英语专业八级人文知识练习附讲解第24期

【练习】

1. “Ode to the west wind” was written by the author of ___.
　　A “I wandered lonely as a cloud”
　　B “Kubla Khan”
　　C “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”
　　D “As Defense of Poetry”

2. Which of the following poets does not belong to the school of romantic poets?
　　A William Wordsworth
　　B Percy Bysshe Shelley
　　C George Gordon Byron
　　D John Donne

3. Charles Dickens wrote all of the following except ___.
　　A Oliver Twist
　　B David Copperfield
　　C A Tale of Two Cities
　　D Heart of Darkness

4. “A Red, Red Rose” was written by ___.
　　A Alexandra Pop
　　B Robert Burns
　　C William Blake
　　D John Keats 　

5. Pip is the character of Charles Dickens’ novel ___.
　　A Oliver Twist
　　B David Copperfield
　　C A Tale of Two Cities
　　D Great Expectations

6. Sense and Sensibility is a ___ by ___.
　　A play… Jane Austen
　　B novel… Jane Austen
　　C play… Emily Bronte
　　D novel… Anne Bronte

7. In reading Shakespeare, you must have come across the line “To be or not to be---that is the question” by___.
　　A Iago in Othello
　　B Lear in King Lear
　　C Shylock in the Merchant of Venice
　　D Hamlet in Hamlet

8. Robert Browning’s “My last Duchess” is composed in the form of a(n) ___.
　　A dramatic monologue
　　B extended metaphor
　　C syllogistic argument
　　D dialogue

9. Thomas Hardy wrote novels of __.
　　A character and environment
　　B pure romance
　　C “stream of consciousness”
　　D psychoanalysis

10. “Wessex novels” refers to the novels written by ___.
　　A Charles Dickens
　　B D.H. Lawrence
　　C James Joyce
　　D Thomas Hardy