全国2007年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题

全国2007年4月高等教育自学考试

英美文学选读试题

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Ⅰ. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)

Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

1．The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely ______________.

A．William Langland’ s Piers Plowman

C．John Gower’s Confession Amantis B．Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales D．Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

2．The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragic History of

Dr. Faustus , is the very fact that______________.

A．man is confined to time

B．he tried to join Africa to Spain

C．he became a man without soul after he sold it

D．he conjured up Helen, the lady who was partially responsible for the breaking-up of the Trojan War

3．The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s ______________.

A．comedies

C．sonnets B．tragedies D．histories

4．Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from ______________.

A．the Renaissance

C．Greek Mythology B．the Old Testament D．the New Testament

5．Spenser’s masterpiece _____________ is a great poem of its time.

A．The Faerie Queene

C．The Canterbury Tales B．The Shepheardes Calender D．Metamorphoses

6．______________ is the essence of the Renaissance.

A．Poetry

C．Humanism B．Drama D．Reason

7．The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and ______________.

A．John Milton

C．Ben Jonson B．John Marlowe D．Edmund Spenser

8．“To be, or not to be—that is the question”is a line taken from______________.

A．Hamlet B．Othello

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