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1．第7题

__C__ was considered to be the first American writer.

A.Washington Irving

B.Benjamin Franklin

C.John Smith

D.Hoffman

答案:C

您的答案：C

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2．第8题

The School Room Poets did not include _____.

A.Longfellow

B.Lowell

C.Holmes

D.Poe

答案:D

您的答案：D

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3．第9题

pound’s poem “the river-merchant’s wife” was translatedｆrom a poem by the chinese poet __________.

A.李白

B.杜甫

C.白居易

D.王安石

答案:A

您的答案：A

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4．第14题

Tales of a Traveller was written by the American author__________.

A.James Fenimore Cooper

B.Washington Irving

C.Nathaniel Hawthorne

答案:B

您的答案：B

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5．第18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

您的答案：B

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6．第19题

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

A.Ralph Waldo Emerson

B.Henry David Thoreau

C.E. B. White

答案:B

您的答案：B

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7．第20题

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

A. Edgar Ellan Poe

B.Herman Melville

C.Emily Dickinson

答案:C

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8．第21题

The first American writer who propounded that a piece of literary work should focus on the production of a single emotional effect is ___.

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne

B.Herman Melville

C.Edgar Ellan Poe

答案:C

您的答案：C

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9．第22题

The poem “Thanatopsis” was written by __________.

A.Emily Dickinson

B.William Cullen Bryant

C.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

答案:B

您的答案：B

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10．第23题

"Two roads diverged in a yellow woods" is a line in a poem written by ---.

A.T. S. Eliot

B.Wallace Stevens

C.Robert Frost

答案:C

您的答案：C

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11．第24题

The Fall of the House of Usher was a horror story by ______.

A.Nathaniel Hawthorne

B.Edgar Allan Poe

C.Melville

D.Longfellow

答案:B

您的答案：B

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12．第25题

Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of man and ____.

A.nature

B.self-reliance

D.life

答案:A

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13．第26题

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

A.To a Waterfowl

B.Thanatopsis

C.To Helen

D.Annabel Lee

答案:B

您的答案：B

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14．第27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

您的答案：C

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15．第28题

______ translated the Bible into the Indian tongue.

A.Benjamin Franklin

B.Roger Williams

C.. John Eliot

D.John Cotton

答案:C

您的答案：C

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16．第29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/dd18887433.html,mercial books

D.historical romances

答案:D

您的答案：D

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17．第30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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18．第38题

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

A.deerslayer

B.pathfinder

C.hawkeye

D.Mohican

答案:D

您的答案：D

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19．第39题

"To a Waterfowl" is a poem written by ---.

A.Edgar Ellan Poe

B.William Cullen Bryant

C. Whittier

答案:B

您的答案：B

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20．第40题

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

A.The Purloined Letter

B. Ligeia

C.The Tell-tale Heart

答案:A

您的答案：A

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21．第41题

The novel Sister Carrie opens with a description of Carrie on a train trip to the city of _______ looking for a factory job.

A.New York

B.Beijing

C.Boston

D.Chicago

答案:D

您的答案：D

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22．第42题

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

A.Henry James

B.Fitzgerald

C.Ernest Hemingway

D.William Faulkner

答案:A

您的答案：A

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23．第43题

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

A.Martin Eden

B.The Iron Heel

C.The Sea Wolf

D.The Call of the Wild

答案:C

您的答案：C

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24．第44题

Among the following authors the one who received 4 pulitzer prizes was ---.

A.Robert Frost

B.Jack London

C.Mark Twain

答案:A

您的答案：A

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25．第45题

My Lost Youth written by ____ is about his hometown of Portland, Maine.

A.Henry W. Longfellow

B.John Cotton

C.Carl Sandburg

D.Anne Bradstreet

答案:A

您的答案：A

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26．第46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

您的答案：B

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27．第47题

When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing about ______’s thematic concern in his fiction writing.

A.Henry James

B.Scott Fitzgerald

C.Hemingway

D.William Faulkne

答案:B

您的答案：B

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28．第48题

Puritans emphasized a ____God.

A.merciful

B.wrathful

C.benevolent

D.learned

答案:B

您的答案：B

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29．第49题

The American writer whose one essay greatly influenced later civil right leader Martin Luther King is ___.

A.Ralph Waldo Emerson

B.Philip Freneau

C.Henry David Thoreau

答案:C

您的答案：C

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30．第50题

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

A.To a Waterfowl

B.Thanatopsis

C.To Helen

D.Annabel Lee

答案:B

您的答案：A

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31．第51题

Besides symbolism, all the following qualities except ______are fused to make Melville’s Moby-Dick, a world classic.

A.narrative power ？

B.psychological analysis

C.speculative agility ？

D.optimistic view of life

答案:D

您的答案：D

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32．第52题

The central character’s name in James Fenimore Cooper’s novel series The Leatherstocking Tales is ______________.

A.Isabelle Archer

B.Natty Bumpo

C.Ishmael

答案:B

您的答案：B

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33．第53题

A poetic line of two feet is called

___________.

A.monometer

B.dimeter

C.trimeter

D.tetrameter

答案:B

您的答案：B

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34．第54题

Perhaps Dickinson's greatest rendering of the moment of ___________ is to be found in I Heard a Fly Buzz--When I Died---a poem universally considered one of her masterpieces.

A.enthusiasm

B.death

C.crisis

D.fantasy

答案:B

您的答案：B

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35．第55题

Jack London did not write ______.

A.The Sea Wolf

B.The Call of the Wild

C.The Ambassadors

D.White Fang

答案:C

您的答案：C

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36．第56题

American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. It was _____.

A.. Anne Bradstreet

B.Jane Austen

C.Emily Dickinson

D.Harriet Beecher

答案:C

您的答案：B

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37．第57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

您的答案：D

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38．第58题

Many of O’ Henry’s stories tell about the lives of poor people in ____.

A.Chicago

B.New York

C.New Jersey

D.New England

答案:B

您的答案：B

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39．第59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

您的答案：D

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40．第60题

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

A.Ernest Hemingway

B.Ezra Pound

C.T. S. Eliot

D.William Carlos Williams

答案:B

您的答案：C

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41．第1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

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42．第2题

1.牋牋？Puritan influence over American Romanticism was conspicuously noticeable.

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43．第3题

Besides Moby Dick, Melville also wrote some other sea novels.

答案:正确

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44．第4题

"Tell me not, in mournful numbers" is a line in Longfellow's poem "A Psalm of Life".

答案:正确

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45．第5题

“The Premature Burial” is a detective story written by Poe.

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46．第6题

"In a Station of the Metro" is a short poem written by Ezra Pound.

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47．第10题

1.？？？？？Many of O Henry’s stories contain a lot of slangs and colloquial expressions, just like his own speech.

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48．第11题

1.牋牋？To Hawthorne and Poe, the telling of a tale was a way inquiring

into the meaning of life.

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49．第12题

1.牋牋？Immediately after their arrival in America, the American Puritans became more preoccupied with business and profits, as they had to be in the grim struggle for survival.

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50．第13题

"Declaration of Independence" was drafted by Benjamin Franklin alone. 答案:错误

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51．第15题

Many of Poe’s Gothic tales bear the theme of claustrophobia.

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52．第16题

The most important Southern writer is Robert Penn Warren who was the author of the poem “All the King’s Men”.

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53．第17题

life ａnd death is a major theme in emily dickinson’s poems.

答案:正确

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54．第31题

1.牋牋？American naturalism, like Romanticism, had come from Germany. 答案:错误

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55．第32题

1.？？？？？Throughout his life, Steinbeck’s greatest happiness and deepest sorrow were caused by his American dream of success.

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56．第33题

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

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57．第34题

The poet Robert Frost wrote in traditional rhyme schemes, but his themes are very modern.

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58．第35题

Poe was a predecessor of the later British detective writer Conan Doyle.

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59．第36题

"A Rose for Emily" is a Gothic short story written by William Faulkner. 答案:正确

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60．第37题

The first American poet to be translated into Chinese is Walt Whitman. 答案:错误

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