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选择：

1．The scarlet letter “A” in the novel The Scarlet Letter at first stands for _____________. B.adultery

2．Among the following stories written by Poe, only one belongs to the category of the detective story. It is ___.

A.The Purloined Letter

3．The famous pamphlet Common Sense appearing in 1776 was written by _____________. B.Thomas Paine

4．the sound ａnd the fury is a novel written by __________.

D.William Faulkner

5．The Wasteland is a long modern poem written by ---. C. T. S. Eliot

6．the lines “to the glory that was greece, ／ａnd the grａndeur that was rome” were quoted ｆrom poe’s poem __________. B.To Helen

7．Among the following titles, only one is not among the Leather-Stoking Tales series. It is______.D.Moby Dick

8．“I become a transparent eye-ball. i am nothing. i see all. the currents of the universal being circulate through me; i am part ｏr

particle of god.” the passage above is quoted ｆrom emerson’s

essay __________. B.Nature

9．The short poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” was written by _________.

B.William Carlos Williams

10．The Author of the short story "A Gift for Maggie" is ---. A.

O. Henry

11．“by nature’s self in white arrayed\ she bade thee shun the

vulgar eye,\ ａnd planted here the guarding shade,\ ａnd sent soft

waters murmuring by; \ thus quietly thy summer goes,\ thy days

declining to repose.” the rhyme scheme of the lines above is

______________. B.ababcc

12．In Poe’s tale “The Fall of the House of Usher”, the major

female character Madeline is the titular hero Usher’s _____________.

D.sister

13．Of Mice ａnd Men is a novel written by ---. A. John

Steinbeck

14．The central character’s name in James Fenimore Cooper’s novel

series The Leatherstocking Tales is ______________. B.Natty Bumpo 15．Puritans emphasized a ____God. B.wrathful

16． In 1881, Henry James published his novel____, which is

generally considered as his masterpiece.

D.The

Portrait of a Lady

17．_______, the ruthless, amoral protagonist of the The Sea Wolf,

best realizes the ideal of the “Superman.”

B.Wolf Larsen

18．___ is not a name to refer to Natty Bumppo in Cooper’s frontier saga. D.Mohican

19．The School Room Poets did not include _____. D.Poe 20．According to Mathew Arnold, one poem written by William Cullen Bryant was the “most perfect brief poem in the language”. The

title of the poem is __________. B.“To a Waterfowl”

21．“Civil Disobedience” is a famous essay written by ___________.

B.Henry David Thoreau

22．The first American writer to win an international fame is ___.

C.Washington Irving

23．A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court was written by

_______. B.Mark Twain

24．Among the following writers, only one does not belong to the naturalistic school. He is___. A.Henry James

25．The American writer whose one essay greatly influenced later

civil right leader Martin Luther King is ___.

C.Henry David Thoreau

26．“all sappy as maples ａnd flat as the prairie” is a comment made by james russell lowell on the female characters in novels written by______. B.James Fenimore Cooper

27．Among the following short stories, only one is not written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is _________.

D.the pit ａnd the pendulum

28．Among the following works written by T. S. Eliot, only one is not a poem. It is ___.D.Murder in the Cathedral

29．Billy Budd was a short novel written by the American novelist ---. B.Herman Melville

30．Martin Eden was an autobiographical novel written by ---. B.Jack London

31．In Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter, the central character Hester Prynne had a secret affair with _____________.

C.Dimmesdale

32．Sister Carrie is a noel written by ___. A.Theodore Dreiser 33．robert frost once said that a poem should begin with delight ａnd end in__________. D.wisdom

34．Ernest Hemingway's Last important literary work is ---. A.the old man ａnd the sea

35．among the following three american writers, only one has never been married in his ｏr her life. the person is ___. C.Emily Dickinson

36． Among the following fictions, only one is not written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is ___________.

D.The Fall of the House of Usher

37．___ wrote Rights of Man in 1792 to suggest the overthrow of the British monarchy. A.Thomas Paine

38．Hawthorne’s ____ deals with the effects of a curse. B.The House of Seven Gables

39．The sentence “whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist” is quoted ｆrom Emerson’s essay _________. C.Self-Reliance

40． Among the following authors, only one has been called the American Scott. He is _______.

B.James Fenimore Cooper

41．William Sidney Porter was the real name of ________. B.O’Henry

42．Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’s story A Rose for

Emily, can be regarded as a symbol for all the following qualities

except______. D.harmony ａnd integrity

43．Which of the following works best illustrates the Calvinistic

view of original sin?

D.Hawthorne’s The

Scarlet Letter.

44．“Two roads diverged in a yellow woods” is the first line in a

poem written by Robert Frost entitled __________. A.The Road

Not Taken

45．The novel Sister Carrie opens with a description of Carrie on a

train trip to the city of _______ looking for a factory job.

D.Chicago

1．According to Mathew Arnold, one poem written by William Cullen

Bryant was the “most perfect brief poem in the language”. The

title of the poem is __________. B.“To a Waterfowl”

2．"The American Scholar" is an essay written by the famous

philosopher ---. C. Ralph Waldo Emerson

3．Among the following, only one can not be a possible theme of the

novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It is _________.

D.spiritual emptiness

4．Among the following 3 authors the one who later became a

naturalized British citizen was ---. C.Henry James

5．Ernest Hemingway's Last important literary work is ---.

A.the old man ａnd the sea

6．The leader of the American Transcendentalism is _________.

B.Ralph Waldo Emerson

7．The “green light” in The Great Gatsby symbolizes __________.

D.the American dream

8．the lines “to the glory that was greece, ／ａnd the grａndeur

that was rome” were quoted ｆrom poe’s poem __________. B.To Helen

9．The short novel The Turn of the Screw was written by ________.

A.Henry James

10．The Author of the short story "A Gift for Maggie" is ---. A. O. Henry

11．Henry David Thoreau built his cabin beside the lake of Walden in the year ___. B.1845

12．The first American writer who propounded that a piece of

literary work should focus on the production of a single emotional effect is ___. C.Edgar Ellan Poe

13．Among the following 3 poets the one who was once imprisoned for political reasons is ---. C.Ezra Pound

14．Among the following authors the one who once visited China was ---. C.Ernest Hemingway

15．Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’s story A Rose for Emily, can be regarded as a symbol for all the following qualities except______. D.harmony ａnd integrity

16．william faulkner once declared that ___ was the first truly american writer from whom we are descended.

D.Mark Twain

17．____ was considered to be the first American writer.

C.John Smith

18．William Sidney Porter was the real name of ________. B.O’Henry

19．The poem “The Indian Burying Ground” was written by the American poet ---. C.Philip Freneau

20．___ is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. D. The Bells 21．__was the only American of his generation who could chide the British with humor. B.Washington Irving

22．Among the following philosophers, only one did not have an influence over the writings of Jack London. He is________.

D.Foucault

23．The Waste Land was dedicated to another poet who was __________.

B.Ezra Pound

24． Among the four novels written by Henry James, the one written

first in chronological order is _________.

A.The Portrait of a Lady

25．The most popular novel to do with the abolition movement written

by Harriet Beecher Stowe is ________.

B.Uncle Tom’s Cabin

26．The most famous sea story written by Jack London is _______.

C.The Sea Wolf

27．the village near boston in which both emerson ａnd thoreau lived was called _________. B.Concord

28．Martin Eden was an autobiographical novel written by ---.

B.Jack London

29．The writer who once said that all american literature came ｆrom Mark Twain’s Huck Finn is ___.

C.Ernest Hemingway

30．“The Black Cat” written by Poe is a _________. A.gothic

Story

31．Benjy is a central character in Faulkner's novel ---. C.the sound ａnd the fury

32．Among the following fictions written by John Steinbeck, only one is about the Second World War. It is ______________. C. “The Moon Is Down”

33．among the following three american writers, only one has never been married in his ｏr her life. the person is ___. C.Emily Dickinson

34．The famous pamphlet Common Sense appearing in 1776 was written by __________. B.Thomas Paine

35． Among the following fictions, only one is not written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is ___________.

36．“Ishmale” is the name of the narrator in the novel ___. A. Moby Dick

37．The American writer whose one essay greatly influenced later

civil right leader Martin Luther King is ___.

C.Henry David Thoreau

38．“I become a transparent eye-ball. i am nothing. i see all. the currents of the universal being circulate through me; i am part ｏr particle of god.” the passage above is quoted ｆrom emerson’s essay _____. B.Nature

39．The Iceberg style is most thoroughly reflected in the writings

of the American novelist ____.

B.Ernest Hemingway

40．____ Bryant’s best-known poem, was written when he was only sixteen years old. B.Thanatopsis

41．After the success of ____, Herman Melville became known as a man who lived among cannibals. A.Typee

42．Jack London did not write ______. C.The Ambassadors

43．. the jazz age, characterized by frivolity ａnd carelessness, refers to ________. B.1920s

44．_______, the ruthless, amoral protagonist of the The Sea Wolf, best realizes the ideal of the “Superman.”

B.Wolf Larsen

45．___ is not a name to refer to Natty Bumppo in Cooper’s frontier saga. D.Mohican

判断：

46． american naturalism, like romanticism, had come ｆrom germany. 答案:错误

47．Puritan influence over American Romanticism was conspicuously noticeable. 答案:正确

48．Cooper’s claim to greatness in American literature lies in the fact that he created a myth about the formative period of the American nation. 答案:正确

49．The 19th century female poet Emily Dickinson was a forerunner of the modern Imagist poetry. 答案:正确

50．The short story writer O.Henry was once put into prison because he was a Nazi. 答案:错误

51．Though Emily Dickinson married twice in her life, love had never been a major theme in her poetry.答案:错误

52．"In a Station of the Metro" is a short poem written by Ezra Pound. 答案:正确

53．Henry David Thoreau once built a cabin beside the lake of Walden on the land of his neighbor Ralph Waldo Emerson. 答案:正确

46． 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

47．The famous philosopher Williams James was the novelist Henry James' brother. 答案:正确

48．Puritan influence over American Romanticism was conspicuously noticeable. 答案:正确

49． The Second World War led the American intellectuals to a bitter disillusionment, breeding what is called modernism. 答案:错误

50．The foundation of American national literature was laid by the early American romanticists. 答案:正确

51．Cooper’s claim to greatness in American literature lies in the fact that he created a myth about the formative period of the American nation. 答案:正确

52． Hawthorne, who seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin ａnd veil, never showed a positive part of the life.

答案:错误53．“The Premature Burial” is a detective story written by Poe. 答案:错误

填空：

54．The iceberg style refers to the writing style of the American writer __________. 答案:Ernest Hemingway

55．Isabel Archer is the heroine of the novel ___, Henry James’s masterpiece. 答案:The Portrait of a Lady

56．Ezra pound’s major work of poetry is a long poem called ____. 答案:The Cantos

57．the title of the novel the sound ａnd the fury comes ｆrom a

play written by ____.答案:William Shakespeare

58．The first edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass was published in the year______. 答案:1855

59．The short novel The Mysterious Stranger was written by

__________. 答案:Mark Twain

60．“The Young Housewife” is a poem written by __________. 答

案:William Carlos Williams

61．The poet who won Nobel Prize in 1948 was _________. 答案: T. S. Eliot

62．The novelist Henry James had a brother who was famous for his study in psychology. The brother’s name is _______. 答案:William James

63．The poem “The Slave’s Dream” was written by ___________. 答案:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

64．One of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s early books, Captain Craig, came to the attention of president _____, who then offered him a clerk’s job in a customhouse. 答案:Theodore Roosevelt

65．Sister Carrie traces the material rise of carrie meeber ａnd the tragic decline of _____.答案:G. W. Hurstwood

66．in the 1920s, faulkner wrote a novel the first part of which was narrated ｆrom the view point of an idiot. the novel is _________. 答案:the sound ａnd the fury

67．The American author who was a direct predecessor of Conan Doyle was _________.答案:Edgar Allan Poe

68．Ezra Pound’s most famous short poem “In the Station of the Metro” has only ______ lines. 答案:two

54．The first permanent English settlement in North was established

at ____ , Virginia. 答案:Jamestown

55． _____ is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself. 答案:Martin Eden

56．The iceberg style refers to the writing style of the American writer __________. 答案:Ernest Hemingway

57．According to the Chinese scholar 钱钟书, the first English poem

to be translated into Chinese was _____________. 答案:A Psalm of Life

58．"Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking” is a poem written by

__________. 答案:Walt Whitman

59．The novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne that bears a direct allusion to the notorious Salem witchcraft trials is

________________. 答案:The House of the Seven Gables

60．The first line in the poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is _________.

答案:Whose woods these are

I think I know

61． After his publication of ____, Whitman was praised by Emerson,

who saw some transcendentalist trace in the poet. 答案:Leaves of

Grass

62． At the inauguration of John F. Kennedy, ____ was invited to

read his poetry when he was eighty-seven.

答案:Robert Frost

63. The novelist Henry James had a brother who was famous for his

study in psychology. The brother’s name is _______. 答案:William

James

64．“he was a gentleman ｆrom sole to crown,/ clean favored, ａnd imperially slim” are lines quoted ｆrom edwin arlington robinson’s

poem _______. 答案:Richard Cory

65．The American writer who won Nobel Prize for literature in 1962

was _______. 答案:Ernest Hemingway

66．In Dickinson’s poem “Because I could not stop for Death”, the image of the “School” in the third stanza stands for _____________. 答案:youth

67．The second line in Pound’s poem “In a Station of the Metro”

is _____.答案:Petals on a wet, black bough.

68．The famous poem “The British Prison Ship” was written by

_______________.答案:Philip Freneau

阅读理解题

第69题 during the whole of a dull, dark, ａnd soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, i had been passing alone, on horseback, through a

singularly dreary tract of country; ａnd at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy house of usher. i know not how it was --but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. 1.what is the title of the work ｆrom which this passage is taken 答案 The Fall of the House of Usher

2．Who was the author? 答案 Edgar Allan Poe

3 What is the author's writing style as indicated by this passage?

答案 All the words should work for a single aim of effect. 第70题

i celebrate myself, ａnd sing myself,

ａnd what i assume you shall assume, The Fall of the House of Usher for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

i loafe ａnd invite my soul,

i lean ａnd loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

my tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd ｆrom this soil, this air, born here of parents born here ｆrom parents the same, ａnd their parents the same,

i, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,