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1、美國(guó)文學(xué)（本科）試題5I. Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases and     put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each)1. The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at  Jamestown, Virginia in   16

2、07    .  2.            became the first American writer.  3. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety were the       values that dominated much of the early American writing. 4. In American lit

3、erature, the 18th century was an age of      and Revolution. 5. Franklins best writing is found in his masterpiece        . 6. On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paines famous pamphlet       appeared.  7. The sig

4、ning of          symbolized the birth of an independent American nation.8. The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century was          .9. Washington Irvings       &

5、#160;     became the first work by an American writer to win international fame. 10.               is the summit of American Romanticism.   11. With the publication of Emersons    

6、      in 1836, American Romanticism reached its summit.12. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthornes novel                .13. Henry James major fictional theme is      

7、         .14.                brought the Romantic period to an end. So the age of Realism came into existence. 15. The Poetic style invented by Whitman is now called   &#

8、160;          .16.  “Because I could not stop for Death-” is written by              . 17. The term The Gilded Age is given by          

9、;      to describe the post-civil war years. 18.  Theodore Dreisers first novel is                     . 19.  The leader of the literary movement Imagism is 

10、60;           .20.           is the spokesman for Lost Generation.    II. Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers or completions. Choose the one t

11、hat is the best in each case and put your   answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 1 point for each)1. The first American writer of local color to achieve wide popularity was      .  A. Bret Harte           &#

12、160;                                 B. Mark Twain  C. Henry James           

13、60;                          D. William Dean Howells2. Which of the following is the masterpiece of Mark Twain?  A. The Gilded Age        &#

14、160;                          B. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer       C. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn         

15、D. Jumping Frog3. Which writer has no naturalist tendency?                 A. Mark Twain                       

16、;             B. Jack London  C. Theodore Dreiser                               D. Frank N

17、orris4. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in     and      Thoreau.A. Jefferson                        

18、;                        B. Emerson                 C. Freneau        

19、                                         D. Oversoul5. Which of the following doesnt belong to Dreisers “

20、Trilogy of Desire”?A. The Financier                                       B. The TitanC. The Stoic  

21、                                             D. An American Tragedy6. Which is t

22、he character who appears in the novel Moby Dick?  A. Hester Prynne                                      &

23、#160; B. Mr. Hooper  C. Ahab                                            

24、60;        D. Pearl7.          written by Henry James brought him first international fame.  A. The Golden Bowl                 &#

25、160;                B. The American    C. The Tragic Muse                          &#

26、160;        D. Daisy Miller8. “     ”was a term created by the French novelist, Emile Zola. A. realism                        

27、0;                          B. naturalism    C. transcendentalism                

28、;                   D. veritism 9. Jack London was at his height of his powers when he wrote       , which is deeply influenced by Darwinism.     A. The Sea Wolf

29、0;                                       B. To Build a Fire    C. The Call of the Wild  &#

30、160;                          D. Martin Eden10. The Cop and the Anthem is written by     .   A. O. Henry       

31、;                                      B. Henry James      C. Jack London   

32、0;                                    D. Mark Twain11. “Two small people, without dislike or suspicion.” is a line in the poe

33、m The River-Merchants Wife: A Letter written by      .    A. T. S. Eliot                                 

34、        B. Robert Frost      C. Ezra Pound                                D. Carl Sandburg12. The im

35、agist poets followed three principles, they are      , direct treatment and economy of expression.    A. blank verse              B. rhythm           C. fr

36、ee verse                D. common speech13. Of the following American writers, who has NOT been an expatriate in Paris?        A. Ernest Hemingway         

37、                      B. Ezra Pound C. F. S. Fitzgerald                        &

38、#160;    D. Emily Dickinson14. Who was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the 1930s?    A. Ernest Hemingway                        &#

39、160;      B. Ezra Pound C. John Steinbeck                                    D. F. S. Fitzgerald 15.

40、 The first writings that we call American were the narratives and     of the early settlements.   A. journals         B. poetry                  

41、   C. drama                 D. folklores16. An American Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1828 by      .    A. Samuel Johnson      &

42、#160;                     B. Noah Webster        C. Daniel Webster                    

43、0;  D. Daniel Defoe17. Walden is written by       .     A. Emerson                              

44、0;               B. Thoreau     C. Poe                               &

45、#160;   D. Hawthorne18.        is famous for psychological realism.   A. Mark Twain                            

46、;           B. William Dean Howells   C. Henry James                                  

47、0; D. Walt Whitman19.  Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?   A. Nature                              &

48、#160;                 B. WaldenC. On Beauty                               

49、D. Self-Reliance20. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?   A. The American Scholar                        B. English Traits   C. The

50、Conduct of Life                           D. Nature21. Santiago is the character in Hemingways novel        .    A. In Our Ti

51、me                                        B. The Old Man and the Sea      C. For Whom

52、 the Bell Tolls                     D. The Sun Also Rises22. Which of the following is a much harsher realism?    A. local colorism          

53、;                             B. naturalism   C. romanticism               

54、                          D. imagism23. Who is the arbiter of 19th century literary realism in America?   A. Mark Twain       

55、0;                                 B. Bret Harte        C. William Dean Howells    &#

56、160;                     D. Henry James24. F. S. Fitzgerald is NOT the author of           .   A. The Great Gatsby    &#

57、160;                                 B. Tender is the Night     C. A Farewell to the Arms      

58、                       D. This Side of Paradise25. The pessimism and deterministic ideas of naturalism pervaded the works of such American writers as       

59、;  .     A. Mark Twain                                           

60、     B. F. S. Fitzgerald      C. Walt Whitman                                    

61、;         D. Stephen Crane26. Charles Drouet is a character in the novel of _.   A. The American                            &

62、#160;        B. The Portrait of a Lady   C. Sister Carrie                                  

63、0;     D. The Gift of the Magi27. American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. She    was        .   A. Anne Bradstreet            

64、0;                            B. Jane Austen C. Emily Dickinson                  

65、;                  D. Harriet Beecher28.         read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.     A. Robert Frost     &

66、#160;                             B. T. S. Eliot      C. Carl Sandburg             &#

67、160;                      D. Ezra Pound      29. With Howells, James and Mark Twain active on the scene,       became the major trend in the 70s and 8

68、0s of the 19th century.     A. sentimentalism                                    B. romanticismC. realism 

69、0;                                              D. naturalism30.  “The apparition of these

70、 faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough”. This is the shortest poem written by       .                 A. T. S. Eliot            &

71、#160;                                    B. Robert Frost    C. Ezra Pound        

72、;                                     D. Wallace Stevens III. Comment on the following poems. Put your answers on the Answer

73、Sheet. (20%, 10 points for each)1.                        Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by: Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though;

74、He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods and frozen lakeThe darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shakeTo ask if there is some mistake.The only other sounds the sweepO

75、f easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep.But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep. 1.         I Heard a Fly BuzzWhen I Diedby: Emily Dickinson I heard a Fly 

76、buzz when I died The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air  Between the Heaves of Storm  The Eyes around had wrung them dry       &#

77、160; And Breaths were gathering firm For that last Onset when the King Be witnessed in the Room  I willed my Keepsakes Signed awayWhat portion of me be     

78、;                Assignable and then it wasThere interposed a Fly  With Blue uncertain stumbling Buzz Between the light and me And then the 

79、Windows failed and then      I could not see to see  IV. Give brief answers to the following and write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 15 points for each)1. Being a period of the great flowering of American literature, the

80、 Romantic Period is called “the American Renaissance”. Briefly discuss what the features of American literature in this period are. 2. How does Sister Carrie embody Dreiser 2008-2009學(xué)年度第二期美國(guó)文學(xué)史及作品選讀（2006級(jí)本科）期末考試A卷參   考   答   案      

81、60;          命題人：王琪、丁華良、祝小丁  I. Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases and     put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each)  1. 1607       2. John Smit

82、h   3. Puritan   4. Reason    5. The Autobiography    6. Common Sense   7. The Declaration of Independence   8. Philip Freneau       9. Sketch Book        10. Transcenden

83、talism  11. Nature     12. The Scarlet Letter  13. international theme  14. The civil war    15. free verse     16. Emily Dickinson         17. Mark Twain 18. Sister Carrie    

84、; 19. Ezra Pound            20. Ernest Hemingway                     II. Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative a

85、nswers or completions. Choose the one that is the best in each case and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 1 point for each)   1 - 5: A C A B D   6 - 10: C D B C A 11 -15:C B D C A  16 - 20: B B C A A 21 -25: B B C C D  26 - 30: C C A C C III. Comment on the fo

86、llowing poems. Put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 10 points for each)  1. "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" was Frost's favorite of his own poems and Frost in a letter to Louis Untermeyer called it "my best bid for remembrance."This poem illustrates ma

87、ny of the qualities most characteristic of Frost, including the attention to natural detail, the relationship between humans and nature, and the strong theme suggested by individual lines. The speaker in the poem, a traveler by horse on the darkest night of the year, stops to watch a woods filling u

88、p with snow. He thinks the owner of the woods is someone who lives in the village and will not see him stopping there. While he is attracted by the beauty of the woods and nature, he is reminded by his little horse and realizes that he has obligations which pull him away from the lure of nature. The

89、 speaker describes the beauty and temptation of the woods as “l(fā)ovely, dark and deep,” but reminds himself that he must not remain there, because he has “promises to keep,” and a long journey ahead of him. He has to complete his obligations and then make his aspirations to be realized. Through the sy

90、mbolic woods and horse, we also get to know that the speaker has strong self-awareness and self-discipline. In another way, the poem can be analyzed from the perspective of aspiration and realization. Aspiration is something to be worked at. We enjoy the fruit of our realization only when we reach o

91、ur destination. But from the spiritual point of view, we notice something else that is the transformation of aspiration and realization. Today's aspiration transforms itself into tomorrow's realization. Again, tomorrow's realization is the pathfinder of a higher and deeper goal. There is

92、 no end to our realization, and there is no end of our aspiration as long as you are alive. Our journey is eternal, and the road that we are taking on is also eternal. All aspirations become realization till the end of ones life. The poem is written in iambic tetrameter in the Rubaiyat stanza create

93、d by Edward Fitzgerald. Each verse (save the last) follows an a-a-b-a rhyming scheme, with the following verse's a's rhyming with that verse's b, which is a chain rhyme. Overall, the rhyme scheme is AABA-BBCB-CCDC-DDDD. 2. The poetess is watching her own death and recording the process.

94、Instead of seeing God and hearing the songs of angels yearned for by Puritans upon death she heard a fly buzz, which is really ironic. Fly: sets off the stillness in the room;blocks off the light (from heaven);   suggests a coming decadence the speaker loses the opportunity of gaining immo

95、rtality after death The fly plays an important role in the speakers experience of death. The poem is, in part, about “the conflict between preconception and perception.” The person on his or her deathbed shifts perspective from “the ritual of dying” to “the fact of death.” The fly, by interrupting t

96、he dying speaker with its “Blue uncertain stumbling Buzz ” obliterates his or her false notions of death. The sound of the fly represents “the last conscious link with reality.” The poem lacks any hint of a life after death. IV. Give brief answers to the following and write your answers on the Answe

97、r Sheet. (30%, 15 points for each)1.  (1) The whole nation had a strong sense of optimism and the mood of “feeling good”, giving birth to the spectacular outburst of romantic feeling. (2) The English counterpart exerted a stimulating impact on the writers of the young nation. (3) Taking fo

98、reign influence in consideration, the great works of American writers still carried typically American romantic color.(4) The young nation had brought forth its own philosophy. Transcendentalism stresses mans capacity of knowing truth intuitively, and of attaining knowledge transcending the reach of

99、 the senses. 2. (1) In this novel, Dreiser expressed his naturalistic pursuit by expounding the purposelessness of life and attacking the conventional moral standards. (2) The novel best embodies his naturalistic belief that while men are controlled by heredity, instinct and chance, a few extraordin

100、ary and unsophisticated human beings refuse to accept their fate wordlessly and instead strive, unsuccessfully, to find meaning and purpose for their existence. (3) To Sister Carrie, the world is cold and harsh. Alone, helpless, she moves along like a mechanism driven by desire and catches blindly a

101、t any opportunities for a better existence, opportunities first offered by Drouet, and then by Hurstwood. A feather in the wind, she was totally at the mercy of forces she cannot comprehend, still less to say control. The famous picture of Carrie sitting in a rocking chair in her room in the evening

102、, rocking back and forth, is a picture of Carries drifting with the tide. She has no control, no freedom of will. 美國(guó)文學(xué)（本科）試題6I. Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases: (20%, 1 point for each)1.      In 1817, the stately poem called “Thanatopsi

103、s” introduced the best poet, _, to appear in America up to that time.2.      James Fennimore Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure and _.3.      Ralph Emerson was recognized throughout his life as the leader of _ m

104、ovement, yet he never applied the term to himself or to his beliefs and ideas.4.      Herman Melvilles novel _ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.5.      In the early 19th century, Washington Irving wrote _ which became the first work by an American writer to win financial s