The fire ____ in the middle of the night. No wonder it is freezing.
A. went over
B. went out
C. went off
D. went on
Contrary to early expectations his ratings ____, and he soon had an audience of a million.
A. raised
B. soared
C. strengthened
D. intensified
一、填空题(共10空格,每空1分,共10分) Directions: Please fill in the blanks with the appropriate answers. 1. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life, ______ and the pursuit of happiness. 2. According to ________ (author), a representative writer of dark romanticism, melancholy is the most appropriate tone for poetry and “death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world”, because it provokes the deepest melancholy. 3. Born in Boston in 1706, ______ (author)published his famous Poor Richard’s Almanac, an annual collection of proverbs. His best writing is found in his own Autobiography, one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written. 4. ______ _(author) is hailed as “the greatest female poet since Sappho”, and considered the precursor of the Imagist Movement. Her famous poems include “Because I could not stop for Death-.”5. ______ (author) is much admired for his depictions of the rural life of New England, his command of American colloquial speech, and his realistic verse portraying ordinary people. His famous poems include “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowing Evening” 6. “In a Station of Metro,” a famous imagist poem reads, “The _______ __ of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough.” 7. The Scarlet Letter, a novel by _______ (author), published in 1850, explores guilt, revenge, and redemption in colonial America. It is considered a masterpiece of American literature and a classic moral study. 8. Early in the 1920s the most prominent of the new American playwrights, ________ (author), established an international reputation with such plays as The Emperor Jones, Anna Christie and the Hairy Ape. 9. ______ _ refers to a burst of literary achievement in the 1920s by Negro playwrights, poets, and novelists who presented new insights into the American experience and prepared the way for the emergence of numerous black writers after mid-century. 10. _______ (author), the first important American novelist, wrote historical novels known as The Leatherstocking Tales. His master work The Last of the Mohicans (1826) is set in 1757 during the French and Indian War.
I. Directions: Please fill in the blanks with the appropriate answers. (共10小题,每小题1分,共10分) 1. _______ (work) is an Old English epic story consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. It may be the oldest surviving long story in Old English and is commonly cited as one of the most important works of Old English literature. 2. ______ (author),the “father of Enlish poetry,” wrote The Canterbury Tales, a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English. The pilgrims, who come from all layers of society, tell stories to each other to kill time while they travel to Canterbury. 3. Vanity Fair, an English novel by ______ (author),features probably the greatest anti-heroine in English literature, Becky Sharp, and a plot that revolves around class, social climbing and a financial crisis that will seem eerily familiar to modern readers. 4. ______ (poet) was noted for his epic Pardise Lost (1667), which is widely regarded as the greatest epic poem in English. “When I Consider How My Light is Spent” is one of the best known of the sonnets. 5. “Reading maketh a full man; ______ a ready man; and writing an exact man” is written by Francis Bacon, one of the leading figures in natural philosophy and in the field of scientific methodology in the period of transition from the Renaissance to the early modern era. 6. Born in 1788,______ (poet) is a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, and the short lyric poem “She Walks in Beauty.” 7. Known colloquially as “The Bard of Avon,” ________ (poet) was an English poet and playwright who is considered one of the greatest writers to ever use the English language. He wrote at least 37 plays that scholars know of, with most of them labeled is comedies, histories, or tragedies. 8. ______ , the national poet of Scotland and a pioneer of the Romantic movement, published Poems Chiefly in Scottish Dialect which marked an epoch in the history of English literature. His famous poems include “To a Mouse,” “John Anderson, My Jo,” “A Red, Red Rose” and “Auld Lang Syne. 9. The greatest of the pioneers of English drama was ______ (1564-1593) who reformed that genre in England and perfected the language and verse of dramatic works. It was him who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama. 10. Charlotte Bronte, the author of Jane Eyre, and _______ the author of Wuthering Heights, are known as “the Bronte sisters” in the history of English literature.