2004年4月全国高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题

　　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 correct answer on the answer sheet.

　　1.“And we will sit upon the rocks， /Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks，/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.” The above lines are taken from ______.

　　A. Milton‘s Paradise Lost B. Marlowe’s “The Passionate shepherd to His Love”

　　C. Shakespeare‘s “Sonnet 18” D. John Donne’s “The Sun Rising”

　　2.The English Renaissance period was an age of ______ .

　　A. poetry and drama B. drama and novel

　　C. novel and poetry D. romance and poetry

　　3.Here are four lines taken from Edmund Spenser‘s The Faerie Queene： “But on his brest a bloudie Crosse he bore，/The deare remembrance of his dying Lord，/For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore，/And dead as living ever him adored.” Who is the “dying Lord” discussed in the above lines？

　　A. Beowulf B. King Arthur C. Jesus Christ D. Jupiter

　　4.In Shakespeare‘s Merchant of Venice， Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylock， because ______.

　　A. his money was all invested in the newly-emerging textile industry

　　B. his enterprise went bankrupt

　　C. Bassanio was able to pay his own debt

　　D. his ships had all been lost

　　5. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare‘s Sonnet 18？

　　A. The speaker eulogizes the power of？Nature.

　　B. The speaker satirizes human vanity.

　　C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.

　　D. The speaker meditates on man‘s salvation.

　　6. In English poetry， a four-line stanza is called ______.

　　A. heroic couplet B. quatrain C. Spenserian stanza D. terza rima

　　7. “Let not Ambition mock their useful toil，/Their homely joys， and destiny obscure；/Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile /The short and simple annals of the poor.”

　　The above lines are taken from？。

　　A. Alexander Pope‘s Essay on Criticism

　　B. Coleridge‘s “Kubla Khan”

　　C. John Donne‘s “The Sun Rising”

　　D. Thomas Gray‘s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”

　　8. By making the truth-seeking pilgrims suffer at the hands of the people of Vanity Fair， John Bunyan intends to show the prevalent political and religious ______of his time.

　　A. persecution B. improvement C. prosperity D. disillusionment

　　9. The 18th century witnessed a new literary form－the modern English novel， which， contrary to the medieval romance， gives a ______ presentation of life of the common people.

　　A. romantic B. realistic C. prophetic D. idealistic

　　10. As a whole， ______is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the then English and European life— socially， politically， religiously， philosophically， scientifically， and morally.

　　A. Moll Flanders B. Gulliver‘s Travels

　　C. Pilgrim‘s Progress D. The School for Scandal

　　11. An honest， kind-hearted young man， who is full of animal spirit and lacks prudence， is expelled from the paradise and has to go through hard experience to gain knowledge of himself and finally to have been accepted both by a virtuous lady and a rich relative .

　　The above sentence may well sum up the theme of Fielding‘s work？。

　　A. Jonathan Wild the Great B. Tom Jones

　　C. The Coffe-House Politician D. Amelia

　　12. In Sheridan‘s The School for scandal， the man who wins the hand of his beloved as well as the inheritance of his rich uncle is ______ .

　　A. Charles Surface B. Joseph Surface

　　C. Sir Peter Teazle D. Sir Benjamin Backbite

　　13. Which of the following works best represents the national spirit of the 18th-century England？

　　A. Robinson Crusoe B. Gulliver‘s Travels

　　C. Jonathan Wild the Great D. A Sentimental Journey

　　14. Shelley‘s masterpiece， Prometheus Unbound， is a verse drama， which borrows the basic story from ______ .

　　A. the Bible B. a German legend

　　C. a Greek play D. One Thousand and One Nights

　　15. In the first part of the novel Pride and prejudice， Mr. Darcy has a （n） ______ of the Bennet family .

　　A. high opinion B. great admiration

　　C. low opinion D. erroneous view

　　16. In Byron‘s poem “Song for the Luddites，” the word “Luddite” refers to the ______ .

　　A. workers who destroyed the machines in their protest against unemployment

　　B. rising bourgeoisie who fights against the aristocratic class

　　C. descendents of the ancient king ，Lud

　　D. poor country people who suffered under the rule of the landlord class

　　17. Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield and Sam Well in Pickwick Papers are perhaps the best？______ characters created by Charles Dickens.

　　A. comic B.tragic C. round D.sophisticated

　　18. A typical feature of the English Victorian literature is that writers became social and moral？______ ， exposing all kinds of social evils.

　　A. revolutionaries B. idealists C. critics D. defenders

　　19. “Is it not sufficient for your infernal selfishness， that while you are at peace I shall writhe in the torments of hell？”（Heathcliff uttered the sentence in the death scene of Catherine from Chapter XV of Wuthering Heights.） The word “hell” at the end of the quoted sentence refers to？______ .

　　A. Heaven B. Hades C. the next world D. this world

　　20. A typical Forsyte， according to John Galsworthy， is a man with a strong sense of？______ ，who never pays any attention to human feelings.

　　A. justice B. humor C. morality D. property

　　21. “He was silent with conceit of his son. Mrs. Morel sniffed， as if it were nothing.”（Sons and Lovers by D.H.Lawrence）From the above quotation， we can see that Mrs. Morel‘s attitude to her husband is ______ .

　　A. sincerely warm B. genuinely kind

　　C. seemingly angry D. merely contemptuous

　　22. A boy makes a quest of his idealized childish love through painful experience up to the point of losing his innocence and coming to see the drabness and harshness of the adult world.

　　The above sentence may well sum up the major theme of ______.

　　A. Eliot‘s poem The love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

　　B. Bernard shaw‘s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession

　　C. Joyce‘s story Araby

　　D. Lawrence‘s story The Horse Dealer’s Daughter

　　23. Linguistically， compared with the writings of Mark Twain， Henry James‘s fiction is noted for his ______.

　　A. frontier vernacular B. rich colloquialism

　　C. vulgarly descriptive words D. refined elegant language

　　24. Which of the following statements about Washington Irving is NOT true？

　　A. Literary imagination should breed in a land rich in the past culture.

　　B. He is preoccupied with the Calvinistic view of original sin and the mystery of evil.

　　C. His stories are among the best of the American literature.

　　D. Some of his works are based on the materials of the European legendary tales.

　　25. Which of the following is NOT one of the main ideas advocated by Emerson， the chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism？

　　A. As an individual， man is divine and can develop and improve himse