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精品文档美国文学试题库 注：试题库内容仅作为学习参考使用，并不代表考试内容。任何一道题均可能变化为其它形式的试题。 1. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the authors tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more_.A. rational B. humorousC. optimistic D. pessimistic2.The impact of Darwins evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American_ .A. local colorism B. vernacularismC. modernism D. naturalism3. _were idealists, believing the church should be restored to complete “purity” and dreaming that they would build the new land to an Eden on earth. A. Calvinists B. PuritansC. Romanticists D. Transcendentalists4. All of the following are the features of Puritans EXCEPT _.A. wanting to make pure their religious beliefs and practicesB. looking upon themselves as a chosen peopleC. tolerating others beliefs and sought for a happy and an easy lifeD. wishing to restore simplicity to church serves and emphasized the image of a wrathful God5. Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely Characters in_. A. The House of the Seven Gables B. The Scarlet LetterC. The Portrait of a Lady D. The pioneers6. American writers after World War I self-consciously acknowledged that they were(a) “_,” devoid of faith and alienated from the Western civilization A. Lost Generation B. Beat Generation C. Sons of Liberty D. Angry Young Men7. In James Fenimore Coopers novels, close after Natty Bumppo in romantic appeal, come the two noble red men. Choose them from the following items. A. The Mohican Chief Chingachgook B. Uncas C. Tome Jones D. Both A and B8. The “Father of American Poetry” is _.A. William Cullen BryantB. Philip FreneauC. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowD. Edgar Allan Poe9. Herman Melvilles _ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry. A. The Old Man and the Sea B. Moby DickC. White Jacket D. Billy Budd10. In addition to his novels, _ wrote about 120 short stories and sketches. Among them are Young Goodman Brown and The Ministers Black Veil. A. Henry David Thoreau B. Nathaniel Hawthorne C. Ralph Waldo Emerson D. Herman Melville11. Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms -the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse -with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of _farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.A. Southern B. WesternC. New Hampshire D. New England12. The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the _ in the American literary history.A. individual feelingsB. idea of survival of the fittestC. strong imaginationD. return to nature13. Coopers story of the “frontier saga” is made up of 5 famous novels that comprise the _ Tales, in which the main character is Natty Bumppo.A. Leather stocking tales B. The Deer SlayerC. Sea AdventureD. The Romantic14. More than five hundred poems Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which her general Skepticism about the relationship between _ is well-expressed.A. man and man B. men and womenC. man and nature D. men and God15. From Henry David Thoreaus jail experience came his famous essay, _ which states Thoreaus belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government. A. Walden B. Nature C. Civil Disobedience D. Common Sense16. Choose the authors who belong to the romantic group in American literature. A. Ralph Waldo Emerson B. Henry David Thoreau C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Herman Melville E .Walt Whitman F. All of the above17 The desire for an escape form society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of American literature, evident in _. A. James Fenimore Coopers Leatherstocking Tales B. Henry David Thoreaus Walden C. Mark Twains Huckleberry Finn D. All of the above18. Stylistically, Henry James fiction is characterized by_.A. short, clear sentences B. abundance of local imagesC. ordinary American speech D. highly refined language19. Emerson based his religion on an intuitive belief in an ultimate unity, which he called _.A. the SpiritB. the Over-lordC. the oversoul D. the Self20. One of the characteristics that have made Mark Twain a major literary figure in the 19th century America is his use of_ . A. vernacular B. interior monologue C. point of view D. photographic descriptionIV. Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions.1 “We passed the School, where Children strove/ At Recessin the Ring/We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain/We passed the Setting Sun”1) What is the title of the poem?2) Who does “we” refer to?3) What does “the School”, “the Fields of Gazing Grain”, and “the Setting Sun” imply respectively?4) Where are “we” going?2Read the passage and answer questions.To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber 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 heavenly worlds will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perceptual presence of the sublime. Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are! If stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore: and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these preachers of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.Questions:Where is this passage taken and who is the author? What does the author say would happen if the stars appeared one night in a thousand years?3. Trust no Future, howeer pleasant!Let the dead Past bury its dead! Actact in the glorious Present! Heart within, and God oer head!1) Who is the poet?2) What is the title of the poem? 3) What does the poet want to tell in these lines?4. “I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence：Two roads diverged in a wood，and II took the one less traveled by，And that has made all the difference.”1) Identify the poem and the poet.2) What does the phrase “ages and ages hence” mean?3) Why does the poet say “that has made all the difference”?4) What idea does the quoted passage express?5 “But I have promises to keep,/ And many miles to go before I sleep,/And many miles to go before I sleep.”1) What is the title of the poem?2) What does “promises” mean in this poem?3) Why does the poet say “And many miles to go before I sleep,/And many miles to go before I sleep.”?4) What does “And many miles to go before I sleep,/And many miles to go before I sleep” mean?6. Read a passage and answer questions (10”) Hester Prynnes term of confinement was now at an end. Her prison-door was thrown open, and she came forth into sunshine which, falling on all alike, seemed, to her sick and morbid heart, as if meant for no other purpose than to reveal the scarlet letter on her breast. Perhaps there was a more real torture in her first unattended footsteps from the threshold of the prison, than even in the procession and spectacle that have been described, where she was made the common infamy, at which all mankind was summoned to point its finger. Then, she was supported by an unnatural tension of the nerves, and by all the combative energy of her character, which enabled her to convert the scene into a kind of lurid triumph.Questions;Which novel is this selection taken from? What is the name of the novelist? What do you think is the symbolic meaning of the scarlet letter on Hesters breast?VI. Topic discussions or brief answers. 1 Why is it said that New England from the beginning had a literature of ideas? 13. The following