1. “Ode to the west wind” was written by the author of ___.
A “I wandered lonely as a cloud”
B “Kubla Khan”
C “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”
D “As Defense of Poetry”
2. Which of the following poets does not belong to the school of romantic poets?
A William Wordsworth
B Percy Bysshe Shelley
C George Gordon Byron
D John Donne
3. Charles Dickens wrote all of the following except ___.
A Oliver Twist
B David Copperfield
C A Tale of Two Cities
D Heart of Darkness
4. “A Red, Red Rose” was written by ___.
A Alexandra Pop
B Robert Burns
C William Blake
D John Keats
5. Pip is the character of Charles Dickens’ novel ___.
A Oliver Twist
B David Copperfield
C A Tale of Two Cities
D Great Expectations
6. Sense and Sensibility is a ___ by ___.
A play… Jane Austen
B novel… Jane Austen
C play… Emily Bronte
D novel… Anne Bronte
7. In reading Shakespeare, you must have come across the line “To be or not to be---that is the question” by___.
A Iago in Othello
B Lear in King Lear
C Shylock in the Merchant of Venice
D Hamlet in Hamlet
8. Robert Browning’s “My last Duchess” is composed in the form of a(n) ___.
A dramatic monologue
B extended metaphor
C syllogistic argument
D dialogue
9. Thomas Hardy wrote novels of __.
A character and environment
B pure romance
C “stream of consciousness”
D psychoanalysis
10. “Wessex novels” refers to the novels written by ___.
A Charles Dickens
B D.H. Lawrence
C James Joyce
D Thomas Hardy
答案详解:
1 选D
“I wandered lonely as a cloud” 的作者是William Wordsworth; “Kubla Khan” 的作者是 Samuel Taylor Coleridge; “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” 的作者是 George Gordon Byron.《西风颂》(Ode to the west wind)是 Percy Bysshe Shelley(雪莱)的代表作,他的文论著作有《诗辩》(A Defense of Poetry。
2 选D
William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, George Gordon Byron都是19世纪浪漫派诗人的代表人物, John Donne 则是17世纪玄学派诗人的代表。
3 选D
Charles Dickens(查尔斯.狄更斯)是19世纪英国著名的现实主义小说家,代表作有Oliver Twist(《雾都孤儿》), David Copperfield(《大卫.科波菲尔》),A Tale of Two Cities(《双城记》),Great Expectations(《远大前程》)等。 Heart of Darkness(《黑暗心灵》)为Joseph Conrad 的小说。
4 选B
“A Red, Red Rose” 一朵红红的玫瑰是英国苏格兰著名的农民诗人Robert Burns(罗伯特.彭斯)根据苏格兰民谣创作的一首脍炙人口的爱情诗篇,彭斯在仔细研究苏格兰民谣的基础上创作了大量抒情诗,如《我心在高原》(My Heart’s in the Highlands),《一朵红红的玫瑰》(A Red, Red Rose),《约翰.安德生,我的爱人》(John Anderson, My Jo),《昔日时光》(Auld Lang Sygn)。
5 选D
Charles Dickens(查尔斯.狄更斯)是19世纪英国著名的现实主义小说家,代表作有Oliver Twist(《雾都孤儿》), David Copperfield(《大卫.科波菲尔》),A Tale of Two Cities(《双城记》),Great Expectations(《远大前程》)等。 Pip是Great Expectations(《远大前程》)中的主人公,该作品是一部成长小说,采用第一人称叙述,展现了主人公匹普(Pip)的成长过程。
6 选B
《理智与情感》(Sense and Sensibility),原名为《埃莉诺与玛丽安娜》(Elinor and Marriane),《曼斯菲尔德庄园》(Mansfield Park),《诺桑觉寺》(Northanger Abbey),《爱玛》(Emma)等。
7 选D
“To be or not to be---that is the question” 选自《哈姆雷特》(Hamlet)第三幕第一场,是《哈姆雷特》中最脍炙人口的独白之一。
8 选A
受戏剧创作的影响,Robert Browning 善于在诗中运用dramatic monologue(“戏剧独白”),“戏剧独白”并非布朗宁首创,但“戏剧独白”诗体却是他对英国诗歌的一大贡献。 “My last Duchess” 是布朗宁“戏剧独白”诗中很有代表性的一首,诗歌语言口语化,夹叙夹议,通过公爵以个人的独白揭示其心理活动。
9 选A
哈代的小说是维多利亚时期的作品,其最具地方色彩的作品就是人们常说的“性格与环境小说”,其中包括:《还乡》(The Return of the Native), 《德伯家的苔丝》(Tess of the D’Urbervilles),《无名的裘德》(Jude the Obscure),《卡斯特桥市长》(Mayor of the Casterbridge)等。
10 选D
哈代的小说中,大多数是以一个名为Wessex(威塞克斯)的乡村为场景的,实际上这个地方就是哈代既爱又恨的家乡。Wessex因此扬名天下,以致于人们常常把哈代以这一地区为场景,描述资本主义发展过程中农村地区渐受资本主义扩张影响的作品称为“Wessex novels”(威塞克斯小说)。