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全國(guó)2014年4月高等教育自學(xué)考試

英美文學(xué)選讀試題

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

 

1. Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his ______ plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems.

 

A. 27 B. 38

 

C.47 D. 52

 

2. john Milton’s literary achievement can be divided into three groups: the early poetic works, the middle prose pamphlets and the last ______.

 

A. romances B. dramas

 

C. great poems D. ballads

 

3. The novels of ______ are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower— class people.

 

A. John Milton B. Daniel Defoe

 

C. Henry Fielding D. Jonathan Swift

 

4. The work ranked by many critics as William Wordswoth’s greatest work was ______.

 

A. Lyrical Ballads B. The Prelude

 

C. Poems in Two Volumes D. The Excursion

 

5. The author of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is ______.

 

A. Daniel Defoe B. Johathan Swift

 

C. Henry Fielding D. William Blake

 

6. The works of ______ are famous for the depiction of the life of the middle — class women, particularly governess.

 

A. Charlotte Bronte B. D.H. Lawrence

 

C. Thomas Hardy D. Jane Austen

 

7. All of the following writings are created by William Wordsworth EXCEPT ______.

 

A. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. ”

 

B. “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Septemer 3, 1802. ”

 

C. “The Solitary Reaper. ”

 

D. “The Chimney Sweeper. ”

 

8. The most important representative work by Jonathan Swift is ______.

 

A. A Tale of a Tub B. The Battle of the Books

 

C. A Modest Proposal D. Gulliver's Travels

 

9 “If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”comes from Shelly’s ______.

 

A. “To a Skylark” B. “Adonais”

 

C. “Ode to Liberty” D. “Ode to the West Wind”

 

10. In Jane Austen' s first novel ______, she tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.

 

A. Pride and Prejudice B. Sense and Sensibility

 

C. Emma D. Persuasion

 

11. Charles Dickens is one of the greatest ______ writers of the Victorian Age.

 

A. romantic B. modernist

 

C. socialist D. critical realist

 

12. Charlotte Bronte' s most autobiographical work, ______ is largely based on her experience in Brussels.

 

A. Jane Eyre B. Shirley

 

C. Villette D. The Professor

 

13. William Wordsworth' s theory of poetry is calling for simple themes drawn from humble life expressed in the language of ordinary people. The preface to the second edition of ______ acts as a manifesto for the new school and sets forth his own critical creed.

 

A. Lyrical Ballads B. The Prelude

 

C. Poems in Two Volums D. The Excursion

 

14. George Bernard Shaw' s play ______ established his position as the leading playwright of his time.

 

A. Widowers’Houses B. Too True to Be Good

 

C. Mrs. Warren' s Profession D. Candida

 

15. Eliot' s most important single poem ______, has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry.

 

A. The Hollow Men B. The Waste Land

 

C. Prurrock and Other Observations D. Poems 1909-25

 

16. D. H.Lawrence’s autobiographical novel, ______ shows the conflict between the earthy, coarse, energetic but often drunken father and the refined, strong — willed and up — climbing mother.

 

A. Sons and Lovers B. The White Peacock

 

C. The Trespasser D. The Rainbow

 

17. “To be, or not to be — that is the question; /Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer./The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/ Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,/And by opposing end them?” These words are from ______.

 

A. King Lear B. Romeo

 

C. Antonio D. Hamlet

 

18. John Milton’s last important work, ______ is the most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model.

 

A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise Regained

 

C. Samson Agonistes D. Lydidas

 

19. The author of Moll Flanders and Captain Singleton is ______.

 

A. John Milton B. Daniel Defoe

 

C. Henry Fielding D. Jonathan Swift

 

20. Drapier is the pseudonym of ______.

 

A. Jonathan Swift B. Daniel Defoe

 

C. Henry Fielding D. William Blake

 

21. One of Dickens' later works, ______ in which he presents a criticism of the governmental branches which run an indefinite procedure of management of affairs and keep the innocent in prison for life.

 

A. Bleak House B. Little Dorrit

 

C. Hard Times D. A Tale of Two Cities

 

22. In the second part of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver told his experience in ______.

 

A. Brobdingnag B. Lilliput

 

C. Flying Island D. Houyhnhnm

 

23. Faulkner used the narrative techniques to construct his stories, which include ______ and mythological and biblical allusions.

 

A. symbolism B. free indirect speech

 

C. contrast D. dialogue

 

24. Ernest Hemingway, had been trying to demonstrate in his works an unvarying code, known as “______,” which is actually an attitude towards life.

 

A. facing the reality B. grace under pressure

 

C. honesty with benevolence D. security coming first

 

25. The Blithedale Romance is a novel written by Hawthorne to reveal his own experience on the Brook Farm and his own methods as a ______ novelist.

 

A. naturalist B. imagist

 

C. psychological D. feminist

 

26. Theodore Dreiser' s focus shifted from the pathos of the helpless protagonists at the bottom of the society to the power of the American financial tycoons in the late 19th century in his work ______.

 

A. The Genius B. An American Tragedy

 

C. Dreiser Looks at Russia D. “Trilogy of Desire”

 

27. Emily Dickinson frequently uses personae to render the tone more familiar to the reader, and ______ to vivify some abstract ideas.

 

A. images B. metaphor

 

C. symbols D. personification

 

28. In his later works, Melville becomes more reconciled with the ______, in which he admits, one must live by rules.

 

A. women B. world of man

 

C. family D. politicians

 

29. Walt Whitman' s ______ has always been considered a monumental work which commands great attention in America.

 

A. The Pilgrim’s Progress B. Leaves of Grass

 

C. A Passage to India D. Rip Van Winkle

 

30. Mark Twain’s full literary career began to blossom in 1869 with a travel book ______, an account of Ame