美国文学期末考试试卷模拟精彩试题

一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 下列哪个选项不属于美国作家？A. 威廉·福克纳B. 马克·吐温C. 雨果D. 哈珀·李2. 以下哪部作品是海明威的代表作？A. 《老人与海》B. 《飘》C. 《了不起的盖茨比》D. 《大卫·科波菲尔》3. 美国独立战争时期，哪位人物被誉为“国父”？A. 亚伯拉罕·林肯B. 乔治·华盛顿C. 本杰明·富兰克林D. 托马斯·杰斐逊4. 以下哪个选项是美国历史上最长的战争？A. 美国内战B. 美西战争C. 美墨战争D. 越南战争5. 以下哪个城市被称为“电影之城”？A. 洛杉矶B. 纽约C. 旧金山D. 好莱坞6. 美国宪法规定，总统任期最长为多少年？A. 4年B. 6年C. 8年D. 10年7. 以下哪个节日是美国的传统节日？A. 感恩节B. 圣诞节C. 情人节D. 万圣节8. 美国的国歌是什么？A. 《星条旗》B. 《美丽的亚美利加》C. 《星光灿烂的夜》D. 《我的祖国》9. 美国的主要宗教信仰是什么？A. 基督教B. 伊斯兰教C. 印度教D. 犹太教10. 以下哪个城市是美国人口最多的城市？A. 纽约B. 洛杉矶C. 休斯顿D. 芝加哥二、填空题（每题2分，共20分）1. 美国的首都是______。

2. 美国的货币单位是______。

3. 美国的国庆日是______。

4. 美国的总统选举每______年举行一次。

5. 美国的最高法院是______。

6. 美国的国旗上有______颗星和______条条纹。

7. 美国的国旗颜色是______和______。

8. 美国的总统是国家元首、______和______。

9. 美国的教育体系分为______、______和______三个阶段。

10. 美国的总统选举实行______选举制度。

三、简答题（每题5分，共25分）1. 简述美国独立战争的原因。

美国文学选读期末试卷美国文学选读期末试卷(A);PartⅠ:Choosetherelevantm;(10pointsinall,2pointfor;Group1;ColumnACol umnB;1.BenjaminFranklina.Mo;2.EdgarAllanPoeb.TheCa;3.RalphWaldoEmersonc. T;4.NathanielHawtho美国文学选读期末试卷 (A)Part Ⅰ: Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A.(10 points in all, 2 point for each)Group 1Column A Column B1. Benjamin Franklin a. Moby Dick2.Edgar Allan Poe b. The Cast of Amontillado3. Ralph Waldo Emerson c. The Scarlet letter4. Nathaniel Hawthorne d. Self-Reliance5. Herman Melville e. The AutobiographyPart ⅠⅠ: Gap filling (10 points in all, 1 point for each).1.2.3.4. ?The Old Man and the Sea? is written by _______ . Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known by the pen name ______ _______ . ?the remains of my relations? means __________________ in Chinese. ?I must not only punish but punish with impunity? means___________________________in Chinese.5. _________ is regarded as the first person to write the detective novel in the west.6. Ralph Waldo Emerson is the supporter of _________.7. Herman Melville is the famous _________and poet of America.8. In 1836, a little book came out which made a tremendous impact on the intellectual life of America. It was entitled _________ by Emerson.9. The historical novel ?Scarlet Letter? describes the17th century?s life style of the___________________________ in North America.10. In Herman Melville?s Moby Dick?, as the opposite of the human being, the whale stands for __________________.Part ⅠⅠⅠ: Reading Comprehension (40 points in all, 2 points for each).AI travel a lot, and I find out different “styles” (风格) of directions every time 1 ask “How can I get to the post office?”Foreign tourists are often confused (困惑) in Japan because most streets there don?t have names; in Japan, people use landmarks (地标) in their directions instead of street names. For example, the Japanese will say to travelers, “Go straight down to the corner. Turn left at the big hotel and go past a fruit market. The post office is across from the bus stop.”In the countryside of the American Midwest, there are not usually many landmarks. There are no mountains, so the land is very flat; in many places there are no towns or buildings within miles. Instead of landmarks, people will tell you directions and distances. In Kansas or Iowa, for example, people will say, “Go north two miles. Turn east, and then go another mile.”People in Los Angeles, California, have no idea of distance on the map; they measure distance in time, not miles. “How far away is the post offi ce?” you ask. “Oh,” they answer, “it?sabout five minutes from here.” You say, “Yes, but how many miles away is it?” They don?t know. It?s true that a person doesn?t know the answer to your question sometimes. What happens in such a situation? A New Yorker might say, ?Sorry, I have no idea.” But in Yucatan, Mexico, no one answers “I don?t know.” People in Yucatan believe that “Idon?t know” is impolite, they usually give an answer, often a wrong one.A tourist can get very, very lost in Yucatan!1. When a tourist asks the Japanese the way to a certain place they usually _________A. describe the place carefullyB. show him a map of the placeC. tell him the names of the streetsD. refer to recognizable buildings and places2. What is the place where people measure distance in time?_________A. New York.B. Los Angeles.C. Kansas.D. Iowa.3. People in Yucatan may give a tourist a wrong answer ________A. in order to save timeB. as a testC. so as to be politeD. for fun4. What can we infer from the text? _________A. It?s important for travelers to understand cultural differences.B. It?s useful for travelers to know how to ask the way properly.C. People have similar understandings of politeness.D. New Yorkers are generally friendly to visitors.BHeroes of Our TimeA good heartDikembe Mutombo grew up in Africa among great poverty and disease. He came to Georgetown University on a scholarshipto study medicine ―but Coach John Thompson got a look at Dikembe and had a different idea. Dikembe became a star in the NBA, and a citizen of the United States.But he never forgot the land of his birth, or the duty to share hisfortune with others. He built a new hospital in his old hometown in the Congo. A friend has said of this good-hearted man: “Mutombo believesthat God has given him this chance to do great things.”Success and kindnessAfter her daughter was born, Julie Aigner-Clark searched for ways to share her love of music and art with her child. So she borrowed some equipment, and began filming children?s videos in her own house. The Baby Einstein Company was born, and in just five years her business grew to more than $20 million in sales. And she is using her success to help others ― producing child safety videos with John Walsh of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Julie says of her new program: “I believe it?s the most important thing that I have ever done. I believe that children have the right to live in a world that is safe.”Bravery and courageA few weeks ago, Wesley Autrey was waiting at a Harlem subwaystation with his two little girls when he saw a man fall into the pathof a train. With seconds to act, Wesley jumped onto the tracks, pulled the man into the space between the rails, and held him as the train passed right above their heads. He insists he?s not a hero. He says: “We have got to show each other some love.”A. Being a star in the NBA.B. Being a student of medicine.C. His work in the church.D. His willingness to help the needy..A. helpful to his personal developmentB. something he should do for his homelandC. a chance for his friends to share his moneyD. a way of showing his respect to the NBAA. Produce safety equipment for children.B. Make videos to help protect children.C. Sell children?s music and artwork.D. Look for missing and exploited children.A. He helped a man get across the rails.B. He stopped a man from destroying the rails.C. He protected two little girls from getting hurt.D. He saved a person without considering his own safety.CTom was one of the brightest boys in the year, with supportive parents. But when he was 15 he suddenly stopped trying. He left school at 16 with only two scores for secondary school subjects. One of the reasons that made it cool for him not to care was the power of his peer group.The lack of right male role models in many of their lives ― at home and particularly in the school environment ― means that their peers are the only people they have to judge themselves against.They don?t see men succeeding in society so it doesn?t occur to them that they could make something of themselves. Without male teachers as a role model, the effect of peer actions and street culture is all powerful. Boys want to be part of a club. However, schools can provide the environment for change, and provide the right role models for them. Teachers need to be trained to stop that but not in front of a child?s peers. You have to do it one to one, because that is when you see the real child.It?s pointless sending a child home if he or she has done wrong. They see it as a welcome day off to watch television or play computer games. Instead, schools should have a special unit where a child who has done wrong goes for the day and gets advice about his problems ― somewhere he can work away from his peers and go home after the other children.A. He disliked his teachers.B. His parents no longer supported him.C. It?s cool for boys of his age not to care about studies.D. There were too many subjects in his secondary school..A. Peer groups.B. A special unit.C. The student judges.D. The home environment.A. Wait for their change patiently.B. Train leaders of their peer groups.C. Stop the development of street culture.D. Give them lessons in a separate area.12. A teacher?s work is most effective with a schoolboy when heA. is with the boy alone B. teaches the boy a lessonC. sends the boy home as punishmentD. works together with another teacherDFar from the land of Antarctica, a huge shelf of ice meets the ocean. At the underside of the shelf there lives a small fish, the Antarctic cod.For forty years scientists have been curious about that fish. How does it live where most fish would freeze to death? It must have some secret. The Antarctic is not a comfortable place to work and researchhas been slow. Now it seems we have an answer.Research was begun by cutting holes in the ice and catching the fish. Scientists studied the fish?s blood and measured its freezing point.The fish were taken from seawater that had a temperature of-1.88°C and many tiny pieces of ice floating in it. The blood of the fish didnot begin to freeze until its temperature was lowered to -2.05°C. That small difference is enough for the fish to live at the freezing temperature of the ice-salt mixture.The scientists? next research job was clear: Find out what in the fish?s blood kept it from freezing. Their search led to some really strange thing made up of a protein never before seen in put back, the blood again had its antifreeze quality and a lowered freezing point.Study showed that it is an unusual kind of protein. It has many small sugar molecules(分子)held in special positions within each big protein molecule. Because of its sugar content, it is called a glycoprotein. So it has come to be called the antifreeze fish glycoprotein, or AFGP..A. The terrible conditions in the Antarctic.B. A special fish living in freezing waters.C. The ice shelf around Antarctica.D. Protection of the Antarctic cod..A. The seawater has a temperature of -1.88°C.B. it loves to live in the ice-salt mixtureC. A special protein keeps it from freezing.D. Its blood has a temperature lower than -2.05°C.15. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 5 refer to?A.A type of ice-salt mixture. B. A newly found protein.C. Fish blood.D. Sugar molecule.16. What does “glyco-” in the underlined word “glycoprotein” in the last paragraphA. sugarB. iceC. bloodD. moleculeEIf your boss asks you to work in Moscow this year, he?d better offer you more money to doso ― or even double that depending on where you live now. That?s because Moscow has just been found to be the world?s most expensive city for the second year in a row by Mercer Human Resources Consulting.Using the cost of living in New York as a base, Mercer determined Moscow is 34.4 percent more expensive including the cost of housing, transportation, food, clothing, household goods and entertainment.A two-bedroom flat in Moscow now costs $4,000 a month; a CD $24.83, and an international newspaper $6.30, according to Mercer. By comparison, a fast food meal with a hamburger is London takes the No. 2 place, up from No. 5 a year ago, thanks to higher cost of housing and a stronger British pound relative to the dollar. Mercer estimates London is 26 percent more expensive than New York these days. Following Londonclosely are Seoul and Tokyo, both of which are 22 percent more expensive than New York, while No. 5 Hong Kong is 19 percent more costly.Among North American cities, New York and Los Angeles are the most expensive and are the only two listed in the top 50 of the world?s most expensive cities. But both have fallen since last year?s study ― New York came in 15th, down from 10th place, while Los Angeles fell to 42nd from 29th place a year ago. San Francisco came in a distant third at No. 54, down 20 places from a year earlier.Toronto, meanwhile, is Canada?s most expensive city but fell 35 places to take 82nd place worldwide. In Australia, Sydney is thepriciest place to live in and No. 21 worldwide.17. What do the underlined words “a steal” in Paragraph 3 mean?_________A. an act of stealingB. something deliciousC. something very cheapD. an act of buying18. London has become the second most expensive city because of_________A. the high cost of clothingB. the stronger pound against thedollarC. its expensive transportationD. the high prices of fast food meals19. Which city is the third most expensive on the list? _________A. Tokyo.B. Hong Kong.C. Moscow.D. Sydney.20. Which city has dropped most on the list in North America?A. New York.B. Los Angeles.C. San Francisco.D. Toronto.Part IV: Translation (40 points in all, 20 points for each).1. When he found I would leave him, he took care to prevent me getting employment in anyother printing house of the town by going round and speaking to every master, who accordingly refused to give me work. I then thought of going to New York as the nearest place where there was a printer; and I was the rather inclined to leave Boston when I reflected that I had already made myself a little obnoxious to the governing party; and from the arbitrary proceeding of the Assembly in my brother?s case, it was likely I might if I stayed soon bring myself into scrapes, and further that my indiscreet disputations about religion began to make me pointed at with horror by good people as an infidel or atheist. I determined on the point, but my father now siding with my brother, I was sensible that if I attempted to go openly means would be used to prevent me.2. He had a weak point--this Fortunato--although in other regards he was a man to be[美国文学选读期末试卷]。

考试时间：120分钟一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 下列哪个作品不属于马克·吐温的代表作？A. 《汤姆·索亚历险记》B. 《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》C. 《飘》D. 《艰难岁月》2. 下列哪位作家被誉为“美国诗歌之父”？A. 罗伯特·弗罗斯特B. 威廉·莎士比亚C. 莎士比亚D. 约翰·斯坦贝克3. 以下哪个作品是弗朗西斯·斯科特·基·菲尔德创作的？A. 《星条旗永不落》B. 《我的祖国》C. 《美丽的亚美利加》D. 《星光灿烂的夜空》4. 以下哪个是美国独立战争期间的重要文献？A. 《独立宣言》B. 《美国宪法》C. 《解放宣言》D. 《美国独立战争法》5. 下列哪个作家以其独特的叙事风格著称？A. 赫尔曼·梅尔维尔B. 威廉·福克纳C. 弗兰纳里·奥康纳D. 亨利·詹姆斯6. 以下哪个作品是哈珀·李的代表作？A. 《杀死一只知更鸟》B. 《飘》C. 《了不起的盖茨比》D. 《猫的摇篮》7. 以下哪个作品是J.K.罗琳的哈利·波特系列的第一部？A. 《哈利·波特与魔法石》B. 《哈利·波特与密室》C. 《哈利·波特与阿兹卡班的囚徒》D. 《哈利·波特与火焰杯》8. 以下哪个作品是托马斯·爱迪生创作的？A. 电影B. 电灯C. 电话D. 照相机9. 以下哪个作品是约翰·斯坦贝克的代表作？A. 《愤怒的葡萄》B. 《百年孤独》C. 《了不起的盖茨比》D. 《杀死一只知更鸟》10. 以下哪个作品是弗兰纳里·奥康纳的代表作？A. 《动物园的故事》B. 《我们当中有怪物》C. 《好人难做》D. 《一个窗口的故事》二、填空题（每题2分，共20分）1. 美国的第一任总统是__________________。

美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题五I. Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases andput your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each)1. The first permanent English settlement in North America was established atJamestown, Virginia in 1607 .2. John Smith became the first American writer.3. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated muchof the early American writing.4. In American literature, the 18th century was an age of Reason and Revolution.5. Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece The Autobiography .6. On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet Common Sense appeared.7. The signing of The Declaration of Independence symbolized the birth of an independentAmerican nation.8. The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century was Philip Freneau .9. Washington Irving’s Sketch Book became the first work by an American writer to win international fame.10. Transcendentalism is the summit of American Romanticism.11. With the publication of Emerson’s Nature in 1836,American Romanticism reached itssummit.12. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne’s novel the Scarlet Letter .13.Henry James’ major fictional theme is international theme .14. The Civil War brought the Romantic period to an end. So the age of Realism came intoexistence.15. The Poetic style invented by Whitman is now called free verse .16. “Because I could not stop for Death---” is written by Emily Dickinson .17. The term The Gilded Age is given by Mark Twain to describe the post-civil war years.18. Theodore Dreis er’s first novel is Sister Carrie.19. The leader of the literary movement Imagism is Pound .20. Ernest Hemingway is the spokesman for Lost Generation.II. Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answersor completions. Choose the one that is the best in each case and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 1 point for each)1. The first American writer of local color to achieve wide popularity was .A. Bret Harte √B. Mark TwainC. Henry JamesD. William Dean Howells2. Which of the following is the masterpiece of Mark Twain?A. The Gilded AgeB. The Adventures of Tom SawyerC. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn √D. Jumping Frog3. Which writer has no naturalist tendency?A. Mark Twain √B. Jack LondonC. Theodore DreiserD. Frank Norris4. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in andThoreau.A. JeffersonB. Emerson √C. FreneauD. Oversoul5. Which of the following doesn’t belong to Dreiser’s “Trilogy of Desire”?A. The FinancierB. The TitanC. The StoicD. An American Tragedy √6. Which is the character who appears in the novel Moby Dick?A. Hester PrynneB. Mr. HooperC. Ahab √D. Pearl7. written by Henry James brought him first international fame.A. The Golden BowlB. The AmericanC. The Tragic MuseD. Daisy Miller √8. “”was a term created by the French novelist, Emile Zola.A. realismB. naturalism √C. transcendentalismD. veritism9. Jack London was at his height of his powers when he wrote , which is deeply influenced by Darwinism.A. The Sea WolfB. To Build a FireC. The Call of the Wild √D. Martin Eden10. The Cop and the Anthem is written by .A. O. Henry √B. Henry JamesC. Jack LondonD. Mark Twain11. “Two small people, without dislike or suspicion.” is a line in the poem The River-Merchant’sWife: A Letter written by .A. T. S. EliotB.Robert FrostC.Ezra Pound√D. Carl Sandburg12. The imagist poets followed three principles, they are , direct treatment and economy ofexpression.A. blank verseB. rhythm √C. free verseD. common speech13. Of the following American writers, who has NOT been an expatriate in Paris?A. Ernest HemingwayB. Ezra PoundC. F. S. FitzgeraldD. Emily Dickinson14. Who was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the 1930s?A. Ernest HemingwayB. Ezra PoundC. John SteinbeckD. F. S. Fitzgerald √15. The first writings that we call American were the narratives and of the early settlements.A. journals √B. poetryC. dramaD. folklores16. An American Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1828 by .A. Samuel JohnsonB. Noah Webster √C. Daniel WebsterD. Daniel Defoe17. Walden is written by .A. EmersonB. Thoreau √C. PoeD. Hawthorne18. is famous for psychological realism.A. Mark TwainB. William Dean HowellsC. Henry James √D. Walt Whitman19. Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?A. Nature√B. WaldenC. On BeautyD. Self-Reliance20. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American Scholar √B. English TraitsC. The Conduct of LifeD. Nature21. Santiago is the character in Hemingway’s novel.A. In Our TimeB. The Old Man and the Sea √C. For Whom the Bell TollsD. The Sun Also Rises22. Which of the following is a much harsher realism?A. local colorismB. naturalism√C. romanticismD. imagism23. Who is the arbiter of 19th century literary realism in America?A. Mark TwainB. Bret HarteC. William Dean Howells √D. Henry James24. F. S. Fitzgerald is NOT the author of .A. The Great Gatsby √B. Tender is the NightC. A Farewell to the ArmsD. This Side of Paradise25. The pessimism and deterministic ideas of naturalism pervaded the works of such Americanwriters as .A. Mark TwainB. F. S. FitzgeraldC. Walt WhitmanD. Stephen Crane √26. Charles Drouet is a character in the novel of______.A. The AmericanB. The Portrait of a LadyC. Sister Carrie √D. The Gift of the Magi27. American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. She was .A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily Dickinson √D. Harriet Beecher28. read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.A. Robert Frost√B. T. S. EliotC. Carl SandburgD. Ezra Pound29. With Howells, James and Mark Twain active on the scene, became the major trend in the70s and 80s of the 19th century.A. sentimentalismB. romanticismC. realism √D. naturalism30. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough”. This is the shortestpoem written by .A. T. S. EliotB. Robert FrostC.Ezra Pound √D. Wallace StevensIII. Give brief answers to the following and write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 15 points for each)1. Being a period of the great flowering of American literature, the Romantic Period is called “the American Renaissance”. Briefly discuss what the features of American literature in thisperiod are.1. (1) The whole nation had a strong sense of optimism and the mood of “feeling good”, givingbirth to the spectacular outburst of romantic feeling.(2) The English counterpart exerted a stimulating impact on the writers of the young nation.(3) Taking foreign influence in consideration, the great works of American writers still carriedtypically American romantic color.(4) The young nation had brought forth its own philosophy. Transcendentalism stresses man’scapacity of knowing truth intuitively, and of attaining knowledge transcending the reach of the senses.2. How does Sister Carrie embody Dreiser’2. (1) In this novel, Dreiser expressed his naturalistic pursuit by expounding the purposelessness oflife and attacking the conventional moral standards.(2) The novel best embodies his naturalistic belief that while men are controlled by heredity,instinct and chance, a few extraordinary and unsophisticated human beings refuse to accept their fate wordlessly and instead strive, unsuccessfully, to find meaning and purpose for their existence.(3) To Sister Carrie, the world is cold and harsh. Alone, helpless, she moves along like amechanism driven by desire and catches blindly at any opportunities for a better existence, opportunities first offered by Drouet, and then by Hurstwood. A feather in the wind, she was totally at the mercy of forces she cannot comprehend, still less to say control. The famous picture of Carrie sitting in a rocking chair in her room in the evening, rocking back and forth, is a picture of Carrie’s drifting with the tide. She has no control, no freedom of will.。

美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题一I. Fill in the follow ing bla nks and put your an swers on the An swer Sheet. (15%, 1 point for each)1. The publication of _____ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New EnglandTran sce nden talism.2. Hard work, thrift, _____ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliestAmerican writing.3. At 87, ______ read his poetry at the in augurati on of Preside nt Joh n F. Kenn edy.4. Jack London ' s masterwork __________ i s somewhat autobiographical.5. _____ , the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst todestroy evil.6. Ezra Pound was the leader of a new moveme nt in poetry which he called the “______ ”7. The Custom House ” is an introductory note to the novel ________ .8. Among the works attacking the American Dream ”, _____________ by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece.9. Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of_______ , poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.10. In 1954, ______ won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his mastery of the art of modern nar11. In American literary history, _______ i s called AmhersttheReclusinee”f she isolated herself fromthe outside almost for life.12. The Fall of the House of Usher ” is a short story written by _______ .13. _____ laun ched two kinds of imme nsely popular stories: the sea adve nture and the fron tier saga,represe nted byThe Leatherstock ing Tales.th14. The publication of T. S. Eliot ' s in 1922, the most significant American poem of the 20 century, helped to establish amodern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.15. The Cop and the An them ” is a short story writte n by ______ .II. Each of the followi ng stateme nts is followed by four alter native an swers. Choose the one that would best complete the stateme nt. Then put your an swers on the An swer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each)1. For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____ , the n arrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, anultimately mystery of the uni verse.A. StubbB. IshmaelC. AhabD. Starbuck2. Most of the poems in Whitman L eaves of Grasssing of the -mass en ” and the _____ a s well.A. n atureB. self-relia neeC. selfD. life3. Which of the following is Not one of the main ideas advocated by Ralph Emerson?A. Importa nce of the In dividualB. Faith in Christia nityC. TheOver-Soul D. Self-Relia nce4. In Hawthor ne ' no vels and short stories, i ntellectuals usually appear as ______ .A. saviorsB. villai nsC. comme ntatorsD. observers5. In America n literature, escap ing from the society and retur ning to n ature is a com mon subject. Thefollowing titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except ____ .A. Dreiser L ister CarrierB. Mark Twain T hes Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Cooper T eatherstocking Tales ___D. Thoreau TValdens6. Which of the followi ng is Not optimistic about huma n n ature? .C. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau7. Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as _______ .A. Rip Van Winkle and Moby DickB. Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy HollowC. Young Goodman Brownand Moby DickD. The Fall of the House of Usherand Rip Van Winkle8. Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is Not a usual subject ofher poetic expression? ________________ .A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace9. Henry James is mostly concerned with _____ in his fiction.A. the inner life of human beingsB. small town life in backward regionsC. suffering of the agedD. violent events in history10. ____ is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modern American literature comes.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. The Gilded Age11. William Faulkner 's works mainly concern the American ______ .A. New EnglandB. SouthC. Mid WestD. West12. One of Mark Twain 's contributions to American literature is that he made ______ anacceptedstandard literary medium.A. tall taleB. local colorismC. humorD. colloquial speech13. Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ___ of which had appeared during her life time.A. 7B. 8C. 9D. 1014. In writing In a Station of the Metro, Pound got his inspiration from ___ .A. English sonnetB. Japanese haikuC. Chinese classical poetryD. French15. Of the following American writers, ____ has Not won the Nobel Prize for Literature.A. William FaulknerB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. F. S. Fitzgerald16. Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the ____ .A. life in New YorkB. country life in New EnglandC. sea adventuresD. life on the Mississippi River17. The works of ______ reveal the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells18. In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started great war! Whois this woman referred to? _________ .A. Mrs. StoweB. Emily DickinsonC. George EliotD. Jane Austen19. It is not surprising to find in ____ 's fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be kiA. Mark TwainB. Emily DickinsonC. Theodore DreiserD. Henry James20. “Let 's portray man and woman in a way that we meet them in our real life. ”This may be a principle for the characterization of ______ .A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernismIII. Explain the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 5 points for each)1. Local color fiction2. Captain John Smith3. “Annabel Lee ”IV. Answer the following questions briefly, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 10 points for each)1. What ' the differenee between Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson?2. What ' the symbolic significanee of The Scarlet Letter?美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题二I. Fill in the follow ing bla nks and put your an swers on the An swer Sheet. (15%, 1 point for each)1. ___ was a founding figure of American poetry, whose innovation first of all lies in his use of the freeverse, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.2. The publication of Nature established ______ as the most eloquent spokesman of New EnglandTran sce nden talism.3. Hard work, thrift, _____ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliestAmerican writing.4. ________ i s considered to be the founder of psychological realism, who believed that reality lies in theimpressi ons made by life on the spectator.5. Marti n Ede n is the no vel into which ____ put most of himself.6. The publication of ______ written by T. S. Eliot helped to establish a modern tradition of literature richwith lear ning and allusive thought.7. The appariti on of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. ” This is the shortest poemwritte n by ____ .8. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, ________ b ecame the spokesman for what Gertrude Steinhad called a Lost Generation ”.9. The Custom House ” is an introductory note to the novel ______ .10. Among the works attacking the American Dream ”, ___________ by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece.11. Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ___ of which had appeared during her life time.12. ____ , the tragic hero of Moby Dick , bur ning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst todestroy evil.13. As a poet, _________ heralded American literary independence: his close observation of naturedisti nguished his treatme nt of in dige nous wild life and other n ative America n subjects, e. g: The Wild Honey Suckle.14. The publication of Washington Irving 's a collectio,n of essays, sketches and tales, marks thebeg inning of America n roma nticism.15. The Cop and the An them ” is a short story writte n by _____ .II. Each of the followi ng stateme nts is followed by four alter native an swers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. Put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 1 point for each)1. In Leaves of Grass, ______ is all that concerned Whitma n.A. i ndividualismB. freedomC. democracyD. all the above2. _____ i s the n arrator ofMoby Dick.3. In 1837, Ralph Emers on made a speech en titled ___ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wen dellHolmes as Our In tellectual Declarati on of In depe nden ce. ” C. Divin itySchool Address D.The America n Scholar4. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling; and second, the individual is _____A. vicious by natureB. insignificantC. forward-lookingD. divine5. In Hawthorne 's novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _____ .6. In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles areall related, in one way or another, to the subject except ___________________ .A. Dreiser 'Sister CarrierB. Mark Twain 'Thes Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Cooper 'Leathers-Stocking TalesD. Thoreau 'Waldens7. “I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. ”Who could have written these lines? ___ .A. Edgar Allan PoeB. Ralph EmersonC. Walt WhitmanD. Henry Thoreau8. Which of the following is Not optimistic about human nature?A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau9. Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is Not true? ____ .A. It explores man 's-neverending search for the satisfaction of materialistic desires.B. It relates the conflicts between the society and the individual.C. It presents a psychological analysis of the inward tensions of the characters.D. It is about the effect of sin on the people involved and the society as a whole.10. Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as ______ .A. Rip Van Winkle and Moby DickB. Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy HollowC. Young Goodman Brownand Moby DickD. The Fall of the House of Usherand Rip Van Winkle11. Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is Not a usual subject ofher poetic expression? ________________ .A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace12. Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a ___ language.A. grandB. pompousC. vernacularD. simple13. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as ____ .A. the Age of RomanticismB. the Age of RealismC. the Age of ModernismD. the Age of Colonialism14. ____ is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modern American literature comes.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. The Gilded Age15. The main theme of ______ 'Thes Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of lifeshould be the main object of the novel.A. Mark TwainB. Henry JamesC. Theodore DreiserD. William Dean Howells16. It is not surprising to find in ____A. Mark TwainC. Theodore Dreiser17. According to Hawthorne, the scarlet Letter's fiction a world of jungle, whereB. Emily DickinsonD. Henry James“A”which originally stands forkill or to be kimeaning of “able ”or angel ”through Hester s efforts.A. arroganceB. adulteryC. agonyD. accomplishment18. During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what Mark Twain referred to asA. the Golden AgeB. the Modern AgeC. the Gilded AgeD. the Puritan Age19. Robert Frost is generally considered to be a regional poet in the sense that his subject matters mainly focus on thelandscape and people in _____________ .A. New YorkB. the WestC. New EnglandD. Mid West20. William Faulkner 'orkswmainly concern the American ______ .A. New EnglandB. SouthC. Mid WestD. West21. In 1954, ____ was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “masteryof the art of modernnarration. ” C. the Jazz Age D. the Romantic Period24. ___ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A. William BradfordB. Anne BradstreetC. Emily DickinsonD. Captain John Smith25. The works of ______ reveal the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells26. _____ is NOT a fictional character in The Scarlet Letter.A. PearlB. Arthur DimmesdaleC. Roger ChillingworthD. Santiago27. At 87, _____ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.A. Edwin RobinsonB. Wallace StevensC. Carl SandburgD. Robert Frost28. “Let 's portray man and woman in a way that we meet them in our real life. ”This may bthe characterization of ______ .A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernism29. In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started great war! ”Whois this woman referred to? ____________________ .A. Mrs. StoweB. Emily DickinsonC. George EliotD. JaneAusten A. T. S. EliotC. John Steinbeck22. “In a Station of the Metro A.the imagist poetry C. the romanticpoetry B. Ernest Hemingway D. William Faulkner ”is regarded by critics as a classic specimen of ____ B. the absurd poetry D. the transcendental poetry23. Fitzgerald 's fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of ________A. the Renaissance PeriodB. the Neoclassical Period30. All his novels reveal that, as time went on, Mark Twain became increasingly ____ .A. optimisticB. pessimisticC. confidentD. contentedIII. Explain the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 5 points for each)1. New England literary renaissance2. “My Lost Youth ”(by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)3. William Dean HowellsIV. Make a brief comment on the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 10 points for each)1. American Romanticism.2. Caroline Meeber in Sister Carrier .美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三I. Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases. (20%, 1 point for each)1. In 1817, the stately poem called “Thanatopsis ”introduced the best poet, ________ , to appear in Aup to that time.2. James Fennimore Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure and3. Ralph Emerson was recognized throughout his life as the leader of _____ movement, yet he neverapplied the term to himself or to his beliefs and ideas.4. Herman Melville 'novels ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of aseemingly supernatural white whale.th5. In the early 19 th century, Washington Irving wrote _____ which became the first work by anAmerican writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.6. In 1845, Henry David Thoreau began a two-year residence at ____ Pond.7. After his death, _____ became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poetth8. The American Romantic period stretches from the end of the 18 th century through the outburst of the■th9. The arbiter of 19 th century literary realism in America was ______ .10. The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called ____ , which is poetry without a fixed beat orregular rhyme scheme.11. ____ is considered the founder of psychological realism. He believed that reality lies in theimpressions made by life on the spectator.12. ____ is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself.13. O. Henry 's ______ is a very moving story of a young couple who sell their best possessions in order toget money for a Christmas present for each other.14. ____ was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he calledthe “Imagist ”movement.15. In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald completed his best novel _____ . It is the story of an idealist who wasdestroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.16. Ernest Hemingway 's stature as a writer wasconfirmed with the publication of his novel ______ in1929. The novel portrayed a farewell both to war and to love.17. ____ was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the 1930s.18. William Faulkner considered _________ to be truly “theAmericanfirst writer ”.19. As a genre, naturalism emphasized heredity and _____ as important deterministic forces shapingindividualized characters that were presented in special and detailed circumstances.20. A series of sixteen pamphlets by Thomas Paine was entitled ____ .II. Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers or completions.Choose the one that is the best in each case. (30%, 1 point for each)1. Moby Dick was dedicated to ___ .A. Ralph EmersonB. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Henry ThoreauD. Henry Longfellow2. ____ was Mark Twain 's masterpiece from which, as Hemingway noted, “all modern American litcomes. ”A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Life on the MississippiD. The Gilded Age3. __ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A. Emily BradfordB. Ann BradstreetC. Emily DickinsonD. John Smith4. Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the __ .A. American EnlightenmentB. Sugar ActC. Chartist movementD. Romanticist5. Thomas Jefferson 's attitude, thats, ifirm belief in progress, and the pursuit of happiness, is typical of the period wenow call ______________ .A. Age of EvolutionB. Age of ReasonC. Age ofRomanticism D. Age of Regionalism6. As a literary and philosophical movement, ___ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the CivilWar.A. modernismB. rationalismC. sentimentalismD. transcendentalism7. __ is NOT written by Ralph Waldo Emerson.A. The American ScholarB. Self-RelianceC. The Divinity School AddressD. Civil Disobedience8. There is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actually ___ on the Puritansoil.A. RomanticismB. SymbolismC. MysticismD. Rationalismth9. American literature produced only one female poet during the 19 century. This was _ .A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. Harriet Beecher10. Which of the following statements about O. Henry is NOT right?A. He wrote about the poor people.B. The ends of his stories are always surprising.C. Many of his stories contain a great deal of slang and colloquial expressions.D. The plots are usually clumsy.11. The main theme of ___ The 'sArt of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life shouldbe the main object of the novel.A. Henry JamesB. William HowellsC. Mark TwainD. O. Henry12. Which of the following does NOT have a naturalist tendency?A. Stephan CraneB. Frank NorrisC. Jack LondonD. Walt Whitman13. For Melville, as well as for the reader and _______ , the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, anultimately mystery of the universe.A. StubbB. IshmaelC. AhabD. Starbuck14. Which of the following is NOT optimistic about human nature?A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau15. E mily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject ofher poetic expression?A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace16. Of the following American writers, ___ had won the Nobel Prize for Literature.A. Mark TwainB. Ernest HemingwayC. Henry JamesD. F. S. Fitzgerald17. In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started great war! The bookrefers to __________ .A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. BelovedB. Pride and Prejudice D. Uncle Tom 's Cabin18. The works of ____ reveals the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells19.In Leaves of Grass, ____ is all that concerned Whitman.A. individualismB. freedomC. democracyD. all the above20.It is not surprising to find in ____ 's fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killA. Mark TwainB. Emily DickinsonC. Theodore DreiserD. Henry James21. During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what Mark Twain referred to asA. the Golden AgeB. the Modern AgeC. the Gilded AgeD. the Puritan Age22. “The Custom-House ”is an introductory note to ____ .A. Moby-DickB. The Scarlet LetterC. The Marble FaunD. The Blithedale Romance23. When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in thequest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing ____________________ 's thematic concernin his fiction writing.A. Henry JamesB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Faulkner24. American writers after World War I self- consciously acknowledged that they were (a) “___ ”, devfaith and alienated from the Western civilization.A. Lost GenerationB. Beat GenerationC. Sons of LibertyD. Angry Young Men25. Which one of the following statements is NOT true of William Faulkner?A. He is 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 writers26. The setting of the novel The Scarlet Letter is in ___ .A. England during World War IB. Paris during the French RevolutionC. Puritan AmericaD. America after the Revolutionary War27. Which statement is NOT true of the American naturalist?A. They ventured the forbidden subjects such as sex, death, and violence.B. They stressed the possible triumph of human will.C. They wrote in a daring, open, and direct manner.D. They see human beings no more than a physical object.28. __ is often acclaimed as the literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.A. Ernest HemingwayB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. William FaulknerD. John Steinbeck29., one of America 's greatest playwrights, won the Nobel Prize in 1936, the first American playwright to receive the honor.Some of his most famous works include The Hairy Ape, Long Day 's Journey into Night.A. Arthur MillerB. Tennessee WilliamsC. Bernard MalamudD. Eugene O 'Neill30. Edgar Allan Poe occupies an important position in American literature as a poet and a ___ .A. short story writerB. novelistC. dramatistD. translatorIII. Answer the following questions, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 15 points for each)1. What is local color fiction? List at least 5 of the best known writers of local color.2. Instead of having her punished for her life of sin, Dreiser let Caroline Meeber in Sister Carrier becomesuccessful. Can you tell why?美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三参考答案I: Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases. (20%, 1 point for each)1. Bryant2. frontier saga3. transcendentalist4. Moby Dick5. Sketch Book6. Walden7. Longfellow8. Civil War9. Howells10. free verse11. Henry James12. Martin Eden13. The Gift of Magi14. Pound15. The Great Gatsby16. A Farewell to Arms17. Steinbeck18. Mark Twain19. Environment20. American CrisisII: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers or completions.Choose the one that is the best in each case. (30%, 1 point for each)1---5: BBDAB 6---10:DDACD11---15:ADBCD 16---20:BDBDC21---25:CBBAC 26---30:CBBDAIII. Answer the following questions, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 15 pointsfor each)1. What is local color fiction? List at least 5 of the best known writers of local color.Realism first appeared in the United States in the literature of local color, an amalgam of romantic plots and realistic descriptions of things was immediately observable; the dialects, customs, sights, and sounds of regional America. Bret Harte was the first American writer of local color to achieve wide popularity,prese nti ng stories of western mining tow ns with colorful gamblers, outlaws, and sea ndalous wome n. Harte, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Kate Chop in, Joel Chan dler Harris, and Mark Twain provided regi onal stories and tales of the life of America ' Wester ners, Souther ners, and Easter ners. Local color ficti on reached its pe popularity in the 1880s, but by the turn of the century it had begun to decline.2. I nstead of hav ing her puni shed for her life of sin, Dreiser let Caroli ne Meeber i n Sister Carrierbecome successful. Can you tell why?This is due to a nu mber of reas ons:1) Theodore Dreiser based the novel on the life of his sister Emma. In 1883 she ran away to Toronto, Can ada with a married man who had stole n money from his employer. Ano ther sister of his was a prostitute.2) Like Sister Carrie who went to Chicago at the age of 18, Dreiser himself left home at age 15 for Chicago and started to support himself, doing menial jobs. He understood perfectly well how hard life was for a girl like Sister Carrie in a big city.3) His sympathy for Sister Carrie is related to his n aturalistic beliefs. The n aturalists emphasized that the world was amoral, that men and wome n had no free will, that their lives were con trolled by heredity andthe en vir onment, that religious t ruth ” were illusory, that the desti ny of huma nity was misery in life an oblivio n in death. As a pion eer of n aturalism in America n literature, Dreiser wrote no vels reflect ing his mecha ni stic view of life, a con cept that held huma nity as the victim of such un gover nable forces as econo mics, biology, society, and eve n cha nee. In his works, conven ti onal morality is uni mporta nt, con sciously virtuous behavior hav ing little to do with material success and happ in ess. So Sister Carrie is not to be blamed for her sin of life.4) His sympathy for Sister Carrie also shows the in flue nce of the teach ings of Charles Darwin----natural selection and the survival of the fittest and that of the teachings of Herbert Spencer----social Darwinism. In this novel, Sister Carrie is portrayed as an example of the survival of the fittest in an indifferent world.美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题四I. Complete each of the follow ing stateme nts with proper words or phrases. (20%, 1 point for each)1. Ralph Emerson ' truest disciple was _______ , who put into practice many of Emerson ' s2. On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine ' s famous pamphlet ______ appeared, which boldly advocated aDeclaration for Independence ”, and brought the separatist to a crisis.3. _____ has been called the Father of American Poetry ”.4. Toa Waterfowl ”is perhaps the peak of _______ ' work, which has been called by an Englishprominent critic the most perfect brief poem in the Ian guage ”.5. In his cluster of poems calledLeaves of Grass, _____ gave America its first genuine epic poem.6. _____ probed deeply at the in dividual psychology of his characters, writi ng in a rich and in tricatestyle that supported his intense scruti ny of complex huma n experie nce.7. _____ ' s reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been described as the first distinctlyAmerican literature to be written in English.8. Benjamin Fran kli n ' s best writi ng is found in his masterpiece _____ .9. James Fennimore Cooper laun ched two kinds of imme nsely popular stories: the fron tier saga and■。

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云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题二学院:外语学院专业:英语年级：________ 班次: 学号：姓名：考试方式(闭卷)：考试时量：150 分钟试卷编号( 卷)I.( ) 1. The short story, Poe says, must be of such length as to be read at one sitting, so as to ensure the totality of impression.( ) 2. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in Jefferson and Thoreau.( ) 3. Williams’ poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” is considered an example of the Imagist movement's style and principles.( ) 4. Simeon and Peter are the farm owners in Desire under the Elms.( ) 5. The quotation—“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might…” is the theme of “Looking for Mr. Green”.( ) 6. Capt. John Yossarian is a fictional character in Joseph Heller’s novel Catch-22.( ) 7. Set in Puritan Boston in the seventeenth century, The Scarlet Letter tells the story of Hester Prynne, who gives birth after committing adultery, refuses toname the father, and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. ( ) 8. Franklin says that because his wife may wish to know about his life, he is taking his one week vacation in the English countryside to record his past. ( ) 9. The jar in “Anecdote of the Jar” symbolizes social regulation.( ) 10. In “The Cask of Amontillado”, Fortunato decides to use Montresor’s fondness for wine against him.( ) 11. Stephen Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of Street relates a story of a good woman’s downfall and destruction in a slum environment.( ) 12. Katherine Anne Porter is characterized by her employment of the stream of consciousness to probe into the inner world of human reality.( ) 13. F·Scott Fitzgerald is often claimed the literary spokesman of the Jazz Age. ( ) 14. The Sound and the Fury won O·Henry Award in 1939 and is considered as the representative of his short story.( ) 15. In the novel The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway portrayed an old man shows triumphant event in defeat.( ) 16. Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises pained the image of the whole generation, the lost generation.( ) 17. In “I Shot an Arrow”, Longfellow takes the traditional verse forms—the sonnet with the rhythm of aabb aacc ddee.( ) 18. In “Sonnet—To Science”, Poe praised science for it emancipated the poet’s imagination.( ) 19. Emerson has great influence on Emily Dickinson’s poems.( ) 20. Toni Morrison is the first American black woman who wins the Nobel Prize.II.following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)Writers:( ) 1. Walt Whiteman( ) 2. Edgar Allan Poe( ) 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson( ) 4. F·Scott Fitzgerald( ) 5. Wallace Stevens( ) 6. Joseph Heller( ) 7. Eugene Glastone O’Neill( ) 8. Ernest Hemingway( ) 9. Katherine Anne Porter( ) 10. Langston HughesWorks:a.The Man with the Blue Guitarb.The Ravenc.Desire under the Elmsd.For Whom the Bell Tollse.Fine Clothes to the Jewf.Natureg.The Leaning Towerh.The Side of Paradisei.God Knowsj.Leaves of GrassIII.’s name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)1.I have ever had pleasure in obtaining any little anecdotes of myancestors. You may remember the inquiries I made among the remains ofmy relations when you were with me in England, and the journey I undertook for that purpose. Imagining it may be equally agreeable to some of you to know the circumstances of my life, many of which you are yet unacquainted with, and expecting the enjoyment of a week's uninterrupted leisure in my present country retirement, I sit down to write them for you. To which I have besides some other inducements.Author: A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo Ellison Work: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby2.I took from their sconces two flambeaux, and giving one to Fortunato bowedhim through several suites of rooms to the archway that led into the vaults. I passed down a long and winding staircase, requesting him to be cautious as he followed. We came at length to the foot of the descent, and stood together on the damp ground of the catacombs of the Montresors.Author: A. Edgar Allan Poe B. William Faulkner C. Ralph Waldo Ellison Work: A. The Cask of Amontillado B. Barn Burning C.The Autobiography3.The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that itscatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, -- under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are. And, of course, so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.Author: A. Walt Whitman B. William Faulkner C. Ralph W. Emerson Work: A. The Road Not Taken B.I Shot An Arrow C.Self-reliance4.The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance on a large scale.She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam; and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion, had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes. She was ladylike, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days; characterised by a certain state and dignity, rather than by the delicate, evanescent, and indescribable grace which is now recognised as its indication. And never had Hester Prynne appeared more ladylike, in the antique interpretation of the term, than as she issued from the prison.Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C. Emily Dickenson Work: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C.Walden5.In disjointed sentences the cook and the correspondent argued as to thedifference between a life-saving station and a house of refuge. The cook hadsaid: "There's a house of refuge just north of the Mosquito Inlet Light, and as soon as they see us, they'll come off in their boat and pick us up."Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen CraneWork: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C.Miss Jewett6.“Get along and doctor your sick,” said Granny Weatherall. “Leave a wellwoman alone. I’ll call for you when I want you…Where were you forty years ago when I pulled through milk-leg and double pneumonia? You weren’t even born. Don’t let Cornelia lead you on,” she shouted, because Doctor Harry appeared to float up to the ceiling and out. “I pay my own bills, and I don’tthrow my money away on nonsense!”Author: A. Oscar Wilde B.H. W. Longfellow C. Katherine Anne Porter Work: A. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall B. Moby Dick C.The Jolly Corner7.It was Gatsby’s father, a solemn old man, very helpless and disma yed,bundled up in a long cheap ulster against the warm September day. His eyes leaked continuously with excitement, and when I took the bag and umbrella from his hands he began to pull so incessantly at his sparse gray beard that I had difficulty in getting off his coat. He was on the point of collapse, so I took him into the music room and made him sit down while I sent for something to eat. But he wouldn’t eat, and the glass of milk spilled from his trembling hand.Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C. H. W. Longfellow Work: A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C.The Great Gatsby8."Hey?" the Justice said. "Talk louder. Colonel Sartoris? I reckon anybodynamed for Colonel Sartoris in this country can't help but tell the truth, can they?" The boy said nothing. Enemy! Enemy! he thought; for a moment he could not even see, could not see that the justice's face was kindly nor discern that his voice was troubled when he spoke to the man named Harris: "Do you want me to question this boy?" But he could hear, and during those subsequent long seconds while there was absolutely no sound in the crowded little room save that of quiet and intent breathing it was as if he had swung outward at the end of a grape vine, over a ravine, and at the top of the swing had been caught in a prolonged instant of mesmerized gravity, weightless in time.Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. William Faulkner C. Robert FrostWork: A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning C.The Happy Prince9.The waiter took the brandy bottle and another saucer from the counter insidethe cafe and marched out to the old man's table. He put down the saucer and poured the glass full of brandy. The waiter took the bottle back inside the cafe.He sat down at the table with his colleague again.Author: A. Wallace Stevens B. William Faulkner C. Ernest HemingwayWork: A. Death of a Salesman B.A Clean, Well-lighted Place C.Recitatif10.ABBIE--(suddenly lifts her head and turns on him--wildly) I killed him, I tellye! I smothered him. Go up an' see if ye don't b'lieve me! (Cabot stares at hera second, then bolts out the rear door, can be heard bounding up the stairs,and rushes into the bedroom and over to the cradle. Abbie has sunk backlifelessly into her former position. Cabot puts his hand down on the body in the crib. An expression of fear and horror comes over his face.)Author: A.W. C. Williams B. E. G. O’neill C. Saul Bellow Work:A. Desire Under the Elms B. Looking for Mr. Green C.Catch-221.To make a _____ it takes a _____ and one _____,One _____ and a _____.And _____._____ alone will do,If _____ are few. (8%)2.How _____ to be somebody!How public, like a _____To tell your name the _____ dayTo an _____ bog! (4%)3.The _____ of these faces in the crowd;_____ on a wet, black _____. (3%)4.So much _____upona red _______________ with rainwaterbesides the _____chickens (5%)Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both.And be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that passing thereHad worn them really about the same.1. None of them knew the color of the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and were fastened upon the waves that swept toward them. These waves were of the hue of slate, save for the tops, which were of foaming white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its edge was jagged with waves that seemed thrust up in points like rocks.…When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea’s voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters.Answer the following questions:(1)What does the opening sentence imply? (5%)(2)In what way could the survivors be interpreters? (5%)2.I want you to pick all the fruit this year and see that nothing is wasted. There’s always someone who can use it. Don’t let good things rot for want of using. You waste life when you waste good food. Don’t let things get lost. It’s bitter to lose things. Now, don’t let me get to thinking, not when I am tired and taking a little nap before supper…Answer the following questions:(1) What intelligent advice and wisdom does Granny give her family? (5%)(2) What do you see from behind her words? (5%)云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题二学院:外语学院专业:英语年级：________ 班次: 学号：姓名：考试方式(闭卷)：考试时量：150 分钟试卷编号( 卷)1.____2. ____3._____4._____5._____6._____7._____8._____9._____ 10_____ 11.____ 12.___ 13.____ 14.____ 15.____ 16.____17.____ 18.____19.____ 20._____following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)1.____2.____3.____4.____5.____6.____7.____8.____9.____ 10.____’s name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)1. Author:_____ , Work:_____2. Author:____ , Work:_____3. Author:_____ , Work:_____4. Author:____ , Work:_____5. Author:_____ , Work:_____6. Author:____ , Work:_____7. Author:_____ , Work:_____ 8. Author:____ , Work:_____9. Author:_____ , Work:_____ 10. Author:____ , Work:_____1. (1%)_________ ,2. (4%)________, _______, _______, _______3. (1%)____________,4.(1%)____________5.(1%)___________6. (4%)_________ , __________, __________ ,__________7. (1%)__________ , 8. (1%)____________ , 9. (1%)____________10. (4%)__________, _________ , _________ , _________ 11. (1%)______________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________1. Answer the following questions:(1)What relationship between nature and man do you see through this part?(5%)(2)Are the men willing to be drowned? How do they challenge nature? 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美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题一I. Fill in the follow ing bla nks and put your an swers on the An swer Sheet. (15%, 1 point for each)1. The publication of _____ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New EnglandTran sce nden talism.2. Hard work, thrift, _____ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliestAmerican writing.3. At 87, ______ read his poetry at the in augurati on of Preside nt Joh n F. Kenn edy.4. Jack London ' s masterwork __________ i s somewhat autobiographical.5. _____ , the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst todestroy evil.6. Ezra Pound was the leader of a new moveme nt in poetry which he called the “______ ”7. The Custom House ” is an introductory note to the novel ________ .8. Among the works attacking the American Dream ”, _____________ by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece.9. Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of_______ , poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.10. In 1954, ______ won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his mastery of the art of modern nar11. In American literary history, _______ i s called AmhersttheReclusinee”f she isolated herself fromthe outside almost for life.12. The Fall of the House of Usher ” is a short story written by _______ .13. _____ laun ched two kinds of imme nsely popular stories: the sea adve nture and the fron tier saga,represe nted byThe Leatherstock ing Tales.th14. The publication of T. S. Eliot ' s in 1922, the most significant American poem of the 20 century, helped to establish amodern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.15. The Cop and the An them ” is a short story writte n by ______ .II. Each of the followi ng stateme nts is followed by four alter native an swers. Choose the one that would best complete the stateme nt. Then put your an swers on the An swer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each)1. For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____ , the n arrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, anultimately mystery of the uni verse.A. StubbB. IshmaelC. AhabD. Starbuck2. Most of the poems in Whitman L eaves of Grasssing of the -mass en ” and the _____ a s well.A. n atureB. self-relia neeC. selfD. life3. Which of the following is Not one of the main ideas advocated by Ralph Emerson?A. Importa nce of the In dividualB. Faith in Christia nityC. TheOver-Soul D. Self-Relia nce4. In Hawthor ne ' no vels and short stories, i ntellectuals usually appear as ______ .A. saviorsB. villai nsC. comme ntatorsD. observers5. In America n literature, escap ing from the society and retur ning to n ature is a com mon subject. Thefollowing titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except ____ .A. Dreiser L ister CarrierB. Mark Twain T hes Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Cooper T eatherstocking Tales ___D. Thoreau TValdens6. Which of the followi ng is Not optimistic about huma n n ature? .C. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau7. Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as _______ .A. Rip Van Winkle and Moby DickB. Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy HollowC. Young Goodman Brownand Moby DickD. The Fall of the House of Usherand Rip Van Winkle8. Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is Not a usual subject ofher poetic expression? ________________ .A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace9. Henry James is mostly concerned with _____ in his fiction.A. the inner life of human beingsB. small town life in backward regionsC. suffering of the agedD. violent events in history10. ____ is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modern American literature comes.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. The Gilded Age11. William Faulkner 's works mainly concern the American ______ .A. New EnglandB. SouthC. Mid WestD. West12. One of Mark Twain 's contributions to American literature is that he made ______ anacceptedstandard literary medium.A. tall taleB. local colorismC. humorD. colloquial speech13. Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ___ of which had appeared during her life time.A. 7B. 8C. 9D. 1014. In writing In a Station of the Metro, Pound got his inspiration from ___ .A. English sonnetB. Japanese haikuC. Chinese classical poetryD. French15. Of the following American writers, ____ has Not won the Nobel Prize for Literature.A. William FaulknerB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. F. S. Fitzgerald16. Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the ____ .A. life in New YorkB. country life in New EnglandC. sea adventuresD. life on the Mississippi River17. The works of ______ reveal the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells18. In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started great war! Whois this woman referred to? _________ .A. Mrs. StoweB. Emily DickinsonC. George EliotD. Jane Austen19. It is not surprising to find in ____ 's fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be kiA. Mark TwainB. Emily DickinsonC. Theodore DreiserD. Henry James20. “Let 's portray man and woman in a way that we meet them in our real life. ”This may be a principle for the characterization of ______ .A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernismIII. Explain the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 5 points for each)1. Local color fiction2. Captain John Smith3. “Annabel Lee ”IV. Answer the following questions briefly, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 10 points for each)1. What ' the differenee between Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson?2. What ' the symbolic significanee of The Scarlet Letter?美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题二I. Fill in the follow ing bla nks and put your an swers on the An swer Sheet. (15%, 1 point for each)1. ___ was a founding figure of American poetry, whose innovation first of all lies in his use of the freeverse, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.2. The publication of Nature established ______ as the most eloquent spokesman of New EnglandTran sce nden talism.3. Hard work, thrift, _____ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliestAmerican writing.4. ________ i s considered to be the founder of psychological realism, who believed that reality lies in theimpressi ons made by life on the spectator.5. Marti n Ede n is the no vel into which ____ put most of himself.6. The publication of ______ written by T. S. Eliot helped to establish a modern tradition of literature richwith lear ning and allusive thought.7. The appariti on of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. ” This is the shortest poemwritte n by ____ .8. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, ________ b ecame the spokesman for what Gertrude Steinhad called a Lost Generation ”.9. The Custom House ” is an introductory note to the novel ______ .10. Among the works attacking the American Dream ”, ___________ by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece.11. Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ___ of which had appeared during her life time.12. ____ , the tragic hero of Moby Dick , bur ning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst todestroy evil.13. As a poet, _________ heralded American literary independence: his close observation of naturedisti nguished his treatme nt of in dige nous wild life and other n ative America n subjects, e. g: The Wild Honey Suckle.14. The publication of Washington Irving 's a collectio,n of essays, sketches and tales, marks thebeg inning of America n roma nticism.15. The Cop and the An them ” is a short story writte n by _____ .II. Each of the followi ng stateme nts is followed by four alter native an swers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. Put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 1 point for each)1. In Leaves of Grass, ______ is all that concerned Whitma n.A. i ndividualismB. freedomC. democracyD. all the above2. _____ i s the n arrator ofMoby Dick.3. In 1837, Ralph Emers on made a speech en titled ___ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wen dellHolmes as Our In tellectual Declarati on of In depe nden ce. ” C. Divin itySchool Address D.The America n Scholar4. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling; and second, the individual is _____A. vicious by natureB. insignificantC. forward-lookingD. divine5. In Hawthorne 's novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _____ .6. In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles areall related, in one way or another, to the subject except ___________________ .A. Dreiser 'Sister CarrierB. Mark Twain 'Thes Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Cooper 'Leathers-Stocking TalesD. Thoreau 'Waldens7. “I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. ”Who could have written these lines? ___ .A. Edgar Allan PoeB. Ralph EmersonC. Walt WhitmanD. Henry Thoreau8. Which of the following is Not optimistic about human nature?A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau9. Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is Not true? ____ .A. It explores man 's-neverending search for the satisfaction of materialistic desires.B. It relates the conflicts between the society and the individual.C. It presents a psychological analysis of the inward tensions of the characters.D. It is about the effect of sin on the people involved and the society as a whole.10. Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as ______ .A. Rip Van Winkle and Moby DickB. Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy HollowC. Young Goodman Brownand Moby DickD. The Fall of the House of Usherand Rip Van Winkle11. Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is Not a usual subject ofher poetic expression? ________________ .A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace12. Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a ___ language.A. grandB. pompousC. vernacularD. simple13. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as ____ .A. the Age of RomanticismB. the Age of RealismC. the Age of ModernismD. the Age of Colonialism14. ____ is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modern American literature comes.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. The Gilded Age15. The main theme of ______ 'Thes Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of lifeshould be the main object of the novel.A. Mark TwainB. Henry JamesC. Theodore DreiserD. William Dean Howells16. It is not surprising to find in ____A. Mark TwainC. Theodore Dreiser17. According to Hawthorne, the scarlet Letter's fiction a world of jungle, whereB. Emily DickinsonD. Henry James“A”which originally stands forkill or to be kimeaning of “able ”or angel ”through Hester s efforts.A. arroganceB. adulteryC. agonyD. accomplishment18. During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what Mark Twain referred to asA. the Golden AgeB. the Modern AgeC. the Gilded AgeD. the Puritan Age19. Robert Frost is generally considered to be a regional poet in the sense that his subject matters mainly focus on thelandscape and people in _____________ .A. New YorkB. the WestC. New EnglandD. Mid West20. William Faulkner 'orkswmainly concern the American ______ .A. New EnglandB. SouthC. Mid WestD. West21. In 1954, ____ was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “masteryof the art of modernnarration. ” C. the Jazz Age D. the Romantic Period24. ___ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A. William BradfordB. Anne BradstreetC. Emily DickinsonD. Captain John Smith25. The works of ______ reveal the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells26. _____ is NOT a fictional character in The Scarlet Letter.A. PearlB. Arthur DimmesdaleC. Roger ChillingworthD. Santiago27. At 87, _____ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.A. Edwin RobinsonB. Wallace StevensC. Carl SandburgD. Robert Frost28. “Let 's portray man and woman in a way that we meet them in our real life. ”This may bthe characterization of ______ .A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernism29. In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started great war! ”Whois this woman referred to? ____________________ .A. Mrs. StoweB. Emily DickinsonC. George EliotD. JaneAusten A. T. S. EliotC. John Steinbeck22. “In a Station of the Metro A.the imagist poetry C. the romanticpoetry B. Ernest Hemingway D. William Faulkner ”is regarded by critics as a classic specimen of ____ B. the absurd poetry D. the transcendental poetry23. Fitzgerald 's fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of ________A. the Renaissance PeriodB. the Neoclassical Period30. All his novels reveal that, as time went on, Mark Twain became increasingly ____ .A. optimisticB. pessimisticC. confidentD. contentedIII. Explain the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 5 points for each)1. New England literary renaissance2. “My Lost Youth ”(by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)3. William Dean HowellsIV. Make a brief comment on the following and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 10 points for each)1. American Romanticism.2. Caroline Meeber in Sister Carrier .美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三I. Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases. (20%, 1 point for each)1. In 1817, the stately poem called “Thanatopsis ”introduced the best poet, ________ , to appear in Aup to that time.2. James Fennimore Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure and3. Ralph Emerson was recognized throughout his life as the leader of _____ movement, yet he neverapplied the term to himself or to his beliefs and ideas.4. Herman Melville 'novels ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of aseemingly supernatural white whale.th5. In the early 19 th century, Washington Irving wrote _____ which became the first work by anAmerican writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.6. In 1845, Henry David Thoreau began a two-year residence at ____ Pond.7. After his death, _____ became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poetth8. The American Romantic period stretches from the end of the 18 th century through the outburst of the■th9. The arbiter of 19 th century literary realism in America was ______ .10. The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called ____ , which is poetry without a fixed beat orregular rhyme scheme.11. ____ is considered the founder of psychological realism. He believed that reality lies in theimpressions made by life on the spectator.12. ____ is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself.13. O. Henry 's ______ is a very moving story of a young couple who sell their best possessions in order toget money for a Christmas present for each other.14. ____ was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he calledthe “Imagist ”movement.15. In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald completed his best novel _____ . It is the story of an idealist who wasdestroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.16. Ernest Hemingway 's stature as a writer wasconfirmed with the publication of his novel ______ in1929. The novel portrayed a farewell both to war and to love.17. ____ was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the 1930s.18. William Faulkner considered _________ to be truly “theAmericanfirst writer ”.19. As a genre, naturalism emphasized heredity and _____ as important deterministic forces shapingindividualized characters that were presented in special and detailed circumstances.20. A series of sixteen pamphlets by Thomas Paine was entitled ____ .II. Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers or completions.Choose the one that is the best in each case. (30%, 1 point for each)1. Moby Dick was dedicated to ___ .A. Ralph EmersonB. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Henry ThoreauD. Henry Longfellow2. ____ was Mark Twain 's masterpiece from which, as Hemingway noted, “all modern American litcomes. ”A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Life on the MississippiD. The Gilded Age3. __ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A. Emily BradfordB. Ann BradstreetC. Emily DickinsonD. John Smith4. Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the __ .A. American EnlightenmentB. Sugar ActC. Chartist movementD. Romanticist5. Thomas Jefferson 's attitude, thats, ifirm belief in progress, and the pursuit of happiness, is typical of the period wenow call ______________ .A. Age of EvolutionB. Age of ReasonC. Age ofRomanticism D. Age of Regionalism6. As a literary and philosophical movement, ___ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the CivilWar.A. modernismB. rationalismC. sentimentalismD. transcendentalism7. __ is NOT written by Ralph Waldo Emerson.A. The American ScholarB. Self-RelianceC. The Divinity School AddressD. Civil Disobedience8. There is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actually ___ on the Puritansoil.A. RomanticismB. SymbolismC. MysticismD. Rationalismth9. American literature produced only one female poet during the 19 century. This was _ .A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. Harriet Beecher10. Which of the following statements about O. Henry is NOT right?A. He wrote about the poor people.B. The ends of his stories are always surprising.C. Many of his stories contain a great deal of slang and colloquial expressions.D. The plots are usually clumsy.11. The main theme of ___ The 'sArt of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life shouldbe the main object of the novel.A. Henry JamesB. William HowellsC. Mark TwainD. O. Henry12. Which of the following does NOT have a naturalist tendency?A. Stephan CraneB. Frank NorrisC. Jack LondonD. Walt Whitman13. For Melville, as well as for the reader and _______ , the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, anultimately mystery of the universe.A. StubbB. IshmaelC. AhabD. Starbuck14. Which of the following is NOT optimistic about human nature?A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Henry Thoreau15. E mily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject ofher poetic expression?A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace16. Of the following American writers, ___ had won the Nobel Prize for Literature.A. Mark TwainB. Ernest HemingwayC. Henry JamesD. F. S. Fitzgerald17. In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started great war! The bookrefers to __________ .A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. BelovedB. Pride and Prejudice D. Uncle Tom 's Cabin18. The works of ____ reveals the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. FitzgeraldB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Howells19.In Leaves of Grass, ____ is all that concerned Whitman.A. individualismB. freedomC. democracyD. all the above20.It is not surprising to find in ____ 's fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killA. Mark TwainB. Emily DickinsonC. Theodore DreiserD. Henry James21. During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what Mark Twain referred to asA. the Golden AgeB. the Modern AgeC. the Gilded AgeD. the Puritan Age22. “The Custom-House ”is an introductory note to ____ .A. Moby-DickB. The Scarlet LetterC. The Marble FaunD. The Blithedale Romance23. When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in thequest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing ____________________ 's thematic concernin his fiction writing.A. Henry JamesB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Faulkner24. American writers after World War I self- consciously acknowledged that they were (a) “___ ”, devfaith and alienated from the Western civilization.A. Lost GenerationB. Beat GenerationC. Sons of LibertyD. Angry Young Men25. Which one of the following statements is NOT true of William Faulkner?A. He is 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 writers26. The setting of the novel The Scarlet Letter is in ___ .A. England during World War IB. Paris during the French RevolutionC. Puritan AmericaD. America after the Revolutionary War27. Which statement is NOT true of the American naturalist?A. They ventured the forbidden subjects such as sex, death, and violence.B. They stressed the possible triumph of human will.C. They wrote in a daring, open, and direct manner.D. They see human beings no more than a physical object.28. __ is often acclaimed as the literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.A. Ernest HemingwayB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. William FaulknerD. John Steinbeck29., one of America 's greatest playwrights, won the Nobel Prize in 1936, the first American playwright to receive the honor.Some of his most famous works include The Hairy Ape, Long Day 's Journey into Night.A. Arthur MillerB. Tennessee WilliamsC. Bernard MalamudD. Eugene O 'Neill30. Edgar Allan Poe occupies an important position in American literature as a poet and a ___ .A. short story writerB. novelistC. dramatistD. translatorIII. Answer the following questions, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 15 points for each)1. What is local color fiction? List at least 5 of the best known writers of local color.2. Instead of having her punished for her life of sin, Dreiser let Caroline Meeber in Sister Carrier becomesuccessful. Can you tell why?美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三参考答案I: Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases. (20%, 1 point for each)1. Bryant2. frontier saga3. transcendentalist4. Moby Dick5. Sketch Book6. Walden7. Longfellow8. Civil War9. Howells10. free verse11. Henry James12. Martin Eden13. The Gift of Magi14. Pound15. The Great Gatsby16. A Farewell to Arms17. Steinbeck18. Mark Twain19. Environment20. American CrisisII: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers or completions.Choose the one that is the best in each case. (30%, 1 point for each)1---5: BBDAB 6---10:DDACD11---15:ADBCD 16---20:BDBDC21---25:CBBAC 26---30:CBBDAIII. Answer the following questions, and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 15 pointsfor each)1. What is local color fiction? List at least 5 of the best known writers of local color.Realism first appeared in the United States in the literature of local color, an amalgam of romantic plots and realistic descriptions of things was immediately observable; the dialects, customs, sights, and sounds of regional America. Bret Harte was the first American writer of local color to achieve wide popularity,prese nti ng stories of western mining tow ns with colorful gamblers, outlaws, and sea ndalous wome n. Harte, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Kate Chop in, Joel Chan dler Harris, and Mark Twain provided regi onal stories and tales of the life of America ' Wester ners, Souther ners, and Easter ners. Local color ficti on reached its pe popularity in the 1880s, but by the turn of the century it had begun to decline.2. I nstead of hav ing her puni shed for her life of sin, Dreiser let Caroli ne Meeber i n Sister Carrierbecome successful. Can you tell why?This is due to a nu mber of reas ons:1) Theodore Dreiser based the novel on the life of his sister Emma. In 1883 she ran away to Toronto, Can ada with a married man who had stole n money from his employer. Ano ther sister of his was a prostitute.2) Like Sister Carrie who went to Chicago at the age of 18, Dreiser himself left home at age 15 for Chicago and started to support himself, doing menial jobs. He understood perfectly well how hard life was for a girl like Sister Carrie in a big city.3) His sympathy for Sister Carrie is related to his n aturalistic beliefs. The n aturalists emphasized that the world was amoral, that men and wome n had no free will, that their lives were con trolled by heredity andthe en vir onment, that religious t ruth ” were illusory, that the desti ny of huma nity was misery in life an oblivio n in death. As a pion eer of n aturalism in America n literature, Dreiser wrote no vels reflect ing his mecha ni stic view of life, a con cept that held huma nity as the victim of such un gover nable forces as econo mics, biology, society, and eve n cha nee. In his works, conven ti onal morality is uni mporta nt, con sciously virtuous behavior hav ing little to do with material success and happ in ess. So Sister Carrie is not to be blamed for her sin of life.4) His sympathy for Sister Carrie also shows the in flue nce of the teach ings of Charles Darwin----natural selection and the survival of the fittest and that of the teachings of Herbert Spencer----social Darwinism. In this novel, Sister Carrie is portrayed as an example of the survival of the fittest in an indifferent world.美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题四I. Complete each of the follow ing stateme nts with proper words or phrases. (20%, 1 point for each)1. Ralph Emerson ' truest disciple was _______ , who put into practice many of Emerson ' s2. On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine ' s famous pamphlet ______ appeared, which boldly advocated aDeclaration for Independence ”, and brought the separatist to a crisis.3. _____ has been called the Father of American Poetry ”.4. Toa Waterfowl ”is perhaps the peak of _______ ' work, which has been called by an Englishprominent critic the most perfect brief poem in the Ian guage ”.5. In his cluster of poems calledLeaves of Grass, _____ gave America its first genuine epic poem.6. _____ probed deeply at the in dividual psychology of his characters, writi ng in a rich and in tricatestyle that supported his intense scruti ny of complex huma n experie nce.7. _____ ' s reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been described as the first distinctlyAmerican literature to be written in English.8. Benjamin Fran kli n ' s best writi ng is found in his masterpiece _____ .9. James Fennimore Cooper laun ched two kinds of imme nsely popular stories: the fron tier saga and■。

大学课程《美国文学史》期末试卷1.Darwinism2.Lost generation3.Imagism4.Free VerseⅡ. Matching （本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分） 1. John Steinbeck 2. T.S. Eliot 3. Carl Sandburg 4. F. Scott Fitzgerald 5. Harriet Beecher Stowe 6. O ’ Henry 7. Thomas Paine 8. Ernest Hemingway 9. Ralph Waldo Emerson 10. Nathaniel Hawthorne a. A Farewell to Arms b. Common Sense c. Uncle Tom’s Cabind. The Cop and the Antheme. The Grapes of Wrathf. Fogg. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock h. Naturei. The Great Gatsby j. The Scarlet Letter.Ⅲ. Multiple choice.（本大题共 35 小题，每小题 1 分，共 35 分）1.In the early nineteenth century American moral values were essentially Puritan. Nothi ng has left a deeper imprint on the character of the people as a whole than did_______. A.Puritanism B Romanticism C Rationalism D Sentimentalism2. Franklin wrote and published his famous__________, an annul collection of proverbs.A. The AutobiographyB. Poor Richard‘s AlmanackC. Common SenseD. The Genera l Magazine3. In American literature, the eighteenth century was the age of the Enlightenment. _______was the dominant spirit.A. Humanism B Rationalism C Revolution D Evolution 4.________ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A.William BradfordB. Anne BradstreetC.Emily DickinsonD. Captain John Smith 5..Which is not Irving‘s works in the following.A. The Sketch BookB. Tales of a Traveller C .A History of New York D To A Waterfowl 6. Choose Freneau‘s poem from the following.A. The RavenB. To a WaterfowlC. To HellenD. The wild Honey Suckle7. 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 Poe pared with his contemporaries, _________was no doubt the best in exploring the wildness and frontier in fiction.A. Washington IrvingB. James Fenimore CooperC. William Cullen Bryant D Philip Freaneau9. Washington Irving‘s ‘Rip Van Winkle‘ is famous for_________. A.Rip‘s escape into a mysterious valleyB.The story‘s German legendary source materialC. Rip‘s seeking for happinessD. Rip‘s 20-years sleep 10. Choose Poe‘s work from the followingA. The Day of DoomB.The Last of the MohicansC. The Indian Burying Ground D The Fall of the House of Usher 11.Choose Irving‘s work from the following .A. The Sketch BookB. ThanatopsisC. The SpyD.The British Prison Ship 12._______ is the most commonly used in English poetry, in which an unstressed syllabl e comes first followed by a stressed.A. the trochaic footB. an anapestic footC. a quatrainD. a iambic foot 13. The Indian Burying Ground by___________ is the earliest poem which romanticizes the Indian as a child of nature.A. Washington IrvingB. Adgar Alan PoeC.Philip FreneauD.Nathaniel Hawthorne 14._______ is a poetic device used to increase the musical quality and link the lines and stanzas of a poem.A. meterB. repetitionC. rhymeD.foot15.Poetry is aimed at conveying and enriching human experience which is formed throu gh sense impressions. _____ is the representation of sense experience through language. A . meter B. image C. theme D. assonance16. In American literature, the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment. ______ was the dominant.院系： 专业班级： 姓名： 学号：装 订 线A. humanismB. rationalismC. romanticismD. evolution17. The short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is taken from Irving’s work named ______.A. The Leatherstocking TalesB. The Sketch BookC. The AutobiographyD. The History of New York18. Which of the following is not the characteristic of American Romanticism?A. RationalismB. inner selfC. personal feelingsD. individualism19.The short story “Rip Van Winkle” reveals the ____ attitude of its author.A. optimisticB. pessimisticC. conservativeD. ironic20. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in___and ThoreauA. JeffersonB. EmersonC. FreneauD. Mark Twain21. Which is r egarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American ScholarB. English TraitsC. OversoulD. Self-reliance22. ______ is the father of American Literature.A. Benjamin FranklinB. Philip FreneauC. PaineD. Washington Irving23. _____ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. ThoreauB. EmersonC. HawthorneD. Whitman24. Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and the ____ as well.A. natureB. self-relianceC. selfD. life25. For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.A. AhabB. StubbC. IshmaelD. Starbuck26. The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme of the universality and equality in value of all people and all things.a.Cantosb. The Ravenc. Song of Myselfd. Chicago27. The novel is about how a group of people on a whaling ship kill a great whale but themselves are killed by the whale, with the conflict between man and his fate.a.The Octopusb. Moby-Dickc. The Rise of Silas Laphamd. Leaves of Grass28. An English ship brought 102 people from Plymouth, England on September 16, 1620 and arrived in the present Provincetown harbor on November 21 in the same year. This ship was named ____________.a. The Pilgrimsb. Mayflowerc. Americad. Titanic29._______was the greatest woman poet in American literature and she wrote about 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.a. Pearl S. Buckb. Harriet Bicher Stowec. Emily Dickensond. Walter Whitman30. ._________ is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.a. Washington Irvingb. Ralph Waldo Emersonc. Walt Whitmand. Edgar Allan Poe31. In American literature, the eighteen century was the age of the Enlightenment. ——was the dominant spirit.A. HumanismB. RationalismC. RevolutionD. Evolution 32.——Which statement about 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.33.Who is regarded as the first American prose epic.A. NatureB. The Scarlet LetterC. WaldenD. Moby-Dick34.The Romanic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving's ——and ended with Whiteman's Leaves of Grass.A. The Sketch BookB. Tales of a TravelerC. The AlhambraD.A history of New York35.The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to asA. the Naturalist PeriodB. the Modern PeriodC. the Romantic PeriodD. the Realistic PeriodIV. Identification of Fragments（本大题共有7个诗歌或小说选段，请选5个选段并回答其后的问题，答题时请先注明选段, 再回答问题。

美国文学期末考试模拟试题及答案 I.True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item)(T ) 1. Franklin’s autobiography, published after his death, has become one ofthe classics of the genre.(F ) 2. In Catch-22, Yossarian devises multiple strategies to fly combat missions,but the military bureaucracy is always able to find a way to make him stay. (F ) 3. Eben kills the infant in Desire under the Elm and confesses his crimein the end of the play.(T ) 4. “Dreams ” has the meaning to encourage other black people not to giveup hope or lose their ideal of a better world, for without hope, life is unbearable.(T ) 5. The Scarlet Letter , published in 1850, is an American novel written byNathaniel Hawthorne and is generally considered to be his representative work.(F ) 6. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, philosopher, poet, andleader of the Imagist movement in the early 19th century.(F ) 7. “The Fall of the House of Usher ” is one of Poe ’s poems.(F ) 8. Saul Bellow ’s perceptions center around the black people, the big city,and the spirit of American life in the second half of the 20th century. (T ) 9. In The Scarlet Letter , Pear is Hester ’s illegitimate daughter.(T ) 10. Some present-day critics consider Pound ’s Cantos the best long poem inmodern literature.(T ) 11. In 1895, Stephen Crane published Maggie: A Girl of Street , which exertedgreat influence on Theodore Dreiser ’s realism.( T) 12. The setting of The Flowering Judas is the Mexican Revolution is the 1920s. (F ) 13. Fitzgerald ’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit ofthe romantic period.(F ) 14. William Faulkner ’s woks mainly concerned the decay in economy and moralin the American North.(F ) 15. In Faulkner ’s The Sound and the Fury , he used a technique called imagism,in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character. (T ) 16. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises , Ernest Hemingway became thespokesman of the lost generation.(T ) 17. The novel A Farewell to Arms portrays a farewell both to war and love. (F ) 18. The famous poem “A Psalm of Life ” was written by Edgar Allen Poe. (F ) 19. “The Raven ” is a short story written by Edgar Allen Poe.(F ) 20. Toni Morrison was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her novel TheBluest Eye .II. Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)Writers:( g ) 1. Benjamin Franklin Works: a. Ars Poetica ( d ) 2. Toni Morrison ( f ) 3. William Faulkner ( a ) 4. Archibald MacLeish( c ) 5. Nathaniel Hawthorne( e ) 6. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( b ) 7. Stephen Crane( j ) 8. Katherine Anne Porter ( h ) 9. William Carlos Williams ( i ) 10. Saul Bellowb.Maggie: A Girl of the Streetsc. Twice-told Talesd. Belovede. A Psalm of Lifef. Barn Burningg. Poor Richard’s Almanach. Patersoni. Anderson the Rain King j.The Flowering JudasIII.Identify the following by choosing the author’s name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)1.And now I speak of thanking God, I desire with all humility toacknowledge that I owe the mentioned happiness of my past life tohis kind providence, which led me to the means I used and gave themsuccess. My belief of this induces me to hope, though I must notpresume, that the same goodness will still be exercised toward me,in continuing that happiness, or enabling me to bear a fatal reverse, which I may experience as others have done, the complexion of myfuture fortune being known to him only in whose power it is to blessto us even our afflictions.Author: A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork: A.The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby2.It must be understood that neither by word nor deed had I givenFortunato cause to doubt my good will. I continued as was my wont,to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile NOWwas at the thought of his immolation.Author: A. William Faulkner B. Edgar Allan Poe C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C.The Cask of Amontillado3.Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception thanthe rule. There is the man _and_ his virtues. Men do what is calleda good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as theywould pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade.Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their livingin the world, -- as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Theirvirtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. Mylife is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that itshould be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than thatit should be glittering and unsteady.Author: A. Walt Whitman B. William Faulkner C. Ralph W. Emerson Work: A. The Road Not Taken B.I Shot An Arrow C. Self-reliance4.The door of the jail being flung open from within there appeared,in the first place, like a black shadow emerging into sunshine,the grim and gristly presence of the town-beadle, with a sword byhis side, and his staff of office in his hand. This personageprefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which it was his business to administer in its final and closest application to the offender.Stretching forth the official staff in his left hand, he laid his right upon the shoulder of a young woman, whom he thus drew forward, until, on the threshold of the prison-door, she repelled him, by an action marked with natural dignity and force of character, and stepped into the open air as if by her own free will.Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C.Emily DickensonWork: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C. Walden5. A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that aftersuccessfully surmounting one wave you discover that there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dingey one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience which is never at sea in a dingey. As each slatey wall of water approached, it shut all else from the view of the men in the boat, and it was not difficult to imagine that this particular wave was the final outburst of the ocean, the last effort of the grim water. Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen Crane Work: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C. Miss Jewett6.Doctor Harry spread a warm paw like a cushion on her forehead wherethe forked green vein danced and made her eyelids twitch. “Now, now, be a good girl, and we’ll have you up in no time.”Author: A. Oscar Wilde B.H. W. Longfellow C. Katherine Anne PorterWork: A. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall B. Moby Dick C. The Jolly Corner7.But all this part of it seemed remote and unessential.? I foundmyself on Gatsby’s side, and alone.? From the moment I telephone d news of the catastrophe to West Egg village, every surmise about him, and every practical question, was referred to me.? At firstI was surprised and confused; then, as he lay in his house anddidn’t move or breathe or speak, hour upon hour, it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested—interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end. Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C.H. W. Longfellow Work: A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby8.?The store in which the justice of the Peace's court was sittingsmelled of cheese. The boy, crouched on his nail keg at the back of the crowded room, knew he smelled cheese, and more: from wherehe sat he could see the ranked shelves close-packed with the solid, squat, dynamic shapes of tin cans whose labels his stomach read, not from the lettering which meant nothing to his mind but from the scarlet devils and the silver curve of fish…Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. William Faulkner C. Robert Frost Work: A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning C. The Happy Prince9.It was late and everyone had left the cafe except an old man whosat 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. 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. Author: A. Wallace Stevens B. William Faulkner C. Ernest HemingwayWork: A. Death of a Salesman B.A Clean, Well-lighted Place C. Recitatif10.CABOT--Thunder 'n' lightnin', Abbie! I hain't slept this late infifty year! Looks 's if the sun was full riz a'most. Must've been the dancin' an' likker. Must be gittin' old. I hope Eben's t' wuk.Ye might've tuk the trouble t' rouse me, Abbie. (He turns--sees no one there--surprised) Waal--whar air she? Gittin' vittles, I calc'late. (He tiptoes to the cradle and peers down--proudly) Mornin', sonny. Putty's a picter! Sleepin' sound. He don't beller all night like most o' 'em. (He goes quietly out the door in rear--a few moments later enters kitchen--sees Abbie--with satisfaction) So thar ye be. Ye got any vittles cooked?Author: A.W. C. Williams B. E. G. O’neill C. Saul Bellow Work: A. Desire Under the Elms B. Looking for Mr. Green C. Catch-22IV: Complete the following: 20%1.I shot an __ arrow ___ into the air.It fell to __ earth ___ I knew not ___ where __;For so swiftly it __ flew ___ the sightCould not __ follow ___ it in its __ flight ___. (6%)2.Life is __ real ___! Life is __ earnest ___!And the grave is not its __ goal ___;__ Dust __ thou art, to ___ dust __ returnest,Was not spoken of the __ soul ___. (6%)3.Helen, thy ___ beauty __ is to meLike those Nicean barks of yoreThat gently, o’er a __ perfumed ___ sea,The weary, way-worn ___ wanderer __ boreTo his own native _ shore ____. (4%)4.My captain does not answer, his lips are __ pale ___ and __ still___,My father does not feel my arm, he has no ___ pulse __ nor __ will ___ (4%)V. Rewrite the following into modern English: 10%Of physiology from top to toe I sing,Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far,The Female equally with the Male I sing.Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,Cheerful, for freest action form’d under the laws divine,The Modern Man I sing.I sing for physiology from top to toe. Neither looks alone nor intelligence is worthy for the praise. I say the form is far worthier. I also sing for the equality between the sexes. I sing for the modern man of their life full of passion, pulse and power. They can cheerfully and freely take actions formed under the divine laws.ment: 20%1.The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely settled—but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded me the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong. It must be understood that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunado cause to doubt my good will. I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation.Answer the following questions:(1) Who is the narrator? What wrong does he want to redress? (5%)(2) What kind of person do you think the narrator is according to the above passage? (5%)2.On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A. It was so artistically done, and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance of fancy, that it had all the effect of a last and fitting decoration to the apparel which she wore; and which was of a splendor in accordance with the taste of the age, but greatly beyond what was allowed by the sumptuary regulations of the colony.Answer the following questions:(1)What has happened to Hester? Why does she make the embroidery of theletter A so elaborate? (5%)(2)How does this tell us about her character? (5%)____________________________________________美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题二IV.True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item)(T ) 1. The short story, Poe says, must be of such length as to be read at one sitting, so as to ensure the totality of impression. (F ) 2. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literaryadvocates in Jefferson and Thoreau.(T ) 3. Williams’ poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” is considered an example of the Imagist movement's style and principles.(F ) 4. Simeon and Peter are the farm owners in Desire under the Elms. (T ) 5. The quotation —“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might…” is the theme of “Looking for Mr. Green”.(T ) 6. Capt. John Yossarian is a fictional character in Joseph Heller’s novel Catch-22.(T ) 7. Set in Puritan Boston in the seventeenth century, The Scarlet Letter tells the story of Hester Prynne, who gives birth aftercommitting adultery, refuses to name the father, and strugglesto create a new life of repentance and dignity.(F ) 8. Franklin says that because his wife may wish to know about hislife, he is taking his one week vacation in the Englishcountryside to record his past.(F ) 9. The jar in “Anecdote of the Jar”symbolizes social regulation.(F ) 10. In “The Cask of Amontillado”, Fortunato decides to useMontresor’s fondness for wine against him.(T ) 11. Stephen Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of Street relates a story ofa good woman’s downfall and destruction in a slum environment. (T ) 12. Katherine Anne Porter is characterized by her employment of the stream of consciousness to probe into the inner world of humanreality.(T ) 13. F·Scott Fitzgerald is often claimed the literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.(F ) 14.The Sound and the Fury won O·Henry Award in 1939 and is consideredas the representative of his short story.(T ) 15. In the novel The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway portrayed an old man shows triumphant event in defeat.(T ) 16. Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises pained the image of the whole generation, the lost generation.(T ) 17. In “I Shot an Arrow”, Longfellow takes the traditional verse forms — the sonnet with the rhythm of aabb aacc ddee.(F ) 18. In “Sonnet —To Science”, Poe praised science for itemancipated the poet’s imagination.(T ) 19. Emerson has great influence on Emily Dickinson ’s poems. (T ) 20. Toni Morrison is the first American black woman who wins the Nobel Prize.V. Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point foreach item)Writers:( j ) 1. Walt Whiteman ( b ) 2. Edgar Allan Poe ( f ) 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson ( h ) 4. F·Scott Fitzgerald ( a ) 5. Wallace Stevens ( i ) 6. Joseph Heller ( c ) 7. Eugene Glastone O ’Neill ( d ) 8. Ernest Hemingway ( g ) 9. Katherine Anne Porter ( e ) 10. Langston Hughes Works: a. The Man with the Blue Guitar b. The Ravenc. Desire under the Elmsd. For Whom the Bell Tollse. Fine Clothes to the Jewf. Natureg. The Leaning Towerh. The Side of Paradise i. God Knowsj. Leaves of GrassVI. Identify the following by choosing the author ’s name and the nameof the works: 20% (1 points for each item)1. I have ever had pleasure in obtaining any little anecdotes of my ancestors.? You may remember the inquiries I made among the remains of my relations when you were with me in England, and the journey I undertook for that purpose.? Imagining it may be equally agreeable to some of you to know the circumstances of my life, many of which you are yet unacquainted with, and expecting the enjoyment of a week's uninterrupted leisure in my present country retirement, I sit down to write them for you.? To which I have besides some other inducements.Author : A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork : A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby2. I took from their sconces two flambeaux, and giving one to Fortunato bowed him through several suites of rooms to the archway that led into the vaults. I passed down a long and winding staircase, requesting him to be cautious as he followed. We came at length to the foot of the descent, and stood together on the damp ground of the catacombs of the Montresors.Author : A. Edgar Allan Poe B. William Faulkner C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork : A. The Cask of Amontillado B. Barn Burning C.The Autobiography3. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party eitherfor the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, -- under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are. And, of course, so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity. Author: A. Walt Whitman B. William Faulkner C. Ralph W. Emerson Work: A. The Road Not Taken B.I Shot An Arrow C. Self-reliance4.The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance on alarge scale. She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam; and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion, had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes. She was ladylike, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days; characterised by a certain state and dignity, rather than by the delicate, evanescent, and indescribable grace which is now recognised as its indication. And never had Hester Prynne appeared more ladylike, in the antique interpretation of the term, than as she issued from the prison. Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C.Emily DickensonWork: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C.Walden5.In disjointed sentences the cook and the correspondent argued asto the difference between a life-saving station and a house of refuge. The cook had said: "There's a house of refuge just north of the Mosquito Inlet Light, and as soon as they see us, they'll come off in their boat and pick us up."Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen Crane Work: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C.Miss Jewett6.“Get along and doctor your sick,” said Granny Weatherall. “Leavea well woman alone. I’ll call for you when I want you…Where wereyou forty years ago when I pulled through milk-leg and double pneumonia? You weren’t even born. Don’t let Corne lia lead you on,” she shouted, because Doctor Harry appeared to float up to the ceiling and out. “I pay my own bills, and I don’t throw my money away on nonsense!”Author: A. Oscar Wilde B.H. W. Longfellow C. Katherine Anne PorterWork: A. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall B. Moby Dick C.The Jolly Corner7.It was Gatsby’s father, a solemn old man, very helpless anddismayed, bundled up in a long cheap ulster against the warm September day.? His eyes leaked continuously with excitement, and when I took the bag and umbrella from his hands he began to pullso incessantly at his sparse gray beard that I had difficulty in getting off his coat.? He was on the point of collapse, so I took him into the music room and made him sit down while I sent for something to eat.? But he wouldn’t eat, and the glass of milk spilled from his trembling hand.Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C.H. W. Longfellow Work: A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby8."Hey?" the Justice said. "Talk louder. Colonel Sartoris? I reckonanybody named for Colonel Sartoris in this country can't help but tell the truth, can they?" The boy said nothing. Enemy! Enemy! he thought; for a moment he could not even see, could not see that the justice's face was kindly nor discern that his voice was troubled when he spoke to the man named Harris: "Do you want me to question this boy?" But he could hear, and during those subsequent long seconds while there was absolutely no sound in the crowded little room save that of quiet and intent breathing it was as if he had swung outward at the end of a grape vine, over a ravine, and at the top of the swing had been caught in a prolonged instant of mesmerized gravity, weightless in time.Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. William Faulkner C. Robert Frost Work: A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning C.The Happy Prince9.The waiter took the brandy bottle and another saucer from thecounter inside the cafe and marched out to the old man's table.He put down the saucer and poured the glass full of brandy. The waiter took the bottle back inside the cafe. He sat down at the table with his colleague again.Author: A. Wallace Stevens B. William Faulkner C. Ernest HemingwayWork: A. Death of a Salesman B.A Clean, Well-lighted Place C. Recitatif10.ABBIE--(suddenly lifts her head and turns on him--wildly) I killedhim, I tell ye! I smothered him. Go up an' see if ye don't b'lieve me! (Cabot stares at her a second, then bolts out the rear door, can be heard bounding up the stairs, and rushes into the bedroom and over to the cradle. Abbie has sunk back lifelessly into her former position. Cabot puts his hand down on the body in the crib.An expression of fear and horror comes over his face.) Author: A.W. C. Williams B. E. G. O’neill C. Saul Bellow Work: A. Desire Under the Elms B. Looking for Mr. Green C. Catch-22IV: Complete the following: 20%1.To make a __ prairie ___ it takes a __ clover ___ and one ___ bee__,One ___ clover __ and a _ bee ____.And __ revery ___.__ Revery ___ alone will do,If ___ bees __ are few. (8%)2.How ___ dreary __ to be somebody!How public, like a ___ frog __To tell your name the __ livelong ___ dayTo an __ admiring ___ bog! (4%)3.The __ apparition ___ of these faces in the crowd;__ Petals ___ on a wet, black __ bough ___. (3%)4.So much __ depends ___upona red __ wheel _____ barrow _____ glazed ___ with rainwaterbesides the ___ white __chickens (5%)V. Rewrite the following into modern English: 10%Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both.And be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that passing thereHad worn them really about the same.In a yellow wood, I could see two roads diverged, but I felt sorry because I could not walk on both of them. As a traveler, I stood there for a long time and tried to look down one road as far as I could to the place where it changed the direction in the deep wood. Then I chose the other road just as beautiful as this. And perhaps it would be more attractive, because it was covered with grass and very quiet, even though I could see that these two roads bore almost the same amount of footprints.ment: 20%1. None of them knew the color of the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and were fastened upon the waves that swept toward them. These waves were of the hue of slate, save for the tops, which were of foaming white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its edge was jagged with waves that seemed thrust up in points like rocks.…When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight,and the wind brought the sound of the great sea’s voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters.Answer the following questions:(1)What does the opening sentence imply? (5%)(2)In what way could the survivors be interpreters? (5%)2.I want you to pick all the fruit this year and see that nothing is wasted. There’s always someone who can use it. Don’t let good things rot for want of using. You waste life when you waste good food. Don’t let things get lost. It’s bitter to lose things. Now, don’t let me get to thinking, not when I am tired and taking a little nap before supper…Answer the following questions:(1) What intelligent advice and wisdom does Granny give her family?(5%)(2) What do you see from behind her words? (5%)美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三VII.True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item)(F ) 1. “To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true foryou in your private heart is true for all men —that is genius.”The sentence shows the opinion of Joseph Heller.(F ) 2. Part One of The Autobiography opens with a letter to Dorothy James,Franklin's wife.(T ) 3. In “The Cask of Amontillado”, Montresor suddenly chains the slow-footed Fortunato to a stone, and walls up the entrance to this small crypt, thereby trapping Fortunato inside forever.(F ) 4. Arthur Dimmesdale?in The Scarlet Letter is a specimen ofHawthorne’s chilling, cold-blooded human animals.(T ) 5. The lines —“A poem should not mean / But be”comes from “Ars Poetica” by MacLeish.(T ) 6. O’Neill’s great purpose was to try and discover the root of human desires and frustrations. He showed most of the characters in his plays as seeking meaning and purpose in their lives but all met disappointment.(T ) 7. Catch-22combines comic absurdity with the horrors of war in order to criticize bureaucratic authority and people over the lives of others.(F ) 8. Saul Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975. (T ) 9. Ezra Pound was one of the prime movers of Imagism.(T ) 10. Emerson is the mentor to Thoreau.(T ) 11. In The Open Boat, Crane explores the theme that men is more powerful than nature and men will consequently defeat naturaldisasters with natural and impressionistic approaches.(T ) 12. Stephen Crane is considered as one of American naturalistic writers.(F ) 13. Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920sdecade in his masterpiece novel Tender is the Night.(F ) 14. The narrator in The Great Gatsby is a minor character named NickCarraway, who is also a participant in the event.(F ) 15. William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in1949 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 and 1962.(T ) 16. A Farewell to Arms is Hemingway ’s first true novel in which hedepicts a vivid portrait of “the lost generation ”.(T ) 17. Hemingway ’s writing style, together with his theme and hero,is greatly and permanently influenced by his experience in the war. (F ) 18. In Walt Whiteman ’s poem “O Captain! My Captain!”, captainrefers to President Lincoln.(F ) 19. Emily Dickinson ’s poetic idiom is noted for obscure.(F ) 20. Invisible Man explores the theme of the white man from the lower social class strive for their identity.VIII. Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point foreach item)Writers:( a ) 1. Ralph Waldo Emerson ( e ) 2. Robert Frost ( i ) 3. Saul Bellow ( h ) 4. Joseph Heller (b ) 5. Ralph Waldo Ellison ( j ) 6. Ezra Pound ( d ) 7. Ernest Hemingway ( f ) 8. Emily Dickinson ( c ) 9. Katherine Anne Porter ( g ) 10. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Works: a. Self-Relianceb. Invisible Manc. Pale Horse, Pale Riderd. The Sun Also Risese. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eveningf. Success is Counted Sweetestg. Song of Myselfh. Catch-22i. Looking for Mr. Green j. CantoIX. Identify the following by choosing the author ’s name and the nameof the works: 20% (1 points for each item)1. That felicity, when I reflected on it, has induced me sometimes to say, that were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.? So I might, besides correcting the faults, change some sinister accidents and events of it for others more favorable.Author : A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork : A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby2. It was now midnight, and my task was drawing to a close. I had completed the eighth, the ninth, and the tenth tier. I had finished a portion of the last and the eleventh; there remained but a single stone to be fitted and plastered in. I struggled with its weight;。