www.4juan.com 各类考试历年试题答案免费免注册直接下载 全部WORD文档 浙江省2010年7月自学考试美国文学选读试题 1 做试题,没答案?上自考365,网校名师为你详细解答! 浙江省2010年7月自学考试美国文学选读试题 课程代码：10055 Part I: Choose the relevant match from column B for each item in column A.(10%) Section A Column A Column B ( )1.Ezra Pound a. The Marble Faun ( )2.William Faulkner b. The Ambassadors ( )3.Mark Twain c. The American Tragedy ( )4.Henry James d. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley ( )5.Theodore Dreiser e. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Section B Column A Column B ( )1.Yank a. Indian Camp ( )2.Tom Sawyer b. Daisy Miller ( )3.Nick Adams c. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( )4.Frederic Winterbourne d. The Hairy Ape ( )5.Charles Drouet e. Sister Carrie Part Ⅱ: Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. (10%) 1. To Hawthorne and Melville every person is a sinner and great __________is therefore indispensable for the improvement of human nature. 2. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as the Age of __________. 3. The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American __________. 4. More than five hundred poems Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which her general __________ about the relationship between man and nature is well-expressed. www.4juan.com 各类考试历年试题答案免费免注册直接下载 全部WORD文档 浙江省2010年7月自学考试美国文学选读试题 2 5. In the history of American literature, Ezra Pound was regarded as a leading spokesman of the famous “__________ Movement”. 6. Eugene O’Neill is considered the leading __________ of the modern period in American literature. 7. Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet. In his poetry, he made the colloquial __________ speech into a poetic expression . 8. Hemingway’s first novel The Sun Also Rises casts light on a whole generation after the __________ and the effects of the war by way of a vivid portrait of “The Lost Generation.” 9. John Steinbeck is a novelist of the 1930s. His The Grapes of Wrath is a record of the life of the dispossessed and the wretched farmers during __________. 10. Besides his volumes of poems, Pound also worked out quite a few translations, from which his affinity to the __________ and his strenuous effort in the study of Oriental literature can be seen . Part Ⅲ: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (50%) 1. Which of the following cannot be said of American literature from the early 1800s to the beginning of the Civil War?( ) A. American type of characters speaking local dialects appeared in the fiction B. There was a stress on law and reason in literary writings of the time C. There was faith in the value of individualism and self-reliance D. There was a desire for an escape from civilized society and a return to the ennobling nature 2. The main philosophical concern in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally about __________.( ) A. nature, man and the universe B. the relationship between man and woman C. the development of Romanticism in America D. the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism 3. Which of the following book was regarded as the first work that had won financial success on both sides of the Atlantic in the first half of the 19th century?( ) A. The Sketch Book B. Charles the Second www.4juan.com 各类考试历年试题答案免费免注册直接下载 全部WORD文档 浙江省2010年7月自学考试美国文学选读试题 3 C. The Scarlet Letter D. Moby Dick 4. According to Emerson, which of the following is said of nature?( ) A. It is emblematic of the spiritual world, alive with God’s overwhelming presence. B. It exercises a healthy and restorative influence on human mind C. Without nature man can improve himself and become spiritually whole. D. both A and B 5. As a man of literary craftsmanship, Hawthorne is good at __________.( ) A. exploring the complexity of human psychology, especially the power of blackness deep in people’s heart B. exploring the goodness hidden deeply in people’s heart C. exploring the complexity of human psychology, especially the puritans’ confusion before the real world D. both A and C 6. As to the great novel Moby-Dick which of the following statements is right?( ) A. It is a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe. B. It’s a spiritual exploration into man’s deep reality and psychology C. It is only a simple whaling tale or sea adventure D. both A and B 7. The greatest realist Mark Twain has coined the term“ The Gilded Age”, which later usually refers to __________ in American history.( ) A. the Romantic Period B. the Realistic Period C. the Modern Age D. the Postmodern Age 8. 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