II. True or false. (10 points, 1 point for each)
Directions: In this part of the test, there are ten items. Decide whether the statements are true (A) or false (B) and blacken the corresponding A/B on the ANSWER SHEET.
21. Alfred Tennyson is the most representative, if not the greatest, Victorian poet.
22. Dubliners is a novel written by James Joyce.
23. William Butler Yeats is the most representative romantic poet.
24. “Down by the Salley Gardens” is written by Alfred Tennyson.
25. Beowulf, a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.
26. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature, and one that takes us to the core of Wordsworth’s poetic beliefs.
27. Middlemarch is considered today by many to be George Eliot’s greatest achievement.
28. James Joyce’s masterpiece, Finnegans Wake, gives the account of man’s life during one day in Dublin.
29. D. H. Lawrence’s representative work Women in Love was positively taken as a typical example and lively manifestation of the Oedipus Complex in fiction.
30. The Man of Property is the first novel of the Forsyte trilogies written by John Galsworthy.
非选择题部分
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III. Match. (10 points, 1 point for each
Directions: Choose the correct letters from the list of the authors for the following works and put them on the ANWSER SHEET.
31. The Merchant of Venice 32. Gulliver’s Travels 33. “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” 34. Oliver Twist 35. Dubliners 36. Pride and Prejudice 37. Tess of the D’Urbervilles 38. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” 39. The Prelude 40. Robinson Crusoe |
A. Charles Dickens B. James Joyce C. Jane Austen D. John Keats E. Jonathan Swift F. William Shakespeare G. William Wordsworth H. Thomas Hardy I. Daniel Defoe J. Thomas Gray |
IV. Blanks Filling. (9 points, 1 point for each)
Directions: In this part of the test, there are 10 items. Fill in the best answer on the ANSWER SHEET according to the knowledge you have learned.
41. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama, ________.
42. ________ , the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded as Shakespeare’s most popular play on the stage, for it has the qualities of a “blood-and-thunder” thriller and a philosophical exploration of life and death.
43. “ ________ ” is one of Coleridge’s masterpieces. It tells an adventurous story of a sailor.
44. Wordsworth is a poet in memory of the past. To him, life is a cyclical journey. Its beginning finally turns out to be its end. His philosophy of life is presented in his masterpiece ________.
45. ________ is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist.
46. The name of Robert Browning is often associated with the term: “ ________.”
47. Today Chaucer is regarded as the father of English poetry. His masterpiece is ________.
48. The term “metaphysical poetry” is commonly used to name the work of the 17th-century writers who wrote under the influence of ________.
49. In the field of literature, the Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classical works. This tendency is known as ________.