2004年7月广东自考英美文学选读真题00604

全国2004年7月高等教育自学考试

英美文学选读试题

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Ⅰ. Match authors in Column A with their literary works in Column B. Please write your answer on the Answer Sheet. (20 points, 2 for each pair)

1. John Milton     A. The Leaves of Grass

2. Samuel Johnson    B. Mrs. Warren’s Profession

3. Walt Whitman    C. Art of Fiction

4. Jane Austen     D. Sister Carrie

5. Theodore Dreiser   E. A Dictionary of the English Language

6. George Bernard Shaw   F. The Return of the Native

7. Henry James    G. Samson Agonistes

8. Washington Irving   H. Pride and Prejudice

9. Thomas Hardy    I. Rip Van Winkle

10. Eugene O’Neill   J. The Emperor Jones

Ⅱ. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. Please write your answer on the Answer Sheet.(10 points, 1 for each)

1. Christopher Marlowe’s greatest achievement lies in that he perfected the ________ and made it the principal medium of English drama.

2. The Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival interest in the old classical works. This tendency is known as ________.

3. The poem Elegy Written in a Country Church once and for all established ________’s fame as the leader of the sentimental poetry of the day, especially “the Graveyard School”.

4. In 1798, ________ and Samuel Taylor Coleridge published a joint volume of poetry entitled Lyrical Ballads, which becomes a landmark in English poetry.

5. With violence, horror, and the supernatural as its major elements, ________ is a type of romantic fiction that predominated in the late 18th century.

6. American fiction in the 1960s and 1970s proves to be different from its predecessors and is always referred to as “________ fiction. ”

7. ________ is the most representative Victorian poet. His poetry voices the doubt and the faith, the grief and the joy of the English people in an age of fast social changes.

8. ________ is regarded as the first American prose epic. Although it is presented in the form of a novel, at times it seems like a prose poem.