2022年自考专业考试（英语）英美文学选读练习题

1、"The Birthmark" drives home symbolically Hawthorne's point that______is man's birthmark,something he is born with.

A．goodness

B．gratefulness

C．evil

D．bitterness

2、George Bernard Shaw's play ______ established his position as the leading playwright of his time.

A．Widowers' Houses

B．Too True to Be Good

C．Mrs. Warren's Profession

D．Candida

3、Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be______.

A．transcendentalists

B．optimists

C．pessimists

D．idealists

4、In 1920, ________ published his first novel This Side of Paradise which was, to some extent, his own story.

A.F·Scott Fitzgerald

B.Ernest Hemingway

C.William Faulkner

D.Emily Dickinson

5、 George Bernard Shaw’ s play, Mrs. Warren’ s Profession is a grotesquely realistic exposure of ______.

A.slum landlordism

B.the economic oppression of women

C.the political corruption in England

D.the religious corruption in England

6、 Henry Fielding is a good story-teller. He has a gift for organizing _______.

A.sentences

B.structure

C.details

D.languages

7、“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.” This “iceberg” analogy is put forward by ______.

A.Mark Twain

B.Ezra Pound

C.William Faulkner

D.Ernest Hemingway

8、Milton once had an ambition to write an epic which England would "______".

A．justify the ways of God to men

B．lust all for men

C．not willingly let die

D．not let all lost

9、 As far as Emily Bronte's literary creation is concerned, she is, first of all. a_______.

A.proser

B.novelist

C.poet

D.dramatist

10、 H. L. Mencken, a famous American critic, considered ______ “the true father of our national literature. ”

A.Hamlin Garland

B.Joseph Kirkland

C.Mark Twain

D.Henry James

【答案】

1～5：CDCAB

6～10：CDCCC