判断题 英国文学
浪漫的爱情宣言-重庆58同城招聘信息
1. The progress of bourgeois economy made
England a powerful state and enabled
her in
1588 to inflict a defeat on the Spanish Invincible
Armada. T
2. The Protestant Reformation was in
essence a religious movement in a political
guise. F
3. Before the Reformation, the
English Bible was universally used by the Catholic
churches. F
4. Shakespeare’s sonnets are
divided into three groups: Numbers 1—17, Numbers
18—126, and Numbers 127—154. T
5.
Shakespeare’s sonnets are written for variety of
virtues. T
6. Shakespeare wrote about his own
people and for his own time. T
7. To
reproduce the real life, Shakespeare often
combines the majestic with the funny,
the
poetic with the prosaic(散文体的) and tragic with the
comic. T
8. Utopia is More’s masterpiece,
written in the form of letters between More and
Hythloday, a voyage. F
9. Both the
gentlemen and the common people went to the
theatres. But the upper
class was the dominant
force in Elizabethan theatre. T
10. From
Shakespeare’s history plays, it can be seen that
Shakespeare took a great
interest in the
political questions of his time. T
11.
Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English
drama was undergoing a
process of prosperity.
F
12. English Renaissance Period was an age of
poetry and drama, and was an age of
prose. F
13. Utopia, Book One, describes an ideal
communist society. F
14. English literature
of the 17
th
century witnessed a flourish
on the whole. F
15. The Revolution Period is
also called Age of Milton because it produced a
great
poet whole name is William Milton. F
16. The main literary form in literature of
Revolution Period is drama. F
17. Among the
English poets during the Revolution Period, John
Donne was the
greatest one. F
18. The
greatest epic produced by Milton, Paradise Lost,
is written in heroic couplets.
F
19. The 18
th
century was an age of
poetry. A group of excellent prose writers, such
as
Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Henry
Fielding, were produced. F
20. Novel writing
made a big advance in the 18
th
century.
The main characters in the
novels were no
longer common people, but the kings and nobles. F
21. The 19
th
century produced the
first English novelists, who fall into two groups:
the
sentimentalist novelists and the realist
novelist. F
22. Robert Burns is remembered
mainly for his songs written in the English
dialect on
a variety of subjects. F
23. My
Heart’s in the Highlands is one of the best known
poems written by Robert
Burns in which he
pored his unshakable love for his homeland. T
24. Many of Goldsmith’s poems were put to
music. F
25. Pre-romanticism is ushered by
Burns and Blake and represented by Percy,
Macpherson and Chatterton. F
26. English
Romantic literature started from mid-18
th
to the early 19
th
century. F
27. Jane
Austen is one of the greatest romantic woman
novelists. T
28. After composing the Lucy
poems, Wordsworth began his The Prelude . T
29. P.B. Shelley gained his nickname, “Mad
Shelley” because of his independent and
rebellious attitude. T
30. Lyrical Ballads
begins with Coleridge’s long poem, “Tintern
Abbey”. F
31. Many of the subjects of the
poems in Lyrical Ballads deal with elements of
nature.
T
32. Coleridge wrote the majority
of poems in Lyrical Ballads. F
33.
Wordsworth’s “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud” has
another name, Growth of a
Poet’s Mind. F
34. The Prelude is a long and autobiographical
poem considered as Coleridge’s
masterpiece. F
35. Some romantic writers stood on the side of
the feudal forces and even combined
themselves
with those forces. T
36. Wordsworth and
Coleridge are revolutionary Romantic poets. F
37. Byron and Shelley and Keats are
known as the romantic poets of the second
generation. T
38. The romanticists paid
great attention to the spiritual and emotional
life of man. T
39. Jane Austen is a writer who
regards novel writing as a sophisticated art. T
40. The story of Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound
was taken from Roman mythology. F
41. Shelley
is one of the leading Romantic poets, an intense
and original lyrical poet
in the English
language. T
42. Byron’s Don Juan begins with
descriptions of the hero’s childhood. T
43.
Byron’s literary career was closely linked with
the struggle and progressive
movements of his
age. T
44. Byron opposed oppression and
slavery, and has a passionate love for liberty. T
45. Wordsworth drew inspirations from the
mountains and lakes. T
46. Dickens’ The
Pickwick Papers gives a rather comprehensive
picture of early 19th
century England. T
47. Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller were two major
characters in The Pickwick Papers
which
aroused the interests of the readers. T
48.
In Oliver Twist, Dickens makes his readers aware
of the inhumanity of country life
under
capitalism. F
49. The title Bleak House is
not only the name of a house but is also an apt
(贴切的)
description of the society of the time.
T
50. Hard Times is a fierce attack on the
bourgeois system of education and
ethics(论
理学，道德学) and on utilitarianism (功利主义）.
T
51. A Tale of Two Cities takes the
Industrial Revolution as the subject. F
52.
The theme underlying A Tale of Two Cities is the
idea “Where there is oppression,
there is
revolution.” T
53. The story of Tess is
filled with a feeling of dismal foreboding and
doom. T
54. Fateful circumstances and tragic
coincidences abound in the book of Jude the
Obscure. F
55. James Joyce and Virginia
Woolf are the two best-known novelists of the
“stream
of consciousness” school. T
56. With the establishment of the
Jacobin dictatorship in France, Wordsworth’s
attitude toward revolution changed into
active. ( F )
57．In the revised version of
Lyrical Ballads, Coleridge held that poetry is the
“spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”. (
F )
58. Romanticism is a literary trend. It
prevailed in England in the period (1798---1832)
( F )
59. The ideals of French Revolution
are liberty, democracy, and equality. ( F )
6. The brilliant literary criticism “Biographia
Literaria” is written by Wordsworth.
( F )
60. A Tale of Two Cities belongs to the first
writing phase of Dickens’s career, and the
two
cities are London and Paris. ( F )
61.
Symbolism, Surrealism, Imagism, Expressionism,
etc, all belong to School of
Modernism. ( T )
62. The Rainbow is D. H. Lawrence’s
autobiographical work. ( T )
63. Chaucer
employed the heroic couplet in writing his
greatest work The Canterbury
tales. T
64.
Shakespeare’s plays have been traditionally
divided into four categories according
to
dramatic type: histories, comedies, tragedies and
romances. T
65. John Milton’s Paradise Lost
opens with the description of a meeting among the
fallen angels, and ends with the departure of
Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden.
T
66. “ Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear, And
the rocks melt wi’ the sun: I will luve
thee
still, my dear, While the sands of life shall
run.” The above lines are taken from
the
famous poem “Scots Wha Hae”. F
67. In
Gulliver’s Travels, Yahoos are the creatures
living in Houyhnynms. T
68. As an age of
romantic enthusiasm, the Romantic Age began in
1789 when
Wordsworth and Coleridge published
Lyrical Ballads. F
69. Odes are generally
regarded as Keats’ most important and mature
works. T
70. Wuthering Heights is written by
Ann Bronte. It is a morbid story of love, but a
powerful attack on the bourgeois marriage
system. F
71. The English translation
of the Bible emerged as a result of the struggle
between
Protestant and Catholicism. T
72.
The Bible was notably translated into English by
the Protestants. T
73. Apart from the
religious influence, the Authorized Version has
had a great
influence on English language and
literature. T
74. Rationalism is the theme of
the English Renaissance, which emphasized the
capacities of human mind and the achievements
of human nature. F
75. Sonnets contain
Italian sonnets and Shakespeare sonnets. T
76. The highest glory of the English
Renaissance was unquestionably its novel. F
77. In the 16
th
century, London became
the centre of English drama. T
78. In the
Elizabethan Theater, there were no actress and
women’s parts were always
taken by boys. T
79. Shakespeare’s drama becomes a monument of
the English neo-classicism. F
80. The
Pilgrim’s Progress gives a vivid and satirical
picture of Vanity Fair which is
the symbol of
London at the time of Restoration. T
81. John
Milton’s masterpiece, The Pilgrim’s Progress, is
an allegory, a narrative in
which general
concepts such as sins, despair, and faith are
represented as people
or as aspects of the
natural world. F
82. Satan is the hero in
Milton’s masterpiece The Pilgrim’s Progress. F
83. English enlighteners believed in the
emmotion. F
84. English enlighteners believed
that social problems could be dealt with by human
intelligence. T
85. Sameul Johnson’s A
Dictionary of English Language also marked the end
of
English writers’ reliance on the patronage
of noblemen for support. T
86. In describing
Robinson’s life on the island, Defoe glorifies
human labor. T
87. In a sense, in English
Romantic Age, literature equaled poetry. T
88.
William Wordsworth was influenced by the American
Independence War. F
89. Many subjects of
Lyrical Ballads deal with elements of nature. T
90. Lyrical Ballads a joint work of Wordsworth
and his friend Southey. F
91. The publication
of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 marks the beginning of
the Romantic
Movement in England. T
92. The publication of Lyrical Ballads marked
the break with classcism. T
93. The Romantic
Age came to an end in 1832 when the last Romantic
writer Robert
Soughey died. F
94. The
English Romantic period produced two major
novelists: Walter Scott and Jane
Austen. T
95. In 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge finished
his literary criticism, Biographia
Literaria.
T
96. Wordsworth’s poetry is distinguished by
the simplicity of his language. T
97. The
first poem in the collection The Lyrical Ballads
is Coleridge’s masterpiece.
The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner. T
98. On the death of Robert
Southey in 1843, Wordsworth was made poet
laureate. T
99. George Gordon Byron is chiefly
known for his two long poems: One is Childe
Harold’s Pilgrimage, the other is Don Juan. T
100. Dickens’ writings from 1836 to 1841 show
the characteristic of youthful
optimism. T
101. Dickens’ writings from 1842 to 1850 show
the character of excitement and
irritation. T
102.
Dickens’ writings from 1852 to
1870 show the feature of optimism. F