【成人自考】【英美文学选读】【00604】2023年10月考试真题

(1).Generally speaking,the Old English poetry that has survived can be divided into two groups: the ______ group and the secular one.

A.ancient
B.religious
C.Greek
D.Puritan
正确答案B

(2).John Milton's fundamental concern with freedom and choice lies at the center of the conflict between______.

A.human love and spiritual duty
B.human love and social duty
C.spiritual love and human duty
D.spiritual love and social duty
正确答案A

(3).Shakespeare's long narrative poem is ______.

A.The Tempest
B.Hamlet
C.Pericles
D.Venus and Adonis
正确答案D

(4).Daniel Defoe's sentences are sometimes short,______,and sometimes long and rambling.

A.obscure and tedious
B.obscure and rigid
C.crisp and plain
D.crisp and tedious
正确答案C

(5).The novel"The History of Amelia" written by ______ is a maudlin picture of the social life at the time.

A.Jonathan Swift
B.John Milton
C.Henry Fielding
D.Daniel Defoe
正确答案C

(6).In Robinson Crusoe,when Robinson Crusoe ran away from home,he was an inexperienced teenager fuall of______ about the future.

A.great curiosity
B.bright fancies
C.much fear
D.ultimate anxiety
正确答案B

(7).In 1726,Jonathan Swift wrote and published his greatest satiric work, ______.

A.Gulliver s Travels
B.A Tale of a Tub
C.The Battle of the Books
D.The Drapier s Letters
正确答案A

(8).The following words EXCEPT ______ can be used to describe Tom,the hero of The History of Tom Jones.

A.honest
B.kind-hearted
C.loyal
D.low-spirited
正确答案D

(9).Generally speaking,English Romanticism refers to the period of ______.

A.1660-1798
B.1770-1880
C.1798-1832
D.1836-1901
正确答案C

(10).One of Percy Bysshe Shelley's political lyrics is ______ ,which was later to become a rallying song of the British Communist Party.

A.“Men of England”
B.“Ode to Liberty"
C."Ode to Naples"
D."Sonnet:England in 1819"
正确答案A

(11).After having read Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice,we can know that Mrs.Bennet is an ______woman.

A.intelligent
B.intricate
C.elegant
D.empty-headed
正确答案D

(12).In his later period, ______ wrote many prophetic books, one of which is The Book of Urizen.

A.Percy Shelley
B.William Blake
C.William Wordsworth
D.Daniel Defoe
正确答案B

(13).The following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT ______.

A.“An Evening Walk"
B.“My Heart Leaps Up”
C.“Tintern Abbey"
D."The Thorn”
正确答案D

(14).The writer ______ thinks that common life is the only subject of literary interest.

A.William Blake
B.Percy Bysshe Shelley
C.William Wordsworth
D.Charles Dickens
正确答案C

(15).Jane Austen's Persuasion ______ with the prudential calculations.

A.satirizes the hypocritical love
B.presents the hypocritical love
C.contrasts the true love
D.satirizes the true love
正确答案C

(16).Born in 1812,often an enthusiastic participant or organizer of some charity activities, ______ traveled to America twice, and widely on the Continent.

A.Thomas Hardy
B.Jonathan Swift
C.Daniel Defoe
D.Charles Dickens
正确答案D

(17).As a novelist, ______ writes within a very narrow sphere.

A.Jane Austen
B.Thomas Hardy
C.Bernard Shaw
D.Charlotte Brontë
正确答案A

(18).In Jane Eyre,the selfish and cold-hearted person is______.

A.St.John Rivers
B.Mliss Temple
C.Mrs.Reed
D.Helen
正确答案C

(19).The ______ view of life predominates most of Thomas Hardy's later works and earns him a reputation as a naturalistic writer.

A.optimistic
B.pessimistic
C.realistic
D.critical
正确答案B

(20).Jonathan Swift is making the most devastating protest against the inhuman exploitation and oppression of the ______ people by the English ruling class.

A.German
B.French
C.American
D.Irish
正确答案D

(21).In Charlotte Bronte's mind, man's life is composed of perpetual battle between ______ good and evil.

A.man and nature
B.right and wrong
C.man and woman
D.sin and virtue
正确答案D

(22).Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and ______ as its theoretical base.

A.Darwin's evolutionary theory
B.the theory of psycho-analysis
C.the French symbolism
D.Utilitarianism
正确答案B

(23).Bernard Shaw's Doctor's Dilemma is about ignorance, ______,arrogance and bigotry of the medical profession.

A.incompetence
B.hypocrisy
C.cautiousness
D.indignation
正确答案A

(24).T.S.Eliot's work ______ bears a strong thematic resemblance to The Waste Land.

A.The Criterion
B.Prufrock
C.The Hollow Men
D.Gerontion
正确答案C

(25).In D.H.Lawrence's writings,he has expressed a strong reaction against ______.

A.the mechanical civilization
B.the spiritual civilization
C.the corruption of the will
D.unhealthy interpersonal relationship
正确答案A

(26).In the novel Sons and lovers, Paul's father is described as the following words EXCEPT______.

A.warm
B.vigorous
C.sensuous
D.ambitious
正确答案D

(27).Nathaniel Hawthorne's view of man and human history originates,to a great extent,in ______.

A.ancient Greek
B.Islam
C.Puritanism
D.Buddhism
正确答案C

(28).According to Walt Whitman,poetry could enable Americans to celebrate their release from the Old World and the ______ rule.

A.official
B.free
C.colonial
D.legislative
正确答案C

(29).Of all Herman Melville's sea adventure stories, ______ proves to be the best.

A.Billy Budd
B.Typee
C.Moby-Dick
D.Pierre
正确答案C

(30).Realism was a reaction against Romanticism and paved the way to ______.

A.Symbolism
B.Feminism
C.Post-Modernism
D.Modernism
正确答案D

(31).Adventures of Huckleberry Finn isbest known for ______'s wonderful characterization of “Huck",a typical American Boy.

A.Henry James
B.Mark Twain
C.William Faulkner
D.Theodore Dreiser
正确答案B

(32).Henry James's ______ tells a story about a young and innocent American confronting the complexity of the European life.

A.Tender is the Night
B.The American
C.The Portrait of A Lady
D.Daisy Miller
正确答案B

(33).Within Emily Dickinson's little lyrics she addresses such issues as her own experiences, her sorrows and joys that concern ______,which include religion,death,immorality,love and nature.

A.the whole human beings
B.the Europeans
C.the Americans
D.the fugitives
正确答案A

(34).The work An American Tragedy is written by ______.

A.Henry James
B.Walt Whitman
C.Theodore Dreiser
D.Herman Melville
正确答案C

(35).Images and ______ in Robert Lee Frost's poems are drawn from the simple country life and the pastoral landscape.

A.personifications
B.metaphors
C.parallelisms
D.hyperboles
正确答案B

(36).F.Scott Fitzgerald's fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of______.

A.the Gilded Age
B.the Golden Times
C.the Romantic Period
D.the Jazz Age
正确答案D

(37).Written in 1926,______,Hemingway's first true novel, casts light on a whole generation after the First World War.

A.For Whom the Bell Tolls
B.The Old Man and the Sea
C.The Sun Also Rises
D.A Farewell to Arms
正确答案C

(38).The major concern of William Faulkner's ______ is primarily about the South as a state of mind.

A.Light in August
B.The Sun Also Rises
C.The Sound and the Fury
D.Thhe Fable
正确答案A

(39).For over ten years,______ supported himself by various means, ranging from shoe-making to editing a country newspaper, and in 1912 he decided to venture everything on a literary career.

A.Robert Lee Frost
B.William Faulkner
C.Scott Fitzgerald
D.T.S.Eliot
正确答案A

(40).In the novel The Great Gatsby,______is the narrator of the story.

A.Jay Gatsby
B.Daisy
C.Myrtle Wilson
D.Nick Carraway
正确答案D

(41).Sophia was much pleased with the beauty of the girl, whom she pitied for her simplicity in having dressed herself in that manner,as she saw the envy which it had occasioned among her equals.She no sooner came home than she sent for the gamekeeper, and ordered him to bring his daughter to her;saying she would provide for her in the family,and might possibly place the girl about her own person, when her own maid,who was now going away,had left her.
Questions:
A.Identify the author and the title of the work from which the quoted part is taken.
B.Who is Sophia?
C.On what subject is the work?

A.Henry Fielding:The History of Tom Jones,a Foundling(or Tom Jones).
B.Daughter of the well-off squire Western.
C.Human nature.

(42).That same evening the gentleman in the white waistcoat most positively and decidedly affirmed,not only that Oliver would be hung,but that he would be drawn and quartered into the bargain.Mr.Bumble shookhis head with gloomy mystery,and said he wished he might come to good;whereunto Mr.Gamfield replied,that he wished he might come to him-which,although he agreed with the beadle in most matters,would seem to be a wish of a totally opposite description.
Questions:
A.Identify the author and the title of the work from which the quoted part is taken.
B.What is Mr.Gamfield?
C.What is the most distinguishing feature of this author's works?

A.Charles Dickens;Oliver Twist
B.A chimney-sweeper.
C.Character-portrayal.

(43).“That's right,” he said;“I'm no good now.I was all right.I had money.I'm going to quit this,”and,with death in his heart,he started down toward the Bowery.People had turned on the gas before and died;why shouldn't he?He remembered a lodging-house where there were little,close rooms,with gas-jets in them,almost pre-arranged,he thought, for what he wanted to do,which rented for fifteen cents.Then he remembered that he had no fifteen cents.
Questions:
A.Identify the author and the title of the work from which the quoted part is taken.
B.Who is he in the quoted part?
C.What happened to him in the end?

A.Theodore Dreiser,Sister Carrie.
B.Hurstwood.
C.He turned on the gas in a cheap lodging-house and ended his life.

(44).And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh,I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood,and I —
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Questions:
A.Identify the poet.
B.What does the speaker tell us in this poem?
C.Forced to choose,which road did the speaker take?

A.Robert Lee Frost.
B.The speaker tells us how the course of his life was determined when he came upon two roads that diverged in a.wood.
C.The speaker took the road less traveled by.

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