2004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 试题
(课程代码0604)
全部题目用英文作答,并将答案写在答题纸相应位置上,否则不计分。
PART ONE (40 POINTS)
Ⅰ。Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)
Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your correct answer on the answer sheet.
1。“And we will sit upon the rocks, /Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.” The above lines are taken from ______.
A。 Milton's Paradise Lost ﻩﻩﻩB. Marlowe's “The Passionate shepherd to His Love”
C。 Shakespeare's “Sonnet 18”ﻩﻩﻩD。 John Donne's “The Sun Rising”
English Renaissance period was an age of ______ .
A. poetry and drama ﻩﻩﻩﻩﻩﻩB. drama and novel
C. novel and poetry ﻩﻩﻩ ﻩﻩD。 romance and poetry
3。Here are four lines taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: “But on his brest a bloudie Crosse he bore,/The deare remembrance of his dying Lord,/For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore,/And dead as living ever him adored.” Who is the “dying Lord” discussed in the above lines?
A。 Beowulf ﻩﻩﻩB. King ArthurﻩC. Jesus ChristﻩﻩﻩD. Jupiter
Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylock, because ______。
A。 his money was all invested in the newly—emerging textile industry
B. his enterprise went bankrupt
C. Bassanio was able to pay his own debt
D. his ships had all been lost
5. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18?
A. The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.ﻩﻩ
B。 The speaker satirizes human vanity.
C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation。
D。 The speaker meditates on man's salvation.
6. In English poetry, a four—line stanza is called ______.
A。 heroic couplet ﻩB。 quatrain ﻩﻩC。 Spenserian stanzaﻩD. terza rima
7. “Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,/Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;/Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile /The shor
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