2015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、One of the greatest masters of English prose is _______ who defined a good style as “proper words in proper places."

A.Jonathan Swift

B.Daniel Defoe

C.Henry Fielding

D.Ben Johnson

2、In Shakespeare's life, he had written altogether_______sonnets.

A.18.

B.27

C.127

D.154

3、Henry Fielding was born in a(n)_______,family.

A.aristocratic

B.bourgeois

C.puritan

D.poor

4、During the remaining four years of his life, Shelly traveled and lived in various, elites and produced all his major works.

A.American

B.Italian

C.French

D.Grecian

5、Mr. Allworthy is a kind-hearted gentleman in_______.

A.A Tale of Two Cities

B.Great Expectations

C.Sons and Lovers

D.Tom Jones

6、William Blake" "Tyger" is collected in_______.

A.Songs of Innocence

B.Songs of Experience

C.The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

D.Poetical Sketches

7、Jane Austen wrote altogether_______ complete novels in her lifelong career.

A.4

B.5

C.6

D.7

8、In the Romantic period,_______ is the most prosperous literary form.

A.prose

B.poetry

C.fiction

D.play

9、The novel Pride and Prejudice ends with_______.

A.Bingley marrying Miss Darcy

B.Wickham marrying June

C.Elizabeth marrying Wickham

D.Darcy marrying Elizabeth

10、Tn Charlotte Bronte’s novels, she liked to describe the following issues of the upper class EXCEPT_______.

A.cruelty

B.hypocrisy

C.evils

D.marriage

11、As contrasted with the classicists_______ thought that it was nature that gave him "strength and knowledge full of peace" .

A.Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B.George Gordon Byron

C.Percy Bysshe Shelley.

D.William Wordsworth

12、Who wrote one of the most enduring classic poems "Ode to the West Wind"?

A.William Wordsworth

B.Alfred Tennyson

C.Percy Bysshe Shelley

D.David Burn

13、In the mid-18th century, a new literary movement called,_______came to Europe and then to England.

A.classicism

B.restoration

C.romanticism

D.realism

14、Which of the following is NOT a romantic poet?

A.William Wordsworth

B.George Eliot

C.George G. Byron

D.Percy B. Shelley

15、In his work ,_______ sets out a full map and a large scale criticism of the 19th century England.

A.Charles Dickens

B.T.S. Eliot

C.George Bernard Shaw

D.Robert Browning

16、David Herbert Lawrence’ s masterpiece is_______.

A.Adam Bede

B.Sons and Lovers

C.Sense and Sensibility

D.Mary Barton

17、How does Oliver violate the rules of the workhouse?

A.By asking for more gruel,

B.By taking the Lord’s name in vain.

C.By running a pick-pocketing ring,

D.By spreading revolutionary ideology among the paupers.

18、Which of the following works is NOT Dickens' work?

A.A Tale of Two Cities.

B.The Mill on the Floss.

C.Pickwick Papers.

D.David Copperfield.

19、The Victoria Age was largely an age of_______,eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.

A.pessimism

B.naturalism

C.Modernism

D.Critical realism

20、Modernism rose out of skepticism and discussion of_______.

A.romanticism

B.capitalism

C.realism

D.Humanism

21、Who is the author of The Waste Land?

A.George Bernard Shaw

B.W.B. Yeats

C.Dylan Thomas

D.T.S. Eliot

22、The masterpiece of George Bernard Shaw is_______.

A.Ulysses

B.Hard Times

C.Mrs. Warren" s Profession

D.Jude the Obscure

23、A romance set in Italy, Hawthorn’s The Marble Faun is concerned about_______of the human spirit.

A.desire

B.the dark aberrations

C.the bright aberrations

D.the sins

24、The genuine participation of a poet in a common cultural effort was, according to Whitman, to behave as_______.

A.a hero

B.a supreme individualist

C.a soldier

D.a leader

25、With the publication of Pierre, a popular romance intended for the feminine market but provoking an outrageous repudiation,_______public fame was on the decline.

A.London's

B.Melville’ s

C.Hawthorn's

D.Poe' s

26、Twain was restless when be was young and moved a lot, first eastward s a journeyman printer, up and down_______as a steamboat pilot.

A.the Mississippi

B.the Back River

C.the Fire-steel River

D.the Bark River

27、With the development of the modern novel and the common acceptance of the approach, Henry Jame's importance, as well as his wide influence as a novelist and critic, has been all the more conspicuous.

A.deconstruction

B.romantic

C.Freudian

D.analytic

28、Dickerson's poetry writing began in the early 1850s. Altogether, she wrote 1, 755 poems, of which only_______had been published during her lifetime.

A.5

B.6

C.7

D.17

29、Dreiser is a prolific writer and many of his works are familiar to us Chinese renders. Among them,_______ is the best.

A.The Self and the Mulberry

B.Wednesday

C.Sister Carrie

D.The Call of the Wild

30、Frost sailed for England, where his first book ,_______ brought him to the attention of influential critics.

A.A Boy’s will

B.North of Boston

C.The Road Not Taken

D.Neva Hampshire

31、After World War I,_______ went to Paris a a foreign reporter, employed by The Toronto Star.

A.Wentworth

B.James Michener

C.Emest Hemingway

D.Vincent Alsop

32、The Blithedale Romance is a novel Hawthorne wrote to reveal his own methods as_______.

A.a psychological novelist

B.a romantic novelist

C.a psychological poet

D.a romantic poet

33、As Whitman saw it,_______ could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation.

A.poetry

B.novel

C.prose

D.drams

34、Faulkner used the narrative techniques to construct his stories, which include and mythological and biblical allusions.

A.symbolism

B.free indirect speech:

C.contrast

D.dialogue

35、The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County brought_______ recognition from a wider public.

A.Thomas Paine

B.O. Henry

C.James Michener

D.Mark Twain

36、It is Henry James_______and his literary essays that make him a fascinating case in the American literary history.

A.novels

B.plays

C.poem

D.book reviews

37、Emily Dickinson frequently uses personage to render the tone more familiar to the reader, and_______to vivify some abstract ideas.

A.images

B.metaphor

C.symbols

D.personification

38、Theodore Dreiser a focus shifted from the pathos of the helpless protagonists at the bottom of the society to the power of the American financial tycoons in the late 19th century in his work_______.

A.The Genius

B.An American Tragedy

C.Dreiser Looks at Russia

D.“Trilogy of Desire"

39、Robert Lee Frost considered_______ his home and its activities remained the focus of his poetry.

A.the city

B.Chicago

C.the farm

D.New York

40、Emest Hemingway, had been trying to demonstrate in his works an unvarying code, known as "_______ " which is actually an attitude towards life.

A.facing the reality

B.grace under pressure

C.honesty with benevolence

D.security coming first

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