专八人文知识模拟试题(4)
1. The sentence “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s_____.
A comedies
B tragedies
C sonnets
D histories
2. The three dialects spoken by____ _____and _____mixed into a single language called Anglo-Saxon, or old English.
A Anglos, Saxons jutes
B Anglos, Saxons, Irish
C Anglos, Saxons, Scottish
D Anglos, Saxons, welsh
3. contribution to English lies chiefly in the fact that he introduced from France the rhymed stanza of various types, especially the rhymed couplet of 5 accents in iambic meter---the heroic couplet to English poetry.
A William Shakespeare’s
B Geoffrey Chaucer’s
C Thomas more’s
D Edmund Spenser’s
4. Spenserian stanza is a form of poetry first employed by Edmund Spenser in his long poetry_____.
A the faerie queene
B the shepherd’s calendar
C epithalamion
D amoretti
5. Francis bacon is a ____.
A poet
B playwright
C essayist
D novelist
6. We can perhaps describe the west wind in shelly’s poem “ode to the west wind” with all the following terms except_____.
A tamed
B swift
C proud
D wild
7. The novel starts with “it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune ,must be in want of a wife.” The novel is Jane Austen’____.
A Emma
B persuasion
C sense and sensibility
D pride and prejudice
8. The major concern of ____ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.
A Charles dickens’s
B D.H .Lawrence’s
C Thomas hardy’s
D john Galsworthy’s
9. “do you think, because I am poor ,obscure ,plain and little ,I am soulless and heartless? And if god had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me , as it is now for me to leave you .” the above Is quoted from_______.
A pride and prejudice
B Jane Eyre
C Wuthering heights
D great expectations
10. Which of the following is not one of the Bronte sisters?
A charlotte Bronte
B Anne Bronte
C jenny Bronte
D Emily Bronte
答案详解：
1. C
这句诗来自莎士比亚十四行诗第十八首。
2. A
公元五世纪，Anglos, Saxons， jutes开始迁入不列颠，这个部落融合成统一的民族英格兰，他们的语言也发展成一种叫Anglo-Saxon, 或者 old English.
3. B
Geoffrey Chaucer被誉为英国诗歌之父，是第一位用中古英语写作的大诗人。他的诗行以五音部抑扬格为基本节奏，每两行押韵，被称为heroic couplet
4. A
Spenser的长诗仙后每节有九行，具有音乐性，被称为Spenserian stanza。
5. C
培根是文艺复兴最重要的散文家。
6. A
ode to the west wind是雪莱最著名的抒情诗歌，西风是破坏旧世界，创造新世界的革命力量。
7. D
pride and prejudice的名言。
8. B
D.H .Lawrence将视线投向两性，对西方文明进行反思，将社会批评与性心理探索结合在一起，抨击资本主义工业文明。
9. B
简爱中的片断。
10. C
除jenny Bronte其他为在英国文学史占独特地位的Bronte三姐妹
