英国文学选读试卷浙江2007年1月

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浙江省2007年1月高等教育自学考试

英国文学选读试题

课程代码：10054

PartⅠ. Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10%) Section A

A B

(1)Shakespeare ( ) A. Jude the Obscure

(2)Henry Fielding ( ) B. Persuasion

(3)Charles Dickens ( ) C. Hard Times

(4)Jane Austen ( ) D. Tom Jones

(5)Thomas Hardy ( ) E. The Tempest

Section B

A B

(1) Hamlet( ) A. Friday

(2) Robinson Crusoe ( ) B. Sir Peter Teazle

(3) The School for Scandal ( ) C. Gertrude

(4) Pride and Prejudice ( ) D. Angel Clare

(5) Tess of the D’Urbervilles( ) E. Elizabeth Bennet

Part Ⅱ. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. (5%)

1. The Renaissance movement embraced almost the whole of Europe. _______ is the essence of the movement.

2. In the last few decades of the 18th century, the neoclassical doctrines were rebelled against or challenged by the _______.

3. The two major novelists of the _______ period are Jane Austen and Walter Scott.

4. Charlotte Bront e ‘s works are usually concerned about some neglected young women with a fierce longing for _______, understanding and a full, happy life.

5. James Joyce is the most out-standing stream-of-consciousness novelist of the _______ century. Part Ⅲ. Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers.

Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (50%)

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1. About the Renaissance humanists which of the following statements is true? ( )

A. They thought money and social status was the measure of all things.

B. They thought people were largely subordinated to the ruling class without any freedom and independence.

C. They couldn’t see the human values in their works.

D. They emphasized the dignity of human beings and the importance of the present life.

2. In his tragedy Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare eulogizes ( ).

A. the spirit of pursuing religious freedom

B. the faithfulness of love

C. the heroine’s great beauty, wit and loyalty

D. both A and B

3. One of the distinct features of the Elizabethan time is ( ).

A. the flourishing of the drama

B. the popularity of the realistic novel

C. the domination of the classical poetry

D. the close-down of all the theatres

4. Which of the following works was written by John Milton? ( )

A. The Song of Beowulf.

B. Canterbury Tales .

C. Samson Agonistes.

D. Othello.

5. Which of the following terms can be used to refer to the 18th-century English literature?

( )

A. The Age of Romance.

B. The Age of Drama .

C. The Age of Prose.

D. The Age of Poetry.

6. Which of the following authors does not belong to the enlighteners of the 18th century?

( )

A. Jonathan Swift.

B. Walter Scott .

C. Daniel Defoe.

D. Henry Fielding.

7. The middle of the 18th century saw a newly rising literary form—( ).

A. the modern English drama

B. the modern English poetry

C. the modern English novel

D. both A and B

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8. Which of the following statements about the metaphysical poets is true? ( )

A. They tried to break away from the conventional fashion of the Elizabethan love poetry.

B. John Donne is the leading figure of the metaphysical school.

C. They are not as rebellious as the sentimentalists.

D. Both A and B.

9. Britain witnessed two major romantic poets in the latter half of the 18th century. They are

( ).

A. John Milton and William Blake

B. Robert Burns and John Keats

C. George Herbert and John Donne

D. Robert Burns and William Blake

10. The language in Robinson Crusoe is ( ).

A. easy, smooth and colloquial

B. difficult and artificial

C. lengthy and imaginative

D. obscene and difficult

11. Which of the following is true about Jonathan Swift’s thoughts as a representative of the

enlightenment movement? ( )

A. To better human life, enlightenment is unnecessary.

B. Human nature is simple and naive.

C. Human nature was destined and couldn’t be changed.

D. It’s possible to reform and improve human nature and human institutions.

12. Henry Fielding is mainly concerned about ( ) in his works.

A. the miserable life of the middle-class people

B. the ordinary and usually ridiculous life of the common people

C. the special life style of some groups

D. the real life of the upper-class people

13. In The School for Scandal the author satirizes the following except ( ).

A. the austere life of the middle class

B. the reckless life of extravagance and love intrigues in the high society

C. the vicious scandal-mongering among the idle rich

D. the immorality and hypocrisy of the upper class

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14. Which of the following novelists belongs to the Romantic period? ( )

A. Jane Austen .

B. George Eliot.

C. Henry Fielding .

D. Charles Dickens.

15. Which of the following statements is true about William Blake’s Songs of

Experience?( )

A. It portrays a world of loss and institutional cruelty with sufferings.

B. It describes a world of happiness and love and romantic ideals.

C. It depicts a world of misery, poverty mixed with love and happiness.

D. It paints a world of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression.

16. In many of Byron’s poems, the romantic poet created a well-known hero who is( ).

A. a brilliant, independent and romantic figure of his time

B. a brave and stubborn rebel figure of noble origin

C. an arrogant and mysterious rebel figure of lower origin

D. a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin

17. As a woman writer, Jane Austen always portrays the quiet daily country life of ( ).

A. the upper-class English

B. the upper-middle-class English

C. the lower-class English

D. the lower-middle-class English

18. As a realist, in his works Dickens intends to expose and criticize ( ).

A. the poverty, injustice, hypocrisy and corruptness around him

B. the capitalist solutions to the social plights

C. some ineffective reforms

D. both B and C

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

pursue( ).

A. the perfect love between men and women

B. the secrets of inward propensity and outward circumstances

C. the fundamental moral truth about human life

D. the inner contradictions in people’s heart

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20. In Hardy’s novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles, what kind of character is Tess described

as?( )

A. A simple, innocent and faithful country girl.

B. A cunning, strong-minded and passionate girl.

C. A beautiful, natural girl as well as a victim of the society.

D. Both A and C.

21. Which of the following statements is true about the modernist writers? ( )

A. They are more concerned with the outward appearance of an individual.

B. They are more concerned with the harmonious human relationships.

C. They are more concerned with the distorted, alienated and ill relationships

D. They are more concerned with the normal and united relationships.

22. In The Man of Property, which of the following statements is true about the typical

Forsyte ?( )

A. It symbolizes the traditional and conservative values of the contemporary society.

B. It represents the essence of the new rising bourgeoisie.

C. It refers to the predominant possessive instinct of the upper class.

D. It represents the essence of the principle that the accumulation of wealth is the sole aim of life.

23. Which of the following is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist? ( )

A. Virginia Woolf.

B. John Galsworthy .

C. James Joyce .

D. William Thackery.

24. In many of G B Shaw’s early plays, he severely attacked and criticized ( ).

A. the evil people of the lower-class people

B. the cruelty and madness of World War I

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

D. the contemporary radical reformist point of view

25. In his masterpiece Ulysses, Joyce intends to present a microcosm of the whole human life by

depicting ( ).

A. a single event which contains all the events of its kind

B. a broad life experience of the whole mankind

C. a deep psychological world of various individuals

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D. both A and C

Part Ⅳ. Interpretation (20%)

Read the following selections and then answer the questions.

(1)

Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is V anity; and at the tow n there is a fair kept, called V anity Fair ;it is kept all the year long; it bearth the name of V anity Fair because the town where it is kept is lighter than vanity; and also because all that is there sold, or that cometh thither, is vanity. As is the saying of the wise, “All that cometh is vanity.”

This fair is no new-erected business, but a thing of ancient standing; I will show you the original of it.

Almost five thousand years agone, there were pilgrims walking to the Celestial City, as theses two honest persons are; and Beelzebub, Apollyon, and Legion, with their companions, perceiving by the path that the pilgrims made, that their way to the city lay through this town of V anity, they contrived to set up a fair; a fair wherein should be sold all sorts of vanity, and that it should last all the year long. Therefore at this fair are all such merchandise sold, as houses, land, trades, places, honors, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures, and delights of all sorts, as whores, bawds, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants, lives, blood, bodies, souls, silver, gold, pearls, precious stones, and what not.

And , moreover, at this fair here is at all times to be seen jugglings, cheats, games, plays, fools, apes, knaves, and rogues, and that of every kind.Here are to be seen, too, and that for nothing, thefts, murders, adulteries, false swearers, and that of a blood-red colour.

1. Which book is this passage taken from? Who is the author?

2. What kind of fair is the V anity Fair in the passage?

(2)

“Who, who?”cries Tom; but without waiting for an answer, having discovered the features of his Molly through all the discomposure in which they now were, he hastily alighted, turned his horse loose, and, leaping over the wall, ran to her. She now first bursting into tears, told him how barbarously she had been treated.Upon which, forgetting the sex of Goody Brown, or perhaps not knowing it in his rage—for, in reality, she had no feminine appearance but a petticoat, which he

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might not observe—he gave her a lash or two with his horsewhip; and then flying at the mob, who were all accused by Moll, he dealt his blows so profusely on all sides, that unless I would again invoke the Muse (which the good-natured reader may think a little too hard upon her, as she hath so lately been violently sweated), it would be impossible for me to recount the horsewhipping of that day.

Having scoured the whole coast of the enemy, as well as any of Homer’s horses ever did, or as Don Quixote or any knight-errant in the world could have done, he returned to Molly, whom he found in a condition which must give both me and my reader pain, was it to be described here. Tom raved like a madman, beat his breast, tore his hair, stamped on the ground, and vowed the utmost vengeance on all who had been concerned.He then pulled off his coat, and buttoned it round her, put his hat upon her head, wiped the blood from her face as well as he could with his handkerchief, and called out to the servant to ride as fast as possible for a side-saddle, or a pillion, that he might carry her safe home.

Master Blifil objected to the sending away the servant, as they had only one with them; but as Square seconded the order of Jones, he was obliged to comply.

The servant returned in a very short time with the pillion, and Molly, having collected her rags as well as she could, was placed behind him. In which manner she was carried home, Square, Blifil, and Jones attending.

Here Jones having received his coat, given her a sly kiss, and whispered her, that he would return in the evening, quitted his Molly, and rode on after his companions.

3. What can be seen about the hero Tom’s character from this accident?

4. How do you comment on the art form of the novel?

(3)

She dwelt among the untrodden ways

Beside the springs of Dove,

A Maid whom there were none to praise

And very few to love:

A violet by a mossy stone

Half hidden from the eye!

—Fair as a star, when only one

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Is shining in the sky.

She lived unknown, and few could know

When Lucy ceased to be;

But she is in her grave, and, oh,

The difference to me!

5. What is the theme of this poem?

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

1. Make a brief comment on the major features of Jane Austen’s novel writing.

2. Make a comment on the themes of Ulysses by James Joyce.

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