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cdcd ee. This form is usually called __________.正確答案: Spenserian sonnet miracle play had as its subject either a story from the , or else the life and martyrdom of a : Bible sentence “shall I pare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s : D. sonnets 38. __________is regarded as the earliest popular tragedy of bold and revenge. 正確答案: D. The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd 39. Sir Philip Sidney is known for the following three works except __________. 正確答案: A. The Shepherd’s Calendar 40. “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested” is one of the epigrams found in __________. 正確答案: A. Francis bacon’s “Of Studies” 41. Which of the following statements best illustrate the theme of Shakespeare’s sonnet 18? 正確答案: A. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation. 42. has established his giant position in world literature with his 37 plays. 正確答案: William Shakespeare43. The second period of English renaissance is also called the __________period or the age of Shakespeare. 正確答案: Elizabethan of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare’s great tragedies? 正確答案: A. Romeo and Juliet 45. The writings of Francis bacon mainly fall into three categories: __________, purely literary and professional.正確答案: philosophical following playwrights belong to the “university wits”, Shakespeare’s predecessors, except : A. Ben Jonson 47. lay the foundation for modern science with his insistence on scientific way of thinking and fresh observation rather than authority as a basis for obtaining knowledge. 正確答案: Francis Bacon48 In the English renaissance period, scholars began to emphasize the capacities of the human mind and the achievements of human culture. The most significant intellectual movement was __________. 正確答案: A. humanism49. used wisdom in saving Antonio from being punished by Shylock in The Merchant of : C. Portia 50. Soon after the __________ was introduced by the Earl of Surrey in his translation of Virgil’s The Aeneid, and it became the standard meter for Elizabethan and later poetic drama. 正確答案: blank verse The 17th Century prevalent mood that enveloped literary works in the 17th century was one of gloom, pessimism, , and frivolity. 正確答案: decadence2. Which of the following works is a good example to illustrate the idea that a man gains the whole world but loses his own soul? 正確答案: A. Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus3. Paradise Lost is full of classical and allusion. 正確答案: biblical4. In the Revolution Period towers over his age as William Shakespeare towers over the Elizabethan Age and as Chaucer Towers over the Medieval Period.正確答案: John Milton5.“To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grad Foe.” (John Milton, Paradise Lost) By what means were Satan and his followers to wage this war against God?正確答案: D. By corrupting man and woman created by God.6. is the founder of the school of Metaphysical poetry. His works are characterized by mysticism in content and fantasticality in form. 正確答案: John Donne7. after the Glorious Revolution, there brought to England a monarchy, within which the king’s power was greatly restricted.正確答案: constitutional8. is the master of blank verse, the first to use blank verse in nondramatic works.正確答案: John Milton9 Metaphysical poetry has gained new recognition because of their seriousness of art, their spirit of revolt, and their realism, and it has greatly influenced the modernist poetry of the _ century. 正確答案: 20th 10 In John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Adam and Eve are forbidden to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of : D. Good and Evil 11 is not Milton’s work. 正確答案: D. Gulliver’s Travels12 The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for ________. 正確答案: C. spiritual salvation 13 The general features of the 17th century are the and the spirit of doubt and scientific analysis. 正確答案: transition 14 John Milton’s Paradise Lost opens with the description of a meeting among the fallen angels, and ends with the departure of Adam and ________from the Garden of Eden.正確答案: Eve15 Christopher Marlowe is the most gifted of the “University Wits”. It is Marlowe who first made the principal instrument of English drama. 正確答案: blank verse16 The most distinguished literary figure of the Restoration Period was John Dryden, poet, ________, and playwright.正確答案: critic17 Because of the success of Paradise Lost, John Milton produced in 1671 another epic, _________. 正確答案: Paradise Lost18 By making the truthseeking pilgrims suffer at the hands of the people of Vanity Fair, John Bunyan intends to show the prevalent political and religious _______of his time. 正確答案: C. persecution 19Metaphysical poetry is characterized by verbal and excess, ingenious structure, irregular meter, colloquial language, elaborate imagery, and metaphysical conceits and a drawing together of dissimilar : wit20. After the Puritan Revolution there established a kind of dictatorship under which the people suffered greatly. 正確答案: military21 “To wage by force or guile eternal war, // Irreconcilable to our grand Foe.” (Milton, Paradise Lost) Who is the “grand foe” the speaker is referring to? 正確答案: B. God 22 is a long epic. The stories are taken from the Old Testament. 正確答案: Paradise Lost23 The chief force that motivated Bunyan to write The Pilgrim’s Progress was his .正確答案: B. religious fervency24 Paradise Lost was to justify the ways of to man, ., to advocate submission to the Almighty. 正確答案: God25 In Milton’s Paradise Lost, took revenge by tempting Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden : Satan26As a result of the conscientious study he made of the Bible, Bunyan’s langua