浙江省2006年10月自考10054英国文学选读试题（浙江自考）

Ⅰ. Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10%)
Section A
A                                                            B
(1) D. H. Lawrence                                   A. Middlemarch
(2) Jane Austen                                  B. Doctor Faustus
(3) Christopher Marlower                    C. An Essay on Criticism
(4) Alexander Pope                             D. The Rainbow
(5) George Eliot                                 E. Northanger Abbey
Section B
A                                                             B
(1) Jane Eyre                                     A. Redcrosse Knight
(2) Sons and Lovers                            B. Angel Clare
(3) Tess of the D’urbervilles                C. Christian
(4) The Faerie Queene                        D. Mrs. Morel
(5) The Pilgrim’s Progress                  E. Mr.  Rochester
Ⅱ. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. (5%)
1. The essence of the Renaissance is _____.
2. Fielding adopted “the _____ person narration”, in which the author becomes the “all-knowing God”.
3. English Romanticism is generally said to begin in _____ with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads.
4. _____ rose out of skepticism and disillusion of capitalism.
5. _____ is regarded as the most prominent stream-of-consciousness novelist.
Ⅲ. Each of the following statements is followed by four alternative answers.  Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (50%)
1. Edmund Spenser’s masterpiece is _____.
A. The Shepheared’s Calender                        B. The Faerie Queen
C. Epithalamion                                           D. The Canterbury Tales
2. Dr. Faustus is a play based on the _____ of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.
A. German legend                                         B. Greek legend
C. French legend                                          D. British legend
3. Shakespeare is known to have used _____ different words.  His coinage of new words and distortion of the meaning of the old ones also create striking effects on the reader.
A. 16,000                                                    B. 1600
C. 20,000                                                    D. 2000
4. _____ lust for power stirs up his ambition and leads him to incessant crimes.
A. Othello’s                                                 B. Hamlet’s
C. Shylock’s                                                D. Macbeth’s
5. The destination of Christian’s journey in The Pilgrim’s Progress  is_____.
A. the City of Destruction                             B. the Celestial City
C. Vanity Fair                                               D. none of the above
6. The hero Robinson Crusoe is a typical 18^th century English middle-calss man who _____.
A. has a great capacity for work, inexhaustible energy, courage, patience and persistence in overcoming obstacles and struggling against the hostile natural environment.
B. has strong will, but can’t endure life’s loneliness.
C. has a great capacity for work, but is frightened by the hostile natural environment.
D. thinks all the people are born equal.
7. _____ is generally consiered Fielding’s masterpiece.
A. Joseph Andrews                                        B. Jonathan Wild the Great
C. Tom Jones                                               D. Gulliver’s Travels
8. _____ has been regarded as the best comedy since Shakespeare.
A. The Rivals                                               B. The School for Scandal
C. St. Patrick’s Day                                      D. The Duenna
9. The most important contribution Wordsworth has made is that _____.
A. he started the modern poetry, the poetry of the growing inner self
B. he changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language and by advocating a return to nature
C. he is skillful at describing the city life
D. both A and B
10. _____ was composed in a dream after Coleridge took opium.
A. Kubla Khan                                             B. Christabel
C. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner               D. Frost at Midnight
11. Austen shows a human being _____.
A. at moment of crisis                                  B. in the most trivial incidents of everyday life
C. at work                                                   D. a fight in a battle field
12. In Victorian Age, the _____ became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.
A. poetry                                                     B. novel
C. familiar essay                                           D. prose
13. In depiction of his characters, Dickens is famous for _____.
A. those innocent, virtuous, persecuted, hopeless child characters
B. those horrible and grotesque characters
C. those broadly humors or comical ones
D. all the above
14. What makes Jane Eyre one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age are the followings except _____.
A. it is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society
B. it is an intense moral fable
C. it is the first introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine
D. Jane Eyre is too timid to love her master Rochester.
15. As to Idylls of the King, which of the 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.
16. The name of _____ is often associated with the term “dramatic monologue”.
A. Alfred Tennyson                                       B. Mathew Arnold
C. Elizabeth Browning                                   D. Robert Browning
17. The major themes of the modernist literature are the distorted, alienated and ill relationships between _____.
A. man and nature                                        B. man and society
C. man and woman                                      D. both A and B
18. Murder in the Cathedra,  with its  purely dramatic power, remains the most popular of _____ verse plays in spite of its primarily religious purpose.
A. W. B. Yeats’                                            B. Christopher Fry’s
C. T. S.  Eliot’s                                           D. G. B. Shaw’s
19. The overall style of Yeats’ early poetry is _____.
A. very delicate with natural imagery              B. dream-like atmosphere
C. musical beauty                                         D. all the above
20. By presenting the psychological experience of individual human life and of human relationships, _____ has opened up a wide new territory to the novel.
A. James Joyce                                            B. Virginia Woolf
C. D. H. Lawrence                                       D. E. M. Forster
21. Which of the following is a dandy in Tess of the D’Urbervilles? _____
A. Tess                                                       B. Alec
C. Blifil                                                        D. Clare
22. Lawrence was regarded as a prominent novelist only after he published his third novel, _____.
A. Sons and Lovers                                       B. Women in Love
C. The Rainbow                                           D. The White Peacock
23. _____ is regarded as the most prominent stream-of-consciousness novelist.
A. James Joyce                                            B. Virginia Woolf
C. D. H. Lawrence                                       D. E. M. Forster
24. _____, Eliot’s most important single poem, has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry.
A. The Hollow Men                                      B. The Waste Land
C. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock          D. Four Quartets
25. _____ shows a particular concern for the destiny of women, especially those with great intelligence, potential and social aspirations.
A. Jane Austen                                             B. Charlotte Bronte
C. Mrs. Gaskell                                            D. George Eliot
Ⅳ. Interpretation(20%)
Read the following selections and then answer the questions.
(1)
Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea.
 
But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.
 
Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When I embark;
 
For though from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar.
1. What does the phrase “cross the bar” mean in this poem?
2. What is the theme of this poem?
 
(2)
Some to conceit alone their taste confine,
And glittering thoughts struck out at every line;
Pleased with a work where nothing is just or fit,
One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
Poets, like painters, thus, unskilled to trace
The naked nature and the living grace,
With gold and jewels cover every part,
And hide with ornaments their want of art.
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.
As shades more sweetly recommend the light;
So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit;
For works may have more wit than does them good,
As bodies perish through excess of blood.
3. What does “conceit” mean? What is the poet’s attitude toward “conceit in poetry”?
4. What does the author think is the essence of a poem?
 
（3）
Seven years, My Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor.  Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
Is not a patron, 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? The notice which you have been pleased to take my labors, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am different, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.  I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligation where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
5. What kind of feeling does the author want to show through the refined and polite language?
Ⅴ. Give brief answers to the following questions. (15%)
1. List the five main qualities of Edmund Spenser’s poetry. (9%)
2. What are the essential characteristics of modernism?(6%)


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