1、美國文學(xué)史及選讀試卷. Multiple choices. (60 points in total, 2 for each)1. The Romantic Period in American literature started from the publication of Washington Irving's _ and ended with Whitman's Leaves of Grass.A. The Sketch Book B. Tales of a TravellerC. A History of New York D. The Scarlet Letter2

2、. At the middle of 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering which is called “_”.A. the English Renaissance B. the Second RenaissanceC. the American Renaissance D. the Salem Renaissance3. As a philosophical and literary movement, the main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism

3、 are generally concerning _.A. nature , man and the universe B. the relationship between man and womanC. the development of Romanticism in American literatureD. the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism14. In the following statements, _ is NOT true about Washington Irvings famous story “Rip Van Wi

4、nkle.” A. The story is not only well-known for Rips 20-year sleep but also considered a model of perfect English in American literature.B. The story is set against the background of the inevitably changing America.C. The social conservatism and literary preference for the past is revealed, to some e

5、xtent, in the story.                                               

6、60;         D. Irving describes Rips response and reaction in a dramatic way, so that we see clearly both the narrator and Irving agree on the preferability of the present to the past.  15. Ralph Waldo Emersons essay Experience is a serous discussion about the

7、 conflict between _ and ordinary life. A. nationalism                                         B. universa

8、lismC. idealism                                     D. communism16. As one of Hawthornes most profound tales, Young Goodman B

9、rown is written in the manner of its concern with_. A. guilt and evil                          B. good and badC. moral and corruption        

10、;         D. destruction and hope7. Which of the following is said of the American naturalism?A. They preferred to have their own region and people at the forefront of the stories.B. Their characteristic setting is an isolated town.C. Their characters were con

11、ceived more or less complex combinations of inherited attributes, their habits conditioned by social and economic forces.D. Humans should be united because they had to adapt themselves to changing environmental conditions.8. Which of the following is not right about Mark Twain's style of languag

12、e?A. His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect.B. His sentence structures are simple, even ungrammatical, which is typical of the spoken language.C. His humor is remarkable and characterized by puns, straight-faced exaggeration, repetition and anti-climax.D. His style of language had e

13、xerted only a limited influence on the contemporary writers.9.Which of the following is not written by Henry James?A. The Portrait of A Lady and The Europeans B. The Wings of the Dove and The AmbassadorsC. The Marble Faun and The Gilded AgeD. What Maisie Knows and The Bostonians10. About the titular

14、 heroine in the novel Daisy Miller, which of the following is not right?_A. She has become a celebrated cultural type who embodies the spirit of the New World.B. She comes from the new world but remains traditional and conservative.C. Her innocence turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality

15、 in the new worldD. The authors sympathy for her, a tender flower crushed by the harsh winter in Rome was easily felt.11. Which of the following is not right about Emily Dickinsons poems about love?_A. Her love poems show peoples feelings of rapture and happiness coming from their love experience.B.

16、 Some of her love poems treats the suffering and frustration love can cause.C. Many of them give original depictions of the longing for shared moments, the pain of separation, and the futility of finding happiness.D. Some of them emphasizes the power of physical attraction and expresses a mixture of

17、 fear and fascination for the mysterious magnetism between sexes.12. In her life, Emily Dickinson makes enchanting poetry out of _.A. a happy and active lifeB. adventurous experiencesC. a single household and an inactive lifeD. a hard and suffering life13. More than five hundred poems Dickinson wrot

18、e are about nature, in which her general Skepticism about the relationship between _ is well-expressed. A. man and man B. men and women C. man and nature D. men and God14. Which of the following is right about Emily Dickinson's poems about nature?A. In them, she expressed her general affirmation

19、 about the relationship between man and nature.B. Some of them showed her disbelief that there existed a mythical bond between man and nature.C. Her poems reflected her feeling that nature is restorative to human beings.D. Many of them showed her feeling of nature's inscrutability and indifferen

20、ce to the life and interests of human beings.15. As a great innovator in American literature, Walt Whitman wrote his poetry in an unconventional style which is now called free verse, that is _.A. lyrical poetry with chanting refrains B. poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme schemeC. poetry wi

21、thout rhymes at the end of the lines but with a fixed beatD. poetry in an irregular metric form and expressing noble feelings16.Moby-Dick is a mixture of fantasy and （） based upon the South Pacific whaling industry.A. romanticism B. realismC. naturalism D. surrealism17.Realism was a reaction against

22、 （） or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.A. Symbolism B. ImagismC. Romanticism D. Mysticism 18.The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the Amer

23、ican men of letters gave rise to a school of realism（）.A. American naturalism B. American nationalismC. American internationalism D. American transcendentalism19. After the Civil War America had been transformed from to .A. an agrarian communitya society of freedom and equalityB. an agrarian communi

24、tyan industrialized and commercialized societyC. an industrialized and commercialized societya highly developed societyD. a poor and backward societyan industrialized and commercialized society20. Which of the following is not right about Emily Dickinsons poems of nature?A. In them, she expressed he

25、r general skepticism about the relationship between man and nature.B. Some of them showed her belief that there existed a mythical bond between man and nature.C. Her poems reflected her feeling that nature is restorative to human beings.D. Many of them showed her feeling of natures inscrutability an

26、d indifference to the life and interests of human beings.21. Eugene ONeill is remembered for his tragic view of life and most of his plays are about .A. the root, the truth of human desires and human frustrationsB. the moral nature of the modern mankindC. the relationship between man and nature as w

27、ell as man and womanD. the inner contradiction of men before the real world22. As a poet in the 20th century, Robert Frost _.A. rejected the conventional poetic principles and chose the revolutionary wayB. rejected the romantic way choosing instead the revolutionary principlesC. rejected the revolut

28、ionary principles choosing instead the romantic wayD. rejected the revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporaries choosing instead the old-fashioned way to be new23. Pounds translations cast light on his affinity to the Chinese and his strenuous effort in the study of _. A. ancient Asian lite

29、rature B. ancient Roman literature C. Oriental literature D. ancient Indian literature24. Which of the following is not written by Eugene ONeill?A. Long Days Journey into Night and The Great Gatsby B. The Emperor Jones and The Hairy ApeC. Desire Under the Elms and The Great God DownD. Beyond the Hor

30、izon and Anna Christie23. Most of ONeills plays are concerned about the following EXCEPT_.A. success and failure in mans literary careerB. life and death, illusion and disillusion, dream and realityC. alienation and communication, self and society, desire and frustrationD. the basic issues of human

31、existence and predicament  24. Traditional fiction featured an authoritative narrator in telling a story, while modern fiction tended to employ the first person narration or limit the reader to “_”. A. one characters point of view B. the central consciousnessC. more characters points of view D.

32、 both A and B25. Which one of the following statements is NOT true of William Faulkner? A. He is a master of stream-of-consciousness narrative.B. His writing is often complex and difficult to understand.C. He often depicts slum life in New York and Chicago.D. He represents a new group of Southern wr

33、iters.23. _ wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which represented different social forces: the old decaying upper class, the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the “Poor Whites”, and the Negroes who labored for both of them. A. Faulkner      

34、0;                                          B. FitzgeraldC. Hemingway    &#

35、160;                                        D. Steinbeck24. “For I have too much /Of apple-picking: I am overtired/ Of the great harvest I myself desired”. From these lines we can conclude that the speaker _.A. is happy about the harvest