英美文学历年真题

全国2005年7月高等教育自学考试

英美文学选读试题

Ⅰ. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)

1.With classical culture and the（）humanistic ideas coming into England, the English Renaissance began flourishing.

A. French

B. German

C. Italian

D. Greek

2.“Co me live with me and be my love, / And we will all the pleasures prove / That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, / Woods, or steepy mountain yields.”

The above lines are taken from Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”, which derives from the （）tradition.

A. pastoral

B. heroic

C. romantic

D. realistic

3.“Metaphysical conceit”is a strategy characteristic of John Donne’s poetry. It is（）.

A. a confession that avoids questions of moral accountability

B. the linking of images from very different ranges of experience

C. self-definition through images based on the four primal elements

D. the chaining of images representing solid and gaseous elements

4.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 includes three stanzas according to the content with these last two lines as a（）, which completes the sense of the above lines.

A. prelude

B. couplet

C. epigraph

D. exposition

5.“Therefore at this fair are a ll such merchandise sold, as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures, and delights of all sorts, as whores, bawds, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants…” The above sentences are taken from（）.

A. John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress

B. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels

C. Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones

D. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

6.Jonathan Swift is a master satirist in English literature. His A Tale of a Tub is an attack on（）.

A. the government

B. greed

C. the church

D. the abuse of power

7.Chaucer was the first English writer to adopt heroic couplet in his writhing of poems. In the early 18th century, the chief proponent of the heroic couplet was（）.

A. Alexander Pope

B. William Wordsworth

C. Lord Byron

D. Thomas Gray

8.As a lexicographer, he distinguished himself as the author of the first English dictionary—A Dictionary of the English Language. What is his name（）.

A. Jonathan Swift

B. Samuel Johnson

C. Ben Jonson

D. John Milton

9.Which of the following statements about Neo-Classicism and Enlightenment Movement is true（）.

A. The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 17th century.

B. Neo-Classicism found its artistic models in the classical literature of the ancient Greek and Roman writers like Homer, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, etc. and in the contemporary French writers such as Voltaire and Diderot.

C. Neo-Classicism put the stress on the classical artistic ideals of order, logic, proportion, spontaneous emotion, and passion.

D. Satire was much used in writing in the neo-classic works. English literature of this age produced a distinguished satirist Daniel Defoe.

10.A poet asserted that poetry originate d form “emotion recollected in tranquillity”. He maintained that the scenes