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1、精品自学考试资料推荐全国 2018 年 4 月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题课程代码： 00604全部题目用英文作答，并将答案写在答题纸相应位置上，否则不计分PART ONE (40 POINTS)I. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select fromthe fourchoices of each itemthe one thatbest answers the questionorcompletes the statement. Write your choice on the answer sheet.1.The most
2、 significant idea of the Renaissance is （） .A. humanismB. realismC. naturalismD. skepticism2.Shakespeare s tragedies include all the following except （） .A. Hamlet and King LearB. Antony and Cleopatra and MacbethC. Julius Caesar and OthelloD. The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night s Dream3.The
3、 statement “ Studies serve fordelight, forornament, andfor ability ” opens one ofwell-known essays by （）.A. Francis BaconB. Samuel JohnsonC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift4.In Hardy s Wessex novels, there is an apparent（） touch in his description of the simplethough primitive rural life.A. nostalgi
4、cB. humorousC. romanticD. ironic5.Backbite,Sneerwell, and Lady Teazle are characters in the playThe School forScandal by（）.A. Christopher MarloweB. Ben JonsonC. Richard Brinsley SheridanD. George Bernard Shaw6.Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first toset out, both intheory an
5、dpractice,to write specificallya“（） in prose,” the first to give the modern novel itsstructure and style.A. tragic epicB. comic epicC. romanceD. lyric epic7.In his poem “Tyger, Tyger,”William Blake expresses his perception of the “ fearful symmetry ”of the big cat. The phrase “ fearful symmetry ”sug
6、gests（） .A. the tiger s two eyes which are dazzlingly bright and symmetrically setB. the poet s fear of the predator1精品自学考试资料推荐C. the analogy of the hammer and the anvilD. the harmony of the two opposite aspects of God s creation 8.“ What is his name? ”“ Bingley. ”“ Is he married or single? ”“ Oh! S
7、ingle, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year.What a fine thing for our girls!”The above dialogue must be taken from （） .A. Jane AustenPrides and PrejudiceB. Emily BronteWutherings HeightsC. John GalsworthyThe Forsyte SagaD. George EliotMiddlemarchs9.The sho
8、rt story “Araby ” is one of the stories in James Joyce（ s collection）.A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManB. UlyssesC. Finnegans WakeD. Dubliners10.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following except（） .A. the using of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB. the exp
9、ression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC. the humble and rustic life as subject matterD. elegant wording and inflated figures of speech11.Here are two lines taken from The Merchant of Venice:“ Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harshJew/Thou mak st thy knife keen”.What kind of figura
10、tive device is used in the above lines?（）A. Simile.B. Metonymy.C. Pun.D. Synecdoche.12.“ If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? ” is an epigrammatic line by （） .A. J. KeatsB. W. BlakeC. W. WordsworthD. P. B. Shelley13.The poems such as“ The Chimney Sweeper ”are found in both Songs of Innocence a
11、nd Songs ofExperience by（） .A. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. John KeatsD. Lord Gordon Byron14.John BunyanPilgrims sProgress is often regarded as a typical example of （）.A. allegoryB. romanceC. epic in proseD. fable15.Alexander Pope strongly advocated neoclassicism, emphasizing that literary w
12、orks should bejudged by （） rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.A. classicalB. romanticC. sentimentalD. allegorical16.In his essay“ Of Studies, ” Bacon said:“ Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,2精品自学考试资料推荐and some few to be chewed and（） .”A. skim
13、medB. perfectedC. imitatedD. digested17.“ For I have known them all already, known them all /Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,/I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ” The above lines are taken from（）.A. Wordsworth“sThe Solitary Reaper ”B. Eliot“sThe Love Song of J. Alfred Pruf
14、rock ”C. Coleridge“sKubla Khan ”D. Yeats “sThe Lake Isle of Innisfree ”18.(The)（ ）was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18 th century.A. RomanticismB. HumanismC. EnlightenmentD. Sentimentalism19.A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of （） ,who never pays any attention to hum
