浙江省2010年1月高等教育自学考试英国文学选读试题自考

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浙江省2010年1月高等教育自学考试
英国文学选读试题
课程代码：10054

Part Ⅰ. Blank-filling:
Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or phrase according to the textbook. (10 points in all, 1 point for each)
1. Shakespeare’s plays have been traditionally divided into three categories: histories, ______ and tragedies.
2. William Caxton was the first person who introduced ______ into England.
3. Wyatt, in the Renaissance period, introduced the Petrarchan ______ into England, while Surrey brought in blank verse.
4. The Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classical works in the field of literature. This tendency is known as ______.
5. The three unities refer to those of time, place and ______.
6. Regarded as Thomas Gray’s best and most representative work, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is more or less connected with the melancholy event of the death of ______.
7. In 1704 Jonathan Swift published two powerful satires on corruption in religion and learning, A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books, which established his name as a ______.
8. In Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Lawrence not only condemns the civilized world of mechanism for distorting human relationships, but also advocates a return to ______.
9. The social Darwinism, under the cover of “survival of the fittest”, vehemently advocated colonialism and ______.
10. Dubliners is the first important work of Joyce’s lifelong preoccupation with ______ life.

Part Ⅱ. Multiple-choice questions:
Select from the four choices A, B, C, D of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. (30 points in all, 1 point for each)
11. Marlowe gave new vigor to the blank verse with his “______”.
A. lyrical lines
B. soft lines
C. mighty lines
D. religious lines

12. Francis Bacon is not only the first important essayist but also the founder of modern ______ in England.
A. poetry
B. novel
C. prose
D. science

13. Spenser’s masterpiece is ______, which is a great poem of the age.
A. The Shepheardes Calender
B. The Faierie Queene
C. The Rape of Lucrece
D. The Canterbury Tales

14.John Milton wrote ______ to expose the way of Satan and to “justify the ways of God to men”.
A. Paradise Lost
B. Paradise Regained
C. Lycidas
D. Samson Agonistes

15. According to the neoclassicists, all forms of literature were to be modeled after the classical works of the ancient Greek and ______ writers.
A. Italian
B. British
C. German
D. Roman

16. The romantic poets of the ______ peasant poet, Robert Burns and William Blake also joined lamenting lyrics, paving the way for the flourish of Romanticism early the next century.
A. British
B. Irish
C. Scottish
D. Wales

17.The Pilgrim’s Progress is the most successful religious ______ in the English language.
A. allegory
B. fable
C. fairy tale
D. essay

18. ______ once defined a good style as “proper words in proper places”.
A. John Donne

D. John Bunyan

19. Gray’s “Elegy written in a Country Churchyard” once and for all established his fame as the leader of the ______ poetry of the day.
A. romantic
B. historical
C. lyrical
D. sentimental

20. Marx once extolled ______ as “an instinctive defender of the masses of the people against the encroachment of the bourgeoisie”.
A. William Godwin
B. William Burke
C. William Cobbet
D. William Fox