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第 1页 美国文学史及作品选读 模拟试题一 I. Multiple Choice (1’×15=15’) 1. C______was the first colony in American history. A. Massachusetts B. New Jersey C. Virginia D.Georgia 2. _B_____ was the only good American author before the Revolutionary War. One
of his fellow Americans said, “His shadow lies heavier than any other man’s on this young nation.” A. John Smith B. Benjamin Franklin C. Thomas Jefferson D.Thomas Paine 3. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT __A____. A. common sense B. imagination C. intuition D. individualism 4. The Raven was written in 1844 by __B______ A. Philip Freneau B. Edgar Allan Poe C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow D. Emily Dickinson 5. The ship __C____ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts. A. Sunflower B. Armada C. Mayflower D. Titanic 6. Melville’s novel __D____ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale. A. Typee B. Omoo C. White Jacket D. Moby Dick 7. As a philosophical and literary movement, __D____ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War. A.Modernism B.Rationalism C.Sentimentalism D.Transcendentalism 8. The theme of original sin is fully reflected in ___A______. A. The Scarlet Letter B. Sister Carrie C. The Great Gatsby D. The Old Man and Sea 9. In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the ___B___ American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined economically. 第 2页
A. Puritan B. materialistic C. psychological D. religious 10. Realism was a reaction against____B__ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism. A. Rationalism B. Romanticism C. Neoclassicism D. Enlightenment 11. __C______ was a poet in American modern period who was deeply influence by eastern culture. A. T. S Eliot B. Robert Frost C. Ezra Pound D. Walt Whitman 12. Which of the following statements about Emily Dickinson is NOT true?D A. After 1862 she became a total recluse, not leaving her house nor seeing close friends. B. She once felt a deep affection for Charles Wadsworth, a married aged minister, but it proved to be a frustrated love affair for Dickinson. C. She wrote about death, immortality, nature, success and failure. D. During her lifetime, all her poems are published. 13. The realistic period is referred to as “the Gilded Age” by __A_____. A. Mark Twain B. Henry James C. Emily Dickinson D. Theodore Dreiser 14. Which of the following works is NOT by Ernest Hemingway?C A. The Old Man and Sea B. A Farewell to Arms C. Sound and Fury D. For Whom the Bell Tolls 15. Which one is NOT the characteristic of modernism?D A. Modernism in literature is characterized by experimentation, anti-realism, individualism and a stress on the cerebral rather than emotive aspects. B. Modernism is greatly influenced by the two world wars. C. The work of Marx, and Freud, had mounted an assault against orthodox religious faith that lasted into the twentieth century. D. Modernists believe that human nature is kind.
II. Match the Column A with Column B (1’×10=10’) Column A Column B ( c ) 1. Dimmesdale a. Robert Frost ( e) 2. Ahab b. Mark Twain 第 3页
( i ) 3. Drouet c. The Scarlet Letter ( a ) 4. Pulitzer Prizer d. Thomas Jefferson ( h ) 5. Reclusive poet e. Moby Dick (b ) 6. humorist and satirist f. Ernest Heminway ( d) 7. The Decalration of Indepenence g. Henry David Thoreau ( g ) 8. transcendentalist h. Emily Dickinson ( j) 9. The Great Gatsby i. Sister Carrie ( f ) 10. The Lost Generation j. F. Scott Fitzgerald III. Define the following words within one phrase (2’×5=10’) 1. free verse 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson 3. Mark Twain 4. Benjamin Franklin 5. Ezra Pound IV. Simple questions (5’×4=20’) 1. What are Puritan thoughts? 2. What is Transcedentalism and list some representative figures? 3. Explain the symbolic meanings of “A” in The Scarlet Letter. 4. Illustrate the three principles of Imagist Poetry. V. Interpreting the following texts (45’)
Text 1 When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. Of an intermediate balance, under the circumstances, there is no possibility. The city has its cunning wiles, no less than the infinitely smaller and more human tempter. There are large forces which allure with all the soulfulness of expression possible in the most cultured human. The gleam of a thousand lights is often as effective as the persuasive light in a wooing and fascinating eye. Half the undoing of the unsophisticated and natural mind is accomplished by forces wholly superhuman. A blare of sound, a roar of life, a vast array of human hives, appeal to the astonished senses in equivocal terms. Without a counsellor at hand
(完整版)美国文学秋季学期练习题6 有答案
美国文学史及作品选读练习6I。
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(每小题2分，共20分)1.The Puritan philosophy known as ____________ was important in New England duringcolonial time， and had a profound influence on the early American mind for several generations。
2.The term “Puritan”was applied to those settlers who originally were devout membersof the Church of _________.3.___________ was considered as the “ Poet of the American Revolution", because hewrote impassioned verse in support of the American Revolution。
4.In American literature， the eighteenth century was an Age of _____________andRevolution。
5.In 1823 James Fenimore Cooper wrote The Pioneers, the first of the five novels thatmake up___________.6.In the early 19th century， Washington Irving wrote _________which became the firstwork by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic。
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美国文学选读考试————————————————————————————————作者：————————————————————————————————日期：美国文学史及作品选读模拟试题一I.Multiple Choice (1’×15=15’)1.C______was the first colony in American history.A. MassachusettsB. New JerseyC. VirginiaD.Georgia2. _B_____ was the only good American author before the Revolutionary War. Oneof his fellow Americans said, “His shadow lies heavier than any other man’s on this young nation.”A. John SmithB. Benjamin FranklinC. Thomas JeffersonD.Thomas Paine3. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT __A____.A. common senseB. imaginationC. intuitionD. individualism4. The Raven was written in 1844 by __B______A. Philip FreneauB. Edgar Allan PoeC. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowD. Emily Dickinson5. The ship __C____ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beatits way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.A. SunflowerB. ArmadaC. MayflowerD. Titanic6. Melville’s novel __D____ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage inpursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.A. TypeeB. OmooC. White JacketD. Moby Dick7. As a philosophical and literary movement, __D____ flourished in New Englandfrom the 1830s to the Civil War.A.ModernismB.RationalismC.SentimentalismD.Transcendentalism8. The theme of original sin is fully reflected in ___A______.A. The Scarlet LetterB. Sister CarrieC. The Great GatsbyD. The Old Man and Sea9. In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the ___B___ American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined economically.A. PuritanB. materialisticC. psychologicalD. religious10. Realism was a reaction against____B__ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.A. RationalismB. RomanticismC. NeoclassicismD. Enlightenment11. __C______ was a poet in American modern period who was deeply influence by eastern culture.A. T. S EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD. Walt Whitman12. Which of the following statements about Emily Dickinson is NOT true?DA. After 1862 she became a total recluse, not leaving her house nor seeing close friends.B. She once felt a deep affection for Charles Wadsworth, a married aged minister, but it proved to be a frustrated love affair for Dickinson.C. She wrote about death, immortality, nature, success and failure.D. During her lifetime, all her poems are published.13. The realistic period is referred to as “the Gilded Age” by __A_____.A. Mark TwainB. Henry JamesC. Emily DickinsonD. Theodore Dreiser14. Which of the following works is NOT by Ernest Hemingway?CA. The Old Man and SeaB. A Farewell to ArmsC. Sound and FuryD. For Whom the Bell Tolls15. Which one is NOT the characteristic of modernism?DA. Modernism in literature is characterized by experimentation, anti-realism, individualism and a stress on the cerebral rather than emotive aspects.B. Modernism is greatly influenced by the two world wars.C. The work of Marx, and Freud, had mounted an assault against orthodox religious faith that lasted into the twentieth century.D. Modernists believe that human nature is kind.II.Match the Column A with Column B (1’×10=10’)Column A Column B( c ) 1. Dimmesdale a. Robert Frost( e ) 2. Ahab b. Mark Twain( i ) 3. Drouet c. The Scarlet Letter( a ) 4. Pulitzer Prizer d. Thomas Jefferson( h ) 5. Reclusive poet e. Moby Dick( b ) 6. humorist and satirist f. Ernest Heminway( d ) 7. The Decalration of Indepenence g. Henry David Thoreau( g ) 8. transcendentalist h. Emily Dickinson( j ) 9. The Great Gatsby i. Sister Carrie( f ) 10. The Lost Generation j. F. Scott FitzgeraldIII.Define the following words within one phrase(2’×5=10’)1. free verse2. Ralph Waldo Emerson3. Mark Twain4. Benjamin Franklin5. Ezra PoundIV.Simple questions (5’×4=20’)1.What are Puritan thoughts?2.What is Transcedentalism and list some representative figures?3. Explain the symbolic meanings of “A” in The Scarlet Letter.4. Illustrate the three principles of Imagist Poetry.V.Interpreting the following texts (45’)Text 1When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things.Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidlyassumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. Of anintermediate balance, under the circumstances, there is no possibility. Thecity has its cunning wiles, no less than the infinitely smaller and morehuman tempter. There are large forces which allure with all thesoulfulness of expression possible in the most cultured human. The gleamof a thousand lights is often as effective as the persuasive light in awooing and fascinating eye. Half the undoing of the unsophisticated andnatural mind is accomplished by forces wholly superhuman. A blare ofsound, a roar of life, a vast array of human hives, appeal to the astonishedsenses in equivocal terms. Without a counsellor at hand to whisper cautious interpretations, what falsehoods may not these things breathe into the unguarded ear! Unrecognised for what they are, their beauty, like music, too often relaxes, then weakens, then perverts the simpler human perceptions.Questions1.Please use one phrase to summarize the above paragraph (2’)2.What are the two possibilities for a girl of eighteen leaving her home?(2’)3.Please find out the figures of speech (2’)4.What are the attractive forces mentioned in a big city? (4’)5.How are naturalist views are reflected in this paragraph? Illustrate yourpoints with examples (5’)Text 2Because I could not stop for Death –He kindly stopped for me --The Carriage held but just Ourselves --And Immortality.We slowly drove -- He knew no hasteAnd I had put awayMy labor and my leisure too,For His Civility –We passed the School, where Children stroveAt Recess -- in the Ring --We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain --We passed the Setting Sun –…Since then -- 'tis Centuries -- and yetFeels shorter than the DayI first surmised the Horses' HeadsWere toward Eternity –Questions:1.Identify the poet and the title of this poem? (2’)2.Explain the underlined words (4’)3.What are the implications of “the School”, “the fields of Gazing Grain”, “the SettingSun”? (3’)4.How do you understand “Since then -- 'tis Centuries -- and yet / Feelsshorter than the Day” ? (3’)5.What are the speaker’s opinions about death? (3’)Text 3Two roads diverged in ayellow wood,And sorry I could not travelbothAnd be one traveler, long IstoodAnd looked down one as faras I couldTo where it bent in theundergrowth.Then took the other, as justas fair,And having perhaps thebetter claim,Because it was grassy andwanted wear;Though as for that thepassing thereHad worn them really aboutthe same.And both that morningequally layIn leaves no step had troddenblack.Oh, I kept the first foranother day!Yet knowing how way leadson to way,I doubted if I should evercome back.I shall be telling this with asighSomewhere ages and ageshence:Two roads diverged in awood, and I--I took the one less traveledby,And that has made all thedifference.Questions:1.Please examine the poetic form (rhyme and meter) (2’)2.Describe the similarities and differences of these two roads. Which one does thespeaker take? (3’)3.How do you understand the word “sigh”? (4’)4.What might the two roads stand for in the speaker’s mind? (4’)5.What is the theme of this poem? (2’)参考答案I.Multiple Choice (1’×15=15’)1. _C___2._B__3.__A__4.__B__5.__C___6.__D_7.__D__8._A__9.__B__ 10.__B___11._C__ 12.__D__ 13._A_ 14._C __ 15._D__II.Match the Column A with Column B (1’×10=10’)1.( c )2.( e )3.( i )4.( a )5.( h )6.( b )7.( d )8.( g )9.(j ) 10.( f )III.Define the following words within one phrase (2’×5=10’)(Any related information can be given marks)1. poetry without a fived beat or regular rhyme scheme, produced by Walt Whitman2. is the representative of transcedentalists, who believes in individualism andself-reliance and brings transcendentalism to New England3．is a humorist and satirist, who uses broad humor and biting social satire4．is one of Thoreau’s masterpieces, which is the result of the author’s two years of living near Walden lake.5. is regarded as the classical poem of imagist poetry by Ezra Pound, conveyingthe theme of the speaker’s sudden pleasure of finding some beautiful faces inthe subwayIV.Simple Questions (5’×4=20’) (Answers should be to the points. 1 score for time, 2 scores for features and 1 score for representative figures when defining theliterary terms)a)Puritan thoughts: to make pure their religious beliefs and practices, to restoresimplicity, to live a hard and disciplined life and oppose pleasure and arts.b)Transcendentalism is the climax of American Romanticism.First, the Transcendentalist placed emphasis on spirit, or the oversoul, as the mostimportant thing in the universe.Secondly, Transcendentalists stressed the importance of the individual.Thirdly, the Transcendentalists offered a fresh perception of nature as symbolicofthe spirit.3. a. The letter’s meaning shifts as time passes. Originally intended to mark Hester asan adulterer, the “A”eventually comes to stand for “Able”or“Angel”.b. Besides Hester, Dimmesdale also ironed the letter A on his body, which provokedhis self-consciousness and showed his repent for what he did.c. Pearl, their baby, wore a green letter a in a piece of seaweed while playing on thebeach. This green letter A symbolizes vitality or new life, and also suggests herinheritance from her mother.4. a. direct treatment of the “thing”（no fuss, frill, or ornament）,b. exclusion of superfluous words（precision and economy of expression）,c. the rhythm of the musical phrase rather than the sequence of a metronome（free verse form and music）.V.Interpreting the following texts (45’)Text 11. The attraction of big city (2’)2. One is to fall into the saving hands and becomes better; secondly, she may admitthemoral value of big city and becomes worse. (2’)3. Simile, metaphor and synecdoche (2’)4. The gleam of lights, a blare of sound, a roar of life, and a vast array of humanhives (4’)5. Naturalist attempted to achieve extreme objectivity and frankness, presentingcharacters of low social and economic classes who were dominated by theirenvironment and heredity. In this novel, the major female character CarrieMeeber is deeply influenced by the present environment and heredity, whichleads to the result of her dynamic character.(5’) (the features of naturalism 3scores, examples 2 scores)Text 21. Emily Dickinson and “Because I Could not Stop for Death”(2’)2. He: death; civility: politeness; Recess: break Surmised: guessed (4’)3. They represent three stages of life. The school is the childhood and young age;the fields of gazing grain refers to the mature period and the setting sun the old age, that is the end of one’s life. (3’)4. Because this day is towards death, immortal and eternal (3’)5. Death is immortality (3’)Text 31. It is written in iambic tetrameter and rhymed abaab.(2’)2. Similarities: both of the roads are beautiful (fair)Differences: one is quiet and grassy, less-traveled; the other is trodden by manypeople and flatHe took the less-travelled road (3’)3. The word “sigh”is a tricky word. Because sigh can be interpreted into nostalgicrelief or regret. If it is the relief sigh, then the difference means the speaker feels glad with the road he took. If it is the regret sigh, then the difference would not be good, and the speaker would be sighing in regret. Hence, sigh is ambigous here for the speaker is not showing whether his choice is right or wrong. (4’)4. The real road; the life road and the road in career (4’)5.Choice is inevitable but you never know what your choice will mean until you havelived it. This is also the theme of the poem. (2’)第 8页。
美国文学选读试题
美国文学史及作品选读模拟试题一)'×15=15I.Multiple Choice (1'______was the first colony in American history.C1.D.GeorgiaC. Virginia A. Massachusetts B. New JerseyWar. the before Revolutionary only good American author 2. _B_____ was theOne“His shadow lies heavier than any other man's on of his fellow Americans said, this young nation.”D.Thomas Paine B. Benjamin Franklin C. Thomas Jefferson A. John Smith3. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT __A____.D. individualism C. intuition B. imagination A. common senseThe Raven was written in 1844 by __B______ 4.B. Edgar Allan Poe A. Philip FreneauD. Emily DickinsonC. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow5. The ship __C____ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beatits way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.D. TitanicC. Mayflower B. Armada A. SunflowerD____ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in 6. Melville's novel __ pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.Moby DickD. C. White Jacket A. Typee B. Omoo7. As a philosophical and literary movement, __D____ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.D.Transcendentalism C.Sentimentalism B.Rationalism A.Modernism8. The theme of original sin is fully reflected in ___A______.B. Sister Carrie A. The Scarlet LetterThe Old Man and SeaD. C. The Great Gatsby9. In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the ___B___ American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status isnot determined economically.页1 第A. PuritanB. materialisticC. psychologicalD. religious10. Realism was a reaction against____B__ or a move away from the bias towardsromance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.D. Enlightenment A. Rationalism B. Romanticism C. Neoclassicism11. __C______ was a poet in American modern period who was deeply influence by eastern culture.D. Walt Whitman C. Ezra Pound A. T. S Eliot B. Robert Frosttrue?D NOT 12. Which of the following statements about Emily Dickinson isA. After 1862 she became a total recluse, not leaving her house nor seeingclose friends.aged married Wadsworth, a a deep affection for Charles B. She once felt minister, but it proved to be a frustrated love affair for Dickinson.C. She wrote about death, immortality, nature, success and failure.D. During her lifetime, all her poems are published.by __A_____. ”“the Gilded Age13. The realistic period is referred to asD. Theodore Dreiser C. Emily Dickinson A. Mark Twain B. Henry Jamesby Ernest Hemingway?C NOT14. Which of the following works isB. A Farewell to Arms The Old Man and Sea A.D. For Whom the Bell Tolls C. Sound and Furythe characteristic of modernism?D15. Which one is NOT anti-realism, by experimentation, in literature is characterizedA. Modernismindividualism and a stress on the cerebral rather than emotive aspects.B. Modernism is greatly influenced by the two world wars.orthodox assault against had mounted an C. The work of Marx, and Freud,religious faith that lasted into the twentieth century.D. Modernists believe that human nature is kind.)10=10'Match the Column A with Column B (1'× II.Column B Column A( c ) 1. Dimmesdale a. Robert Frostb. Mark Twain( e ) 2. Ahab页2 第( i ) 3. Drouet c. The Scarlet Letter( a ) 4. Pulitzer Prizer d. Thomas Jefferson( h ) 5. Reclusive poet e. Moby Dick( b ) 6. humorist and satirist f. Ernest Heminway( d ) 7. The Decalration of Indepenence g. Henry David Thoreau( g ) 8. transcendentalist h. Emily Dickinson( j ) 9. The Great Gatsby i. Sister Carrie ( f ) 10. The Lost Generation j. F. Scott FitzgeraldIII.Define the following words within one phrase(2'×5=10')1. free verse2. Ralph Waldo Emerson3. Mark Twain5. Ezra Pound 4. Benjamin FranklinIV.Simple questions (5'×4=20')1.What are Puritan thoughts?2.What is Transcedentalism and list some representative figures?3. Explain the symbolic meanings of “A”in The Scarlet Letter.4. Illustrate the three principles of Imagist Poetry.V.Interpreting the following texts (45')Text 1When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. Of an intermediate balance, under the circumstances, there is no possibility. The city has its cunning wiles, no less than the infinitely smaller and more human tempter. There are large forces which allure with all the soulfulness of expression possible in the most cultured human. The gleam of a thousand lights is often as effective as the persuasive light in a wooing and fascinating eye. Half the undoing of the unsophisticated and natural mind is accomplished by forces wholly superhuman. A blare of sound, a roar of life, a vast array of human hives, appeal to the astonished senses in equivocal terms. Without a counsellor at hand 页3 第to whisper cautious interpretations, what falsehoods may not these things breathe into the unguarded ear! Unrecognised for what they are, their beauty, like music, too often relaxes, then weakens, then perverts the simpler human perceptions.Questions1.Please use one phrase to summarize the above paragraph (2')2.What are the two possibilities for a girl of eighteen leaving her home?(2')3.Please find out the figures of speech (2')4.What are the attractive forces mentioned in a big city? (4')5.How are naturalist views are reflected in this paragraph? Illustrate your points with examples (5')Text 2Because I could not stop for Death –He kindly stopped for me --The Carriage held but just Ourselves --And Immortality.We slowly drove -- He knew no hasteAnd I had put awayMy labor and my leisure too,For His Civility –We passed the School, where Children stroveAt Recess -- in the Ring --We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain --We passed the Setting Sun –…Since then -- 'tis Centuries -- and yetFeels shorter than the DayI first surmised the Horses' HeadsWere toward Eternity –页4 第Questions:1.Identify the poet and the title of this poem? (2')2.Explain the underlined words (4')3.What are the implications of “the School”, “the fields of Gazing Grain”, “the SettingSun”? (3')4.How do you understand “Since then -- 'tis Centuries -- and yet / Feelsshorter than the Day”? (3')5.What are the speaker's opinions about death? (3')Text 3Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth.Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same.And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.Questions:页5 第1.Please examine the poetic form (rhyme and meter) (2')2.Describe the similarities and differences of these two roads. Which one does the speaker take? (3')3.How do you understand the word “sigh”? (4')4.What might the two roads stand for in the speaker's mind? (4')5.What is the theme of this poem? (2')参考答案I.Multiple Choice (1'×15=15')1. _C___2._B__3.__A__4.__B__5.__C___6.__D_7.__D__8._A__9.__B__ 10.__B___11._C__ 12.__D__ 13._A_ 14._C __ 15._D__II.Match the Column A with Column B (1'×10=10')1.( c )2.( e )3.( i )4.( a )5.( h )6.( b )7.( d )8.( g )9.(j ) 10.( f )III.Define the following words within one phrase (2'×5=10')(Any related information can be given marks)1. poetry without a fived beat or regular rhyme scheme, produced by Walt Whitman2. is the representative of transcedentalists, who believes in individualism andself-reliance and brings transcendentalism to New England3．is a humorist and satirist, who uses broad humor and biting social satire4．is one of Thoreau's masterpieces, which is the result of the author's two years of living near Walden lake.5. is regarded as the classical poem of imagist poetry by Ezra Pound, conveying the theme of the speaker's sudden pleasure of finding some beautiful faces in thesubwayIV.Simple Questions (5'×4=20') (Answers should be to the points. 1 score for页6 第time, 2 scores for features and 1 score for representative figures when definingtheliterary terms)a)Puritan thoughts: to make pure their religious beliefs and practices, to restore simplicity, to live a hard and disciplined life and oppose pleasure and arts.b)Transcendentalism is the climax of American Romanticism.First, the Transcendentalist placed emphasis on spirit, or the oversoul, as the most important thing in the universe.Secondly, Transcendentalists stressed the importance of the individual.Thirdly, the Transcendentalists offered a fresh perception of nature as symbolic ofthe spirit.3. a. The letter's meaning shifts as time passes. Originally intended to mark Hester as an adulterer, the “A”eventually comes to stand for “Able”or“Angel”.b. Besides Hester, Dimmesdale also ironed the letter A on his body, which provoked his self-consciousness and showed his repent for what he did.c. Pearl, their baby, wore a green letter a in a piece of seaweed while playing on the beach. This green letter A symbolizes vitality or new life, and also suggests her inheritance from her mother.4. a. direct treatment of the “thing”（no fuss, frill, or ornament）,b. exclusion of superfluous words（precision and economy of expression）,c. the rhythm of the musical phrase rather than the sequence of a metronome（free verse form and music）.V.Interpreting the following texts (45')Text 11. The attraction of big city (2')2. One is to fall into the saving hands and becomes better; secondly, she may admit themoral value of big city and becomes worse. (2')3. Simile, metaphor and synecdoche (2')4. The gleam of lights, a blare of sound, a roar of life, and a vast array of human页7 第hives (4')5. Naturalist attempted to achieve extreme objectivity and frankness, presenting characters of low social and economic classes who were dominated by their environment and heredity. In this novel, the major female character Carrie Meeberis deeply influenced by the present environment and heredity, which leads to the result of her dynamic character.(5') (the features of naturalism 3 scores, examples2 scores)Text 21. Emily Dickinson and “Because I Could not Stop for Death”(2')2. He: death; civility: politeness; Recess: break Surmised: guessed (4')3. They represent three stages of life. The school is the childhood and young age; the fields of gazing grain refers to the mature period and the setting sun the old age, that is the end of one's life. (3')4. Because this day is towards death, immortal and eternal (3')5. Death is immortality (3')Text 31. It is written in iambic tetrameter and rhymed abaab.(2')2. Similarities: both of the roads are beautiful (fair)Differences: one is quiet and grassy, less-traveled; the other is trodden by many people and flatHe took the less-travelled road (3')3. The word “sigh”is a tricky word. Because sigh can be interpreted into nostalgicrelief or regret. If it is the relief sigh, then the difference means the speaker feels glad with the road he took. If it is the regret sigh, then the difference would not be good, and the speaker would be sighing in regret. Hence, sigh is ambigous here for the speaker is not showing whether his choice is right or wrong. (4')4. The real road; the life road and the road in career (4')5.Choice is inevitable but you never know what your choice will mean until you have lived it. This is also the theme of the poem. (2')页8 第。
英美文学作品选读试题3
英美文学作品选读试题3英美文学作品选读试题 3I. Find the items in the right column which fit the left column the best and writethe letters in the blanks. (20 points in total, 2 points for each)1.Because I could not stop for Death A. William Wordsworth2.local colorist B. sentimentalists3.international theme C. Ezra Pound4.Graveyard School D. Mark Twain5.worshipper of nature E. William Faulkner6.A Rose for Emily F. Henry James7.Charles Lamb G. Emily Dickinson8.The Sketch Book H. essayist9.Imagist I. William Blake10.Songs of Innocence J. Washington Irving1. ________2. ________3. ________4. ________5. ________6. ________7. ________8. ________9. _______ 10.________ II. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase. Then write your answer in the blanks. (20 points in total, 2 points for each)1. ____________________was the first American writer to conceive his career in international terms.2. In the plays of Shakespeare’s last period,there is a prevalent ____________________ teaching of atonement.3. John Bunyan wrote his ____________________ during his second term in prison.4. ____________________’s essays is the first ex ample of that genre in English literature, which has been recognized as an important landmark in the development of English prose.5. Henry Fielding adopted ________________, in which the author becomes the “all-knowing God.”6. ________________is regarded as the first American prose epic.7. The particular concern about the local character of a region came about as “______ __,” a unique variation of American literary realism.8. Human sexuality was, to Lawrence, a symbol of ____________________.9. The characters in Charles Dickens’ works are impressive not only because they are true to life, but also because they are often ____________________. 10. As a leading Romanticist, Byron’s chief contribution is his creation of the “________________,” a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.III. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and write the letter for it in the blanks. (20 points in total, 2 points for each)1. Shakespeare’s ______ are mainly written under the principle that national unity under a mighty and just sovereign is a necessity.A. history playsB. tragediesC. comediesD. plays2. William Wordsworth thought that ______ is the only subject of literary interest.A. nationB. past experienceC. common lifeD. nature3. ______ is the first important English essayist and the founder of modern science in England.A. Francis BaconB. Edmund SpenserC. William CarxtonD. Philip Sidney4. Which of the below is NOT written by James Joyce?A. DublinersB. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManC. “Ulysses”D. Leather-Stocking Tales5.____is regarded as the first American prose epic.A. WastelandB. Moby-DickC. “Song of Myself”D. The Scarlet Letter6.____has always been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best classic style that American Literature ever produced.”A. Washington IrvingB. EmersonC. HawthorneD. Joyce7. Which is not the main concern of Emily Dickinson’ poetry?A. her own experienceB. natureC. loveD. industrialization8. The Catcher in the Rye is regarded as a ____.A. Jewish’s classicB.black’s classicC. student’s classicD. student’s herald9. Fitzgerald never spared an intimate touch in his fiction to deal with ____ of the American Dream.A. the bankruptcyB. the successC. the fulfillmentD. the forming10.____ is Hemingway’s first true novel.A. In Our TimeB. For Whom the Bell TollsC. The Sun Also RisesD. The Old Man and the SeaIV. Read the following stanza of a poem and answer the questions that follow. (20 points in total, 5 points for each)I wander'd lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host , of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.Questions:1. What is this poem written about?2. Who is the author of this poem?3. What is the metrical form of this poem?4. What is the rhyming scheme of this poem?V. Give brief answers to the following questions. (20 points in total, 5 points for each)1. What are the major themes of modernist literature?2. What’s the theme of The Waste Land?3. List the main qualities of Edmund Spenser’s Poetry.4. Give a brief discussion of Whitman’s style and language.参考答案：I. Find the items in the right column which fit the left column the best and write the letters in the blanks. (20 points in total, 2 points for each)1. G2. D3. F4. B5. A6. E7. H8. J9. C 10. III. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase. Then write your answer in the blanks. (20 points in total, 2 points for each)1. Henry James2. Christian3. The Pilgrim’s Progress4. Francis Bacon5. the third-person narration6. Moby-Dick7. local colorism 8. life force 9. larger than life 10. Byronic hero III. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and write the letter for it in the blanks. (20 points in total, 2 points for each)1. A.2. C.3. A.4. D.5. B.6. A.7. D.8. C.9. A. 10. C.IV. Read the following stanza of a poem and answer the questions that follow. ( 20 points in total, 5 points for each)1. It is written about natural beauty and Wordsworth’s love for natural beauty, which is passionate and somewhat mystique.2. William Wordsworth3. Each line of this poem is an iambic tetrameter.4. ababccV. Give brief answers to the following questions. (20 points in total, 5 points for each)1. What are the major themes of modernist literature?Alienation, social disintegration, personal despair, historical dislocation, and authorial self-reflexiveness2. What’s the theme of The Waste Land?The spiritual breakup of a modern civilization in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.3. A perfect melody; a rare sense of beauty; a splendid imagination; a lofty moral purity and seriousness; a dedicated idealism4. Give a brief discussion of Whitman’s style and language.Whitma n’s style is marked by the use of the poetic“I.” Speaking in the voice of “I,” Whitman becomes all those people in his poems, and yet still remains WaltWhitman.。
英美文学选读真题和答案 (1)
全国202X年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读真题课程代码：00604Ⅰ.Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices A],B],C],Dof each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement and write the letter on the answer sheet.1.Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A.ChristianB.knightlyC.GreekD.primitive2.Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ___.A.Piers PlowmanB.Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC.Confessio AmantisD.The Canterbury Tales3.Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaisssance MovementA.The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.B.The new discoveries in geography and astrology.C.The Glorious revolution.D.The religious reformation and the economic expansion.4.Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18A.The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.B.The speaker satirizes human vanity.C.The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.D.The speaker meditates on man's salvation.5.“And we will sit upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers towhose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.〞The above lines are probably taken from __.A.Spenser's The Faerie QueeneB.John Donne's “The Sun Rising〞C.Shakespeare's “Sonnet 18〞D.Marlowe's “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love〞6.“Bassanio:Antonio,I am married to a wifeWhich is as dear to me as life itself;But life itself, My wife, and all the world.Are not with me esteem'd above thy life;I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all,Here to the devil, to deliver you.Portia:Your wife would give you little thanks for that,If she were by to hear you make the offer.〞The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice.The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate ____.A.dramatic ironyB.personificationC.allegoryD.symbolism7.The ture subject of John Donne's poem,“The Sun Rising,〞is to ___.A.attack the sun as an unruly servantB.give compliments to the mistress and her power of beautyC.criticize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private lifeD. lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie8.Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “___ in prose,〞the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A.tragic epic B ic epicC.romanceD.lyric epic9.The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are ___.A.horses that are endowed with reasonB.pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC.giants that are superior in wisdomD.hairy,wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways.10.Here are four lines from a literary work:“Others for language all their care express,/And value books,as women men, for dress.〞The work is ___.A.Thomas Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard〞B.John Milton's Paradise LostC.Alexander Pope's Essay on CriticismD.Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream11.The phrase “to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation throughconstant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils〞may well sum up the implied meaning of ___.A.Gulliver's TravelsB.The Rape of the LockC.Robinson CrusoeD.The pilgrim's Progress12.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT ___.A.the use of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB.the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC.the use of humble and rustic life as subject matterD.the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech13.Which of the following is taken from John Keats’“Ode on a Grecian Urn〞A.“I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!〞B.“They are both gone up to the church to pary.〞C.“Earth has not anything to show more fair.〞D.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty〞.14.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!〞is an epigrammatic line by __.15.“Ode o na Grecian Urn〞shows the contrast between the ___ of art and the ___ of humanpassion.A.glory …uglinessB.permanence…transienceC.transience…sordidnessD.glory…permanence16.In the statement“—oh,God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave〞the term“soul〞apparently refers to ___.A.Heathcliff himselfB.CatherineC.one's spiritual lifeD.one's ghost17.The typical feature of Robet Browning's poetry is the ___.A.bitter satirerger-than-life caricaturetinized dictionD.dramatic monologue18.The Victorian Age was largely an age of ____,eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.A.poetryB.dramaC.proseD.epic prose19.___is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.A.Jane EyreB.EmmaC.Wuthering HeightsD.Middlemarch20.The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development ofhis characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.wrence'sB.J.Galsworthy'sC.W.Thackeray’sD.T.Hardy’s21.___is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.A.Richard SheridanB.Oliver GoldsmithC.Oscar WildeD.Bernard Shaw22.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of ModernismA.To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.B.To put the stress on traditional values.C.To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment.D.To advocate a conscious break with the past.23.The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the ___ in the Americanliterary histrory.A.individual feelingsB.idea of survival of the fittestC.strong imaginationD.return to nature24.Henry David Thoreau's work,__,has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New EnglandTranscendentalism.A.WaldenB.The pioneersC.NatureD.Song of Myself25.The famous 20-years sleep in “Rip Van Winkle〞helps to construct the story in such a waythat we are greatly affected by Irving's ___.A.concern with the passage of timeB.expression of transient beautyC.satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beingsD.idea about supernatural manipulation of man's life26.Walt whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in hisuse of __,poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A.blank verseB.heroic coupletC.free verseD.iambic pentameter27.The literary characters of the American type in early 19th century are generally characterized byall the following features EXCEPT that they ___.A.speak local dialectsB.are polite and elegant gentlemenC.are simple and crude farmersD.are noble savages( red and white) untainted by society28.Hester Pryme, Dimmsdale,Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the charactersin ___.A.The Scarlet LetterB.The House of the Seven GablestC.The Portrait of a LadyD.The pioneers29.“This is my letter to the World〞is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinson's __ about hercommunication with the outside world.A.indifferenceB.angerC.anxietyD.sorrow30.With Howells,James,and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, __ became the major trendin American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.A.sentimentalismB.romanticismC.realismD.naturalism31.After The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom's buddy Huckin a book entitled ___.A.Life on the MississippiB.The Gilded AgeC.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD.A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court32.However,___,the keynote of Daisy Miller's character,turns out to be an admiring but adangerous quality and her defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.A.experienceB.sophisticationC.worldlinessD.innocence33.Generally speaking,all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be ___.A.transcendentalistsB.idealistsC.pessimistsD.impressionists34.Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life.Which of the following isNOT a usual subject of her poetic expressionA.Religion and immortality.B.Life and death.C.Love and marriage.D.War and peace.35.In “After Apple-Picking,〞Robert Frost wrote:“For I have had too much/Of applepicking:I amovertired/Of the great harvest I myself desired.〞From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is ___.A.happy about the harvestB.still very much interested in apple-pickingC.expecting a greater harvestD.indifferent to what he once desired36.Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over ____.A.Ezra PoundB.Ralph Waldo EmersonC.Robert FrostD.Emily Dickinson37.The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their __.A.indestructible spirtieB.pessimistic view of lifeC.war experiencesD.masculinity38.IN The Emperor Jones and T he Hairy Ape,O'Neill adopted the expressionist techniques toportray the ___ of human beings in a hostile universe.A.helpless situationB.uncertaintyC.profound religious faithD.courage and perseverance39.In Hemingway's “Indian Cmap〞,Nick's night trip to the Indian village and his experienceinside the hut can be taken as ____.A.an essential lesson about Indian tribesB.a confrontation with evil and sinC.an initiation to the harshness of lifeD.a learning process in human relationship40.which of the following statements about Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner's story“A Rose for Emily,〞is NOT trueA.She has a distorted personality.B.She is physically deformed and paralyzed.C.She is the symbol of the old values of the South.D.She is the victim of the past glory.PART TWOⅡ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41.“Her eyes met his and he looked away.He neither believed nor diXelieved her,but he knew thathe had made a mistake in asking;he never had known,never would know,what she was thinking.The sight of her inscrutable face,the thought of all the hundreds of evenings he had seen her sitting there like that,soft and passive,but so unreadable, unknown, enraged him beyond measure.〞Questions:A.Identify the writer and the work.B.What does the phrase “inscrutable face〞meanC.What idea does the quoted passage express42.“And when I am formulated,sprawling on a pin,When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall.Then how should beginTo spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways.〞Questions:A.Identify the poem and the poet.B.What does the phrase “butt-ends〞meanC.What idea does the quoted passage express43.“God knows,…I'm not myself—I'm somebody else—…and I'm changed,and I can't tell what'smy name,or who I am.〞Questions:A.Identify the work and the author.B.The speaker says he is changed.Do you think he is changed, or the social environment haschangedC.What idea does the quoted sentence express44.“I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.〞Questions:A.Idenfity the poem and the poet.B.What does the phrase “ages and ages hence〞meanC.What idea does the quoted passage expressⅢ.Questions and Answers(24 points in all, 6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English.Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45.As a rule,an allegory is story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surface meaning,and animplied meaning.List two works as examples of allegory.What is an allegory usually concerned with by its implied meaning46.Inspiration for the romantic approach initially came from two great shapers of thought.Who arethe twoAnd what ideas they expressed inspire the romantic writers47.The white whale,Moby Dick,is the most important symbol in Melville's novel.What symbolicmeaning can you draw from it48.Nature is a philosophic work, in which Emerson gives an explicit discussion on his idea of theQversoul.What is your understanding of Emersonian “Oversoul〞Ⅳ.Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49.How is Romanticism different from NeoclassicismProvide brief evidence from the literaryworks you know best.50.Summerize the story of Mark twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in about 100words,and comment on the theme of the novel.全国202X年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读真题答案课程代码：00604Ⅰ.Multiple Choice(40 points in all,1 for each)1.B2.D3.C4.C5.D6.A7.B8.B9.A 10.C11.D 12.D 13.D 14.D 15.B16.B 17.D 18.C 19.A 20.A21.D 22.B 23.B 24.A 25.A26.C 27.B 28.A 29.C 30.C31.C 32.D 33.C 34.D 35.D36.A 37.A 38.A 39.C 40.BⅡ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)41.A.John Galasworthy:The Man of Property.B.A face does not show any emotion or reaction so that it is impossible to know how thatperson is feeling or what he is thinking about.C.it presents the inner mind of Soames in face of his wife's coldness.He can never knowwhat is on his wife's mind because the makeup of his and her mentality is different. Hiswife Irene, whose mind is romantically inclined, is disgusted with her huXand'spossessiveness. Being unable to read his wife's mind is as good as saying that he reallycan't regard her as his property- this is the very reason why he is enraged beyondmeasure.42.A.T.S.Eliot:“The Love Song of J.Alfred Pruforck.〞B.The ends of cigarettes,meaning trivial things here.C.Here,Prufrock's inability to do anything against the society he is in is made strikinglyclear by using a sharp comparison .Prufrock imagines himself as a kind of insect pinnedon the wall and struggling in vain to get free.This image vividly shows Prufrock's currentpredicament.43.A.Washington Irving:“Rip Van Winkle〞.B.The social environment is changed.C.When Rip is back home after a period of 20 years,he finds thta everything has changed.Allthose old values are gone,and he can hardly feel at home in a changed society.One of thefunctions that Rip serves in the story is to provide a measuring stick for change. It isthrough him that Irving drives home the theme that a desire for change,improvement,andprogress could subvert stable society.44.A.Robert Frost:“The Road Not Taken〞.B.Many many years later.C.The speaker is telling his experience of making the choice of the roads.But he isconscious of the fact that his choice will have made all the difference in his life.Heseems to be giving a suggestion to the reader.“Make good choice of your life.〞Ⅲ.Questions and Answers (24 points in all,6 for each)45.A.Buyan's pilgrim's Progress and Spenser's The Faerie Queene.B.It is usually concerned with moral ,religious,political,symbolic or mythical ideas.46.A.The French philosopher,Jean Jacques Rousseau and the German writer Johna Wolfgan vonGoethe.B.It is Rousseau who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of thehuman spirit;his famous announcement was “I felt before I thought.〞Goethe and hiscompatriots extolled the romantic spirit.47.A.To Ahab,the whale is either an evil creature itself or the agent of an evil force that controlsthe universe,or perhaps both.B.To Ishmale,the whale is an astonishing force,an immense power,which defies rationalexplanation due to a sense of mystery it carries. It is beautiful,but malignant at the same time.It also represents the tremendous organic vitality of the universe,for it has a life force that surges onward irresistibly, impervious to the desires or wills of men.C.As to the reader, the whale can be viewed as a symbol of the physical limits that lifeimposes upon man. It may also be regarded as a symbol of nature, or an instrument of God's vengeance upon evil man. In general,the multiplicity and ambivalence of the symbolic meaning of the whale is such that it becomes a source of intense speculation, an object or profound curiosity for the reader.48.A.The Oversoul is believed to be an all-pervading power for goodness,omnipresent andomnipotent from which all things come and of which all are a part. It exists in nature andman alike and constitutes the chief element of the universe.B.According to Emerson,it is a supreme reality of mind, a spiritual unity of all beings, and areligion regarded as an emotional communication between an individual soul and theuniversal Over-soul of which it is a part.C.He holds that intuition is a more certain way of knowing than reason and that the mindcould intuitively perceive the existence of the Oversoul and of certain absolutes.Ⅳ.Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)49.a.Neoclassicists upheld that artistic ideals should be order,logic,restrained emoticon andaccuracy,and that literature,should be judged in terms of its service to humanity,and thus,literary expressions should be of proportion,unity,harmony and grace.Pope's An Essay on Criticism advocates grace,wit (usually though satire/humour),and simplicity in language(and the poem itself is a demonstration of those ideals,too);Fielding's Tom Jones helped establish the form of novel;Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' displays elegance in style,unified structure,serious tone and moral instructions.b.Romanticists tended to see the individual as the very center of all experience,includingart,and thus,literary work should be “spontaneous overflow of strong feelings,〞and no matter how fragmentary those experiences were (Wordsworth's “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,〞or “The Solitary Reaper,) or Coleridge's “Keble Khan〞),the value of the work lied in the accuracy of presenting those unique feelings and particular attitudes.c.In a word, Neoclassicism emphasized rationality and form but Romanticism attached greatimportance to the individual's mind (emotion, imagination, temporary experience…)50.A.Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a Sequa to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.The Story takes place along the Mississippi River before the Civil War in the United States, around 1850.Along the river, floats a small raft, with two people on it; One is an ignorant,uneducated black slave named Jim and the other is little uneducated outcast white boy about the age of thirteen, called Huckleberry Finn or Huck Finn.The novel relates the story of the escape of Jim from slavery and ,more important, how Huck Finn, floating along with Jim and helping him as best he could, changes his mind ,his prejudice, about Black people, and comes to accept Jim as a man and as a close friends as well.During their journey, they experience a series of adventures:coming across two frauds, the “Duke〞and the “King〞,witnessing the lynching and murder of a harmless drunkard, being lost in a fog and finally Tom's coming to rescue.B. The theme of the novel may be best summed in a word “freedom〞: Huck wants to escape fromthe bond of civilization and Jim wants to escape from the yoke of slavery. Mark Twain uses the raft's journey down the Mississippi River to express his thematic contrasts between innocence and experience, nature and culture, wilderness and civilization.全国202X年4月自学考试英美文学选读真题答案课程代码：00604Ⅰ.Multiple Choice(40 points in all,1 for each)1.B2.D3.C4.C5.D6.A7.B8.B9.A 10.C11.D 12.D 13.D 14.D 15.B16.B 17.D 18.C 19.A 20.A21.D 22.B 23.B 24.A 25.A26.C 27.B 28.A 29.C 30.C31.C 32.D 33.C 34.D 35.D36.A 37.A 38.A 39.C 40.BⅡ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)41.A.John Galasworthy:The Man of Property.B.A face does not show any emotion or reaction so that it is impossible to know how that person is feeling or what he is thinking about.C.it presents the inner mind of Soames in face of his wife's coldness.He can never know what is on his wife's mind because the makeup of his and her mentality is different. His wife Irene, whose mind is romantically inclined, is disgusted with her huXand's possessiveness. Being unable to read his wife's mind is as good as saying that he really can't regard her as his property- this is the very reason why he is enraged beyond measure.42.A.T.S.Eliot:“The Love Song of J.Alfred Pruforck.〞B.The ends of cigarettes,meaning trivial things here.C.Here,Prufrock's inability to do anything against the society he is in is made strikingly clear by using a sharp comparison .Prufrock imagines himself as a kind of insect pinned on the wall and struggling in vain to get free.This image vividly shows Prufrock's current predicament.43.A.Washington Irving:“Rip Van Winkle〞.B.The social environment is changed.C.When Rip is back home after a period of 20 years,he finds thta everything has changed.Allthose old values are gone,and he can hardly feel at home in a changed society.One of the functions that Rip serves in the story is to provide a measuring stick for change. It is through him that Irving drives home the theme that a desire for change,improvement,and progress could subvert stable society.44.A.Robert Frost:“The Road Not Taken〞.B.Many many years later.C.The speaker is telling his experience of making the choice of the roads.But he is conscious of the fact that his choice will have made all the difference in his life.He seems to be giving a suggestion to the reader.“Make good choice of your life.〞Ⅲ.Questions and Answers (24 points in all,6 for each)45.A.Buyan's pilgrim's Progress and Spenser's The Faerie Queene.B.It is usually concerned with moral ,religious,political,symbolic or mythical ideas.46.A.The French philosopher,Jean Jacques Rousseau and the German writer Johna Wolfgan von Goethe.B.It is Rousseau who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of the human spirit;his famous announcement was “I felt before I thought.〞Goethe and his compatriots extolled the romantic spirit.47.A.To Ahab,the whale is either an evil creature itself or the agent of an evil force that controls the universe,or perhaps both.B.To Ishmale,the whale is an astonishing force,an immense power,which defies rational explanation due to a sense of mystery it carries. It is beautiful,but malignant at the same time. It also represents the tremendous organic vitality of the universe,for it has a life force that surges onward irresistibly, impervious to the desires or wills of men.C.As to the reader, the whale can be viewed as a symbol of the physical limits that life imposes upon man. It may also be regarded as a symbol of nature, or an instrument of God's vengeance upon evil man. In general,the multiplicity and ambivalence of the symbolic meaning of the whale is such that it becomes a source of intense speculation, an object or profound curiosity for the reader.48.A.The Oversoul is believed to be an all-pervading power for goodness,omnipresent and omnipotent from which all things come and of which all are a part. It exists in nature and manalike and constitutes the chief element of the universe.B.According to Emerson,it is a supreme reality of mind, a spiritual unity of all beings, and a religion regarded as an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal Over-soul of which it is a part.C.He holds that intuition is a more certain way of knowing than reason and that the mind could intuitively perceive the existence of the Oversoul and of certain absolutes.Ⅳ.Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)49.a.Neoclassicists upheld that artistic ideals should be order,logic,restrained emoticon and accuracy,and that literature,should be judged in terms of its service to humanity,and thus,literary expressions should be of proportion,unity,harmony and grace.Pope's An Essay on Criticism advocates grace,wit (usually though satire/humour),and simplicity in language(and the poem itself is a demonstration of those ideals,too);Fielding's Tom Jones helped establish the form of novel;Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' displays elegance in style,unified structure,serious tone and moral instructions.b.Romanticists tended to see the individual as the very center of all experience,including art,and thus,literary work should be “spontaneous overflow of strong feelings,〞and no matter how fragmentary those experiences were (Wordsworth's “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,〞or “The Solitary Reaper,) or Coleridge's “Keble Khan〞),the value of the work lied in the accuracy of presenting those unique feelings and particular attitudes.c.In a word, Neoclassicism emphasized rationality and form but Romanticism attached great importance to the individual's mind (emotion, imagination, temporary experience…) 50.A.Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a Sequa to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.The Story takes place along the Mississippi River before the Civil War in the United States, around 1850.Along the river, floats a small raft, with two people on it; One is an ignorant,uneducated black slave named Jim and the other is little uneducated outcast white boy about the age of thirteen, called Huckleberry Finn or Huck Finn.The novel relates the story of the escape of Jim from slavery and ,more important, how Huck Finn, floating along with Jim and helping him as best he could, changes his mind ,his prejudice, about Black people, and comes to accept Jim as a man and as a close friends as well.During their journey, they experience a series of adventures:coming across two frauds, the “Duke〞and the “King〞,witnessing the lynching and murder of a harmless drunkard, being lost in a fog and finally Tom's coming to rescue.B. The theme of the novel may be best summed in a word “freedom〞: Huck wants to escape from the bond of civilization and Jim wants to escape from the yoke of slavery. Mark Twain uses the raft's journey down the Mississippi River to express his thematic contrasts between innocence and experience, nature and culture, wilderness and civilization.。
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美国文学史及选读试卷(4)美国文学史及选读试卷Ⅰ. Multiple choices. (60 points in total, 2 for each)1. The Romantic Period in American literature started from the publication of Washington Irving's ______ and ended with Whitman's Leaves of Grass.A. The Sketch BookB. Tales of a TravellerC. A History of New YorkD. The Scarlet Letter2. At the middle of 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering which is called “_____”.A. the English RenaissanceB. the Second RenaissanceC. the American RenaissanceD. the Salem Renaissance3. As a philosophical and literary movement, the main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally concerning ______.A. nature , man and the universeB. the relationship between man and womanC. the development of Romanticism in American literatureD. the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism14. In the following statements, _________ is NOT true about Washington Irving’s famous story “Rip Van Winkle.”A. The story is not only well-known for Rip’s 20-year sleep but also considered a model of perfect English in American literature.B. The story is set against the background of the inevitably changing America.C. The social conservatism and literary preference for the past is revealed, to some extent, in the story.D. Irving describes Rip’s response and reaction in a dramatic way, so that we see clearly both the narrator and Irving agree on the preferability of the present to the past.15. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay Experience is a serous discussion about the conflict between _________ and ordinary life.。
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美国文学1．第7题__C__ was considered to be the first American writer.A.Washington IrvingB.Benjamin FranklinC.John SmithD.Hoffman答案:C您的答案：C题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.02．第8题The School Room Poets did not include _____.A.LongfellowB.LowellC.HolmesD.Poe答案:D您的答案：D题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.03．第9题pound’s poem “the river-merchant’s wife” was translatedｆrom a poem by the chinese poet __________.A.李白B.杜甫C.白居易D.王安石答案:A您的答案：A题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.04．第14题Tales of a Traveller was written by the American author__________.A.James Fenimore CooperB.Washington IrvingC.Nathaniel Hawthorne答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.05．第18题The modern critic Van W. Brooks calls _____ a shredded Shakespeare play.A.The Scarlet LetterB.Moby DickC.Billy BuddD.Mardi答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.06．第19题“Civil Disobedience” is a famous essay written by ___________.A.Ralph Waldo EmersonB.Henry David ThoreauC.E. B. White答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.07．第20题among the following three american writers, only one has never been married in his ｏr her life. the person is ___.A. Edgar Ellan PoeB.Herman MelvilleC.Emily Dickinson答案:C您的答案：C题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.08．第21题The first American writer who propounded that a piece of literary work should focus on the production of a single emotional effect is ___.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB.Herman MelvilleC.Edgar Ellan Poe答案:C您的答案：C题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.09．第22题The poem “Thanatopsis” was written by __________.A.Emily DickinsonB.William Cullen BryantC.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.010．第23题"Two roads diverged in a yellow woods" is a line in a poem written by ---.A.T. S. EliotB.Wallace StevensC.Robert Frost答案:C您的答案：C题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.011．第24题The Fall of the House of Usher was a horror story by ______.A.Nathaniel HawthorneB.Edgar Allan PoeC.MelvilleD.Longfellow答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.012．第25题Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of man and ____.A.natureB.self-relianceD.life答案:A您的答案：A题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.013．第26题____ Bryant’s best-known poem, was written when he was only sixteen years old.A.To a WaterfowlB.ThanatopsisC.To HelenD.Annabel Lee答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.014．第27题1.牋牋？________ was the first writer of local color to achieve wide popularity.A.Mark TwainB.Harriet StoweC.Bret HarteD.Henry James答案:C您的答案：C题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.015．第28题______ translated the Bible into the Indian tongue.A.Benjamin FranklinB.Roger WilliamsC.. John EliotD.John Cotton答案:C您的答案：C题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.016．第29题The best-selling books in the first decades of the twentieth century wereA.news reportB.travel booksmercial booksD.historical romances答案:D您的答案：D题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.017．第30题Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’s story A Rose for Emily, can be regarded as a symbol for all the following qualities except______.A.old valuesB.rigid ideas of social statusC.bigotry and eccentricityD.harmony and integrity答案:D您的答案：D题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.018．第38题___ is not a name to refer to Natty Bumppo in Cooper’s frontier saga.A.deerslayerB.pathfinderC.hawkeyeD.Mohican答案:D您的答案：D题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.019．第39题"To a Waterfowl" is a poem written by ---.A.Edgar Ellan PoeB.William Cullen BryantC. Whittier答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.020．第40题Among the following stories written by Poe, only one belongs to the category of the detective story. It is ___.A.The Purloined LetterB. LigeiaC.The Tell-tale Heart答案:A您的答案：A题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.021．第41题The novel Sister Carrie opens with a description of Carrie on a train trip to the city of _______ looking for a factory job.A.New YorkB.BeijingC.BostonD.Chicago答案:D您的答案：D题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.022．第42题The short novel The Turn of the Screw was written by ________.A.Henry JamesB.FitzgeraldC.Ernest HemingwayD.William Faulkner答案:A您的答案：A题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.023．第43题The most famous sea story written by Jack London is _______.A.Martin EdenB.The Iron HeelC.The Sea WolfD.The Call of the Wild答案:C您的答案：C题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.024．第44题Among the following authors the one who received 4 pulitzer prizes was ---.A.Robert FrostB.Jack LondonC.Mark Twain答案:A您的答案：A题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.025．第45题My Lost Youth written by ____ is about his hometown of Portland, Maine.A.Henry W. LongfellowB.John CottonC.Carl SandburgD.Anne Bradstreet答案:A您的答案：A题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.026．第46题William Sidney Porter was the real name of ________.A.Mark TwainB.O’ HenryC.Jack LondonD.William Dean Howells答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.027．第47题When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing about ______’s thematic concern in his fiction writing.A.Henry JamesB.Scott FitzgeraldC.HemingwayD.William Faulkne答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.028．第48题Puritans emphasized a ____God.A.mercifulB.wrathfulC.benevolentD.learned答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.029．第49题The American writer whose one essay greatly influenced later civil right leader Martin Luther King is ___.A.Ralph Waldo EmersonB.Philip FreneauC.Henry David Thoreau答案:C您的答案：C题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.030．第50题____ Bryant’s best-known poem, was written when he was only sixteen years old.A.To a WaterfowlB.ThanatopsisC.To HelenD.Annabel Lee答案:B您的答案：A题目分数：2.0此题得分：0.031．第51题Besides symbolism, all the following qualities except ______are fused to make Melville’s Moby-Dick, a world classic.A.narrative power ？B.psychological analysisC.speculative agility ？D.optimistic view of life答案:D您的答案：D题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.032．第52题The central character’s name in James Fenimore Cooper’s novel series The Leatherstocking Tales is ______________.A.Isabelle ArcherB.Natty BumpoC.Ishmael答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.033．第53题A poetic line of two feet is called___________.A.monometerB.dimeterC.trimeterD.tetrameter答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.034．第54题Perhaps Dickinson's greatest rendering of the moment of ___________ is to be found in I Heard a Fly Buzz--When I Died---a poem universally considered one of her masterpieces.A.enthusiasmB.deathC.crisisD.fantasy答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.035．第55题Jack London did not write ______.A.The Sea WolfB.The Call of the WildC.The AmbassadorsD.White Fang答案:C您的答案：C题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.036．第56题American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. It was _____.A.. Anne BradstreetB.Jane AustenC.Emily DickinsonD.Harriet Beecher答案:C您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：0.037．第57题The first writings that we may call American were the narratives and ___ of the early English settlements.A.. documentsB.journalsC.statementsD.files答案:D您的答案：D题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.038．第58题Many of O’ Henry’s stories tell about the lives of poor people in ____.A.ChicagoB.New YorkC.New JerseyD.New England答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.039．第59题William Faulkner once declared that ___ was the first truly American writer from whom we are descended.A.Washington IrvingB.CooperC.HawthorneD.Mark Twain答案:D您的答案：D题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.040．第60题The Waste Land was dedicated to another poet who was __________.A.Ernest HemingwayB.Ezra PoundC.T. S. EliotD.William Carlos Williams答案:B您的答案：C题目分数：2.0此题得分：0.041．第1题1.？？？？？While working for the Virginia City Enterprise, Samuel Langhorne Clemens adopted the pseudonym “Mark Twain,” which means two fathoms.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.042．第2题1.牋牋？Puritan influence over American Romanticism was conspicuously noticeable.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.043．第3题Besides Moby Dick, Melville also wrote some other sea novels.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.044．第4题"Tell me not, in mournful numbers" is a line in Longfellow's poem "A Psalm of Life".答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.045．第5题“The Premature Burial” is a detective story written by Poe.答案:错误您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：0.046．第6题"In a Station of the Metro" is a short poem written by Ezra Pound.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.047．第10题1.？？？？？Many of O Henry’s stories contain a lot of slangs and colloquial expressions, just like his own speech.答案:错误您的答案：错误题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.048．第11题1.牋牋？To Hawthorne and Poe, the telling of a tale was a way inquiringinto the meaning of life.答案:错误您的答案：错误题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.049．第12题1.牋牋？Immediately after their arrival in America, the American Puritans became more preoccupied with business and profits, as they had to be in the grim struggle for survival.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.050．第13题"Declaration of Independence" was drafted by Benjamin Franklin alone. 答案:错误您的答案：错误题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.051．第15题Many of Poe’s Gothic tales bear the theme of claustrophobia.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.052．第16题The most important Southern writer is Robert Penn Warren who was the author of the poem “All the King’s Men”.答案:错误您的答案：错误题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.053．第17题life ａnd death is a major theme in emily dickinson’s poems.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.054．第31题1.牋牋？American naturalism, like Romanticism, had come from Germany. 答案:错误您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：0.055．第32题1.？？？？？Throughout his life, Steinbeck’s greatest happiness and deepest sorrow were caused by his American dream of success.答案:错误您的答案：错误题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.056．第33题1.牋牋？Hawthorne, who seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and veil, never showed a positive part of the life.答案:错误您的答案：错误题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.057．第34题The poet Robert Frost wrote in traditional rhyme schemes, but his themes are very modern.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.058．第35题Poe was a predecessor of the later British detective writer Conan Doyle.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.059．第36题"A Rose for Emily" is a Gothic short story written by William Faulkner. 答案:正确您的答案：错误题目分数：1.0此题得分：0.060．第37题The first American poet to be translated into Chinese is Walt Whitman. 答案:错误您的答案：错误题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.0。
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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 B（）1. Benjamin Franklin a. Moby Dick（）2.Edgar Allan Poe b. The Cast of Amontillado（）3. Ralph Waldo Emerson c. The Scarlet letter（）4. Nathaniel Hawthorne d. Self-Reliance（）5. Herman Melville e. The AutobiographyPart ⅠⅠ: Gap filling (10 points in all, 1 point for each).1.‘The Old Man and the Sea’ is written by ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ .2.Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known by the pen name ______ _______ .3.‘the remains of my relations’ means ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿in Chinese.4.‘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 ofAmerica. 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).AHow canI travel a lot, and I find out different “styles” (风格) of directions ever y time 1 ask “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. Forexample, the Japanese will say to travelers, “Go straight down to the corner. Turn left at the bighotel 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 areno 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 measuredistance in time, not miles. “How far away is the post office?” you ask. “Oh,” they answer, “iabout fiv e minutes from here.” You say, “Yes, but how many miles away is it?” They don’t It’s true that a person doesn’t know the answer to your question sometimes. What happens in suchtan, Mexico, no onea situation? A New Yorker might say, ‘Sorry, I have no idea.” But in Yucathey usuallyPeople in Yucatan believe that “I don’t know” is impolite,answers “I don’t know.”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? _________for travelers to understand cultural differences.A. It’s importantB. 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 toGeorgetown University on a scholarshipto study medicine —but Coach John Thompson got alook at Dikembe and had a different idea. Dikembe became a star in the NBA, and a citizen of theUnited States. But he never forgot the land of his birth, or the duty to share his fortune with others.He built a new hospital in his old hometown in the Congo. A friend has said of this good-heartedman: “Mutombo believes that 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 musicinand art with her child. So she borrowed some equipment, and began filming children’s videosher own house. The Baby Einstein Company was born, and in just five years her business grew tomore than $20 million in sales. And she is using her success to help others — producing childsafety videos with John Walsh of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Juliesays of her new program: “I believe it’s the most important thing that I have ever done. I believethat 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 subway station with his two littlegirls when he saw a man fall into the path of a train. With seconds to act, Wesley jumped onto thetracks, pulled the man into the space between the rails, and held him as the train passed rightabove their heads. He insists he’s not a hero. He says: “We have got to show each other somelove.”5. What was Mutombo praised for? .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.6. Mulombo believes that building the new hospital is .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 NBA7. What did the Baby Einstein Company do at its beginning? .A. 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.8. Why was Wesley Autrey praised as a hero? .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 15he suddenly stopped trying. He left school at 16 with only two scores for secondary schoolsubjects. 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 theschool environment — means that their peers are the only people they have to judge themselvesagainst.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 andstreet culture is all powerful. Boys want to be part of a club. However, schools can provide theenvironment for change, and provide the right role models for them. Teachers need to be trained toYou have to do it one to one, because that is when youstop that but not in front of a child’s peers.see the real child.It’s pointless sending a child home if he or she has done wrong. They see it as a welcome dayoff to watch television or play computer games. Instead, schools should have a special unit wherea child who has done wrong goes for the day and gets advice about his problems — somewhere hecan work away from his peers and go home after the other children.9. Why did Tom give up studying? .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.10. What seems to have a bad effect on students like Tom? .A. Peer groups.B. A special unit.C. The student judges.D. The home environment.11. What should schools do to help the problem schoolboys? .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 he.A. is with the boy aloneB. 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 theshelf there lives a small fish, the Antarctic cod.For forty years scientists have been curious about that fish. How does it live where most fishwould freeze to death? It must have some secret. The Antarctic is not a comfortable place to workand research has been slow. Now it seems we have an answer.Research was begun by cutting holes in the ice and catching the fish. Scientists studied thefish’s blood and measured its freezing point.C and many tiny pieces ofThe fish were taken from seawater that had a temperature of-1.88°ice floating in it. The blood of the fish did not begin to freeze until its temperature was lowered toC. That small difference is enough for the fish to live at the freezing temperature of the-2.05°ice-salt mixture.blood kept it from next research job was clear: Find out what in the fish’s The scientists’ freezing. Their search led to some really strange thing made up of a protein never before seen inthe blood of a fish. When it was removed, the blood froze at seawater temperature. When it wasput 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 calleda glycoprotein. So it has come to be called the antifreeze fish glycoprotein, or AFGP.13. What is the text mainly about? .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.14. Why can the Antarctic cod live at the freezing temperature? .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.in the last paragraph 16. What does “glyco-” in the underlined word “glycoprotein” mean? .A. sugarB. iceC. bloodD. moleculeEIf your boss asks you to work in Moscow th is year, he’d better offer you more money to doso —or even double that depending on where you live now. That’s because Moscow hasjust beenmost expensive city for the second year in a row by Mercer Humanfound to be the world’sResources Consulting.Using the cost of living in New York as a base, Mercer determined Moscow is 34.4 percentmore 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 internationalnewspaper $6.30, according to Mercer. By comparison, a fast food meal with a hamburger is asteal at $4.80.London takes the No. 2 place, up from No. 5 a year ago, thanks to higher cost of housing anda stronger British pound relative to the dollar. Mercer estimates London is 26 percent moreexpensive than New York these days. Following London closely are Seoul and Tokyo, both ofwhich are 22 percent more expensive than New York, while No. 5 Hong Kong is 19 percent morecostly.Among North American cities, New York and Los Angeles are the most expensive and arethe only two listed in the top 50 of the world’s most expensive cities. But both have fallen since study —New York came in 15th, down from 10th place, while Los Angeles fell tolast year’s42nd from 29th place a year ago. San Francisco came in a distant third at No. 54, down 20 placesfrom a year earlier.Toronto, meanwhile, is Canada’s most expensive city but fell 35 places to take 82nd place worldwide. In Australia, Sydney is the priciest 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 the dollarC. 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, whoaccordingly refused to give me work. I then thought of going to New York as the nearestplace where there was a printer; and I was the rather inclined to leave Boston when I reflectedthat I had already made myself a little obnoxious to the governing party; and from thearbitrary proceeding of the Assembly in my brother’s case, it was likely I might if I stayedsoon bring myself into scrapes, and further that my indiscreet disputations about religionbegan to make me pointed at with horror by good people as an infidel or atheist. I determinedon the point, but my father now siding with my brother, I was sensible that if I attempted to goopenly means would be used to prevent me.2. He had a weak point－－this Fortunato－－although in other regards he was a man to berespected and even feared. He prided himself upon his connoisseurship in wine. Few Italians have the true virtuoso spirit. For the most part their enthusiasm is adopted to suit the time and opportunity, to practice imposture upon the British and Austrian millionaires. In painting and gemmary, Fortunato, like his countrymen, was a quack, but in the matter of old wines he was sincere. In this respect I did not differ from him materially;－－I was skillful in the Italian vintages myself, and bought largely whenever I could.答卷Part Ⅰ: Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A.(10 points in all, 2 point for each)1 2 3 4 5Part ⅠⅠ: Gap filling (10 points in all, 1 point for each).1. ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ ;2. ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ ;3. ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ ;4. ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ ;5. ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ ;6. ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ ;7. ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ ; 8. ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ ; 9. ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ ;10. ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ ;Part ⅠⅠⅠ: Reading Comprehension (40 points in all, 2 points for each).1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20Part IV: Translation (40 points in all, 20 points for each).1.2.。
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美国文学史及选读试题上册美国文学史及选读试题上册姓名：班级：学号I. Multiple Choice 20’ I.1. Who is different from others according to the division of writing period?A. Washington IrvingB.William Cullen BryantC. Captain John SmithD. James Fenimore Cooper2. The American Romantic Period lasted roughly from ____ to ____.A. 1798-1832B. 1810-1860C. 1860-1864D. 1776-17833. How many syllables are there in this first line of Raven?(“Once upon a midnight dreary, w hile I pondered, weak and weary,”)A. 11B. 12C. 13D. 164. What dominated the Puritan phase of American writing?A. theologyB. literatureC. estheticsD. revolution5. At the initial period of the spread of ideas of theEnlightenment was largely due to ____.A. typographyB. journalismC. revolutionD. the development of paper-making industry6. Who has been called the “Father of American Literature”?A. Walt ScottB. Geoffrey ChaucerC. Washington IrvingD. Philip Freneau7. Who is the first American prose stylist that acquired international fame?A. Captain John SmithB. Washington IrvingC. Benjamin FranklinD.E. A. Poe8. Who is the writer of To a Waterfowl?A. Anne BradstreetB. Thomas HardyC. William Cullen BryantD. Walt Whitman9. Thomas Paine is a ____.A. novelistB. dramatistC. poetD. pamphleteer10. Edgar Allan Poe mainly writes ____A. short storiesB. literary critic theoriesC. poemsD. dramasII. Blank-Filling 20’1. ____’s reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been described as the first distinctly American literature to be written in English.2. Hard work, ____, piety, and ____were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing, including the sermons, books and letters of such noted Puritan clergymen as John Cotton and Cotton Mather.3. Most Puritan verse was decidedly plodding, but the work of two writers, Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor, rose to the level of____4. From 1732 to 1785, Franklin wrote and published his famous ____, an annual collection of proverbs.5. On January 10, 1776, Paine’s famous pamphlet ____ appeared. It boldly advocated a“Declaration for Independence”, and brought the separatist agitation to a crisis.6. As a poet, ____heralded American literary independence: his close observation of nature distinguished his treatment of indigenous wild life and other native American subjects.1. Annabel Lee ,a poem from_____________ ,mourns the death of a beautiful girl .7. Romantic writers placed increasing value on the ____ expression of emotion and displayed increasing attention to the ____ states of their characters.8. Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: ____ and ____.9. The central figure in Cooper’s Novels, ____ goes byvarious names of Leatherstocking, Deerslyer, Pathfinder, and Hawkeye.III. Chinese Alternation of English Literary Terms 10’1. Puritanism2. Romanticism3. Sketch Book4. Thanatopsis5. Self-RelianceIV.Identificaiton .25’author:________________ work:_________________1.I had begun in 1733 to study languages; I soon made my self so much a master of the French as to be able to read the books with ease. I then undertook the Italian. An acquaintance, who was also learning it, used often to tempt me to play chess with him. Finding this took up too much of the time I had to spare for study, I at length refused to play any more…2.At the next moment, the breech of Hawkeye’s rifle fell on the naked head of his adversary, whose muscles appeared to wither under the shock, as he sank from the arms of Duncan, flexible and motionless.3.From morning suns and evening dewsAt first thy little being came:If nothing once, you nothing lose,For when you die you are the same;”4.I was a child and she was a childIn this kingdom by the sea;But we loved with a love that was more than love---5. On waking, he found himself on the green knoll whence he had first seen the old man of the glen. He rubbed his eyes----it was a bright sunny morning. The birds were hopping andtwittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft, and breasting the pure mountain breeze “ Surely,” thought Rip, “ I have not slept here all night.” He recalled the occurrences before he fell asleep.V. Answer the following q uestions. 25’1. What does the word “Power” in To a Wate rfowl refer to? 5’2. What is your understanding on Helen in the poem To Helen? 5’3. What is the tone of Thanatopsis? 5’4. What is American Transcendentalism ?. 10’。
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美国文学史及作品选读模拟试题一I.Multiple Choice (1’×15=15’)1.C______was the first colony in American history.A. MassachusettsB. New JerseyC. VirginiaD.Georgia2. _B_____ was the only good American author before the Revolutionary War. Oneof his fellow Americans said, “His shadow lies heavier than any other man’s on this young nation.”A. John SmithB. Benjamin FranklinC. Thomas JeffersonD.Thomas Paine3. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT __A____.A. common senseB. imaginationC. intuitionD. individualism4. The Raven was written in 1844 by __B______A. Philip FreneauB. Edgar Allan PoeC. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowD. Emily Dickinson5. The ship __C____ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beatits way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.A. SunflowerB. ArmadaC. MayflowerD. Titanic6. Melville’s novel __D____ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage inpursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.A. TypeeB. OmooC. White JacketD. Moby Dick7. As a philosophical and literary movement, __D____ flourished in New Englandfrom the 1830s to the Civil War.A.ModernismB.RationalismC.SentimentalismD.Transcendentalism8. The theme of original sin is fully reflected in ___A______.A. The Scarlet LetterB. Sister CarrieC. The Great GatsbyD. The Old Man and Sea9. In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the ___B___ American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined economically.A. PuritanB. materialisticC. psychologicalD. religious10. Realism was a reaction against____B__ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.A. RationalismB. RomanticismC. NeoclassicismD. Enlightenment11. __C______ was a poet in American modern period who was deeply influence by eastern culture.A. T. S EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD. Walt Whitman12. Which of the following statements about Emily Dickinson is NOT true?DA. After 1862 she became a total recluse, not leaving her house nor seeing close friends.B. She once felt a deep affection for Charles Wadsworth, a married aged minister, but it proved to be a frustrated love affair for Dickinson.C. She wrote about death, immortality, nature, success and failure.D. During her lifetime, all her poems are published.13. The realistic period is referred to as “the Gilded Age” by __A_____.A. Mark TwainB. Henry JamesC. Emily DickinsonD. Theodore Dreiser14. Which of the following works is NOT by Ernest Hemingway?CA. The Old Man and SeaB. A Farewell to ArmsC. Sound and FuryD. For Whom the Bell Tolls15. Which one is NOT the characteristic of modernism?DA. Modernism in literature is characterized by experimentation, anti-realism, individualism and a stress on the cerebral rather than emotive aspects.B. Modernism is greatly influenced by the two world wars.C. The work of Marx, and Freud, had mounted an assault against orthodox religious faith that lasted into the twentieth century.D. Modernists believe that human nature is kind.II.Match the Column A with Column B (1’×10=10’)Column A Column B( c ) 1. Dimmesdale a. Robert Frost( e) 2. Ahab b. Mark Twain( i ) 3. Drouet c. The Scarlet Letter ( a ) 4. Pulitzer Prizer d. Thomas Jefferson( h ) 5. Reclusive poet e. Moby Dick(b ) 6. humorist and satirist f. Ernest Heminway( d) 7. The Decalration of Indepenence g. Henry David Thoreau( g ) 8. transcendentalist h. Emily Dickinson( j) 9. The Great Gatsby i. Sister Carrie( f ) 10. The Lost Generation j. F. Scott FitzgeraldIII.Define the following words within one phrase(2’×5=10’)1. free verse2. Ralph Waldo Emerson3. Mark Twain4. Benjamin Franklin5. Ezra PoundIV.Simple questions (5’×4=20’)1.What are Puritan thoughts?2.What is Transcedentalism and list some representative figures?3. Explain the symbolic meanings of “A” in The Scarlet Letter.4. Illustrate the three principles of Imagist Poetry.V.Interpreting the following texts (45’)Text 1When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things.Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumesthe cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. Of an intermediatebalance, under the circumstances, there is no possibility. The city has itscunning wiles, no less than the infinitely smaller and more human tempter.There are large forces which allure with all the soulfulness of expressionpossible in the most cultured human. The gleam of a thousand lights is often aseffective as the persuasive light in a wooing and fascinating eye. Half theundoing of the unsophisticated and natural mind is accomplished by forceswholly superhuman. A blare of sound, a roar of life, a vast array of human hives,appeal to the astonished senses in equivocal terms. Without a counsellor at handto whisper cautious interpretations, what falsehoods may not these things breathe into the unguarded ear! Unrecognised for what they are, their beauty, like music, too often relaxes, then weakens, then perverts the simpler human perceptions.Questions1.Please use one phrase to summarize the above paragraph (2’)2.What are the two possibilities for a girl of eighteen leaving her home?(2’)3.Please find out the figures of speech (2’)4.What are the attractive forces mentioned in a big city? (4’)5.How are naturalist views are reflected in this paragraph? Illustrate yourpoints with examples (5’)Text 2Because I could not stop for Death –He kindly stopped for me --The Carriage held but just Ourselves --And Immortality.We slowly drove -- He knew no hasteAnd I had put awayMy labor and my leisure too,For His Civility –We passed the School, where Children stroveAt Recess -- in the Ring --We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain --We passed the Setting Sun –…Since then -- 'tis Centuries -- and yetFeels shorter than the DayI first surmised the Horses' HeadsWere toward Eternity –Questions:1.Identify the poet and the title of this poem? (2’)2.Explain the underlined words (4’)3.What are the implications of “the School”, “the fields of Gazing Grain”, “the SettingSun”? (3’)4.How do you understand “Since then -- 'tis Centuries -- and yet / Feelsshorter than the Day” ? (3’)5.What are the speaker’s opinions about death? (3’)Text 3Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth.Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same.And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.Questions:1.Please examine the poetic form (rhyme and meter) (2’)2.Describe the similarities and differences of these two roads. Which one does thespeaker take? (3’)3.How do you understand the word “sigh”? (4’)4.What might the two roads stand for in the speaker’s mind? (4’)5.What is the theme of this poem? (2’)参考答案I.Multiple Choice (1’×15=15’)1. _C___2._B__3.__A__4.__B__5.__C___6.__D_7.__D__8._A__9.__B__ 10.__B___11._C__ 12.__D__ 13._A_ 14._C __ 15._D__II.Match the Column A with Column B (1’×10=10’)1.( c )2.( e )3.( i )4.( a )5.( h )6.( b )7.( d )8.( g )9.(j ) 10.( f )III.Define the following words within one phrase (2’×5=10’)(Any related information can be given marks)1. poetry without a fived beat or regular rhyme scheme, produced by Walt Whitman2. is the representative of transcedentalists, who believes in individualism andself-reliance and brings transcendentalism to New England3．is a humorist and satirist, who uses broad humor and biting social satire4．is on e of Thoreau’s masterpieces, which is the result of the author’s two years of living near Walden lake.5. is regarded as the classical poem of imagist poetry by Ezra Pound, conveying thetheme of the speaker’s sudden pleasure of finding some beautiful faces in the subwayIV.Simple Questions (5’×4=20’) (Answers should be to the points. 1 score fortime, 2 scores for features and 1 score for representative figures when defining theliterary terms)a)Puritan thoughts: to make pure their religious beliefs and practices, to restoresimplicity, to live a hard and disciplined life and oppose pleasure and arts.b)Transcendentalism is the climax of American Romanticism.First, the Transcendentalist placed emphasis on spirit, or the oversoul, as the mostimportant thing in the universe.Secondly, Transcendentalists stressed the importance of the individual.Thirdly, the Transcendentalists offered a fresh perception of nature as symbolic ofthe spirit.3. a. The letter’s meaning shifts as time passes. Originally intended to mark Hester asan adulterer, the “A”eventually comes to stand for “Able”or“Angel”.b. Besides Hester, Dimmesdale also ironed the letter A on his body, which provokedhis self-consciousness and showed his repent for what he did.c. Pearl, their baby, wore a green letter a in a piece of seaweed while playing on thebeach. This green letter A symbolizes vitality or new life, and also suggests herinheritance from her mother.4. a. direct treatment of the “thing”（no fuss, frill, or ornament）,b. exclusion of superfluous words（precision and economy of expression）,c. the rhythm of the musical phrase rather than the sequence of a metronome（free verse form and music）.V.Interpreting the following texts (45’)Text 11. The attraction of big city (2’)2. One is to fall into the saving hands and becomes better; secondly, she may admit themoral value of big city and becomes worse. (2’)3. Simile, metaphor and synecdoche (2’)4. The gleam of lights, a blare of sound, a roar of life, and a vast array of humanhives (4’)5. Naturalist attempted to achieve extreme objectivity and frankness, presentingcharacters of low social and economic classes who were dominated by their environment and heredity. In this novel, the major female character Carrie Meeber is deeply influenced by the present environment and heredity, which leads to the result of her dynamic character.(5’) (the features of naturalism 3 scores, examples2 scores)Text 21. Emily Dickinson and “Because I Could not Stop for Death”(2’)2. He: death; civility: politeness; Recess: break Surmised: guessed (4’)3. They represent three stages of life. The school is the childhood and young age; the fields of gazing grain refers to the mature period and the setting sun the old age, that is the end of one’s life. (3’)4. Because this day is towards death, immortal and eternal (3’)5. Death is immortality (3’)Text 31. It is written in iambic tetrameter and rhymed abaab.(2’)2. Similarities: both of the roads are beautiful (fair)Differences: one is quiet and grassy, less-traveled; the other is trodden by many people and flatHe took the less-travelled road (3’)3. The word “sigh”is a tricky word. Because sigh can be interpreted into nostalgic relief or regret. If it is the relief sigh, then the difference means the speaker feels glad with the road he took. If it is the regret sigh, then the difference would not be good, and the speaker would be sighing in regret. Hence, sigh is ambigous here for the speaker is not showing whether his choice is right or wrong. (4’)4. The real road; the life road and the road in career (4’)5.Choice is inevitable but you never know what your choice will mean until you havelived it. This is also the theme of the poem. (2’)。