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美国文学
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1 、 单选题
The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn?was written by_____.
A ： Henry James
B ： Harriet Beecher Stower
C ： Mark Twain
D ： O.Henry
2 、 单选题
Exaltation of emotion above reason is a principle of _____.
A ： Romanticism
B ： Realism
C ： Naturalism
D ： Modernism
3 、 单选题
Which of the following novelists wrote?The Sound and the Fury?
A ： William Faulkner.
B ： Ernest Hemingway.
C ： Scott Fitzgerald.
D ： John Steinbeck.
4 、 单选题
For him the only law is _____.
A ： his own will
B ： the natural law
C ： the Bible
D ： the Constitution
5 、 单选题
With Howells, James and Mark Twain active on the scene, _____ became the majortrend in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century.
A ： realism
B ： romanticism
C ： naturalism
D ： esthetics
6 、 单选题
Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms---the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank
verse—with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of _____ farmers with
its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.
A ： Southern
B ： Western
C ： New Hampshire
D ： New England
7 、 单选题
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’ poetry is noted for its _____.
A ： art for art’s sake
B ： originality
C ： didacticism
D ： innovation
8 、 单选题
The American preacher _____ is credited with bringing the “Great Awakening” to
America with his sermon titled, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”.
A ： William Graham
B ： Edward Everett
C ： Roger Williams
D ： Jonathan Edwards
9 、 单选题
Hemingway and Fitzgerald both belong to one of the following writing group .
A ： lost generation
B ： beaten generation
C ： Harlem Renaissance
D ： Jewish writers
10 、 单选题
Mark Twain’s contribution to the development of realism and to American literature
as a whole was partly through his theories of localism in American fiction, and partlythrough _____.
A ： his humor
B ： his satire
C ： his colloquial style
D ： his stories of adventures
11 、 单选题
As an autobiographical play, O’Neill’s _____ （1956） has gained its status as a
world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the
coming of age of American drama.
A ： The Iceman Cometh
B ： Long Day’s Journey Into Night
C ： The Hairy Ape
D ： esire Under the Elms
12 、 单选题
Herman Melville’s second famous work, _____, was not published until 1924, 33
years after his death.
A ： Pierre
B ： Redburn
C ： Moby-Dick
D ： Billy Budd
13 、 单选题
“Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant” is a poem written by _____.
A ： Sylvia Plath
B ： Langston Hughes
C ： Emily Dickinson
D ： Robert Lowell
14 、 单选题
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a _____ story of a voyage on the Mississippi.
A ： picaresque
B ： love
C ： tragic
D ： comic
15 、 单选题
The finest example of Hawthorne’s symbolism is reflected in his _____.
A ： The Canterbury TalesB ： A Farewell to Arms
C ： Typee
D ： The Scarlet Letter
16 、 单选题
Which of the following best explores American myth in the 20th century?
A ： The Great Gatsby.
B ： The Sun Also Rises.
C ： The Sound and the Fury.
D ： Beyond the Horizon.
17 、 单选题
_____’s “Leaves of Grass” established him as the most popular American poet of
the 19th century.
A ： Edger Allen Poe
B ： James Russel Lowell
C ： John Greenleaf Whitter
D ： Walt Whitman
18 、 单选题
Captain Ahab is a character in which of the following works?
A ： Moby Dick
B ： “O Captain,My Captain”
C ： The Gilded Age
D ： Walden
19 、 单选题
Emily Dickinson was a very original poetess whose poetry is characterized by its
irregular punctuation and capitalization, precise diction, fragmentary metrical
pattern, and clear-cut _____.
A ： contrasts
B ： similes
C ： personifications
D ： images
20 、 单选题
The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the
influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters
gave rise to yet another school of realism: American _____.
A ： local colorismB ： vernacularism
C ： modernism
D ： naturalism
21 、 单选题
Which of the following works is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual
Independence”?
A ： Nature
B ： Self-Reliance
C ： Moby Dick
D ： The American Scholar
22 、 单选题
Hemingway’s short sentences are powerfully loaded with the _____ which he sees in
life.
A ： imago
B ： tension
C ： sense
D ： commitment
23 、 单选题
In?The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway is on the whole a _____ narrator.
A ： reliable
B ： unreliable
C ： incredible
D ： credulous
A ： tradition
B ： capitalism
C ： a primitive society
D ： a modern civilization
24 、 单选题
The author of?The Portrait of a Lady?is best at _____.
A ： probing into the unsearched secret part of human life
B ： a truthful delineation of the motives, the impulses, the principles that shape the
lives of actual men and women
C ： dramatizing the collisions between two very different cultural systems on an
international scene
D ： disclosing the social injustices and evils of a civilized society after the Civil War
A ： dignity
B ： equality
C ： freedomD ： individualism
A ： tradition
B ： capitalism
C ： a primitive society
D ： a modern civilization
25 、 单选题
In one sense _____ wrote all his life about one theme, which is neatly summed up in
the famous phrase, “grace under pressure,” and created one hero who acts that
theme out.
A ： Walt Whitman
B ： Emily Dickinson
C ： Henry James
D ： Ernest Hemingway
26 、 单选题
Who wrote the famous pamphlet,?The Common Sense, before the American
Revolution?
A ： Thomas Jefferson.
B ： Thomas Paine.
C ： John Adams.
D ： Benjamin Franklin.
27 、 单选题
The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their _____.
A ： indestructible spirit
B ： pessimistic view of life
C ： war experiences
D ： masculinity
28 、 单选题
Sherwood Anderson is famous for his short stories of which _____ is typical.
A ： In Another Country
B ： The Swimmer
C ： A&P
D ： The Egg
