《英美文学选读》模拟试题（二）

一、单项选择题

1.D. Father and son in the medieval period, it is Chaucer alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive _____ picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of valid _________ from all walks of life in his masterpiece “the Canterbury Tales”. A. visionary/women B. romantic/men

C. realistic/characters D. natural/figures

2.Humanism sprang from the endeavor to restore a medieval reverence for the antique authors and is frequently taken as the beginning of the Renaissance on its conscious, intellectual side, for the Greek and Roman civilization was based on the conception that man is the _____ of all things. A. measure B. king

C. lover D. rule

3.Many people today tend to regard the play “The Merchant of Venice” as a satire of the hypocrisy of ___________ and their false standards of friendship and love, their cunning ways of pursuing worldliness and their unreasoning prejudice against _____.

A. Christians/Jews B. Jews/Christians

C. oppressors/oppressed D. people/Jews

傳統的理論認為該劇的主題是褒揚安東尼奧Antonio與巴塞尼奧Bassanio之間的友誼，贊美鮑西婭Portia的完美:美貌，智慧與堅貞，並揭露了Jews--Shylock的貪婪與殘忍 但是經曆了几個世紀對對Jews不會平的待遇,今天許多人將該劇的主題看作chritains的hypocrisy ,為追求世俗利益而不擇手段以及對Jews不公正的偏見

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1) Bassanio——Portia 2) Antonio——Shylock

The traditional theme of the play is to praise the friendship betweem Antonio and Bassanio, to idealize Portia as a heroine of greate beaulity, wit and loyalty, and to expose the insatiable greed and brutality of the Jew. Tody, many people tend to regard the play as a satire of the christians’ hypocrisy and their false standards of frindship and love, their cunning way of pursuing worldliness(俗心, 俗气) and their unreasoning prejudice against Jews.

4.Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare’s great tragedies? A. Romeo and Juliet B. King Lear

C. Hamlet D. Macbeth

5.Which statement about the Elizabethan age is not true? A. It is the age of translation.

B. It is the age of bourgeois revolution C. It is the age of exploration

D. It is the age of the protestant reformation. 新教改革

Elizabthan age 是renaissance period

6.Una in The Faerie Queene stands for ______. A. chastity 純潔 B. holiness 神圣 C. truth D. error 補充閱讀

1.《仙后》一部寓言(allegory), 人物象征意义与主题.

The Faerie is an allegory.

The Red-crosse Knight stands for St.George, the patron saint of England, and he also represent Holiness.

A lovely Ladie, virgin Una, symbolizes the thruth or the true faith of religion. A milke white lambe reprents the God.

Dragon and infernall feend refer the Satan 惡魔

The theme is not “Arms and the man,” but something more romantic—“fiece warres and faithful loves”.

7._____ first make blank verse the principle instrument of English drama. A. Shakespeare B. Wyatt

C. Sidney D. Marlowe

The passionate Sheherd to his love Dr Fauctus

馬洛的藝朮成就在於他完善了無韻體詩，並使之成為英國戲劇中最主要的文體形式

8.“The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” is an example of _____. A. allegory

B.simile

C. metaphor D. irony

9.In “Not only sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, /Thou mak’st thy knife keen”, Gratiano (a character in The Merchant of Venice) uses a rhetorical device called _____.

A. hyperbole B. homonym

C. paradox D. pun

10.In The Faerie Queene Spenser impresses us with his skillful blending of religious and historical _____ with chivalric _____. A. symbolism … lyricism B. allegory … romance

C. elegy … narrative D. personification … irony

11.Milton’s paradise Lost took its material from ______. A. the Bible B. Greek myth

C. Roman myth D. French romance

12.Christopher Marlowe wrote all the following plays except _____. A. Tamburlaine the Great 帖木兒 B. The Jew or Malta 馬耳他島的Jew

C. Cymbeline ---辛白林，Shakespeare D. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

13.Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is NOT a comedy? A. The Merchant of Venice

B. A Midsummer Night’s Dream 仲夏之夜 C. As You like It皆大欢喜 D. The dactyl 是古代希腊的著名的悲剧 (恰恰是'史诗的诗歌')，英文名字是\Homer写的,800-600 BC左右

14._____ is the most common foot in English poetry. A. The iamb 抑楊格 短長格 B. The anapest

C. The trochee