英美文学选读自考题-3
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一、Ⅰ.Multiple Choice(总题数:40,分数:40.00)
1.The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events EXCEPT ______.
A. the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture
B. the vast expansion of British colonies in North America
C. the new discoveries in geography and astrology
D. the religious reformation and the economic expansion


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解析:主要考查知识点为激发文艺复兴的历史事件。
文艺复兴是由一系列的历史事件激发、推动的,其中包括对古希腊罗马文化的重新发现,地理天文领域的新发现,宗教改革及经济发展。
2.The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ______.
A. Surrey B. Wyatt
C. Blake D. Milton


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解析:主要考查的知识点为十四行诗的领导人物。
怀亚特将彼特拉克的十四行诗引进美国,而萨里引进了无韵体诗,他们共同开创了英国式的十四行诗。
3.The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are all the following EXCEPT ______.
A. Francis Bacon B. Christopher Marlowe
C. William Shakespeare D. Ben Jonson


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解析:主要考查的知识点为文艺复兴时期英国最著名的戏剧家。
文艺复兴时期英国最著名的戏剧家有莎士比亚、克里斯托夫·马洛和本·琼生。
4.Many people today tend to regard the play The Merchant of Venice as a satire of the hypocrisy of ______ and their false standards of friendship and love, their cunning ways of pursuing worldliness and their unreasoning prejudice against ______.
A. Christians/Jews B. Jews/Christians
C. oppressors/oppressed D. men/women


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解析:本题主要考查的知识点为人们对《威尼斯商人》的评价。
今天许多人将《威尼斯商人》看作讥讽基督徒的虚伪和对友谊和爱情的错误标准,为追求世俗利益而不择手段以及对犹太人不公正的偏见。
5.Milton's ______ is a long epic divided into 12 books.
A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise Regained
C. Areopagitica D. Samson Agonistes



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6.Which of the following descriptions of the Enlightenment Movement is NOT correct?
A. The movement flourished in France.
B. The movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance.
C. The purpose of the movement was to enlighten the whole world.
D. The purpose of the movement was to enhance the religious education.



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解析:主要考查的知识点为启蒙运动。
启蒙运动是进步的知识分子运动,兴盛于法国,后席卷整个西欧。这个运动是15、16世纪文艺复兴的延续与发展,其宗旨是用当代哲学与艺术思想的晨光启迪整个世界。
7.In ______ of Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift satirizes the western civilization including false illusions about science, philosophy, history and even immortality.
A. the first voyage to Lilliput B. the second voyage to Brobdingnag
C. the third voyage to the Flying Island D. the fourth voyage to Houyhnhnm land


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解析:本题主要考查的知识点为小说《格列佛游记》的第三部分。
小说《格列佛游记》的第三部分主要讲了格列佛意外地来到了飞岛国。在这一部分中,斯威夫特深入地批判了西方文明及其对科学、哲学、历史甚至道德的各种错误认识,讽刺了一些人对长生不老的虚妄幻想。
8.______ is a master satirist. His satire is usually masked by an outward gravity and an apparent earnestness which renders his satire all the more powerful.
A. Jonathan Swift B. Daniel Defoe
C. Henry Fielding D. Thomas Gray


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9.Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correct?
A. It predominated in the early eighteenth century.
B. It was one phase of the Romantic movement.
C. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.
D. Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic romance.


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解析:主要考查的知识点为哥特式小说。
哥特式小说是浪漫主义运动的一部分。它盛行于浪漫主义前期的18世纪末。这种小说的主要题材是对暴力、恐怖及超自然力(鬼神)的描写,这些内容极能刺激读者的情绪。哥特式小说的代表作主要有安·拉得克利夫的《尤道夫之谜》、玛丽·雪利的《富兰肯斯坦》等。
10.Shelley's masterpiece, ______, is a verse drama, which borrows the basic story from the Greek mythology.
A. The Revolt of Islam B. Prometheus unbound
C. Ode to the West Wind D. Adonais


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11.The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less ______ attitude toward the existing social and political conditions that came with industrialization.
A. positive B. negative
C. neutral D. indifferent


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解析:本题主要考查的知识点为浪漫主义运动。
浪漫主义运动或多或少地表现出了对工业革命时期存在的社会和政治条件的否定态度。
12.For the Romantics, ______ is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter.
A. love B. man
C. nature D. death


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13.The English Romantic period produced two major novelists. They are ______.
A. Lamb and Hazlitt B. Byron and Shelley
C. Scott and Austen D. Keats and Coleridge


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解析:本题主要考查的知识点为英国浪漫主义时期的代表小说家。
英国浪漫主义时期的代表小说家有简·奥斯汀与沃尔特·司各特。
14.Literarily ______ was the first important Romantic-. poet, showing a contempt for the rule of reason, opposing the classical tradition of the 18th century, and treasuring the individual's imagination.
A. William Wordsworth B. William Blake
C. Robert Burns D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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