2012年10月高等教育自学考试

英国文学选读试题

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Part Ⅰ. Multiple-choice questions:

Select from the four choices A, B, C, D of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement and blacken the letter on the answer sheet. (30 points in all, 1 point for each)

1. Spenser’s The Shepheardes Calender showed how the ________ convention could be adopted to a variety of subjects.

A. urban                                                          B. pastoral    

C. religious                                                      D. romantic

2. In The Faerie Queene, the hero of heroes, who possesses all of the 12 virtues, is ________.

A. Arthur                                                         B. Una   

C. Redcross                                                     D. Black Knight

3. Dr. Faustus is a play based on the German legend of a magician aspiring for ________ and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.

A. money                                                         B. immorality

C. knowledge                                                   D. political power

4. “Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted” is one of the epigrams found in ________.

A. Bacon’s Of Studies                                       B. Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress

C. More’s Utopia                                             D. Fielding’s Tom Jones

5. Christopher Marlowe wrote all the following plays except ________.

A. Tamburlaine the Great                                  B. The Jew of Malta

C. Cymbeline                                                   D. Dr. Faustus

6. Which of the following is a typical feature of Swift’s writings? ________.

A. Great wit and dry humor                               B. Complicated sentence structures

C. Rich mythic allusions                                    D. Bitter satire

7. “The novel is structured around the discovery of the hero’s origin”. This novel is most probably ________.

A. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

B. Wuthering Heights

C. The Vicar of the Wakefield

D. David Copperfield

8. ________ compiled the A Dictionary of the English Language, the first English dictionary compiled by an Englishman.

A. John Dryden                                                B. Samuel Johnson

C. Ben Jon                                                       D. John Bunyan

9. ________ is central to William Blake’s concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.

A. Adulthood                                                    B. Education       

C. Childhood                                                    D. Friendship

10. ________ is regarded as the best essayist during the English Romantic Age.

A. William Godwin                                           B. William Burke

C. Charles Lamb                                               D. Charles Dickens

11.Sheridan’s Pizarro is tragedy adapted from a ________ play.

A. Italian                                                         B. Roman    

C. Greek                                                         D. German

12. In “The Cloud”, Shelley created a ________ symbol of the spirit of man, a force of beauty and regeneration.

A. Platonic                                                      B. Social      

C. Religious                                                     D. Personal

13. Generally speaking, ________ was a writer of the 18^th century, though she lived mainly in the 19^th century.

A. Mary Shelley                                                B. George Eliot     

C. Jane Austen                                                 D. Ann Radcliffe

14. “Those ungrateful drones who would / Drain your sweat-nay, drink your blood?” The word “drones” in the line written by Shelley is used as a(n)________.

A. irony                                                           B. synecdoche     

C. metonymy                                                   D. metaphor

15. ________ is the first major historical novelist, exerting a powerful literary influence both in Britain and on the Continent throughout the 19^th century.

A. Walter Scott                                                 B. Walter Pater    

C. Jane Austen                                                 D. Jane Anne

16. Oliver Twist presents Oliver as Dickens’s first child hero and ________ the first grotesques figure.

A. Nancy                                                        B. Fagin

C. Brownlow                                                   D. Gamfield

17. In Middlemarch, the leading figure is ________ , a beautiful, intelligent young lady of an “ardent and theoretic nature”.

A. Tertius Lydgate                                            B. Casaubon

C. Dorothea Brooke                                           D. Mr. Bulstrode

18. Based on the major ideas of his predecessors, ________ established his irrational philosophy, which put the emphasis on creation, intuition, irrationality and unconsciousness.

A. Karl Marx                                                    B. Henry Perkins

C. Henry Bergson                                             D. Friedrich Engels

19. In the poem, “________”, Yeats, with severe satire, assaulted the bourgeois philistines and their meanness of spirit and selfish materialism.

A. No Second Troy                                          B. September 1913

C. Sailing to Byzantium                                     D. The Shadowy Waters

20. Kangaroo, written out of Lawrence’s trip to Australia, is about the struggle for leadership in ________ as well as in politics.

A. education                                                     B. religion     

C. custom                                                        D. marriage

21. Dubliners begins by presenting ________ as an inscrutable fact in a small boy’s existence.

A. living                                                          B. idling       

C. death                                                           D. wandering

22. The Man of Property centers itself on the ________ triangle.

A. Soames-Irene-Bosinney                                 B. Bosinney-Forsyte-Irene

C. Soames-Irene-Forsyte                                   D. Irene-Bosinney-Ivanhole

23. In the modernist period, in stimulating the technical innovations of novel creation, the theory of the Freudian and ________ psycho-analysis played a particularly important role.

A. Darwinism                                                   B. Socialism

C. Symbolism                                                  D. Jungian

24. Hardy’s The Dynasts is a long epic-drama about the ________.

 A. Hundred Years War                                     B. First World War

C. Napoleonic Wars                                          D. Second World War

25. The year 1863 saw the publication of Romola, a full elaborately documented story of ________ in the time of Savornarola.

A. Venice                                                         B. London    

C. Florence                                                      D. Paris

26. Tennyson’s Idylls of the Kings is based on the Cetic legends of King ________ and his knights of the Round Table.

A. Alfred                                                          B. Henry VIII

C. Robin Hood                                                 D. Arthur

27. In Hard Times, Dickens attacks ________ that rules over the English educational system and destroys young hearts and minds.

A. bourgeois commercialism                              B. religious hypocrisy

C. the Utilitarian principle                                   D. political corruption

28. What is the relationship between Claudius and Hamlet? ________.

A. Cousins                                                       B. Uncle and nephew

C. Father-in law and son-in-law                         D. Father and son

29. “… and then how they met I hardly saw, but Catherine made a spring, and he caught her, and they were locked in an embrace.” In the quoted passage, Brontё tells the story in ________ point of view.

A. first person                                                  B. second person

C. third person limited                                       D. third person omniscient

30. In Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Hardy resolutely makes a seduced girl his heroine, which clearly demonstrates the author’s ________ of the Victorian moral standards.

A. blind fondness                                              B. total acceptance

C. deep understanding                                       D. mounting defiance

非选择题部分

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Part Ⅱ. Blank-filling:

Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or phrase according to the textbook. (10 points in all, 1 point for each)

31. “Death, be not proud” focuses on a key ________ of Christian doctrine: we are afraid of death, yet we are not afraid of death.

32. The predominant rhetorical device employed in “The Sun Rising” is ________.

33. It was Martin Luther(1483-1546), a German protestant, who initiated the ________.

34. An Essay on Criticism, a ________ poem, is a comprehensive study of the theories of literary criticism.

35. The ________ Movement in the 18^th century Europe was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the 15^th and 16^th centuries.

36. George G. Byron is chiefly remembered for his two long poems. One is Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, the other is ________.

37. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s demonic group poems includes three masterpieces of his: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel and ________.

38. ________ , the woman novelist of the Victorian period, is the pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans.

39. In Victorian poetry, the “Brownings” refers to ________ Browning and his wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

40. In his short lyric The Lake Isle of Innisfree, Yeats presents to us a picture of an ideal ________ where he could live calmly as a hermit and enjoy the beauty of nature.

Part Ⅲ. Definition:

Define the literary terms listed below. (20 points in all, 5 points for each)

41. Enlightenment Movement

42. The Spenserian Stanza

43. George Eliot’s Determinism

44. Romanticism

Part Ⅳ. Reading Comprehension:

Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (20 points in all, 5 points for each)

45. “They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience; for nature abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.”.

Questions:

A. Which essay is this passage taken from? Who is the author?

B. Briefly interpret this part.

46. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters”.

Questions:

A. Which novel is this passage taken from? Who is the author?

B. Briefly interpret this passage.

47. “For oft, when on my couch I lie

 In vacant or in pensive mood,

 They flash upon that inward eye

 Which is the bliss of solitude;

 And then my heart with pleasure fills,

 And dances with the daffodils.”

 Questions:

A. Identify the poem and the poet.

B. Briefly interpret this passage.

48. “She frankly wanted him to climb into the middle class, a thing not vey difficult, she knew. And she wanted him in the end to marry a lady ”.

Questions:

A. Which novel is this passage taken from? Who is the author?

B. Briefly interpret this passage.

Part Ⅴ. Topic Discussion:

Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (20 points in all, 10 points for each)

49. Discuss the theme of “Araby” in relation to the works of Joyce.

50. Discuss the main poetic features of John Keats.