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第三章 单元测试

1、单选题：
It was ( ) who first introduced and reformed the English drama which reached its climax in the hands of William Shakespeare.
选项：
A:John Wycliff
B:Ben Johnson
C:Christopher Marlowe
D:University Wits
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2、单选题：
Great writers of the English Renaissance who are known for humanism, took ( ) as the centre of the world and voiced the human aspirations for freedom and equality.
选项：
A:power
B:man
C:God
D:the world
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3、单选题：
Shakespeare is hailed by ( ), contemporary with Shakespeare, as “not of an age, but for all time”.
选项：
A:Ben Jonson
B:Robert Greene
C:Christopher Marlowe
D:Thomas Nash
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4、单选题：
Hamlet is characterized as a(an) ( ) on that, he loves good and hates evil; he is a man free from prejudice and superstition; he has unbounded love for the world and firm belief in the power of man.
选项：
A:Puritan
B:idealist
C:humanist
D:patriot
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5、单选题：
Edmund Spenser was considered the ( ) for his achievements in poetry.
选项：
A:“father of English poetry”
B:“the Poets’ Poet”
C:“the greatest English poet”
D:“the saint of English poetry”
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6、单选题：
( ) is a distinctive verse form adopted by Edmund Spenser in his works incluiding his masterpiece The Faerie Queene. It has 9-line stanzas, rhyming in ababbcbcc.
选项：
A:“The Spenserian Stanza”
B:sonnet
C:blank verse
D:“The mighty lines”
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7、单选题：
Francis Bacon won for himself the first English ( ) for his achievements in English literature of the Renaissance.
选项：
A:essayist
B:dramatist
C:prose writer
D:poet
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8、单选题：
The most representative work of Francis Bacon is ( ), which is the first collection of English essays.
选项：
A:Essays
B:The Interpretation of Nature
C:Novum Organum
D:Advancement of Learning
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第四章 单元测试

1、单选题：
( ) is regarded as the greatest prose writer in the English literature of the 17th century, who is best known for his work The Pilgrim’s Progress.
选项：
A:John Bunyan
B:Francis Bacon
C:John Dryden
D:George Herbert
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2、单选题：
The Pilgrim’s Progress is written in the form of ( ) .
选项：
A:symbols
B:allegory
C:allusions
D:aggressions
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3、单选题：
“The Metaphysical Poets” refer to the loose group of 17th-century English poets whose work was characterized by the inventive use of ( )
选项：
A:conceit
B:metaphor
C:imagination
D:symbols
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4、单选题：
In his “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”, John Donne makes a most impressive comparison between love and ( ) as the dominant conceit of the poem.
选项：
A:a piece of gold
B:a pair of compasses
C:a farewell to a dying person
D:an earthquake
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5、单选题：
The 17th century of English history was marked mainly by the English Bourgeois Revolution which ended with the establishment of ( ) as a compromise between the bourgeoisie and the monarchy.
选项：
A:institutional monarchy
B:the Whig Party
C:the Tory Party
D:the United Kingdom
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6、单选题：
(     ) was the religious cloak of the English Bourgeois Revolution which advocated God’s supreme authority over human beings.
选项：
A:

Calvinism

B:

Republicanism

C:

Humanism

D:

Puritanism

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7、单选题：
Puritan poetry in the 17th-century English literature is represented best by ( ), who produced Paradise Lost as his representative work.
选项：
A:Robert Herrick
B:John Dryden
C:John Donne
D:John Miltion
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8、单选题：
Throughout his life, Milton showed strong rebellious spirit agaisnt many things he thought unjust and acted as the voice of ( ) of England under Oliver Cromwell.
选项：
A:the Royalists
B:the Commonwealth
C:the Parliament
D:the Monarch
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9、单选题：
“On his Blindness” and “On his Deceased Wife” are the two best-known of Milton’s ( ).
选项：
A:sonnets
B:blank verses
C:elegies
D:alliterative verses
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10、单选题：
Milton’s Paradise Lost employs the themes taken from ( ) of the Christian Bible.
选项：
A:Luke
B:Exodus
C:Matthew
D:Genesis
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11、单选题：
The central theme of Paradise Lost is ( ).
选项：
A:resurrection
B:the fall of man
C:the creation of man
D:final judgment
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第五章 单元测试

1、单选题：
The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century which was an expression of the struggle of bourgeoisie against ( ).
选项：
A:puritanism
B:humanism
C:classicism
D:feudalism
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2、单选题：
Among the English Enlighteners of the 18th century, there were chiefly two groups: the ( ) group and the radical group.
选项：
A:royalist
B:moderate
C:conservative
D:revolutionary
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3、单选题：
The Tatler, a British literary and society journal begun by Richard Steele in 1709, featured cultivated essays on ( ).
选项：
A:social evils
B:cultural state
C:class struggles
D:contemporary manners
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4、单选题：
As a distinctive way, ( ) are adopted by the neo-classicist playwrights in the 18th-century English literature.
选项：
A:heroic couplets
B:three unities
C:realistic techniques
D:satires
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5、单选题：
( ) writers in the 18th-century English literature modelled themselves on the Greek and Roman writers in their dramatic writings.
选项：
A:Enlightenment
B:Pre-romanticist
C:Neo-classicist
D:Realist
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6、单选题：
Alexaner Pope was a master of poetry in heroic couplet. He strongly advocated ( ), emphasizing that literary works should be judged by classical rules.
选项：
A:classicism
B:naturalism
C:realism
D:aestheticism
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7、单选题：
Daniel Defoe is an early proponent of the ( ) novel whose masterpiece Robinson Crusoe tells about the adventures of a sailor on the sea and on an island.
选项：
A:sentimentalist
B:Gothic
C:realist
D:epistolary
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8、单选题：
As one of the greatest satirists in the 18th century, (     ) made use of satire to attack social evils and call for social changes in his Gulliver’s Travels.
选项：
A:

Samuel Richardson

B:

Henry Fielding

C:

Daniel Defoe

D:

Johnathan Swift

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9、单选题：
Gulliver’ s Travels tells about the adventures of Gullliver through the fairy tale of fantasy which is a great satire on ( ).
选项：
A:human nature
B:human spirit
C:human mind
D:human heart
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10、单选题：
( ), the greatest realist novelist of the 18th-century English literature, is also considered the father of the English novel.
选项：
A:Daniel Defoe
B:Jonathan Swift
C:Oliver Goldsmith
D:Henry Fielding
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11、单选题：
Tom Jones shows Fielding’s philosophical view of “return to ( )”. Thus, in characterization, a contrast is made between Tom Jones, the good-nautured though flawed man, and Bilfil, the hypocritical villain.
选项：
A:childhood
B:motherland
C:nature
D:countryside
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12、单选题：
Sentimentalism of English literature got its name from Lawrence Stern’s novel (     ) in which Sterne tries to catch the actual flow of human mind and sentiment.
选项：
A:

Pamela

B:

The Vicar of Wakefield

C:

Tristram Shandy

D:

A Sentimental Journey

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13、单选题：
Sentimetalism is also found in Samuel Richardson’s ( ) novels which convey female characters’ feelings and sentiments.
选项：
A:historical
B:realist
C:adventure
D:epistolary
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14、单选题：
The only poet of the sentimentalist school of literature is Thomas Gray, whose well-known “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” earned for him the name of a “( ) Poet”.
选项：
A:Lake
B:Local
C:Graveyard
D:National
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15、单选题：
Oliver Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield conveys his reflections on the relations between sentimentalism and ( ) in the 18th-century English literature.
选项：
A:romanticism
B:localism
C:satire
D:realism
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16、单选题：
The latter half of the 18th century English literature was marked by a strong protest against the bondage of classicism and a recognition of the claims of passion and emotion which is later known as ( ).
选项：
A:realism
B:neo-classicism
C:pre-romanticism
D:sentimentalism
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17、单选题：
Robert Burns is the best known of the poets who have written in the ( ) dialect.
选项：
A:Scottish
B:Celtic
C:Irish
D:London
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第六章 单元测试

1、单选题：
Romanticism preferred ( ) to reason and rationalism. To William Wordsworth, poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
选项：
A:devices
B:rhetoric
C:emotion
D:art
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2、单选题：
The joint publication of  (     ) in 1798 by Wordsworth and Coleridge marked the beginning of the Romantic movement in England.
选项：
A:

‘Lines Composed upon Tinten Abbey’

B:

‘Rime of Ancient Mariner’

C:

Lyrical Ballads

D:

‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads’

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3、单选题：
To Wordsworth, the theme of poetry should be concerned with ( ), the language of peotry should be plain, and the people poetry should deal with are country folk.
选项：
A:fantastic life
B:city life
C:country life
D:common life
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4、单选题：
In “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, “the inward eye” refers to ( ), which is a metaphor to appeal to the reader’s imagination of the author’s inner feelings.
选项：
A:“emotians”
B:“heart”
C:“reason”
D:“mind”
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5、单选题：
In “The Solitary Reaper”, the feeling of ( ) is clearly conveyed to the reader, especially in the first stanza.
选项：
A:disillusionment
B:homesickness
C:melancholy
D:loneliness
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6、单选题：
Percy Bysshe Shelley belongs to the school of ( ) romantic poets, whose masterpiece Prometheus Unbound owes much to the Greek tragedy Prometheus Bound.
选项：
A:active
B:lyrical
C:revolutionary
D:passive
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7、单选题：
( ) is Shelley’s bestknown lyric in which he calls forth the overthrowing of the old social system and bringing destruction to it.
选项：
A:“Song to the Man of England”
B:“Ode to the West Wind”
C:“The Cloud”
D:“To a Skylark”
答案:

8、单选题：
Walter Scott is the only novelist of the romantic literature of the 19th-century England and his novels are mainly ( ) novels as far as genre is concerned.
选项：
A:realist
B:sentimentalist
C:historical
D:psychoanalytical
答案:

9、单选题：
Scott’s historical novels touch upon the subject matters of the history of ( ), the history of England and the history of European countries.
选项：
A:France
B:Scotland
C:Ireland
D:Wales
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第七章 单元测试

1、单选题：
Jane Austen’s novels mainly concern such issues as the ( ) of young women. Because of the use of satire and criticism of social prejudices, she is considered as a realist novelist rather than a romantic writer.
选项：
A:ethics
B:morals
C:manners
D:feminism
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2、单选题：
The Bronte sisters refer to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte, with the elder two represented by Jane Eyre and ( ) respectively.
选项：
A:The Professor
B:Wuthering Heights
C:Villette
D:Agnes Grey
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3、单选题：
Of the women writers in the 19th century English literature, ( ) is the only one that deals with the life of the working-class people, represented by her novel Mary Barton.
选项：
A:Jane Austen
B:Charlotte Bronte
C:Mrs. Gaskell
D:George Eliot
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4、单选题：
The novels of George Eliot mostly deal with ( ) problems and contain psychological studies of the characters.
选项：
A:cultural
B:psychological
C:social
D:moral
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第八章 单元测试

1、单选题：
In response to the social, political and economic problems associated with industrialisation, ( ) novel becomes the leading genre of the Victorian literature.
选项：
A:aestheticist
B:critial realist
C:new romanticist
D:psychoanalytical
答案:

2、单选题：
The first period of Charles Dickens’s literary career is characterized mainly by (     ) and the novels are filled with moral teachings.
选项：
A:

fatalism

B:

optimism

C:

pessimism

D:

mysticism

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3、单选题：
Thomas Hardy is the most representative realist in the later decades of the Victorian era, whose principal works are the ( ) novels, i.e., the novels describing the characters and environment of his native countryside.
选项：
A:modernist
B:character and environment
C:Bildungsroman
D:realist
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4、单选题：
In the aesthetic movement of the 19th century, “Art for Art’s Sake” can simply mean the focus on ( ) rather than on deep meaning of literary works.
选项：
A:form
B:impression
C:beauty
D:technique
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5、单选题：
( ) is a type of poetry written in the form of a speech of an individual character whose spiritual world is conveyed to the reader through the author’s subtle psychological analysis.
选项：
A:Psycho-analysis
B:Free association
C:Interior monologue
D:Dramatic monologue
答案:

6、单选题：
“Break, Break, Break” is a short lyric poem written by Alfred Tennyson which is a(n) ( ) for the poet to reveal his grief over the death of his friend.
选项：
A:elegy
B:lyric
C:ode
D:sonnet
答案:

7、单选题：
Thomas Carlyle’s non-fiction The French Revolution: A History was the inspiration for Charles Dickens’ s novel (    ).
选项：
A:

A Tale of Two Cities

B:

Hard Times

C:

Great Expectations

D:

Oliver Twist

答案:

8、单选题：
John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era. In his Modern Painters, he argued that the principal role of the artist is ( ).
选项：
A:innovation
B:“art for art’s sake”
C:creativity
D:“truth to nature“
答案:

9、单选题：
In his Culture and Anarchy, ( ) showed his deepest contempt for and most frequent attack on the middle-class Philistines who he thought lacked culture.
选项：
A:Thomas Carlyle
B:Matthew Arnold
C:Charles Kinsley
D:John Ruskin
答案:

第九章 单元测试

1、单选题：
Writers, artists and composers we consider “modern” had their roots in the ( ) era which produced such writers as Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, W. S. Maugham, etc.
选项：
A:Victorian
B:Elizabethan
C:Edwardian
D:Georgian
答案:

2、单选题：
A Passage to India is set on Joseph Conrad’s own experience in India which deals with the theme of ( ) in addition to persoal relationships.
选项：
A:patriotism
B:colonialism
C:fatalism
D:culturalism
答案:

3、单选题：
( ) is admittedly an autobiographical novel which draws much on Maugham’s own experience.
选项：
A:The Razor’s Edge
B:The Moon and Sixpence
C:Of Human Bondage
D:Howard’s End
答案:

第十章 单元测试

1、单选题：
“The Waste Land” is written by T. S. Eliot in which the theme of the ( ) of the post-World War I generation is declared to the reader.
选项：
A:enlightenment
B:disillusionment
C:radicalism
D:dream
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2、单选题：
Because of his Irish background, ( ) is thought to be the driving force of the Irish Literary Revival.
选项：
A:Matthew Arnold
B:Robert Browning
C:William Butler Yeats
D:Alfred Tennyson
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3、单选题：
Ulysses, written by James Joyce and considered the most representative of the Egnlish stream-of-consciousness novels, is set in ( ), Ireleand .
选项：
A:London
B:Edinburgh
C:Dublin
D:Manchester
答案:

4、单选题：
The only female writer of the stream-of-consciousness novel is ( ), who produced such novels as To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, The Waves, etc. .
选项：
A:Elizabeth Bowen
B:George Eliot
C:Catherine Mansfield
D:Virginia Woolf
答案:

5、单选题：
D. H. Lawrence is a modernist novelist who makes reflections upon the dehumanizing effects of ( ) in his representative work Sons and Lovers.
选项：
A:modernization
B:mechanization
C:industrialisation
D:urbanization
答案: