全国自考英美文学选读模拟试卷15

全国自考（英美文学选读）模拟试卷15

(总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)

一、单项选择题(总题数：40，分数：80.00)

1.John Milton' s______is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf. （分数：

2.00）

A.Paradise Lost √

B.Paradise Regained

C.Samson Agonistes

D.Areopagitica

解析：解析：弥尔顿的《失乐园》是英国文学史上继《贝奥武甫》之后唯一的一部公认的史诗。

2.As the best of Shakespeare' s final romances, ______is a typical example of his pessimistic

view towards human life and society in his late years.

（分数：2.00）

A.The Tempest √

B.The Winter' s Tale

C.Cymbeline

D.The Rape of Lucrece

解析：解析：对莎士比亚来说，人的一生不啻于一场梦幻，《暴风雨》典型地反映了他晚年对人生、对社会所持的悲观态度。

3._____writings paved the way for the use of scientific method.

（分数：2.00）

A.George Bernard shaw

B.T. S. Eliot

C.Francis Bacon √

D.Alexander Pope

解析：

4.With classical culture and the______humanistic ideas coming into England, the English

Renaissance began flourishing.

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A.French

B.German

C.Italian √

D.Greek

解析：解析：随着古典文化与意大利人文主义思潮的涌入，英国的文艺复兴开始进入繁盛期。

5.In the early stage of the English Renaissance, poetry and______were the most outstanding

literary forms and they were carried on especially by William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.

（分数：2.00）

A.fiction

B.dramatic fiction

C.poetic drama √

D.novel

解析：解析：在英国文艺复兴早期，诗歌与诗剧是最杰出的文学形式，莎士比亚与本-琼生继承了这种形式。

6.Shakespeare' s ______ are mainly written under the principle that national unity under a mighty and just sovereign is a necessity.

（分数：2.00）

A.history plays √

B.tragedies

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edies

D.plays

解析：解析：莎士比亚的历史剧都有这样一个主题：在一个强大英明的君主统领下的国家，统一是非常必要的。

7.William Shakespeare' s greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, ______, King Lear and______.

（分数：2.00）

A.Romeo and Juliet; Othello

B.Othello; Macbeth √

C.The Tempest; Macbeth

D.Othello; Henry IV

解析：解析：莎士比亚的四大悲剧是：《哈姆雷特》、《奥赛罗》、《李尔王》与《麦克白》。

8.The sentence Shall I compare thee to a summer' s day? is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare' s ______.

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edies

B.tragedies

C.sonnets √

D.history plays

解析：解析：“我可否把你比作夏日?”是莎士比亚的作品《十四行诗》第18首的首句。

9.The slings and arrows of outrageous fortuneis an example of______.

（分数：2.00）

A.metaphor √

B.simile

C.irony

D.personification

解析：

10.______' s literary achievements can be divided into three groups: the early poetic works, the middle prose pamphlets and the last great poems.

（分数：2.00）

A.William Shakespeare

B.Christopher Marlowe

C.John Donne

D.John Milton √

解析：解析：约翰-弥尔顿的文学作品可分为三类：早期的诗作、中期的散文小册子和后期的伟大诗作。

11.The neoclassical period in English literature refers to the one between the return of the Stuarts to the English throne in 1660 and the full assertion of______ which came with the publication of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798.

（分数：2.00）

A.Realism

B.Humanism

C.Romanticism √

D.Neoclassicism

解析：解析：英国文学上的新古典主义时期是从1660年英国斯图亚特王朝复辟到以华兹华斯和科勒律治于1798年合作出版的《抒情歌谣集》为创始标志的浪漫主义时期为止的时代。

12.English enlighteners in the 18th century held ______as the yardstick for the measurement of

all human activities and relations.

（分数：2.00）

A.war

B.history

C.reason √

D.love

解析：

13.Robinson Crusoe by ______ is universally considered as his masterpiece.

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A.John Bunyan

B.Jonathan Swift

C.Henry Fielding

D.Daniel Defoe √

解析：解析：《鲁滨逊漂流记》是丹尼尔-笛福的代表作。

14.The best fictional work of Jonathan Swift is ______.

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A.A Tale of a Tub

B.The Battle of the Books

C.A Modest Proposal

D.Gulliver' s Travels √

解析：解析：《格列佛游记》是斯威夫特写的最精彩的一部小说。

15.Of all the 18th-century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice , to write specifically a ______ in prose, the first to give the modern novel its

structure and style.

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A.tragic epic

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ic epic √

C.romance

D.lyric epic

解析：解析：在所有18世纪的小说家中，亨利-菲尔丁第一次在理论与实践上创造了“散文体喜剧史诗”，并第一个为现代小说确立了结构与风格。

16.The Romantic Age began with ______published by Wordsworth and Coleridge.

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A.Leaves of Grass

B.The Cantos

C.Nature

D.Lyrical Ballads √

解析：

17.______paints a world of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression with a melancholy tone.

（分数：2.00）

A.Oliver Twist

B.A Tale of Two Cities

C.Songs of Innocence

D.Songs of Experience √

解析：解析：布莱克的诗集《经验之歌》描绘了一个充满苦难、贫穷、疾病与战争的世界，在笔调上也极为忧伤压抑。

18.The three poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey once lived in

the English Lake District, and became known as the ______.

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A.University Wits

B.Metaphysical Poets

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ke Poets √

D.Lost Generation

解析：解析：华兹华斯、骚塞、科勒律治三位诗人都曾居住在英格兰大湖区，三人并称为著名的“湖畔诗人”。

19.Which of the following writings is not created by William Wordsworth?

（分数：2.00）

A.I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.

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posed upon Westminster Bridge.

C.The Solitary Reaper.

D.The Chimney Sweeper. √

解析：

20.Best of all the well-known lyric pieces written by P.B. Shelley is the poet' s ______, here

his rhapsodic and declamatory tendencies find a subject perfectly suited to them.

（分数：2.00）

A.To a Skylark

B.The Cloud

C.Ode to the West Wind √

D.Ode to a Nightingale

解析：解析：雪莱最著名的抒情诗当属《西风颂》，这首诗语气狂热、易于诵读。

21.Shelley' s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama______.

（分数：2.00）

A.Adonais

B.7b a Skylark

C.A Song: Men of England

D.Prometheus Unbound √

解析：解析：雪莱最有造诣的作品是他的四幕诗剧《了的普罗米修斯》。

22.Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;/Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear! The two

lines are found in ______.

（分数：2.00）

A.Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne

B.Ode to the West Wind by Shelley √

C.Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

D.Ulysses by Joyce

解析：

23.As a______writer, Jane Austen considers it her duty to express in her works a discriminated

and serious criticism of life, and to expose the follies and illusions of mankind.

（分数：2.00）

A.romantic

B.sentimental

C.pessimistic

D.realistic √

解析：

24.______is regarded as worshipper of nature.

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A.Coleridge

B.Wordsworth √

C.T. S. Eliot

D.Robert Browning

解析：解析：华兹华斯被称为“大自然的膜拜者”。．

25.Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques, writers in the Victorian Period shared one thing in common, that is, they were all concerned about______.

（分数：2.00）

A.the fate of the upper class

B.the reformation of the government

C.the fate of the common people √

D.the future of their family class

解析：解析：尽管堆多利亚时代的小说家们的创作角度与风格各不相同，但共同特点是关心普通百姓的命运。

26.Charles Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the ______

（分数：2.00）

A.Romantic Period

B.Renaissance Period

C.Neoclassical Period

D.Victorian Period √

解析：

27.All of the later works written by Charles Dickens, with the exception of______, present a

criticism of the more complicated and yet most fundamental social institutions and morals of the Victorian England.

（分数：2.00）

A.Bleak House

B.A Tale of Two Cities √

C.Little Dorrit

D.Hard Times

解析：解析：在狄更斯后期所有的作品中，除了《双城记》，如：《荒凉山庄》、《小多利特》、《艰难时期》、《远大前程》及《我们共同的朋友》等都对更加复杂也更为基础的英国维多利亚时期的社会机构及道德观念进行了批判。

28.The novel Oliver Twist presents Oliver Twist as Charles Dickens' first______hero.

（分数：2.00）

A.female

B.male

C.child √

D.imaginary

解析：解析：奥立佛-特威斯特是狄更斯笔下第的一个儿童形象。

29.Which of the following women does not belong to the famous Bronte Sisters?

（分数：2.00）

A.Mary Bronte. √

B.Charlotte Bronte.

C.Emily Bronte.

D.Anne Bronte.

解析：

30.Charlotte Bronte' s works are all about the stmggle of an individual consciousness towards

self-realization , about some lonely and neglected______with a fierce longing for love,

understanding and a full, happy life.

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A.young man

B.young women √

C.children

D.old people

解析：解析：夏洛特的作品主题几乎都是有关个人自觉地为实现自我价值而奋斗，有关一些孤独而卑微的年轻女子对爱情、理解与完整幸福的生活的强烈渴求。

31.The success of the novel______is due to its introduction to the English novel the first

governess heroine.

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A.Wuthering Heights

B.Pride and Prejudice

C.Jane Eyre √

D.Sister Carrie

解析：解析：小说《简-爱》的成功之处在于它在英国小说史上第一次成功地塑造出了家庭女教师的形象。

32.Thomas Hardy' s novels are all Victorian in date. Most of them are set in ______, the fictional primitive and crude rural region which is really the home place he both loves and hates.

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A.Sussex

B.Wessex √

C.Casterbridge

D.Oxford

解析：

33.______ believes that man' s fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of

ature, both inside and outside.

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A.Charles Dickens

B.Thomas Hardy √

C.Bernard Shaw

D.T. S. Eliot

解析：

34.The French______, appearing in the late 19th century, heralded modernism.

（分数：2.00）

A.romanticism

B.realism

C.modernism

D.symbolism √

解析：解析：19世纪晚期法国的象征主义预示着现代主义的诞生。

35.______takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base.

（分数：2.00）

A.Symbolism

B.Romanticism

C.Realism

D.Modernism √

解析：解析：现代主义以非理性主义哲学和精神分析原理作为理论基础。

36.In his novels of social satire, ______made realistic studies of the aspirations and frustrations of the Little Man.

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A.Arnold Bennett

B.H. G. Wells √

C.John Galsworthy

D.George Bernard Shaw

解析：

37.______is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since William Shakespeare.

（分数：2.00）

A.George Bernard Shaw √

B.Richard Brinsley Sheridan

C.Christopher Marlowe

D.John Donne

解析：解析：萧伯纳在戏剧方面被公认为是自莎士比亚之后英国最优秀的大师。

38.Which of the following best describes the speaker of T. S. Eliot' s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?

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A.He is a man of inactivity. √

B.He is a man of kindness.

C.He is a man of action.

D.He is a man of ambition.

解析：