Romances were brought to England by the Normans.

Not until Columbus discovered America__________ to Europe．

A.bananas were brought

B.are bananas brought

C.bananas brough!

D.were bananas brought

A、narratives

B、heroic couplets,

C、verses

D、romances

A、stories about poor peasants’ lives

B、stories about supernatural characters

C、stories about knights and ladies and the chivalric adventures

D、stories about tragic love

ngenuity and Novels of Character and Environment. The most important ones were the third group, among which Tess and ____ were very famous.

A、Under the Greenwood Tree

B、Jude the Obscure

C、Far from the Madding Crowd

D、The Mayor of Casterbidge

A.All right

B.Forget it

C.My pleasure

D.Go ahead

How much has the company ________________ this year？

A: brought out

B; brought in

C; brought down

ys. Many others【C2】______with this opinion. But what is not【C3】______doubt is that a lot of the exciting new literature published in Britain in recent years【C4】______been written by people from outside Britain. Since 1981, nine of the fourteen winners of the Booker Prize, an important prize【C5】______a work of fiction, were writers from【C6】______British colonies like India.

【C7】______many of the best 'serious' British writers manage to be popular as well as pro found, the vast【C8】______of the books could not be classified as 'serious' literature. Britain is the home of【C9】______might be called 'middlebrow' literature.(That is, mid-way between serious and popular fiction)Many British authors write novels【C10】______as 'romances' , one of the middlebrow types. The British publisher which sells more books than any other is Mills & Boon,【C11】______books are exclusively【C12】______this type.

Poetry at the end or the twentieth century is【C13】______popular in Britain after it stopped being the normal【C14】______of literary self-expression 200 years ago. Books for poetry sell【C15】______comparatively large numbers. Their sales are not【C16】______as large as sales of novels, but they are large【C17】______for a few small publishers to【C18】______entirely on publishing poetry. Many of these poems are not academics and they are【C19】______to non-specialists. Perhaps the 'pop' idiom and the easy【C20】______of sound recording have made more people comfortable with spoken verse.

【C1】

A．route

B．road

C．path

D．way

Section B

Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.

Nineteenth-century writers in the United States, whether they wrote novels, short stories, poems, or plays, were powerfully drawn to the railroad in its golden years. In fact, writers responded to the railroads as soon as the first were built in the 1830's. By the 1850's, the railroad was a major presence in the life of the nation. Writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau saw the railroad both as a boon to democracy and as an object of suspicion. The railroad could be and was a de spoiler of nature; furthermore, in its manifestation of speed and noise, it might be a despoiler of human nature as well. By the 1850's and 1860's, there was a great distrust among writers and intellectuals of the rapid industrialization of which the railroad was a leading force. Deeply philosophical historians such as Henry Adams lamented the role that the new frenzy for business was playing in eroding traditional values. A distrust of industry and business continued among writers throughout the rest of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth.

For the most part, the literature in which the railroad plays an important role belong to popular culture than to the realm of serious art. One thinks of melodramas, boys' books, thrillers, romances, and the like rather than novels of the first rank. In the railroads' prime years, between 1890and 1920, there were a few individuals in the United States, most of them with solid railroading experience behind them, who made a profession of writing about railroading --works offering the ambience of stations, yards, and locomotive cabs. There writers, who can genuinely be said to have created a genre, the "railroad novel, "are now mostly forgotten, their names having faded from memory. But anyone who takes the time to consult their fertile writing will still find a treasure trove of information about the place of the railroad in the life of the United States.

With which of the following topics is the passage mainly concerned？

A．The role of the railroad in the economy of the United States.

B．Major nineteenth-century writers.

C．The conflict between expanding industry and preserving nature.

D．The railroad as a subject for literature.

King Lear is one of Shakespeares______.

A．comedies

B．tragedies

C．histories

D．dramatic romances

What did Bill do after he shot at the wood from 50 yards away？

A．He drew a target round the hole.

B．He brough it in a car.

C．He put it in the garden.

D．He cut the wood.