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全国2000年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题 PART ONEⅠ. Multiple Choice1. The sentence Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s ___. A. comedies B. tragedies C. sonnets D. histories 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 Dickens’s B. D. H. Lawrence’s C. Thomas Hardy’s D. John Galsworthy’s5. 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 Crusoe7. She lived unknown, and few could knowWhen Lucy ceased to be;But she is in her grave, and, oh,The difference to me?The word me in the last line of the above stanza quoted from Wordsworth’s poem She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways may possibly refer to ____. A. the poet B. the reader C. her lover D. everybody8.___ is a typical feature of Swift’s writings. A. Bitter satire B. Elegant style C. Casual narration D. Complicated sentence structure9. The statement It reveals the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life may well sum up the main theme of Dickens’s____ . A. David Copperfield B. Bleak House C. Great Expectations D. Oliver Twist10. Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? ... And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you.The above quoted passage is most probable taken from_____ . A. Pride and Prejudice B. Jane Eyre C. Wuthering Heights D. Great Expectations12. G. B. Shaw’s play Mrs.