2015英語專八人文知識(shí)復(fù)習(xí)：美國文學(xué)

題目：
1. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ____.

A. Jack London B. Charles Dickens C. Samuel Coleridge D. Ernest Hemingway

2. In which novel can "Yahoo" be found?

A. John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress B. Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queen C. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels D Henry Fielding's Tom Jones

3. The Catcher in the Rye is written by ____.

A. J. D. Salinger B. Jack London C. Flannery O'Connor D. Saul Bellow

4. The image of the famous "henpecked husband" is created by____

A. Washington Irving B. Fennimore Cooper C. Edith Wharton D. William Dean Howells

5. The literary spokesman of the Jazz Age is often thought to be ____.

A. Eugene O'Neill B. Ezra Pound C. Robert Frost D. Scott Fitzgerald

6. ____ is the most important person of the transcendental club.

A. Hawthorn B. Whitman C. Emerson D. Hemingway

7. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except____.

A. fridendship B. love and marriage C. life and death D. war and peace

8. Robert Frost is a famous ____

A. novelist B. playwright C. poet D. literary critic

9. Dover Beach is written by ____

A. Robert Browning B. Alfred Tennyson C. Mathew Arnold D. Dylan Thomas

10. The period from 1865-1914 has been referred to as the ____ in the literary history of the United States.

A. Age of Realism B. Age of Clasicalism C. Age of Romanticism D. Age of Renaissance

答案

1. D. 《老人與海》是海明威的作品。

2. C. Jonathan Swift的Gulliver's Travels(《格列弗游記》)中yahoo暗指人類，集人類丑陋面于一身，服務(wù)于動(dòng)物的一類生物。

3. A. The Catcher in the Rye(《麥田里的守望者》)是J. D. Salinger(J. D. 賽琳格)的名著。

4. A. henpecked husband 是指“怕老婆的男人”，改典型形象出自Washington Irving 的Rip Van Winkle。

5. D. 二十世紀(jì)出現(xiàn)Jazz Age，這一代的年輕人物欲膨脹，沉迷酒色。Scott Fitzgerald的 Great Gatsby《了不起的蓋茨比》根據(jù)時(shí)代特征，對(duì)深深諷刺了所謂的美國夢(mèng)。

6. C. Emerson是超驗(yàn)主義的重要代表，所著Nature《論自然》代表了他的哲學(xué)觀。

7. D. Emily Dickinson(1830--1886年)，美國女詩人，終生未嫁。主要詩歌包括：I Could Never Stop for Death還有，I'm Nobody. Who Are You? 詩歌主題為：愛情，自然，友誼，死亡與不朽。

8. C. Robert Frost是十九世紀(jì)的美國詩人，后因父親過世已經(jīng)英國，在新英格蘭享有很高名望。主要作品有：The Road Not Taken，Mending Wall。

9. C. Dover Beach(《多弗的海灘》)是Mathew Arnold 的作品。

10. A. 1865-1914，也就是美國內(nèi)戰(zhàn)結(jié)束之后，第一次世界大戰(zhàn)爆發(fā)之前。這個(gè)時(shí)候涌現(xiàn)的作家，比如Mark Twain刻畫出美國經(jīng)濟(jì)政治發(fā)展引發(fā)的社會(huì)現(xiàn)實(shí)問題，包括“Gold Rush”。