(全新整理)7月自考浙江省美国文学选读试题及答案解析

浙江省2018年7月高等教育自学考试

美国文学选读试题

课程代码：10055

Part Ⅰ: Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10 points in all, 1 point for each)

Group 1

Column A Column B

( ) 1. F. S Fitzgerald a. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

( ) 2. Henry David Thoreau b. An American Tragedy

( ) 3. Theodore Dreiser c. The Portrait of a Lady

( ) 4. Henry James d. Walden

( ) 5. Mark Twain e. This Side of Paradise

Group 2

Column A Column B

( ) 1. Huck a. A Rose for Emily

( ) 2. Carrie Meeber b. The Hairy Ape

( ) 3. Yank c. The Great Gatsby

( ) 4. Nick Carraway d. Sister Carrie

( ) 5. Emily Grierson e. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Part Ⅱ: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternatives. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (50 points in all, 2 points for each)

1. Romanticism appeared as a literary trend against _____.【】

A. rationality

B. imagination

C. intuition

D. individualism

2. The famous 20 years in Rip Van Winkle helps to construct the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by Irving’s _____.【】

A. concern with the passage of time

B. expression of transient beauty

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C. satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beings

D. idea about supernatural manipulation of man’s life

3. _____ has become so important that most people consider it an unofficial manifesto for the “Transcendental Club”.【】

A. Nature

B. The American Scholar

C. Walden

D. Civil Disobedience

4. _____ is unanimously agreed to be the summit of the Romantic period in the history of American literature. 【】

A. Puritanism

B. New England Transcendentalism

C. Deism

D. Unitarianism

5. _____ is a symbol of microcosm of the world we are living in. 【】

A. The Pequod

B. Moby Dick

C. The Scarlet Letter

D. Nature

6. _____ held a “black”vision of life and human beings.【】

A. Ralph Waldo Emerson

B. Nathaniel Hawthorne

C. Edgar Allan Poe

D. James Fenimore Cooper

7. Moby Dick, the big white whale, is possible read as symbolic of all the following EXCEPT_____.【】

A. malignancy

B. beauty

C. adultery

D. God

8. According to Emerson, man’s capacity is _____.【】

A. ambiguous

B. limited

C. infinite

D. subsidiary to God

9. _____ is regarded as an encyclopedia of everything: philosophy, religion, history, etc.【】

A. Nature

B. Walden

C. Moby Dick

D. The Scarlet Letter

10. Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT______.【】

A. a strict poetic form

B. a simple and conversational language

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