《优》00年英美文学真题试卷.docVIP

2000年4月自考英美文学选读试卷及答案 　　PART ONE 　　Ⅰ.Multiple Choice（40 points, 1 point for each） 　　Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A,B,C or D on the answer sheet. 　　1.The sentence Shall I compare thee to a summers day? is the beginning line of one of Shakespeares ________ . 　　A.comedies 　　B.tragedies 　　C.sonnets 　　D.histories 　　2.So much the worse for me, that I an strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you-oh, God! 　　Would you like to live with your soul in the grave? 　　In the above passage quoted from Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights, the word soul apparently refers to _______ . 　　A.Heathcliff 　　B.Catherine 　　C.ghost 　　D.ones spiritual lift 　　3.And where are they? And where art thou, 　　My country? On thy voiceless shore 　　The heroic lay is tuneless now- 　　The heroic bosom beats no more!（George Gordon Byron, Don Juan） 　　In the above stanza, art thou literally means _______ . 　　A.are you 　　B.art though 　　C.are though 　　D.art you 　　4.The major concern of _______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature. 　　A.Charles Dickenss 　　B.D.H.Lawrences 　　C.Thomas Hardys 　　D.John Galsworthys 　　5.Daniel Defoe describes _______ as a typical English Middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist. 　　A.Tom Jones 　　B.Gulliver 　　C.Moll Flanders 　　D.Robinson Crusoe 　　6.To be so distinguished is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. 　　The above quoted sentence is presented by Samuel Johnson with a（n） _______ tone. 　　A.delightful 　　B.jealous 　　C.ironic 　　D.humorous