英国文学选读试题_浙江省2009年1月自考试卷

浙江省2009年1月自考英国文学选读试题

课程代码：10054
Part I: Choose the relevant match from column B for each item in column A. (10%)
Section A
A                                          B
(1) T. S. Eliot（      ） A. The School for Scandal
(2) John Keats（      ） B. Samson Agonistes
(3) Richard Brinsley Sheridan（      ） C. My Last Duchess
(4) Robert Browning（      ） D. The Waste Land
(5) John Milton（      ） E. Isabella
Section B
A                                          B
(1) Pride and Prejudice（      ） A. Mrs. Morel
(2) Hamlet（      ）  B. Mr. Brownlow
(3) Wuthering Heights（      ）  C. Claudius
(4) Sons and Lovers（      ）  D. Elizabeth Bennet
(5) Oliver Twist（      ）  E. Heathcliff
Part II. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. (5%)
1. The essence of the Renaissance is ______.
2. Pope was the greatest poet of his time. He strongly advocated neoclassicism, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by classical rules of order, ______, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.
3. The Romantic period in English literary history is an age of______. Wordsworth and Coleridge are the major representatives of this movement.
4. James Joyce is regarded as the most prominent ______ novelist.
5. Most of Hardy’s works are set in______, the fictional primitive and crude rural region which is really the home place he both loves and hates.

Part III: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement.(50%)     
1. Marlowe’s greatest achievement lies in that he perfected the ______ and made it the principal medium of English drama.（      ）
A. blank verse  B. free verse  
C. sonnet  D. alliteration
2. Shakespeare is known to have used ______ different words. His coinage of new words and distortion of the meaning of the old ones also create striking effects on the reader.（      ）
A. 16,000  B. 1600  
C.20,000  D. 2000
3. Dr. Faustus is a play based on the ______ of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.（      ）
A. German legend  B. Greek legend
C. French legend  D. British legend
4. Paradise Lost, the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf, is divided into ______ books.（      ）
A. 12  B. 6  
C. 4  D. 10
5. Christian is the character in （      ）
A. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
B. The Pilgrim’s Progress
C. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
D. none of the above
6. The English novelist ______ defined a good style as “proper words in proper places”.（      ）
A.Fielding  B. Defoe  
C. Swift  D. Bunyan
7. Of all the 18th 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. Fielding  B. Swift  
C. Defoe  D. Richardson
8. ______ was the last great neoclassicist enlightener in the later eighteenth century. He was very much concerned with the theme of the vanity of human wishes.（      ）
A. William Blake  B. Samuel Johnson
C. Thomas Gray  D. Henry Fielding
9. The middle of the 18th century was predominated by a newly rising literary form—（      ）
A. the modern English novel  B. the modern English poetry
C. the modern English drama  D. the modern English essay
10. ______ are generally regarded as important links between the masterpieces of Shakespeare and those of Bernard Shaw.（      ）
A. The Rivals and The School for Scandal
B. The Rivals and St. Patrick’s Day
C. The Duenna and The School for Scandal
D. St. Patrick’s Day and The Duenna
11. As to Romanticism, which of the following statements is not right?（      ）
A. Romantic poetry is written according to fixed rules.
B. The Romanticists would return to the humble people and the common everyday life for the subjects.
C. The Romanticists not only extol the faculty of imagination, but also elevate the concepts of spontaneity and inspiration.
D. In order to achieve the effect of the individual vision, the medieval or renaissance world were particularly favored by the Romantics.
12. English Romanticism is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of ______’s Lyrical Ballads. （      ）
A. Wordsworth and Southey  B. Coleridge and Southey
C. Wordsworth and Coleridge  D. Southey and Blake
13. ______ is Byron’s masterpiece, a great comic epic of the early 19th century. It is a poem based on a traditional Spanish legend of a great lover and seducer of women.（      ）
A. Child Harold’s Pilgrimage  B. Don Juan
C. The Prisoner of Chillon  D. The Island
14. Coleridge’s ______ was composed in a dream after he took opium.（      ）
A. Kubla Khan  B. Christabel
C. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner  D. Frost at Midnight
15. Austen shows a human being（      ）
A. at moments of crisis  B. in the most trivial incidents of everyday life
C. in his prime of life  D. fighting in a battle field
16. Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale expresses the contrast between（      ）
A. the happy world of natural loveliness and human world of agony
B. the happy world of natural loveliness and human world of happiness
C. the world of natural innocence and the world of human misery
D. the world of romantic dream and the world of reality and agony
17 . In the portrait of her female characters, Austen tries to say that（      ）
A. it is right to marry for material wealth and social position
B. it is right to marry just for beauty and passion
C. it is right to marry for true love without consideration of the partner’s personal merit
D. it is wrong to marry just for money or for beauty, but it is also wrong to marry without it
18. To match his humorous genius, Dickens is also noted for his pictures of（      ）
A. joy  B. pathos  
C. laughter  D. wit
19. Wuthering Heights is known today as ______ most fascinating novel.（      ）
A. Charlotte Bronte’s  B. Anne Bronte’s
C. Emily Bronte’s  D. George Eliot’s
20. As to Idylls of the King, which of the following statements is not right?（      ）
A. It is Tennyson’s most ambitious work which took him over 30 years to complete.
B. It is made up of 6 boo