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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.

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二、判断对错题（共10小题，每小题2分，共20分）请填写True or False1. The Early forms of short fiction include mythology, folklore, fables, parables, tales, and short stories. 2. Character is the people in the story. He is an individual created imaginably by the author through whom this imaginable person, to some extent, lives within us; to the other extent, outside us. 3. Subject is what the story is generally about. It is a concise summary of the story’s content expressed in one statement. 4. The tone of the story “The Tell-Tale Heart” can be defined as blissful and gay. 5. The point of view of “To Build a Fire” is third person omniscient point of view. 6. The protagonist of the story “The Killers” is a prize-fighter called Ole Anderson. 7. In “The Rocking-Horse Winner”, the voice in the house is a symbol standing for the call for love and passion. 8. “Araby”, “Bartleby”, “The Garden Party”, and “A & P” are stories that can be categorized into a literature genre called “Initiation Story”. 9. John Updike is a famous American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic. Describing his subject as "the American small town, Protestant middle class", Updike was well recognized for his careful craftsmanship, his unique prose style, and his prolificness. 10. William Faulkner and Mary Flannery O’Connor are both Southern writers who often wrote in a Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on grotesque characters.

一、填空题（共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）1. The person who actually rationalized the artistic practice into a theoretic framework is . In his 1842 review of Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales, he defined short story as a tale that is short enough to be read at a single sitting. 2. is a fictitious story meant to teach a moral lesson, traditionally by means of animal characters who speak and act in the way of human beings. 3. s the battle between what the character wants to do and what the character must do--- inner turmoil, moral dilemmas or overcoming trauma. 4. is more complex than plot and subject. It is the story’s controlling idea or central insight that reflects the author’s personal philosophy of life. It is usually expressed in one line which serves as the author’s mental preparation for answering the question “what is the story about.” 5. When we come to we are concerned with a writer’s selection and arrangement of facts drawn from an action (real or imaginary) --- a selection and arrangement that determine the unity and significance of the fiction. ______, then, is the meaningful manipulation of action. 6. The author of “The Rocking Horse Winner” is one of the most influential and creative writers of the 20th century. He was once a controversial figure due to frankness about sex, but now is recognized a serious writer and moralist. 7. Charletto Perkins Gilman is an American feminist, author, critic, and theorist. _ is her only short story. She is best known during her own life for her sociological and political work than her fiction. 8. ______ _ is the Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1954. His distinctive writing style, characterized by economy and understatement, known as the “Iceberg Theory”, influenced 20th-century fiction, as did his life of adventure and public image. 9. Virginia Woolf is an English author, feminist, essayist, publisher, critic, and one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the 20th century. She is best known for her writing technique called______ _. 10.______ is a contemporary Iran-born British writer and Nobel Prize winner of 2007. She was described by the Swedish Academy as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny".

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.

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.