專八人文知識模擬試題(4)
1. The sentence “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s_____.
　　A comedies
　　B tragedies
　　C sonnets
　　D histories
2. The three dialects spoken by____ _____and _____mixed into a single language called Anglo-Saxon, or old English.
　　A Anglos, Saxons jutes
　　B Anglos, Saxons, Irish
　　C Anglos, Saxons, Scottish
　　D Anglos, Saxons, welsh
3. contribution to English lies chiefly in the fact that he introduced from France the rhymed stanza of various types, especially the rhymed couplet of 5 accents in iambic meter---the heroic couplet to English poetry.
　　A William Shakespeare’s　　
　　B Geoffrey Chaucer’s
　　C Thomas more’s
　　D Edmund Spenser’s
4. Spenserian stanza is a form of poetry first employed by Edmund Spenser in his long poetry_____.
　　A the faerie queene
　　B the shepherd’s calendar
　　C epithalamion
　　D amoretti
5. Francis bacon is a ____.
　　A poet
　　B playwright
　　C essayist
　　D novelist
6. We can perhaps describe the west wind in shelly’s poem “ode to the west wind” with all the following terms except_____.
　　A tamed
　　B swift
　　C proud
　　D wild
7. The novel starts with “it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune ,must be in want of a wife.” The novel is Jane Austen’____.
　　A Emma
　　B persuasion
　　C sense and sensibility
　　D pride and prejudice
8. The major concern of ____ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.
　　A Charles dickens’s
　　B D.H .Lawrence’s
　　C Thomas hardy’s
　　D john Galsworthy’s
9. “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 Is quoted from_______.
　　A pride and prejudice
　　B Jane Eyre
　　C Wuthering heights
　　D great expectations
10. Which of the following is not one of the Bronte sisters?
　　A charlotte Bronte
　　B Anne Bronte
　　C jenny Bronte
　　D Emily Bronte

答案詳解(反白可見)：
1. C
這句詩來自莎士比亞十四行詩第十八首。
2. A
公元五世紀，Anglos, Saxons， jutes開始遷入不列顛，這個部落融合成統(tǒng)一的民族英格蘭，他們的語言也發(fā)展成一種叫Anglo-Saxon, 或者 old English.
3. B
Geoffrey Chaucer被譽為英國詩歌之父，是第一位用中古英語寫作的大詩人。他的詩行以五音部抑揚格為基本節(jié)奏，每兩行押韻，被稱為heroic couplet
4. A
Spenser的長詩仙后每節(jié)有九行，具有音樂性，被稱為Spenserian stanza。
5. C
培根是文藝復興最重要的散文家。
6. A
ode to the west wind是雪萊最著名的抒情詩歌，西風是破壞舊世界，創(chuàng)造新世界的革命力量。
7. D
pride and prejudice的名言。
8. B
D.H .Lawrence將視線投向兩性，對西方文明進行反思，將社會批評與性心理探索結合在一起，抨擊資本主義工業(yè)文明。
9. B
簡愛中的片斷。
10. C
除jenny Bronte其他為在英國文學史占獨特地位的Bronte三姐妹