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2009年月高等教育自学考试统一命题考试I. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each) 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 Novel”. A. Daniel Defoe B. Henry Fielding C. Jonathan Swift D. Samuel Richardson 10. Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correct? A. It predominated in the early eighteenth century. B. I