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美国文学史及作品选读
模拟试题一
I.
Multiple
Choice (1
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1.
C
______was the first colony
in American history.
A.
Massachusetts
B. New Jersey
C. Virginia
a
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
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.
ism
alism
entalism
endentalism
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
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not
determined economically.
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
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10=10
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Column A
Column B
( c ) 1. Dimmesdale
a.
Robert Frost
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(
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 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=2
0
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)
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,
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appeal to the astonished senses 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.
Questions
1.
Please use one phrase to summarize the
above paragraph (2
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)
2.
What are the
two possibilities for a girl of eighteen leaving
her home?(2
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)
3.
Please find
out the figures of speech
(2
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)
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 2
Because 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 haste
And I had put away
My labor
and my leisure too,
For His
Civility
–
We passed the School, where Children
strove
At Recess -- in the Ring --
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain --
We passed the Setting Sun
–
…
Since then --
'tis Centuries -- and yet
Feels shorter
than the Day
I first surmised the
Horses' Heads
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