英国文学选读试卷及答案解析浙江10月自考

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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

Ⅰ. Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10%)

Section A

A

B

(1) D. H. Lawrence

(2) Jane Austen

A. Middlemarch

B. Doctor Faustus

C. An Essay on Criticism

D. The Rainbow

E. Northanger Abbey

(3) Christopher Marlower

(4) Alexander Pope

(5) George Eliot

Section B

A

B

(1) Jane Eyre A. Redcrosse Knight

B. Angel Clare

C. Christian

D. Mrs. Morel

E. Mr. Rochester

(2) Sons and Lovers

(3) Tess of the D’urbervilles

(4) The Faerie Queene

(5) The Pilgrim’s Progress

Ⅱ. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to

the textbook. (5%)

1. The essence of the Renaissance is _____.

2. Fielding adopted “the _____ person narration”, in which the author becomes the “all-knowing

God”.

3. English Romanticism is generally said to begin in _____ with the publication of Wordsworth

and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads.

4. _____ rose out of skepticism and disillusion of capitalism.

5. _____ is regarded as the most prominent stream-of-consciousness novelist.

Ⅲ. Each of the following statements is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the

one that would best complete the statement. (50%)

1. Edmund Spenser’s masterpiece is _____.

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A. The Shepheared’s Calender

C. Epithalamion

B. The Faerie Queen

D. The Canterbury Tales

2. Dr. Faustus is a play based on the _____ of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally

meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.

A. German legend

C. French legend

B. Greek legend

D. British legend

3. Shakespeare is known to have used _____ different words. His coinage of new words and

distortion of the meaning of the old ones also create striking effects on the reader.

A. 16,000

C. 20,000

B. 1600

D. 2000

4. _____ lust for power stirs up his ambition and leads him to incessant crimes.

A. Othello’s

C. Shylock’s

B. Hamlet’s

D. Macbeth’s

5. The destination of Christian’s journey in The Pilgrim’s Progress is_____.

A. the City of Destruction

C. Vanity Fair

B. the Celestial City

D. none of the above

6. The hero Robinson Crusoe is a typical 18

th

century English middle-calss man who _____.

A. has a great capacity for work, inexhaustible energy, courage, patience and persistence in

overcoming obstacles and struggling against the hostile natural environment.

B. has strong will, but can’t endure life’s loneliness.

C. has a great capacity for work, but is frightened by the hostile natural environment.

D. thinks all the people are born equal.

7. _____ is generally consiered Fielding’s masterpiece.

A. Joseph Andrews

C. Tom Jones

B. Jonathan Wild the Great

D. Gulliver’s Travels

8. _____ has been regarded as the best comedy since Shakespeare.

A. The Rivals

C. St. Patrick’s Day

B. The School for Scandal

D. The Duenna

9. The most important contribution Wordsworth has made is that _____.

A. he started the modern poetry, the poetry of the growing inner self

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B. he changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language and by

advocating a return to nature

C. he is skillful at describing the city life

D. both A and B

10. _____ was composed in a dream after Coleridge took opium.

A. Kubla Khan

C. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

11. Austen shows a human being _____.

A. at moment of crisis

C. at work

B. in the most trivial incidents of everyday life

D. a fight in a battle field

B. Christabel

D. Frost at Midnight

12. In Victorian Age, the _____ became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging

expression of progressive thought.

A. poetry

C. familiar essay

B. novel

D. prose

13. In depiction of his characters, Dickens is famous for _____.

A. those innocent, virtuous, persecuted, hopeless child characters

B. those horrible and grotesque characters

C. those broadly humors or comical ones

D. all the above

14. What makes Jane Eyre one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age are

the followings except _____.

A. it is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society

B. it is an intense moral fable

C. it is the first introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine

D. Jane Eyre is too timid to love her master Rochester.

15. As to Idylls of the King, which 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.

D. It is a modern interpretation of the classic myth.

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16. The name of _____ is often associated with the term “dramatic monologue”.

A. Alfred Tennyson

C. Elizabeth Browning

B. Mathew Arnold

D. Robert Browning

17. The major themes of the modernist literature are the distorted, alienated and ill relationships

between _____.

A. man and nature

C. man and woman

B. man and society

D. both A and B

18. Murder in the Cathedra, with its purely dramatic power, remains the most popular of

_____ verse plays in spite of its primarily religious purpose.

A. W. B. Yeats’

C. T. S. Eliot’s

B. Christopher Fry’s

D. G. B. Shaw’s

19. The overall style of Yeats’ early poetry is _____.

A. very delicate with natural imagery

C. musical beauty

B. dream-like atmosphere

D. all the above

20. By presenting the psychological experience of individual human life and of human

relationships, _____ has opened up a wide new territory to the novel.

A. James Joyce

C. D. H. Lawrence

B. Virginia Woolf

D. E. M. Forster

21. Which of the following is a dandy in Tess of the D’Urbervilles? _____

A. Tess

C. Blifil

B. Alec

D. Clare

22. Lawrence was regarded as a prominent novelist only after he published his third novel, _____.

A. Sons and Lovers

C. The Rainbow

B. Women in Love

D. The White Peacock

23. _____ is regarded as the most prominent stream-of-consciousness novelist.

A. James Joyce

C. D. H. Lawrence

B. Virginia Woolf

D. E. M. Forster

24. _____, Eliot’s most important single poem, has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the

20th-century English poetry.

A. The Hollow Men

B. The Waste Land

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