紫色的英文4月英美文学选读自考试题(1)

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2010

年

4

月自考

英美文学选读试题

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00604

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Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)

Select

from

the

four

choices

of

each

item

the

one

that

best

answers

the

question

or

completes

the

statement.

Write

the

corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.

1. T. S. Eliot’ s ______ bearing a strong thematic resemblance to

The Waste Land, is generally regarded as the darkest of Eliot’ s

poems.

A. “Gerontion” B. “Prufrock”

C. Murder in the Cathedral D. The Hollow Men

2. Shelley’ s political lyrics ______ is not only a war cry calling

upon

all

working

people

to

rise

up

against

their

political

oppressors, but an address to them pointing out the intolerable

injustice of economic exploitation.

A. “Ode to Liberty” B. “Ode to Naples”

C. “Ode to the West Wind” D. “Men of England”

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3. Charlotte’ s works are famous for the depiction of the life of

______ working women, particularly governesses.

A. the middle - class B. the lower - class

C. the upper - middle - class D. the upper - class

4. All of the following works are known as Hardy’ s “novels of

character and environment” EXCEPT ______.

A. The Return of the Native B. Tess of the D’ Urbervilles

C. Jude the Obscure D. Far from the Madding Crowd

5.

Jane

Austen’

s

practical

idealism

is

that

love

should

be

justified by ______ and disciplined by self-control.

A. reason B. sense

C. rationality D. sensibility

6.

Shakespeare’

s

______,

an

elaborate

and

fantastic

s

tory,

is

known as the best of his final romances.

A. The Winter’s Tale B. The Tempest

C. The Taming of the Shrew D. Love’ s Labour’ s Lost

7. “Where intelligence was fallible, limited, the Imagination was

our hope of contact with eternal forces, with the whole spiritual

world.” was said by ______.

A. William Wordsworth B. William Blake

C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge D. John Keats

8.

“To

be,

or

not

to

be

-

that

is

the

question;/Whether’

tis

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nobler

in

the

mind

to

suffer

/

The

slings

and

arrows

of

outrageous

fortune,/Or

to

take

arms

against

a

sea

of

troubles

,/And

by

opposing

end

then?”

These

lines

are

taken

from ______.

A. King Lear B. Romeo and Juliet

C. Othello D. Hamlet

9.

John

Milton’

s most

powerful

dramatic

poem

on

the

Greek

model is ______.

A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise Regained

C. Samson Agonistes D. Lycidas

10.

Because

of

her

sensitivity

to

universal

pattens

of

human

behavior,

______

has

brought

the

English

novel,

as

an

art

of

form, to its maturity.

A. Charlotte Bronte B. Jane Austen

C. Emily Bronte D. Henry Fielding

11.

Daniel

Defoe’s

______

is

universally

considered

as

his

masterpiece.

A. Colonel Jack B. Robinson Crusoe

C. Captain Singleton D. A Journal of the Plague Year

12. Poetry is defined by ______ as “the spontaneous overflow

of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in

tranquility”.

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A. William Wordsworth B. William Blake

C. Percy Bysshe Shelley D. Robert Southey

13. Jonathan Swift’ s ______ is generally regarded as the best

model

of

satire,

not

only

of

the

period

but

also

in

the

whole

English literary history.

A. Gulliver’s Travels B. The Battle of the Books

C. “A Modest Proposal” D. A Tale of a Tub

14. All of the following statements about the Victorian period is

true EXCEPT ______.

A. England was the “workshop of the world”.

B. The early years was a time of rapid economic development

as well as serious social problems.

C.

Towards

the

mid

-century,

England

had

reached

its

highest

point of development as a world power.

D.

Capitalism

came

into

its

monopoly

stage,

the

gap

between

the rich and the poor was further deepened.

15.

George

Bernard

Shaw’

s

______

is

a

grotesquely

realistic

exposure of slum landlordism.

A. Widower’ s House B. Mrs. Warren’ s Profession

C. The Apple Cart D. Getting Married

16. Dickens’ s first child hero is ____

__.

A. Little Nell B. David Copperfield

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C. Oliver Twist D. Little Dorrit

17. Of all the eighteenth - century novelists ______ was the first

to

set

out,

both

in

theory

and

practice,

to

write

specifically

a

“comic

epic

in

prose”,

the

first

to

give

the

modern

novel

its

structure and style.

A. Henry Fielding B. Daniel Defoe

C. Jonathan Swift D. Laurence Sterne

18. D. H. Lawrence’ s ______ is a remarkable novel in which the

individual

consciousness

is

subtly

revealed

and

strands

of

themes are intricately wound up.

A. Sons and Lovers B. The Rainbow

C. Women in Love D. Lady Chatterley’ s Love

19. Dickens attacks the Utilitarian principle that rules over the

English education system and destroys young hearts and minds

in ______.

A. Hand Times B. Great Expectations

C. Our Mutual Friend D. Bleak House

20.

The

belief

of

the

eighteenth

-

century

neoclassicists

in

England led them to seek the following EXCEPT ______.

A. proportion B. unity

C. harmony D. spirit

21.

The

Renaissance

marks

a

transition

from

______

to

the

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modern world.

A. the old English B. the medieval

C. the feudalist D. the capitalist

22. The great political and social events in the English society of

neoclassical period were the following EXCEPT ______.

A. the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660 B. the Great Plague

of 1665

C. the Great London Fire in 1666 D. the Wars of Roses in 1689

23. With the scarlet letter A as the biggest symbol of all, ______

proves himself to be one of the best symbolists.

A. Hawthorne B. Dreiser

C. James D. Faulkner

24. The author of Leaves of Grass , a giant of American letters,

is ______.

A. Faulkner B. Dreiser

C. James D. Whitman

25. In Tender is the Night, ______ traces the decline of a young

American

psychiatrist

whose

marriage

to

a

beautiful

and

wealthy

patient

drains

his

personal

energies

and

corrodes

his

professional career.

A. Dreiser B. Faulkner

C. Fitzgerald D. Jack London

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