美国文学华师在线作业
1．第11题
The arbiter of nineteen-century literary realism in America was ______.
A.Mark Twain
B.Henry James
C.O’Henry
D.William Dean Howells
答案:D
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2．第12题
Mark Twain’s first book is ________.
A.Tom Sawyer
B.Huckleberry Finn
C.The Gilded Age
D.Jumping Frog
答案:D
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3．第13题
The novel which was described by a critic as “an outrage to American girlhood” is ____.
A.Young Goodman Brown
B.Mardi
C.Daisy Miller
D.The Tragic Muse
答案:C
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4．第14题
___ might be considered as a great realist of human spirit.
A.Mark Twain
B.Henry James
C.Jack London
D.Theodore Dreiser
答案:B
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5．第15题
“ We hold these truths to be elf-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” This sentence is taken from ___.
https://www.360docs.net/doc/c24954368.html,mon Sense
B.The Declaration of Independence
C.The Autobiography
D.The American Crisis
答案:B
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6．第16题
___ did not ever show his/her concern for the Indians.
A.Anne Bradstreet
B.Philip Freneau
C.Roger Williams
D.John Eliot
答案:A
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7．第17题
The first great American juvenile literature was _____.
A.Sketch Book
B.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
C.Walden
D.Mardi
答案:A
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8．第18题
The novel which was described by a critic as “an outrage to American girlhood” is ____.
A.Young Goodman Brown
B.Mardi
C.Daisy Miller
D.The Tragic Muse
答案:C
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9．第19题
1.牋牋？ Franklin had never been _____.
A.a printer
B.a scientist
C.a statesman
D.an atheist
答案:D
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10．第20题
1.牋牋？ ___ is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
A.Self-reliance
B.Nature
C.The American Scholar
D.. The Bells
答案:D
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11．第21题
5. Puritan values do not include ____.
A.hard work
B.thrift
C.sobriety
D.debauchery
答案:D
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12．第22题
1.牋牋？ Emily Dickinson did not write _______.
A.A Bird Came Down to Walk
B.a.牋牋牋 I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed
C.I felt a Funeral, in My Brain
D.a.牋牋牋 The Indian Burying Ground
答案:D
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13．第23题
. In 1881, Henry James published his novel____, which is generally considered as his masterpiece.
A.Daisy Miller
B.Watch and Ward
C.The Wings of the Dove
D.The Portrait of a Lady
答案:D
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14．第24题
Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’s story A Rose for Emily, can be regarded as a symbol for all the following qualities except______.
A.old values
B.rigid ideas of social status
C.bigotry and eccentricity
D.harmony and integrity
答案:D
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15．第25题
William Faulkner once declared that ___ was the first truly American writer from whom we are descended.
A.Washington Irving
B.Cooper
C.Hawthorne
D.Mark Twain
答案:D
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16．第26题
“ I am monarch of all I survey,/ My right th ere is none to dispute.” This line is from ____.
A.Nature
B.Civil Disobedience
C.Walden
D.Representative Men
答案:C
标准答案：C
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17．第27题
Mark Twain had never been a _______.
A.humorist
B.ambassador
C.frontier
D.lecturer.
答案:B
标准答案：B
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18．第28题
As a Modernist poet, Pound is noted for his active involvement in the ______
A.cubist school of modern painting
B.Imagist Movement
C.stream-of-consciousness technique
D.German Expressionism
答案:B
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19．第29题
“ We hold these truths to be elf-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” This sentence is taken from ___.
https://www.360docs.net/doc/c24954368.html,mon Sense
B.The Declaration of Independence
C.The Autobiography
D.The American Crisis
答案:B
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20．第35题
Mrs. Stowe’s did not ever write _______.
A.The Man That Was a Thing
B.Uncle Tom’s Cabin
C.The Stoic
D.Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
答案:C
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21．第36题
Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized by _______.
A.short, clear sentences
B.abundance of local images
C.ordinary American speech
D.highly refined language
答案:D
标准答案：D
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22．第37题
The first writings that we may call American were the narratives and ___ of the early English settlements.
A.. documents
B.journals
C.statements
D.files
答案:D
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23．第38题
_____was the only American of his generation who could chide the British with humor.
A.Cooper
B.Washington Irving
C.Thoreau
D.Edgar Allan Poe
答案:B
标准答案：B
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24．第39题
1.牋牋？ Emily Dickinson did not write _______.
A.A Bird Came Down to Walk
B.a.牋牋牋 I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed
C.I felt a Funeral, in My Brain
D.a.牋牋牋 The Indian Burying Ground
答案:D
标准答案：D
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25．第40题
With the precedent of Whitman, ___also undertook as a spokesman for the common pople. He was proud later to “favor simple poems for simple people.”
A.Wallace Stevens
B.Edwin Robinson
C.Robert Frost
D.Carl Sandburg
答案:D
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26．第41题
The best-selling books in the first decades of the twentieth century were ___.
A.news report
B.travel books
https://www.360docs.net/doc/c24954368.html,mercial books
D.historical romances
答案:D
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27．第42题
1.牋牋？ ________ was the first writer of local color to achieve wide popularity.
A.Mark Twain
B.Harriet Stowe
C.Bret Harte
D.Henry James
答案:C
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28．第43题
_____ stands as the dividing line between the nineteen century and the contemporary America.
A.The Boer War
B.World War I
C.The charter movement
D.World War II
答案:D
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29．第44题
It is on his______ that Washington Irving’s fame mainly rested.
A.childhood recollections
B.sketches about his European tours
C.early poetry
D.tales about America
答案:D
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30．第45题
A Key into the Language of America was a significant work by____.
A.Roger Williams
B.John Cotton
C.John Smith
D.Noah Webster
答案:A
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31．第46题
“ I heard the merry grasshopper then sing,/The black-clad cricket bear a second part” These lines written by ____________.
A.Roger Williams
B.John Eliot
C.Anne Bradstreet
D.Washington Irving
答案:C
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32．第47题
The modern critic Van W. Brooks calls _____ a shredded Shakespeare play.
A.The Scarlet Letter
B.Moby Dick
C.Billy Budd
D.Mardi
答案:B
标准答案：B
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33．第52题
Puritans emphasized a ____God.
A.merciful
B.wrathful
C.benevolent
D.learned
答案:B
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34．第53题
_______ does not belong to the school of naturalism in history.
A.Stephen Crane
B.Frank Norris
C.Jack London
D.Walt Whitman
答案:D
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35．第54题
Franklin shaped his writings after the ____ of the English essayist Addison and Steel.
A.Spectator papers
B.Walden
C.. Nature
D.The Sacred Wood
答案:A
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36．第55题
______ translated the Bible into the Indian tongue.
A.Benjamin Franklin
B.Roger Williams
C.. John Eliot
D.John Cotton
答案:C
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37．第56题
The best o f Cooper’s sea romances was ____.
A.The prairie
B.The Pilot
C.The Poineers
D.the pathfinder
答案:B
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38．第57题
_______, the ruthless, amoral protagonist of the The Sea Wolf, best realizes the ideal of the “Superman.”
A.Hurstwood
B.Wolf Larsen
C.Prufrock
D.Santiago
答案:B
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39．第58题
The raft with which Huck and Jim make their voyage down the Mississippi River cannot possibly symbolize _____
A.a return to nature ？
B.an escape from evils, injustices, and corruption of the civilized society
C.the American society in the early 19th century
D.a small world where people of different colors can live friendly and happily
答案:D
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40．第59题
The Declaration of Independence was the product of the joint efforts by ___,
A.George Washington
B.Thomas Jefferson
C.Thomas Addison
D.Irving
答案:B
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41．第60题
After the success of ____, Herman Melville became known as a man who lived among cannibals.
A.Typee
B.White Jacket
C.Omoo
D.Moby Dick
答案:A
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42．第61题
___’s A Map of Virginia: with a Description of the Country was a guide to the country and an invitation to the bold spirits needed to enlarge and strengthen the English plantation in the new land.
A.John Smith
B.William Bradford
C.John Winthrop
D.John Cotton
答案:A
标准答案：A
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43．第62题
William Sidney Porter was the real name of
________.
A.Mark Twain
B.O’ Henry
C.Jack London
D.William Dean Howells
答案:B
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44．第63题
William Faulkner once declared that ___ was the first truly American writer from whom we are descended.
A.Washington Irving
B.Cooper
C.Hawthorne
D.Mark Twain
答案:D
标准答案：D
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45．第64题
“ I am monarch of all I survey,/ My right there is none to dispute.” This line is from ____.
A.Nature
B.Civil Disobedience
C.Walden
D.Representative Men
答案:C
标准答案：C
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46．第48题
1.牋牋？ Jack London was usually considered as a romanticist for his portrayal of superman heroes. 答案:错误
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47．第49题
1.？？？？？ While working for the Virginia City Enterprise, Samuel Langhorne Clemens adopted the
pseudonym “Mark Twain,” which means two fathoms.
答案:正确
标准答案：1
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48．第50题
1.牋牋？ The Second World War led the American intellectuals to a bitter disillusionment, breeding what is called modernism.
答案:错误
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49．第51题
Nationalism stimulated a great literary interest in America’s language and its common people in the early nineteenth century.
答案:正确
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50．第65题
1.？？？？？Many of O Henry’s stories contain
a lot of slangs and colloquial expressions, just like his own speech.
答案:错误
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51．第66题
1.牋牋？ Puritan influence over American Romanticism was conspicuously noticeable.
答案:正确
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52．第69题
1.？？？？？Throughout his life, Steinbeck’s greatest happiness and deepest sorrow were caused by his American dream of success.
答案:错误
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53．第70题
1.牋牋？ Emerson always applied the term Transcendentalist to himself or to his beliefs, for he was the acknowledged leader of the movement.
答案:错误
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54．第1题
General History of Virginia contains John Smith’s most famous story of how the Indian princess ____ saved him from the wrath of her father.
答案:Pocahontas
标准答案：Pocahontas
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55．第2题
In January 1776, a pamphlet entitled ________ boldly advocated a declaration for independence 答案:Common Sense
标准答案：Common Sense
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56．第3题
1.牋牋？ ___ was the first great belletrist in America.
答案:Washington Irving
标准答案：Washington Irving
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57．第4题
1.牋牋？ ___ called his friend Hawthorne the largest brain with the largest heart in American literature.
答案:Herman Melville
标准答案：Herman Melville
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58．第5题
1.牋牋？ The American Romanticism came to an end as the American ________ broke out.
答案:war
标准答案：war
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59．第6题
1.牋牋？ It is said that ____ imitated De Maupassant as a model in writing his short stories.
答案:O’ Henry
标准答案：O’ Henry
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60．第7题
1.牋牋？ _____ is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself.
答案:Martin Eden
标准答案：Martin Eden
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61．第8题
1.牋牋？ American writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were a ___, devoid of faith and alienated from a civilization.
答案:Lost Generation
标准答案：Lost Generation
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62．第9题
1.牋牋？ The most significant poem of the twentieth century was ___.
答案:The Waste Land
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63．第10题
1.？？？？？___ described himself as “a royalist in politics, a classicist in literature, and an Anglo-Catholic” in religion.”
答案:T. S. Eliot
标准答案：T. S. Eliot
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64．第30题
______ has been called the father of American poetry.
答案:Philip Freneau
标准答案：Philip Freneau
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65．第31题
1.？？？？？ After his death, _____ became the only American to be honored with a bust in Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey.
答案:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
标准答案：Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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66．第32题
1.牋牋？ Naturalism was heavily shaped by teaching of ___, who seemed to stress the animal instinct of man.
答案:Charles Darwin
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67．第33题
1.牋牋？ The trilogy of desire includes The Financier, The Titan and _____.
答案:. The Stoic
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68．第34题
1.牋牋？ At the inauguration of John F. Kennedy, ____ was invited to read his poetry when he was eighty-seven.
答案:Robert Frost
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69．AR3.3
1. AR3.3
标准答案：Walt Whitman
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2. AR
3.3
标准答案：Song of Myself
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3. AR3.3
标准答案：free and passionate
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70．AR2.1
1. AR
2.1
标准答案：Self-Reliance
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2. AR2.1
标准答案：Ralph Waldo Emerson
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3. AR2.1
标准答案：Envy and imitation result from denial of one’s self.
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华师在线-美国文学
1．第10题 Among the following, only one can not be a possible theme of the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It is _________. A.equality between men B.escapism C.conflict between nature ａnd civilization D.spiritual emptiness 答案:D 您的答案：D 题目分数：2.0 此题得分：2.0 2．第11题 "The Apparition of these faces in the crowd" is a line in a famous short poem written by ---. A.Ezra Pound B. Carl Sandburg C.Walt Whitman 答案:A 您的答案：A 题目分数：2.0 此题得分：2.0 3．第12题 Among the following 3 authors the one who did not win a Nobel Prize is ---. A.William Faulkner B. F. S. Fitzgerald C. John Steinbeck 答案:B 您的答案：B 题目分数：2.0 此题得分：2.0 4．第13题 Among the following fictions, only one is not written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is
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