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Best of all the well-known lyric pieces written by P.B. Shelley is the poet’ s ______, here his rhapsodic and declamatory tendencies find a subject perfectly suited to them.

A．To a Skylark
B．The Cloud
C．Ode to the West Wind
D．Ode to a Nightingale

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John Milton’ s______is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.

A．Paradise Lost
B．Paradise Regained
C．Samson Agonistes
D．Areopagitica

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As the best of Shakespeare’ s final romances, ______is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.

A．The Tempest
B．The Winter’ s Tale
C．Cymbeline
D．The Rape of Lucrece

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_____writings paved the way for the use of scientific method.

A．George Bernard shaw
B．T. S. Eliot
C．Francis Bacon
D．Alexander Pope

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With classical culture and the______humanistic ideas coming into England, the English Renaissance began flourishing.

A．French
B．German
C．Italian
D．Greek

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In the early stage of the English Renaissance, poetry and______were the most outstanding literary forms and they were carried on especially by William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.

A．fiction
B．dramatic fiction
C．poetic drama
D．novel

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Shakespeare’ s ______ are mainly written under the principle that national unity under a mighty and just sovereign is a necessity.

A．history plays
B．tragedies
C．comedies
D．plays

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William Shakespeare’ s greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, , King Lear and.

A．Romeo and Juliet; Othello
B．Othello; Macbeth
C．The Tempest; Macbeth
D．Othello; Henry IV

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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．history plays

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"The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune"is an example of______.

A．metaphor
B．simile
C．irony
D．personification

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______’ s literary achievements can be divided into three groups: the early poetic works, the middle prose pamphlets and the last great poems.

A．William Shakespeare
B．Christopher Marlowe
C．John Donne
D．John Milton

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The neoclassical period in English literature refers to the one between the return of the Stuarts to the English throne in 1660 and the full assertion of______ which came with the publication of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798.

A．Realism
B．Humanism
C．Romanticism
D．Neoclassicism

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English enlighteners in the 18th century held ______as the yardstick for the measurement of all human activities and relations.

A．war
B．history
C．reason
D．love

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Robinson Crusoe by ______ is universally considered as his masterpiece.

A．John Bunyan
B．Jonathan Swift
C．Henry Fielding
D．Daniel Defoe

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The best fictional work of Jonathan Swift is ______.

A．A Tale of a Tub
B．The Battle of the Books
C．A Modest Proposal
D．Gulliver’ s Travels

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Of all the 18th-century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice , to write specifically a "______ in prose, " the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.

A．tragic epic
B．comic epic
C．romance
D．lyric epic

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______paints a world of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression with a melancholy tone.

A．Oliver Twist
B．A Tale of Two Cities
C．Songs of Innocence
D．Songs of Experience

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The three poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey once lived in the English Lake District, and became known as the "______. "

A．University Wits
B．Metaphysical Poets
C．Lake Poets
D．Lost Generation

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The Romantic Age began with ______published by Wordsworth and Coleridge.

A．Leaves of Grass
B．The Cantos
C．Nature
D．Lyrical Ballads

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Which of the following writings is not created by William Wordsworth

A．I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
B．Composed upon Westminster Bridge.
C．The Solitary Reaper.
D．The Chimney Sweeper.

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Best of all the well-known lyric pieces written by P.B. Shelley is the poet’ s ______, here his rhapsodic and declamatory tendencies find a subject perfectly suited to them.

A．To a Skylark
B．The Cloud
C．Ode to the West Wind
D．Ode to a Nightingale

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Shelley’ s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama______.

A．Adonais
B．7b a Skylark
C．A Song: Men of England
D．Prometheus Unbound

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"Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;/Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!" The two lines are found in ______.

A．Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne
B．Ode to the West Wind by Shelley
C．Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
D．Ulysses by Joyce

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As a______writer, Jane Austen considers it her duty to express in her works a discriminated and serious criticism of life, and to expose the follies and illusions of mankind.

A．romantic
B．sentimental
C．pessimistic
D．realistic

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______is regarded as "worshipper of nature. "

A．Coleridge
B．Wordsworth
C．T. S. Eliot
D．Robert Browning

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Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques, writers in the Victorian Period shared one thing in common, that is, they were all concerned about______.

A．the fate of the upper class
B．the reformation of the government
C．the fate of the common people
D．the future of their family class

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Charles Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the ______

A．Romantic Period
B．Renaissance Period
C．Neoclassical Period
D．Victorian Period

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All of the later works written by Charles Dickens, with the exception of______, present a criticism of the more complicated and yet most fundamental social institutions and morals of the Victorian England.

A．Bleak House
B．A Tale of Two Cities
C．Little Dorrit
D．Hard Times

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The novel Oliver Twist presents Oliver Twist as Charles Dickens’ first______hero.

A．female
B．male
C．child
D．imaginary

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Which of the following women does not belong to the famous Bronte Sisters

A．Mary Bronte.
B．Charlotte Bronte.
C．Emily Bronte.
D．Anne Bronte.

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Charlotte Bronte’ s works are all about the stmggle of an individual consciousness towards self-realization , about some lonely and neglected______with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.

A．young man
B．young women
C．children
D．old people

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The success of the novel______is due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine.

A．Wuthering Heights
B．Pride and Prejudice
C．Jane Eyre
D．Sister Carrie

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Thomas Hardy’ s novels are all Victorian in date. Most of them are set in ______, the fictional primitive and crude rural region which is really the home place he both loves and hates.

A．Sussex
B．Wessex
C．Casterbridge
D．Oxford

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______ believes that man’ s fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of "nature, " both inside and outside.

A．Charles Dickens
B．Thomas Hardy
C．Bernard Shaw
D．T. S. Eliot

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The French______, appearing in the late 19th century, heralded modernism.

A．romanticism
B．realism
C．modernism
D．symbolism

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______takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base.

A．Symbolism
B．Romanticism
C．Realism
D．Modernism

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In his novels of social satire, ______made realistic studies of the aspirations and frustrations of the "Little Man."

A．Arnold Bennett
B．H. G. Wells
C．John Galsworthy
D．George Bernard Shaw

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______is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since William Shakespeare.

A．George Bernard Shaw
B．Richard Brinsley Sheridan
C．Christopher Marlowe
D．John Donne

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Which of the following best describes the speaker of T. S. Eliot’ s "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

A．He is a man of inactivity.
B．He is a man of kindness.
C．He is a man of action.
D．He is a man of ambition.

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"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, " in a form of dramatic monologue, presents the meditation of an aging______man over the business of proposing marriage.

A．grown
B．lunatic
C．old
D．young

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The statement "A demanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all her affection to her sons" sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrence’ s______.

A．Women in Love
B．Sons and Lovers
C．Lady Chatterley’s Lover
D．The Plumed Serpent