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一、单选题(共 20 道试题,共 100 分。) V 1. In Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylock, because ______.
A. his money was all invested in the newly-emerging textile industry
B. his enterprise went bankrupt
C. Bassanio was able to pay his own debt
D. his ships had all been lost
2. The excerpt The Other Side of the Island was chosen from Chapter___ in Rubinson Crusoe.
A. Ⅸ
B. Ⅺ
C. Ⅹ
D. Ⅷ
3. Which of the following is NOT written by Defoe?
A. Captain Singleton
B. Sailor
C. Moll Flanders
D. Rubinson Crusoe
4. All the following poets belong to lake poets EXCEPT
A. Wordsworth
B. Coleridge
C. Robert Southey
D. Shelley
5. Which of the following is a tragedy?
A. Antony and Cleopatra
B. Twelfth Night
C. Julius Caesar
D. Much ado about Nothing
6. "Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?…And 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." The above quoted p
A. Pride and Prejudice
B. Jane Eyre
C. Wuthering Heights
D. Great Expectations
7. In the conversation with his wife in Chapter One of Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Bennet uses a(n) ______ tone with sarcastic humor.
A. solemn
B. harsh
C. arrogant
D. teasing
8. Hamlet is a prince of ___
A. England
B. Ireland
C. Britain
D. Denmark
9. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?
A. The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature
B. The speaker satirizes human vanity
C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation
D. The speaker meditates on man's salvation.
10. Which of the following is NOT a tragicomedy?
A. Timon of Athens
B. Cymbline
C. The winter's tale
D. The tempest
11. The essence of humanism is to ______.
A. restore a medieval reverence for the church
B. avoid the circumstances of earthly life
C. explore the next world in which men could live after death
D. emphasize human qualities
12. 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
13. What does Wordsworth's poem "The Solitary Reaper" tell us about Romanticist?
A. To romanticists, poetry is an expression of an individual's feelings and experiences no matter how fragmentary and momentary these feelings and experiences are.
B. Romanticist take delight only in sound effect, the theme of a work is not their concern.
C. Ro
14. The poem I wandered Lonely as a Cloud was written by ___
A. Dorothy Wordsworth
B. William Wordsworth
C. Coleridge
D. John Keats
15. How many lines are there in a sonnet?
A. 16
B. 18
C. 14
D. 12
16. The term tone in literature means__________.
A. sound effect such as rhyme and metrical device
B. the pitch of a word used to determine its meaning in the given context
C. the manner of expression to indicate the speaker's attitude towards the subject
D. a shade of colour to reflect the change of the light
17. Defoe's Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the ______ century.
A. 17th
B. 18th
C. 19th
D. 20th
18. How many periods are divided into in the creation years of Shakespeare?
A. three
B. four
C. two
D. five
19. In English poetry the _______ is regarded as the most common foot.
A. iamb
B. anapest
C. trochee
D. dactyl
20. In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet finds out some weak points about herself in the process of judging others. Which of the following is NOT a weak point of hers?
A. Blindness
B. Partiality
C. Snobbishness
D. Prejudice.
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