2007年4月全国英美文学选读试题及答案

2007年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读试卷+答案

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. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.

1. The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely ______.

A. William Langland5 s Piers Plowman B. Geoffrey Chaucer9 s The Canterbury Tales

C. John Gower5 s Confession Amantis D. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

2. The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe' s The Tragic History of Dr. Faustus, is the very fact that ______.

A. man is confined to time B. he tried to join Africa to Spain C. he became a man without soul after he sold it

D. he conjured up Helen, the lady who was partially responsible for the breaking - up of the Trojan War

3. The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer5 s day?" is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare) s ______.

A. comedies B. tragedies C. sonnets D. histories

4. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from

A. the Renaissance B. the Old Testament C. Greek Mythology D. the New Testament

5.Spenser' s masterpiece ______ is a great poem of its time.

A.The Faerie Queene B. The Shepheardes Calender C.The Canterbury Talks D. Metamorphoses

6._____ is the essence of the Renaissance.

A.Poetry B. Drama C.Humanism D. Reason

7.The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and ______.

A.John Milton B. John Marlowe C.Ben Jonson D. Edmund Spenser

8.―To be, or not to be—that is the question‖ is a line taken from ______.

A.Hamlet B. Othello c.king Lear D. The Merchant of Venice

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A. prose B. drama C. novel D. poetry

20. Which of the following poem by T. S. Eliot is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry?

A. Poems 1909 - 1925 B. The Hollow Man C. Prufrock and Other Observations D. The Waste Land

21. "My Last Duchess" is a poem that best exemplifier Robert Browning' s ______.

A. sensitive ear for the sounds of the English language B. excellent choice of words

C. mastering of the metrical devices D. use of the dramatic monologue

22. Dickens' works are characterized by a mingling of______ and pathos.

A. humor B. satire C. passion D. metaphor