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英语专业八级人文知识练习附讲解第25期

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【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