美国文学史及选读试卷Word格式文档下载.doc

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3.RomanticsputemphasisonthefollowingEXCEPT______.

A.commonsenseB.imaginationC.intuitionD.individualism

4.TheRavenwaswrittenin1844by________

A.PhilipFreneauB.EdgarAllanPoe

C.HenryWadsworthLongfellowD.EmilyDickinson

5.Theship______carriedaboutonehundredPilgrimsandtook66daystobeat

itswayacrosstheAtlantic.InDecemberof1620,itputthePilgrimsashoreat

Plymouth,Massachusetts.

A.SunflowerB.ArmadaC.MayflowerD.Titanic

6.Melville’snovel______isatremendouschronicleofawhalingvoyagein

pursuitofaseeminglysupernaturalwhitewhale.

A.TypeeB.OmooC.WhiteJacketD.MobyDick

7.Asaphilosophicalandliterarymovement,______flourishedinNewEngland

fromthe1830stotheCivilWar.

A.ModernismB.RationalismC.SentimentalismD.Transcendentalism

8.Thethemeoforiginalsinisfullyreflectedin_________.

A.TheScarletLetterB.SisterCarrie

C.TheGreatGatsbyD.TheOldManandSea

9.InallhisnovelsTheodoreDreisersetshimselftoprojectthe______Americanvalues.Forexample,inSisterCarrie,thereisnotonecharacterwhosestatusis

notdeterminedeconomically.

　A.PuritanB.materialisticC.psychologicalD.religious

10.Realismwasareactionagainst______oramoveawayfromthebiastowardsromanceandself-creatingfictions,andpavedthewaytoModernism.

A.Rationalism 

B.Romanticism 

C.Neoclassicism 

D.Enlightenment

11.________wasapoetinAmericanmodernperiodwhowasdeeplyinfluencebyeasternculture.

A.T.SEliotB.RobertFrostC.EzraPoundD.WaltWhitman

12.WhichofthefollowingstatementsaboutEmilyDickinsonisNOTtrue?

A.After1862shebecameatotalrecluse,notleavingherhousenorseeing

closefriends.

B.SheoncefeltadeepaffectionforCharlesWadsworth,amarriedagedminister,butitprovedtobeafrustratedloveaffairforDickinson.

C.Shewroteaboutdeath,immortality,nature,successandfailure.

D.Duringherlifetime,allherpoemsarepublished.

13.Therealisticperiodisreferredtoas“theGildedAge”by_______.

A.MarkTwainB.HenryJamesC.EmilyDickinsonD.TheodoreDreiser

14.WhichofthefollowingworksisNOTbyErnestHemingway?

A.TheOldManandSeaB.AFarewelltoArms

C.SoundandFuryD.ForWhomtheBellTolls

15.WhichoneisNOTthecharacteristicofmodernism?

A.Modernisminliteratureischaracterizedbyexperimentation,anti-realism,individualismandastressonthecerebralratherthanemotiveaspects.

B.Modernismisgreatlyinfluencedbythetwoworldwars.

C.TheworkofMarx,andFreud,hadmountedanassaultagainstorthodoxreligiousfaiththatlastedintothetwentiethcentury.

D.Modernistsbelievethathumannatureiskind.

I.MatchtheColumnAwithColumnB（1’×

10=10’）

ColumnAColumnB

（）1.Dimmesdalea.RobertFrost

（）2.Ahabb.MarkTwain

（）3.Drouetc.TheScarletLetter

（）4.PulitzerPrizerd.ThomasJefferson

（）5.Reclusivepoete.MobyDick

（）6.humoristandsatiristf.ErnestHeminway

（）7.TheDecalrationofIndepenenceg.HenryDavidThoreau

（）8.transcendentalisth.EmilyDickinson

（）9.TheGreatGatsbyi.SisterCarrie

（）10.TheLostGenerationj.F.ScottFitzgerald

II.Definethefollowingwordswithinonephrase

（2’×

5=10’）

1.freeverse2.RalphWaldoEmerson3.MarkTwain

4.BenjaminFranklin5.EzraPound

III.Simplequestions（5’×

4=20’）

1.WhatarePuritanthoughts?

2.WhatisTranscedentalismandlistsomerepresentativefigures?

3.Explainthesymbolicmeaningsof“A”inTheScarletLetter.

4.IllustratethethreeprinciplesofImagistPoetry.

IV.Interpretingthefollowingtexts（45’）

Text1

Whenagirlleavesherhomeateighteen,shedoesoneoftwothings.Eithershefallsintosavinghandsandbecomesbetter,orsherapidlyassumesthecosmopolitanstandardofvirtueandbecomesworse.Ofanintermediatebalance,underthecircumstances,thereisnopossibility.Thecityhasitscunningw