2016年自考专业(英语)英美文学选读考试真题及答案

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一、单项选择题 Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answer the question or completes the statement. Write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.参考答案见试卷末尾

1、The tragic sense tuns into despair in Thomas Hardy' s_______, where the protagonists have to kill their own will and passion and return to their former destructive way of life.

A.The Return of the Native

B.The Mayor of Casterbridge

C.Tess of D ‘Urbervilles

D.Jude the Obscure

2、William Shakespeare wrote_______history plays in the first period of his dramatic career.

A.3

B.4

C.s

D.6

3、Paradise Lost is a masterpiece by_______.

A.Christopher Marlow

B.John Milton

C.William Shakespeare

D.Ben Johnson

4、The typical representatives of G. B. Shaw's early play are_______.

A.Man and Superman; The Apple Cart

B.Widower's House; Mr. Warrens Profession

C.Candida; Warren’s Profession

D.The Apple Cart, Widower's House

5、The person who can penetrate to the heart of things and give the readers the very life of nature_______.

A.William Wordsworth

B.John Milton

C.Daniel Defoe

D.William Shakespeare

6、In which novel can the word "Yahoo" be found?

A.John Bunyan"s Pilgrims Progress.

B.Edmund Spencer' s The Faerie Queen.

C.Jonathan Swift's Gulliver’s Travels.

D.Henry Fielding' s Tom Jones.

7、T. S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize of Literature in_______.

A.1935

B.1948

C.1962

D.1976

8、Which of the following is NOT true in terms of Pride and Prejudice?

A.It is the most popular of Jane Austen' s novels.

B.It is originally drafted as “First Impressions".

C.It is a tragic novel.

D.It explores the relationship between great love and realistic benefits.

9、Thomas Hardy' s pessimistic view of life predominates most of his later works and earns him a reputation as a_______writer.

A.realistic

B.naturalistic

C.romantic

D.Stylistic

10、Shelly's greatest achievement is his four-act poetic dramas_______.

A.Hellas

B.Prometheus Unbound

C.Zastrozzi

D.Queen Mab

11、The novel Emma is written by _______.

A.Mary Shelley

B.Charlotte Bronte

C.Elizabeth C. Gaskell

D.Jane Austen

12、As a critic of music and drama,_______ thought that art should serve social purposes by reflecting human life, revealing social contradictions and educating the common people.

A.T.S. Eliot

B.Oscar wide

C.George Bernard Shaw

D.W. B. Yeats

13、The poetic line "If winter comes, can spring be far behind? is quoted from_______ .

A.Don Juan

B.Kubla Khan

C.To Autumn

D.Ode to the West Wind

14、Which of the following novels is NOT written by Dickens?

A.A Tale of Two Cites.

B.The Mill on the Floss

C.The Pickwick Paper.

D.Great Expectations

15、William Blake' s_______,marks his entry into maturity.

A.Poetical Sketches

B.Songs of Innocence

C.Marriage of Heaven and Hell

D.Songs of Experience

16、Henry Fielding’ s_______brings him the name of " Prose Homer.

A.The History of Johnathan Wild the Great

B.The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

C.The History of Amelia

D.The History of Joseph Andrews

17、Daniel Defoe describes_______as a typical English middle class man of the 18th century, the very prototype of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist.

A.Robinson Crusoe

B.Moll Flanders

C.Gulliver

D.Tome Jones

18、The greatest English critical realist novelist was_______,who criticized the bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people.

A.William Makepeace Thackeray

B.Jane Austen

C.Charles Dickens

D.Charlotte Bronte

19、The success of Jane Eyre is partly due to is introduction to the English novel the first_______heroine.

A.explorer

B.peasant .

C.worker

D.governess

20、Which of the following works was NOT written by David Herbert Laurence?

A.Lady Chatterley’s Lower.

B.The Picture of Dorian Gray.

C.Sons and Lovers.

D.Women in Lowe.

21、T. S. Eliot' s_______has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry.

A.Four Quartets

B.The Waste Land

C.Ash Wednesday

D.collected Poems

22、Which of the following is NOT the major figure of English modernist movement?

A.James Joyce.

B.Ezra Pound.

C.T. S. Eliot.

D.Charles Dickens

23、Hawthorn's literary world turns out to be a most ditubed, tormented and_______one possible to imagine.

A.humorous

B.bright

C.problematical

D.complex

24、The abundance of themes in Whitman’ s poetry voices_______.

A.evil

B.sins

C.darkness

D.freshness

25、Billy Budd by Melville deals with the sea and_______and the theme of a conflict between innocence and corruption.

A.workers

B.sailors

C.farmers

D.policemen

26、Mark Twain's best works were produced when_______.

A.he was in the prime of his life

B.he was in London

C.he got married

D.he went to Europe

27、Henry James toured England, France and Italy, and met Flaubert, Maupassant, Turgenev and _______, who exerted a great influence on James.

A.Russell Ash

B.Zola

C.Vincent Alsop

D.Elizabeth Amherst

28、Dickinson' s poems are usually based on her awn experiences,_______.

A.her sorrows and joys

B.her marriage

C.her illness

D.her family

29、In 1925 Dreiser' s greatest work_______appeared. But it was banned in Boston in 1927.

A.Death in the Woods

B.Old Rogaum and His Theresa

C.An American Tragedy

D.The Call of the Wild

30、Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in _______.

A.New England

B.Boston

C.Chicago

D.New York

31、Hemingway's first true novel is_______.

A.The Sun Also Rises

B.Dreiser Looks at Russia

C.An American Tragedy

D.Old Rogaum and His Theresa

32、In almost every book by Hawthorne, he discusses sin and_______.

A.evil

B.politics

C.American dream

D.culture

33、Whitman shows concern for_______and the burgeoning life of cities.

A.American poets

B.the whole hardworking people

C.American novelists

D.political leaders

34、Moby-Dick is regarded as the first American_______.

A.novel

B.drama

C.prose epic

D.Poem

35、All Mark Twain's masterworks drew upon the scenes and_______ of his boyhood and youth.

A.sadness

B.love

C.happiness

D.emotions

36、It is Henry James’ _______and his novels that make him a fascinating case in the American literary history.

A.literary essays

B.autobiographies

C.travel accounts

D.book reviews

37、In some of Dickinson' s poems she wrote about her doubt and belief about_______.

A.love .

B.politics

C.family

D.religious subjects

38、Dreiser was influenced by many writers, but his true literary influences were from_______, Balzac and Charles Darwin.

A.Soame Jenyns

B.Herbert Spencer

C.Elinor James

D.Selwyn Jepson

39、"New Hampshire" won Frost the first of four_______.

A.Le Prix Goncourts

B.David Cohen Prizes

C.Pulitzer Prizes

D.Nobel Prizes

40、Hemingway's second big success is_______, which wrote the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation in the 1920s.

A.The Scarlet Letter

B.A Farewell to Arms

C.Civil Disobedience

D.The Last Tycoon

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