学校消防全国2018年4月历年自学考试英美文学选读试题
课程代码：00604
I. Multiple Choice（40 points in all, 1for each）
Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answer the question or completes the statement. Write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
1．The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a ries of historical events EXCEPT_________.
(A)the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture
(B)the vast expansion of British colonies in North America
(C)the new discoveries in geography and astrology
(D)the religious reformation and the economic expansion
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2．Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “_______”,for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.
(A)Father of the English Novel (B)Father of the English Poetry
(C)Father of the English Drama (D)Father of the English Short Story
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3．T．S．Eliot’s most important single poem _______has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 204hand学音乐thpursue用法-century English poetry.
(A)The Hollow Man (B)The Waste Land
a c(C)Murder in the Cathedral (D)Ash Wednesday
4．George Bernard Shaw’s play _______ established his position as the leading play-wright of his time.
(A)Widowers汽车打蜡步骤’ Hous (B)Too True to Be Good
(C)Mrs. Warren’s Profession (D)Candida
5．William Blake’s central concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience is_______, which gives the two books a strong social and historical reference.
(A)youthhood (B)childhood
(C)happiness (D)sorrow
6．All of the following works are known as Hardy’s “novels of character and environment” EXCETP_______.
(A)The Return of the Native (B)Tess of the D’Urbervilles
(C)Jude the Obscure (D)Far from the Madding Crowd
7．Among the works by Charles Dickens _______ prents his criticism of the Utilitarian principle that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds.
(A)Bleak Hou (B)Pickwick Paper
(C)Great Expectations (D)Hard Times
8．The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’ works is his _______.
(A)simple vocabulary (B)bitter and sharp criticism
(C)character-portrayal (D)pictures of happiness
9．Among the following writers _______ created the ver novel by adopting the novelistic prentation of characters.
(A)Robert Browning (B)Matthew Arnold
(C)Alfred Tennyson (D)Edward Fitzgerald
10．“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in posssion of a good for-tune, must be in want of a wife.” The quoted part is taken from ______.
(A)Jane Eyre (B)Wuthering Heights
(C)Pride and Prejudice (D)Sen and Sensibility
11．Becau of her nsitivity to universal patterns of human behavior, ______ has brought the English novel ,as an art of form, to its maturity.
(A)Charlotte Brontë (B)Jane Austen
(C)Emily Brontë (D)Ann Radcliffe
12．Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama ______, which is an exultant work in prai of humankind’s potential.
(A)Adonais (B)Queen Mab
(C)Prometheus Unbound (D)A Defence of Poetry
13．The asrtion that poetry originates from “emotion recollected in tranquility” belongs to ______.
(A)William Wordsworth (B)Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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(C)Robert Southey (D)William Blake
14．All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT ______.
(A)“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (B)“An Evening Walk”
(C)“Tintern Abbey” (D)“The Solitary Reaper”
15．All of the following are stream –of- consciousness novels EXCEPT________.
(A)Pilgrimage (B)Ulyss
(C)人教版初二英语上册Mrs. Dalloway (D)Tess of the D’ Urbervilles
16．Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies are ________.
(A)Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, Hamlet
(B)Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice
(C)Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
(D)Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Hamlet
17．As one of the greatest masters of English pro, ________ defined a good style as “proper words in proper places”.
(A)Henry Fielding (B)Jonathan Swift
(C)Samuel Johnson (D)Alexander Pope
18．All of the following novels by Daniel Defoe are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people EXCEPT ______.
(A)Robinson Crusoe (B)Captain Singleton
(C)Moll Flanders (D)Colonel Jack
19．Among the three major works by John Milton ______ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.
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(A)Paradi Regained (B)Samson Agonistes
(C)Lycidas (D)Paradi Lost
