2018年春英语教育专业《美国文学》100分作业及答案

第7章美国文学Ⅰ. Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F):1. American literature is mainly about the seeking of the American people for success and happiness. _____【答案】T【解析】美国文学主要是关于美国人民追寻成功和幸福。

2. Rip Van Winkle was a character created by James Fenimore Cooper. _____【答案】F【解析】《瑞普·凡·温克》是小说家及历史家华盛顿·欧文（Washington Irving）的名篇。

故事主要讲述主人公瑞普·凡·温克喝醉之后在梦中的奇遇，然后顿悟过了一生。

3. The Leather-Stocking Tales consist of five novels depicting the American West. _____【答案】T【解析】《皮袜子故事集》是美国作家詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏（James Fenimore Cooper）的系列小说，共包含《杀鹿者》（The Deerslayer）、《最后的莫希干人》（The Last of the Mohicans）、《探路人》（The Pathfinder）、《拓荒者》（The Pioneer）和《大草原》（The Prairie）等五部小说。

4. Before Mark Twain, all major American writers were born on the East Coast. _____ 【答案】T【解析】马克·吐温（Mark Twain），美国作家、演说家，生于美国密苏里州佛罗里达。

美国文学综合练习1附标答第一篇：美国文学综合练习1附标答Test One(Chapter1-2 with answers)I.Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers.Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets.1.____, whose unfinished Autobiography has become a classic of world literature.A.IrvingB.FranklinC.CooperD.Bryant2.The Declaration of Independence was drafted by ___.A.PaineB.WashingtonC.FranklinD.Jefferson3.The American literature is aboutyears old.A.200B.300C.400D.5004.Diaries, histories, journals, letters, commonplace book, travel books occupy a major position in the literature of the ____ period.A.classicalB.romanticC.realisticD.colonial5.To what rights does the Declaration of Independence say all men are entitled?A.Life, liberty and pursuit of happinessB.Freedom of Speech and pressC.Freedom of Thought and educationD.Abolishing all evil forms6.____ was the only American to sign the four documents that created the United StatesA.FranklinB.JeffersonC.EmersonD.Washington7.The Pilgrims, a small religious group which left their mother country on the ship “Mayflower”, A.1492B.1628C.1620D.16038.Which does not belong to the official documents that created the United States?A.A.the Declaration of IndependenceB.the ConstitutionC.the CrisisD.the treaty of alliance with France9.As an explorer and leader,was been known as a national hero in America.A.Christopher ColumbusB.Captain John SmithC.William BradfordD.Edward Taylor10.Amid the tumult of the American Revolution, the political philosopher Thomas Paine, whose ____ awakened American enthusiasm for independence?mon SenseB.AutobiographyC.WaldenD.History of the Dividing Line11.“Government is a necessary evil, but its purpose was the benefit of the individual, not his exploitation.” is ____ point of view.A.Paine’sB.Jefferson’sC.Cooper’sD.Emerson’s12.The American Puritanism had been a healthy legacy to the Americans.The rhetoric is plain, with a touch of nobility traceable to the direct influence of ____A.the ConstitutionB.the BibleC.French symbolismD.Shakespeare13.The secular ideals of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in the life and career of ____.A.FranklinB.EmersonC.JeffersonD.Hawthorne14.Whose writing style is fresh, simple and direct while therhetoric is plain and honest?.A.RomanticistsB.TranscendentalistsC.American PuritansD.British settlers15.“Nothing can settle our affairs so expeditiously as an open and ditermined De claration for Independence” is from ____.A.JeffersonB.PaineC.CooperD.Emerson16.Of the Puritan values, which one of the following is not included?A.hard workB.thriftC.pietyD.predestination17.____ is the only good American author before the Revolutionary War.A.FranklinB.JeffersonC.EmersonD.John Smith18.The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America was passed on July 4, ___A.1775B.1777C.1778D.177619.____was a Puritan and he was also one of the pilgriims who were on the Mayflower a nd signed the “Mayflower Conpact”.A.William FradfordB.Captain John SmithC.John CalvinD.Edward Taylor20.Which line is from Jefferson?A.He has refused his Assent to Laws the most wholesome and necessaryfor the public good.B.To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadnessin it.Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him.C.There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at theconviction the envy is ignorance.D.Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancientand honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom.II.Read the following statements and decide whether they are true or false.Write a “T” for true and “F” for false.1.Franklin was already a successful businessman when Washington, Jefferson, and other founders of the nation were born.()2.American Puritanism was one of the most enduring shaping influences in American thought and American literature.()3.The book “Of Plymouth Plantation” by William Bradford was not the earliest and most reliable record of the hardships and triumphs of the Pilgrims.()4.Franklin helped establish a tradition in American writing of complex, utilitarian style.()5.Captain John Smith’s writings helped set the form of the exploration and travel narratives that inspired men to move westward to America and across the continent.()6.The American Puritans, like their brothers back in England, were not idealists.()7.Jefferson thought that natural rights of man must be secured by law and government is not necessary.()8.Franklin hoped that some form of reconciliation with Great Britain could be worked out.Pain, on the other hand, welcomed the idea of separation.()9.The Way to Wealth shows how a child discovers through purchase of a toy that one may pay more for something than it is worth.()10.In the formal, largely factual presentation of the Declaration there was no place for the metahpors and allusions upon which Paine relied so frequently.()11.Thomas Paine’s attitude toward separation fromEnglanddiffer from the attitude of most Americans including Franklin.()12.William Bradford was an adventurer, while Captain John Smith was a Puritan.()III.For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary works from which it is taken.1.When in the Course of human events, if becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, …2.And if a string do slip, by chance, they soonDo screw it up again: wherebyThey set it in a more melodious tuneAnd a diviner harmony.For in Christ’s coach they sweetly sing.As they to glory ride therein.3.Six or seven weeks those barbarians kept him prisoner, many strange triumphs and conjurations they made of him, yet he so demeaned himself amongst them, and he not only diverted them from surprising the fort, butprocured his own liberty, and got himself and his company such estimation amongst them, that those savages admired him more than their own Quiyouckosucks.The manner how they used and delivered him is as follows.4.After these things he returned to his place called Sowans, some 40 miles from this place, but Squanto continued with them, and was their interpreter, and was a special instrument sent of God for their good beyond their expectation, he directed them how to set their corn, where to take fish, and to procure other commodities, and was also their pilot to bring them to unknown places for their profit, and neverleft them till he died.5.From a Child I was fond of Reading, and all the little Money that came into my Hands was ever laid out in Books.Pleas’d with a Pilgrim’s Progress, my first Collection was of John Bunyan’s Works, in separate little Volumes.Key to Chapter 1-2 练习答案I.Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers.Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets.1.B2.D3.C4.D5.A6.A7.C8.C9.B10.A11.B12.B13.A14.C15.B16.D17.A18.D19.A20.AII.Read the following statements and decide whether they are true or false.Write a “T” for true and “F” for false.1.T2.T3.F4.F5.T6.F7.F8.T9.F10.T11.T12.FIII.For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary works from which it is taken.1.Jefferson’s the Declaration of Independence2.Edward Taylor’s The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended3.Captain John Smith’s The Gene rall Historie4.William Bradford’s The Pilgrims Meet the Indians5.Franklin’s The Autobiography第二篇：文学概论综合练习文学概论综合练习题题型及分数分布一、填空题，共15空，每空2分，共30分二、列举题，共3题，每题10分，共30分三、简答题，共1题，15分四、论述题，共1题，25分填空题1、中国的第一部诗歌总集是________________，其中的作品大部分是四言一句，称为_____________。

浙江省2018年7月高等教育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. F. S Fitzgerald a. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer( ) 2. Henry David Thoreau b. An American Tragedy( ) 3. Theodore Dreiser c. The Portrait of a Lady( ) 4. Henry James d. Walden( ) 5. Mark Twain e. This Side of ParadiseGroup 2Column A Column B( ) 1. Huck a. A Rose for Emily( ) 2. Carrie Meeber b. The Hairy Ape( ) 3. Yank c. The Great Gatsby( ) 4. Nick Carraway d. Sister Carrie( ) 5. Emily Grierson e. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnPart 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. Romanticism appeared as a literary trend against _____.【】A. rationalityB. imaginationC. intuitionD. individualism2. The famous 20 years 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 beauty1C. satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beingsD. idea about supernatural manipulation of man’s life3. _____ has become so important that most people consider it an unofficial manifesto for the “Transcendental Club”.【】A. NatureB. The American ScholarC. WaldenD. Civil Disobedience4. _____ is unanimously agreed to be the summit of the Romantic period in the history of American literature. 【】A. PuritanismB. New England TranscendentalismC. DeismD. Unitarianism5. _____ is a symbol of microcosm of the world we are living in. 【】A. The PequodB. Moby DickC. The Scarlet LetterD. Nature6. _____ held a “black”vision of life and human beings.【】A. Ralph Waldo EmersonB. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Edgar Allan PoeD. James Fenimore Cooper7. Moby Dick, the big white whale, is possible read as symbolic of all the following EXCEPT_____.【】A. malignancyB. beautyC. adulteryD. God8. According to Emerson, man’s capacity is _____.【】A. ambiguousB. limitedC. infiniteD. subsidiary to God9. _____ is regarded as an encyclopedia of everything: philosophy, religion, history, etc.【】A. NatureB. WaldenC. Moby DickD. The Scarlet Letter10. Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT______.【】A. a strict poetic formB. a simple and conversational language2C. a free and natural rhythmic patternD. an easy flow of feelings11. Another fact that made _____ unique is his magic power with language, his use of vernacular. His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect, and his sentence structures are simple, even ungrammatical, which is typical of the spoken language.【】A. TwainB. AndersonC. JamesD. Dreiser12. While Mark Twain and William Dean Howells satirized European manners at times, _____was an admirer of ancient European civilization.【】A. Theodore DreiserB. Jack LondonC. Henry JamesD. William James13. About Naturalism, which of the following statements is NOT correct?【】A. Naturalists chose their subjects from the lower ranks of society.B. They portrayed misery and poverty of the “underdogs”, who were demonstrably victims of society and nature.C. One of the most familiar themes in American Naturalism is the theme o f human “bestiality,” especially an explanation of sexual desire.D. American Naturalism is a reaction against Realism.14. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Henry James’s writing style? 【】A. Exquisite and elaborate languageB. Minute detailed descriptionC. Lengthy psychological analysisD. American colloquialism15. _____ is now recognized not only as a great poetess on her own right but as a poetess of considerable influence upon American poetry of the present century.【】A. Emily DickinsonB. Emily BrontёC. Anne BradstreetD. George Eliot16. Which of the following statements is NOT a typical feature of Emily Dickinson’s poetry?【】A. Dickinson’s poetry is unique and conventional in its own way.B. Her poems have no titles, hence are always quoted by their first lines.3C. In her poetry there is a particular stress pattern.D. Her poems tend to be very impersonal and meditative.17. It is not surprising to find in _____ fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed”was the law.【】A. James’sB. Twain’sC. Dreiser’sD. Anderson’s18. The Catcher in the Rye written by _____ is regarded as a students’classic.【】A. J.D. SalingerB. John UpdikeC. Ralph EllisonD. Richard Wright19. _____ fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of Jazz Age, in which he shows a particular interest in the upper-class society, especially the upper-class young people.【】A. Eliot’s B. Hemingway’sC. Fitzgerald’sD. Faulkner’s20. Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over _____.【】A. Ezra PoundB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Robert FrostD. Emily Dickinson21. In Hemingway’s Indian Camp, 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 sin and evilC. an initiation to the harshness of lifeD. a learning process in human relationship22. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their _____.【】A. indestructible spiritB. pessimistic view of lifeC. war experiencesD. masculinity23. Most of O’Neill’s plays are concerned about the following EXCEPT_____.【】A. success and failure in man’s literary careerB. life and death, illusion and disillusion, dream and realityC. alienation and communication, self and society, desire and frustration4D. the basic issues of human existence and predicament24. Traditional fiction featured an authoritative narrator in telling a story, while modern fiction tended to employ the first person narration or limit the reader to “_____”. 【】A. one character’s point of viewB. the central consciousnessC. more characters points of viewD. both A and B25. Which one of the following statements is NOT true of William Faulkner?【】A. He is a master of stream-of-consciousness narrative.B. His writing is often complex and difficult to understand.C. He often depicts slum life in New York and Chicago.D. He represents a new group of Southern writers.PartⅢ: Interpretation (20 points in all, 5 points for each)Read the following selections and then answer the questions.Passage 1With this excellent resolve for the future, Goodman Brown felt himself justified in making more haste on his present evil purpose. He had taken a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind. It was all as lonely as could be; and there is this peculiarity in such a solitude, that the traveler knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps, he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude. Questions:1. Identify the author and the title of the story from which this excerpt is taken.2. What’s Brown’s purpose to go to the woods?Passage 2The 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.5Questions:1. Who is the poet of this poem? Which poem is this stanza taken from?2. What does sleep suggest?Passage 3The Eyes around-had wrung them dry-And Breaths were gathering firmFor that last Onset-when the KingBe witnessed-in the Room-Questions:1. Who is the poet?2. What does “the King” refer to?Passage 4... Gatsby, standing alone on the marble steps and looking from one group to another with approving eyes. His tanned skin was drawn attractively tight on his face and his short hair looked as though it were trimmed every day. I could see nothing sinister about him. I wondered if the fact that he was not drinking helped to set him off from his guests, for it seemed to me that he grew more correct as the fraternal hilarity.Questions:1. Which novel is this passage taken from? Who is the author?2. Who is “I” ? And what is his role in the novel?Part Ⅳ: Give brief answers to the following questions. (20 points in all, 10 points for each)1. Give a brief account of Walt Whitman’s poetic style.2. Please state the major principles of Imagism.6。

2018年4月高等教育自考外国文学作品真题(总分：100.00，做题时间：120分钟)一、单项选择题本大题共30小题每小题1分，共30分，在每小题列出的备选项中，只有一项是最符合题目要求的，请将其选出。

(总题数：30，分数：30.00)1.在《伊利亚特》中代表着氏族英雄最高理想的人物是（分数：1.00）A.阿基琉斯B.赫克托耳√C.帕里斯D.阿伽门农解析：《伊利亚特》主要人物形象：阿基琉斯：氏族社会向奴隶制时代转型时期的英雄形象。

勇猛又残忍、冷酷又仁慈、自私却又无私。

赫克托耳：氏族英雄的最高理想。

沉稳、内向、有人情味、具有强烈的集体责任感，不畏惧死亡，是厄运英雄。

2.在《永生的阿弗洛狄忒》中提到的司劝导的女神是（分数：1.00）A.缪斯B.蓓脱√C.雅典娜D.赫拉解析：书中节选：我狂热的心在把什么追逐。

我会问：“你希望蓓脱女神把谁说服，而领入你的情网？告诉我，是谁，委屈了萨福？···”3.在古希腊三大悲剧家中，被称为“舞台上的哲学家”的是（分数：1.00）A.欧里庇得斯√B.索福克勒斯C.埃斯库罗斯D.埃斯库罗斯解析：欧里庇得斯是雅典奴隶主民主制国家危机时期的悲剧作家，出身贵族，他深受智者学派影响，在悲剧里他提出了许多问题，诸如神性与人性、战争与和平、民主、妇女、家庭、奴隶等，因而被称为“舞台上的哲学家”。

他一生虽未参与过政治生活，但一直细心观察思考当时的现实，对许多问题都有自己的独到见解，在三大悲剧作家中，他是反映现实生活最具体、最真实的一位。

4.在《神曲》中贝亚特丽采带领但丁游历了（分数：1.00）A.地狱B.炼狱C.天堂√D.人间解析：《神曲》中但丁由古罗马诗人维吉尔带领游历了地狱与炼狱；再由贝亚特丽采带领游历了天堂。

5.在十日谈的第四天故事一中，唐克烈派人杀害了（分数：1.00）A.贝尔纳博B.绮思梦达C.纪斯卡多√D.加布亚解析：爱情悲剧故事。

亲王唐克烈的女儿绮斯梦达与侍从纪斯卡多相爱，由于地位悬殊，为父亲所不容。

浙江省2018年7月高等教育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%) Section AColumn A Column B1. Nathaniel Hawthorne A. Desire Under the Elms2. William Faulkner B. Go Down, Moses3. F.S. Fitzgerald C. Sister Carrie4. Eugene O’Neill D. The Beautiful and Damned5. Theodore Dreiser E. The House of the Seven GablesSection BColumn A Column B1. Frederic Winterbourne A. Daisy Miller2. Faith B. A Rose for Emily3. Miss Watson C. Young Goodman Brown4. Tom Buchanan D. Huckleberry Finn5. Homer Barron E. The Great GatsbyPart Ⅱ:Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook.(10%)1.In Rip Van Winkle, which is written by ,Rip falls into sleep for 20 years, during which the Revolutionary War takes place.2.In the history of American literature, Realism was a reaction against and paved the way to Modernism.3.Henry James’s emphasis on and on the human consciousness proved to be a big breakthrough in novel writing and had great influence on the coming generations.4.As a genre, naturalism emphasized and environment as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances.5.The Jazz Age of the was characterized by frivolity and carelessness and brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.6.In his novels, Faulkner created a mythical kingdom which mirrors the decline of the1society of America.7.The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to another school of :American Naturalism.8.John Steinbeck is a novelist of the 1930s.His novel is a record of the life of the dispossessed and the wretched farmers during The Great Depression.9.In modern American literature, is widely acclaimed “founder of the American drama.”10.During the latter period of his life time,Pound found great affinity to the Chinese and he madestrenuous effort in the study of literature.Part Ⅲ:Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (50%)1. As to the American literature from the early 1800s to the beginning of the Civil War which ofthe following is not right?A. American type of characters speaking local dialects appeared in the fiction.B. There was a desire for an escape from civilized society and a return to the ennobling nature.C. There was faith in the value of individualism and self-reliance.D. There was a stress on law and reason in literary writings of the time.2. Which of the following writers coined the term “The Gilded Age”which referred to theRealistic Period in American history?A. Henry JamesB. Mark TwainC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Faulkner3. Which of the following is not right about the characteristics of Emily Dickinson’s poeticwriting?A. Her poetry is unique and unconventional in its own way.B. Her poems have no titles and a particular stress pattern.C. Her poems are usually rather long and rarely less than 20 lines.D. Her poetic idiom is noted for its laconic brevity, directness and plainness.4. Which of the following is not right about American fiction from 1945 onwards?A. A group of new writers who survived the war wrote about their traumatic experience within themilitary machine and on European and Pacific battlefields.B. There appeared a significant group of Jewish-American writers whose work drew on theJewish experience and tradition.2C. Black fiction began to attract critical attention during the 1950s.D. American fiction in the 1950s and 1960s proves to be a harvest which derived from itspredecessors.5. Which of the following is reflected in the hero of The Great Gatsby by F.S. Fitzgerald?A. The hypocrisy and materialism of small town life in the Middle West.B. The moral confusion and social decay of the South after the Civil War.C. The contradictions and disillusionment of the American dream.D. The cynicism among American veteran soldiers.6. In spite of strong foreign influences, American romantic writings are typically American whichcan be revealed in the following except .A. a desire for an escape from civilized society and a return to the ennobling natureB. American type of characters speaking local dialects appeared in the fictionC. the American national experience of “pioneering into the west”D. an emphasis on the free expression of emotions7. As to the American realist which of the following statements is right?A. They aimed at the interpretation of the actualities of any aspect of life, free from subjectiveprejudice, idealism, or romantic color.B. Their attention was directed to the familiar daily life of the common people.C. They tried to explore the harmonious realities of life as well as the illusion of heroism.D. All of the above.8. The subjects of Emily Dickinso’s poems are mainly about .A. religionB. death and immortalityC. love and natureD. all of the above9. Which of the following does not belong to the Lost Generation of modern American literature?A. Ezra Pound and Robert FrostB. W.C. Williams and Gertrude SteinC. F.S. Fitzgerald and Ernest HemingwayD. William Faulkner and Theodore Dreiser10. Which of the following is not right about O’Neill’s plays?A. Many of them are attached with a profound insight into human nature and tremendous skill andlogic.B. His expressionistic experimentations contained his tragic vision in some nonrealistic forms.C. His plays of expressionistic experimentation daringly penetrates into race religions, classconflicts, sexual bondage and social critiques.3D. His plays concern especially the relationship between man and woman of the modern age.11. In Faulkner’s novels, the mythical county is .A. YoknapatawphaB. OxfordC. MississippiD. Pond12. Born of one common cultural heritage, the American Romanticists shared some commonfeatures —,with the English Romanticists.A. an increasing emphasis on the free expression of emotionsB. an increasing attention to the psychic states of their charactersC. an increasing emphasis on the desire to return to natureD. both A and B13. The novel Moby Dick shows the rebellious struggle of Captain Ahab against .A. the overwhelming, mysterious vastness of the universe and the awesome forcesB. the gliding great demon of the seas of lifeC. the white whaleD. the savage harpooners and the motley crew14. About Emily Dickinson’s poems of love which of the following is not right?A. Her love poems show people’s feelings of rapture and happiness coming from their loveexperience.B. Some of her love poems treat the suffering and frustration love can cause.C. Many of them give original depictions of the longing for shared moments, the pain ofseparation, and the futility of finding happiness.D. Some of them emphasize the power of physical attraction and express a mixture of fear andfascination for the mysterious magnetism between sexes.15. Which of the following indicates a permanent convention of American literature which isevident in both of Cooper’s Leather-stocking Tales and Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?A. The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature.B. The desire to push forward to the west frontier.C. The self-reliance and independence of the individual.D. Both A and B.16. In the play The Hairy Ape, the major character Yank .A. has a sense of belonging nowhere, hence homelessness and rootlessness4B. is typical of the mood of isolation and alienation in the early twentieth century in the UnitedStates onlyC. reflects the problem of modern man’s identityD. both A and C17. A Rose for Emily is difficult to read because .A. the chronology of narration is displaced alternativelyB. there are too many characters whose relations are too complicatedC. its language is too symbolic and the dialogues are fragmentedD. none of the above18. 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 Renaissance19. After the Civil War America had been transformed 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 society20. Which of the following is not right about Emily Dickinson’s poems of nature?A. In them, she expressed her general skepticism about the relationship between man and nature.B. 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 beings.D. Many of them showed her feeling of nature’s inscrutability and indifference to the life andinterests of human beings.21. Eugene O’Neill is remembered for his tragic view of life and most of his plays areabout .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 world22. As a spokesman of the “Roaring 20s”,Scott Fitzgerald portrayed .A. the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself5B. 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 offulfillment23. Which of the following was not written by Ernest Hemingway?A. For Whom the Bell TollsB. The Green Hills of AfricaC. The Sound and the FuryD. The Old Man and the Sea24. Which of the following cannot be included in the thematic concerns of Robert Frost’s Poems?A. The terror and tragedy in nature as well as its beauty.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 contradiction and misunderstanding between man and woman.25. As to Ezra Pound, which of the following statements is not correct?A. His artistic talents are on full display in the history of the Imagist Movement.B. For he was politically controversial and notorious for what he did in the wartime, his literaryachievement and influence are somewhat reduced.C. 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.Part Ⅳ:Interpretation(16%)Read the following selections and then answer the questions. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.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.6My tongue, every atom if my blood, form’d from this soil, this air,Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and theirparents 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.What poem is this stanza extracted? Who is the writer?2.What’s the theme of this poem?Passage 2When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old man-servant—a combined gardener and cook—had seen in at least ten years.It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street. But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily’s house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps—an eyesore among eyesores. And now Miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and Confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson.Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor－he who fathered the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the streets without an apron—remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity. Not that Miss Emily would have accepted charity. Colonel Sartoris invented an involved tale to the effect that Miss Emily’s7father had loaned money to the town, which the town, as a matter of business, preferred this way of repaying. Only a man of Colonel Sartoris generation and thought could have invented it, and only a woman could have believed it.3.What kind of person is Emily Grierson in this story?4.Why was the death of Miss Emily compared to a “fallen Monument”?Part Ⅴ:Give brief answers to the following questions. (14%)1. Please interpret Henry James’s writings of international theme.2. Please give a brief analysis of Dreiser’s naturalism in his novel Sister Carrie.8。

(单选题) 1: In Hardy‘s Wessex novels，there is an apparent____touch in his description of the simple though primitive rural life．A: nostalgicB: humorousC: romanticD: ironic正确答案:(单选题) 2: In his masterpieces ______ , Pound traces the rise and fall of eastern and western empires and the moral and social chaos of the modern world .A: Make It NewB: The CantosC: Polite Essays正确答案:(单选题) 3: One of the earliest spokeswomen in English for the Chinese immigrant community is _____.A: Lin YutangB: Sui Sin FarC: Maxine Hong Kingston正确答案:(单选题) 4: The subject matter of Robert Frost’s Poems focuses on .A: ordinary country people and scenesB: battle scenes of ancient Greek and Roman legendsC: struggling masses and crowded urban quartersD: fantasies and mythical happenings正确答案:(单选题) 5: " ’Damn the fool! There he is’, cried Heathcliff, sinking back into his seat. ’Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I’ll stay. If he shot me so, I’d expire with a blessing in my lips.’" The novel from which the passage i s taken must be _________. A: Jane Austen’s Pride and PrejudiceB: Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity ShopC: Samuel Richardson’s PamelaD: Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights正确答案:(单选题) 6: ______________ has always been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best classic style that American Literature ever produced”.A: Edgar Ellen PoeB: Walt WhitmanC: Henry David ThoreauD: Washington Irving正确答案:(单选题) 7: A typical Forsyte，according to John Galsworthy,is a man with a strong sense of ____，who never pays any attention to human feelings．A: moralityB: justiceC: propertyD: humor正确答案:(单选题) 8: ______ saw a new upsurge of Black American Literature in what has come to be known as the Harlem Renaissance .A: 1900sB: 1910s(单选题) 9: Daisy Miller‘s tragedy of indiscretion is intensified and enlarged by its narration from the point of view of _______ .A: the author Henry JamesB: the Italian youth GiovanelliC: the American youth WinterbourneD: her mother Mrs. Miller正确答案:(单选题) 10: In Mar k Twain’s The Adventures of huckleberry Finn, Huck writes a letter to inform against Jim, the escaped slave, and then he tears the letter up. This fact reveals that .A: Huck has a mixed feeling of love and hateB: there is a conflict between society and conscience in HuckC: Huck is always an indecisive personD: Huck has very little education正确答案:(单选题) 11: Dr. Faustus is a play based on the German legend of a magician aspiring for and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.A: immortalityB: politicalC: moneyD: knowledge正确答案:(单选题) 12: Shakespeare‘s tragedies include all the fOllowing except____.A: Hamlet and King learB: Antony and Cleopatra and MacbethC: julius Caesar and OthelloD: the Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night`s Dream正确答案:(单选题) 13: Alexander Pope strongly advocated neoclassicism，emphasizing that literary works should be judged by____rules of order,reason，logic，restrained emotion，good taste and decorum．A: ClassicalB: romanticC: sentimentalD: allegorical正确答案:(单选题) 14: As an autobiographical play, O‘Neill‘s _______ （1956）has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama.A: The Iceman ComethB: Long Day‘s Journey Into NightC: The Hairy ApeD: Desire Under the Elms正确答案:(单选题) 15: The hightide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around .A: 1820B: 1850C: 1880D: 1920正确答案:(单选题) 16: It is generally regarded that Keats‘s most important and mature poems are in theB: elegyC: epicD: sonnet正确答案:(单选题) 17: Mr. Spectator stands for the ideas ofA: the 16th centuryB: 17th centuryC: the 18th centuryD: the19th century正确答案:(单选题) 18: Which is the movement that was popular in 1970s?A: Women‘s Liberation MovementB: Civil Rights MovementC: McCarthy Era正确答案:(单选题) 19: The most original playwright of the Theater of Absurd is Samuel Beckett and his first play, _______, is regarded as the most famous and influential play of the Theater of Absurd.A: Waiting for GodotB: Murder in the CathedralC: Too True to Be GoodD: Mrs. Warren’s Profession正确答案:(单选题) 20: The English novelist_______ has been regarded as the “Prose Homer”.A: Daniel DefoeB: Jonathan SwiftC: Henry FieldingD: Samuel Richardson正确答案:(判断题) 1: Whitman is granted the honor of being ‘‘ the American Goldsmith ‘‘ for his literary craftsmanship .A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 2: Both Hawthorne and Shakespeare influenced Melville‘s writing of Moby Dick .A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 3: On one hand Byron is a violent reformer and on the other hand he is a wanderer. A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 4: As a Jewish writer , Salinger concerns himself only with Jewish subject .A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 5: Auld Lang Syne was composed by Burns.A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 6: The style of Lambs essays is characterized by its humor, familiarity and archaism.正确答案:(判断题) 7: Dreiser‘s novels usually have little detailed descriptions of characters and events .A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 8: The pasture is the setting for the work of Dr. Faustus.A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 9: The Rape of the Lock gives an account of an anecdote of the court.A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 10: Beowulf was created in England.A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 11: B ellow‘s themes are concerned with the struggle of city dwellers to define their roles and responsibility in modern world .A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 12: Most of Saul Bellow‘s heroes are Jewish intellectuals or writers who try to discover the queerness of existence .A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 13: Wordsworth’s best poems are description of mountains, rivers, flowers, birds . A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 14: Romanticism rose and grew under the impetus of the French Revolution.A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 15: Scott’s li terary career marked the transition from romanticism to realism.A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 16: Morrison is the first black writer to win the Nobel Prize .A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 17: In her works , Amy Tan wrote beautifully about the contrast between Chinese and American cultures .A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 18: Most of English ballads were collected in the 18th century.A: 错误(判断题) 19: Amy Tan‘s first book published in 1976 called The Woman Warrior won the National Book Critic‘s Circle Award .A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 20: The most gifted of the University Wits was Shakespeare.A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(单选题) 1: In Hardy‘s Wessex novels，there is an apparent____touch in his description of the simple though primitive rural life．A: nostalgicB: humorousC: romanticD: ironic正确答案:(单选题) 2: In his masterpieces ______ , Pound traces the rise and fall of eastern and western empires and the moral and social chaos of the modern world .A: Make It NewB: The CantosC: Polite Essays正确答案:(单选题) 3: One of the earliest spokeswomen in English for the Chinese immigrant community is _____.A: Lin YutangB: Sui Sin FarC: Maxine Hong Kingston正确答案:(单选题) 4: The subject matter of Robert Frost’s Poems focuses on .A: ordinary country people and scenesB: battle scenes of ancient Greek and Roman legendsC: struggling masses and crowded urban quartersD: fantasies and mythical happenings正确答案:(单选题) 5: " ’Damn the fool! There he is’, cried Heathcliff, sinking back into his seat. ’Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I’ll stay. If he shot me so, I’d expire with a blessing in my lips.’" The novel from which the passage is taken must be _________.A: Jane Austen’s Pride and PrejudiceB: Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity ShopC: Samuel Richardson’s PamelaD: Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights正确答案:(单选题) 6: ______________ has always been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best classic style that American Literature ever produced”.A: Edgar Ellen PoeB: Walt WhitmanC: Henry David ThoreauD: Washington Irving正确答案:(单选题) 7: A typical Forsyte，according to John Galsworthy,is a man with a strong sense of ____，who never pays any attention to human feelings．C: propertyD: humor正确答案:(单选题) 8: ______ saw a new upsurge of Black American Literature in what has come to be known as the Harlem Renaissance .A: 1900sB: 1910sC: 1920s正确答案:(单选题) 9: Daisy Miller‘s tragedy of indiscretion is intensified and enlarged by its narration from the point of view of _______ .A: the author Henry JamesB: the Italian youth GiovanelliC: the American youth WinterbourneD: her mother Mrs. Miller正确答案:(单选题) 10: In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of huckleberry Finn, Huck writes a letter to inform against Jim, the escaped slave, and then he tears the letter up. This fact reveals that .A: Huck has a mixed feeling of love and hateB: there is a conflict between society and conscience in HuckC: Huck is always an indecisive personD: Huck has very little education正确答案:(单选题) 11: Dr. Faustus is a play based on the German legend of a magician aspiring for and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.A: immortalityB: politicalC: moneyD: knowledge正确答案:(单选题) 12: Shakespeare‘s tragedies include all the fOllowing except____.A: Hamlet and King learB: Antony and Cleopatra and MacbethC: julius Caesar and OthelloD: the Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night`s Dream正确答案:(单选题) 13: Alexander Pope strongly advocated neoclassicism，emphasizing that literary works should be judged by____rules of order,reason，logic，restrained emotion，good taste and decorum．A: ClassicalB: romanticC: sentimentalD: allegorical正确答案:(单选题) 14: As an autobiographical play, O‘Neill‘s _______ （1956）has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama.A: The Iceman ComethB: Long Day‘s Journey Into NightC: The Hairy Ape(单选题) 15: The hightide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around .A: 1820B: 1850C: 1880D: 1920正确答案:(单选题) 16: It is generally regarded that Keats‘s most important and mature poems are in the form of _______ .A: odeB: elegyC: epicD: sonnet正确答案:(单选题) 17: Mr. Spectator stands for the ideas ofA: the 16th centuryB: 17th centuryC: the 18th centuryD: the19th century正确答案:(单选题) 18: Which is the movement that was popular in 1970s?A: Women‘s Liberation MovementB: Civil Rights MovementC: McCarthy Era正确答案:(单选题) 19: The most original playwright of the Theater of Absurd is Samuel Beckett and his first play, _______, is regarded as the most famous and influential play of the Theater of Absurd.A: Waiting for GodotB: Murder in the CathedralC: Too True to Be GoodD: Mrs. Warren’s Profession正确答案:(单选题) 20: The English novelist_______ has been regarded as the “Prose Homer”.A: Daniel DefoeB: Jonathan SwiftC: Henry FieldingD: Samuel Richardson正确答案:(判断题) 1: Whitman is granted the honor of being ‘‘ the American Goldsmith ‘‘ for his literary craftsmanship .A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 2: Both Hawthorne and Shakespeare influenced Melville‘s writing of Moby Dick .A: 错误。

《英美文学》练习测试题库及答案本科I Of the four alternative answer, choose the one that would best plete the statement:1.Benjamin Franklin was born in the family of a small _____________.A. LandlordB. merchantC. lawyerD. clergyman2.Ralph Waldo Emerson’s leading reputation began with the publication of_____________.A. EssaysB. NatureC. OversoulD. Self-Relience3.Ellen Poe was both a poet and a _____________________.A. dramatistB. essayist C actor D. fiction writer.4.Nathaniel Hawthorne’s view of man and human history originates in __________________.A. PuritanismB. SocialismC. TranscendentalismD. naturalism5.Walt Whitman was born and brought up in a family of a ______________.A. PeasantB. carpenterC. captainD. printer6.Mark Twain’s first successful literary work is _____________________________.A. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of CalaverasCountyB. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventure of Tom SawyerD. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn7.Closely related to Emily Dickinson’s religious poetry are her poems concerning _______________.A. ChildhoodB.youth and happinessC. lonelinessD. death and immortality8.Among the works of Dreiser, the bet known to the Chinese readers is _________________.A. An American TragedyB. Sister CarrieC. Th FinancierD. The Titan9.Robert Frost’s works mainly focus on the landscape and people in _________________.A. the WestB. American SouthC. New EnglandD. Mississippi10.Most of the plays Eugene O’Neill wrote are _______________________.A. ediesB. . romancesC. historical plays D tragedies11.Scott Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the ______________________.A. modern timeB. young AmericansC. Jazz AgeD. Guilded Age12._______________________________ is Hemingway’s masterpiece, which is about the old fishermanSantiago and his losing battle with a giant marlin.A. Farewell to ArmsB.For whom the Bell TollsC.The Sun Also RisesD. The Old Man and The Sea13. As a great fiction writer, William Faulker devotes most of his works to the description of the life and the people in the __________________________.A. American WestB. New England in AmericaC. American SouthD. American North14.When he was young, Benjamin Franklin became an apprentice in a __________________.A. printing houseB. storeC. Tailor’s shopD. factory15.Ralph Emerson was born in a family of a _____________________.A. merchantB. businessmanC. clergymanD. writer16.Ellen Poe began his literary career by writing ___________________;A. short storiesB. playsC. essaysD. poems17.According to Nathaniel Hawthorne, there is _________ in every hearer, which may remain latent, perhaps,through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.A. evilB. virtueC. kindnessD. tragedy18.Whitman is radically innovative in term of form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new subjects and newfeelings is _____________.A. blank verseB. free verseC. heroic coupletD. sonnet19.Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of America and made a bination of serious literature and _______.A. American folk humorB. English folkloreC. American traditional valuesD. funny jokes20.Altogether, Emily Dickinson wrote ______ poems, of which only severn had appeared during her lifetime.A. 1145B. 1775C. 897D. 78521.Theodore Dreiser is generally acknowledged as one of America’s literary ________________.A. realistsB. naturalistsC. romantistsD. modernists22.In Frost’s poems, images and metaphors in his poems are drawn from _________________.A. the simple country lifeB. the urban lifeC. the life on the seaD. the adventures and trips23.Scott Fitzgerald never spared an intimate touch in his fiction to deal with the bankruptcy of the_______________________________.A. American DreamB. ruling classesB. American Capitalists D.American bourgeoisie24.Eugene O’Neill is regarded as the founder of American _____________________.A. poetryB. dramaC. fictionD. literature25.___________________ is Hemingway’s masterpiece, which tells a story about the tragic love of a woundedAmerican soldier with a British nurse.A. A Farewell to ArmsB.The Sun Also RisesC. For Whom the Bell TollsD. In Our Time26.William Faulkner was born in a family of a _______________________.A. merchantB. colonelC. managerD. doctor27. In his essays, ______ put forward his philosophy of the over soul, the important of the Individual and Nature.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. WashingtonIrvingC. Mark TwainD. Ralph Waldo Emerson28.The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is __________A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Henry David ThoreauD. WashingtonIrving29.______ literary world turns out to be a most disturbed, tormented and problematical one, which has much todo with his “black” vision of life and human beings.A. Herman Melville’sB. Washington Irving’sC. Nathaniel Hawthorne’sD. Walt Whitman’s30.Most of the poems in _____ sing of the “en-masse” and the self as well.A. Leaves of GrassB. Drum TapsC. North of BostonD. The Cantos31.In _____, Whitman airs his sorrow at President Lincoln’s death.A. “Cavalry Crossing a Ford”B. “A Pact”C. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’dD. There was a Child Went Forth”32.In _____, Whitman’s own early experience may well be identified with the childhood of a young growingAmerica.A. “A Pact”B. “Song of Myself”C. “There was a Child Went Forth”D. “Cavalry Crossing a Ford”33.In ______, Hawthorne sets out to prove that everyone possesses some evil secret.A. “The Custom-House”B. “Young Goodman Brown”C. “Rappaccini’s Daughter”D. “The Birthmark"34.______ is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modern American literature es.”A. The adventures of Huckleberry Fin nB. The Adventures of Tom S awyerC. The Gilded AgeD. Life on the Mississippi35.Theodore Dreiser’s forgiving treatment of the career of his heroine in ______ also draws heavily upon thenaturalistic understanding of sexuality.A McTeague B. An American Tragedy C. Sister Carri e D. The Genius36._______ is a great giant of American, whom H.L.Mencken considers “the true father of our nationalliterature.”A. Henry JamesB. WashingtonIrvingC. Mark TwainD. Theodore Dreiser37._______ is usually regarded as a classic book written for boys about their particular horrors and joys.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Innocents AbroadD. Life on the Mississippi38._______ is described by Mark Twain as a boy with “a sound heart and a deformed conscience.”A. Tom SawyerB. Huckleberry FinnC. JimD.Tony39._________ is considered to be Theodore Dreiser’s greatest work.A. An American TragedyB. Sister CarrieC. The FinancierD. The Titan40.The leading playwright of the modern period in American literature, if not the most successful in all hisexperiments, is _______A. Arthur MillerB. Tennessee WilliamC. George Bernard ShawD. Eugene O’Neil41.The well-known soliloquy by Hamlet “To be , or not to be’ shows hisA.hatred for his uncleB.love for lifeC. resolution of revengeD. inner- strife42.________ is a play that concerns the problem of modern man’s identity.A. The Hairy ApeB. Long Day’s Journey Into NightC. The Iceman ethD. The Emperor Jones43.In a tragic sense, _______ is a representation of life as a struggle against unconquerable forces in which onlya partial victory is possible.A. For Whom the Bell TollsB. In Our TimeC. The Old Man and the SeaD. A Farewell to Arms44.Faulkner once said that ________ is a story of “ lost innocence,’ which proves itself to be and intensificationof the theme of imprisonment in the past.A. The Sound and the FuryB. Light in AugustC. Go Down, MosesD. Absalom, Absalom!45.In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of the _______ devices in narration.A. RomanticB. RealisticC. GothicD. Modernist46._______ is Hemingway’s first true novel in which he depicts a vivid portrait of “The lost Generation.”A. The Sun Also RisesB. A Farewell to ArmsC. In Our TimeD. For Whom the Bell Tolls47.The only dramatist ever to win a Nobel Prize was ___________.A. Bernard ShawB. Eugene O’NeilC. Richard Brinsley SheridanD. William Shakespeare48.By means of “free verse,” _______ believes that he has turned the poem into an open field, an area of vitalpossibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play.A. Emily DickinsonB. Walt WhitmanC. Robert FrostD. Ezra Pound49.An eccentric woman who refuses to accept the passage of time, or the inevitable change and loss thatacpanies it may probably refer to _______.A. Irene in The Man of PropertyB. Emily in A Rose for EmilyC. Catherine in WutheringHeightsD. the widow Douglas in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn50.One source of evil that Nathaniel Hawthorne is concerned most is overreaching intellect. Which of thefollowing stories is one of this kind?A. Rappaccini’s DaughterB. Young Goodman BrownC. The Minister’s Black VeilD. The Birthmark51. “ In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.” This is the last sentence of _______ .A. Sister CarrieB. An American TragedyC. The GeniusD. Jane Eyre52.In Walt Whitman’s “There was a Child Went Forth,”the child refers to ________.A. the poet himself as a childB. any American childC. the young AmericaD. one of the poet’s neighbor53.The _______ techniques are used in some of Eugene O’Neil’s plays to highlight the theatrical effect of therupture between the two sides of an individual human being, the private and the public.A. naturalisticB. expressionisticC. stream-of-consciousnessD. metaphysical54.Which of the following is true as far as Emily Dickinson’s poetry is concerned?A. She seldom uses dashes.B. All her poems are about death or immorality.C. Her poems are very personal and meditativeD. Her poems usually have well-chosen titles.55.In his poems, Whitman tends to use ______.A. oral EnglishB. the King’s EnglishC. American EnglishD. old English56.As far as Nathaniel Hawthorne’s art is concerned, which of the following statement is true?A. His The Scarlet Letter tells a love story.B. His art is deeply influenced by Puritanism because he was a puritan himself.C. Young Goodman Brown is a story about superstition.D. Ambiguity is one of the salient characteristics of his art.57.“I like to see it lap the Miles—And lick the Valleys up —And stop to feed itself at Tanks—And then —…”(Emily Dickinson, “I like to see it lap the Miles—“)Here “it” refers to ______ .A. loveB. deathC. a flyD. the train58.Which of the following statements concerning Theodore Dreiser’s style is correct?A. Dreiser’s Cowperwood trilogy includes The Financier, The Titan and The GeniusB. His novels have little detail descriptions of characters and events.C. His novels are written in refined language.D. His style is not polished but very serious.59.______ has long been well known as a poet who can hardly be classified with the old or the new.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert Lee FrostC. T. S. EliotD. Emily Dickinson60.F. Scott Fitzgerald skillfully employs the device of having events observe by _______ to his great advantage.A. a “central consciousness”B. his double visionC. more than one witnessD. the protagonists61.Shakespeare wrote ___________sonnets.A. 125B. 154C. 245D. 13862.Francis Bacon is not only a great ____________, but also the founder of modern science.A. poetB. essayistC. dramatistD. novelist63.John Milton became blind mainly because of_______________.A. readingB. diseaseC. hard workD. accident64.Paradise lost is a great __________ consisting of 12 books.A.epicB.storyC.lyric poemD.narrative poem65.The most important representative work by Jonathan Swift is “___________________”.A.A Tale of a TubB.The Battle of the BooksC.A Modest ProposalD.Gulliver’s Travels66.The first edy Sheridan wrote is __________________.A.The School for ScandalB.The CriticC.A Trip to ScarboroughD.The Rivals67.”____________________” is the cooperative work of William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge.A.Tintern AbbeyB.The Rime of the Ancient MarinerC.Lyrical BalladsD.Prelude68.“The Isles of Greece” is a part of Byron’s masterpiece “___________________”A.Don JuanB.Childe Harold’s PrigrimageC.Oriental TalesD.Manfred69.Percy Shelly’s greatest achievement is his four- act poetic drama “_____________”.A.Men of EnglandB.Prometheus UnboundC.Ode to the West WindD.The Revolt of Islam70.At the age of fifteen, Keats became an apprentice to a ______________.ndlordB.apothecaryC.stable keeperD.doctor71.Jane Austen was the daughter of a ____________________.ndlordB.merchantwyerD.rector72.The novel Pride and prejudice by Austen mainly centres round the relationship between __________.A. Mr.Bennet and Mrs.BennetB. Darcy and ElizabethC. Bingley and JaneD. Sir William and Luccas73.Bronte Sisters are all outstanding ________________.A.essayistsB. playwrightsC.poetsD.novelists74.Most of Hardy’s later works show his ___________ view of life.A.optimisticB.pessimisticC.practicalD.ironical75.Structurally and thematically Bernad Shaw followed the great traditions of _________A. realismB. romanticism.C. modernismD.classicism76.Shakespeare is one of the greatest playwrights and _________________________ the world has ever known.A.poetsB.novelistsC.essayistsD.critics77.The greatest plays Shakespeare creates are________________.A. historiesB. ediesC. tragediesD.tragiedies78. Bacon is not only a essayist and philosopher, but also a _________________.A. lawyerB. scientistC.historianD.dramatist79.John Milton is a great poet in the _____________________PeoriD.A.RenaissanceB. NeoclassicalC.RomanticD. Realist80.The story of Paradise lost is taken from __________________.A. a legendB. BibleC. an epicD. a folklore81.In 1689 Jonathan Swift became the __________________of Sir William.A.House-keeperB.servantC.private secretaryD.steward82. The representative play Sheridan wrote is “ __________________”.A.The School for ScandalB.The CriticC.A Trip to ScarboroughD.The Rivals83. Lyrical Ballads is the cooperative work of William Wordsworth and _________________.A. Samuel ColeridgeB.Robert SoutheyC.John KeatsD. Percy Bysshe Shelley84. The Isles of Greece of Byron is taken from “_______________________”.A. Hours of IdlenessB. Don JuanC. Childe Harold PilgrimageD. Cain85. The first long serious work of Shelly is ________________________.A. The Necessity of AtheismB. Queen MabC.The Spirit of SolitudeD. Ode to the West Wind86. Keats’ father was a ______________.A. landlordB. apothecaryC. stable keeperD. doctor87. Jane Austen was the daughter of a ____________________.ndlordB.merchantC. lawyerD.rector88. As a novelist,Emily Bronte was also good at writing________________.A.essaysB. playsC. poemsD.stories89．The first novel written by Thomas Hardy is “__________________”.A. Desperate RemediesB. Under the Greenwoodc.The Return of the Native D. The Mayor of Casterbridge90.Shakespeare was the son of a _________________________.A. clerkndlordC.traderwyer91.”_______________” is NOT one of the four great tragedies of Shakespeare.A.OthelloB.King LearC.Romeo and JulietD.Macbeth92.The total number of the essays published by Bacon is_________________.A.10B.26C.45D. 5893.John Milton became blind at the age of 48,mainly because of_______________.A.readingB.deseaseC.hard workD.accident94.Paradise lost is a great epic consisting _____________ books.A. 8B. 10C. 12D. 1495.In 1689 Jonathan Swift became the __________________of Sir William.A.House-keeperB.servantC.private secretaryD.steward96. The first edy Sheridan wrote is “ __________________”.A.The School for ScandalB.The CriticC.A Trip to ScarboroughD.The Rivals97.”____________________” is the cooperative work of William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge.A. Tintern AbbeyB. The Rime of the Ancient MarinerC. Lyrical BalladsD. Prelude98. The first volume of poems of Byron is “_______________________”.A. Hours of IdlenessB. Don JuanC. Childe Harold PilgrimageD. Cain99. Percy Shelly was expelled from OxfordUniversity because he wrote a pamphlet “On the Necessity of_____________”.A. AtheismB. AestheticsC. AthleticsD. Ethics100. Keats was born in the family of a ______________.A. landlordB. apothecaryC. stable keeperD. doctor选择：1—5 B. B. D. A. B. 6—10 A. D. B. C. D 11—15 C.D. C. A C 16—20 D A B A B21—25 B A A B. A 26—30 A D. B. C. A. 31—35 C. C. B. A. C. 36—40 C. A.B. A. D.41—45 D A. C. A. C.46—50 A. B. B. B. A. 51—55 A. C. B. C.A. 56—60 D.D. D. B. A.61—65 B B C A D 66—70 D C A B B 71—75 D B D B A 76—80 A C B A B81—85 C A A B B 86—90 B D C A C 91—95 C D C C C 96—100 D C A A C判断：1—10 T F T T F F F F T F 11—20F F T T F F T T F F 21—30 F F T T F T F T F T 31—40 F F F T T F F F T F Ⅱ. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets.( ) 1. Leaves of Grass established Walt Whitman as the most popular American poet of the 19th century. ( ) 2. The poem “Song of Myself” got this title from the first edition.( ) 3. Puritanism and Calvinistic doctrine have great effects on Hawthorne’s writing.( ) 4. According to Emerson, man is divine in nature and therefore forever perfectible.( ) 5. Walt Whitman is granted the honor of being “the American Goldsmith” for his literary craftsmanship. ( ) 6. Emersonian Transcendentalism inspired a whole generation of famous authors like Whitman, Dickinson and Mark Twain.( ) 7. As a Puritan, Hawthorne embraced the Puritanical doctrines and expresses them in his novels. ( ) 8. In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne intends to tell a love story and a story of sin.( ) 9. Hawthorne is a master of symbolism, which he took from the Puritan tradition and bequeathed to American literature in a revivified form.( ) 10. Walt Whitman follows only one theme in his Leaves of Grass, that is, the burgeoning life in cities. ( ) 11. Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are written in heroic couplet.( ) 12. Life on the Mississippi tells a story of Henry James’s boyhood ambition to bee a riverboat pilot up and down the Mississippi.( ) 13. Emily Dickinson’s poems are usually based on her own experiences, her sorrows and joys. ( ) 14. Theodore Dreiser is greatly influenced by Darwinism and it is not surprising to find in his fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” is the law.( ) 15. In “This is my letter to the World”Dickinson expressed her reluctance to municate with the outside world.( ) 16. Each of Emily Dickinson’s poems has a well-chosen title.( ) 17. Emily Dickinson’s poetry is unique and unconventional in its own way, covering love, death and nature.( ) 18. In Robert Lee Frost’s poems, profound ideas are delivered under the disguise of the plain language and the simple form.( ) 19. Robert Lee Frost has long been well known as a poet who belongs to the new.( ) 20. Robert Frost wrote most of his poems in free verse.( ) 21. Eugene O’Neil, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams are together called “founders of the American drama.”( ) 22. Fitzgerald shows an interest both in the upper-class society and in the lower-class society. ( ) 23. Hemingway develops the style of colloquialism initiated by Mark Twain.( ) 24. In his novels, William Faulkner exploits the modern steam-of –consciousness technique to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.( ) 25. Benjamin Franklin is a early feminist, because he thinks that women should receive education.( ) 26. Emerson’s lasting reputation was established by his masterpiece Essays.( ) 27. Ellen Poe wrote many poems, so he has a very important position as poet; he wrote about 70 short stories and is regarded as a pioneer of the detective fiction and the horror fiction in the west.( ) 28. In style, her poems are characterized by their brevity, directness and plainness( ) 29. Philosophically, the naturalists believe that the real and true is always pletely hidden from the understanding of the individual or beyond his control.( ) 30. The defining formal characteristics of the modernistic works are discontinuity and fragmentation. ( ) 31.English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of drama.( ) 32.The greatest English playwright of the 18th century was Goldsmith, whose best play is "The School for Scandal".( ) 33. In 1805, Southey pleted a long autobiographical poem entiled "The Prelude".( ) 34. The Romantic Age began in 1789 when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their joint work "The Lyrical Ballads".( ) 35. Paradise Lost is Milton's masterpiece; the story is taken from the Old Testament: Satan and other angels rebel against God.( ) 36. George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, Scotland.( ) 37. Byron's masterpiece is Tom Jones.( ) 38. Novel writing made a big advance in the 18th century. the main characters in the novels were no longer mon people, but the kings and nobles.( ) 39. Shakespeare'a prime creating period lies in his third period when his greatest tragedies were written. ( ) 40. Tess is arrested and hanged because she murders her seducer Clare.III. Paraphrase the following quotations:1.The Eyes around—had wrung them dry—And Breaths were gathering firmFor that last Onset—when the KingBe witnessed—in the Room—( Dickinson: I heard a fly buzz—when I died )答案：My relatives and friends had cried so that there were no tears any more. I hold my breath and got ready for the last attack of Death when he appeared in the room.2.To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitarywhilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.The rays that e from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.( Emerson: Nature )答案：To be solitary, a man should also leave his room.When I am reading or writing, I amnot alone. When a man looks at the stars, his mind can be purified and above the dirty things.3. I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence;Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one I less traveled by,And that has made all the differenceRobert Frost: The Road Not Taken答案：In the future I shall tell this with some regret: facing the two roads, I chose a road few people had traveled by, and that has decided my whole life.4.Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them?( Hamlet )答案：We are facing two choices: to endure suffering in our life patiently or to take up arms and fight. Which is nobler?5.Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgement and disposition of business.( Of Studies )答案：To get pleasure of reading, you should be alone; to show your elequence, you should talk with others; to improve your ability, you should use the bookish knowledge in the judgement and arrangement of business.6.Must we but weep o’er days more blest ?Must we but blush ?— Our father bled.(The Isles of Greece )答案：Must we only weep for the past happy time ?Must we only feel ashamed , our fathers fought and died.So we must take up arms and fight.7. When old age this generation waste,Thou shall remain, in midst of other woeThan ours, a fiend to man, to whom thou say’st;“Beauty is truth, truth beauty.”– that is allYe know on earth, and all ye need to know.( Ode on a Grecian Urn )答案：When the old generation die, you shall live in the sorrows of another generation. You tell the people that truth and beauty are one, and that is all you know and need to know.8.The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.Emerson: Nature答案：The sun only lights up the adult superficially, but it lights up both the eye and the depth of the soul of the child .This means the child is purer than the adult.9.It is when the feet weary and hope seems vain that the heartaches and the longings arise. Know then, thatfor you is neither surfeit nor content. In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone.In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie答案：When you are tired and hopeless, desire will appear in your heart. When you sit in your arm-chair by the window, you are dreaming of the happiness, but you can never get it.10. A wafer of moon was shining over Gatsby’s house, making the night fine as before, and surviving the laughter and the sound of his glowing garden. A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows andthe great doors, endowing with plete isolatio the fighre of the host who stood othe porch, his hand up in as formal gesture of farewell.(Scott Fitzgerald: Great Gatsby)答案：After the guests left, the laughter and the music faded, but the moon was still thining and the night was still fine. An emptiness overwhelmed the whole place, the figure of Gatsby became very lonely and isolated.11. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them,…( Of Studies)答案：Men with experience look down upon reading, ignorant people admire reading, wise people make use of the knowledge from books.12．And every fair from fair sometimes declines.By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmedBut thy eternal summer shall not fade,Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st.(Sonnet 18)答案：Every beautiful thing and person can not keep its or his beauty for ever, because of the accidents or natural law.13Place me on Sunium’s marbled steep,Where nothing, save the wave and I,May hear our mutual murmurs sweep;There, swan-like, let me sing and die;A land of slaves shall ne’er be mine…( Isles of Greece )答案：Let me stand on the cliff by the sea alone and murmur to the waves. I would die as a swan after I sing my last song, because I would not live as a slave in my country.14. “So much the worse for me, that I am strong. Do I want to live?What kind of living will it be when you – oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?”(Wuthering Hights)答案：I am strong, but this is even worse, because after you die, my life will be torture.15．“I love my murderer---but not yours!”(Wuthering Hights)答案：Even if you kill me, I still love you; But you kill yourself. I can never forgive you for that.Ⅳ. Answer the following questions briefly:1.Why did Benjamin Franklin sit up late in his room?Answer: Because he had to finish reading the books he borrowed from the apprentices of the booksellers, so he could return the books in the morning.2.What is Emerson’s great contribution to American philosophy and literature?。

1．第6题The novel Sister Carrie opens with a description of Carrie on a train trip to the city of _______ looking for a factory job.A.New YorkB.BeijingC.BostonD.Chicago答案:D2．第7题Among the following titles, only one is not among the Leather-Stoking Tales series. It is__________.A.The Last of the MohicansB.The PrairieC.The PathfinderD.Moby Dick答案:D3．第8题The last finished novel written by Fitzgerald is __________.A.This Side of ParadiseB.All the Sad Young MenC.The Great GatsbyD.Tender Is the Night答案:D4．第9题"Two roads diverged in a yellow woods" is a line in a poem written by ---.A.T. S. EliotB.Wallace StevensC.Robert Frost答案:C5．第10题In Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter, the central character Hester Prynne had a secret affair with _____________.A.ChillingworthB.PearlC.DimmesdaleD.Hester Prynne答案:C6．第11题The arbiter of nineteen-century literary realism in America was ______.A.Mark TwainB.Henry JamesC.O’HenryD.William Dean Howells答案:D7．第12题Puritans emphasized a ____God.A.mercifulB.wrathfulC.benevolentD.learned答案:B8．第13题The best of Cooper’s sea romances was ____.A.The prairieB.The PilotC.The PoineersD.the pathfinder答案:B9．第15题The first American writer who propounded that a piece of literary work should focus on the production of a single emotional effect is ___.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB.Herman MelvilleC.Edgar Ellan Poe答案:C10．第16题Among the following 3 authors the one who later became a naturalized British citizen was ---.A.Mark TwainB. FitzgeraldC.Henry James答案:C11．第17题among the following three american writers, only one has never been married in his ｏr her life. the person is ___.A. Edgar Ellan PoeB.Herman MelvilleC.Emily Dickinson答案:C12．第20题“I become a transparent eye-ball. i am nothing. i see all. the currents of theuniversal being circulate through me; i am part ｏr particle of god.” the passage above is quoted ｆrom emerson’s essay __________.A.The American ScholarB.NatureC.Self-Reliance答案:B13．第21题The most famous sea story written by Jack London is _______.A.Martin EdenB.The Iron HeelC.The Sea WolfD.The Call of the Wild答案:C14．第22题Among the following 3 poets the one who was once imprisoned for political reasons is ---.A.Carl SandburgB.Edwin Arlington RobinsonC.Ezra Pound答案:C15．第23题Among the following novels, only one is not written by William Faulkner. It is _____________.A.Light in AugustsB.As I Lay DyingC.The Golden BowlD.Go Down, Moses答案:C16．第26题Eugene O’Neil did not write ______.A.The Emperor JonesB.Anna ChristieC.The Hairy ApeD.The Saloon答案:D17．第27题____ Bryant’s best-known poem, was written when he was only sixteen yearsold.A.To a WaterfowlB.ThanatopsisC.To HelenD.Annabel Lee答案:B18．第28题. the jazz age, characterized by frivolity ａnd carelessness, refers to ________.A.1910sB.1920sC.1930sD.1960s答案:B19．第29题“Two roads diverged in a yellow woods” is the first line in a poem written by Robert Frost entitled __________.A.The Road Not TakenB.Mending WallC.Two Yellow RoadsD.After Apple Picking答案:A20．第30题Among the following fictions, only one is not written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is ___________.A.The Scarlet LetterB.The Blithedale RomanceC.The Marble FaunD.The Fall of the House of Usher答案:D21．第31题The leader of the American Transcendentalism is _________.A.Henry David ThoreauB.Ralph Waldo EmersonC.Henry James答案:B22．第32题As a Modernist poet, Pound is noted for his active involvement in the ______A.cubist school of modern paintingB.Imagist MovementC.stream-of-consciousness techniqueD.German Expressionism答案:B23．第33题_______ does not belong to the school of naturalism in history.A.Stephen CraneB.Frank NorrisC.Jack LondonD.Walt Whitman答案:D24．第34题Jack London did not write ______.A.The Sea WolfB.The Call of the WildC.The AmbassadorsD.White Fang答案:C25．第35题"The Spectre Bridegroom" was written by the American author ---.A.Washington IrvingB.Nathaniel HawthorneC.James Feminore Cooper答案:A26．第36题Ernest Hemingway's Last important literary work is ---.A.the old man ａnd the seaB.The Sun Also RisesC. For Whom the Bell Tolls答案:A27．第37题“by nature’s self in white arrayed\ she bade thee shun the vulgar eye,\ ａnd planted here the guarding shade,\ ａnd sent soft waters murmuring by; \ thus quietly thy summer goes,\ thy days declining to repose.” the rhyme scheme of the lines above is ______________.A.abababB.ababccC.aabbcc答案:B28．第38题The Wasteland is a long modern poem written by ---.A. Ezra PoundB. Sylvia PlathC. T. S. Eliot答案:C29．第39题The Waste Land was dedicated to another poet who was __________.A.Ernest HemingwayB.Ezra PoundC.T. S. EliotD.William Carlos Williams答案:B30．第40题Of Mice ａnd Men is a novel written by ---.A. John SteinbeckB.Sherwood AndersonC.Sinklair Lewis答案:A31．第46题The famous pamphlet Common Sense appearing in 1776 was written by_____________.A.Thomas JeffersonB.Thomas PaineC.Benjamine Franklin答案:B32．第52题A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court was written by _______.A.Henry JamesB.Mark TwainC.Jack LondonD.Theodore Dreiser答案:B33．第53题The Iceberg style is most thoroughly reflected in the writings of the American novelist _____________.A.Jack LondonB.Ernest HemingwayC.Mark Twain答案:B34．第54题The salesman whom Sister Carrie met with on her way to Chicago was named _____________.A.Charles DrouetB.HurstwoodC.Stephen CraneD.Frank Norris答案:A35．第55题Among the following authors the one who once visited China was ---.A.Henry JamesB.William FaulknerC.Ernest Hemingway答案:C36．第56题A poetic line of two feet is called ___________.A.monometerB.dimeterC.trimeterD.tetrameter答案:B37．第57题when we say that a poor young man ｆrom the west tried to make his fortune in the east but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing about ______’s thematic concern in his fiction writing.A.Henry JamesB.Scott FitzgeraldC.HemingwayD.William Faulkner答案:B38．第58题_______ does not belong to the school of naturalism in history.A.Stephen CraneB.Frank NorrisC.Jack LondonD.Walt Whitman答案:D39．第59题“ I heard the merry grasshopper then sing,/The black-clad cricket bear a second part” These lines written by ____________.A.Roger WilliamsB.John EliotC.Anne BradstreetD.Washington Irving答案:C40．第60题Among the following fictions written by John Steinbeck, only one is aboutthe Second World War. It is ______________.A. “The Snake”B. The Grapes of WrathC. “The Moon Is Down”D.“The Pearl”答案:C41．第1题By the end of the nineteenth century, the realists rejected the portrayal of idealized characters ａnd events.答案:正确42．第2题"Tell me not, in mournful numbers" is a line in Longfellow's poem "A Psalm of Life".答案:正确43．第3题Many of Poe’s Gothic tales bear the theme of claustrophobia.答案:正确44．第4题The most important Southern writer is Robert Penn Warren who was the author of the poem “All the King’s Men”.答案:错误45．第5题The House of the Seven Gables is a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne based on his experience in the Brook Farm.答案:错误46．第14题benjamin franklin was a prose stylist whose writing reflected the romantic ideals of clarity, restraint, simplicity ａnd balance.答案:错误47．第18题John Stwinbeck didn't win a Nobel Prize because he was sympathetic with the working class people.答案:错误48．第19题Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls was about the Spanish Civil War. 答案:正确49．第24题The 19th century female poet Emily Dickinson was a forerunner of the modern Imagist poetry.答案:正确50．第25题Ralph Waldo Emerson was a representative figure of the American Transcendentalism.答案:正确51．第41题Jack London was usually considered as a romanticist for his portrayal of superman heroes.答案:错误52．第42题Besides Moby Dick, Melville also wrote some other sea novels.答案:正确53．第43题As a novelist, Nathaniel Hawthorne was deeply influenced by Puritanism. 答案:正确54．第44题“The Premature Burial” is a detective story written by Poe.答案:错误55．第45题Though Emily Dickinson married twice in her life, love had never been a major theme in her poetry.答案:错误56．第47题Long fellow’s poems belong to the darker aspect of the Romantic Movement.答案:错误57．第48题The famous philosopher Williams James was the novelist Henry James' brother.答案:正确58．第49题“The Purloined Letter” is a detective story.答案:正确59．第50题Stream of Consciousness is a minor technique that William Faulkner employed in his novels.答案:错误60．第51题"In a Station of the Metro" is a short poem written by Ezra Pound.答案:正确。

《英美文学选读》自考真题试题及答案解析卷面总分：100分答题时间：80分钟试卷题量：50题一、单选题（共50题，共100分）1.( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th —century“stream—of —consciousness ”novels and the founder ofpsychological realism.• A.Theodore Dreiser• B.William Faulkner• C.Henry James• D.Mark Twain正确答案：C本题解析：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。

2.Closely relate d to Dickinson ’s religious poetry are her poemsconcerning( ),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正确答案：C本题解析：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，3.considered( ) “the true father of our national literature ”.• A.Bret Harte• B.Mark Twain• C.Washington Irving• D.Walt Whitman正确答案：B本题解析：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”。

2017 — 2018 学年第 一 学期《美国文学》期末考试试卷（A 卷）适用班级 考试时间 120 分钟学院 班级 学号 姓名Ⅰ. Choose TEN of the following works and write the names of the authors. (10%)1. Octopus ( )2. Maggie, A Girl of the Streets ( )3. Babbitt ( )4. White Fang ( )5. “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” ( )6. My Antonia ( )7. “Birches” ( )8. Poor Richard’s Alma nac ( )9. Light in August ( )10. Twice Told Tales ( )11. The Declaration of Independence ( )12. “Rip Van Winkle ”( )13. Nature ( )14. The Song of Hiawatha ( )15. Uncle Tom ’s Cabin ( )16. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( )17. Sister Carrie( )18. The Waste Land ( )19. For Whom the Bell Tolls ( )20. The Emperor Jones ( )(10%)1._________________________was one of the founders of theJamestown colony in Virginia in 1607 and is known for his work describing the colonies.2.__________________________was a determined revolutionary whosework helped the cause of the American Revolution considerably, but who lost his popularity long before his death.3.The term refers to the group of people, some of themimportant to American literature (especially secular essay writing), who led the American Revolution and helped create the early American Republic.4.________________________was an early form of horror fiction thatoriginated in 18th century Europe and was very popular in America during the Romantic Period.5._____________________________, known for her deeply personalpoems and radically different poetic themes and form, didn’t achieve fame as a poet until long after her death.6.The first of American literature was not written by an American, but by___________________, a British captain, who thus became the first American writer.7. _________________ has been entitled the “Father of AmericanPoetry.8._______________________was the first great prose stylist ofAmerican romanticism, author of the first American short stories and familiar essays , the first American author to achieve international distinction, and has a significant position in the history of American literature.9._____________________is the first American professional writer andthe first writer of the detective story in the world.10._______________________is also called novel of the road, it stringsthe incidents on the line of the hero’s travel.Ⅲ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as themost appropriate answer. (30%)1. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. When her poems were published in England, she became know as the “______” who appeared in America.A Ninth MuseB Tenth MuseC Best MuseD First Muse2. ______ is the sometimes exaggerated use of local language, characters and customs in regional literature.A purple proseB waste-land imageryC local colorD symbolism3. The first great flourishing of African American literature that appealed to a relatively large literate Black readership was known as_____.A The HolocaustB The Harlem RenaissanceC AbolitionismD The Civil Rights Movement4. _______ was a leading 19th century feminist and one of the core members of the Transcendentalist movement.A Margaret FullerB Sylvia PlathC Hilda DoolittleD Gloria Stein5. Which of the following is not typical of modern poetry?A gushing sentimentalism and comfortable imagesB abandonment of earlier verse formsC use of free verseD an effort to find and/or explore a new role for the poet in a changing world6. Who was perhaps the most popular of all 20th century American poets?A Ezra PoundB Walt WhitmanC Robert FrostD Allen Ginsburg7. 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. Which is true of the “Fireside Poets”?A They were generally strongly in favor of abolishing slavery.B They were deeply involved in the Transcendentalist movement.C They were a group of 19th century New England poets who weretremendously popular and respected at the time they wrote.D They opposed to tradition and were in favor of radical change.9. Ernest Hemingway was badly wounded in Italy and sent to a hospital where he fell in love with a nurse. These two persons later became the characters of his novel ________.A The Old Man and the SeaB For Whom the Bell TollsC The Sun Also RisesD A Farewell to Arms10. The Brahmists or Boston Brahmi, in American literature, refers to _______.A The highest ranking of the Hindu castes.B A movement that emerged from rebellion against Puritan religious ideas and systems.C A group of New England writers known for their scholarship and/or conservative philosophy.D A school of imaginative writing.11. Which of the following is one of Ben Franklin’s famous proverbs?A “A stitch in time saves nine”B “God helps those who help themselves”C “A Friend in need is a friend indeed”D “Ask not who the bell tolls, the bell tolls for thee”12. ___________ was a reaction to the ideas of the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment.A RomanticismB RealismC NaturalismD Modernism13. Although few of her poems were 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 writers died a natural death in his old age?A Jack LondonB Ernest HemingwayC Stephen CraneD Mark Twain15. Who of the following is NOT a 20th century American poet?A Henry Wordsworth LongfellowB Amy LowellC Ezra PoundD Robert FrostIV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether thestatements are true or false. (10%)1.Hawthorne was a firm believer in Puritan principles and mourned theirpassing in his works.2.Frederick Douglas was a major 19th century black writer.3.The sound of Whitman’s words casts a magic, romantic spell overreaders. His tone is awesome, sad and melancholy.4.Haiku, a form of traditional Japanese poetry, greatly influenced theImagist movement.5.Leaves of Grass is Whitman’s life work.6.Thanks in part to the efforts of Ezra Pound, Robert Frost was publishedin England and quickly became recognized as a major American poet. 7.In 1954, T. S. Eliot was awarded a Nobel Prize for his “mastery of theart of modern narration.”8.Hemingway believed that a man could find meaning in life by facing hisdeath with dignity and courage.9.Thomas Jefferson was famous for powerful, persuasive essays, such ashis pamphlet Common Sense, which persuaded many people to support the American Revolution.10.William Hill Brown’s The Power of Sympathy, written in 1789, is oftencalled “the first American novel”.11.The literary movement of American romanticism was generally dividedinto two stages: pre-romanticism and post-romanticism.12.Realists thought highly of individual status and role in the world. Theromanticists preferred the innate or intuitive perception by the heart of man. They thought that man was essentially of goodwill, only the civilized society made him degenerate. They pointed out, the means to uproot evils and to save mankind was habits, and to return to “natural primitive state”.13.The Scarlet Letter is called an economical novel because there are onlythree chief characters-or four if we include the child Pearl.14.President Lincoln praised Anne Bradstreet as “the little woman whowrote the book that made this great war.”15.Edgar Allan Poe wrote two poems both entitled “ To Helen”.16.Literary naturalism may be regarded as the new development of literaryrealism, and was sometimes called “pessimistic realism.”The naturalistic writers were philosophical pessimists.17.Hemingway, Pound, Cummings, Dos Passos, and Fitzgerald, belong tothe school of “Beat Generation”.18.F. Scott Fitzgerald is called the leader and poet laureate of the Jazz Agewho wrote the novels of the Jazz Age.19.Yoknapatawpha saga is a name for John Steinbeck’s novels.20.“Thanatopsis”is a word Bryant borrowed from Latin meaning“meditation on death”.the questions. (20%)Passage 1The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.Questions:1.Who is the writer of this poem? _______________(1%)2.What is the title of this poem? _______________(1%)3.What images in this poem suggest Haiku poetry and what images are“modern”? (2%)4.What is the effect of the parallel between lines one and two of the poem?And what feeling and meaning does the poem express to you? (2%)Passage 2It was late and everyone had left the caféexcept an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light. In the daytime the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference. Questions:1.This part is from the novel , written by .(2%)2.Why does the old man get drunk every night and why did he commitsuicide? (2%)3.What does the young waiter think of the old man and how does he treathim? (3%)Passage 3I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the es-sential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God.Questions:1.This passage is taken from a famous work entitled _________ . (1%)2.The author of the work is____________ . (1%)3.List by yourself at least five reasons that the author gives for going tolive in the woods. (5%)Passage 4But, on one side of the portal（入口），and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.Questions:1.This part is from the novel , written by .(2%)2.What does “the wild rose bush” symbolize according to your opinion?(5%)Passage 5It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden there lived whom you may know.By the name of Annabel Lee; —And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be loved by me.Questions:1.The stanza is taken from the poem________________?(1%)2.The author of the poem is____________ . (1%)3.What is the most obvious rhetorical device the author uses for effect?(4%)Passage 6Thou hast an house on high erect,Framed by that mighty Architect,With glory richly furnished,Stands permanent though this be fled.It’s purchased and paid for tooBy Him who hath enough to do.Questions:1.This stanza is taken from the poem__________________________by____________.(2%)2.What is one’s real house according to the poet? (5%)VI. Choose TWO of the following and Comment on them.(20%)1.Robert Frost' s The Road Not Taken.（10%）2.Eugene O' Neill’s Long Day's Journey into Night.（10%）3.Talk about Adgar Allan Poe's social outlook and writings （10%）ment on Hawthorne’s style.（10%）《美国文学》期末考试试卷A卷答案暨评分标准适用班级060511-3 考试时间120 分钟Ⅰ. Choose TEN of the following works and write the names of the authors. (1*10=10%)1.Frank Norris2.Stephen Crane3.Sinclair Lewis4.Jack London5.Washington Irving6.Willa Cather7.Robert Frost8.Benjamin Franklin9.William Faulkner10.Nathaniel Hawthorne11.Thomas Jefferson12.Washington Irving13.Ralph Waldo Emerson14.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow15.Harriet Beecher Stowe16.Mark Twin17.Theodore Dreiser18.T.S. Eliot19.Ernest Hemingway20.Eugene O’NeillⅡ. Choose FIVE of the following and fill in the blanks. (2*5=10%)1.John Smith2.Thomas Paine3.“founding fathers”4.Gothic Fiction5.Emily Dickenson6.John Smith7.Philip Freneau8.Washington Irving9.Edgar Allan Poe10.Picaresque novelⅢ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. (2*15=30%)IV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether the statements are true or false. (1*10=10%)V. Choose THREE of the following fragments and answer the questions. (20%)Passage 11.Ezra Pound (1)2.In A Station of the Metro (1)3.Answer should comment on the parallel between the “modern” imagery(description of urban crowds and transportation, loneliness) of the firstline and the traditional “Oriental” imagery (budding flowers on a tree,wetness) of the second line. (2)4.What is the effect of the parallel between lines one and two of the poem?Describe the stylistic result of the parallel and the feelings it evokes (2)Passage 21.This part if from the short story “A Clean Well Light Room” written byErnest Hemingway. (2)2.D escribe the old man’s character and relate it to the nihilist philosophyexpressed in the story. (2)3.What does the young waiter think of the old man (and why) and howdoes he treat him? Describe the young man’s character, his lack ofunderstanding of the old man and the significance of how he treats theold man as described in the story. (3)Passage 31.Walden (1)2.Henry David Thoreau (1)3.Find the answer from the passage. (5)Passage 41.The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne.(2)2.life and liberty.(5)Passage 51.Annabel Lee.(1)2.Edgar Allan Poe. (1)3.repetition or refrains.(4)Passage 61.Upon the Burning of Our House, Anne Bradstreet.(2)2.One's real house is in heaven, built by the great architect, God. (5) VI. Choose TWO of the following and Comment on them. (20%)1. Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken. (10%)•This poem is written in classic five-line stanzas, with the rhyme scheme a-b-a-a-b and conversational rhythm. The poem seems to be about thepoet, walking in the woods in autumn, choosing which road he shouldfollow on his walk. In reality, it concerns the important decisions whichone must make in life, when one must give up one desirable thing inorder to possess another. Then, whatever the outcome, one must acceptthe consequences of one' s choice for it is not possible to go back andhave another chance to choose differently.•In the poem, the poet hesitates for a long time, wondering which road to take, because they are both pretty. In the end, he follows the one whichseems to have fewer travelers on it. Symbolically, he chose to follow anunusual, solitary life; perhaps he was speaking of his choice to become apoet rather than some commoner profession. But he always remembersthe road which he might have taken, and which would have given him adifferent kind of life.2. Eugene O' Neill’s Long Day's Journey into Night. (10%)•Long Day's Journey into Night is somewhat autobiographical. The Tyrones of the play are in fact modeled on the Eugene O' Neill family.The four major characters include James Tyrone, the father, a famousactor, anxious to become rich at the expense of his own talent; MaryTyrone, the mother, a drug addict; Jamie Tyrone, their elder son, andEdmund Tyrone, their younger son. The Mother becomes mentally illbecause she is extremely unhappy with her married life. Young Jamieloses faith in life, while Edmund the wanderer comes back withtuberculosis. All the four suffer frustrations and wish to escape from theharsh reality, James and Jamie look for solace in their cups, while Maryand Edmund seek the protection of the fog which they hope wouldscreen them from the intrusion of the world outside. They meet in theliving room of the family' s summer home at 8:30 a. m. of a day inAugust, 1912, and torment one another and themselves until midnight.The father is angry with the mother for her drug addiction, the motherwith his sons for being good for nothing, and the sons with their parentsfor not being good parents. All are torn in a war between love and hate,and no one is sure which is the stronger emotion. Life is too painful forthem even to try and make sense of it. Edmund ' s desperate advice inface of the horrible burden of Time weighing on people ' s shoulders andcrushing them to the earth is to lose feeling in their cups and stay alwaysdrunk. Thus the long day journeys into night when the tragedy of thefamily is finally enacted. No relief is felt, no light is seen, and all ends inthe engulfing darkness.•In a figurative sense, Long Day' s Journey into Night is a metaphor for Eugene 0' Neill' s lifelong endeavor to find truth and the way toacceptance. The former he found, namely, the faithless, fragmentarynature of modern life, whereas the latter he did not; for him all passedinto night. In despair Eugene O' Neill thought of the old God of theCatholic church on which, it is ironical to not, he had turned his backlong before.3. Talk about Adgar Allan Poe's social outlook and writings （10%）●Poe admired aristocratic society，distrusted the leveling tendency ofdemocracy, and expressed contempt for uplift movements of progress（提高社会地位的进步运动）.He deplored America's increasing industrialization.In his more sardonic comments on democracy, he says that it amounts to the tyranny "of a mob." He could be associated with those literary men in the 1840's and 1850's，who became, in M elville's words , "isolates（孤僻者，与世隔绝者）, " who were (at least in theory)divorced from society. Yet Poe's criticism of contemporary America cut deeper than that of his contemporaries, causing an isolation more nearly absolute than theirs (see Hawthorne). He was more interested in redeeming and refining language.He was called the "great literary engineer."●Poe also dramatizes for us what has been called the demonic side of thenineteenth century. His tales are filled with assassination and non-escape ,with violence and death. Many of his characters are obsessed with a fear of death. Some of them strive to come back from the tomb;others are terrified of being buried alive or in fact are buried alive like Madeline in "The Fall of the House of Usher. "The two obsessions are part of a general fear of retaining consciousness in a world that is dead.●Poe was preoccupied with the disintegration of culture, with decadence. Hegives us a vision of "dehumanized man." P oe’s characters are dead to the world, machines of sensation and will. They are not willing to live in their own skins. For Poe's characters, the body is a mere machine. It refuses to be reconciled to the flesh and its mortal fate.●As a consequence , Poe's characters insist on living with an intensity andfear that has no relation to the limitations imposed by biological and physical laws. They do not seem to eat or drink ,they do not work.Occasionally they read or play on musical instruments. They are constantly musing about their lives. They speak to each other intensely and with passion. They live only in their heads—all a matter of intellect and imagination.●Poe's typical heroines are usually afflicted with mysterious diseases. Theyvisibly waste away before their lovers’ eyes. Their lovers or husbands can see that they are perishing and the heroines themselves are thoroughly aware of it, but the process cannot be halted. But they are not willing to let go of their lovers.●His characters fear the final moment, which constantly threatens them whilethey are alive, since they have no contact with the world of nature or with religion, being just sheer intelligence which is not connected with anything providing life or spiritual fulfillment. One critic has written :"Poe is not interested in anything that is alive. Everything in Poe is dead —the houses, the rooms, the furniture." Death is a predominant theme of Poe's poetry.The setting of "The Raven," his most celebrated poem, is like that of his tales : the unhappy, unresolved lover sits in an elaborately furnished room, trying to find peace from sorrow in his books and conducting a curious dialogue with his midnight visitant ,a black, deathlike symbol—the raven.Death is also the theme of the curious poem, "Ulalume(尤拉鲁姆)" and "The City in the Sea. "Some literary critics suggest that Poe’s intention was to recognize the impulse,always kept hidden, to kill, even to do violence to one's own nature.●Yet if the world of Poe's imagination is haunted by death and if the tales inparticular seem morbid and obsessed, why did they appeal to the audience of Poe's day? And can they have anything to say to us? The answer would have to be that in spite of their fantastic character they do，at some level, reveal what was going on in the psyche of nineteenth century man.Something like a disintegration of personality was occurring in Poe's life time, and the strange horrors that Poe described produced some echoes in the thoughts of his contemporaries. His audience had a craving for the sensational and the shocking. Writers and sensitive thinkers saw man as spiritually gutted),being pushed into an insane, inhuman world created by the rapidly growing process of industrialization.●Strangely enough, however, Poe had a fascination with the power of reason,despite his emphasis on the irrational. In stories like "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter , " reason is applied to the solution of a baffling crime. Even a few of Poe's tales of nightmare terror come tohappy endings precisely because the hero can think his way through a problem. Though the hero of "The Pit and the Pendulum" cannot, by his unaided efforts, save himself from the death intended for him, he uses his head to keep himself alive until help from the outside comes. In fact, one kind of Poe's characters must be those who are forced to fall back on the resources of one's mind.●Just as he was fascinated with the process of reason, Poe was interested inthe deviousness(曲折) of the human soul. He placed emphasis on how the unconscious motivates human beings, not unlike the Romantics of his day, but to a greater extent. Unlike the Romantics, Poe examined irrational drives; he wanted to bring reason to bear on areas which, in his time, were regarded as lying beyond its boundaries or else were ignored altogether. In other words, Poe used his reason to discover the source of the irrational.This is especially evident in "Tell-Tale Heart."●Poe's tragic life and his concentration on death were his extreme and poeticresponse to that which was elaborated upon, in naturalistic terms, fifty years later. He was unusually sensitive to the world of his own day, affected by it intensely ，causing his isolation. Though he wanted to find his place in a traditional society, his failure to do so may well have heightened his sense of lonely individualism. It is this sense of alienation which has carried itself through the greatest of literature in America.4. Comment on Hawthorne’s style.（10%）●His style is also noteworthy for his frequent use of images. Metaphors andsimiles abound, most of them stirringly fresh and effective. He makes skillful use of colors as a means for conveying mood. Black ,red and gray predominate.●Hawthorne's sentences, like his language, show the effects of his long yearsof study and practice in writing. There are few of the awkward sentences which may be found in Cooper. The sentences may appear, to a twentieth century reader, to be too consistently long. But they were not abnormally long for their day. In the most complex sentences ,however, grammatical subordination is employed with sufficient logic and variety to make the writing smooth and clear.●Another reflection of the times in which Hawthorne wrote is seen in hispunctuation. Many of his works are over-punctuated, by modern standards;there are superfluous commas, excessive dashes, and far too many exclamation points. In most cases his words are forceful enough to achieve the emphasis he desires, and the attempt to show such emphasis by using exclamation points is not necessary. But Hawthorne cannot be condemned for following the mechanical conventions of his day.●Hawthorne depends heavily on summarized historical narrative, but linksscenes dramatically. Occasionally, he will interrupt his works to address the reader directly, with some comment on the story, some piece of background information, or a brief moral essay.● A characteristic device of Hawthorne’s，which is employed several timesin The Scarlet Letter, is the "optional reading, " Hawthorne uses concrete objects as well as characters to serve as his symbols. He concentrates on a few main symbols repeated often in the story, and uses the fluidity of character development to illustrate the ways in which symbols grow and change based upon one's perception of them.。

(单选题) 1: Of the below poets, has not been awarded Poet Laureate.A: William WordsworthB: Thomas GrayC: Alfred TennysonD: Ben Jon son正确答案:(单选题) 2: Who is not considered a Beat Generation writer?A: KerouacB: GinsbergC: Mailer正确答案:(单选题) 3: (The)____was a progressive intellecrual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century．A: RomandcismB: HumanismC: EnlightenmentD: Sentimentalism正确答案:(单选题) 4: The Pilgrim‘s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for _______ .A: material wealthB: spiritual salvationC: universal truthD: self-fulfillment正确答案:(单选题) 5: It is on his _______ that Washington Irving‘s fame mainly rested.A: childhood recollectionsB: sketches about his European toursC: early poetryD: tales about America正确答案:(单选题) 6: Of the following writers , who wrote the critical essay On Poetry and Poets ?A: PoundB: EliotC: Frost正确答案:(单选题) 7: ________ is famous for his international theme .A: HowellsB: Mark TwainC: Henry James正确答案:(单选题) 8: In which of the following poems by William Butler Yeats did you find the allusion to Helen and the TrojanWar?A: "Sailing to Byzantium"B: " Leda and the Swan"C: "The Lake Isle if Innisfree".D: " Sown by the Sally Garden"正确答案:(单选题) 9: provides the main source of influence on American naturalism.A: The puritan heritageB: Howells’ ideas of realismC: Darwin’s theory of evolutionD: The pioneer spirit of the wild west正确答案:(单选题) 10: “To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grand Foe.”（John Milton, Paradise lost) By what means were Satan and his followers to wage this war against God?A: By planting a tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden.B: By turning into poisonous snakes to threaten man’s life.C: By removing God from His throne.D: By corrupting man and woman created by God.正确答案:(单选题) 11: In his essay“of Studies，”Bacon Said：“Some books are to be tasted，others to be swallowed，and some few to be chewed and____.A: SkimmedB: perfectedC: imitatedD: digested正确答案:(单选题) 12: The typical feature of Robert Browning`s poetry is the_____.A: bitter satireB: larger-than-life caricatureC: Latinized dictionD: dramatic monologue正确答案:(单选题) 13: “In dream vision Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana, and upon awaking resolves to seek her.” The two literary figures Arthur and Gloriana are form .A: Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie QueeneB: William Shakespeare’s Romeo and JulietC: Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His love”D: John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”正确答案:(单选题) 14: "So much the worse for me, that I an strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you-oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?" In the above passage quoted from Emily Bronte‘s Wuthering Heights, the word "soul" apparently refers to _______ . A: HeathcliffB: CatherineC: ghostD: one‘s spiritual lift正确答案:(单选题) 15: Dubliners is writing ofA: realismB: modernismC: stream of consciousnessD: none of the above正确答案:(单选题) 16: Here are two lines taken from The Merchant of venice：“NOt on thy Sole，but on thy soul，harsh Jew /thou mak‘st thy knife keen．”What kind of figurative device is used in the above lines?A: Simile．B: Metonymy．C: Pun．D: Synecdoche．正确答案:(单选题) 17: The Idylls of the King is written byA: BrowningB: TennysonC: George EliotD: Carlyle正确答案:(单选题) 18: Irving was regarded as ______ .A: father of American dramaB: father of American poetryC: father of American Literature正确答案:(单选题) 19: John Milton wrote his masterpieces after blindness expect ___A: Paradise LostB: Paradise RegainedC: Samson AgonistesD: Areopagitica正确答案:(单选题) 20: The poems such as，“The Chimney Sweeper”are found in both Songs of lnnocence and SongS of Experience by____.A: William WordsworthB: William BlakeC: John KeatsD: Lord Gordon Byron正确答案:(判断题) 1: The short story “The Rocking Horse Winner” was written by Lawrence.A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 2: Naturalism is evolved from Romanticism .A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 3: All My Sons is the masterpiece of Arthur Miller .A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 4: Pynchon‘s fascination with popular culture is overwhelmingly evident in the novel V. A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 5: The most gifted of the University Wits was Shakespeare.A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 6: The Neo-classicism saw its decline in Johnson.A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 7: The Lost Generation was first named by Hemingway .A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 8: Pynchon‘s novel Gravity‘s Rainbow won the Faulkner Foundation Award .A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 9: King Lear distributed his territory among his three daughters.A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 10: Blake is often regarded as a symbolist and mystic.A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 11: The Rape of the Lock gives an account of an anecdote of the court.A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 12: On one hand Byron is a violent reformer and on the other hand he is a wanderer. A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 13: Stephen Crane was also a poet who influenced Imagist poetry .A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 14: The Celestial City in the Pilgrim’s Progress stands for an ideal happy society. A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 15: Faulkner‘s artistic techniques include the exploration of reality , the nature of time and the relation of the past to the present .A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 16: Whitman is granted the honor of being ‘‘the American Goldsmith ‘‘for his literary craftsmanship .A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 17: Romanticism rose and grew under the impetus of the French Revolution.A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 18: The poetry of Sentimentalism is characterized by sympathy for the French Revolution. A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 19: One of the most important features in Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice is the use of dramatic languages.A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 20: The most striking similarities between Milton and Samson Agonistes are their blindness and unhappy marriage.A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(单选题) 1: Of the below poets, has not been awarded Poet Laureate.A: William WordsworthB: Thomas GrayC: Alfred TennysonD: Ben Jon son正确答案:(单选题) 2: Who is not considered a Beat Generation writer?A: KerouacB: GinsbergC: Mailer正确答案:(单选题) 3: (The)____was a progressive intellecrual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century．A: RomandcismB: HumanismC: EnlightenmentD: Sentimentalism正确答案:(单选题) 4: The Pilgrim‘s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for _______ .A: material wealthB: spiritual salvationC: universal truthD: self-fulfillment正确答案:(单选题) 5: It is on his _______ that Washington Irving‘s fame mainly rested.A: childhood recollectionsB: sketches about his European toursC: early poetryD: tales about America正确答案:(单选题) 6: Of the following writers , who wrote the critical essay On Poetry and Poets ?A: PoundB: EliotC: Frost正确答案:(单选题) 7: ________ is famous for his international theme .A: HowellsB: Mark TwainC: Henry James正确答案:(单选题) 8: In which of the following poems by William Butler Yeats did you find the allusion to Helen and the TrojanWar?A: "Sailing to Byzantium"B: " Leda and the Swan"C: "The Lake Isle if Innisfree".D: " Sown by the Sally Garden"正确答案:(单选题) 9: provides the main source of influence on American naturalism.A: The puritan heritageB: Howells’ ideas of realismC: Darwin’s theory of evolutionD: The pioneer spirit of the wild west正确答案:(单选题) 10: “To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grand Foe.”（John Milton, Paradise lost) By what means were Satan and his followers to wage this war against God?A: By planting a tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden.B: By turning into poisonous snakes to threaten man’s life.C: By removing God from His throne.D: By corrupting man and woman created by God.正确答案:(单选题) 11: In his essay“of Studies，”Bacon Said：“Some books are to be tasted，others to be swallowed，and some few to be chewed and____.A: SkimmedB: perfectedC: imitatedD: digested正确答案:(单选题) 12: The typical feature of Robert Browning`s poetry is the_____.A: bitter satireB: larger-than-life caricatureC: Latinized dictionD: dramatic monologue正确答案:(单选题) 13: “In dream vision Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana, and upon awaking resolves to seek her.” The two literary figures Arthur and Gloriana are form .A: Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie QueeneB: William Shakespeare’s Romeo and JulietC: Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His love”D: John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”正确答案:(单选题) 14: "So much the worse for me, that I an strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you-oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?" In the above passage quoted from Emily Bronte‘s Wuthering Heights, the word "soul" apparently refers to _______ . A: HeathcliffB: CatherineC: ghostD: one‘s spiritual lift正确答案:(单选题) 15: Dubliners is writing ofA: realismB: modernismC: stream of consciousnessD: none of the above正确答案:(单选题) 16: Here are two lines taken from The Merchant of venice：“NOt on thy Sole，but on thy soul，harsh Jew /thou mak‘st thy knife keen．”What kind of figurative device is used in the above lines?A: Simile．B: Metonymy．C: Pun．D: Synecdoche．正确答案:(单选题) 17: The Idylls of the King is written byA: BrowningB: TennysonC: George EliotD: Carlyle正确答案:(单选题) 18: Irving was regarded as ______ .A: father of American dramaB: father of American poetryC: father of American Literature正确答案:(单选题) 19: John Milton wrote his masterpieces after blindness expect ___A: Paradise LostB: Paradise RegainedC: Samson AgonistesD: Areopagitica正确答案:(单选题) 20: The poems such as，“The Chimney Sweeper”are found in both Songs of lnnocence and SongS of Experience by____.A: William WordsworthB: William BlakeC: John KeatsD: Lord Gordon Byron正确答案:(判断题) 1: The short story “The Rocking Horse Winner” was written by Lawrence.A: 错误B: 正确正确答案:(判断题) 2: Naturalism is evolved from Romanticism .A: 错误。

Part I. The Literature of Colonial AmericaI. Fill in the following Blanks.1.The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was______.2.Among the members of the small band of Jamestown settlers was _____, an English soldier offortune, whose reports fo exploratin, publiseed in the early 1600s, have been described as thefirst distinct American literaature written in English.3.Almost a hundred years earlier the Caribbean Islands, Mexicl, and other parts of Central andSouth America were occupied by the _____.4.The term "Puritan" was applied to those settlers who originally were devout members of theChurch of _____.5._____ College was established in 1636, with a printing press set up nearly in 1639.6.Among all the settlers in the New Continent, _____ settlers were the most influential.7.The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at _____, Virginia.8._____ was a famous explorer and colonist. He established Jamestown.9.In the book _____ John Smith wrote that "here nature and liberty afford us that freely which inEngland we want, or it costs us dearly."10.Genearl History of Virginia contains Smith's most famous tale of how the Indian princessnamed _____ saved him from the wrath of her father.11.Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety, these were the _____ values that dominated much of theearly American writing.12.The American poets who emerged in the seventeenth century adapted the style of establishedEuropean poets to the subject matter comfronled in a slrang, new environment. __________Bradstreet was one such poet.13.William Bradford himself used a word " ________ " to describe the community ofbelievers who sailed from Southampton, England, on the Mayflower and settled in Plymouth,Massachusetts in 1620.14.In 1620,____________ was elected Governor of Plymouth, Massachusetts.15.From 1621 until his death, ___________ probably possessed more power than any othercolonial governor.16.William Bradford's work ___________ consists of two books. The first bookdeals with the persecutions of the SeptuaEiate m Scrooby, England, and ihesecond book dcscribes the signing of the "Compact".17.The History- of New England is a priceless gift left us by_______.18.__________ wrote his most impressive wort The Magnalia Ckristi America.19.The writer who best expressed the Puritan faith in the colonial period was_______20.The Puritan philosophy known as ________ was important in New England during colonialtime, and had a profound influence on the early American mind for several generations.21.Many Puritans wrote verse, but the work of two writers, Anne BradsLitel and_________ , roselo Jhe level of real poetry.22.A representative sermon A True Stgki of Sin is____________ 's main work.23.Before his death, _________ had gained a position as America;s first systematicphilosopher.24.Jonathan Edwards' s masterpiece is ____________ .25.The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America is a collection of poems composedby__________ .26._________ 's best verse is to be found in a juries called "Preparatory Meditations" .27.The Day of Doom, a long-standing best-seller both in Ameriea and in England, written by________ .28.Charles Biuckden Brown's first novel______________ , or ___________ has been regarded asthe first American novel.29.With his elaborate metaphors, __________ was reminiscent of Richaid Crashaw and GeorgeHerbert in England.III. Make multiple choices.1. English literature in the America is only about more than ________ years old.A. 500B. 400C. 200D. 1002. The establisher of Jamestown was the famous explorer and colonist ____________ .A. John WinthropB. John SmithC. William BradfordD. John Goodwin3. The Puritan dominating values were___________ .A. hard workB. thriftC. pietyD. sobriety4. The early history of___________ Colony was the history of Bradford' s leader ship.A. PlymouthB. JamestownC. New EnglandD. Mayflower5. Choose those names that were named after English monarch or land.A. GeorgiaB. New YorkC. CarolinaD. New Hampshire6. __________ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A. William BradfordC. Emily DickinsonD. Captain John Smith7. Which statement about Cotton Mather is not true?A. He was a great Puritan historian.B. He was an inexhaustible writer.C. He was a skillful preacher and an eminent theologian.D. He was a graduate of Oxford College.8. Jonathan Edwards' best and most representative sermon was ____ .A. A True Sight of SinB. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry GodC. A Model of Christian CharityD. God's Determinations9. Which writer is not a poet?A. Michael WigglesworthB. Anne BradstreetC. Edward TaylorD. Thomas Hooker10. The common thread throughout American literature has been the emphasis on the__________ .A. RevolutionismB. ReasonC. IndividualismD. Rationalism11. 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 Muse12. 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. ArmadaC. MayflowerD. PequodKeys to Part I.I. Fill in the blanks:1.American Puritanism2.Captain John Smith3.Spanish4.England5.Harvard6.English7.Jamestown8.Captain John Smith9. A Description of New England10.Pocahontas11.Puritan12.Anne13.Pilgrims14.William Bradford15.William Bradford16.Mayflower17.John Winthrop18.Cotton Mather19.John Winthrop20.Puritanism21.Edward Taylor22.Thomas Hooker23.Jonathan Edwards24.Freedom of the Will25.Anne Bradstreet26.Edward Taylor27.Michael Wiggleworth28.Wieland, The Transformation; An American Tale29.Edward TaylorIII. Make multiple choices：1. C2. B3.ABCD4. A5.ABCD6. D7. D8. B9. D10.C11.B12.C•Part II. The Literature of Reason and RevolutionI. Fill in the blanks.1.The War of Independence lasted eight years till_____.2.The United States of America was founded in _____.3.Benjamin Franklin also edited the first colonial magazine, which he called _____.4.Benjamin Franklin' s best writing is found in his masterpiece ________ .5.Thomas Paine, with his natural gift for pamphleteering and rebellion, was appropriately borninto an age of____________ .6.On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine's famous pamphlet ________ appeared.7. A series of sixteen pamphlets by Thomas Paine was entitled _____________ .8.Thomas Paine's second most important work_____________ was an impassioned pleaagainst hereditary monarchy.9.The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century was _____________ .10.Philip Freneau' s famous poem____________ was written about his imprisoned experience.11.___________ was considered as the " poet of the American Revolution. "12._________ has been called the "Father of American Poetry. "13.In 1791, probably with Thomas Jefferson's support, ___________ established inPhiladelphia the National Gazette.14.In American literature, the eighteenth century was an Age of _________ and Revolution.15.The Calvinist beliefs brought about the Great Awakening during the 1730s and 1740s._________ was the most influential among the believers.16.Jonathan Edwards' work Images or Shadows of Divine Things anticipated the naturesymbolism of___________ in the 19th century. we say Jonathan Edwards represents theupper levels of the American mind, _________ represents the lower levels.III. Make multiple choices.1. In American literature, the eighteenth century was the age of the Enlightenment. _________ wasA. HumanismB. RationalismC. RevolutionD. Evolution2. In American literature, the Enlighteners were opposed to ________ .A. the colonial orderB. religious obscurantismC. the Puritan traditionD. the secular literature3. The English colonies in North America rose in arms against their parent country and the Continental Congress adopted____________ in 1776.A. the Declaration of IndependenceB. the Sugar ActC. the Stamp ActD. the Mayflower Compact4. Which statement about Benjamin Franklin is not true?A. He instructed his countrymen as a printer.B. He was a scientist.C. He was a master of diplomacy.D. He was a Puritan.5. The secular ideals of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in the life and careerof___________ .A. Thomas HoodB. Benjamin FranklinC. Thomas JeffersonD. George Washington6. Which of the following stirred the world and helped form the American republic?A. The American CrisisB. The FederalistC. Declaration of IndependenceD. The Waste Land7. Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the____________ .A. American EnlightenmentB. Sugar ActC. Chartist movementD. Romanticist8. From 1732 to 1758, Benjamin Franklin wrote and published his famous __________ , an annal collection of proverbs.B. Poor Richard's AlmanacC. Common SenseD. The General Magazine9. Which is not connected with Thomas Paine?A. Common SenseB. The American CrisisC. Pennsylvania MagazineD. The Autobiography10. Choose the works written by Thomas Paine.A. Rights of ManB. The Age of ReasonC. Agrarian JusticeD. Common SenseE. The American Crisis1l. The first pamphlet published in America to urge immediate independence from Britainis__________ .A. The Rights of ManB. Common SenseC. The American CrisisD. Declaration of Independence12. "These are the times that try men' s souls", these words were once read to George Washington' s troops and did much to shore up the spirits of the revolutionary soldiers. Who is the author of these words?A. Benjamin FranklinB. Thomas JeffersonC. Thomas PaineD. George Washington13. Which statement about Philip Freneau is true?A. He was a satirist.B. He was a pamphleteer.C. He was a poet.D. He was a bitter polemicist.14. Which poem is not written by Philip Freneau?A. The British Prison ShipB. The Wild Honey SuckleC. The Indian Burying GroundD. The Day of Doom15. Who was considered as the "Poet of American Revolution"?B. Edward TaylorC. Anne BradstreetD. Philip Freneau16. It was not until January 1776 that a widely heard public voice demanded complete separation from England. The voice was that of________ , whose pamphlet Common Sense, with its heated language, increased the growing demand for separation.A. Thomas PaineB. Thomas JeffersonC. George WashingtonD. Patrick Henry17. During the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the____________ .A. Chartist MovementB. Romanticist MovementC. Enlightenment MovementD. Modernist Movement18. Thomas Jefferson' s attitude, that is, a firm belief in progress, and the pursuit of happiness, is typical of the period we now call _________ .A. Age of EvolutionB. Age of ReasonC. Age of RomanticismD. Age of Regionalism19. __________ carries the voice not of an individual but of a whole people. It is more than writing of the Revolutionary period, it defined the meaning of the American Revolution.A. Common SenseB. The American CrisisC. Declaration of IndependenceD. Defence of the English People20. Benjamin Franklin shaped his writing after the______________ of the English essayists Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.A. Spectator PapersB. WaldenC. NatureD. The Sacred WoodKeys to Part II.I. Fill in the blanks1.17832.17833.the General Magazine4.Autobiography5.revolutionmon Sense7.The American crisis8.The Rights of Man9.Philip Freneau10.The British Prison Ship11.Philip Freneau12.Philip Freneau13.Philip Freneau14.Reason15.Jonathan Edwards16.Transcendentalism17.Benjamin Franklin III. Make multiple choices.1. B2.ABC3. A4. D5. B6.ABC7. A8. B9. D10.ABCDE11.B12.C13.ABCD14.D15.D16.A17.C18.B19.C20.APart III. The Literature of RomanticismI. Fill in the blanks?1.In the early nineteenth century, Washington Irving wrote ________ which be came the firstwork by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.2.In 1828, __________ published his An American Dictionary of the English Language.3.In 1755, __________ published his remarkable dictionary named Dictionary of the EnglishLanguage.4.The Civil War of 1861—1865 ended in the defeat of the Southerners and the abolitionof___________ .5.The American Transcendentalists formed a club called _________ .6.The Transcendental Club often met at____________ ' s Concord home.7.______ was regarded as the first great prose stylist of American romanticism.8.At nineteen___________ published in his brother' s newspaper, his "Jonathan Oldstyle"satires of New York life.9.In Washington Irving' s work___________ appeared the first modern short stories and thefirst great American juvenile literature.10.In Paris, Washington Irving met John Howard Payne, the American dramatist and actor,with whom Irving wrote his brilliant social comedy______________ , or The MerryMonarch.11.The short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is taken from Washington Irving' s worknamed _______.12._________ was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after theRevolutionary War.13.Washington Irving' s first book appeared in 1809. It was entitled _____________ .14.Washington Irving also wrote two biographies, one is The Life of Oliver Gold smith, and theother is____________ .15.The first important American novelist was____________ .16.James Fenimore Cooper' s novel ___________ was a rousing tale about espionage againstthe British during the Revolutionary War.17.The best of James Fenimore Cooper's sea romances was_____________ . The hero of thenovel represents John Paul Jones, the great naval fighter of the Revolutionary War.18.The central figure in the Leatherstocking Tales is____________ , who goes by the variousnames of Leatherstocking, Deerslayer, Pathfinder and Hawkeye.19."To a Waterfowl" is perhaps the peak of_______________ ' s work, it has been called by aneminent English critic " the most perfect brief poem in the language. "20.__________ was the first American to gain the stature of a major poet in the world literature.21.Among William Cullen Bryant's most important later works are his translations of the Iliadand the____________ into English blank verse.22.Edgar Allan Poe' s poem____________ is perhaps the best example of onomatopoeia in theEnglish language.23.Edgar Allan Poe's poem____________ was published in 1845 as the title poem of acollection.24.Ralph___________ Emerson was responsible for bringing transcendentalism to NewEngland.25.Ralph Waldo Emerson's truest disciple, the man who put into practice many of Emerson'stheories, was____________ .26.In 1845, Henry David Thoreau began a two-year residence at _________________ Pond.27.A superb book entitled____________ came out of Henry David Thoreau' s two-yearexperiment at Walden Pond.28.From Henry David Thoreau' s Concord jail experience, came his famous essay ______.29.Hester Prynne is the heroine in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel _____________ .30.Herman Melville' s novel____________ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage inpursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.31.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's first collection of poems entitled ______________ appearedin 1838.32.The most scholarly of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow' s writings is his translation of Dante' s______.33.Besides lyrics and longer poems Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote dramatic works,among which____________ is the most conspicuous.34.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and _____________ are the only two American poetscommemorated in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.35.After his death, __________ became the only American to be honored with a bust in thePoet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.36.The American Romantic period stretches from the end of the eighteenth century through theoutburst of the___________ .37.The English author named___________ was, in a way, responsible for the romanticdescription of landscape in American literature and the development of American Indian romance. His Waverley novels were models for American historical romances.38.Published in 1823, __________ was the first of the Leatherstocking Tales, in their order ofpublication time, and probably the first true romance of the frontier in American literature.39.In The Pioneers, __________ represents the ideal American, living a virtuous and free life inGod' s world.40.In 1836, a little book came out which made a tremendous impact on the intellectual life ofAmerica. It was entitled Nature by______________ .41.Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay__________ has been regarded as "America's Declaration ofIntellectual Independence". It called on American writers to write about America in a way peculiarly American.42.Another renowned New England Transcendentalist was_____________ , a friend of RalphWaldo Emerson' s and his junior by some fourteen years.43.The way in which___________ wrote The Scarlet Letter suggests that AmericanRomanticism adapted itself to American puritan moralism.44.Herman Melville's world classic novel Moby Dick was dedicated to____________ , anovelist.45.It is said that in his late years, Herman Melville stopped writing novels and stories andturned to poetry, ___________ is his most famous poetic work.46.Herman Melville is best known as the author of one book named______________ , whichis, critics have agreed, one of the world's greatest masterpieces.II. Make multiple choices.1. In 1837, the first college-level institution for women, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, was established in____________ to serve the "muslin sex".A. New EnglandB. VirginiaC. MassachusettsD. New York2. Transcendentalism took their ideas from___________ .A. the romantic literature in EuropeB. neo-PlatonismC. German idealistic philosophyD. the revelations of oriental mysticism3. As a philosophical and literary movement, ____________ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A. modernismB. rationalismC. sentimentalismD. transcendentalism4. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in___________and Henry David Thoreau.A. Thomas JeffersonB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Philip FreneauD. Oversoul5. Who were regarded as the "School-room Poets"?A. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowB. LowellC. Oliver Russel HolmesD. John Greenleaf Whittier6. American statesmen such as__________ slowly won for their country the respectof European powers.A. WashingtonB. JeffersonC. MadisonD. Monroe7. _________ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. Henry David ThoreauB. Ralph Waldo EmersonD. Walt Whitman8. Transcendentalists recognized__________ as the "highest power of the soul. "A. intuitionB. logicC. data of the sensesD. thinking9. Led by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and _______________ , there arose a kind of teachings of transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century.A. Herman MelvilleB. Henry David ThoreauC. Mark TwainD. Theodore Dreiser10. Transcendentalism appealed to those who disdained the harsh God of the Puritan ancestors, and it appealed to those who scorned the pale deity of New EnglandA. TranscendentalismB. HumanismC. NaturalismD. Unitarianism11. In the early 19th century America, statesmen such as _________ , came to dominate American politics not with their prose but with the emotional force of their oratory.A. Daniel WebsterB. Daniel DefoeC. Philip FreneauD. Thomas Paine12. A new___________ had appeared in England in the last years of the eighteenth century. It spread to continental Europe and then came to America early in the nineteenth century.A. realismB. critical realismC. romanticismD. naturalism13. The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of American literature, evident in _________ .A. James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking TalesB. Henry David Thoreau' s V/aldenC. Mark Twain' s Huckleberry FinnD. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter14. A preoccupation with the demonic and the mystery of evil marked the works of _________ , and a host of lesser writers.B. Edgar Allan PoeC. Herman MelvilleD. Mark Twain15. An American Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1828 by_____A. Samuel JohnsonB. Noah WebsterC. Daniel WebsterD. Daniel Defoe16. In the nineteenth century America, Romantics often shared certain general characteristics. Choose such characteristics from the following.A. moral enthusiasmB. faith in the value of individualism and intuitive perceptionC. adoration for the natural worldD. presumption about the corrosive effect of human society17. Choose Washington Irving' s works from the following.A. The Sketch BookB. Bracebridge HallC. Tales of a TravellerD. A History of New York18. In James Fenimore Cooper's novels, close after Natty Bumppo in romantic appeal , come the two noble red men. Choose them from the following.A. the Mohican Chief ChingachgookB. UncasC. Tom JonesD. Kubla Khan19. In 1817, the stately poem called Thanatopsis introduced the best poet___________ to appear in America up to that time.A. Edward TaylorB. Philip FreneauC. William Cullen BryantD. Edgar Allan Poe20. Choose William Cullen Bryant's poems from the following.A. To a Caty-DidB. To a WaterfowlC. ThanatopsisD. The Wild Honey Suckle21. From the following, choose the poems written by Edgar Allan Poe.A. To HelenB. The RavenC. Annabel LeeD. The Bells22. In his post on the Messenger, Edgar Allan Poe showed his true talents asA. an editorB. a poetC. a literary criticD. a fiction writer23. Edgar Allan Poe's first collection of short stories is___________ .A. Tales of a TravellerB. Leatherstocking TalesC. Canterbury TalesD. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque24. From the following, choose the characteristics of Ralph Waldo Emerson's poetry.A. being highly individualB. harsh rhythmsC. lack of form and polishD. striking images25. Which book is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson?A. Representative MenB. English TraitsC. NatureD. The Rhodora26. Which essay is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson?A. Of StudiesB. Self-RelianceC. The American ScholarD. The Divinity School Address27. From Henry David Thoreau' s jail experience, came his famous essay, ___________ , which states Thoreau's belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.A. WaldenB. NatureC. Civil DisobedienceD. Common Sense28. The finest example of Nathaniel Hawthorne' s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in__________ .A. The Scarlet LetterB. Young Goodman BrownC. The Marble FaunD. The Ambitious Guest29. The House of Seven Gables is a famous mystery-haunted novel written by_________A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Nathaniel HathorneC. Nathanal HawthorneD. Nathanial Hathorne30. Nathaniel Hawthorne's ability to create vivid and symbolic images that embody great moral questions also appears strongly in his short stories. Choose his short stories from the following.A. Young Goodman BrownB. The Great Stone FaceC. The Ambitious GuestD. Ethan BrandE. The Pearl31. Which is not Nathaniel Hawthorne's long novel?A. The Scarlet LetterB. The Marble FaunC. The Blithedale RomanceD. The House of Seven GablesE. Dr. Heidegger's Experiment32. Herman Melville called his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne_____________ in American literature.A. the largest brain with the largest heartB. father of American poetryC. the transcendentalistD. the American scholar33. Choose the characters which appear in the novel The Scarlet Letter.A. Hester PrynneB. Arthur DimmesdaleC. Roger ChillingworthD. Pearl34. __________ was a romanticized account of Herman Melville's stay among the Polynesians. The success of the book soon made Melville well known as the " man who lived among cannibals".A. Moby DickB. TypeeC. OmooD. Billy Budd35. With the appearance of ______________ in 1855, which is about American Indians, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poetical reputation was established.A. EvangelineB. The Courtship of Miles StandishC. Song of HiawathaD. Michael Angelo36. Choose the authors who belong to the romantic group in American literature.A. Ralph Waldo EmersonB. Henry David ThoreauC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Herman MelvilleE. Walt Whitman37. 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 than did__________ .A. PuritanismB. RomanticismC. RationalismD. Sentimentalism38. American romanticist writers,like Washington Irving and especially the group of New England poets such as____________ , __________ ,__________ ,_____ and Lowell, tried to model their works upon English and European masters.A. William Cullen BryantB. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowC. Oliver Russel HolmesD. John Greenleaf WhittierE. Thomas Gray39. Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as____________and____________ .A. Rip Van WinkleB. The Legend of Sleepy HollowC. Life of GoldsmithD. Life of Washington40. "The universe is composed of Nature and the soul... Spirit is present everywhere". This is the voice of the book Nature written by Emerson, which pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New England______A. RomanticismB. TranscendentalismC. NaturalismD. Symbolism41. There is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actually _________ on the Puritan soil.A. RomanticismB. PuritanismC. Mysticism。

2012-2013学年 第二学期 《美国文学》期末考试试卷（A 卷）专业：英语 年级：2010级 考试方式：闭卷 学分：2 考试时间：110分钟I ．Multiple Choices (每小题 1分，共20分)Directions: Select from the four choices of each item the one thatbest answers the question.1. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more_____________. A . rational B . humorous C. optimisticD . pessimistic2. Which of the following is not written by Ernest Hemingway, one of the best-known American authors of the 20th century? A. The Sun Also Rises B. The Old Man and the Sea C. Mosses from the Old ManseD. Hills Like White Elephant3. The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues Except the __________ in the American history. A. individual feeling B. survival of the fittest C. strong imaginationD. return to nature4. Almost all Faulkner ’s heroes turned out to be tragic because__________. A. all enjoyed living in the declining American South.B. none of them was conditioned by the civilization and Social institutions.C. most of them were prisoners of the past.D. none were successful in their attempt to explain the inexplicable.5. As an autobiograp hical play, O’Neill’s ________ (1955) has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama._.A. The Iceman ComethB. Long Day’s Journey into NightC. Beyond the HorizonD. Bound East for Cardiff6. Which of the following statements is right about Robert Frost’s poetry?A. He combined traditional verse forms with the difficult and highly ornamental language.B. He combined traditional verse forms with the pastoral language of the Southern area.C. He combined traditional verse forms with a simple spoken language, the speech of New England farmers.D. He combined traditional verse forms with the experimental.7. Edgar Allen Poe was characterized by his __________.A. psycho-analysisB. novels set in the WestC. free verseD. political pamphlets8. Which of the following is depicted as the mythical county in William Faulkner’s novels?A. CambridgeB. OxfordC. MississippiD. Yoknapatawpha9. ____________ was the first great American writer to write for pleasure rather than utility. He is considered to be founder of American literature by some critics.A. James Fenimore CooperB. Washington IrvingC. Ezra PoundD. Mark Twain10. We can perhaps summarize that Walt Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features except that they are _______________.A. lyrical and well-structuredB. conversational and crudeC. simple and rather crudeD. free-flowing11. The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck reveals the miserable lives of __________ .A. factory workersB. sailorsC. landless farm laborersD. veterans12. Among the American realistic writers, _________ focused his attention on the rising middle class and the way they lived.A. Herman MelvilleB. Henry JamesC. Mark TwainD. William Dean Howells13. Which of the following is a representative novel of naturalism by an American writer? 2A. Innocents AbroadB. McTeagueC. Daisy MillerD. The Grapes of Wrath14. The first symbol of self-made American man is _________.A. Benjamin FranklinB. Washington IrvingC. George WashingtonD. Mark Twain15. The Imagist writers followed three principles. They respectively are direct treatment, economy of expression and ________.A. local colorB. ironyC. clear rhythmD. blank verse16. Robert Frost is famous for his lyric poems. Which of the following lyric poems wasnot written by Robert Frost?A. “The Raven”B. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”C. “After Apple-picking”D. “The Road Not Taken”17. “The lost generation”refers to the writers who relocated to Paris in the post WWⅠyears to reject to values of American materialism. All the following but ________are involved in this group.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. Ernest HemingwayC. Theodore DreiserD. John Dos Passos18. The first settlers who became the founding fathers of the American nation were quite a few of them _________.A. AnglicansB. CatholicsC. NormansD. Puritans19. Which one of the following statements is applicable to the understanding of Transcendentalism?A. It is strongly influenced by social Darwinism.B. Belief in individualism, independence of mind, and self-reliance.C. Man has no free-will.D. It holds that determinism governs everything.20. In __________, Captain Ahab is obsessed with the revenge on a whale which shearedoff his leg on a previous voyage, and his crazy chasing of it eventually brings death to allon board the whaler except Ishmael, who survives to tell the tale.《美国文学》A卷第3页共18页4A. TypeeB. White JacketC. Moby DickD. Billy BuddII ．Explain the Following Literary Terms Briefly (每小题7分，共14分)Directions : Please write down the answers on the Answer Sheet.21. Local Colorism 22. Stream of ConsciousnessIII ．Identification of Fragments (每小题7分，共21分)Directions : Please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly comment on itin English. Please write down the answers on the Answer Sheet.23. “‘That ’s right.’ He said; ‘I ’m no good now. I was all right. I had money. I ’m going to quit this,’ and, with death in his heart, he started down toward the Bowery. People had turned on the gas before and died; why shouldn ’t he? He remembered a lodging house where there were little, close rooms, with gas-jet in them, almost pre-arranged, he thought, for what he wanted to do, which rented for fifteen cents. Then he remembered that he had no fifteen cents.”24. “All day Buck brooded by the pool or roamed restlessly above the camp. Death, as a cessation of movement, as a passing out and away from the lives of the living, he knew, and he knew John Thornton was dead. It left a great void in him, somewhat akin to hunger, but a void which ached and ached, and which food could not fill.25. “Her skeleton was small and spare; perhaps that was why that would have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her. She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue.IV . Short Essay Questions (每小题10分，共 30 分)Directions : Please write down the answers on the Answer Sheet.《美国文学》A 卷 第5页 共18页26. The relationship between man and nature is a recurrent theme, perhaps one of the most important themes, in American literature. Write a short essay on it by contrasting tow or three American literary works, or two or three American literary movements, to tell what you know about their different views of nature. 27. Please make a comment on Eugene O ’Neil.28. Please briefly comment on Theodore Dreiser ’s novel Sister Carrie.V ．Appreciating a Literary Work (计 15 分)Directions:In this part, you are required to write a commentary paper in no less than 100 words. Please write it on the AnswerSheet .A Clean, Well-Lighted PlaceErnest HemingwayIt was very late and everyone had left the cafe except an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light. In the day time the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference. The two waiters inside the cafe knew that the old man was a little drunk, and while he was a good client they knew that if he became too drunk he would leave without paying, so they kept watch on him."Last week he tried to commit suicide," one waiter said. "Why?""He was in despair." "What about?" "Nothing.""How do you know it was nothing?" "He has plenty of money."They sat together at a table that was close against the wall near the door of the cafe and looked at the terrace where the tables were all empty except where the old man sat in the shadow of the leaves of the tree that moved slightly in the wind. A girl and a soldier went by in the street. The street light shone on the brass number on his collar. The girl wore no head covering and hurried beside him."The guard will pick him up," one waiter said. "What does it matter if he gets what he's after?""He had better get off the street now. The guard will get him. They went by five minutes ago."The old man sitting in the shadow rapped on his saucer with his glass. The youngerwaiter went over to him."What do you want?"The old man looked at him. "Another brandy," he said."You'll be drunk," the waiter said. The old man looked at him. The waiter went away."He'll stay all night," he said to his colleague. "I'm sleepy now. I never get into bed before three o'clock. He should have killed himself last week."The waiter took the brandy bottle and another saucer from the counter inside the cafe and marched out to the old man's table. He put down the saucer and poured the glass full of brandy."You should have killed yourself last week," he said to the deaf man. The old man motioned with his finger. "A little more," he said. The waiter poured on into the glass so that the brandy slopped over and ran down the stem into the top saucer of the pile. "Thank you," the old man said. The waiter took the bottle back inside the cafe. He sat down at the table with his colleague again."He's drunk now," he said."He's drunk every night.""What did he want to kill himself for?""How should I know.""How did he do it?""He hung himself with a rope.""Who cut him down?""His niece.""Why did they do it?""Fear for his soul.""How much money has he got?" "He's got plenty.""He must be eighty years old.""Anyway I should say he was eighty.""I wish he would go home. I never get to bed before three o'clock. What kind of hour is that to go to bed?""He stays up because he likes it.""He's lonely. I'm not lonely. I have a wife waiting in bed for me.""He had a wife once too.""A wife would be no good to him now.""You can't tell. He might be better with a wife.""His niece looks after him. You said she cut him down.""I know." "I wouldn't want to be that old. An old man is a nasty thing.""Not always. This old man is clean. He drinks without spilling. Even now, drunk. Look at him.""I don't want to look at him. I wish he would go home. He has no regard for those 6《美国文学》A 卷 第7页 共18页who must work."The old man looked from his glass across the square, then over at the waiters."Another brandy," he said, pointing to his glass. The waiter who was in a hurry came over."Finished," he said, speaking with that omission of syntax stupid people employ when talking to drunken people or foreigners. "No more tonight. Close now.""Another," said the old man."No. Finished." The waiter wiped the edge of the table with a towel and shook his head.The old man stood up, slowly counted the saucers, took a leather coin purse from his pocket and paid for the drinks, leaving half a peseta(西班牙货币单位) tip. The waiter watched him go down the street, a very old man walking unsteadily but with dignity."Why didn't you let him stay and drink?" the unhurried waiter asked. They were putting up the shutters. "It is not half-past two.""I want to go home to bed." "What is an hour?""More to me than to him." "An hour is the same.""You talk like an old man yourself. He can buy a bottle and drink at home." "It's not the same.""No, it is not," agreed the waiter with a wife. He did not wish to be unjust. He was only in a hurry."And you? You have no fear of going home before your usual hour?" "Are you trying to insult me?""No, hombre （老兄）, only to make a joke.""No," the waiter who was in a hurry said, rising from pulling down the metal shutters. "I have confidence. I am all confidence.""You have youth, confidence, and a job," the older waiter said. "You have everything.""And what do you lack?" "Everything but work.""You have everything I have.""No. I have never had confidence and I am not young." "Come on. Stop talking nonsense and lock up.""I am of those who like to stay late at the cafe," the older waiter said."With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night.""I want to go home and into bed.""We are of two different kinds," the older waiter said. He was now dressed to go home. "It is not only a question of youth and confidence although those things are very beautiful. Each night I am reluctant to close up because there may be some one who needs the cafe.""Hombre, there are bodegas open all night long.""You do not understand. This is a clean and pleasant cafe. It is well lighted. The light is very good and also, now, there are shadows of the leaves.""Good night," said the younger waiter."Good night," the other said. Turning off the electric light he continued the conversation with himself, It was the light of course but it is necessary that the place be clean and pleasant. You do not want music. Certainly you do not want music. Nor can you stand before a bar with dignity although that is all that is provided for these hours. What did he fear? It was not a fear or dread, It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was a nothing too. It was only that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada （没有，虚无）y（所以）pues（既然，那么）nada y nada y pues nada. Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee. （这是一段模仿祷告词，其中的名词和动词都被虚无所取代，表明一切事物和行为都是虚无。

全国2018年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题课程代码：00604全部题目用英文作答，并将答案写在答题纸相应位置上，否则不计分PART ONE (40 POINTS)I. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your choice on the answer sheet.1.The most significant idea of the Renaissance is（）.A. humanismB. realismC. naturalismD. skepticism2.Shakespeare’s tragedies include all the follow ing except（）.A. Hamlet and King LearB. Antony and Cleopatra and MacbethC. Julius Caesar and OthelloD. The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream3.The statement “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability”opens one of well-known essays by（）.A. Francis BaconB. Samuel JohnsonC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift4.In Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent（）touch in his description of the simple though primitive rural life.A. nostalgicB. humorousC. romanticD. ironic5.Backbite, Sneerwell, and Lady Teazle are characters in the play The School for Scandal by （）.A. Christopher MarloweB. Ben JonsonC. Richard Brinsley SheridanD. George Bernard Shaw6.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 epicB. comic epicC. romanceD. lyric epic7.In his poem “Tyger, Tyger,”William Blake expresses his perception of the“fearful symmetry”of the big cat. The phrase“fearful symmetry”suggests（）.A. the tiger’s two eyes which are dazzlingly bright and symmetrically setB. the poet’s fear of the predator1C. the analogy of the hammer and the anvilD. the harmony of the two opposite aspects of God’s creation8.“What is his name?”“Bingley.”“Is he married or single?”“Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year.What a fine thing for our girls!”The above dialogue must be taken from（）.A. Jane Austen’s Pride and PrejudiceB. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering HeightsC. John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte SagaD. George Eliot’s Middlemarch9.The short story“Araby”is one of the stories in James Joyce’s collection（）.A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManB. UlyssesC. Finnegans WakeD. Dubliners10.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following except（）.A. the using of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC. the humble and rustic life as subject matterD. elegant wording and inflated figures of speech11.Here are two lines taken from The Merchant of V enice:“Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew/Thou mak’st thy knife keen.”What kind of figurative device is used in the above lines?（）A. Simile. B. Metonymy.C. Pun.D. Synecdoche.12.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”is an epigrammatic line by（）.A. J. KeatsB. W. BlakeC. W. WordsworthD. P. B. Shelley13.The poems such as“The Chimney Sweeper”are found in both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by（）.A. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. John KeatsD. Lord Gordon Byron14.John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is often regarded as a typical example of（）.A. allegoryB. romanceC. epic in proseD. fable15.Alexander Pope strongly advocated neoclassicism, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by（）rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.A. classicalB. romanticC. sentimentalD. allegorical16.In his essay“Of Studies,”Bacon said:“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,2and some few to be chewed and（）.”A. skimmedB. perfectedC. imitatedD. digested17.“For I have known them all already, known them all—/Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,/I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”The above lines are taken from （）.A. Wordsworth’s “The Solitary Reaper”B. Eliot’s“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”C. Coleridge’s“Kubla Khan”D. Yeats’s“The Lake Isle of Innisfree”18.(The)（）was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.A. RomanticismB. HumanismC. EnlightenmentD. Sentimentalism19.A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of（）, who never pays any attention to human feelings.A. moralityB. justiceC. propertyD. humor20.The typical feature of Robert Browning’s poetry is the （）.A. bitter satireB. larger-than-life caricatureC. Latinized dictionD. dramatic monologue21.George Bernard Shaw’s play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a grotesquely realistic exposure of the（）.A. slum landlordismB. political corruption in EnglandC. economic oppression of womenD. religious corruption in England22.The story starting with the marriage of Paul’s parents Walter Morel and Mrs. Morel must be （）.A. Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’UrbervillesB. D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and LoversC. George Eliot’s MiddlemarchD. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre23.In American literature the first important writer who earned an international fame on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean is（）.A. Washington IrvingB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Walt Whitman24.The American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne is known for his“black vision.”The term“black vision”refers to（）.A. Hawthorne’s observation that every man faces a black wallB. Hawthorne’s belief that all men are by nature evilC. that Hawthorne employed a dream vision to tell his story3D. that Puritans of Hawthorne’s time usually wore black clothes25.Theodore Dreiser was once criticized for his（）in style, but as a true artist his strength just lies in that his style is very serious and well calculated to achieve the thematic ends he sought.A. crudenessB. eleganceC. concisenessD. subtlety26.“He is the last of the romantic heroes, whose energy and sense of commitment take him in search of his personal Grail; his failure magnifies to a great extent the end of the American Dream.”The character referred to in the passage is most likely the protagonist of（）.A. Fitzgerald’s The Great GatsbyB. Dreiser’s An American TragedyC. Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell TollsD. Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn27.Almost all Faulkner’s heroes turned out to be tragic because（）.A. all enjoyed living in the declining American SouthB. none of them was conditioned by the civilization and social institutionsC. most of them were prisoners of the pastD. none were successful in their attempt to explain the inexplicable28.Yank, the protagonist of Eugene O’Neill’s play The Hairy Ape, talked to the gorilla and set it free because（）.A. he was mad, mistaking a beast for a humanB. he was told by the white young lady that he was like a beast and he wanted to see how closely he resembled the gorillaC. he was caged with the gorilla after he insulted an aristocratic strollerD. he could feel the kinship only with the beast29.In（）, Robert Frost compares life to a journey, and he is doubtful whether he will regret his choice or not when he is old, because the choice has made all the difference.A. “After Apple-Picking”B. “The Road Not Taken”C. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”D. “Fire and Ice”30.Though Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were romantic poets in theme and technique, they differ from each other in a variety of ways. For one thing, whereas Whitman likes to keep his eye on human society at large, Dickinson often addresses such issues as（）, immortality, religion, love and nature.A. progressB. freedomC. beautyD. death31.The Romantic Writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the（）in the American literary history.A. individual feelingB. survival of the fittestC. strong imaginationD. return to nature32.Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be4（）.A. transcendentalistsB. optimistsC. pessimistsD. idealists33.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. Naturalism34.American writers after World War I self-consciously acknowledged that they were(a)“（）,”devoid of faith and alienated from the Western civilization.A. Lost GenerationB. Beat GenerationC. Sons of LibertyD. Angry Young Men35.In（）, Washington Irving agrees with the protagonist on his preference of the past to the present, and of a dream-like world to the real world.A. “Young Goodman Brown”B.“Rip Van Winkle”C. “Rappaccini’s Daughter”D.“Bartleby, the Scrivener”36.Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely characters in（）.A. The House of the Seven GablesB. The Scarlet LetterC. The Portrait of a LadyD. The Pioneers37.Like Nathaniel Hawthorne,（）also manages to achieve the effect of ambiguity through symbolism and allegory in his narratives.A. Mark TwainB. Henry JamesC. R. W. EmersonD. Herman Melville38.In his realistic fiction, Henry James’s primary concern is to present the（）.A. inner life of human beingsB. American Civil War and its effectsC. life on the Mississippi RiverD. Calvinistic view of original sin39.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain’s writing style?（）A. Simple vernacular.B. Local color.C. Lengthy psychological analyses.D. Richness of irony and humor.40.Which of the following statements about E. 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.PART TWO (60 POINTS)Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41.“Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found”Questions:5A.Identify the poem and the poet.B.What idea do the two lines express?42.“To be so distinguished, is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.”Questions:A.Identify the work and the author.B.What is the tone of author?43.“‘Faith! Faith!’cried the husband. ‘Look up to Heaven, and resist the Wicked One.’”Questions:A.Identify the work and the author.B.What idea does the quoted sentence express?44.“We passed the School, where Children stroveAt Recess—in the Ring—We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain—We passed the Setting Sun—”Questions:A.Identify the poem and the poet.B.What do“the School,”“the Fields”and“the Setting Sun”stand for respectively?Ⅲ. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45.As a rule, and allegory is a story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surface meaning, and an implied meaning. List two works as examples of allegory. What is the implied meaning an allegory is usually concerned with?46.“Let it not be supposed by the enemies of‘the system,’that during the period of his solitary incarceration, Oliver was denied the benefit of exercise, the pleasure of society, or the advantages of religious consolation.”What do you think Charles Dickens intends to say in the above ironic statement taken from Oliver Twist?47.Whitman has made radical changes in the form of poetry by choosing free verse as his medium of expression. What are the characteristics of Whitman’s free verse?48.Some of Hemingway’s heroes are regarded as the Hemingway code heroes. Whatever the differences in experience and age, they all have something in common which Hemingway values. What are the characteristics of the Hemingway code hero?Ⅳ. Topics for Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the6corresponding space on the answer sheet.49.Elizabeth Bennet, the heroine in Pride and Prejudice, is often regarded as the most successful character created by Jane Austen. Make a brief comment on Elizabeth’s character.50.Take Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as an example to illustrate the statement that Mark Twain was a unique writer in American literature.7。

1．第 6 题The novel Sister Carrie opens with a description of Carrie on a train trip tothe city of _______ looking for a factory job.York答案 :D2．第 7 题Amongthe following titles,only one is not amongthe Leather-Stoking Tales series. It is__________.Last of the MohicansPrairiePathfinderDick答案 :D3．第 8 题The last finished novel written by Fitzgerald is __________.Side of Paradisethe Sad Young MenGreat GatsbyIs the Night答案 :D4．第 9 题"Two roads diverged in a yellow woods" is a line in a poem written by ---.. S. EliotStevensFrost答案 :C5．第 10 题In Hawthorne ’s novelThe Scarlet Letter, the central character Hester Prynne had a secret affair with _____________.Prynne答案 :C6．第 11 题The arbiter of nineteen-century literary realism in America was ______.TwainJames’Henry DeanHowells答案 :D7．第 12 题Puritans emphasized a ____God.答案 :B8．第 13 题The best of Cooper’s sea romances was ____.prairiePilotPoineerspathfinder答案 :B9．第 15 题The first American writer who propounded that a piece of literary workshould focus on the production of a single emotional effect is ___.A. Nathaniel HawthorneMelvilleEllan Poe答案 :C10．第 16 题Amongthe following 3 authors the one who later becamea naturalized British citizenwas ---.TwainB. FitzgeraldJames答案 :C11．第 17 题amongthe following three american writers, only one has never been married in hisｏ r her life. the person is ___.A. Edgar Ellan PoeMelvilleDickinson答案 :C12．第 20 题“ 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.” the passage above is quotedｆrom emerson ’s essay __________.American Scholar答案 :B13．第 21 题The most famous sea story written by Jack London is _______.EdenIron HeelSea WolfCall of the Wild答案 :C14．第 22 题Among the following 3 poets the one who was once imprisoned for political reasons is ---.SandburgArlington RobinsonPound答案 :C15．第 23 题Among the following novels, only one is not written by William Faulkner. It is _____________.in AugustsI Lay DyingGolden BowlDown, Moses答案 :C16．第 26 题Eugene O’Neil did not write ______.Emperor JonesChristieHairy ApeSaloon答案 :D17．第 27 题____ Bryant ’s best -known poem, was written when he was only sixteen years old.a WaterfowlHelenLee答案 :B18．第 28 题. the jazz age, characterized by frivolityａnd carelessness, refers to________.答案 :B19．第 29 题“Tworoads diverged in a yellow woods” is the first line in a poemwritten by Robert Frost entitled __________.Road Not TakenWallYellow RoadsApple Picking答案 :A20．第 30 题Among the following fictions, only one is not written by NathanielHawthorne. It is ___________.Scarlet LetterBlithedale RomanceMarble FaunFall of the House of Usher答案 :D21．第 31 题The leader of the American Transcendentalism is _________.David ThoreauWaldo EmersonJames答案 :B22．第 32 题As a Modernist poet, Pound is noted for his active involvement in the ______ school of modern paintingMovementtechniqueExpressionism答案 :B23．第 33 题_______ does not belong to the school of naturalism in history.CraneNorrisLondonWhitman答案 :D24．第 34 题Jack London did not write ______.Sea WolfCall of the WildAmbassadorsFang答案 :C25．第 35 题"The Spectre Bridegroom" was written by the American author ---.IrvingHawthorneFeminore Cooper答案 :A26．第 36 题Ernest Hemingway's Last important literary work is ---.old manａnd the seaSun Also RisesC. For Whom the Bell Tolls答案 :A27．第 37 题“ by nature ’ s self in white arrayed\ she bade thee shun the vulgar eye,\ａnd planted here the guarding shade,\ａnd sent soft waters murmuring by; \thus quietly thy summer goes,\thy days declining to repose.” the rhyme scheme of the lines above is ______________.答案 :B28．第 38 题The Wasteland is a long modern poem written by ---.A. Ezra PoundB. Sylvia PlathC. T. S. Eliot答案 :C29．第 39 题The Waste Land was dedicated to another poet who was __________. HemingwayPound. S. EliotCarlos Williams答案 :B30．第 40 题Of Miceａnd Men is a novel written by ---.A. John SteinbeckAndersonLewis答案 :A31．第 46 题The famous pamphlet Common Senseappearing in 1776 was written by_____________.JeffersonPaineFranklin答案 :B32．第 52 题A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur ’s Court was written by _______.JamesTwainLondonDreiser答案 :B33．第 53 题The Iceberg style is most thoroughly reflected in the writings of theAmerican novelist _____________.LondonHemingwayTwain答案 :B34．第 54 题The salesman whom Sister Carrie met with on her way to Chicago was named _____________.DrouetCraneNorris答案 :A35．第 55 题Among the following authors the one who once visited China was ---.JamesFaulknerHemingway答案 :C36．第 56 题A poetic line of two feet is called ___________.答案 :B37．第 57 题when we say that a poor young man ｆrom the west tried to make his fortune in the east but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, weare probably discussing about ______’s thematic concern in his fiction writing.JamesFitzgeraldFaulkner答案 :B38．第 58 题_______ does not belong to the school of naturalism in history.CraneNorrisLondonWhitman答案 :D39．第 59 题“ I heard the merry grasshopper then sing,/The black-clad cricket bear a secon d part ” These lines written by ____________.WilliamsEliotBradstreetIrving答案 :C40．第 60 题Among the following fictions written by John Steinbeck, only one isabout the Second World War. It is ______________.A.“The Snake”B.The Grapes of WrathC.“The Moon Is Down ”D.“The Pearl ”答案 :C41．第 1 题By the end of the nineteenth century, the realists rejected the portrayalof idealized charactersａnd events.答案 : 正确42．第 2 题"Tell menot, in mournful numbers" is a line in Longfellow's poem "A Psalm of Life".答案 : 正确43．第 3 题Many of Poe ’s Gothic tales bear the theme of claustrophobia.答案 : 正确44．第 4 题The most important Southern writer is Robert Penn Warren who was the author of the poem “All the King ’s Men”.答案 : 错误45．第 5 题The House of the Seven Gables is a novel written by NathanielHawthorne based on his experience in the Brook Farm.答案 : 错误46．第 14 题benjamin franklin was a prose stylist ideals of clarity, restraint, simplicity whose writing reflectedａnd balance.the romantic答案 : 错误John Stwinbeck didn't win a Nobel Prize because he was sympathetic withthe working class people.答案 : 错误48．第 19 题Hemingway's novel For Whomthe Bell Tolls was about the Spanish Civil War.答案 : 正确49．第 24 题The 19th century female poet Emily Dickinson was a forerunner of the modern Imagist poetry.答案 : 正确50．第 25 题Ralph Waldo Emerson was a representative figure of the American Transcendentalism.答案 : 正确51．第 41 题Jack London was usually considered as a romanticist for his portrayal ofsuperman heroes.答案 : 错误52．第 42 题Besides Moby Dick, Melville also wrote some other sea novels.答案 : 正确53．第 43 题As a novelist, Nathaniel Hawthorne was deeply influenced by Puritanism.答案 : 正确54．第 44 题“The Premature Burial ”is a detective story written by Poe.答案 : 错误55．第 45 题Though Emily Dickinson married twice in her life, love had never beena major theme in her poetry.答案 : 错误56．第 47 题Longfellow ’s poems belong to the darker aspect of the Romantic Movement.答案 : 错误The famous philosopher Williams James was the novelist Henry James'brother.答案 : 正确58．第 49 题“The Purloined Letter”is a detective story.答案 : 正确59．第 50 题Stream of Consciousness is a minor technique that William Faulkner employed in his novels.答案 : 错误60．第 51 题"In a Station of the Metro" is a short poem written by Ezra Pound.答案 : 正确。

浙江省2018年4月高等教育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. Sound and Fury（）2. Henry David Thoreau b. The House of Seven Gables（）3. Walt Whitman c. Daisy Miller（）4. Henry James d. Walden（）5. William Faulkner e. Leaves of GrassGroup 2Column A Column B（）1. Mildred Douglas a. Moby Dick（）2. Ishmael b. The Hairy Ape（）3. Hurstwood c. Indian Camp（）4. Nick d. Sister Carrie（）5. Adams e. The Great GatsbyPart 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 foreach)1. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT ______.（）A. common senseB. imaginationC. intuitionD. individualism2. ______ was the first great belletrist, writing always for pleasure, to produce pleasure.（）A. IrvingB. CooperC. EmersonD. Whitman3. In 1836, a little book came out which made a tremendous impact on the intellectual life of America. It was entitled______ by Emerson.（）1A. American ScholarB. NatureC. The PoetD. Self-Reliance4.Which of the following statements concerning the basic tenets of American Transcendentalism is Not correct?（）A. Individualism is elevated by the Transcendentalists.B. Intuition is less important than experience.C. Nature is only another side of God.D. Transcendentalists have a new and delight thrill in nature.5.Melville’s novel ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.（）A. TypeeB. OmooC. White JacketD. Moby Dick6. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne’s novel ______.（）A. Moses from an Old ManseB. Twice-Told TalesC. The Scarlet LetterD. The Blithedale Romance7. As a philosophical and literary movement, ______ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.（）A. ModernismB. RationalismC. SentimentalismD. Transcendentalism8. Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as ______.（）A. Rip Van WinkleB. Legend of the AlhambraC. Life of GoldsmithD. Life of Washington9. Realism was a reaction against______ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism. （）A. RationalismB. RomanticismC. NeoclassicismD. Enlightenment10.______ had an evident influence on naturalism. It seemed to stress the animality of man, to suggest that he was dominated by the irresistible forces of evolution.（）A. TranscendentalismB. DarwinismC. MarxismD. Freudianism211. Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known by the pen name ______.（）A. Mark TwainB. Henry JamesC. WilliamD. Howells D. Theodore Dreiser12. ______ is considered the founder of Psychological realism.（）A. Henry JamesB. Jack LondonC. Mark TwainD. Nathaniel Hawthorne13. “The Way of the Beaten: A Harp in the Wind”is the title of one chapter in Dreiser’s novel ______.（）A. An American TragedyB. Sister CarrieC. Dreiser Looks at RussiaD. Jannie Gerhardt14. Which of the following works concerns most concentratedly the Calvinistic view of original sin?（）A. The Waste LandB. The Scarlet LetterC. Leaves of GrassD. As I Lay Dying15. We can summarize that Walt Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they are ______.（）A. conventional and casualB. lyrical and well structuredC. simple and rather crudeD. free-flowing16. “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. sorrow17. The publication of The Waste Land, written by ______ helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.（）A. T. S. EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD. William Faulkner18. Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in his masterpiece novel ______.（）A. This Side of ParadiseB. Tender is the NightC. The Great GatsbyD. Tales of the Jazz Age319. Early in the 1920s, the most prominent of the new American playwrights, whose name is ______, established an international reputation. （）A. T. S. EliotB. William B.YeatsC. Eugene O’NeillD. Bernard Shaw20. Which of the following novels can be regarded as typically belonging to the school of literary modernism?（）A. The Sound and the FurryB. Uncle Tom’s CabinC. Daisy MillerD. The Gilded Age21. Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called “______”movement.（）A. naturalistic B. imagistC. modernisticD. impressionist22. Hemingway was badly wounded in Italy and sent to a hospital where he fell in love with a nurse. These two persons later became the characters of his novel ______.（）A. The Old Man and the SeaB. For Whom the Bell TollsC. The Sun Also RisesD. A Farewell to Arms23. ______ wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which represented different social forces: the old decaying upper class, the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the “Poor Whites”, and the Negroes who labored for both of them.（）A. FaulknerB. FitzgeraldC. HemingwayD. Steinbeck24. “For I have too much /Of apple-picking: I am overtired/ Of the great harvest I myself desired”. From these lines we can conclude that the speaker ______.（）A. is happy about the harvestB. is tired of the work of apple-pickingC. is not tired when seeing the harvestD. becomes indifferent to the job25. Which of the following statements about Hemingway’s works is Not true?（）A. Man can be physically destroyed and spiritually defeated.B. Hemingway’s style is actually polished and tightly controlled, but highly suggestive and connotative.C. Hemingway develops the style of colloquialism initiated by Mark Twain.4D. “Grace under pressure”is actually an attitude towards life that Hemingway had been trying to demonstrate in his works.Part Ⅲ: Interpretation (20 points in all, 5 points for each)Read the following selections and then answer the questions.Passage 1There 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 Nicholas Vedder, ...Questions:1. Who is the author and where is this passage taken from?2. Whom does “He”refer to? How many years have passed since he left?Passage 2Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;Questions:1. Who is the poet and which poem is this stanza taken from?2. What does the quoted stanza express?Passage 3So I was full of trouble, full as I could be; and didn’t know what to do. At last I had an idea; and I says, I’ll go and write the letter -- and then see if I can pray. Why, it was astonishing, the way I felt as light as a feather , right straight off, and my troubles all gone. So I got a piece of paper and a pencil, all glad and excited, and set down and wrote:Miss Watson, your runaway nigger Jim is down here two mile below Pikesville, and Mr. Phelps has got him and he will give him up for the reward if you send.Huck Finn.I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I5knowed I could pray now. But I didn’t do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking -- thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell. And went on thinking. And got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see Jim before me , all the time: in the day and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a floating along, talking and singing and laughing. But somehow I couldn’t seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the other kind. I’d see him standing my watch on top of his instead of calling me, so I could go on sleeping; and see him how glad he was when I come back out of the fog; and when I come to him again in the swamp, up there where the feud was; and such-likes times; and would always call me honey, and pet me and do everything he could think of for me, and how good he always was; and at last I struck the time I saved him by telling the men we had small-pox aboard, and he was so grateful, and said I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the ONL Y one he’s got now; and then I happened to look around and see that paper.It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a trembling because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself:“All right, then, I’ll go to hell”——and tore it up.Questions:1. Which novel is this passage taken from? Who is the author?2. What is the quoted passage about?Passage 4When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old-servant—a combined gardener and cook—had seen in at least ten years.Questions:1. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.2. Why Emily is regarded as “a fallen monument”?Part Ⅳ: Give brief answers to the following questions. (20 points in all, 10 points for each) 1. What is the most famous theme in Henry James’ fiction? And what is his favorite approach in6characterization, which makes him different from Mark Twain and W. D. Howells as realists? Give two titles of his works in which this theme and this approach are employed.2. Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view?Please discuss the above question in relation to the basic principles of literary naturalism.7。

问题 1 2 分 保存Darwinism_______ had an evident influence on naturalism. It seemed to stress the animality of man, to suggest that man was dominated by the forces of evolution.问题 22 分 保存The Portrait of a Lady _____ is the best novel of Henry James’ “first period”. It is a story about a young, bright American girl goes to Europe to explore life.问题 32 分保存is a novella about a young American girl who gets“killed ” by the winter in Rome, and it brought Henry James international fame for the first time.A. The Portrait of a LadyB. Daisy MillerC. The EuropeanD.The American问题 42 分保存JamesHenry probed deeply at the individual psychology of his characters, writingin a rich and intricate style that supposed his intense scrutiny of complex human experience.问题 52 分 保存Huckleberry Finn At the heart of Mark Twain ’s achievement is his creation of two characters: Tom Sawyer and _____.问题 62 分保存_______’s stories still had many unrealisticqualities: “tall tales ” and unlikely coincidences. He is never a pure realist.A. Mark TwainB. Henry David ThoreauC. Henry JamesD. Nathaniel Hawthorne问题 7 2 分保存local colorRealism first appeared in the United States in the literature of___, an amalgam of romantic plots and realistic descriptions of thingsimmediately observable: the dialects, customs, sights and sounds of regional.问题 82 分保存Henry Jamesis considered the founder or Psychological realism. He believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator.问题 92 分保存Mark Twain ’s first novel, _______ was an artistic failure, but it gave its name to the America of the postbellum period which it attempts to satirize.A. The Mysterious StrangerB. Life on the MississippiC. The Gilded AgeD. The Innocents Abroad问题 102 分保存romanticismIn the late nineteenth century, although Americans continued to read the works of Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne and Poe, the great age of American had ended.问题 112 分保存The Art of Fiction______ was Henry James ’ mostfamous and influential critical essay written in response to a lecture on fiction delivered by the English novelist Sir Walter Besant at the Royal Institution on April 25, 1884.问题 122 分保存is described by Mark Twain as a boy with “a sound heart and a deformed conscience ”.A. JimB. Tom SawyerC. Huckleberry FinnD.Tony问题 132 分保存The Red Badge of CourageIn ____, Stephen Crane ’s greatest novel, the accident of war makes a young man seem to be a hero. War changes meninto animals. In the view of author, good and bad, hero and coward are merely matters of chance, of fate.问题 142 分保存The novel which was described by an American critic as “an outage to American girlhood ” is Henry James ’_______.A. Woman in LoveB. AwakeningC. The Portrait of a LadyD. Daisy Miller问题 15 2 分保存Innocents Abroad The result of mark Twain’s European trip was a series of newspaper articles, later published as a book called .问题 162 分保存Mark TwainAs one of America’s first and foremost realists and humorists, _____, the pen name ofSamuel Langhorne Clemens, usually wrote about his own personal experiences and thongs he knew about from firsthand experiences.问题 172 分保存The Adventure of Huckleberry Finnwas Mark Twain ’s masterwork from which, as ______noted, “all modern American literature comes.”A. Theodore DreiserB. Ernest HemingwayC. Henry JamesD. William Dean Howells问题 182 分保存Henry James_____ was a realist, but not a naturalist. He was an observer of the mind rather than a recorder of time. His realism was a special kind of psychological realism.问题 192 分保存“____” was a term created by the Fre nch novelist, Emile Zola.A. NaturalismB. Psychological causesC. RealismD.Transcendentalism问题 202 分保存With the publication of ______ in 1900, Theodore Dreiser committed his literary force to opening the new ground of American naturalism.A. The StoicB. An American TragedyC. Sister CarrieD. The Bulwark问题 212 分保存Stephen Crane_____, the firstAmerican naturalist, was not much influenced by the scientific approach. He was a genius with amazing sympathy and imagination.问题 222 分保存realismBy 1875, American writers were moving toward___ in literature. We can see this in the true-to life descriptions of Bret Harte, William Dean Howells, Hamlin Garland.问题 232 分 保存Martin Eden is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself.问题 242 分保存On the Origin of Species In 1859, Darwin published , which exerted great emphasis on American Naturalism.问题 252 分保存In his later novels, Mark Twain seems less hopeful about democracy, which is reflected in his work, _________.A. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur ’s CourtB. The Man That Corrupted HadleyburgC. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of CalaverasCountryD. The Mysterious Stranger问题 26 2 分保存Jack London was at his height of his powers when hewrote_______, which is deeply influenced by DarwinismA. The Call of the WildB. The Sea WolfC. Martin EdenD. To Build a Fire问题 272 分保存The AmbassadorsHenry James ’s most mature, and perhaps his best, novels are considered to be his last three: The Golden Bowl , _____, and The Wings of the Dove .问题 282 分 保存An American Tragedy Dreiser ’s greatest novel, _____, reveals a last stage in his thinking; social consciousness.问题 292 分保存In ______, a character, Mr. Sewell, expresses WilliamDean Howell’s own opinions by saying: “The novelists migh t be the greatest possible help to us if they painted life as it is, and human feelings in their true proportion and relation.”A. The Rise of Silas LaphamB. A Hazard of New FortunesC. Through the Eye of NeedleD. A Modern Instance问题 302 分保存The literary Characters of the American type in the early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features except that they .A. are polite and elegant gentlemenB. are simple and crude farmersC. are noble savages (red and white) untainted by societyD.A. speak local dialects问题 312 分保存We usually divide Henry James ’ career as a writer into three stages: early, middle and mature. Which of the following work belongs to James ’ early stage?A. The Golden BowlB. The AmericanC. The Tragic MuseD.The Wing of Dove问题 322 分保存Huckleberry FinnErnest Hemingway, whose own style is based on Twain ’s, once said, “All modern American literature comes from_____.”问题 332 分保存Dreiser ’s Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and .A. The StoicB. The TycoonC. The GiantD.The Genius问题 342 分保存inner worldWhile Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the “life ” of the Americans, Henry James had apparently laid great emphasis on the “” of man.问题 352 分保存InternationalHenry James first achieved recognition as a writer of the “_____”novel----a story which brings together persona of various nationalities who represent certain characteristics.问题 362 分 保存The Call of the Wild In 1902 London published his first novel .问题 372 分保存In his works, Theodore Dreiser’s tone is a lways_________.A. satiricalB. sadC. comicD. serious问题 38 2 分保存The changing consciousness of the character is the real story._______ gave this kind of literature a name. He called it“stream -of-consciousness”.A. William JamesB. James JoyceC. Henry JamesD.John Conrad问题 392 分保存Mark Twain is regarded as “the true father of our national literature ”.问题 402 分保存Among the following writers, who has been entitled at one time “Kipling of the Klondike ”?A. Henry JamesB. Mark TwainC. Frank NorrisD. Jack London问题 41 2 分 保存McTeague Norris’ novel has been called “the first fullbodied naturalistic American novel” and “a consciously naturalistic manifesto”.问题 422 分保存_________ in the 1860s was the first American writer of local color to achieve wide popularity.A. Henry David ThoreauB. William Dean HowellsC. Bret HarteD. Mark Twain问题 432 分 保存The Gilded Age The Age of Realism is also what Mark Twain referred to a s “”.问题 442 分保存_______, who became the editor of Harper ’s Monthly in 1891, created the first theory for American realism.A. Emile ZolaB. William Dean HowellsC. Stephen CraneD. Hamlin Garland问题 452 分保存Stephen Crane’s novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Street , is the story of a girl_______.A. who is loved by her family but betrayed by her friendsB. who is evil by natureC. who is brought up in a poor area ofChicagoD. who experiences the violence and crueltyof the society almost every day问题 46 2 分保存Daisy Miller The novel which was described by an American critic as “an outrage to American girlhood ” is Henry James ’.问题 472 分保存William Dean HowellThe most straightforward definition of realism is probably the one given by the American realist___: that is, “nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material.问题 48 2 分保存the environment All of Stephen Crane ’s characters are controlled by _____. This is what makes Crane a “naturalist ”.问题 492 分保存Mark Twain, breaking out of the narrow limits of local color fiction, described the breadth of American experience as no one had even done before, or since.问题 502 分保存Life on the MississippiMark Twain was born on November 30, 1835, in the village of Florida, Missouri, and grew up in the larger river town of Hannibal. The steamboats which passed daily were the fascination of the town and became the subject matter of Twain ’s_____.。