英国文学知识竞赛.doc

(完整版)英国文学知识竞赛
第一轮必答题：
1-1. is the most accomplished example of medieval romance, dealing with Arthurian romance.
A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight B。 The Canterbury Tales C. Piers the Plowman D. The Song of Beowulf
2-1.Christopher Marlowe first made ______ the principal instrument of English drama.
A. blank verse B. heroic couplet C. free verse D。 monologue
3—1．Paradise Lost is a(n) ________ in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton.
A. historical tragedy B。 satirical comedy C. epic poem D。 metaphysical poem
4-1．Modern English novel, as a product of the 18th century Enlightenment and industrialization, really came with the rising of the class。
A。 working B。 aristocratic C。 bourgeois D。 capitalist
5—1．The Romantic Age is said to have begun in 1798 when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their joint work .
答案：Lyrical Ballads 。抒情歌谣集
6-1． written by Charles Dickens is generally taken as the most autobiographical novel。
答案：David Copperfield
7—1。 Which of the following works is NOT written by Virginia Woolf?
A. Mrs. Dalloway B。 Finnegans Wake C。 To the Lighthouse D。 Orlando
第一轮必答题：
1—2. In , the chaos of the contemporary world and the despair of westerners after the first world war are expressed。
A. Ode to the West Wind B. The Waste Land C. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud D. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
2-2。 Chronologically the Victorian Period refers to ____。
A. 1798—1832
B. 1837—1901
C. 1558—1603
D. 1660-1785
3-2 .________ was an Irish playwright who wrote more than fifty plays, including Pygmalion。
答案：George Bernard Shaw
4-2。 “Art for Art’s Sake” is the slogan for the ________ Movement 。
A。 Romantic B. Transcendentalist C。 Realistic D. Aesthetic
5-2. Which of the following novels is commonly seen as a forerunner of later stream of consciousness？
A. Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe B. Fielding's Tom Jones
C。 Smollett's Roderick Random D. Sterne’s Tristram Shandy
6-2. The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from 。
A。 Gulliver’s Travels B。 The Pilgrim’s Progress
C. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage D。 The Canterbury Tales

7—2. Who was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature .
A. Thomas Wyatt B. William Shakespeare
C。 Philip Sydney D。 Geoffrey Chaucer
第一轮必答题:
1—3. My Last Duchess is a poem by ________.
A。 Alfred Tennyson B。 Robert Browning
C. Matthew Arnold
2-3. Oscar Wilde was the representative among the writers of ________ .
A. aestheticism B。 critical realism C. neo—classicism D。 sentimentalism
3-3. Which of the following contributed a lot to the Irish literary revival called the Irish Renaissance？
A。W。B。 Yeats B。William Wordsworth C。John Keats D。George Bernard Shaw
4—3. The most famous English ballads of the 15th century is the Ballads of ， a legendary outlaw。
答案：Robin Hood
5-3。 John Bunyan's The Pilgrim’s Progress is a（n) .
A。 comedy of manners B. romance C。 allegory D. realistic novel
6-3. Araby is a short story for the anthology ________ published in 1914。
答案：Dubliners
7-3。 Who wrote Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
答案：Thomas Gray
第二轮必答题：
1-1.The principal elements of ( ） novel are mystery， horror and suspense。
　A. Realistic　B. Romantic 　C. Sentimental 多愁善感的 　D。 Gothic 哥特式

2—1。 Who leads Adam and Eve out of Paradise?
A。 God B。 The Son C。 Michael D。 Raphael
3-1。 The ________ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century.
　答案：Enlightenment （启蒙运动）
4-1。 Which of the following plays is NOT written by the Irish dramatist Oscar Wilde？
A. Saint Joan
B. A Woman of No Importance
C。 An Ideal Husband
D。 The Importance of Being Earnest
答案：A. Saint Joan was written by George Bernard Shaw

5—1. The modernist writers such as Richardson， Joyce and Woolf are mainly concerned with the ______.
A。 External world
B。 Inner life of an individual
C. Social activities of human beings
D.Public life of an individual

6—1. Which of the following is generally considered as James Joyce's masterpiece?
A. Dubliners B. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man C。 Ulysses D。 Finnegans Wake

7-1. In Greek mythology, ( ) are creatures with the head of a female and the body of a bird, living on an island.
答案:Siren
第二轮必答题：
1-2。 The following lines are excerpted from ______ written by ______.
“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree：
Where Alph， the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea."
答案：Kubla Khan； Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2—2. How does Tess react when she is caught for her crime？
A. She commits suicide instead of submitting herself for a trial。
B。 She accepts her punishment, telling her captors that she is ready.
C. She does not react， for her captors kill her before she awakes.
D. She weeps， lamenting her miserable fate.
3—2。Identify the poem and the poet。
“… All is no lost： the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield ……”
答案：It is taken from John Milton’s “Paradise Lost”。
4-2. Lord of the Flies is an allegorical novel by Nobel Prize—winning author ______。
A. E. M。 Forster B。 William Golding C. Doris Lessing D。 John Fowles
5-2. “Wild Spirit， which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver； hear, oh hear！” was from ________。
A. Ode to a SkylarkOde B. Ode on a Grecian Urn C. Ode to the West Wind D. Ode to a Nightingale
6—2. The two major novelists of the Romantic period are _____.
A。 William Wordsworth and John Keats
B. John Keats and Jane Austen
C。 Jane Austen and Walter Scott
D. Walter Scott and P.B. Shelly。
7-2。 Who is NOT one of the Victorian poets?
A. Alfred Tennyson B. Andrew Marvell
C. Robert Browning D。 Matthew Arnold
答案：（Andrew Marvell （1621 – 1678) was an English metaphysical poet)

第二轮必答题:
1—3。 The Golden Notebook is a novel by British author ______, known for her strong sense of feminism.
A. Mrs. Browning
B. Virginia Woolf
C。 Antonia Susan Byatt
D。 Doris Lessing
2-3。 Who is NOT the major figure of the Modernist Movement？
A. T。 S. Eliot.
B。 James Joyce.
C. Thomas Carlyle.
D. Ezra Pound。
答案:Thomas Carlyle belongs to the Victorian Era。
3—3。 Heart of Darkness （1902） is ________'s most famous shorter work.
答案：Joseph Conrad
4—3。 — Is he married or single?
— Oh！ Single, my dear， to be sure! A single man of large fortune； four or five thousand a year。 What a fine thing for our girls!
Who are the two speakers？
答案：Mr。 Bennet and Mrs. Bennet。

5—3 。Greek drama evolved from the song and dance in the ceremonies honoring ____ at Athens。
答案：Dionysus
6—3。 The rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter is _______. 答案：Heroic couplet
7-3. Which of the following is NOT from Ireland?
A. Jonathan Swift C. George Bernard Shaw
B。 Daniel Defoe D. James Joyce

第一轮抢答题
1.
1。 The emphasis on imagination
2。 The idealization of nature
3. The praise of individualism
4。 The glorification of the commonplace
5. The lure of the exotic
The above features are of the English ________ movement. 答案：romantic

2.
Tell the order of the literary movements in British literature.
a. Realism b。 Aestheticism c. Romanticism d。 Modernism e。 Classicism
e→c→a→b→d

3.
Guess the term。
It is a term referring to the deliberate departure from tradition and the use of innovative forms of expression that distinguish many styles in the arts and literature of the 20th century。
Modernism
4。
As a literary figure， Stephen Dedalus appears in two novels by ______。
A. D. H. Lawrence B。 John Galsworthy C。 James Joyce D. George Eliot

5。
The poetry is characterized by verbal wit and excess， irregular meter， colloquial language, elaborate imagery， and a drawing together of dissimilar ideas。what is the term?
答案：Metaphysical poetry

6。
阶段抢答题
。Name the writer according to the clues given.
1） He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1969.
2) He was the Irish novelist， playwright who became French by adoption。
3) He is best remembered for his Waiting for Godot.
答案：Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
7。
Who is he？
He is a great modernist poet。
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948。
He wrote the most famous English poem of the 20th century.
Who is he？
答案:
T。S。 Eliot
(Author of The Waste Land）
（8)
Homer is the poet who wrote the two great epics of Greek history: the Iliad （about the tale of ______） and the Odyssey （about ______)。
答案：
the Trojan War, the travels of Odysseus
（9)
In Arthurian legend, who is the magician acting as King Arthur’s advisor？
答案:
Merlin
（10)
List Charles Dickens’s important novels （at least 4）.
David Copperfield Oliver Twist A Tale of Two Cities Bleak House Hard Times Great Expectations
第二轮抢答题
1.
Modernism upholds a new view of time by emphasizing the time over the chronological time。
答案:psychic
2. Match。
1. Charles Dickens a. Mrs. Warren's Profession
2。 E。 M。 Foster b。 Hard Times
3. George Bernard Shaw c. The Importance of Being Earnest
4. Oscar Wilde d. A Passage to India
1 -—— b 2 --- d 3 -—- a 4 -—- c
3。
In the mid-1950s and early 1960s， there appeared a group of young novelists and playwrights with lower-middle-class or working-class background, who were known as "_____".
A。 the Furious Young Men             
B。 the Angry Young Men
C. the Sentimental Young Men         
4. Match
A. Alexander Pope 1. Amelia
B。 Daniel Defoe 2。 A Modest Proposal
C。 Henry Fielding 3. Moll Flanders
D。 Jonathan Swift 4。 An Essay on Man
答案:
A。 Alexander Pope 4。 An Essay on Man
B. Daniel Defoe 　　 3. Moll Flanders
C。 Henry Fielding 1. Amelia
D. Jonathan Swift 2。 A Modest Proposal
5.阶段抢答题
Name the writer according to the clues given.
1. He was an Irish—born political writer and clergyman。
2. His father had died before his birth， and he was raised by his father's family in England。
3. He ranks as the foremost prose satirist in the English language。
答案:Jonathan Swift
6。
What is the man’s name？ And what is he doing？
Robinson Crusoe。 He is taking supplies off his shipwreck on his hastily built raft.
Which of the following poets wrote a poem about the flowers in the picture？
Ｃ．（William Wordsworth wrote the poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”。 It was about the daffodils
(8)
“And I will luve thee still, my dear./ Till a' the seas gang dry.” is taken from the famous poem .
答案：“A Red Red Rose”
9。Name the cultural relic
答案：The Parthenon帕台农神庙）
The Greek temple dedicated to the goddess Athena. The Parthenon is the most famous surviving building of Ancient Greece and one of the most famous buildings in the world。

（10）"Dover Beach” is ______’s most celebrated work.
A。 Alfred Tennyson B. Matthew Arnold C. Robert Browning D。 Thomas Hardy

100分风险题
1．In the 20th century, who are the two major advocates of the technique of “stream of consciousness”？
答案：James Joyce and Virginia Woolf
2．Who is the author of the comedy An Ideal Husband？
答案:Oscar Wilde
3．The term Oedipus Complex was introduced by ________ in his Interpretation of Dreams （1899） and is derived from the mythological Oedipus， who killed his father and married his mother。
答案:Sigmund Freud
4。 What is it？
It is a kind of writing that presents the thoughts of a person or character as they occur。
Such writing uses devices such as characters speaking to themselves， free association, and lists of words.
答案：Stream of consciousness
5．Robert Browning (1812–1889） was a poet of the ________ period, best known for his dramatic monologues.
答案：Victorian
6．________ was a critical realist， whose novels are mainly a satirical portrayal of the upper strata of society.
A. George Eliot B. Elizabeth Gaskell C. W。B。 Thackeray D。 Charles Dickens
7。 The following literary works are all written by Charles Dickens except _____。
  A。 Hard Times and Great Expectations
  B. A Tale of Two Cities and Bleak House
  C。 Oliver Twist and David Copperfield
  D. Mary Barton and Dombey and Son
Mary Barton was a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell （1810-1865)
风险题300分
1。 In what order did James Joyce wrote his following works？
a。 Finnegans Wake b。 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
c。 Dubliners d. Ulysses
c → b → a → d
2。A ________ character is complex and undergoes development， sometimes reaches the point that the reader is surprised; a ________ character is relatively uncomplicated and does not change throughout the course of a literary work。
A。 round， flat B。 fictional， factual
C。 full, empty D. major, minor
A round character （丰满的人物)
A flat character（平淡的人物)
3.What is the most famous and influential play?
答案：Waiting for Godot。
4.Tell five of Thomas Hardy's important novels.
Far from the Madding Crowd《远离尘嚣》
The Return of the Native《还乡》
The Mayor of Casterbridge《卡斯特桥市长》
Tess of the d‘Urbervilles《德伯家的苔丝》
Jude the Obscure《无名的裘德》
5。 This is an excerpt of a poem。 Who is its author? and what is the poem about?
“BREAK, break， break，  
On thy cold gray stones， O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter  
The thoughts that arise in me。” 
答案:Alfred Tennyson
A poem in memory his best friend.
6。
Which places does Gulliver visit last in Gulliver’s Travels?
Houyhnhnms
7.Brobdingnag is an imaginary island where the inhabitants are_____。
  A. ten times taller and larger than the ordinary human beings
  B。 the horses who are hairy, wild， low and despicable
  C。 the Yahoos who are wise and intelligent
  D。 the small people who are only six inches tall

５００分风险题
1．Two of the following periodicals were edited by Samuel Johnson。 What are they?
a。 The Idler b。 The Rambler
c。 The Spectator d. The Tatler
A。 a， b B. b, d
C. a， c D. c， d
2. Whose first name is NOT “John”?
答案：B(Jonathan Swift)
3. are Nobel Prize winners。
A. James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, D. H。 Lawrence
B。 Rudyard Kipling， T。 S. Eliot， John Galsworthy
C。 W。 B。 Yeats， James Joyce， Thomas Hardy
D。 Virginia Woolf， T. S。 Eliot， James Joyce
4。
Which is correct according to the time when they appeared?
A. romanticism， cubism ,neo-classicism, humanism， critical realism
B. humanism， neo—classicism， romanticism, critical realism, cubism
C. romanticism， humanism， realism, cubism, naturalism
D。 realism， critical realism, romanticism, humanism, cubism
5。The Trojan War was started when the Trojan prince was asked to judge which of three Olympian Goddesses （_____, _____, and _____) was most beautiful。
赫拉(Hera）、
雅典娜(Athena ）、
阿佛洛狄忒（Aphrodite ）
6。 Identify the quotation。
“I think someday we’ll be remembering
these dangers， too。 But come now， all of us
should follow what I say. Stay by your oars，
and ke