英美文学选读试题_浙江省2008年7月自考试卷

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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. Of all the eighteenth—century British novelists ______ was the first to set out，both in theory and practice，to write specially a “comic epic in prose”，the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.
A. Thomas Gray  B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
 C. Jonathan Swift  D. Henry Fielding
2. The poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” established ______ as the leader of the sentimental poetry of the day，especially “the Graveyard School”.
 A. Thomas Gray  B. Samuel Johnson
 C. John Bunyan  D. John Milton
3. “Do you think, because I am poor，obscure，plain，and little，I am soulless and heartless?... And if God had gifted me with some beauty，and much wealth，I should have made it as hard for you to leave me. as it is now for me to leave you. ”The quoted part is taken from ______.
A. Great Expectations  B. Wuthering Heights
C. Jane Eyre  D. Pride and Prejudice
4. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are all the following EXCEPT ______.
A. Francis Bacon  B. Christopher Marlowe
C. William Shakespeare  D. BenJonson
5. George Bernard Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is about______.
A. slum landlordism  B. the economic oppression of women
C. the political corruption in England  D. the religious corruption in England
6. All of the following statements can correctly describe the Enlightenment Movement EXCEPT ______.
A. The movement flourished in France.
B. The movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance.
C. The purpose of the movement was to enlighten the whole world.
D. The purpose of the movement was to enhance the religious education.
7. Among the three major poetical works by John Milton ______ is the most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greek style in English.
 A. Samson Agonistes  B. Paradise Lost
 C. Paradise Regained  D. Areopagitica
8. The major British Romantic poets Blake，Wordsworth，Coleridge，Byron，Shelley and Keats started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature，which was later regarded as _____.
A. the poetic romance  B. the poetic movement
C. the poetic revolution  D. the poetic reformation
9. Jane Austen’s main literary concern is about ______.
A. human beings in their personal relationships
B. the love story between the rich and the poor
C. maturity achieved through the loss of illusions
D. the daily country life of the upper-middle-class English
10. Among the following British Romantic poets ______ is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”.
A. William Blake  B. William Wordsworth
C. George Gordon Byron  D. John Keats
11. Jonathan Swift’s greatest satiric work is ______.
A. A Tale of a Tub B. The Battle of Books
C. Gulliver’s Travels  D. “A Modest Proposal’’
12. Among the following writers ______ is considered to be the best— known English dramatist since Shakespeare.
A. Oscar Wilde  B. John Galsworthy
C. W. B. Yeats  D. George Bernard Shaw
13. As a representative of the Enlightenment，______ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.
A. Francis Bacon  B. Alexander Pope
C. Thomas Gray  D. T. S. Eliot
14. All of the following poets are regarded as “Lake Poets” EXCEPT ______.
A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge  B. Robert Southey
C. William Wordsworth  D. William Blake
15. “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 them?” The quoted lines are taken from ______.
A. King Lear  B. Romeo and Juliet
C. Othello  D. Hamlet
16. Daniel Defoe describes ______ as a typical English middle — class man of the eighteenth century，the very prototype of the empire builder，the pioneer colonist．
A. Robinson Crusoe  B. Moll Flanders
C. Gulliver  D. Tom Jones
17. The declaration that “I know that This World is a World of IMAGINATION & Vision，” and that “The Nature of my work is visionary or imaginative’’ belongs to ______.
A. William Blake  B. William Wordsworth
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge  D．George Gordon Byron
18. Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques，writers in the Victorian Period shared one thing in common，that is，they were all concerned about ______．
A. the fate of the upper class
B. the reformation of the government
C. the fate of the common people
D. the future of their family clans
19. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?’’ The quoted line comes from ______.
A. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind’’ B. Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
C. John Milton’s Paradise Lost D．John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
20. Among the following figures ______ is Dickens’ first child hero.
A．Little Nell  B．David Copperfield
C．Oliver Twist D．Little Dorrit
21. In the play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde，the upper — class people are described all of the following EXCEPT ______.
A. corrupt  B. snobbish
C. hypocritical  D. ambitious
22. In Thomas Hardy’s  Wessex novels, there is an apparent ______ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.
A. nostalgic  B. humorous
C. romantic  D.ironic
23. “Life is but a losing battle, it is a struggle man can dominate in such a way that loss becomes dignity；man can be physically destroyed but never defeated spiritually.” This notion is typically held by ______．
A. Mark Twain  B. Ezra Pound
C. William Faulkner  D. Ernest Hemingway
24. The literary spokesman of the Jazz Age is ______.
A. Henry James  B. Robert Frost
C. F. Scott Fitzgerald  D. William Faulkner
25．North of Boston is described by the author，Robert Frost，as “a book of people，’’  which shows a brilliant insight into ______ character and the background that formed it．
A. the cowboy  B. New England
C. Ivy Colleague D. ivory tower
26．People generally regarded ______ as the forerunner of the 20th — century “stream- of-consciousness” novels and the founder of psychological realism.
A. Theodore Dreiser B. William Faulkner
C. Henry James D．Mark Twain
27. According to ______, “There is evil in every human heart，which may remain latent，perhaps，through the whole life；but circumstances may rouse it to activity．”
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne  B. Edgar Ellen Poe
C. William Faulkner D．Theodore Dreiser
28. Hemingway once described _____ the one book from which “all modern American literature comes.”
A. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  B. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
C. The Gilded Age  D. Innocents Abroad
29. What Walt Whitman prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is “______，”that is，poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme．
A. fixed verse  B. free verse
C. fixed ending  D. free ending
30. By writing _______ Melville reached the most flourishing stage of his literary creativity.
A. Typee  B. Omoo
C. Mardi D. Moby-Dick
31. Shortly before his death in 1945，______ joined the Communist Party.
A. Theodore Dreiser  B. Mark Twain
C. Henry James D. Ezra Pound