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填空 A.

1. Dickens‘ writings from 1836 to 1841 show the characteristic of youthful _______.

2. Dickens‘ writings from 1842 to 1850 show the character of _______. 3. Dickens‘ writings from 1852 to 1870 show the feature of ______.

4. Nicholas Nickleby touches upon a burning question of the time—the education of ____ in private schools.

5. _____ is a great novel of social satire and famous for its criticism of both the British and American bourgeoisie.

6. The theme of Dombey and Son is the pride of wealth, or ―_____‖.

7. David Copperfield was written in the ____ person in a combination of ____, sense of ____ and artistic ______.

8. The main butt (目标) of satire in Bleak House is aimed at the abuses of the English _____.

9. In Hard Times Dickens describes the ____ movement with great artistic power.

Key to the blanks: 1. optimism 5. Martin Chuzzlewit 9. Chartist 2. excitement and 6. purse-pride irritation 7. first; verisimilitude; 3. pessimism familiarity; maturity 4. children 8. courts

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2. William Shakespeare‘s four tragedies are Hamlet, , King Lear and Macbeth. 3. is Chaucer‘s masterpiece and one of the monumental works in English literature. 4. Of all his works, Charles Dickens thinks that the main character in is almost the incarnation of himself.

5. William Blake expresses racial discrimination in The Little Boy and The Chimney Sweeper, which are extracted from his .

7. ___ __ gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair which is the symbol of London at the time of Restoration.

8. In the opinion of many critics, was the most gifted of the three Bronte sisters. Ralph Fox, the revolutionary critic of England, writes: ―Wuthering Heights is certainly the novel become poetry, it is beyond all doubt one of the most extraordinary books which human genius has ever produced, yet it is these things only because it is a cry of despairing agony wrung from the authoress by life itself…‖

9. was a cultural phenomenon of ―fin de siele‖ in Europe. It was a kind of escapism in essence. Ralph Fox thus wrote about the aesthetic school of literature:

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― ?Art for art‘s sake‘ is only the hopeless answer of the artist to the slogan ?Art for money‘s sake‘‖:--hopeless because ivory never was a good material for fortifications. 11. Henry James, forerunner of the ― ‖ literature, was born in New York and educated in America.

12. The subtitle of Tess of the D’Urberville is . 13. is one of the most prominent of the 20th century English realistic writers. The Forsyte Saga gives a profound and true-to-life picture of the English bourgeois society during a period of 40 years.

14.The two most important English poets of the first half of 20th century are

and . Key to the blanks:

2. Othello 3. The Canterbury Tales 4.David Copperfield 5. Songs of Innocence 7. The Pilgrim’s Progress 8. Emily Bronte 9. Aestheticism 11. stream of consciousness 12.A Pure Woman Faithfully Portrayed 13.John Galsworthy 14. W.B.Yeats, T.S.Eliot

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Key to the blanks: 1. Latin 5. King Arthur 9. The Ring and the 2. aesthetic 6. Goblin Market Book 3. art 7. soul 10. comedy 4. In Memoriam 8. dramatic monologue

1. Carlyle‘s Sartor Resartus is a ____phrase meaning ―the tailor retailored‖. 2. Ruskin‘s works on art expound his ______ thoughts and principles. 3. Ruskin‘s The Stones of Venice is a book in the sphere of ____ criticism.

4. Tennyson‘s book, ______, was written in memory of his friend A. H. Hallam. 5. Tennyson‘s The Idylls of the King is based on the stories of _____ and his Knights

of the Round Table.

6. Christina Georgina Rossetti was famous for her _____, her chief narrative poem. 7. The keynote of Dante Gabriel Rossetti‘s love poems is the union of the body and

the ______.

8. Robert Browning‘s greatest contribution to literature is ____. 9. Robert Browning‘s masterpiece is ____.

10. The Importance of Being Earnest is the first modern _____ of English.

D.

1. characters/environments 2. The Silver Box 3. John Donne 4.The Merchant of Venice 5. Jonathan Swift 6. Ben Johnson 7. Ben Johnson 8. Scottish 9. Romanticism 10. Oliver Twist 11. A Novel Without a Hero 12. Pride and Prejudice 13.Charotte Bronte

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1. Hardy‘s novels are well-known for the _____ and _____. 2. _____ made Galsworthy famous as a playwright.

3. ___ __ is regarded as ―father of metaphysical literature‖. 4. Portia is the heroine in William Shakespeare‘s . 5. With the publication of his Gulliver’s Travel, won great reputation as one of the greatest novelists in world literature.

6. , a play written by Sheridan, repudiating the high society for its vanity, greed and hypocrisy, has been regarded as the best English comedy since Shakespeare.

7. ‘s Dictionary marked the end of English writers‘ reliance on the patronage of noblemen for support.

8. As a peasant poet, Robert Burns is the national poet of Scotland. He is a master of dialect.

9. English began in 1798 and ended in 1832.

10. , written by Charles Dickens in 1837-1838, tells the story of an orphan boy, whose adventures provide a description of the lower depths of London.

11. Vanity Fair is William Thackeray‘s masterpiece. It was published in 1847-1848 in monthly parts. The subtitle of the book, ― ‖, emphasizes the fact that the writer‘s intention was not to portray individuals, but the bourgeois and aristocratic society as a whole.

12. ―It is a truth universally acknowledged that, a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife ‖ is from Jane Austen‘s .

13.Jane Eyre, ‘s masterpiece, tells the story of an orphan girl. It is her best literary production.

E.

1. Latin 2. aesthetic 3. art 4. In Memoriam 5. King Arthur

6. Goblin Market 7. soul 8. dramatic monologue 9. The Ring and the Book 10. comedy 11. Treasure Island 12. socialist 13. aesthete 14. Italian 15. Rubaiyat

1. Carlyle‘s Sartor Resartus is a ____phrase meaning ―the tailor retailored‖. 2. Ruskin‘s works on art expound his ______ thoughts and principles. 3. Ruskin‘s The Stones of Venice is a book in the sphere of ____ criticism.

4. Tennyson‘s book, ______, was written in memory of his friend A. H. Hallam. 5. Tennyson‘s The Idylls of the King is based on the stories of _____ and his Knights of the Round Table.

6. Christina Georgina Rossetti was famous for her _____, her chief narrative poem. 7. The keynote of Dante Gabriel Rossetti‘s love poems is the union of the body and the ______.

8. Robert Browning‘s greatest contribution to literature is ____. 9. Robert Browning‘s masterpiece is ____.

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10. The Importance of Being Earnest is the first modern _____ of English. 11. Robert Louis Stevenson‘s masterpiece is ________. 12. William Morris was a great poet, artist and _______.

13. Swinburne‘s mastery of metrical skill, versatility in the use of lyric forms and unconventional choice of themes made him an _______.

14. Songs before Sunrise expresses Swinburne‘s support and sympathy to the _________ revolution of independence.

15. _______is the 4-lined stanza rhyming in its first, second, and fourth lines. E.

1. Wessex 2.Renaissance 3. The Pilgrim’s Progress 4.Paradise Lost 5.epistolary 6. Edmund Spenser 7. poem 8. William Blake 9. Spanish 10. The Pilgrim’s Progress 11. Heathcliff, Catharine 12. Aestheticism 13.Irish 14. psychological

1. Hardy‘s poetry is famous for its ____ poetry.

2. As a literary giant, William Shakespeare becomes the monument of the English ______.

3. William Langland‘s masterpiece, , is an allegory, a narrative in which general concepts such as sins, despair, and faith are represented as people or as aspects of the natural world.

4. Satan is the hero in Milton‘s masterpiece __________. 5. Pamela is written in the form of a/an __________ novel. 6. is often referred to as ―the poet‘s poet‖ 7. The Deserted Village is Goldsmith‘s best . 8. Robert Burns and are called a Pre-Romantic or forerunners of the Romantic poetry of the 19th century.

9. Don Juan was written in Italy during the years 1818-1823. It is 16,000 lines long, in 16 cantos, and written in ottava rima, each stanza containing 8 iambic pentameter lines rhymed abababcc. The story of the poem takes place in the latter part of the 18th century. Don Juan, its hero, is a of noble birth.

10. The title of William Thackeray‘s Vanity Fair was taken from John Bunyan‘s . 11. Emily Bronte is chiefly remembered as the author of the powerful novel Wuthering Heights. In the novel, is a rebel against the bourgeois matrimonial system—for a while is too, during her childhood. Their pure love has been crushed by the class prejudice of the bourgeoisie.

12. began to prevail in Europe at the middle of the 19th century. The theory of ―art for art‘s sake‖ is its core idea.

13. George Bernard Shaw is a/an dramatist.

14.D.H.Laurence occupies an outstanding position in world literature for his novels.

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1. _____ is considered the father of historical novelist in the English Romantic Age.

A. Jane Austen B. Charles Lamb C. William Hazlitt D. Waler Scott 2. _____ has been called ―the supreme epic of English life‖. A. Nicholas Nickleby B. A Tale of Two Cities C. Hard Times D. The Pickwick Papers

3. ______, the ―father of English poetry‖ and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London in about 1340.

A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Sir Gawain C. Francis Bacon D. John Dryden 4. _____has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.

A. Christopher Marlow B. Francis Bacon C. W. Shakespeare D. Ben Johnson 5. Paradise Lost is written by . A. Chaucer B. Marlowe C. Ben Jonson D. John Milton

6. Which of the following works are not written by Oliver Goldsmith? ____.

A. The Traveller B. The Deserted Village C. The Vicar of Wakefield D. The School for Scandal 7. ______ is not written by William Blake.

A. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell B. Songs of Experience C. Auld Lang Syne D. Poetical Sketches

8. Which play is regarded as the best English comedy since Shakespeare?

A. She Stoops to Conquer B. The Rivals

C. The School for Scandal D. The Conscious Lovers 9. Keats‘ best ode is ____.

A. ―On a Grecian Urn‖ B. ―To Autumn‖

C. ―To Psyche‖ D. ―To a Nightingale‖

10. The publication of ______ marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement in England.

A. ―Tintern Abbey‖ B. Lyrical Ballads C. Frost at Night D. ―The Daffodils‖ 11. Pride and Prejudice‘s first title is ____.

A. First Impression B. A Book Without a Hero C. The Newcomers D. Persuasion

12. ____ 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 13 ___ is a great novel spending James Joyce 7 years of hard working to complete. A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man B. Ulysses

C. Finnegans Wake D. Dubliners

14 ____ is a collection of short stories which reflect three aspects of life in politics, culture and religion.

A. A Portrait of the Artrist as a Young Man B. Ulysses

C. Finnegans Wake D. Dubliners 15 Which of the following is Not written by D. H. Lawrence?

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