高等英语自学考试英美文学200404真题试题及答案

2004年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试

英美文学选读试题

（课程代码0604）

全部题目用英文作答，并将答案写在答题纸相应位置上，否则不计分。

PART ONE （40 POINTS）

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. Write your correct answer on the answer sheet.

1.“And we will sit upon the rocks, /Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.” The above lines are taken from ______.

A. Milton’s Paradise Lost

B. Marlowe’s “The Passionate shepherd to His Love”

C. Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18”

D. John Donne’s “The Sun Rising”

2.The English Renaissance period was an age of ______ .

A. poetry and drama

B. drama and novel

C. novel and poetry

D. romance and poetry

3.Here are four lines taken from Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene: “But on his brest a bloudie Crosse he bore,/The deare remembrance of his dying Lord,/For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore,/And dead as living ever him a dored.” Who is the “dying Lord” discussed in the above lines?

A. Beowulf

B. King Arthur

C. Jesus Christ

D. Jupiter

4.In Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylock, because ______.

A. his money was all invested in the newly-emerging textile industry

B. his enterprise went bankrupt

C. Bassanio was able to pay his own debt

D. his ships had all been lost

5. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18?

A. The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.

B. The speaker satirizes human vanity.

C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.

D. The speaker meditates on man’s salvation.

6. In English poetry, a four-line stanza is called ______.

A. heroic couplet

B. quatrain

C. Spenserian stanza

D. terza rima

7. “Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,/Their homely joys, and destiny

obscure;/Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile /The short and simple annals of the poor.”

The above lines are taken from .

A. Alexander Pope’s Essay on Criticism

B. Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”

C. John Donne’s “The Sun Rising”

D. Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”

8. By making the truth-seeking pilgrims suffer at the hands of the people of Vanity Fair, John Bunyan intends to show the prevalent political and religious ______of his time.

A. persecution

B. improvement

C. prosperity

D. disillusionment

9. The 18th century witnessed a new literary form－the modern English novel, which, contrary to the medieval romance, gives a ______ presentation of life of the common people.

A. romantic

B. realistic

C. prophetic

D. idealistic

10. As a whole, ______is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the then English and European life— socially, politically, religiously, philosophically, scientifically, and morally.

A. Moll Flanders

B. Gulliver’s Travels

C. Pilgrim’s Progress

D. The School for Scandal

11. An honest, kind-hearted young man, who is full of animal spirit and lacks prudence, is expelled from the paradise and has to go through hard experience to gain knowledge of himself and finally to have been accepted both by a virtuous lady and a rich relative .

The above sentence may well sum up the theme of Fielding’s work .

A. Jonathan Wild the Great

B. Tom Jones

C. The Coffe-House Politician

D. Amelia

12. In Sheridan’s The School for scandal, the man who wins the hand of his beloved as well as the inheritance of his rich uncle is ______ .

A. Charles Surface

B. Joseph Surface

C. Sir Peter Teazle

D. Sir Benjamin Backbite

13. Which of the following works best represents the national spirit of the 18th-century England?

A. Robinson Crusoe

B. Gulliver’s Travels

C. Jonathan Wild the Great

D. A Sentimental Journey

14. Shelley’s masterpiece, Prometheus Unbound, is a verse drama, which borrows the basic story from ______ .

A. the Bible

B. a German legend

C. a Greek play

D. One Thousand and One Nights