美国文学(本科)试题1

1、美国文学（本科）试题 1I. Fill in the following blanks and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 1 point for each)1. The publication of established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.2. Hard work, thrift, and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the

2、 earliest American writing.3. At 87, read his poetry at the in augurati on of Preside nt Joh n F. Kenn edy.4. Jack London' masterworkis somewhat autobiographical.5. , the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst to destroy evil.6. Ezra Pound was t

3、he leader of a new movement in poetry which he calledthe “”oveme nt.7. “ TheCustom House” is an introductory note to the novel.8. Among the works attacking the “AmericanDream” ,by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece.9. Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovationfirst of all li

4、es in his use of , poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.10. In 1954,won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “ masteryof the art of modern narration ”.11. In American literary history, is called “theRecluse of Amherst ”since she isolated herself from the outside almost for life.12.

5、“ Thezall of the House of Usher” is a short story written by .13. launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure and the frontier saga, represented by The Leatherstocking Tales.14. The publication of T. S. Eliot ' in 1922, the most significant American poem of the 20 century,

6、 helped to establish a modern tradition ofliterature rich with learning and allusive thought.得分15. “ TheCop and the An them” is a short story writte n by.II. Each of the following statements is followed by four a lternative answers. Choose the one that would best compl ete the statement. Then put yo

7、ur answers on the A nswer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each)1. For Melville, as well as for the reader and, the narrator, Moby Diek is still a mystery, an ultimately mystery of the uni verse.A. StubbB. IshmaelC. AhabD. Starbuck2. Most of thepoems in Whitman' sLeaves of Grass sing ofthe enmassand the

8、as well.A. natureB. self-relia neeC. selfD. life3. Which of the following is Not one of the main ideas advocated by Ralph Emers on?A. Importa nee of the In dividualB. Faith in Christia nityC. The Over-SoulD. Self-Relia nee4. In Hawthorne ' eovels and short stories, intelleetuals usually appear a

9、s _A. saviorsB. villai nsC. comme ntatorsD. observers5. In American literature, eseaping from the society and returning to nature is a com mon subject. The followi ng titles are all related, in one way or an other, to the subject except.A. Dreiser "Sster CarrierB. Mark Twain' sThe Adventure

10、s of Huckleberry FinnC. Cooper' Iseatherstocking TalesD. Thoreau ' Walden6. Which of the following is Not optimistic about human nature?.A. Ralph EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. Natha niel Hawthor neD. Henry Thoreau7. Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as _A. Rip Van

11、 Winkle and Moby DickB. Rip Van Winkle and The Lege nd of Sleepy HollowC. Young Goodman Brown and Moby DickD. The Fall of the House of Usher and Rip Van Winkle8. Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is Not a usual subject of her poetic expression

12、?A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace9. Henry James is mostly concerned with in his fiction.A. the inner life of human beingsB.C.D.10.small town life in backward regions suffering of the aged violent events in history is called by Hemingway the onefrom which “ allmodern A

13、merica11.12.n literature comes. ”B. Life on the Mississippi D. The Gilded AgeA. The Adventures of Tom SawyerC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnWilliam Faulkner 'wsorks mainly concern the American A. New England B. South C. Mid West D. One of Mark Twain ' scontributions to Americanliteratur

14、e isWestthat he made an accepted standard literary medium.A. tall tale B. local colorism C.humorD. colloquial speech13.Emily Dickinson wrote during her life time.A.B.14.Inwriting In a StationA.15.16.nd17.18.1775 poems, but onlyof whichhad appeared8 C. 9 D. 10 of the Metro, Pound got his inspiration

15、from _English sonnetChinese classical poetryOf the following American writers, or Literature.C.A. William FaulknerC. John SteinbeckRobert Frost is a regional poet in ncerned about the .A. life in New YorkC. sea adventures The works of _ ofreveal theA.C.InB. Japanese haikuD. French_ has Not won the N

16、obel Prize fB. Ernest HemingwayD. F. S. Fitzgeraldthe sense that his poems are mainly coB. country life in New EnglaD. life on the Mississippi Rivermisery of the migrant workers becausethe American Depression.F. S. FitzgeraldErnest Hemingway D. William Howells 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “ So

17、you areB. John Steinbeckwrote the book that started this great war! ”Who isthe little woman who this woman referred to?A. Mrs. StoweB. Emily DickinsonD. Jane Auste nC. George Eliot19. It is not surprising to find in ' Siction a world of jungle, where “ kiII or to be killed”as the law.A. Mark Twa

18、inB. Emily DickinsonC. Theodore DreiserD. Henry James20.“ Let 'portray man and woman in a way that we meet them in our real life. 'Thismay be a principle for the characterization of 得分A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernismIII. Explain the following and put your answers on the A ns

19、wer Sheet. (15%, 5 points for each)1. Local color fiction得分3.“ AnnabeLee”10 points2. Capta in Joh n SmithIV. Read the poems carefully and answer the questions t hat follow. Put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%,for each poem)1. Because I could not stop for Death Because I could not stop for Dea

20、th He kindly stopped for me The Carriage held but just Ourselves And Immortality.We slowly drove He knew no hasteAnd I had put awayMy labor and my leisure too,For His Civility We passed the School, where Childre n stroveAt Recess in the Ring We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain We passed the Sett in

21、g Sun Or rather He passed Us The Dews drew quivering and chill For only Gossamer, my Gown My Tippet only Tulle We paused before a House that seemedA Swelling of the Ground The Roof was scarcely visible The Cornice in the Ground Since then 'tisCenturies and yetFeels shorter than the DayI first su

22、rmised the Horses 'HeadsWere toward Eternity Questions:1.1 Who wrote this poem? (1%)1.2 What is the poet or the speaker in the poem watching and recording? (1%)1.3 What is death compared to in the poem? (1%)rd1.4 What is depicted in the 3rd stanza? How is it related to the whole poem? (2%)1.5 Wh

23、at is depicted in the 4th stanza?(1%)1.6 What does the poet or the speaker in the poem think of eternity? (2%)1.7 What is the attitude of the poet or the speaker in the poem towards death? (2%)2. A Psalm of LifeWhat the Heart of the Young Man Said to the PsalmistTell me not, in mournful numbers,Life

24、 is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,And things are not what they seem.Life is real! Life is earnestAnd the grave is not its goal:Dust thou art, to dust returnest,Was not spoken of the soul.Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,Is our destin 'ednd or way;But to act, that each to-mor

25、row Find us farther than to-day.Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave,Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.In the world 'bsroad field of battle,In the bivouac of Life,Be not like dumb, driven cattle!Be a hero in the strife!Trust

26、no Future, howe' erpleasant!Let the dead Past bury its dead!Act act in the living Present!Heart within, and God o' erhead!Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime,And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time.Footsteps, that, perhaps another,Sailing o' erlife 'soslemn main,A forlorn and shipwreck 'bdrother,Seeing, shall take heart again.Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate;Still achieving, still