2020年7月全国自考英美文学选读试题及答案解析

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全国自考2018年7月英美文学选读试题

课程代码：00604

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PART ONE(40 POINTS)

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. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.

1. Of all the eighteenth—century British novelists ______ was the first to set out，both in theory and practice，to write specially a “comic epic in prose”，the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.

A. Thomas Gray

B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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C. Jonathan Swift

D. Henry Fielding

2. The poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” established ______ as the leader of the sentimental poetry of the day，especially “the Graveyard School”.

A. Thomas Gray

B. Samuel Johnson

C. John Bunyan

D. John Milton

3. “Do you think, because I am poor，obscure，plain，and little，I am soulless and heartless... And if God had gifted me with some beauty，and much wealth，I should have made it as hard for you to leave me. as it is now for me to leave you. ”The quoted part is taken from ______.

A. Great Expectations

B. Wuthering Heights

C. Jane Eyre

D. Pride and Prejudice

4. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are all the following EXCEPT

______.

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A. Francis Bacon

B. Christopher Marlowe

C. William Shakespeare

D. BenJonson

5. George Bernard Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is about______.

A. slum landlordism

B. the economic oppression of women

C. the political corruption in England

D. the religious corruption in England

6. All of the following statements can correctly describe the Enlightenment Movement EXCEPT ______.

A. The movement flourished in France.

B. The movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance.

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C. The purpose of the movement was to enlighten the whole world.

D. The purpose of the movement was to enhance the religious education.

7. Among the three major poetical works by John Milton ______ is the most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greek style in English.

A. Samson Agonistes

B. Paradise Lost

C. Paradise Regained

D. Areopagitica

8. The major British Romantic poets Blake，Wordsworth，Coleridge，Byron，Shelley and Keats started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature，which was later regarded as _____. A. the poetic romance B. the poetic movement

C. the poetic revolution

D. the poetic reformation

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9. Jane Austen’s main literary concern is about ______.

A. human beings in their personal relationships

B. the love story between the rich and the poor