飞速成长美国文学选读复习材料

2021年1月19日发(作者：乖乖地)
一

1.
―He
was
silent
with
conceit
of
his
son.
Mrs.
Morel
sniffed,
as
if
it
were
nothing.‖(
Sons
and
Lovers

by ce)From the above quotation, we can see that Mrs. Morel’s attitude to her
husband is ______ .
A. sincerely warm
C. seemingly angry














B. genuinely kind


D. merely contemptuous
2. A boy makes a quest of his idealized childish love through painful experience up to the point of
losing his innocence and coming to see the drabness and harshness of the adult world.
The above sentence may well sum up the major theme of ______.
A. Eliot’s poem
The love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

B. Bernard Shaw’s play
Mrs. Warren’
s Profession

C. Joyce’s story
Araby

D. Lawrence’s story
The Horse Dealer’
s Daughter

3. Linguistically, compared with the writing
s of Mark Twain, Henry James’s fiction is noted for
his ______.
A. frontier vernacular








B. rich colloquialism

D. refined elegant language
C. vulgarly descriptive

words

4. Which of the following statements about Washington Irving is NOT true?
A. Literary imagination should breed in a land rich in the past culture.
B. He is preoccupied with the Calvinistic view of original sin and the mystery of evil.
C. His stories are among the best of the American literature.
D. Some of his works are based on the materials of the European legendary tales.
5.
Which
of
the
following
is
NOT
one
of
the
main
ideas
advocated
by
Emerson,
the
chief
spokesman of New England Transcendentalism?
A. As an individual, man is divine and can develop and improve himself infinitely. B. Nature
exercises a healthy and restorative influence on human beings.
C.
There
exists
an
emotional
communication
between
an
individual
soul
and
the
universal
―Oversoul.‖

D.
Evil
and
sin
are
ever
present
in
human
heart
and
will
pass
on
from
one
generation
to
another.‖

6. Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT ______ .

A. the strict poetic form


C. the easy flow of feelings


B. the free and natural rhythm
D. the simple and conversational language
7. ―Then all collapsed,
and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years
ago.‖ In the quoted sentence, the author might imply that ______.

A. nothing changes in the 5000 years of human history
B. man’s desire to conquer nature can only end in his own de
struction
C. nature is evil as it was 5000 years ago
D. nature has the ultimate creative power

D

C
D
B
D
A
B
二、作家作品：

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Herman Melville
Henry James
Ernest Hemingway

James Fenimore Cooper

Benjamin Franklin

Thomas Jefferson
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Thomas Paine
Edgar Allan Poe
Washington Irving
Henry David Thoreau
Thomas Paine
Edgar Allan Poe
Washington Irving
Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
Mark Twain

Robert Frost
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Theodore Dreiser
John Steinbeck
III. Reading Comprehension. (30 points in all, 10 for each)
Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.

1.
1
. ―With Blue—
uncertain stumbling Buzz
—

Between the light
—
and me
—

And then the Windows failed
—
and then
I could not see to see
—‖

Questions:
A. Identify the poem and the poet. (4 points)
B. What do ―Windows‖ symbolically stand for?
(3 points)
C. What idea does the quoted passage express? (3 points)

A.
Emily Dickinson: ―I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died‖.


B.
Eyes, for they are considered as the windows of human soul.

C.
The last thing the dying person saw and heard was the fly and its buzz. When the
eyes failed, the human soul was closed and the person died. (The speaker could not see any
of the afterlife or God or angels she expected to see.)