1、Percy Bysshe Shelly is famous for ___.
A Ode to a Skylark and Ode to a Nightingale
B Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode to the West Wind
C Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian Urn
D Ode to the West Wind and Ode to a Skylark
2、 “Three of four families in a country village is something to work.” This statement was presented by ___.
A Emily Bronte
B Jane Austen
C Mrs. Gaskell
D George Eliot
3、George Eliot wrote all the following except ___.
A The Mill of Floss
B Silas Marner
C Middlemarch
D Agnes Grey
4、The novel Vanity Fair was written by ___.
A William Makepeace Thackeray
B Charles Dickens
C O. Henry
D Henry James
5、Vanity Fair was a novel written by William Makepeace Thackeray, and the term “vanity fair” firstly appeared in ___ by ___.
A Canterbury Tales … Geoffrey Chaucer
B The Pilgrim’s Progress … John Bunyan
C Tome Jones … Henry Fielding
D Dubliners … James Joyce
6、The novel Vanity Fair was written by William Makepeace Thackeray who also wrote ___.
A The Way of all life
B The History of Henry Esmond
C Sister Carrie
D Howard’s End
7、Barchester Series is a series of novels written by ___.
A Barchester
B Thomas Hardy
C Anthony Trollope
D Mark Twin
8、Erehwon is a satiric novel written by ___.
A Samuel Butler
B Henry Fielding
C Thomas More
D Mark Twin
9、In “the lake Isle of Innisfree” William Butler Yeats Express his ___?
A desire to escape from the materialistic society
B fear caused by the impending war
C interest in the Irish legend
D Love for Maud Gonne, a beautiful Irish actress
10、Walter Scott’s historical novels cover a long period of time, from the Middle Ages to 18th century. His work Ivanhoe deals an epoch of ___ history.
A English
B French
C Scotland
D Irish
參考答案:
1選D。 題中所有“頌歌”都是浪漫主義詩人的代表作品,《西風頌》(Ode to the West Wind),《云雀頌》(Ode to a Skylark)是雪萊的代表作抒情詩。
2選B。 奧斯丁通過對熟悉的人和事物的描寫展示了她所生活的英國鄉(xiāng)紳階層的生活景觀,她認為“一個鄉(xiāng)村中的三四戶人家是合適的寫作對象。”
3選D。 喬治.愛略特是瑪麗.安.伊萬斯(Mary Ann Evans)的筆名,這位才女是19世紀現(xiàn)實主義小說的真正代表,她的《弗羅斯河上的磨坊》(The Mill of Floss),《織工馬南》(Silas Marner),和《米德爾馬契》(Middlemarch)等作品以寫實手法展現(xiàn)英國的社會人生圖,對人物的內(nèi)心活動和行為機動刻畫十分生動細致,愛略特因此被譽為心理小說的先驅。
4 選A。 《名利場》是威廉.麥克皮斯.薩克雷(William Makepeace Thackrary)創(chuàng)作的小說。小說通過女主人公不擇手段躋身上流社會的故事,對勢力者進行了無情的揭露和嘲諷。
5 選B。 《名利場》是威廉.麥克皮斯.薩克雷(William Makepeace Thackrary)創(chuàng)作的小說。小說通過女主人公不擇手段躋身上流社會的故事,對勢力者進行了無情的揭露和嘲諷。名利場這一詞最初出現(xiàn)在班揚的《天路歷程》(The Pilgrim’s Progress)一書中,是一個虛構的專門出售虛榮用品的集市,如地位、榮譽、頭銜、財富等等。薩克累將其借用過來作為小說的名。
6 選B。薩克雷(William Makepeace Thackrary)的《亨利.埃斯蒙德》(The History of Henry Esmond)是英國文學史上一部杰出的歷史小說。
7 選C。 安東尼.特羅洛普(Anthony Trollope)是19世紀中下葉英國重要的小說家,他是一位多產(chǎn)作家,作品達47部之多,主要作品是“巴塞特郡系列小說”(Barchester Series)。
8 選A。 塞繆爾.勃特勒(Samuel Butler)的《埃瑞璜》(Erehwon)是一部諷刺性小說,Erehwon是英文nowhere的倒寫,通過一位游客在埃瑞璜的所見所聞,記錄了這個烏托邦國家的生活,以此抨擊和諷刺英國社會。
9 選A。 《伊尼斯弗里河》(the Lake Isle of Innisfree)是葉芝最為著名的抒情詩之一,表達了作者渴望回歸自然,過一種古老、純樸、隱士般生活的愿望。
10 選A。 司各特的歷史小說通常被分為三類:以蘇格蘭歷史為背景的小說有《羅布.羅伊》(Rob Roy), 以英國歷史為背景的小說有《艾凡赫》(Ivanhoe),以歐洲其他國家歷史為背景的小說有《昆丁.達威特》(Quentin Durwark)。