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Instructions
：
This
examination
consists
of
5
parts
，
and
the
total
time
for
the
examination is 2 hours. All the answers
should be entered onto the Answer
Sheet.
Part I
：
Multiple Choices
（
10%
）
Choose the best
answer to the following sentences.
1.
Which of the following is NOT a feature
of Beowulf
？
A. Alliteration
B.
Anglo-
Saxons’ early life in
England
C. Germanic language
D. The national
epic of Anglo-Saxon people
2.
English Renaissance Period was an age
of
.
A. prose and novel
B.
poetry and drama
C. essays and
journals
D. ballads and songs
3.
The
main
literary
form
of
the
early
17
th
century
was
poetry.
John
Milton
was
acknowledged as the greatest. Besides
him
，
there were two groups
of poets. They were the
Cavalier poets
and
.
A. the lake poets
B. the university
wits
C. the Metaphysical poets
D. the Romantic
poets
4. Pamela is widely considered to be
the first novel and was written by
___________.
A. Thomas Hardy
B. James Joyce
C. Samuel
Richardson
D. Henry Fielding
5.
The
publication
of
，
which
was
the
joint
work
of
William
Wordsworth
and
Samuel T.
Coleridge
，
marked the
beginning of the Romantic Age in
England.
A. Don Juan
B.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
C. Lyrical
Ballads
D. Queen Mab
6.
Among the most famous realistic
novelists of the Victorian age are
，
W.
M.
Thackeray
，
Bronte sisters
，
etc.
A. Joseph Conrad
B. Henry
Fielding
C. Charles
Dickens
D. D. H.
Lawrence
7.
In James
Joyce’s ____________ the story “Eveline” paints a
portrait of a young
woman from Dublin
deciding whether or not to leave her
hometown.
A. Ulysses
B. Orlando
C.
Dubliners
D. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man
8.
In the
18
th
century
England
，
satire was much
used in writing. Literature of this age
produced some excellent
satirists
，
such as Jonathan
Swift
，
Henry Fielding
and
.
William Blake
B. Robert Burns
C.
Alexander
Pope
D. Daniel
Defoe
9.
William
Wordsworth never used “gaudy and inane
phraseology” because he felt that
poetry should ____________.
A. be read only
by the well-educated
B. use difficult vocabulary
to express complicated emotions
C. use simple
speech to communicate the truths of human
experience
D. rely on strange and uncommon words
to bring people new experiences
10.
Virginia
Woolf
is
renowned
for
adopting
the
technique
，
which
displays
the
sequence of thoughts and impressions in
a person’s mind.
A. mind-reading
B. third-person
narration
C. stream-of-
consciousness
D.
feminist
Part II
：
Gap Filling
（
10%
）
Complete the
following sentences and write your answers on the
Answer Sheet.
1.
Geoffrey
Chaucer’s work
gives us a picture of the
condition of English life of
his
day
，
such as its work and
play
，
its deeds and
dreams
，
its fun and
sympathy.
2.
During the
Norman Conquest
，
the most
important form of literary composition
is
，
the representative of which is the legend of King
Arthur and the round table
knights.
3.
Epoch of Renaissance witnessed a
particular development of English drama. It was
William Shakespeare and
who made blank
verse the principal vehicle of expression in
drama.
4.
Hamlet
，
Othello
，
Macbeth
and
are
generally
regarded
as
William
Shakespeare’s four
great tragedies.
5.
Edmund
Spenser
is
generally
regarded
as
the
greatest
nondramatic
poet
of
the
Elizabethan Age. His fame is chiefly
based on his masterpiece
.
6.
In Elizabethan
Period
，
wrote more than
50 excellent essays
，
which
made him
one of the best essayists in
English literature.
7.
The
was a progressive intellectual movement
throughout western Europe in the
18
th
century.
8.
In the latter
part of the 18
th
century
，
there
appeared
，
as a reaction
against Reason
，
___________
novel and literature of sentimentality.
9.
Thomas
Gray’s
highly
p
raised
poem
shows
the
poet’s
sympathy
for
the
poor
，
and
condemns
the
great
ones
who
despise
the
poor
and
bring
sufferings
to
the
common people.
10.
The
Romantic
movement
in
England
had
two
significant
movements
as
its
background
：
the
French Revolution and
.
11
________
is
perhaps
the
most
talented
early
novelist.
She
wrote
a
number
of
books concerning
young
，
relatively wealthy
women pursuing marriage
，
such as Pride and
Prejudice and
Emma.
12.
George
Byron
is
chiefly
known
for
his
two
long
poems.
One
is
Childe
Harold’s
Pilgrimage and the
other is
.
13
John
Keats
wrote
several
famous
___________
，
a
type
of
lyric
poem
that
is
meditative and formal.
14.
________
_
，
the eldest of
the two famous novelist
sisters
，
wrote Jane Eyre in
the
middle of the
19
th
century.
15.
_____________
monologue
was
first
successfully
used
in
poetry
by
Robert
Browning.
16.
One
of
the
most
striking
features
of
in
the
20
th
century
literature
is
anti-past
，
anti-
tradition
，
anti-
novel
，
anti-
hero
，
etc.
17.
__________
，
the
manifesto of modernist poetry in the
20
th
century
，
was written
by T. S. Eliot.
18.
A
Passage to India
，
Howard’s End
，
and
A Room with a View are three of the most
famous novels by
___________.
19.
Lord Jim is
one of the most famous novels by
_________
，
who was born in
Poland
and learned English as his third
language.
20.
Man and
Superman and Pygmalion are two of most famous
plays by __________.
Part
III
：
Definition
of Terms
（
15%
）
Choose THREE
out of the following terms and explain them in two
or three sentences.
Sonnet
；
Point of view
；
Soliloquy
；
Setting
；
Heroic couplet
Part
IV
：
Appreciation
（
40%
）
Choose TWO of
the following three excerpts and write a passage
of comment
（
about 80
words
）
on each
one. Your comment should cover the questions after
each excerpt.
Excerpt 1
：
I wandered
lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er
vales and hills
，
When all at once I saw a
crowd
，
A
host
，
of golden
daffodils
；
Beside the
lake
，
beneath the
trees
，
Fluttering and dancing in
the breeze.
…
For oft
，
when on
my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive
mood
，
They flash upon that inward
eye
Which is the bliss of
solitude
；
And then my heart with
pleasure fills
，
And dances with the
daffodils.
（
William
Wordsworth
，
“I
Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
）
Questions
：
1. What is the
central image of this poem
？
What is the poet’s reaction as revealed
in the
poem
？
2.
Wordsworth believes that “All good
poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful
feelings” and poetry “takes its
origin
from emotion
recollected in tranquility”. How does this
poem reflect the poet’s philosophy of
composition
？
Excerpt
2
：
The proper study of mankind is
man.
Placed on this isthmus of a middle
state
，
A being darkly
wise
，
and rudely
great
：
With too much knowledge for
the Skeptic side
，
With too much
weakness for the Stoic’s
pride
，
He hangs
between
；
in doubt to
act
，
or
rest
；
In doubt to deem himself a
God
，
or
beast
；
In doubt his mind or body
to prefer
；
Born but to
die
，
and reasoning
such
，
Whether he thinks too
little or too much
；
Chaos of
thought and passion
，
all
confused
；
Still by himself abused or
disabused
；
Created half to
rise
，
and half to
fall
；
（
Alexander
Pope
，
An Essay on
Man
）
Questions
：
1.
What’s the topic of the above
line
s
？
ize the main
idea in a few sentences.
Excerpt
3
：
I shall now therefore humbly propose my
own thoughts
，
which I hope
will not be liable
to the least
objection.
I have been assured by a very knowing
American of my acquaintance in
London
，
that a
young healthy child well nursed is at a
year old a most delicious
，
nourishing
，
and wholesome
food
，
whether
stewed
，
roasted
，
baked
，
or
boiled
；
and I make no doubt
that it will equally
serve in a
fricassee or a ragout.
I do therefore humbly offer
it
to public consideration that of the
hundred and twenty
thousand
children
，
already
computed
，
twenty thousand
may be reserved for breed
，
whereof
only one fourth part to be
males
，
which is more than we
allow to sheep
，
black
cattle
，
or
swine
；
and
my
reason
is
that
these
children
are
seldom
the
fruits
of
marriage
，
a
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