全国2011年7月自学考试英美文学选读试题2
课程代码：00604
I. Multiple Choice（40 points in all, 1for each）
Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answer the question or completes the statement. Write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
1．The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events EXCEPT_________. A．the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture B．the vast expansion of British colonies in North America C．the new discoveries in geography and astrology D．the religious reformation and the economic expansion
2．Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “_______”,for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the
modern novel.
A．Father of the English Novel C．Father of the English Drama
B．Father of the English Poetry D．Father of the English Short Story
3．T．S．Eliot?s most important single poem _______has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English
poetry.
A．The Hollow Man C．Murder in the Cathedral
B．The Waste Land D．Ash Wednesday
4．George Bernard Shaw?s play _______ established his position as the leading play-wright of his time. A．Widowers’ Houses C．Mrs. Warren’s Profession
B．Too True to Be Good D．Candida
5．William Blake?s central concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience is_______, which gives the two
books a strong social and historical reference. A．youthhood C．happiness
B．childhood D．sorrow
6．All of the following works are known as Hardy?s “novels of character and environment” EXCETP_______. A．The Return of the Native C．Jude the Obscure
B．Tess of the D’Urbervilles D．Far from the Madding Crowd
7．Among the works by Charles Dickens _______ presents his criticism of the Utilitarian principle that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds. A．Bleak House
B．Pickwick Paper
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C．Great Expectations
D．Hard Times
8．The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens? works is his _______. A．simple vocabulary C．character-portrayal
B．bitter and sharp criticism D．pictures of happiness
9．Among the following writers _______ created the verse novel by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters. A．Robert Browning C．Alfred Tennyson
B．Matthew Arnold D．Edward Fitzgerald
10．“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good for-tune, must be in want of a wife.” The quoted part is taken from ______. A．Jane Eyre
C．Pride and Prejudice
B．Wuthering Heights D．Sense and Sensibility
11．Because of her sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior, ______ has brought the English novel ,as an art of form, to its maturity. A．Charlotte Bront? C．Emily Bront?
B．Jane Austen D．Ann Radcliffe
12．Shelley?s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama ______, which is an exultant work in praise of humankind?s potential. A．Adonais
C．Prometheus Unbound
B．Queen Mab D．A Defence of Poetry
13．The assertion that poetry originates from “emotion recollected in tranquility” belongs to ______. A．William Wordsworth C．Robert Southey
B．Samuel Taylor Coleridge D．William Blake
14．All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT ______. A．“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” C．“Tintern Abbey”
B．“An Evening Walk” D．“The Solitary Reaper”
15．All of the following are stream –of- consciousness novels EXCEPT________. A．Pilgrimage C．Mrs. Dalloway
B．Ulysses
D．Tess of the D’ Urbervilles
16．Shakespeare?s four greatest tragedies are ________. A．Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, Hamlet B．Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice C．Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
D．Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Hamlet
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17．As one of the greatest masters of English prose, ________ defined a good style as “proper words in proper places”. A．Henry Fielding C．Samuel Johnson
B．Jonathan Swift D．Alexander Pope
18．All of the following novels by Daniel Defoe are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people EXCEPT ______. A．Robinson Crusoe C．Moll Flanders
B．Captain Singleton D．Colonel Jack
19．Among the three major works by John Milton ______ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf. A．Paradise Regained C．Lycidas
B．Samson Agonistes D．Paradise Lost
20．English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have ended in 1832 with ______. A．the passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliament B．the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge?s Lyrical Ballads C．the publication of T．S．Eliot?s The waste Land D．the passage of the Bill of Rights in the Parliament
21．Contrary to the traditional romance of aristocrats, the modern English novel gives a realistic presentation of life of ______.
A．the common English people C．the rising bourgeoisie
B．the upper class
D．the enterprising landlords
22．The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his
energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature. A．John Galsworthy?s C．D．H．Lawrence?s
B．Thomas Hardy?s D．Charles Dickens?
23．The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised ______ for “his powerful style-forming mastery of the art” of creating modern fiction. A．Ezra Pound C．Robert Frost
B．Ernest Hemingway D．Theodore Dreiser
24．In 1950,______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust. A．William Faulkner C．Ezra Pound
B．Robert Frost D．Ernest Hemingway
25．Herman Melville wrote his semi-autobiographical novel ______ concerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.
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A．Typee C．Moby-Dick
B．Redburn D．Mardi
26．The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and, especially, its sequence ______ proved themselves to be the milestone in the
American literature.
A．The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn C．The Gilded Age
B．Life on the Mississippi D．Roughing It
27．The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be ______ masterpiece, which describes the life journey of an American ________ in a European cultural environment. A．Henry Adams?…widow C．Henry James?…girl
B．William James?…girl D．Theodore Dreiser?s…widow
28．Hawthorne intended to ______ in The Scarlet Letter. A．tell a story of parental love
B．tell a story of sin and bloody violence
C．call the readers back to the plantation way of living D．reveal the human psyche after they sinned
29．“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.” This “iceberg” analogy is put
forward by ______. A．Mark Twain C．William Faulkner
B．Ezra Pound D．Ernest Hemingway
30．In many of Hawthorne?s stories and novels, the Puritan concept of life is condemned, or the Puritan past is shown in an almost totally negative light, especially in his ______ and The Scarlet Letter. A．Twice-Told Tales C．The Marble Faun
B．The Blithedale Romance D．The House of the Seven Gables
31．The white whale, Moby Dick, symbolizes ________ for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and
beautiful as well. A．society C．ocean animals
B．nature D．both A and C
32．After the American Civil War, the literary interest in the so-called “reality” of life started a new period in the American
literary writings know an the Age of ______. A．Realism C．Romanticism
B．Reason and Revolution D．Modernism
33．H．L．Mencken considered ______ “the true father of our national literature”. A．Bret Harte
B．Mark Twain
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