C. novel and poetry

D. romance and poetry

10．______ is the essence of the Renaissance.

A．Poetry B．Drama C．Humanism D．Reason

11. About the Renaissance humanists which of the following statements is true?

A. They thought money and social status was the measure of all things.

B. They thought people were largely subordinated to the ruling class without any freedom and

independence.

C. They could n’t see the human values in their works.

D. They emphasized the dignity of human beings and the importance of the present life.

12.Marlowe’s greatest achievement lies in that he perfected the __________and made it the principal medium of English drama.

A. blank verse

B. free verse

C. sonnet

D. alliteration

13. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are all the following EXCEPT ______. (087)

A. Francis Bacon

B. Christopher Marlowe

C. William Shakespeare

D. spencer

二．Fill in the blanks

14.The 16th century in England was a period of the breaking up of __________relations and the establishing of foundations of __________-

15.Because the wool trade was rapidly growing in bulk, it was a tome when, according to Thomas More,“____________________”

16.Edmund Spenser was the author of the greatest epic poem of _______________

17.____________,______________,_______________, and __________________are generally regarded as Shakespeare’s four great tragedies.

18._______________is often referred as the poets’ poet.

19. Pope describe Francis Bacon as the _________,__________,____________of mankind.

II. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May，And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed,

And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature’s c hanging course untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,

Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st,

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this ,and this gives life to thee.

1. What kind of poem is this, blank verse, sonnet, pastoral poem,or ode? Who is the author?

2. What is the central idea of this poem?