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云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题四学院:外语学院专业:英语 年级：_班次: 学号： 姓名： 考试方式(闭卷)：考试时量：150分钟 试卷编号( 卷)题号一二三四五六总分评卷人复分人得分评卷人I. True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item)( ) 1. Modern poetry is “the poem of the mind in the act of finding / What will suffice.” This is the opinion of Walt Whitman.( ) 2. Robert Frost experimented with form, as many poets did in the 1920s.( ) 3. Emperor Jones represents one of ONeils attempts to place plot elements and themes of Greek tragedy in a rural New England setting. ( ) 4. “Looking for Mr. Green” is a story of Mosbys Memories and other Stories.( ) 5. Bellow will be remembered for the biting social criticism of his novels, and of course, for his riotous sense of humor.( ) 6. Hesters letter “A” eventually comes to represent “Angel” and “Able” to the townspeople.( ) 7. Poe stresses rhythm, defines true poetry as “the rhythmical creation of beauty,” and declares that “music is the perfection of the soul, or idea, of poetry.”( ) 8.All three parts of Franklins autobiography were published and released together in English for the first time in 1868.( ) 9. New England Transcendentalism was important to American literature. It inspired a whole new generation of famous authors such as Thoreau, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson.( ) 10. The setting of “Looking for Mr. Green” is Depression Columbus. ( ) 11. There are four survivors in The Open Boat: the captain, the oiler, the cook and the correspondent. ( ) 12. In The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, Porter narrated the story sometimes in chronological order and sometimes in flashback, and the chronological time is more important than the psychological time. ( ) 13. Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby is set in The Roaring Twenties. ( ) 14. William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 and 1962. ( ) 15. The point of view in Barn Burning is the third person narration and the narrator is omniscient. ( ) 16. “The dignity of movement of iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water” is put forward by Fitzgerald. ( ) 17. In “A Psalm of Life”, the poet sings a song for the everlasting friendship.( ) 18. In “To Helen”, Poe employed a lot similes, metaphors and allusions to portray Helens beauty.( ) 19. Walt Whitemans poems are noted for the free verse. ( ) 20. Ralph Waldo Ellison was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1953. 得分评卷人II. Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)Writers: ( ) 1. Edgar Allan Poe( ) 2. Walt Whiteman( ) 3. FScott Fitzgerald( ) 4. William Carlos Williams( ) 5. Toni Morrison( ) 6. Ralph Waldo Ellison( ) 7. Langston Hughes( ) 8. Ezra Pound( ) 9. Stephen Crane( ) 10. Nathaniel HawthorneWorks:a. O Captain! My Captain!b. The Bluest Eyec. In a Station of the Metrod. The House of the Seven Gablese. The Fall of the House of Usher f. The Red Wheelbarrowg. The Open Boath. Dreamsi. The Great Gatsbyj. Shadow and Act得分评卷人III. Identify the following by choosing the authors name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)1. Hereby, too, I shall indulge the inclination so natural in old men, to be talking of themselves and their own past actions; and I shall indulge it without being tiresome to others, who, through respect to age, might conceive themselves obliged to give me a hearing, since this may be read or not as any one pleases. And, lastly (I may as well confess it, since my denial of it will be believed by nobody), perhaps I shall a good deal gratify my own vanity.Author: A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby2. I had scarcely laid the first tier of my masonry when I discovered that the intoxication of Fortunato had in a great measure worn off. The earliest indication I had of this was a low moaning cry from the depth of the recess. It was NOT the cry of a drunken man. There was then a long and obstinate silence. I laid the second tier, and the third, and the fourth; and then I heard the furious vibrations of the chain. The noise lasted for several minutes, during which, that I might hearken to it with the more satisfaction, I ceased my labours and sat down upon the bones.Author: A. Edgar Allan Poe B. William Faulkner C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork: A. The Cask of Amontillado B. Barn Burning C. The Autobiography3. It might be that a sluggish bond-servant, or an undutiful child, whom his parents had given over to the civil authority, was to be corrected at the whipping-post. It might be that an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodox religionist, was to be scourged out of the town, or an idle or vagrant Indian, whom the white mans firewater had made riotous about the streets, was to be driven with stripes into the shadow of the forest. It might be, too, that a witch, like old Mistress Hibbins, the bitter-tempered widow of the magistrate, was to die upon the gallows.Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C. Emily DickensonWork: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C. Walden4. None of them knew the color of the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and were fastened upon the waves that swept toward them. These waves were of the hue of slate, save for the tops, which were of foaming white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its edge was jagged with waves that seemed thrust up in points like rocks. Many a man ought to have a bath-tub larger than the boat which here rode upon the sea.Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen CraneWork: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C. Miss Jewett5. Canton flannel gulls flew near and far. Sometimes they sat down on the sea, near patches of brown seaweed that rolled on the waves with a movement like carpets on a line in a gale. The birds sat comfortably in groups, and they were envied by some in the dingey, for the wrath of the sea was no more to them than it was to a covey of prairie chickens a thousand miles inland. Often they came very close and stared at the men with black bead-like eyes.Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen CraneWork: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C. Miss Jewett6. Lighting the lamps had been beautiful. The children huddled up to her and breathed like little calves waiting at the bars in the twilight. Their eyes followed the match and watched the flame rise and settle in a blue curve, then they moved away from her. The lamp was lit, they didnt have to be scared and hang on to mother any more. Never, never, never more. God, for all my life, I thank Thee. Without Thee, my God, I could never have done it. Hail, Mary, full of grace.Author: A. Oscar Wilde B.H. W. Longfellow C. Katherine Anne PorterWork: A. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall B. Moby Dick C. The Jolly Corner7. About five oclock our procession of three cars reached the cemetery and stopped in a thick drizzle beside the gatefirst a motor hearse, horribly black and wet, then Mr. Gatz and the minister and I in the limousine, and a little later four or five servants and the postman from West Egg in Gatsbys station wagon, all wet to the skin. As we started through the gate into the cemetery I heard a car stop and then the sound of someone splashing after us over the soggy ground. I looked around. It was the man with owl-eyed glasses whom I had found marvelling over Gatsbys books in the library one night three months before.Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C. H. W. LongfellowWork: A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby8. His father turned, and he followed the stiff black coat, the wiry figure walking a little stiffly from where a Confederate provosts mans musket ball had taken him in the heel on a stolen horse thirty years ago, followed the two backs now, since his older brother had appeared from somewhere in the crowd, no taller than the father but thicker, chewing tobacco steadily, between the two lines of grim-faced men and out of the store and across the worn gallery and down the sagging steps and among the dogs and half-grown boys in the mild May dust, where as he passed a voice hissedAuthor: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. William Faulkner C. Robert FrostWork: A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning C. The Happy Prince9. No, thank you, said the waiter and went out. He disliked bars and bodegas. A clean, well-lighted cafe was a very different thing. Now, without thinking further, he would go home to his room. He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it was probably only insomnia. Many must have it.Author: A. Wallace Stevens B. William Faulkner C. Ernest Hemingway Work: A. Death of a Salesman B.A Clean, Well-lighted Place C. Recitatif10. CABOT-(considers this-a pause-then in a hard voice) Waal, Im thankful fur him savin me the trouble. Ill git t wuk. (He goes to the door-then turns-in a voice full of strange emotion) Hed ought t been my son, Abbie. Yed ought t loved me. Im a man. If yed loved me, Id never told no Sheriff on ye no matter what ye did, if they was t brile me alive!Author: A.W. C. Williams B. E. G. Oneill C. Saul BellowWork: A. Desire Under the Elms B. Looking for Mr. Green C. Catch-22得分评卷人IV: Complete the following: 20%1. Hold fast to _For when _ goLife is a barren _Frozen with _. (4%)2. My old _,Hes got a _ on his _.Hes been a _ so longHes forgot about his _. (5%)3. I used to _About _ and _ I think the _ lies Between _ and _. (6%)4. I breathed a _ into the air,It fell to _ I knew not where;For who has the sight so _ and _That can follow the flight of a _. (5%)得分评卷人V. Rewrite the following into modern English: 10%In the worlds broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life,Be not like dumb,driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!Trust no future. howeer pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead!Act,act in the living Present! Let us,then, be up and doing,With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuingLearn to labour and to wait.得分评卷人VI. Comment: 20%1. Abbie: Dont ye dare tech me! What right hev ye t question me bout him? He want yewr son! Think Id have a son by yew? Id die fust! I hate the sight o ye an allus did! Its yew I shouldve murdered, if Id had good sense! I hate ye! I love Eben. I did from the fust. An he was Ebens son mine an Ebensnot yourn!Answer the following questions:(1) What tragic elements are there in the play? (5%)(2) How do you interpret them? (5%)2. All had to be said, each memorized nuance considered, rendered. Nor was that all. Whenever I uttered a word of three or more syllables a group of voices would yell for me to repeat it. I used the phrase “social responsibility” and they yelled: “Whats that word you say, boy?” “Social responsibility,” I said. “What?” “Social” “Louder.” “ responsibility.” “More!” “Respon ” “Repeat!” “ sibility.” The room filled with the uproar of laughter until, no doubt, distracted by having to gulp down my blood, I made a mistake and yelled a phrase I had often seen denounced in newspaper editorials, heard debated in private. “Social” “What?” they yelled. “ equality ”When making the speech, the protagonist inadvertently pronounced “social equality” where “social responsibility” is intended, thus causing a menacing silence and displeasure. Do you think this is merely a slip of tongue? Why? (10%)云南师范大学美国文学期末