浙江省2007年10月高等教育自學(xué)考試

英國文學(xué)選讀試題

課程代碼：10054

Ⅰ.Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A.(10%)

(1)Daniel Defoe                (      )               A. The Pilgrim’s Progress 

(2)Charles Dickens             (      )               B. The Silver Box

(3)John Bunyan               (      )               C. Robinson Crusoe

(4)Richard Sheridan            (      )              D. A Tale of Two Cities

(5)John Galsworthy          (      )               E. The School for Scandal

A                                                                    B

(1) Jane Eyre                             (      )                     A. Irene

(2) The Man of Property              (      )                     B. Mr. Rochester

(3) The Merchant of Venice   (      )                     C. Satan

(4) Paradise Lost                 (      )                     D. Sophia Western

(5) The History of Tom Jones (      )                     E. Portia

Ⅱ.Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook.(5%)

1. In the era of the Renaissance, the humanists made attempts to get rid of those old ______ ideas in medieval Europe.

2. The ______ century was an age of prose. A group of excellent writers, such as Swift, Fielding were produced.

3. English ______ is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads.

4. In the Victorian period, the______ as a literary genre became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.

5. The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern ______ in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.