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1.[单选题] Of all the eighteenth-century novelists , who was the first to set out, both in theory and practice , to write specially a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style ?
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A.Thomas Gray
B.Richard Brinsley Sheridan
C.Johathan Swift
D.Henry Fielding
答:——D——
2.[单选题] Which of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of 20th century literature?
A.Friedrich Nietzche’s assertions: “God is dead”
B.Arther Schopenharuer’s and Henry Bergson’s philosophical ideas of
irrationality.
C.Oscar Wilde’s idea of “Art for Art’s Sake”.
D.Freudian-Jungian psycho-analysis
答:——C——
3.[单选题] It is alone who , for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.
A.Geoffrey Chaucer
B.Martin Luther
C.William Langland
D.John Gower
答:——A——
4.[单选题] Generally , the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is .
A.science
B.philosophy
C.arts
D.humanism
答:————
5.[单选题] The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is NOT such an event ?
A.The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture.
B.England’s domestic rest.
C.New discovery in geography and astrology.
D.The religious reformation and the economic expansion.
答:————
6.[单选题] Dr. Faustus is a play based on the German legend of a magician aspiring for
and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.
A.immortality
B.political
C.money
D.knowledge
答:————
7.[单选题] The Romantic Period, one of the most important periods in the history of American literature, stretches from the end of ______________ to the outbreak of ____________.
A.the 17th century … the American War of Independence
B.the 18th century … the American Civil War
C.the 17th century … the American Civil War
D.the 18th century … the U.S. – Mexican War
答:————
8.[单选题] The unquenchable spirit of Robinson Crusoe struggling to maintain a substantial existence on a lonely island reflects .
A.man’s desire to return to nature
B.the author’s criticism of the colonization
C.the ideal of the rising bourgeoisie
D.the aristocrats’ disillusionment of the harsh social reality
答:————
9.[单选题] Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, who was the first to introduce rationalism to England ?
A.John Bunyan
B.Daniel Defoe
C.Alexander Pope
D.Jonathan Swift
答:————
10.[单选题] The lines, “It was a miracle of rare device,/ A sunny pleasure dome with
caves of ice,” are found in __________.
A.Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”
B.William Wordsworth’s “Lines Written in Early Spring”
C.John Keats’s “Ode to Autumn”
D.Percy Bysshe Shelly’s “ode to the West Wind”
答:————
11.[单选题] Of the following all were written by Amy Tan except ______ .
A.The Joy Luck Club
B.The Kitchen God‘s Wife
C.China Men
答:————
12.[单选题] Each of the professions listed below is correctly paired with Dickens except
A.novelist
B.clerk
C.reporter
D.dramatist
答:————
13.[单选题] Le More D’ Arthur is an important landmark in the development of English prose for its
A.lucid style
B.verbose style
C.complicate style
D.ornate style
答:————
14.[单选题] The novelist who was born in Poland wrote
A.The portrait of A Lady
B.A Passage to India
C.The Heart of Darkness
D.Dubliners
答:————
15.[单选题] Dreiser‘s Trilogy of Desire includes 3 novels : The Financier , The Titan and ______ .
A.The Tycoon
B.The Giant
C.The Stoic
答:————
16.[单选题] _______ believe that nature is ennobling and that the individual is important .
A.Puritans
B.realists
C.Transcendentalists
答:————
17.[单选题] The pair not correctly associated is
A.Blake-engraver
B.Goldsmith-poem
C.Fielding-playwright
D.Richardson-essayist
答:————
18.[单选题] ______ is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age .
A.Hemingway
B.Fitzgerald
C.Steinbeck 奥鹏大工答案点击 ap5u.com
答:————
19.[单选题] the Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a poem written in the form of .
A.ballad
B.sonnet
C.heroic couplet
D.Spenserian stanza
答:————
20.[单选题] Prometheus Unbound is Shelley’s greatest achievement. Prometheus, according
to the Greek mythology, was chained by Zeus on Mount Caucasus and suffered the
vulture’s feeding on his liver for_________.
A.planning a revolt to dethrone God
B.misinterpreting God’s decree to reconcile man and nature
C.prophesying the arrival of spring in a winter season
D.stealing the fire from heaven and giving it to man
答:————
21.[单选题] is the successful religious allegory in the English language .
A.The Pilgrim’s Progress
B.Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
C.The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
D.The Holy War
答:————
22.[单选题] Dramatic monologue was created by the author who wrote
A.Crossing the Bar
B.Ode to the West Wind
C.The Ring and the Book
D.Jude the Obscure
答:————
23.[单选题] A typical Forsyte，according to John Galsworthy,is a man with a strong sense of ____，who never pays any attention to human feelings．
A.morality
B.justice
C.property
D.humor
答:————
24.[单选题] The typical feature of Robert Browning`s poetry is the_____.
A.bitter satire
B.larger-than-life caricature
C.Latinized diction
D.dramatic monologue
答:————
25.[单选题] The first novel of Thomas Pynchon is ______ .
A.V.
B.The Crying of Lot 49
C.Entropy
答:————
26.[单选题] For quite sometime after its appearance , Catch–22 was seen as a structural ______ despite its
narrative power .
A.success
B.failure
C.miracle
答:————
27.[单选题] The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as the _______
period .
A.modern
B.naturalist
C.romantic
答:————
28.[单选题] Most recognizable literary movement that gave rise to the twentieth-century
American literature, or we may say, the second American Renaissance, is the
_______ movement.
A.transcendental
B.leftist
C.expatriate
D.expressionistic
答:————
29.[单选题] Daisy Miller is written by ________.
A.Hawthorne
B.Twain
C.Melville
D.James
答:————
30.[单选题] Richardson was noted as story-telling , letter writer and a
A.critic
B.moralizer
C.poet
D.playwright
答:————
31.[单选题] Most of ______ works are set in the American South, with emphasis on the southern subjects
and consciousness .
A.Hemingway‘s
B.Fitzgerald‘s
C.Faulkner‘s
答:————
32.[单选题] In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled _______ at Harvard, which
was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as “Our intellectual Declaration of
Independence.”
A.”Nature”
B.”Self-Reliance”
C.”Divinity School Address”
D.”The American Scholar”
答:————
33.[单选题] All of the following are written by Hemingway except _______ .
A.The Sun Also Rises
B.For Whom the Bell Tolls
C.Sartoris
答:————
34.[单选题] John Bunyan‘s pilgrim`s progress is often regarded as a typical example of____.
A.allegory
B.romance
C.epic in prose
D.fable
答:————
35.[单选题] Irving‘s Rip Van Winkle is famous for ______ .
A.Rip‘s escape into the mountain
B.Rip‘s seeking for happiness
C.Rip‘s 20–year sleep
答:————
36.[单选题] Whose writings almost always use youth as major characters ?
A.Singer‘s
B.Salinger‘s
C.Vonnegut‘s
答:————
37.[单选题] _______ is not the work by Robert Frost.
A.“I heard a Fly Buzz —- when I died”
B.“ The Road Not Taken”
C.“Home burial”
D.“After Apple-picking”
答:————
38.[单选题] provides the main source of influence on American naturalism.
A.The puritan heritage
B.Howells’ ideas of realism
C.Darwin’s theory of evolution
D.The pioneer spirit of the wild west
答:————
39.[单选题] Frost took a ______ style in his poetry .
A.simple
B.complicated
C.modern
答:————
40.[单选题] All the qualities can be contributed to Portia except
A.nosy
B.cultured
C.courteous
D.kind-hearted
答:————
41.[单选题] The most original playwright of the Theater of Absurd is Samuel Beckett and his first play, _______, is regarded as the most famous and influential play of the Theater of Absurd.
A.Waiting for Godot
B.Murder in the Cathedral
C.Too True to Be Good
D.Mrs. Warren’s Profession
答:————
42.[单选题] _______ has been regarded as the “founder of the American Drama”.
A.Tennessee Williams
B.Eugene O’Neill
C.Arthur Miller
D.Hendrik Ibser
答:————
43.[单选题] Alexander Pope strongly advocated neoclassicism，emphasizing that literary works should be judged by____rules of order,reason，logic，restrained emotion，good
taste and decorum．
A.Classical
B.romantic
C.sentimental
D.allegorical
答:————
44.[单选题] In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of huckleberry Finn, Huck writes a letter to
inform against Jim, the escaped slave, and then he tears the letter up. This
fact reveals that .
A.Huck has a mixed feeling of love and hate
B.there is a conflict between society and conscience in Huck
C.Huck is always an indecisive person
D.Huck has very little education
答:————
45.[单选题] Dryen’s contribution to England literature lies in the following except
A.he established the heroic couplet as one of the principal English verse forms
B.he clarified the English prose
C.he raised the English literary criticism to a new level
D.he raised English comedy to a higher level
答:————
46.[单选题] The one who translated Homer’s epics into English is
A.Shakespeare
B.Marlowe
C.Chapman
D.Sidney
答:————
47.[单选题] The “mighty line” refers to
A.the poems of Spenser
B.the blank verse of Marlowe
C.the poem of Milton
D.the blank verse of Shakespeare
答:————
48.[单选题] “Rip Van Winkle” reveals the theme of _______ the past.
A.nostalgia for
B.rejection to
C.detachment from
D.nothing related to
答:————
49.[单选题] We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley‘s poem “Ode to the West
Wind” with all the following terms except
_______ .
A.tamed
B.swift
C.proud
D.wild
答:————
50.[单选题] “The novel is structured around the discovery of the hero’s origin.” This
novel is most probably .
A.Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield
B.James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
C.Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Growd
D.Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
答:————
51.[单选题] “So much the worse for me, that I an strong. Do I want to live? What kind of
living will it be when you-oh, God!
Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?”
In the above passage quoted from Emily Bronte‘s Wuthering Heights, the word
“soul” apparently refers to _______ .
A.Heathcliff
B.Catherine
C.ghost
D.one‘s spiritual lift
答:————
52.[单选题] The following are all Steinbeck‘s works except ______ .
A.Winesburg , Ohio
B.Of Mice and Men
C.Grapes of Wrath
答:————
53.[单选题] After WWⅠ, many disillusioned American writers and artists left for Paris and formed a small community . They were ______ .
A.emigrants
B.expatriates
C.immigrants
答:————
54.[单选题] G.B.Shaw‘s play Mrs.Warren‘s Profession is a realistic exposure of the
_______ in the English society.
A.slum landlordism
B.inequality between men and women
C.political corruption
D.economic exploitation of women
答:————
55.[单选题] In Hardy’s Tess of D’urbervilles , the heroine’s tragic ending is due to .
A.her weak character
B.her ambition
C.Angel Clare’s selfishness
D.a hostile society
答:————
56.[单选题] The major concern of _______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological
development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing
effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.
A.Charles Dickens‘s
B.D.H.Lawrence‘s
C.Thomas Hardy‘s
D.John Galsworthy‘s
答:————
57.[单选题] “I will drink / life to the lees .” In the quoted line Ulysses is saying that he till the end of his life .
A.will keep traveling and exploring
B.will go on drinking and being happy
C.would like to toast to his glorious life
D.would like to drink the cup of wine
答:————
58.[单选题] _______ first collection of short stories is Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque .
A.Irving‘s
B.Cooper‘s
C.Poe‘s
答:————
59.[单选题] Macbeth is Shakespeare’s_______.
A.sonnet
B.comedy
C.history play
D.tragedy
答:————
60.[单选题] ____ believes that man’s fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of “nature”, both inside and outside.
A.Charles Dickens
B.Thomas Hardy
C.Bernard Shaw
D.George Eliot
答:————
61.[单选题] “And where are they? And where art thou,”
My country? On thy voiceless shore
The heroic lay is tuneless now-
The heroic bosom beats no more!”（George Gordon Byron, Don Juan）
In the above stanza, “art thou” literally means _______ .
A.”are you”
B.”art though”
C.”are though”
D.”art you”
答:————
62.[单选题] Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out，both in theory and practice，to write specifically a“____in prose,”the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.
A.tragic epic
B.comic epic
C.romance
D.lyric epic
答:————
63.[单选题] “Ode to the West Wind” is the representative work of_______ .
A.P.B. Shelley’s
B.John Keats’s
C.Samuel Coleridge’s
D.Lord Byron’s
答:————
64.[单选题] The second period of Dickens writing is marked by
A.irritation
B.pessimism
C.indifference
D.optimism
答:————
65.[单选题] The title of Alfred Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses” reminds the reader of the following EXCEPT
A.the Trojan War
B.Homer’s Odyssey
C.adventures over the sea
D.religious quest
答:————
66.[单选题] “‘I believe you are made of stone,‘he said, clenching his fingers so hard
that he broke the fragile cup. …‘You seem to forget,‘ she said,‘that cup is
not!‘”
From the above quoted passage, we can find the woman‘s tone is very _______ .
A.sarcastic
B.amusing
C.sentimental
D.facetious
答:————
67.[单选题] In Hardy‘s Wessex novels, there is an apparent _______ touch in his
description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.
A.humorous
B.romantic
C.nostalgic
D.sarcastic
答:————
68.[单选题] Walt Whitman, whose ______________ established him as the most popular American poet of the 19th century.
A.Leaves of Grass
B.Go Down, Moses
C.The Marble Faun
D.As I Lay Dying
答:————
69.[单选题] The statement “It reveals the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark,
criminal underworld life” may well sum up the main theme if Dickens‘s _______ .
A.David Copperfield
B.Bleak House
C.Great Expectations
D.Oliver Twist
答:————
70.[单选题] American romanticism started with the publication of _______ and ended with Leaves of Grass .
A.The Sketch Book
B.Nature
C.Leatherstocking Tales
答:————
71.[单选题] Dubliners is writing of
A.realism
B.modernism
C.stream of consciousness
D.none of the above
答:————
72.[单选题] Hawthorne generally concerns himself with such issues as in his fiction.
A.the evil in man’s heart
B.the material pursuit
C.the racial conflict
D.the social inequality
答:————
73.[单选题] “Not on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh Jew,/Thou mak‘st thy knife keen.”
In the above quotation taken form The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare employs
a（n）_______ .
A.oxymoron
B.pun
C.simile
D.synecdoche
答:————
74.[单选题] It is generally regarded that Keats‘s most important and mature poems are in
the form of _______ .
A.ode
B.elegy
C.epic
D.sonnet
答:————
75.[单选题] The realists of the 18th century and those of the 19th century have the following in common except both of them
A.use the form of novel fully
B.present social and political events in details
C.indicate the broad social conflicts
D.describe the fate of individuals and of social classes
答:————
76.[单选题] Milton was nicknamed “the lady of Christ’s” because he was
A.a lady
B.as serious as a lady
C.as handsome as a lady
D.as gentle as a lady
答:————
77.[单选题] John Milton wrote his masterpieces after blindness expect ___
A.Paradise Lost
B.Paradise Regained
C.Samson Agonistes
D.Areopagitica
答:————
78.[单选题] Shakespeare‘s comedies are composed of ______
A.ordinary people and clowns
B.knights and nobles
C.witches and prophets
D.shrews and princes
答:————
79.[单选题] Of the below poets, has not been awarded Poet Laureate.
A.William Wordsworth
B.Thomas Gray
C.Alfred Tennyson
D.Ben Jon son
答:————
80.[单选题] ________ is famous for his international theme .
A.Howells
B.Mark Twain
C.Henry James
答:————
81.[单选题] In his poem“Tyger,Tyger，”William Blake expresses his perception of the“fearful
Symmetry”of the big cat．The phrase“fearful Symmetry”Suggests____.
A.the tiger‘s two eyes Which are dazzlingly bright and Symmetrically set
B.the poet‘s fear of the predator
C.the analogy of the hammer and the anvil
D.the harmony of the two opposte aspects of God’s creation
答:————
82.[单选题] “For I have known them all already, known them all–／Have known the evenings，mornings，afternoons,/I have measured out my life with coffee spoons．”The abovelines are taken from____.
A.Wordsworth‘s“The Solitary Reaper”
B.Eliot‘s“The Love Song of J．Alfred Prufrock，”
C.Coleridge‘s“Kubla Khan”
D.Yeats‘s“The Lake Isle of lnnisfree”
答:————
83.[单选题] D.H.Lawrence’s works are modern because of their_______ .
A.modern skill in writing
B.modern publishing time
C.modern themes
D.modern appearance
答:————
84.[单选题] American Literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was _______.
A.Jane Austen
B.Watt Whitman
C.Emily Dickinson
D.Harriet Beccher Stowe
答:————
85.[单选题] Stylistically, Henry James‘ fiction is characterized by _______ .
A.short, clear sentences
B.abundance of local images
C.ordinary American speech
D.highly refined language
答:————
86.[单选题] Chaucer is called the founder of English realism because he portrays all the classes of English feudal society except_______
A.businessmen and scholars
B.nobles and serfs
C.plowmen and priests
D.knights and franklins
答:————
87.[判断题] Pardoner in The Canterbury Tales sold the relics of the dead saints to exempt the sins from the buyers
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
88.[判断题] In her works , Amy Tan wrote beautifully about the contrast between Chinese and American cultures .
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
89.[判断题] Fitzgerald shows an interest both in upper–class society & lower–class society .
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
90.[判断题] The main technique applied to the novel Ulysses by Joyce is symbolism.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
91.[判断题] One of the most important features in Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice is the use of dramatic languages.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
92.[判断题] Black Humor is defined as modern humor caused by anger .
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
93.[判断题] The Jazz Age characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby .
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
94.[判断题] The Joy Luck Club is a group of separate stories happening in men‘s club located in San Francisco Chinatown .
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
95.[判断题] Human goodness is one of the most familiar themes in American naturalism .
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
96.[判断题] Pynchon‘s fascination with popular culture is overwhelmingly evident in the novel V.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
97.[判断题] The protagonist of Catch–22 is called Herzog .
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
98.[判断题] The Celestial City in the Pilgrim’s Progress stands for an ideal happy society.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
99.[判断题] Dreiser‘s novels usually have little detailed descriptions of characters and events .
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
100.[判断题] The style of Lambs essays is characterized by its humor, familiarity and archaism.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
101.[判断题] As a Jewish writer , Salinger concerns himself only with Jewish subject .
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
102.[判断题] All My Sons is the masterpiece of Arthur Miller .
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
103.[判断题] Native Son was considered the best book after WWⅡ in 1965 .
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
104.[判断题] The most striking similarities between Milton and Samson Agonistes are their blindness and unhappy marriage.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
105.[判断题] Scott’s literary career marked the transition from romanticism to realism.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
106.[判断题] The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn reflects the moral growth of Tom Sawyer .
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
107.[判断题] A ballad is written in 4-line stanza with the first and third lines rhymes.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
108.[判断题] The story of Catch–22 develops chronologically in a traditional structure .
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
109.[判断题] Morrison is the first black writer to win the Nobel Prize .
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
110.[判断题] Monks tried hard to trap Oliver Twist.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
111.[判断题] The Neo-classicism saw its decline in Johnson.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
112.[判断题] The imaginary place of Yoknapatawpha functions as an allegory of the American South .
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
113.[判断题] Morality play presents the conflict of good and evil with allegorical characters
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
114.[判断题] The stories in the Canterbury Tales are only connected by the host of Tabard Inn.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
115.[判断题] The pasture is the setting for the work of Dr. Faustus.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
116.[判断题] Auld Lang Syne was composed by Burns.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
117.[判断题] Wuthering Heights deals with a story of love and violence.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
118.[判断题] Neo-classicism saw its decline in Dryden.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
119.[判断题] The Rape of the Lock gives an account of an anecdote of the court.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
120.[判断题] Mr. Bennet’s favorite daughter is Jane.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
121.[判断题] The poetry of Sentimentalism is characterized by sympathy for the French Revolution .
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
122.[判断题] Mark Twain made dialect an accepted form of art .
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
123.[判断题] Beowulf was created in England.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
124.[判断题] Williams‘ sister Rose became the model for Laura in The Glass Menagerie .
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
125.[判断题] The “dark comedy” refers to those written by Jonson in his third period of dramatic career.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
126.[判断题] The most gifted of the University Wits was Shakespeare.
A.错误
B.正确
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127.[判断题] Stephen Crane was also a poet who influenced Imagist poetry .
A.错误
B.正确
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128.[判断题] Thoreau , Whitman and Hawthorne are considered the three great Transcendental figures in the 19th century .
A.错误
B.正确
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129.[判断题] Most of Saul Bellow‘s heroes are Jewish intellectuals or writers who try to discover the queerness of existence .
A.错误
B.正确
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130.[判断题] Faulkner‘s artistic techniques include the exploration of reality , the nature of time and the relation of the past to the present .
A.错误
B.正确
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131.[判断题] The poetry of Sentimentalism is characterized by sympathy for the French Revolution.
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B.正确
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132.[判断题] With Bellow and Singer as Nobel Prize winners , the status of Jewish Literature as an important part of American Literature has been firmly established .
A.错误
B.正确
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133.[判断题] Wilder demanded his audience to accept the fact that they were watching actors on the stage .
A.错误
B.正确
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134.[判断题] The short story “The Rocking Horse Winner” was written by Lawrence.
A.错误
B.正确
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135.[判断题] Most of English ballads were collected in the 18th century.
A.错误
B.正确
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136.[判断题] In Shakespeare’s comedies the heroes and heroines attained their victory without much struggle.
A.错误
B.正确
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