英语专业八级人文知识(十一)

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美国文学 1.The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ____
: f$ N7 g- U( K- d6 v) rA Jack London B Charles Dickens C Samuel Coleridge D Ernest Hemingway
2.In which novel can "Yahoo" be found?
  l0 w$ @$ ^; x$ PA John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress
8 G# V5 Y/ m, T, a" W2 o4 A, T( kB Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queen
  K5 l' ^: P# a: p1 s# B4 X% H( X4 GC Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
+ `3 f# ^4 E, A  w/ q: s4 m  jD Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
' K; x% c  {& H, D& z; ?1 L3.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____
5 p; h( J4 Y; Q" i! @9 SA Washington Irving B Fennimore Cooper C Edith Wharton D William Dean Howells
7 }; o! w7 u: p. B1 b8 }$ I1 b5.The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be ____
A O'Neil B Pound C Robert Frost DScott Fitzgerald
6 G8 d2 Z# _' M  t6.____ is the most important person of the transcendental club.
' l* V% S4 l5 z4 d: yA Hawthorn B Whitman C Emerson D Hemingway
1 a) C5 g- W8 V7. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except____
  e: E+ F8 {4 f- l4 E5 C/ ^A fridendship B love and marriage C life and death D war and peace
/ ~  _3 X7 p! L8 n( _. o5 a8.Robert Frost is a famous ____
A novelist B playwright C poet D literary critic
2 h2 Y) [5 J% _3 D7 r4 W9.Dover Beach is written by ____
) i1 Z( ?- {2 G5 j* q( G$ ^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.
+ p& G' e& p& l  P4 r$ GA Age of Realism B Age of Clasicalism C Age of Romanticism D Age of Renaissance
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答案
; y, w( p$ P! v$ J4 q0 V1.D 《老人与海》是海明威的作品。

  i7 F- w7 R- t: t0 ~2.C Jonathan Swift的Gulliver's Travels（《格列弗游记》）中yahoo暗指人类，集人类丑陋面于一身，服务于动物的一类生物。
3.A The Catcher in the Rye（《麦田里的守望者》）是J.D. Salinger（J.D. 赛琳格）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 二十世纪出现Jazz Age，这一代的年轻人物欲膨胀，沉迷酒色。Scott Fitzgerald的 Great Gatsby《了不起的盖茨比》根据时代特征，对深深讽刺了所谓的美国梦。
6.C Emerson是超验主义的重要代表，所著Nature《论自然》代表了他的哲学观。
8 P- h  Y% ]+ ^- \% k: O4 m7.D Emily Dickinson（1709-1784），美国女诗人，终生未嫁。主要诗歌包括：I Could Not Sto for Death还有，I'm Nobody. Who Are You?
诗歌主题为：爱情，自然，友谊，死亡与不朽。
, o4 N, c9 E9 P8.C Robert Frost是十九世纪的美国诗人，后因父亲过世已经英国，在新英格兰享有很高名望。主要作品有：The Road Not Taken，Mending Wall。
0 i. e6 E. ]1 L& Z' D9.C Dover Beach（《多弗的海滩》）是Mathew Arnold 的作品。
10.A 1865-1914，也就是美国内战结束之后，第一次世界大战爆发之前。这个时候涌现的作家，比如Mark Twain刻画出美国经济政治发展引发的社会现实问题，包括“Gold Rush”。