美国文学试题

…………………………………密…………封…………线………………………………I.Fill in the blanks. (20 points in all, 2 points for each blank)1.By the end of the Civil War, most of the forces that would typify 20th century had begun to emerge. Northernhad triumphed over Southern .2.The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called ——that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regularrhyme scheme.3.The publication in 1922 of ’s The Waste Land, the most significant American poem of the 20thcentury, helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.4.Writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were a , devoid of faithand alienated from a civilization.5.American Puritans wanted to make pure their religious and . They wished torestore simplicity to church services and the authority of the Bible to theology.6.——a movement supported by all progressive forces of the country which opposed themselves tothe old colonial order and religious obscurantism.7. The secular ideals of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in the life and career of .8. was considered the Father of American short story and familiar essays, and the first Americanauthor to make a living by his pen.II. Identify the fragments. (30 points in all, 6 for each passage)Passage 1: From a Child I was fond of Reading, and all the little money that came into my Hands was ever laid out in Books. Pleas’d with the Pilgrim’s Progress, my first Collection was of John Bunyan’s Works, in separate little V olumes…This Bookish Inclination at length determin’d my Father to make me a Printer, tho’ he had already one Son, (James) of that Profession.Questions:1) From which work is it excerpted and what is the author’s name? (2 points)2) What is the language style in this work? (4 points)Passage 2: At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house. I have thus surveyed the country on every side within a dozen miles of where I live. In imagination I have bought all the farms in succession, for all were to be bought and I knew their price.Questions:1) From which work is it excerpted and who wrote it? (2 points)…………………………………密…………封…………线………………………………2) What is his view on Nature? (4 points)Passage 3: Tom joined the new order of Cadets of Temperance, being attracted by the showy character of their “regalia.”He promised to abstain from smoking, chewing, and profanity as long as he remained a member…Tom soon found himself tormented with a desire to drink and swear; the desire grew to be so intense that nothing but the hope o f a chance to display himself in his red sash kept him from withdrawing from the order.Questions:1) From which work is it excerpted and who wrote it? (2 points)2) What is his style like? (4 points)Passage 4: Let us go then, you and I,When the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table;Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,The muttering retreatsOf restless nights in one-night cheap hotels…Let us go and make our visit.Questions:1)From which poem is this stanza excerpted? Who wrote it? (2 points)2) What is his style like? (4 points)Passage 5: The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.Questions:1) What is the title of this poem? Who wrote it? (2 points)2)What is his style? (4 points)…………………………………密…………封…………线………………………………1. Naturalism evolved from realism when the author ’s tone in writing became less serious and less sympathetic but moreironic and more .A. optimisticB. pessimisticC. humorousD. rational2. Among the following, Jack London wrote all the other three but .A. The Call of the WildB. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. The Sea WolfD. Martin Eden3. Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over .A. WhitmanB. Ezra PoundC. Emily DickinsonD. Edgar Allan Poe4. Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about .A. men and womenB. man and societyC. man and natureD. man and machine5. , which one American critic described as “an outrage to American girlhood ”, brought Henry James hisfirst international fame.A. The AmericanB. The Portrait of a LadyC. Daisy MillerD. The Ambassadprs6. Edgar Allan Poe ’s works don’t include .A. The RavenB. To HelenC. “The Fall of the House of Usher ”D. To His Coy Mistress7. The American social upheavals and the literary concerns of the Great Depression years ended with the prosperity andturmoil brought by the .A. World War ⅠB. War of IndependenceC. Civil WarD. World War Ⅱ8. was John Steinbeck ’s most clearly “proletarian ” novel of class struggle, depicting the lives of migrantsworkers and their resistance to exploitation by the entrenched forest of society .A. The Grapes of WrathB. Tortilla Fla tC. Of Mice and MenD. In Dubious Battle9. Early in the 1920s the most prominent of the new American playwrights, established an international reputation with such plays as The Emperor , Anna Christie and The Hairy Ape.A. Eugene O ’NeillB. James JoyceC. E. E. CummingsD. Langston Hughes10. America ’s literary dismissed the validity of comforting moral truths. They attempted to achieve extreme objectivity and frankness, presenting characters of low social and economic classes who were dominated by their environment and heredity .A. naturalistsB. realistsC. romanticistsD. modernistsIV . Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10 points, 1 for each)Group 1Column A Column B( )1. Ralph Waldo Emerson a. The Hairy Ape( )2. William Faulkner b. Daisy Miller( )3. Henry James c. Nature( )4. Eugene O ’Neil d. A Farewell to Arms( )5. Ernest Hemingway e. A Rose for EmilyGroup 2Column A Column B( )6. Emily Grierson a. The Scarlet Letter( )7. Hester b. The Old Man and the Sea( )8. Ishmael c. Martin Eden( )9. Santiago d. A Rose for Emily( )10. Ruth e. Moby Dick…………………………………密…………封…………线………………………………V. Commentary. (20 points)Following is Robert Frost’s short poem “Stopping by W oods on a Snowy Evening”. Please readit and fulfill the tasks as required below.Stopping by W oods on a Snowy EveningWhose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods and frozen lakeThe darkest evening of the yearHe gives his harness bells a shakeTo ask if there is some mistake.The only other sound’s the sweepOf easy wind and downy flake.The woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.1) Analyze the theme of this poem. (10 points)2) Translate this poem into Chinese. (10 points)。