2004年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试
英美文学选读 试题
（课程代码0604）
全部题目用英文作答，并将答案写在答题纸相应位置上，否则不计分。
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 correct answer on the answer sheet.
1.“And we will sit upon the rocks, /Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to who falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.” The above lines are taken from ______.
A. Milton’s Paradi Lost B. Marlowe’s “The Passionate shepherd to His Love”
C. Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18” D. John Donne’s “The Sun Rising”
2.The English Renaissance period was an age of ______ .
A. poetry and drama B. drama and novel
C. novel and poetry D. romance and poetry
3.Here are four lines taken from Edmund Spenr’s The Faerie Queene: “But on his brest a bloudie Cros he bore,/The deare remembrance of his dying Lord,/For who sweete sake that glorious badge he wore,/And dead as living ever him adored.” Who is the “dying Lord” discusd in the above lines?
A. Beowulf B. King Arthur C. Jesus Christ D. Jupiter
4.In Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylock, becau ______.
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A. his money was all invested in the newly-emerging textile industry
B. his enterpri went bankrupt
C. Bassanio was able to pay his own debt
D. his ships had all been lost
5. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18?
A. The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.
B. The speaker satirizes human vanity.
C. The speaker prais the power of artistic creation.
好高什么远D. The speaker meditates on man’s salvation.
6. In English poetry, a four-line stanza is called ______.
A. heroic couplet B. quatrain C. Spenrian stanza D. terza rima 心情成语
7. “Let not Ambition mock their uful toil,/Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;/Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile /The short and simple annals of the poor.”
The above lines are taken from .
A. Alexander Pope’s Essay on Criticism
B. Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”
C. John Donne’s “The Sun Rising”
D. Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
8. By making the truth-eking pilgrims suffer at the hands of the people of Vanity Fair, John Bunyan intends to show the prevalent political and religious ______of his time.
A. percution B. improvement C. prosperity D. disillusionment
9. The 18th century witnesd a new literary form－the modern English novel, which, con
trary to the medieval romance, gives a ______ prentation of life of the common people.
A. romantic B. realistic C. prophetic D. idealistic
10. As a whole, ______is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the then English and European life— socially, politically, religiously, philosophically, scientifically, and morally.
A. 野性的思维Moll Flanders B. Gulliver’s Travels
C. Pilgrim’s Progress王俊凯个人资料 D. The School for Scandal
11. An honest, kind-hearted young man, who is full of animal spirit and lacks prudence, is expelled from the paradi and has to go through hard experience to gain knowledge of himlf and finally to have been accepted both by a virtuous lady and a rich relative .
The above ntence may well sum up the theme of Fielding’s work .
A. Jonathan Wild the Great B. Tom Jones
C. The Coffe-Hou Politician D. Amelia
12. In Sheridan’s The School for scandal, the man who wins the hand of his beloved as well as the inheritance of his rich uncle is ______ .
A. Charles Surface B. Joph Surface
C. Sir Peter Teazle D. Sir Benjamin Backbite
13. Which of the following works best reprents the national spirit of the 18th-century England?
A. Robinson Crusoe酱油炒饭的做法 B. Gulliver’s Travels
C. Jonathan Wild the Great D. A Sentimental Journey
14. Shelley’s masterpiece, Prometheus Unbound, is a ver drama, which borrows the basic story from ______ .
A. the Bible B. a German legend
个人简介C. a Greek play D. One Thousand and One Nights
15. In the first part of the novel Pride and prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a (n) ______ of the Bennet family .
A. high opinion B. great admiration
C. low opinion D. erroneous view
16. In Byron’s poem “Song for the Luddites,” the word “Luddite” refers to the ______ .
A. workers who destroyed the machines in their protest against unemployment
B. rising bourgeoisie who fights against the aristocratic class
C. descendents of the ancient king ,Lud
D. poor country people who suffered under the rule of the landlord class
17. Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield and Sam Well in Pickwick Papers are perhaps the
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best ______ characters created by Charles Dickens.
