2009年4月英美文学选读自考试题

全国2009年4月自考
英美文学选读试题
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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 and write the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.
1. In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the following EXCEPT ______.
A. getting rid of those old feudalist ideas
B. getting control of the parliament and government
C. introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie
D. recovering the purity of the early church, from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church
2. The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ______.
A. Surrey  B. Wyatt
C. Sidney  D. Shakespeare
3. As the best of Shakespeare's final romances,______ is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.
 A. The Tempest  B. The Winter's Tale
 C. Cymbeline  D. The Rape of Lucrece
4. John Milton's greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literarure since Beowulf.
A. Areopagitica B. Paradise Lost
C. Lycidas D. Samson Agonistes
5. The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT ______.
A. self - esteem  B. self - reliance
C. self - restraint  D. hard work
6. “Graveyard School”writers are the following sentimentalists EXCEPT ______.
A. James Thomson  B. William Collins
C. William Cowper  D. Thomas Jackson
7. The best model of satire in the whole English literary history is Jonathan Swift's ______.
A. A Modest Proposal  B. A Tale of a Tub
C. Gulliver's Travels  D. The Battle of the Books
8. As a representative of the Enlightenment,______ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.
A. John Bunyan  B. Daniel Defoe
C. Alexander Pope  D. Jonathan Swift
9. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel,______ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel”.
A. Daniel Defoe  B. Henry Fielding
C. Jonathan Swift  D. Samuel Richardson
10. Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correct?
A. It predominated in the early eighteenth century.
B. It was one phase of the Romantic movement.
C. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.
D. Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic romance.
11. “Byronic hero”is a figure of the following traits EXCEPT ______.
A.being proud  B. being of humble origin
C.being rebellious  D. being mysterious
12. Robert Browning created ______ by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters.
A. the verse novel  B. the blank verse
C. the heroic couplet  D. the dramatic poetry
13. Charles Dickens' novel ______ is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life of the underworld in the nineteenth- century London.
 A. The Pickwick Paper  B. Oliver Twist
 C. David Copperfield  D. Nicholas Nickleby
14. Charlotte Bronte's works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards ______, about some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.
 A. self - reliance  B. self - realization
 C. self - esteem  D. self - consciousness
15. The symbolic meaning of “Book” in Robert Browning's long poem The Ring and the Book is ______.
A. the common sense  B. the hard truth
C. the comprehensive knowledge  D. the dead truth
16. Thomas Hardy's pessimistic view of life predominated most of his later works and earns him a reputation as a ______ writer.
A. realistic  B. naturalistic
C. romantic  D. stylistic
17. After the First World War, there appeared the following literary trends of modernism EXCEPT ______.
A. expressionism  B. surrealism
C. stream of consciousness  D. black humour
18. The masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century are the three trilogies of ______.
A. Galsworthy's Forsyte novels  B. Hardy' s Wessex novels
C. Greene's Catholic novels  D. Woolf's stream-of-consciousness novels
19. In the mid - 1950s and early 1960s, there appeared “______” who demonstrated a particular disillusion over the depressing situation in Britain and launched a bitter protest. against the outmoded social and political values in their society.
A. The Beat Generation  B. The Lost Generation
C. The Angry Young Men  D. Black Mountain Poets
20.The following are English stream-of-consciousness novels EXCEPT ______.
A.Pilgrimage  B. Ulysses
C.Mrs.Dalloway  D. A Passage to Inida
21. The leader of the Irish National Theater Movement in the early 20th century   
was ______.
A. W.B.Yeats  B. Lady Gregory
C. J.M.Synge  D. John Galworthy
22. T.S.Eliot's most popular verse play is ______.
A. Murder in the Cathedral  B. The Cocktail Party
C. The Family Reunion  D. The Waste Land
23. The American writer ______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist In-
 truder in the Dust in 1950.
A. Ernest Hemingway  B. Gertrude Stein
C. William Faulkner  D.T.S. Eliot
24. Hemingway's second big success is ______ , which wrote the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation in the 1920s, in order to tell us a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with a British nurse.
A. For Whom the Bell Tolls  B. A Farewell to Arms
C. The Sun Also Rises  D. The Old Man and the Sea
25. With the publication of ______ , Dreiser was launching himself upon a long career that would ultimately make him one of the most significant American writers of the school later known as literary naturalism.
A. Sister Carrie  B. The Titan
C. The Genius  D. The Stoic
26. Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th -century “stream -of-consciousness”novels and the founder of ______.
A. neoclassicism  B. psychological realism
C. psychoanalytical criticism  D. surrealism
27. In 1849, Herman Melville published ______ ,a semi-autobiographical novel, con- cerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.
A. Omoo  B. Mardi
C. Redburn  D. Typee
28. As a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,______ marks the climax of Mark Twain's literary activity.
A. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  B. Life on the Mississippi
C. The Gilded Age  D. Roughing It
29. Realism was a reaction against ______ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self- creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.
A. Romanticism  B. Rationalism
C. Post-modernism  D. Cynicism
30. When World War II broke out,______ began working for the Italian government, engaged in some radio broadcasts of anti- Semitism and pro- Fascism.
A. Ezra Pound  B.T.S. Eliot
C. Henry James  D. Robert Frost
31. In 1915 ______ became a naturalized British citizen, largely in protest against America's failure to join England in the First World War.
A. Henry James  B.T.S.Eliot
C. W.D.Howells  D. Ezra Pound
32. What Whitman pre