美国文学模拟试题三

1、云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三学院:外语学院 专业:英语 年级: 学号：班次:姓名:考试方式（闭卷）:试卷编号（卷）题号一一一二二.三四五、 六总分评卷人复分人考试时量：150分钟得分评卷人I. True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item)()1.“ To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true foryou in your p rivate heart is true for all menthat is geni us. ”The sentence

2、shows the opinion of Jose ph Heller.()2. Part Oneof TheAutobiography opens with a letter to Dorothy James,Fran kli n's wife.()3. In“The Cask of Amontillado” , Montresor suddeniy chains theslow-footed Fortunato to a stone, and walls up the entrance to thissmall crypt, thereby trapping Fort un ato

3、 in side forever.)4. Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter is a specimen ofHawthor ne' s chilli ng, cold-blooded huma n an imals.5. The lines“A poemshould not mean/ But be” comesfrom “ArsPoetica ” by MacLeish.6. O' Neill ' s great purpose was to try and discover the root of humandesire

4、s and frustrati ons. He showed most of the characters in hisp lays as seek ing mea ning and purp ose in their lives but all metdisa ppoin tme nt.( ) 7. Catch-22 combines comic absurdity with the horrors of war in orderto criticize bureaucratic authority and people over the lives of others.( ) 8. Sau

5、l Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975.( ) 9. Ezra Pound was one of the prime movers of Imagism.( ) 10. Emerson is the mentor to Thoreau.( ) 11. In The Open Boat , Crane explores the theme that men is morepowerful than nature and men will consequently defeat natural disasters wi

6、th natural and impressionistic approaches.( ) 12. Stephen Crane is considered as one of American naturalisticwriters.Tender is the Night.( ) 13. Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920sdecade in his masterpiece novel( ) 14. The narrator in The Great Gatsby is a minor characte

7、r namedNickCarraway, who is also a participant in the event.( ) 15. William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in1949 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 and 1962.( ) 16. A Farewell to Arms is Hemingway ' s first true novel in which hedepicts a vivid portrait ofthe lost generation ”(

8、 ) 17. Hemingway ' s writing style, together with his theme and hero,is greatly and permanently influenced by his experience in the war.( ) 18. In Walt Whitemans poem “O Captain! My Captain! ” , captainrefers to President Lincoln.( ) 19. Emily Dickinson's poetic idiom is noted for obscure.(

9、) 20. Invisible Man explores the theme of the white man from the lowersocial class strive for their identity.得分评卷人II. Match the followi ng writers and their works: 10% (One point foreach item)Writers: ()1. Rai ph Waldo Emerson ()2. Robert Frost ()3. Saul Bellow ()4. Jose ph Heller ()5. Ral ph Waldo

10、Ellison ()6. Ezra Pound ()7. Ern est Hemi ngway ()8. Emily Dicki nson ()9. Katheri ne Anne P orter ()10. He nry Wadsworth Lon gfellowWorks:a.Self-Relia neeb.In visible Manc.Pale Horse, P ale Riderd.The Sun Also Risese.Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eve ningf.Success is Coun ted Sweetestg.So ng of Myse

11、lfh.Catch-22i.Look ing for Mr. Gree nCan tos得分评卷人III.Identifythe following by choosing the author ' s nameand the nameof the works: 20% (1 points for each item)1. That felicity, when I reflected on it, has induced me sometimesto say, that were it offered to mychoice, I should have no object iont

12、o a rep etiti on of the same life from its beg inning, only ask ingthe adva ntages authors have in a sec ond editi on to correct somefaults of the first. So I might, besides correctingthe faults,cha nge some sini ster accide nts and eve nts of it for others morefavorable.Author: A. William Faulkner

13、B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph WaldoEllisonWork: A. The Autobiogra phy B. Barn Burni ngC.The Great Gatsby2. It was now midnight, and my task was drawing to a close. I hadcomp leted the eighth, the nin th, and the ten th tier. I had fini sheda portion of the last and the eleventh; there remained but a

14、 singlestone to be fitted and pl astered in. I struggled with its weight;I placed it partially in its destined position.But now there camefrom out the niche a low laugh that erected thehairs upon myhead.It was succeeded by a sad voice,which Ihad difficulty inrecog nising as that of the n oble Fort u

15、n ato.Author: A. Edgar Allan Poe B. William FaulknerC. Ral ph WaldoEllis onWork: A. The Cask of AmontilladoB.Barn BurningC. TheAutobiogra phy3. The world has been instructed by its kings, who have so magnetizedthe eyes of nations. It has been taught by this colossal symbol the mutual reverence that

16、is due from manto man. The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king, the noble, orforthe great proprietor to walk among them by a law of his own, make his own scale of men and things, and reverse theirs, pay benefits not with money but with honor, and represent the law in his

17、person, was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified their consciousness of their own right and comeliness, the right of every man.Author : A. Walt Whitman B. William Faulkner C. Ralph W. EmersonSelf-relianceWork: A. The Road Not Taken Shot An Arrow C.4. A lane was forthwith opened through

18、 the crowd of spectators.Preceded by the beadle, and attended by an irregular procession of stern-browed menand unkindly visaged women, Hester Prynne set forth towards the place appointed for her punishment. A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys, understanding little of the matter in hand, except

19、that it gave them a half-holiday, ran before her progress, turning their heads continually to stare into her face and at the winking baby in her arms, and at the ignominious letter on her breast. It was no great distance, in those days, from theprison door to the market-place.Author : A. Nathaniel H

20、awthorneB. William FaulknerC. EmilyWaldenDickensonWork: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C5. As the boat bounced from the top of each wave, the wind tore throughthe hair of the hatless men, and as the craft plopped her stern down again the spray splashed past them. The crest of each of these waves

21、 was a hill, from the top of which the men surveyed, for a moment, a broad tumultuous expanse, shining and wind-riven. It was probably splendid. It was probably glorious, this play of the free sea, wild with lights of emerald and white and amber. Stephen CraneAuthor : A. Henry James B. William Faulk

22、ner CWork:B. The Open Boat CMiss Jewett6. Well, she could just hear Cornelia telling her husband that Motherwas getting a little childish and theyd have to humor her. Thething that most annoyed her was that Cornelia thought she was deaf,dumb, and blind. Little hasty glances and tiny gestures tosseda

23、round here and over her head saying,Don' t cross her, let herhave her way, she 's eighty years old,” and she sitting there asif she lived in a thin glass cage.Author : A. Oscar WildeW. Longfellow. Katherine Anne PorterWork: A. The Jilting ofGranny WeatherallB.Moby Dick C . The JollyCorner7.

24、A little beforethreethe Lutheranminister arrived from Flushing,and I began tolookinvoluntarilyout the windows for othercars. So did Gatsby's father.And as the time passed and theservants came in and stood waiting in the hall, his eyes began totookblink anxiously, and he spoke of the rain in a wo

25、rried, uncertain way. The minister glanced several times at his watch, so I him aside and asked him to wait for half an hour. But it wasn' tany use.Nobody came.Author : A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C . H. W. Longfellow. The Great GatsbyWork: A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C8. &

26、quot;No!" Harris said violently, explosively. "Damnation! Send him outof here!" Nowtime, the fluid world, rushed beneath him again, the voices coming to him again through the smell of cheese and sealed meat, the fear and despair and the old grief of bloodAuthor : A. F. S. Fitzgerald B

27、. William Faulkner C. Robert FrostWork: A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning C . The Happy Prince9. "Good night," the other said. Turning off the electric light hecontinued the conversation with himself. It is the light of course, but it is necessary that the place be clean and pleasant. You d

28、o not want music. Certainly you do not want music. Nor can you stand before a bar with dignity although that is all that is provided for these hours. What did he fear? It was not fear or dread. It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too. It was only that t

29、he light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order. Somelived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.Author : A. Wallace Stevens B. William Faulkner C. ErnestHemingwayWork: A. Death of a Salesman Clean, Well-lighted Place CRecitatif10.ABBIE-( giv

30、es him a furious push which sends him staggering back And that has made all the.(5%)tech me! What right hev ye t' question me 'bout him? He wa'n't yewrson! Think rd have a son by yew? rd die fust! I hate the sight o' ye an' allus did! It's yew I should've murdered, if

31、 rd had good sense! I hate ye! I love Eben. I did from the fust. An' he was Eben's son-mine an' Eben's-not your' n!neill C. Saul BellowAuthor: . C. Williams B. E. G. OWork: A. Desire Under the ElmsB. Looking for Mr. Green CCatch-22得分评卷人IV . Complete the following: 20%1. Some say

32、the world will end inSome say inFrom what I ' ve tasted ofI hold with those who favorBut if it had totwice,(6%)I think I know eno ugh ofHis2. Whose woods these are I think Iis in the village, though;He will not see mehereTo watch hisfill up with.(5%)2. Two roadsin a yellow wood,And sorry I could

33、 notboth.the one lessby,得分评卷人3. Hold fast toFor ifdieLife is a broke n-win gedThat cannot. (4%)V. Rewrite the followi ng into moder n En glish: 10%Success is coun ted sweetestBy those who ne ' er succeed.To comp rehe nd a n ectarRequires sorest n eed.Not one of all the purple hostWho took the fl

34、ag todayCan tell the defi niti on.So clearly, of victory.As he, defeated, dying,On whose forbidde n earThe dista nt stra ins of triu mphBurst, agoni zed and clear.得分评卷人VI.Comme nt: 20% 1. He opened it at the back cover and turned it around for me to see.Onthe last fly-leaf was printed the word SCHED

35、ULEa,nd the date September12, 1906. And underneath:Rise from bed6.00A.M.Dumbell exercise and wall-scalingStudy electricity, etc.WorkBaseball and sportsPractice elocution, poise and how to attain itStudy needed inventionsWhat does Gatsby 's Schedule reveal about him and how does it relate to the

36、American Dream? (10%) 2. It is the light of course but it is necessary that the place be clean and pleasant. You do not want music. Certainly you do not want music. Not can you stand before a bar with dignity although that is all that is provided for these hours. What did he fear? It was not fear or dread. It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too. It was only that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.Answer the