1、 “The Graveyard Poets” got the name because ___.
A they chose to live near graveyards
B they often wrote about death and melancholy
C they always wrote about dead people
D they often use “graveyard” as the title
2、 It is generally understood that the recurrent theme in many of Thomas Hardy’s novel is ___.
A man against nature
B love and marriage
C social criticism
D fate and destiny
3、The Romantic Period in English literature began with the publication of ___.
A William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
B Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
C Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads
D a piece of land
4、 It is generally regarded that Keats’ most important and mature poems are in the form of ___.
A ode
B elegy
C epic
D sonnet
5、G.B. Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a realistic exposure of the ___ in the English society.
A slum landlordism
B inequality between men and women
C political corruption
D economic exploitation of women
6、The Preface to Shakespeare and Lives of the Poets are the works of critic ___.
A G.B. Shaw
B Samuel Johnson
C Ben Johnson
D E.M. Foster
7、The Ring and the Book is a masterpiece of ___.
A Alfred Tennyson
B Robert Browning
C Thomas Hardy
D Ralph Waldo Emerson
8、Matthew Arnold is the writer of ___.
A Dover Beach
B My last Duchess
C Break, Break, Break
D The Eagle
9、The writer of Heart of Darkness is also the one of ___.
A Time of Machine
B Jim
C Lord Jim
D A Passage to India
10、Of Human Bondage is a novel by ___.
A Herbert George Wells
B Arnold Bennett
C William Somerset Maugham
D John Galsworthy
参考答案：
1. 选B。“墓畔派”是指18世纪那些描写死亡的哀挽的诗人。代表作有托马斯.格雷《墓园挽歌》(Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard)，托马斯.巴奈尔的《死亡之夜》(Night Piece on Death)，爱德华. 扬《夜思》(Night Thoughts)和罗伯特.布莱尔的《坟墓》(The Grave)。
2. 选D。在哈代(Thomas Hardy)的作品中，他那悲剧色彩的哲学观告诉我们，人生的一切都是命运安排，是不可抗拒的。人在命运的面前束手无策，无论人们怎样努力，都很难逃脱命运的折磨和戏弄。
3. 选C。威廉.华兹华斯(William Wordsworth)，于1798同柯勒律治(Samuel Tayor Coleridge)合作出版了著名的《抒情歌谣集》(Lyrical Ballads)，该诗第二版的“序”被认为是英国浪漫主义的宣言。
4. 选A。济慈的代表作品有《夜莺颂》(Ode to a Nightingale)，《希腊古瓮颂》(Ode on a Grecian Urn)，《忧郁颂》(Ode on Melancholy)，《秋颂》(To Autumn)等。“颂”被认为是济慈最具有代表性和最为成功的诗歌形式。
5. 选D。萧伯纳的剧作《华伦夫人的职业》(Mrs. Warren’s Profession)塑造了一个在经济重压下普通妇女的形象，该剧揭露了一个令人愤怒的事实：在资本主义社会，娼妓业也成了一种剥削方式。
6. 选B。塞缪尔.约翰逊18世纪英国人文主义文学批评的巨匠，《莎士比亚戏剧集序言》(The Preface to Shakespeare)，和《诗人传》(Lives of the Poets)是他对文学批评做出的饿突出贡献。
7. 选B。《指环与书》(The Ring and the Boo)是罗伯特.勃郎宁(Robert Browning)的诗作。
8. 选A。《多佛海滩》(Dover Beach)是阿诺德(Matthew Arnold)诗歌中的名篇之一，反映了19世纪西方社会中的宗教信仰在新知识的冲击下普遍沦丧的时代风貌。
9. 选C。《黑暗的心》(Heart of Darkness)和《吉姆老爷》(Lord Jim)都是约瑟夫.康德拉的小说，《吉姆》(Jim)是同时期另一位作家迪亚德.吉卜林的作品。
10.选C。威廉.萨默塞特.毛姆(William Somerset Maugham)的创作深受法国自然主义的影响，他的长篇小说《人性的枷锁》(Of Human Bondage)展现了主人公摆脱精神枷锁的过程。
