(完整版)英语专业美国文学试题exercise 3

(完整版)英语专业美国文学试题exercise 3
Exercise Three
ⅠWriting the names of the authors。

(10%）
1. （ )
The Prince and the Pauper
2. ( ）
Annabel Lee
3. ( ）
A Farewell to Arms
4. （ ）
Nature
5. ( ) A
Streetcar Named Desire
6. ( ）
The Road Not Taken
7. ( )
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
8. ( ）
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
9. ( )
Song of Myself
10. ( ）
The Scarlet Letter
ⅡBlank Filling 。

(10%)
1. In the novel , Hemingway portrayed an old fisherman named
Santiago who shows triumphant even in defeat.
2. defined poetry as the rhythmical creation of
beauty 。

3. While working for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise , Samuel Langhorne Clemens adopted
the pseudonym , the way of a boatman taking soundings,
and meaning two fathoms 。

4. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises ， Hemingway became the spokesman for what Gertrude
Stein had called “ ”。

5. When it was first published ， Walt Whitman's collection of poems ___________, failed to gain
acceptance from either the majority of critics or the general public. Ⅲ. Multiple Choice。

（30％)
1。

Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is NOT true? A. It explores man's never —ending search for the satisfaction of materialistic desires 。

(完整版)英语专业美国文学试题exercise 3 B。

It relates the conflicts between the society and the individual。

C. It is about the effect of sin on the people involved and the society as a whole。

D. It presents a psychological analysis of the inward tensions of the characters.
2. Mark Twain， one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his
______。

A。

international theme
B。

waste—land
imagery
C。

local color
D。

symbolism
3. According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter "A” which originally stood for ”_______” finally obtained the meaning of ”able" or ”angel" through Hester's efforts。

A. adultery
B。

arrogance
C。

accomplishment
D. agony
4。

Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the _______。

A. life in New York
B。

country life in New England
C。

sea adventures
D。

life on the Mississippi
5。

With Howells, James， and Mark Twain active on the literary scene， __ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century。

A. sentimentalism
B。

romanticism
C。

realism
D. naturalism
6. Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of __ ， poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme
scheme.
A。

blank verse
B。

heroic couple
C. free verse
D. iambic pentameter
7. Hester Prynne， Dimmsdale， Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in ___ .
A. The Scarlet Letter
B。

The House of the Seven Gables
C。

The Portrait of a Lady
D. The pioneers
8. After The adventures of Tom Sawyer，Twain gives a literary independence to Tom’s buddy Huck in a book entitled
___ .
A. Life on the
Mississippi
B. The Gilded
Age
C. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
D。

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
9。

The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their __ 。

A. indestructible spirit
B. pessimistic view of life
C。

war experiences
D. masculinity
10。

Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _______and Thoreau。

A。

Jefferson
B. Emerson
C. Freneau
D. Oversoul
11. From the following, choose the poems NOT written by Adgar Allan Poe。

A. To Helen
B. The Raven
C. Annabel Lee
D. Design
12. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”？
A。

The American Scholar
B. English Traits
C。

The Conduct of Life
D. Representative Men
13. The most famous 19th century American female poet during the nineteenth century was ___________.
A。

Anne Bradstreet
B. Jane Austen
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Harriet Beecher Stowe
14。

Choose the works NOT written by Mark Twain。

A. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
B。

A Farewell to Arms
C. Life on the Mississippi
D. The Prince and the Pauper
15。

Choose the works NOT written by Nathaniel Hawthorn. A. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer B 。

The House of the Seven Gables C. Twice Told Tales D. The Scarlet Letter
IV Decide Whether the Statements Are True or False. （10％）
1. All his literary life ， Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil in life.
2. Transcendentalism exalted feeling over reason, individual expression over the restraints
of law and custom.
3. The sound of Whitman's words casts a magic spell over the readers 。

His tone is awesome,
sad and melancholy.
4. Mark Twain had, as his aim of writing ， the soul, the life ， and the speech of the people
in mind 。

5. Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about man and nature.
6. Frost's concern with nature reflected his deep moral uncertainties.
7. In 1954, T 。

S. Eliot was awarded a Nobel Prize for his “mastery of the art of modern
narration 。

” 8. Hemingway’s works have sometimes been read as an essentially negative commentary on a modern
world filled with sterility ， failure ， and death.
9. Women writers have only had a very insignificant role in American literature. 10. According to Dickinson, death means immortality 。

V 。

Identification of Fragments 。

（20%）
Passage 1
Lo ！ in you brilliant window-niche How statue —like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand ！ Ah ， Psyche, from the regions which
Are Holy —Land!
Questions ：
1. This is the last stanza of a poem . Its writer is
______________.
2. With whom is Helen associated in this stanza?
3. Comment on the beauty of this poem.
Passage 2
•
Hester Prynne’s term of confinement was now at an end. Her prison—door was thrown open ， and she came forth into the sunshine, which ， falling on all alike, seemed, 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 has been described ， where she was made the common infamy ， at which all mankind was summoned to point its finger 。

Questions:
1. This part if from the novel ， written by 。

2. Describe Hester’s character briefly.
VI 。

Write about 150 words to comment on Hemingwa y’s theme and writing style 。

(20%)
答案
ⅠWrite the names of the authors.(1＊10=10％）
1. Mark Twain
2. Edgar Allan Poe
3. Ernest Hemingway
4. Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. Tennessee Williams
6. Robert Frost
7. Mark Twain
8. Emily Dickinson 9. Walt Whitman
10. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ⅱ..Blank Filling .(2＊5=10％）
1. The Old Man and the Sea
2. Edgar Allan Poe
3. Mark Twain
4. “ the lost generation"
5.
Leaves of Grass
Ⅲ. Multiple Choice. （2＊15=30％）
IV Decide Whether the Statements Are True or False. (1＊15=10％)
Passage 1
Questions:
1.This is the last stanza of a poem To Helen （1 分) . Its writer is Edgar Allan Poe(1
分）。

2.With whom is Helen associated in this stanza? （3分）Helen is Associated with
psyche, Goddess of the soul in this stanza。

（1分）By relating to psyche， Poe further conveys to readers the beauty of Helen and glory of ancient civilization. (2分)
ment on the beauty of this poem.（5分)e beauty of form. （diction， rhyme and
rhythm,rhetorical devices.。

）（3 分)The beauty of content. （2 分）
Passage 2
Questions：
1.This part if from the novel The Scarlet Letter， (1分） written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
(1分）
2.Describe Hester’s character briefly. （8分) Eg: Courageous enough to face and confess her
sin， true to love，kind and generous to others…
VI. Write about 150 words to comment on Hemingway’s theme and writing style .（20％）
Theme： (10分)
•grace under pressure (3分)
•Implication of this theme （3分)
•Embodiment of the heroes （2分)
•Examples (2分）
Eg：Works of Hemingway， portraying as they do the dilemma of modern man utterly thrown upon himself for survival in an indifferent world, rev eal man’s impotence and his despairing courage to assert himself against overwhelming odds. To Hemingway, man's greatest achievement is to show grace under pressure, or what he described in The Sun Also Rises as holding the "purity of line through the maxi mum of exposure." “grace under pressure” is a repeated theme in his novels。

For him， in a world which is crazy and meaningless， there is nothing one can do but to take care of himself and be tough against fate and tough with grace under pressure.
His works have sometimes been read as an essentially negative commentary on a modern world filled with sterility， failure, and death. Yet such a nihilistic vision is repeatedly modified by Hemingway's affirmative assertion of the possibility of living with style and courage. His primary concern was an individual’s ”moment of truth，” and his fascination with the threat。