4月浙江自考美国文学选读试题及答案解析

1、精品自学考试资料推荐7浙江省 2018 年 4 月自学考试 美国文学选读试题课程代码： 10055Part I: Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10 points inall, 1 point for each)Group 1Column A() 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne() 2. Washington Irving() 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson() 4. Mark Twain() 5. Scott FitzgeraldGroup 2Column B

2、a. Natureb. Rip Van Winklec. The House of Seven Galesd. The Great Gatsbye. The Gilded AgeColumn AColumn B() 1. Charles Drouet() 2. Ishmael() 3. Jim() 4. George Wilson() 5. Emily Griersona. The Great Gatsbyb. Adventures of Huckleberry Finnc. Sister Carried. A Rose for Emilye. Moby DickPart n : Each o

3、f the following statements below is followed by four alternatives. Choose the onethat would best complete the statement. (50 points in all, 2 points for each)1. The period of started with the publication of Washington Irvings The Sketch Book andended with Walt Whitman s Leaves of Grass. ()A. America

4、n RomanticismB. American RealismD. American ClassicismC. American Transcendentalism2. The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention ofAmerican literature. Such a desire is particularly evident in Leather-StockingTales.( )A. Washington Irving sB. Waldo Eme

5、rson sC. James Fennimore Cooper sD. Walt Whitman s3. New England Transcendentalism was started by a group of people who were members of an informal club, i.e. the Transcendental Club in New England in the ()A. 1850sB. 1840sC. 1830sD. 1860s4. The American as a cultural heritage exerted great influenc

6、es over American moralvalues.( )A. PuritanismB. UnitarianismC. DeismD. Protestantism5. In his famous poem Song of Myself, Walt Whitman sets forth two principal beliefs: the belief in the singularity and equality of all beings in value, and the theory of , which is illustratedby lengthy catalogues of

7、 people and things. ()A. nationalityB. universalityC. natureD. community6. Which of the following is NOT what Emerson put forward in his essays? ()A. the Over-SoulB. the formal religion of the churches and the Deistic philosophyC. NatureD. the importance of individual7. Moby-Dick is a mixture of fan

8、tasy and based upon the South Pacific whalingindustry.( )A. romanticismB. naturalismC. realismD. surrealism8. Which of the following statements about Hawthorne is NOT right? ()A. The ambiguity is one of the salient characteristics of his art.B. He is a master of realism.C. He is a great allegorist.D

9、. He is a master of symbolism.9. Which of the following is NOT regarded as the characteristics of Whitman s poeticstyle?(A. The use of “ free verse”B. His strong tendency to use of formal languageC. The use of parallelism and phonetic recurrence at the beginning of the linesD. The use of the poetic

10、“ I ”10. and Emersonian Transcendentalism produced some positive effect on Melville swriting.( )A. Washington Irving s conservativeB. Hawthorne s moral courageC. Thoreau s RomanticismD. Shakespearian tragic vision11. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as in the literary histor

11、y ofthe United States.( )A. the Age of RomanticismB. the Age of EnlightenmentC. New England TranscendentalismD. the Age of Realism12. The three dominant figures of the period of Realism in American literature are .()A. Mark Twain, Henry James, and Jack LondonB. Mark Twain, Henry James, and Theodore

12、DreiserC. William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and Jack LondonD. William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and Henry James13. once described the novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , the one book from which“ all modern American literature comes. ” ()A. Ernest HemingwayB. Henry JamesC. Mark TwainD. Theodore D

13、reiser14. was the first American writer to conceive his career in international themes.()A. Washington IrvingB. Henry JamesC. Ralph Waldo EmersonD. Mark Twain15. Within her little lyrics Dickinson addresses those issues that concern the whole human beings EXCEPT.()A. religion and deathB. immortality

14、C. man and womanD. love and nature16. proves to be his greatest work and by entitling this book with such a name, Dreiserintended to tell us that it is the social pressure that makes Clyde s downfall inevitable.( )A. The TitanB. Sister CarrieC. The FinancierD. An American Tragedy17. Ezra Pound is a

15、leading spokesman of the famous Movement in the history ofAmerican literature.( )A. SymbolistB. ImpressionistC. ExistentialistD. Imagist18. Allen Ginsburg s Howl became the manifesto of .()A. PostmodernismB. ImagismC. the Beat GenerationD. the Lost Generation19. is a school of modern painting, whose

16、 emphasis is on the formal structure of a work ofart and especially on the multiple-perspective viewpoints. ()A. ExpressionismB. ImagismC. CubismD. Impressionism20. is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age. ()A. F. Scott FitzgeraldB. Ezra PoundC. Robert Lee FrostD. Ernest Hemingway21. ,

17、 Hemingway s first novel, casts light on a whole generation after the First World Warand the effects of the war by way of a vivid portrait of “The Lost Generation. ” ()A. The Old Man and the SeaB. The Sun Also RisesC. In Our TimeD. A Farewell to Arms22. Which of the following is depicted as the myth

18、ical county in William Faulkner s novels?( )A. Cambridge.B. Oxford.C. Yoknapatawpha.D. Mississippi.23. Robert Frost rejected choosing instead.( )A. the conventional poetic principles. the revolutionary wayB. the romantic way. the revolutionary principlesC. the revolutionary principles. the romantic

19、wayD. the revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporaries. the old-fashioned way to be new24. Which of the following is right about American fiction from 1945 onwards?()A. Black fiction began to attract critical attention during the 1950s.B. There appeared a significant group of Jewish-America

20、n writers whose works were set against the Jewish experience and tradition.C. A group of new writers who survived the war wrote about their ideals within the artistic field.D. American fiction in the 1950s and 1960s proves to be a harvest which derived from its predecessors.25. Which of the followin

21、g can NOT be included in the thematic concerns of Robert Frost's Poems?( )A. The contradiction and misunderstanding between man and woman.B. The loneliness and poverty of the isolated human being.C. His love of life and his belief in a serenity coming from working.D. The terror and tragedy in na

22、ture as well as its beauty.Part in : Interpretation (20 points in all, 5 points for each)Read the following selections and then answer the questions briefly.Passage 1Because I could not stop for DeathHe kindly stopped for meThe Carriage held but just OurselvesAnd Immortality. .Questions:1. Who is th

23、e Author of this poem?2. What do"He" and "Carriage" refer to?Passage 2There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about it, instead of the accust

24、omed phlegm and drowsy tranquility. He looked in vain for the sage NicholasVedder, with his broad face, double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco smoke instead of idle speeches; or Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents of an ancient newspaper. In place of these, a

25、 lean bilious looking fellow, with his pockets full of handbills, was haranguing vehemently about rights of citizens-election-members of congress-liberty-Bunker s hill-heroes of seventy-six-and other words, that were a perfect Babylonish jargon to the bewildered Van Winkle.Questions:1. Who is the au

26、thor and where is this passage taken from?2. What do you know about the protagonist? Passage 3Once I said to myself it would be a thousand times better for Jim to be a slave at home where his family was, as long as he d got to be a slave, and so Id better write a letter to Tom Sawyer and tell him to

27、 tell Miss Waston where he was. But I soon give up that notion, for two things: she d be mad and disgusted at his rascality and ungratefulness for leaving her, and so she d sell him straight down the river again; and if she didn t, everybody naturally despises an ungrateful nigger, and they d make Jim feel it all the time, and so he d feel ornery and disgraced.