英国文学选读模拟卷

华南师范大学高等教育自学考试2016年1月委考课程

《英国文学选读》模拟卷 A

（课程代码：10100）

I. Choose the best answers to complete the statements. (30%)

1.The statement “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability” opens one of well-known

3. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following except ________.

A. language used by common people

B. intensively subjective feeling

C. nature as a source of poetic writing

D. elegant wording

5. In Tom Jones, the hero Tom is __________in contrast with Blifil who is __________.

A. innocent and kind-hearted ... hypocritical and wicked

B. hypocritical and wicked ... innocent and kindhearted

C. rude and stubborn ... cunning and speculating

D. cunning and speculating ... rude and stubborn

6. English Romanticism is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of _______’s

7. In reading Shakespeare, you must have come across the line “To be or not to be, that is the

“Bingley.”

“Is he married or single?”

“Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year.

What a fine thing for our girls!”

The above dialogue must be taken from_________________.

A. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

B. Emily Bronte’s WutheringHeights

C. Ch arlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre

D. Henry Fielding’s Adam Bede

11. The term “Metaphysical poetry” is commonly used to name the work of the 17th-century writers who wrote under the influence of _______________

A. John Milton

B. John Ransom

C. John Donne

D. Thomas Gray

20. Two eminent representatives of English Enlightenment were Joseph Addison and Richard

II. Fill in the blanks and complete the following statements. (14%)

21. With his ____ plays, 154 sonnets and two long poems, Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature.

22. The English Romanticism was most greatly influenced by the industrial revolution and ____________________.

23. The 18th century is also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of ___________.

24. Norman Conquest, which happened in _________, ushered England into feudalism.

25. The extravagant metaphors and hyperboles used by John Donne are called “_____________”.

26. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and ____________ are generally regarded as Shakespeare’s Four Great Tragedies.

III. Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F). (5%)

27. Child Harold’s Pilgrimage is a travelogue, narrated by a melancholy, passionate, well-read, and very eloquent tourist, which made Percy Shelly at one stroke the best known and most talked about English poet.

28. Sonnets from the Portuguese was written by Robert Browning.

29. Enlightenment is a progressive intellectual movement which emerged in the 16th century Europe.

30. Virginia Woolf was a skilled exponent of the“stream of consciousness”technique in her novels.

31. English sentimentalists in the 18th century appealed to reasoning as a means of achieving happiness and social justice.

IV. Answer the following questions briefly. (18%)

32. What is a Gothic novel?

33. Please give a brief summary of Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre.

34. What are the features of Walter Scott’s novels?

V. Read the following passages and answer the questions. (30%)

Passage One

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee

Mightyand dreadful, for, thou art not so,

For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,

Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me；

From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,

Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,

And soonest our best men with thee do go,

Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,

And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,

And poppy, or charms can make us sleep as well,

And better than thy stroke, why swell'st thou then？

One short sleep past, we wake eternally,