2021知到答案 英国文学(19秋冬校内) 最新智慧树满分章节测试答案

第三章 单元测试

1、单选题：
It was ( ) who first introduced and reformed the English drama which reached its climax in the hands of William Shakespeare.
选项：
A:University Wits
B:Ben Johnson
C:John Wycliff
D:Christopher Marlowe
答案: 【University Wits】

2、单选题：
Great writers of the English Renaissance who are known for humanism, took ( ) as the centre of the world and voiced the human aspirations for freedom and equality.
选项：
A:power
B:God
C:man
D:the world
答案: 【man】

3、单选题：
Shakespeare is hailed by ( ), contemporary with Shakespeare, as “not of an age, but for all time”.
选项：
A:Ben Jonson
B:Christopher Marlowe
C:Robert Greene
D:Thomas Nash
答案: 【Ben Jonson】

4、单选题：
Hamlet is characterized as a(an) ( ) on that, he loves good and hates evil; he is a man free from prejudice and superstition; he has unbounded love for the world and firm belief in the power of man.
选项：
A:humanist
B:Puritan
C:patriot
D:idealist
答案: 【humanist】

5、单选题：
Edmund Spenser was considered the ( ) for his achievements in poetry.
选项：
A:“father of English poetry”
B:“the saint of English poetry”
C:“the greatest English poet”
D:“the Poets’ Poet”
答案: 【“the Poets’ Poet”】

6、单选题：
( ) is a distinctive verse form adopted by Edmund Spenser in his works incluiding his masterpiece The Faerie Queene. It has 9-line stanzas, rhyming in ababbcbcc.
选项：
A:blank verse
B:sonnet
C:“The mighty lines”
D:“The Spenserian Stanza”
答案: 【“The Spenserian Stanza”】

7、单选题：
Francis Bacon won for himself the first English ( ) for his achievements in English literature of the Renaissance.
选项：
A:prose writer
B:poet
C:dramatist
D:essayist
答案: 【essayist】

8、单选题：
The most representative work of Francis Bacon is ( ), which is the first collection of English essays.
选项：
A:Advancement of Learning
B:Novum Organum
C:Essays
D:The Interpretation of Nature
答案: 【Essays】

第四章 单元测试

1、单选题：
( ) is regarded as the greatest prose writer in the English literature of the 17th century, who is best known for his work The Pilgrim’s Progress.
选项：
A:George Herbert
B:John Bunyan
C:John Dryden
D:Francis Bacon
答案: 【John Bunyan】

2、单选题：
The Pilgrim’s Progress is written in the form of ( ) .
选项：
A:symbols
B:allegory
C:allusions
D:aggressions
答案: 【allegory】

3、单选题：
“The Metaphysical Poets” refer to the loose group of 17th-century English poets whose work was characterized by the inventive use of ( )
选项：
A:symbols
B:conceit
C:metaphor
D:imagination
答案: 【conceit】

4、单选题：
In his “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”, John Donne makes a most impressive comparison between love and ( ) as the dominant conceit of the poem.
选项：
A:an earthquake
B:a farewell to a dying person
C:a piece of gold
D:a pair of compasses
答案: 【a pair of compasses】

5、单选题：
The 17th century of English history was marked mainly by the English Bourgeois Revolution which ended with the establishment of ( ) as a compromise between the bourgeoisie and the monarchy.
选项：
A:the Tory Party
B:institutional monarchy
C:the United Kingdom
D:the Whig Party
答案: 【institutional monarchy】

6、单选题：
(     ) was the religious cloak of the English Bourgeois Revolution which advocated God’s supreme authority over human beings.
选项：
A:

Humanism

B:

Puritanism

C:

Calvinism

D:

Republicanism

答案: 【

Puritanism

】

7、单选题：
Puritan poetry in the 17th-century English literature is represented best by ( ), who produced Paradise Lost as his representative work.
选项：
A:John Miltion
B:John Dryden
C:Robert Herrick
D:John Donne
答案: 【John Miltion】

8、单选题：
Throughout his life, Milton showed strong rebellious spirit agaisnt many things he thought unjust and acted as the voice of ( ) of England under Oliver Cromwell.
选项：
A:the Royalists
B:the Commonwealth
C:the Parliament
D:the Monarch
答案: 【the Commonwealth】

9、单选题：
“On his Blindness” and “On his Deceased Wife” are the two best-known of Milton’s ( ).
选项：
A:blank verses
B:alliterative verses
C:sonnets
D:elegies
答案: 【sonnets】

10、单选题：
Milton’s Paradise Lost employs the themes taken from ( ) of the Christian Bible.
选项：
A:Luke
B:Matthew
C:Genesis
D:Exodus
答案: 【Genesis】

11、单选题：
The central theme of Paradise Lost is ( ).
选项：
A:resurrection
B:the fall of man
C:final judgment
D:the creation of man
答案: 【the fall of man】

第五章 单元测试

1、单选题：
The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century which was an expression of the struggle of bourgeoisie against ( ).
选项：
A:classicism
B:humanism
C:puritanism
D:feudalism
答案: 【feudalism】

2、单选题：
Among the English Enlighteners of the 18th century, there were chiefly two groups: the ( ) group and the radical group.
选项：
A:moderate
B:conservative
C:royalist
D:revolutionary
答案: 【moderate】

3、单选题：
The Tatler, a British literary and society journal begun by Richard Steele in 1709, featured cultivated essays on ( ).
选项：
A:contemporary manners
B:cultural state
C:social evils
D:class struggles
答案: 【contemporary manners】

4、单选题：
As a distinctive way, ( ) are adopted by the neo-classicist playwrights in the 18th-century English literature.
选项：
A:satires
B:heroic couplets
C:three unities
D:realistic techniques
答案: 【three unities】

5、单选题：
( ) writers in the 18th-century English literature modelled themselves on the Greek and Roman writers in their dramatic writings.
选项：
A:Pre-romanticist
B:Realist
C:Enlightenment
D:Neo-classicist
答案: 【Neo-classicist】

6、单选题：
Alexaner Pope was a master of poetry in heroic couplet. He strongly advocated ( ), emphasizing that literary works should be judged by classical rules.
选项：
A:classicism
B:naturalism
C:realism
D:aestheticism
答案: 【classicism】

7、单选题：
Daniel Defoe is an early proponent of the ( ) novel whose masterpiece Robinson Crusoe tells about the adventures of a sailor on the sea and on an island.
选项：
A:epistolary
B:Gothic
C:sentimentalist
D:realist
答案: 【realist】

8、单选题：
As one of the greatest satirists in the 18th century, (     ) made use of satire to attack social evils and call for social changes in his Gulliver’s Travels.
选项：
A:

Henry Fielding

B:

Johnathan Swift

C:

Daniel Defoe

D:

Samuel Richardson

答案: 【

Johnathan Swift

】

9、单选题：
Gulliver’ s Travels tells about the adventures of Gullliver through the fairy tale of fantasy which is a great satire on ( ).
选项：
A:human heart
B:human spirit
C:human nature
D:human mind
答案: 【human nature】

10、单选题：
( ), the greatest realist novelist of the 18th-century English literature, is also considered the father of the English novel.
选项：
A:Oliver Goldsmith
B:Daniel Defoe
C:Henry Fielding
D:Jonathan Swift
答案: 【Henry Fielding】

11、单选题：
Tom Jones shows Fielding’s philosophical view of “return to ( )”. Thus, in characterization, a contrast is made between Tom Jones, the good-nautured though flawed man, and Bilfil, the hypocritical villain.
选项：
A:childhood
B:motherland
C:countryside
D:nature
答案: 【nature】

12、单选题：
Sentimentalism of English literature got its name from Lawrence Stern’s novel (     ) in which Sterne tries to catch the actual flow of human mind and sentiment.
选项：
A:

A Sentimental Journey

B:

Pamela

C:

The Vicar of Wakefield

D:

Tristram Shandy

答案: 【

A Sentimental Journey

】

13、单选题：
Sentimetalism is also found in Samuel Richardson’s ( ) novels which convey female characters’ feelings and sentiments.
选项：
A:adventure
B:epistolary
C:realist
D:historical
答案: 【epistolary】

14、单选题：
The only poet of the sentimentalist school of literature is Thomas Gray, whose well-known “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” earned for him the name of a “( ) Poet”.
选项：
A:Graveyard
B:Lake
C:National
D:Local
答案: 【Graveyard】

15、单选题：
Oliver Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield conveys his reflections on the relations between sentimentalism and ( ) in the 18th-century English literature.
选项：
A:romanticism
B:realism
C:localism
D:satire
答案: 【satire】

16、单选题：
The latter half of the 18th century English literature was marked by a strong protest against the bondage of classicism and a recognition of the claims of passion and emotion which is later known as ( ).
选项：
A:realism
B:neo-classicism
C:pre-romanticism
D:sentimentalism
答案: 【pre-romanticism】

17、单选题：
Robert Burns is the best known of the poets who have written in the ( ) dialect.
选项：
A:Scottish
B:Irish
C:London
D:Celtic
答案: 【Scottish】

第六章 单元测试

1、单选题：
Romanticism preferred ( ) to reason and rationalism. To William Wordsworth, poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
选项：
A:emotion
B:rhetoric
C:art
D:devices
答案: 【emotion】

2、单选题：
The joint publication of  (     ) in 1798 by Wordsworth and Coleridge marked the beginning of the Romantic movement in England.
选项：
A:

‘Rime of Ancient Mariner’

B:

‘Lines Composed upon Tinten Abbey’

C:

‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads’

D:

Lyrical Ballads

答案: 【

Lyrical Ballads

】

3、单选题：
To Wordsworth, the theme of poetry should be concerned with ( ), the language of peotry should be plain, and the people poetry should deal with are country folk.
选项：
A:fantastic life
B:city life
C:common life
D:country life
答案: 【common life】

4、单选题：
In “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, “the inward eye” refers to ( ), which is a metaphor to appeal to the reader’s imagination of the author’s inner feelings.
选项：
A:“emotians”
B:“heart”
C:“mind”
D:“reason”
答案: 【“mind”】

5、单选题：
In “The Solitary Reaper”, the feeling of ( ) is clearly conveyed to the reader, especially in the first stanza.
选项：
A:disillusionment
B:homesickness
C:melancholy
D:loneliness
答案: 【melancholy】

6、单选题：
Percy Bysshe Shelley belongs to the school of ( ) romantic poets, whose masterpiece Prometheus Unbound owes much to the Greek tragedy Prometheus Bound.
选项：
A:lyrical
B:revolutionary
C:passive
D:active
答案: 【active】

7、单选题：
( ) is Shelley’s bestknown lyric in which he calls forth the overthrowing of the old social system and bringing destruction to it.
选项：
A:“The Cloud”
B:“To a Skylark”
C:“Ode to the West Wind”
D:“Song to the Man of England”
答案: 【“Ode to the West Wind”】

8、单选题：
Walter Scott is the only novelist of the romantic literature of the 19th-century England and his novels are mainly ( ) novels as far as genre is concerned.
选项：
A:realist
B:historical
C:psychoanalytical
D:sentimentalist
答案: 【historical】

9、单选题：
Scott’s historical novels touch upon the subject matters of the history of ( ), the history of England and the history of European countries.
选项：
A:Wales
B:Scotland
C:France
D:Ireland
答案: 【Scotland】

第七章 单元测试

1、单选题：
Jane Austen’s novels mainly concern such issues as the ( ) of young women. Because of the use of satire and criticism of social prejudices, she is considered as a realist novelist rather than a romantic writer.
选项：
A:morals
B:ethics
C:feminism
D:manners
答案: 【manners】

2、单选题：
The Bronte sisters refer to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte, with the elder two represented by Jane Eyre and ( ) respectively.
选项：
A:Wuthering Heights
B:Agnes Grey
C:The Professor
D:Villette
答案: 【Wuthering Heights】

3、单选题：
Of the women writers in the 19th century English literature, ( ) is the only one that deals with the life of the working-class people, represented by her novel Mary Barton.
选项：
A:Jane Austen
B:Charlotte Bronte
C:Mrs. Gaskell
D:George Eliot
答案: 【Mrs. Gaskell】

4、单选题：
The novels of George Eliot mostly deal with ( ) problems and contain psychological studies of the characters.
选项：
A:cultural
B:social
C:moral
D:psychological
答案: 【moral】

第八章 单元测试

1、单选题：
In response to the social, political and economic problems associated with industrialisation, ( ) novel becomes the leading genre of the Victorian literature.
选项：
A:aestheticist
B:critial realist
C:psychoanalytical
D:new romanticist
答案: 【critial realist】

2、单选题：
The first period of Charles Dickens’s literary career is characterized mainly by (     ) and the novels are filled with moral teachings.
选项：
A:

pessimism

B:

mysticism

C:

fatalism

D:

optimism

答案: 【

optimism

】

3、单选题：
Thomas Hardy is the most representative realist in the later decades of the Victorian era, whose principal works are the ( ) novels, i.e., the novels describing the characters and environment of his native countryside.
选项：
A:Bildungsroman
B:character and environment
C:realist
D:modernist
答案: 【character and environment】

4、单选题：
In the aesthetic movement of the 19th century, “Art for Art’s Sake” can simply mean the focus on ( ) rather than on deep meaning of literary works.
选项：
A:technique
B:form
C:beauty
D:impression
答案: 【beauty】

5、单选题：
( ) is a type of poetry written in the form of a speech of an individual character whose spiritual world is conveyed to the reader through the author’s subtle psychological analysis.
选项：
A:Free association
B:Interior monologue
C:Psycho-analysis
D:Dramatic monologue
答案: 【Dramatic monologue】

6、单选题：
“Break, Break, Break” is a short lyric poem written by Alfred Tennyson which is a(n) ( ) for the poet to reveal his grief over the death of his friend.
选项：
A:sonnet
B:lyric
C:ode
D:elegy
答案: 【elegy】

7、单选题：
Thomas Carlyle’s non-fiction The French Revolution: A History was the inspiration for Charles Dickens’ s novel (    ).
选项：
A:

Hard Times

B:

A Tale of Two Cities

C:

Great Expectations

D:

Oliver Twist

答案: 【

A Tale of Two Cities

】

8、单选题：
John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era. In his Modern Painters, he argued that the principal role of the artist is ( ).
选项：
A:“truth to nature“
B:innovation
C:“art for art’s sake”
D:creativity
答案: 【“truth to nature“】

9、单选题：
In his Culture and Anarchy, ( ) showed his deepest contempt for and most frequent attack on the middle-class Philistines who he thought lacked culture.
选项：
A:Matthew Arnold
B:Thomas Carlyle
C:John Ruskin
D:Charles Kinsley
答案: 【Matthew Arnold】