2007年4月全国英美文学选读试题及答案

2007年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读试卷+答案

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 by blackening the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.

1. The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely ______.

A. William Langland5 s Piers Plowman B. Geoffrey Chaucer9 s The Canterbury Tales

C. John Gower5 s Confession Amantis D. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

2. The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe' s The Tragic History of Dr. Faustus, is the very fact that ______.

A. man is confined to time B. he tried to join Africa to Spain C. he became a man without soul after he sold it

D. he conjured up Helen, the lady who was partially responsible for the breaking - up of the Trojan War

3. The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer5 s day?" is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare) s ______.

A. comedies B. tragedies C. sonnets D. histories

4. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from

A. the Renaissance B. the Old Testament C. Greek Mythology D. the New Testament

5.Spenser' s masterpiece ______ is a great poem of its time.

A.The Faerie Queene B. The Shepheardes Calender C.The Canterbury Talks D. Metamorphoses

6._____ is the essence of the Renaissance.

A.Poetry B. Drama C.Humanism D. Reason

7.The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and ______.

A.John Milton B. John Marlowe C.Ben Jonson D. Edmund Spenser

8.―To be, or not to be—that is the question‖ is a line taken from ______.

A.Hamlet B. Othello c.king Lear D. The Merchant of Venice

9.Francis Bacon' s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and ______.

A.complicity B. complexity C.powerfulness D. mildness

10.Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that ______.

A.the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual? s feeling and experiences

B.the former is heavily religious but the latter secular

C.the former is an intellectual movement, the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivation

D.the former advocates the "return to nature" whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models

11.Dmiel Defoe describes ______ as a typical English Middle - class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.

A. Tom Jones B. Gulliver C.Moll Flanders D. Robinson Crusoe

12.____ is a typical feature of Swift' s writings.

A. Bitter satire B. Elegant style C.Casual narration D. Complicated sentence structure

13.The Pilgrim' s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for______.

A. material wealth B. spiritual salvation C. universal truth D. self – fulfillment

14.Alexander Pope strongly advocated ,emphasizing that literary works should be judged by rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.

A. Sentimentalism B. Romanticism C. Idealism D. Neoclassicism

15. "Metaphysical poetry" refers to the works of the 17th - century writers who wrote under the influence of ______.

A. John Donne B. Alexander Pope C. Christopher Marlowe D. John Milton

16. It is generally regarded that Keats9 s most important and mature poems are in the form of______.

A. ode B. elegy C. epic D. sonnet

17. ______ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, with ______ as his encyclopedia - like masterpiece.

A. James Joyce, Ulysses B. E. M. Foster, A Passage to India C. D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers D. Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

18. Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?

A. Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge B. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth

C. "Remorse" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge D. Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman

19. The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is ______.

A. prose B. drama C. novel D. poetry

20. Which of the following poem by T. S. Eliot is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry?

A. Poems 1909 - 1925 B. The Hollow Man C. Prufrock and Other Observations D. The Waste Land

21. "My Last Duchess" is a poem that best exemplifier Robert Browning' s ______.

A. sensitive ear for the sounds of the English language B. excellent choice of words

C. mastering of the metrical devices D. use of the dramatic monologue

22. Dickens' works are characterized by a mingling of______ and pathos.

A. humor B. satire C. passion D. metaphor