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《英语语言学》概论总习题 第一套复习试卷 I. Choose the one that would best complete the statement below. (30 points, 2 points each) 1. John Dryden called ______ the father of English poetry. A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Edmund Spencer C. John Milton D. John Donne 2. ______ is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons. A. Beowulf B. The Canterbury Tales C. Don Juan D. Paradise Lost 3. The Merchant of Venice is a ________. A. tragedy B. comedy C. history play D. tragicomedy 4. Hamlet faces the dilemma between ______. A. action and mind B. dream and reality C. money and power D. hate and love 5. John Milton’s masterpiece is his ______. A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise Regained C. Samson Agonistes D. Areopagitica 6. Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems depict mostly ______. A. the frontier life B. The sea adventures C. the Puritan community D. New England landscape 7. The novel ________ is not written by Henry James. A. The Ambassadors B. The Wings of the Dove C. The Bostonians D. The Mysterious Stranger 8. In the 1920s decade, O’Neill established an international reputation with such plays as ______. A. The Emperor Jones B. Anna Christie C. The Hairy Ape D. all of the above 9. Fitzgerald’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of the Jazz Age, in which he shows a particular interest in ______ society. A. the middle-class B. the upper-class C. the lower-middle-class D. the working-class 10. Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include ______, symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions. A. impressionism B. expressionism C. multiple points of view D. first person point of view 11. The following are Shakespeare