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英美文学选读-阶段测评3成绩：87.5分一、Multiple Choice 共40 题题号: 1 本题分数:2.5 分wrence’s novels( )are generally regarded as his masterpieces.A、The Rainbow，Women in LoveB、The Rainbow，Sons and LoversC、Sons and Lovers，Lady Chatterley’s LoverD、Women in Love，Lady Chatterley’s Lover（P370.para2）劳伦斯的成名作是《儿子和情人》，而其代表作是《虹》和《恋爱中的女人》标准答案：A考生答案：A本题得分：2.5 分题号: 2 本题分数:2.5 分T.S.Eliot’s poem( )is heavily indebted to James Joyce in terms of the stream - of -consciousness technique,also a prelude to The Waste Land.A、“Prufrock”B、“Gerontion”C、The Hollow MenD、Lyrical Ballads（P358.para3）“Gerontion”是一部用戏剧式独白写成的诗歌，是《荒原》的前奏曲，也采用了意识流派的文风。

标准答案：B考生答案：B本题得分：2.5 分题号: 3 本题分数:2.5 分wrence’s autobiographical novel is( ).A、The RainbowB、Women in LoveC、Sons and LoversD、Lady Chatterley’s Lover（P369.para1）劳伦斯的作品大多都是从心理上去探求让人的本能的，同时也反映人性中最内在的东西。

其作品《儿子和情人》真实地反映了自己在童年时期的家庭状况，被视为其半自传体小说。

英美文学选读-阶段测评3成绩：87.5分一、Multiple Choice 共40 题题号: 1 本题分数:2.5 分wrence’s novels( )are generally regarded as his masterpieces.A、The Rainbow，Women in LoveB、The Rainbow，Sons and LoversC、Sons and Lovers，Lady Chatterley’s LoverD、Women in Love，Lady Chatterley’s Lover（P370.para2）劳伦斯的成名作是《儿子和情人》，而其代表作是《虹》和《恋爱中的女人》标准答案：A考生答案：A本题得分：2.5 分题号: 2 本题分数:2.5 分T.S.Eliot’s poem( )is heavily indebted to James Joyce in terms of the stream - of -consciousness technique,also a prelude to The Waste Land.A、“Prufrock”B、“Gerontion”C、The Hollow MenD、Lyrical Ballads（P358.para3）“Gerontion”是一部用戏剧式独白写成的诗歌，是《荒原》的前奏曲，也采用了意识流派的文风。

标准答案：B考生答案：B本题得分：2.5 分题号: 3 本题分数:2.5 分wrence’s autobiographical novel is( ).A、The RainbowB、Women in LoveC、Sons and LoversD、Lady Chatterley’s Lover（P369.para1）劳伦斯的作品大多都是从心理上去探求让人的本能的，同时也反映人性中最内在的东西。

其作品《儿子和情人》真实地反映了自己在童年时期的家庭状况，被视为其半自传体小说。

华南农业大学美国文学史期末考Ⅰ。

Explain the following literary terms。

（本大题共2小题，每小题5分，共10分)1.Darwinism2.Lost generation3。

Imagism4.Free VerseⅡ. Matching（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）1.John Steinbeck2.T。

S。

Eliot3.Carl Sandburg4.F。

Scott Fitzgerald5.Harriet Beecher Stowe6.O’ Henry7.Thomas Paine8.Ernest Hemingway9.Ralph Waldo Emerson10.Nathaniel Hawthornea. A Farewell to Armsb. Common Sensec。

Uncle Tom’s Cabind. The Cop and the Antheme。

The Grapes of Wrathf. Fogg。

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrockh. Naturei。

The Great Gatsbyj. The Scarlet Letter.Ⅲ. Multiple choice。

（本大题共35 小题,每小题1 分，共35 分）1。

In the early nineteenth century American moral values were essentially Puritan. Nothing has left a deeper imprint on the character of the people as a whole tha n did_______。

A.Puritanism B Romanticism C Rationalism D Sentimentalism2. Franklin wrote and published his famous__________， an annul collection of pr overbs.A. The AutobiographyB. Poor Richard‘s Almanack C。

第二章吴伟仁《美国文学史及选读》模拟试题及详解（二）I. Fill in the blanks1. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s masterpiece is ______.【答案】Uncle Tom’s Cabin【解析】比彻·斯托夫人（Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896）的名作长篇小说《汤姆叔叔的小屋》（Uncle Tom’s Cabin）是19世纪最畅销的小说（以及第二畅销的书，仅次于最畅销的书《圣经》）并被认为是刺激废奴主义于1850年代兴起的一大原因。

2. The Age of Realism is also what Mark Twain referred to as “_______”.【答案】The Gilded Age【解析】现实主义时期被马克吐温看作“镀金时代”。

3. Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the “______”movement.【答案】imagism【解析】庞德是意象主义运动的领军人物。

4. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote ______, which has been called “the Manifesto ofA merican Transcendentalism,”and ______, which has been regarded as A merica’s “Declaration of Intellectual Independence.”【答案】Nature；“The A merican Scholar”【解析】爱默生的《论自然》被称为“美国超验主义的宣言”，其《美国学者》则被誉为美国知识分子的独立宣言。

5. William Bradford’s work ______ consists of two books. The first book deals with the persecutions of the Separatists in Scrooby, England, and the second book describes the signing of the “Compact”.【答案】MayflowerII. Multiple Choice1. Which ONE of the following is the author of The Leather-Stocking Tales?A. Henry David ThoreauB. Washington IrvingC. Edgar Allan PoeD. James Fennimore Cooper【答案】D【解析】James Fenimore Cooper（库柏），美国早期作家，The Leather-Stocking Tales （《皮裹腿故事集》）是他的经典之作。

外国文学史试题及答案一、选择题1.以下哪位作家是英国文学的代表人物?A. 陀思妥耶夫斯基B. 维克多·雨果C. 威廉·莎士比亚D. 弗朗索瓦·拉伯雷答案：C. 威廉·莎士比亚2.以下作品属于美国文学的是哪一部?A. 《战争与和平》B. 《老人与海》C. 《麦田里的守望者》D. 《安娜·卡列宁娜》答案：C. 《麦田里的守望者》3.以下哪位作家是法国文学的代表人物?A. 托马斯·曼B. 弗兰兹·卡夫卡C. 荷马D. 阿尔贝·加缪答案：D. 阿尔贝·加缪4.下列哪部作品是俄国文学的经典之作?A. 《安娜·卡列宁娜》B. 《麦田里的守望者》C. 《老人与海》D. 《战争与和平》答案：D. 《战争与和平》5.以下哪位作家与德国文学相关?A. 夏目漱石B. 弗朗茨·卡夫卡C. 威廉·莎士比亚D. 陀思妥耶夫斯基答案：B. 弗朗茨·卡夫卡二、简答题1.请简要描述意大利文艺复兴时期对文学发展的影响。

答案：意大利文艺复兴时期对文学发展影响深远。

首先，意大利文艺复兴时期重视古希腊、古罗马文化的复兴，人们开始重新研究古典文学作品，这使得古代文学作品重新受到重视并成为现代文学的重要源泉。

其次，意大利文艺复兴时期的人文主义思潮推动了人们对人性、人类价值和社会伦理的关注，这对后来欧洲的文学发展起到了重要的推动作用。

此外，意大利文艺复兴时期的艺术家和文学家们通过对古代希腊、罗马作品的研究与模仿，开展了大量的文学创作实践，推动了文学的多样性与创新。

2.阐述浪漫主义对欧洲文学的影响。

答案：浪漫主义对欧洲文学的影响巨大。

浪漫主义强调个体的内心体验、情感的自由流露和对自然、想象力的推崇，这对欧洲文学的形式和内容都产生了深远影响。

在浪漫主义的影响下，欧洲文学中出现了众多热情洋溢的感伤诗歌，作家们追求超凡脱俗、超越现实的主题和形式，文学作品中常常出现的浪漫情节、奇遇故事和对自然的描写，都是浪漫主义在欧洲文学中的表现。

201 3–201 4年第一学期武昌理工学院试题课程名称：美国文学名著选读适用专业班级：英语1101-1104班Part I. True or false statements. ( 10 points, 1 point for each)Directions: In this part of the test, there are 10 statements. Decide whether they are true or false; if they true, write T; if false, write F.1. Early in the sixth century, the English settlements in California and Massachusetts began the main stream of what we recognize as the American national history.2. The first writings that we call American were the narratives and journals of the native Indians.3. The colonies that became the first United States were for the most part English.4. At the initial period the spread of ideas of the American Enlightenment was largely due to journalism.5. Benjamin Franklin seemed to represent the age of reason and revolution in his paradoxical faith in both social order and in natural rights, in love of stability and devotion to revolutionary change.6. As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematical.7. Romantic writers in the 19th century placed increasing value on the free expression of emotion and displayed increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters.8. With a vast group of supporting characters, virtuous or villainous, James Fenimore Cooper made the America conscious of his past, and made the European conscious of America.9. In 1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson published his first book, Nature, which met with a wild reception.10. All his literary life, Nathaniel Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil in life.Part II. Multiple choices.(30 points, 1 point for each)1. The Colonial Period of American literature stretched roughly from the settlement ofAmerica in the early 17th century through the end of ________ century.A. the 18thB. the 19thC. the 20thD. the 21st2. New-England’s Plantation was published in 1630 by ________A. Francis HigginsonB. William BradfordC. John SmithD. Michael Wigglesworth3. Of all the books the one written by Herman Melville is ________A. The Flesh and the SpiritB. Moby DickC. The True TravelsD. Christopher Columbus4. Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the ______.A. Sugar ActB. American EnlightenmentC. Chartist movementD. Romanticist5. What style did the seventeenth century American poets adapt to the subject matter confronted in a strangely new environment?A. The style of their own.B. The style of established European poets.C. The style mixed with native-American and British tradition.D. The style mixed with English and American elements.6. During 1807-1808, Washingto n Irving wrote for his brother’s newspaper called________A. New York TimesB. Washington PostC. SalmagundiD. Daily News7. History of New York was published in 1807 under the name of ________A. Washington IrvingB. Diedrich KnickerbokerC. James Fenimore CooperD. John Whittier8. Rip Van Winkle was written by ________A. James Fenimore CooperB. Washington IrvingC. Benjamin FranklinD. Walt Whitman9. The Spy was written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1821. It is a novel about________A. American Civil WarB. American RevolutionC. American West ExpansionD. The First World War10. Natty Bumppo is the hero in Cooper’s ________A. The PrecautionB. Leatherstocking TalesC. The Gleanings in EuropeD. The Spy11. ________ was regarded as a poet of the American RevolutionA. Philip FreneauB. Walt WhitmanC. Robert FrostD. Cal Sandburg12. The Raven was written in 1844 by ________A. Philip FreneauB. Edgar Allan PoeC. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowD. Emily Dickinson13. The Minister’s Black Veil was written by ________A. Edgar Allan PoeB. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Henry David ThoreauD. Ralph Waldo Emerson14. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England that she became known as the ______ who appeared in America.A. Ninth MuseB. Tenth MuseC. Best MuseD. First Muse15. The ship ______ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.A. SunflowerB. MayflowerC. ArmadaD. Titanic16. A new _____ had appeared in England in the last years of the 18th century. It spread to continental Europe and then came to America early in the 19th century.A. RealismB. Critical realismC. RomanticismD. Naturalism17. Washington Irving got his idea for his most famous story, Rip Van Winkle, from a________A. Greek legendB. German legendC. French legendD. English legend18. Rip Van Winkle is found in Irving’s longer work, ________A. History of New YorkB. The Sketch BookC. Tales of a TravelerD. The Precaution19. _____ was often regarded as America’s first man of letters, devoting much of hiscareer to literature.A. Benjamin FranklinB. Washington IrvingC. Philip FreneauD. James Fenimore Cooper20. All the following novels are in Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales except ________A. The PioneersB. The SpyC. The DeerslayerD. The Prairie21. _____ defined realism as "nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material”, and he best exemplified his theories in three novels. Choose them from the following.A. William Dean HowellsB. Mark TwainC. Henry JamesD. Walt Whitman22. Mark Twain created, in____________ , a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.A. Tom SawyerB. Huckleberry FinnC. The Man That Corrupted HadleyburgD. The Gilded Age23. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was _____.A. Anne BradstreetB. Emily DickinsonC. Jane AustenD. Harriet Beecher24. Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of the en-mass and the ___ as well.A. natureB. selfC. self-relianceD. life25. ___________is not the representative writer in the Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States.A. Henry JamesB. Emily DickinsonC. William Dean HowellsD. Mark Twain26. ___________explores the scrupulous individualism in a world of fantastic speculation and unstable values, and gives its name to the get-rich-quick years of the post Civil War era.A. Innocents AbroadB. Roughing ItC. The Gilded AgeD. The Middle Years27. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, ___became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.A. SentimentalismB. realismC.Romanticism C.D. naturalism28.Whitman‘s “There was a child went forth” is a poem aboutA. a soldier going into the battlefieldB.the birth of a new lifeC.a tragic boyhood experienceD.the growth of a child29. We can perhaps summarize that Walt Whitman‘s poems are characterized by all the following features except they areA. conversational and crudeB.lyrical and well-structuredC.wimple and rather crudeD.free-flowing30.Who among the following is a poet of free verse?A. Ralph Waldo EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Herman MelvilleD. Theodore DreiserPart III. Short easy questions. (20 points, 5 points for each)1.What are the main features of Puritanism?2.What is the main plot of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow? Summarize it in onesentence.3.What are the symbols used in The Scarlet Letter? List at least five of them.4.What is alliteration? Use examples to illustrate this.Part IV. Passage Identification. (10 points, 2 points for each)Directions: In this part of the test, there are 5 passages. Please give the name of the work for them.Passage 1Tom Sawyer stepped forward with conceited confidence and soared into the un-quenchable and indestructible "Give me liberty or give me death" speech, with fine fury and frantic gesticulation, and broke down in the middle of it. A ghastly stage fright seized him, his legs quaked under him, and he was like to choke. True, he had the manifest sympathy of the house --- but he had the house' s silence, too, which was even worse than its sympathy. The master frowned, and this completed the disaster. Tom struggled awhile and then retired, defeated.Work_________________________________________________________________ Passage 2We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness? That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.Work_________________________________________________________________Passage 3"Arms and the clarion for the battle, but the song of thanksgiving to the victory!" answered the liberated David. "Friend," he added, thrusting forth his lean, delicate hand forwards Hawkeye, in kindness, while his eyes twinkled and grew moist, " I thank thee the hairs of my head still grow where they were first rooted by Providence for, though those of other men may be more glossy and curling, I have ever found mine own well suited to the brain they shelter. That I did not join myself been to the battle, was less owing to disinclination, than to the bonds of the heathen. Valiant and skilful hast thou proved thyself in the conflict, and I hereby thank thee, before proceeding to discharge other and more important duties, because thou hast proved thyself well worthy of a Christian' s praise. "...Work_________________________________________________________________ Passage 4Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door."Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door—Only this, and nothing more. "Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.Eagerly I wished the morrow; — vainly I had tried to borrowFrom my books surcease of sorrow -sorrow for the lost.Work_________________________________________________________________ Passage 5I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.Work_________________________________________________________________ Part V. Appreciation. (10 points, 5 points for each)Directions: In this part of the test, there are two excerpts. Each of the excerpts is followed by several questions. Read the excerpts and answer the questions on the Answer Sheet.Part AIf nothing once, you nothing lose,For when you die you are the same;The space between, is but an hour,The frail duration of a flower.Questions:1. Who is the poet of the poem and what is the title of the poem?2. Tell the rhyme scheme of the poem.Part BThe opinions of this Junto were completely controlled by Nicholas Vedder, a patriarch of the village, and landlord of the inn, at the door of which he took his seat from morning till night, just moving sufficiently to avoid the sun and keep in the shade of a large tree; so that the neighbors could tell the hour by his movements as accurately as by a sundial. It is true he was rarely heard to speak, but smoked his pipe incessantly. His adherents, however (for every great man has his adherents), perfectly understood him, and knew how to gather his opinions. When anything that was read or related displeased him, he was observed to smoke his pipe vehemently, and to send forth short, frequent and angry puffs; but when pleased, he would inhale the smoke slowly and tranquilly, and emit it in light and placid clouds; and sometimes, taking the pipe from his mouth, and letting the fragrant vapor curl about his nose, would gravely nod his head in token of perfect approbation.From even this stronghold the unlucky Rip was at length routed by his termagant wife, who would suddenly break in upon the tranquility of the assemblage and call the members all to naught; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible virago, who charged him outright with encouraging her husband in habits of idleness.Questions:1. Who was the writer of this story? What is the title of this story?2. Who was Nicholas Vedder? How did he express his opinions on public matters? Part VI. Essay writing. (20 points)Directions : choose one from the following topics and write an essay within 100 words.1.One theme of American literary works is American Dream. Explain it andcomment it. You can use literary works as quotations if necessary.2.What do you know about Gothic style? Explain it from different aspects.3.What are the differences and similarities between American Realism andNaturalism?4.What are the differences and similarities between Walt Whitman and EmilyDickinson?。

二十世纪西方文学一、填空题1、西方文学的演进，大约经历了人与自然、（人与神）、（人与物）三个发展阶段。

3、现实主义的三个基本特征是（客观）（批判）和典型性。

4、（爱德华.福斯特）是作为一个小说家而在现代英国文学乃至世界文学中占有重要的地位的。

他一直同乔伊斯、劳伦斯和伍尔芙被称为20世纪英国最伟大的小说家。

5、高尔斯华绥的三个三部曲是（《福尔赛世家》）（《尾声》）和《现代喜剧》6、《樱桃园》《漂亮朋友》的作者是（莫泊桑）7、高尔基《母亲》中母亲名叫（尼罗夫娜）8、文学史上一个公认的事实是：（法国）是近现代欧洲一切艺术革命的策源地——19世纪的现实主义文学运动和象征主义诗歌运动都是从法国开始的，而后扩散到其他国家。

9、在20世纪欧美现代派文学中，（象征主义）是出现最早持续时间最长的影响最大的文学流派。

10、《青鸟》是（梅特林克）的代表作品。

11、西方文学界关于《城堡》主题内涵有三种理解：第一，犹太人长期漂泊而寻找精神家园；第二，（人类寻找上帝）。

第三，（人类追求真理和人生目的）。

12、意识流手法作为一种创作方法，扩大了文学的（心理）描写空间。

13、海明威在《午后之死》中说：“我总是按照（冰山）的原则来写作。

”14、《太阳照常升起》的主人公是（杰克·巴恩斯）。

15、（萨特）的戏剧常被称为“境遇剧”或“环境剧”。

16、戈和狄狄是（《等待戈多》）中的人物形象。

17、20欧美现实主义文学的基本特征是一，（人道主义内涵的新发展）二，（观察和描写的向内转移）三，（叙事形式的演进和分化）。

18、德国20世纪现实主义文学的代表作家首先当推亨利希·曼和托马斯·曼兄弟。

哥哥的《臣仆》和弟弟的《布登勃洛克一家》中许多细节都取自他们的个人经历和所熟悉的慕尼黑社会。

19、（西奥图.德莱塞）在美国20世纪初期的文坛上占有极为重要的地位。

他的代表作包括长篇小说《嘉丽妹妹》、《美国的悲剧》等。

20、（萧伯纳）是英国20世纪前期最有代表性的现实主义戏剧家，1925年的诺贝尔文学奖获得者。

英美文学选读-阶段测评4成绩：30分一、Multiple Choice 共 40 题题号: 1 本题分数:2.5 分( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th—century “stream—of—consciousness” novels and the founder of psychological realism.A、Theodore DreiserB、William FaulknerC、Henry JamesD、Mark Twain(P498.para.2)亨利.詹姆斯是美国现实主义文学大师，他的作品往往涉及美国之外的主题，其作品的风格是“心理活动”。

被誉为20世纪美国意识流文学的先驱。

标准答案：C考生答案：D本题得分：0 分题号: 2 本题分数:2.5 分Closely related to Dickinson’s religious poetry are her poems concerning( ),ranging over the physical as well as the psychological and emotional aspects of death.A、love and natureB、death and universeC、death and immortalityD、family and happiness（P518para2）迪金森的诗歌涉及宗教和爱情两方面，而其涉及宗教的诗歌往往是以死亡和永恒为主题的，所以答案是C。

标准答案：C考生答案：A本题得分：0 分题号: 3 本题分数:2.5 分H.L.Mencken considered( )“the true father of our national literature”.A、Bret HarteB、Mark TwainC、Washington IrvingD、Walt Whitman(P477.para1)马克.吐温是美国文学巨匠，他以两部“历险记”创造可美国文学史上的一个奇迹，那就是开创了美国文学的一个新时代，所以将他誉为“真正的美国文学之父”。

Exercise TwoⅠ. Write the names of the authors.(10%)1. The Prince and the Pauper2. The Red Badge of Courage3. “A Clean, Well Lighted Room”4. Call of the Wild5. “Legend of Sleepy Hollow”6. “A Station at the Metro”7. “Fire and Ice”8. The Autobiography 9. “One’s Self I sing” 10. The Scarlet Letter. Fill in the following blanks . (10%) 1. In the novel , Hemingway described the dignity and courage of the commonpeople during the Spanish Civil War.2. was a great inventor, diplomat, and founding father of the United States ofAmerica.3. , the earliest well-known American naturalist writer, wrote a novel about theAmerican Civil War.4. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises , Hemingway became the spokesman for whatGertrude Stein had called “ ”.5. ____________________, writing well before the Modern Poetry movements of the 20thcentury, is often considered the “father of modern poetry.” . Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer.1. Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is NOT true? A It is an early expression of naturalist writing. B It is full of symbolism.C It is argues the distinction between “sins of passion” and “sins of principle”D It is considered a “romance” by its writer because it shows fantastic events and does not limit itself to strict, literal reality.2. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ______.A International themeB Waste-land imageryC Local colorD Symbolism3. _____ was known as the founder of the American short story.A Washington IrvingB Mark TwainC Jack LondonD O. Henry4. Ezra Pound, Hilda Dolittle and Amy Lowell help found and promote a movement in Modern Poetry known as _______.A French symbolismB The Beat GenerationC confessional poetryD Imagism5. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, __ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.A sentimentalismB romanticismC realismD naturalism6. Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of __ , poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme.A blank verseB heroic coupleC free verseD iambic pentameter7. The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than F. Scoot Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as _______.A The Jazz AgeB The Gilded AgeC The Roaring AgeD The Beat Age8. ___ wrote a series of historical novels set in the American Midwest and was known as “the American Sir Walter Scot.”A Nathaniel HawthorneB Mary RenaltD James Fenimore Cooper9. Hemi ngway’s ideal hero, who faced life, fate and death courageously, can be called the__ .A “lost generation” manB modern manC natural manD true individual10. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _______and Thoreau.A JeffersonB EmersonC FreneauD Over-soul11. Which of the following writers influenced the development of French symbolist poetry?A Walt WhitmanB Edgar Allen PoeC Ezra PoundD Robert Frost12. Which famous graduation speech turned Transcendentalism into a major intellectual and literary movement?A The American ScholarB The Divinity School AddressC The Conduct of LifeD Representative Men13. Although her poems were never published in her lifetime and a complete collection of them didn’t appear until the 1950’s, _____ had a major impact on 20th century poetry.A Anne BradstreetB Gertrude SteinC Emily DickinsonD Amy Lowell14. Which of the following fiction writers wanted to always live an active, masculine life and committed suicide in 1961, when he was too old to do so any more?A Mark TwainB Ernest HemingwayC Stephen CraneD Jack London15. Who of the following is NOT a 20th century American poet?B Amy LowellC Edgar Allan PoeD Robert Frost(10%) 1. All his literary life, Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil in life. 2. Transcendentalism, in exalting feeling over reason and individual expression over therestraints of law and custom, very much reflects the spirit of Romanticism.3. The sound of Whitman’s words casts a magic, romantic spell over readers. His tone isawesome, sad and melancholy.4. Ezra Pound was famous not only for his own poetry but also as a translator of Chinesepoetry and other classical Chinese literature.5. Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about the New England countryside.6. Ezra Pound’s poetry evoked the deeply personal world of a man who withdrew from theworld around him and spent most of his time in his room.7. In 1954, T. S. Eliot was awarded a Nobel Prize for his “mastery of the art of modernnarration.”8. Hemingway believed that a man could find meaning in life by facing is death with dignityand courage.9. Thomas Jefferson was famous for powerful, persuasive essays, such as his pamphletCommon Sense , which persuaded many people to support the American Revolution. 10. William Hill Brown’s The Power of Sympathy , written in 1789, is often call ed “the firstAmerican novel”. (20%) Passage OneThe woods are lovely, dark and deep.But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.Questions:1. Who is the writer of this poem? _______________2. What is the title of this poem? _______________3. Why does the writer repeat the last line?4.What kind of feeling does this stanza show? How does the writer show it in the poem as a whole?5.Why do people say that this writer’s poems show traditional form and content combinedwith modern theme and feeling?Passage 2The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance, on a large scale. She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam, and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion, had the impressiveness of belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes. She was lady-like, too, after the manner of feminine gentility of those days; characterized by a certain state and dignity, rather than by the delicate, evanescent, and indescribable grace, which is now recognized as its indication.Questions:1.This passage is from , written by .2.Who is the woman being described? What does this description tell about change inculture over a period of time?答案I．Write the names of the authors. (1*10=10%)1.Mark Twain2.Stephen Crane3.Ernest Hemingway4.Jack London5.Washington Irving6.Ezra Pound7.Robert Frost8.Benjamin Franklin9.Walt Whitman10.Nathaniel HawthorneII．Fill in the following blanks. (2*5=10%)1.For Whom the Bell Tolls2.Benjamin Franklin3.Stephen Crane4.the lost generation5.Walt WhitmanⅢ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriateanswer. (1*15=15%)IV. Decide whether the statements are true or false. (1*10=10%)V. Identify the following fragments and then answer questions. (20%)Passage 11.The writer of the poem is Robert Frost. (1)2.The poem is “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (1)3.Doing so emphasizes the writer’s “modern” theme of urgency; it also completes the form,which is a quatrain or four line per verse poem. (2)4.Discuss loneliness, urgency and the sense of a “tame” nature that is somehow far fromfriendly and easy to control. (4)5.Discuss the contrast between the traditional use of rhyme and meter, pastoral setting etc.and how Frost transforms these forms with modern feelings and themes. (4)Passage 21.This part if from the novel The Scarlet Letter, (1分) written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.(1分)2.The woman is Hester. The answer relates to the writer’s use of historical perspective,and his theory that the ideal of a “lady” has changed over time, from the strong, earthyideal of the Elizabethan period and shortly after to a weaker, more ethereal ideal by thetime he wrote. (6分)VI. Write about 150 words to comment on Mark Twain, his style, content, and contributions to American Literature. (20%)∙Pay special attention to his place in realism, his humor, his use of local color and role in regional literature and how he helped to create a genuinely “American” literary language.VII. Write about 120 words to comment on Ezra Pound’s contribution to American Poetry of twenty century. (15%)∙Ezra Pound is regarded, and rightly, as the father of modern American poetry. Impatient with the fetters of English traditional poetics, he led the experiment in revolutionizingpoetry. It was he who first discovered T. S. Eliot and blue-penciled the latter’s famouspoem, The Waste Land. It was he who helped William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, D. H.Lawrence, and William Carlos Williams in their literary careers. And he survived themall, writing continually right up to his death. Pound’s contribution to the development of modern poetry is very great.。

自考美国文学选读试题_浙江省2009年4月自考试卷浙江省2009年4月自考美国文学选读试题课程代码：10055Part Ⅰ: Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10 points in all, 1 point for each)Group 1Column A( )1. James F. Cooper( )2. Washington Irving( )3. Herman Melville( )4. Emily Dickinson( )5. Mark TwainGroup 2Column A( )6. Charles Drouet( )7. Homer Barron( )8. Yank( )9. Mrs. Phelps( )10. Tom BuchananPart Ⅱ: Select from the four choices A, B, C and D of each itemthe one that best answers the question or completes the statement and write the letter. (50 points in all, 2 points for each)11. Being a period of the flowering of American literature, the Romantic period is also called “_____”.( )A. the American RenaissanceB. the English RenaissanceC. the Harlem RenaissanceD. the Second Renaissance12. With a strong sense of optimism and the mood of “feeling good” of the whole nation, a spectacular outburst of _____ was brought about in the first half of the 19th century in the history of America.( )A. classic feelingB. romantic feelingC. nationalistic feelingD. realistic feeling13. With such a surge of exalting the individual and the common man throughout the United States in the middle of the 19th century, Freneau showed a great interest in external nature in his works. The literary use of the more colorful aspects of the past could be found in Philip Freneau’s use of the “_____”.( )A. ruins of human beingsB. ruins of AmericansC. ruins of empireD. ruins of common people14. The American Puritanism as a cultural heritage had exertedgreat influences over American Romanticism. One of the manifestations is the fact that American romantic writers tended more to _____ than their English and European counterparts.( )A. idealizeB. moralizeC. classicizeD. realize15. In the period of Romanticism in the history of American literature, Transcendentalist group includes two of the most significant writers America has produced so far. The two writers are( )A. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt WhitmanB. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David ThoreauC. James F. Cooper and Henry David ThoreauD. James F. Cooper and Walt Whitman16. New England Transcendentalism is unanimously agreed to be the summit of the Romantic period in the history of American literature. And the chief spokesman of this spiritual movement is( )A. Henry David ThoreauB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Walt WhitmanD. Henry Wordsworth Longfellow17. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature ofWashington Irving?( )A. He was regarded as Father of the American short stories.B. His taste was essentially conservative.C. He had the honor of “the American O’ Henry”.D. He has been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best classic style tha t American Literature ever produced”.18. In his masterpiece The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne fully displayed all the following EXCEPT( )A. his remarkable sense of the Puritan past.B. his understanding of the colonial history in Deep South.C. his apparent preoccupation with the moral issues of sin and guilt.D. his keen psychological analysis of people.19. Herman Melville had written many sea adventure stories, among which _____ proves to be the best.( )A. TypeeB. OmooC. RedburnD. Moby-Dick20. Leaves of Grass commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of _____, which are written in the founding documents of both the Revolutionary War and the American Civil War.( )A. the democratic idealsB. the religious idealsC. the romantic idealsD. the self-reliance spirits21. Which of the following statements about the three dominant figures in the history of American literature is right? ( ) A. Henry James had laid a great emphasis on the “inner world” of man.B. Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the “life” of the Europeans.C. Howells focused his discussion on the lower class and the way they lived.D. Twain preferred to have the other regions and people at the forefront of his stories.22. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain’s language? ( )A. His words are colloquial, concrete and direct.B. His sentence structures are simple, even ungrammatical.C. His characters speak with a strong accent, which is true of his local colorism.D. His style of language was later exerted little influence on his descendants.23. Mark Twain’s late works unmistakably shaved his change from an optimist and _____ to an almost despairingdeterminister.( )A. realistB. romanticistC. humoristD. pessimist24. “I confess I do not care to judge any work of the imagination without first applying this test to it. We must ask ourselves before anything else, Is it true?—true to the motives, the impulses, the principles that shape the life of actual men and women?” This principle of adhering to the truthful treatment of life comes from ( )A. Mark TwainB. Henry JamesC. William Dean HowellsD. Theodore Dreiser25. In which of the following novels can you find the proper names “Winterbourne”, “Giovanelli”, and “Randolph”?( )A. Daisy MillerB. The Turn of the ScrewC. The Middle YearsD. The Death of a Lion26. Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of Henry James’ literary techniques?( )A. stream-of-consciousnessB. narrative “point of view”C. psychological realismD. local colorism27. The little poem I like to see it lap the Miles— is generally regarded as an interesting study of how Dickinson makes the train part of _____ by animalizing it.( )A. natureB. manC. loveD. death28. Sigmund Freud’s inter pretation of dreams and the theories of _____ have infused modern American literature and made it possible for most of the writers in the modern period to probe into the inner world of human reality. ( )A. William James’ “stream of consciousness” and Carl Jung’s “collective unconscious”B. Carl Jung’s “stream of consciousness” and William James’ “collective unconscious”C. William James’ “archetypal symbol” and Carl Jung’s “individual consciousness”D. Carl Jung’s “archetypal symbol” and William James’ “individual consciousness”29. Chinese poetry and philosophy had exerted great influence on ( )A. Robert FrostB. Ezra PoundC. Emily DickinsonD. Ralph Waldo Emerson30. O’Neill’s inventiveness seemingly knew no limits. He was constantly experimenting with new styles and forms for his plays, especially during the twenties when _____ was in full swing.( )A. SymbolismB. RealismC. ExpressionismD. Surrealism31. In Robert Frost’s famous poem “After Apple-Picking”, there are four lines like these: “Were he no t gone, /The woodchuck could say whether it’s like his, /Long sleep, as I describe its coming on. /Or just some human sleep.” The human sleep refers to ( )A. deathB. calmness of the spiritC. fall into sleepD. memory of experience32. Among Faulkner’s four masterpieces, _____ is a story of “lost innocence,” which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.( )A. Go Down, MosesB. Absalom, Absalom!C. Light in AugustD. The Sound and the Fury33. Which of the following statements can be said about the writing styles of F. Scott Fitzgerald, a most representative figure of the 1920s?( )A. His style is complex and warm.B. His dialogue is subtle and quite difficult to grasp.C. His observation of mannerism, models and attitudes provide the reader with a vivid sense of unreality.D. He follows the Jamesian tradition in using the scenic methodin his chapters.34. Compared with earlier writings, especially those of the 19th century, modern American writings are notable for what they omit. A typical modern work will NO longer one of the following as its trademark, that is, a ( )A. record of sequence and coherence.B. book of fragments drawn from diverse areas of experience.C. juxtaposition of the past and present, of the history and memory.D. book that begins arbitrarily, advances without explanation, and without solution.35. _____ is the first book to present a Hemingway hero——Nick Adams.( )A. The Sun Also RisesB. The Old Man and the SeaC. For Whom the Bell TollsD. In Our TimePart Ⅲ. InterpretationRead the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space. (20 points in all, 5 points for each)36. “In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, —no disgrace, no calamity,(leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, —my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, —all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.”Questions:A. Identify the author and the work.B. In this quoted part the author used the remarkable image of a transparent eyeba ll and a powerful analogy between “I”. Please make a brief comment on the symbolic relationship between “eyeball” and “I”.37. “Terrible!” said that little lady, joining her. “I hope it snows enough to go sleigh riding.”“Oh, dear,” said Carrie, with whom the sufferings of Father Goriot were still keen. “That’s all you think of. Aren’t you sorry for the people who haven’t anything tonight?”“Of course I am,” said Lola; “but what can I do? I haven’t anything.”Carrie smiled.Questions:A. Identify the author and the novel.B. Briefly interpret the contrast of the feelings of the two ladies towards the poor.38. “The leaves fall early this autumn, in wind.The paired butterflies are already yellow with August,Over the grass in the West garden;They hurt me. I grow older.If you are coming down through the narrows of the river Kiang, Please let me know beforehand,And I will come out to meet youAs far as Cho-fu-Sa.”Questions:A. This stanza comes from Ezra Pound’s The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter. From which Chinese poet is this poem translated?B. How does the speaker communicate with her husband?39. “There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Roll-Royce became an omnibus, bearing partiesto and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.”Questions:A. Identify the narrator and the novel from which this passage is taken.B. “Moths” in the second line is metaphorically used. What does it refer to?Part Ⅳ. Topic DiscussionGive brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers in the corresponding space. (20 points in all, 10 points for each)40. How does Huck, a boy with rebellious spirit, come to be a real hero in the reader’s mind? Please give a brief analysis of the character Huckleberry Finn.41. In Hemingway’s Indian Camp, the hero Nick witnessed the birth of a baby and the simultaneous suicide of the infant’s father. For Nick, the night journey to the camp has all the possibilities of a learning experience. How important is Nick’sexperience at the Indian Camp to his initiation into the world?。

2024年自考-自考专业(英语)-英美文学选读考试历年真题常考点试题带答案（图片大小可任意调节）第1卷一.单选题(共20题)1.It was his masterpiece The Great Gatsby that made( )one of the greatest American novelists.A. FitzgeraldB.William FaulknerC.Ernest HemmingwayD.Gertrude Steinbeck2.In 1920,( )published his first novel This Side of Paradise which was,to some extent,his own story.A.F·Scott FitzgeraldB.Ernest HemingwayC.William FaulknerD.Emily Dickinson3.“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one- eighth of it being above wa ter. ” This “iceberg ” analogy is put forward by( ).A.Mark TwainB.Ezra PoundC.William FaulknerD.Ernest Hemingway4.Now many major employers are beginning to demand _______ the completion of schoolA.more thanB.rather thanC.other thanD.better than5.William Faulkner set most of his works in the American( ),with his emphasis onthe( )subjects and consciousness.A.North...NorthernB.East...EasternC.West...WesternD.South...Southern6.Which of the following statements is NOT true of Emily Dickinson and her poetry?A.She remained unmarried all her lifeB.She wrote,1,775 poems,and most of them were published during her life time.C.Her poems have no titles,hence are always quoted by their first lines.D.Her limited private world has never confined the limitless power of her creativity and imagination.7.The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised( )for “his powerful style - forming mastery of the art ” of creating modern fiction.A.Ezra PoundB.Ernest HemingwayC.Robert FrostD.Theodore Dreiser8.In the original test，all the animals in a test group are given a substance _______ half of them dieA.unlessB.untilC.lestD.provided9.After the American Civil War,the literary interest in the so- called “reality ” of life started a new period in the American literary writings know an the Age of( ).A.RealismB.Reason and RevolutionC.RomanticismD.Modernism10.The effect of Darwinist idea of “survival of the fittest ” was shattering in() ’s fictional world of jungle,where “kill or to be killed ” was the law.A.Mark TwainB.Henry JamesC.Theodore DreiserD.Walt Whitman11.Nobody but you _______ what he said.A. agrees withB.agrees outC.agree withD.agree to12.In 1950,( )was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A.William FaulknerB.Robert FrostC.Ezra PoundD.Ernest Hemingway13.Greatly and permanently affected by the( )experiences,Hemingway formed his own writing style,together with his theme and hero.A.miningB.farmingC.warD.sailing14.Among the following writers( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th - century “stream - of - consciousness ” novels and the founder of psychological realism.A. T. S. EliotB.James JoyceC.William FaulknerD.Henry James15.Eugene O’Neill ’s first full — length play,( ),won him the first Pulitzer theme is the choice between life and death,the interaction of subjective and objective factors.A.Bound East for CardiffB.The Hairy ApeC.Desire Under the ElmsD.Beyond the Horizon16.Man is a “victim of forces over which he has no control. ” This is a notion held strongly by( ).A.Robert FrostB.Theodore DreiserC.Henry JamesD.Hamlin Garland17.In Go Down,Moses,( )illuminates the problem of black and white in Southern society asa closeknit destiny of blood brotherhood.A.William FaulknerB.Jack LondonC.Herman MelvilleD.Nathaniel Hawthorne18.Mark Twain employed an unpretentious style of( )in his novels which is best described as “vernacular ”.A.standard EnglishB.Afro-American EnglishC.colloquialismD.urbanism19.The attitude towards life that( )had been trying to demonstrate in his works is known as “grace under pressure ”.A.William FaulknerB.Theodore DreiserC.Ernest HemingwayD.F·Scott Fitzgerald20.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and,especially,its sequence( )proved themselves to be the milestone in the American literature.A.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB.Life on the MississippiC.The Gilded AgeD.Roughing It第2卷一.单选题(共20题)1.Most literary critics think that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of( )witha double vision.A.the Jazz AgeB.the Age of Reason and RevolutionC.the Babybooming AgeD.the Post- Modern Age2.At the age of eighty -seven,( )read his poetry at the inauguration of President John in 1961.A.Robert FrostB.Walt WhitmanC.Ezra Pound3.What he had done is _______A.valueB.of valuableC.of no valueD.of no valuable4.That is the house _______ you can enjoy the scenery.A. in thatB.thatC.whichD.from which5.“My last Duchess ” is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning ’s( ).A.sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB.excellent choice of wordsC.mastering of the metrical devicese of the dramatic monologue6.William Faulkner once said that( )is a story of “lost innocence, ” which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.A.The Great GatsbyB.The Sound and the FuryC.Absalom,Absalom!D.Go Down,Moses7.She disagrees ______ him ______ everything.A.with, onB./, onC.with, atD.on, with8.( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th —century “stream— of —consciousness ” novels and the founder of psychological realism.A.Theodore DreiserB.William FaulknerC.Henry JamesD.Mark Twain9.The childhood of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in the Mississippi is a record of a vanished way of life in the( )Mississippi valleyA.pre - War of IndependenceB.post - War of IndependenceC.pre - Civil WarD.post - Civil War10.Hemingway’s “Indian Camp ” is one of the fourteen short stories collected under the title of( ).This title is very ironic because there is no peace at all in the stories.A.Three Stories and Ten PoemsB.Across the River and into the TreesC.The Green Hills of AfricaD.In Our Time11.Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in( ).A.the westB.the southC.AlaskaD.New England12.“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one -eighth of it being abov e water. ” This “iceberg ” analogy about prose style was put forward by( ).A.William FaulknerB.Henry JamesC.Ernest HemingwayD.F· Scott Fitzgerald13.In Death in the Afternoon( )presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.A.William FaulknerB.Jack LondonC.Ernest HemingwayD.Mark Twain14.considered( ) “the true father of our national literature ”.A.Bret HarteB.Mark TwainC.Washington IrvingD.Walt Whitman15.Some persons gain goal and direction from their tensions;others ________ under pressure.A.fall outB.fall apartC.fall back onD.fall in with16.The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be( )masterpiece,which describes the life journey of an American( )in a European cultural environment.A.Henry Adams’…widowB.William James ’…girlC.Henry James’…girlD.Theodore Dreiser ’s…widow17.In 1950,one of the leading American writers( )was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A.Robert FrostB.Theodore DreiserC.William FaulknerD.Fitzgerald18.Henry James’ fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the( )theme.A.internationalB.localC.colonialD.post-modern19.Ezra Pound,a leading spokesman of the “( ) ”,was one of the most important poe ts in his time.A.Imagist MovementB.Cubist MovementC.Reformist MovementD.Transcendentalist Movement20.The( )Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.A.LostB.JazzC.ReasonD.Gilded第1卷参考答案一.单选题1.参考答案： A本题解析：《了不起的盖茨比》是菲茨杰拉德的代表作，也使其成为了美国文坛上得一颗明星。

浙江省2019年4月高等教育自学考试美国文学选读试题课程代码：10055Ⅰ.Choose the relevant match from column B for each item in column A. (10%) Write your answers on the Answer sheet.Section AColumn A Column B1.Nathaniel Hawthorne A. This Side of Paradise2.Herman Melville B. The Sketch Book3.F.Scott Fitzgerald C. The Scarlet Lette r4.Ernest Hemingway D.A Farewell to Arms5.Washington Irving E.White JacketSection BColumn A Column B1.Fedallah A. The Great Gatsbydred Douglas B.A Rose for Emily3.George Hurstwood C. Moby Dick4.Tom Buchanan D.Sister Carrie5.Homer Barren E.The Hairy ApeⅡ.Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook.(10%) Write your answers on the Answer sheet.1.To Hawthorne and Melville every person is a sinner, therefore great moral ______ isindispensable for the improvement of human nature.2.In his poems, Walt Whitman is innovative in the terms of the form of his poetry. In his Leaves ofGrass he sings of the “______”and the self as well.3.The three dominant figures of the American Realistic Period are William Dean Howells, ______,and Henry James.4.Henry James's emphasis on psychology and on the human consciousness proves to be a bigbreakthrough in novel writing and had great influence on the coming generations. That is why he is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th-century “______”.5.More than five hundred poems Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which her general ______about the relationship between man and nature is well-expressed.6.The expatriate writers in American modern literature were later called “______”.7.In his novels, Hemingway dramatizes the sense of ______ among the post-war generation whoare physically and psychologically scarred.8.John Steinbeck is a novelist of the 1930s. His The Grapes of Wrath is a record of the life of thedispossessed and the wretched farmers during ______.9.Robert Frost, unlike his contemporaries in the early 20th century, he learned from the______,especially the familiar conventions of nature poetry and of classical pastoral poetry. 10.Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County has become an allegory or a parable of the _____ ofAmericA.Ⅲ.Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement.(50%) Write your answers on the Answer sheet.1.In the middle of 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering which is called “______”.A. the English RenaissanceB. the American RenaissanceC. the Second RenaissanceD.the Salem Renaissance2.The main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generallyphilosophical, concerning ______.A. the cold, rigid rationalism of UnitarianismB. the relationship between man and womanC. the development of Romanticism in AmericaD. nature, man and the universe3.______ is unanimously agreed to be the summit of the American Romanticism in the history ofAmerican literature.A. New England TranscendentalismB. England TranscendentalismC. the Harlem RenaissanceD. New Transcendentalism4.About the novel The Scarlet Letter, which of the following statements is right?A. It's a love story and a story of sin.B. It's not a highly symbolic story though the author is a master of symbolism.C. It's mainly about the moral, emotional and psychological effects of the sin upon the maincharacters and the people in general.D. In it the letter A takes the same symbolic meaning throughout the novel.5.Moby-Dick is usually considered ______.A. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universeB. a spiritual exploration into man's deep reality and psychologyC. a simple whaling tale or sea adventureD. both A and B6.The Civil War had transformed America from ______ to ______.A. an agrarian community…a society of freedom and equalityB. an agrarian community…an industrialized and commercialized societyC. an industrialized and commercialized society…a highly developed societyD. a poor and backward society…an industrialized and commercialized society7.Which of the following is said of the American naturalism?A. They preferred to have their own region and people at the forefront of the stories.B. Their characteristic setting is an isolated town.C. Their characters were conceived more or less complex combinations of inherited attributes, theirhabits conditioned by social and economic forces.D. Humans should be united because they had to adapt themselves to changing environmentalconditions.8.Which of the following is not right about Mark Twain's style of language?A. His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect.B. His sentence structures are simple, even ungrammatical, which is typical of the spoken language.C. His humor is remarkable and characterized by puns, straight-faced exaggeration, repetition andanti-climax.D. His style of language had exerted only a limited influence on the contemporary writers.9.Which of the following is not written by Henry James?A. The Portrait of A Lady and The EuropeansB. The Wings of the Dove and The AmbassadorsC. The Marble Faun and The Gilded AgeD. What Maisie Knows and The Bostonians10.Dickinson's poems are usually based on her own experiences, her sorrows and joys. But many ofher little lyrics concern ______.A. the whole human beings, which include religion, death, immortality, love, and natureB. the lower-class working people who live a life of poverty and sordidnessC. the middle-class people who live in confusion and in void of faithD. the upper-class people who live in comfort and idleness11.Which of the following is not right about Emily Dickinson's poems about nature?A. In them, she expressed her general skepticism about the relationship between man and natureB. Some of them showed her belief that there existed a mythical bond between man and nature.C. Her poems reflected her feeling that nature is restorative to human beingsD. Many of them showed her feeling of nature's inscrutability and indifference to the life andinterests of human beings12.As a great innovator in American literature, Walt Whitman wrote his poetry in anunconventional style which is now called ______,that is ______.A. hymn…poetry with chanting refrainsB. blank verse…poetry without rhymes at the end of the lines but with a fixed beatC. free verse…poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme schemeD. ode…poetry in an irregular metric form and expressing noble feelings13.One of the features of Emily Dickinson's poetry is that ______.A. they are long and whimsical in imageryB. they are short and often based on one single imageC. they are very musical and colorfulD. they are very political and situational14.By the end of the 19th century, the realists had rejected the portrayal of idealized charactersand events and, instead, sought to______.A. describe the wide range of American experienceB. present the subtleties of human personalityC. show animal nature of human beingsD. both A and B15.In the first part of the 20th century, apart from Darwinism, which was still a big influence uponthe writers of this period, there were two thinkers______whose ideas had the greatest impact on the period.A. the German Karl Marx and the American Sigmund FreudB. the German Karl Marx and the Austrian Sigmund FreudC. the Swiss Car Jung and the American William JamesD. the Austrian Karl Marx and the German Sigmund Freud16.Eugene O'Neill is remembered for his tragic view of life and most of his plays are about ______.A. the root, the truth of human desires and human frustrationsB. the moral nature of the modern mankindC. the relationship between man and nature as well as man and womanD. the inner contradiction of men before the real world17.Which of the following is not said about a typical modern work?A. It is no longer a record of sequence and coherence of the history and the world.B. It is a juxtapostition of the past and present, of the history and the memory.C. It is a book of fragments drawn from diverse areas of experience.D. Its perspective is shifted from the internal to the external, from the private to the public.18.Which of the following is not said about Ezra Pound?A. For he was politically controversial and notorious for what he did in the wartime, his literaryachievement and influence are somewhat reduced.B. His artistic talents are on full display in the history of the Imagist MovementC. From his analysis of the Chinese ideogram Pound learned to anchor his poetic language inconcrete, perceptual reality, and to organize images into larger patterns through juxtaposition.D. His language is usually oblique yet marvelously compressed and his poetry is dense withpersonal, literary, and historical allusions.19.In his poems, Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms with ______.A. a simple spoken language ---the speech of New England farmersB. the pastoral language of the Southern areaC. the difficult and highly ornamental languageD. both A and B20.Most of O'Neill's plays are tragedies, dealing with ______.A. the basic issues of human existence and predicamentB. life and death, illusion and disillusion, dream and realityC. alienation and communication, self and society, desire and frustrationD. all of the above21.As a spokesman of the “Roaring 20s”, Scott Fitzgerald portrayed ______.A. the problems of the human heart in conflict with itselfB. the psychological journey of the modern man and his helplessness in the modern worldC. the primitive struggle of individuals in the context of irresistible natural forcesD. the hollowness of the American worship of riches and the unending American dream offulfillment22.Which of the following is not said of Fitzgerald's writing style?A. The scenic method is explored, each of which consists of one or more dramatic scenes.B. His intervening passages of narration leaves the tedious process of transition to the readers'imaginationC. The device of having events observed by a “central consciousness”is dropped off.D. His diction and metaphors are completely original and details accurate.23.As one of the best-known American authors of this century, Ernest Hemingway wrote all thefollowing novels except______.A. For Whom the Bell TollsB. The Green Hills of AfricaC. The Sound and the FuryD. The Old Man and the Sea24.In A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway ______.A. emphasizes his belief that man is trapped both physically and mentally and suggests that man isdoomed to be entrapped.B. wrote the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation in the 1930s.C. favored the idea of nature as an expression of either god's design or his beneficence.D. tells a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with a French nurse.25.Which of the following is not written by Faulkner?A. The Sound and the FuryB. A Rose for EmilyC. Light in AugustD. Tender Is the NightⅣ.Interpretation(16%)Read the following selections and then answer the questions. Write your answers on the Answer Shee t.Passage 1I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loafe and invite my soul,I learn and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.My tongue, every atom if my blood, form'd from this soil, this air,Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and there parents the same,I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,Hoping to cease not till death.Creeds and schools in abeyance,Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,Nature without check with original energy,1.Who is the poet celebrating? Whom do lines2—3 also include in the celebration?2.What beliefs of the poet are set forth in this poem?Passage 2Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York—every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his lack door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butler's thumb.…As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host, but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way, and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements, that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table —the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.…I was on my way to get roaring drunk from sheer embarrassment when Jordan Bakercame out of the house and stood at the head of the marble steps, leaning a little backward andlooking with contemptuous interest down into the garden.Welcome or not, I found it necessary to attach myself to some one beforeI should begin to address cordial remarks to the passersby.…“I like to come”, Lucille said. “I never care what I do, so I always have a good time.When I was here last I tore my gown on a chair, and he asked me my name and address —inside of a week I got a package from Croirier's with a new evening gown in it.”“Did you keep it?”asked Jordan.“Sure I did. I was going to wear it tonight, but it was too big in the bust and had to be altered. It was gas blue with lavender beads. Two hundred and sixty-five dollars.”“There's something funny about a fellow that'll do a thing like that,”said the other girl eagerly. “He doesn't want any trouble with anybody.”3.Which novel is this passage taken from? Who is the writer?4.Who is the narrator here? Were the people to the parties familiar with host?Why did they go to hisparties?Ⅴ.Give brief answers to the following questions.(14%) Write your answers on the Answer sheet.1.Please give a brief analysis of the major features of American romanticism.2.How do you think about the hero Gatsby in The Great Gatsby and its significance in Americanliterature?。

浙江省2018年4月自学考试美国文学选读试题课程代码：10055Part I: Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10 points in all, 1 point for each)Group 1Column A Column B( ) 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne a. Nature( ) 2. Washington Irving b. Rip Van Winkle( ) 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson c. The House of Seven Gales( ) 4. Mark Twain d. The Great Gatsby( ) 5. Scott Fitzgerald e. The Gilded AgeGroup 2Column A Column B( ) 1. Charles Drouet a. The Great Gatsby( ) 2. Ishmael b. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn( ) 3. Jim c. Sister Carrie( ) 4. George Wilson d. A Rose for Emily( ) 5. Emily Grierson e. Moby DickPart Ⅱ: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternatives. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (50 points in all, 2 points for each)1. The period of ______ started with the publication of Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book and ended with Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. ( )A. American RomanticismB. American RealismC. American TranscendentalismD. American Classicism2. The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of American literature. Such a desire is particularly evident in ______ Leather-Stocking Tales.( )A. Washington Irving’sB. Waldo Emerson’s1C. James Fennimore Cooper’sD. Walt Whitman’s3. New England Transcendentalism was started by a group of people who were members of an informal club, i.e. the Transcendental Club in New England in the ______.( )A. 1850sB. 1840sC. 1830sD. 1860s4. The American ______ as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values.( )A. PuritanismB. UnitarianismC. DeismD. Protestantism5. In his famous poem Song of Myself, Walt Whitman sets forth two principal beliefs: the belief in the singularity and equality of all beings in value, and the theory of ______, which is illustrated by lengthy catalogues of people and things. ( )A. nationalityB. universalityC. natureD. community6. Which of the following is NOT what Emerson put forward in his essays? ( )A. the Over-SoulB. the formal religion of the churches and the Deistic philosophyC. NatureD. the importance of individual7. Moby-Dick is a mixture of fantasy and ______ based upon the South Pacific whaling industry.( )A. romanticismB. naturalismC. realismD. surrealism8. Which of the following statements about Hawthorne is NOT right? ( )A. The ambiguity is one of the salient characteristics of his art.B. He is a master of realism.C. He is a great allegorist.D. He is a master of symbolism.9. Which of the following is NOT regarded as the characteristics of Whitman’s poetic style?( )2A. The use of “free verse”B. His strong tendency to use of formal languageC. The use of parallelism and phonetic recurrence at the beginning of the linesD. The use of the poetic “I”10. ______ and Emersonian Transcendentalism produced some positive effect on Melville’s writing.( )A. Washington Irving’s conservativeB. Hawthorne’s moral courageC. Thoreau’s RomanticismD. Shakespearian tragic vision11. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as ______ in the literary history of the United States.( )A. the Age of RomanticismB. the Age of EnlightenmentC. New England TranscendentalismD. the Age of Realism12. The three dominant figures of the period of Realism in American literature are ______.( )A. Mark Twain, Henry James, and Jack LondonB. Mark Twain, Henry James, and Theodore DreiserC. William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and Jack LondonD. William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and Henry James13. ______ once described the novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the one book from which “all modern American literature comes.”( )A. Ernest HemingwayB. Henry JamesC. Mark TwainD. Theodore Dreiser14. ______ was the first American writer to conceive his career in international themes.( )A. Washington IrvingB. Henry JamesC. Ralph Waldo EmersonD. Mark Twain15. Within her little lyrics Dickinson addresses those issues that concern the whole human beings EXCEPT______.( )A. religion and deathB. immortality3C. man and womanD. love and nature16. ______ proves to be his greatest work and by entitling this book with such a name, Dreiser intended to tell us that it is the social pressure that makes Clyde’s downfall inevitable.( ) A. The Titan B. Sister CarrieC. The FinancierD. An American Tragedy17. Ezra Pound is a leading spokesman of the famous ______ Movement in the history of American literature.( )A. SymbolistB. ImpressionistC. ExistentialistD. Imagist18. Allen Ginsburg’s Howl became the manifesto of ______.( )A. PostmodernismB. ImagismC. the Beat GenerationD. the Lost Generation19. ______ is a school of modern painting, whose emphasis is on the formal structure of a work of art and especially on the multiple-perspective viewpoints. ( )A. ExpressionismB. ImagismC. CubismD. Impressionism20. ______ is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age. ( )A. F. Scott FitzgeraldB. Ezra PoundC. Robert Lee FrostD. Ernest Hemingway21. ______, Hemingway’s first novel, casts light on a whole generation after the First World War and the effects of the war by way of a vivid portrait of “The Lost Generation.”( )A. The Old Man and the SeaB. The Sun Also RisesC. In Our TimeD. A Farewell to Arms22. Which of the following is depicted as the mythical county in William Faulkner’s novels?( )A. Cambridge.B. Oxford.C. Yoknapatawpha.D. Mississippi.23. Robert Frost rejected ______ choosing ______ instead.( )A. the conventional poetic principles... the revolutionary wayB. the romantic way... the revolutionary principles4C. the revolutionary principles... the romantic wayD. the revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporaries... the old-fashioned way to be new24. Which of the following is right about American fiction from 1945 onwards?( )A. Black fiction began to attract critical attention during the 1950s.B. There appeared a significant group of Jewish-American writers whose works were set against the Jewish experience and tradition.C. A group of new writers who survived the war wrote about their ideals within the artistic field.D. American fiction in the 1950s and 1960s proves to be a harvest which derived from its predecessors.25. Which of the following can NOT be included in the thematic concerns of Robert Frost’s Poems?( )A. The contradiction and misunderstanding between man and woman.B. The loneliness and poverty of the isolated human being.C. His love of life and his belief in a serenity coming from working.D. The terror and tragedy in nature as well as its beauty.Part Ⅲ: Interpretation (20 points in all, 5 points for each)Read the following selections and then answer the questions briefly.Passage 1Because I could not stop for Death——He kindly stopped for me——The Carriage held but just Ourselves——And Immortality.....Questions:1. Who is the Author of this poem?2. What do “He”and “Carriage”refer to?Passage 2There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquility. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas5Vedder, with his broad face, double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco smoke instead of idle speeches; or Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents of an ancient newspaper. In place of these, a lean bilious looking fellow, with his pockets full of handbills, was haranguing vehemently about rights of citizens-election-members of congress-liberty-Bunker’s hill-heroes of seventy-six-and other words, that were a perfect Babylonish jargon to the bewildered Van Winkle.Questions:1. Who is the author and where is this passage taken from?2. What do you know about the protagonist?Passage 3Once I said to myself it would be a thousand times better for Jim to be a slave at home where his family was, as long as he’d got to be a slave, and so I’d better write a letter to Tom Sawyer and tell him to tell Miss Waston where he was. But I soon give up that notion, for two things: she’d be mad and disgusted at his rascality and ungratefulness for leaving her, and so she’d sell him straight down the river again; and if she didn’t, everybody naturally despises an ungrateful nigger, and they’d make Jim feel it all the time, and so he’d feel ornery and disgraced. And then think of me! It would get all round, that Huck Finn helped a nigger to get his freedom; and if I was to ever see anybody from that town again, I’d be ready to get down and lick his boots for shame. Questions:1. Please identify the author and the novel.2. Please give a brief comment on this part.Passage 4...Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same.....Questions:61. Who wrote this poem? What’s the title of it?2. What can we know from the verse?Part Ⅳ: Give brief answers to the following questions. (20 points in all,10 points for each)1. What is “Leaves of Grass”mainly concerned about?2. What is the most famous theme in Henry James’ fiction? And what is his favorite approach in characterization, which makes him different from Mark Twain as a realist?7。

第六章19世纪初期欧美文学试题库一、填空题1、浪漫主义文学是在对文学的斗争中发展起来的。

2、拜伦声援英国工人运动的出色诗篇有《》和《》。

3、雨果1827年发表的《》被公认为是法国浪漫主义运动的宣言。

4、《恰尔德•哈罗尔德游记》有两个主要人物，即哈罗尔德和。

前者代表诗人思想的消极方面，后者反映了诗人资产阶级民主倾向和革命热情。

5、法国早期浪漫主义文学的代表作家是夏多布里昂和，后者的著作奠定了法国浪漫主义文学的理论基础。

6、海涅《》一文的发表，结束了浪漫主义在德国文学中的统治地位。

7、英国早期浪漫主义诗人是被称为“湖畔派”的、和骚塞等。

8、别林斯基认为《》可以称为俄罗斯生活的百科全书和最富有人民性的作品。

9、雨果在《<克伦威尔>序言》中，明确提出了对照的原则，以及反对古典主义割裂二者的主张。

他写于1831年的小说《》是实践这一原则的典范之作。

10、雨果在《悲惨世界》序言中，提出三个需要迫切解决的社会问题：“ 使男子潦倒，使妇女堕落，使儿童羸弱”，这是理解小说主题的钥匙。

11、俄国第一位浪漫主义诗人是。

既是俄国积极浪漫主义文学的主要代表，又是俄国批判现实主义文学的奠基人。

12、雨果的剧作《》的上演，引起浪漫主义和古典主义的决战，标志着古典主义的彻底失败和浪漫主义的最终胜利。

13、19世纪英国第二代浪漫主义诗人的代表是和。

14、拜伦的第一本诗集《》出版后，《爱丁堡评论》曾发表匿名文章对其进行讽刺挖苦，拜伦作长诗《》进行回击，显示了诗人的讽刺才华并确立了他在英国文坛上的地位。

15、雨果的全部创作贯穿着这条思想宏线。

这一思想在《巴黎圣母院》中表现为，在《悲惨世界》中，则发展为。

在《九三年》中这种思想集中为“ ”的观点。

16、长诗《》是普希金的创作由浪漫主义向现实主义过渡的最后一部作品，历史剧《》是他的第一部现实主义作品。

17、普希金的短篇小说《》开了俄国文学描写“小人物”的先河。

18、霍桑一生深受清教主义和____________两种思想的影响。

参考答案课程名称：美国文学名著选读适用专业班级：英语1101-1104班考试时间：90分钟 A √ B卷开闭√卷Part I. True or false statements. ( 10 points,1 point for each)1-5 FFTTT 6-10 TTTTTPart II. Multiple Choices. (30 points, 1 point for each)1-5 ABBBB 6-10 CBBBB11-15 ABBBB 16-20 CBBBB21-25 ABBBB 26-30 CBBBBPart III. Short easy questions. (20 points, 5 points for each)1.Their doctrine includes: original sin, total depravity, predestination and limited atonement.2.The daughter of a local farm Katrina, together with her boyfriend ,has made use of the “Headless horseman”legend, tricked the schoolteacher Crane into the cemetery and scared him away.3.The letter A may symbolize adultery, able, admiration, alienation, American, Adam and angel,etc.4.The use of the same initial consonant in a line is called alliteration, for example, Pride and Prejudice, with the same [s]sound.Part IV. Passage Identification. (10 points, 2 points for each)1.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer2.The Declaration of Independence3.The Last of the Mohicans4.The Raven5.Song of MyselfPart V. Appreciation. (10 points, 5 points for each)Part A1. Philip Freneau; The Wild Honey Suckle2. The rhyme scheme is ababcc.Part B1. Washington Irving; Rip Van Winkle2. Nicholas Vedder is the owner of the inn/ a patriarch of the village/ and landlord of the inn. He expressed his opinion by the way of smoking.Part VI. Essay writing. (20 points) omission.评分标准课程名称：美国文学名著选读适用专业班级：英语1101-1104班考试时间：90分钟 A √B卷开闭√卷Part I. True or false statements. ( 10 points,1 point for each)1-5 FFTTT 6-10 TTTTT每题1分，共10分，答错不得分。

欧美文学名篇选读试题Ⅰ.Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices [A],[B],[C],[D] of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement and write the letter on the answer sheet.1.Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A.ChristianB.knightlyC.GreekD.primitive2.Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ___.A.Piers PlowmanB.Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC.Confessio AmantisD.The Canterbury Tales3.Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaisssance Movement?A.The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.B.The new discoveries in geography and astrology.C.The Glorious revolution.D.The religious reformation and the economic expansion.4.Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?A.The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.B.The speaker satirizes human vanity.C.The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.D.The speaker meditates on man's salvation.5.“And we will s it upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.”The above lines are probably taken from __.A.Spenser's The Faerie QueeneB.John Donne's “The Sun Rising”C.Shakespeare's “Sonnet 18”D.Marlowe's “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”6.“Bassanio:Antonio,I am married to a wifeWhich is as dear to me as life itself;But life itself, My wife, and all the world.Are not with me esteem'd above thy life;I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all,Here to the devil, to deliver you.Portia:Your wife would give you little thanks for that,If she were by to hear you make the offer.”The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice.The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate ____.A.dramatic ironyB.personificationC.allegoryD.symbolism7.The ture subject of John Donne's poem,“The Sun Rising,” is to ___.A.attack the sun as an unruly servantB.give compliments to the mistress and her power of beautyC.criticize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private lifeD. lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie8.Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “___in prose,”the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A.tragic epicic epicC.romanceD.lyric epic9.The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are ___.A.horses that are endowed with reasonB.pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC.giants that are superior in wisdomD.hairy,wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways.10.Here are four lines from a literary work:“Others for language all their care express,/And value books,as women men, for dress.”The work is ___.A.Thomas Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”B.John Milton's Paradise LostC.Alexander Pope's Essay on CriticismD.Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream11.The phrase “to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils” may well sum up the implied meaning of ___.A.Gulliver's TravelsB.The Rape of the LockC.Robinson CrusoeD.The pilgrim's Progress12.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT ___.A.the use of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB.the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC.the use of humble and rustic life as subject matterD.the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech13.Which of the following is taken from John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”?A.“I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!”B.“They are both gone up to the church to pary.”C.“Earth has not anything to show more fair.”D.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”.14.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!” is an epigrammatic line by __.A.J.KeatsB.W.BlakeC.W.WordsworthD.P.B.S helley15.“Ode o na Grecian Urn”shows the contrast between the ___ of art and the ___ of human passion.A.glory …uglinessB.permanence…transienceC.transience…sordidnessD.glory…permanence16.In the statement“—oh,God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?” the term“soul” apparently refers to ___.A.Heathcliff himselfB.CatherineC.one's spiritual lifeD.one's ghost17.The typical feature of Robet Browning's poetry is the ___.A.bitter satirerger-than-life caricaturetinized dictionD.dramatic monologue18.The Victorian Age was largely an age of ____,eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.A.poetryB.dramaC.proseD.epic prose19.___is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.A.Jane EyreB.EmmaC.Wuthering HeightsD.Middlemarch20.The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.wrence'sB.J.Galsworthy'sC.W.Thackeray’sD.T.Hardy’s21.___is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.A.Richard SheridanB.Oliver GoldsmithC.Oscar WildeD.Bernard Shaw22.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?A.To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.B.To put the stress on traditional values.C.To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment.D.To advocate a conscious break with the past.23.The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the ___ in the American literary histrory.A.individual feelingsB.idea of survival of the fittestC.strong imaginationD.return to nature24.Henry David Thoreau's work,__,has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.A.WaldenB.The pioneersC.NatureD.Song of Myself25.The famous 20-years sleep in “Rip Van Winkle”helps to construct the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by Irving's ___.A.concern with the passage of timeB.expression of transient beautyC.satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beingsD.idea about supernatural manipulation of man's life26.Walt whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of __,poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A.blank verseB.heroic coupletC.free verseD.iambic pentameter27.The literary characters of the American type in early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they ___.A.speak local dialectsB.are polite and elegant gentlemenC.are simple and crude farmersD.are noble savages( red and white) untainted by society28.Hester Pryme, Dimmsdale,Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in ___.A.The Scarlet LetterB.The House of the Seven GablestC.The Portrait of a LadyD.The pioneers29.“This is my letter to the World” is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinson's __ about her communication with the outside world.A.indifferenceB.angerC.anxietyD.sorrow30.With Howells,James,and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, __ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.A.sentimentalismB.romanticismC.realismD.naturalism31.After The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom's buddy Huck in a book entitled ___.A.Life on the MississippiB.The Gilded AgeC.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD.A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court32.However,___,the keynote of Daisy Miller's character,turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality and her defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.A.experienceB.sophisticationC.worldlinessD.innocence33.Generally speaking,all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be ___.A.transcendentalistsB.idealistsC.pessimistsD.impressionists34.Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life.Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?A.Religion and immortality.B.Life and death.C.Love and marriage.D.War and peace.35.In “After Apple-Picking,”Robert Frost wrote:“For I have had too much/Of applepicking:I am overtired/Of the great harvest I myself desired.”From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is ___.A.happy about the harvestB.still very much interested in apple-pickingC.expecting a greater harvestD.indifferent to what he once desired36.Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over ____.A.Ezra PoundB.Ralph Waldo EmersonC.Robert FrostD.Emily Dickinson37.The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their __.A.indestructible spirtieB.pessimistic view of lifeC.war experiencesD.masculinity38.IN The Emperor Jones and T he Hairy Ape,O'Neill adopted the expressionist techniques to portray the ___ of human beings in a hostile universe.A.helpless situationB.uncertaintyC.profound religious faithD.courage and perseverance39.In Hemingway's “Indian Cmap”,Nick's night trip to the Indian village and his experience inside the hut can be taken as ____.A.an essential lesson about Indian tribesB.a confrontation with evil and sinC.an initiation to the harshness of lifeD.a learning process in human relationship40.which of the following statements about Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner's story “A Rose for Emily,” is NOT true?A.She has a distorted personality.B.She is physically deformed and paralyzed.C.She is the symbol of the old values of the South.D.She is the victim of the past glory.美国文学作业题Ⅰ.Choose the best answer for the each question.1.pound called as the "modem epic".A. PoetryB. ExultationsC. PersonaeD. Cantos2.Which poem collection of Frost's didn't win the Pulizer Prize?A .North of Boston B. New HamphshireC. Collected PoemsD.A Further Range3. is a black novelist.A. MillerB. BellowC. HellerD. Ellison答案Ⅰ.Choose the best answer for the each question.1.pound called as the "modem epic".D. Cantos2.Which poem collection of Frost's didn't win the Pulizer Prize?A .North of Boston3. is a black novelist.D. Ellison4. is Miller's representative novel.A. All my sonB. Death of a SalesmanC. After the FallD.A View From the Bridge5.Morrison's novel won the Pulizer Prize.A. ParadiseB. SulaC. BelovedD. Tar Baby6.Bellow's First novel is .A.The VictimB. Dangling ManC. the TheftD. The Actualler is a .A. novelistB. poetC. dramatist C. prose答案4. is Miller's representative novel.B. Death of a Salesman5.Morrison's novel won the Pulizer Prize.C. Beloved6.Bellow's First novel is .B. Dangling Manler is a .C. dramatist8. 's "Elements of style" writing in collaboration with W. Strunk is regarded as the guide for the college students and the persons who wanted to improve their writing ability.A. WhiteB. MorrisonC. EllisonD. Miller9.Hughes is famous for .A. poemB. proseC. novelD. drama10. didn't belong to the 20"century poets.A. PlathB. LowellC. AngelouD. Dickinson11.White's is the most excellent prose collection about the city life.A. One Man's MeatB. The Points of My CompassC. Essays of E. B. WhiteD. Quo Vadimus or The Case for the Bicycle答案8. 's "Elements of style" writing in collaboration with W. Strunk is regarded as the guide for the college students and the persons who wanted to improve their writing ability.A. White9.Hughes is famous for .A. poem10. didn't belong to the 20"century poets.D. Dickinson11.White's is the most excellent prose collection about the city life.D. Quo Vadimus or The Case for the Bicycle12. is regarded as Miller's representative work.A. All My SonsB. The CrucibleC. Death of a SalesmanD. After the Fall13. 's novel Catch-22 is called as the masterpiece of Black Humor.A. HellerB. Mark TwainC. HemingwayD. Morrison14. didn't win Nobel Literature Prize.A. MorrisonB. BellowC. HemingwayD. Heller15.Angelou published altogether best sellers.A.10B.9C.8D.7答案12. is regarded as Miller's representative work.C. Death of a Salesman13. 's novel Catch-22 is called as the masterpiece of Black Humor.A. Heller14. didn't win Nobel Literature Prize.D. Heller15.Angelou published altogether best sellers. A.1016. is the representative poet of the lost Generation.A. PoundB. HughesC. LowellD. Ginsburg17."Cantos"includes poems and uncompleted rough draft. A.110,10B.109,8C.100,6D.90,718. is O'Neill's first play performed.A. The Long Voyage HomeB. In the ZoneC. The Great God BrownD. Bound east for Cardiff19. is the leader of Harlem renaissance Movement and one of the most famous American Poets.A. WilliamB. HughesC. PoundD. Frost20.Hemingway's won the Nobel Prize and reflected the value of life.A. The Ole Man and the SeaB. A Farewell to ArmsC. For Whom the Bell TollsD. The Sun Also Rises答案16. is the representative poet of the lost Generation.A. Pound17."Cantos"includes poems and uncompleted rough draft. B.109,818. is O'Neill's first play performed.D. Bound east for Cardiff19. is the leader of Harlem renaissance Movement and one of the most famous American Poets. B. Hughes20.Hemingway's won the Nobel Prize and reflected the value of life.A. The Ole Man and the Sea。

美国文学III. Nathaniel HawthorneMosses from an Old Manse古宅青苔The Snow-Image and Other Twice-Told Tales 雪像和其他故事新编The Scarlet Letter 红字The House of Seven Gables 七个尖角阁的房子The Blithedale Romance 福谷传说The Marble Faun 大理石雕像选文Young Goodman BrownIV. Walt WhitmanLeaves of Grass选文There Was a Child Went Forth, Cavalry Crossing a Ford, Song of MyselfV. Herman MelvilleTypee 泰比Omoo 奥穆Mardi 玛迪Redburn 雷德本White Jacket 白外衣Pierre 皮埃尔Confidence-Man 信心人Moby-Dick 白鲸Billy Budd 比利伯德选文Moby-DickChapter 2 现实主义时期I. Mark TwainAdventures of Huckleberry FinnLife on MississippiThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Innocent Abroad 傻瓜出国记Roughing It 含莘如苦The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Gilded Age 镀金时代 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court 亚瑟王宫庭中的美国佬The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson 傻瓜威尔逊The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg 败坏哈德莱堡的人The Mysterious Stranger 神秘的陌生人选文Adventures of Huckleberry Finn II. Henry James The American 美国人Daisy Miller 黛西米勒The European 欧洲人The Protrait of A Lady 贵妇人的画像The Bostonians 波士顿人Princess Casamassima 卡撒玛西公主The Private Life 私生活The Middle Years 中年The Turn of the Screw 螺丝的拧紧The Beast in the Jungle 丛林猛兽What Maisie Knows 梅西所知道的The Wings of the Dove 鸽翼The Ambassadors 大使The Golden Bowl 金碗The Death of a Lion 狮之死选文Daisy Miller III. Emily Dickinson If you were coming in the fall There came a day Summer’s full I cannot live with You I’m ceded-I’ve stopped being theirs 选文This is my letter to the World, I heard a Fly buzz-when I died I like to see it lap the Miles Because I could not stop for death IV．Theodore Dreiserer Sister Carrie 嘉莉妹妹Nigger Jeff 黑人杰夫Old Rogaum and His Theresa 老罗格姆和他的特里萨Jennie Gerhardt珍妮姑娘Trilogy of Desire The Financier 金融家The Genius 天才An American Tragedy 美国悲剧Dreiser at Russia 德莱塞对俄罗斯的观感选文Sister Carrie Chapter 3 现代主义时期II. Robert Lee Frost A Boy’s Will 一个男孩儿的愿望North of Boston 波士顿以北Mountain Interval New Hampshire 新罕布什尔Snowy Evening 雪夜停马在林边West-Running Brook 向西流去的小溪Collected Poems 诗选A Winter Tree 选文After Apple-Picking, The Road Not T aken, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening以IV. F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise 天堂的这一边Beautiful and Damned 美丽而遭骂的人The Great Gatsby Tender is the Night 夜色温柔The Last Tycoon 最后一个巨头Flappers and Philosophers 吹捧者与哲学家Tales of the Jazz Age 爵士时代All the Sad Young Men 所有悲惨的小伙子Taps at Reveille 拍打在起床鼓上Babylon Revisited重返巴比伦选文The Great Gatsby V. Earnest Hemingway In Our Time 在我们的时代 A Farewell to Arms 永别了，武器For Whom the Bell Tolls 丧钟为谁敲响The Old Man and the Sea 老人与海Men Without Women 没有女人的男人Death in the Afternoon 午后之死The Snows of Kilimanjaro 开利曼扎罗之雪The Green Hills of Africa 非洲的青山选文Indian Camp (from In Our Time) VI. William Faulkner The Marble Faun 玉石牧神The Sound and the Fury 喧嚣与骚动As I Lay Dying 我弥留之际Light in August 八月之光Absalom, Absalom 押沙龙！押沙龙！Wild Palms 疯狂的手掌The Hamlet 哈姆雷特The Unvanquished 不可征服的Go Down, Moses 去吧，摩西The Fable 寓言The Town 小镇The Mansion 大厦Soldier’s Pay 士兵的报酬英国文学部分Chapter 1 文艺复兴时期III. William Shakespeare Rape of Lucrece 鲁克斯受辱记Venus and Adonis 维纳斯与安东尼斯Titus Andronicus 泰托斯安东尼The Comedy of Errors 错误的喜剧The Two Gentlemen of Veroma 维洛那二绅士The Taming of the Shrew 驯悍记Love’s Labour’s Lost 爱的徒劳Richard II 理查二世King John 约翰王Henry IV, Parts I and II, Henry V Six Comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream 仲夏夜之梦The Merchant of Venice 威尼斯商人Much Ado About Nothing 无事无非As You Like It 皆大欢喜Twelfth Night 第十二夜The Merry Wise of Windsor 温莎的风流娘儿们Two Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet 罗米欧与朱丽叶Julius Caesar 凯撒Hamlet Othello King Lear Macbeth Antony and Cleopatra 安东尼与克里佩特拉Troilus and Cressida, and Coriolanus 特洛伊勒斯与克利西达All’ Well That Ends Well (comedy) 终成成眷属Measure for Measure (comedy) 一报还一报Pericles 伯里克利Cymbeline 辛白林The Winter’s Tale 冬天的故事The Tempest 暴风雨Henry VIII The Two Noble Kinsmen两位贵族亲戚选文为Sonnet 18; The Merchant of Venice; Hamlet VI. John Milton Paradise Lost 失乐园Paradise Regain 复乐园Samson Agonistes力士参孙Lycidas 利西达斯Areopagitica 论出版自由Chapter 2 新古典主义时期III. Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe 鲁宾逊漂流记Captain Singleton 辛立顿船长Moll Flanders 莫尔弗兰德斯Colonel Jack 杰克上校A Journal of the Plague Year 灾疫之年的日记Roxana 罗克萨那选文Robinson Crusoe IV. Jonathan Swift A Tale of Tub 木桶传The Battle of the Books 书籍的战斗Gulliver’s Travels 格列弗游记 A Modest Proposal 一个小小的建议The Drapier’s Letter s 布商的书信选文Gulliver’s Travels V. Henry Fielding The Coffee House Politician 咖啡屋的政治家The Tragedy of the Tragedies 悲剧中的悲剧The Historical Register for the Year 1736 1736历史年鉴The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his friend Mr. Abraham Adams, Written in Imitation of the Manner of Cervantes The History of Jonathan Wild the Great 大伟人江奈生翻乐德传The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 汤姆琼斯The History of Amelia 阿米亚选文为Tom Jones Chapter III 浪温主义时期I．William Blake Poetic Sketches 诗歌扎记The Songs of Innocence 天真之歌The Songs of Experience 经验之歌Marriage of Heaven and Hell 天堂与地狱联姻The Book of Urizen 尤里曾的书The Book of Los 洛斯的书The Four Zoas 四个成熟的个体Milton 弥尔顿选文The Chimney Sweeper (from Songs of Innocence); The Tyger II. William Wordsworth Lyrical Ballads (抒情歌谣集) The Prelude The Excursion Worshipper of Nature (The Sparr,w’s Nest, To a Skylark, T o the Cuckoo, To a Butterfly, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, An Evening Walking, My Heartn Leaps up, Tintern Abbey) 选文：I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, Composed upon Westminster Bridge, She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways, The Solitary Reaper V. Percy Bysshe Shelley The Necessity of Atheism 无神论的必要性Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem 仙后麦布Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude 复仇者或隐居者的精神Julian and Maddalo 朱利安与麦达格The Revolt of Islam 伊斯兰的反叛The Cenci 钦契一家The Prometheus Unbound解放了的普罗米修斯Adomais 阿多尼斯Hellas 海娜斯A Defense of Poetry 诗之辩护选文A Song: Men of England; Ode to the West Wind VII. Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 理智与情感Pride and Prejudice 傲慢与偏见Northanger Abbey 诺桑觉寺Mansfield Park 曼斯菲尔德花园Emma 埃玛Persuasion 劝导The Watsons 屈陈氏一爱Fragment of a Novel 小说的片断Plan of a Novel 小说的计划选文Pride and Prejudice Chapter IV. 维多利亚时期I．Charles Dickens Sketches by Boz 博兹特写集The Posthumous of the Pickwick Club 皮克威克外传Oliver Twist 雾都孤儿Nicholas Nickleby 尼古拉斯尼克尔贝The Pickwick Paper 皮克威克外传David Copperfield 大卫科波菲尔Martin Chuzzlewit 马丁朱尔述维特Dombey and Son 董贝父子A Tale of Two Cities 双城记Bleak House 荒凉山庄Little Dorrit 小杜丽Hard Times 艰难时世Great Expectations 远大前程Our Mutual Friends 我们共同的朋友The Old Curiosity Shop 老古玩店选文为Oliver Twist II. The Bronte Sisters Poem by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (Charlotte, Emily, Anne) The Professor (Charlotte) 教师Jane Eyre (Charlotte) 简爱Wuthering Heights (Emily) 呼啸山庄Agnes Grey (Anne) 格雷The T enant of Wildfell Hall (Anne)野岗庄园房客选文Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte VI. Thomas Hardy Tess of the D’Urbervilles 苔丝Jude the Obscure 无名的裘德The Dynasts 列后The Return of the Native 还乡The Trumpet Major 号兵长The Mayor of Casterbridge 卡斯特桥市长The Woodlanders 林地居民Under the Greenwood 林间居民Far from the Madding Crowd 远离尘嚣选文Tess of the D’Urbervilles Chapter 5 现代主义时期I. George Bernard Shaw Cashel Byron’s Profession 卡歇尔拜伦的职业Our Theaters in the Nineties 90年代的英国戏剧Widower’s Houses 鳏夫的房产Candida 堪迪达Mrs. Warren’s Profession 沃伦夫人的职业Caesar and Cleoptra 凯撕与克利奥佩特拉St. Joan 圣女贞德Back to Methuselah 回归玛士撒拉Man and Superman人与超人John Bull’s Other Island 约翰布尔的另外岛屿Pygmalion 茶花女Getting Married 结婚Misalliance 不合适的媳妇Fanny’s First Play 范尼的第一部戏剧The Doctor’s Dilemma医生的困境Too True to be Good 难以置信选文Mrs. Warren’s Profession IV. T. S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 布鲁富劳克的情歌The Waste Land 荒园Murder in the Cathedral 教堂里的谋杀The Family Reunion 家人团聚The Confidential Clerk 机要秘书The Statesmen 政治家The Cocktail Party鸡尾酒会选文The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock V. D. H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers 儿子与情人The White Peacock白孔雀The Trespasser 过客The Rainbow彩虹Women in Love 恋爱中的女人Aaron’s Rod亚伦神仗Kangaroo 袋鼠The Plumed Serpent带羽毛的蛇Lady Chatterley’s Lover St. Mawr 圣摩尔The Daughter of the Vicar 主教的女儿The Horse Dealer’s Daughter贩马人的女儿The Captain’s Doll 般长的娃娃The Prussian Officer 普鲁士军官The Virgin and the Gypsy贞女和吉普塞人Trilogy(A Collier’s Friday Night, 矿工周五的夜晚The Daughter-in-law,儿媳The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyed 守寡的霍尔伊德夫人选文Sons and Lovers《英美文学选读》论述题汇总---按2009 年调整后新大纲IV. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each) Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.2009 年4 月英美文学选读试题49. Briefly discuss William Shakespeare's artistic achievements in characterization, plot construction and language.（人物、情节构造、语言特色）50. Briefly discuss Mark Twain's art of fiction in terms of the setting,the language, and the characters, etc.,based on his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. （《哈克贝利·芬历险记》的小说框架、语言特色、人物塑造）2009 年7 月英美文学选读试题49. Define modernism in English literature. Name two major modernistic British writers and list one major work by each. 现代主义名词解释列出现代主义时期的两位英国作家和他的主要作品50. Briefly discuss the term “The Lost Generation”and name the leading figures of this literary movement (Give at least three). 简述专业名词“迷失的一代” ，最少列出三个特征。