2024年4月高等教育自學考試
英美文學選讀試題
課程代碼：00604
1. 請考生按規定用筆將所有試題的答案涂、寫在答題紙上。
2. 答題前，考生務必將自己的考試課程名稱、姓名、準考證號用黑色字跡的簽字筆或鋼筆
填寫在答題紙規定的位置上。
選擇題部分
注意事項：
每小題選出答案后，用2B鉛筆把答題紙上對應題目的答案標號涂黑。如需改動，用橡皮
擦干凈后，再選涂其他答案標號。不能答在試題卷上。
 
一 、單項選擇題：本大題共20小題，每小題1分，共20分。在每小題列出的備選項中只有 一項是最符合題目要求的，請將其選出。
Multiple Choice (20 points in all,1 for each)
Complete each of the following statements by choosing one appropriate answer from the four options given.
1.Beowulfis composed around the ninth century in a form of              
A.lyrics                           B.folk  songs                   C.epics                            D.sagas
2.Even  though  called  a  humanist   scholar,             did  not  have much  in  common with the
humanists of his time.
A.John Skelton              B.John  Milton                C.John Dryden                D.John Lyly
3.John Lyly's peculiar style came to be known as “             ”,which is a peculiar style of English
prose.
A.dialect                         B.euphuism                     C.slang                            D.vulgarization
4.“That  time  of  year  thou  mayst  in  me  behold”is  the  beginning  line  of  one  of  William
Shakespeare's               
A.comedjes                      B.tragedies                      C.novels                            D.sonnets
 
 
 
 
 
 
 00604#英美文學選讀試題第1頁(共7頁)

5.“Reading  makes  a  full  man;conferences  a  ready  man;and  writing  an  exact  man”could  be
found in              
A.Thomas More's Utopia
B.Francis  Bacon's“Of  Studies"
C.Charles Dickens's Great Expectations
D.Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles
6.“From rest  and  sleep,which  but  thy  pictures  be”is taken  from  the  poem written by              
A.Geoffrey  Chaucer                                              B.John  Donne
C.Edmund Spenser                                                 D.Thomas Gray
7.The following statements about Robinson Crusoe are true EXCEPT              
A.Crusoe rescues a prisoner,naming him Friday
B.it is written in the autobiographical form
C.it is a record of Defoe's own experience
D.Crusoe is rescued by a British ship and returns to England
8.“Their heads and breasts were covered with a thick hair,some frizzled,and others lank”is the
excerpt from Swift's              
A.Gulliver's  Travels                                              B.A Tale of a Tub
C.The Battle of the Books                             D.A Modest Proposal
9.That                 is NOT true about William Wordsworth.
A.he asserts that poetry must concern itself with "the primary laws of our nature"
B.Lyrical Ballads marks the beginning of the Romantic movement in literature
C.he had mixed joys and terrors of his boyhood
D.The Prelude is his most notable essay
10.One  can  see  the  deserted,poverty-stricken  child  in              
A.Great Expectations                                            B.Dombey and Son
C.Oliver Twist                                                        D.David Copperfield
11.Of the following 4 writers,              belongs to "the stream of consciousness"school.
A.Thomas Hardy                                                    B.Virginia Woolf
C.D.H.Lawrence                                                     D.Thomas  More
12.In        one can read three couples who define their lives by their hatred of a tyrannical film
producer.
A.A Better Class of Person                               B.Look Back in Anger
C.The Hotel in Amsterdam                                     D.Inadmissible Evidence
 
 
 
 00604#英美文學選讀試題第2頁(共7頁)

13. William Bradford worked on              from  1630 to  1651,writing from notes,correspondence,
and memory.
A.Mourts   Relation                                                B.Governor Bradford s Letter Book
C.The History of New England                             D.Of Plymouth Plantation
14.Edward    Taylor's              can be evidenced by the Poem "Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold". A.fascination with nature                                      B.enthusiasm about sport
C.passion for music                                               D.hatred  for oppression
15.Known  as  an  American“saint”,              helped shape most of the important political,social,
and intellectual developments in eighteenth-century America.
A.Philip Freneau                                                     B.Mark Twain
C.Washington  Irving                                             D.Benjamin Franklin
16.Bom  in  western  Africa.               was remarkably the first African American of either sex to
publish a collection of poetry in colonial America.
A.Jane Austen                                                        B.Emily Dickinson
C.Willa  Cather                                                       D.Phillis Wheatley
17.“Success is counted sweetest"is taken from the poem "Success”written by              
A.Robert  Frost                                                       B.John  Keats
C.Emily  Dickinson                                                D.William Cullen Bryant
18.In  1850,        was published,for which Nathaniel Hawthorne became famous.
A.Twice-Told Tales                                                B.The Scarlet Letter
C.Mosses from an OldManse                        D.The Marble Faun
19.Theodore   Dreiser's    finest   novel   was               ,which   tells   how   an  upstart  businessman
degenerates into a murderer and ends up in shame.
A.An American Tragedy                                       B.Sister  Carrie
C.The Financier                                         D.Dawn
20. The novel              tells about Buck,who is half St.Bernard and half sheepdog.
A.The Call of the Wild                                 B.TheSea-Wolf
C.The Iron Heel                                                     D.Martin Eden
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 00604#英美文學選讀試題第3頁(共7頁)

非選擇題部分
注意事項：
用黑色字跡的簽字筆或鋼筆將答案寫在答題紙上，不能答在試題卷上。
 
二、填空題：本大題共10小題，每小題3個空，每個空1分，共30分。
Blank Filling (30 points in all,1 for each blank)
Complete each of the following statements or quotes by filling in the blanks with words/phrases given in parentheses.
21.In Ecclesiastical History of the English People,Bede writes:
On              ,when he did just that,he left the building of              and went out to              ,the
care of which had been given to him that night.
(the drinking party,the animal shed,a certain occasion)
22.Here are the words from John Lyly's"Advice to a Foreign Visitor to England":
At thy coming into England be not too inquisitive of news,neither curious in              of State,
in              ask no questions,either concerning              or men.
(manners,matters,assemblies)
23.Quotes from Francis Bacon's “Of Parents and Children":
Let parents choose betimes the             they mean their children should take,for then they are most flexible;and let them not too much apply themselves to the              of their  children,as thinking they will take best to that which they have most               to.
(mind,vocations  and courses,disposition)
24.The following words are taken from Samuel Johnson's “On What They can be Thinking?".
It is reasonable to believe that              ,like    everything    else,has    its                ;that  it  must
proceed from something known,done,or suffered;and must produce some             (causes and effects,thought,action or event)
25.Readers   may    find    the                of     nature,the                of  memory,and   the              of sensation in“Daffodils”.(richness,companionship,endurance)
26.Bertrand Russell began his "What I Have Lived For"with this sentence:
Three passions,simple but overwhelmingly strong,have governed my life:the             for
love,the              for   knowledge,and   unbearable              for the suffering of mankind. (search,pity,longing)
27.As  an  artist,Anne  Bradstreet  was  unique  in  her               and  progressed  far  beyond              
reached by numerous religious and domestic              who flourished two centuries later.
(female writers,time and place,the level)
 
 00604#英美文學選讀試題第4頁(共7頁)

28.Benjamin Franklin began his Autobiography with this sentence:
I have been the more particular in this description of my              ,and shall be so of my first
into that city,that you may in your               compare such unlikely beginnings with the
figure I have since made there.(entry,mind,journey)
29.According to Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous essay “Nature":
The              of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each
other;who has retained the              of infancy even into the              of manhood.
(era,lover,spirit)
30.After  a brief period  of turbulence  in  his  personal  life  during  the  mid-1950s,Arthur  Miller returned to the American stage and produced many               of  various               and  social
 (themes,settings,plays)
 
三 、正誤判斷題：本大題共10小題，每小題1分，共10分。
True or False Questions (10 points in all,1 for each)
Read each of the following statements.Decide whether it is true or false.Write “T”for
true and“F”for false in the bracket provided.
31.(   )Before Geoffrey Chaucer took to write,most texts in England were composed in Greek
or Spanish
32.(  )The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus tells the story of a doctor Faustus who wishes to
pursue the worldly power,luxury and sensual pleasure by magic.
33.(   )“A  little  more  than  kin,and  less  than  kind”can  be  found  in  William  Shakespeare's
Hamlet.
34.(   )Samuel Johnson's classic The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was
published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788.
35.(   )Much of Percy Bysshe Shelly's early philosophy in poetry and politics is expressed in A
Defence of Poetry.
36.(   )W.B.Yeats wrote and produced AI the Hawk's Well in 1916 with Japanese-like masks.
37.(   )On September  16,1620,the Pilgrims set out for America on the Titanic.
38.(  )Letters from an American Farmer by Crèvecoeur occupies a unique place in American
literary history.
39.(   )Walden  became  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson's  supreme  achievement  and  one  of the  most
accomplished works in American literature.
40.(   )F.Scott  Fitzgerald's  masterpiece,The   Great  Gatsby,is  one  of  the  most  widely  read
American noyels
 
 
 
 00604#英美文學選讀試題第5頁(共7頁)

四 、簡答題：本大題共4小題，41~42題，每題6分，43~44題，每題9分，共30分。
Short Answer Questions (30 points in all,12 for the first two,18 for the last two)
41. Read the following excerpt from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.Summarize what
this story is about within 100 words.
It is a truth universally acknowledged,that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood,this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding
families,that he is considered the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.
 
42.Read the following lines from Robert Burns's"A Red,Red Rose".Briefly tell about what
they generally mean within 100 words.
 
O my luve's like a red,red rose
That's newly sprung in June;
O my luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly play'd in tune!
As fair art thou,my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still,my dear,
Till a'the seas gang dry.
 
43.Give comments on the following passage from Virginia Woolf's "The Death of the Moth"
in terms of its theme within 150 words.
 
Moths that flyby day are not properly to be called moths;they do not excite that pleasant sense of dark autumn nights and ivy-blossom which the commonest yellow-underwing asleep in the shadow of the curtain never fails to rouse in us.They are hybrid creatures,neither gay like butterflies nor sombre like their own species.Nevertheless the present specimen,with his  narrow hay-coloured wings,fringed with a tassel of the same colour,seemed to be content
with life
 
44.Analyze the following stanza from Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself”within 150 words
in terms of its artistic features.
 
I celebrate myself,and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
 
 
 00604#英美文學選讀試題第6頁(共7頁)