第一章 单元测试

1、 The __ Viking raiders were known throughout Europe for their unmerciful violence. ( )

A:solicitous
B:discreet
C:infamous
D:Forged
答案: infamous

2、 During England’s Anglo-Saxon period， seafaring was filled with _ and _. ( )

A:reckoning
B:misery
C:prevarication
D:Peril
答案: misery
Peril

3、 Knights during the Medieval period were expected to be gallant and to aspire to attain __. ( )

A:the chivalrous ideal
B:humanist ideal
C:reason
D:passion
答案: the chivalrous ideal

4、 Anglo-Saxon poetry is filled with __ imagery that conveys the themes of loss and misery. ( )

A:doleful
B:estimable
C:blithe
D:Intrepid
答案: doleful

5、 The two __ causes of death during the 1300s were war and the bubonic plague. ( )

A:dauntless
B:foremost
C:disdainful
D:Discreet
答案: foremost

6、 The power of the __ flourished during the Medieval period like at no other time. ( )

A:literature
B:monarch
C:church
D:Humanism
答案: church

7、 Those who __ in Europe’s monasteries dedicated their lives to work and prayer. ( )

A:dispersed
B:dwelled
C:blanched
D:Perceived
答案: dwelled

8、 The last monster Beowulf killed was Grendel. ( ）

A:对
B:错
答案: 错

9、 The Canterbury Tales depicts people from all walks and contains over 100 stories. （ ）

A:对
B:错
答案: 错

10、 Geoffrey Chaucer is regarded as the father of English poetry. （ ）

A:对
B:错
答案: 对

第二章 单元测试

1、 Although many were executed for treachery in Tudor England， their actual crime was holding religious beliefs different from those of the monarch. （ ）

A:对
B:错
答案: 对

2、 To the humanists， human endeavor had dignity and worth in its own right. （ ）

A:对
B:错
答案: 对

3、 Many Renaissance thinkers believed that ___ and quiet __ would prevail in the effort to completely remake society. （ ）

A:learning
B:contemplation
C:fighting
D:conducting experiments
答案: learning
contemplation

4、 There is nearly _ recognition of Shakespeare’s literary _ among scholars. ( )

A:constant . . . virtues
B:vain . . . tempest
C:continual . . . strife
D:bitter . . . balm
答案: constant . . . virtues

5、 If Shakespeare is the dazzling sun of English Renaissance， Spenser is the morning star. （ ）

A:对
B:错
答案: 错

6、 There was almost __ violence between Catholics and Protestants in England and Europe throughout the Reformation. （ ）

A:wan
B:suppressed
C:vain
D:continual
答案: suppressed

7、 Before the beginning of the Renaissance， the classics of ancient Greece and Rome had __ in near obscurity. （ ）

A:subdued
B:scorned
C:executed
D:languished
答案: languished

8、 Though barely able to endure the grief he felt after his wife’s death， Donne transformed his sorrow into powerful _ and _. （ ）

A:drama
B:music
C:sermons
D:verse
答案: sermons
verse

9、 Some poets of the period， including Donne， attempted to strike a balance between the impermanent， __ world and the divine. （ ）

A:meek
B:mute
C:wan
D:mortal
答案: wan

10、 Shakespeare’s tragic masterpieces include __. （ ）

A:Hamlet
B:Othello
C:Macbeth
D:King Lear
答案: Hamlet
Othello
Macbeth
King Lear

第三章 单元测试

1、 The violent discord of the English Civil War ended with the execution of __. （ ）

A:King James I
B:King Charles I
C:King James II
D:King Charles II
答案: King Charles I

2、 The harsh ten years after the end of the English Civil War were marked by zealous __ rule. （ ）

A:Puritan
B:Catholic
C:Protestant
D:Roman
答案: Puritan

3、 The Enlightenment sprang， in part， from a newfound veneration of the power of __ by writers and philosophers. （ ）

A:imagination
B:Emotion
C:Reason
D:devotion
答案: Reason

4、 John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress can be seen as an English “proto-novel”. （ ）

A:对
B:错
答案: 对

5、 Slowly it became clear that the Puritan Commonwealth was not a benevolent purveyor of liberty but instead was __ and oppressive. （ ）

A:reconciled
B:malicious
C:impetuous
D:intuitive
答案: malicious

6、 Enlightenment thinkers rejected irrational and unsound ideas while embracing the modern works of Western civilization. （ ）

A:对
B:错
答案: 错

7、 The ‘English’ that Milton created for Paradise Lost is heavily， at times overpoweringly， ‘Latinised’ – it’s
almost as if he never could shake off the intention of writing the poem in the antique language. （ ）

A:对
B:错
答案: 对

8、 The Restoration led to a reversal of the ban on theater， music， and other __ that were popular at the time. （ ）

A:diversions
B:edifices
C:vigilance
D:stratagems
答案: diversions

9、 As a Neoclassic poet， Alexander Pope strove to revolutionize English poetry and wrote poems in experimental forms. （ ）

A:对
B:错
答案: 错

10、 Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe marks the emergence of realistic novel in English literature. （ ）

A:对
B:错
答案: 对

第四章 单元测试

1、 William Wordsworth is an English ____.（ ）

A:poet
B:novelist
C:playwright
D:critic
答案: poet

2、 It is generally regarded that Keats’s most important and mature poems are in the form of ____.( )

A:ode
B:elegy
C:epic
D:sonnet
答案: ode

3、 Which of the following poems is NOT written by George Gordon Byron? ( )

A:She Walks in Beauty
B:The Solitary Reaper
C:When We Two Parted
D:Childe Harold’

4、 Robert Burns is a poet from ___.( )

A:England
B:New England
C:Ireland
D:Scotland
答案: Scotland

5、 The poet of the peasants” is a title given to_____.( )

A:Blake
B:Gray
C:Chatterton
D:Burns
答案: Burns

6、 “The Lake School ” includes all the following members except _____.( )

A:Wordsworth
B:Keats
C:Coleridge
D:Southey
答案: Keats

7、 The Romantic Age began with the publication of “The Lyrical Ballads” which was written by __. ( )

A:William Wordsworth
B:Samuel Johnson
C:Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D:Wordsworth and Coleridge
答案: Wordsworth and Coleridge

8、 The Romantic Age came to an end with the death of the last well-known romantic writer __. ( )

A:Jane Austen
B:Walter Scott
C:Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D:William Wordsworth
答案: Walter Scott

9、 The first poem in “The Lyrical Ballads” is Coleridge’s masterpiece “_____”. ( )

A:Kubla Khan
B:The Prelude
C:The Rime of Ancient Mariner
D:Tintern Abbey
答案: The Rime of Ancient Mariner

10、 Choose the historical novel written by Scott. ( )

A:Rob Roy
B:The Lady of the Lake
C:Marmion
D:Mansfield Park
答案: Rob Roy

第五章 单元测试

1、 The Victorian Age was largely an age of ____， eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray. （ ）

A:pessimism
B:naturalism
C:modernism
D:critical realism
答案: critical realism

2、 The Bronte Sisters published the following novels EXCEPT ____. ( )

A:The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
B:Jane Eyre
C:Wuthering Heights
D:Agnes Grey
答案: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

3、 William Makepeace Thackeray’s most famous work is ___. ( )

A:The School for Scandal
B:Past and Present
C:Major Barbara
D:Vanity Fair
答案: Vanity Fair

4、 The following are all Dickens’ works EXCEPT __. ( )

A:Oliver Twist
B:The Vicar of Wakefield
C:Great Expectations
D:A Tale of Two Cities
答案: The Vicar of Wakefield

5、 The greatest English novelist in 19th century was __， who criticized the bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people. ( )

A:Charles Dickens
B:Thackeray
C:Charlotte Bronte
D:Thomas Hardy
答案: Charles Dickens

6、 English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of __. ( )

A:novel
B:poetry
C:drama
D:essay
答案: novel

7、 “__” is often regarded as the semi autobiography of the author in which the early life of the hero is largely based on the author’s early life. ( )

A:Oliver Twist
B:Great Expectation
C:David Copperfield
D:A Tale of Two Cities
答案: David Copperfield

8、 The sub-title of “Vanity Fair” is “__”. ( )

A:A Pure Woman Faithfully Portrayed
B:The Spirit and the Flesh
C:A Novel Without a Hero
D:Two Women’s Story
答案: A Novel Without a Hero

9、 Who of the following writers dose not belong to the Bronte sisters? They were all talented writers all of them died young. ( )

A:Emily
B:Anne
C:Charlotte
D:Catherine
答案: Catherine

10、

Which doesn’t belong to Hardy’s Wessex novels or Novels of character and environment? ()

A:Under the Greenwood Tree  
B:The Return of the Native   
C:Emma 
D:The Mayor of Casterbridge

答案: Emma 

第六章 单元测试

1、 James Joyce is the author of all the following novels EXCEPT ____. ( )

A:Dubliners
B:A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
C:Jude the Obscure
D:Ulysses
答案: Jude the Obscure

2、 Whose works are characterized by stream-of-consciousness? ( )

A:George Eliot
B:Jane Austen
C:Emily Bronte
D:James Joyce
答案: James Joyce

3、 Which of the following works is NOT written by D.H. Lawrence? ( )

A:Women in Love
B:Sons and Lovers
C:The Rainbow
D:The French Lieutenant’s Woman
答案: The French Lieutenant’s Woman

4、 The Waste land was mainly encouraged by the author’s study of_____. ( )

A:Bible
B:Ulysses
C:Golden Bough
D:Paradise Lost
答案: Bible

5、 In Which poem are the sterility and chaos of the contemporary world after 1st World War expressed? ( )

A:Ash-Wednesday
B:The Waste Land
C:The Invisible Man
D:The Hollow Men
答案: The Waste Land

6、 The dominant poetic technique used in The waste land is __. ( )

A:symbolism
B:romanticism
C:impressionism
D:expressionism
答案: symbolism

7、 Henry James is the forerunner of the _____. ( )

A:Imagism
B:Chartism
C:impressionism
D:stream of consciousness
答案: stream of consciousness

8、 ____ is a great novel spending James Joyce seven years of hard working to complete. ( )

A:A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
B:Ulysses
C:Finnegans Wake
D:Dubliners
答案: Dubliners

9、

 Which is not written by Virginia Woolf? ()

A: Mrs. Dalloway  
B:To the Lighthouse
C:The Waves   
D:Orlando
答案: Orlando

10、

____ was a leader of the modernist movement in English poetry and a great innovator of verse technique.    ()  

A:W. B. Yeats 
B:T. S. Eliot 
C:D. H. Lawrence   
D:G. B. Shaw 
答案: T. S. Eliot