1 美国文学选择题及答案
1. William Faulkner is the author of ______.
a. Far From the Madding Crowd b. Sound and Fury
c. For Whom the Bell Tolls d. Scarlet Letter
2. Robert Frost is a famous_______.
a. novelist b. playwright c. poet d. literary critic
3. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ________.
a. Jack London b. Charles Dickens
c. Samuel Coleridge d. Earnest Hemingway
4. _______refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality.
a. Allegory b. Conflict
c. Irony d. Flashback
5. The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is______.
a. Nature b. Walden
c. Experience d. Essays
1. What is Emerson’s attitude towards charity? Why does he hold
such an attitude?
The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth
preserving.Not all charity mean goodness.One must explore if it be goodness.If
malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy,that shall not pass,One’s goodness
must have some edge to it,else it is none.
2. According to the poem “A Psalm of Life”, how should our lives be
led to overcome the fact that each day brings us nearer to death?
According to these sentences“Be not like dumb, driven cattle!Be a hero in the strife!”“Act, -act in the living Present!Heart within, and God o'er head!”we can see the
speaker is a man of action, always optimistic and cheerful, trying to achieve as much
as possible in the short span of life.We should work harder and live happier.Llife is
一Questions
1.Why did Franklin write his Autobiography?
Franklin says that because his son may wish to know about his life, he is taking his one week vacation in
the English countryside to record his past. He also says that he has enjoyed his life and would like to
repeat it
2.What made Franklin decide to leave the brother to whom he had been apprenticed?
His brother was passionate, and had often beaten him. The aversion to arbitrary power that has stuck to
him through his whole life .After a brush with the law, Franklin left his brother.
3.How did he arrive in Philadephia?
First he set out in a boat for Amboy, the boat dropped him off about 50 miles from Burlington, the next
day he reached Burlington on foot, in Burlington he found a boat which was going towards Philadelphia,
he arrived there about eight or nine o’clock, on the Sunday morning and landed at the Market Street
美国文学选读 第三版 课后习题答案 陶洁(部分)
Unit 1 Benjamin Franklin
Questions
1.Why did Franklin write his Autobiography?
Franklin says that because his son may wish to know about his life, he is taking his one week vacation in
the English countryside to record his past. He also says that he has enjoyed his life and would like to
repeat it
2.What made Franklin decide to leave the brother to whom he had been apprenticed?
His brother was passionate, and had often beaten him. The aversion to arbitrary power that has stuck to
him through his whole life .After a brush with the law, Franklin left his brother.
3.How did he arrive in Philadephia?
First he set out in a boat for Amboy, the boat dropped him off about 50 miles from Burlington, the next
day he reached Burlington on foot, in Burlington he found a boat which was going towards Philadelphia,
