英美文学选读-英国-新古典主义时期-练习题汇总

1. The 18th-century England is known as ( ) (浙0710) A. the Age of Puritanism C. the Era of Capitalism

2. English Enlighteners in the 18 century held ________ as the yardstick for the measurement of all human activities and relations. （一）1 A. property C. emotion

3. In the Enlightenment Movement, the progressive representatives intended ______. (浙0810) A. to call the people to fight against poverty and hardship B. to tell people to economize and to accumulate wealth

C. to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas D. to instruct people to obtain their present social status through hard work

4. As to education, the enlighteners thought that ______. （浙0310） A. human beings were limited, dualistic, imperfect, and not capable of rationality and perfection through education.

B. universal education was unnecessary.

C. if the common people were well educated, there would be great chance for a democratic and equal human society.

D. most of the human beings were perfect themselves, so only a few needed further education.

5. Why did the enlighteners regard education the major means to improve the society and the people? ( ) (浙0710) education.

B. If the common people were well educated, there would be great chance for a democratic and equal human society.

C. Because universal education was limited , dualistic, imperfect, and unnecessary.

D. Because human beings were not capable of rationality and perfection through education.

6. About reason , the enlighteners thought _____. （浙0210） A. reason or rationality should be the only, the final cause of any human thought and activities B. reason couldn't lead to truth and justice C. superstition was above reason and rationality

D. equality and science is contrary to reason and rationality

7. In the field of literature, the Enlightenment Movement brought about the tendency of ( ) A. realism

8. Which of the following statements about Neo-Classicism and Enlightenment Movement is true? A. The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the

B. puritanism D. romanticism

C. neoclassicism

B. education D. reason

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B. the Age of Reason

D. the Age of Glory

A. Because most of the human beings were perfect themselves, so only a few needed further