专八人文知识冲刺(4)

练习题：

1.The national epic of the Anglo-Saxons is ____.

A Robin Hood
B Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
C The Canterbury Tales
D Beowulf

2. ____was the most outstanding single romance on the Arthurian legend written in alliterative verse.

A The Canterbury Tales
B Piers the Plowman
C Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
D Beowulf

3. ____was the most famous for The Canterbury Tales.

A Geoffrey Chaucer
B John Milton
C William Shakespeare
D Francis Bacon

4. Most of the ballads of the 5th century focused on the legend about ____ as a heroic figure.

A Green Nights
B Gawain
C Robin Hood
D Hamlet

5.In the 16th century, Thomas More’s work ____became immediately popular after its publication.

A Paradise Lost
B A Pleasant Satire of the Three Estates
C Of Beauty
D Utopia

6. ____was Edmund Spencer’s masterpiece which has been regarded as one of the great poems in the English language.

A Amoretti
B The Shepherd’s Calendar
C The Faerie Queen
D Four Hymns

7. ____ is from Shakespeare’s sonnet No.18.

A “Let me not to the marriage of true minds”
B “To be or not to be: that is the question”
C “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day”
D “No longer mourn for me when I am dead”

8. The vivid portrayal of ____ by Shakespeare in Henry IV has earn for him an enviable place in the history of English literature.

A Julius Caesar
B Falstaff
C Hamlet
D King Henry

9.The four great tragedies written by Shakespeare are Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and ____.

A. Antony and Cleopatra
B. Julius Caesar
C Twelfth Night
D King Lear

10. Which of the following does not belong to Shakespeare’s romantic love comedies?

A Twelfth Night
B The Tempest
C As You Like It
D The Merchant of Venice