全国2011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. Mark your choice and write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.
橙1. All of Charles Dickens’ works, with the exception of _________, prent a criticism of the more complicated复杂，难懂的and yet most fundamental social institutions制度and morals of the Victorian England.
A. Bleak Hou
B. Hard Times最大黑洞
C. Great Expectations远大前程
D. A Tale of Two Cities双城记
2. From ____________ on, the tragic n becomes the keynote of Thoma s Hardy’s novels, the conflict between the traditional and the moden is brought to the center of the stage.
A. The Return of the Native
B. The Mayor of Casterbridge
C. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
D. Jude the Obscure
3. George Bernard Shaw’s play ____________ shows his almost nihilistic bitterness on the subjects of the cruelty and madness of World War I and the aimlessness and disillusion of the young.
A. Getting Married
B. Too True to Be Good
C. Widowers’ Hous
D. The Apple Cart
4. It was only after the publication of ____________ that D.H. Lawrence was recognized as a
prominent novelist.
A. The Trespasr
B. The White Peacock
C. Sons and Lovers
D. The Rainbow
5. T. S. Eliot’s poem ____________ is heavily indebted to James Joy ce in terms of the stream
- of -consciousness technique, also a prelude序幕，前奏to The Waste Land.
A. “Prufrock”布鲁富克劳
B. “Gerontion”衰老
汽车说明书C. The Hollow Men
D. Lyrical Ballads
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6. Charlotte Brontё’s ____________ is noted for its sharp criticism of th e existing society, e. g. the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions.它以对当时社会尖锐的批评而闻名于世。慈善机构的宗教虚伪
A. The Professor
B. Wuthering Heights
C. Villette
D. Jane Eyre
棉凫7. Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four - act poetic drama ____________ , which is an ex- ulta
nt work in prai of humankind’s potential.
A. Adonais
B. Queen Mab
C. Prometheus Unbound
D. Kubla Khan
8. Among the Romantic poets ____________ is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”.
A. William Blake
B. William Wordsworth
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C. George Gordon Byron
D. John Keats
9. The most perfect example of the ver drama after Greek style in English is John Milton’s
____________.
A. Paradi Lost
B. Paradi Regained
C. Samson Agonistes
D. Areopagitica太阳教学设计
10. The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is____________.
A. love and money
B. money and social status
C. social status and marriage
D. love and marriage
11. T. S. Eliot’s most important single poem ____________ has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry.
A. The Hollow Men
B. The Waste Land
C. Murder in the Cathedral
D. Ash Wednesday
12. According to the subjects, William Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified into two groups, poems about____________.
A. nature and human life
B. happiness and childhood
C. symbolism and imagination
D. nature and commonlife
13. 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
14. William Blake’s ____________ compod during the climax of the French Revolution plays
the double role both as a satire and a revolutionary prophecy.
