英语专业八级人文知识练习附讲解第31期

【练习】

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