combined iambic and anapaestic feet . Most line have three feet and some four . The rhyme scheme is ______ .
A. a b c d
B. a b a b
C. a a b b
D. a b c a
38. On the whole ， Browning 's style is _______ that of any other Victorian poets .
A. different with
B. same as
C. good as
D. strange as
39. ________ and other Transcendentalists believed that there should be an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal “ oversoul ” .
A. Hawthorne
B. Melville
C. Whitman
D. Emerson
40. _____________ tells a simple but very moving story in which four people living in a Puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways .
A. Young Goodman Brown
B. Moby Dick
C. The Scarlet Letter
D. Daisy Miller
高等自学考试指定教材冲刺模拟试卷2
I Multiple Choice （ 40 points in all ， 1 for each ）
1. The Renaissance was _______ in reaching England not only because of England ''s separation from the Continent ， but also because of its domestic unrest .
A. quick
B. slow
C. speedy
D. deep
2. Geoffrey Chaucer introduced from France the rhymed stanzas of various types to English poetry to replace the Old English ______ verse .
A. rhymed
B. alliterative
C. romantic
D. visionary
3. In the history play Henry IV ， William Shakespeare present the _____ spirit for the integrity of England .
A. pessimistic
B. optimistic
C. patriotic
D. active
4. In the 18th century English literature ， teh representative writer of new -classicism is ________.
A. Swift
B. Defoe
C. Milton
D. Pope
5. A number of poems from Songs of Innocence find a counterpart in Songs of Experience .Infant Joy is matched with Infant Sorrow ， and the pure Lambis paired with the flaming ________ .
A. The Chimney Sweeper
B. London
C. Sheep
D. Tyger
6. The unifying principle in _____ written by G.G. Byron is the basic ironic theme of appearance and reality .
A. Child Harold ''s Pilgrimage
B. Cain
C. Don Juan
D. Hours of Idleness
7. Jane Austen ''s main literary concern is about human beings in their ______ relationships . Because of this ， her novels have a universal significance .
A. personal
B. natural
c. satisfied
D. hostile
8. Among the famous novelists of the Victorian period were the critical realists
like _____， William Makepeace Thackery ， Charlotte Bronte ， Emily Bronte ， Mrs . Gaskell and Anthony Trollope ， etc .
A. Thomas Hardy
B. Charles Dickens
C. Robert Browning
D. Jane Austen
9. The short lyric Break ，Break ， Break ， is written in memory of ______ ''s best friend ， Arthur Hallam ， whose death has a lifelong influence on the poet .
A. Afred Tennyson
B. Robert Browning
C. Emily Bronte
D. Charlotte Bronte
10. Reading _____ ''s Crossing the Bar ， we can feel his fearlessness towards death ， his faith in God and afterlife .
A. Afred Tennyson
B. Robert Browning
C. John Keats
D. Emily Dickins
11. Generally speaking ， _________ is the best of T.S. Eliot''s plays in the sense that it contains the best poetry and the most coherent drama .
A.Murder in the Cathedral
B. The Cocktail Party
C. Hamlet
D. The Family Reunion
12. With his conversion to ______ in 1927 ， T.S. Eliot characterized his Four Quartes by a philosophical and emotional calm quite in contrast to the despair and suffering of his early works .
A. Catholicism
B. Protestantism
C. Anglicanism
D. Enlightenment
13. In his novel Ulysses ， James Joyce intends to present a microcosm of the whole _____ by providing an instance of how a single event contains all the events of its kind ， and how history is recapitulated in the happenings of one day .
A. animal kingdom
B. human life
C. Ireland
D. Britain
14. In his Finnegan''s Wake ， an encycleopedic work ， James Joyce ambitiously attempted to pack the whole history of mankind into _______ .
A. one man''s mind
B. one night''s dream
C. one story
D. one lyric poem
15. Transcendentalists recognized _____ as the “ highest power of the soul ”。
A. intuition
B. Thoreau
C. Mark Twain
D. Dreiser