常耀信《美国文学简史》(第3版)模拟试题及详解(一)【圣才出品】

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常耀信《美国文学简史》(第3版)模拟试题及详解(一)

I.Fill in the blanks

1.Thomas Paine’s second most important work_____was an impassioned plea against hereditary monarchy.

【答案】The Rights of Man

【解析】1791年3月,托马斯·潘恩在伦敦出版《人权论》,激烈抨击埃德蒙·伯克(Edmund Burke,1729—1797)的《法国革命感言录》(Reflections on the Revolution in France)(1790)。《人权论》的可贵之处还在于,它冲破了当时笼罩于整个西方思想界对英国君主立宪政体的迷信,深入骨髓地批判了这一政体,给当时还处于摸索状态的法国革命指明了共和主义的崭新方向。

2._____was regarded as the first great prose stylist of American romanticism.

【答案】Washington Irving

【解析】华盛顿·欧文是美国著名作家,他被誉为美国第一位浪漫主义散文文体作家。

3.In_____,Whitman’s own early experience may well be identified with the childhood of a young growing America.

【答案】Song of Myself

【解析】在惠特曼的《自我之歌》中他将自己早期的经历同一个正在成长中的美国等同起来。

4.The great work_____not only demonstrates Emersonian ideas of self-reliance but also develops and tests Thoreau’s own transcendental philosophy.

【答案】Self-Reliance

【解析】富兰克林的《论自立》不仅表现了爱默生关于自立的思想,同时也表达了他的超验主义思想。

5.Edgar Allan Poe’s poem_____is perhaps the best example of onomatopoeia in the English language.

【答案】The Bells

【解析】埃德加·爱伦·坡(Edgar Allan Poe)(1809~1849)的诗《钟》(The Bells)是英语语言中成功运用拟声法的范例。)

6.Daisy Miller was written by_____.

【答案】Henry James

【解析】《黛西·米勒》是美国作家Henry James的国际主题小说。

7.The result of Mark Twain’s European trip was a series of newspaper articles,later published as a book called_____.

【答案】Innocents Abroad

【解析】马克·吐温游历欧洲时写了一系列文章,讽刺而幽默地记录他的所见所闻,这些文章后来整理出版成书,名为《傻子旅行》(Innocents Abroad)。

8.The protagonist of Theodore Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire is_____.

【答案】Frank Cowperwood

【解析】西奥多·德莱塞的《欲望三部曲》(Trilogy of Desire)包括《金融家》(The Financier),《巨人》(The Titan),《斯多葛》(The Stoic)。《欲望三部曲》的主人公是法兰克·柯帕乌(Frank Cowperwood)。

9._____,by Ezra Pound,employs the complex association of scholarly lore, anthropology,modern history and personages,private history and Witticism,and obscure literary interpolations in various languages.

【答案】The Cantos

【解析】庞德的《诗章》包罗万象,是庞德的代表作。

10._____combined traditional verse forms with a clear American local speech rhythm,forming his own characteristic.

【答案】Robert Frost

【解析】弗罗斯特将传统诗歌形式与美国本土口语体结合起来,形成了独特的诗歌特点。

II.Multiple Choice

1.Which ONE of the following is the author of the poem Song of Myself?

A.Walt Whitman

B.Stephen Crane

C.Edgar Allan Poe

D.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

【答案】A

【解析】Walt Whitman(沃尔特·惠特曼),美国著名诗人,Song of Myself(《自我之歌》)代表其创作的最高峰,后来收录在他的Leaves of Grass(《草叶集》)中。

2.In_____,Captain Ahab is obsessed with the revenge on a whale which sheared off his leg on a previous voyage,and his crazy chasing of it eventually brings death to all on board the whaler except Ishmael,who survives to tell the tale.

A.Typee

B.White Jacket

C.Moby Dick

D.Billy Budd

【答案】C

【解析】Captain Ahab(亚哈船长)是梅尔维尔的小说Moby Dick(《白鲸》)里的主人公。

3.Which ONE of the following is also an influential writer of detective stories?

A.Harriet Beecher Stowe

B.William Dean Howells

C.Edgar Allan Poe

D.Herman Melville

【答案】C

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