英美文学选读文本资料

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2015

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月高等教育自学考试《英美文学选读》试题

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00604

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. Romio and Juliet, though a tragedy, is permeated with

B

spirit.

A. pessimistic

B. optimistic

C. despairing

D. passive

2. Among John Milton' s major poetical works,

A

is the greatest, indeed the only generally acknowledged

epic in English literature since Beowulf,

A. Paradise Lost

B. Paradise regained

C. Samson Agonistes

D. Aeopagitica

3. Daniel Defoe's

D

, an adventure story very much in the spirit of the time, is universally considered his

masterpiece.

A. Captain Singleton

B. Moll Flanders

C. Colonel Jack

D. Robinson Crusoe

4. Charlotte Bronte' s works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness to- wards

B

,

about some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy

life.

A. self- reliance

B. self- realization

C. self - esteem

D. self - consciousness

5. Of all the eighteenth -century novelists,

B

was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write

specifically a

A. Daniel Defoe

B. Henry Fielding

C. Jonathan Swift

D. Laurence Sterne

6. William Blake's

C

marks his entry into maturity.

A. Songs of Experience

B. Songs of Innocence

C. Marriage of Heaven and Hell

D. Poetical Sketches

7. Poetry is defined by

A

as

recollected in tranquility.

A. William Wordsworth

B. William Blake

C. Percy Bysshe Shelley

D.T.S. Eliot

8. Shelly' s greatest achievement is his four- act poetic drama

A

A. Prometheus Unbound

B. A Defence of Poetry

C. The Revolt of Islam

D. Adonais

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9. In

B 's novel, the subject matter, the character range, the social settings, and plots are all restricted to the

provincial life of the late 18th century England, concerning three or four landed gentry families with their daily

routine life.

A. Charlotte Bronte

B. Jane Austen

C.D.H. Lawrence

D. Thomas Hardy

10. In

C

, one of Dickens' later works, Dickens presents a criticism of the Utilitarian principle that rules

over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds.

A. Bleak House

B. Little Dorrit

C. Hard Times

D. A Tale of Two Cities

11. The success of Jane Eyre is not only because of its sharp criticism of the existing society, but also due to

its introduction to the Englsih novel the first

D

heroine.

A. worker

B. peasant

C. explorer

D. governess

12. The last two novels by Thomas Hardy are

C

A. The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge

B. The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D' Urbervilles

C. Tess of the D' Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure

D. The Woodlanders, the Mayor of Casterbridge

13. Dickens' best- depicted characters are the following EXCEPT

D

A. innocent, virtuous, persecuted and helpless child characters

B. horrible and grotesque characters

C. broadly humorous or comical characters

D. simple, innocent and faithful women characters

14. In his famous essay, Tradition and Individual Talent,

A

puts great emphasis on the importance of

tradition both in creative writing and in criticism.

A.T.S. Eliot

B.D.H. Lawrence

C. Bernard Shaw

D. Charles Dickens

15. D. H. Lawrence' s novel

B

is a story about the three generations of the Brangwen family on the

Marsh farm.

A. Sons and Lovers

B. The Rainbow

C. Kangaroo

D. Lady Chatterley's Lover

16. It is generally believed that the most important play among Shakespeare's comedies is

B

A. A Midsummer Night's Dream

B. The Merchant of Venis

C. Much Ado About Nothing

D. Twelfth Night

17. John Milton's

A

shows how mankind, in the person of Christ, withstands the tempter and is

established once more in the divine favor.

A. Paradise Regained

B. Paradise Lost

C. Samson Agonistes

D. Areopagitica

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18. The declaration that

of my work is visionary or imaginative

A

A. William Blake

B. William Wordsworth

C. T. S. Eliot

D. Percy Bysshe Shelley

19. All of the following poems is written by Shelly EXCEPT

C

A.

B.

C.

D

20. Of the following writers,

C

is often compared with Shakespeare for his adeptness with the vemacular

and large vocabulary with which he brings out many a wonderful verbal picture of man and scene.

A. Thomas Hardy

B. George Bernard Shaw

C. Charles Dickens

D.D.H. Lawrence

21. T. S. Eliot' s major achievement in play writing has been the creation of a

D

in the 20th century to

express the ideas and action of modem society with new accents of the contemporary speech.

A. heroic drama

B. melodrama

C. monodrama

D. verse drama

22. In

D

, by portraying a disillusioned man who attempts to save his integrity by running away again

and again from his wife and children, D. H. Lawrence tries to show that every man is a sacred and holy individual

whose integrity should never be violated or dominated.

A. Sons and Lovers

B. The Rainbow

C. Women in Love

D. Aaron' s Rod

23. William Faulkner' s work is difficult and is a text endlessly searched for

A

A. meanings

B. answers

C. themes

D. logics

24. As a genre, naturalism emphasized

D

and environment as important deterministic forces shaping

individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances~

A. education

B. society

C. man

D. heredity

25. Robert Frost' s A Masque of Reason and

B

are comic - serious dramatic narratives, in both of which

biblical characters in modem settings discuss ethics and man relations to God.

A. A Further Range

B. A Masque of Mercy

C. A Boy' s Will

D. North of Boston

26. Henry James believed that the materialistic bent of America life and its lack of

C

and sophistication

could not provide him with enough materials for great literary works.

A. money

B. wisdom

C. culture

D. democracy

27. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and especially, its sequence

A

proved them- selves to be the

milestone in American literature.

A. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

B. The Gilded Age

C. Innocents Abroad

D. Life on the Mississippi

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28. Hawthorne' s intellectuals are usually

C

dreadful because they are devoid of warmth and feeling.

A. victims

B. heroes

C. villains

D. saviors

29. Melville' s Billy Budd deals with the sea and sailors and the theme of a conflict between innocence and

B

.

A. purity

B. corruption

C. religion

D. power

30.

C

is a great literary giant of America, whom H. L. Mencken considered

national literature.

A. Ernest Hemingway

B. William Faulkner

C. Mark Twain

D. Ezra Pound

31. In Go Down, Moses, Faulkner skillfully employs

A

as a symbol of the timeless freedom of the

wilderness.

A. an old crafty bear

B. a loyal dog

C. a dove of peace

D. a smart fox

32. Henry James' s

B

tells a story about a young and innocent American confronting the complexity of

the European life.

A. Daisy Miller

B. The American

C. The Portrait of A Lady

D. The Ambassadors

33. The Scarlet Letter always regarded as the best of Hawthorne' s works, tells a simple but moving story in

which four people living in a

A

community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different

ways.

A. Puritan

B. ancient Greek

C. Islamic

D. Buddhist

34. Theodore Dreiser' s style has been a controversial aspect of his work from the beginning. For lack of

D

, his writings appear more inclusive and less selective.

A. rhetoric

B. logic

C. modification

D. concision

35. Robert Frost wrote in both

D

and the free verse, and sometimes he wrote in a form that borrows

freely from the merits of both.

A. blank verse

B. sonnet

C. rhyming couplets

D. the metrical forms

36. Fitzgerald follows the Jamesian tradition in using the

A

method in his chapters, each one of which

consists of one or more dramatic scenes.

A. scenic

B. descriptive

C. narrative

D. dialogical

37. Hemingway' s For Whom the Bell Tolls concerns a volunteer American guerrilla Robert Jordan fighting

in the

D

A. Second World War

B. Civil War