全国2010年7月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题
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PART ONE (40 POINTS)
Ⅰ. 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. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
1. T. S. Eliot’s ______ is a poem of dramatic monologue and a prelude to The Waste Land, helping to point up the continuity of Eliot’s thinking.
A. "Prufrock"
B. "Gerontion"
C. The Hollow Men
D. Four Quartets
2. Defoe’s group of four novels are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people. They are the following EXCEPT ______.
A. Captain Singleton
B. Moll Flanders
C. Roxana
D. Robinson Crusoe
3. Charles Dickens’ novel, ______, is famous for its vivid descriptions of the work-house and life of the underworld in the nineteenth-century London.
A. The Pickwick Paper
B. Oliver Twist
C. David Copperfield
D. Nicholas Nickleby
4. D. H. Lawrence’s autobiographical novel is ______.
A. The Rainbow
B. Women in Love
C. Sons and Lovers
D. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
5. Jonathan Swift’s greatest satiric work is ______.
A. A Tale of a Tub
B. The Battle of the Books
C. Gulliver’s Travels
D. A Modest Proposal
6. Dickens’best- depicted characters are the following. EXCEPT ______.
A. innocent, virtuous, persecuted and helpless child characters
B. horrible and grotesque characters
C. broadly humorous or comical characters
D. simple, innocent and faithful women characters
7. George Bernard Shaw’s ______ explored his idea of "Life Force", the power that would create superior beings to be equal to God and to solve all the social, moral, and metaphysical problems of human society.
A. Man and Superman
B. The Apple Cart
C. Pygmalion
D. Too True to Be Good
8. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ______ has been regarded as "Father of the English Novel".
A. Daniel Defoe
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Henry Fielding
D. Oliver Goldsmith
9. Charlotte Bronte’s autobiograghical work ______ largely based on her experience in Brussels.
A. The Professor
B. Shirley
C. Villette
D. Jane Eyre
10. D. H. Lawrence’s artistic tendency is mainly ______ , which combines dramatic scenes with an authoritative commentary.
A. romanticism
B. realism
C. naturalism
D. modernism
11. In ______ opinion, human nature is seriously and premanently flawed. To better human life, enlightenment is needed, but to redress it is very hard.
A. Daniel Defoe’s
B. Charles Dickens’
C. Jonathan Swift’s
D. Henry Fielding’s
12. The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is ______ toward which she holds on a practical idealism.
A. love and money
B. marriage and money
C. love and family
D. love and marriage
13. Hardy’s ______ is a fierce attack on the hypocritical morality of the bourgeois society and the capitalist invasion into the country and destruction of the English peasantry towards the end of the century.
A. Tess of the D’Urbervilles B. The Mayor of Caste Bridge
C. The Return of the Native D. Jude the Obscure
14. Henry Fielding adopted "______" to relate a story in his novel in which the author becomes the "all- knowing God".
A. the first- person narration
B. the epistolary form
C. the picaresque form
D. the third -person narration
15. In ______ , Shelley created a Platonic symbol of the spirit of man, a force of beauty and regeneration.
A. "To a Skylark"
B. "The Cloud"
C. "Ode to Liberty"
D. Adonais
16. The success of ______ is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine.
A. The Professor
B. Jane Eyre
C. Wuthering Heights
D. Far from the Madding Crowd
17. John Milton’s ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.
A. Paradise Lost
B. Paradise Regained
C. Samson Agonistes
D. Areopagitica
18. Wordsworth’s ______ is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature.
A. "To a Skylark"
B. "I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud"
C. "An Evening Walk"
D. "My Heart Leaps Up"
19. As the best of Shakespeare’s final romances, ______ is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.
A. The Tempest
B. The Winter’s Tale
C. Cymbeline
D. The Rape of Lucrece
20. The major representatives of the poetic revolution in English Romantic period were Samuel Taylor Coleridge and ______.
A. William Blake
B. William Wordsworth
C. John Keats
D. Percy Bysshe Shelley
21. Samson Agonistes by ______ is the most perfect example of the verse drama a

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