全国2010年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题

全国2010年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题
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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. Write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.
1. T. S. Eliot’ s ______ bearing a strong thematic resemblance to The Waste Land, is generally regarded as the darkest of Eliot’ s poems.
A. "Gerontion"
B. "Prufrock"
C. Murder in the Cathedral
D. The Hollow Men
2. Shelley’ s political lyrics ______ is not only a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but an address to them pointing out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation.
A. "Ode to Liberty"
B. "Ode to Naples"
C. "Ode to the West Wind"
D. "Men of England"
3. Charlotte’ s works are famous for the depiction of the life of ______ working women, particularly governesses.
A. the middle - class
B. the lower - class
C. the upper - middle - class
D. the upper - class
4. All of the following works are known as Hardy’ s "novels of character and environment" EXCEPT ______.
A. The Return of the Native
B. Tess of the D’ Urbervilles
C. Jude the Obscure
D. Far from the Madding Crowd
5. Jane Austen’ s practical idealism is that love should be justified by ______ and disciplined by self-control.
A. reason
B. sense
C. rationality
D. sensibility
6. Shakespeare’ s ______, an elaborate and fantastic story, is known as the best of his final romances.
A. The Winter’s Tale
B. The Tempest
C. The Taming of the Shrew
D. Love’ s Labour’ s Lost
7. "Where intelligence was fallible, limited, the Imagination was our hope of contact with eternal forces, with the whole spiritual world." was said by ______.
A. William Wordsworth
B. William Blake
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. John Keats
8. "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 then?" These lines are taken from ______.
A. King Lear
B. Romeo and Juliet
C. Othello
D. Hamlet
9. John Milton’ s most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model is ______.
A. Paradise Lost
B. Paradise Regained
C. Samson Agonistes
D. Lycidas
10. Because of her sensitivity to universal pattens of human behavior, ______ has brought the English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity.
A. Charlotte Bronte
B. Jane Austen
C. Emily Bronte
D. Henry Fielding
11. Daniel Defoe’s ______ is universally considered as his masterpiece.
A. Colonel Jack
B. Robinson Crusoe
C. Captain Singleton
D. A Journal of the Plague Year
12. Poetry is defined by ______ as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility".
A. William Wordsworth
B. William Blake
C. Percy Bysshe Shelley
D. Robert Southey
13. Jonathan Swift’ s ______ is generally regarded as the best model of satire, not only of the period but also in the whole English literary history.
A. Gulliver’s Travels
B. The Battle of the Books
C. "A Modest Proposal"
D. A Tale of a Tub
14. All of the following statements about the Victorian period is true EXCEPT ______.
A. England was the "workshop of the world".
B. The early years was a time of rapid economic development as well as serious social problems.
C. Towards the mid -century, England had reached its highest point of development as a world power.
D. Capitalism came into its monopoly stage, the gap between the rich and the poor was further deepened.
15. George Bernard Shaw’ s ______ is a grotesquely realistic exposure of slum landlordism.
A. Widower’ s House
B. Mrs. Warren’ s Profession
C. The Apple Cart
D. Getting Married
16. Dickens’ s first child hero is ______.
A. Little Nell
B. David Copperfield
C. Oliver Twist
D. Little Dorrit
17. Of all the eighteenth - century novelists ______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "comic epic in prose", the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.
A. Henry Fielding
B. Daniel Defoe
C. Jonathan Swift
D. Laurence Sterne
18. D. H. Lawrence’ s ______ is a remarkable novel in which the inspanidual consciousness is subtly revealed and strands of themes are intricately wound up.
A. Sons and Lovers
B. The Rainbow
C. Women in Love
D. Lady Chatterley’ s Love
19. Dickens attacks the Utilitarian principle

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