09年4月英美文学选读试卷及答案.docVIP

全国2009年4月高等教育自学考试 英美文学选读试题 课程代码：00604 请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上(全部题目用英文作答) 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 and write the corresponding letter on the answer sheet. 1. In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the following EXCEPT ______. A. getting rid of those old feudalist ideas B. getting control of the parliament and government C. introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie D. recovering the purity of the early church, from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church 2. The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ______. A. Surrey B. Wyatt C. Sidney D. Shakespeare 3. As the best of Shakespeares final romances,______ is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years. A. The Tempest B. The Winters Tale C. Cymbeline D. The Rape of Lucrece 4. John Miltons greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literarure since Beowulf. A. Areopagitica B. Paradise Lost C. Lycidas D. Samson Agonistes 5. The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT ______. A. self - esteem B. self - reliance C. self - restraint D. hard work 6. ?Graveyard School?writers are the following sentimentalists EXCEPT ______. A. James Thomson B. William Collins C. William Cowper D. Thomas Jackson 7. The best model of satire in the whole English literary history is Jonathan Swifts ______. A. A Modest Proposal B. A Tale of a Tub C. Gullivers Travels D. The Battle of the Books 8. As a representative of the Enlightenment,______ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England. A. John Bunyan B. Daniel Defoe C. Alexander Pope D. Jonathan Swift 9. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel,______ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English