英美文学选读自考题-14
(总分100,考试时间90分钟)
Ⅰ.Multiple Choice
Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blacking the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.
1. Generally the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries. It first started in Italy, with the flowering of painting, sculpture and literature. From ______ the movement went to embrace the rest of Europe.A. Germany B. Greek C. Britain D. Italy颤的多音字组词
2. In 1593 and 1594, Shakespeare published two narrative poems ______ and The Rape of Lucrece.A. The Faerie Queen B. Venus and Adonis C. Measure for Measure D. Sonnet 18
3. ______ shows how mankind, in the person of Christ, withstands the tempter and is established once more in the divine favor.A. Paradi Lost B. Paradi Regained C. Samson Agonistes D. Beowulf
4. 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 purpo of the movement was to enlighten the whole world. D. The purpo of the movement was to enhance the religious education.江西哪里好玩的景点推荐
5. ______ was written by Defoe and it brought him into jail and made him go through public exposure in the pillory.A. The Shortest Way with the Disnters B. The True-born Englishman C. Colonel Jack D. A Journal of the Plague Year
6. You may have met the term "Yahoo" on Internet, but you may also have met it in English literature. It is found in ______.A. John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress B. Samuel Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes C. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels D. Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
7. In ______ of Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift satirizes the western civilization including fal illusions about science, philosophy, history and even immortality.A. the first voyage to Lilliput B. the cond voyage to Brobdingnag C. the third voyage to the Flying Island D. the fourth voyage to Houyhnhnm land
8. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ______ has been regarded as "Father of the English Novel".A. Henry Fielding B. Daniel Defoe C. John Bunyan D. James Joyce
9. The Romantic Age began in 1798 when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their joint work ______.A. Leaves of Grass B. The Cantos C. Nature D. Lyrical Ballads
10. The Romantic Movement expresd a more or less ______ attitude toward the existing social and political conditions that came with industrialization.A. positive B. negative C. neutral D. indifferent
11. In the Romantic Age, ______ is a great critic on Shakespeare, Elizabethan drama, and English poetry.A. Byron B. Jane Austen C. William Hazlitt D. William Blake正宗红烧肉的做法
12. In his poem "Tyger, Tyger", William Blake express his perception of the "fearful symmetry" of the big cat. The phra "fearful symmetry" suggests ______.A. the tiger's two eyes which are dazzlingly bright and symmetrically t B. the poet's fear of the predator C. the analogy of the hammer and the anvil D. the harmony of the two opposite aspects of God's creation
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14. P.B. Shelley's greatest political lyrics is ______.A. Men of England B. An Essay on Criticism C. The Prelude D. A De fence of Poetry
15. Prometheus Unbound is Shelley's greatest achievement. Prometheus, according to th
e Greek mythology, was chained by Zeus on Mount Caucasus and suffered the vulture's feeding on his liver for ______.A. planning a revolt to dethrone God B. misinterpreting God's decree to reconcile man and nature C. prophesying the arrival of spring in a winter ason D. stealing the fire from heaven and giving it to man
马尾巴的作用16. The major themes of Jane Austen's novels are the stories of ______.A. love and money B. money and social status C. social status and marriageD. love and marriage棉衣怎么洗最好
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17. In the Victorian period, ______, that Wesx man, not only continued to expo and criticize all sorts of social iniquities, but finally came to question and attack the Victorian conventions and morals.A. Charles Dickens B. William Makepeace Thackeray C. Thomas Hardy D. Charlotte Bronte
