【正确答案】正确答案：Chaucer"s creative work The Canterbury Tales was written during a turbulent time in English history when the authority of Catholic Church was under constant questioning, so it first reflected this diversified worldviews in the Chaucer"s time, as several characters in the Tales are religious figures, and the very nature of the pilgrimage to Canterbury is deeply religious, making this a preeminent theme of the work. Secondly, it reflected the decline of Chivalry, as The Knight"s Tale was intended to show its flaws. The conflicts between classes in Chaucer" days were also reflected in the book. For example, the characters are all divided into three distinct classes, the classes being "those who pray" (the clergy), "those who fight" (the nobility), and "those who work" (the commoners and peasantry). Chaucer owes a lot to the Italian influence. Between 1367 and 1378, he went to Italy several times on diplomatic and commercial missions. It is possible that he met Boccaccio or Petrarch, to name a few, in pre-Renaissance Italy. As a result, his writings were deeply influenced by these Italian writers. Dante inspired him to write in the vulgar English rather than the court French of the day. What"s more, Chaucer borrows a lot of poetry from Dante and Petrarch and one fourth of the tales in The Canterbury Tales parallels a tale in Boccaccio"s Decameron.

【答案解析】解析：第一个问题考查乔叟的作品是如何反映14世纪英国社会的变化，这里主要指的是乔叟的《坎特伯雷故事集》，考生应该注意到这本诗集对当时社会状况的揭露。第二、三个问题考查他的作品受到外国作家的影响。由于乔叟曾经游历过意大利，他的作品大多借用了意大利诗歌的形式，尤其受到了薄伽丘《十日谈》的影响颇深。