2005年7月广东自考英美文学选读真题00604

全国2005年7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，并将答案写在答题纸相应位置上，否则不计分。

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 on the answer sheet.

1.With classical culture and the（　　　）humanistic ideas coming into England, the English Renaissance began flourishing.

A. French        B. German

C. Italian        D. Greek

2.“Come live with me and be my love, / And we will all the pleasures prove / That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, / Woods, or steepy mountain yields.”

The above lines are taken from Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”, which derives from the（　　　）tradition.

A. pastoral       B. heroic

C. romantic       D. realistic

3.“Metaphysical conceit”is a strategy characteristic of John Donne’s poetry. It is（　　　）.

A. a confession that avoids questions of moral accountability

B. the linking of images from very different ranges of experience

C. self-definition through images based on the four primal elements

D. the chaining of images representing solid and gaseous elements

4.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 includes three stanzas according to the content with these last two lines as a（　　　）, which completes the sense of the above lines.

A. prelude       B. couplet

C. epigraph       D. exposition

5.“Therefore at this fair are all such merchandise sold, as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures, and delights of all sorts, as whores, bawds, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants…” The above sentences are taken from（　　　）.

A. John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress B. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels

C. Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones D. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

6.Jonathan Swift is a master satirist in English literature. His A Tale of a Tub is an attack on（　　　）.

A. the government      B. greed

C. the church       D. the abuse of power