第1章单元测验

1、单选题：
​‌​All Shakespeare’s works are written in ________.‌​‌
选项：
A: old English
B: middle English
C: modern English
D: Latin
答案: 【 modern English】

2、单选题：
‌Which of the following is a tragedy written by Shakespeare?‌
选项：
A: Twelfth Night
B: Othello
C: The Tempest
D: Richard II
答案: 【 Othello】

3、单选题：
​Which character is not a noble hero with a tragic flaw in Shakespeare’s tragedies?‏
选项：
A: Othello
B: Macbeth
C: King Lear
D: Bassanio
答案: 【 Bassanio】

4、单选题：
‍The leading form of literature in the Victorian Era is ________.‎
选项：
A: drama
B: poetry
C: pamphlet
D: novel
答案: 【 novel】

5、单选题：
‌The novel Vanity Fair is the masterpiece of the author ________.​
选项：
A: Charles Dickens
B: Oscar Wilde
C: William M. Thackeray
D: George Eliot
答案: 【 William M. Thackeray】

6、单选题：
​ ________ is a representative of English critical realism in the 19th century.‎
选项：
A: Joseph Conrad
B: John Milton
C: Charles Dickens
D: Virginia Woolf
答案: 【 Charles Dickens】

7、单选题：
‍Of Dickens’ novels, ________ is considered most autobiographical.‎
选项：
A: A Tale of Two Cities
B: David Copperfield
C: Oliver Twist
D: Great Expectations
答案: 【 David Copperfield】

8、单选题：
‎Ode to the West Wind is written by ________.‍
选项：
A: George Gordon Byron
B: Percy Bysshe Shelley
C: John Keats
D: William Wordsworth
答案: 【 Percy Bysshe Shelley】

9、单选题：
‍“Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” is a famous quotation of ________.‍
选项：
A: William Wordsworth
B: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C: John Keats
D: Robert Burns
答案: 【 John Keats】

10、单选题：
‏In a historical sense, ________ was a movement in philosophy, political theory, and the arts that flourished in England from 1750 to 1850.‌
选项：
A: Classicism
B: Romanticism
C: Transcendentalism
D: Critical Realism
答案: 【 Romanticism】

第2章单元测验

1、单选题：
‌Who introduced Christianity into Britain?​
选项：
A: The Viking Danes
B: The Romans
C: The French
D: The Angles, Saxons and Jutes
答案: 【 The Romans】

2、单选题：
‍Which of the following is NOT one of the three Germanic tribes that came to be the basis of modern English race?‌
选项：
A: the Viking Danes
B: the Saxons
C: the Angles
D: the Jutes
答案: 【 the Viking Danes】

3、单选题：
‌In the year 1066, William the Conqueror invaded England and defeated the Saxon king Harold at ______.‌
选项：
A: the Battle of Grecy
B: the Battle of Agincourt
C: the Battle of Hastings
D: the Hundred Years’ War
答案: 【 the Battle of Hastings】

4、单选题：
‍It was not until the end of ______ that English language finally took the place of French in all classes of society in England.​
选项：
A: the Wars of the Roses
B: the Battle of Hastings
C: the Hundred Years’ War
D: the Battle of Agincourt
答案: 【 the Hundred Years’ War】

5、单选题：
‍______ was forced to sign The Magna Carta in June 1215 with the barons of Medieval England.‍
选项：
A: Henry VIII
B: Charles I
C: King John
D: James II
答案: 【 King John】

6、单选题：
‍The king who believed the “Divine Right” to govern, and who was condemned to death during the English Civil War was ______.​
选项：
A: Henry VIII
B: Charles I
C: King John
D: James II
答案: 【 Charles I】

7、单选题：
‍According to Marx, it was ______ that brought into power, along with William of Orange, the landlord and capitalist appropriators.‏
选项：
A: the Glorious Revolution
B: the establishment of the Commonwealth of England
C: the execution of Charles I
D: the New Model Army
答案: 【 the Glorious Revolution】

8、单选题：
‎It was during ______ when the English navy defeated the Spanish Armada.‏
选项：
A: the Middle Ages
B: the 16th century
C: the Elizabethan age
D: the Wars of the Roses
答案: 【 the 16th century】

9、单选题：
‎The sparkle that set off World War I was the ______.‎
选项：
A: the invasion of Poland by Hitler
B: British declaration of war on Germany
C: the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
D: the establishment of two opposing political and military alliances
答案: 【 the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria】

10、单选题：
‌“Blood, Toil, Tears and Swear” was delivered by Winston Churchill during ______.‎
选项：
A: the First World War
B: the Second World War
C: the Battle of Trafalgar
D: the Battle of Waterloo
答案: 【 the Second World War】

第3章单元测验

1、单选题：
‏In England, what is a particularly suitable topic of conversation?‏
选项：
A: holidays
B: hobbies
C: weather
D: TV shows
答案: 【 weather】

2、单选题：
‌Who once observed that ‘when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather’?​
选项：
A: William Shakespeare
B: William Blake
C: Henry James
D: Samuel Johnson
答案: 【 Samuel Johnson】

3、单选题：
‍Which of the following statements is NOT Kate Fox’s research finding?‌
选项：
A: The English have a lot of conversations about the weather because it is a form of social interaction which they all understand.
B: English conversations about the weather are not really about the weather at all.
C: Weather-speak in essence is a form of code.
D: English people gradually establish and develop this code to help them overcome their natural reserve and actually talk to each other.
答案: 【 The English have a lot of conversations about the weather because it is a form of social interaction which they all understand.】

4、单选题：
‏Which rule of English weather-speak is NOT mentioned?‍
选项：
A: The Context Rule
B: The Agreement Rule
C: The Friendliness Rule
D: The Reciprocity Rule
答案: 【 The Friendliness Rule】

5、单选题：
‍What is the correct response to ‘How do you do’?‍
选项：
A: ‘I’m fine.’
B: ‘I’m good.’
C: ‘Thank you.’
D: ‘How do you do?’
答案: 【 ‘How do you do?’】

6、单选题：
​Which word may NOT be used to descr