自考专业(英语)英美文学选读提分冲刺试卷1

自考英语是指参加全国高等教育自学英语专业的考试，主要是培养具有扎实的英语语言基础和比较广泛的科学文化知识，能在外事、经贸、文化、新闻出版、教育、科研、旅游等部门从事翻译、研究、教学、管理工作的英语高级专门人才。上学吧自考英语题库是专门为自考英语专业的考生提供刷题服务的，相信考生在不断地坚持刷题练习中定会有所收获。现在就点击安装APP刷题。以下为试卷的详细内容：

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、______and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the English humanists. ( )

A．John Donne, Edmund Spenser

B．John Milton, Thomas More

C．Thomas More,Christopher Marlowe

D．Edmund Spenser,Christopher Marlowe

2、______, the first important English essayist, is also the founder of modern science in England and one of the representatives of the English Renaissance. ( )

A．Christopher Marlowe

B．Francis Bacon

C．Thomas More

D．William Shakespeare

3、It is generally believed that the most important play among Shakespeare's comedies is ( )

A．A Midsummer Night's Dream

B．As You Like It

C．The Merchant of Venice

D．Twelfth Night

4、______,an elaborate and fantastic story,is known as the best of the final romances written by William Shakespeare. ( )

A．The Tempest

B．Venus and Adonis

C．Henry IV

D．Romeo and Juliet

5、"Not on thy sole,but on thy soul,harsh Jew,/Thou mak'st thy knife keen. "In the above quotation taken from The Merchant of Venice ,Shakespeare employs a(n)______. ( )

A．oxymoron

B．pun

C．simile

D．synecdoche

6、Milton's literary achievements can be divided into three groups. Which division is not true? ( )

A．Early poetic works.

B．Early prose works.

C．The middle prose pamphlets.

D．The last great poems.

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

A．self-esteem

B．self-reliance

C．self-restraint

D．hard work

8、The Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classical works in the field of literature. This tendency is known as ( )

A．humanism

B．realism

C．symbolism

D．neoclassicism

9、______by Swift is generally regarded as the best model of satire,not only of the 18th century but also in the whole English literary history. ( )

A．A Tale of a Tub

B．The Battle of the Books

C．A Modest Proposal

D．Gulliver's Travels

10、The two powerful satires of Swift—A Tale of a Tub and established his name as a satirist. ( )

A．The Drapier's Letters

B．Gulliver's Travels

C．The Battle of the Books

D．A Modest Proposal

11、In the Romantic period, is the most prosperous literary form. ( )

A．prose

B．poetry

C．fiction

D．play

12、Which of the following descriptions of Gothic novels is not correct? ( )

A．It predominated in the early eighteenth century.

B．It was one phase of the Romantic Movement.

C．Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.

D．Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic romance.

13、The three poets William Wordsworth,Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey once lived in the English Lake District, and became known as the "______". ( )

A．University Wits

B．Metaphysical Poets

C．Lake Poets

D．Lost Generation

14、In Shelley's "To a Skylark", the bird, suspended between reality and poetic image,pours forth an exultant song which suggests to the poet______. ( )

A．both celestial rapture and human limitation

B．both image creation and profound meaning

C．both music and words

D．both inspiration and skill of writing

15、"If Winter comes,can Spring be far behind?" is an epigrammatic line by ( )

A．J. Keats

B．W. Blake

C．W. Wordsworth

D．P.B.Shelley

16、The first mass movement of the English working class was , which signified the awakening of the poor oppressed people ( )

A．Enlightenment Movement

B．Enclosure Movement

C．Chartist Movement

D．Romantic Movement

17、The statement "It reveals the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life" may well sum up the main theme in Dickens' . ( )

A．David Copperfield

B．Bleak House

C．Great Expectations

D．Oliver Twist

18、Charlotte Bronte's first novel The Professor was rejected by the publisher,but her second one,______,won immediate success and today it remains one of the most popular novels. ( )

A．Wuthering Heights

B．Pride and Prejudice

C．Jane Eyre

D．Agnes Grey

19、______works are known as "novels of character and environment". ( )

A．Charles Dickens'

B．Thomas Hardy's

C．Jane Austen's

D．George Eliot's

20、After the First World War, there appeared the following literary trends of modernism except . ( )

A．expressionism

B．surrealism

C．stream of consciousness

D．black humour

21、The social satire in the 1930s was represented by______. ( )

A．Evelyn Waugh

B．Graham Green

C．Gibbon

D．Aldous Huxley and George Orwell

22、The first "Angry Young Men" dramatist was ______, who started his first change in drama by presenting his play Look Back in Anger. ( )

A．Samuel Beckett

B．Christopher Fry

C．John Osborne

D．T. S. Eliot

23、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.

24、Statement______is not true in describing D.H. Lawrence. ( )

A．Sons and Lovers is his autobiographical novel

B．The White Peacock is his first novel

C．Sons and Lovers is his third novel

D．The White Peacock established him as a prominent novelist

25、In the American Romantic writings, the ______ came to function almost as a dramatic character that symbolized moral law. ( )

A．fire

B．water

C．trees

D．wilderness

26、Walt Whitman, whose______established him as the most popular American poet of the 19th century. ( )

A．Leaves of Grass

B．Song of Myself

C．Drum Taps

D．Cavalry Crossing a Ford

27、"The Birthmark" drives home symbolically Hawthorne's point that______is man's birthmark,something he is born with. ( )

A．goodness

B．gratefulness

C．evil

D．bitterness

28、Leaves of Grass commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of , which are written in the founding documents of both the Revolutionary War and the Civil War in the United States. ( )

A．the democratic ideals

B．the romantic ideals

C．the self-reliance spirits

D．the religious ideals

29、Which of the following statements might be true of the theme of Song of Myself by Whitman? ( )

A．This poem describes the growth of a child who learned about the world around him and improved himself accordingly.

B．This poem shows the author's cynical sentiments against the American Civil War.

C．This poem reflects the author's belief in Unitarianism or Deism.

D．This poem reflects the author's belief in the singularity and equality of all beings ,n value.

30、______,the tragic hero of Moby-Dick ,burning with a baleful fire,becomes evil himself in his thirst to destroy evil. ( )

A．Ahab

B．Pip

C．Ishmael

D．Pequod

31、In 1865,Mark Twain published his frontier tale______, which brought him recognition from a wider public. ( )

A．The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

B．Innocents Abroad

C．Roughing It

D．Life on the Mississippi

32、The King and the Duke are the two characters in a novel written by______. ( )

A．Washington Irving

B．O'Henry

C．Henry James

D．Mark Twain

33、With the publication of , Henry James's reputation was firmly established on both sides of the Atlantic. ( )

A．The Portrait of A Lady

B．Sister Carrie

C．Daisy Miller

D．Jane Eyre

34、Perhaps Dickinson's greatest rendering of the moment of is to be found in" I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—" ,a poem universally considered one of her masterpieces. ( )

A．enthusiasm

B．death

C．crisis

D．fantasy

35、As a genre,naturalism emphasized as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances. ( )

A．theological doctrines

B．heredity and environment

C．education and hard work

D．various opportunities and economic success

36、Sinclair Lewis' Babbit presents a documentary picture of the narrow and limited . ( )

A．upper-class mind

B．middle-class mind

C．proletarian

D．ordinary people

37、"And miles to go before I sleep,/And miles to go before I sleep. " It is the end of Robert Frost's poem"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". Symbolically, the word"sleep" may imply ______. ( )

A．a rest

B．death

C．happiness

D．peace

38、______is Hemingway's first true novel. ( )

A．The Sun Also Rises

B．In Our Time

C．The Old Man and the Sea

D．In Death in the Afternoon

39、In 1950,______was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust. ( )

A．Robert Frost

B．William Faulkner

C．Ezra Pound

D．Ernest Hemingway

40、Which of the following best describes the protagonist of William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily? ( )

A．She is a conservative aristocrat.

B．She is a wealthy lady.

C．She is a prisoner of the past.

D．She has good taste.

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