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全国2005年7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 on the answer sheet.
1.With classical culture and the(   )humanistic ideas coming into England, the English Renaissance began flourishing.
A. French        B. German
C. Italian        D. Greek
2.“Come live with me and be my love, / And we will all the pleasures prove / That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, / Woods, or steepy mountain yields.”
The above lines are taken from Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”, which derives from the(   )tradition.
A. pastoral       B. heroic
C. romantic       D. realistic
3.“Metaphysical conceit”is a strategy characteristic of John Donne’s poetry. It is(   ).
A. a confession that avoids questions of moral accountability
B. the linking of images from very different ranges of experience
C. self-definition through images based on the four primal elements
D. the chaining of images representing solid and gaseous elements
4.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 includes three stanzas according to the content with these last two lines as a(   ), which completes the sense of the above lines.
A. prelude       B. couplet
C. epigraph       D. exposition
5.“Therefore at this fair are all such merchandise sold, as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures, and delights of all sorts, as whores, bawds, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants…” The above sentences are taken from(   ).
A. John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress  B. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
C. Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones   D. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
6.Jonathan Swift is a master satirist in English literature. His A Tale of a Tub is an attack on(   ).
A. the government      B. greed
C. the church       D. the abuse of power
7.Chaucer was the first English writer to adopt heroic couplet in his writhing of poems. In the early 18th century, the chief proponent of the heroic couplet was(   ).
A. Alexander Pope      B. William Wordsworth
C. Lord Byron       D. Thomas Gray
8.As a lexicographer, he distinguished himself as the author of the first English dictionary—A Dictionary of the English Language. What is his name¡(   ).
A. Jonathan Swift      B. Samuel Johnson
C. Ben Jonson       D. John Milton
9.Which of the following statements about Neo-Classicism and Enlightenment Movement is true¡(   ).
A. The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 17th century.
B. Neo-Classicism found its artistic models in the classical literature of the ancient Greek and Roman writers like Homer, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, etc. and in the contemporary French writers such as Voltaire and Diderot.
C. Neo-Classicism put the stress on the classical artistic ideals of order, logic, proportion, spontaneous emotion, and passion.
D. Satire was much used in writing in the neo-classic works. English literature of this age produced a distinguished satirist Daniel Defoe.
10.A poet asserted that poetry originated form “emotion recollected in tranquillity”. He maintained that the scenes and events of everyday life and the speech of ordinary people were the raw material of which poetry could and should be made. Who is that poet¡(   ).
A. William Blake       B. Alfred Lord Tennyson
C. William Wordsworth     D. John Keats
11.The composition of “Kubla Khan”by S.T. Coleridge was based on (   ).
A. a story        B. a dream
C. a dialogue       D. an experience
12.Romanticism was a literary trend prevailing in English during the period from 1798 to 1832. The Romantic writers(   ).
A. paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man
B. were discontent with the development of industrialism and capitalism, and presented the social evils minutely in their works
C. took pains to portray a world of harmony and balance
D. tended to glorify Rome and advocated rational Italian and French art as superior to the native traditions
13.“Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright/ In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry¡”(“The Tiger”by William Blake) The above lines(   ).
A. describe the tiger’s fierce eyes and forceful hands at night
B. express the poet’s curiosity for the skillful creation of the tiger
C. express the poet’s surprise at the sight of the tiger’s well-proportioned body
D. express the poet’s terror at the sight of the tiger in the forest at night
14.Which of the following statements about Victorian literature is NOT true¡(   )
A. Novels became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.
B. Victorian novelists were angry with the inhuman social institutions, the decaying social morality, the widespread misery, poverty and injustice.
C. Influenced by a particularly strict set of moral standards, Victorian writers like Oscar Wilde, advocated the old moderate, respectable life-style.
D. Victorian prose writers joined forces with the critical realist novelists in exposing and criticizing the social reality.
15.“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a (   ).”This quotation in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice sets the tone of the novel.
A. house        B. title
C. wife        D. fame
16.Tennyson’s poem Ulysses not only expresses the poet’s own determination and courage to brave the struggle of life, but also reflects the restlessness and aspiration of the age. The poem is written in the form of(   ).
A. epic        B. elegy
C. dramatic monologue     D. ode
17.In Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent(   )touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.
A. realistic       B. nostalgic
C. romantic       D. sentimental
18.“If I’ve done wrong, I’m dying for it. It is enough! You left me too; but I won’t upbraid you! I forgive you. Forgive me!” These above lines are uttered by the heroine in(   ).
A. Shapespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
B. Emily Bront ’s Wuthering Heights
C. Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles
D. Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession
19.Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and(   )as its theoretical base.
A. the theory of psycho-analysis   B. Darwin’s evolutionary theory
C. the French symbolism    D. Utilitarianism
20.The beginning of “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock”moves from a series of fairly concrete physical settings—a cityscape( the famous“patient etherized upon a table”)and several interiors (women’s arms in the lamplight, coffee spoons,

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