全国高等教育自学考试模拟试卷（一）英美文学选读

（考试时间150分钟）（英语专业）

A. Each of the statements below is following by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets. (20×1 points)

( )1. In Spenser's "The Faerie Queene", _____ is the play role in each of the 12 major adventures.

A. Arthur

B. Redcrosse

C. Una

D. Archimago

( )2. In Milton's works, "______" is the greatest, indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since "Beowulf".

A. Paradise Lost

B. Paradise Regained

C. Samson Agonistes

D. Lycidas

( )3.______was regarded as "Father of the English Novel", for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.

A. Daniel Defoe

B. Jonathan Swift

C. Jane Austen

D. Henry Fielding

( )4. ______ compiled the "The Dictionary of the English Language" which became the foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries.

A. Ben Johnson

B. Samuel Johnson

C. Alexander Pope

D. John Dryden

( )5. The "Byronic hero" first appears in Byron's works, "______".

A. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

B. Don Juan

C. Oriented Tales

D. Manfred

( )6. ______ made criticism on Elizabethan drama, which renewed interest in Shakespeare and led to the discovery of his contemporaries.

A. Coleridge

B. Byron

C. Wordsworth

D. Keats

( )7. _______ is the most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens' works.

A. Language

B. Character - Portrayal

C. Humor

D. Plot

( )8 In 1847, the Bronte Sisters published the following famous novels except "_____".

A. Jane Eyre

B. Shirley

C. Wuthering Heights

D. The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall

( )9. In ______ 's hands, "dramatic monologue" reaches its maturity and perfection.

A. Alfred Tennyson

B. Robert Browning

C. William Shakespeare

D. George Eliot

( )10.As a woman of exceptional intelligence and life experience, George Eliot shows a particular concern for_______.

A. the feminism

B. the education for women

C. the destiny of women

D. the low status of women

( )11. Symbolism appeared in the late 19th century in _________.

A. France

B. Germany

C. England

D. Italy

( )12. The three trilogies of _______ 's Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century.

A. John Galswortry

B. Arnold Bennett

C. Jame Joyce

D. H. G. Wells

( )13. In the following statements, ________ is Bernard Shaw's political point of view.

A. He regarded the establishment of socialism by the emancipation of land and industrial capital from individual and class ownership as the final goal.

B. He was for the means of violent revolution of armed struggle in achieving the goal of socialism.

C. He had a trust of the uneducated working class in fighting against capitalists.

D. He held that both those superior intellects and those industrial workers could have the ability to shoulder the task of fighting against the capitalism.

( )14. The New England transcendentalism was from the very beginning a local phenomenon restricted only to those people living in new England, who carried out the movement as a reaction against the cold, rigid rationalism of _____ in Boston.

A. Puritanism

B. Calvinism

C. Classicism

D. Unitarianism

( )15. In the following statements, ______ is not true as to Washington Irving's famous story "Rip Van Winkle".

A. The story is a tale remembered mostly for Rip's 20 - year sleep, set against the background of the inevitably changing America.

B. In the story Irving skillfully presents to us paralleled juxtapositions of two totally different worlds before and after Rip's 20 years' sleep.

C. Irving describes Rip's response and reaction in dramatic way, so that we see clearly both the narrator and Irving agree on the preferability of the present to the past, and the preferability of the real world to a dream - like one.

D. The social conservatism and literary preference for the past is revealed, to some extent, in the story.

( )16. ______ is not among the artistic features of Whitman's writing.

A. The use of the poetic "I"

B. Free verse

C. Musicality or rhythm

D. Allegory

( )17. Henry James's fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with________.

A. the love and marriage theme

B. the theme of humor and satire on life

C. the theme of revealing the miserable life of the poor and criticizing the capitalism

D. the international theme

( )18. In the following statements, ______ is not true as to the backgrounds for the American literature between the two world wars.

A. The United states had become the most powerful industrialized nation in the world.

B. The technological revolution had brought about great changes in the life of the American people.

C. The Crash marked the beginning of "The Great Economic Depression" in the 1920s.

D. Despite its booming industry and material prosperity, there was a sense of unease and restlessness underneath.

( )19. Ezra Pound's "The Cantos" is______.

A. lyrics

B. epic poem

C. ode

D. pastoral

( )20. _______ is acknowledged by many as the most original poet of the Victorian period.

A. Robert Browning

B. Alfred Tennyson

C. George Eliot

D. John Keats

B. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. (20×1 points)

1. _______ is the essence of the Renaissance.

2. In "The Faerie Queene", the Redcrosse knight in Book I stands for St. George, and Sir Guyon in Book II Represents Temperance. Such kind of writing style is called _________.

3. "Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear" and "_____" are generally regarded as Shakespeare's four great tragedies.

4. As a representative of the enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce ______ to England.

5. ______ 's novels are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower - class people.

6. The literary form of neo - classicism is of the strict symmetry. The prevailing genre of neoclassical literature is ______ which consists of two riming lines of iambic pentameter, and the second line completes the thoughts expressed by the couplet.

7. _____ is central to Blake's concern in the "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience".

8. The poet Robert Southey as well as Coleridge and Wordsworth lived nearby and the three men became known as the "_______".

9. Jane Austen's masterpiece is "____________".

10. _________ is Robert Browning's masterpiece.

11. The realistic novels of the 1920s and 1930s were more or less touched by a pessimistic mood, preoccupied with the theme of ________, and shaped in different forms.

12 In the mid - 1950s and early 1960s, there appeared a group or young novelists and playwrights with lower - middle - class background, who were known as "___________".

13. Melville is best known as the author of one book named ________, which is, critics have agreed, one of the world's greatest masterpieces.

14. The particular concern about the local character of a region came about as "______", a unique variation of American literary realism.

15. By the turn of the century, with the publication of "The Man That Corrupted Hadleybury" (1900) and "The Mysterious Stranger" (1916), the change in Mark Twain from an optimist to an almost despairing pessimist could be fell and his cynicism and disillusionment with what Twain referred to regularly as the "________" became obvious.

16. As a sequel to "Tom Sawyer", "_________" marks the climax of Twain's literary creativity.

17. One of James's literary techniques innovated to cater for the psychological emphasis is his narrative "________".

18. The postwar poet Robert Lowell is the leading figure of _________ poetry.

19. In Fitzgerald's great fiction, there's always full of the main theme of the bankruptcy of the "______", especially in "The Great Gatsby" (1925).

20. Most of Faulkner's works are set in the American South about people from a small region in Northern Messissippi, __________ County.

C. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (10×1 points)

（）1. In his poetry, Donne frequently applies conceits, i. e. extended metaphors involving dramatic contrasts.

（）2. "The Pilgrim's Progress" is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.

（ ）3. The 19th century produced the first English novelists, who fall into two groups the sentimentalist novelists and the realist novelists.

( )4. The most important contribution Byron has made is that he has not only started the modern poetry, the poetry of the growing inner self, but also changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language and by advocating a return to nature.

( )5. Generally speaking, Jane Austen was a writer of the 18th - century, though she lived mainly in the nineteenth century.

( )6. In the Victorian period, the novel became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.

( )7. "The Waste Land", Eliot's most important single poem, has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th - century English poetry, comparable to Wordsworth's "Lyrical Ballads".

( )8. While Mark Twain and Henry James seemed to have paid more attention to the "life" of the Americans, Howells had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the "inner world" of man.

( )9. Dickinson's poetry is unique and unconventional in its own way. Her poems have no titles hence are always quoted by their first lines. In her poetry there is a particular stress pattern, in which dashes are used as a musical device to create cadence and capital letters as a means of emphasis.

( )10. Most of Faulkner's works are set in the American North, with his emphasis on the Northern subjects and consciousness.

D. Name the author of the following literary works. (5×1 points)

1. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

2. Composed upon Westminster Bridge

3. The Moll on the Floss

4. Break, Break, Break.

5. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

E. Define the literary terms listed below. (2×4 points)

1. The Heroic Couplet

2. Stream of Consciousness

F. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it. (2×4 points)

1. "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the les,

The plowman homeward plods his weary way,

And leaves the world to darkness and to me."

2. "Round the cape of a sudden came the sea,

And the sun looked over the mountain's rim:

And straight was a path of gold for him,

And the need of a world of men for me."

G. Give brief answers to the following questions. (3×5 points)

1. Make a comment on the image of Robinson Crusoe.

2. What are the features of Charles Dickens's novels?

3. What's Nathaniel Hawthorne's "black" vision of life and human beings?

H. Short essay questions. (2×7 points)

1. How is the fatalism revealed in Hardy's works?

2. Analyse the artistic features of Earnest Hemingway's novels.