英国中古时期文学历年实考试题解析

1.（ 中山大学2017年硕士研究生入学考试试题） "It allegorizes the Christian struggle to achieve salvation as a journey from the City of Destruction, through such obstacles and distractions as the Slough of Despond and Vanity Fair , to the Celestial City." The sentence above describes _________.

A. Gulliver's Travels

B. Piers Plowman

C. The Fall of Hyperion

D. The Pilgrim's Progress

答案：D

2. （中山大学2017年硕士研究生入学考试试题 ）Questions1–4 are based on the following:

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;

Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this and this gives life to thee. (1609)

1. This poem was written in which of the following era?

A. Modern.

B. Victorian.

C. Romantic.

D. Elizabethan.

2. This poem is written in the form of ________.

A. epic

B. ballad

C. sonnet

D. elegy

答案：D; C

3. （国际关系学院2016年、天津外国语大学2015年硕士研究生入学考试试题：名词解释 ）Epic

参考答案：An epic is a long narrative poem on a senous and exalted subject.They combine legend,oral history,and moral exemplum t0 inspire and guide future generations.John MiIton's Paradise Lost , Homer's Iliad and the anonymous Beowulf are examples of epics.

4.（ 北京第二外国语学院2016年硕士研究生入学考试试题：名词解释 ）Prose

参考答案： It's a literary medium distinguished from poetry especially by its greater irregularity and variety of rhythm and its closer correspondence to the patterns of everyday speech. Although prose is distinguishable from poetry in that it does not treat a line as a formal unit, the signifcant differences between prose and poetry are of tone, pace, and object of attention.

5. （北京第二外国语学院2016年硕士研究生入学考试试题 ）Chaucer died on the25th of October 1400, and was buries in________.

A. Flanders

B. France

C. Italy

D. Westminster Abbey

答案：D

6. （北京第二外国语学院2015年硕士研究生入学考试试题 ）

________is one of theforerunners of modern socialist thought.

A. Phillip Sidney

B. Edmund Spenser

C. Thomas More

D. Walter Raleigh

答案：C

7. （天津外国语学院2015年硕士研究生入学考试试题 ）William Shakespeare is one of the most remarkable playwrights and poets the world has ever known. With his 37 plays, 154 ________ and 2 long poems, he has established his giant position in world literature.

答案 ：sonnets

8. （首都师范大学2014年硕士研究生入学考试试题 ）

Death be not proud, though some have called thee

Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so,

For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,

Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,

Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must fow,

And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,

Rest of their bones, and souls deliverie.

Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,

And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell,

And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,

And better then thy stroake; why swell'st thou then;

One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,

And Death shall be no more, death thou shalt die!

Name the author of this poem.

Which school of poetry is it?

参考答案 ：John Donne; Metaphysical school

9. （国际关系学院2014年英语专业硕士研究生入学考试试题 ） Julius ______is the________of Shakespeare's tragedies based on ancient _________ history.

参考答案 ： Caesar ; second; Roman

10. （国际关系学院2013年英语专业硕士研究生入学考试试题 ）"Hath not a Jeweyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses,affections? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christianis?"The speaker is _________.

参考答案 ：Shylock

11. （首都师范大学2013年硕士研究生入学考试试题 ）"One fatal Tree there stands of Knowledge call'd,/ Forbidden them to taste: knowledge forbidden?" is written by_______.

A. Shakespeare

B. William Blake

C. John Milton

D. Jane Austin

答案：C

12. （天津外国语大学2014年硕士研究生入学考试试题：名词解释 ）Dramatic irony

参考答案： Dramatic irony is an occasion in a play, film, or other work in whicha character's words or actions convey a meaning unperceived by the character but understood by the audience.

13. （天津外国语大学2013年硕士研究生入学考试试题 ）Heroic couplet is one of the traditional verse forms in English poetry. _______ is believed to be the frst English poet to have adopted this form in his poems.

参考答案 ：Geoffrey Chaucer

14. （北京交通大学2016年硕士研究生入学考试试题：作家作品 ）

To be or not to be: that is a question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

And by opposing end them.

参考答案 ：William Shakespeare; The Tragedy of Hamlet

15. （四川大学2003年英语专业硕士研究生入学考试试题：名词解释题 ）theFather of English Poetry

答案： (1) It usually refers to Geoffrey Chaucer whose masterpiece The CanterburyTales ranks as one of the greatest poetic works in English literature.

(2) Chaucer made a great contribution to English poetry by introducing from France the rhymed stanzas of various types to English poetry to replace the Old English alliterative verse. It was he who used for the firs time in English the rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter which was later called the "heroic couplet."

(3) Chaucer was the first to write in the current English language. Though drawing influence from French, Italian and Latin models, he did much in making the dialect of London the foundation for modern English language.

(4) In his works Chaucer developed his characterization to a higher artistic level by presenting characters with both typical qualities and individual dispositions. That is why John Dryden called him the Father of English Poetry.

16. （南开大学2003年、北航2003年英语专业硕士研究生入学考试试题：名词解释 ）heroic couplet

答案 ：It refers to a rhymed pair of iambic pentameter lines.

17. （中国人民大学2002年英语专业研究生入学考试试题：作者与作品题 ） The Canterbury Tales

答案 ：Geoffrey Chaucer

18. （北京师范大学2001年英语专业硕士研究生入学考试试题：填空题） _________is regarded as the Father of English Poetry. His best-known work is_________.

答案 ：Geoffrey Chaucer; The Canterbury Tales

19.（ 复旦大学1998年英语专业硕士研究生入学考试试题：名词解释题） Medieval romance

答案： (1) Romance is a popular literary form in the medieval England. (2) It sings knightly adventures or other heroic deeds. (3) Chivalry (such as bravery,honor, generosity, and kindness to the weak and poor) is the spirit of romance.

20. （南京大学 2018 年硕士研究生入学考试试题：简答题）

Discuss the dramatic function of ghost in Shakespeare's Hamlet .

参考答案： The ghost of Hamlet 's late father is a character from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet . In the stage directions he is referred to as "Ghost."His name is also Hamlet , and he is referred to as King Hamlet to distinguish him from the Prince. Ghost was a figmen of Hamlet 's overwrought imagination. Ghost appear a number of times to others before appearing to Hamlet . Shakespeare makes clear that the apparition is not a mere illusion.

21. （中国人民大学 2018 年硕士研究生入学考试试题：简答题）

What do you think of Chaucer's contribution to English language?

参考答案： Chaucer's language is vivid, exact, and easy to understand. His biggest contribution is that he introduced from France the "heroic couplet" to English poetry. In addition, he is the firs important poet to write in the present English language. And Chaucer did much in making the dialect of London the standard for the modern English speech.

22. （中山大学 2017 年硕士研究生入学考试试题：简答题）

Analyze the theme of Sonnet 18 .

参考答案： Sonnet 18 is one of the best-known of the 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. In the sonnet, the speaker asks whether he should compare the young man to a summer's day, but notes that the young man has qualities that surpass a summer's day. He also notes the qualities of a summer's day are subject to change and will eventually diminish. The speaker then states that the young man will live forever in the lines of the poem, as long as it can be read. There is an irony being expressed in this sonnet: it is not the actual young man who will be eternalized, but the description of him contained in the poem, and the poem contains scant or no description of the young man, but instead contains vivid and lasting descriptions of a summer's day; which the young man is supposed to outlive. 7pZcTthFZrjHb2UZp6nORBPggTRU6q6g7Afu3wF65AiTzV7fqDvici2j7+C0C/NI