2020年7月全国自考英美文学选读试题及答案解析

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全国自考2018年7月英美文学选读试题

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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 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

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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”.

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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；／wheth er’ 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 th at This World is a World of IMAGINATION & Vision，”

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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

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