自考英美文学历年真题和答案

10.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following except（ ）.

A. the using of everyday language spoken by the common people

B. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings

C. the humble and rustic life as subject matter

D. elegant wording and inflated figures of speech

11.Here are two lines taken from The Merchant of Venice:“Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew/Thou mak’st thy knife keen.”What kind of figurative device is used in the above lines?

（ ）

A. Simile. B. Metonymy.

C. Pun. D. Synecdoche.

12.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”is an epigrammatic line by（ ）.

A. J. Keats B. W. Blake

C. W. Wordsworth D. P. B. Shelley

13.The poems such as“The Chimney Sweeper”are found in both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by（ ）.

A. William Wordsworth B. William Blake

C. John Keats D. Lord Gordon Byron

14.John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is often regarded as a typical example of（ ）.

A. allegory B. romance

C. epic in prose D. fable

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

A. classical B. romantic

C. sentimental D. allegorical

16.In his essay“Of Studies,”Bacon said:“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and（ ）.”

A. skimmed B. perfected

C. imitated D. digested

17.“For I have known them all already, known them all—/Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,/I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”The above lines are taken from（ ）.

A. Wordsworth’s “The Solitary Reaper”

B. Eliot’s“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

C. Coleridge’s“Kubla Khan”

D. Yeats’s“The Lake Isle of Innisfree”

18.(The)（ ）was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.

A. Romanticism B. Humanism

C. Enlightenment D. Sentimentalism

19.A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of（ ）, who never pays any attention to human feelings.

A. morality B. justice

C. property D. humor

20.The typical feature of Robert Browning’s poetry is the （ ）.

A. bitter satire B. larger-than-life caricature

C. Latinized diction D. dramatic monologue

21.George Bernard Shaw’s play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a grotesquely realistic exposure of the（ ）.

A. slum landlordism B. political corruption in England

C. economic oppression of women D. religious corruption in England

22.The story starting with the marriage of Paul’s parents Walter Morel and Mrs. Morel must be （ ）.

A. Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles

B. D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers

C. George Eliot’s Middlemarch

D. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre

23.In American literature the first important writer who earned an international fame on both sides of