浙江省2012年1月自学考试英国文学选读试题

　　浙江省2012年1月高等教育自学考试$lesson$

　　英国文学选读试题

　　课程代码：10054

　　Part Ⅰ. Blank-filling:

　　Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or phrase according to the textbook. (10 points in all, 1 point for each)

　　1. Shakespeare writes his sonnets in the popular English form of three ______ and a couplet.

　　2. The greatest and most distinctive achievement of Elizabethan literature is ______ .

　　3. The Neoclassical Period is also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of ______ .

　　4. Jonathan Swift’s ______ is generally regarded as a model of the best satire not only in his time but in the whole English literary history.

　　5. William Blake is regarded as the first important romantic poet, opposing the ______ tradition of the 18th century, and treasuring the individual’s imagination.

　　6. The most important contribution Wordsworth has made is that he has not only started the modern poetry but also changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of language and by advocating a return to ______ .

　　7. Charlotte Brontë’s works are famous for the depiction of the life of the middle?class working women, particularly ______ .

　　8. Thomas Hardy is often taken as a ______ writer, in whose works one can see the influence from both the past and the present, both in traditional and the modern.

　　9. In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufock”, Eliot presents an upper?class man who is a kind of tragic figure caught in a sense of defeated ______ and tortured by unsatisfied desires.

　　10. To create his modern Odyssey ? Ulysses, Joyce adopts a kind of ______ style.

　　Part Ⅱ. Multiple?choice questions:

　　Select from the four choices A, B, C and D of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. (30 points in all, 1 point for each)

　　11. ______ , the first important English essayist, is best known for his essays which greatly influenced the development of this literary form. ( )

　　A. John Waytt转自环 球 网 校edu24ol.com

　　B. Francis Bacon

　　C. Shakespeare

　　D.Chaucer

　　12. ______ is the most common foot in English poetry.( )

　　A. The iamb

　　B. The anapest

　　C. The trochee

　　D. The dactyl

　　13. In “Sonnet 18”, Shakespeare ______.( )

　　A. meditates on man’s morality

　　B. eulogizes the power of artistic creation

　　C. satirizes human vanity

　　D. presents a dream vision

　　14. The ______ are generally regarded as Keats’s most important and mature works.( )

　　A. epics

　　B. lyrics

　　C. romances

　　D. odes

　　15. There are only two major novelists produced in the English Romantic Age. They are ______ .( )

　　A. Lamb and Hazlitt

　　B. Byron and Shelley

　　C. Scott and Austen

　　D. Austen and Hardy

　　16. Jane Austen presents most of the problems of the novel, Pride and Prejudice, from the ______ viewpoint. ( )

　　A. child

　　B. masculine

　　C. neutral

　　D. feminine

　　17. William Hazlitt is a great critic on ______, Elizabethan drama, and English poetry. ( )

　　A. Chaucer

　　B. Shakespeare

　　C. Homer

　　D. Ben Jonson

　　18. In Marriage of Heaven of Hell (1790), the word “Marriage”, to Blake, means the ______ .( )

　　A. subordination of the one to the other

　　B. co-existence of the conflicting parts

　　C. reconciliation of the contraries

　　D. fighting of the conflicting parts

　　19. Which of the following terms best describes the nature of Hardy’s later novels? ( )

　　A. sentimentalism

　　B. surrealism

　　C. tragic sense

　　D. comic sense

　　20. In the Victorian period, the ______ became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expressions of progressive thought. ( )

　　A. novel

　　B. drama

　　C. poetry

　　D. prose

　　21. “I will drink / life to the lees.” In this quoted line the speaker Ulysses is saying that he ______ till the end of his life.( )

　　A. will keep traveling and exploring

　　B. will go on drinking and being happy

　　C. would like to toast to his glorious life

　　D. would like to drink the cup of wine

　　22. According to D. H. Lawrence, ______ was the first novelist that “started putting all the actions inside”.( )

　　A. T. S. Eliot

　　B. George Eliot

　　C. John Mill

　　D. John Ruskin

　　23. Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield and Sam Well in Pickwick Paper are perhaps the best ______ characters. ( )

　　A. comical

　　B. tragic

　　C. round

　　D. sophisticated

　　24. George Eliot’s only novel on English politics is ______ .( )

　　A. Middlemarch

　　B. Adam Bede

　　C. Felix Holt, the Radical

　　D. Silas Marner

　　25. In the statement ? “oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?” the term “soul” evidently refers to ______ .( )

　　A. Heathcliff himself

　　B. Catherine

　　C. one’s spiritual life

　　D. one’s ghost

　　26. In “Araby”, Joyce’s diction evokes a sort of ______ quality that characterizes the boy on this otherwise altogether ordinary shopping trip. ( )

　　A. moral

　　B. sentimental

　　C. vulgar

　　D. religious

　　27. With the strong swing of the ______ in the 1930s, novelists began to turn their attention to the urgent social problems.( )

　　A. leftism

　　B. rightism

　　C. urbanism

　　D. ruralism

　　28. With the heroic portrayal of ______ truth as his main concern, Yeats wrote a number of verse plays. ( )

　　A. religious

　　B. spiritual

　　C. moral

　　D. social

　　29. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is presented as a(n) ______, suggesting an ironic contrast between a pretended love song and a confession of his incapability of facing love.( )

　　A. interior monologue

　　B. authentic dialogue

　　C. lyric song

　　D. religious confession

　　30. As a young man in the last decade of the 19th century, W. B. Yeats began his poetic career in the ______ tradition. ( )

　　A. modernist

　　B. realist

　　C. romantic

　　D. Victorian

　　31. T. S. Eliot’s acknowledged best play ______ contains the best poetry and the most coherent drama. ( )

　　A. The Elder Statesman

　　B. The Family Reunion

　　C. Murder in the Cathedral

　　D. The Cocktail Party

　　32. In his Finnegan’s Wake, an encyclopedic work, Joyce ambitiously attempted to pack the whole history of mankind into ______ .( )

　　A. one night’s dream

　　B. one person’s mind

　　C. one story

　　D. one day’s meditation

　　33. The bold and frank discussion of ______ in his novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover is the chief reason why D. H. Lawrence had been accused of pornographic writing. ( )

　　A. religion

　　B. morality

　　C. sex

　　D. death

　　34. The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from John Bunyan’s masterpiece ______ .( )

　　A. Hard Times

　　B. The Pilgrim’s Progress

　　C. Gulliver’s Travels

　　D. The Monk

　　35. In 1805, William Wordsworth composed a long autobiographical poem entitled ______ .( )

　　A. Lucy Poems

　　B. Lyrical Ballads

　　C. The Prelude

　　D. The Solitary Reaper

　　36. ______, written by Alexander Pope satirized the idle and artificial life of the aristocracy. ( )

　　A. The Rape of Lucrece

　　B. The Rape of the Lock

　　C. The Essay on Criticism

　　D. A Tale of Tub

　　37. ______ compiled the Dictionary of the English Language, the first English dictionary compiled by an Englishman. ( )

　　A. Ben Jonson

　　B. Samuel Johnson

　　C. John Dryden

　　D. Alexander Pope

　　38. Shaw is a master of play. His plays have plots but they do not work by plots. It is the vitality of the ______ that takes primacy over mere story. ( )

　　A. characterization

　　B. depiction

　　C. talk

　　D. metaphor

　　39. Which of the following is NOT written by Robert Browning? ( )

　　A. Men and Women

　　B. The Ring and the Book

　　C. Pauline

　　D. Idylls of the King

　　40. “‘I believe you are made of stone’, he said, clenching his fingers so hard that he broke the fragile cup. ‘You seem to forget,’ she said, ‘that cup is not!’” From the quotation we may suppose the woman’s tone is very ______ .( )

　　A. sarcastic

　　B. delightful

　　C. sentimental

　　D. humorous

　　Part Ⅲ. Definition:

　　Define the literary terms listed below. (20 points in all, 5 points for each)

　　41. Utilitarianism

　　42. Dramatic Monologue

　　43. Modernism

　　44. The Angry Young Men

　　Part IV. Reading Comprehension:

　　Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. (20 points in all, 5 points for each)

　　45. “From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,

　　Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,

　　And soonest our best men with thee do go,

　　Rest of their bones, and soul’s delivery”.

　　Questions:

　　A. Identify the poem and the poet.

　　B. Briefly interpret this part.

　　46. “Is not a parton, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?”

　　Questions:

　　A. Which essay is this passage taken from? Who is the author?

　　B. Briefly interpret this part.

　　47. “A violet by a mossy stone

　　Half hidden from the eye!

　　― Fair as a star, when only one

　　Is shining in the sky”.

　　Questions:

　　A. Identify the poem and the poet.

　　B. Briefly interpret this passage.

　　48. “He flung himself into the nearest seat, and on my approaching hurriedly to ascertain if she had fainted, he gnashed at me, and foamed like a mad dog, and gathered her to him with greedy jealousy. I did not feel as if I were in the company of a creature of my own species”.

　　Questions:

　　A. Which essay is this passage taken from? Who is the author?

　　B. How do you think about the protagonist’s mind?

　　Part Ⅴ. Topic Discussion:

　　Give brief answers to the following questions. (20 points in all, 10 points for each)

　　49. In what styles does James Joyce create Ulysses?

　　50. What’s the moral of George Eliot’s novel Silas Marner?

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