浙江省2007年10月高等教育自学考试
英国文学选读试题
课程代码：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.
