自考英国文学选读试题
Part I: Choo the relevant match from column B for each item in column A. (10%)
Section A
A B
(1) T. S. Eliot（ ） A. The School for Scandal
(2) John Keats（ ） B. Samson Agonistes
(3) Richard Brinsley Sheridan（ ） C. My Last Duchess
(4) Robert Browning（ ） 银耳的功效与作用禁忌 D. The Waste Land
(5) John Milton（ ） E. Isabella
Section B
A B
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(1) Pride and Prejudice（ ） A. Mrs. Morel
(2) Hamlet（ ） B. Mr. Brownlow
(3) Wuthering Heights（ ） C. Claudius
(4) Sons and Lovers（ ） D. Elizabeth Bennet
(5) Oliver Twist（ ） E. Heathcliff
Part II. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phra according to the textbook. (5%)
1. The esnce of the Renaissance is ______.
2. Pope was the greatest poet of his time. He strongly advocated neoclassicism, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by classical rules of order, ______, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.
3. The Romantic period in English literary history is an age of______. Wordsworth and Coleridge are the major reprentatives of this movement.
4. James Joyce is regarded as the most prominent ______ novelist.
5. Most of Hardy’s works are t in______, the fictional primitive and crude rural region which is really the home place he both loves and hates.
Part III: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choo the one that would best complete the statement.(50%)
1. Marlowe’s greatest achievement lies in that he perfected the ______ and made it the principal medium of English drama.（ ）
A. blank ver B. free ver
C. sonnet D. alliteration
2. Shakespeare is known to have ud ______ different words. His coinage of new words
and distortion of the meaning of the old ones also create striking effects on the reader.（ ）
A. 16,000 B. 1600
C.20,000 D. 2000
3. Dr. Faustus is a play bad on the ______ of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of lling his soul to the Devil.（ ）
A. German legend B. Greek legend
C. French legend D. British legend
4. Paradi Lost, the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf, is divided into ______ books.（ ）
A. 12 B. 6
C. 4 D. 10
5. Christian is the character in （ ）
A. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
B. The Pilgrim’s Progress
C. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
D. none of the above
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A.Fielding B. Defoe 宫寒吃什么好
C. Swift D. Bunyan
7. Of all the 18th century novelists, ______ was the first to t out both in theory and practice, to write specifically a 飞鸟集读后感“comic epic in pro”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.（ ）
A. Fielding B. Swift
C. Defoe D. Richardson
8. ______ was the last great neoclassicist enlightener in the later eighteenth century. He was very much concerned with the theme of the vanity of human wishes.（ 红绿灯压实线怎么处罚）
A. William Blake B. Samuel Johnson
C. Thomas Gray D. Henry Fielding
9. The middle of the 18th century was predominated by a newly rising literary form—（ ）
A. the modern English novel B. the modern English poetry
C. the modern English drama D. the modern English essay
10. ______ are generally regarded as important links between the masterpieces of Shakespeare and tho of Bernard Shaw.（ ）
A. The Rivals and The School for Scandal
B. The Rivals and St. Patrick’s Day
C. The Duenna and The School for Scandal
D. St. Patrick’s Day and The Duenna
11. As to Romanticism, which of the following statements is not right?（ ）
A. Romantic poetry is written according to fixed rules.
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B. The Romanticists would return to the humble people and the common everyday life for the subjects.
C. The Romanticists not only extol the faculty of imagination, but also elevate the concepts of spontaneity and inspiration.
D. In order to achieve the effect of the individual vision, the medieval or renaissance world were particularly favored by the Romantics.
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12. English Romanticism is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of ______’s Lyrical Ballads. （ ）
