英美文学选择

1.Charles Dickens is a great writer in the ___ A__. A. Victorian Age 2.The early inhabitants in the island we now call England were _B __. B. Britons

3. In 55 B. C., Roman troops led by

_A__ invaded Britain. A. Julius Caesar 4.The Roman occupation in Britain lasted for about __C___ years. C. 400 5.Old English came into being by the _D___ century. D. 7th

6. In __B__ Britain became a Roman province. B. 43 A. D.

7.The Anglo-Saxon period ended in _D___. D. 1066

8. _A__ is an early English poem about the life of the gleeman. A. “Deor’s Lament”

9. __C__ is an early English poem about love. C. “The Husband’s Message”

10. __B__ is an early English poem about the adventures of the sea. B. “The Wanderer”

11. __D__ is the representative work of the early English literature. D. “Beowulf”

12. Grendel is a monster described in __C____. C. Beowulf

13.The Roman occupation lasted for about 400 years in Britain, and in __D___, all the Roman troops went back to their continent and never returned. D. 410 A. D.

14.__C__ is the first important religious poet in English literature. C. Caedmon 15.When we speak of the old English prose, the first name that comes into our minds is _D_, who is the first scholar in English literature and has been regarded as father of English learning. D. Venerable Bebe

16.The great majority of the romances fall into groups as matters of __ABC___. A. Britain B. FranceC. Rome

17._A__ was written in alliterative and rimed English verse. A. Layamon’s Brut 18.___D__ marked the establishment of feudalism in England. D. Norman Conquest

19. Shakespeare’s plays written between __D___ are sometimes called “romances” and all end in reconciliation and reunion. D. 1608 and 1612

20. Miranda is a heroine in Shakespeare’s __D____. D. The Tempest

21.In __D___ appeared Shakespeare’s Sonnet. Never before Imprinted.（《莎士比亚十四行诗》）which contains 154 sonnets. D. 1609

22. Shakespeare is one of the founders of _B___. B. realism

23. Among many poetic forms, Shakespeare was especially at home (good at) with the _A_ A. dramatic blank verse

24.In the plays, Shakespeare used about __B____ words. B. 16000

25.__C___ has been called the summit of the English Renaissance. C. W. Shakespeare

26.In 1066, __A__, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeating England. A. William the Conqueror

27. In the 14th century, the most important poet is __D__ . D. Chaucer 28.The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is __C_. C. romance

29.The story of _A__ is the culmination of the Arthurian romances. A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

30. William Langland’s _B___ is written in the form of a dream vision. B. Piers the Plowman

31. After the Norman Conquest, three

languages existed in England at that 43. Spenserian Stanza is created by time. The Normans spoke __A___. A. Edmund Spenser for his _B__. B. French poem 32. ___C___ was the greatest of English 44.It was __B___, the first English religious reformers and the first printer, who gave the readers Chaucer’translator of the Bible. C. Wycliffe s The Canterbury Tales. B. 33. Piers the Plowman describes a series William Caxton of wonderful dreams the author 45. _C___is also called the King James dreamed, through which, we can see a Bible. C. Authorized Bible picture of the life in the __B__ England. 46. The sea-dogs as Francis Drake and B. feudal John Hawkins encouraged by _B___ 34.The theme of __A__ to king and lord established the first English colonies. was repeatedly emphasized in romances. B. Queen Elizabeth A. loyalty 47. The English bourgeoisie came to 35.The most famous cycle of English froe in the arena of history after the ballads centers on the stories about a war with _A__. A. Spain legendary outlaw called __B___. B. 48. _D___ is the key-note of the Robin Hood Renaissance. D. Humanism 36. __A___, the “father of English 49.English Renaissance started in the poetry” and one of the greatest year of __A_. A. 1516 narrative poets of England, was born in 50.The period of __B___ is called the London about 1340. A. Geoffrey Elizabethan Period or the Age of Chaucer Shakespeare. B. 1516—1578 37. Chaucer died on the 25th October 51.___A__has 6 knights representing 6 1400, and was buried in __D__. D. virtues: Holiness, Temperance, Chastity, Westminster Abbey Friendship, Justice and Courtesy. A. 38. Chaucer’s earliest work is his The Faerie Queene ___A__, a translation of the French 52.The answer to the dominant Roman de la Rose, which was a love thoughts in The Faerie Queene is _ A. allegory enjoying widespread nationalism B. humanism C. popularity in the 13th and 14th Puritanism __. centuries not only in France but 53.___C__ is the first philosopher of throughout Europe. A. The Romaunt of industrial science . C. Francis Bacon the Rose 54.___D___ is F. Bacon’s well-known 40. In his life-time Chaucer served in a book. D. Essays great variety of occupations which had 55._C___ is the most famous essay in impact on the wide range of his Bacon’s Essays. C. Of Study writings. Which one is not his career? 56.Sidney’s _A__ was written to answer _A___. A. engineer an attack on poetry and drama as “the 41.Chaucer composes a long narrative school of abuse.” A. Apology for Poetry poem named __B___ based on 57. _C__ is the Poet’s Poet of the Boccaccio’s poem “Filostrato”. Renaissance. C. Edmond Spenser B. Troilus and Criseyde 42. English Renaissance started from the year of _A____. A. 1516

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