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1、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 the corresponding space on the answer sheet. 1The work that presented, f
2、or 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 PlowmanBGeoffrey Chaucers The Canterbury TalesCJohn Gowers Confession AmantisDS
3、ir 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 man without soul after he sold itDhe conjured up Helen, the lady who was
4、 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 story taken from _.Athe RenaissanceBthe Old TestamentCGreek MythologyDth
5、e 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 famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlowe, Willia
6、m 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 brevity, compactness and _.AcomplicityBcomplexityCpowerfulnessDmildness10
7、Literature 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 experiencesBthe former is heavily religious but the latter secularCthe former
8、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 turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models.11Daniel Defoe d
9、escribes _ 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 writings.ABitter satireBElegant styleCCasual narrationDComplicated sentenc
10、e 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 that literary works should be judged by rules of order, reason, logic, restr
11、ained 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 PopeCChristopher MarloweDJohn Milton16It is generally regarded that Keats s most i
12、mportant 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 IndiaCD.H. Lawrence, Sons and LoversDVirginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway18Which of
13、 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 Walt Whitman19The literary form which is fully developed and the most flo
14、urishing 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 devicesDuse of the dramatic monologue22Dickens works are characterized by a minglin
