2019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、Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.参考答案见试卷末尾

1、Shakespeare’s Hamlet is based on a legend in __.

A.northern Europe

B.South Africa

C.East Asia

D.ancient Greece

2、Robinson, hero of Robinson Crusoe struggles to live for __ years on a lonely island and finally returns to England.

A.twenty

B.twenty-two

C.twenty-four

D.twenty-six

3、John Milton wrote three major poetical works, and one is __.

A.Measure for Measure

B.Samson Agonistes

C.Poetical Sketches

D.Areopagitica

4、Of all the eighteenth-century novelists, __ was the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.

A.Jonathan Swift

B.Charles Dickens

C.Daniel Defoe

D.Henry Fielding

5、The __ part of Gulliver’s Travels deals with Gulliver's visit to the Flying Island where the philosophers and projectors study absurd problems.

A.first

B.second

C.third

D.fourth

6、Shakespeare takes a(n) __ attitude towards love and youth in his romantic comedies.

A.pessimistic

B.optimistic

C.realistic

D.critical

7、John Milton once had an ambition to __ , but his dreams were gone because of the English Revolution.

A.travel on the Continent

B.become a businessman

C.write an epic

D.teach in a university

8、Literarily __ was the first important Romantic poet.

A.William Blake

B.Shakespeare

C.John Milton

D.Jane Austen

9、The poems William Wordsworth added to the 1800 edition of the __ are among the best of his achievements.

A.Poems in Two Volumes

B.Venus and Adonis

C.Lycidas

D.Lyrical Ballads

10、Percy Shelley expressed his love for __ and his hatred toward tyranny in Ode to Naples.

A.peace

B.truth

C.freedom

D.right

11、Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice deals with the five Bennet sisters and their search for suitable __ .

A.jobs

B.husbands

C.manners

D.chances

12、Child characters depicted by Charles Dickens are innocent, virtuous, persecuted and __.

A.grotesque

B.horrible

C.helpless

D.comical

13、The Linton family and the __ family are the two ones described in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.

A.Earnshaw

B.Hindley

C.Heathcliff

D.Reed

14、Charlotte Brontes works are all about lonely and neglected young women who are longing for __, understanding and a happy life.

A.equality

B.career

C.education

D.love

15、The conflict between __ becomes more intense in Thomas Hardy’s last two novels, one of which is Jude the Obscure.

A.the past and the present

B.the traditional and the advanced

C.the rural and the urban

D.the old and the modem

16、Tess, heroine of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, is abused and destroyed by __.

A.Alec and Angel

B.Henchard and Alec

C.Clare and Alec

D.Farfrae and Angel

17、It is __ who explored his idea of “Life Force” which creates beings to solve problems in his typical play Back to Methuselah.

A.Bernard Shaw

B.Charles Dickens

C.Thomas Hardy

D.T.S.Eliot

18、Charles Dickens'social attitudes are complicated and he tries his best to retain a(n) __ in his early works.

A.criticism

B.naturalism

C.optimism

D.symbolism

19、Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion is about __ and art.

A.politics

B.culture

C.economy

D.education

20、The poem __ is T. S. Eliot’s most striking achievement.

A.Under the Greenwood Tree

B.Shirley

C.The Cloud

D.The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

21、The American novelist __ is known for his “tblack vision” which refers to that all men are by nature evil.

A.Walt Whitman

B.Nathaniel Hawthorne

C.D.H.Lawrence

D.Mark Twain

22、As a prose writer, T. S. Eliot put emphasis on the importance of __ in writing and in criticism.

A.logic

B.ethic

C.tradition

D.creativity

23、The novel __ is regarded to be a more profoundly ordered one than any other written by D. H. Lawrence.

A.Women in Love

B.Sons and Lovers

C.The White Peacock

D.The Trespasser

24、Walt Whitman's poem Cavalry Crossing a Ford reminds its readers of a picture, or a photo, of a scene of the __.

A.First World War

B.Second World War

C.American Civil War

D.Spanish Civil War

25、“The Custom-House” is an introductory note to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s work __.

A.The Scarlet Letter

B.The House of the Seven Gables

C.The Marble Faun

D.Moby-Dick

26、Walt Whitman prefers __ verse for his new subjects and feelings in terms of the form of his poetry.

A.strict

B.rhymed

C.blank

D.free

27、D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow is about the __ family on a farm.

A.Lensky

B.Brangwen

C.Crich

D.Birkin

28、In 1850, __ went to a farm in Massachusetts, where Nathaniel Hawthorne was his neighbor and they became good friends.

A.Walt Whitman

B.Theodore Dreiser

C.Herman Melville

D.Robert Frost

29、Adventures of Huckleberry Finn describes a journey down the Mississippi undertaken by __.

A.Tom and Huck

B.Huck and Mark

C.Huck and Sam

D.Jim and Huck

30、Herman Melville used Moby-Dick, the white whale, to symbolize __.

A.nature

B.strength

C.justice

D.evil

31、Henry James’ The American tells a story about a young American confronting the complexity of the __ life.

A.Asian

B.African

C.European

D.Australian

32、After 1862, affected by a(n) __ , Emily Dickinson became a recluse, living a New England village life only with her family.

A.unhappy love affair

B.serious religious crisis

C.intensive school life

D.poor health condition

33、From the age of 15, Theodore Dreiser worked on his own, longed to become a writer and went to __ where he learned by experience.

A.New York

B.Boston

C.Chicago

D.Montreal

34、The American writer __ was the first to conceive his career in international terms.

A.Nathaniel Hawthorne

B.Henry James

C.Walt Whitman

D.Mark Twain

35、In Theodore Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire, his focus shifted to the power of the American __ in the late 19th centuty.

A.corrupt officials

B.decadent artists

C.hypocritical politicians

D.financial tycoons

36、Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night is about the decline of a young American __.

A.solider

B.psychiatrist

C.artist

D.housekeeper

37、By using simple spoken language and conversional __ , Robert Frost achieved an effortless grace in his style.

A.methods

B.rhythms

C.forms

D.tones

38、"The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.''This “iceberg” analogy is the prose style of __.

A.Hemingway

B.Scott Fitzgerald

C.Theodore Dreiser

D.Henry James

39、As a novel of history, William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! is about the South, the Civil War, and the fate of __.

A.Compson

B.Thomas Sutpen

C.Sartorise

D.McCaslin

40、One of the following works __ is NOT written by Hemingway.

A.As I lay Dying

B.The Old and the Sea

C.Men without Women

D.The Green Hill of Africa

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