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1. "The Graveyard Poets" got the name because ___. A they chose to live near graveyards B they often wrote about death and melancholy C they always wrote about dead people D they often use "graveyard" as the title 2. It is generally understood that the recurrent theme in many of Thomas Hardy's novel is ___. A man against nature B love and marriage C social criticism D fate and destiny 3. The Romantic Period in English literature began with the publication of ___. A William Blake's Songs of Innocence B Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice C Wordsworth's and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads D a piece of land 4. It is generally regarded that Keats' most important and mature poems are in the form of ___. A ode B elegy C epic D sonnet 5. G.B. Shaw's play Mrs. Warren's Profession is a realistic exposure of the ___ in the English society. A slum landlordism B inequality between men and women C political corruption D economic exploitation of women 6. The Preface to Shakespeare and Lives of the Poets are the works of critic ___. A G.B. Shaw B Samuel Johnson C Ben Johnson D E.M. Foster 7. The Ring and the Book is a masterpiece of ___. A Alfred Tennyson B Robert Browning C Thomas Hardy D Ralph Waldo Emerson 8. Matthew Arnold is the writer of ___. A Dover Beach B My last Duchess C Break, Break, Break D The Eagle 9. The writer of Heart of Darkness is also the one of ___. A Time of Machine B Jim C Lord Jim D A Passage to India 10. Of Human Bondage is a novel by ___. A Herbert George Wells B Arnold Bennett C William Somerset Maugham D John Galsworthy 【答案】 1. 选B “墓畔派”是指18世纪那些描写死亡的哀挽的诗人。代表作有托马斯.格雷《墓园挽歌》(Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard),托马斯.巴奈尔的《死亡之夜》(Night Piece on Death),爱德华. 扬《夜思》(Night Thoughts)和罗伯特.布莱尔的《坟墓》(The Grave)。 2. 选D 在哈代(Thomas Hardy)的作品中,他那悲剧色彩的哲学观告诉我们,人生的一切都是命运安排,是不可抗拒的。人在命运的面前束手无策,无论人们怎样努力,都很难逃脱命运的折磨和戏弄。 3. 选C 威廉.华兹华斯(William Wordsworth),于1798同柯勒律治(Samuel Tayor Coleridge)合作出版了著名的《抒情歌谣集》(Lyrical Ballads),该诗第二版的“序”被认为是英国浪漫主义的宣言。 4. 选A 济慈的代表作品有《夜莺颂》(Ode to a Nightingale),《希腊古瓮颂》(Ode on a Grecian Urn),《忧郁颂》(Ode on Melancholy),《秋颂》(To Autumn)等。“颂”被认为是济慈最具有代表性和最为成功的诗歌形式。 5. 选D 萧伯纳的剧作《华伦夫人的职业》(Mrs. Warren's Profession)塑造了一个在经济重压下普通妇女的形象,该剧揭露了一个令人愤怒的事实:在资本主义社会,娼妓业也成了一种剥削方式。 6. 选B 塞缪尔.约翰逊18世纪英国人文主义文学批评的巨匠,《莎士比亚戏剧集序言》(The Preface to Shakespeare),和《诗人传》(Lives of the Poets)是他对文学批评做出的饿突出贡献。 7. 选B 《指环与书》(The Ring and the Boo)是罗伯特.勃郎宁(Robert Browning)的诗作。 8. 选A 《多佛海滩》(Dover Beach)是阿诺德(Matthew Arnold)诗歌中的名篇之一,反映了19世纪西方社会中的宗教信仰在新知识的冲击下普遍沦丧的时代风貌。 9. 选C 《黑暗的心》(Heart of Darkness)和《吉姆老爷》(Lord Jim)都是约瑟夫.康德拉的小说,《吉姆》(Jim)是同时期另一位作家迪亚德.吉卜林的作品。 10.选C 威廉.萨默塞特.毛姆(William Somerset Maugham)的创作深受法国自然主义的影响,他的长篇小说《人性的枷锁》(Of Human Bondage)展现了主人公摆脱精神枷锁的过程。 |