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Chapter 13 the US Literature

Chapter 13 the US Literature

1.1.4 Benjamin Franklin He was a completely worldly man. His Poor Richard’s Almanac (《穷理查的年 鉴》) is both a literary achievement and a profitable business. His most famous work is his Autobiography (《自 传》).
2.1.4 Nathaniel Hawthorne He was a pioneer in psychological description. His most famous novel is The Scarlet Letter (《红字》). His other works include The House of the Severn Gables (《有七个尖角阁楼的房子 》), The Blithedale Romance (《福谷传奇 》) and The Marble Faun (《大理石雕像 》).
One of his great contributions is that he made colloquial白话 speech an accepted, respectable medium in American literary. Some 20th-century writers such as Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway and T.S. Eliot acknowledge their indebtedness to Mark Twain.
III. The Realistic Period (18651900)
This period stressed truthful treatment of material. It expressed concern for the world of experience, for the commonplace, for the familiar and the low.

童明《美国文学史》(增订版)笔记和课后习题(含考研真题)详解

童明《美国文学史》(增订版)笔记和课后习题(含考研真题)详解

我国各大院校一般都把国内外通用的权威教科书作为本科生和研究生学习专业课程的参考教材,这些教材甚至被很多考试(特别是硕士和博士入学考试)和培训项目作为指定参考书。

为了帮助读者更好地学习专业课,我们有针对性地编著了一套与国内外教材配套的复习资料,并提供配套的名师讲堂、电子书和题库。

《美国文学史》(增订版)(童明主编)一直被用作高等院校英语专业英美文学教材,被很多院校指定为英语专业考研必读书和学术研究参考书。

为了帮助读者更好地使用该教材,我们精心编著了它的配套辅导用书。

作为该教材的学习辅导书,全书遵循该教材的章目编排,共分27章,每章由三部分组成:第一部分为复习笔记(中英文对照),总结本章的重点难点;第二部分是课后习题详解,对该书的课后思考题进行了详细解答;第三部分是考研真题与典型题详解,精选名校经典考研真题及相关习题,并提供了详细的参考答案。

本书具有以下几个方面的特点:1.梳理章节脉络,归纳核心考点。

每章的复习笔记以该教材为主并结合其他教材对本章的重难点知识进行了整理,并参考了国内名校名师讲授该教材的课堂笔记,对核心考点进行了归纳总结。

2.中英双语对照,凸显难点要点。

本书章节笔记采用了中英文对照的形式,强化对重要难点知识的理解和运用。

3.解析课后习题,提供详尽答案。

本书对童明主编的《美国文学史》(增订版)每章的课后思考题均进行了详细的分析和解答,并对相关重要知识点进行了延伸和归纳。

4.精选考研真题,补充难点习题。

本书精选名校近年考研真题及相关习题,并提供答案和详解。

所选真题和习题基本体现了各个章节的考点和难点,但又不完全局限于教材内容,是对教材内容极好的补充。

第1部分 早期美国文学:殖民时期至1815年第1章 “新世界”的文学1.1 复习笔记1.2 课后习题详解1.3 考研真题和典型题详解第2章 殖民地时期的美国文学:1620—1763 2.1 复习笔记2.2 课后习题详解2.3 考研真题和典型题详解第3章 文学与美国革命:1764—18153.1 复习笔记3.2 课后习题详解3.3 考研真题和典型题详解第2部分 美国浪漫主义时期:1815—1865第4章 美国浪漫主义时期4.1 复习笔记4.2 课后习题详解4.3 考研真题和典型题详解第5章 早期浪漫主义5.1 复习笔记5.2 课后习题详解5.3 考研真题和典型题详解第6章 超验主义和符号表征6.1 复习笔记6.2 课后习题详解6.3 考研真题和典型题详解第7章 霍桑、麦尔维尔和坡7.1 复习笔记7.2 课后习题详解7.3 考研真题和典型题详解第8章 惠特曼和狄金森8.1 复习笔记8.2 课后习题详解8.3 考研真题和典型题详解第9章 文学分支:反对奴隶制的写作9.1 复习笔记9.2 课后习题详解9.3 考研真题和典型题详解第3部分 美国现实主义时期:1865—1914第10章 现实主义时期10.1 复习笔记10.2 课后习题详解10.3 考研真题和典型题详解第11章 地区和地方色彩写作11.1 复习笔记11.2 课后习题详解11.3 考研真题和典型题详解第12章 亨利·詹姆斯和威廉·迪恩·豪威尔斯12.1 复习笔记12.2 课后习题详解12.3 考研真题和典型题详解第13章 自然主义文学13.1 复习笔记13.2 课后习题详解13.3 考研真题和典型题详解第14章 女性作家书写“女性问题”14.1 复习笔记14.2 课后习题详解14.3 考研真题和典型题详解第4部分 美国现代主义时期:1914—1945第15章 美国现代主义15.1 复习笔记15.1 复习笔记15.2 课后习题详解15.3 考研真题和典型题详解第16章 现代主义的演变16.1 复习笔记16.2 课后习题详解16.3 考研真题和典型题详解第17章 欧洲的美国现代主义17.1 复习笔记17.2 课后习题详解17.3 考研真题和典型题详解第18章 两次世界大战间的现代小说18.1 复习笔记18.2 课后习题详解18.3 考研真题和典型题详解第19章 现代美国诗歌19.1 复习笔记19.2 课后习题详解19.3 考研真题和典型题详解第20章 非裔美国小说和现代主义20.1 复习笔记20.2 课后习题详解20.3 考研真题和典型题详解第5部分 多元化的美国文学:1945年至新千年第21章 新形势下的多元化文学21.1 复习笔记21.2 课后习题详解21.3 考研真题和典型题解析第22章 美国戏剧:三大剧作家22.1 复习笔记22.2 课后习题详解22.3 考研真题和典型题详解第23章 主要小说家:1945年至60年代23.1 复习笔记23.2 课后习题详解23.3 考研真题和典型题详解第24章 1945年以来的诗学倾向24.1 复习笔记24.2 课后习题详解24.3 考研真题和典型题详解第25章 20世纪60年代以来的小说发展状况25.1 复习笔记25.2 课后习题详解25.3 考研真题和典型题详解第26章 当代多民族文学和小说26.1 复习笔记26.2 课后习题详解26.3 考研真题和典型题详解第27章 美国文学的全球化:流散作家27.1 复习笔记27.2 课后习题详解27.3 考研真题和典型题详解第1部分 早期美国文学:殖民时期至1815年第1章 “新世界”的文学1.1 复习笔记Ⅰ. Discoveries of America(发现美洲大陆)Who discovered America?谁发现了美洲?1 The credit is often attributed to Christopher Columbus. Yet this argument is controversial.一种说法是哥伦布发现了美洲大陆。

陶洁《美国文学选读》(第3版)笔记和课后习题详解(第13单元凯萨琳

陶洁《美国文学选读》(第3版)笔记和课后习题详解(第13单元凯萨琳

陶洁《美国⽂学选读》(第3版)笔记和课后习题详解(第13单元凯萨琳第13单元凯萨琳?安?波特13.1复习笔记I.Introduction to author(作者简介)1.Life(⽣平)Katherine Anne Porter(1890-1980)was born in Indian Greek,Texas.She began her life as a news reporter and sometimes as an actress and ballad /doc/0a7395332.htmlter she stayed in Europe and Mexico which proved very valuable for her writing.She was basically a short-story writer.Her Collected Stories won her both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award.She lectured at various universities and received honorary doctorates from various institutions.She was vice president of the National Institute of Arts and Lettersfrom1950to1952.凯萨琳·安·波特(1890—1980)出⽣于德克萨斯州印第安河市。

她曾做过报社记者,演员和民谣歌⼿。

后来她到过欧洲和墨西哥。

这段经历对她⽇后的写作很有帮助。

她主要是短篇⼩说家。

她的《短篇⼩说集》获得了普利策奖和全国图书奖。

她曾到许多⼤学做讲座,收到了许多机构授予的荣誉博⼠学位。

从1950年到1952年她担任美国国家艺术与⽂学协会副主席。

2.Major Works(主要作品)The Flowering Judas(1930)《开花的紫荆树》Pale Horse,Pale Rider(1939)《灰⾊骑⼠灰⾊马》Old Mortality(1939)《修墓⽼⼈》The Leaning Tower(1944)《斜塔》The Old Order(1944)《旧秩序》A Ship of Fools(1962)《愚⼈船》II.Selected works(选读作品)◆The Jilting of Granny Weatherall《被背弃的⽼祖母》The Granny in this story is a very strong and hardy woman.At first,her lover abandoned her,and then her husband died at an early age,but she was confronted with frustrations bravely and took care of farm all by herself and successfully brought up her children.However,the Granny also has weaknesses.She has always been trying to forget about the shame and anguish brought about by her lover’s abandon,but unfortunately,she couldn’t dismiss them form her mind until she died.On her deathbed,she was hurt again;because that God did not come to her to take her to the heaven as her religious belief meant,but her life was took away by Death before she was ready to die.故事中的⽼祖母是⼀位坚强的⼥性。

美国文学2013年大纲完整版

美国文学2013年大纲完整版

一.题型I.Multiple Choice (30%)II.Identification(20%)III.Short-answer Questions(20%)IV.Appreciation(30%)二.复习内容I.Multiple Choice1.In American literature, the 18th century was the age of the Enlightenment.______was the dominant spirit.A.HumanismB. RationalismC. RevolutionD. Evolution2.Which statement about B. Franklin is not true?A.He instructed his countrymen as a printer.B. He was a scientist.C. He is a puritanD. He was a master of Diplomacy3.The Autobiography of B. Franklin is an important document of _____.A. American RealismB. American RomanticismC. American PuritanismD. American Naturalism4.Which of the following characters is an ambitionless and idle man wholongs to escape from his wife's nagging?A. SoapyB. Rip Van WinkleC. Roger ChillingworthD. Jim Smiley5.From “Rip Van Winkle”it can be inferred that _____.A.Washington Irving’s taste is very modern.B . Washington Irving shows great in the American Revolution.C. Washington Irving prefers the past to the present.D. Washington Irving wrote the story in a realistic way.6.Washington Irving’s social conservation and literary preference for the pastis revealed, to some extent, in his famous story, ______.A.“The Legend of Sleepy Hallow”B.“Rip Van Winkle”C. “The Custom House”D.“The Birthmark”7.“Rip Van Winkle” is a short story written by ___A. James Fenimore CooperB. Washington IrvingC. Edgar Allan PoeD. Mark Twain8.The Romantic Period in American Literary history started withthe publication of ____.A.Washington Irving’s The Sketch BookB.Washington Irving’s Tales of A TravelerC.Whitmam’s Leaves of GrassD.James F. Cooper’s Leather Stocking Tales9._______ was regarded as “Father of the American short stories”.A. Edgar Allan PoeB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Washington IrvingD. Nathaniel Hawthorne10.Emersonian Transcendentalism is, in fact, a philosophical school whichabsorbed some ideological concerns of _______ and EuropeanRomanticism.A. American PuritanismB. NeoclassicismC. American RomanticismD. social criticism11.The transcendentalists believed in the following except _____.A. living close to natureB. moral impact on manC. the essential holiness of manD. self-reliance and self-trust12.Emerson's _____ was called the "Intellectual Declaration ofIndependence."A. Self - RelianceB. The Over-SoulC. The American ScholarD. Nature13.The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is ________.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Washington IrvingD. Henry David Thoreau14._______ is generally regarded as the Bible of New EnglandTranscendentalism.A. NatureB. On BeautyC. WaldenD. Self-Reliance15.Which of the following is not written by R.W. Emerson?A. American TragedyB. NatureC. The American ScholarD. Self-Reliance16.Edgar Allan Poe is known as a poet and critic but most famousas the first master of the form of ______.A. poemB. dramaC. short storyD. essay17.Which of the following is written in memory of Allen Poe’s dead wife?A. To HelenB. Annabel LeeC. The RavenD. The Bells18.Edgar Allan Poe can be described as the following except _____.A. a playwrightB. a criticC. a short story writerD. a poet19.The writer who is famous for his detective stories is _______.A. Washington IrvingB. O. HenryB. Edgar Allan Poe D. Nathaniel Hawthorne20.The most modern and bizarre poet the 19th century America ever producedwho was also famous for his detective stories is _____.A. Washington IrvingB. O. HenryC. Edgar Allan PoeD. Walt Whitman21.The poet who is a Romanticist with his high-mindedness, gentleness, anddidacticism is ______.A.Nathaniel HawthorneB. H. W. LongfellowC. Edgar Allan PoeD. Walt Whitman22.“A Psalm of Life” is a _______ poem.A. narrativeB. dramaticC. lyricD. didactic23.In what century is the story of Hester Prynne set?(A) The 16th century (B) The 17th century(C) The 18th century (D) The 19th century24.________________ literary world turns out to be a most disturbed andtormented one, which has much to do with his black vision of life and human beings.A. Herman Melville’sB. Washington Irving’sC. Nathaniel Hawthorne’sD. Walt Whitman’s25.As far as Nathaniel Hawthorne’s art is concerned, which of the followingstatements is true?A.In his The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne intends to tell a love story and astory of sin.B. His art is deeply influenced by Puritanism because he was a Puritanhimself.C.Ambiguity is one of the salient characteristics of his art.D.According to Hawthorne, man is divine in nature and thereforeperfectible.26.What does Hester’s letter “A” eventually come to represent to thetownspeople?A. “Able”B. “Alone”C. “Avaricious”D. “Absolutely Admirable”27._____ was the poet of the common people and the prophet and singer ofdemocracy.A. FrostB. LongfellowC. PoundD. Whitman28.Walt Whitman wrote his poetry in the style of _______.A. blank verseB. alliterationC. free verseD. irony29.Which of the following is written in memory of President Lincoln?A.Song of MyselfB.I Hear America SingingC.O Captain! My Captain!D.Leaves of Grass30.In_____________, Whitman airs his sorrow at President Lincoln’s death.A. Cavalry Crossing a FordB. A PactC. O Captain! My Captain!D. There was a Child Went Forth31.The shy, reclusive poet, _____, has come to be regarded as one ofAmerica's great lyric poets.A. H.W. LongfellowB. Emily DickinsonC. Edgar Allan PoeD. Walt Whitman32.Which of the following died almost completely unknown to the Americanpublic?A. DickinsonB. WhitmanC. LongfellowD. Poe33.Which of the following is not true as far as Emily Dickinson’s poetry isconcerned?A.She often uses dashes.B.Most of her poems are about death and immortality.C.Her poems are very personal and meditative.D.Her poems usually have well-chosen titles.34.Mark Twain's novels are mostly about _____ subject matter.A. internationalB. adventureC. travelogueD. love35.________ is called by Hemingway the one from which all modernAmerican literature comes.A.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinB.The Adventures of Tom SawyerC.The Gilded AgeD.Life on the Mississippi36.Huckleberry Finn is in ______ language.A. vernacularB. BritishC. AmericanD. black37.Mark Twain, the humourist, wrote the following except ______.A.The Adventures of Tom SawyerB.The Prince and the PauperC.The Happy PrinceD.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn38.Mark Twain is all of the following but _____.A. a local coloristB. a social satiristC . a realist D. a romanticist39.Soapy is a fictional character from _____.A.The Gift of MagiB.The Last LeafC.The Cop and the AnthemD.An unfinished Story40.________ was the leading spokesman of the Imagist Movement, whosefamous one-image poem “In a Station of the Metro” would serve as a typical example of the imagist ideas.A. T. S. EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD. Wallace Stevens41.______ was a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”.A. T. S. EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD. Walt Whitman42.Robert Frost’s _______ is an easy poem recording the poet’s meditationon a snowy evening and emphasizing one’s responsibility to be fufilled in life against a temptation of momentary retreat.A. “Mending the Wall”B. “The Road Not Taken’’C. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’D. “Departmental”43.________ stems from the ambiguity of the speaker’s choice between safetyand the unknown.A. “Mending the Wall”B. “Home Burial”C. “The Road Not Taken”D. “Stopping by Woods on a SnowyEvening’44.In Frost’s poems, images and metaphors in his poems are drawn from_________________.A. the simple country lifeB. the urban lifeC. the life on the seaD. the adventures and trips45.Which of the following poets is the poet of New England country and farmlife?A. Walt WhitmanB. Anne BradstreetC. H.W. LongfellowD. Robert Frost46._____ is often acclaimed as literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.A. Ernest HemingwayB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. William FaulknerD. Ezra Pound47.F. Scott Fitzgerald skillfully employs the device of having events observedby______ to his great advantage.A.more than one witnessB. a “central consciousness”C.his double visionD.the protagonist48.In “A Rose for Emily”, Faulkner makes best use of the ______ device innarration.A. RomanticB. GothicC. RealisticD. Modernist49.Faulkner once said that __________ is a story of “lost innocence”, whichproves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.A.The Sound and FuryB. Light in AugustC. Go Down, MosesD. Absalom, Absalom!50.Apart from dislocation of time and the modern stream of consciousness, theother narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include ______, symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.A. expressionismB. impressionismC. first person point of viewD. multiple points of view51. Most of Faulkner’s works are set in ______.A. EnglandB. ParisC. the American SouthD. the American North52. Faulkner wrote all of the following except_______.A.For Whom the Bell TollsB.The Sound and FuryC.Light in AugustD.As I Lay Dying53. Which of the following stories is set in a caféin Spain?A. Farewell to ArmsB.The Old Man and the SeaC. For Whom the Bell TollsD. A Clean, Well-lighted Place54. The Hemingway style is all but ______.A. laconicB. leanC. optimisticD. economical55. Scott Fitzgerald never spared an intimate touch in his fiction to deal with thebankruptcy of the _______________.A. American bourgeoisieB. ruling classesC. American CapitalistsD. American Dream56. The first settlers who became the founding fathers of the American nation were quite a few of the __________.A. QuakersB. AnglicansC. CatholicsD. Puritans57. The first symbol of self-made American man is __________.A. George WashingtonB. Washington IrvingC. Thomas JeffersonD. Benjamin Franklin58. “Diedrich Knickerbocker” is the pseudonym of ________ for whose works which combines European legends with New England reality.A. CooperB. Washington IrvingC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Philip Frenau59. Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the greatest American litterateurs whose call for an independent American culture played a crucial part in the American intellectual history. The following works are all his except __________.A. NatureB. The PoetC. The American ScholarD. Walden60. Which work does not belong to Washington Irving?A.Rip Van WinkleB. The RavenC. The Legend of Sleepy HollowD. The Alhambra61. Which one does not belong to Whitman’s poetic style?A. The use of certain “I.”B. Writing in free verseC. Long list of names, long poem sentences.D. Frequent use of hyphen.62. Which character is not from The Scarlet Letter?A. Hester PrynneB. Roger ChillingworthC. AhabD. Pearl63. One of Mark Twain’s significant contributions to American literature lies in the fact that he made ________ an accepted, respectable literary medium in the literary history of the country.A. colloquial speechB. tall talesC. fierce humorD. social satire64. “The Lost Generation” refers to the young who experienced the disillusion after WWII. One of its representative writers is ________.A. William FaulknerB. F. S. FitzgeraldC. Langston HughesD. Vladimir Nabokov65. In The Great Gatsby, Nick is the narrator who belongs to the type of _______.A. participantB. non-participantC. unreliableD. innocent eye66. Who among the following writers is recognized as a leading spokesman of the Imagist Movement in America?A. J. D. SalingerB. Ezra PoundC. Richard RightD. Ralph Ellison67. Ernest Hemingway is noted for the following EXCEPT __________.A. Lost GenerationB. iceberg theoryC. American DreamD. grace under pressure1._________ works are marked by a preoccupation with the Calvinistic view of original sin and the mystery of evil.A.Emerson’sB. Hawthorne’sC. Thoreau’sD. Allan Poe’s2. Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” got ideas from _______ legends.A.B ritishB. GermanC. ItalianD. French3. “Rip Van Winkle” reveal s the theme of ______ the past.A. nostalgia forB. rejectionn toC. detachment fromD. dislike for4. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, “A” may stand for ____________.A. AngelB. AdulteryC. AbleD.all the above4. According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter “A” which originally stood for “____”finally obtained the meaning of “able” or “angel” through Hester’s efforts.A. adulteryB. arroganceC. accomplishmentD. agony5. Which one is not the characteristics of the puritan style?A. FreshB. SimpleC. GrandD. Direct6. In his ______, Benjamin Franklin creates the image of a boy’s rise from rags to riches and demonstrates his belief that the new world America was a land of opportunities which might be met through hard work and wise management.A. The AutobigraphyB. Poor Richard’s AlmanackC. The Way to WealthD. Common Sense7. The ________ is a doctrine of predestination, original sin, total depravity andlimited atonement.A. PuritanismB. TranscendentalismC. ImagismD. Naturalism8. Which of the following does not belong to the points of view of Transcendentalists?A. Believing in the transcendence of the OversoulB. Believing in the “infinitude of man”C. Believing in rational and logical of natureD. Believing in making himself by making his world9. Which is regarded as one of the most important works in the Transcendentalistperiod?A. NatureB. The Marble FaunC. Leaves of GrassD. The Raven10. ______ intend to depict the local character of their region, and Mark Twain is oneof the representative writers.A. RomanticistsB. Local ColoristsC. Writers of Colonial and Revolutionary periodsD. Modernists11. _____ put forward three Imagist poetic principles.A. Walt WhitmanB. Robert FrostC. Henry W. LongfellowD. Ezra Pound12. _____ became Mark Twain’s masterpiece, as Hemingway noted, it is the one bookfrom which “all modern American Literature comes”.A. B. C. D.13. Faulkner’s works have been termed as the ________ saga, in which he inventedthe geography, history and people of an imaginary county in the Deep South.A. WinesburgB. YoknapatawphaC. ForsyteD. Olinger14. Imagist poems are mainly composed in the form of ______.A. blankB. sonnetC. free verseD. quatrain15. Direct treatment of the “thing”, rigid economy of words, organic rhythm and theimage as a fusion of idea and emotion are principles laid down by _____ for the new poetry he championed.A. Amy LowellB. T. S. EliotC. Wallace StevensD. Ezra Pound16. Which of the following statements is not true about Imagism?A. It rebels against the traditional ways of poetry.B. Imagists do not use extra words that don’t express the feeling.C. It only gets the inspiration from the ancient Greek or Latin.D. It is the most influential movement in the 1920s of American poetry.17. Which of the following is not one of the main ideas advocated by Emerson, thechief spokesman of American Romanticism Transcendentalism?A. Importance of the IndividualB. Faith in ChristianityC. The oversoulD. Self-Reliance18. In Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle”, the drastic political changes in the lapsed 20yearsare suggested by all of the following except ________.A. the flag of the United StatesB. the portrait of Georgre WashingtonC. the graves of the dead Union soldiersD.the mention of election and Congress19. Which of the works concerns most concentratedly the Calvinistic view of originalsin?A. The Waste LandB. The Scarlet LetterC. Leaves of GrassD. As I Lay Dying20. The finest example of Hawthorne’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Bostonin ____.A. The Scarlet LetterB. Young Goodman BrownC. The Marble FaunD. The Ambitious Guest21. Transcendentalists recognized _____ as the “highest power of the soul”.A. intuitionB. logicC. data of the sensesD. thinking22. Transcendentalist doctrines found their great literary advocates in _____ andThoreau.A. JeffersonB. EmersonC. FreneauD. Paine23. Which of the following is not a famous concept of Transcendentalism?A. Nature is ennoblingB. The individual is divine and self–reliantC. Man is capable of knowing truth by intuitionD.Man is corrupted in nature.24. The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne is mainly concerned with ______.A. the corruption of societyB. the consequence of sin and guiltC. the wrongdoing of one generation that lives into the successive onesD. “overreaching intellect”25. Walt Whitman was a famous figure in American poetry. His innovation first of alllies in his use of _____, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A. blank verseB. heroic coupletC. free verseD. iambic pentameter26. Which of the following statements is wrong in describing Nathaniel Hawthorne?A. One source of evil that Hawthorne is concerned most is the over-reachingintellect.B. Hawthorne is also a great allegorist.C. Hawthorne is also a master of symbolism.D. Hawthorne is a realistic writer.27. Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is not true?A. It explores man’s never-ending search for the satisfaction of materialisticdesires.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.28. Emily Dickinson wrote many poems on various aspects of life. Which of thefollowing is not a usual subject of her poetic expression?A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace29. Dickinson’s poems include poems of ______.A. natureB. loveC. deathD. all of the above30. Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works in a ______ language.A. grandB. pompousC. simpleD. vernacular31. In writing “In a Station of the Metro”, Pound got his inspiration from _____.A. English sonnetB. Chinese classical poetryC. Japanese haikuD. French poetry32. William Faulkner’s works mainly concern the American _______.A. New EnglandB. Mid WestC. SouthD. West33. _____ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of LiPo into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.A. T. S. EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD. Emily Dickinson34.______ wrote about the society in the American South by inventing familieswhich represented different forces: the old decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the “poor whites”; and the negroes who labored for both of them.. A. Faulkner B. Fitzgerald C. Hemingway D. Steinbeck35. Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems depicted mostly _____.A. the frontier lifeB. the sea adventuresC. puritain communityD.the landscape and people in New England36.Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”, can be regardedas a symbol standing for all the following except ______.A. old valuesB. rigid distinction of social statusC. bigotry and eccentricityD. harmony and integrity37. Which of the following statements is not a typical feature of Imagism?A. To use the language of common speech, but to employ always the exact word.B. To create new rhythms, as the expression of a new mood.C. To allow absolute freedom in the choice of subject.D. To recommend heroic couplet as a preferable verse form.38. “In a Station of the Metro” is a typical imagist poem that fully displays Pound’sdefinition of image, which is ______.A. to reveal a poet’s instantaneous experience of lifeB. to present an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of timeC. to bring out a natural outburst of the poet’s emotionsD. to retell a poet’s past moment of experience39. Which of the following statements is not a typical feature of Frost’s poetry?A. It is usually presented in the dramatic monologue.B. It is rich in images, metaphors and symbols.C. Most of his poems are written in the form of free verse.D. Nature is one of the most important thematic concerns in his poetry.40. “My little horse must think it queer /To stop without a farmhouse near.”The above two lines are taken from Frost’s “Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening”, a beautifully structured poem which follows _______.A. iambic tetrameterB. iambic pentameterC. trochaic tetrameterD. trochaic pentameter41. In “petals on a wet, black bough”, the figure of speech used here is ______.A. metaphorB. hyperboleC. punD.simile42. “In a Station of the Metro” is regarded by critics as a classic specimen of ______.A. the romantic poetryB. the absurd poetryC. the transcendental poetryD. the imagist poetry43. Which of the following best describes the protagonist of Faulkner’s “A Rose forEmily”?A. She is a conservative aristocratB. She is a wealthy ladyC. She is a prisoner of the pastD. She has good taste.44. Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms --- the sonnet, rhyming couplets,blank verse --- with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of _______ farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.A. WesternB. New EnglandC. New HampshireD. southern45. Fitztegerald’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of ____.A. the Jazz AgeB. the Romantic PeriodC. the Renaissance PeriodD. the Neoclassical Period46. Which of the following statements about Emily Grierson, the protagonist inFaulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” is not true?A. She has a distorted personality.B. She is physically deformed and paralyzed.C. She is the victim of the past glory.D. She is the symbol of the old values of the South.47. At the beginning of “A Rose for Emily”, there is a detailed description of Emily’sold house. The purpose of such description is to imply that the person living in it ______.A. is a wealthy ladyB. is a prisoner of the pastC. has good tasteD. is a conservative aristocrat48. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both…In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”, the poet ,by implication, was referring to _______..A. a travel experienceB. a marriage decisionC. a middle-age crisisD. one’s course of life49. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties.The purpose of such description is to show _______.A. emptiness of lifeB. the corruption of the upper classC. contrast of the rich and the poorD. the happy days of the Jazz Age50. Lots of people rushed to Gatsby’s party at the weekend and they clustered aroundGatsby’s wealth like___.A. gluttonsB. fliesC. insectsD. moths1-67部分答案1-5 BCCBC 6-10 BBACA 11-15 BCBAA 16-20 CBACC 21-25 BDBCC26-30 ADCCC 31-35 BAD BA 36-40 ACDCC 41-45CCDAD 46-50 BBBAD 51-55 CADCD 56-60 DDBDB 61-67 DCABABC1-50部分答案1-5 BBADAC 6-10 AACAB 11-15 D(12哈克贝利芬历险记)BCD 16-20 CBCBA 21-25 ABDBC 26-30 DADDD 31-35 CCCAD 36-40 DDBCA 41-45 ADCBA 46-50 BBDADII.Identification1 Edgar Allan Poe To HellenOn desperate seas long wont to roam,Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home, To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.2Edgar Allan Poe Annabel LeeFor the moon never beams without bringing me dreamsOf the beautiful Annalbel Lee;And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyesOf the beautiful Annabel Lee;And so,all the night-tide ,I lie down by the sideOf my darling ,my darling ,my life and my bride,In the sepulchre there by the sea,In her tomb by the side of the sea.3 A Psalm of Life wordsworth LongfellowIn the world's broad field of battle,In the bivouac of Life,Be not like dumb, driven cattlt!Be a hero in the strife!Lives of great men all remind usWe can make our lives sublime,And , departing , leave behind usFootprints on the sands of time;4 O Captain! My Captain Walt WhitmanO Captain! my Captain!rise up and hear the bells;Rise up -for you the flag is flung -for you the bugle trills,For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths-for you the shores crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turing;Here, Captain!dear father!This arm beneath your head;It is some dream that on the deckYou 've fallen cold and dead.5 Because i Could Not Stop for Death Emily DickinsonSince then 't is centuries;but eachFeels shorter than the dayI first surmised the horses' headsWere toward eternity.6 I’m Nobody Emily DickinsonHow dreary to be somebody!How public, like a frogTo tell your name the livelong dayTo an admiring bog!7 In a station of the metro Ezra PoundThe aspiration of these faces in the crowd,Petals on a wet black bough8the cop and the anthem O henryNeatly upon his left ear on the callous pavement two waiters pitched Soapy. H e arose, joint by joint, as a carpenter’s rule opens, and beat the dust from his clothes. Arrest seemed but a rosy dream. The Island seemed very far away9 the cop and the anthem O henryA sudden fear seized Soapy that some dreadful enchantment had rendered him immune to arrest. The thought brought a little of panic upon it, and when he came upon another policeman lounging grandly in front of a transplendent the atre he caught at the immediate straw of "disorderly conduct."10 William Faulkner A rose for EmilyAlive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligati on upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor--h e who fathered the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the streets without a n apron-remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father on int o perpetuity.11 William Faulkner A rose for EmilyAnd so she died. Fell ill in the house filled with dust and shadows, with only a dodder ing Negro man to wait on her. We did not even know she was sick; we had long sinc e given up trying to get any information from the NegroHe talked to no one, probably not even to her, for his voice had grown harsh and rust y, as if from disuse.12 A Clean Well-lighted Place Earnest Hemingway"I am of those who like to stay late at the cafe," the older waiter said."With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the n ight.""I want to go home and into bed.""We are of two different kinds," the older waiter said. He was now dressed to go hom e. "It is not only a question of youth and confidence although those things are very be。

American Geography

American Geography

• Cultural Geography
Location
• The United States of America is situated in the southern part of North America (except Alaska and Hawaii). The continental United States stretches 4,500 kilometers from the Atlantic Ocean on the east to the Pacific Ocean on the west. It is bounded by Canada on the north and by Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico (墨西哥 湾)on the south, with a distance of 2,575 kilometers in between.
Economic and cultural centre
• The Northeast is the wealthiest region of the United States; Maryland, New Jersey and Connecticut have the highest median incomes in the country while Massachusetts is ranked fifth. It also accounts for approximately 25% of U.S. gross domestic product as of 2007. • This region is also home to all eight Ivy League schools. They generate income by knowledge industries. Only New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Massachusetts rank in the top 15 states in terms of population.

《美国文学》课件十三

《美国文学》课件十三
Lecture Thirteen “The Fall of the House of Usher”
The Plot of The Fall of the House of Usher
• The story begins with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country complaining of an illness and asking for his help. Although Poe wrote this short story before the invention of modern psychological science, Roderick's condition can be described according to its terminology.
The Plot
• The bedroom door is then blown open to reveal Madeline standing there. She falls on her brother, and both land on the floor as corpses. The narrator then flees the house, and, as he does so, notices a flash of light causing him to look back upon the House of Usher, in time to watch it break in two, the fragments sinking into the tarn.

英语国家概况美国部分精讲系列Chapter:13geography地理位置1

英语国家概况美国部分精讲系列Chapter:13geography地理位置1

英语国家概况美国部分精讲系列Chapter: 13 geography 地理位置1. Alaska and Hawaii are the two newest states in American. Alaska northwestern lies in Canada, and Hawaii lies in the central Pacific.阿拉斯加和夏威夷是最近加入美国的两个新州。

阿拉斯加在加拿大的西北部,夏威夷位邻中太平洋。

2. The U.S has a land area of 9.3 million square kilometers. It is the fourth largest country in the world in size after Russia, Canada and China.就面积而言,美国是世界第四大国,就人口而言,美国是世界是第三大国。

3. Of all states of American, Alaska is the largest in area and Rhode Island the smallest. But on the mainland Texas is the largest sate of the country.所有州中,阿拉斯加是面积最大的州,罗得岛最小,在美国大陆,最大的州是得克萨斯州。

4. The Rockies, the backbone of the North American Continent, is also known as the Continental Divide.落基山脉是北美大陆的脊梁,也被成为大陆分水岭。

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The two main mountain ranges in American are the Appalachian mountains and the Rocky mountains. The Appalachians run slightly from the northeast to southwest and the Rocky mountains run slightly from the northwest to southeast.阿巴拉契亚山脉和落基山脉是美国的两座大山脉。

Role of Geography in the 13 Colonies - Galena Park

Role of Geography in the 13 Colonies - Galena Park
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8. How are the Middle Colonies like the New England Colonies?
A. The Middle Colonies have ocean jobs too
B. The Middle Colonies have rocky soil too
• Some farming took place
• Appalachian Mountains eroded into valleys
• Rocks had to be removed from fields
• These rocks were good building materials
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4. Why does a subsistence farmer plant his crops?
C. The Middle Colonies have long cold winters
D. all of the above
Southern Colonies Climate
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▪ Short mild winters
▪ Long warm summer
▪ Longest growing season
▪ Most fertile soil on coastal plains
9. What color on the map represents the mest growing season for farming?
▪ A. dark green
▪ B. light green
▪ C. Yellow
• Forests of New England held plenty of lumber and shipping supplies

美国文学史及选读Chapter 13 Williams Frost Sandburg Cummings[1]

美国文学史及选读Chapter 13 Williams Frost Sandburg Cummings[1]

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A Witness Tree 1942
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Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Features of his poem: Full of wit and wisdom, peace and
harmony, serenity and enjoyment.
Order: In “Birches” he reveals his concern for order
and admits that when he feels “weary of considerations” and “life is too much like a pathless wood”, he would like to get away from the earth for a while, going back to be a swinger, and wishes that fate would willfully misunderstand him and snatch him away not to return. “The Wood Pile” is likewise a metaphor for order.
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;

美国文学第13章Frost,sandburg,cummings,crane)

美国文学第13章Frost,sandburg,cummings,crane)

• Frost was not inclined to take sides when confronted by paradoxes of life. He seemed universally calm and controlled, standing in the middle of the road viewing good and evil, beautiful and ugly. He did not stoop to answer, to explain, leaving conclusions to be drawn by the reader, or even, by future time.
• Two volumes—A Boy’s Will, named for one of Longfellow’s best poems, and North of Boston---were published in 1913and 1914 and were well enough received to create favorable repercussions (echo) in the US.

2. Features of Twain’s Works Part II: Features of Frost’s He uses old forms in new ways. He Poetry
rejected the revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporaries, choosing instead “the old-fashioned way to be new.” He employed the plain speech of rural New Englanders and preferred the short, traditional forms of lyric and narrative.

美国文学选读知识点整理

美国文学选读知识点整理

美国⽂学选读知识点整理1.Benjamin Franklin(1706~1790)Poor Richard’s AlmanacThe Autobiography2.Edgar Allan Poe(1809~1849)Tamerlane and Other PoemsMurders in the Rue MorguePoemsThe Purloined LetterThe Raven and other PoemsThe Gold BugTales of the Grotesque and ArabesqueThe Philosophy of CompositionTalesThe Poetic PrincipleThe Fall of the House of UsesAl AraafThe Red Masque of the Red Death LigeiaThe Black CatThe Cask of AmontilladoAnnabel LeeSonnet--To ScienceTo Helen3.Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803~1882) NatureSelf-RelianceThe American ScholarThe Divinity School AddressEssays:First SeriesEssays:Second SeriesRepresentative menEnglish TraitsThe Conduct of LifePoemsMay-Day and Other PiecesNathaniel Hawthorne(1804~1864)FanshaweTwice-told TalesMosses from an Old ManseScarlet LetterThe House of the Seven GablesThe Blithedale RomanceThe Marble Faun4.Herman Melville(1819~1891)TypeeOmooMardiRedburnWhite JacketMoby DickThe Confidence ManBattle PiecesClarelTimoleonBilly Budd5.Henry David Thoreau(1817~1862)On the Duty of Civil DisobedienceA Week on the Concord and Merrimack RiverWalden6.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1807~11882) V oices of the Night Ballads and Other PoemsEvangelineThe Song of HiawathaI shot an ArrowA Psalm of Life7.Walt Whitman(1819~1892)Leaves of GrassOne’s Self I SingO Captain!My Captain8.Emily Dickinson(1830~1886)To Make a PrairieSuccess Is Counted SweetestI’m Nobody!9.Mark Twain (1835~1910)The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras CountryThe Innocents AbroadThe Gilded AgeThe Adventures of Tom SawyerLife on the MississippiThe Adventures of Hucklebeerry finnA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg10.Henry James(1843~1916)A Passionate PilgrimRoderick HudsonThe Novels and Tales of Henry JamesThe AmericanDaisy MillerThe Portrait of a LadyThe BostoniansThe Princess of CasamassimaThe Spoils of PoyntonThe Turn of the ScrewThe Awkward AgeThe Wings of the DoveThe AmbassadorsThe Golden BowlThe Art of FictionThe American SceneThe Jolly Corner11.Stephen Crane(1871~1900)Maggie:A Girl of the StreetsThe Red Badge of CourageThe Open BoatThe Bride Comes to Y ellow SkyThe Blue Hotel12.Willa Cather(1873~1947)Miss Jewett13.Sherwood Anderson(176~1941) Windy McPherson’s Son Winesburg,OhioMarching MenPoor WhiteThe triumph of the Egg and Other StoriesHorses and MenMany MarriagesDark LaughterBeyond DesireDeath in the Woods and Other Stories14.Katherine Anne Porter(1890~1980) The Flowering Judas Pale Horse,Pale RiderThe Leaning TowerThe Old OrderOld MortalityA Ship of FoolsThe Jilting of Granny Weatherall15.F.Scott Fitzgerald(1896~1940)This Side of ParadiseThe Beautiful and the DamnedFlappers and PhilosophersTales of the Jazz AgeThe Great GatsbyTender is the NightThe Crack-Up16.William Faulkner(1897~1962)The Marble FaunSoldier’s PayThe Sound and the FuryMosquitoesAs I Lay DyingLight in AugustAbsalom,AbsalomThe HamletSartorisThe TownThe MansionBarn Burning17.Ernest Hemingway(1899~1961)In Our TimeThe Sun Also RisesA Farewell to ArmsFor Whom the Bell TollsThe Old Man and the SeaA Clean,Well-Lighted Place18.Ezra Pound(1885~1972)ExultationsPersonaeCathayCantosDes ImagistesIn a Station of the Metro19.Wallace Stevens(1879~1955)The Necessary AngelAnecdote of the Jar20.William Carlos Williams(1883~1963) Collected Later Poems Collected Early PoemsPatersonThe Red WheelbarrowSpring and All21.Robert Frost(1874~1963)A Boy’s WillNorth of BostonNew HamphshireCollected PoemsA Further RangeA Witness TreeFire and IceStopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningThe Road Not Taken22.Langston Hughes(1902~1967)The Weary BluesFine Clothes to the JewThe Dream Keeper and Other PoemsShakespeare in HarlemDreamsMe and the MuleBorder Line23.Archibald MacLeish(1892~1982)The Happy MarriageThe Poet of EarthConquistadorCollected PoemsJ.B.Ars Poetica24.Eugene Glastone O’Neill(1888~1953) Bound East for Cardiff In The ZoneThe Long V oyage HomeThe Moon of the CaribeesEmperor JonesThe Hairy ApeThe Great God BrownStrange InterludeDesire Under the ElmsMourning Becomes ElectraThe Iceman ComethA Touch of the PoetLong Day’s Journey Into NightThe Moon for the MisbegottenHughieMore Stately Mansions25.Eiwyn Brooks White(1899~1985)Talk of the TownIs Sex NecessaryElements of StyleStuart LittleCharlotte’s WebQuo V adimus or The Case for the Bicycle One Man’s MeatThe Points of My CompassLetters of E.B,whiteEssays of E.B,whitePoems and Sketches of E.B.White Writings from The New Y orkerOnce More to the Lake 26.Tennessee Williams(1911~1983) The Glass MenagerieA Streetcar Named DesireCat On a Hot Tin RoofSummer and SmokeThe Rose TattooCamino RealOrpheus DescendingSuddenly Last SummerThe Sweet Bird of Y outhThe Night of the Lguana27.Ralph Waldo Ellison(1914~1994) Invisible ManShadow and ActGoing to the Territory28.Robert Lowell(1917~1977)Lord Weary’s CastleLife StudiesThe DolphinSkunk Hour29.Elizabeth Bishop(1911~1979) North and SouthCollected PoemsGeography IIIIn the Waiting Room30.Theodore Roethke(1908~1963)The Waking PoemsThe Collected PoemsOn the Poet and His Craft:Selected Prose 31.Allen Ginsberg(1926~1997)HowlA Supermarket in California32.Sylvia Plath(1932~1963)The ColossusArielWinter TreesThe Bell JarLetters HomePoint Shirley33.Robert Hayden (1913~1980)Frederick Douglass34.Robert Bly(1926~)The Light Around the BodyThe SixtiesDriving Through Minnesota During the Hanoi Bombing 35.Maya Angelou(1928~)Still I Rise36.Arthur Miller(1915~2005) All My Sonse Death of a SalesmanThe CrucibleA View from the BridgeAfter the FallThe Archbishop’s CellingThe Misfits37.Saul Bellow(1915~2005) Dangling manThe VictimThe Adventures of Augie MarchHenderson the Rain KingHerzogSeize the DayMr.Sammler’s PlanetHumbolt’s GiftThe Dean’s DecemberMore Die of HeartbreakThe TheftThe ActualRavelsteinMosby’s Memories and Other StoriesThe Last AnalysisLooking for Mr.Green38.Joseph Heller(1923~1999) We Bombed in New Haven Something HappenedGood as GoldGod KnowsCatch-2239.Toni Morrison(1931~)The Bluest EyeSulaSong of SolomonTar BabyBelovedJazzParadiseLoveA MercyRecitatif40.Louise Erdrich(1954~)Love MedicineThe Beet QueenTracksThe Crown of ColumbusThe Bingo PalaceTales of Burning LoveThe Antelope WifeThe Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse The Master Butchers Singing Club Four SoulsThe Painted DrumThe Plague of DovesShadow TagLulu’s Boys。

chapter1_AmericanGeography

chapter1_AmericanGeography

1. Location,Size and Geographical Divisions
The large territory of the continental United States can be divided into three basic areas:
the Atlantic Seacoast west to the Appalachian Mountains;
A Survey of USA:
----- American Geography
Prof. Niangen Huang
1. Location,Size and Geographical Divisions
The United States lies in the central part of North America with its two youngest states: Alaska on the northwest tip of the continent and Hawaii in the central Pacific.
The Middle Atlantic Seacoast is a flat and fertile region. There are miles and miles beautiful,open country all through this section.
Many heavily wooded mountains and deep valley cut by wide and beautiful rivers can be found.
In the deep south and wide. The soil of this region varies greatly.Some parts along the coast are almost pure sand.Other sections contain some of the richest soil in the whole country.

美国文学chapter-13

美国文学chapter-13
After the war, America entered an Age of Anxiety. The politics of America were influenced by two great fears. First, there was the fear of the Bomb; many Americans were sure there would be a war with the Soviet Union using atomic bombs. Also, in the late forties and early fifties, fear of Communism became a national sickness.
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The Major writers
Eudora Welty (1909-2001)
Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi. As the title of her most recent book suggests, One Writer’s Beginnings (1983) describes the significant roles played by her family and home in shaping Welty’s artistic sensibility. Her formal education included attendance at Mississippi State College for Women, the University of Wisconsin, and the Columbia University School of Business.

美国概况

美国概况

英语国家概况美国文学主要分为四个时期:1. The Literature Around the Revolution of Independence(独立革命前后的文学)。

2. American Romanticism(美国浪漫主义文学)。

3. American Realism(美国现实主义文学)。

4. American Modernism(美国现代主义文学)。

Geography美国地理概况本文针对英语专业八级考试的人文知识部分,总结了美国国家的主要地理概况,希望对同学们有所帮助。

The Fall Line瀑布线:A point where water-falls or rapids suddenly drop from a higher level to the lower one.瀑布线指的是瀑布急速地从高处向低处流泻的点。

The Appalachian Range阿巴拉契亚山脉:1200 miles long,consists of the Piedmont Plateau, Appalachian Plateaus and Appalachian Range.阿巴拉契亚山脉全场1200英里,由皮德蒙特高原、阿巴拉契亚高原及阿巴拉契亚山脉组成。

The Cordillera Range科迪勒拉山脉:Composed of the Coast Range, the Cascades and the Rocky Mountains.科迪勒拉山脉由海岸山脉、卡斯卡德山以及洛基山组成。

The Great Basin大盆地:The Part between the Colorado and Columbia Plateaus.指的是科罗拉多和哥伦比亚高地之间的部分。

The Great Central Plain中部大平原:The land mass between the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachians.指的是洛基山和阿巴拉伊亚山之间的平原。

文学史Chapter 13

文学史Chapter 13

Chapter 13Williams. Frost . Sandburg . CummingsWilliams Carlos Williams (卡洛斯.威廉斯)He worked all his life as a physician in America and loves and remains faithful to the world of reality and things.Williams is noted for his fidelity to the facts of life. He feels strongly that poetry must be grounded in everyday experience and in the speech of the common man. It must use the common meters of living speech. It must rid itself of all encrustation and ornamentation, and include the rough, the ugly, and the commonplace.Famous poem:Paterson (帕特生)1.An unusual poem. “Paterson” is the name of both a town and adoctor in the town. It describes the pastoral of Paterson of early days,and displays his intense love for his homeland.2.In technique, it faithfully reproduces the quiet, serene rhythm of lifein its natural flow. The form of the poem is highly flexible toaccommodate the variety of themes.The Red Wheelbarrow (红色手推车) read p.225多有意思瞧那辆红色的手推车浇淋着雨水闪闪发亮在一群白色的雏鸡旁。

美国文学简史完全笔记

美国文学简史完全笔记

美国文学简史完全笔记2008-11-26 13:42页面功能【字体:大中小】【打印】【关闭】A Concise History of American LiteratureWhat is literature?Literature is language artistically used to achieve identifiable literary qualities and to convey meaningful messages.Chapter 1 Colonial Period I. Background: Puritanism1.features of Puritanism(1)Predestination: God decided everything before things occurred.(2)Original sin: Human beings were born to be evil, and this original sin can be passed down from generation to generation.(3)Total depravity(4)Limited atonement: Only the ※elect§ can be saved.2.Influence(1)A group of good qualities 每 hard work, thrift, piety, sobriety (serious and thoughtful) influenced American literature.(2)It led to the everlasting myth. All literature is based on a myth 每garden of Eden.(3)Symbolism: the American puritan*s metaphorical mode of perception was chiefly instrumental in calling into being a literary symbolism which is distinctly American.(4)With regard to their writing, the style is fresh, simple and direct; the rhetoric is plain and honest, not without a touch of nobility often traceable to the direct influence of the Bible.II. Overview of the literature1.types of writingdiaries, histories, journals, letters, travel books, autobiographies/biographies, sermons2.writers of colonial period(1)Anne Bradstreet(2)Edward Taylor(3)Roger Williams(4)John Woolman(5)Thomas Paine(6)Philip FreneauIII. Jonathan Edwards1.life2.works(1)The Freedom of the Will(2)The Great Doctrine of Original Sin Defended(3)The Nature of True Virtue3.ideas 每 pioneer of transcendentalism(1)The spirit of revivalism(2)Regeneration of man(3)God*s presence(4)Puritan idealismIV. Benjamin Franklin1.life2.works(1)Poor Richard*s Almanac(2)Autobiography3.contribution(1)He helped found the Pennsylvania Hospital and the American Philosophical Society.(2)He was called ※the new Prometheus who had stolen fire (electricity in this case)from heaven§.(3)Everything seems to meet in this one man 每※Jack of all trades§. Herman Melville thus described him ※master of each and mastered by none§.Chapter 2 American RomanticismSection 1 Early Romantic Period What is Romanticism?lAn approach from ancient Greek: PlatolA literary trend: 18c in Britain (1798~1832)lSchlegel Bros.I. Preview: Characteristics of romanticism1.subjectivity(1)feeling and emotions, finding truth(2)emphasis on imagination(3)emphasis on individualism 每 personal freedom, no hero worship, natural goodness of human beings2.back to medieval, esp medieval folk literature(1)unrestrained by classical rules(2)full of imagination(3)colloquial language(4)freedom of imagination(5)genuine in feelings: answer their call for classics3.back to naturenature is ※breathing living thing§ (Rousseau)II. American Romanticism1.Background(1)Political background and economic development(2)Romantic movement in European countriesDerivative 每 foreign influence2.features(1)American romanticism was in essence the expression of ※a real new experience and contained ※an alien quality§ for the simple reason that ※the spirit of the place§ was radically new and alien.(2)There is American Puritanism as a cultural heritage to consider. American romantic authors tended more to moralize. Many American romantic writings intended to edify more than they entertained.(3)The ※newness§ of Americans as a nation is in connection with American Romanticism.(4)As a logical result of the foreign and native factors at work, American romanticism was both imitative and independent.III. Washington Irving1.several names attached to Irving(1)first American writer(2)the messenger sent from the new world to the old world(3)father of American literature2.life3.works(1)A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty(2)The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (He won a measure of international recognition with the publication of this.)(3)The History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus(4)A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada(5)The Alhambra4.Literary career: two parts(1)1809~1832a. Subjects are either English or Europeanb. Conservative love for the antique(2)1832~1859: back to US5.style 每 beautiful(1)gentility, urbanity, pleasantness(2)avoiding moralizing 每 amusing and entertaining(3)enveloping stories in an atmosphere(4)vivid and true characters(5)humour 每 smiling while reading(6)musical languageIV. James Fenimore Cooper1.life2.works(1)Precaution (1820, his first novel, imitating Austen*s Pride andPrejudice)(2)The Spy (his second novel and great success)(3)Leatherstocking Tales (his masterpiece, a series of five novels)The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneer, The Prairie3.point of view he theme of wilderness vs. civilization, freedom vs. law, order vs. change, aristocrat vs. democrat, natural rights vs. legal rights4.style(1)highly imaginative(2)good at inventing tales(3)good at landscape description(4)conservative(5)characterization wooden and lacking in probability(6)language and use of dialect not authentic5.literary achievementsHe created a myth about the formative period of the American nation. If the history of the United States is, in a sense, the process of the American settlers exploring and pushing the American frontier forever westward, then Cooper*s Leatherstocking Tales effectively approximates the American national experience of adventure into the West. He turned the west and frontier as a useable past and he helped to introduce western tradition to American literature.Section 2 Summit of Romanticism 每 American Transcendentalism I. Background: four sources1.Unitarianism(1)Fatherhood of God(2)Brotherhood of men(3)Leadership of Jesus(4)Salvation by character (perfection of one*s character)(5)Continued progress of mankind(6)Divinity of mankind(7)Depravity of mankind2.Romantic IdealismCenter of the world is spirit, absolute spirit (Kant)3.Oriental mysticismCenter of the world is ※oversoul§4.PuritanismEloquent expression in transcendentalismII. Appearance1836, ※Nature§ by EmersonIII. Features1.spirit/oversoul2.importance of individualism3.nature 每 symbol of spirit/Godgarment of the oversoul4.focus in intuition (irrationalism and subconsciousness)IV. Influence1.It served as an ethical guide to life for a young nation and brought about the idea that human can be perfected by nature. It stressed religious tolerance, called to throw off shackles of customs and traditions and go forward to the development of a new and distinctly American culture.2.It advocated idealism that was great needed in a rapidly expanded economy where opportunity often became opportunism, and the desire to ※get on§ obscuredthe moral necessity for rising to spiritual height.3.It helped to create the first American renaissance 每 one of the most prolific period in American literature.V. Ralph Waldo Emerson1.life2.works(1)Nature(2)Two essays: The American Scholar, The Poet3.point of view(1)One major element of his philosophy is his firm belief in the transcendence of the ※oversoul§.(2)He regards nature as the purest, and the most sanctifying moral influence on man, and advocated a direct intuition of a spiritual and immanent God in nature.(3)If man depends upon himself, cultivates himself and brings out the divine in himself, he can hope to become better and even perfect. This is what Emerson means by ※the infinitude of man§.(4)Everyone should understand that he makes himself by making his world, and that he makes the world by making himself.4.aesthetic ideas(1)He is a complete man, an eternal man.(2)True poetry and true art should ennoble.(3)The poet should express his thought in symbols.(4)As to theme, Emerson called upon American authors to celebrate America which was to him a lone poem in itself.5.his influenceVI. Henry David Thoreau1.life2.works(1)A Week on the Concord and Merrimack River(2)Walden(3)A Plea for John Brown (an essay)3.point of view(1)He did not like the way a materialistic America was developing and was vehemently outspoken on the point.(2)He hated the human injustice as represented by the slavery system.(3)Like Emerson, but more than him, Thoreau saw nature as a genuine restorative, healthy influence on man*s spiritual well-being.(4)He has faith in the inner virtue and inward, spiritual grace of man.(5)He was very critical of modern civilization.(6)※Simplicity#simplify!§(7)He was sorely disgusted with ※the inundations of the dirty institutions of men*s odd-fellow society§.(8)He has calm trust in the future and his ardent belief in a new generation of men.Section 3 Late Romanticism I. Nathaniel Hawthorne1.life2.works(1)Two collections of short stories: Twice-told Tales, Mosses from and Old Manse(2)The Scarlet Letter(3)The House of the Seven Gables(4)The Marble Faun3.point of view(1)Evil is at the core of human life, ※that blackness in Hawthorne§(2)Whenever there is sin, there is punishment. Sin or evil can be passed from generation to generation (causality).(3)He is of the opinion that evil educates.(4)He has disgust in science.4.aesthetic ideas(1)He took a great interest in history and antiquity. To him these furnish the soil on which his mind grows to fruition.(2)He was convinced that romance was the predestined form of American narrative. To tell the truth and satirize and yet not to offend: That was what Hawthorne had in mind to achieve.5.style 每 typical romantic writer(1)the use of symbols(2)revelation of characters* psychology(3)the use of supernatural mixed with the actual(4)his stories are parable (parable inform)每 to teach a lesson(5)use of ambiguity to keep the reader in the world of uncertainty 每multiple point of viewII. Herman Melville1.life2.works(1)Typee(2)Omio(3)Mardi(4)Redburn(5)White Jacket(6)Moby Dick(7)Pierre(8)Billy Budd3.point of view(1)He never seems able to say an affirmative yes to life: His is the attitude of ※Everlasting Nay§ (negative attitude towards life).(2)One of the major themes of his is alienation (far away from each other).Other themes: loneliness, suicidal individualism (individualism causing disaster and death), rejection and quest, confrontation of innocence and evil, doubts over the comforting 19c idea of progress4.style(1)Like Hawthorne, Melville manages to achieve the effect of ambiguity through employing the technique of multiple view of his narratives.(2)He tends to write periodic chapters.(3)His rich rhythmical prose and his poetic power have been profusely commented upon and praised.(4)His works are symbolic and metaphorical.(5)He includes many non-narrative chapters of factual background or description of what goes on board the ship or on the route (Moby Dick)Romantic Poets I. Walt Whitman1.life2.work: Leaves of Grass (9 editions)(1)Song of Myself(2)There Was a Child Went Forth(3)Crossing Brooklyn Ferry(4)Democratic Vistas(5)Passage to India(6)Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking3.themes 每※Catalogue of American and European thought§He had been influenced by many American and European thoughts: enlightenment, idealism, transcendentalism, science, evolution ideas, western frontier spirits, Jefferson*s individualism, Civil War Unionism, Orientalism.Major themes in his poems (almost everything):lequality of things and beingsldivinity of everythinglimmanence of Godldemocracylevolution of cosmoslmultiplicity of naturelself-reliant spiritldeath, beauty of deathlexpansion of Americalbrotherhood and social solidarity (unity of nations in the world)lpursuit of love and happiness4.style: ※free verse§(1)no fixed rhyme or scheme(2)parallelism, a rhythm of thought(3)phonetic recurrence(4)the habit of using snapshots(5)the use of a certain pronoun ※I§(6)a looser and more open-ended syntactic structure(7)use of conventional image(8)strong tendency to use oral English(9)vocabulary powerful, colourful, rarely used words of foreign origins, some even wrong(10) sentences catalogue technique: long list of names, long poem lines5.influence(1)His best work has become part of the common property of Western culture.(2)He took over Whitman*s vision of the poet-prophet and poet-teacher and recast it in a more sophisticated and Europeanized mood.(3)He has been compared to a mountain in American literary history.(4)Contemporary American poetry, whatever school or form, bears witness to his great influence.II. Emily Dickenson1.life2.works(1)My Life Closed Twice before Its Close(2)Because I Can*t Stop for Death(3)I Heard a Fly Buzz 每 When I died(4)Mine 每 by the Right of the White Election(5)Wild Nights 每 Wild Nights3.themes: based on her own experiences/joys/sorrows(1)religion 每 doubt and belief about religious subjects(2)death and immortality(3)love 每 suffering and frustration caused by love(4)physical aspect of desire(5)nature 每 kind and cruel(6)free will and human responsibility4.style(1)poems without titles(2)severe economy of expression(3)directness, brevity(4)musical device to create cadence (rhythm)(5)capital letters 每 emphasis(6)short poems, mainly two stanzas(7)rhetoric techniques: personification 每 make some of abstract ideas vividIII. Comparison: Whitman vs. Dickinson1.Similarities:(1)Thematically, they both extolled, in their different ways, an emergent America, its expansion, its individualism and its Americanness, their poetry being part of ※American Renaissance§.(2)Technically, they both added to the literary independence of the new nation by breaking free of the convention of the iambic pentameter and exhibiting a freedom in form unknown before: they were pioneers in American poetry.2.differences:(1)Whitman seems to keep his eye on society at large; Dickinson exploresthe inner life of the individual.(2)Whereas Whitman is ※national§ in his outlook, Dickinson is※regional§.(3)Dickinson has the ※catalogue technique§ (direct, simple style) which Whitman doesn*t have.Edgar Allen PoeI. LifeII. Works1.short stories(1)ratiocinative storiesa. Ms Found in a Bottleb. The Murders in the Rue Morguec. The Purloined Letter(2)Revenge, death and rebirtha. The Fall of the House of Usherb. Ligeiac. The Masque of the Red Death(3)Literary theorya. The Philosophy of Compositionb. The Poetic Principlec. Review of Hawthorne*s Twice-told TalesIII. Themes1.death 每 predominant theme in Poe*s writing※Poe is not interested in anything alive. Everything in Poe*s writings isdead.§2.disintegration (separation) of life3.horror4.negative thoughts of scienceIV. Aesthetic ideas1.The short stories should be of brevity, totality, single effect, compression and finality.2.The poems should be short, and the aim should be beauty, the tone melancholy. Poems should not be of moralizing. He calls for pure poetry and stresses rhythm.V. Style 每 traditional, but not easy to readVI. Reputation: ※the jingle man§ (Emerson)VII. His influences。

英美文学

英美文学

Chapter One GeographySection One PhysiographyI. total area---9,363,00048 states, 2 outlying states: Alaska and Hawaiioverseas territories['tɛrɪ,tɔri, -,tori], colonies:Puerto Rico [,pwɛrtə 'riko, ,pɔrtə, ,portə, 'pwɛrto]n.波多黎各Virgin Islands nearby in the West IndiesEastern Samoa[sə'moə]萨摩亚群岛(南太平洋) in south PacificGuam[ɡwɑm]n.关岛(西太平洋)in west Pacific (US naval['nevəl]adj.海军的base)Mariana玛丽安娜Islands,in the Western Pacific.II. Three parts and seven areasSection One Physiographytotal areaoverseas territories, colonies:•Puerto Rico•Virgin Islands nearby in the West Indies•Eastern Samoa in south Pacific•Guam in west Pacific (US naval base)Three Parts1. the eastern part2 the western part3 the Great Central PlainsIII. Two major mountain ranges:1. The Appalachians[,æpə'leitʃənz](theAppalachians)阿巴拉契亚山脉(北美洲)2. The Rocky Mountains:IV. Three major River Systems1. System of the Gulf海湾The Mississippi River:The Missouri [mɪ'zʊri]n.密苏里州(美国州名)River, The Ohio River, The Tennessee River, The Arkansas River['ɑrkən,sɔ]n.阿肯色州(美国中南部的州)2. the system of the AtlanticThe Hudson赫德森River, The Delaware ['deləwɛə]n.(美国东部的)特拉华(州)River , The Potomac[pə'təumək]n.波拖马可河(美国东部重要河流,流经首都华盛顿)River, St. Lawrence劳伦斯River3. the system of the PacificThe Columbia River, The Colorado[,kɑlə'rædo, -'rɑdo]美国科罗拉多州(位于美国西部) River , Rio里奥Grande RiverV. The Great LakesLake Huron ['hjʊrən, -,ɑn]n.休伦湖(北美五大湖中的第二大湖)Lake Ontario[ɑn'tɛri,o]安大略湖(北美洲中东部)(美国和加拿大共有的湖)Lake MichiganLake Erie['ɪri]n.伊利湖Lake Superior---cover an area of about 240,000 kilometers, the largest lake group in the world.--- Lake Erie is over 100 meters higher than Lake Ontario, thus forming the world-famous: Section Two Fifty States and Major CitiesN e w E n g l a n d:N O R T H E A S T E R N R E G I O NConnecticut[kə'nɛtɪkət]n.康涅狄格州(美国), Maine[mein]n.缅因州(美国东北角的州), Massachusetts[,mæsə'tʃusɪts]n.马萨诸塞州, New Hampshire新罕布什尔州, Rhode Island罗德岛, Vermont佛蒙特州The MID-ATLANTIC STATESDelaware['deləwɛə]n.(美国东部的)特拉华(州)Maryland马里兰New Jersey[nju: 'dʒə:zi]n.新泽西州(美国大西洋沿岸)New York Pennsylvania[,pɛnsəl'venjə, -'veniə]n.宾夕法尼亚州(美国州名)N O R T H C E N T R A L R E G I O NIllinois[,ɪlə'nɔɪ, -'nɔɪz]n.伊利诺斯州(美国州名)Indiana Iowa['aɪəwə]n.爱荷华州(美国中西部的一州)Kansas['kænzəz, -səz]n.美国堪萨斯州Kentucky 肯塔基Michigan Minnesota明尼苏达Missouri [mɪ'zʊri]n.密苏里州(美国州名)Nebraska[nə'bræskə]内布拉斯加North Dakota [də'kotə]n.达科他(美国过去一地区名,现分为南、北达科他州)Ohio South Dakota [də'kotə]n.达科他(美国过去一地区名,现分为南、北达科他州) Wisconsin[wɪs'kɑnsɪn]n.威斯康星州(美国州名)SOUTHEASTERN REGIONFlorida Georgia North Carolina卡罗莱娜 South Carolina Virginia弗吉尼亚 West VirginiaS O U T H C E N T R A L R E G I O NAlabama Arkansas['ɑrkən,sɔ]n.阿肯色州(美国中南部的州)Louisiana Mississippi Oklahoma俄克拉荷马Tennessee田纳西 Texas 'tɛksəsM O U N T A I N R E G I O NArizona[,ærɪ'zonə]n.亚利桑那州(美国西南部的州)Colorado[,kɑlə'rædo, -'rɑdo]美国科罗拉多州(位于美国西部)Idaho ['aɪdə,ho]n.爱达荷州(美国州名)Montana [mɑn'tænə]n.蒙大纳(美国州名)Nevada[nə'vædə, -'vɑdə]n.内华达州(美国西部内陆州)New Mexico Utah 犹他 Wyoming[waɪ'omɪŋ]n.怀俄明州(美国州名)PACIFIC REGIONWashington Oregon['ɔrɪɡən, -,ɡɑn, 'ɑr-]n.俄勒冈州(美国州名)California Alaska[ə'læskə]n.美国阿拉斯加州HawaiiSection Three PopulationThe melting potThe melting pot is a metaphor for the way in which the ingredients in the pot (people of different cultures and religions) are combined so as to lose their discrete identities and yield a final product of uniform consistency and flavor, which is quite different from the original inputs.A pot of stewA Salad Bowl The salad bowl is the idea that all the different cultures are combined (like a salad) but they do not mix. Each culture keeps its own distinct qualities, just as a tomato does not take on traits of a carrot merely by being placed adjacent to it.A Divided DishMosaic [məu'zeiik]摩西的;马赛克的Cultural mosaic is a term used to describe the "patchwork补缀品quilt罩子" of ethnic民族groups, languages and cultures that co-exist within a society.I. Distribution of Population1. 2008 Population Estimates---304 million peopleEthnic groups:White Hispanic [hɪ'spænɪk]adj.1.西班牙和葡萄牙的2.西班牙及其他说西班牙语国家的black Asian AmerindianSome other race2. Distribution in terms of urban and rural areasan urban nation98% urban population2% rural populationII. A Nation of ImmigrantsJohn, F. Kennedy, once said that the United States was “a so ciety of immigrants, each of whom had begun life anew…This is the secret of America; a nation of people with the fresh memory of old traditions who dare to explore new frontiers.”1. Whites: WASPs [wɑsp]abbr.〈美〉祖先是英国新教徒的美国人& Non-WASP Whitesa. 1607 Jamestownb. non-WASP whitesGermansFrenchIrish immigrantsJewsOther white people2. American IndiansFrom AsiaMaya civilizationThree kinds of Indians in the US today3. The Black PopulationOrigin:4. Hispanics5. AsiansChineseJapaneseFilipinoKoreanVietnameseChinese in the USgold-miners:railroad laborers:1882: the Chinese Exclusion Act stopped the flow of Chinese immigration.。

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美国最重要的湖泊是五大湖:苏必利尔湖,密歇根湖,休伦湖,伊利湖和安大略湖,其中,苏必利尔湖为世界最大淡水湖,密歇根湖完全是美国境地内。
11。美国气候概述
1) A humid continental climate(湿润的大陆性气候) is found in the north-eastern part of the country.
影响美国气候的最主要的因素为:太平洋,和大西泮,墨西哥湾,五大湖。
13。Traditionally from the east to the west the United States can be divided into seven geographical regions.美国从东到西可分为七个地理区。
4)The southern part of the Pacific coast in California(加州太平洋沿岸南部) has a Mediterranean climate (地中海式气候)with warm,dry summers and moist winters.
12。Many factors besides latitude influence the climate in the United States.Perhaps the most important forces are the Atlantic and Pacific oceans,the Gulf of Mexick ,and the Great Lakes.
Chapter: 13 geography 地理位置
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1.Alaska and Hawaii are the two newest states in American.Alaska northwestern Canada,and Hawaii lies in the central Pacific.
俄亥俄河被称作美国的鲁尔河,就像德国一样,沿河有丰富的高品千周的焦煤,并且因其钢铁而著名。另外,该河还为原材料提供了廉价的水路运输。
8。On the Pacific side there are two great rivers:the Colorado in the south and the Columbia ,which rises in Canada.
阿拉斯加和夏威夷是最近加入美国的两个新州。阿拉斯加在加拿大的西北部,夏威夷位邻中太平洋。(本细节还有考“一句话简答”的可能)
2。The U.S has a land area of 9.3 million square kilometres.It is the fourth largest country in the world in size after Russia,Canada and China.
太平洋沿岸有两大河:科罗拉多河及哥伦比亚河。
9。The Rio Grande River forms a natural boundary between Mexico and the United States.
格兰德河是美国和墨西哥之间的开然界河(本细节考选择和简答可能性大)
10。the most important lakes in the United States are the Great Lakes. They are Lake Superior,which is the largest fresh water lake in the world, Lake Michigan ,the only entirely in the U.S.,Lake Huron,Lake Eire and Lake Ontario.They are located between Canada and the United States except Lake Michigan.
旱地农业,灌溉农业和牛羊牧业是美国西部大平原地区的主要活动。
21。Colorado has been called the steel city of the west ,Denver is the largest city of the Great Plains.科罗拉多市被称作“西部钢城”,丹佛市是大平原地区最大的城市。
14。New English is made up of six states of the Northeast .Becaust of its stony soil it is not noted for its agriculture .Dairying is the most inportant farm activity,New English is also well-known for its position in education,Many famous universities and colleges such as Yale,Harvard,thd Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) are located here.
密西西比河是美国最长河流,有被称作“众水之父”或“老人河”。
7。The Ohio river has been called the American Ruhr,As in Germany, the area along the river is rich in valuable deposits of high-grade coking coal and is well known for its steel industry.The river provides cheap water transportation for raw materials.
所有州中,阿拉斯加是面积最大的州,罗得岛最小,在美国大陆,最大的州是得克萨斯州。
4。The Rockies,the backbone of the North American Continent,is also known as the Continental Divide.
落基山脉是北美大陆的脊梁,也被成为大陆分水岭。
24。Honolulu is the capital of Haiwaii and Juneau is the capital of Alaska.
火奴鲁鲁是夏威夷的首府,朱诺是阿拉斯加的首府
19。Detroit is known as the automobile capital of the world.Omaha is known as the agricultural capital of the United states.底特律被称作“汽车之都,奥马哈被称作农业之都。
20。Dry farming ,irrigation farming,and the cattle and sheep herding are the main cativities of the Great Plains of the American West.
新英格兰由美国东北部六个州组成,由于土壤多石,不利于农业生产,乳制品业是最重要的农业活动,许多重点大学如耶鲁大学,哈佛大学和麻省理工学院都坐落于此。
15。New Englanders were originally knows as Yankees,which came to stand for alll American.新英格兰人最初曾被称作“美国佬:这一名称,后来渐渐指所有的美国人。(选择)
5。The two main mountain ranges in American are the Appalachian mountains and the Rocky mountains. The Appalachians run slightly from the northeast to southwest and the Rocky mountains run slightly from the northwest to southeast.
就面积而言,美国是世界第四大国,就人口而言,美国是世界是第三大国。
3.Of all states of American,Alaska is the lagest in area and Rhode Island the smallest.But on the mainland Texas is the largest sate of the country.
22。the largest groups of Native Americans are found on the Colorado Plateau.
美国最大的土著群落位于科罗拉多高原。
23。Mmauna Loa,the world''s largest volcano,is located on Haiwaii and erupts from time to time,Suger cane and pineapples anr Haiwaii''s main crops.Tourism is Haiwaii''s most important industry.莫纳洛阿火山是世界最大和活火山,甘蔗和菠罗是夏威夷的两大作物,旅游业是夏威夷最重要的产业。
2) In the south-eastern United States you can find a humid subtropical climate.(湿润的亚热带气候---东南部)
3)The Pacific northwest is favored with a maritime climate海洋性气候--太平洋西北岸)
阿巴拉契亚山脉和落基山脉是美国的两座大山脉。(本细节有考“一句话简答题”的可能)
6。The Mississippi River is the largest river in American,over 6000 kilometers.The Mississippi has been called "father of waters"or "old man river"
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