刘意青简明英国文学史考研真题答案复习重点

，模块一是考研真题精选，本书精选了北京外国语大学、武汉大学、南开大学等众多名校的英美文学考研真题，并对考研真题提供了详细的参考答案。通过该部分，考生可以熟知考研真题的命题风格和难度。

模块二是章节题库，严格按照刘意青《简明英国文学史》的章目编排，共分为8部分，精选与各章内容配套的习题进行详解，所选试题基本涵盖了每章的考点和难点并配有考研真题。

模块一　考研真题精选

一、填空题

1. Bacon has been called the father of _____, for his works established and popularized inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method.（武大2015研）

【答案】modern science查看答案

【解析】培根被称为“现代科学之父”。

2. _____ is considered the first great English dramatist and the most important Elizabethan playwright before Shakespeare.（北京邮电大学2016研）

【答案】Christopher Marlowe查看答案

【解析】本题考查克里斯托弗·马洛的相关知识。克里斯托弗·马洛是英国诗人，剧作家，他革新了中世纪的戏剧，在舞台上创造了反映时代精神的巨人性格和“雄伟的诗行”，为莎士比亚的创作铺平了道路。

3. Geoffrey Chaucer’s work The Canterbury Tales 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. _____ contains the story about the three rioters as narrated by the pardoner and his long moralizings and attempts to sell fake, “relics” to other pilgrims.（大连外国语2010研）

【答案】The Pardoner’s Tale查看答案

【解析】赎罪僧的故事——关于死神降临贪财者身上的劝世寓言故事。为了杀死“死亡”，三个年轻人遇到了一个老人，他说他们会在附近的树下找到他。当他们到达的时候，他们发现了一堆宝藏，决定呆在那里直到天黑，然后在黑暗的掩护下把它带走。出于贪婪，他们互相残杀。

4. Virginia Woolf experimented with the _____ technique in her novel To the _____. （国际关系学院2010研）

【答案】stream of consciousness, Lighthouse查看答案

【解析】在小说《到灯塔去》中，伍尔夫大量使用了意识流的创作手法。

5. Doctor Faustus, is a play by Christopher Marlowe, based on the German story Faust, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for _____.（武大2015研）

【答案】knowledge and power查看答案

【解析】浮士德是魔法师和炼金术士，为获得知识和权力，向魔鬼出卖了自己的灵魂。

6. _____ is regarded as the third greatest English poet after Chaucer and Shakespeare, and the greatest in the 17th century.（天津外国语2014研）

【答案】John Milton查看答案

【解析】弥尔顿是继乔叟和莎士比亚之后第三位伟大的英国诗人，也是17世纪英国最杰出的诗人。

7. “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested” is found in Francis Bacon’s _____.（北京邮电大学2016研）

【答案】Of Studies查看答案

【解析】本题考查培根作品。论读书是《培根随笔》中的一篇重要的文章，收于《培根随笔》一书中。《培根随笔》是英国随笔文学的开山之作，以其简洁的语言、优美的文笔、透彻的说理、迭出的警句，在世界文学史上占据了非常重要的地位。

8. The Rape of the Lock is a(n) _____ composed by Alexander Pope, which satirizes a minor incident by comparing it to the grand world of the gods.（武大2015研）

【答案】mock epic查看答案

【解析】蒲柏的《夺发记》是最著名的英语讽刺史诗之一。

9. The school of _____ in English literature and art in the last decades of the _____ century is mainly represented by Walter Paler and Oscar Wilde, with _____ as its chief authority and source of inspiration and _____ as its most popular spokesman. （国际关系学院2010研）

【答案】aestheticism, 19th, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde

【解析】唯美主义运动（Aesthetic movement）是于19世纪后期出现在英国艺术和文学领域中的一场运动。瓦尔特·佩特的一系列文章激发了当时的颓废主义者们的思想，这种思想继而在英国发展，其中最有名的代表则是奥斯卡·王尔德。

10. In more than one sense Alexander Pope was the most important English poet to come out of the 18th century. For one thing, he was the best known and the most influential not only in England but in the Europe of his time, and his _____, in rhymed iambic pentameter, took the stage and became the dominant vogue in poetic creation on both sides of the English Channel.（天津外国语2014研）

【答案】heroic couplet查看答案

【解析】蒲柏的诗多用“英雄双韵体”。他的许多词句写得工整、精练、富有哲理性，有些诗行几乎成为格言。蒲柏是第一位受到欧洲大陆关注的英国诗人，他的著作被翻译成欧洲许多国家的文字。

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11. The novel _____ written by Dickens deals with the adventures of Mr. Pickwick, a retired old merchant, who is the founder and chairman of the Pickwick Club.（大连外国语2010研）

【答案】The Pickwick Papers查看答案

【解析】《匹克威克外传》是狄更斯的第一部长篇小说，写老绅士匹克威克一行五人到英国各地漫游的故事。

12. _____ are primitive creatures obsessed with “pretty stones” they find by digging in mud, thus representing the distasteful materialism and ignorant elitism Jonathan Swift encountered in Britain.（武大2015研）

【答案】The Yahoos查看答案

【解析】《格列佛游记》中的肮脏卑劣的人性兽“耶胡”。

13. Beowulf probably existed in its oral form as early as the _____ century and its hero and his adventures are placed in _____ and southern Sweden rather than in England. （国际关系学院2010研）

【答案】5th, Denmark

【解析】《贝奥武甫》最早在公元五世纪开始口头传诵，故事发生在丹麦和瑞典南部，诗中并没有提及英国。

14. Cordelia is a character in _____, one of the four great tragedies written by _____.（大连外国语2010研）

【答案】King Lear; William Shakespeare查看答案

【解析】《李尔王》是莎士比亚的四大悲剧之一。故事讲述了年事已高的国王李尔王退位后，被大女儿和二女儿赶到荒郊野外，成为法兰西皇后的三女儿考狄利娅率军救父，却被杀死，李尔王伤心地死在她身旁。

15. In The Second Coming, W. B. Yeats uses _____ regarding the Apocalypse and second coming allegorically to describe the atmosphere of post-war Europe.（武大2015研）

【答案】Christian imagery查看答案

【解析】叶芝在《第二次圣临》中使用了基督教意象，指基督教在未来的再生。

16. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of _____.（北京邮电大学2016研）