华南师范大学高等教育自学考试2016年1月委考课程
《英国文学选读》模拟卷 A
康妮 塔波特（课程代码： 10100）
minarI. Choo the best answers to complete the statements. (30%)
1.The statement “Studies rve for delight, for ornament, and for ability” opens one of well-known essays by__________.
A. Francis Bacon | B. Christopher Marlowe |
C. Geoffrey Chaucer | D. Jonathan Swift |
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2. “The Chimney Sweeper” are found in both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by___________________.
A. William Wordsworth | B. Lord Gordon Byron |
C. John Keats | D. William Blake |
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3. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following except ________.
A. language ud by common people
B. intensively subjective feeling
C. nature as a source of poetic writing
D. elegant wording
4. The most significant idea of the Renaissance is______________.
A. realism | B. naturalism |
C. humanism | D. skepticism |
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5. In Tom Jones, the hero Tom is __________in contrast with Blifil who is __________.
A. innocent and kind-hearted ... hypocritical and wicked
B. hypocritical and wicked ... innocent and kindhearted
C. rude and stubborn ... cunning and speculating
D. cunning and speculating ... rude and stubborn
6. English Romanticism is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of _______’s Lyrical Ballads.
A. Wordsworth and Southey | B. Coleridge and Southey |
C. Wordsworth and Coleridge | D. Southey and Blake |
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7. In reading Shakespeare, you must have come across the line “To be or not to be, that is the question” by ________.
A. Iago in Othello | B. Lear in King Lear |
C. Shylock in The Merchant of Venice | D. Hamlet in Hamlet |
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8. _________ was the only important dramatist of the 18th century.
A. Alexander Pope | B. Jonathan Swift |
C. Richard Brinsley Sheridan | D. Thomas Gray |
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9. Among the following novels, _______ is not written by Charles Dickens.
A. Pickwick Papers | B. Great Expectations |
C. Vanity Fair | D. A Tale of Two Cities |
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10. “What is his name?”
“Bingley.”
“Is he married or single?”
“Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!”
The above dialogue must be taken from_________________.
A. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
B. Emily Bronte’sWutheringHeights
C. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
D. Henry Fielding’s Adam Bede
11. The term “Metaphysical poetry” is commonly ud to name the work of the 17th-century writers who wrote under the influence of _______________
A. John Milton B. John Ransom
C. John Donne D. Thomas Gray
12. _________ wrote most of his best works after he had become blind.中考前心理辅导
A. John Milton | B. William Shakespeare |
C. John Keats | D. Daniel Defoe |
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13. In Gulliver’s last travel, he reached a country which was inhabited by ________, who were hors endowed with reason and intelligence.
A. Lilliputians旅游英语对话 | B. Brobdingnag |
C. Yahoos初中化学实验基本操作 | D. Houyhnhnms |
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14. ____________ can be justly termed England’s national epic.
A. King Arthur and Round Table Knights | B. Beowulf |
C. Song of Roland | D. Bible |
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15. Which of the following books is written by Geoffrey Chaucer?
A. The Canterbury Tales | B.MorteD’Arthur |
C. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | D. Dr. Faustus |
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16. Robert Burnsis a _____________ national poet.
A. Welsh | B. Irish |
| napa C. Scottish | D. English |
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17. ______________, which tells how Satan rebelled against God and how Adam and Ev
e were driven out of Eden, is John Milton’s masterpiece.
A. Paradi Lost | B. Samson Agonistes |
C. Paradi Regained | D. Il Penroso |
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18. Charles Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of his novel _________.
A. Bleak Hou | B. Oliver Twist |
information什么意思C. A Tale of Two Cities | D. David Copperfield |
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19. The subtitle of ____________, “Novel Without a Hero”, reveals its author’s intention to portray, not individuals singly, but the whole of the bourgeois society.
A. Vanity Fair | B. Snob |
C. Amelia | D. Bleak Hou |
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20. Two eminent reprentatives of English Enlightenment were Joph Addison and Ric
hard Steele, the publisher of ___________, a moralistic journal.
A. The Battle of Books | B. The Spectator hurt是什么意思 |
C. Pickwick Papers | D. Londoner |
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II. Fill in the blanks and complete the following statements. (14%)
21. With his ____ plays, 154 sonnets and two long poems, Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature.
22. The English Romanticism was most greatly influenced by the industrial revolution and ____________________.
23. The 18th century is also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of ___________.
24. Norman Conquest, which happened in _________, ushered England into feudalism.
25. The extravagant metaphors and hyperboles ud by John Donne are called “_____________”.
