[自学考试答案解析]英美文学选读试题

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英美文学选读试题

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

Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.

1. Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his ______ plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems.B

A. 27

B. 38

C.47

D. 52

2. john Milton’s literary achievement can be divided into three groups: the early poetic works, the middle prose pamphlets and the last ______.C

A. romances

B. dramas

C. great poems

D. ballads

3. The novels of ______ are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower— class people.C

A. John Milton

B. Daniel Defoe

C. Henry Fielding

D. Jonathan Swift

4. The w ork ranked by many critics as William Wordswoth’s greatest work was ______.B

A. Lyrical Ballads

B. The Prelude

C. Poems in Two Volumes

D. The Excursion

5. The author of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is ______.C

A. Daniel Defoe

B. Johathan Swift

C. Henry Fielding

D. William Blake

6. The works of ______ are famous for the depiction of the life of the middle —class women, particularly governess.*B

A. Charlotte Bronte

B. D.H. Lawrence

C. Thomas Hardy

D. Jane Austen

7. All of the following writings are created by William Wordsworth EXCEPT ______.D

A. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. ”

B. “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Septemer 3, 1802. ”

C. “The Solitary Reaper. ”

D. “The Chimney Sweeper. ”

8. The most important representative work by Jonathan Swift is ______.D

A. A Tale of a Tub

B. The Battle of the Books

C. A Modest Proposal

D. Gulliver's Travels

9 “If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”comes from Shelly’s ______.D

A. “To a Skylark”

B. “Adonais”

C. “Ode to Liberty”

D. “Ode to the West Wind”

10. In Jane Austen' s first novel ______, she tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.B

A. Pride and Prejudice

B. Sense and Sensibility

C. Emma

D. Persuasion

11. Charles Dickens is one of the greatest ______ writers of the Victorian Age.D

A. romantic

B. modernist

C. socialist

D. critical realist

12. Charlotte Bronte' s most autobiographical work, ______ is largely based on her experience in Brussels.A

A. Jane Eyre

B. Shirley

C. Villette

D. The Professor

13. William Wordsworth' s theory of poetry is calling for simple themes drawn from humble life expressed in the language of ordinary people. The preface to the second edition of ______ acts as a manifesto for the new school and sets forth his own critical creed.A

A. Lyrical Ballads

B. The Prelude

C. Poems in Two Volums

D. The Excursion

14. George Bernard Shaw' s play ______ established his position as the leading playwright of his time.*C

A. Widowers’Houses

B. Too True to Be Good

C. Mrs. Warren' s Profession

D. Candida

15. Eliot' s most important single poem ______, has been hailed as a landmark and

a model of the 20th-century English poetry.B

A. The Hollow Men

B. The Waste Land

C. Prurrock and Other Observations

D. Poems 1909-25