英语专业八级人文知识练习附讲解第25期

【练习】

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