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西安翻译学院 2012-2013学年第二学期期末考试 《美国文学选读》试卷(A) 层次 本科 考试方式 闭卷 年级 2010 专业 英语 I、 Identify each of the authors in Column A with his or her work in Column B by putting the appropriate letter in the brackets、 (10%) A B 1、William Faulkner A、 To Helen 2、 Robert Frost B、 The Sound and the Fury 3、 Benjamin Franklin C、 Autobiography 4、 Theodore Dreiser D、 The Triumph of the Egg 5、Edgar Allan Poe E、 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 6、 Henry David Thoreau F、 Success is Counted Sweetest 7、Sherwood Anderson G、 A Psalm of Life 8、 Emily Dickinson H、 Sister Carrie 9、 Henry James I、 Daisy Miller 10、 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow J、 Walden II、 Fill in the blanks in the following summary statements according to what you have learnt of American history and literature、 (20%) 1. The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at Jamestown, Virginia in 、 2. The publication of ______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism、 3. Walt Whitman’s_______, acclaimed America’s first genuine personal epic poem, ran nine editions with more than 400 poems all written in free verse form,、 4. The three dominant figures of the American Realistic period are William Dean Howells, _________ and Mark Twain、 5. As a genre, naturalism emphasized heredity and ______ as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters that were presented in special and detailed circumstances、 6. The publication of T、 S、 Eliot’s ________ in 1922, the most significant American poem

of the 20th century, helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought、 7. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough”、 This is the shortest poem written by 、 8. In 1925, F、 Scott Fitzgerald completed his best novel ______、 It is the story of an idealist who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him、 9. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, Earnest Hemingway became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein had called a “__________”、 10. The Leading playwright of the modern period in American literature is ________、 Ⅲ、 Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement、 (20%) 1、 American Romanticism stretches from the end of the ________ century through the outbreak of ______、 A、18th, the Civil War B、 18th, the War of Independence C、 19th, WWI D、 19th, WWII 2、 As a philosophical and literary movement, the main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally concerning ____________________、 A、 nature, man and the universe B、 the relationship between man and woman C、 the development of Romanticism in American literature D、 the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism 3、 Which of the following is Not one of the main ideas advocated by Ralph Emerson? A、 Importance of the Individual B、 Faith in Christianity C、 The Over-Soul D、 Self-Reliance 4、 Henry David Thoreau’s work, ________, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of the New England Transcendental Movement、 A、 Walden B、 The Pioneers C、 Nature D、 "Song of Myself" 5、 The American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne is known for his “black vision”、 The term “black vision” refers to______________、

试卷编号:WY12132014A 美国文学试题A 第3页,共6页 第4页,共6页 A、 Hawthorne’s observation that every man faces a black Wall、 B、 Hawthorne’s belief that all men are by nature evil、 C、 that Hawthorne employed a dream vision to tell his story、 D、 that Puritans of Hawthorne’s time usually wore black clothes、 6、 _________ believes that the chief aim of literary creation is beauty, and “the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world、” A、 Walt Whitman B、 Edgar Allen Poe C、 Anne Bradstreet D、 Ralph Waldo Emerson 7、 Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life、 Which of the following is not a usual subject of her poetic expression? A、 Religion、 B、 Life and death、 C、 Love and marriage、 D、 War and peace、 8、 After the Civil War America was transformed from ______ to _________、 A、 an agrarian community … an industrialized and commercialized society B、 an agrarian community … a society of freedom and equality C、 a poor and backward society … an industrialized and commercialized society D、 an industrialized and commercialized society … a highly developed society 9、 After “The Adventure of Tom Sawyer”, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom’s buddy Huck in a book called_________, and the book from which “all modern American literature comes”、 A、 Life on the Mississippi River B、 The Gilded Age C、 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn D、 The Sun Also Rises 10、 In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject、 The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _________、 A、 Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B、 Dreiser’s Sister Carrie C、 Copper’s Leather-Stocking Tales D、 Thoreau’s Walden 11、 _______ is famous for psychological realism、 A、 Mark Twain B、 William Dean Howells C、 Henry James D、 Walt Whitman 12、 In the first part of the 20th century,apart from Darwinism, there were two thinkers -______, whose ideas had the greatest impact on the period、 A、 the German Karl Marx and the Austrian Sigmund Freud B、 the German Karl Marx and the American Sigmund Freud C、 the Swiss Carl Jung and the American William James D、 the Austrian Karl Marx and the German Sigmund Freud 13、 Which of the following is not written by Ernest Hemingway, one of the best-known American authors of the 20th century? A、 The Sun Also Rises、 B、 The Old Man and the Sea、 C、 Mosses From the Old Manse、 D、 The Green Hills of Africa、 14、 Which of the following is depicted as the mythical county in William Faulkner’s novels? A、 Cambridge、 B、 Oxford、 C、 Mississippi、 D、 Yoknapatawpha、 15、 Almost all Faulkner’s heroes turned out to be tragic because_____________、 A、 all enjoyed living in the declining American South B、 none of them was conditioned by the civilization and Social institutions C、 most of them were prisoners of the past D、 none were successful in their attempt to explain the inexplicable 16、 F、 S、 Fitzgerald is NOT the author of ______ 、 A、 The Great Gatsby B、 Tender is the Night C、 A Farewell to the Arms D、 This Side of Paradise 17、 Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms -the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse -with a clear