11. T. S. Eliot’s most important single poem ____________ has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry.

　　A. The Hollow Men

　　B. The Waste Land

　　C. Murder in the Cathedral

　　D. Ash Wednesday

　　12. According to the subjects, William Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified into two groups, poems about____________.

　　A. nature and human life

　　B. happiness and childhood

　　C. symbolism and imagination

　　D. nature and commonlife

　　13. Among the following writers ____________ is considered to be the best -known English dramatist since Shakespeare.

　　A. Oscar Wilde

　　B. John Galsworthy

　　C. W. B. Yeats

　　D. George Bernard Shaw

　　14. William Blake’s ____________ composed during the climax of the French Revolution plays

　　the double role both as a satire and a revolutionary prophecy.

　　A. The Book of Urizen

　　B. The Book of Los

　　C. Poetical Sketches

　　D. Marriage of Heaven and Hell

　　15. Charles Dickens’ works are characterized by a mingling of ____________ and pathos.

　　A. metaphor

　　B. passion

　　C. satire

　　D. humor

　　16. Daniel Defoe describes ____________ as a typical English middle -class man of the eigh- teenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist.

　　A. Robinson Crusoe

　　B. Moll Flanders

　　C. Gulliver

　　D. Tom Jones

　　17. In Thomas Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent ____________ touch in his de- scription of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.

　　A. nostalgic

　　B. tragic

　　C. romantic

　　D. ironic

　　18. Of all the eighteenth - century novelists ____________ was the first to set out, both in the-ory and practice, to write specially a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.

　　A. Thomas Gray

　　B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

　　C. Jonathan Swift

　　D. Henry Fielding

　　19. Shakespeare’s authentic non-dramatic poetry consists of two long narrative poems: Venus and Adonis and____________.

　　A. Julius Caesar

　　B. The Winter’s Tale

　　C. The Rape of Lucrece

　　D. The Two gentlemen of Verona

　　20. John Milton’s ____________ is probably his most memorable prose work, which is a great

　　plea for freedom of the press.

　　A. Paradise Lost

　　B. Paradise regained

　　C. Areopagitica

　　D. Lycidas