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 is often thought to be ____
A O'Neil
B Pound
C Robert Frost
DScott 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
答案詳解:
1.D 《老人與?!肥呛C魍淖髌贰?/p>
2.C Jonathan Swift的Gulliver's Travels(《格列弗游記》)中yahoo暗指人類(lèi),集人類(lèi)丑陋面于一身,服務(wù)于動(dòng)物的一類(lèi)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(guó)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(1709-1784),美國(guó)女詩(shī)人,終生未嫁。主要詩(shī)歌包括:I Could Not Sto for Death還有,I'm Nobody. Who Are You?
詩(shī)歌主題為:愛(ài)情,自然,友誼,死亡與不朽。
8.C Robert Frost是十九世紀(jì)的美國(guó)詩(shī)人,后因父親過(guò)世已經(jīng)英國(guó),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(guó)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(huà)出美國(guó)經(jīng)濟(jì)政治發(fā)展引發(fā)的社會(huì)現(xiàn)實(shí)問(wèn)題,包括“Gold Rush”。
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