2003年4月广东自考英美文学选读真题00604

全国2003年４月高等教育自学考试

英美文学选读试题

课程代码：00604

全部题目用英文作答，答案写在答题纸相应的位置上。

PART ONE

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 the answers on the answer sheet.

1. “For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room ...”(Dickens, Oliver Twist)  What did Oliver ask for?

[A]More time to play.    [B]More food to eat.

[C]More book to read.    [D]More money to spend.

2. Mrs. Warren’s Profession is one of George Bernard Shaw’s plays. What is Mrs. Warren’s profession then ?

[A]Real estate.      [B]Prostitution.

[C]House-keeping.     [D]Farming.

3. Dr. Faustus is a play based on the German legend of a magician aspiring for     

and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.

[A]immortality     [B]political

[C]money      [D]knowledge

4. The statement “A demanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all her affection to her sons” sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrence′s    .

[A]Lady Chatterley’s Lover [B]Women in love

[C]Sons and Lovers [D]The Plumed Serpent

5.“Come to me－come to me entirely now,” said he ; and added, in his deepest tone, speaking in my ear as his cheek was laid on mine, “Make my happiness－I will make yours.”

The above passage presents a scene in     .

[A]Emily Bronte’s Withering Heights

[B]Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre

[C]John Galsworthy′s The Forsyte Saga

[D]Thomas Hardy′s Tess of the D′Urbervilles

6.Which of the following is NOT written by William Butler Yeats?

[A] “Sailing to Byzantium.”   [B] “The Lake Isle of Innisfree.”

[C] “Leda and the Swan.”    [D] “The Waste Land.”

7. “Drive my dead thought over the universe

Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth.”

(Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”)

What rhetorical device does the poet use in the quoted lines?

  [A]Synecdoche.      [B]Metaphor.

[C]Simile.       [D]Onomatopoeia.