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1、ExercisefEnglishLiterature(2)Choosethebestanswerfeachblank.1.________the“fatherofEnglishpoetry”oneofthegreatestnarrativepoetsofEnglwasbninLondonabout1340.A.GeoffreyChaucerB.SirGawainC.FrancisBaconD.JohnDryden2.Chaucerdie

2、donthe25thOctober1400wasburiedin________.A.FlersB.FranceC.ItalyD.WestminsterAbbey3.Theprogressinindustryathomestimulatedthecommercialexpansionabroad.________encouragedexplationtravelwhichwerecompatiblewiththeinterestofth

3、eEnglishmerchants.A.HenryVB.HenryVIIC.HenryVIIID.QueenElizabeth4.ExceptbeingavictyofEnglover________theroutofthefleet“Armada”(Invincible)wasalsothetriumphoftherisingyoungbourgeoisieoverthedecliningoldfeudalism.A.SpainB.F

4、ranceC.AmericaD.Nway5.Atthebeginningofthe16thcenturytheoutstinghumanist________wrotehisUtopiainwhichhegaveaprofoundtruthfulpictureofthepeople’ssufferingputfwardhisidealofafuturehappysociety.A.ThomasMeB.ThomasMarloweC.Fra

5、ncisBaconD.WilliamShakespear6.AbsolutemonarchyinEnglreacheditssummitduringthereignofQueen________.A.MaryB.ElizabethC.WilliamD.Victia7.EnglishRenaissancePeriodwasanageof________.A.prosenovelB.poetrydramaC.essaysjournalsD.

6、balladssongs8.FromthefollowingchoosetheonewhichisnotFrancisBacon’swk:________.A.TheAdvancementofLearningB.TheNewInstrumentC.EssaysD.TheNewAtlanticsE.VenusAdonis9.“ShallIcomparetheetoasummer’sday”Thisisthebeginninglineofo

7、neofShakespeare’s________.A.songsB.playsC.comediesD.sons10.TheheroinesofShakespeare’sgreatcomedies________arethedaughtersoftheRenaissancewhoseimagesstieswillremainalegacytoreadersaudiencesofalltime.A.PtiaB.RoselC.ViolaD.

8、Beatrice11.ChoosethefourgreattragediesofShakespearefromthefollowing________.A.HamletB.OthelloC.MacbethD.KingLearE.TimonofAthens12.Whichplayisnotacomedy________A.AsummerNight’sDreamB.TheMerchantofVeniceC.TwelfthNightD.Rom

9、eoJulietE.AsYouLikeIt13.“Denmarkisaprison”.Inwhichplaydoestheherosummarisehisobservationofhiswldintosuchabittersentence________A.lesIB.OthelloC.HenryVIIID.Hamlet14.Thewksof________theAuthisedVersionoftheEnglishBibleareth

10、etwogreattreasuriesoftheEnglishlanguage.A.GeoffreyChaucerB.EdmundSpenserC.WilliamShakespeareD.BenJohnson15.Inwhichplaydoestheheroshowhisprofoundreverencefmanthroughthesentence:“Whatapieceofwokisaman!Hownobelinreason!Howf

11、initeinfaculty!”________A.RomeoJulietB.HamletC.OthelloD.TheMerchantofVenice16.In1649________wasbeheaded.Englbecameacommonwealth.A.JamesIB.JamesIIA.JosephAddisonB.DanielDefoeC.SamuelRisonD.TobiasSmollett31.Whichofthefollo

12、wingareNOTwrittenbyWilliamBlake________A.PoeticalSketchesB.SongsofInnocenceC.SongsofExperienceD.AuldLangSyneE.TheMarriageofHeavenHellF.ProphecisG.VisionsoftheDaughtersofAlbionAmericaaProphecy32.Inthe18thcenturyEnglishlit

13、eraturetherepresentativepoetsofpreromanticismwere________.A.WilliamWdswthB.WilliamBlakeC.RobertBurnsD.JonathanSwift33.TheRomanticAgebegabwiththepublicationofTheLyricalBalladswhichwaswrittenby________.A.WilliamWdswthB.Sam

14、uelJohnsonC.SamuelTaylColeridgeD.WdswthColeridge34.TheRomanticAgecametoanendwiththedeathofthelastwellknownromanticwriter________.A.JaneAustenB.WalterScottC.SamuelTaylColeridgeD.WilliamWdswth35.TheglyoftheRomanticAgeliesi

15、nthepoetryof________.A.WilliamWdswthB.SamuelTaylColeridgeC.GegeGdonByronD.PercyByssheShelleyE.JohnKeats36.TheEnglishRomanticAgeproducedtwomajnovelists.Theyare________.A.GegeGdonByronPercyByssheShelleyB.WilliamWdswthSamue

16、lTaylColeridgeC.WalterScottJaneAustenD.lesLambWilliamHazlitt37.WhichpoetsbelongtotheActiveRomanticgroup________A.GegeGdonByronB.WilliamWdswthC.PercyByssheShelleyD.JohnKeatsE.JohnMilton38.WhichpoetsbelongtotheLakers______

17、__A.WilliamWdswthB.SamuelTaylColeridgeC.JohnKeatsD.RobertSoutheyE.WalterScott39.WhichofthefolloeingwerewrittenbyWdswthONLY________A.TotheCuckooB.TheLyricalBalladsC.LucyPoemsD.TheSolitaryReaperE.IWeredLonelyasaCloud40.The

18、publicationof________markedthebreakwiththeconventionalpoeticaltraditionofthe18thcenturyi.e.withclassicismthebeginningoftheRomanticrevivalinEngl.A.TheLyricalBalladsB.ThePreludeC.ChildeHarold’sPilgrimageD.DonJuan41.Ascontr

19、astedwiththeclassicistswhomadereasondertheoldclassicaltraditionsthecriteriaintheirpoeticalcreations________basedhisownpoeticalprincipleonthepremisethat“allgoodpoetryisthespontaneousoverflowofpowerfulfeeling.”A.SamuelTayl

20、ColeridgeB.GegeGdonByronC.PercyByssheShelleyD.WilliamWdswth42.________wasthefirstcriticoftheRomanticSchool.A.WilliamWdwthB.SamuelJohnsonC.SamuelTaylColeridgeD.WdwthColeridge43.Whichofthefollowingstatementsis(are)NOTtruea

21、boutGegeGdonByron________A.Byron’searlyyearshadbeenfarfromhappyfhewasbnwithaclubfootinthefrequentfamilysceneshismothercalledhim“youlamebrat.”B.ByrondiedinItalyanndwasdeeplymournedbytheItalianpeoplebyallprogressivepeoplet

22、hroughoutthewld.C.Thereactionarycriticismofthe19thcenturytriedtobelittleByron’sgeniushisroleinthedevelopmentofEnglishliteraturebutByronremainsoneofthemostpopularEnglishpoetsbothathomeabroad.D.SincetheMay4Movementin1919me