（) is regarded as the greatest prose writer in the English literature of the 17th century, who is best known for his work The Pilgrim's Progress.

A、John Donne

B、John Milton

C、John Bunyan

D、John Dryden

1. Early in the 17th century, the English settlements in ___ and ___ began the main stream of what we recognize as the American national history. 2. The Puritans had come to New England for the sake of ___ freedom, while Virginia had been planted mainly as a commercial venture. 3. American ___ dealt a decisive blow upon the puritan traditions and brought to life secular education and literature. 4. The secular ideals of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in the career of ___, who instructed his countryman as a printer, not a priest.

The Waste Land by ______ is regarded by scholars the most important poem of the 20th century.

A．William Wordsworth

B．Emily Dickinson

C．Ralf Waldo Emerson

D．T.S. Eliot

Owing to the great genius of the 14th century poet ______ the British native literature was sufficiently vigorous and experienced in assimilating foreign influences without being subjected by them.

A．Geoffrey Chaucer

B．Daniel Defoe

C．William Shakespeare

D．Charles Lamb

______is the most important writer of the 17th century in English literature.

A．William Shakespeare

B．Geoffrey Chaucer

C．John Milton

D．Christopher Marlowe

A．The liberation of women in the early part of the 20th century.

B．The great advances in scientific knowledge and in medicine.

C．Different attitudes to religion, authority and tradition.

D．Changes of British attitudes toward marriage.