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1、2007年4月自学考试自考全国英美文学选读历年试卷试题真题附答案 字号：大中小 关闭 2009-3-14 13:06:53 作者： 浏览次数： 1次全国2007年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题课程代码：00604请将答案填在答题纸相应位置上. 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 answer in
2、 the corresponding space on the answer sheet. 1The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely _.AWilliam Langland s Piers Plowma
3、nBGeoffrey Chaucers The Canterbury TalesCJohn Gowers Confession AmantisDSir Gawain and the Green Knight2The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowes The Tragic History of Dr. Faustus , is the very fact that_.Aman is confined to timeBhe tried to join Africa to SpainChe became a
4、 man without soul after he sold itDhe conjured up Helen, the lady who was partially responsible for the breaking-up of the Trojan War3The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summers day?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeares _.AcomediesBtragediesCsonnetsDhistories4Paradise Lost is actually a
5、 story taken from _.Athe RenaissanceBthe Old TestamentCGreek MythologyDthe New Testament5Spensers masterpiece _ is a great poem of its time. AThe Faerie QueeneBThe Shepheardes CalenderCThe Canterbury TalesDMetamorphoses6_ is the essence of the Renaissance.APoetry BDramaCHumanism DReason7The most fam
6、ous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and _.AJohn MiltonBJohn MarloweCBen JonsonDEdmund Spenser8“To be, or not to bethat is the question”is a line taken from_.AHamletBOthelloCKing LearDThe merchant of venice9Francis Bacons essays are famous for their
7、brevity, compactness and _.AcomplicityBcomplexityCpowerfulnessDmildness10Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that _.Athe former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individuals feeling and exper
8、iencesBthe former is heavily religious but the latter secularCthe former is an intellectual movement, the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivationDthe former advocates the “return to nature” whereas the latter tur
9、ns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models.11Daniel Defoe describes _ as a typical English Middle- class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.ATom JonesBGulliverCMoll FlandersDRobinson Crusoe12_ is a typical feature of Swifts w
10、ritings.ABitter satireBElegant styleCCasual narrationDComplicated sentence structure13The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for _.Amaterial wealthBspiritual salvationCuniversal truthDself- fulfillment14Alexander Pope strongly advocated _ , emphasizing tha
11、t literary works should be judged by rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.ASentimentalismBRomanticismCIdealismDNeoclassicism15“Metaphysical poetry” refers to the works of the 17th- century writers who wrote under the influence of _.AJohn DonneBAlexander PopeCChri
12、stopher MarloweDJohn Milton16It is generally regarded that Keats s most important and mature poems are in the form of _.Aode BelegyCepicDsonnet17_ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, with _ as his encyclopedia like masterpiece .AJames Joyce, UlyssesBE.M. Foster, A Passage to In
13、diaCD.H. Lawrence, Sons and LoversDVirginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway18Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry? ALyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William WordsworthC“Remorse ”by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeDLeaves of Grass
14、Walt Whitman19The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is _.AproseBdramaCnovelDpoetry20Which of the following poems by T.S. Eliot is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry?APoems 1909-1925BThe Hollow ManCPrufrock and Other ObservationsDThe Waste Land21“My last Duchess” is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Brownings _.Asensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageBexcellent choice of wordsCmastering of the metrical devices
