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浙江省2004年10月自考10054英国文学选读试题（浙江自考）
浙江省2004年10月高等教育自学考试
英国文学选读试题
课程代码：10054
Part Ⅰ: Choose the relevant match from column B for each item in column A. (10%)
Section A
A B
(1)T.S.Eliot A. Death, Be Not Proud
(2)John Keats B.The Waste Land
(3)Percy Bysshe Shelley C. Ode on A Grecian Urn
(4)John Galsworthy D. Prometheus Unbound
(5)John Donne E. The Forsyte Saga
Section B
A B
(1)Doctor Faustus A. Haidée
(2)The Merchant of Venice B.Joseph Surface
(3)The School For Scandal C.Friday
(4)Don Juan D.Portia
(5)Robinson Crusoe E. Mephistophilis
Part Ⅱ: Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. (5%)
1. The Eighteenth-century England is also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of __________.
2. It is Spenser’s idealism, his love of beauty, and his exquisite melody that made him known as “the poet’s__________”.
3. Victorian literature, in general, truthfully represents the __________ and the spirit of the age.
4.The most original playwright of the theatre __________ is Samuel Beckett.
5. Lawrence was one of the first novelists to introduce themes of __________ into his works.
Part Ⅲ: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (50%)
1.__________introduced the Petrarchan sonnet into England, while__________brought in blank verse, i.e.the unrhymed iambic pentameter line.
A. Wyatt... Surrey B. Wyatt... Sidney
C. Surrey...Sidney D. Sidney... Spenser
2.Marlowe’s greatest achievement lies in that he perfected the __________and made it the principal medium of English drama.
A. blank verse B. free verse
C. sonnet D. alliteration
3.The Tempest is a typical example of Shakespeare’s__________view of life towards human life and society in his late years.
A. pessimistic B. optimistic
C. satirical D. none of the above
4.Paradise Lost, the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf, is divided into__________books.
A. 12 B. 6 C. 4 D. 10
5.Christian is the character in __________.
A. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
B. The Pilgrim’s Progress
C. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
D. none of the above
6.As to The Pilgrim’s Progress, Which of the following statements is not right?
A. It is written in dream vision.
B. It is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.
C. Hopeful accompanies Christian to their destination, where they enjoy the eternal life in the fellowship of the blessed.
D. The predominant metaphor is that life is a dream.
7.Daniel Defoe, at the age of nearly 60, started his first novel__________,which is universally considered his masterpiece.
A. Robinson Crusoe B. Moll Flanders
C. Colonel Jack D. Captain Singleton
8.Of all the 18th century novelists, __________was the first to set out both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.
A. Feilding B. Swift
C. Defoe D. Richardson
9.In Tom Jones, the hero Tom is __________in contrast with Blifil who is __________.
A. innocent and kind-hearted ... hypocritical and wicked
B. hypocritical and wicked ... innocent and kindhearted
C. rude and stubborn ... cunning and speculating
D. cunning and speculating ... rude and stubborn
10.The middle of the 18th century was predominated by a newly rising literary form __________.
A. the modern English novel B. the modern English poetry
C. the modern English drama D. both A and B
11.As to Romanticism, which of the following statements is not right?
A. Romantic poetry is written according to fixed rules.
B. The Romanticists would return to the humble people and the common everyday life for the subjects.
C. The Romanticists not only extol the faculty of imagination, but also elevate the concepts of spontaneity and inspiration.
D. In order to achieve the effect of the individual vision, the medieval or renaissance world were particularly favored by the Romantics.
12.English Romanticism is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of __________’s Lyrical Ballads.
A. Wordsworth and Southey B. Coleridge and Southey
C. Wordsworth and Coleridge D. Southey and Blake
13.__________is Byron’s masterpiece, a great comic epic of the early 19th century. It is a poem based on a traditional Spanish legend of a great lover and seducer of women.
A. Child Harold’s Pilgrimage B. Don Juan
C. The Prisoner of Chillon D. The Island
14.__________, the pioneering woman who, according to D.H.Lawrence, was the first novelist that “started putting all actions inside.”
A. Jane Austen B. George Eliot
C. Mrs. Gaskell D. Charlotte Brontë
15.Keats’Ode to a Nightingale expresses the contrast between__________.
A. the happy world of natural loveliness and human world of agony
B. the happy world of natural loveliness and human world of happiness
C. the world of natural innocence and the world of human misery
D. the world of romantic dream and the world of reality and agony
16.In portrait of her female characters, Austen tries to say that__________.
A. it is right to marry for material wealth and social position
B. it is right to marry just for beauty and passion
C. it is right to marry for true love without consideration of the partner’s personal merit
D. it is wrong to marry just for money or for beauty, but it is also wrong to marry without it
17._______ ___are generally regarded as important links between the masterpieces of
Shakespeare and those of Bernard Shaw.
A. The Rivals and The School for Scandal B. The Rivals and St. Patrick’s Day
C. The Duenna and The School for Scandal D. St. Patrick’s Day and The Duenna
18.To match his humorous genius, Dickens is also noted for his pictures of __________.
A. joy B. pathos C. laughter D. wit
19.Wuthering Heights is known today as __________most fascinating novel.
A. Charlotte Brontë’s B. Anne Brontë’s
C. Emily Brontë’s D. George Eliot’s
20.As to Idylls of the King, which following statements is not right?
A. It is Tennyson’s most ambitious work which took him over 30 years to complete.
B. It is made up of 6 books of narrative poems.
C. It is based on the Celtic legends of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.
D. It is a modern interpretation of the classic myth.
21.__________is the pseudonym of Marry Ann Evans.
A. Jane Austen B. George Eliot
C. T.S.Eliot D. Anne Bronte
22.In his novels of social satire,__________made realistic studies of the aspirations and frustrations of the “Little Man”.
A. John Galsworthy B. Arnold Bennett
C. D.H.Lawrence D. H.G.Wells
23.__________is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare.
A. Oscar Wilde B. Galsworthy
C. G.B.Shaw D. W.B.Yeats
24.__________, a collection of 15 short stories, is the first important work of James Joyce’s life long preoccupation with Dublin life.
A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
B. Dubliners
C.Ulysses
D. Finnegans Wake
25.__________is regarded as the most prominent stream-of-consciousness novelist.
A. James Joyce B. Virginia Woolf
C. D.H.Lawrence D. E.M.Forster
Part Ⅳ. Interpretation (20%)
Read the following selections and then answer the questions. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
(1)
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May，
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st,
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this ,and this gives life to thee.
1.What kind of poem is this, blank verse, sonnet, pastoral poem,or ode? Who is the author?
2. What is the central idea of this poem?
(2)
O Attic shape! Fair attitude! With brede
Of marble men and maidens overwrought，
With forest branches and the trodden weed;
Thou, silent form,dost tease us out of thought
As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours ,a friend to man, to whom thou say’st,
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,”—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
3.Where does eternity lie, according to the author?
4. Interpret“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” within the context of this poem.
(3)
“I grieve to leave Thornfield: I love Thornfield:— I love it, because I have lived in it a full and delightful life, — momentarily at least. I have not been trampled on . I have not been petrified. I have not been buried with inferior minds, and excluded from every glimpse of communion with what is bright and energetic and high. I have talked, face to face, with what I reverence, with what I delight in, — with an original, a vigorous, an expanded mind. I have known you, Mr. Rochester; and it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking on the necessity of death.”
“Where do you see the necessity?” he asked suddenly.
“Where? You ,sir , have placed it before me .”
“In what shape ?”
“In the shape of Miss Ingram; a noble and beautiful woman,— your bride. ”
“My bride ! What bride ? I have no bride !”
“But you will have .”
“Yes, —I will !—I will !”He set his teeth .
“Then I must go — you have said it yourself.”
“No, you must stay! I swear it —and the oath shall be kept.”
“I tell you I must go !” I retorted, roused to something like passion. “Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton?—a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!— I have as much soul as you, —and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh; — it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet ,equal, — as we are! ”
5. What does Jane Eyre want to declare with her revolting against Mr. Rochester?
Part Ⅴ: Give brief answers to the following questions(15%).
1. Why is Jane Austen regarded as “a writer of the eighteenth century” though she lives in the nineteenth century?(9%)
2. Why is T.S.Eliot’s The Waste Land regarded as a monumental work of the twentieth century English literature?(6%)?
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