人文知识练习附讲解 32

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(单词翻译:单击)

1. "The Graveyard1 Poets" got the name because ___.
 
A they chose to live near graveyards2
 
B they often wrote about death and melancholy3
 
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 Hardy4'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 Innocence5
 
B Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
 
C Wordsworth's and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads6
 
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 elegy7
 
C epic8 D sonnet9
 
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 corruption10
 
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 Bondage11 is a novel by ___.
 
A Herbert George Wells B Arnold Bennett
 
C William Somerset Maugham D John Galsworthy
 
【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。

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1 graveyard 9rFztV     
n.坟场
参考例句:
  • All the town was drifting toward the graveyard.全镇的人都象流水似地向那坟场涌过去。
  • Living next to a graveyard would give me the creeps.居住在墓地旁边会使我毛骨悚然。
2 graveyards 8d612ae8a4fba40201eb72d0d76c2098     
墓地( graveyard的名词复数 ); 垃圾场; 废物堆积处; 收容所
参考例句:
  • He takes a macabre interest in graveyards. 他那么留意墓地,令人毛骨悚然。
  • "And northward there lie, in five graveyards, Calm forever under dewy green grass," 五陵北原上,万古青蒙蒙。 来自英汉 - 翻译样例 - 文学
3 melancholy t7rz8     
n.忧郁,愁思;adj.令人感伤(沮丧)的,忧郁的
参考例句:
  • All at once he fell into a state of profound melancholy.他立即陷入无尽的忧思之中。
  • He felt melancholy after he failed the exam.这次考试没通过,他感到很郁闷。
4 hardy EenxM     
adj.勇敢的,果断的,吃苦的;耐寒的
参考例句:
  • The kind of plant is a hardy annual.这种植物是耐寒的一年生植物。
  • He is a hardy person.他是一个能吃苦耐劳的人。
5 innocence ZbizC     
n.无罪;天真;无害
参考例句:
  • There was a touching air of innocence about the boy.这个男孩有一种令人感动的天真神情。
  • The accused man proved his innocence of the crime.被告人经证实无罪。
6 ballads 95577d817acb2df7c85c48b13aa69676     
民歌,民谣,特别指叙述故事的歌( ballad的名词复数 ); 讴
参考例句:
  • She belted out ballads and hillbilly songs one after another all evening. 她整晚一个接一个地大唱民谣和乡村小调。
  • She taught him to read and even to sing two or three little ballads,accompanying him on her old piano. 她教他读书,还教他唱两三首民谣,弹着她的旧钢琴为他伴奏。
7 elegy HqBxD     
n.哀歌,挽歌
参考例句:
  • Good heavens,what would be more tragic than that elegy!天哪,还有什么比那首挽歌更悲伤的呢!
  • His book is not intended to be a complete history but a personal elegy.他的书与其说是一部完整的历史,更像是一篇个人挽歌。
8 epic ui5zz     
n.史诗,叙事诗;adj.史诗般的,壮丽的
参考例句:
  • I gave up my epic and wrote this little tale instead.我放弃了写叙事诗,而写了这个小故事。
  • They held a banquet of epic proportions.他们举行了盛大的宴会。
9 sonnet Lw9wD     
n.十四行诗
参考例句:
  • The composer set a sonnet to music.作曲家为一首十四行诗谱了曲。
  • He wrote a sonnet to his beloved.他写了一首十四行诗,献给他心爱的人。
10 corruption TzCxn     
n.腐败,堕落,贪污
参考例句:
  • The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
  • The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
11 bondage 0NtzR     
n.奴役,束缚
参考例句:
  • Masters sometimes allowed their slaves to buy their way out of bondage.奴隶主们有时允许奴隶为自己赎身。
  • They aim to deliver the people who are in bondage to superstitious belief.他们的目的在于解脱那些受迷信束缚的人。

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