美国文学之现代主义文学

PART Ⅲ Twentieth-Century Literature

Ⅰ. Each of the following below is followed by four alternative answer. Choose the one that would complete the statement and put the letter in the blank.

21. Strong affinity to the Chinese and Oriental literature can be found in the works of __B__.

A. Mark Twain

B. Ezra Pound

C. Emily Dikinson

D. Arthur Miller

22. "In a Station of the Metro" is regarded by critics as a classic specimen of ___D____.

A. the absurd poetry

B. the transcendental poetry

C. the romantic poetry

D. the imagist poetry

23. The founder of the American drama is __B_____.

A. Arthur Miller

B. Eugene O'Neill

C. Tennesee Williams

D. Clifford Odets

24. F. Scott Fitzgerald is not the author of ___D____.

A. This Side of Paradise

B. Tender is the Night

C. The Great Gatsby

D. In Our Time

37.Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms -- the sonnet

,rhyming couples , bland verse -- with a clear American local speech rhythm ,the speech of farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax. D

A. Southem

B. Westeren

C. New Hampshire

D. New England

13. More than five hundred poems Dickinson wrote are about nature，in which her general Skepticism about the relationship between ___C___ is well-expressed.

A. man and man

B. men and women

C. man and nature

D. men and God

25. As Fitzgerald‘s writing st yle is concerned，which of the following is right D

A. The author dropped off the device of having events observed by a “central consciousness”。

B. His intervening passages of narration leaves the tedious process of transition to the author‘s

imagination.

C. The scenic method is employed，each of which consists of one or more dramatic scenes.

D. His diction and metaphors are partially original and details accurate.

26. Which of the following is not written by Ernest Hemingway，one of the best-known

American authors of the 20th century C

A. The Sun Also Rises

B. The Old Man and the Sea

C. Mosses From the Old Manse

D. The Green Hills of Africa

27. Which of the following statements is right about the novel A Farewell to Arms D

A. The author favored the idea of nature as an expression of either god‘s design or his beneficence.

B. The author attempted to write the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation in the 1930s.

C. The author emphasizes his belief that man is trapped both physically and mentally and suggests that man is doomed to be entrapped.

D. It tells a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with an Italian nurse.