2007年4月自考英美文学选读试卷与答案.docVIP

2007年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读试卷+答案 PART ONE (40 POINTS) I. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each) 1. The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realis?tic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid charac?ters from all walks of life is most likely ______. A. William Langland5 s Piers Plowman B. Geoffrey Chaucer9 s The Canterbury Tales C. John Gower5 s Confession Amantis D. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 2. The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe s The Tragic Histo?ry of Dr. Faustus, is the very fact that ______. A. man is confined to time B. he tried to join Africa to Spain C. he became a man without soul after he sold it D. he conjured up Helen, the lady who was partially responsible for the breaking - up of the Trojan War 3. The sentence Shall I compare thee to a summer5 s day? is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare) s ______.A. comedies B. tragedies C. sonnets D. histories 4. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from A. the Renaissance B. the Old Testament C. Greek Mythology D. the New Testament 5.Spenser s masterpiece ______ is a great poem of its time. A.The Faerie Queene B. The Shepheardes Calender C.The Canterbury Talks D. Metamorphoses 6._____ is the essence of the Renaissance. A.Poetry B. Drama C.Humanism D. Reason 7.The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and ______.A.John Milton B. John Marlowe C.Ben Jonson D. Edmund Spenser 8.“To be, or not to be—that is the question” is a line taken from ______. A.Hamlet B. Othello c.king Lear D. The Merchant of Venice 9.Francis Bacon s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and ______. A.complicity B. complexity C.powerfulness D. mildness 10.Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that ______. A.the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instr