10月英国文学选读试题及答案解析浙江

1、精品自学考试资料推荐浙江省 2018 年 10 月高等教育自学考试英国文学选读试题课程代码： 10054 . choose the relevant match from column b for each item in column a. (10%)section aab（） (1) edmund spensera. crossing the bar（） (2) jane austenb. elegy written in a country churchyard（） (3) alfred tennysonc. mrs. warren s profession（） (4) thomas g

2、rayd. the faerie queene（） (5) george bernard shawe. mansfield parksection bab（） (1) wuthering heightsa. soames forsyte（） (2)sons and loversb. leopold bloom（） (3)ulyssesc. christian（） (4)the man of propertyd. mrs. morel（） (5)the pilgrim s progresse. catherine earnshaw . complete each of the following

3、 statements with a proper word or a phrase according tothe textbook. (5%)1. the elizabethan _ , in its totality, is the mainstream of the english renaissance.2. the novel _ is supposed to be based on the real adventures of alexander selkirk whostayed alone on an uninhabited island for five years. in

4、 fact, it is a work of sheer imagination.3. fieldingadopted “ the _ person narration ” , in whichthe author becomes the“ all-knowing god. ”4. english romanticism is generally said to begin in _ with the publication of wordsworth and coleridge s lyrical ballads .5. modernism rose out of skepticism an

5、d disillusion of _. . each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers. choosethe one that would best complete the statement. (50%)1. the five main qualities of edmund spensers poetry are: a perfect melody; a rare sense ofbeauty; a splendid imagination; a lofty moral pu

6、rity and seriousness; and（）.a. use of alliterationb. use of metaphors1精品自学考试资料推荐c. a dedicated idealismd. use of conceits2. dr. faustus is a play based on the （） legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge andfinally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the devil.a. germanb. gre

7、ekc. englishd. scottish3. shakespeare is known to have used （） different words. his coinage of new words anddistortion of the meaning of the old ones also create striking effects on the reader.a. 16,000b. 1600c.20,000d. 20004. shakespeares four great tragedies are: hamlet, othello , _and _.（）a. king

8、 lear.romeo and julietb. king lear macbethc. king john.julius caesard. king john the merchant of venice5. the destination of christian s journey in the pilgrim sprogress is （） .a. the city of destructionb. the celestial cityc. vanity faird. the slough of despond6. the hero robinson crusoe is a typic

9、al（） man who has a great capacity for work,inexhaustibleenergy, courage,patienceand persistence inovercomingobstaclesandstruggling against the hostile natural environment.a. seventeenth-century english upper classb. eighteenth-century english middle classc. seventeenth-century english working classd

10、. eighteenth-century english lower class7. henry fielding has been regarded as “ _” for his contribution to the establishment of theform of the modern _. （）a. father of english poetry.poetryb. father of english novel.novelc. father of modern english poetry.poetryd. father of modern english novel.nov

11、el8. in the last fewdecades of the 18th century, the neoclassicism was gradually replaced by（） .a. romanticismb. critical realismc. modernismd. naturalism9. the most important contribution wordsworth has made is that（） .a. he started the modern poetry, the poetry of the growing inner self2精品自学考试资料推荐

12、b. he changed the course of english poetryby usingordinary speech of the language and byadvocating a return to naturec. he is skillful at describing the city lifed. both a and b10. （） was composed in a dream after coleridge took opium.a. kubla khanb. christabelc. the rime of the ancient marinerd. fr

13、ost at midnight11. （）defines the poet as a “ man speaking to men” , and poetry as “ the spontaneousoverflow of powerful feelings” , which originates in“ emotion recollected in tranquility” .a. coleridgeb. shelleyc. byrond. wordsworth12. invictorian age, the （） became the most widely read and the mos

14、t vitalandchallenging expression of progressive thought.a. poetryb. novelc. familiar essayd. prose13. in depiction of his characters, dickens is famous for（）.a. those innocent, virtuous, persecuted, hopeless child charactersb. those horrible and grotesque charactersc. those broadly humorous or comic

15、al onesd. all the above14. what makes jane eyre one of the most popular and important novels of the victorian age arethe followings except （） .a. it is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing societyb. it is an intense moral fablec. it is the first introduction to the english novel the first g

16、overness heroined. jane eyre is too timid to love her master rochester.15. （） shows a particular concern for the destiny of women, especially those with greatintelligence, potential and social aspirations.a. jane austenb. charlotte brontc. mrs. gaskelld. george eliot16. as to idylls of the king , wh

17、ich of the following statements is not right?（）a. it is tennyson s most ambitious work which took him over 30 years to complete.b. it is made up of 6 books of narrative poems.c. it is based on the celtic legends of king arthur and his knights of the round table.3精品自学考试资料推荐d. it is a modern interpret

18、ation of the classic myth.17.the name of robert browning is often associated with the term （） .a. dramatic monologueb. transferred epitetc. blank versed. free verse18.in the mid-1950s and early 1960s, there appeared a group of young novelists and playwrightswith lower-middle-class background, who we

19、re known as “ （）” .a. the irish theater movementb. the angry young manc. the lost generationd. both a and b19.murderin the cathedral , with its purelydramatic power, remains the most popular of（） verse plays in spite of its primarily religious purpose.a. w.b. yeats b. christopher fry sc. t.s. eliot

20、sd. g.b. shaws20.the overall style of yeats early poetry is（） .a. very delicate with natural imageryb. dream-like atmospherec. musical beautyd. all the above21. by presenting the psychological experience of individual human life and of humanrelationships, （） has opened up a wide new territory to the

21、 novel.a. james joyceb. virginia woolfc. d.h. lawrenced. e.m. forster22. （） is regarded as the most prominent stream-of-consciousness novelist.a. james joyceb. virginia woolfc. d.h. lawrenced. e.m. forster23. lawrence was regarded as a prominent novelist only after he published his third novel,（ ） .

22、a. sons and loversb. women in lovec. the rainbowd. the white peacock24. （）, eliot s most important single poem, has been hailed as a landmark and a model ofthe 20th-century english poetry.a. the hollow menb. the waste landc. the love song of j. alfred prufrockd. four quartets25. much of bernard shaw

23、s drama is constructed around the （）of a conventionaltheatrical situation. the device is an integral part of an interpretation of life.4精品自学考试资料推荐a. inversionb. revisionc. subversiond. supervision . interpretation (20%)read the following selections and then answer the questions.(1)sunset and evening

24、 star,and one clear call for me!and may there be no moaning of the bar,when i put out to sea,but such a tide as moving seems asleep,too full for sound and foam,when that which drew from out the boundless deepturns again home.twilight and evening bell,and after that the dark!and may there be no sadne

25、ss of farewell,when i embark;for thought from out our bourne of time and placethe flood may bear me far,i hope to see my pilot face to facewhen i have crossed the bar.1. what is the title of this poem? who is the author?2. what is the theme of this poem?(2)some to conceit alone their taste confine,a

26、nd glittering thoughts struck out at every line;pleased with a work where nothing is just or fit,one glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.poets like painters, thus unskilled to tracethe naked nature and the living grace,with gold and jewels cover every part,and hide with ornaments their want of art.tr

27、ue wit is nature to advantage dressed,what oft was thought, but ne er so well expressed;5精品自学考试资料推荐something whose truth convinced at sight we find,that gives us back the image of our mind.as shades more sweetly recommend the light,so modest plainness sets off sprightly wit;for works may have more w

28、it than does them good,as bodies perish through excess of blood.3. what does“ conceit ” mean? what is the poet s attitude toward“ conceit in poetry” ?4. what does the author think is the essence of a poem?(3)“ what is his name? ” “ bingley. ”“ is he married or single? ”“ oh! single, my dear, to be s

29、ure! a single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year.what a fine thing for our girls!”“ how so? how can it affect them? ”“ my dear mr. bennet, ” replied his wife, “ how can you be so tiresome! you must know that i am thinking of his marrying one of them. ”“ is that his design in settling

30、 here? ”“ design! nonsense, how can you talk so! but it is very likely that he may fall in love withone of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes. ”“ i see no occasion for that. you and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves,which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them, mr. bingley might like you the best of the party. ”