英美文学选读自考题-15_真题(含答案与解析)-交互

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英美文学选读自考题-15

(总分100, 做题时间90分钟)

Ⅰ.Multiple Choice

Select from the four choices of each item the one that best

answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by

blacking the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.

1.

Which of the following is not regarded as one of the characteristics

of the Renaissance?______

• A. Rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture.

• B. Attempt to remove the old feudalist ideas in medieval

Europe.

• C. Introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the

rising bourgeoisie.

• D. Praise of man's efforts in soul delivery and personal

salvation.

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A B C D

分值: 1

答案:D

[解析] 文艺复兴的特点是:对古希腊、罗马文化的重新发现;竭力祛除中世纪欧洲的封建主义;推动代表新兴资产阶级利益的新思想。

2.

Which of the following is not true about the Renaissance? ______

• A. Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance.

• B. Attitudes and feelings which had been characteristics of the

14th and 15th centuries persisted well down into the era of

Humanism and Reformation.

• C. It was Chaucer who initiated the Reformation.

• D. The Elizabethan drama, in its totality, is the real main

stream of the English Renaissance.

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A B C D

分值: 1

答案:C

[解析] 人文主义是文艺复兴的核心。但英国的文艺复兴并未使新文学与旧时代彻底决裂,带有十四、十五世纪特点的创作态度与情感依然贯穿于人文主义与改革时代。总体上讲,伊丽莎白时期的戏剧是英国文艺复兴的文学主流。**改革是由德国新教徒马丁·路德发起的。

3.

Shakespeare's ______ are mainly written under the principle that

national unity under a mighty and just sovereign is a necessity.

• A. history plays

• B. tragedies

• C. comedies

• D. plays

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A B C D

分值: 1

答案:A

[解析] 莎翁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。

4.

"Shall I compare thee to a summer' s day?/Thou art more lovely and

more temperate:/Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,/And

summer's lease' hath all too short a date", the above beautiful

sonnet was written by ______.

• A. John Donne

• B. John Milton

• C. William Shakespeare

D. Francis Bacon

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A B C D

分值: 1

答案:C

[解析] 题干中的这一选段是莎士比亚十四行诗第18号,是最优美的一首。

5.

The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following

notions except ______.

• A. self-esteem

• B. self-reliance

• C. self-restraint

D. hard work

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A B C D

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答案:A

[解析] 英国的城市资产阶级通过自己的奋斗获取社会地位,因此他们理解劳动人民的穷困与艰苦。他们信奉自律、自立和劳动致富。

6.

In this part the hero of the story, Robinson Crusoe, narrates in

______ how he goes to sea, gets shipwrecked and marooned on a lonely

island, struggles to live for twenty-four years there and finally

gets relieved and returns to England.

• A. the second person

• B. the first person

• C. the third person

• D. Defoe's mouth

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A B C D

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答案:B

[解析] 在第一部中,小说主人公鲁滨逊用第一人称讲述了他是怎样出海,遇到海难翻船。并漂至一片孤岛,从此在岛上挣扎生存了二十四年,最后终于获救返回英国的。

7.

The best fictional work of Jonathan Swift is ______.

• A. A Tale of a Tub

• B. The Battle of the Books

• C. A Modest Proposal

D. Gulliver's Travels

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A B C D

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答案:D

[解析] 斯威夫特最有代表性的小说是《格列佛游记》。

8.

The play The Tragedy of Tragedies is written by ______.

• A. Marlowe

• B. Fielding

• C. Shakespeare

D. Sheridan

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A B C D

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答案:B

[解析] 《悲剧中的悲剧》是菲尔丁的名篇。

9.

______, defined by Coleridge, is the vital faculty that creates new

wholes out of disparate elements.

• A. Exaggerater

• B. Imagination

• C. Rhetoric

• D. Soliloquy

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A B C D

分值: 1

答案:B

[解析] 科勒律治认为想象是在全无联系的各种元素上创立新整体的一种超凡的官能。

10.

Literarily ______ was the first important Romantic poet, showing a

contempt for the rule of reason, Opposing the classical tradition of

the 18th century, and treasuring the individual's imagination.

• A. William Wordsworth

• B. William Blake

• C. Robert Burns

D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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A B C D

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答案:B

[解析] 在文学史上,布莱克是第一位重要的浪漫主义诗人,表现出对理性的轻视,对18世纪古典主义的叛逆及对个人幻想的珍重。

11.

In the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, by William Blake,

what is central to Blake's concern?______

• A. Youthhood.

• B. Childhood.

• C. Aged.

D. All the above are not.

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A B C D