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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上英美文学课堂练习（2018）珍藏版1. (Beowulf), a typical example of Old English poetry, is regard as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.2. (The Canterbury Tales) is Chaucers masterpiece which first presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society.3. Shakespeares four greatest

2、 tragedies are (Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Merchant of Venice).4. Among the three major works by Join Milton, (Paradise Lost) is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.5. The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowes The tragic History

3、of Dr. Faustus, is the very fact that (man is confined to time.6. Spensers masterpiece (The Faerie Queen) is a great poem of its time.7. (Humanism) is the essence of the Renaissance.8. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and (Ben Johnson

4、).9. The English Renaissance period was an age of (poetry and drama).10. (Spenser) is known as “the poets poet).11. Shakespeares sonnets are addressed to ( both A and C).12. It is generally believed that the most important play among Shakespeares comedies is (As you Like it)13. (Soliloquy) is a natu

5、ral medium for Hamlet to release his anguish.14. The period before the American Civil War is commonly referred to as the (Romantic) period.15. The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues except the (survival of the fittest) in the American literary history.16. The desire for an esca

6、pe from society and a return to (nature) became a permanent convention of American literature.17. The American (Puritanism) as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values and literature.18. One of the manifestations of Puritan influence over American literature is the fac

7、t that American romantic writers (tend more to moralize) than their English and European counterparts.19. The Romantic period in English literature began with the publication of (Austens Pride and Prejudice).20. The 18th-century England s also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of (Reason)

8、.21. (The Battle of the Books) by Swift is generally regarded as the best model of satire, not only of the 18th century but also in the whole English literary history.22. Pope made his name as a great poet with the publication of (The Dunciad ). 23. You may have met the term “Yahoo” on internet, but

9、 you may also have met it in English literature. It is found in (Johnsons “The Vanity of Human Wishes”)24. Of all the 18th century novelists, (Henry Fielding) was the first to set out to write a “comic epic in prose”, and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.25. Samuel Johnson

10、distinguished himself as the author of (A Dictionary of the English Language).26. Sheridans important plays are The School for Scandal and ( The Rivals).27. (Ode on the Spring) made Thomas Gray the leader of the (The graveyard School”.28. Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanti

11、cism in that (the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the later sees literature as an expression of an individuals feeling and experiences.29. English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have ended in 1832 with (Sir Walter Scotts deat

12、h and the passage of the first Reform Bill in the parliament).30. The literary form which is fully-developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is (poetry).31. The poems such as “The Chimney Sweeper” are found in both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by (John Keats).32. Of

13、 the following poets, which is not regarded as “Lake Poets”? (George Gordon Byron)33. With so many poems such as “ The Sparrows Nest”, “To a Skylark”, “To the Cuckoo” and “To a Butterfly”, William Wordsworth is regarded as a “(royal poet)”.34. Which of the following writings can be regarded as typic

14、ally belonging to the school of Romantic literary?(Don Juan)35. In his lyrics such as “Ode to Liberty”, “Ode to Naples”, Percy Bysshe Shelley expressed his love for (freedom) and his hatred toward tyranny.36. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” shows the contrast between the (transience) of art and the (sordidne

15、ss) of human passion.37. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is epigrammatic line by (John Keats).38. William Blakes central concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience is (childhood) , which gives the two books a strong social and historical reference.39. Because of her sensitivity to uni

16、versal patterns of human behavior, (Jane Austen) has brought the English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity.40. Through the character of Elizabeth, Jane Austen emphasizes the importance of (physical attractiveness) for woman.41. Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?(Ly

17、rical Ballads)42. (Thomas Hardy)not only continued to expose and criticize all sorts of social iniquities, but finally came to question and attack the Victorian conventions and morals.43. Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques, writers in the Victorian Period sh

18、ared one thing in common, that is, they were all concerned about (the fate of the common people).44. English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of (novel).45. The Victorian Age was largely an age of (novel), eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.46. Among the works by

19、 Charles Dickens (Hard Times) presents his criticism of the Utilitarian principle that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds.47. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens works is his (bitter and sharp criticism).48. “My last Duchess” is a poem that bes

20、t exemplifies Robert Brownings (use of the dramatic monologue).49. In Thomas Hardys works, the conflict between the old and the modern is very pervasive. His attitude toward those traditional characters is (sympathetic). 50. Which of the Robert Brownings works established his position as one of the

21、greatest English poets? (Pauline)51. The typical feature of Robert Brownings poetry is the (dramatic Romances and Lyrics).52. All of the following works are known as Hardys “novels of character and environment” EXCEPT ( Far from the Madding Crowd).53. Tess of the D Urbervilles, one of Hardys best kn

22、own novels, portrays man as (having no control over his own fate).54. Contrary to the traditional romance of aristocrats, the modern English novel gives a realistic presentation of life of (the common English people).55. The major concern of (D.H. Lawrence) fiction lies in the tracing of the psychol

23、ogical development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.56. (James Joyce, Ulysses ) is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist, with (Ulysses ) as his encyclopedia-like masterpiece.57. In (Dublin

24、ers), James Joyce intended to record the four aspects of the moral history of his country, namely childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life.58. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?( To put the stress on traditional values)59. In Oscar Wildes masterpiece (The Importance of Being Earnest), he expressed a satirical and bitter attitude towards the upper-class people by revealing their corruption, snobbery, hypocrisy.60. The short story “Araby” is one of the stories in Joyces collection (Dubliners). 专心-专注-专业