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第三章 单元测试

1、单选题：
________ was considered the highest achievement of Oscar Wilde as a playwright.

选项：
A:

King Lear

B:

The Dumb Waiter

C:

The Importance of Being Earnest

D:

The School for Scandal

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2、单选题：
In 1938, a film version of ________ earned Bernard Shaw an Academy Award for his screenplay.

选项：
A:

 Doctor Faustus

B:

Pygmalion

C:

Othello

D:

 The Second Shepherds’ Play

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3、单选题：
Beckett secured his position as a master dramatist on April 3, 1957 when his second masterpiece, _________, premiered (in French) at the Royal Court Theatre in London.

选项：
A:

Endgame

B:

Waiting for Godot

C:

Krapp’s Last Tape

D:

All That Fall

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4、多选题：

Christopher Marlowe wrote some important plays, including ________.

选项：
A:Tamburlaine
B:Edward II
C:The Jew of Malta
D:Doctor Faustus
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5、多选题：
Shakespeare is marked by his romantic comedies like ________.

选项：
A:

Twelfth Night

B:

 As You Like It 

C:

The Merchant of Venice

D:

Much Ado about Nothing

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6、多选题：
George Bernard Shaw’s plays include ________.

选项：
A:

Mrs. Warren’s Profession

B:

Widower’s Houses

C:

Pygmalion

D:

Saint Joan

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7、判断题：
Morality plays used religious characters and religious themes to teach a moral lesson.

选项：
A:错
B:对
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8、判断题：
Macbeth has been the most popular of Shakespeare’s plays in the last 400 years. It was the firstof Shakespeare’s plays to be translated into Chinese.
选项：
A:错
B:对
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9、判断题：
The Rivals is generally recognized as one of the masterpieces of British Drama and the greatest of the 18th-century English comedy of manners.

选项：
A:错
B:对
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10、判断题：
The first half of the 20^th century also saw the attempted revival of drama in verse.

选项：
A:对
B:错
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第四章 单元测试

1、单选题：
Which of the following has been considered as the best specimen of the Old English prose？

选项：
A:

Utopia

B:

An Apology for Poetry

C:

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

D:

History of King Richard III

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2、单选题：
John Milton’s ______ (1644) is the first great plea in English for the freedom of the press.

选项：
A:

Religio Medici 

B:

Areopagitica

C:

The Complete Angler

D:

Paradise Lost

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3、单选题：
______ is sometimes called the third great Victorian poet, along with Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning.

选项：
A:

Matthew Arnold

B:

Joseph Addison

C:

William Hazlitt

D:

Sir Richard Steele

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4、多选题：
Senecan style of English prose emphasizes ______ and ______.

选项：
A:

expressiveness

B:

logic

C:

lucidity

D:

rhetoric

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5、多选题：
According to what we have discussed about English essay, which of the following genre can NOT be understood as Essay?

选项：
A:

Poetry

B:

Prose

C:

Novel

D:

Drama

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6、多选题：
Which of the following prose works were written by Thomas Carlyle?

选项：
A:

The French Revolution

B:

A Tale of Two Cities

C:

Chartism

D:

The Spectator

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7、判断题：
The reason why Maugham is so popular among the readers might be that his writting is complicated and confusing.

选项：
A:错
B:对
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8、判断题：
Jonathan Swift shows his support for the rich English in A Modest Proposal.

选项：
A:错
B:对
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9、判断题：
Thomas Carlyle handled the English language as if it were completely raw material that he had to recast from the ground up.

选项：
A:对
B:错
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10、判断题：
The 18^th century witnessed the rising of magazines and the increasing popularity of essays.

选项：
A:对
B:错
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第五章 单元测试

1、多选题：
What kind of elements should be taken into consideration when we analyze a novel?

选项：
A:

Setting

B:

plot

C:

themes

D:

characterization

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2、单选题：
Distinct achievements of Charles Dickens’ novels are the following EXCEPT________.

选项：
A:

complicated and fascinating plot.

B:

character sketches and exaggeration.

C:

the high praise for the power of proletariat

D:

broad humor and penetrating satire.

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3、单选题：
Thomas Hardy’s novel can be divided into three groups: Romances and Fantasies, Novels of Ingenuity and Novels of Character and Environment. The most important ones were the third group, among which Tess and ____ were very famous.

选项：
A:

The Mayor of Casterbidge 

B:

Far from the Madding Crowd

C:

Under the Greenwood Tree

D:

Jude the Obscure

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4、多选题：
Which of the following novels were written by George Eliot?

选项：
A:

Middlemarch

B:

Silas Marner  

C:

 Adam Bede   

D:

To the Lighthouse

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5、单选题：
Which of the following statements is true about Bronte sisters?

选项：
A:

Jane Eyre is Emily Bronte’s autographical fiction.

B:

Charlotte Bronte’s masterpiece is Wuthering Heights.

C:

Their novels by them include The Professor, Shirley, Adam Bede.

D:

Together with George Eliot, they were important female writers of Victorian Age.

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6、多选题：

What are Thackeray’s greatest achievement in novel writing?

选项：
A:the narrative skill
B:subtle characterization
C:complicated plots.
D: descriptive power make
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7、判断题：
Novel in the modern era usually makes use of a literary prose style .

选项：
A:错
B:对
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8、判断题：
Daniel Defoe was regarded as the farther of epistolary novel.

选项：
A:错
B:对
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9、判断题：
Oliver Goldsmith was famous for his novel A Sentimental Journey.

选项：
A:对
B:错
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10、判断题：
Sir Walter Scott was among the first to draw upon religion as source material for his fiction and is generally cited as the father of the critical realism.
选项：
A:错
B:对
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第六章 单元测试

1、判断题：
In the Edward Period, the Victorian values totally diminished.

选项：
A:对
B:错
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2、判断题：
H. G. Wells is a prominent social satirist.

选项：
A:错
B:对
答案: 【】

3、判断题：
Animal Farm isn’t an anti- Utopian novel.
选项：
A:对
B:错
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4、单选题：
____ proposed that both clock and psychological time should be measured.

选项：
A:

Bertrand Russell

B:

Sigmund Freud

C:

Aristotle

D:

Henri Bergson

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5、单选题：
The three literary giants in the Edwardian Period include Herbert George Wells, Arnold Bennett, and ___.

选项：
A:

John Galsworthy

B:

James Joyce

C:

William Somerset

D:

The other three are right.

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6、单选题：
Most of Henry James’ novels deal with the clashes between ____.

选项：
A:

the past and the future

B:

flesh and spirit

C:

The other three are right.

D:

the American and the European

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7、单选题：
In the short lifetime, Mansfield produced more than 70 short stories, among which, ___ may be the best one.

选项：
A:

“Bliss”

B:

“The Garden Party”

C:

“Araby”

D:

The other three are right.

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8、多选题：
Virginia Woolf’s major novels include ___.

选项：
A:

Mrs. Dalloway

B:

The Waves

C:

To the Lighthouse   

D:

The Rainbow 

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9、多选题：
In the transition of British fiction from realism to modernism, major figures included ____.

选项：
A:

E. M. Forster

B:

Joseph Conrad

C:

Henry James

D:

Virginia Woolf

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10、多选题：
At the peak of British modernist fiction, there appeared such masters as ____.

选项：
A:

Henry James

B:

Virginia Woolf

C:

James Joyce

D:

D. H. Lawrence

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第七章 单元测试

1、判断题：
Britain began to build a “welfare state” after 1954.

选项：
A:错
B:对
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2、判断题：
John Wayne and Kingsley Aymis’s novels became the precursors of “angry young men”.

选项：
A:错
B:对
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3、判断题：
The novels of the “Angry Young Men” are also called “Social Satirical Comedy”.
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【】

4、单选题：
Most of “The Angry Young Men” are from ________.

选项：
A:

Bourgeoisie

B:

Upper-Class

C:

Lower Class

D:

Middle Class

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5、单选题：
Which of following is regarded as the representative of “The Angry Young Men”?

选项：
A:

Thomas Hardy

B:

Kingsley Amis

C:

Jim Dixon

D:

John Galsworthy

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6、单选题：
In 1990, _________ followed Margaret Thatcher as the Prime Minister.

选项：
A:

George Bush

B:

John Major

C:

Clement Attlee

D:

Tony Blair

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7、单选题：
Samuel Beckett won the Nobel Prize for Literature in ____.

选项：
A:

1963

B:

1980

C:

1969

D:

1973

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8、多选题：
Which of the following won Novel Prize for Literature?

选项：
A:

William Golding

B:

Doris Lessing

C:

V. S. Naipaul

D:

Elias Canetti

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9、多选题：
Iris Murdoch’s philosophical books include ______.

选项：
A:

Existentialists and Mystics (1997).

B:

Sartre: Romantic Rationalist

C:

The Sovereignty of Good 

D:

The Fire and the Sun

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10、多选题：
Malcolm Bradbury’s novels include ______.

选项：
A:

Changing Places 

B:

The History Man

C:

Rate of Exchange 

D:

Eating People Is Wrong

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