浙江省2011年10月高等教育自学考试
英国文学选读试题
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Part Ⅰ: Choose the relevant match from column B for each item in column A.(10%)
Section A
A B
(1)Shakespeare A. King Lear
(2)Emily Bronte B. Tom Jones
(3)Charles Dickens C. Adam Bede
(4)George Eliot D. Hard Times
(5)Henry Fielding E. Wuthering Heights
Section B
A B
(1) The Merchant of Venice A. Mr. Brownlow
(2) Oliver Twist B. Alec
(3) Mrs. Warren’s Profession C. Edgar Linton
(4) Tess of the D’Urbervilles D. Shylock
(5) Wuthering Heights E. Vivie
Part Ⅱ: Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. (5%)
1. Shakespeare’s third period includes his greatest tragedies such as Hamlet, Othello, ______, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra.
2. The Enlightenment Movement was a progressive movement throughout western Europe in the______ century Europe.
3. The enlighteners advocated universal ______and thought human beings were capable of perfection through it.
4. The best part of Robinson Crusoe is the realistic account of his struggle against the hostile ______.
5. Fielding has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel,”for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the______ novel.
6. Byron’s masterpiece, Don Juan, is a great comic epic of the early ______century.
7. In Austen’s novels, stories of love and ______ provide the major themes.
8. In his works, Dickens sets out a full map, and a large-scale ______ of the 19th century.
9. Thomas Hardy is one of the representatives of English critical______ at the turn of 19th century.
10. James Joyce is the most out-standing ______ novelist of the 20th century.
Part Ⅲ: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (50%)
1. In his tragedy Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare eulogizes ______.
A. the faithfulness of love
B. the spirit of pursuing happiness
C. the heroine’s great beauty , wit and loyalty
D. both A and B
2. 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 the above.
3. Paradise Lost tells the story of ______.
A. Satan’s rebellion against God.
B. the expulsion of Adam and Eve out of the garden of Eden.
C. a young prince’s revenge on his father’s murderer.
D. both A and B
4. Which of the following is not John Milton’s works?
A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise Regained
C. Samson Agonistes D. Othello
5. About reason, the enlighteners thought ______.
A. reason or rationality should be the only, the final cause of any human thought and activities.
B. reason couldn’t lead to truth and justice.
C. superstition was above reason and rationality.
D. equality and science is contrary to reason and rationality.
6. The neoclassicists believed that ______.
A. the artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion and accuracy.
B. literature should be judged by its perfect literary expression.
C. the literary works should be created independently and originally.
D. literature shouldn’t be used to delight and instruct human beings.
7. John Bunyan’s masterpiece is ______.
A. The Pilgrim’s Progress B. The Canterbury Tales
C. Vanity Fair D. Robinson Crusoe
8. The hero in Robinson Crusoe is the prototype of______.
A. the empire builder B. the pioneer colonist
C. the working people D. both A and B
9. As a master satirist, Swift’s satire is usually masked by ______.
A. outward gravity and apparent earnestness
B. apparent eagerness and sincerity
C. pessimism and bitterness
D. seemingly gentleness and sweetness
10. Which of the following is not the place Gulliver traveled?
A. Brobdingnag B. the Houyhnhnm land
C. the Indian islands D. Lilliput
11. Throughout Fielding’s works, his major concern is ______.
A. the real life of the upper-class people
B. the special life style of some groups
C. the ordinary and usually ridiculous life of the common people
D. both A and C
12. In Sheridan’s plays, he is much concerned with the current moral issues and lashes harshly at ______.
A. the social goodness of his time
B. the social vices of the day
C. the moral tradition of his age
D. both B and C
13. The School for Scandal is a great satire on ______.
A. the immorality and hypocrisy behind the mask of honorable living and high-sounding moral principles
B. the vicious scandal-mongering among the idle rich
C. on the reckless life off extravagance and love intrigues in the high society
D. all of the above
14. Which of the following is not the representative of Romanticism?
A. William Wordsworth B. Gorge Byron
C. John Keats D. Thomas Hardy
15. The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is ______.
A. love and marriage B. dignity and emotion
C. discipline and self-control D. politics and traditions
16. Blake’s Songs of Experience paints a world of ______ with a melancholy tone.
A. misery, poverty, disease, war and repression
B. happiness and love and romantic ideals
C. misery , poverty mixed with love and happiness
D. loss and institutional cruelty with sufferings
17. Wordsworth’s most important contribution to literature lies in the following except that ______.
A. he started the modern poetry , the poetry of growing inner self
B. he initiated the use of ordinary speech of the English language to poetry
C. he advocated a return of nature
D. he refused to decorate the truth of experience
18. Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale expresses the contrast between______.
A. the happy world of natural loveliness and human world of happiness
B. the happy world of natural loveliness and human world of agony
C. the world of natural simplicity and the world of human misery
D. the world of romantic dream and the world of reality and agony
19. Which of the following is not Jane Austen’s novel?
A. Emma B. Tess
C. Sense and Sensibility D. Pride and Prejudice
20. Which of the following can’t be included in the critical realists of the Victorian Period?
A. Charlotte and Emily Bronte
B. Charles Dickens and William M. Thackery
C. Thomas Hardy and George Eliot
D. D.H. Laurence and James Joyce
21. The religious hypocrisy of charity institutions are sharply criticized in ______.
A. Jane Eyre B. Wuthering Heights
C. Villete D. Shirlley
22. Hardy’s last two novels ______ received a lot of hostile criticisms which led to his turning to poetry.
A. The Dynasts and Jude the Obscure
B. Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure
C. The Return of the Native and Tess of the D’Urbervilles
D. The Return of the Native and Jude the Obscure
23. In Hardy’s novels, the conflicts between ______ are always closely set in a realistic background.
A. the traditional and the modern
B. the old rural value and the new commercialism
C. the old false social moral and the natural human passion
D. all of the above
24. The 1930s witnessed the following except ______.
A. a great economic depression B. the rise of the Nazis
C. a radical political enthusiasm D. a return of romantic poetry
25. Laurence had been accused of pornographic writing mainly for ______.
A. his frank treatment and discussion of sex in his novel
B. his strong reaction against the mechanical civilization
C. his description of the distortion of personality
D. all of the above
Part Ⅳ: Interpretation(20%)
Read the following selections and then answer the questions. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
(1)
The isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece!
Where burning Sappho loved and sung,
Where grew the arts of war and peace,
Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!
Eternal summer gilds them yet,
But all, except their sun, is set.
The Scian and the Teian muse,
The hero’s harp, the lover’s lute,
Have found the fame your shores refuse;
Their place of birth alone is mute
To sounds which echo further west
Than your sires’ “Islands of the Blest.”
… …
Place me on Sunium’s marbled steep,
Where nothing, save the waves and I,
May hear our mutual murmurs sweep;
There, swan-like, lit me sing and die:
A land of slaves shall ne’er be mine—
Dash down yon cup of Samian wine!
1. Who is the writer of these lines? Which poem is it taken from?
2. Please interpret this section.
(2)
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
“My dear Mr. Bennet,” said his lady to him one day, “have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?”
Mr. Bennet replied that he had not.
“But it is,” returned she; “for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it.”
Mr. Bennet made no answer.
“Do not you want to know who has taken it?” cried his wife impatiently.
“You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.”
This was invitation enough.
“Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week.”
“What is his name?”
“Bingley.”
“Is he married or single?”
“Oh! single, my dear, to be sure! 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 here?”
“Design! nonsense, how can you talk so! But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes.”
3. Which novel is this passage taken from? Who is the author?
4. Please interpret this passage.
(3)
For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room to which he had been consigned by the wisdom and mercy of the board.It appears, at first sight not unreasonable to suppose, that, if he had entertained a becoming feeling of respect for the prediction of the gentleman in the white waistcoat, he would have established that sage individual’s prophetic character, once and for ever, by tying one end of his pocket-handkerchief to a hook in the wall, and attaching himself to the other.To the performance of this feat, however, there was one obstacle:namely, that pocket-handkerchiefs, being decided articles of luxury, had been, for all future times and ages, removed from the noses of paupers by the express order of the board, in council assembled:solemnly given and pronounced under their hands and seals.There was a still greater obstacle in Oliver’s youth and childishness.He only cried bitterly all day; and, when the long, dismal night came on, spread his little hands before his eyes to shut out the darkness, and crouching in the corner, tried to sleep, ever and anon waking with a start and tremble, and drawing himself closer and closer to the wall, as if to feel even its cold hard surface were a protection in the gloom and loneliness which surrounded him.
5. Which novel is this passage taken from? Please interpret this passage.
Part Ⅴ: Give brief answers to the following questions. (15%)
1. State the major characteristics of modernism.
2. Give a brief analysis of the themes of The Waste Land.
