全国高等教育自学考试
英美文学选读模拟试题（七）
（课程代码：0604）
(全部题目用英文作答)
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 answers on the Answer Sheet.
1. Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle is famous for             .
A. Rip’s escape into a mystery            B. the story’s German legendary source material
C. Rip’s seeking for happiness            D. Rip’s 20-year sleep
2. One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human “        “.
A. bestiality          B. goodness          C. compassion          D. greed
3. Of the following poets, which is not regarded as “Lake Poets”?
A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge                  B. Robert Southey.   
C. William Wordsworth        D. William Shakespeare
4.         is considered to be the best known English dramatist since Shakespeare.
A. Oscar Wilde    B. John Calsworthy      C. W. B.Yeats      D. George Bernard Shaw
5. Leopold Bloom is the symbol of everyman in the Post-World-ⅠEurope. He is a character of the writing “              “.
A. Pilgrimage        B. Ulysses        C.    Mrs. Dalloway          D. The Rainbow
6. Generally, English Romanticism refers to the period of             .
A. 1483—1547         B. 1798—1832       C. 1660—1798      D. 1836—1901
7. Robert Browning’s best-known dramatic monologue is                 .
A. Meeting at Night                          B. Parting at Morning
C. My last Duchess                          D. The Ring and the Book.
8. Which of the following best describes the protagonist of “Thomas Hardy’s “The Mayor of Casterbridge”?
A. He is a man of self-esteem.          B. He is a man of self-contempt.           
C. He is a man of self-confidence.        D. He is a man of self-sufficience.
9.
A. Women in Love                      B. Sons and Lovers     
C. The Rainbow                        D. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
10. With so many poems such as “The Sparrow’s Nest,” “To a Skylark,” “To the Cuckoo” and “To a Butterfly”, William Wordsworth is regarded as a “              ”.
A. poet of genius                  B. royal poet
C. worshipper of nature              D. conservative poet
11. In the first part of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver told his experience in           .
A. Lilliput          B. Brobdingnag        C. Houyhnhnm        D. Ehgland
12. “To be, or not to be—that is the question; whether’tis nobler in the mind to suffer, the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end then?” Who said these words?
A. King Lear          B. Romeo            C. Antonio            D. Hamlet
13. “To be so distinguished is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.”
A. ironic          B. jealous            C. delightful                D. humorous
14. In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period,         was the leading figure among the host of playwrights.
A. William Blake                      B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan       
C. Ben Johnson          D. George Bernard Shaw
15. Among the works by John Milton, which is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf?
A. Paradise Regained                B. Samson Agonistes
C. Areopagitica                    D. Paradise Lost
16. Which writing is a typical example of Shakespeare’s pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years?
A. The Tempest          B. King Lear          C. Hamlet          D. Othello
17. Who, one of the most important poets in his time, is a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”?
A. J. D. Salinger        B. Ezra Pound          C. Richard Wright      D. Ralph Ellison
18.       lays the foundation for modern science with his insistence on scientific way of thinking and fresh observation rather than authority as a basis for obtaining knowledge.
A. Francis Bacon      B. Thomas Hardy      C. Charles Dickens      D. William Blake
19. Alexander Pope strongly advocated         , emphasizing that literary works should be judged by classical rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.leftist
A. idealism        B. neoclassicism          C. romanticism        D. sentimentalism

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