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1.Multiple choice （40 points in all ， 1 for each ）
select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or complets the statement . Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A.B.C or D on the answer sheet .
1. In the medieval period ， it is Chaucer alone who ， for the first time in English literature ， presented to usa comprehensive ___________ picture of the English society of his time and created a whole galery of vivid ___________ from all walks of life in his masterpiece “the Canterbury Tales ”。
A. visionary / women
B. romantic /men
C. realistic / characters
D. natural / figures
2. Humanism spmg from the endeavor to restore a medieval reverence for the antique authors and is frequently taken as the beginning of the Renaissance on its conscious ， intellectual side ，for the Greek and Roman civilization was based on the conception that man is the __________ of all things .
A. measure
B. king
C. lover
D. rule
3. Many people today tend to regard the play “ The Merchant of Venice ” as a satire of the hypocrisy of __________ and their false standards of friendship and love ， their cunning ways of pursuing worldliness and their unreasoning prejudice against _________ .
A. Christians / Jews
B. Jews / Christians
C. oppressors / oppressed
D. people / Jews
4. In “ Sonnet 18 ” ， Shakespeare has a profound meditation on the destructive power of _________ and the eternal __________ brought forth by poetry to the one he loves .
A. death/ life
B. death/ love
C. time / beauty
D. hate / love
5. In the 18th century English literature ， the representative writer of neo-classicism is __________ .
A. Pope
B. Swift
C. Defoe
D. Milton
6. The ______ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century .
A. Renaissance
B. Enlightenmrent
C. Religious Reformation
D. Chartist Movement
7. Blake ， Wordsworth ， ___________ ， Byron ， Shelley and __________ are the major Romantic poets .
A. Coleridage / Southey
B. Coleridge / Keats
C. Keats / Scott
D. Scott / Coleridge
8. Best of all the well -known lyric pieces written by P.B. Shelley is the poet “________” ， for here his rhapsodic and declamatory tendencies find a subject perfectly suited to him .
A. To a skylark
B. The Cloud
C. Ode to the West Wind
D. Men of England
9.In his early novels ， Charles Dickens attacks one or more specific social evils in each ： for example ， the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark ， criminal underworld life in “______________” .
A.The pickwich Paper
B.David Copperfield
C.Oliver Twist
D.A Tale of Two Cities
10. The title of the novel “ Vanity Fair ” was taken from Bunyan's masterpiece __________.
A. The pilgrim's Progress
B. Gulliver's Travels
C. Hard Times
D. Wuthering Heights
11. G.B. Shaw's plays have plots ，but they do not work by plots . It is the vitality of the __________ that takes primacy over mere story .
A. characterization
B. depiction
C. talk
D. metaphor
12. The title of the novel “ A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ” written by James Joyce suggests a character study with strong _________ elements .
A. autobiographical
B. sentimental
C. joyful
D. bitter
13. A typical Forsyte ， according to John Galsworthy ， is a man with a strong sense of __________ ， who never pays any attention to human feelings .
A. property
B. justice
C. morality
D. humor
14. According to D.H. Lawrence ， the __________ is most resposible for the alienation of the human relationships and the perversion of human personality .
A. pride of the aristocratic class
B. vanity of the middle class
C. man's desire for power and money
D. capitalist mechanical civilization
15. G.B. Shaw's play ， Mrs . Warren's frofession is a grotesquely realistic exposure of the _______________.
A. slum landlordism
B. political corruption in England
C. economic oppression of women
D. religious corruption in England
16.In Shaw 's play ， Mrs Warren's Profession ， Mrs. Warren once said ：“ If there is a thing I hate in a woman ，it's want of character. ” The word “want ” here means __________.
A.desire
B. lack
C.possession
D. need
17. According to the ideas discussed in Chapter 13 of The Man of Property ， the tense relationship between Soames ， the husband ，and Irene ， the wife ， is caused by __________.
A.Irene's free-minded way of thinking
B.Irene's love for Bosinney
C. Soames's love for Irene
D. Soames's strong desire to possess Irene
18. Thematically Yeats's poem ， “ The Lake Isle of Innisfree ”，__________________.
A. celebrates the rich and colorful life of the modern people
B.criticizes the emptiness of the hermit's life in the remote country .
C. laments the loss of the Irish legendary tradition
D. laments the emptiness of the urban life and advocates a return to the simple and serene life of nature documentary precision are main features of his writing .