这也是从我的一位学生那得到的，不过我和她不熟，是她班主任把这份题拿给我让我帮忙做答案，我就保留了下来。她今年听说被北师大录取了，虽然和她不熟但也祝贺她，我想她也不介意现在我把这些题目拿上来和大家共享。北师大的题目还是有很大一部分是基础题的，但最后几道大题还真是不容易，连我都不敢说能答的很好，是需要你对文学真的有所理解的，是死记硬背很难解决的。

先发填空这部分比较基础的：

北京师范大学2003年英美文学

(25 points)

1. The period of Old English literature extends from about 450 to 1066, during which Old English poets produced the national epic poem of the Anglo-Saxons - _____, an example of the mingling of nature myths and heroic legends.

2. Dr. Faustus is the greatest of _______’s plays, the pioneer of English drama.

3. The term “metaphysical poetry” is commonly used to name the work of the 17^th century writers who wrote under the influence of _____.

4. Working through the tradition of a Christian humanism, Milton wrote ______, intending to expose the ways of Satan and to “justify the ways of God to men”.

5. While the neoclassical period witnessed the flourish of English poetry by John Dryden, Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson, the mid-century was predominated by a newly rising literary form – the modern English novel, which gives a realistic presentation of life the common English people. Among the pioneers were ______, _______.

6. The ______ period is an age of poetry. Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats are the major poets who started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature. _______ and _____ collaborated on a book of poems entitled Lyrical Ballads, first published in 1798.

7. “Ode on an Grecian Urn” by John Keats shows the contrast between the ________ of art and the _______ of human passion.

8. During the Victorian period new scientific discoveries increased people’s religious doubts and anxieties. In his long poem ______, Tennyson recorded his own experience of religious uncertainties before the falling faith in god.

9. _____’s novels are all Victorian in date. Most of them are set in Wessex, the fictional primitive and crude rural region that is really the home place he both loves and hates. His best colored works are his later ones, such as ________.

10. Oscar Wilde was the representative of the _____ movement, which appeared on the literary scene of England in the late Victorian period.

11. The first three decades of last century were golden years of the modernist novel. With the notion that multiple levels of consciousness existed simultaneously in the human mind, writers concentrated all their efforts on digging into the human consciousness. They had created unprecedented _______ novels such as Ulysses by _____ and Mrs. Dalloway by ______.

12. In his famous essay, “Tradition and Individual Talent”, _______ put great emphasis on the importance of ______ both in creative writing and in criticism.

13. Like Ibsen, _______was much concerned about the social problems of his time. His career as a dramatist began in 1892, when his first play _____ was put on and turned out a success.

14. _____ which contains stories like “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” was a great success and won ________ a measure of international fame on both sides of the Atlantic.

15. Emerson’s leading role has made the _______ of which he was spokesman central. It was one of many movements in the air at a point when sect and schisms, religious and philosophical tendencies, stirred New England life and spread abroad to the nation.

16. _____ had long been a highly controversial figure in American Renaissance, whose poetic theories are best expressed in The Philosophy of Composition and The Poetic Principle.

17. Greatly influenced by Hawthorne’s black vision regarding the evil of human beings, _____ produced the first American prose epic - ______ which appears to be a whaling tale or sea adventure.

18. The three dominant figures of the Age of Realism are William Dean Howells, ______, and ______, who differed in their understanding of the “truth”. While ______ and Howells shared the same concern in presenting the truth of the American society, ______ had apparently laid a greater emphasis on “the inner world” of man.

19. ______ was the great original of modern American naturalism, and his work _____ published appropriately as the century turned, is an ambitious novel that merged American innocence and deep social experience.

20. ______was the first major, self-conscious literary movement of African American writers. The defining event of the movement was the publication in 1925 of The New Negro: An Interpretation, an anthology edited by Alain Locke.

21. The Hairy Ape that concerns the problem of modern man’s identity was written by ______ who won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936.

22. Ezra Pound’ artistic talents are on full display in the history of the ______ movement, which flourished from 1907 to 1917 and advanced modernism in arts.

23. Yoknapatawpha County has become an allegory or a parable of the Old South, with which _______ has managed successfully to show a panorama of the experience and consciousness of the whole Southern society.

24. Counterculture is a protest movement by American youth that arose in the late ______ and faded during the late _____. According to some, young people in the United States were forming a culture of their own, opposed to the culture of Middle America.

25. _______ won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, whose first work published in 1969 is ________ and whose latest novel is ________.