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I Of the four alternative answer, choose the one that would best complete the statement:(选择题)

1. Benjamin Franklin was born in the family of a small _____________. A. Landlord B. merchant C. lawyer D. clergyman

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson‘s leading reputation began with the publication of_____________.

A. Essays B. Nature C. Oversoul D. Self-Relience 3. Ellen Poe was both a poet and a _____________________. A. dramatist B. essayist C actor D. fiction writer.

4. Nathaniel Hawthorne‘s view of man and human history originates in __________________.

A. Puritanism B. Socialism C. Transcendentalism D. naturalism

5. Walt Whitman was born and brought up in a family of a ______________. A. Peasant B. carpenter C. captain D. printer 6. Mark Twain‘s first successful literary work is _____________________________.

A. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County B. Life on the Mississippi

C. The Adventure of Tom Sawyer

D. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

7. Closely related to Emily Dickinson‘s religious poetry are her poems concerning _______________.

A. Childhood B.youth and happiness C. loneliness D. death and immortality 8. Among the works of Dreiser, the bet known to the Chinese readers is _________________.

A. An American Tragedy B. Sister Carrie C. Th Financier D. The Titan

9. Robert Frost‘s works mainly focus on the landscape and people in _________________.

A. the West B. American South C. New England D. Mississippi 10. Most of the plays Eugene O‘Neill wrote are _______________________. A. comedies B. . romances C. historical plays D tragedies

11. Scott Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the ______________________.

A. modern time B. young Americans C. Jazz Age D. Guilded Age

12. _______________________________ is Hemingway‘s masterpiece, which is about the old fisherman Santiago and his losing battle with a giant marlin. A. Farewell to Arms B. For whom the Bell Tolls C. The Sun Also Rises D. The Old Man and The Sea

13. As a great fiction writer, William Faulker devotes most of his works to the description of the life and the people in the __________________________.

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A. American West B. New England in America C. American South D. American North

14. When he was young, Benjamin Franklin became an apprentice in a __________________.

A. printing house B. store C. Tailor‘s shop D. factory 答案:A

15. Ralph Emerson was born in a family of a _____________________. A. merchant B. businessman C. clergyman D. writer 答案:C

16. Ellen Poe began his literary career by writing ___________________; A. short stories B. plays C. essays D. poems 答案:D

17. According to Nathaniel Hawthorne, there is _________ in every hearer, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.

A. evil B. virtue C. kindness D. tragedy 答案:A

18. Whitman is radically innovative in term of form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new subjects and new feelings is _____________.

A. blank verse B. free verse C. heroic couplet D. sonnet 答案:B

19. Mark Twain shaped the world‘s view of America and made a combination of serious literature and _______.

A. American folk humor B. English folklore C. American traditional values D. funny jokes 答案:A

20. Altogether, Emily Dickinson wrote ______ poems, of which only severn had appeared during her lifetime.

A. 1145 B. 1775 C. 897 D. 785 答案:B

21. Theodore Dreiser is generally acknowledged as one of America‘s literary ________________.

A. realists B. naturalists C. romantists D. modernists 答案:B

22. In Frost‘s poems, images and metaphors in his poems are drawn from _________________.

A. the simple country life B. the urban life

C. the life on the sea D. the adventures and trips 答案:A

23. Scott Fitzgerald never spared an intimate touch in his fiction to deal with the bankruptcy of the _______________________________. A. American Dream B. ruling classes

B. American Capitalists D.American bourgeoisie

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答案:A

24. Eugene O‘Neill is regarded as the founder of American _____________________. A. poetry B. drama C. fiction D. literature

25. ___________________ is Hemingway‘s masterpiece, which tells a story about the tragic love of a wounded American soldier with a British nurse. A. A Farewell to Arms B. The Sun Also Rises C. For Whom the Bell Tolls D. In Our Time 答案:A

26. William Faulkner was born in a family of a _______________________. A. merchant B. colonel C. manager D. doctor 答案:A

27. In his essays, ______ put forward his philosophy of the over soul, the important of the Individual and Nature.

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. Washington Irving C. Mark Twain D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

28. The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is __________ A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. Ralph Waldo Emerson C. Henry David Thoreau D. Washington Irving

29. ______ literary world turns out to be a most disturbed, tormented and problematical one, which has much to do with his ―black‖ vision of life and human beings.

A. Herman Melville‘s B. Washington Irving‘s C. Nathaniel Hawthorne‘s D. Walt Whitman‘s

30. Most of the poems in _____ sing of the ―en-masse‖ and the self as well.

A. Leaves of Grass B. Drum Taps C. North of Boston D. The Cantos 31. In _____, Whitman airs his sorrow at President Lincoln‘s death. A. ―Cavalry Crossing a Ford‖ B. ―A Pact‖

C. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom‘d D. There was a Child Went Forth‖

32. In _____, Whitman‘s own early experience may well be identified with the childhood of a young growing America.

A. ―A Pact‖ B. ―Song of Myself‖

C. ―There was a Child Went Forth‖ D. ―Cavalry Crossing a Ford‖

33. In ______, Hawthorne sets out to prove that everyone possesses some evil secret. A. ―The Custom-House” B. ―Young Goodman Brown‖ C. ―Rappaccini’s Daughter‖ D. ―The Birthmark\

34.______ is called by Hemingway the one from which ―all modern American literature comes.‖

A. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn B. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer C. The Gilded Age D. Life on the Mississippi

35. Theodore Dreiser‘s forgiving treatment of the career of his heroine in ______ also draws heavily upon the naturalistic understanding of sexuality.

A McTeague B. An American Tragedy C. Sister Carrie D. The Genius 36. _______ is a great giant of American, whom H.L.Mencken considers ―the true

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father of our national literature.‖

A. Henry James B. Washington Irving C. Mark Twain D. Theodore Dreiser

37. _______ is usually regarded as a classic book written for boys about their particular horrors and joys.

A. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer B. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn C. Innocents Abroad D. Life on the Mississippi

38. _______ is described by Mark Twain as a boy with ―a sound heart and a deformed conscience.‖

A. Tom Sawyer B. Huckleberry Finn C. Jim D.Tony

39. _________ is considered to be Theodore Dreiser‘s greatest work.

A. An American Tragedy B. Sister Carrie C. The Financier D. The Titan

40. The leading playwright of the modern period in American literature, if not the most successful in all his experiments, is _______

A. Arthur Miller B. Tennessee William C. George Bernard Shaw D. Eugene O‘Neil

41. _______ stems from the ambiguity of the speaker‘s choice between safety and the unknown.

A. ―Mending the Wall‖ B. ―Home Burial‖

C. ―The Road Not Taken‖ D. ―Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 42. ________ is a play that concerns the problem of modern man‘s identity. A. The Hairy Ape B. Long Day’s Journey Into Night C. The Iceman Cometh D. The Emperor Jones

43. In a tragic sense, _______ is a representation of life as a struggle against unconquerable forces in which only a partial victory is possible.

A. For Whom the Bell Tolls B. In Our Time C. The Old Man and the Sea D. A Farewell to Arms

44. Faulkner once said that ________ is a story of ― lost innocence,‘ which proves itself to be and intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.

A. The Sound and the Fury B. Light in August C. Go Down, Moses D. Absalom, Absalom!

45. In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of the _______ devices in narration. A. Romantic B. Realistic C. Gothic D. Modernist 46. _______ is Hemingway‘s first true novel in which he depicts a vivid portrait of ―The lost Generation.‖

A. The Sun Also Rises B. A Farewell to Arms C. In Our Time D. For Whom the Bell Tolls

47. The only dramatist ever to win a Nobel Prize was ___________.

A. Bernard Shaw B. Eugene O‘Neil C. Richard Brinsley Sheridan D. William Shakespeare

48. By means of ―free verse,‖ _______ believes that he has turned the poem into an open field, an area of vital possibility where the reader can allow his own

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