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1、美国文学史及选读试卷.Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternatives. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (60points in all, 2 for each)1. Which of following can be said of the common features which are shared by the English and American Romanticists ?A. An increasing
2、 emphasis on the free expression of emotions.B. An increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters.C. An increasing emphasis on the desire to return to nature.D. both A and B.2. Which of the following statements about the Romantic period in the history of American literature is NOT tr
3、ue? （ ）A. In most of the American writings of this period there was a new emphasis upon the imaginative and emotional qualities of literature.B. The writers of this period placed an increasing emphasis on the free expression of emotions and displayed an increasing attention to the psychic states of
4、their characters. C. There was a strong tendency to exalt the individual and the common man.D. Most heroes and heroines in the writings of this period exhibited extremes of reason and nationality.3._ is unanimously agreed to be the summit of the American Romanticism in the history of American litera
5、ture.A. New England Transcendentalism B. England TranscendentalismC. the Harlem Renaissance D. New Transcendentalism4.Hawthornes unique gift was for the creation of _ which touch the deepest roots of mans moral nature.A. symbolic storiesB. romantic storiesC. gothic storiesD. humorous stories5. About
6、 the novel The Scarlet Letter, which of the following statements is not right?A. Its very hard to say that it is a love story or a story of sin. B. Its a highly symbolic story and the author is a master of symbolism.C. Its mainly about the moral, emotional and psychological effects of the sin upon t
7、he main characters and the people in general. D. In it the letter A takes the same symbolic meaning throughout the novel.6. Which of the following statements is said about most of the poems in Whitmans Leaves of Grass?A. They identify his ego with the conservative America.B. They celebrate the self
8、and ignore sexuality.C. They sing of the “en-masse” and the self as well.D. They reject the pursuit of love and happiness of individuals.7.Realism was a reaction against （） or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.A. Symbolism B. Imagism
9、C. Romanticism D. Mysticism8. The subjects of Emily Dickinsons poems are mainly about .A. religionB. death and immortalityC. love and natureD. all of the above9. The three dominant figures in the period of Realism of American are William Dean Howells, Mark Twain and_. （ ）A. Henry James B. Tom JamesC
10、. James Joyce D. Henry Joyce10. In his masterpiece The Portrait of A Lady Henry James _ .A. incarnates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a European cultural environmentB. tells a story about a young and innocent American confronting the complexity
11、 of the European life as well as the American societyC. describes a young American girl who gets “killed” by the winter in RomeD. tells about some Europeans who learn with difficulty to adapt themselves to the American life11. Which of the following can be said about the titular heroine in the novel
12、 Daisy Miller?A. She has become a celebrated cultural type who embodies the spirit of the new world.B. The authors sympathy for her, a tender flower crushed by the harsh winter in Rome was easily felt. C. Her innocence turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality in the new world.D. all of th
13、e above12. As Emily Dickinsons poems about love are concerned, which of the following is not right ?A. Many of them give original depictions of the longing for shared moments, the pain of separation, and the futility of finding happiness.B. Some of her love poems treat the suffering and frustration
14、love can cause.C. Her love poems show peoples feelings of rapture and happiness coming from their love experience.13. More than five hundred poems Emily Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which her general _ about the relationship between man and nature is well-expressed.（ ）A. denialB. eulogyC. sk
15、epticismD. happiness14. In his “Trilogy of Desire”, Theodore Dreisers focus shifted from the pathos of the helpless protagonists at the bottom of the society to the power of the American financial tycoons in the late 19th century. The “Trilogy of Desire” includes The Financial, The Titan and _.（ ）A.
16、 The StoicB. The GeniusC. An American TragedyD. Jennie Gerhardt15.In the first part of the 20th century, apart from Darwinism, which was still a big influence upon the writers of this period, there were two thinkers_whose ideas had the greatest impact on the period. A. the German Karl Marx and the A
17、merican Sigmund FreudB. the German Karl Marx and the Austrian Sigmund FreudC. the Swiss Car Jung and the American William JamesD. the Austrian Karl Marx and the German Sigmund Freud16. Eugene ONeill is remembered for his tragic view of life and most of his plays are about _.A. the root, the truth of
18、 human desires and human frustrationsB. the moral nature of the modern mankindC. the relationship between man and nature as well as man and womanD. the inner contradiction of men before the real world17. In general terms, much serious American literature written from 1912 onwards attempted to convey
19、 _.A. a vision of social breakdown and moral decayB. a vision of social continuity and harmonyC. the continuity and discontinuity between the past and the modern timeD. all of the above18. Which of the following is not said about the main principles of the Imagist Movement? _A. a direct treatment of
20、 poetic subjectsB. the elimination of merely ornamental or superfluous wordsC. the rhythmical composition in the sequence of the musical phrase rather than in the sequence of a metronomeD. the treatment of the medium of poetry in agreement with Romanticism19. Most of ONeills plays are concerned abou
21、t the following except_.A. success and failure in mans literary careerB. life and death, illusion and disillusion, dream and realityC. alienation and communication, self and society, desire and frustrationD. the basic issues of human existence and predicament 20. Which of the following can be said a
22、bout a typical modern literary work?A. It is a record of sequence and coherence of the history and the world.B. It is a juxtaposition of the past and present, of the history and the memory.C. It is a book of integrity drawn from diverse areas of experience.D. Its perspective is shifted from the inte
23、rnal to the external, from the private to the public.21. Which of following is not right about the thematic concerns of Robert Frost ?A. The terror and tragedy in nature as well as its beauty.B. His sense of failure and meaninglessness about human life.C. His love of life and his belief in a serenit
24、y coming from working.D. The loneliness and poverty of the isolated human being. 22. Which of the following can be said about ONeills plays? A. His plays concern especially the relationship between man and women of the modern age.B. His expressionistic experimentations contained his optimistic visio
25、n in some non-realistic forms.C. His plays of expressionistic experimentation daringly penetrate into race religions, class conflicts, sexual bondage, and social critiques. D. Many of them are attached with a profound insight into nature and tremendous skill and logic.23. Hemingways first true novel
26、 （） casts light on a whole generation after the First World War and the effects of the war by way of a vivid portrait of “The Lost Generation.”A. The Sun Also RisesB. The Old Man and the SeaC. For Whom the Bell TollsD.A Farewell to Arms24.In 1950, William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for the
27、 anti-racist （）.A. The Sound and the FuryB. Intruder in the DustC. The UnvanquishedD. Light in August25. As to Ezra Pound, which of the following statements is not correct?A. His artistic talents are on full display in the history of the Imagist Movement.B. For he was politically controversial and n
28、otorious for what he did in the wartime, his literary achievement and influence are somewhat reduced.C. From his analysis of the Chinese ideogram Pound learned to anchor his poetic language in concrete, perceptual reality, and to organize images into larger patterns through juxtaposition.D. His lang
29、uage is usually oblique yet marvelously compressed and his poetry is dense with personal, literary, and historical allusions.26. Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th century _ novels and the founder of psychological realism. A. local B. colorC. physical D. stream-of-consci
30、ousness 27. In Henry James Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of_.A. the free spirit of the New World B. the corruption of the newly richC. the force of conviction D. the change of the social force28. “It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been whit
31、e, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street.” This is a detailed description of Emilys old house. The purpose of such description is to imply the person living in it_. A. is an old woman
32、 B. has good taste C. is a conservative aristocrat D. is a prisoner of the past29. In his novels, Faulkner creates his own kingdom that mirrors _.A. the frivolity and carelessness of the young generation and the sense of loss and despair of the whole society.B. the spiritual wasteland of the Souther
33、n society and the decline of the whole American societyC. the sense of loss and despair among the post-war generation and the decline of the whole American societyD. the decline of the Southern society and the spiritual wasteland of the whole American society30. Which of the following can be said ab
34、out Faulkners A Rose for Emily ?A. The “stream of consciousness” technique is employed in it .B. The chronology of narration is displaced. C. Its language is too symbolic and the dialogues are fragmented. D. There are too many characters whose relations are too complicated. Choose the relevant match
35、 from Column B for each item in Column A. (10 points in all, 2 point for each) （ ）1. Theodore DreiserA. The Cantos（ ）2. Mark TwainB. The Great Gatsby（ ）3. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Sister Carrie（ ）4 . F. S. FitzgeraldD. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn（ ）5. Ezra Pound E. The Scarlet Letter. Explain the following terms. (25points in total, 5 points for each)1. American naturalism2. Lost Generation3. Imagism4. Modernism5. Harlem Renaissance. Answer the following question. (5points) What is the Chinese culture over Pound?