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I． Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)

Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.

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12.Romanticism was a literary trend prevailing in English during the period from 1798 to 1832. The Romantic writers（ ）. 5

A. paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man

B. were discontent with the development of industrialism and capitalism, and presented the social evils minutely in their works

C. took pains to portray a world of harmony and balance(057)

D. tended to glorify Rome and advocated rational Italian and French art as superior to the native traditions

18．Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?

A．Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B．“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth

C．“Remorse ” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

D．Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman（074）

19．The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the

Romantic Period is ______________.

A．prose B．drama C．novel D．poetry（074）

20．English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have

ended in 1832 with ______.4

A．the passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliament

B．the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads

C．the publication of T．S．Eliot’s The waste Land

D．the passage of the Bill of Rights in the Parliament（084）

10．Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that ______________.3

A．the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees

literature as an expression of an individual’s feeling and experiences

B．the former is heavily religious but the latter secular

C．the former is an intellectual movement, the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivation

D．the former advocates the “return to nature” whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models.

8. The major British Romantic poets Blake，Wordsworth，Coleridge，Byron，Shelley and Keats started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature，which was later regarded as _____.2

A. the poetic romance B. the poetic movement

C. the poetic revolution D. the poetic reformation(087)