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单项选择

1.____refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality.

A Allegory

B Conflict

C Irony

D Flashback

2.___was recognized as the greatest poet of Victorian England.

A Tennyson

B Robert Browning

C Mrs.Browning

D Robert Burns

3.James Joyce is the author of all the following novels EXCEPT____

A Dubliners

B A Potrait of the Artist as a Young Man

C Jude the Obscure

D Ulysses

4.Which of the follwing poets is different from the others?

A John Donne

B John Keats

C Lord Byron

D Percy Bysshe Shelley

5.William Wordsworth is an English ____

A poet

B novelist

C playwright

D critic

1.D irony 是指“反讽”，揭示事物表面与真相的差别。

2.A Aflred Tennyson 被称为维多利亚时代最杰出的英国诗人。他的主要作品为：The Princess，Maud 和短诗 Break，Break，Break。

3.C Jude the Obscure是Thomas Hardy的作品。

4.A 除了John Donn是玄学派诗人外，另外三位为浪漫主义派诗人。

5.A William Wordsworth是英国前浪漫主义诗人。[page]

6.The compiler of A Dictionary of the English Language is _____

A Joseph Addison

B Richard Steele

C Samuel Johnson

D Laurence Stern

7.My Last Duchess is a monologue poem written by ____

A William Shakespeare

B Robert Browing

C Ben Jonson

D Robert Herrick

8. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" is an epigrammatic line by ____

A John Keats

B William Blake

C William Wordsworth

D Percy Bysshe Shelley

9.Paradise Lost is a masterpiece by ____

A Christopher Marlow

B John Miltom

C William Shakespeare

D Ben Johnson

10. James Joyce mostly wrote about his hometown ____

A London

B Dublin

C New York

D Edinburgh

6.C Samuel Johnson(1709-1784)编写的《英语字典》是之后所有英语字典的基石。

7.B Robert Browning(1812-1889)擅于写独角剧，他的代表作是My Last Duchess和Meeting at Night。

8.A Beauty is truth, truth beauty是John Keats的写作宗旨，他用尽毕生精力追求能够表达一切美丽事物的诗篇。

9.B 《失乐园》和《复乐园》均为John Milton所做。

10.B James Joyce出生于爱尔兰的首都都柏林，主要作品有：A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man，Ulysses。故事合集Dubliners

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