2010年英语专业八级人文知识练习(6)

练习题目：

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