英国文学选读试题浙江2003年1月

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浙江省2003年1月高等教育自学考试

英国文学选读试题

课程代码：10054

Part Ⅰ: Choose the relevant match from column B for each item in column A.(10%) Section A

A B

(1)Jonathan Swift A. Wuthering Heights

(2)Henry Fielding B. Gulliver's Travels

(3)Richard B.Sheridan C. The School for Scandal

(4)Emily Bronte D. Jude the Obscure

(5)Thomas Hardy E. Tom Jones

Section B

A B

(1) Hamlet A. Satan

(2) Paradise Lost B. Elizabeth Bennet

(3) The History of Tom Jones C. Claudius

(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. In Shakespeare's life, with his 38 ______, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems, he has established his

giant position in world literature.

2. In Milton's Paradise Lost, Satan took revenge by tempting _____ to eat the forbidden fruit.

3. The 18th century was an age of_____. A group of excellent writers, such as Swift, Fielding were

produced.

4. The best part of Robinson Crusoe is the _____ account of his struggle against the hostile nature.

5. Fielding has been regarded by some as “_____," for his contribution to the establishment of the

form of the modern novel.

6. English Romanticism is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of

Wordsworth and Coleridge's _____.

7. The major concern of the critical realists is about the fate of the_____ people.

8. In his works, Dickens sets out a full map, and a large-scale criticism of the _____ century.

9. _____ is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist of the 20th century.

10. G.B. Shaw is considered to be the best-known English _____ since Shakespeare.

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. In the Renaissance period, the Protestant movement, which was seen as a means to recover the

purity of the early church from the corruption and superstition of the Middle Ages, was initiated by_____.

A. William Shakespeare

B. Francis Bacon

C. Thomas More

D. Martin Luther

2. As to the great tragedy Hamlet, which of the following is not true?

A. The timeless appeal of this mighty drama lies in its combination of intrigue, emotional

conflict and searching philosophic melancholy.

B. The bare outline of the play is based on a widespread legend in northern Europe.

C. The whole story of the play is created by Shakespeare himself.

D. In it, Shakespeare condemns the hypocrisy and treachery and general corruption at the royal

court.

3. Paradise Lost tells the story of _____.

A. a young prince's revenge on his father's murderer

B. the expulsion of Adam and Eve out of the garden of Eden

C. Satan's rebellion against God

D. both B and C

4. The 18th century England is known as _____.

A. the Age of Poetry

B. the Age of Prose

C. the Age of Drama

D. the Age of Romance

5. Which of the following is not the enlighteners of the 18th century?

A. Daniel Defoe

B. Henry Fielding

C. Jonathan Swift

D. Walter Scott

6. The middle of the 18th century saw a newly rising literary form —_____.

A. the modern English novel

B. the modern English poetry

C. the modern English drama

D. both A and B

7. Which of the following is Daniel Defoe's masterpiece?

A. Moll Flanders

B. Captain Singleton

C. Gulliver's Travels

D. Robinson Crusoe

8. The hero in Robinson Crusoe is a typical 18th-century English middle-class man who _____.

A. has a great capacity for work, inexhaustible energy, courage, patience and persistence in overcoming obstacles and struggling against the hostile natural environment

B. has strong will but can't endure life's loneliness

C. has a great capacity for work, but is frightened by the hostile natural environment

D. thinks all the people are born equal

9. Lilliput is _____in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.

A. the name of the hero who made deep-sea voyages

B. an imaginary island inhabited by people not more than six inches high

C. a minor character who accompanied the hero during his voyages

D. the country of horses endowed with human intelligence

10. Brobdingnag is an imaginary island where the inhabitants are_____.

A. ten times taller and larger than the ordinary human beings

B. the horses who are hairy, wild, low and despicable

C. the Y ahoos who are wise and intelligent

D. the small people who are only six inches tall

11. In Tom Jones, the hero Tom is _____in contrast with Blifil who is _____.

A. innocent and kind-hearted …hypocritical and wicked

B. hypocritical and wicked …innocent and kind-hearted

C. rude and stubborn …cunning and speculating

D. cunning and speculating …rude and stubborn

12. Which of the following is Sheridan's masterpiece?

A. The School for Scandal

B. The Duenna

C. The Critic

D. Vanity Fair

13. Which of the following is not the representative of Romanticism?

A. William Wordsworth

B. Gorge Byron

C. John Keats

D. Thomas Hardy

14. Walter Scott established _____ as a viable and worthwhile fictional form, by setting the

personal dilemmas of his characters against a background of _____.

A. the historical novel …contemporary things

B. the historical novel …historical things

C. the historical drama …historical things

D. the historical drama …contemporary things

15. According to subjects, Wordsworth's short poems can be classified into two groups: _____.

A. poems about nature and poems about politics

B. poems about nature and poems about human life

C. poems about love and poems about beauty

D. poems about society and poems about history

16. Keats's Ode to a Nightingale expresses the contrast between_____.

A. the happy world of natural loveliness and human world of happiness

B. the happy world of natural loveliness and human world of agony

C. the world of natural innocence and the world of human misery

D. the world of romantic dream and the world of reality and agony

17. Austen's main literary concern is about _____.

A. human beings in their personal relationships

B. human society of the 18th century

C. the follies and illusions of mankind

D. order, reason proportion and gracefulness

18. The following literary works are written by Charles Dickens except _____.

A. Hard Times and Great Expectations

B. A Tale of Two Cities and Bleak House

C. Oliver Twist and David Copperfield

D. The Man of Property and Dombey and Son

19. George Eliot, in her works, is deeply concerned with the people and life of her time. She tries to

find _____.

A. the inner struggle of people's mind

B. the fundamental truth about human life

C. the secrets of inward propensity and outward circumstances

D. all the above

20. In Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Tess, _____, is at odds with the world of cruelty and unequality.

A. a simple, innocent and faithful country girl

B. a cunning, strong-minded and passionate girl

C. a beautiful, natural but mysterious country girl

D. both A and B

21. The 20th century Modernism comes out of skepticism and disillusion of capitalism. It takes

_____ as its theoretical base.

A. the theories of realism and romanticism

B. the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis

C. the theories of post-modernism and existentialism

D. the pessimistic philosophy and the doctrines of Christian morality

22. In the mid-1950s and early 1960s, there appeared a group of young novelists and playwrights

with lower-middle-class or working-class background, who were known as “_____".

A. the Furious Y oung Men

B. the Angry Y oung Men

C. the Sentimental Y oung Men

D. the Radical Y oung Men

23. G.B. Shaw's early plays were mainly concerned with social problems and employed to criticize

_____.

A. the contemporary social, economic, moral and religious evils

B. the cruelty and madness of World War I

C. the people with the gift of insight and freedom

D. the contemporary radical reformist point of view

24. The Waste Land presents a panorama of _____ in the modern Western world, but also reflects

the prevalent mood of _____of a whole post-war generation.

A. disillusionment and despair …disorder and spiritual desolation

B. disorder and spiritual desolation …disillusionment and despair

C. the lost hope of spiritual rebirth …the disintegration of life

D. the disintegration of life …the lost hope of spiritual rebirth

25. Which of the following is not written by James Joyce ?

A. Dubliners

B. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

C. Finnegans Wake

D. The Waste Land

Part Ⅳ: Interpretation(20%)

Read the following selections and then answer the questions. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.

(1)

A little black thing in the snow,

Crying “weep! weep!" in notes of woe!

“Where are thy father and mother? Say!"—

“They are both gone up to the church to pray.

“Because I was happy upon the hearth,

And smiled among the winter's snow,

They clothed me in the clothes of death,

And taught me to sing the notes of woe.

“And because I am happy and dance and sing,

They think they have done me no injury,

And are gone to praise God and his priest and king,

Who make up a heaven of our misery."

1. What is the “little black thing" in this poem?

2. What does this poem chiefly contain?

(2)

Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is:

What if my leaves are falling like its own!

The tumult of thy mighty harmonies

Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone,

Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, spirit fierce,

My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!

Scatter, as from and unextinguished hearth

Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!

Be through my lips to unawakened earth

The trumpet of a prophecy! O, Wind,

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

3. Please interpret the last line “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" and the poem.

(3)

WHEN he was twenty-three years old, Paul sent in a landscape to the winter exhibition at Nottingham Castle.Miss Jordan had taken a good deal of interest in him, and invited him to her house, where he met other artists.He was beginning to grow ambitious.

One morning the postman came just as he was washing in the scullery.Suddenly he heard a wild noise from his mother. Rushing into the kitchen, he found her standing on the hearth rug wildly waving a letter and crying “Hurrah!" as if she had gone mad. He was shocked and frightened.

“Why, mother!" he exclaimed. She flew to him, flung her arms round him for a moment, then waved the letter, crying: “Hurrah , my boy!I knew we should do it! "He was afraid of her－the small, severe woman with graying hair suddenly bursting out in such frenzy.The postman came running back, afraid something had happened.They saw his tipped cap over the short curtains.Mrs. Morel rushed to the door.

“His picture's got first prize, Fred," she cried, “and is sold for twenty guineas. "“My word, that's something like!" said the young postman, whom they had known all his life. “And Major Moreton has bought it!" she cried. “It looks like meanin' something, that does, Mrs. Morel," said the postman, his blue eyes bright.He was glad to have brought such a lucky letter.Mrs. Morel went indoors and sat down, trembling.

Paul was afraid lest she might have misread the letter, and might be disappointed after all.He scrutinized it once, twice.Y es, he be convinced it was true.Then he sat down, his heart beating with joy. “Mother!" he exclaimed.

4. Which novel is this passage taken from? Who's the author?

5. Please give a brief comment on the relationship between Paul and Mrs. Morel.

Part Ⅴ: Give brief answers to the following questions.(15%)

1. Why has Henry Fielding been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel"?

2. State the major reasons of Jane Eyre, the novel's success.