全国2009年4月自学考试英美文学选读试题

全国2009年4月高等教育自学考试

英美文学选读试题

课程代码：00604

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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 and

write the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.

1. In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the following EXCEPT ______.

A. getting rid of those old feudalist ideas

B. getting control of the parliament and government

C. introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie

D. recovering the purity of the early church, from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church

2. The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ______.

A. Surrey

C. Sidney B. Wyatt D. Shakespeare

3. As the best of Shakespeare's final romances,______ is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.

A. The Tempest

C. Cymbeline B. The Winter's Tale D. The Rape of Lucrece

4. John Milton's greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literarure since Beowulf.

A. Areopagitica

C. Lycidas B. Paradise Lost D. Samson Agonistes

5. The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT ______.

A. self - esteem

C. self - restraint B. self - reliance D. hard work

6. “Graveyard School”writers are the following sentimentalists EXCEPT ______.

A. James Thomson

C. William Cowper B. William Collins D. Thomas Jackson

7. The best model of satire in the whole English literary history is Jonathan Swift's ______.

A. A Modest Proposal

C. Gulliver's Travels B. A Tale of a Tub D. The Battle of the Books