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2012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、Antonio, Bassanio and Portia are the characters in _________.

A.The Merchant of Venice

B.Much Ado About Nothing

C.Twelfth Night

D.A Midsummer Night' s Dream

2、John Milton wrote_________to expose the ways of Satan and to "justify the ways of God to men. "

A.Paradise Regained

B.Paradise Lost

C.Samson Agonistes

D.Areopagitica

3、The work_________written by Daniel Defoe brought him into jail and made him go through public pillory.

A.The Shortest Way with the Dissenters

B.The True - born Englishman

C.Robinson Crusoe

D.A Journal of the Plague Year

4、In the first part of Gulliver' s Travels , Gulliver told his experience in_________.

A.Brobdingnag

B.Lilliput

C.Flying Island

D.Houyhnhnm

5、For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel,_________has been regarded by some as " Father of the English Novel".

A.Daniel Defoe

B.Johnathan Swift

C.Henry Fielding

D.Charles Dickens

6、William Blake's _________ was composed during the climax of the French Revolution and it plays the double role both as a satire and a revolutionary prophecy.

A.Songs of Experience

B.Songs of Innocence

C.Marriage of Heaven and Hell

D.Poetical Sketches

7、_________maintained that the scenes and events of everyday life and the speech of ordinary people were the raw material of which poetry could and should be made.

A.William Blake

B.William Wordsworth

C.T. S. Eliot

D.William Shakespeare

8、Prometheus, the hero in Shelly's poetic drama Prometheus Unbound, is a figure in_________.

A.The Bible

B.Creek Mythology

C.A German Legend

D.Arabian Nights

9、Jane Austen's first novel is_________.

A.Pride and Prejudice

B.Sense and Sensibility

C.Emma

D.Persuasion

10、All of the following statements are true of Dickens' later works EXCEPT_________.

A.There are fewer jokes and the comedy becomes harsher.

B.There is always a happy ending.

C.The novels are of great compactness and concentration.

D.Most of the works present a criticism of the more complicated and yet most fundamental social institutions and morals of Victorian England.

11、Charlotte Bronte' s most autobiographical work_________, is largely based on her experience in Brussels.

A.Jane Eyre

B.Shirley

C.Villette

D.The Professor

12、All of the following novels by Thomas Hardy reveal the conflict between the traditional and the. modem EXCEPT_________.

A.The Mayor of Casterbridge

B.Tess of the D' Urbervilles

C.Jude the Obscure

D.Under the Greenwood Tree

13、Much of Shavian drama is constructed around the_________of a conventional theatrical situation.

A.tradition

B.inversion

C.bordering

D.distortion

14、As an important prose writer, in his famous essay , Tradition and Individual Talent, Eliot put great emphasis on the importance of_________,both in creative writing and in criticism.

A.change

B.creativity

C.ethic

D.tradition

15、D. H. Lawrence' s novel_________is a remarkable novel in which the individual 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 Lover

16、All o[ the foll plays are among Shakespeare' s four greated tragedies EXCEPT_________.

A.Hamlet

B.Macbeth

C.Romio and Juliet

D.Othello

17、The work_________shows how mankind, in the person of Christ, withstands the tempter and is established once more in the divine favor.

A.Paradise Regained

B.Paradise Lost

C.Samson Agonistes

D.Areopagitica

18、As one of the greatest masters of English prose, _________defined a good style as " proper words in proper places. "

A.Henry Fielding

B.Jonathan Swift

C.Daniel Defoe

D.William Blake

19、Dickens' best depicted characters are those innoent , virtuous, persecuted and helpless_________.

A.child characters

B.females

C.laborors

D.farmers

20、The author of the work The Return of the Native is_________.

A.Thomas Hardy

B.D. H. Lawrence .

C.Charles Dickens

D.George Bernard Shaw

21、“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" . Eliot" s most striking early achievement, presents the meditation of an aging young man over the business of_________.

A.proposing marriage

B.pursuing the truth

C.losing idealism

D.making a choice

22、D. H. Lawrence' s two novels,_________.and Women in Love, are generally regarded as his masterpieces.

A.Sons and Lowers

B.The Rainbow

C.Kangaroo

D.Lady Chatterley' s Lover

23、Hemingway' s To Have and Have Not is one of many to show his characteristics pattern of _________struggling against nature and the environment.

A.a military army

B.a vulnerable group

C.a human society

D.a lonely individual

24、According to Hawthorne, there is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but_________may rouse it to activity.

A.music

B.circumstances

C.memory

D.love

25、_________is best - known as the author of his mighty book, Moby - Dick, which is one of the world' s greatest masterpieces.

A.Herman Melville

B.Mark Twain

C.Ernest Hemingway

D.Virginia Woolf

26、Walt Whitman is a poet with a strong sense of mission, having devoted all his life to the creation of the " single" poem,_________.

A.Innocents Abroad

B.The Lost Paradise

C.Leaves of Grass

D.The Waste Land

27、While Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the "life" of the Americans , Henry James had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the “_________” of man.

A.outer world

B.inner world

C.physical world

D.domestic world

28、Greatly and permanently affected by the_________.Hemingway formed his own writing style, together with his theme and hero.

A.war experiences

B.love experiences

C.marriage

D.education

29、Emily Dickerson's poetry is unique and_________in its own way. For example, her poems have no titles.

A.traditional

B.unconventional

C.ordinary

D.unbelievable

30、Theodore Dreiser entitled his greatest work with_________intending to tell us that it is the social pressure that makes Clyde' s downfall inevitable.

A.Death in the Woods

B.Tender Is the Night

C.The Sound and the Fury

D.An American Tragedy

31、Robert Lee Frost’s_________ won him the first Pulitzer Prizes , which includes " Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.

A.North Boston

B.The Gift Outright"

C.New Hampshire

D.A Boy's Will .

32、Fitzgerald is a great_________ in American literature and his style is closely related to his themes.

A.poet

B.critic

C.essayist

D.stylist

33、It is Henry James' novels and his _________that make him a fascinating case in the American literary history and a conspicuous figure in world literature.

A.literary essays

B.travel accounts

C.poems

D.plays

34、The major concern of Faulkner’s_________ is primarily about the South as a state of mind.

A.The Sun Also Rises

B.Light in August

C.The Fable

D.The Mansion

35、Compelled by an unceasing interest in the " interior of the heart" of man's being, Hawthorne discusses_________in almost every book he wrote,

A.love and hatred

B.sin and evil

C.frustration and self - denial

D.balance and self - discipline

36、The purpose of Melville' s fictional tales, exotic or philosophical, is to penetrate as deeply as possible into the metaphysical , theological, moral, psychological, and social truths of_________.

A.human existence

B.politics

C.religion

D.arts

37、According to Whitman, poetry could enable Americans to celebrate their release from the Old World and the _________rule.

A.academic

B.official

C.colonial

D.legislative

38、Being a boy" s book specially written for the adults, _________is Mark Twain' s most representative work, describing a journey down the Mississippi undertaken by Huck and Jim.

A.Innocents Abroad .

B.The Gilded Age

C.Life on the Mississippi

D.Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

39、One of Henry James' literary techniques innovated to cater for the psychological emphasis is his_________.

A.narrative " point of view"

B.rhetorical devices

C.way of using metaphors

D.way of using symbols

40、More than five hundred poems Emily Dickerson wrote are about nature, in which her general_________ about the relationship between man and nature is well - expressed.

A.skepticism

B.belief

C.appreciation

D.passion

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