2011年4月浙江自考英美文学选读真题00604

全国2011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，并将答案写在答题纸相应位置上

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 corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.

1. One of Shelley’ s greatest political lyrics is ________, which was later to become a rallying song of the British Communist Party.

A. “Ode to Liberty” B. “Ode to Naples”

C. “Sonnet: England in 1819” D. “Men of England”

2. In Charles Dickens’ work ________, the Utilitarian principle rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds.

A. Little Dorrit  B. Hard Times

C. Great Expectations  D. Bleak House

3. The tragic sense turns into despair in Thomas Hardy’s ________, where cornered by the traditional social morality, the hero and the heroine have to kill their own will and passion and return to their former destructive way of life.

A. The Return of the Native  B. The Mayor of Casterbridge

C. Tess of the D’ Urbervilles  D. Jude the Obscure

4. The typical representatives of G. B. Shaw’ s early plays are ________.

A. Man and Superman; The Apple Cart

B. Widowers’ House; Mrs. Warren’ s Profession

C. Candida; Mrs. Warren’ s Profession

D. The Apple Cart; Widowers’ House

5. As a critic of music and drama, ________ held that art should serve social purposes by reflecting human life, revealing social contradictions and educating the common people.

A. T. S. Eliot B. Oscar Wilde

C. George Bernard Shaw D.W. B. Yeats