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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

15、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 mingling of _ and pathos.AhumorBsatireCpassionDmetaphor23Walt Whitman, whose _ establis

16、hed him as the most popular American poet of the 19th century.ALeaves of GrassBGo Down, MosesCThe Marble FaunDAs I Lay Dying24_ has always been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best classic style that American Literature ever produced”.AEdgar Ellen PoeBWalt WhitmanCHenry David ThoreauDWashing

17、ton Irving25The Romantic Period, one of the most important periods in the history of American literature, stretches from the end of _ to the outbreak of _.Athe 17th centurythe American War of IndependenceBthe 18th centurythe American Civil WarCthe 17th centurythe American Civil WarDthe 18th centuryt

18、he U.S. Mexican War26Which of the following statements is NOT true of American Transcendentalism?AIt can be clearly defined as a part of American Romantic literary movement.BIt can be defined philosophically as “the recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth intuitively”.CRalph Waldo Emerso

19、n was the chief advocate of this spiritual movement.DIt sprang from South America in the late 19th century.27The theme of Washington Irvings Rip Van Winkle is _.Athe conflict of human psycheBthe fight against racial discriminationCthe familial conflictDthe nostalgia for the unrecoverable past28The u

20、nofficial manifesto for the Transcendental Club was _, Emersons first little book, which established him ever since as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.AThe American ScholarBSelf relianceCNatureDThe OverSoul29Nathaniel Hawthorne held an unceasing interest in the “interior

21、 of the heart ”of mans being. So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discusses_.Alove and hatred Bsin and evilCfrustration and selfdenialDbalance and selfdiscipline30In Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne, the name of Goodman Browns wife is _, which also contains many symbolic meanings.ARuth BHest

22、erCFaithDMary31Which of the following statements might be true of the theme of Song of Myself by Whitman? AThis poem describes the growth of a child who learned about the world around him and improved himself accordingly.BThis poem shows the authors cynical sentiments against the American Civil War.

23、CThis poem reflects the authors belief in Unitarianism or Deism.DThis poem reflects the authors belief in the singularity and equality of all beings in value.32In MobyDick, the white whale symbolizes _ for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.AnatureBhuman soci

24、etyCwhaling industry Dtruth33Realism was a reaction against Romanticism or a move away from the bias towards romance and selfcreating fictions, and paved the way to _.ACynicismBModernismCTranscendentalismDNeoClassicalism34Hemingway once described Mark Twains novel _ the one book from which “all mode

25、rn American literature comes”.AThe Adventures of Huckleberry FinnBThe Adventures of Tom SawyerCThe Gilded AgeDThe Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg35_ is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20thcentury “streamofconsciousness” novels and the founder of psychological realism.ATheodore Dreiser BWil

26、liam FaulknerCHenry JamesDMark Twain36Which of the following statements is NOT true of Emily Dickinson and her poetry?AShe remained unmarried all her lifeBShe wrote, 1,775 poems, and most of them were published during her life time. CHer poems have no titles, hence are always quoted by their first l

27、ines.DHer limited private world has never confined the limitless power of her creativity and imagination.37As a genre, naturalism emphasized _ as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circum-stances.Atheological doctrinesBheredity

28、 and environmentCeducation and hard workDvarious opportunities and economic success38Ezra Pound, a leading spokesman of the “_” , was one of the most important poets in his time.AImagist MovementBCubist MovementCReformist MovementDTranscendentalist Movement39Eugene ONeills first fulllength play, _,

29、won him the first Pulitzer Prize. Its theme is the choice between life and death, the interaction of subjective and objective factors.ABound East for CardiffBThe Hairy ApeCDesire Under the ElmsDBeyond the Horizon40Hemingways “Indian Camp ” is one of the fourteen short stories collected under the tit

30、le of _. This title is very ironic because there is no peace at all in the stories.AThree Stories and Ten PoemsBAcross the River and into the TreesCThe Green Hills of AfricaDIn Our Time.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each) Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.

31、 Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41“For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,they flash upon that inward eye” Questions: AIdentify the anthor and the title. BWhat does the phrase “inward eye” mean? CWrite out the main idea of the passage in plain E

32、nglish.42“The duties of her married life, contemplated as so great beforehand, seemed to be shrinking with the furniture and the white vapourwalled landscape. The clear heights where she expected to walk in full communion had become difficult to see even in her imagination; the delicious repose of t

33、he soul on a complete superior had been shaken into uneasy effort and alarmed with dim presentiment. When would the days begin of that active wifely devotion which was to strengthen her husbands life and exalt her own?” Questions: AIdentify the author and the title of the story from which the passag

34、e is taken.BExplain the meaning of “the white vapourwalled landscape”CHow do you undersdand “the delicious repose of the soul on a complete superior”?43“It was you that broke the new wood,Now is a time for carving.We have one sap and one rootLet there be commerce between us.”Questions:AWhom does the

35、 “us” refer to?BWhat does the phrase “broke the new wood ” mean here?CWhat is the intention of the poet in writing the poem “A Pact” from which these lines are taken?44“There was music from my neighbors house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among

36、 the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motorboats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On weekends his Rol

37、lsRoyce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbingbrushes

38、and hammers and gardenshears, repairing the ravages of the night before.”Questions:AIdentify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.BWhat can you imply by reading this passage?CWhat do the “moths ” symbolize?.Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each) Give b

39、rief answers to each of the following questions in English .Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45William Shakespeare is one of the most remarkable playwrights the world has ever known.(1)Name his four greatest tragedies.(2)What are the characteristics of the four tragedies