0604英美文学选读2010年4_月份历年真题

2010年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试

I． Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)

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”

C. Murder in the Cathedral B. “Prufrock” 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”

C. “Ode to the West Wind” B. “Ode to Naples” 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

C. the upper - middle - class B. the lower - 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

C. Jude the Obscure B. Tess of the D’ Urbervilles 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

C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge B. William Blake 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

C. Captain Singleton B. Robinson Crusoe 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

C. Percy Bysshe Shelley B. William Blake 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

C. “A Modest Proposal” B. The Battle of the Books 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

C. The Apple Cart

16. Dickens’ s first child hero is ______.

A. Little Nell

C. Oliver Twist B. David Copperfield D. Little Dorrit B. Mrs. Warren’ s Profession D. Getting Married

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

C. Jonathan Swift B. Daniel Defoe D. Laurence Sterne

18. D. H. Lawrence’ s ______ is a remarkable novel in which the inpidual consciousness is subtly revealed and strands of themes are intricately wound up.

A. Sons and Lovers

C. Women in Love B. The Rainbow D. Lady Chatterley’ s Love

19. Dickens attacks the Utilitarian principle that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds in ______.

A. Hand Times

C. Our Mutual Friend

B. Great Expectations D. Bleak House

20. The belief of the eighteenth - century neoclassicists in England led them to seek the following EXCEPT ______.

A. proportion

C. harmony B. unity D. spirit

21. The Renaissance marks a transition from ______ to the modern world.

A. the old English

C. the feudalist B. the medieval D. the capitalist

22. The great political and social events in the English society of neoclassical period were the following EXCEPT ______.

A. the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660 B. the Great Plague of 1665

C. the Great London Fire in 1666 D. the Wars of Roses in 1689

23. With the scarlet letter A as the biggest symbol of all, ______ proves himself to be one of the best symbolists.

A. Hawthorne

C. James B. Dreiser D. Faulkner

24. The author of Leaves of Grass , a giant of American letters, is ______.

A. Faulkner

C. James B. Dreiser D. Whitman

25. In Tender is the Night, ______ traces the decline of a young American psychiatrist whose marriage to a beautiful and wealthy patient drains his personal energies and corrodes his professional career.

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