2017年英语专业八级考试人文知识练习试题及答案4

1. _____is a folk legend brought to England by Anglo-Saxons from their continental homes, it is a long poem of over 3000 lines and the national epic of the English people.

A Beowulf

B sir Gawain

C the Canterbury tale

D king Arthur and his knights

2. The father of English poetry, the author of Troilus and Criseyde is also the one of ____.

A Romeo and Juliet

B the faerie queen

C Tamburlainc

D the Canterbury tales

3. The group of Shakespeare plays known as "romance"or "reconciliation plays" is ______.

A merchant of Venice, as you like it

B the tempest, pericles, the winter's tale

C Romeo and Juliet, antonym and Cleopatra

D.the tempest, pericles, the winter's tale,Cymbeline

4. Which of the following are regarded as Shakespeare's four great tragedies?

A Romeo and Juliet, hamlet, Othello, King Lear

B Romeo and Juliet, hamlet, Othello, Macbeth

C hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

D Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Macbeth, Timon of Athens

5. Which of the following is not the work of Francis bacon?

A advancement of learning

B new instrument

C songs of innocence

D essays

6. At the beginning of 17th century appeared a school of poets called metaphysics by Samuel Johnson, ____is the founder of metaphysical poetry.

A Ben Johnson

B john Milton

C john Bunyan

D john Donne

7. Daniel Defoe is a famous____.

A poet

B novelist

C playwright

D essayist

8. "He has a servant called Friday." "he"in the quoted sentence is a character in______.

A Henry fielding's tom jones

B john Bunyan' the pilgrim's progress

C Richard brinsley Sheridan's the school for scandal

D Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe

9. Guiiliver' travel was written by____.

A Daniel Defoe

B Charles dickens

C Jonathan swift

D Joseph Addison

10. William Wordsworth is generally known as a ____poet.

A romantic

B realistic

C naturalistic

D neo-classic

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