英美文学选读自考历年真题及答案
C.romance D.lyric epic 9.The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are ___.
A.horses that are endowed with reason
B.pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualities
C.giants that are superior in wisdom
D.hairy,wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways.
10.Here are four lines from a literary work:“Others for language all their care express,/And value books,as women men, for dress.”The work is ___.
A.Thomas Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
B.John Milton's Paradise Lost
C.Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism
D.Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream
11.The phrase “to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils” may well sum up the implied meaning of ___.
A.Gulliver's Travels B.The Rape of the Lock
C.Robinson Crusoe D.The pilgrim's Progress
12.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT ___.
A.the use of everyday language spoken by the common people
B.the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
C.the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter
D.the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
13.Which of the following is taken from John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”?
A.“I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!”
B.“They are both gone up to the church to pary.”
C.“Earth has not anything to show more fair.”
D.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”. 14.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!” is an epigrammatic line by __.
A.J.Keats B.W.Blake C.W.Wordsworth D.P.B.Shelley 15.“Ode o na Grecian Urn”shows the contrast between the ___ of art and the ___ of human passion.
A.glory …ugliness B.permanence…transience
C.transience…sordidness D.glory…permanence 16.In the statement“—oh,God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?” the term“soul” apparently refers to ___.
A.Heathcliff himself B.Catherine
C.one's spiritual life D.one's ghost
17.The typical feature of Robet Browning's poetry is the ___.
A.bitter satire http://www.77cn.com.cnrger-than-life caricature
http://www.77cn.com.cntinized diction D.dramatic monologue 18.The Victorian Age was largely an age of ____,eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.
A.poetry B.drama C.prose D.epic prose
19.___is the first important governess(家庭女教师) novel in the English literary history.
A.Jane Eyre B.Emma
C.Wuthering Heights D.Middlemarch
20.The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.
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C.W.Thackeray’s D.T.Hardy’s
21.___is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays