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第2部分文艺复兴与莎士比亚（1485-1616）

一、填空题

1. The term _____ originally indicated a revival of classic Greek and Roman arts and science after the dark ages of medieval obscurantism. （北京交通大学2006研）

【答案】Renaissance

【解析】文艺复兴起初是指经历了漫长、蒙昧的中世纪后，对古希腊和罗马艺术及科学的复兴。

2. Shakespeare’s authentic non-dramatic poetry consists of two _____ and 154 _____. （国际关系学院2009研）

【答案】long poems; sonnets

【解析】莎士比亚的作品除了戏剧之外，还包括两首长诗（“Venus and Adonis”及“The Rape of Lucrece”）和154首十四行诗。）

3. “Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines” is a line taken from “Sonnet 18” by William Shakespeare. The underlined phrase refers to _____. （首师大2008研）

【答案】the sun

【解析】“天空中的眼睛”指的是太阳。此句意为：有时候阳光过于炽烈。

4. In William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, the speaker compares his beloved to the summer season, and in the last two lines (“So long as men can breathe or eyes can see/So long lives this, and this gives life to thee”), written in a rhymed _____, he states that his beloved will live in eternity through “this”, which refers to _____. （天津外国语学院2011研）

【答案】heroic couplet, poem

【解析】诗句为莎士比亚十四行诗第18首的最后两句。全诗由三组五步抑扬格的四行诗节（quatrains）和一组英雄偶句诗（heroic couplet）组成，英雄偶句诗指两行五个抑扬格押韵的诗体。诗中，作者认为你（情人/朋友）的不朽恰好来自诗人美丽的诗篇。

5. Author: _____. Title: _____.（南京大学2008研）

The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars

As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven

Would through the airy region stream so bright

That birds would sing and think it were not night.

【答案】Author: William Shakespeare; Title: Romeo and Juliet

【解析】题目节选自莎士比亚的Romeo and Juliet中Act Ⅱ scene 2。题中诗句译文为：她脸庞的光辉，可使群星羞愧。/就像阳光可使灯光失色一般。/她的眼眸从天空穿过大气/流泻出光亮，鸟儿们会以为夜已尽而开始歌唱。

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