美国文学考试题

一选择题（20个共20分）

1.James Fenimore Cooper

作品The Leatherstocking Tales, 《皮袜子故事集》

2.Philip Freneau

The wild Honey Suckle《野忍冬花》

3.Edgar Allan Poe

To Helen

4.Henry David Thoreau

Walden《瓦尔登湖》

5.American Romanticism 浪漫主义

Period: from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the civil war

It started with the publication of Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass

6.Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter 《红字》

7.美国内战（南北战争）时间1861.4.12—1865.4.9

8.Westward Movement 西进运动，开始于18世纪末，终于19世纪末20世纪初。

9.Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady 《一个女人的画像》

10.Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature 《论自然》

11.John Smith

First American writer

12.Herman Melville

Moby-Dick 《大白鲸》

二连线题（作者和作品10分）

1.Benjamin Franklin

The Autobiography

2.O.Henry

The Cop and the Anthem 《警察与赞美诗》

3.Jack London

The Sea Wolf 《海狼》

三名词解释2个（以下四选二，共10分）

1.American Dream

The freedom allowing all American people to pursue their goals in life through hard work and free choice.(1分) It often refers to the opportunity for immigrants to achieve greater material prosperity than was possible in their countries of origin.(2分)The founding Fathers used the phrase, “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” to encompass all that is available in American . It’s the opportunity to make individual choices without the

restrictions of class, race or religion. (2分)

2.American Puritanism 美国清教主义

A religious movement in the late 16th century，It sent an offshoot(分支) in the third and fourth decades of the 17th century to the northern English colonies in the New World，It laid the foundation for the religious, intellectual and social order of the New World。Puritans wanted to “purify the church” to its original state, because they thought the church was corrupted and had too many rituals。To be a Puritan: taking religion as the most important thing; living for glorifying God.

3.American Romanticism 浪漫主义

(1)The Romanticism Period stretches from the end of 18th century to the outbreak of the Civil War. It is a

period of the great flowering of American literature. It started with the publication of Washing ton Irving’s The Sketch Book and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass .

(2)It was rebellion against the objectivity of rationalism.

4.American Literature

mainly refers to literature produced in American English by people living in the U.S.. It also includes literature produced in other countries by American expatriates and in other languages by minorities in the country such as American Indian literature and the Jewish literature.

四赏析题

1-2诗的赏析两首诗二选一

答题标准：标出韵脚5分，中文译文15分共20分。

1.To Helen

海伦，你的美在我眼里a

有如往日尼西亚的三桅船b

船行在飘香的海上，悠悠地a

把已惓于漂泊的困乏船员b

送回他故乡的海岸b

早已习惯于在怒海上飘荡a

你典雅的面庞，你的鬈发b

你水神般的风姿带我返航a

光荣属于希腊b

伟大属于罗马a

看哪！壁龛似的明亮窗户里a

我看见你站着，多像尊雕塑b