2020年自考《英美文学选读》试题二

11.The phrase "to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils” may well sum up the implied meaning of ___.

A.Gulliver's Travels           B.The Rape of the Lock

C.Robinson Crusoe            D.The pilgrim's Progress

12.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT ___.

A.the use of everyday language spoken by the common people

B.the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings

C.the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter

D.the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech

13.Which of the following is taken from John Keats’ "Ode on a Grecian Urn”?

A."I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!”

B."They are both gone up to the church to pary.”

C."Earth has not anything to show more fair.”

D."Beauty is truth, truth beauty”.

14."If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!” is an epigrammatic line by __.

A.J.Keats          B.W.Blake         C.W.Wordsworth      D.P.B.Shelley

15."Ode o na Grecian Urn”shows the contrast between the ___ of art and the ___ of human passion.

A.glory …ugliness         B.permanence…transience

C.transience…sordidness   D.glory…permanence

16.In the statement"-oh,God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?” the term"soul” apparently refers to ___.

A.Heathcliff himself          B.Catherine

C.one's spiritual life        D.one's ghost

17.The typical feature of Robet Browning's poetry is the ___.

A.bitter satire            B.larger-than-life caricature

C.Latinized diction        D.dramatic monologue

18.The Victorian Age was largely an age of ____,eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.

A.poetry         B.drama         C.prose          D.epic prose

19.___is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.

A.Jane Eyre           B.Emma

C.Wuthering Heights    D.Middlemarch

20.The major concern of  ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human  nature.

A.D.H.Lawrence's             B.J.Galsworthy's

C.W.Thackeray’s              D.T.Hardy’s