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: Choo the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10 points in all, 1 point for each)
Group 1
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Column A Column B
( ) 1. F. S Fitzgerald a. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
( ) 2. Henry David Thoreau b. An American Tragedy
( ) 3. Theodore Dreir c. 肉夹馍的肉怎么炖The Portrait of a Lady
( ) 4. Henry James d. Walden
( ) 5. Mark Twain e. This Side of Paradi
Group 2
Column A Column B
( ) 1. Huck a. A Ro for Emily
( ) 2. Carrie Meeber b. The Hairy Ape
( ) 3. Yank c. The Great Gatsby
( ) 4. Nick Carraway d. Sister Carrie
五年级评语( ) 5. Emily Grierson e. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Part Ⅱ: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternatives. Choo 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 英语日记80字带翻译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
论据类型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 _____.【 】
新年你好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
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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
C. a free and natural rhythmic pattern
D. an easy flow of feelings
11. Another fact that made _____ unique is his magic power with language, his u of vernacular. His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect, and his ntence structures are simple, even ungrammatical, which is typical of the spoken language.【 】
A. Twain B. Anderson
C. James D. Dreir
12. While Mark Twain and William Dean Howells satirized European manners at times, _____was an admirer of ancient European civilization.【 】
A. Theodore Dreir B. Jack London
C. Henry James D. William James
13. About Naturalism, which of the following statements is NOT correct?【 】
A. Naturalists cho their subjects from the lower ranks of society.
B. They portrayed miry and poverty of the “underdogs”, who were demonstrably victims of society and nature.
C. One of the most familiar themes in American Naturalism is the theme of human “bestiality,” especially an explanation of xual desire.
D. American Naturalism is a reaction against Realism.
14. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Henry James’s writing style? 【 】
A. Exquisite and elaborate language B. Minute detailed description
C. Lengthy psychological analysis D. American colloquialism
15. _____ is now recognized not only as a great poetess on her own right but as a poetess of considerable influence upon American poetry of the prent century.【 】
黄豆烧肉A. Emily Dickinson B. Emily Brontё
C. Anne Bradstreet D. George Eliot
16. Which of the following statements is NOT a typical feature of Emily Dickinson’s poetry?【 】
A. Dickinson’s poetry is unique and conventional in its own way.
