08年7月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题
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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 t out，both in theory and practice，to write specially a “comic epic in pro〞，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 ntimental poetry of the day，especially “the Graveyard School〞.
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B. Samuel Johnson
C. John Bunyan
D. John Milton
3. “Do you think, becau I am poor，obscure，plain，and little，I am soulless 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 ______.
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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
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
班主任工作小结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 purpo of the movement was to enlighten the whole world.
D. The purpo 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 ver drama after the Greek style in English.
A. Samson Agonistes
B. Paradi Lost
C. Paradi 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〞.
A. William Blake
B. William Wordsworth
C. George Gordon Byron
D. John Keats
11. Jonathan Swift’s greatest satiric work is ______.
花变色的科学原理是什么>望夫石的传说A. A Tale of a Tub
B. The Battle of Books最可爱的猫
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 reprentative 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；／whether’tis nobler in the mind to suffer，／the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,／Or to take arms against a a 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 that This World is a World of IMAGINATION & Vision，〞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政治任务
C. the fate of the common people
D. the future of their family clans
19. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind’’The quoted line comes from ______.
A. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind’’
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B. Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
C. John Milton’s Paradi Lost D．John Keats’“Ode
