全国2012年7月高等教育自学考试

英美文学选读试题

课程代码：00604

PART ONE ( 40 POINTS )

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 answers on the answer sheet.

1. Henry Fielding adopted “______” to relate a story in a novel, in which the author becomes the “all- knowing God”.(      )

A. the dramatic monologue B. the epistolary form

C. the first-person narration D. the third-person narration

2. Among the novelists of mid-eighteenth century, ______ gave his praise to the hard-working, sturdy middle class and showed his sympathy for the downtrodden, unfortunate poor in most of his works.(      )

A. Henry Fielding B. Jonathan Swift

C. Daniel Defoe D. Oliver Goldsmith

3. William Wordsworth’s masterpiece is ______ in which his philosophy of life is presented.(      )

A. The Prelude  B. Lyrical Ballads

C. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” D. “Tintern Abbey”

4. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’ works is ______.(      )

A. a mingling of humor and pathos B. pictures of pathos

C. character-portrayal D. the vernacular and large vocabulary

5. All of the following are Thomas Hardy’ s local- colored works, also known as “novels of character and environment”, EXCEPT ______.(      )

A. The Trumpet Major  B. The Return of the Native

C. Far from the Madding Crowd  D. The Woodlanders

6. T. S. Eliot’ s most important single poem ______ has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20^th-century English poetry.(      )

A. The Hollow Men  B. Murder in the Cathedral