自考英美文学选读真题篇一：历年自考历年英美文学选读试卷及答案
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I. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)
Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.
1. Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his ______ plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems.B
A. 27 B. 38
C.47 D. 52
2. john Milton’s literary achievement can be divided into three groups: the early poetic works, the middle prose pamphlets and the last ______.C
A. romances B. dramas
C. great poems D. ballads
3. The novels of ______ are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower— class people.C
A. John Milton B. Daniel Defoe
C. Hey Fielding D. Jonathan Swift
4. The work ranked by many critics as William Wordswoth’s greatest work was ______.B
A. Lyrical Ballads B. The Prelude
C. Poems in Two Volumes D. The Excursion
5. The author of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is ______.C
A. Daniel Defoe B. Johathan Swift
C. Hey Fielding D. William Blake
6. The works of ______ are famous for the depiction of the life of the middle — class women, particularly governess.*B
A. Charlotte Bronte B. D.H. Lawrence
C. Thomas Hardy D. Jane Austen
7. All of the following writings are created by William Wordsworth EXCEPT ______.D
A. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. ”
B. “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Septemer 3, 1802. ”
C. “The Solitary Reaper. ”
D. “The Chimney Sweeper. ”
8. The most important representative work by Jonathan Swift is ______.D
A. A Tale of a Tub B. The Battle of the Books
C. A Modest Proposal D. Gulliver's Travels
9 “If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”comes from Shelly’s ______.D
A. “To a Skylark” B. “Adonais”
C. “Ode to Liberty” D. “Ode to the West Wind”
10. In Jane Austen' s first novel ______, she tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.B
A. Pride and Prejudice B. Sense and Sensibility
C. Emma D. Persuasion
11. Charles Dickens is one of the greatest ______ writers of the Victorian Age.D
A. romantic B. modernist
C. socialist D. critical realist
12. Charlotte Bronte' s most autobiographical work, ______ is largely based on her experience in Brussels.A
A. Jane Eyre B. Shirley
C. Villette D. The Professor
13. William Wordsworth' s theory of poetry is calling for simple themes drawn from humble life expressed in the language of ordinary people. The preface to the second edition of ______ acts as a manifesto for the new school and sets forth his own critical creed.A
A. Lyrical Ballads B. The Prelude
C. Poems in Two Volums D. The Excursion
14. George Bernard Shaw' s play ______ established his position as the leading playwright of his time.*C
A. Widowers’Houses B. Too True to Be Good
C. Mrs. Warren' s Profession D. Candida
15. Eliot' s most important single poem ______, has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry.B
A. The Hollow Men B. The Waste Land
C. Prurrock and Other Observations D. Poems 1909-25
16. D. H.Lawrence’s autobiographical novel, ______ shows the conflict between the earthy, coarse, energetic but often drunken father and the refined, strong — willed and up — climbing mother.A
A. Sons and Lovers B. The White Peacock
C. The Trespasser D. The Rainbow
17. “To be, or not to be — that is the question; /Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer./The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/ Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,/And by
A. King Lear B. Romeo
C. Antonio D. Hamlet
18. John Milton’s last important work, ______ is the most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model.A
A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise Regained
C. Samson Agonistes D. Lydidas
19. The author of Moll Flanders and Captain Singleton is ______.B
A. John Milton B. Daniel Defoe
C. Hey Fielding D. Jonathan Swift
20. Drapier is the pseudonym of ______.A
A. Jonathan Swift B. Daniel Defoe
C. Hey Fielding D. William Blake
21. One of Dickens' later works, ______ in which he presents a criticism of the governmental branches which run an indefinite procedure of management of affairs and keep the innocent in prison for life.B
A. Bleak House B. Little Dorrit
C. Hard Times D. A Tale of Two Cities
22. In the second part of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver told his experience in ______.A
A. Brobdingnag B. Lilliput
C. Flying Island D. Houyhnhnm
23. Faulkner used the narrative techniques to construct his stories, which include ______ and mythological and biblical allusions.A
A. symbolism B. free indirect speech
C. contrast D. dialogue
24. Ernest Hemingway, had been trying to demonstrate in his works an unvarying code, known as “______,” which is actually an attitude towards life.B
A. facing the reality B. grace under pressure
C. honesty with benevolence D. security coming first
25. The Blithedale Romance is a novel written by Hawthorne to reveal his own experience on the Brook Farm and his own methods as a ______ novelist.C
A. naturalist B. imagist
C. psychological D. feminist
26. Theodore Dreiser' s focus shifted from the pathos of the helpless protagonists at the bottom of the society to the power of the American financial tycoons in the late 19th century in his work ______.D
A. The Genius B. An American Tragedy
C. Dreiser Looks at Russia D. “Trilogy of Desire”
27. Emily Dickinson frequently uses personae to render the tone more familiar to the reader, and ______ to vivify some abstract ideas.D
自考英美文学选读真题篇三：自考英美文学选读试题(一)
（一）
一、Multiple Choice (40 points in all，1 for each) Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
1. is the essence of the Renaissance.
A. PoetryB.
Drama
C. Humanism
D. Reason
答案：C
解析： (P8) 人文主义是文艺复兴的核心。
2. In the early stage of the English Renaissance, poetry and
most outstanding literary forms and they were carried on especially by William
Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.
A. fiction
B. dramatic fiction
C. poetic drama
D. novel
答案：C
解析： (P11) 在英国文艺复兴早期，诗歌与诗剧是最杰出的文学形式，尤其是莎士比亚与本?约 翰逊继承了这种形式。
3. William Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are: Hamlet,
.
A. Romeo and Juliet/Othello
B. Othello/Macbeth
C. The Tempest/Macbeth
D. Othello/Hey Ⅳ
答案：B
解析： (P33) 莎士比亚的四大悲剧是：《哈姆雷特》、《奥赛罗》、《李尔王》与《麦克白》
。
4. The neoclassical period in English literature refers to the one between the return of
the Stuarts to the English throne in 1660 and the full assertion of
which came with the publication of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and
Coleridge in 1798.
A. Realism , King Lear and
B. Humanism
C. Romanticism
D. Neoclassicism
答案：C
解析：(P79) 英国文学上的新古典主义时期是从1660年英国斯图亚特王朝复辟到以华兹华斯和科 勒律治于1798年合作出版的《抒情歌谣集》为创始标志的浪漫主义时期为止的英国文学时代。
5. is universally considered his masterpiece.
A. John Bunyan
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Hey Fielding
D. Daniel Defoe
答案：D
解析： (P97) 《鲁滨逊漂流记》是丹尼尔?笛福的代表作。
6. Of all the 18th century novelists Hey Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “ give the modern novel its structure and style.
A. tragic epic B.
comic epic C.
romance
D. lyric epic
答案：B
解析： (P121) 在所有18世纪的小说家中，亨利?菲尔丁第一次在理论与实践上创造了“散文体 喜剧史诗”，并第一个为现代小说确立了结构与风格。
7. Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama.
A. Adonais
B. To a Skylark
C. A Song: Men of England
D. Prometheus Unbound
答案：D
解析：(P208) 雪莱最有造诣的作品是他的四幕诗剧《解放了的普罗米修斯》。
8. Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques, writers in the Victorian Period shared one thing in common, that is, they were all concerned about.
A. the fate of the upper class
B. the reformation of the government
C.
答案：C the fate of the common people D. the future of their family class in prose”, the first to
解析：(P236) 尽管维多利亚时代的小说家们的创作角度与风格各不相同，但其共同特点是关心 普通百姓的命运。
9. All of the later works written by Charles Dickens, with the exception of, present a criticism of the more complicated and yet most fundamental
social institutions and morals of the Victorian England.
A. Bleak House
B. A Tale of Two Cities
C. Little Dorrit
D. Hard Times
答案：B
解析：(P240) 狄更斯后期所有的作品，除去《双城记》，都对更加复杂也更为基础的社会机构 及道德观念进行了批判。
10. is due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine.
A. Wuthering Heights B.
Pride and Prejudice C.
Jane Eyre
D. Sister Carrie
答案：C
解析： (P259) 小说《简?爱》的成功之处在于它在英国小说史上第一次成功地塑造出了家庭女 教师的形象。
11. takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base.
A. Symbolism B.
Romanticism C.
Realism
D. Modernism
答案：D
解析： (P312) 现代主义以非理性主义哲学和精神分析原理为理论基础。
12. is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since William
Shakespeare.
A. George Bernard Shaw
B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
C. Christopher Marlowe
D. John Donne
答案：A
解析：(P318) 萧伯纳在戏剧方面被公认为是自莎士比亚之后英国最优秀的戏剧大师。
presents the meditation of an aging
marriage.
A. grown B.
lunatic C.
old
D. young 13. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, in a form of dramatic monologue, man over the business of proposing
答案：D
解析： (P363) 《J.A.普鲁弗洛克的情歌》讲述了一位上了年纪的男人对求婚问题的深思不定
，全诗的形式是戏剧独白。
14. The American Romantic Period stretches from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the
A. Civil War
B. World WarⅡ
C. Independent War
D. World warⅠ
答案：A
解析： (P399) 美国文学的浪漫主义时期开始于18世纪末，到内战爆发为止。
15. 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
答案：C
解析：(P431) 《红字》是霍桑的代表作，讲述的是4个生活在清教社区的人以不同方式犯有通奸 罪的故事，情节简单，但内容感人。
16. has always been considered a monumental work which commands great
attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of American democratic ideals.
A. Leaves of Grass
B. Nature
C. In a Station of the Metro
D. After Apple-Picking
答案：A
解析：(P447) 惠特曼的《草叶集》是一部历史性的著作，他的诗体现了美国的民主思想，反映 了独立战争和内战的重大史实。
17. “Cavalry Crossing a Ford” by Whitman reminds its readers of a picture, or a photo, of a scene of. .
A. the American War of Independence
B. the Westward Movement
C. the U.S.-Spanish War
D. the American Civil War 答案：D
解析：(P455) 惠特曼的诗歌《涉水的骑兵》给读者展现了一幅美国内战时期的景象。
18. While Mark Twain and William Dean Howells satirized European manners at times, was an admirer of ancient European civilization.
A. Washington Irving
B. Hey James
C. Walt Whitman
D. Jack London
答案：B
解析： (P495) 马克?吐温和豪威尔斯不时地讽刺欧洲传统，而詹姆斯却羡慕古老的欧洲文明。
19. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was
A. Anne Bradsteet
B. Jane Austen
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Harriet Beecher
答案：C
解析： (P516) 19世纪美国文学史上只出现了一位女诗人，她就是艾米莉?狄金森。
20. is widely acclaimed “founder of the American drama” and recognized even more as a major figure in world literature.
A. Ernest Hemingway B.
William Faulkner C.
Washington Irving D.
Eugene O’Neill
答案：D
解析：(P568) 尤金?奥尼尔被广泛誉为“美国戏剧之父”，而且被认为是世界文学史上的主要作 家。
21. Hemingway’s second big success is, which wrote the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation in the 1920s in telling us a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with a British nurse.
A. The Old Man and the Sea B.
For Whom the Bell Tolls C. The
Sun Also Rises
D. A Farewell to Arms .