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1、全国2009年7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的位置上（全部题目用英文作答）PART ONE (40 POINTS)IMultiple 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 answers in the corresponding space on the answer she
2、et.1. The first mass movement of the English working class and the early sign of the awakening of the poor, oppressed people is_. A. The Enclosure Movement B. The Protestant Reformation C. The Enlightenment Movement D. The Chartist Movement2. Daniel Defoes works are all the following EXCEPT_. A. Mol
3、l Flanders B. A Tale of a Tub C. A Journal of the Plague Year D. Colonel Jack3. “Metaphysical Poetry” refers to the works of the 17th - century writers who wrote under the influence of _. A. John Donne B. Alexander Pope C. Christopher Marlowe D. John Milton4. The most important play among Shakespear
4、es comedies is _. A. A Midsummer Nights Dream B. The Merchant of Venice C. As You Like It D. Twelfth Night5. The most perfect example of the verse drama after Greek style in English is Miltons _. A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise Regained C. Samson Agonistes D. Areopagitica6. Which of the following descr
5、iptions of Enlightenment Movement is NOT true? A. It was a progressive intellectual movement that flourished in France. B. It was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries. C. The purpose was to enlighten the whole world with moderu philosophical and artistic ideas. D. The Enli
6、ghteners advocate individual education.7. Neoclassicists had some fixed laws and rules for prose EXCEPT_. A. being precise B. being direct C. being flexible D. being satiric8. A good style of prose“ proper works in proper places” was defined by_. A. John Milton B. Henry Fielding C. Jonathan Swift D.
7、T.S. Eliot9. The major theme of Jane Austens novels is_. A. love and money B. money and social status C. social status and marriage D. love and marriage10. Wordsworths_ is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature. A. “To a Skylark” B. “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud” C. “An Evening Wal
8、k” D. “My Heart Leaps Up”11. William Blakes work _ marks his entry into maturity. A. Songs of Experience B. Marriage of Heaven and Hell C. Songs of Innocence D. The Book of Los12. Best of all the Romantic well- known lyric pieces is Shelleys_. A. “The Cloud” B. “To a Skylark” C. “Ode to a Nightingal
9、e” D. “Ode to the West Wind”13. In the Victorian Period _ became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought. A. poetry B. novel C. prose D. drama14. In Charles Dickensearly novels, he attacks one or more specific social evils, _is a good example of desc
10、ribing the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life. A. David Copperfield B. Oliver Twist C. Great Expectations D. Dombey and Son15. Thomas Hardys most cheerful and idyllic work is_. A. The Return of the Native B. Far from the Maddin Crowd C. Under the Greenwood Tree D. T
11、he Woodlanders16. The rise of _ and new science greatly incited modernist writers to make new explorations on human natures and human relationships. A. the existentialistic idea B. the irrational philosophy C. scientific socialism D. social Darwinism17. In Modern English literature, the literary int
12、erest of _ lay in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehu-manizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature. A. George Bernard Shaw B.T.S. Eliot C. Oscar Wilde D.D.H. Lawrence18. George Bernard Shaws _ is a better pl
13、ay of the later period, with the authors almost nihilistic bitterness on the subjects of the cruelty and madness of WWI and the aimlessness and disillusion of the young. A. Too True to Be Good B. Mrs. Warrens Profession C. WidowersHouses D. Fannys First Play19. Renaissance first started in Italy, wi
14、th the flowering of the following fields EXCEPT_. A. architecture B. painting C. sculpture D. literature20. English Romanticism,as a historical phase of literature,is generally said to have begun with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridges_. A. Poetical Sketches B. A Defence of Poetry C. Lyrical Ballads D. The Prelude21. Charlotte Bronts work _ is famous for the depiction of the life of the middle - class working women, particularly governesses. A. Jane Eyre B. Wuthering Heights C. The Proffessor D. Shirley22. The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot is a poem concerned with the
