浙江省2010年1月自考10054英国文学选读试题（浙江自考）

浙江省2010年1月自学考试英国文学选读试题

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’s plays have been traditionally divided into three categories: histories, ______ and tragedies.
2. William Caxton was the first person who introduced ______ into England.
3. Wyatt, in the Renaissance period, introduced the Petrarchan ______ into England, while Surrey brought in blank verse.
4. The Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classical works in the field of literature. This tendency is known as ______.
5. The three unities refer to those of time, place and ______.
6. Regarded as Thomas Gray’s best and most representative work, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is more or less connected with the melancholy event of the death of ______.
7. In 1704 Jonathan Swift published two powerful satires on corruption in religion and learning, A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books, which established his name as a ______.
8. In Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Lawrence not only condemns the civilized world of mechanism for distorting human relationships, but also advocates a return to ______.
9. The social Darwinism, under the cover of “survival of the fittest”, vehemently advocated colonialism and ______.
10. Dubliners is the first important work of Joyce’s lifelong preoccupation with ______ life.
Part Ⅱ. Multiple-choice questions:
Select from the four choices A, B, C, D of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. (30 points in all, 1 point for each)
11. Marlowe gave new vigor to the blank verse with his “______”.
A. lyrical lines                                                B. soft lines
C. mighty lines                                               D. religious lines
12. Francis Bacon is not only the first important essayist but also the founder of modern ______ in England.
A. poetry                                                       B. novel
C. prose                                                        D. science
13. Spenser’s masterpiece is ______, which is a great poem of the age.
A. The Shepheardes Calender                           B. The Faierie Queene
C. The Rape of Lucrece                                   D. The Canterbury Tales
14.John Milton wrote ______ to expose the way of Satan and to “justify the ways of God to men”.
A. Paradise Lost                                             B. Paradise Regained
C. Lycidas                                                     D. Samson Agonistes
15. According to the neoclassicists, all forms of literature were to be modeled after the classical works of the ancient Greek and ______ writers.
A. Italian                                                        B. British
C. German                                                     D. Roman
16. The romantic poets of the ______ peasant poet, Robert Burns and William Blake also joined lamenting lyrics, paving the way for the flourish of Romanticism early the next century.
A. British                                                       B. Irish
C. Scottish                                                     D. Wales
17.The Pilgrim’s Progress is the most successful religious ______ in the English language.
A. allegory                                                     B. fable
C. fairy tale                                                    D. essay
18. ______ once defined a good style as “proper words in proper places”.
A. John Donne                                               B. Jonathan Swift
C. Daniel Defoe                                              D. John Bunyan
19. Gray’s “Elegy written in a Country Churchyard” once and for all established his fame as the leader of the ______ poetry of the day.
A. romantic                                                   B. historical
C. lyrical                                                        D. sentimental
20. Marx once extolled ______ as “an instinctive defender of the masses of the people against the encroachment of the bourgeoisie”.
A. William Godwin                                         B. William Burke
C. William Cobbet                                          D. William Fox
21. ______, defined by Coleridge, is the vital faculty that creates new wholes out of disparate elements.
A. Ration                                                       B. Reason
C. Alliteration                                                 D. Imagination
22. According to the subjects, Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about nature and poems about ______.
A. human life                                                 B. urban life
C. social activities                                           D. inner life of an individual
23. Coleridge’s actual achievement as poet can be divided into two remarkably diverse groups: the ______ and the conversational.
A. natural                                                      B. religious
C. spiritual                                                    D. demonic
24. Shelley’s greatest achievement is his ______ poetic drama, Prometheus Unbound(1820).
A. one-act                                                      B. three-act
C. two-act                                                     D. four-act
25. Endymion, published in 1818, was a poem based on the ______ myth of Endymion and the moon goddess.
A. Greek                                                       B. Roman
C. Italian                                                       D. British
26. Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey satirizes those popular ______ romances of the late 18^th century.
A. sentimental                                                B. lyrical
C. Gothic                                                       D. rational
27. Chronologically the Victorian period roughly conincides with the reign of Queen ______ who ruled over England from 1836 to 1901.
A. Elizabeth                                                   B. Victoria
C. Mary                                                        D. Anne
28. The aestheticists Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater are two notorious advocators of the theory of ______.
A. art for life’s sake                                        B. art for money’s sake
C. art for art’s sake                                         D. art for reader’s sake
29. Brought up with strict orthodoxy, Charlotte would usually stick to the ______ code.
A. Christian                                                    B. Islamic
C. Puritanical                                                 D. Cavalier
30. As far as Emily Bronte’s literary creation is concerned, she is, first of all, a ______.
A. novelist                                                     B. dramatist
C. poet                                                          D. essayist
31. Tennyson’s most ambitious work which took him over 30 years to complete is ______.
A. In Memoriam                                            B. Idylls of the King
C. Poems by Two Brothers                               D. Poems, Chiefly Lyrical
32. The Publication of ______ finally established Browning’s position as one of the greatest English poets.
A. The Ring and the Book                               B. The Book and the Ring
C. Men and Women                                         D. Dramatic Lyrics
33. Hardy’s best local-colored works are very known as “novels of character and ______.”
A. personality                                                 B. nature
C. domestic life                                              D. environment
34. The French ______ , appearing in the late 19th century, heralded modernism.
A. symbolism                                                 B. futurism
C. naturism                                                   D. surrealism
35. In his novel of social satire, H. G. Wells made realistic studies of the aspirations and frustrations of the ______.
A. Little Man                                                 B. Big Man
C. Social Man                                                D. Jungle Man
36. Modernist novels came to a decline in the ______ , though Joyce and Woolf continued their experiments.
A. 1920s                                                        B. 1930s
C. 1940s                                                        D. 1950s
37. The most original playwright of the ______ is Samuel Beckett, who wrote about human beings living a meaningless life in an alien, decaying world.
A. Theater of Tradition                                   B. Theater of Reason
C. Theater of Angry                                        D. Theater of Absurd
38. Structurally and thematically, Shaw followed the great tradition of ______.
A. romanticism                                               B. realism
C. symbolism                                                 D. humanism
39. ______ is the first novel of the Forsyte trilogies written by John Galsworthy in 1920.
A. The Man of Property                                  B. In Chancery
C. To Let                                                       D. A Modern Comedy
40.Ulysses ends with the famous monologue by ______, who is musing in a half-awake state over the past experience.
A. Leopold Bloom                                           B. Stephen Dedalus
C. Molly                                                        D. Finnegans
Part Ⅲ. Definition:
Define the literary terms listed below. (20 points in all, 5 points for each)
41. Humanism
42. Gothic novel
43. The red thirties
44. Symbolism
Part IV. Reading Comprehension:
Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. (20 points in all, 5 points for each)
45. “Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long live this, and this gives life to thee”.
Questions:
A. Identify the poem and the poet.
B. Briefly interpret this part.
46. “Behold her, single in the field,
You solitary Highland lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!
Alone she cuts and binds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain;
O listen! for the Vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.”
Questions:
A. Identify the poem and the poet.
B. Comment the rime scheme.
47. “Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
Questions:
A. Which essay is this passage taken from? Who is the author?
B. Briefly interpret this passage.
48. “I lingered before her stall, though I knew my stay was useless to make my interest in her wares seem the more real. Then I turned away slowly and walked down the middle of the bazaar. I allowed the two pennies to fall against the sixpence in my pocket. I heard a voice call from one end of the gallery that the light was out.
Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger”.
Questions:
A. Which essay is this passage taken from? Who is the author?
B. Why the hero saw himself “as a creature driven and derided by vanity”?
Part Ⅴ. Topic Discussion:
Give brief answers to the following questions.  (20 points in all, 10 points for each)
49. Tennyson is a genuine artist. He is quite known for his artistic features. Discuss the major artistic features of his poetry.
50. What is the theme of G. B. Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession?
 


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