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2024年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题

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yutiple Choice (20 voints in al,1 for each)

Complete each of the following statements bv choosing one appropriate answer from the four ontions giyen.

1.Beowulfis composed around the ninth century in a form of

B. folk songsD. sagasA.lyricsC.epicsdid not have much in common with the

2.Even though called a humanist scholar, humanists of his time.

B. John MiltonC.John D. Dryden A.John Lyly

3..John Skelton,, which is a peculiar style ofEnglishJohn Lyly's peculiar style came to be known as “3prose.

C. slangA. dialectD.yulgarizationB.euphuism

4. “That time of year thou mayst in me behold” is the beginning line of one of WilliamShakespeare'stn

A.comedies

C. novelsB. tragedies

D.sonnets

5.“Reading makes a full man; conferences a ready man; and writing an exact man” could befound in

A.Thomas More's Utopia

B.Francis Bacon's“Of Studies’

C.Charles Dickens's Great Expectations

D.Thomas Hardy's Tess ofthe D'Urbervilles

6.“From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be” is taken from the poem written by6.A.Geoffrey Chaucer

B.John Donne

C.Edmund Spenser

D.Thomas Gray

7.The following statements about Robinson Crusoe are true EXCEP

A.Crusoe rescues a prisoner, naming him Friday

B.it is written in the autobiographical fomm

C.it is a record ofDefoe's own experience

D.Crusoe is rescued by a British ship and returns to England

8. “Their heads and breasts were covered with a thick hair, some frizzled, and others lank” is the

excerpt from Swif's

A. Gulliver s Travels

C. The Battle ofthe Books

B. A Tale ofa Tub

D.A Modest Proposal

9.is NOT true about William Wordsworth.That9

A. he asserts that poetry must concern itself with “the primary laws of our nature’

B. Lyrical Ballads marks the beginning of the Romantic movement in literature

C. he had mixed joys and terrors of his boyhood

D. The Prelude is his most notable essay

10.One can see the deserted,poverty-stricken chid in

A.Great Expectations

C.Oliver Twist

B. Dombey and Son

D. David Copperfeld

11.Of the following 4 writers,belongs to “the stream of consciousness” school.

A. Thomas Hardy

C.D.H. Lawrence

B. Virginia Woolf

D.Thomas More

12.Inone can read three couples who define their lives by their hatred of a tyrannical film

producer.

A. A Better Class ofPerson

C.The Hotel in Amsterdam

B. Look Back in Anger

D.Inadmissible Evidence