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浙江省2011年1月自考10054英国文学选读试题（浙江自考）
浙江省2011年1月自学考试英国文学选读试题
课程代码：10054Part Ⅰ. Blank-filling: Complete each of the following stalemates with a proper word or phrase according the textbook. (10 points in all, 1 point for each)
1. In 1637 Milton wrote the finest _________ in English, Lydidas, in honor of a Cambridge friend.
2. Edmund Spenser is often referred to as “the poets’ _________ ”. His masterpiece is The Fairie Queene.
3. Reverenced by its concrete and living language and carefully observed and vividly details, John Bunyan’s style was modeled after that of the English _________ .
4. Joseph Andrews was first intended as a burlesque of the dubious morality and false sentimentality of Richardson’s _________ .
5. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” shows a sharp contrast between the _________ of art and the transience of human passion.
6. It is a commonplace that Romanticism designates a literary and philosophical theory that tends to see the _________ as the very center of all life and all experience.
7. Presumably, In Memorian is regarded as elegy written by Tennyson on the death of _________ .
8. The typical feature of Robert Browning’s poetry is the _________ .
9. Writers like Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf concentrated their efforts on digging into the human _________ .
10. Since A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man develops around a middle-class Irish boy, Stephen Dedalus, from his infancy to his manhood, it is generally regarded as a(n) _________ .
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. _________ first made blank verse the principal instrument of English drama.( )
A. Shakespeare B. Wyatt
C. Sidney D. Marlowe
12. Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies includes: _________ , Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. ( )
A. Romeo and Juliet B. Hamlet
C. Richard III D. Tempest.
13. Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “_________ in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.( )
A. tragic-comic B. comic epic
C. romance D. romantic epic
14.Richard B. Sheridan’s The School for Scandal is a _________ on the moral degeneracy of the aristocratic-bourgeois society in the 18th -century England.( )
A. high praise B. sharp satire
C. great irony D. bitter lament
15. The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less _________ attitude toward the existing social and political conditions.( )
A. negative B. positive
C. neutral D. indifferent
16. Adonais is an elegy for _________ whose early death from tuberculosis Shelley believed had been hastened by hostile reviews. ( )
A. Byron B. Blake
C. Keats D. Tennyson
17._________ is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.( )
A. Jane Eyre B. Emma
C. Wuthering Heights D. Middlemarch
18. The Victorian Age was largely an age of _________ , eminently represented by Dickens and Thackerary.( )
A. poetry B. drama
C. prose D. epic prose
19. The character Rochester in Jane Eyre can be well termed as a _________.( )
A. conventional hero B. Byronic hero
C. chivalrous aristocrat D. Homeric hero
20. “The dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life” are often used to sum up the main theme of _________ .( )
A. David Copperfield B. A Tale of Two Cities
C. Oliver Twist D. Bleak House
21.The realistic novels in the 20th century were the continuation of the _________ tradition. ( )
A. Romantic B. Renaissance
C. Victorian D. Conservative
22. Most modernist writers such as Richardson, Joyce and Woolf are mainly concerned with the _________ .( )
A. external word B. public life of an individual
C. social activities of human beings D. inner life of an individual
23. The most celebrated dramatists in the last decade of the 19th century were George Bernard Shaw and _________ .( )
A. Oscar Wilde B. D. H. Lawrence
C. E. M. Forster D. T. S. Eliot
24. The most original playwright of the Theater of Absurd is _________ .( )
A. John Osborne B. Sean O’Casey
C. Samuel Beckett D. W. B. Yeats
25. The Waste Land, one of Eliot’s masterpieces, is mainly concerned with the _________ of a modern civilization. ( )
A. social corruption B. spiritual corruption
C. physical breakup D. religious corruption
26. The _________ can be regarded as one of the themes of Joyce’s story “Araby”.( )
A. loss of innocence B. childish love
C. awareness of harsh life D. false sentimentality
27. Among the great writers of the modern period, _________ might be the greatest in radical experimentation of technical innovations in novel writing.( )
A. Joseph Conrad B. D. H. Lawrence
C. Virginia Woolf D. James Joyce
28. A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of _________, who never pays any attention to human feelings. ( )
A. property B. justice
C. morality D. humor
29. D. H. Lawrence thought that the _________ was most responsible for the alienation of the human relationships and the perversion of human personality.( )
A. pride of the aristocratic class B. vanity of the middle class
C. man’s desire for power and money D. capitalist mechanical civilization
30. G. B. Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a grotesquely realistic exposure of the _________ .( )
A. slum landlordism B. political corruption in England
C. economic oppression of women D. religious corruption in England
31. Most of Hardy’s novels are set in _________, the fictional primitive and crude rural region that is really the home place he both loves and hates.( )
A. Yorkshire B. Wessex
C. London D. Manchester
32. The French Revolution has been taken by Dickens as the background in the novel _________ .( )
A. Great Expectations B. A Tale of Two Cities
C. Bleak House D. Oliver Twist
33. Among Coleridge’s _________ group of poems, “Frost at Midnight” is the most important. ( )
A. romantic B. demonic
C. lyrical D. conversational
34. It is _________ who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of the human spirit.( )
A. Thomas Paine B. Johann Wolfgang Goethe
C. Jean Jacques Rousseau D. Beat Age
35. Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the _________ century. ( )
A. 17th B. 18th
C. 19th D. 20th
36. The most significant intellectual movement of the Renaissance was _________ .( )
A. the Reformation B. humanism
C. the Italian revival D. geographical explorations
37. Yeats is also dramatist, writing verse plays in most of the cases. He wrote more than 20 plays in a stretch of 48 years. But _________ is not a play of him. ( )
A. Purgatory B. The land of Heart’s Desire
C. The Shadowy Waters D. The Silver Box
38. The French _________ , appearing in the late 19th century, heralded modernism.( )
A. romanticism B. realism
C. symbolism D. humanism
39. Dubliners, a collection of 15 stories, is the first important work of James Joyce’s lifelong preoccupation with _________ .( )
A. Dublin life B. public life
C. London life D. human life
40. “And when I am pinned and wriggling on the wall, / Then how should I begin / To spit out all the but-ends of my days and ways”. In these lines, the image of a life pinned on the wall is vividly presented to show Prufrock’s current _________ .( )
A. misery B. laziness
C. predicament D. struggle
Part Ⅲ. Definition: Define the literary terms listed below. (20 points in all, 5 points for each)
41. Metaphysical
42. Heroic couplet
43. Byronic hero
44. Stream of consciousness
Part IV. Reading Comprehension: Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. (20 points in all, 5 points for each)
45. “Busy old fool, unruly sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows and through curtains call on us?”
Questions:
A. Identify the poem and the poet.
B. Briefly interpret this part.
46. “True wit is Nature to advantage dressed,
What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed;
Something whose truth convinced at sight we find,
That gives us back the image of our mind.”
Questions:
A. Identify the poem and the poet.
B. Briefly interpret this part.
47. Paul was afraid lest she might have misread the letter, and might be disappointed after all. He scrutinized it once, twice. Yes, he became convinced it was true. Then he sat down, his heart beating with joy.
“Mother！” he exclaimed.
“Didn’t I say we should do it!” she said, pretending she was not crying.
Questions:
A. Which essay is this passage taken from? Who is the author?
B. Briefly interpret this passage.
48. “Her eyes met his and he looked away. He neither believed nor disbelieved her, but he knew that he had made a mistake in asking; he never had known, never would know, what she was thinking. The sight of her inscrutable face, the thought of all the hundreds of evenings he had seen her sitting there like that, soft and passive, but so unreadable, unknown, enraged him beyond measure.”
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: Grief brief answers to the following questions. (20 points in all, 10 points for each)
49. How is Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound different from the traditional Greek interpretation?
50. What are the major artistic features of Charles Dickens?
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