1、美國文學試題庫注：試題庫內容僅作為學習參考使用，并不代表考試內容。任何一道題均可能變化為其它形式的試題。1. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author' s tone in writingbecomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more.A. rati onalB. humorousC. optimisticD. pessimistic2.The i mpact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on th

2、e American thoughtand the in flue nce of the nin etee nth-ce ntury French literature on theAmerican men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism:America nA. local colorismC. moder nismB. vern acularismD. n aturalism3. were idealists, believ ing the church should be restoredto completepu

3、rity ” and dreaming that they would build the new land toan Ede n on earth.A. Calvi nistsC. Roma nticistsB. PuritansD. Tran sce nden talists4. All of the followi ng are the features of Purita ns EXCEPTA. wanting to make pure their religious beliefs and practicesB. look ing upon themselves as a chose

4、 n peopleC. tolerating others ' beliefs and sought for a happy and an easy lifeD. wish ing to restore simplicity to church serves and emphasized the image of a wrathful God5. Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale, Chilli ngworth and Pearl are most likelyCharacters in.A. The House of the Seve n Gables B. The

5、 Scarlet LetterC. The Portrait of a LadyD. The pion eers6. America n writers after World War I self-c on sciously ack no wledged that they were(a)“，” devoid of faith and alienated from the Westerncivilization .A. Lost Gen erati onB. Beat GenerationC. So ns of LibertyD. An gry Y ou ng Men7. In James

6、Fenimore Cooper' sovels, close after Natty Bumppo in roma ntic appeal, come the two n oble red men. Choose them from the following items.A. The Mohica n Chief Chin gachgookB. Un casC. Tome JonesD. Both A and B8. The“ Father of American Poetry ” is.A. William Cullen BryantB. Philip FreneauC. Henr

7、y Wadsworth Lon gfellowD. Edgar Allan Poe9. Herman Melville ' sis an encyclopedia of everything, history,philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.A. The Old Man and the Sea B. Moby DickC. White JacketD. Billy Budd10. In addition to hi

8、s novels,wrote about 120 short stories andsketches. Among them are Young Goodman Brown and The Minister' sBlack Veil.A. Henry David ThoreauC. Ralph Waldo EmersonB. Natha niel Hawthor neD. Herman Melville11. Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms -the sonnet, rhymingcouplets, blank verse -

9、with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech offarmers with its idios yn cratic dicti on and syn tax.A. Souther nB. WesternC. New HampshireD. New En gla nd12. The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issuesEXCEPT thein the America n literary history.A. i ndividual feeli ngsB. i

10、dea of survival of the fittestC. str ong imag in ati onD. return to n ature13. Cooper ' s story of the“frontier saga” is made up of 5 famous novelsthat comprise theTales, in which the mai n character is NattyBumppo.A. Leather stock ing talesB. The Deer SlayerC. Sea Adve ntureD. The Roma ntic14.

11、More tha n five hun dred poems Dick inson wrote are about n ature, inwhich her gen eral Skepticism about the relati on ship betwee niswell-expressed.A. man and manB. men and wome nC. man and natureD. men and God15. From Henry David Thoreau ' s jail experience came his famous essay,which states T

12、horeau ' belief that no man should violate hiscon scie nce at the comma nd of a gover nment.A. WaldenB. NatureC. Civil Disobedie nceD. Com mon Sense16. Choose the authors who belong to the romantic group in Americanliterature.E .Walt WhitmanF. All of the above17 The desire for an escape form soc

13、iety and a retur n to n ature became a permanent conven ti on of America n literature, evide nt in.A. James Fenimore Cooper ' s Leatherstocking TalesB. Henry David Thoreau ' s WaldenC. Mark Twa in ' udkleberry FinnD. All of the above18. Stylistically, Henry JamesA. short, clear senten ce

14、simagesC. ordinary American speechfiction is characterized byB. abundance of localD. highly refinedIan guage19. Emers on based his religio n on an in tuitive belief in an ultimate unity, which he called.A. the SpiritB. the Over-lordC. the oversoulD. the Self20. One of the characteristics that have m

15、ade Mark Twain a major literaryfigure in the 19th cen tury America is his use of.A. vern acularB. interior monologueC. point of viewD. photographic descriptionIV. Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions.1 “ Wepassed the School, where Children strove/ At Recessin the Ring/We passed t

16、he Fields of Gazing Grain/We passed the Setting Sun”1) What is the title of the poem?2) Who does “ we” refer to?3) What does “ theSchool ”“, theFields of Gazing Grain ”a,nd “the Setting Sun ” imply respectively?4) Where are “ we” going?2 Read the passage and answer questions.To go into solitude, a m

17、an needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atm

18、osphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perceptual presence of the sublime. Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are! If stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore: and preserve for many generations the

19、remembrance of the city of Godwhich had been shown! But every night come out these preachers of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.Questions:Where is this passage taken and who is the author? What does the author say would happen if the stars appeared one night in a thousand

20、 years?3. Trust no Future, howeer ple'asant!Let the dead Past bury its dead!Act act in the glorious Present!Heart within, and God o' er head!1) Who is the poet?2) What is the title of the poem?3) What does the poet want to tell in these lines?4. “ I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewher

21、e ages and ages henc：e Two roads diverged in a wood，and I I took the one less traveled by， And that has made all the difference.”1) Identify the poem and the poet.2) What does the phrase“ ages and ages hence ” mean?3) Why does the poet say“ that has made all the difference”?4) What idea does the quo

22、ted passage express?5 “ ButI have promises to keep,/ And many miles to go before I sleep,/And many miles to go before I sleep. ”1) What is the title of the poem?2) What does “ promises ” mesapnoienmth?i3) Why does the poet say“ And many miles to go before I sleep,/Andmany miles to go before I sleep.

23、”?4) What does “ And many miles to go before I sleep,/And many milesto go before I sleep” mean?6. Read a passage and answer questions (”1)0Hester Prynne 'tserm of confinement was now at an end. Her prison-door was thrown open, and she came forth into sunshine which, falling on all alike, seemed,

24、 to her sick and morbid heart, as if meant for no other purpose than to reveal the scarlet letter on her breast. Perhaps there was a more real torture in her first unattended footsteps from the threshold of the prison, than even in the procession and spectacle that have been described, where she was

25、 made the common infamy, at which all mankind was summoned to point its finger. Then, she was supported by an unnatural tension of the nerves, and by all the combative energy of her character, which enabled her to convert the scene into a kind of lurid triumph.Questions;Which novel is this selection taken from? What is the name of the novelist? What do you think is the symbolic meaning of the scarlet letter on Hester ' s breast?VI. Topic discussions or brief answers.1 Why is it said that New England from the beginning had a literature of ideas?13. The following po