2009年7月英美文学选读自考试题

全国2009年7月高自考
英美文学选读试题
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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 in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
1. The first mass movement of the English working class and the early sign of the awakening of the poor, oppressed people is_____.
 A. The Enclosure Movement          B. The Protestant Reformation
 C. The Enlightenment Movement      D. The Chartist Movement
2. Daniel Defoe’s works are all the following EXCEPT_____.
 A. Moll Flanders         B. A Tale of a Tub
 C. A Journal of the Plague Year     D. Colonel Jack
3. “Metaphysical Poetry” refers to the works of the 17th - century writers who wrote under the influence of _____.
 A. John Donne          B. Alexander Pope
 C. Christopher Marlowe       D. John Milton
4. The most important play among Shakespeare’s comedies is _____.
 A. A Midsummer Night’s Dream     B. The Merchant of Venice
 C. As You Like It        D. Twelfth Night
5. The most perfect example of the verse drama after Greek style in English is Milton’s _____.
 A. Paradise Lost         B. Paradise Regained
 C. Samson Agonistes        D. Areopagitica
6. Which of the following descriptions of Enlightenment Movement is NOT true?
 A. It was a progressive intellectual movement that flourished in France.
 B. It was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries.
 C. The purpose was to enlighten the whole world with moderu philosophical and artistic ideas.
 D. The Enlighteners advocate individual education.
7. Neoclassicists had some fixed laws and rules for prose EXCEPT_____.
 A. being precise         B. being direct
 C. being flexible         D. being satiric
8. A good style of prose“ proper works in proper places” was defined by_____.
 A. John Milton         B. Henry Fielding
 C. Jonathan Swift         D.T.S. Eliot
9. The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is_____.
 A. love and money         B. money and social status
 C. social status and marriage      D. love and marriage
10. Wordsworth’s_____ is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature.
 A. “To a Skylark”         B. “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud”
 C. “An Evening Walk”       D. “My Heart Leaps Up”
11. William Blake’s work ______ marks his entry into maturity.
 A. Songs of Experience       B. Marriage of Heaven and Hell
 C. Songs of Innocence       D. The Book of Los
12. Best of all the Romantic well- known lyric pieces is Shelley’s_____.
 A. “The Cloud”         B. “To a Skylark”
 C. “Ode to a Nightingale”      D. “Ode to the West Wind”
13. In the Victorian Period _____ became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.
  A. poetry          B. novel
  C. prose          D. drama
14. In Charles Dickens’early novels, he attacks one or more specific social evils, _____is a good example of describing the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life.
 A. David Copperfield       B. Oliver Twist
 C. Great Expectations       D. Dombey and Son
15. Thomas Hardy’s most cheerful and idyllic work is_____.
 A. The Return of the Native     B. Far from the Maddin Crowd
 C. Under the Greenwood Tree    D. The Woodlanders
16. The rise of _____ and new science greatly incited modernist writers to make new explorations on human natures and human relationships.
  A. the existentialistic idea     B. the irrational philosophy
  C. scientific socialism       D. social Darwinism
17. In Modern English literature, the literary interest of _____ lay in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehu-manizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.
 A. George Bernard Shaw      B.T.S. Eliot
 C. Oscar Wilde        D.D.H. Lawrence
18. George Bernard Shaw’s _____ is a better play of the later period, with the author’s almost nihilistic bitterness on the subjects of the cruelty and madness of WWI and the aimlessness and disillusion of the young.
 A. Too True to Be Good      B. Mrs. Warren’s Profession
 C. Widowers’Houses       D. Fanny’s First Play
19. Renaissance first started in Italy, with the flowering of the following fields EXCEPT_____.
  A. architecture        B. painting
  C. sculpture         D. literature
20. English Romanticism,as a historical phase of literature,is generally said to have begun with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s_____.
  A. Poetical Sketches       B. A Defence of Poetry
  C. Lyrical Ballads       D. The Prelude
21. Charlotte Bront ’s work _____ is famous for the depiction of the life of the middle - class working women, particularly governesses.
  A. Jane Eyre       B. Wuthering Heights
  C. The Proffessor       D. Shirley
22. The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot is a poem concerned with the _____ breakup of a modern civilization in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.
 A. spiritual         B. religious
 C. political         D. physical
23. Perhaps Emily Dickinson’s greatest interpretation of the moment of _____ is to be found in “I heard a Fly buzz--when I died—”, a poem universally regarded as one of her masterpieces.
 A. fantasy         B. birth
 C. crisis         D. death
24. The fiction of the American _____ period ranges from the comic fables of Washing-ton Irving to the social realism of Rebecca Harding Davis.
 A. Romantic         B. Revolutionary
 C. Colonial         D. Modernist