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2010英美文学选读 2010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 请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上(全部题目用英文作答) 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 the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet. 1. T. S. Eliot? s ______ bearing a strong thematic resemblance to The Waste Land, is generally regarded as the darkest of Eliot? s poems. A. “Gerontion” B. “Prufrock” C. Murder in the Cathedral D. The Hollow Men 2. Shelley? s political lyrics ______ is not only a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but an address to them pointing out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation. A. “Ode to Liberty” B. “Ode to Naples” C. “Ode to the West Wind” D. “Men of England” 3. Charlotte’ s works are famous for the depiction of the life of ______ working women, particularly governesses. 第 1 页 共 21 页 A. the middle - class B. the lower - class C. the upper - middle - class D. the upper - class 4. All of the following works are known as Hardy? s “novels of character and environment” EXCEPT ______. A. The Return of the Native B. Tess of the D? Urbervilles C. Jude the Obscure D. Far from the Madding Crowd 5. Jane Austen? s practical idealism is that love should be justified by ______ and disciplined by self-control. A. reason B. sense C. rationality D. sensibility 6. Shakespeare? s ______, an elaborate and fantastic story, is known as the best of his final romances. A. The Winter?s Tale B. The Tempest C. The Taming of the Shrew D. Love? s Labour? s Lost 7. “Where intelligence was fallible, limited, the Imagination was our hope of contact with eternal forces, with the whole spiritual world.” was said by ______. A. William Wordsworth B. William Blake C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge D. John Keats 8. “To be, or not to be - that is the question;/Whether? tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous 第 2 页 共 21 页