浙江省2008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. Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10%)
Section A
A B
(1)Jonathan Swift（ ） A. The Rainbow
(2)D.H. Lawrence （ ） B. Adam Bede
(3)Emily Brontё（ ） C. Gulliver’s Travels
(4)Thomas Hardy （ ） D. Wuthering Heights
(5)George Eliot（ ） E. Far From the Madding Crowd
Section B
A B
(1) Middlemarch （ ） A. Shylock
(2) Jane Eyre（ ） B. Sir Peter Teazle
(3) The Merchant of Venice （ ） C. Mr. Rochester
(4) Mrs. Warren’s Profession（ ） D. Will Ladislas
(5) The School for Scandal（ ） E. Vivie
Part II. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. (5%)
1. In Paradise Lost, the author intended to expose the ways of Satan and to “justify the ways of _________ to men.”
2. As the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Charles Dickens set out a full map, and a large-scale criticism of the _________century.
3. In Jane Austen’s novels, stories of _________ and marriage provide the major themes.
4. In the novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles, the two men Alec and _________ are both agents of the destructive force of the society.
5. G. B. Shaw is considered to be one of the best known English _________ in English literature.
Part III. Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement.(50%)
1. The Protestant movement, which was seen as a means to recover the purity of the early church
from the corruption and superstition of the Middle Ages, was initiated by （ ）
A. Francis Bacon B. Martin Luther
C. Thomas More D. William Shakespeare
2. As to the great tragedy Hamlet, which of the following is not true? （ ）
A. The timeless appeal of this mighty drama lies in its combination of intrigue, emotional conflict and searching philosophic melancholy.
B. The bare outline of the play is based on a widespread legend in northern Europe.
C. The whole story of the play is created by Shakespeare himself.
D. In it, Shakespeare condemns the hypocrisy and treachery and general corruption at the royal court.
3. The story of Paradise Lost is taken from the Bible. It tells about （ ）
A. Satan’s rebellion against God.
B. the expulsion of Adam and Eve out of the garden of Eden.
C.a young prince’s revenge on his father’s murderer.
D. both A and B
4. Which of the following statements is true about the metaphysical poets? （ ）
A. The diction of their writing is comparatively lengthy.
B. The form is frequently that of an argument with the poet’s beloved, with God, or with himself.
C. They tried to be reconciled with the conventional fashion of the Elizabethan love poetry.
D. The imagery is usually drawn from the ideal life.
5. The enlighteners placed much emphasis on reason, because they thought （ ）
A. superstition was above reason and rationality.
B. reason and emotion both could lead to truth and justice.
C. reason or rationality should be the only, the final cause of any human thought and activities.
D. equality and science is contrary to reason and rationality.
6. Which of the following statements is true according to the principles of the neoclassicists?
（ ）
A. All forms of literature were to be modeled after the classical works of the ancient Greek and Roman writers.
B. They tried to delight, instruct and correct human beings as social animals.
C. They tried to develop a polite, urbane ,witty and intellectual art .
D. All of the above.
7. In the 18th century, the British government was mainly controlled by two political parties in turn. They are （ ）
A. the upper House and the lower House.
B. the House of Lords and the House of Representatives.
C. the Whigs and the Tories.
D. the Senate and the House of Representatives.
8. In Robinson Crusoe, the writer glorifies （ ）
A. pride and happiness. B. independence and strong will.
C. human labor and the Puritan fortitude. D. hard work and success.
9. Which of the following is true about the book Gulliver’s Travels ? （ ）
A. It is a study of human nature and life.
B. It has high artistic skills in making the story an organic whole.
C. It makes criticisms and satires of all aspects in the contemporary English and European life.
D. It is not a book of satire though it is a book of rebellion.
10. Which of the following statements is true about Sheridan’s plays? （ ）
A. He is not concerned with the current moral issues of his time.
B. He intends to show the social goodness of his time.
C. He thinks the moral tradition of his age is rather good.
D. He lashes the social vices of the day.
11. Which of the following is not the representative of Romanticism? （ ）
A. Percy Shelley. B. Edmund Spenser.
C. John Keats. D. Samuel Coleridge.
12. Walter Scott established his novels as a worthwhile fictional form and set the personal dilemmas of his characters against （ ）
A. a background of contemporary things.
B. a background of the Renaissance.
C. a background of historical things.
D. a background of modern events.
13. Most of Wordsworth’s short poems write about subjects of （ ）
A. nature and human life. B. society and politics.
C. love and beauty . D. society and history.
14. In her novels, Jane Austen is particularly preoccupied with the relationship between
（ ）
A. men and women in love.
B. men and women in conflict.
C. mothers and daughters in love.
D. fathers and sons in conflict.
15. The Victorian period in England saw （ ）
A. the Industrial Revolution
B. a time of poverty and unstability
C. the prosperity of romantic novels
D. the forces of the critical realists
16. The religious hypocrisy of charity institutions are sharply criticized in the novel （ ）
A. Sons and Lovers. B. Wuthering Heights.
C. Jane Eyre. D. A Tale of Two Cities.
17. In the summit of his literary career, two of Thomas Hardy’s novels received a lot of hostile criticisms. They are （ ）
A. The Return of the Native and Tess of the D’Urbervilles.
B. Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure.
C. The Dynasts and Jude the Obscure.
D. Middlemarch and Jude the Obscure.
18. Which of the following statements is true about Thomas Hardy’s heroines and heroes?
（ ）
A. They were fortunate young men and women in pursuit of personal fulfillment.
B. They were persistent in their pursuit for an ideal life.
C. They struggled desperately for individual equality and freedom.
D. They struggled desperately for personal fulfillment and happiness.
19. In the mid-1950s and early 1960s, there appeared a group of young novelists and playwrights with lower-middle-class or working-class background, who were known as “_________”.
（ ）
A. the Sentimental Young Men B. the Lost Generation
C. the Angry Young Men D. the Beat Generation
20. Lawrence had once been a most controversial author mainly for （ ）
A. his concern about the relationship between men and women .
B. his strong reaction against the mechanical civilization.
C. his description of the distortion of personality.
D. his frank treatment and discussion of sex in his novels.
21. Which of the following is not written by T.S. Eliot? （ ）
A. Ash Wednesday. B. Finnegans Wake.
C. Murder in the Cathedral. D. The Waste Land.
22. Which of the following groups belongs to the critical realists of the Victorian Period?
（ ）
A. Jane Austen and Emily Brontё
B. Charles Dickens and Walter Scott
C. D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce
D. Thomas Hardy and George Eliot
23. In many of Hardy’s novels, the fate of the characters is always driven by （ ）
A. their own inherent nature and hereditary traits.
B. the natural environment and the social environment.
C. the traditional social morality and values.
D. the high competition and pressure in the modern life.
24. Which of the following is not written by G. B. Shaw? （ ）
A. Widowers’ House. B. Mrs. Warren’s Profession.
C. Pygmalion. D. The Rainbow.
25. In The Man of Property, which of the following statements is true about the typical Forsyte?
（ ）
A. It symbolizes the traditional and conservative values of the contemporary society.
B. It represents the essence of the principle that the accumulation of wealth is the sole aim of life.
C. It refers to the predominant possessive instinct of the upper class.
D. It represents the essence of the new rising bourgeoisie.
Part IV. Interpretation (20%)
Read the following selections and then answer the questions.
(1)
Who are these coming to the sacrifice?
To what green altar, O mysterious priest,
Lead’st thou that heifer lowing at the skies,
And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?
What little town by river or sea shore,
Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel,
Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?
And, little town, thy streets for evermore
Will silent be; and not a soul to tell
Why thou art desolate, can e’er return.
O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede
Of marble men and maidens overwrought,
With forest branches and the trodden weed;
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought
As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say’st,
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,”— that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
1. What is the title of this poem? Who is the author?
2. What contrast is shown in the poem?
(2)
She was expressing in her own native phrases — assisted a little by her Sixth Standard training — feelings which might almost have been called those of the age: the ache of modernism. The perception arrested him less when he reflected that what are called advanced ideas are really in great part but the latest fashion in definition-a more accurate expression, by words in logy and ism, of sensations which men and women have vaguely grasped for centuries.
Still, it was strange that they should have come to her while yet so young; more than strange; it was impressive, interesting, pathetic. Not guessing the cause, there was nothing to remind him that experience is as to intensity, and not as to duration. Tess’s passing corporeal blight had been her mental harvest.
Tess, on her part, could not understand why a man of clerical family and good education, and above physical want, should look upon it as a mishap to be alive. For the unhappy pilgrim herself there was very good reason. But how could this admirable and poetic man ever have descended to the Valley of Humiliation, have felt with the man of Uz — as she herself had felt two or three years ago — “My soul chooseth strangling and death rather than my life. I loathe it; I would not live alway.”
It was true that he was at present out of his class. But she knew that was only because, like Peter the Great in a shipwright’s yard, he was studying what he wanted to know. He did not milk cows because he was obliged to milk cows, but because he was learning how to be a rich and prosperous dairyman, landowner, agriculturist, and breeder of cattle.
3. Which novel is this passage taken from? Who’s the author?
4. What does it mean by Tess’s passing corporeal blight in the passage?
(3)
After filling his mouth with household bread, stale, he at once began: “How are you going down to Robin Hill? You going to take Irene? You’d better take her. I should think there’ll be a lot that’ll want seeing to.”
Without looking up, Soames answered: “She won’t go.”
“Won’t go? What’s the meaning of that? She’s going to live in the house, isn’t she?”
Soames made no reply.
“I don’t know what’s coming to women nowadays,” mumbled James; “I never used to have any trouble with them. She’s had too much liberty. She’s spoiled——”
Soames lifted his eyes: “I won’t have anything said against her,” he said unexpectedly.
The silence was only broken now by the supping of James’s soup.
The waiter brought the two glasses of port, but Soames stopped him.
“That’s not the way to serve port,” he said; “take them away, and bring the bottle.”
Rousing himself from his reverie over the soup, James took one of his rapid shifting surveys of surrounding facts.
“Your mother’s in bed,” he said; “you can have the carriage to take you down. I should think Irene’d like the drive. This young Bosinney’ll be there, I suppose, to show you over？”
Soames nodded.
“I should like to go and see for myself what sort of a job he’s made finishing off,” pursued James. “I’ll just drive round and pick you both up.”
“I am going down by train,” replied Soames. “If you like to drive round and see, Irene might go with you, I can’t tell.”
5. Please give a brief comment on the relationship between Soames and Irene.
Part V. Give brief answers to the following questions(15%).
1. Please state Henry Fielding’s major contributions in novel writing.
2. Make a brief comment on the relationship between the mother and son in Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers.
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