浙江2011年1月自学考试英国文学选读试题.DOC

1、自考人网校专本套读 2018 春季招生进行中，零学历 2.5 年拿本科，支持学费分期，0 利率 0 手续费！应用市场搜索“自考人”下载自考 APP 神器，随时随地无忧备考，自测练习强化巩固，考试重点轻松装进口袋！浙江省 2011 年 1 月自学考试英国文学选读试题课程代码：10054Part . Blank-filling: Complete each of the following stalemates with a proper word or phrase according the textbook. (10 points in all, 1 point for each)1. In

2、 1637 Milton wrote the finest _ in English, Lydidas, in honor of a Cambridge friend. 2. Edmund Spenser is often referred to as “the poets _ ”. His masterpiece is The Fairie Queene.3. Reverenced by its concrete and living language and carefully observed and vividly details, John Bunyans style was mod

3、eled after that of the English _ .4. Joseph Andrews was first intended as a burlesque of the dubious morality and false sentimentality of Richardsons _ .5. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” shows a sharp contrast between the _ of art and the transience of human passion.6. It is a commonplace that Romanticism d

4、esignates a literary and philosophical theory that tends to see the _ as the very center of all life and all experience. 7. Presumably, In Memorian is regarded as elegy written by Tennyson on the death of _ .8. The typical feature of Robert Brownings poetry is the _ .9. Writers like Dorothy Richards

5、on, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf concentrated their efforts on digging into the human _ .10. Since A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man develops around a middle-class Irish boy, Stephen Dedalus, from his infancy to his manhood, it is generally regarded as a(n) _ .Part . Multiple-choice question

6、s: Select from the four choices A, B, C, D of each item the one that best answers the 自考人网校专本套读 2018 春季招生进行中，零学历 2.5 年拿本科，支持学费分期，0 利率 0 手续费！应用市场搜索“自考人”下载自考 APP 神器，随时随地无忧备考，自测练习强化巩固，考试重点轻松装进口袋！question or completes the statement . (30 points in all, 1 point for each) 11. _ first made blank verse the

7、principal instrument of English drama.( )A. Shakespeare B. WyattC. Sidney D. Marlowe 12. Shakespeares greatest tragedies includes: _ , Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. ( )A. Romeo and Juliet B. HamletC. Richard III D. Tempest.13. Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set

8、out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “_ in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.( )A. tragic-comic B. comic epicC. romance D. romantic epic14.Richard B. Sheridans The School for Scandal is a _ on the moral degeneracy of the aristocratic-bourgeois so

9、ciety in the 18th -century England.( )A. high praise B. sharp satireC. great irony D. bitter lament15. The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less _ attitude toward the existing social and political conditions.( )A. negative B. positiveC. neutral D. indifferent16. Adonais is an elegy for _ whose

10、early death from tuberculosis Shelley believed had been hastened by hostile reviews. ( )A. Byron B. BlakeC. Keats D. Tennyson17._ is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.( )A. Jane Eyre B. EmmaC. Wuthering Heights D. Middlemarch18. The Victorian Age was largely an age

11、of _ , eminently represented by Dickens and Thackerary.( )A. poetry B. dramaC. prose D. epic prose19. The character Rochester in Jane Eyre can be well termed as a _.( )A. conventional hero B. Byronic heroC. chivalrous aristocrat D. Homeric hero20. “The dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, cri

12、minal underworld life” are often used to sum up the main theme of _ .( )A. David Copperfield B. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Oliver Twist D. Bleak House21.The realistic novels in the 20th century were the continuation of the _ tradition. ( )自考人网校专本套读 2018 春季招生进行中，零学历 2.5 年拿本科，支持学费分期，0 利率 0 手续费！应用市场搜索“自考人”

13、下载自考 APP 神器，随时随地无忧备考，自测练习强化巩固，考试重点轻松装进口袋！A. Romantic B. Renaissance C. Victorian D. Conservative22. Most modernist writers such as Richardson, Joyce and Woolf are mainly concerned with the _ .( )A. external word B. public life of an individual C. social activities of human beings D. inner life of an

14、 individual 23. The most celebrated dramatists in the last decade of the 19th century were George Bernard Shaw and _ .( )A. Oscar Wilde B. D. H. LawrenceC. E. M. Forster D. T. S. Eliot24. The most original playwright of the Theater of Absurd is _ .( )A. John Osborne B. Sean OCaseyC. Samuel Beckett D

15、. W. B. Yeats25. The Waste Land, one of Eliots masterpieces, is mainly concerned with the _ of a modern civilization. ( )A. social corruption B. spiritual corruptionC. physical breakup D. religious corruption26. The _ can be regarded as one of the themes of Joyces story “Araby”.( )A. loss of innocen

16、ce B. childish loveC. awareness of harsh life D. false sentimentality27. Among the great writers of the modern period, _ might be the greatest in radical experimentation of technical innovations in novel writing.( )A. Joseph Conrad B. D. H. LawrenceC. Virginia Woolf D. James Joyce28. A typical Forsy

17、te, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of _, who never pays any attention to human feelings. ( )A. property B. justiceC. morality D. humor29. D. H. Lawrence thought that the _ was most responsible for the alienation of the human relationships and the perversion of human perso

18、nality.( )A. pride of the aristocratic class B. vanity of the middle classC. mans desire for power and money D. capitalist mechanical civilization30. G. B. Shaws play Mrs. Warrens Profession is a grotesquely realistic exposure of the _ .( )A. slum landlordism B. political corruption in EnglandC. eco

19、nomic oppression of women D. religious corruption in England31. Most of Hardys novels are set in _, the fictional primitive and crude rural region that is really the home place he both loves and hates.( )A. Yorkshire B. WessexC. London D. Manchester自考人网校专本套读 2018 春季招生进行中，零学历 2.5 年拿本科，支持学费分期，0 利率 0 手

20、续费！应用市场搜索“自考人”下载自考 APP 神器，随时随地无忧备考，自测练习强化巩固，考试重点轻松装进口袋！32. The French Revolution has been taken by Dickens as the background in the novel _ .( )A. Great Expectations B. A Tale of Two Cities C. Bleak House D. Oliver Twist33. Among Coleridges _ group of poems, “Frost at Midnight” is the most important

21、. ( )A. romantic B. demonicC. lyrical D. conversational 34. It is _ who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of the human spirit.( )A. Thomas Paine B. Johann Wolfgang GoetheC. Jean Jacques Rousseau D. Beat Age35. Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Engli

22、shman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the _ century. ( )A. 17th B. 18th C. 19th D. 20th 36. The most significant intellectual movement of the Renaissance was _ .( )A. the Reformation B. humanismC. the Italian revival D. geographical explorations 37. Yeats is also dramatist, writing verse play

23、s in most of the cases. He wrote more than 20 plays in a stretch of 48 years. But _ is not a play of him. ( )A. Purgatory B. The land of Hearts DesireC. The Shadowy Waters D. The Silver Box 38. The French _ , appearing in the late 19th century, heralded modernism.( )A. romanticism B. realismC. symbo

24、lism D. humanism39. Dubliners, a collection of 15 stories, is the first important work of James Joyces lifelong preoccupation with _ .( )A. Dublin life B. public life C. London life D. human life40. “And when I am pinned and wriggling on the wall, / Then how should I begin / To spit out all the but-

25、ends of my days and ways”. In these lines, the image of a life pinned on the wall is vividly presented to show Prufrocks current _ .( )A. misery B. lazinessC. predicament D. strugglePart . Definition: Define the literary terms listed below. (20 points in all, 5 points for each)41. Metaphysical 42. H

26、eroic couplet自考人网校专本套读 2018 春季招生进行中，零学历 2.5 年拿本科，支持学费分期，0 利率 0 手续费！应用市场搜索“自考人”下载自考 APP 神器，随时随地无忧备考，自测练习强化巩固，考试重点轻松装进口袋！43. Byronic hero44. Stream of consciousness Part IV. Reading Comprehension: Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. (20 points in all, 5 points for each

27、)45. “Busy old fool, unruly sun,Why dost thou thus,Through windows and through curtains call on us?”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. Briefly interpret this part. 46. “True wit is Nature to advantage dressed,What oft was thought, but neer so well expressed;Something whose truth convince

28、d at sight we find,That gives us back the image of our mind.”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. Briefly interpret this part. 47. Paul was afraid lest she might have misread the letter, and might be disappointed after all. He scrutinized it once, twice. Yes, he became convinced it was tru

29、e. Then he sat down, his heart beating with joy.“Mother！” he exclaimed.“Didnt I say we should do it!” she said, pretending she was not crying.Questions:A. Which essay is this passage taken from? Who is the author?B. Briefly interpret this passage.48. “Her eyes met his and he looked away. He neither

30、believed nor disbelieved her, but he knew that he had made a mistake in asking; he never had known, never would know, what she was thinking. The sight of her inscrutable face, the thought of all the hundreds of evenings he had seen her sitting there like that, soft and passive, but so unreadable, un

31、known, enraged him beyond measure.”Questions:A. Which essay is this passage taken from? Who is the author?B. How do you think about the protagonists mind?Part . Topic Discussion: Grief brief answers to the following questions. (20 points in all, 10 points for each)49. How is Shelleys Prometheus Unbound different from the traditional Greek interpretation?50. What are the major artistic features of Charles Dickens?自考人网校专本套读 2018 春季招生进行中，零学历 2.5 年拿本科，支持学费分期，0 利率 0 手续费！应用市场搜索“自考人”下载自考 APP 神器，随时随地无忧备考，自测练习强化巩固，考试重点轻松装进口袋！