1、Which of the followinghas been considered as the best specimen of the Old English prose？
A、 Utopia
B、 History of King Richard III
C、 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
D、 An Apology for Poetry
2、John Milton’s______(1644) is the first great plea in English for the freedom of the press.
A、 Paradise Lost
B、 Areopagitica
C、 The Complete Angler
D、 Religio Medici
3、______is sometimes called the third great Victorian poet, along withAlfredTennysonandRobert Browning.
A、 Matthew Arnold
B、 Sir Richard Steele
C、 Joseph Addison
D、 William Hazlitt
4、Senecan style of English proseemphasizes______and______.
A、 lucidity
B、 rhetoric
C、 expressiveness
D、 logic
5、According to what we have discussed about English essay, which of the following genre canNOTbe understood as Essay?
A、 Prose
B、 Poetry
C、 Drama
D、 Novel
6、Which of the following prose works were written by Thomas Carlyle?
A、 Chartism
B、 The French Revolution
C、 A Tale of Two Cities
D、 The Spectator
7、The reason why Maugham is so popular among the readersmight be that his writting is complicated and confusing.
A、对
B、错
8、Jonathan Swift shows his support for the rich English inA Modest Proposal.
A、对
B、错
9、Thomas Carlyle handled the English language as if it were completely raw material that he had to recast from the ground up.
A、对
B、错
10、The 18thcentury witnessed the rising of magazines and the increasing popularity of essays.
A、对
B、错
