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20世纪英美文学选读试题 B Name_________ Marks_________ 一．.Multiple choice （20 % ） Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement . 　1. In the medieval period, it is Chaucer alone who, for the first time in English literature，presented to use comprehensive ___________ picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery 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. Many people today tend to regard the play 揟he 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 3. In揝onnet 18? Shakespeare has a profound meditation on the deinstructive 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 4. In the 18th century English literature，the representative writer of neo-classicism is __________ . A. Pope B. Swift C. Defoe D. Milton 5. The ______ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century . A. Renaissance B. Enlightenment C. Religious Reformation D. Chartist Movement 6. Blake, Wordsworth,___________, Byron, Shelley and __________ are the major romantic poets . A. Coleridage , Southey B. Coleridge , Keats C. Keats , Scott D. Scott , Coleridge 7.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. Da