練習(xí)題目：

1. "The Graveyard Poets"got the name because ___.
　　A they chose to live near graveyards
　　B they often wrote about death and melancholy
　　C they always wrote about dead people
　　D they often use "graveyard" as the title
　　
2. It is generally understood that the recurrent theme in many of Thomas Hardy’s novel is ___.
　　A man against nature B love and marriage C social criticism D fate and destiny
　　
3. The Romantic Period in English literature began with the publication of ___.
　　A William Blake's Songs of Innocence B Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
　　C Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads D a piece of land
　　
4. It is generally regarded that Keats’ most important and mature poems are in the form of ___.
　　A ode B elegy C epic D sonnet
　　

5. G.B. Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a realistic exposure of the ___ in the English society.
　　A slum landlordism B inequality between men and women
　　C political corruption D economic exploitation of women
　

6. The Preface to Shakespeare and Lives of the Poets are the works of critic ___.
　　A G.B. Shaw B Samuel Johnson C Ben Johnson D E.M. Foster
　

7. The Ring and the Book is a masterpiece of ___.
　　A Alfred Tennyson B Robert Browning C Thomas Hardy D Ralph Waldo Emerson
　　

8. Matthew Arnold is the writer of ___.
　　A Dover Beach B My last Duchess C Break, Break, Break D The Eagle
　

9. The writer of Heart of Darkness is also the one of ___.
　　A Time of Machine B Jim C Lord Jim D A Passage to India
　　

10. Of Human Bondage is a novel by ___.
　　A Herbert George Wells B Arnold Bennett C William Somerset Maugham D John Galsworthy

參考答案　

?1. 選B?！澳古吓伞笔侵?8世紀(jì)那些描寫(xiě)死亡的哀挽的詩(shī)人。代表作有托馬斯.格雷《墓園挽歌》(Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard)，托馬斯.巴奈爾的《死亡之夜》(Night Piece on Death)，愛(ài)德華. 揚(yáng)《夜思》(Night Thoughts)和羅伯特.布萊爾的《墳?zāi)埂?The Grave)?！　?

2. 選D。在哈代(Thomas Hardy)的作品中，他那悲劇色彩的哲學(xué)觀告訴我們，人生的一切都是命運(yùn)安排，是不可抗拒的。人在命運(yùn)的面前束手無(wú)策，無(wú)論人們?cè)鯓优Γ己茈y逃脫命運(yùn)的折磨和戲弄。 　　

3. 選C。威廉.華茲華斯(William Wordsworth)，于1798同柯勒律治(Samuel Tayor Coleridge)合作出版了著名的《抒情歌謠集》(Lyrical Ballads)，該詩(shī)第二版的“序”被認(rèn)為是英國(guó)浪漫主義的宣言?！?/p>

4. 選A。濟(jì)慈的代表作品有《夜鶯頌》(Ode to a Nightingale)，《希臘古甕頌》(Ode on a Grecian Urn)，《憂(yōu)郁頌》(Ode on Melancholy)，《秋頌》(To Autumn)等?！绊灐北徽J(rèn)為是濟(jì)慈最具有代表性和最為成功的詩(shī)歌形式?！　?/p>

5. 選D。蕭伯納的劇作《華倫夫人的職業(yè)》(Mrs. Warren’s Profession)塑造了一個(gè)在經(jīng)濟(jì)重壓下普通婦女的形象，該劇揭露了一個(gè)令人憤怒的事實(shí)：在資本主義社會(huì)，娼妓業(yè)也成了一種剝削方式。
　　
6. 選B。塞繆爾.約翰遜18世紀(jì)英國(guó)人文主義文學(xué)批評(píng)的巨匠，《莎士比亞戲劇集序言》(The Preface to Shakespeare)，和《詩(shī)人傳》(Lives of the Poets)是他對(duì)文學(xué)批評(píng)做出的餓突出貢獻(xiàn)。 　　

7. 選B?！吨腑h(huán)與書(shū)》(The Ring and the Book)是羅伯特.勃郎寧(Robert Browning)的詩(shī)作。
　　

8. 選A?！抖喾鸷?Dover Beach)是阿諾德(Matthew Arnold)詩(shī)歌中的名篇之一，反映了19世紀(jì)西方社會(huì)中的宗教信仰在新知識(shí)的沖擊下普遍淪喪的時(shí)代風(fēng)貌。
　　

9. 選C。《黑暗的心》(Heart of Darkness)和《吉姆老爺》(Lord Jim)都是約瑟夫.康德拉的小說(shuō)，《吉姆》(Jim)是同時(shí)期另一位作家迪亞德.吉卜林的作品。
　　

10.選C。威廉.薩默塞特.毛姆 (William Somerset Maugham)的創(chuàng)作深受法國(guó)自然主義的影響，他的長(zhǎng)篇小說(shuō)《人性的枷鎖》(Of Human Bondage)展現(xiàn)了主人公擺脫精神枷鎖的過(guò)程。