美國文學試題庫

1、美國文學試題庫注：試題庫內容僅作為學習參考使用，并不代表考試內容。任何一道題均可能變化為其它形式的試題。1. Naturalism is evolved from realism whe n the authors tone in writingbecomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic andmoreA. rati onalB. humorousC. op timisticD. p essimistic2.The imp act of Darwin s evoluti onary theory on the Americ

2、a n thoughtand the in flue nee of the nin etee nth-ce ntury French literature on theAmerican men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism:America nA. local colorismB. vern acularism3.C. moder nismD. n aturalismwere idealists, believ ing the church should be restoredto comp lete“-”p urit

3、yand dream ing that they wouhtbiew land toan Ede n on earth.A. Calvi nistsB. PuritansC.Roma nticistsD. Tran sce nden talists4. All of the followi ng are the features of Purita ns EXCE PTA. wanting to make pure their religious beliefs and p ractices精選文檔11B. look ing upon themselves as a chose n peopl

4、eC. tolerati ng others beliefs and sought for a happy and an easy lifeD. wish ing to restore simp licity to church serves and emp hasized theimage of a wrathful God5. Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale, Chilli ngworth and P earl are most likelyCharacters inA. The House of the Seven Gables B. The Scarlet Lett

5、erC. The Portrait of a LadyD. The pion eers6. America n writers after World War I self-c on sciously ack no wledgedthat they were(a)” devoidof faith and alienated from the Westerncivilization .A. Lost Gen erati onB. Beat Gen erati onC. Sons of LibertyD. Angry Young Men7. In James Fenimore Cooper sov

6、els, close after Natty Bumppo inroma ntic app eal, come the two n oble red men. Choose them from thefollowi ng items.A. The Mohica n Chief Chin gachgookB. Un casC. Tome JonesD. Both A and B8. The“ Father of America n Poetry”isA. William Culle n Brya ntB. P hili p FreneauC. Henry Wadsworth Lon gfello

7、wD. Edgar Allan Poe9. Herma n Melville sisencycl op edia of everythi ng, history,philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the op erati ons of the whali ng in dustry.B. Moby DickA. The Old Man and the SeaC. White JacketD. Billy Budd10. In additi on to his no vels,wrote about 12

8、0 short stories andsketches. Among them are Young Goodma n Brow n and The Min isterBlack Veil.A. Henry David ThoreauB. Natha niel Hawthor neC. Ralph Waldo EmersonD. Herman Melville11. Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms -the sonnet, rhyming coupiets, blank verse -with a clear American loca

9、l speech rhythm, thespeech offarmers with its idios yn cratic dictio n and syn tax.B. WesternA. SouthernC. New Hamp shireD. New EnglandEXCE PT the12. The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issuesin the America n literary history.A. in dividual feeli ngsB. idea of survival of the fitte

10、stC. str ong imag in ati onD. return to n ature13. Cooper s story of thethat comp rise the“frontier saga” is made up of 5 famous novelsTales, in which the mai n character is NattyBumppo.A. LeatherstockingtalesB. The Deer SlayerC. Sea Adve ntureD. The Roma nticis14. More tha n five hun dred po ems Di

11、ck inson wrote are about n ature, in which her gen eral Skep ticism about the relati on shi p betwee nwell-ex pressed.A. man and manB. men and wome nC. man and n atureD. men and God15. From Henry David Thoreau sejaperienee came his famous essay,which states Thoreau belief that no man should violate

12、hiscon scie nee at the comma nd of a gover nment.B. NatureA. WaldenC. Civil Disobedie neeD. Common Sense16. Choose the authors who bel ong to the roma ntic gro up in America nliterature.A. Ral ph Waldo EmersonB. Henry David ThoreauC. Natha niel HawthorneD. Herman MelvilleE .Walt WhitmanF. All of the

13、 above17 The desire for an esca pe form society and a retur n to n ature became a p erma nent conven ti on of America n literature, evide nt inA. James Fenimore Cooper s Leatherstocking TalesB. Henry David Thoreaus Walde nC. Mark Twain s Huckleberry FinD. All of the above18. Stylistically, He nry Ja

14、mesfiction is characterized byA. short, clear senten cesB. abundance of localimagesD. highly refinedC. ordinary American speechIan guage19. Emers on based his religio n on an in tuitive belief in an ultimate unity, which he calledA. the Sp iritB. the Over-lordD. the Self20. One of the characteristic

15、s that have made Mark Twain a major literaryfigure in the 19th cen tury America is his use ofA. vern acularB. i nterior mono logueC. point of viewD. p hotogra phic descri pti onIV. Read the quoted p arts carefully and an swer the questio ns.1“Wepassed the School, where Children strove/ At Recessn th

16、eRing/We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain/We passed theSett ing Sun”1) What is the title of the poem?2) Who does“ we” refer to?3) What does“theSchool ” “th(Fields of Gazing Grain ” and “ theSett ing Sun” imply res pectively?4) Where aregwe”？2. Read the passage and answer questions.To go into solitu

17、de, a man n eeds to retire as much from hischamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heave niy worlds will sep arate betwee n him and vulgar thin gs. One might th

18、i nk the atmos phere was made transparent with this desig n, to give man, in the heave nIy bodies, the p erce ptual p rese nee of the sublime. Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are! If stars should app ear one ni ght in a thousa nd years, how would men believe and adore: and p reserve fo

19、r many gen erati ons the remembra nee of the city of Godwhich had bee n show n! But every ni ght come out these p reachers of beauty, and light the uni verse with their adm oni shi ng smile.Questi ons:Where is this p assage take n and who is the author? What does the author say would happen if the s

20、tars appeared one night in a thousa nd years?3. Trust no Future, howe er pleasant!Let the dead Past bury its dead!Actact in the glorious Prese nt!Heart withi n, and God oer head!1) Who is the p oet?2) What is the title of the poem?3) What does the p oet want to tell in these lin es?4.“I shall be tel

21、li ng this with a sigh Somewhereages and ages henceTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled byAnd that has made all the differe nee.1) Ide ntify the p oem and the p oet.2) What does the p hrase3) Why does the p oet say“ ages and ages hence ” mean?“ that hastheadtfere nee ”？4) W

22、hat idea does the quoted p assage exp ress?5“ ButI have promises to keep,/ And many miles to go before Islee p,/And many miles to go before I slee p.1) What is the title of the poem?2) What does “ promises ” mean in this poem?3) Why does the p oet say”？“And many miles to go before I slee p,/Andmany

23、miles to go before I slee p.4) What does “ And many miles to go before I slee p,/And many milesto go before I slee p” mean?6. Read a passage and answer questions (”0Hester Prynne term of confinement was now at an end. Her prison-door was throw n open, and she came forth into sunshine which, falli ng

24、 on all alike, seemed, to her sick and morbid heart, as if meant for no other purp ose tha n to reveal the scarlet letter on her breast. P erha ps there was a more real torture in her first un atte nded footste ps from the threshold of the prison, tha n eve n in the p rocessi on and sp ectacle that

25、have bee n described, where she was made the com mon infamy, at which all mankind was sum moned to point its fin ger. Then, she was supp orted by an unn atural tension of the n erves, and by all the combative en ergy of her character, which en abled her to convert the sce ne into a kind of lurid tri

26、umph. Questi ons;Which novel is this selection taken from? What is the name of the no velist? What do you thi nk is the symbolic meaning of the scarlet letter on Hester s breast?VI. Topic discussi ons or brief an swers.1 Why is it said that New En gla nd from the begi nning had a literature ofideas?13. The following