynbeline, The Winter ’s Tale, and The Tempest C. Hamlet, Othello, King John, and Macbeth D. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth C 7. Romeo and Juliet belongs to Shakespeare ’s ________. A. romantic comedy B. comedy C. tragedy D. historical plays C 8. A sonnet is a poem of ________ lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged acc