Ⅲ.Each of the following statements is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement.(48%)

1. During the Renaissance period many European humanist thinkers and scholars did not make efforts to do the following except(      )

A. to make reformation of those old feudalist ideas in medieval Europe.

B. to introduce new ideas that expressed the interests of the feudalist.

C. to exalt human nature which is capable of individual perfection.

D. to prevent the purity of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church.

2. About Shakespeare’s romantic comedies, which of the following is not true? (      )

A. He takes an optimistic attitude toward love and truth.

B. The romantic elements are brought into full play.

C. He praises the patriotic spirit when engaging intellectual excitement and emotion.

D. His youthful Renaissance spirit of jollity is fully reflected.

3. As a Renaissance humanist, Shakespeare (      )

A. is against religious persecution and racial discrimination, against social inequality and the corrupting influence of gold and money.

B. holds that literature should be a combination of beauty, kindness and truth, and should reflect nature and reality.

C. gives faithful reflection of the social realities of his time through his works.

D. all of the above.

4. Which of the following statements about Paradise Lost is true? (      )

A. Adam and Eve were driven out of Paradise for their conspiracy with Satan.

B. The writer intended to expose the ways of Satan and to justify the ways of God to men.

C. Satan, as a rebel to God, was finally defeated and surrendered.

D. Satan was finally reconciled with God.

5. The 18th-century England is known as (      )

A. the Age of Puritanism                                   B. the Age of Reason

C. the Era of Capitalism                                    D. the Age of Glory