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PartOne EarlyandMedievalEnglishLiterature

Ⅰ.Fillintheblanks.

1. In1066, ,withhisNormanarmy,succeededininvadinganddefeatingEngland.

A.WilliamtheConqueror B.JuliusCaesar

C.AlfredtheGreat D.Claudius

2.Inthe14thcentury,themostimportantwriter（poet）is .

A.Langland B.Wycliffe C.Gower D.Chaucer

3.TheprevailingformofMedievalEnglishliteratureis .

A.novel B.drama C.romance D.essay

4.Thestoryof istheculminationoftheArthurianromances.

A.SirGawainandtheGreenKnight B.Beowulf

C.PiersthePlowman D.TheCanterburyTales

5.WilliamLangland’s iswrittenintheformofadreamvision.

A.KublaKhan B.PiersthePlowman

C.TheDreamofJohnBull D.Morted’Arthur

6. AftertheNormanConquest,threelanguagesexistedinEnglandatthattime.TheNormansspoke .

A.French B.English C.Latin D.Swedish

7. wasthegreatestofEnglishreligiousreformersandthefirsttranslatoroftheBible.

A.Langland B.Gower C.Wycliffe D.Chaucer

8. PiersthePlowmandescribesaseriesofwonderfuldreamstheauthordreamed,throughwhich,wecanseeapictureofthelifeinthe England.

A.primitive B.feudal C.bourgeois D.modern

9.Thethemeof tokingandlordwasrepeatedlyemphasizedinromances.

A.loyalty B.revolt C.obedience D.mockery

10.ThemostfamouscycleofEnglishballadscentersonthestoriesaboutalegendaryoutlawcalled .

A.Morted’Arthur B.RobinHood

C.TheCanterburyTales D.PiersthePlowman

11. ,the“fatherofEnglishpoetry”andoneofthegreatestnarrativepoetsofEngland,wasborninLondoninabout1340.

A.GeoffreyChaucer B.SirGawain C.FrancisBacon D.JohnDryden

12.ChaucerdiedonOctober25th,1400,andwasburiedin .

A.Flanders B.France C.Italy D.WestminsterAbbey

13.Chaucer’searliestworkofanylengthishis,atranslationoftheFrenchRomandelaRosebyGaillaumedeLorrisandJeandeMeung,whichwasaloveallegoryenjoyingwidespreadpopularityinthe13thand14thcenturiesnotonlyinFrancebutthroughoutEurope.

A.TheRomauntoftheRose B.“ARed,RedRose”

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C.TheLegendofGoodWomen D.TheBookoftheDuchess

14.InhislifetimeChaucerservedinagreatvarietyofoccupationsthathadimpactonthewiderangeofhiswritings.Whichoneisnothiscareer?

.

A.engineer B.courtier C.officeholder

D.soldier E.ambassador F.legislator（议员）

15. Chaucercomposesalongnarrativepoemnamed basedonBoccaccio’spoem“Filostrato”.

A.TheLegendofGoodWomen B.TroilusandCriseyde

C.SirGawainandtheGreenKnight D.Beowulf

Keytothemultiplechoices：

1-5ADCAB 6-10ACBAB 11-15ADAAB

Ⅱ.Questions

1.WhatarethefeaturesofBeowulf?

2.CommentonthesocialsignificanceandlanguageinTheCanterburyTales.

PartTwo TheEnglishRenaissance

Ⅰ.Matchthewriterandhisworks.

1.ThomasMore

2.Holinshed

3.Hakluyt

4.RichardTottel

5.PhilipSidney

6.WalterRaleigh

A.ApologyforPoetry

B.MiscellanyofSongsandSonnets

C.Utopia

D.DiscoveryofGuiana

E.PrincipalNavigations,VoyagesandDiscoveries

F.Chronicles

Thekey:

（1—C 2—F 3—E 4—B 5—A 6—D）

Ⅱ.Choosethebestanswer.

1. BfoundedtheTudorDynasty,acentralizedmonarchyofatotallynewtype,whichmettheneedsoftherisingbourgeoisie.

A.HenryV B.HenryVII C.HenryVIII D.JamesI

2.ThefirstcompleteEnglishBiblewastranslatedby C ,“themorningstaroftheReformation”andhisfollowers.

A.WilliamTyndal B.JamesI

C.JohnWycliffe D.BishopLancelotAndrews

3.Theprogressinindustryathomestimulatedthecommercialexpansionabroad.

_D encouragedexplorationandtravel,whichwerecompatiblewiththeinterestsoftheEnglishmerchants.

A.HenryV. B.HenryVII

C.HenryVIII D.QueenElizabeth

4.ExceptbeingavictoryofEnglandoverA_,theroutofthefleet“Armada”（Invincible）wasalsothetriumphoftherisingyoungbourgeoisieoverthedecliningoldfeudalism.

A.Spain B.France C.America D.Norway

5.Those,bothtradersandpirateslikeA,establishedthefirstEnglishcolonies.

A.FrancisDrake B.LancelotAndrews

C.WilliamCaxton D.WilliamTyndal

6._D wasaforerunnerofclassicisminEnglishliterature.

A.BenJohnson B.WilliamShakespeare

C.ThomasMore D.ChristopherMarlowe

7.Themostgiftedofthe“universitywits”was_D .

A.Lyly B.Peele C.Greene D. Marlowe

8.MoralityplaysappearedafterC .

A.miracleplays B.mysteryplays C.interlude D.Classicalplays

9. B isusedtosayanddogoodthings.

A.Mercy B.Folly C.Vice D.Peace

10.A isoneoftheforerunnersofmodernsocialistthought.

A.PhillipSidney B.EdmundSpenser

C.ThomasMore D.WalterRaleigh

11. B isnotafamoustranslatorintheEnglishRenaissance.

A.ThomasNorth B.ThomasWyatt

C.GeorgeChapman D.JohnFlorio

12.D hadsuppliedShakespearewiththematerialforJuliusCaesar.

A.LivesofGreekandRoanHeroes《希腊罗马名人传》

B.MiscellanyofSongsandSonnets

C.DonQuixote

D.HistoryoftheWorld

13.A wasoneofthefirsttoseetherelationbetweenwealthandpovertytounderstandthattherichwerebecomingricherbyrobbingthepoor.

A.JohnWycliffe B.WilliamCaxton

C.GeoffreyChaucer D.ThomasMore

14.UtopiawaswrittenintheformofD .

A.prose B.drama C.essay D.dialogue

15.OneofthepopularmoralityplayswasA.

A.TheShepherds B.Everyman

C.ThePlayoftheWeather D.GammerGurton’sNeedle

16.Shakespeare’splayswrittenbetween A aresometimescalled“romances”andallendinreconciliationandreunion.

A.1590and1594 B.1595and1600

C.1601and1607 D.1608and1612

17.MirandaisaheroineinShakespeare’s C .

A.Pericles B.Cymbeline C.TheWinter’sTale D.TheTempest

18.InB appearedShakespeare’sSonnet，NeverbeforeImprinted（《莎士比亚十四行诗》“迄今从未刊印过”）whichcontains154sonnets.

A.1606 B.1607 C.1608 1609

19.Shakespeareisoneofthefoundersof_A .

A.romanticism B.realism C.naturalism D.classicism

20.Amongmanypoeticforms,Shakespearewasespeciallyathome（goodat）withthe D .

A.dramaticblankverse B.song C.sonnet D.couplet

21.Intheplays,Shakespeareusedabout D words.

A.15000 B.16000 C.17000 D.18000

22.B hasbeencalledthesummitoftheEnglishRenaissance.

A.ChristopherMarlow B.FrancisBacon

C.W.Shakespeare D.BenJohnson

Keytothemultiplechoices:

1-5BCDAA 6-10DDCBA 11-15BDADA 16-22ACBADDB

Ⅲ.Fillintheblanks.

1.The LatinBible wasuniversallyusedbytheCatholicChurches.

2.TheEnglishtranslationoftheBibleemergedasaresultofthestrugglebetween

Protestantism; and_Catholicism.

3.TheBiblewasnotablytranslatedintoEnglishbythe Protestants.

4.ThefirstcompleteEnglishBiblewastranslatedby JohnWycliffe;_,“themorningstarofthe Reformation ”.

5. WilliamTyndal translatedtheNewTestamentandportionsoftheOldTestament,whichisknownasTyndale’sBible.

6.AfterTydale’sBible,thenappearedthe AuthorizedVersion, ,whichwasmadein1611undertheauspicesof JamesI Andsowassometimescalled

theKingJamesBible.

7.Apartfromthereligiousinfluence,theAuthorizedVersionhashadagreatinfluenceonEnglish_Language and literature_.

8.WiththewidespreadinfluenceoftheEnglishBible,thestandardmodernEnglish

hasbeen fixed and_confirmed .

9.Agreatnumberof BiblecoinagesandphraseshavepassedintodailyEnglishspeechashouseholdwords.

10.The simple;and dignified_languageoftheAuthorizedVersionhascoloredthestyleof theEnglishproseforthelast300years.

11. WilliamCaxton wasthefirstEnglishprinter.

12.WilliamCaxtonwasaprosperousmerchanthimself,buthewasfondof_Reading

,andhisinterestwasturningto literature_.

13.HetranslatedTheRecuyellofHistoryesofTroyintoEnglishfromFrenchwhich

wasthe First_bookprintedinEnglish.

14.TheRecuyellservedasasourcefor_Shakespeare TroilusandCressida.《特

洛埃勒斯与克雷雪达》

15.Afterhavingestablishedhisprintingpress,WilliamCaxtondevotedhimselftothecareerofaPrinter_andpublisher.

16.WilliamCaxtonpublishedabout100_books,_24ofwhichweretranslatedbyhimself.

17.Byrendering（翻译）FrenchbooksintoEnglish,Caxtonexercisedtheyouthfullanguageintheairs（曲调）,thegraces,thecraftsoftheelderandcontributedtothedevelopmentofthestyleof_15thcenturyEnglish_prose.

18.TheinfluenceofCaxton’spublicationsisalsogreatinfixinga National

languageinEngland.

19.AsthefirstEnglishprinter,CaxtoninventedinEnglandtheprofessionof_Publisher;,whichinfacthashadalastingsignificancetothedevelopmentofEnglish_cultureasawhole.

20.TheRenaissancestartedinthe14th centuryandendedinthe 17th

century.

21.Theword,“renaissance”meansReligious,whichwasstimulatedbyaseriesofhistoricalevents,suchasreformation .

22.IntheRenaissance,thehumanistthinkersandscholarstriedtogetridofthoseold

feudalistideasinmedievalEurope,tointroducenewideasthatexpressesinterestsoftherisingbourgeoisie,andtorecoverthe_purityoftheearlychurchfromthecorruptionoftheRomanCatholicChurch.

23.HumanismisthethemeoftheEnglishRenaissance,whichemphasizedthecapacitiesofhumanmind;andtheachievementsofhumanculture.

24.SpenserianStanzaisaverseformcreatedbyEdmundSpenserforhispoem,TheFaerieQueene,inwhichtherhymeschemeisababbcbcc.

25.TheWarsoftheRoses（1455—1485）betweentheHouseof_LancasterandtheHouseof_YorkstrugglingfortheCrowncontinuedfor30years.

26.Becauseoftheconflictbetween