英国文学选读试题浙江2004年1月

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浙江省2004年1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)Charles Dickens A. Dombey and Son

(2)Samuel Taylor Coleridge B. The Forsyte Saga

(3)Jonathan Swift C. The Jew of Malta

(4)John Galsworthy D. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

(5)Christopher Marlowe E. A Modest Proposal

Section B

A B

(1)Doctor Faustus A. Darcy

(2)The Man of Property B. Joseph Surface

(3)The School For Scandal C. Sophia

(4)Pride and Prejudice D. Irene

(5)Tom Jones E. Mephistophilis

Part Ⅱ: Complete each of the following statements with a proper words or a phrase according to the textbook. (5%)

1. It is Spenser’s idealism, his love of beauty, and his exquisite melody that made him known as “______”.

2. Pope’s An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in ______.

3. The two major novelists of the Romantic period are Jane Austen and ______.

4. The most original playwright of the theatre of ______ is Samuel Beckett.

5. James Joyce’s novels and short stories are regarded as his great works, all of which have the same setting: ______.

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. The first important English essayist ______ is best known for his essays which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.

A. Charles Lamb

B. Samuel Johnson

C. Francis Bacon

D. William Hazlitt

2. Shakespeare’s four great tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, ______ and ______.

A. King Lear…Romeo and Juliet

B. King Lear…Macbeth

C. King John…Julius Caesar

D. King John…The Merchant of Venice

3. The predominated metaphor in The Pilgrim’s Progress is that ______.

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A. Life is a journey

B. Life is a dream

C. Life is to endure hardship

D. none of the above

4. Dr. Faustus is a play based on the ______ legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.

A. German

B. Greek

C. English

D. Scottish

5. The term “metaphysical poetry”is commonly used to name the work of the ______ century writers who wrote under the influence of ______.

A. 16th…Edmund Spenser

B. 17th…John Donne

C. 18th…Thomas Gray

D. 20th…John Ransom

6. A good style as “proper words in proper places”is defined by ______.

A. Defoe

B. Swift

C. Pope

D. Feilding

7. Which of the following is NOT Defoe’s works?

A. Moll Flanders

B. Colonel Jack

C. Silas Marner

D. Roxana

8. Tand is an imaginary island where ______.

A. Horses are endowed with reason and all good and admirable qualities.

B. Y ahoos are governing class.

C. Horses are hairy, wild, low and despicable brutes, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also almost every other way.

D. Y ahoos are possessed of reason.

9. ______ was first intended as a burlesque of the dubious morality and false sentimentality of Richardson’s Pamela.

A. Joseph Andrews

B. Tom Jones

C. Jonathan Wild the Great

D. Moll Flanders

10. Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”once and for all established his fame as the leader of the ______ poetry.

A. Romantic

B. Pastoral

C. Neoclassical

D. Sentimental

11. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”is quoted from Shelley’s ______.

A. The Cloud

B. Ode to Liberty

C. Ode to the West Wind

D. To a Skylark

12. According to the subjects, Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about ______ and poems about ______.

A. nature…love & friendship

B. nature…human life

C. Scotland…love & friendship

D. Scotland…human life

13. Literarily, ______ was the first important Romantic poet, showing contempt for the rule of reason, opposing the classical tradition of the 18th century, and treasuring the individual

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