浙江省2010年10月高等教育自学考试
英国文学选读试题
课程代码：10054

Part I. 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 and write the letter on the answer sheet. (30 points in all, 1 point for each)
1. Tennyson’s most ambitious work which took him over 30 years to complete is _____.（ ）
A. In Memoriam
B. Idylls of the King
C. Poems by Two Brothers D. Poems, Chiefly Lyrical
2. The Publication of _____ finally established Browning’s position as one of the greatest English poets. （ ）
A. The Ring and the Book B. The Book and the Ring
C. Men and Women
D. Dramatic Lyrics
3. Hardy’s best local-colored works are very known as “novels of character and _____.”（ ）
A. personality
B. nature
C. domestic life
D. environment
4. The French _____ , appearing in来源:91考试 网 the late 19th century, heralded modernism. （ ）
A. symbolism
B. futurism
C. naturism
D. surrealism
5. In his novel of social satire, H. G. Wells made realistic studies of the aspirations and frustrations of the “_____”.（ ）
A. Little Man
B. Big Man
C. Social Man
D. Jungle Man
6. Modernist novels came to a decline in the _____ , though Joyce and Woolf continued their experiments. （ ）
A. 1920s
B. 1930s
C. 1940s
D. 1950s
7. The most original playwright of the _____ is Samuel Beckett, who wrote about human beings living a meaningless life in an alien, decaying world. （ ）
A. Theater of Tradition B. Theater of Reason
C. Theater of Angry
D. Theater of Absurd
8. Structurally and thematically, Shaw followed the great traditions of _____.（ ）
A. romanticism
B. realism
C. symbolism
D. humanism
9. _____ is the first novel of the Forsyte trilogies written by John Galsworthy in 1920. （ ）
A. The Man of Property B. In Chancery
C. To Let
D. A Modern Comedy
10. Ulysses ends with the famous monologue by _____, who is musing in a half-awake state over the past experience. （ ）
A. Leopold Bloom
B. Stephen Dedalus
C. Molly
D. Finnegans
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 its age. （ ）
A. The Shepheardes Calender B. The Faerie Queene
C. The Rape of Lucrece D. The Canterbury Tales
14. John Milton wrote _____ to expose the ways 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. Germany
D. Roman