英國文學(xué)試題

1、InstructionsThis examination consistsof 5 parts ， and the total time for theexamination is 2 hours. All the answers should be entered onto the Answer Sheet.）（ 10%PartI ： Multiple ChoicesChoose the best answer to the following sentences.？ Which of the following is NOT a feature of Beowulf1. A. Allite

2、rationSaxons' early life in England B. Anglo-C. Germanic languageD. The national epic of Anglo-Saxon people. English Renaissance Period was an age of2. B. poetry and drama A. prose and novelD. ballads and songsC. essays and journalscentury was poetry. John Milton was th 17of the early main 3. Th

3、e literary formacknowledged as the greatest. Besides him ， there were two groups of poets. They were the. Cavalier poets andB. the university wits A. the lake poetsD. the Romantic poetsC. the Metaphysical poets4. Pamela is widely considered to be the first novel and was written by .A. Thomas HardyB.

4、 James JoyceC. Samuel RichardsonD. Henry Fielding5. The publication of， which was the joint work of William Wordsworth andmarked the beginning of the Romantic Age in England.，Samuel T . Coleridge B. The Rime of the AncientMarinerA. Don JuanD. Queen MabC. Lyrical Ballads 6. Among the most famous real

5、istic novelists of the Victorian ageareW. M.etc. Bronte sisters， Thackeray ，B. Henry FieldingA. Joseph ConradD. D. H. LawrenceC. Charles Dickens7. In James Joyce'sthe storyEveline ” paints a portrait of a youngA. Ulysseswoman from Dublin deciding whether or not to leave her hometown.B. OrlandoC.

6、 DublinersD. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mancentury England ， satire was much used in writing. Literature of this ageth In the 188. . HenryFielding and ， such as Jonathan Swift ， produced some excellent satiristsD. Daniel Defoe Alexander Pope C. William BlakeB. Robert Burns9. William Wordswo

7、rthnever used “gaudy and inane phraseology” because he felt thatpoetry should .A. be read only by the well-educatedB. use difficult vocabulary to express complicated emotionsC. use simple speech to communicate the truths of human experienceD. rely on strange and uncommon words to bring people new ex

8、periences10. Virginia Woolf is renowned for adopting the technique ， which displays thesequence of thoughts and impressions in a person's mind.B. third-person narrationA.mind-readingD. feministC. stream-of-consciousness)(10% ：Gap FillingPart II Complete the following sentences and write your ans

9、wers on the AnswerSheet.1. Geoffrey Chaucer's workgives us a picture of the condition of English life ofits fun and sympathy.， such as its work and play ， its deeds and dreamshis day， the most importantform of literary composition is，2. During the Norman Conquest， the representative of which is

10、the legend of King Arthur and the round tableknights. 3. Epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English drama. It wasWilliam Shakespeare and who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression indrama. 4. Hamlet ， Othello ， Macbeth andare generally regarded as WilliamShakesp

11、eare's four great tragedies.5. Edmund Spenser is generally regarded as the greatestnondramatic poet of the. Elizabethan Age. His fame is chiefly based on his masterpiece6. In Elizabethan Period ，wrote more than 50 excellent essays， which made himone of the best essayists in English literature.7.

12、 The was a progressive intellectual movementthroughout western Europe in thecentury.18 th ， as a reaction against Reason century， there appeared th In the latter part of the 188. novel and literature of sentimentality.9. Thomas Gray's highly praised poemshows the poet's sympathy for thepoor

13、， and condemns the great ones who despise the poor and bring sufferings to thecommon people. 10. The Romantic movement in England had two significant movements as its . the French Revolution and ： background11 is perhaps the most talented early novelist. She wrote a number ofsuch as Pride andbooks c

14、oncerning young ， relatively wealthy women pursuing marriagePrejudice and Emma. 12. George Byron is chiefly known for his two long poems. One is Childe Harold's . Pilgrimage and the other isa type of lyric poem that is13 John Keats wrote several famous meditative and formal.14. the eldest of the

15、 two famous novelist sisterswrote JaneEyre in thecentury.middle of the 19 th 15. monologue was first successfully used in poetry byRobertBrowning. century literature isetc. ， anti-heroanti-pastth 20the ofin One 16. of the most striking featuresanti-tradition ， anti-novel century ， was written th the

16、 manifesto of modernist poetry in the 20 17.by T. S. Eliot. 18. A Passage to India ， Howard's End ， and A Room with a View are three of the mostfamous novels by . 19. Lord Jim is one of the most famous novels by ， whowas born in Polandand learned English as his third language.Man and Superman an

17、d Pygmalion are two of most famousplays by .20.)( 15% ： Definition of TermsPart III Choose THREE out of the following terms and explain them intwo or three sentences.Heroic couplet Setting ； Point of view ； Soliloquy ； Sonnet ； ) 40%Appreciation( Part IV ：Choose TWO of the following three excerpts a

18、nd write a passage of comment( about 80Excerpt 1on each one. Your comment should cover the questions after each excerpt.wordsI wandered lonely as a cloud， That floats on high o'er vales and hills， When all at once I saw a crowd； of golden daffodilsA host， beneath the treesBeside the lakeFlutteri

19、ng and dancing in the breeze.when on my couch I lie， For oft， In vacant or in pensive moodThey flash upon that inward eye； Which is the bliss of solitude， And then my heart with pleasure fillsAnd dances with the daffodils.) “ I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”( William Wordsworth ，： Questions1. What is t

20、he central image of this poem？ What is the poet's reaction as revealed in the？ poem 2. Wordsworth believes that“All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerfulfeelings ” and poetry “ takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility” . How does this？poem reflect the poet's phi

21、losophy of composition： Excerpt 2The proper study of mankind is man.， Placed on this isthmus of a middle state： and rudely greatA being darkly wise ， With too much knowledge for the Skeptic side， With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride； or rest in doubt to act ， He hangs between ； ； or beas

22、tIn doubt to deem himself a God ，； In doubt his mind or body to prefer ， and reasoning such Born but to die ； Whether he thinks too little or too much；， all confused Chaos of thought and passion ； Still by himself abused or disabused；， and half to fallCreated half to rise) An Essay on Man (Alexander

23、 Pope ，：Questions？ s1. What's the topic of the above line2.Summarize the main idea in a few sentences.： Excerpt 3I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts ， which I hope will not be liableto the least objection. I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in Lond

24、onthat ayoung healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious， nourishing ， and wholesomefood ， whether stewed ， roasted ， baked ， or boiled ； and I make no doubt that it will equallyserve in a fricassee or a ragout.I do therefore humbly offer it to public consideration that of thehundre

25、d and twenty thousand children ， already computed ， twenty thousand may be reserved for breed， whereofonly one fourth part to be males， which is more than we allow to sheep， black cattle ， oraand ； swine， marriageof fruits the seldom are children these that is reason mycircumstance not much regarded

26、 by our savages， therefore one male will be sufficient toserve four females. That the remaining hundred thousand may at a year old be offered in sale to the person of quality and fortune through the kingdom， always advising the mother to letthem suck plentifully in the last month ， so as to render t

27、hem plump and fat for a good table. A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends， and when the family dinesalone ， the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish ； and seasoned with a little pepperespecially in winter .， or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day ) A Mo

28、dest ProposalJonathan Swift ，(：Questions1. What is the author's modest proposal in the passage？ And what do you think is his？ real idea behind it2. What kind of tone is shown in the passage？(Explain it with specific quotationsfrom) the text )( Part V . Critical Reading 25%Read the attached short

29、 story and answer the questions in essay form.Describe it in a few sentences.What's the turning point in the murder trial？ 1.2.Read carefully the last two paragraphs of the story and comment， in the form of aon the message or real meaning of the author.150-200-word essay， The Case for the Defens

30、eGraham Greene1 It was the strangest murder trial that I ever attended. They named it the Peckhammurder in the headlines ， though Northwood Street ， where the old woman was found battered to death ， was not strictly speaking in Peckham. This was not one of those cases of circumstantial evidence in w

31、hich you feel the juryman's anxiety because mistakes havebeen made like domes of silence muting the court. No， this murderer was all but found withthe body ； no one present when the Crown counsel outlined his case believed that the manin the dock stood any chance at all.2 He was a heavy stout ma

32、n with bulging bloodshot eyes. All hismuscles seemed to bein his thighs. Yes ， an ugly customer ， one you wouldn't forget in a hurry and that was animportant point because the Crown proposed to call four witnesses who hadn't forgotten him ， who had seen him hurrying away from the little red

33、villa in Northwood Street. The clockhad just struck two in the morning.3 Mrs. Salmon in 15 Northwood Street had been unable to sleepshe heard a door clickshut and thought it was her own gate. So she went to the window and saw Adams( that washis name ) on the steps of Mrs. Parker's house. He had

34、just come out and he was wearing gloves. He had a hammer in his hand and she saw him drop it into the laurel bushes at the front gate. But before he moved away， he had looked up at her window. The fatal instincthis that tells a man when he is watched exposed him in the light of a street-lamp to her

35、gaze eyes suffused with horrifying and brutal fear， like an animal's when you raise a whip. I talkedafterwards to Mrs. Salmon ， who naturally after the astonishing verdict went in fear herself. As I imagined did all the witnessesHenry MacDougall ， who had been driving home fromBenfleet late and

36、nearly ran Adams down at the corner of Northwood Street. Adams was walking in the middle of the road looking dazed. And old Mr . Wheeler ， who lived next door to Mrs. Parker ， at No. 12 and was waken by a noise like a chair falling through thedone ， saw Adam's back and ， as he turned ， those bul

37、ging eyes. In Laurel Avenue he hadbeen seen by yet another witness his luck was badly out； he might as well have committedthe crime in broad daylight.4 “ I understand ，” the counsel said ，“that the defense proposes to pleadmistaken identity. Adams' wife will tell you that he was with her at two

38、in the morning on February 14 ， but after you have heard the witnesses for the Crown and examined carefully the features of the prisoner， I do not think you will be prepared to admit the possibility of amistake. ” but the hanging. you would have said， 5 It was all over ，6 After the formal evidence h

39、ad been given by the policeman who had found the bodyand the surgeon who examined it， Mrs. Salmon was called. She was the ideal witness， withcare and kindness.her slight Scotch accent and her expression of honesty， 7 The counsel for theCrown brought the story gently out. She spoke very firmly. There

40、 was no malice in her ， and no sense of importance at standing there in the Central Criminal Court with a judge in scarlet handing on her words and the reporters writing them down.and then she had gone down stairs and rung up the police station.，Yes， she said ”？ 8 “And do yousee the man here in cour

41、tShe looked straight and at the big man in the dock， who stared at her with his Pekingeseeyes without emotion.“there he is. ” ” she said ， “Yes， ”te certain ？ “You are qui sir. ”，“ I couldn't be mistaken She said simply It was as easy as that.Mrs. Salmon. ” “ Thank you ，9 Counsel for the defense

42、 rose to cross-examine. If you had reported as many murdertrials as I have ， you would have known beforehand what line he would take. And I wasup to a point.right， 10 “Now ， Mrs. Salmon ， you must have remembered that a man's life maydepend onyour evidence. ” sir. ” “I do remember it ，”？“ Is you

43、r eyesight goodsir .”， “I have never had to wear spectacles”u are a woman of fifty-five ？ “Yo sir. ”， “Fifty-six”“ And the man you saw was on the other side of the road？sir .”， “Yes ”Mrs. Salmon ？“And it was two o'clock in the morning. You must have remarkable eyes“No ， sir. There was moonlight，

44、 and the man looked up， he had the lamplight on hisface. ” 11 I couldn't make out what he was at. He couldn't have expected any other answerthan the one he got.sir. It isn't a face one forgets.” “None whatever ， 12 13 Counsel took a lookaround the court for a moment. Then he said， “Do yo

45、umind ， Mrs. Salmon ， examining again the people in court？ No ， not the prisoner . Standup ， please ， Mr. Adams ，” and there at the back of the court with thick stout body andmuscular legs and a pair of bulging eyes， was the exact image of the man in the dock. He wastight blue suit and striped tie.e

46、ven dressed the same 14 “ Now think very carefully， Mrs. Salmon.Can you still swear that the man you sawdrop the hammer in Mrs. Parker's garden was the prisoner and not this man ， who is his twin” brother ？ Of course she couldn't. She looked from one to the other and didn't say a word.1516 There the big brute sat in the dock