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Ⅰ。 Multiple Choices （40 points）
Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement。 Write the corresponding letter A, B， C or D on the answer sheet.

1. The long poem ______ in Anglo-Saxon period was termed England's national epic.
A. The Canterbury Tales   
B. The Song of Beowulf 
C. The Fairy Queen
D. Paradise Lost 
2. The work that presented, for the first time in English literature， a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a strikingly brilliant and picturesque panorama of his time and his courtry is most likely ______。
A. William Langland’s Piers Plowman
B. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
C. John Gower’s Confessio Amantis 
D. Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
3. During the Renaissance, _______ was the first one to introduce the sonnet into English poetry.
A. Chaucer 
B. John Donne  
C. Thomas Wyatt   
D. Earl of Surrey
4. Generally， the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries， its essence is_______。
A. humanism
B. science  
C. philosophy 
D. arts    
5. At the beginning of the 16th century the outstanding humnist Thomas More wrote______, in which he gave a profound and truthful picture of the people’s sufferings and put forward his ideal of a future happy society。
A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
B. The Canterbury Tales 
C. Hamlet， Prince of Denmark  
D. Utopia
6. “Shylock” is a Jew character in Shakespeare’s play ______.
A。 Romeo and Juliet
B。 The Merchant of Venice
C。 As You Like it
D. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
7. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's “Sonnet 18”？
A. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation  
B. The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature 
C. The speaker satirizes human vanity 
D. The speaker meditates on man’s salvation
8. Of Francis Bacon’s literary works, the most important are the _______， which is the first example of that genre in English literature， as an important landmark in the development of English prose。
A. Advancement of Learning
B. Novum Organum
C. Essays
D. De Augmentis
9. From the following， which is not John Donne’s poem？
A. “Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star”
B. “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
C. “Death be not Proud”
D. “On My Diseased Wife"
10. John Milton's masterpiece—Paradise Lost was written in the poetic style of _____。
A. rhymed stanzas 
B. blank verse  
C. alliteration  
D. sonnets
11. _____ is a successful religious allegory in the English language。
A. The Pilgrim's Progress  
B. The Canterbury Tales  
C. Paradise Lost
D. Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
12. The mysterious element plays an enormous role in the_______; it is so replete with bloodcurdling scenes and unnatural feelings that it is justly called “a novel of horrors”。
A. realistic novel
B。 romantic novel
C。 Gothic novel
D. classical novel
13. Daniel Defoe in his famous novel ______ created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie of the 18th century. Through his characterization of Crusoe, Defoe depicts him as a hero struggling against nature and human fate with his indomitable will and hand.
A. Child Harold’s Pilgrimage
B。 Robinson Crusoe
C。 The Pilgrim's Progress
D. Pamela
14. ______________ is a typical feature of Jonathan Swift’s writings。
A. Bitter satire
B. Elegant style
C. Casual narration
D. Complicated sentence structure
15. The Yahoos depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels are ______。
A. horses that are endowed with reason
B. pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualities
C。 giants that are superior in wisdom
D. hairy, wild， low and despicable creatures， who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways
16. ______ maintained its tone of courtesy and good breeding, which many journals followed。 Its influece extended beyond the essays of the eighteenth century to all the periodical literature.
A. The Spectator
B。 Essays
C. Paradise Lost
D。 Wuthering Heights
17. Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “_______________"， for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel。
A. Best writer of the English novel 
B. The father of English novel 
C. The most gifted writer of the English novel
D. conventional writer of English novel
18. _______ written by Thomas Gray is a poem full of the gentle melancholy which marks all early romantic poetry, described as “the best known poem in the English language”.
A. “The Tiger”
B。 “The Chimney Sweeeper”
C。 “My Heart’s in the Highlands”
D。 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
19. The most famous dramatist in the 18th century is ______, who is famous for The School for Scandal。
A. Oliver Goldsmith   
B. Thomas Gray 
C. R. Brinsley Sheridan   
D. George Bernard Shaw
20. The publication of　　　， which was the joint work of William Wordsworth and Samuel T。 Coleridge， marked the beginning of the Romantic Age in England.
A. Don Juan　　　　　
B. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
C. Lyrical Ballads　　　
D. Queen Mab
21. Which poet belongs to the “Lake Poets”？
A. Wordsworth
B. Byron
C. Shelley
D. Keats
22. __________is Byron’s masterpiece， a great comic epic of the early 19th century。 It is a poem based on a traditional Spanish legend of a great lover and seducer of women。
A. Child Harold’s Pilgrimage
B. Don Juan
C. The Prisoner of Chillon
D. The Island
23. Which of the following is taken from John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”？
A. “I fall upon the thorns of life！I bleed！"
B. “They are both gone up to the church to pray.”   
C. “Earth has not anything to show more fair.”
D. “Beauty is truth，truth beauty."
24. It is _______ who is called the creator and a great master of the historical novel。
A. Walter Scott
B. Henry Fielding
C. Jane Austen
D. Charles Dickens
25. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good for-tune， must be in want of a wife”, is a famous quotation from ______.
A. Jane Eyre
B. Wuthering Heights
C. Pride and Prejudice
D. Sense and Sensibility
26. Charles Lamb is one of the great _____ of the Romantic Age. Tales from Shakespeare was written by him and his sister Mary Lamb.
A. novelists
B. poets
C. essayists
D. dramatists
27. In Chapter III of Oliver Twist, Oliver is punished for that “impious and profane offence of asking for more”。 What did Oliver ask for more?
A. More time to play 
B. More food to eat 
C. More books to read   
D. More money to spend
28. The main plot of ______ renders on the story of two women: Amelia Sedlley and Rebecca Sharp， whose Characters are sharp contrast。 With scathing irony the author exposes the vices of this society： hypocrisy， money—worship, and moral degradation.
A. Jane Eyre
B. Wuthering Heights
C. Vanity Fair
D. Pride and Prejudice
29. In her works George Eliot is deeply concerned with the people and life of her time and tries to pursue (      )。
A。 the perfect love between men and women
B。 the secrets of inward propensity and outward circumstances
C. the fundamental moral truth about human life
D。 the inner contradictions in people's heart
30. The success of Jane Eyre is not only because of its sharp criticism of the existing society， but also due to its introduction to the English novel the first ______ heroine。
A。 explorer   
B。 peasant   
C.  worker  
D。 governess
31. Which word can best illustrate the love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights?
A. Destructive
B. Life—long
C. Self—centered
D. Naïve
32. In ______， Alfred， Lord Tennyson shows his grief over the death of his best friend， Arthur Hallam， a fellow poet.
A. “Crossing the Bar”
B. “Break, Break， Break”
C. “Ulysses”
D. “The Bridge of Signs”
33. The name of ______ is often associated with the term “dramatic monologue".
A. Alfred Tennyson
B. Mathew Arnold
C. Elizabeth Browning
D. Robert Browning
34. Which of the following is Not a typical feature of Modernism?
A. To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.
B. To put the stress on traditional values.
C. To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment。
D. To advocate a conscious break with the past。
35. Thomas Hardy’s novels of character and environment shows his _____view of life.
A. Pessimistic
B. Practical
C. Ironical
D. Optimistic
36. A typical Forsyte， according to John Galsworthy， is a man with a strong sense of ______ , who never pays any attention to human feelings.
A. justice
B. humor
C. morality
D. property
37. George Bernard Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a realistic exposure of the _____ in the English society.
A. economic exploitation of women
B. slum landlordism
C. inequality between men and women
D. political corruption
38. Which of the following novels was not written by D. H. Lawrence？
A. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
B. The Rainbow
C. Mr. Dalloway
D. Sons and Lovers
39. Virginia Woolf is renowned for adopting the ______ technique， which displays the sequence of thoughts and impressions in a person’s mind。
A. mind—reading　　　　　　
B. third-person narration　
C. feminist
D. stream—of—consciousness　
40. James Joyce is the author of all the following novels except _______。
A. Dubliners
B. Jude the Obscure
C. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
D. Ulysses

Ⅱ。 Judgments （10 points）
Judge whether the statements are True or not, and write the corresponding letter A or B in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
41. The literature of the Anglo—Saxon Period falls naturally into two divisions： pagan and Christian.
42. It is said that Caedman first started to sing Christian songs in English to the then English Christians， hence for which he was regarded the “Father of English Poetry”。
43. Romance, which uses verse or prose to describe the adventures and life of the Christians， is the popular literary form in the medieval period。 The romance of King Arthur is important in the history of English literature。
44. Ballads are anonymous lyric songs that have been preserved by writing transmission. The ballads of Robin Hood are of paramount importance in English and Scottish ballads.
45. As a whole， the Age of Enlightenment is an age of poetry rather than of prose. The first representatives of the English Enlightenment were Joseph Addison， Richard Steele， and Alexander Pope.
46. Sentimentalism came into being as a result of a bitter discontent on the part of certain enlighteners in social reality, appealing to sentiment as a means of achieving happiness and social injustice.
47. The critical realism of the 19th century flourished in the forties and in the beginning of fifties。 The realists first and foremost set themselves the task of criticizing capitalist society from a democratic viewpoint and delineated the crying contradictions of bourgeois reality。
48. Vanity Fair can be regarded as John Bunyan’s masterpiece， which is subtitled Novel Without a Hero.
49. The Song of the Shirt, one of the best poems on the hard life of the labourers under capitalism in English literature, was written by Thomas Hood.
50. In the 20th century， Oscar Wilde is regarded as a spokesman of the school of “Art for Art's Sake.”

Ⅲ。 Reading Comprehension （20 points)
Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English。 Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
51. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely，
The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay，
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes，
…
But that the dread of something after death，
The undesicover’d country, from whose bourn
No traveler returns， puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of.

Questions：
(1)Please identify the author and the work. （2 points）
(2) How do you understand “…And makes us rather bear those ills we have/Than fly to others that we know not of”？ (3 points)

52. The waves beside them danced； but they
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay，
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought：

For oft， when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood，
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude；
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dance with the daffodils.

Questions:
（1）Identify the poem and poet. （2 points）
（2） Why did the poet write the poem, or what did he want to express? (3 points）

53。 Wild spirit， which art moving everywhere；
Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!

Questions:
（1） Identify the poet and the poem. （2 points）
(2) Why is it called “Destroyer and Preserver” at the same time? （3 points）

54. … Oh sir, she smiled， no doubt，
Whene'er I passed her; but who passed without
Much the same smile? This grew； I gave commands;
Then all smiles stopped together。 There she stands
As if alive。 …

Questions:
(1）Please identify the work and the author。 (2 points）
（2）Please describe the speaker in your own language. (3 points)

IV. Translation （20 points)
Please translate the following passage which each is taken from original British works into Chinese。
55。 O, my Luve’s like a red, red rose，
That's newly sprung in June。
O， my Luve’s like a melodie
That's sweetly play'd in tune。

As fair as thou， my bonnie lass，
So deep in luve am I；
And I will love thee still， my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry。

Till a' the seas gang dry， my dear，
And the rocks melt wi' the sun：
I will love thess till， my dear，
While the sands o’ life shall run：

And fare thee well, my only luve！
And fare thee weel, a while！
And I will come again, my luve，
Tho' it ware ten thousand mile. (10 points)

56。 If God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me， as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom， conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh： it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave， and we stood at God’s feet, equal—as we are！ (10 points)

Ⅴ。 Topic Discussion （10 points)
Give answers to each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet。

57。 Name one of your favorite writers in British literature, and you are supposed to justify your choice in about 80 words。 （10 points）

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