自考英国文学选读试题.doc

自考英国文学选读试题 Part I: Choose the relevant match from column B for each item in column A. (10%) Section A A B (1) T. S. Eliot（ ） A. The School for Scandal (2) John Keats（ ） B. Samson Agonistes (3) Richard Brinsley Sheridan（ ） C. My Last Duchess (4) Robert Browning（ ） D. The Waste Land (5) John Milton（ ） E. Isabella Section B A B (1) Pride and Prejudice（ ） A. Mrs. Morel (2) Hamlet（ ） B. Mr. Brownlow (3) Wuthering Heights（ ） C. Claudius (4) Sons and Lovers（ ） D. Elizabeth Bennet (5) Oliver Twist（ ） E. Heathcliff Part II. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. (5%) 1. The essence of the Renaissance is ______. 2. Pope was the greatest poet of his time. He strongly advocated neoclassicism, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by classical rules of order, ______, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum. 3. The Romantic period in English literary history is an age of______. Wordsworth and Coleridge are the major representatives of this movement. 4. James Joyce is regarded as the most prominent ______ novelist. 5. Most of Hardy抯 works are set in______, the fictional primitive and crude rural region which is really the home place he both loves and hates. 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. Marlowe抯 greatest achievement lies in that he perfected the ______ and made it the principal medium of English drama.（ ） A. blank verse B. free verse C. sonnet D. alliteration 2. Shakespeare is known to have used ______ different words. His coinage of new words and distortion of the meaning of the old ones also create striking effects on the