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自考专业(英语)英美文学选读提分试卷1

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一、单项选择题 。以下各小题所给出的四个选项中,只有一项最符合题目要求。参考答案见试卷末尾

1、Which of the following is not regarded as one of the characteristics of the Renaissance? ( )

A.Rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture.

B.Attempt to remove the old feudalist ideas in medieval Europe.

C.Introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie.

D.Praise of man's efforts in soul delivery and personal salvation.

2、Which of the following is not true about the Renaissance? ( )

A.Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance.

B.Attitudes and feelings which had been characteristics of the 14th and 15 th centuries persisted well down into the era of Humanism and Reformation.

C.It was Chaucer who initiated the Reformation.

D.The Elizabethan drama,in its totality,is the real main stream of the English Renaissance.

3、Shakespeare's______are mainly written under the principle that national unity under a mighty and just sovereign is a necessi-ty. ( )

A.history plays

B.tragedies

C.comedies

D.plays

4、"Shall I compare thee to a summer' s day? /Thou art more lovely and more temperate:/Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,/And summer's lease' hath all too short a date" , the above beautiful sonnet was written by ( )

A.John Donne

B.John Milton

C.William Shakespeare

D.Francis Bacon

5、The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions except . ( )

A.self-esteem

B.self-reliance

C.self-restraint

D.hard work

6、In this part the hero of the story, Robinson Crusoe, narrates in how he goes to sea, gets shipwrecked and marooned on a lonely island, struggles to live for twenty-four years there and finally gets relieved and returns to England. ( )

A.the second person

B.the first person

C.the third person

D.Defoe's mouth

7、The best fictional work of Jonathan Swift is ______. ( )

A.A Tale of a Tub

B.The Battle of the Books

C.A Modest Proposal

D.Gulliver's Travels

8、The play The Tragedy of Tragedies is written by______. ( )

A.Marlowe

B.Fielding

C.Shakespeare

D.Sheridan

9、______, defined by Coleridge, is the vital faculty that creates new wholes out of disparate elements. ( )

A.Exaggerater

B.Imagination

C.Rhetoric

D.Soliloquy

10、Literarily ______was the first important Romantic poet, showing a contempt for the rule of reason, opposing the classical tradition of the 18th century, and treasuring the individual ' s imagination. ( )

A.William Wordsworth

B.William Blake

C.Robert Burns

D.Samuel Taylor Coleridge

11、In the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience , by William Blake, what is central to Blake's concern? ( )

A.Youthhood.

B.Childhood.

C.Aged.

D.All the above are not.

12、In 1805, Wordsworth completed a long autobiographical poem entitled " ". ( )

A.Biographic literary

B.The Prelude

C.Lucy Poems

D.The Lyrical Ballad

13、William Wordsworth asserts that poetry originates from ______. ( )

A.form

B.thoughts

C.artistic devices

D.emotion

14、Which is Shelley's masterpiece? ( )

A.Queen Mab.

B.Prometheus Unbound,

C.Prometheus Bound.

D.The Revolt of Islam,

15、The Victorian Age was largely an age of______, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray. ( )

A.poetry

B.drama

C.novel

D.epic prose

16、The success of the novel is due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine. ( )

A.Wuthering Heights

B.Pride and Prejudice

C.Jane Eyre

D.Sister Carrie

17、Which of the following descriptions of Thomas Hardy is wrong? ( )

A.Most of his novels are set in Wessex.

B.Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of the most representative of him as both a naturalistic and a critical realist writer.

C.Among Hardy's major works, Under the Greenxvood Tree is the most cheerful and idyllic.

D.From The Mayor of Casterbridge on, the tragic sense becomes the keynote of his novels.

18、In the mid-19th century, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels put forward the theory of ( )

A.ideal socialism

B.materialism

C.scientific socialism

D.analytical psychology

19、Modernism is, in many aspects, a reaction against It rejects rationalism which is the theoretical base of realism. ( )

A.Romanticism

B.humanism

C.symbolism

D.realism

20、The following are English stream-of-consciousness novels except______. ( )

A.Pilgrimage

B.Ulysses

C.Mrs. Dalloway

D.A Passage to India

21、Mrs. Warren's Profession is one of George Bernard Shaw's plays. What is Mrs. Warren's profession then? ( )

A.Real estate.

B.Prostitution.

C.House keeping.

D.Farming.

22、"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", in a form of dramatic monologue, presents the meditation of an aging man o-ver the business of proposing marriage. ( )

A.grown

B.lunatic

C.old

D.young

23、Which of the following writings is not the novel of D.H. Lawrence's? ( )

A.Sons and Lovers.

B.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

C.The White Peacock.

D.The Rainbow.

24、The development of the American society nurtured "the of a great nation". ( )

A.literature

B.painting

C.music

D.art

25、Of the following works by Hawthorne, which one was a romance set in Italy? ( )

A.The House of the Seven Gables.

B.The Blithedale Romance.

C.The Marble Faun.

D.Twice-Told Tales.

26、Which of the following works best illustrates the Calvinistic view of original sin? ( )

A.Mrs. Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

B.James's The Portrait of a Lady.

C.Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.

D.Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.

27、Whitman's poems are characterized by all the following features except . ( )

A.the strict poetic form

B.the free and natural rhythm

C.the easy flow of feelings

D.the simple and conversational language

28、Herman Melville wrote his semi-autobiographical novel concerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors. ( )

A.Typee

B.Redburn

C.Moby-Dick

D.Mardi

29、After the American Civil War, the literary interest in the so-called "reality" of life started a new period in the American literary writings known as the Age of______. ( )

A.Realism

B.Reason and Revolution

C.Romanticism

D.Modernism

30、Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be______. ( )

A.transcendentalists

B.optimists

C.pessimists

D.idealists

31、As a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, _____marks the climax of Mark Twain's literary activity. ( )

A.Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

B.Life on the Mississippi

C.The Gilded Age

D.Roughing It

32、Linguistically, compared with the writings of Mark Twain, Henry James's fiction is noted for his______. ( )

A.frontier vernacular

B.rich colloquialism

C.vulgarly descriptive words

D.refined elegant language

33、Which of the following works does not show Dickinson's confusion and doubt about the role of women in the 19 th century America? ( )

A.I'm "wife" —I've finished that

B.I heard a Fly buzz—When I died

C.I cannot live with You

D.I'm ceded — I've stopped being theirs

34、The Financier, The Titan and The Stoic written by are called his "Trilogy of Desire". ( )

A.Henry James

B.Theodore Dreiser

C.Mark Twain

D.Herman Melville

35、Which terms can best describe the modernists' concern of the human situation in their fiction? ( )

A.Fragmentation and alienation.

B.Courage and honor.

C.Tradition and faith.

D.Poverty and desperation.

36、The first book Robert Frost wrote was______. ( )

A.Mountain Interval

B.New Hampshire

C.A Further Range

D.A Boy's Will

37、In______, Robert Frost compares life to a journey, and he is doubtful whether he will regret his choice or not when he is old,because the choice has made all the difference. ( )

A.After Apple-Picking

B.The Road Not Taken

C.Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

D.Fire and Ice

38、In the beginning paragraph of Chapter 3, The Great Gats-by, Fitzgerald describes a big party by saying that "men and girls came and went like moths". The author most likely indicates that ______. ( )

A.there was a crowd of party goers

B.such life does not have real meaning

C.these people were light-hearted

D.these were crazy and ignorant characters

39、In Hemingway's Indian Camp , Nick's night trip to the Indian village and his experience inside the hut can be taken as ______. ( )

A.an essential lesson about Indian tribes

B.a confrontation with evil and sin

C.an initiation to the harshness of life

D.a learning process in human relationship

40、The American writer______was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust in 1950. ( )

A.Ernest Hemingway

B.Gertrude Stein

C.William Faulkner

D.T. S. Eliot

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