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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
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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. The
Pilgrim's Progress
(2)John Bunyan
b. King Lear
(3)Charles Dickens
c. Jane Eyre
(4)Charlotte Bronte
d. Adam Bede
(5)George Eliot
e. Hard Times
Section B
A
B
(1) The Merchant of Venice a. Satan
(2) Paradise Lost b.
Elizabeth Bennet
(3) The History of Tom Jones
c. Portia
(4) Pride and Prejudice
d. Angel Clare
(5) Tess of the D'Urbervilles
e. Sophia Western
Part Ⅱ: Complete each of
the following statements with a proper word or a
phrase
according to the textbook. (5%)
1.
The Elizabethan_____ is the real mainstream of the
English Renaissance.
2. In Milton's Paradise
Lost, _____took revenge by tempting Adam and Eve
to eat the forbidden
fruit.
3. In the
field of literature, the Enlightenment Movement
brought about _____.
4. The best part of
Robinson Crusoe is the realistic account of his
_____ against the hostile nature.
5. Henry
Fielding has been regarded as “Father of the
English Novel
establishment of the form of the
_____.
6. English Romanticism is generally
said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of
_____ and
Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads.
7.
In Austen's novels, stories of love and _____
provide the major themes.
8. As a woman of
exceptional intelligence and life experience,
George Eliot shows a particular
concern for
the destiny of _____.
9. _____ is the most
outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist of
the 20
th
century.
10. Laurence's
autobiographical novel is _____.
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.
About the Renaissance humanists which of the
following statements is true?
a. They
thought money and social status was the measure of
all things.
b. They emphasized the dignity
of human beings and the importance of the present
life.
c. They couldn't see the human values
in their works.
d. They thought people were
largely subordinated to the ruling class without
any freedom and
independence.
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2. 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
3. One of the distinct features of the Elizabethan time is _____.
a. the flourishing of the drama
b. the popularity of the realistic novel
c. the domination of the classical poetry
d. the close-down of all the theatres
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. According to the neoclassicists, which of the following is true?
a. All forms of literature were to be modeled after the classical works of the ancient Greek and
Roman writers.
b. They tried to delight, instruct and correct human beings as social animals.
c. They tried to develop a polite, urbane ,witty, and intellectual art .
d. all the above.
7. The 18
th
century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties, _____.
a. the Whigs and the Tories
b. the Senate and the House of Representatives
c. the upper House and lower House
d. the House of Lords and the House of Representatives
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 representative of the enlightenment movement, Jonathan Swift thought _____.
a. human nature is simple and naïve
b. it was possible to reform and improve human nature and human institutions
c. human nature was destined and couldn't be changed
d. to better human life, enlightenment is unnecessary
10. The social significance of Gulliver's Travels lies in _____.
a. the devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the then English and European life
b. his artistic skill in making the story an organic whole
c. his central concern of study of human nature and life
d. both b and c
11. Of the eighteenth-century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to _____.
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a. instruct the people through his
writing
b. give the modern novel its
structure and style
c. amuse the people
through his works
d. adopt the third-person
narration
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 Romantic period is an age
of _____.
a. prose b. drama
c. poetry d. both a and c
14. The two major novelists of the Romantic
period are _____.
a. William Wordsworth and
John Keats
b. John Keats and Jane Austen
c. Jane Austen and Walter Scott
d.
William
15. 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
16.
Through his poems, Byron created the “Byronic
hero
a. a brave and stubborn rebel figure of
noble origin
b. a proud, mysterious rebel
figure of noble origin
c. a proud,
mysterious rebel figure of lower origin
d. a
brilliant, independent and romantic figure of his
time
17. In her novels, Jane Austen presents
the quiet , day-to-day country life of _____.
a. the upper-class English
b. the upper-
middle-class English
c. the lower-class
English
d. the lower-middle-class English
18. 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. Thackeray
c.
Thomas Hardy and George Eliot
d. D. H.
Laurence and James Joyce
19. English critical
realism found its expression chiefly in the form
of _____.
a. novel b. drama
c. poetry d. sonnet
20.
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
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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
21. Thomas Hardy's
heroines and heroes , those unfortunate young men
and women are all depicted
in_____.
a.
their persistent pursuit for personal fulfillment
and happiness
b. their desperate struggle
for personal fulfillment and happiness
c.
their desperate struggle for individual equality
and freedom
d. their persistent pursuit for
better life and ideals
22. The 20
th
century has witnessed a great achievement in
English poetry, which are mainly
represented
by the following except _____.
a. Thomas
Hardy b. Ezra Pound
c. T. S.
Eliot d. Lord Byron
23. In
his novels, Laurence made a bold psychological
exploration of various human relationships,
especially those between _____, with a great
frankness.
a. man and nature b.
man and society
c. man and woman
d. all of the above
24. In The Man of
Property, the typical Forsyte represents _____.
a. the traditional and conservative values
of the contemporary society
b. the essence
of the principle that the accumulation of wealth
is the sole aim of life
c. the predominant
possessive instinct of the society
d. both a
and c
25. Which of the following is James
Joyce's masterpiece?
a. Dubliners
b. A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
c.
Ulysses
d. Finnegans Wake
Part Ⅳ:
Interpretation (20%)
Read the following
selections and then answer the questions. Write
your answers on
the Answer Sheet.
(1)
Let us go then, you and I,
When the
evening is spread out against the sky
Like a
patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go,
through certain half-deserted streets,
The
muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-
night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants
with oyster shells:
Streets that follow like a
tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To
lead you to an overwhelming question…
Oh, do
not ask, “What is it?
Let us go and make our
visit.
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We
have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By
sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
's the writer of this poem? Please interpret
the protagonist of the poem.
(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.”
2. Which novel is this
passage taken from? Who is the author?
3.
Please interpret this passage.
(3)
With
straining eagerness Catherine gazed towards the
entrance of her chamber. He did not hit the
right room directly, she motioned me to admit
him, but he found it out ere I could reach the
door,
and in a stride or two was at her side,
and had her grasped in his arms.
He neither
spoke nor loosed his hold for some five minutes,
during which period he bestowed
more kisses
than ever he gave in his life before, I dare say:
but then my mistress had kissed him
first, and
I plainly saw that he could hardly bear, for
downright agony, to look into her face! The
same conviction had stricken him as me, from
the instant he beheld her, that there was no
prospect
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of ultimate
recovery there-she was fated, sure to die.
‘Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! How can I bear it?'
was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that
did
not seek to disguise his despair. And now
he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the
very
intensity of his gaze would bring tears
into his eyes; but they burned with anguish: they
did not
melt.
‘What now?' said
Catherine, leaning back, and returning his look
with a suddenly clouded brow:
her humour was a
mere vane for constantly varying caprices. ‘You
and Edgar have broken my
heart, Heathcliff!
And you both came to bewail the deed to me, as if
you were the people to be
pitied! I shall not
pity you, not I. You have killed me-and thriven on
it, I think. How strong you are!
How many
years do you mean to live after I am gone?'
Heathcliff had knelt on one knee to embrace her;
he attempted to rise, but she seized his hair, and
kept him down.
‘I wish I could hold
you,' she continued bitterly, ‘till we were both
dead! I shouldn't care what
you suffered. I
care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn't
you suffer? I do! Will you forget me?
Will you
be happy when I am in the earth? Will you say
twenty years hence, “That's the grave of
Catherine Earnshaw. I loved her long ago, and
was wretched to lose her; but it is past. I've
loved
many others since: my children are
dearer to me than she was; and at death, I shall
not rejoice that I
am going to her: I shall be
sorry that I must leave them!” Will you say so,
Heathcliff?'
‘Don't torture me till I am as
mad as yourself,' cried he, wrenching his head
free, and grinding
his teeth.
The two,
to a cool spectator, made a strange and fearful
picture. Well might Catherine deem that
heaven
would be a land of exile to her, unless with her
mortal body she cast away her moral
character
also. Her present countenance had a wild
vindictiveness in its white cheek, and a
bloodless lip and scintillating eye; and she
retained in her closed fingers a portion of the
locks she
had been grasping. As to her
companion, while raising himself with one hand, he
had taken her arm
with the other; and so
inadequate was his stock of gentleness to the
requirements of her condition,
that on his
letting go I saw four distinct impressions left
blue in the colourless skin.
4. From which
novel is this passage taken from? Who's the
author?
5. What's the relationship between
Catherine and Heathcliff?
Part Ⅴ: Give brief
answers to the following questions.(15%)
1.
Please state Shakespeare's views on the
Renaissance literature.
2. Why is D.H.
Laurence regarded as revolutionary in novel
writing?
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