自考英国文学 2007年10月自考试题英国文学选读浙江试卷

做试题,没答案?上自考365,网校名师为你详细解答!浙江省2007年10月高等教育自学考试英国文学选读试题课程代码：10054Ⅰ.Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A.(10%)Section AA B(1)Daniel Defoe ( ) A. The Pilgrim’s Progress(2)Charles Dickens ( ) B. The Silver Box(3)John Bunyan ( ) C. Robinson Crusoe(4)Richard Sheridan ( ) D. A Tale of Two Cities(5)John Galsworthy ( ) E. The School for ScandalSection BA B(1) Jane Eyre( ) A. Irene(2) The Man of Property( ) B. Mr. Rochester(3) The Merchant of Venice( ) C. Satan(4) Paradise Lost( ) D. Sophia Western(5) The History of Tom Jones ( ) E. PortiaⅡ.Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook.(5%)1. In the era of the Renaissance, the humanists made attempts to get rid of those old ______ ideas in medieval Europe.2. The ______ century was an age of prose. A group of excellent writers, such as Swift, Fielding were produced.3. English ______ is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads.4. In the V ictorian period, the______ as a literary genre became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.5. The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern1______ in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.Ⅲ.Each of the following statements is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement.(48%)1. During the Renaissance period many European humanist thinkers and scholars did not make efforts to do the following except( )A. to make reformation of those old feudalist ideas in medieval Europe.B. to introduce new ideas that expressed the interests of the feudalist.C. to exalt human nature which is capable of individual perfection.D. to prevent the purity of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church.2. About Shakespeare’s romantic comedies, which of the following is not true? ( )A. He takes an optimistic attitude toward love and truth.B. The romantic elements are brought into full play.C. He praises the patriotic spirit when engaging intellectual excitement and emotion.D. His youthful Renaissance spirit of jollity is fully reflected.3. As a Renaissance humanist, Shakespeare ( )A. is against religious persecution and racial discrimination, against social inequality and the corrupting influence of gold and money.B. holds that literature should be a combination of beauty, kindness and truth, and should reflect nature and reality.C. gives faithful reflection of the social realities of his time through his works.D. all of the above.4. Which of the following statements about Paradise Lost is true? ( )A. Adam and Eve were driven out of Paradise for their conspiracy with Satan.B. The writer intended to expose the ways of Satan and to justify the ways of God to men.C. Satan, as a rebel to God, was finally defeated and surrendered.D. Satan was finally reconciled with God.5. The 18th-century England is known as ( )A. the Age of PuritanismB. the Age of ReasonC. the Era of CapitalismD. the Age of Glory6. Why did the enlighteners regard education the major means to improve the society and the2people? ( )A. Because most of the human beings were perfect themselves, so only a few needed further education.B. If the common people were well educated, there would be great chance for a democratic and equal human society.C. Because universal education was limited , dualistic, imperfect, and unnecessary.D. Because human beings were not capable of rationality and perfection through education.7. The neoclassicists did not believe that ( )A. the literature should be used to delight and instruct human beings.B. the artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion and accuracy.C. the literary works should be created independently and originally.D. both A and C8. The enlighteners placed much emphasis on reason, because they thought ( )A. reason or rationality should be the only, the final cause of any human thought and activities.B. reason and emotion both could lead to truth and justice.C. superstition was above reason and rationality.D. equality and science was contrary to reason and rationality.9. The middle of the 18th century saw a newly rising literary form—( )A. the modern English novelB. the modern English poetryC. the modern English dramaD. both A and B10. In Robinson Crusoe, the writer glorifies ( )A. pride and happinessB. independence and strong willC. hard work and successD. human labor and the Puritan fortitude11. Which of the following is not Daniel Defoe’s works? ( )A. Gulliver’s TravelsB. Captain SingletonC. Moll FlandersD. Robinson Crusoe12. As a master satirist, Swift’s satire is usually masked by ( )A. outward gravity and apparent earnestnessB. apparent eagerness and sincerityC. pessimism and bitternessD. seemingly gentleness and sweetness13. In the Houyhnhnm land, Gulliver found that ______ were hairy, wild, low and despicable3brutes while ______ are endowed with reason and all good and admirable qualities. ( )A. the horses ... the Y ahoosB. the horses ... human beingsC. the Y ahoos ... the horsesD. the Y ahoos ... human beings14. Which of following is true about the poetic aesthetics of William Wordsworth? ( )A. Poetry could call for people’s sympathy to the poetic revolutionB. Poetry could make literature as an expression of individualismC. Poetry could set forth a new critical creed on poetryD. Poetry could purify both individual souls and the society15. Blake’s Songs of Innocence is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a world of ( )A. happiness and innocenceB. hope and experienceC. happiness and miseryD. misery and poverty16. Which of the following statements is true about Wordsworth’s contribution to literature? ( )A. He started the modern novel , the writing of growing inner self.B. He initiated the use of ordinary speech of the English language to poetry.C. He advocated an escape from nature.D. He refused to decorate the truth of experience.17. As to the novel Pride and Prejudice, which of the following statements is not true?( )A. It mainly tells of the love story between Darcy and Elizabeth.B. Darcy and Elizabeth symbolize pride and prejudice respectively.C. Elizabeth and Darcy symbolize pride and prejudice respectively.D. Its original title is drafted as “First Impressions”.18. Which of the following groups belongs to the critical realists of the V ictorian Period?( )A. Jane Austen and Emily BronteB. Charles Dickens and Walter ScottC. Thomas Hardy and George EliotD. D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce19. The religious hypocrisy of charity institutions are sharply criticized in the novel ( )A. Oliver TwistB. Wuthering HeightsC. A Tale of Two CitiesD. Jane Eyre20. As to Thomas Hardy’s later works, which of the following statements is true? ( )A. They are regarded as novels of humanity and nature.4B. They are well-known as novels of character and environment.C. They are local-colored novels of nature and character.D. They are classified as novels of environment and nature.21. The 20th-century Modernism is thought to take ______ as its theoretical base. ( )A. the theories of skepticism and disillusion of capitalismB. the pessimistic philosophy and the doctrines of Christian moralityC. the theories of post modernism and existentialismD. the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho analysis22. Which of the following statements is not true about the Theater of Absurd? ( )A. Waiting for Godot is regarded as the most influential play of absurd.B. It concerns more about human beings in an alien and decaying world.C. The most original absurd playwright is G B Shaw.D. It writes about human beings living a meaningless life.23. Which of the following is not written by G. B. Shaw? ( )A. The RainbowB. Mrs. Warren’s ProfessionC. PygmalionD. Widowers’ House24. As to the poem The Waste Land, which of the following statements is true? ( )A. It reflects the disillusionment and despair of a whole pre war generation.B. It presents a panorama of disorder and spiritual desolation in the modern Western world.C. It reflects a prevalent mood of hopefulness and optimism.D. It shows the lost hope of spiritual rebirth in the modern world.Ⅳ.Interpretation(20%)Read the following selections and then answer the questions.(1)To be, or not to be- that is the question;Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune，Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them？To die, to sleep—No more; and by a sleep to say we end5... ...When he himself might his quietus makeWith a bare bodkin? Who would these fardels bear,To grunt and sweat under a weary life,But that the dread of something after death—The undiscover’d country, from whose bournNo traveler returns- puzzles the will,And makes us rather bear those ills we haveThan fly to others that we know not of?Thus conscience does make cowards of us all；And thus the native hue of resolutionIs sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,And enterprises of great pith and moment，With this regard，their currents turn awryAnd lose the name of action.1. Who is the author of the play? From which play is this passage taken from?2. What can be seen about the hero’s character from the monologue?(2)The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea,The plowman homeward plods his weary way,And leaves the world to darkness and to me.... ...Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield,Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke；How jocund did they drive their team afield!How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!6Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smileThe short and simple annals of the poor.The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,A waits alike the inevitable hour.The paths of glory lead but to the grave.3. Who is the author? What school of poets does he belong to?4. Make a brief comment on the artistic features of this poem.（3）Mr. Gamfield gave an arch look at the faces round the table, and, observing a smile on all of them, gradually broke into a smile himself. The bargain was made. Mr. Bumble was at once instructed that Oliver Twist and his indentures were to be conveyed before the magistrate, for signature and approval, that very afternoon.In pursuance of this determination, little Oliver, to his excessive astonishment, was released from bondage, and ordered to put himself into a clean shirt. He had hardly achieved this very unusual gymnastic performance when Mr. Bumble brought him, with his own hands, a basin of gruel and the holiday allowance of two ounces and a quarter of bread. At this tremendous sight, Oliver began to cry very piteously, thinking, not unnaturally, that the board must have determined to kill him for some useful purpose, or they never would have begun to fatten him up in that way. “Don’t make your eyes red, Oliver, but eat your food and be thankful,” said Mr. Bumble, in a tone of impressive pomposity. “Y ou’re a going to be made a’prentice of, Oliver.”‘A’prentice, sir!’ said the child, trembling.“Y es, Oliver,” said Mr. Bumble. “The kind and blessed gentlemen which is so many parents to you, Oliver, when you have none of your own, are going to a’prentice y ou, and to set you up in life, and make a man of you, although the expense to the parish is three pound ten! — three pound ten, Oliver! —seventy shillings —one hundred and forty sixpences! —and all for a naughty orphan which nobody can’t love.”7As Mr. Bumble paused to take breath, after delivering this address in an awful voice, the tears rolled down the poor child’s face, and he sobbed bitterly.“Come,”said Mr. Bumble, somewhat less pompously, for it was gratifying to his feelings to observe the effect his eloquence had produced，“Come, Oliver! Wipe your eyes with the cuffs of your jacket, and don’t cry into your gruel; that’s a very foolish acti on, Oliver.” It certainly was, for there was quite enough water in it already.5. What can be shown according to the boy’s experience in the workhouse?Ⅴ.Give brief answers to the following questions.(17%)1. State the major characteristics of the critical realism in the V ictorian Period.2. State briefly the features of Lawrence’s psychological realism.8。