浙江省2008年7月自考真题美国文学选读.doc

浙江省2008年7月自考真题美国文学选读课程代码：10055Part : Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A.(10 points in all, 1 point for each)Group 1Column A Column B( ) 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne a.Sound and Fury ( ) 2. Henry James b.The Scarlet Letter( ) 3. Walt Whitmanc.The Ambassadors( ) 4. Mark Twaind.The Gilded Age( ) 5. William Faulknere. Leaves of GrassGroup 2Column A Column B( ) 1. Mildred Douglas a. Moby Dick( ) 2. Ahabb. A Rose for Emily( ) 3. Hurstwoodc. The Hairy Ape( ) 4. Tom Buchanan d. Sister Carrie( ) 5. Emily Grierson e. The Great GatsbyPart : Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternatives. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (50 points in all, 2 points for each) 1. Born of one common cultural heritage, the American Romanticists shared some common features._, with the English Romanticists.( )A. an increasing emphasis on the free expression of emotionsB. an increasing attention to the psychic states of their charactersC. an increasing emphasis on the desire to return to natureD. both A and B2. _ was the first great American writer to earn international fame.( )A. IrvingB. CooperC. Emerson D. Whitman3. In 1836, a little book came out which made a tremendous impact on the intellectual life of America. It was entitled Nature by( )A. Thoreau B. Emerson C. Hawthorne D. Melville4. About the basic principles of American Transcendentalism, which of the following statements is NOT right?( )A. Individualism is elevated by the Transcendentalists.B. Intuition is less important than experience. C. Nature is only another side of God.D. Transcendentalists have a new and delight thrill in nature. 5. _, Melvilles masterpiece, is regarded as the first American prose epic.( )A. TypeeB. OmooC. White JacketD. Moby Dick6. Pearl is the heroine in Hawthornes novel( )A. Moses from an Old ManseB. Twice-Told TalesC. The Scarlet LetterD. The Blithedale Romance7. As a philosophical and literary movement, Transcendentalism flourished in New England from the 1830s to ( )A. 1914 B. 1890C. 1900 D. the Civil War 8. Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as( )A. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow B. Legend of the AlhambraC. Life of Goldsmith D. Life of Washington9. In the history of American literature, Realism was a reaction against_and paved the way to Modernism.( )A. Rationalism B. Romanticism C. Neoclassicism D. Enlightenment10. American _, another school of realism, resulted mainly from the impact of Darwins evolutionary theory and the influence of the 19th century French literature.( )A. Transcendentalism B. NaturalismC. Enlightenment D. Freudianism11. In Rip Van Winkle, which is written by _, Rip falls into sleep for 20 years, during which the Revolutionary War takes place.( )A. Mark Twain B. Washington IrvingC. William D. Howells D. Theodore Dreiser12. _ is considered the founder of Psychological realism.( )A. Henry JamesB. Jack LondonC. Mark TwainD. Nathaniel Hawthorne13. John Steinbeck is a novelist of the 1930s. His novel _ is a record of the life of the dispossessed and the wretched farmers during The Great Depression.( )A. The Grapes of WrathB. The Waste Land C. The Sun Also RisesD. The Sound and the Fury 14. The American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne is known for his “black vision.” The term “black vision” refers to( )A. Hawthornes observation that every man faces a black wallB. Hawthornes belief that all men are by nature evilC. that Hawthorne employed a dream vision to tell his storyD. that Puritans of Hawthornes time usually wore black clothes15. As a great innovator in American literature, Walt Whitman wrote his poetry in an unconventional style which is now called _; that is _.( )A. hymn.poetry with chanting refrainsB. blank verse.poetry without rhymes at the end of the lines but with a fixed beatC. free verse.poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme schemeD. ode.poetry in an irregular metric form and expressing noble feelings16. In her life, Emily Dickinson makes enchanting poetry out of( )A. a happy and active lifeB. adventurous experiencesC. a single household and an inactive lifeD. a hard and suffering life17. Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be( )A. transcendentalists B. optimistsC. pessimistsD. idealists18. It was a sort of first attempt at writing his masterpiece _, (1925) which made Fitzgerald one of the greatest American novelists.( )A. This Side of ParadiseB. Tender is the NightC. The Great Gatsby D. Tales of the Jazz Age19. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, _ became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein had called “The Lost Generation”.( )A. Fitzgerald B. Faulkner C. Hemingway D. Steinbeck20. The 1950s American writers often used the narrative techniques derived from( )A. William Faulkner B. Henry James C. Ernest Hemingway D. James Joyce21. _was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called “Imagist” movement.( )A. EliotB. Pound C. FrostD. Dickinson22. Capping his career and leading to his receipt of the Nobel Prize, _ is about an old Cuban fisherman Santiago and his losing battle with a giant marlin.( )A. The Old Man and the Sea B. For Whom the Bell TollsC. The Sun Also RisesD. A Farewell to Arms 23. The modern stream-of-consciousness technique was frequently and skillfully exploited by _ to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator. He captured the dialects of the Mississippi characters, including Negroes and the redneck, as well as more refined and educated narrators like Quentin.( )A. Faulkner B. FitzgeraldC. HemingwayD. Steinbeck24. _ won the Pulitzer Prize four times and was the only dramatist ever to win a Nobel Prize. He is widely acclaimed “founder of the American drama,” and recognized even more as a major figure in world literature.( )A. MillerB. WilliamC. HellerD. ONeill25. As one of the best-known American authors of 20th century, Ernest Hemingway wrote all the following novels EXCEPT( )A. For Whom the Bell TollsB. The Green Hills of AfricaC. A Rose for Emily D. The Old Man and the SeaPart III: Interpretation (20 points in all, 5 points for each)Read the following selections and then answer the questions. Passage 1 There was music from my neighbors house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.Questions:1. Who is the author and where is this passage taken from?2. What does the author most likely indicate in the quoted passage?Passage 2 I shall be telling this with a sigh,Somewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.Questions:1. Who is the poet and which poem is this stanza taken from?2. What idea does the quoted stanza express?Passage 3We passed the School, where Children stroveAt Recessin the RingWe passed the fields of Gazing GrainWe passed the Setting SunQuestions: 1. Identify the poet of this stanza taken from “Because I could not stop for Death”.2. What do the underlined