L Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four items. (1() x V= 1()') 1.In American literature, the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment. b ____________ was the
dominant.
A? humanism B. rationalism C. romanticism D. evolution
2.The short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is taken from Irving's work named___ b_?
A. The Leatherstocking Tales
B. The Sketch Book
C. The Autobiography
D. The History of New York
3.Which of the following is not the characteristic of American Romanticism?a
A. Rationalism
B. inner self
C. personal feelings
D. individualism
4.The short story “Rip Van Winkle” reveals the —c— attitude of its author.
A? optimistic B. pessimistic C? conservative 保守, 传统 D? ironic
5.Stylistically, Henry James9 fiction is characterized by _d ___ .
A? short, clear sentences B. abundance of local images
C? ordinary American speech D? highly refined 精炼language
6.Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _b ___ and Thoreau.
A? Jefferson B. Emerson C? Freneau D. Mark Twain
7.Which is regarded as the "Declaration of Intellectual Independenee"? a
A. The American Scholar
B. English Traits
C. Oversoul
D. Self-reliance
8._d ___ is considered Mark Twain's greatest achievement.
A. The Gilded Age
B. Innocent Abroad
C? The Adventures of Tom Sawyer D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
9.—c __ is not among those greatest figures in “Lost Generation^.
A. Ezra Pound
B. Robert Frost
C. Walt Whitman D? Hemingway
10.Naluralism is evolved from realism when the author^ lone in writing becomes less serious and
less sympathetic but more ironic and more _d __ ?
A? rational B. humorous C? optimistic D. pessimistic
15 BBACD 6J0BADCD
IL Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four items. (10 x V= 105)
11?_d __ is the father of American Literature?
A. Benjamin Franklin
B. Philip Freneau
C. Paine
D. Washington Irving
12.__ a— is a fantasy tale about a man who somehow stepped outside the main stream of life?
A. “Rip Van Winkle"
B. “The Pioneers"
C. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow^^
D. "The Fall of the House of Usher"
13.__ b— was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.
A. Thoreau
B. Emerson
C. Hawthorne
D. Whitman
14.Which of following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain9s language? c
A? vernacular 方言B. colloquial 口语白勺C? elegant D. humorous
15.From Thoreau^s jail experience, came his famous essay, —c __ which states his belief that no
man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.
A? Walden B? Ndtuic C? Civil Disobedience D? Common Sense
16.Which is regarded as the "Declaration of Intellectual Independence^? a
A. The American Scholar
B. English Traits
C. Oversoul
D. Self-reliance
17. ______________________________________________________________ Most of the poems in Whitman^ Leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass" and the _c _____________ a s well?A? nature B. self-reliance C. self D? life
18.What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s? c
A. The Roaring 20s
B. The Gay 20s
C. The Jazz Age
D. The Lost Generation
19? Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author's tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more —d—?
A. rational B? humorous C. optimistic D. pessimistic
20. For Melville, as well as for the reader and —c—, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an
ultimate mystery of the universe.
A. Ahab
B. Stubb
C. Ishmael
D. Starbuck
1-5 DABCC 6-10 ACCDC ________________________ II.Identify Works as Described Below (l'xl5 =15,):
10.It is a naturalistic work about how a country girl is seduced and how she becomes a famous
actress and how her lover falls into a beggar and finally commits suicide, b
a.An American Tragedy
b. Sister Carrie
c. McTeague
d.Maggie, A Girl of the Streets
11.The novel is set on the Mississippi with the protagonist telling us the story in the local dialect. It
is a representative work of local colorism. c
a. Sister Carrie
b.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
c. The Adventures of HucklebeiTy Finn
d.The Portrait of a Lady
12.The novel is a psychological study of a soldier (Henry Fleming)^ reactions in the Civil Wa匚c
a.An American Tragedy b? Sister Carrie
c.Thc Red Badge of Courage d? McTcaguc
13.The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme of the universality and equality in
value of all people and all things? c
a.Cantos
b. The Raven
c. Song of Myself
d.Chicago
14.The novel is about how a group of people on a whaling ship kill a great whale but themselves are
killed by the whale, with the conflict between man and his fate, b
a.The Octopus
b. Moby-Dick
c. The Rise of Silas Lapham
d. Leaves of Grass
15.It is a philosophical essay in 8 chapters plus an introduction mainly concemed with the four uses of
nature? b
a. Walden b? Nature c. The Scarlet Letter d? The American Scholar
l-5.cdaad 6-10 I.Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (l,xl5=15,): 1.An English ship brought 102 people from Plymouth, England on September 16, 1620 and arrived in the present Provincetown harbor on November 21 in the same year. This ship was named b . a. The Pilgrims b. Mayflower c. America d. Titanic 2. ____ b __ is father of American drama and in his dramatic career he wrote 49 plays. a. Tennessee Williams b. Eugene CT Neill c. Arthur Miller d. Elmer Rice 3. ____ c __ was the first American writer to write entirely American literature? a. Anne Bradstreet b. Washington Irving c. Mark Twain d? Ernest Hemingway 4. ___ c__ was the leader of American transcendentalism? a. Benjamin Franklin b. Washington Irving c. Ralph Waldo Emerson d. Henry David Thoreau 5. ___ c__ was the greatest woman poet in American literature and she wrote about 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time. a. Pearl S. Buck b.Harriet Bicher Stowe c. Emily Dickenson d. Walter Whitman 6. ___ d___ is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism. a. Washington Irving b. Ralph Waldo Emerson c. Walt Whitman d. Edgar Allan Poe 7.William Dean Howells is concerned with the middle class life; _____ d __ writes about the upper class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality. a. Stephen Crane b. Frank Norris c. Theodore Dreiser d. Henry James & Which of the following is a naturalistic writer? d a. William Dean Howells b. Mark Twain c. Ernest Hemingway d.Theodore Dreiser 12. _____ d— is often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time. a. Anne Bradstreet b? Robert Frost c. H.D. d. Emily Dickinson 14.He was the first black American to write a book about black life with great impact on the consciousness of the nation and his masterpiece is one of the three classics about black Americans ? Who is he? a a. Richard Wright b Hmriet Beecher Stowe c. Langston Hughes d? Ralph Ellison 15.Hemingway wrote about American compatriots in Europe whereas _d ________ wrote about the Jazz age, life in American society. a.William Carlos Williams b. William Faulkner c. John Steinbeck d. F. Scott Fitzgerald 1. Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (1x15 %): 2. The American Civil War broke out in 1861 between the Northern states and the South states, which are known respectively as the ____ c _ and the _____ ? a. N, S b. Revolutionaries, Reactionaries c. Union, Confederacy d. Slavery, Anti-Slavery 3. Mark Twain was a representative of __ c ___ in American literature ? a. transcendentalism b. naturalism c. local colorism d. imagism 5 .The greatest American poet and the first writer of free verse is __ c _______ ? a. Washington Irving b.Ezra Pound c. Walt Whitman d ? Emily Dickinson 14? b ____ was the first black American to write a book about black life with great impact on the consciousness of the nation and his masterpiece is one of the three classics about black Americans ? b. Richard Wright b. Harriet Bccchcr Stowe c. Langston Hughes d. Ralph Ellison 15? _a ____ first used the "Jazz age M as the title of a collection of short stories a. F. Scott Fitzgerald b. William Faulkner c. John Steinbeck d. Ernest Hemingway 1 -5>caccc 6-10.dddaa ll-15.bdcba 1 -5.adcad 6-10.aacbb 11-15 II. Match the following (1 x20%) A. Match Works with Their Authors I .Hugh Selwyn Mauberly 2. Walden 3? Au tobiography 4. The Scarlet Letter 5. Leaves of Grass 6. The Raven 7. The Rise of Silas Lapham 6 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 9. Long Day's Journey into Night 10. The Old Man and the Sea b ? Ernest Hemingway d. William Dean Howells f. Walt Whitman 1-5 bbccc 6?10.dddaa ll-15.bdcad a.Mark Twain c. Eugene O'Neill e. Edgar Allan Poe g. Nathaniel Hawthorne i.Henry David Thoreau k.Thomas Jefferson h. Benjamin Franklin j. Ezra Pound 1. TS Eliot 1 ?5.jihgf 6-10.edccb B. Match the Characters with the works in which they appear. 1 ? Hester Prynne 3.Frederick Henry 5.the Joads 7.Holden Caulfield 8.Yank 2.Mrs. Touchett 4.Benjy Compson 6.General Edward Cummings 7.Bigger Thomas 9.Happy a.The Portrait of a Lady c. The Hairy Ape c.Thc Sound and the Fury g. The Naked and the Dead i. Native Son k.Invisible Man b. The Scarlet Letter d. A Farewell to Arms f. The Grapes of Wrath h. The Catcher in the Rye j. Death of a Salesman LCatch-22 l?5.badef 6-10.ghicj III.Match the following (l,x20=20,) A. Match works with their authors 1 .Nature 2.Rip Van Winkle 3? Nature 4.The Scarlet Letter 5.Leaves of Grass 6.The Raven 7.The Rise of Silas Lapham & The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 9.Cantos 10.The Old Man and the Sea a.Ezra Pound c. Mark Twain e. Edgar Allan Poe g. Nathaniel Hawthorne b? Ernest Hemingway d. William Dean Howells f. Walt Whitman h. Ralph Waldo Emerson A. Match Works with Their Authors l-SJihgf 6-10eedcab B. Match characters with the works in which they appear. 2. Captain Ahab and Starbuck 2.1sabel Archer 3. Frederic Henry and Catherine 5. the Joads 7.Holden Caulfield 9. The Tyrones 4. Benjy Compson 6. Gcncral Edward Cummings 8. Bigger Thomas 10. Willy Loman b. Moby-Dick d. A Farewell to Arms f. The Grapes of Wrath h. The Catcher in the Rye j. Long Day ，s Journey into Night I. The Old Man and the Sea Be Match the Characters with the works in which they appear l-5.badef 6-10.edcab True or False. (10 x 2'= 20') 1? American literature is the oldest of all national literature ? 2. Thomas Jefferson was the only American to sign the 4 documents that created the US ? 3? All his literary life, Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil. 4. Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about human psychology. 5? Hurst wood is a character in Dreisefs An American Tragedy ? 6. Faulkner's region was the Deep North, with its bitter history of slavery, civil war and destruction ? 7. Placed in historical perspective, Howells is found lacking in qualities and depth ? But anyhow he is a literaiy figure worthy of notice ? & Faulkner^ works have been termed the Yoknapatawpha Saga, “one connected story' 9. As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematical. 10? Emily Dickinson expresses her deep love in the poem “Annabel Lee= 1?5FFTFF 6?10FFTFF II. Decide whether the statements are True or False. (10 x 2,= 20，) 1. Early in the 17th century, the English settlements in Virginia and began the main stream of what we recognize as the American national history. i. Washington Irving k.TS Eliot j. Waldo Emerson 1. R obert Frost a.The Portrait of a Lady c. Death of a Salesman e.The Sound and the Fury g. The Naked and the Dead i. Native Son k.Absalom, Absalom 2.American Romantic writers avoided writing about nature, medieval legends and with supernatural elements. 3.As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematical? 4.u Young Goodman Brown5' wants to prove everyone possesses kindness in heart. 5.Henry James was a realist in the same way as one views the realism of Twain or Howells? 6.The American realists sought to describe the wide range of American experience and to present the subtleties of human personal ity. 7.Frost^s concern with nature reflected his deep moral uncertainties. 8.Faulkner^ works have been termed the Yoknapatawpha Saga, "one connected story". 9? Roger Chillingworth is a character in Dreiser^s An American Tragedy? 10.After the Civil War, the Frontier was closing. Disillusionment and frustration were widely felt. What had been expected to be a "Golden Age" turned to be a “GildecT one. 1-5TFTFT 6J0FTTFT III.Please explain the following terms. (5 x 6' = 30') 1.Puritanism: Puritanism is the practices and beliefs of the Puritans. 2.Free verse: It is poetry that has an irregular rhythm and line length and that attempts to avoid any predetermined verse structure; instead, it uses the cadences of natural speech. 3?International novel: IN brings together persons of various nationalities who represent certain characteristics of their own countries? 4. Naturalism: It views human beings as animals in the natural world responding to environmental forces and internal stresses and drives, over none of which they have control and none of which they fully understand? The literaiy naturalists have a major difference from the realists. They look at a different spot to find real life. 5?transcendentalism: It stressed the power of intuition, believing that people could learn things both from the outside world by means of the five senses and from the inner world by intuition. It took nature as symbolic of spirit or God. All things in nature were symbols of the spiritual, of God's presence? 1( emphasized the significance of the individual and believed that the individual was the most important element in society and that the ideal kind of individual was self-reliant and unselfish. Transccndcntalists envisioned religion as an emotional communication between an i ndividual soul and the universal “Oversoul" 5. Hawthorne’s unique gift was for the creation of ________ which touch the deepest roots of man’s moral nature. A. romantic stories B. symbolic stories C. gothic stories D. humorous stories 7. Romanticism appeared as a literary trend against _____. A. rationality B. imagination C. intuition D. individualism 12. _____ held a “black”vision of life and human beings. A. Ralph Waldo Emerson B. Nathaniel Hawthorne C. Edgar Allan Poe D. James Fenimore Cooper 16. Born of one common cultural heritage, the American Romanticists shared some common features..._______, with the English Romanticists. A. an increasing emphasis on the free expression of emotions B. an increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters C. an increasing emphasis on the desire to return to nature D. both A and B 17. _______ was the first great American writer to earn international fame. A. Irving B. Cooper C. Emerson D. Whitman 21. Pearl is the heroine in Hawthorne’s novel _________ . A. Moses from an Old Manse B. Twice-Told Tales C. The Scarlet Letter D. The Blithedale Romance 7. Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth, ang Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in __________. A.The Scarlet Letter B. The House of the Seven Gables C. The Portrait of a Lady D. The Pioneers 24. Being a period of the flowering of American literature, the Romantic period is also called “_____”. A. the American Renaissance B. the English Renaissance C. the Harlem Renaissance D. the Second Renaissance 5. According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter “A”which originally stood for “_______” f inally obtained the meaning of “able”or “angel”through Hester’s efforts. A. adultery B. arrogance C. accomplishment D. agony 13. F. Scott Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the ____________. 美国文学选读第三版课后习题答案洁(部分) Unit 1 Benjamin Franklin Questions 1.Why did Franklin write his Autobiography? Franklin says that because his son may wish to know about his life, he is taking his one week vacation in the English countryside to record his past. He also says that he has enjoyed his life and would like to repeat it 2.What made Franklin decide to leave the brother to whom he had been apprenticed? His brother was passionate, and had often beaten him. The aversion to arbitrary power that has stuck to him through his whole life .After a brush with the law, Franklin left his brother. 3.How did he arrive in Philadephia? First he set out in a boat for Amboy, the boat dropped him off about 50 miles from Burlington, the next day he reached Burlington on foot, in Burlington he found a boat which was going towards Philadelphia, he arrived there about eight 1、The Colonial Period（1607-1765） American Puritanism ( in the early 17th century through the end of the 18th) 北美第一位女诗人Anne Bradstreet(宗教气息，夫妻恩爱) Edward Taylor 都受英国玄学派影响（metaphysical） 2、The Enlightenment and Revolution Period Benjamin Franklin:Poor Richard's Almanac The Autobiography---“美国梦”的根源 3、American Romanticism（end of 18th to the civil war） American writers emphasis upon the imaginative and emotional qualities of literature. 早期浪漫主义Washington Irving father of American Literature I. Multiple Choices (40%) 1-5 DCADA 6-10 ADDAD 11-15DBCBA 16-20 DBCCC 21-25 DCDAC 26-30 ACDBC 31-35CAACD 36-40 DDCAB II. Choose the relevant match from column B for each item in column A. (10%) 1-5 CABDE 6-10CDEAB III. Interpreting the following texts. （15%） Passage 1 1.Ezra Pound(2’) 2.This short poem is one of the most famous representative works of Imagist school. In the poem, “the object” to be treated is the faces in that dim and dam context. The impression is brought out most vividly by the single, dominant image of flower petals on a wet, black bough, which serves as the most. (5’) Passage 2 1. Theodore Dreiser. Sister Carrie(2’) 2. (1)The world is cold and harsh to Sister Carrie. Alone and helpless, she moves along like a mechanism driven by desire and catches blindly at any opportunity for a better existence. A feather in the wind, she is totally at the mercy of forces she cannot comprehend, still less to say control. She does not seem to possess what may be called a mora l fiber in her. (4’) (2) Spencer’s influence is seen at its most powerful as to Hustwood’s tragedy. Dreiser’s portrait is an authentic one of the impotent modern man unfit to survive. He cannot help himself in his relationship with Sister Carrie. No respectable job, no handsome income, no genteel family, nothing could overcome his biological need and stop him from returning to savage, atavistic unreason. He thus hovers between being a man and beast in his behavior. He must die. (6’) IV. Explain the following terms（15%） 1. Local Colorism or Regionalism as a trend first came to prominence in the late 19th century in America. The local colorists were devoted to capturing the unique customs, manners, speech, folklore, and other qualities of a particular regional community, usually in humorous short stories. (3分) The most famous of the local colorists was Mark Twain, with his masterpiece The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (2分) 2. Transcendentalism is the summit of the Romantic Movement in the history of American literature in the 19th century. （1分）Transcendentalism has been defined philosophically as “the recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth intuitively”. （1分）Transcendentalists place emphasis on the importance of the Over-soul, the individual and Nature. （2分）The most important representatives are Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. （1分） 3. It defines a sense of moral loss or aimlessness. The WWI destroyed the in ocent ideas, many good young men went to the war and died, or returned damaged, both physically and mentally; their moral faith were no longer valid--- they were “Lost.”（2分）. So in a broad Sense: it refers to the entire post -WWI American young generation. In a narrow sense: The Lost Generation is a term used to describe a group of American writers who were rebelling against what America had become by the 1900’s, including Heming way, F.S.Fitzgerald, etc. Who left 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 Dreiser B、William Faulkner C、Henry James D、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 nature B、death and universe C、death and immortality D、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 美国文学复习题(有答案版) 美国文学复习提纲 第一部分连线题（1*10=10’） 1. Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence 2. Walt Whitman O’ Captain, My Captain 3. Mark Twain Jumping Frog 4. Robert Frost Mending Wall 5. Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro 6. Carl Sandburg Chicago 7. Saul Bellow The Adventure of Augie March 8. Ernest Hemingway Men without Women 9. John Steinbeck The Grape of Wrath 10. Jack London The Call of the Wild 11. Sinclair Lewis Babbit 12. Flannery O’ Connor A Good Man Is Hard to Find 13. O. Henry The Last Leaf 14. Jerome David Salinger The Catcher in the Rye 15. William Falkner The Sound and the Fury 第二部分单项选择(1.5*20=30’) 1. 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. Tenth Muse B. Ninth Muse C. Best Muse D. First Muse 2. In American literature, the 18th century was the age of the Enlightenment. ________ was the dominant spirit. A. Humanism B. Rationalism C. Revolution D. Evolution 3. Which of the following stirred the world and helped form the American republic? A. The American Crisis B. The Federalist C. Declaration of Independence D. The Age of Reason 4. At the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the ________. A. Chartist Movement B. Romanticist Movement C. Enlightenment Movement D. Modernist Movement 5. Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual communication with ________. A. nature B. transcendentalist ideas C. human beings D. celestial beings 6. ________tells a simple but very moving story in which four people living in a puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways. A. Twice-Told Tales B. The Scarlet Letter C. The House of the Seven Gables D. The Marble Faun 2018年自学考试《美国文学选读》试题 Multiple choice; 1._________ works are marked by a preoccupation with the Calvinistic view of original sin and the mystery of evil. A.Emerson’s B. Hawthorne’s C. Thoreau’s D. Allan Poe’s 2. Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle”got ideas from _______ legends. A.B ritish B. German C. Italian D. French 3. “Rip Van Winkle”reveals the theme of ______ the past. A. nostalgia for B. rejectionn to C. detachment from D. dislike for 4. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter , “A”may stand for ____________. A. Angel B. Adultery C. Able D.all the above 4. According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter “A”which originally stood for “____”finally obtained the meaning of “able”or “angel”through Hester’s efforts. A. adultery B. arrogance C. accomplishment D. agony 5. Which one is not the characteristics of the puritan style? A. Fresh B. Simple C. Grand D. Direct 6. In his ______, Benjamin Franklin creates the image of a boy’s rise from rags to riches and demonstrates his belief that the new world America was a land of opportunities which might be met through hard work and wise management. 《英语文学文化及影视赏析》课程教学大纲 一、课程说明 1、课程名称（中英文）：英语文学文化及影视赏析/English Literature and Culture & Appreciation of English movies 2、学时学分：75学时理论教学，2学分 3、适用专业：非英语专业研究生 4、开课学院：外国语学院 5、课程负责人：姜萌萌 二、课程描述： 本课程拟对英语经典文学与相关文化概况进行简要介绍，并遴选英美国家的经典作家和作品，对其文学特色、文化背景进行分析。课程重视文学作品与时代背景、西方历史文化的联系，在教学中将理论与实践相结合，做到寓教于乐。在课内，不仅有作家作品、相关文化背景和信息的介绍、经典作品片段的解读，并通过课堂讨论以及影视作品的欣赏帮助学生最直观地理解西方文化与文学作品的文本意义。在课外，学生需要查阅相关资料，完成相关问题的回答与读书报告，以一种轻松愉悦并且多方面切入的方式学习、了解和体验英语文学文化。该课程目的在于通过英语文学文化的学习，提高学生对英语语言的掌握能力、增强对英语文学经典的理解力和对西方文化的审美能力，进一步养成对英语的敏感性，培养人文素质和文学涵养。 三、教材： 王守仁主编，《英国文学选读》，北京：高等教育出版社。 陶洁主编，《美国文学选读》，北京：高等教育出版社。 秦秀白，《英美国家概况》，北京：高等教育出版社。 王佐良，《欧洲文化入门》，北京：外语教学与研究出版社。 自编讲义 四、教学方式： 理论与实践相结合。 五、考核方式： 提交一篇与所学课程相关的课程论文，用英语完成。 总成绩=期末考试成绩70%+平时成绩30%（考勤占10%） English Literature Questions on The Canterbury Tales 1. Lines 1-18 are the introduction to the weather. Why did the author write so many words to describe it? To answer why so many pilgrim go to the Canterbury at the same time. 2. Summarize the main idea of lines 19-34. A group of pilgrims came across at the Canterbury and go together. 3. How many people are there in the group of pilgrims? Thirty 4. Based on Prioress 's portrait, can you give a possible reason why she is undertaking this pilgrimage? She wants to look for the worldly love. 5. What details does the narrator use in describing the Prioress, and in what order? 1, Facial expression2,voice 3,etiquette 4 ，sympathy and charity 5 ，appearance 6，dress 7 ，personal accessories.. 6. Why does the Wife of Bath go on pilgrimage? Exercises One I.Write the names of the authors.(10%) ( ) 1. The Fall of the House of the Usher ( ) 2. The House of the Seven Gables ( ) 3. Song of Myself ( ) 4. I Died for Beauty-but Was Scarce ( ) 5. The Prince and the Pauper () 6. The Catcher in the Rye ( ) 7. Catch-22 ( ) 8. The Naked and the Dead ( ) 9. The Victim ( ) 10. On the Road ( ) 11. Twice Told Tales ( ) 12. The Voice of the City ( ) 13. Life on the Mississippi ( ) 14. Annabel Lee ( ) 15. The Turn of the Screw ( ) 16. The Mysterious Stranger ( ) 17. them ( ) 18. Portnoy's Complaint ( ) 19. Howl ( ) 20. Life Studies II. Write the names of the novels or poems according to the give n passage. (10%) ( ) 1. There was the great city, bound more closely by ?th ese ?very ?trains which came up daily. Colu mbia City was not so very far away, even once she was in Chicago. ( ) 2. The carriage held but just Ourselves And Immortality ( ) 3. " I will go home with you," said Mr. Dimmes 美国文学史及作品选读模拟试题一 ) '×15=15I.Multiple Choice (1'______was the first colony in American history. C1. D.Georgia C. Virginia A. Massachusetts B. New Jersey War. the before Revolutionary only good American author 2. _B_____ was the One “His shadow lies heavier than any other man's on of his fellow Americans said, this young nation.”D.Thomas Paine B. Benjamin Franklin C. Thomas Jefferson A. John Smith 3. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT __A____. D. individualism C. intuition B. imagination A. common sense The Raven was written in 1844 by __B______ 4. B. Edgar Allan Poe A. Philip Freneau D. Emily Dickinson C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 5. The ship __C____ 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. D. Titanic C. Mayflower B. Armada A. Sunflower D____ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in 6. Melville's novel __ pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale. Moby Dick D. C. White Jacket A. Typee B. Omoo 7. As a philosophical and literary movement, __D____ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War. D.Transcendentalism C.Sentimentalism B.Rationalism A.Modernism 8. The theme of original sin is fully reflected in ___A______. B. Sister Carrie A. The Scarlet Letter The Old Man and Sea D. C. The Great Gatsby 9. In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the ___B___ American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined economically. 页1 第 A. Puritan B. materialistic C. psychological D. religious 10. Realism was a reaction against____B__ or a move away from the bias towards 《美国文学选读》课程标准 一、课程性质与任务 美国文学选读是英语专业高年级的选修课。它与英美文学史密切结合，使学生在接触到浩繁的文学作品的同时，可以对繁杂的文学现象加以整理和梳理，并形成自己阅读文学作品的习惯，开阔视野，在学习过程中把握正确的理解文学作品的方法。美国文学选读通过向学生介绍文学作品及其作品创作的历史文化背景，培养学生阅读文学作品的兴趣，增强语感，增进学生对美国社会、历史、文化以及生活习俗的了解，提高他们对西方文学的欣赏能力及批评能力。 二、课程教学目标 1．知识目标 1）文学知识：通过本课程的学习，学生应深入、直观地理解各个时期的美国文学作品，把握其思想、语言及创作技巧上的特点；另外，还应对美国的文学评论流变具备相对清晰的认识。 2）语言知识：本课程是通过介绍不同文体的文学作品，深化学生对英语语言的认知、理解和应用的能力。并通过对不同时期英语原文资料的阅读和解析，以一种更加直观的方式了解这门语言的发展。 2．能力目标 1）文学作品鉴赏能力：通过作者作品的讲解，学生可以对作品的社会历史价值和艺术价值进行评价，培养并提高自我的鉴赏能力； 2）语言表达能力：通过课堂和课下阅读及评价任务的完成，学生的口头和书面表达能力能够得到全面的提高； 3）思辩能力：课上小组讨论环节和presentation环节能够激发学生的思辩能力，助其开拓思路，同时也为以后对英语的有效使用打下基础。 3．素质目标 1）文学文化修养：本课程作为英语专业高年级学生的素养课，旨在培养学生对美国文学及文化的理解，可以使学生以直观的方式全面接触这种语言和文化，并形成独立的开放的文化观，进一步强化其跨文化意识； 2）基本的研究素质：本课程通过对文学评论的介绍和讲解向学生传授文学鉴赏的不同视角，可使其具备基本的文学研究素质； 3）文学翻译的基础：本课程通过对文学作品的细读向学生介绍文字背后的人文、历史、政治、哲学及美学等因素，可为文学翻译课程提供较好的材料，并做好前期准备。 三、课程基本信息和内容要求 绝密★考试结束前 全国2014年4月高等教育自学考试 英美文学选读试题 课程代码：00604 请考生按规定用笔将所有试题的答案涂、写在答题纸上。全部题目用英文作答。 选择题部分 注意事项： 1．答题前，考生务必将自己的考试课程名称、姓名、准考证号用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔填写在答题纸规定的位置上。 2．每小题选出答案后，用2 B铅笔把答题纸上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在试题卷上。 I. 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