2007年4月全国自学考试全国英美文学选读试题及答案.doc

全国2007年4月高等教育自学考试 英美文学选读试题 课程代码：00604 请将答案填在答题纸相应位置上 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 answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. 1．The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely ______________. A．William Langland’ s Piers Plowman B．Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales C．John Gower’s Confession Amantis D．Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 2．The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragic History 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 summer’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 Tales 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