【单选题】The form of John Bunyan's masterpiece, The Pilgrim's Progress, is a/an _____.

The chief force that motivated John Bunyan to write The Pilgrim' s Progress was his ______.

A．political commitment

B．religious fervency

C．artistic pursuit

D．long suffering in the prison

The chief force that motivated John Bunyan to write The Pilgrim's Progress was his ______.

A．political commitment

B．religious fervency

C．artistic pursuit

D．long suffering in the prison

_____masterpiece, The Pilgrim's Progress, is an allegory, a narrative in which general concepts such as sins, despair, and faith are represented as people or as aspects of the natural world.

The Pilgrim's Progress was written by ______.

A．John Milton

B．John Locke

C．John Dryden

D．John Bunyan

The Pilgrim's Progress was written by __________.

A．John Milton

B．John Locke

C．John Dryden

D．John Bunyan

此题为判断题(对，错)。

A. self-fulfillment

B. spiritual salvation

C. material wealth

D. universal truth

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the PILGRIM's PROGRESS, my first collection was of John Bunyan's works, in separate little volumes. I afterwards sold them to enable me to buy R. Burton's Historical Collection; they were small chapmen's books and cheap, 40 or 50 in all. My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way, since it was now resolv' d I should not be a clergyman. Plutarch's Lives there was, in which I read abundantly, and I still think that time spent to great advantage. There was also a book of Defoe's, called AN ESSAY ON PROJECTS, and another of Dr. Mather's called ESSAYS TO DO GOOD which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life.

This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer, tho' he had already one son (James) of that profession. In 1717 my brother James return'd from England with a press and letters to set up his business in Boston. I lik'd it much better than that of my father, but still have a hankering for the sea. To prevent the apprehended effect of such an inclination, my father was impatient to have me bound to my brother. I stood out some time but at last was persuaded, and signed the indentures, when I was yet but 12 years old... I was to serve as an apprentice till I was 21 years of age, only I was to be allow'd journeyman's wages during the last year. In a little time I made great proficiency in the business, and became a useful hand to my brother. I now had access to better books. An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers, enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one, which I was careful to return soon and clean. Often I sat up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrow'd in the evening and to be return'd early in the morning, lest it should be miss'd or wanted. And after some time an ingenious tradesman Mr. Matthew Adams who had a pretty collection of books, and who frequented our printing house took notice of me, invited me to his library, and very kindly lent me such books as I choose to read.

When Benjamin Franklin was a child, he liked to read because _________.

A．he wanted to be a clergyman

B．he would be printer

C．he had a thirst for knowledge

D．he was pleased with the Pilgrim's Progress

Bunyan's most important work is ______, written in the old-fashioned, medieval form. of allegory and dream.

A．The Footprint

B．On His Blindness

C．Vanity Fair

D．The Pilgrim's Progress