2001年4月英美文学选读试卷及答案 第一部分选择题 I. Multiple Choice 1. The work that presented , for the first time in English literature, prehensive 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 ’ Piers Plowman B. Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales乔叟的坎特伯雷故事集 C. John Gower’Confessio Amantis D. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Answer: B 2. The tragedy of , the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragic History of , is the very face 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 the very course of the Trojan War Answer: A 3. Here are two lines from a ling poem: "Upon a great adventure he was bond, That greatest Gloriana to him gave." The poem must be_____. I. Beowulf J. John Milton’s Samson Agonistes K. Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a County Churchyard L. Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene仙后 Answer: D 4. Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that ______. A .the former celebrates reason, rationality , order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual’s feeling and experiences B. the former is heavily religious but the latter secular C. the former is an intellectual movement the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivation. D. the former advocates the "return to nature" whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models Answer: A 5. When he writes, in An Essay on Criticism, "A vile conceit in pompous words expressed, / Is like a clown in regal purple dressed", Alexander Pope means that __________. A. pompous words are always destructive to good taste B. the purple colour is for the royal only and it i