美国文学模拟试题六

学院:外语学院 专业:英语 年级：________ 班次: 学号： 姓名： 考试方式(闭卷)： 考试时量：150 分钟 试卷编号( 卷)

题号 一 二 三 四 五 六 总分 评卷人 复分人 得分 评卷人 I. True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item) ( ) 1. By seeing Yossarian’s entrails spilling over the plane, Snowden learns that

―Man was matter, that was Snowden’s secret. Drop him out a window and he’ll fall. Set fire to him and he’ll burn. Bury him and he’ll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage.‖

( ) 2. Desire under the Elms uses ancient Roman themes of incest, infanticide and

fateful retribution.

( ) 3. O’Neill wrote many plays which were highly experimental in form and style. ( ) 4. MacLeish was awarded the Pulitzer Prize four times.

( ) 5. The scarlet letter ―A‖ represents the act of adultery that she has committed and

it is to be a symbol of her sin – a badge of shame – for all to see throughout the novel.

( ) 6. With the publication of Fanshawe in 1825, Nathaniel Hawthorne became

famous and his reputation as a major American author has been on the increase ever since.

( ) 7. ―Self-Reliance‖ contains the most solid statement of one of Emerson's

repeating themes, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his or her own instincts and ideas.

( ) 8. Stephen Crane’s most recurring themes deal with questions of death, including

its physical signs, the effects of decomposition, concerns of premature burial, the reanimation of the dead, and mourning.

( ) 9. Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is

considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre.

( ) 10. Apart from The Autobiography, Franklin is perhaps best remembered in print

for his Poor Richard's Almanac.

( ) 11. The main theme of The Red Badge of Courage reveals the heroism on the

battlefield.

( ) 12. Porter had been to Berlin before the Nazis came into power. She described

her witness of the social unrest in Germany into her novel Pale Horse, Pale

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Rider.

( ) 13. The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money

than Fitzgerald earned. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as the lost generation.

( ) 14. William Faulkner wrote about the disintegration of the old social system in

the American Southern States, and its effects on the lives of modern people, both black and white.

( ) 15. Ernest Hemingway fuses naturalism and symbolism in ―A Clean,

Well-Lighted Place‖. One of the motifs in this story is nothing/nihilism.

( ) 16. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow introduced many European poems to America

and contributed a great deal to the development of romantic poetry in America.

( ) 17. In ―O Captain! My Captain!‖, Walt Whiteman expresses his sorrow at

President Lincoln’s death.

( ) 18. Leaves of Grass is written by Edgar Allen Poe.

( ) 19. The theme of Emily Dickinson’s poem is war and peace. ( ) 20. Ralph Waldo Ellison’s masterpiece is Invisible Man.

得分 评卷人 II. Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each

item)

Writers: ( ) 1. Robert Frost ( ) 2. Saul Bellow

( ) 3. Ralph Waldo Ellison ( ) 4. Eugene Glastone O’Neill ( ) 5. Wallace Stevens ( ) 6. Ernest Hemingway

( ) 7. William Carlos Williams ( ) 8. Stephen Crane

( ) 9. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( ) 10. Edgar Allan Poe Works:

a. Emperor Jones b. Spring and All

c. The Old Man and the Sea d. Fire and Ice

e. The Cask of Amontillado f. The Red Badge of Courage g. The Necessary Angel h. Dangling Man i. Voices of the Night

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j. Invisible Man

得分 评卷人 III. Identify the following by choosing the author’s name and the name of the

works: 20% (1 points for each item)

1. Having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred,

to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having gone so far through life with a considerable share of felicity, the conducing means I made use of, which with the blessing of God so well succeeded, my posterity may like to know, as they may find some of them suitable to their own situations, and therefore fit to be imitated.

Author: A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo Ellison Work: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby

2. For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure. And therefore a

man must know how to estimate a sour face. The by-standers look askance on him in the public street or in the friend's parlour. If this aversation had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own, he might well go home with a sad countenance; but the sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and a newspaper directs. Yet is the discontent of the multitude more formidable than that of the senate and the college.

Author: A. Walt Whitman B. William Faulkner C. Ralph W. Emerson Work: A. The Road Not Taken B.I Shot An Arrow C.Self-reliance

3. In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanour on the

part of the spectators, as befitted a people among whom religion and law were almost identical, and in whose character both were so thoroughly interfused, that the mildest and severest acts of public discipline were alike made venerable and awful. Meagre, indeed, and cold, was the sympathy that a transgressor might look for, from such bystanders, at the scaffold. On the other hand, a penalty which, in our days, would infer a degree of mocking infamy and ridicule, might then be invested with almost as stern a dignity as the punishment of death itself.

Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C. Emily Dickenson Work: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C.Walden

4. The injured captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound

dejection and indifference which comes, temporarily at least, to even the bravest and most enduring when, willy nilly, the firm fails, the army loses, the ship goes down. The mind of the master of a vessel is rooted deep in the timbers of her, though he commanded for a day or a decade, and this captain

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had on him the stern impression of a scene in the greys of dawn of seven turned faces, and later a stump of a top-mast with a white ball on it that slashed to and fro at the waves, went low and lower, and down.

Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen Crane Work: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C.Miss Jewett

5. \"Take her easy, now, boys,\" said the captain. \"Don't spend yourselves. If we

have to run a surf you'll need all your strength, because we'll sure have to swim for it. Take your time.\" Slowly the land arose from the sea. From a black line it became a line of black and a line of white, trees and sand. Finally, the captain said that he could make out a house on the shore. \"That's the house of refuge, sure,\" said the cook. \"They'll see us before long, and come out after us.\"

Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen Crane Work: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C.Miss Jewett

6. So there was nothing, nothing to worry about anymore, except sometimes in

the night one of the children screamed in a nightmare, and they both hustled out and hunting for the matches and calling, ―There, wait a minute, here we are!‖ John, get the doctor now, Hapsy’s time has come. But there was Hapsy standing by the bed in a white cap. ―Cornelia, tell Hapsy to take off her cap. I can’t see her plain.‖

Author: A. Oscar Wilde B.H. W. Longfellow C. Katherine Anne Porter Work: A. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall B. Moby Dick C.The Jolly Corner

7. Gatsby’s house was still empty when I left—the grass on his lawn had grown

as long as mine. One of the taxi drivers in the village never took a fare past the entrance gate without stopping for a minute and pointing inside; perhaps it was he who drove Daisy and Gatsby over to East Egg the night of the accident, and perhaps he had made a story about it all his own. I didn’t want to hear it and I avoided him when I got off the train.

Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C. H. W. Longfellow Work: A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C.The Great Gatsby

8. He got up. He was a little stiff, but walking would cure that too as it would

the cold, and soon there would be the sun. He went on down the hill, toward the dark woods within which the liquid silver voices of the birds, called unceasing-the rapid and urgent beating of the urgent and quiring heart of the late spring night. He did not look back.

Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. William Faulkner C. Robert Frost Work: A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning C.The Happy Prince

9. The old man sitting in the shadow rapped on his saucer with his glass. The

younger waiter went over to him.

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\"What do you want?\"

The old man looked at him. \"Another brandy,\" he said.

\"You'll be drunk,\" the waiter said. The old man looked at him. The waiter went away.

\"He'll stay all night,\" he said to his colleague. \"I'm sleepy now. I never get into bed before three o'clock. He should have killed himself last week.\"

Author: A. Wallace Stevens B. William Faulkner C. Ernest Hemingway Work: A. Death of a Salesman B.A Clean, Well-lighted Place C.Recitatif

10. EBEN--I love ye, Abbie. (They kiss. The three men grin and shuffle

embarrassedly. Eben takes Abbie's hand. They go out the door in rear, the men following, and come from the house, walking hand in hand to the gate. Eben stops there and points to the sunrise sky.) Sun's a-rizin'. Purty, hain't it?

Author: A.W. C. Williams B. E. G. O’neill C. Saul Bellow

Work: A. Desire Under the Elms B. Looking for Mr. Green C.Catch-22

得分 评卷人 IV: Complete the following: 20% 1. O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is _____,

The ship has _____ every rack, the _____ we sought is won, The port is _____, the bells I _____, the people all exulting,

While _____ eyes the steady keel, the vessel _____ and _____; (8%) 2. I’m _____! Who are you? Are you _____ too?

Then there’s a pair of us—don’t tell! They’d _____ us, you know! (3%) 3. They enter the new world _____, cold, _____ of all

_____ that they enter. All about them the cold, _____ wind— (4%) 4. He gave the harness bells a _____ To ask if there is some _____. The only other sound’s the _____ Of _____ wind and _____ flake. (5%)

得分 评卷人 V. Rewrite the following into modern English: 10% Not enjoyment , and not sorrow, Is our destined and our way; But to act,

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That much to-morrow. Find us farther than to-day. Art is long, and time is fleeting.

And our hearts , though stout and brave. Still , like muffled drums , are beating Funeral marches to the grave. 得分 评卷人 VI. Comment: 20% 1. And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s

wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… And one fine morning—

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Answer the following questions:

(1) Do you think Gatsby deserves to be called ―the great‖? Why? (5%)

(2) Does ―the green light‖ Gatsby believed in exist in reality? Why or why not? (5%)

2. ―Come,‖ I said, with decision, ―we will go back; your health is precious. You

are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once I was. You are a man to be missed. For me it is no matter. We will go back; you will be ill, and I cannot be responsible. Besides, there is Luchresi—‖

―Enough,‖ he said, ―the cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough.‖

―True—true,‖ I replied; ―and, indeed, I had no intention of alarming you unnecessarily—but you should use all proper caution. A draught of this Medoc will defend us from the damps.‖

…

He raised it to his lips with a leer. He paused and nodded to me familiarly, while his bells jingled.

―I drink,‖ he said, ―to the buried that repose around us.‖ ―And I to your long life.‖

Describe briefly how Poe characterizes Montresor and Fortunato as contrasts? (10%)

云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题六

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学院:外语学院 专业:英语 年级：________ 班次: 学号： 姓名： 考试方式(闭卷)： 考试时量：150 分钟 试卷编号( 卷)

题号 一 二 三 四 五 六 总分 评卷人 复分人 得分 评卷人 I. True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item) 1.____ 2. ____ 3._____ 4._____5._____ 6._____ 7._____ 8._____ 9._____ 10_____ 11.____ 12.___ 13.____ 14.____ 15.____ 16.____17.____ 18.____19.____ 20._____ 得分 评卷人 II. Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each

item)

1.____ 2.____ 3.____ 4.____ 5.____ 6.____ 7.____ 8.____ 9.____ 10.____

得分 评卷人 III. Identify the following by choosing the author’s name and the name of the

works: 20% (1 points for each item)

1. Author:_____ , Work:_____ 2. Author:____ , Work:_____ 3. Author:_____ , Work:_____ 4. Author:____ , Work:_____ 5. Author:_____ , Work:_____ 6. Author:____ , Work:_____ 7. Author:_____ , Work:_____ 8. Author:____ , Work:_____ 9. Author:_____ , Work:_____ 10. Author:____ , Work:_____

得分 评卷人 IV: Complete the following: 20% 1. (1%)_________ , 2. (4%)________, _______, _______, _______ 3. (1%)____________, 4.(1%)____________ 5.(1%)___________ 6. (4%)_________ , __________, __________ ,__________

7. (1%)__________ , 8. (1%)____________ , 9. (1%)____________

10. (4%)__________, _________ , _________ , _________ 11. (1%)_________

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V. Rewrite the following into modern English: 10%

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 得分 评卷人 VI. Comment: 20% 1. Answer the following questions:

(1)What relationship between nature and man do you see through this part?(5%) (2)Are the men willing to be drowned? How do they challenge nature? (5%) ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Answer the following questions:

(1) Is there black humor in this part? How is it expressed? (5%) (2)What do you see from behind this humor? (5%)

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