2010年7月英美文学选读自考试题

全国2010年7月自考

英美文学选读试题

课程代码：00604

全部题目用英文作答，并将答案写在答题纸相应位置上

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. T. S. Eliot’s ______ is a poem of dramatic monologue and a prelude to The Waste Land, helping to point up the continuity of Eliot’s thinking.

A. “Prufrock”                                                B. “Gerontion”

C. The Hollow Men                                         D. Four Quartets

2. Defoe’s group of four novels are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people. They are the following EXCEPT ______.

A. Captain Singleton                                       B. Moll Flanders

C. Roxana                                                      D. Robinson Crusoe

3. Charles Dickens’ novel, ______, is famous for its vivid descriptions of the work-house and life of the underworld in the nineteenth-century London.

A. The Pickwick Paper                                    B. Oliver Twist

C. David Copperfield                                       D. Nicholas Nickleby

4. D. H. Lawrence’s autobiographical novel is ______.

A. The Rainbow                                             B. Women in Love

C. Sons and Lovers                                         D. Lady Chatterley’s Lover

5. Jonathan Swift’s greatest satiric work is ______.

A. A Tale of a Tub                                          B. The Battle of the Books

C. Gulliver’s Travels                                       D. A Modest Proposal

6. Dickens’best- depicted characters are the following. EXCEPT ______.

A. innocent, virtuous, persecuted and helpless child characters

B. horrible and grotesque characters

C. broadly humorous or comical characters

D. simple, innocent and faithful women characters

7. George Bernard Shaw’s ______ explored his idea of “Life Force”, the power that would create superior beings to be equal to God and to solve all the social, moral, and metaphysical problems of human society.

A. Man and Superman                                    B. The Apple Cart

C. Pygmalion                                                 D. Too True to Be Good

8. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ______ has been regarded as “Father of the English Novel”.

A. Daniel Defoe                                             B. Jonathan Swift

C. Henry Fielding                                           D. Oliver Goldsmith

9. Charlotte Bronte’s autobiograghical work ______ largely based on her experience in Brussels.

A. The Professor                                            B. Shirley

C. Villette                                                      D. Jane Eyre

10. D. H. Lawrence’s artistic tendency is mainly ______ , which combines dramatic scenes with an authoritative commentary.

A. romanticism                                              B. realism

C. naturalism                                                 D. modernism

11. In ______ opinion, human nature is seriously and premanently flawed. To better human life, enlightenment is needed, but to redress it is very hard.

A. Daniel Defoe’s                                           B. Charles Dickens’

C. Jonathan