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全国高等教育自学考试
英美文学选读模拟试题（七）
（课程
代码：
0604
）
(
全部题目用英文作答
)
PART ONE(40 POINTS)
I.
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 your
answers on the Answer Sheet.
1. Washington
Irving
?
s Rip Van Winkle is
famous for
.
A.
Rip
?
s escape into a mystery
B. the story
?
s
German legendary source material
C.
Rip
?
s seeking for happiness
D. Rip
?
s 20-year
sleep
2. One of the most familiar
themes in American naturalism is the theme of
human
“
“
.
A.
bestiality
B.
goodness
C.
compassion
D. greed
3. Of the following poets,
which is not regarded as
“
Lake
Poets
”
?
A. Samuel
Taylor Coleridge
B.
Robert Southey.
C.
William Wordsworth
D.
William Shakespeare
4.
is considered to be the best known
English dramatist since Shakespeare.
A. Oscar Wilde
B. John
Calsworthy
C. W.
D. George
Bernard Shaw
5. Leopold Bloom is the
symbol of everyman in the Post-World
-
Ⅰ
Europe
.
He is a character of
the
writing
“
“
.
A.
Pilgrimage
B. Ulysses
C. Mrs.
Dalloway
D. The Rainbow
6. Generally, English Romanticism
refers to the period of
.
A. 1483
—
1547
B.
1798
—
1832
C.
1660
—
1798
D.
1836
—
1901
7. Robert
Browning
?
s best-known
dramatic monologue is
.
A. Meeting at Night
B. Parting at Morning
C. My last Duchess
D. The Ring and the Book.
8.
Which
of
the
following
best
describes
the
protagonist
of
“
Thomas
Hardy
?
s
“
The
Mayor
of
Casterbridge
”
?
A. He is a man of self-esteem.
B. He is a man
of self-contempt.
C.
He is a man of self-confidence.
D. He is a man
of self-sufficience.
9.
A. Women in Love
B. Sons and Lovers
C. The
Rainbow
D. Lady
Chatterley
?
s Lover
10. With so many poems such as
“
The
Sparrow
?
s
Nest,
”
“
To a
Skylark,
”
“
To the
Cuckoo
”
and
“
To
a
Butterfly
”
, William
Wordsworth is regarded as a
“
”
.
A. poet of
genius
B.
royal poet
C. worshipper of nature
D. conservative poet
11. In the first part of
Gulliver
?
s Travels, Gulliver
told his experience in
.
A. Lilliput
B. Brobdingnag
C. Houyhnhnm
D. Ehgland
12.
“
To be, or not to
be
—
that is the question;
whether
?
tis 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?
”
Who said
these words?
A. King Lear
B. Romeo
C.
Antonio
D. Hamlet
13.
“
To be so distinguished is
an honor, which, being very
little
accustomed to favors from the
great, I
know not well how to receive, or in what terms to
acknowledge.
”
A.
ironic
B.
jealous
C. delightful
D.
humorous
14. In the
theatrical world of the neoclassical period,
was the leading figure
among the
host of playwrights.
A. William Blake
B. Richard Brinsley
Sheridan
C. Ben Johnson
D. George Bernard Shaw
15. Among the works by John Milton,
which is indeed the only generally acknowledged
epic in
English literature since
Beowulf?
A. Paradise Regained
B. Samson Agonistes
C.
Areopagitica
D. Paradise Lost
16. Which writing is a typical example
of Shakespeare
?
s pessimistic
view towards human life and
society in
his late years?
A. The Tempest
B. King Lear
C. Hamlet
D. Othello
17.
Who,
one
of
the
most
important
poets
in
his
time,
is
a
leading
spokesman
of
the
“
Imagist
Movement
”
?
A. J. D. Salinger
B.
Ezra Pound
C. Richard
Wright
D. Ralph
Ellison
18.
lays
the
foundation
for
modern
science
with
his
insistence
on
scientific
way
of
thinking and fresh observation rather
than authority as a basis for obtaining knowledge.
A. Francis Bacon
B. Thomas Hardy
C. Charles Dickens
D. William Blake
19.
Alexander
Pope
strongly
advocated
,
emphasizing
that
literary
works
should
be
judged by classical rules of order,
reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and
decorum.
A. idealism
B.
neoclassicism
C.
romanticism
D. sentimentalism
20. Dickens
?
works are characterized by a mingling of
and
pathos.
A. metaphor
B. passion
C. satire
D. humor
21.
“
Self-
conceited
”
,
“
cruel
”
and
“
tyrannical
”
are
most
likely
the
features
of
the
characters
in
.
A.
Robert Browning
?
s My Last
Duchess
B. Christopher
Marlowe
?
s Dr. Faustus
C. Sh
akespeare?
s
Love
?
s
Labour
?
s Lost
D.
Sheridan
?
s The School for
Scandal
22. Who is the author of the
writing
“
Moby-
Dick
”
?
A. Samuel
Taylor Coleridge.
B. John Keats
C.
Henry Fielding
D.
Herman Melville
23. The sentences
“
Studies serve for delight,
for ornament, and for
ability
”
, and
“
Some books are
to be tasted, others to be swallowed,
and some few to be chewed and
digested;
…”
are quoted from
.
A. Novum
Organum
B. Of Studies by Bacon
C. The Advancement of
Learning
D.
Essays
24. The advancement of Learning
is a great tract on
.
A.
history
B. literature
C. policy
D.
education
25
．
Most of the
poems in Whitman
?
s Leaves of
Grass sing of the
“
en-
mass
”
and the
as well.
A. nature
B.
life
C. self
26
．
Which of the
following is not true according to James Joyce?
A. Ulysses has become a
prime example of modernism in literature.
B. Joyce is regarded as the
most prominent stream-of-consciousness novelist.
C. Joyce is a realistic writer in
English literature history.
D.
His
novel
“
A Portrait
of
the Artist
as
a
Young Man
”
is
a
naturalistic
account of
the
hero
?
s
bitter experiences and his final
artistic and spiritual liberation.
27. The following titles are all
related to the subject that escapes from the
society and returns to
nature except
.
A.
Dreiser
?
s Sister Carrie
B. Copper
?
s
Leather-Stocking Tales
C.
Thoreau
?
s Walden
D. Mark
Twain
?
s The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
28. “
Wild
Spirit, which art moving everywhere;/Destroyer and
Preserver; hear, O hear!
”
the two
lines are found in
.
A. Young
Goodman Brown by Hawthorne
B. Ode to the West Wind by
Shelley
C. Leaves of Grass by Walt
Whitman
D. Ulysses by James Joyce
29.
“
Even then he
stood there, hidden wholly in that kindness which
is night, while the uprising
fumes
filled the room. When the odor reached his
nostrils, he quit his attitude and fumbled for
the bed.
D. self-reliance