1. The Renaissance ， in essence ， is a historical period in which the European ____ thinkers and scholars made attempts to get rid of those old feudalist ideas in medieval Europe ， to introduce new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoise ， and to recover the purity of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic church .

　　A. religious

　　B. great

　　C. optimistic

　　D. humanist

　　2. Today ， Geoffrey Chaucer's reputation has been securely established as one of the best English _____ for his wisdom ， humor ，and humanity .

　　A. dramatists

　　B. novelists

　　C. poets

　　D. humanist

　　3. Many people today tend to regard the play The Merchant of Venice as a satire of the hypocrisy of _______ and their false standards of friendship and love ， their cunning ways of pursuing worldliness and their unreasoning prejudice against ________ .

　　A. Christians / Jews

　　B. Jews / Christians

　　C. oppressors / oppressed

　　D. men/ women

　　4. During the reign of reason the enlightenment meant education of people to free them from all the unreasonable fetters which include ______ .

　　A. theology

　　B. conventional ideology

　　C. feudal governmental forms

　　D. all of the above

　　5. Returning to England from Germany in 1799 ， William Wordsworth and his sister settled at Dove Cottage in Grasmere ， Westmoreland . The poet _____ as well as ______ lived nearby ， and the three became known as the lake poets .

　　A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge / George Gordon Byron

　　B. Robert Southey / Samuel Taylor Coleridge

　　C. John Keats / Robert Southey

　　D. George Gordon Byron / Percy Bysshe Shelley

　　6. The ________ are generally regarded as John Keat's most important and nature works .

　　A. epics

　　B. lyrics

　　C. odes

　　D. poetry

　　7. As a _______ writer ， Jane Austen considers it her duty to express in her works a discriminated and serious criticism of life ， and to expose the follies and illusions of mankind .

　　A. romantic

　　B. sentimentalist

　　C. pessimistic

　　D. realistic 转贴于：自考_考试大

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