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全国2007年4月高等教育自学考试

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. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

1．The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely ______________.

A．William Langland’ s Piers Plowman B．Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales

C．John Gower’s Confession Amantis D．Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

2．The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragic History of

Dr. Faustus , is the very fact that______________.

A．man is confined to time

B．he tried to join Africa to Spain

C．he became a man without soul after he sold it

D．he conjured up Helen, the lady who was partially responsible for the breaking-up of the Trojan War

3．The sentence ―Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?‖ is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s ______________.

A．comedies B．tragedies

C．sonnets D．histories

4．Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from ______________.

A．the Renaissance B．the Old Testament

C．Greek Mythology D．the New Testament

5．Spenser’s masterpiece _____________ is a great poem of its time.

A．The Faerie Queene B．The Shepheardes Calender

C．The Canterbury Tales D．Metamorphoses

6．______________ is the essence of the Renaissance.

A．Poetry B．Drama

C．Humanism D．Reason

7．The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and ______________.

A．John Milton B．John Marlowe

C．Ben Jonson D．Edmund Spenser

8．―To be, or not to be—that is the question‖is a line taken from______________.

A．Hamlet B．Othello 1次

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C．King Lear D．The merchant of venice

9．Francis Bacon’s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and

______________.

A．complicity B．complexity

C．powerfulness D．mildness

10．Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that

______________.

A．the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual’s feeling and experiences

B．the former is heavily religious but the latter secular

C．the former is an intellectual movement, the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivation

D．the former advocates the ―return to nature‖ whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models.

11．Daniel Defoe describes ______________ as a typical English Middle- class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.

A．Tom Jones B．Gulliver

C．Moll Flanders D．Robinson Crusoe

12．______________ is a typical feature of Swift’s writings.

A．Bitter satire B．Elegant style

C．Casual narration D．Complicated sentence structure

13．The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for ______________.

A．material wealth B．spiritual salvation

C．universal truth D．self- fulfillment

14．Alexander Pope strongly advocated ______________ , emphasizing that literary works should be judged by rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.

A．Sentimentalism B．Romanticism

C．Idealism D．Neoclassicism

15．―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

16．It is generally regarded that Keats’ s most important and mature poems are in the form of ______________.

A．ode B．elegy

C．epic D．sonnet

17．______________ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, with ___________ as his encyclopedia – like masterpiece .

A．James Joyce, Ulysses B．E.M. Foster, A Passage to India

C．D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers D．Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

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