全国月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题及答案.doc
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1、全国2021年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题课程代码:00604I. Multiple Choice40 points in all, 1for eachSelect 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. 1The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a seri
2、es of historical events EXCEPT_.Athe rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek cultureBthe vast expansion of British colonies in North AmericaCthe new discoveries in geography and astrologyDthe religious reformation and the economic expansion2Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “_,for his contr
3、ibution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel. AFather of the English Novel BFather of the English PoetryCFather of the English DramaDFather of the English Short Story3TSEliots most important single poem _has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry. AT
4、he Hollow Man BThe Waste LandCMurder in the CathedralDAsh Wednesday4George Bernard Shaws play _ established his position as the leading play-wright of his time. AWidowers HousesBToo True to Be GoodCMrs. Warrens ProfessionDCandida5William Blakes central concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of
5、Experience is_, which gives the two books a strong social and historical reference. AyouthhoodBchildhoodChappinessDsorrow6All of the following works are known as Hardys “novels of character and environment EXCETP_.AThe Return of the NativeBTess of the DUrbervillesCJude the ObscureDFar from the Maddi
6、ng Crowd7Among the works by Charles Dickens _ presents his criticism of the Utilitarian principle that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds.ABleak HouseBPickwick PaperCGreat Expectations DHard Times8The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens works is hi
7、s _. Asimple vocabulary Bbitter and sharp criticismCcharacter-portrayalDpictures of happiness9Among the following writers _ created the verse novel by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters.ARobert Browning BMatthew Arnold CAlfred Tennyson DEdward Fitzgerald 10“It is a truth universally
8、acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good for-tune, must be in want of a wife. The quoted part is taken from _.AJane EyreBWuthering HeightsCPride and PrejudiceDSense and Sensibility11Because of her sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior, _ has brought the English novel ,as
9、 an art of form, to its maturity.ACharlotte BrontBJane Austen CEmily BrontDAnn Radcliffe12Shelleys greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama _, which is an exultant work in praise of humankinds potential.AAdonaisBQueen MabCPrometheus Unbound DA Defence of Poetry13The assertion that poetry or
10、iginates from “emotion recollected in tranquility belongs to _.AWilliam WordsworthBSamuel Taylor ColeridgeCRobert Southey DWilliam Blake14All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT _.A“I Wandered Lonely as a CloudB“An Evening WalkC“Tintern AbbeyD“The Solitary
11、Reaper15All of the following are stream of- consciousness novels EXCEPT_.APilgrimageBUlyssesCMrs. DallowayDTess of the D Urbervilles16Shakespeares four greatest tragedies are _.ARomeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, HamletBHamlet, Othello, Macbeth, The Merchant of VeniceCHamlet, Othello, King Lear,
12、MacbethDRomeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Hamlet17As one of the greatest masters of English prose, _ defined a good style as “proper words in proper places.AHenry FieldingBJonathan SwiftCSamuel JohnsonDAlexander Pope18All of the following novels by Daniel Defoe are the first literar
13、y works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people EXCEPT _.ARobinson Crusoe BCaptain SingletonCMoll Flanders DColonel Jack19Among the three major works by John Milton _ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.AParadise Regained BSamson Agon
14、istes CLycidas DParadise Lost20English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have ended in 1832 with _.Athe passage of the first Reform Bill in the ParliamentBthe publication of Wordsworth and Coleridges Lyrical BalladsCthe publication of TSEliots The waste LandDthe
15、passage of the Bill of Rights in the Parliament21Contrary to the traditional romance of aristocrats, the modern English novel gives a realistic presentation of life of _.Athe common English peopleBthe upper classCthe rising bourgeoisie Dthe enterprising landlords22The major concern of _ fiction lies
16、 in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.AJohn GalsworthysBThomas HardysCDHLawrencesDCharles Dickens23The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised _ for “his powerful s
17、tyle-forming mastery of the art of creating modern fiction.AEzra PoundBErnest Hemingway CRobert FrostDTheodore Dreiser24In 1950,_ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.AWilliam FaulknerBRobert FrostCEzra PoundDErnest Hemingway25Herman Melville wrote his semi-autobiogra
18、phical novel _ concerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.ATypeeBRedburnCMoby-DickDMardi26The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and, especially, its sequence _ proved themselves to be the milestone in the American literature.AThe Adventures of Huckleberry FinnBLife on the MississippiCT
19、he Gilded AgeDRoughing It27The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be _ masterpiece, which describes the life journey of an American _ in a European cultural environment.AHenry AdamswidowBWilliam JamesgirlCHenry JamesgirlDTheodore Dreiserswidow28Hawthorne intended to _ in The Scarlet Lette
20、r.Atell a story of parental loveBtell a story of sin and bloody violenceCcall the readers back to the plantation way of livingDreveal the human psyche after they sinned29“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. This “iceberg analogy is put forward by
21、_.AMark TwainBEzra PoundCWilliam FaulknerDErnest Hemingway30In many of Hawthornes stories and novels, the Puritan concept of life is condemned, or the Puritan past is shown in an almost totally negative light, especially in his _ and The Scarlet Letter.ATwice-Told TalesBThe Blithedale RomanceCThe Ma
22、rble FaunDThe House of the Seven Gables31The white whale, Moby Dick, symbolizes _ for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.AsocietyBnatureCocean animalsDboth A and C 32After the American Civil War, the literary interest in the so-called “reality of life started
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