课程代码：00604
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Ⅰ. 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 completes the statement. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
1．The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely ______________.
A．William Langland’ s Piers Plowman B．Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
C．John Gower’s Confession Amantis D．Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
2．The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragic History of
Dr. Faustus , is the very fact that______________.
A．man is confined to time
B．he tried to join Africa to Spain
C．he became a man without soul after he sold it
D．he conjured up Helen, the lady who was partially responsible for the breaking-up of the Trojan War
3．The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s ______________.
A．comedies B．tragedies
C．sonnets D．histories
4．Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from ______________.
A．the Renaissance B．the Old Testament
C．Greek Mythology D．the New Testament
5．Spenser’s masterpiece _____________ is a great poem of its time.
A．The Faerie Queene B． |
