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：_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. “To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.” The sentence

2、shows the opinion of Joseph Heller.( ) 2. Part One of The Autobiography opens with a letter to Dorothy James, Franklin's wife.( ) 3. In “The Cask of Amontillado”, Montresor suddenly chains the slow-footed Fortunato to a stone, and walls up the entrance to this small crypt, thereby trapping Fortu

3、nato inside forever.( ) 4. Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter is a specimen of Hawthornes chilling, cold-blooded human animals.( ) 5. The lines “A poem should not mean / But be” comes from “Ars Poetica” by MacLeish.( ) 6. ONeills great purpose was to try and discover the root of human desi

4、res and frustrations. He showed most of the characters in his plays as seeking meaning and purpose in their lives but all met disappointment.( ) 7. Catch-22 combines comic absurdity with the horrors of war in order to criticize bureaucratic authority and people over the lives of others.( ) 8. Saul B

5、ellow 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 more powerful than nature and men will consequently defeat natural disasters with

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

7、cter named Nick Carraway, who is also a participant in the event. ( ) 15. William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 and 1962. ( ) 16. A Farewell to Arms is Hemingways first true novel in which he depicts a vivid portrait of “the lost generatio

8、n”. ( ) 17. Hemingways 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!”, captain refers to President Lincoln. ( ) 19. Emily Dickinsons poetic idiom is noted for obscure. ( ) 20

9、. Invisible Man explores the theme of the white man from the lower social class strive for their identity. 得分评卷人II. Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)Writers: ( ) 1. Ralph Waldo Emerson( ) 2. Robert Frost( ) 3. Saul Bellow( ) 4. Joseph Heller( ) 5. Ralph Waldo

10、 Ellison( ) 6. Ezra Pound( ) 7. Ernest Hemingway( ) 8. Emily Dickinson( ) 9. Katherine Anne Porter( ) 10. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowWorks:a. Self-Relianceb. Invisible Manc. Pale Horse, Pale Riderd. The Sun Also Risese. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eveningf. Success is Counted Sweetestg. Song of Myse

11、lfh. Catch-22i. Looking for Mr. Greenj. Cantos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. That felicity, when I reflected on it, has induced me sometimes to say, that were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection

12、to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.  So I might, besides correcting the faults, change some sinister accidents and events of it for others more favorable.Author: A. William Faulkner

13、 B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby2. It was now midnight, and my task was drawing to a close. I had completed the eighth, the ninth, and the tenth tier. I had finished a portion of the last and the eleventh; there remained but a

14、 single stone to be fitted and plastered in. I struggled with its weight; I placed it partially in its destined position. But now there came from out the niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head. It was succeeded by a sad voice, which I had difficulty in recognising as that of the noble

15、 Fortunato.Author: A. Edgar Allan Poe B. William Faulkner C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork: A. The Cask of Amontillado B. Barn Burning C. The Autobiography3. The world has been instructed by its kings, who have so magnetized the eyes of nations. It has been taught by this colossal symbol the mutual revere

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

17、 law in his 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. EmersonWork: A. The Road Not Taken B.I Shot An Arrow C. Self-reliance4. A lane was forthwit

18、h opened through the crowd of spectators. Preceded by the beadle, and attended by an irregular procession of stern-browed men and 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 matte

19、r in hand, except 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 the prison door to the market-place.Auth

20、or: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C. Emily DickensonWork: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C. Walden5. As the boat bounced from the top of each wave, the wind tore through the hair of the hatless men, and as the craft plopped her stern down again the spray splashed past them. The cres

21、t of each of these waves 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.Author: A. Henry James B. Will

22、iam Faulkner C. Stephen CraneWork: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C. Miss Jewett6. Well, she could just hear Cornelia telling her husband that Mother was getting a little childish and theyd have to humor her. The thing that most annoyed her was that Cornelia thought she was deaf, dumb, and blind. Littl

23、e hasty glances and tiny gestures tossed around here and over her head saying, “Dont cross her, let her have her way, shes eighty years old,” and she sitting there as if she lived in a thin glass cage.Author: A. Oscar Wilde B.H. W. Longfellow C. Katherine Anne PorterWork: A. The Jilting of Granny We

24、atherall B. Moby Dick C. The Jolly Corner7.  A little before three the Lutheran minister arrived from Flushing, and I began to look involuntarily out the windows for other cars.  So did Gatsbys father.  And as the time passed and the servants came in and stood waiting in the hall, his

25、 eyes began to blink anxiously, and he spoke of the rain in a worried, uncertain way.  The minister glanced several times at his watch, so I took him aside and asked him to wait for half an hour.  But it wasnt any use.  Nobody came.Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C. H. W.

26、 LongfellowWork: A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby8. "No!" Harris said violently, explosively. "Damnation! Send him out of here!" Now time, the fluid world, rushed beneath him again, the voices coming to him again through the smell of cheese and sealed

27、meat, the fear and despair and the old grief of bloodAuthor: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. 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 he continued the conversation with himself. It is th

28、e 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. 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

29、 knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too. It was only that the 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.Author: A. Wallace Stevens B. William Faulkner C. Ernest Hemin

30、gway Work: A. Death of a Salesman B.A Clean, Well-lighted Place C. Recitatif10. ABBIE-(gives him a furious push which sends him staggering back and springs to her feet-with wild rage and hatred) Don't ye dare tech me! What right hev ye t' question me 'bout him? He wa'n't yewr son

31、! Think I'd have a son by yew? I'd die fust! I hate the sight o' ye an' allus did! It's yew I should've murdered, if I'd 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!Author: A.W. C. Willi

32、ams 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IVComplete the following: 20%1. Some say the world will end in _,Some say in _.From what Ive tasted of _I hold with those who favor _.But if it had to _ twice, I think I know enough of _ (6%)2.

33、Whose woods these are I think I _. His _ is in the village, though; He will not see me _ here To watch his _ fill up with _. (5%)2. Two roads _ in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not _ both.I _ the one less _ by,And that has made all the _. (5%)3. Hold fast to _For if _ dieLife is a broken-winged _T

34、hat cannot _. (4%)得分评卷人V. Rewrite the following into modern English: 10%Success is counted sweetestBy those who neer succeed.To comprehend a nectarRequires sorest need.Not one of all the purple hostWho took the flag todayCan tell the definition,So clearly, of victory. As he, defeated, dying, On whos

35、e forbidden earThe distant strains of triumphBurst, agonized and clear.得分评卷人VI. Comment: 20%1. He opened it at the back cover and turned it around for me to see. On the last fly-leaf was printed the word SCHEDULE, and the date September 12, 1906. And underneath:Rise from bed 6.00 A.M.Dumbell exercis

36、e and wall-scaling . 6.15 6.30 .Study electricity, etc. . 7.15 8.15 .Work . 8.30 4.30 P.M.Baseball and sports 4.30 - 5.00 .Practice elocution, poise and how to attain it 5.00 6.00 .Study needed inventions 7.00 9.00 .What does Gatsbys Schedule reveal about him and how does it relate to the American D

37、ream? (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

38、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 following questions:(1) What do you see from the older waiters view of life? (5%)(2) How do you interpret the irony of the title “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” after reading