练习题：
1. Shakespeare's complete works include __________________. A. 37 plays, 4 tragedies and 154 sonnets.
B .154 plays, 2 narrative poems and 37 sonnets. C. 37 plays, 2 narrative poems and 154 sonnets. D. 73 plays, 4 tragedies, and 154 sonnets.
6. “All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” is a declarative statement taken from _______.
A. The Solitary Reaper B. Lyrical Ballads
C. She Walks in Beauty D. On the Seas and Far Away 10. Which of the following was written by Henry David Thoreau? A. The American Scholar B. Nature C. Self-Reliance D. Walden
17. By the 7th century the small kingdoms on the British Island were combined called England, or the land of ____________.
A. Britons B. Angles C. Saxons D. Jutes
19. He was founder and great master of the historical novel in British literature, and whose death marks the ending of Romantic Period in Britain. Who was he? A. George Gordon Byron B. Thomas More
C. John Keats D. Walter Scott 20. Which of the following was not written by Thomas Hardy? A. Tess of D’Urberville B. Far from the Madding Crowd C. Jude the Obscure D. The Forsyte Saga
2. In 1798, together with ________, William Wordsworth published Lyrical Ballads, which marked the break with 18th century classicism and the beginning of romanticism in English poetry.
A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge B. Robert Burns C. John Keats D. William Blake
7. David Copperfield (1850) is, to a certain extent, an autobiographical novel by _________.
A. Henry Fielding B. Charles Dickens C. Daniel Defoe D. Jonathan Swift
8. Which of the following plays is a comedy composed by William Shakespeare? A. Hamlet B. Othello C. The Merchant of Venice D. King Lear 12. Generally speaking, which literary school was John Keats grouped into? A. romanticism B. realism C. naturalism D. post-modernism
20. Poor Richard’s Almanac was a calendar, which includes a large amount of information about weather, astronomy, puzzles, mathematics, practical household, etc. It was written by ____________.
A. Washington Irving B. Jonathan Edwards C. Thomas Jefferson D. Benjamin Franklin
1. The early inhabitants on the island we now called England were _________, a tribe
of Celts. From the Britons the island got its name of Britain, the land of Britons. A. Britons B. Angles C. Saxons D. Jutes
2. Paradise Lost (1667) was written by _______________.
A. Thomas More B. John Milton C. John Keats D. Ben Johnson
3. ______________, founder of modern science, his New Instrument (1602) tells some of the secrets of the inductive method of reasoning, and Of Studies is one of his most famous essays.
A. Thomas More B. John Milton C. Francis Bacon D. Ben Johnson
10. _________ believes that the chief aim of literary creation is beauty, and “the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.” A. Walt Whitman B. Ralph Waldo Emerson C. Anne Bradstreet D. Edgar Allen Poe
11. Idealized figures most often appear in ____.
A. Romantic poetry B. Renaissance drama C. Enlightenment literature D. Victorian novels
12. It is publicly believed that ____ employs the language of common man in his literary writing.
A. Thomas Hardy B. Ben Johnson
C. William Wordsworth D. John Milton
14. Vanity Fair is Thackeray’s masterpiece. The book takes its title from that fair described in ___________.
A. John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress B. Thomas More’s Utopia
C. John Milton’s Paradise Lost
D. William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
16. Which of the following is NOT included in the virtues that Franklin enumerated in his The Autobiography?
A. Temperance B. Humility
C. Frugality D. Immoderation
19. “So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.” (Shakespeare, Sonnets 18) What does “this” refer to _______?
A. Love B. Poetry C. Summer D. Time
20. A Red, Red Rose was written in “_________”, i.e., in each stanza the odd-numbered lines are iambic tetrameters.
A. drama B. English sonnet C. ballad metre D. monologue
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