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2007年10月自考10054英国文学选读试题（浙江自考）
浙江省2007年10月高等教育自学考试
英国文学选读试题
课程代码：10054
Section A
A B
(1)Daniel Defoe ( ) A. The Pilgrim’s Progress
(2)Charles Dickens ( ) B. The Silver Box
(3)John Bunyan ( ) C. Robinson Crusoe
(4)Richard Sheridan ( ) D. A Tale of Two Cities
(5)John Galsworthy ( ) E. The School for Scandal
Section B
A B(1) Jane Eyre ( ) A. Irene
(2) The Man of Property ( ) B. Mr. Rochester
(3) The Merchant of Venice ( ) C. Satan
(4) Paradise Lost ( ) D. Sophia Western
(5) The History of Tom Jones ( ) E. Portia
Ⅱ.Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook.(5%)
1. In the era of the Renaissance, the humanists made attempts to get rid of those old ______ ideas in medieval Europe.
2. The ______ century was an age of prose. A group of excellent writers, such as Swift, Fielding were produced.
3. English ______ is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads.
4. In the Victorian period, the______ as a literary genre became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.
5. The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern ______ in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.
Ⅲ.Each of the following statements is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement.(48%)
1. During the Renaissance period many European humanist thinkers and scholars did not make efforts to do the following except( )
A. to make reformation of those old feudalist ideas in medieval Europe.
B. to introduce new ideas that expressed the interests of the feudalist.
C. to exalt human nature which is capable of individual perfection.
D. to prevent the purity of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church.
2. About Shakespeare’s romantic comedies, which of the following is not true? ( )
A. He takes an optimistic attitude toward love and truth.
B. The romantic elements are brought into full play.
C. He praises the patriotic spirit when engaging intellectual excitement and emotion.
D. His youthful Renaissance spirit of jollity is fully reflected.
3. As a Renaissance humanist, Shakespeare ( )
A. is against religious persecution and racial discrimination, against social inequality and the corrupting influence of gold and money.
B. holds that literature should be a combination of beauty, kindness and truth, and should reflect nature and reality.
C. gives faithful reflection of the social realities of his time through his works.
D. all of the above.
4. Which of the following statements about Paradise Lost is true? ( )
A. Adam and Eve were driven out of Paradise for their conspiracy with Satan.
B. The writer intended to expose the ways of Satan and to justify the ways of God to men.
C. Satan, as a rebel to God, was finally defeated and surrendered.
D. Satan was finally reconciled with God.
5. The 18th-century England is known as ( )
A. the Age of Puritanism B. the Age of Reason
C. the Era of Capitalism D. the Age of Glory
6. Why did the enlighteners regard education the major means to improve the society and the people? ( )
A. Because most of the human beings were perfect themselves, so only a few needed further education.
B. If the common people were well educated, there would be great chance for a democratic and equal human society.
C. Because universal education was limited , dualistic, imperfect, and unnecessary.
D. Because human beings were not capable of rationality and perfection through education.
7. The neoclassicists did not believe that ( )
A. the literature should be used to delight and instruct human beings.
B. the artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion and accuracy.
C. the literary works should be created independently and originally.
D. both A and C
8. The enlighteners placed much emphasis on reason, because they thought ( )
A. reason or rationality should be the only, the final cause of any human thought and activities.
B. reason and emotion both could lead to truth and justice.
C. superstition was above reason and rationality.
D. equality and science was contrary to reason and rationality.
9. The middle of the 18th century saw 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
10. In Robinson Crusoe, the writer glorifies ( )
A. pride and happiness B. independence and strong will
C. hard work and success D. human labor and the Puritan fortitude
11. Which of the following is not Daniel Defoe’s works? ( )
A. Gulliver’s Travels B. Captain Singleton
C. Moll Flanders D. Robinson Crusoe
12. As a master satirist, Swift’s satire is usually masked by ( )
A. outward gravity and apparent earnestness B. apparent eagerness and sincerity
C. pessimism and bitterness D. seemingly gentleness and sweetness
13. In the Houyhnhnm land, Gulliver found that ______ were hairy, wild, low and despicable brutes while ______ are endowed with reason and all good and admirable qualities. ( )
A. the horses ... the Yahoos B. the horses ... human beings
C. the Yahoos ... the horses D. the Yahoos ... human beings
14. Which of following is true about the poetic aesthetics of William Wordsworth? ( )
A. Poetry could call for people’s sympathy to the poetic revolution
B. Poetry could make literature as an expression of individualism
C. Poetry could set forth a new critical creed on poetry
D. Poetry could purify both individual souls and the society
15. Blake’s Songs of Innocence is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a world of ( )
A. happiness and innocence B. hope and experience
C. happiness and misery D. misery and poverty
16. Which of the following statements is true about Wordsworth’s contribution to literature? ( )
A. He started the modern novel , the writing of growing inner self.
B. He initiated the use of ordinary speech of the English language to poetry.
C. He advocated an escape from nature.
D. He refused to decorate the truth of experience.
17. As to the novel Pride and Prejudice, which of the following statements is not true?( )
A. It mainly tells of the love story between Darcy and Elizabeth.
B. Darcy and Elizabeth symbolize pride and prejudice respectively.
C. Elizabeth and Darcy symbolize pride and prejudice respectively.
D. Its original title is drafted as “First Impressions”.
18. Which of the following groups belongs to the critical realists of the Victorian Period?( )
A. Jane Austen and Emily Bronte B. Charles Dickens and Walter Scott
C. Thomas Hardy and George Eliot D. D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce
19. The religious hypocrisy of charity institutions are sharply criticized in the novel ( )
A. Oliver Twist B. Wuthering Heights
C. A Tale of Two Cities D. Jane Eyre
20. As to Thomas Hardy’s later works, which of the following statements is true? ( )
A. They are regarded as novels of humanity and nature.
B. They are well-known as novels of character and environment.
C. They are local-colored novels of nature and character.
D. They are classified as novels of environment and nature.
21. The 20th-century Modernism is thought to take ______ as its theoretical base. ( )
A. the theories of skepticism and disillusion of capitalism
B. the pessimistic philosophy and the doctrines of Christian morality
C. the theories of postmodernism and existentialism
D. the irrational philosophy and the theory of psychoanalysis
22. Which of the following statements is not true about the Theater of Absurd? ( )
A. Waiting for Godot is regarded as the most influential play of absurd.
B. It concerns more about human beings in an alien and decaying world.
C. The most original absurd playwright is G B Shaw.
D. It writes about human beings living a meaningless life.
23. Which of the following is not written by G. B. Shaw? ( )
A. The Rainbow B. Mrs. Warren’s Profession
C. Pygmalion D. Widowers’ House
24. As to the poem The Waste Land, which of the following statements is true? ( )
A. It reflects the disillusionment and despair of a whole prewar generation.
B. It presents a panorama of disorder and spiritual desolation in the modern Western world.
C. It reflects a prevalent mood of hopefulness and optimism.
D. It shows the lost hope of spiritual rebirth in the modern world.
Ⅳ.Interpretation(20%)
Read the following selections and then answer the questions.
(1)
To be, or not to be- that is the question;
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune，
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them？ To die, to sleep—
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
... ...
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would these fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death—
The undiscover’d country, from whose bourn
No traveler returns- puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all；
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment，
With this regard， their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.
1. Who is the author of the play? From which play is this passage taken from?
2. What can be seen about the hero’s character from the monologue?
(2)
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
... ...
Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield,
Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke；
How jocund did they drive their team afield!
How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!
Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,
Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;
Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile
The short and simple annals of the poor.
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,
Awaits alike the inevitable hour.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
3. Who is the author? What school of poets does he belong to?
4. Make a brief comment on the artistic features of this poem.
（3）Mr. Gamfield gave an arch look at the faces round the table, and, observing a smile on all of them, gradually broke into a smile himself. The bargain was made. Mr. Bumble was at once instructed that Oliver Twist and his indentures were to be conveyed before the magistrate, for signature and approval, that very afternoon.
In pursuance of this determination, little Oliver, to his excessive astonishment, was released from bondage, and ordered to put himself into a clean shirt. He had hardly achieved this very unusual gymnastic performance when Mr. Bumble brought him, with his own hands, a basin of gruel and the holiday allowance of two ounces and a quarter of bread. At this tremendous sight, Oliver began to cry very piteously, thinking, not unnaturally, that the board must have determined to kill him for some useful purpose, or they never would have begun to fatten him up in that way.
“Don’t make your eyes red, Oliver, but eat your food and be thankful,” said Mr. Bumble, in a tone of impressive pomposity. “You’re a going to be made a’prentice of, Oliver.”
‘A’prentice, sir!’ said the child, trembling.
“Yes, Oliver,” said Mr. Bumble. “The kind and blessed gentlemen which is so many parents to you, Oliver, when you have none of your own, are going to a’prentice you, and to set you up in life, and make a man of you, although the expense to the parish is three pound ten! — three pound ten, Oliver! — seventy shillings — one hundred and forty sixpences! — and all for a naughty orphan which nobody can’t love.”
As Mr. Bumble paused to take breath, after delivering this address in an awful voice, the tears rolled down the poor child’s face, and he sobbed bitterly.
“Come,” said Mr. Bumble, somewhat less pompously, for it was gratifying to his feelings to observe the effect his eloquence had produced， “Come, Oliver! Wipe your eyes with the cuffs of your jacket, and don’t cry into your gruel; that’s a very foolish action, Oliver.” It certainly was, for there was quite enough water in it already.
5. What can be shown according to the boy’s experience in the workhouse?
Ⅴ.Give brief answers to the following questions.(17%)
1. State the major characteristics of the critical realism in the Victorian Period.
2. State briefly the features of Lawrence’s psychological realism.
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