2021年4月广东省高等教育自学考试
美国文学选读 试卷 （课程代码 10101）
I. Multiple Choice (30%)
Select from the four choices of each item the ONE that best answers the question or completes the statement. Put your choice on the Answer Sheet.
1.As a _____ Philip Freneau heralded American literacy independence, his close observation of nature distinguished his treatment of indigenous wild life and other native American subject. A. novlelist B.dramatist C.poet D.short story writer
2.Captain John Smith’s A Map of Virginia with a Description of the Country and invitation to the bold spirit needed to enlarger and strengthen the ____ plantation in the new land. A.England B.Dutch C.German D.America 3.John Steinbeck was the foremost novelist of the ______of the 1930s. A.American Depression B.American Dream C.American Romanticism D.American Realism 4.Which of the following is NOT written by James Fenimore Cooper. A.The Last of the Mohicans B.The Deerslayer C.Rip Van Winkle D.The Spy
5. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; petals on a wet; black bough”are the famous line from In a Station of the Metro by _________.
A.William Bryant B.Ezar Pound C.Philip Freneau D.Anne Bradstreet 6.Which of the following statement about Walt Whitman. A.Whitman was one of the great innovators in American literature. B.The poetic style he devised is now called blank verse. C.He published the first edition of The Leaves of Grass.
D.With the publication of The Leaves of Grass, Whitman was praised by Ralph Waldo Emerson. 7.Daisy Miller, which one American critic described as “an outrage girlhood” brought Henry James his first ______ fame.
A.domestic B.international C.Europe D.American 8.In 1952, Ernest Hemingway portrayed an old fisherman _______ in The Old Man and the Sea. A.Natty Bumpoo B.Pocahontas C.Santiago D.Henry
9.Ezra Pound’s Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: Life and Contacts, considered as a satire of the materialistic force involved in ______, is a masterpiece. A.the War I B.the War II
C.the Civil War D.the American Revolutionay War
10.The collection of his occational lectures on poetry entitled _____ established Wallnce Stevens are a major American poet.
A.Ideals and orders B.The Necessary Angle C.Harmonium D.Part of a World 11.The secular ideals of the _______ were exemplified in the life and career of Benjamin Franklin. A.American Enlightment B.American Romanticism C.American Realism D.American Naturalism 12.Which of the following is written by Mark Twain.
A.The Waste Land B.Four Quartets C.The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn D.Homage of John Dryden 13.My Lost Youth written by ______ is about his hometown of Portland, Maine. A.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow B.Anne Bradstreet C.Carl Sandburg D.John Cotton
14.The best of _______’s many sea romances was The Pilot. The hero of the novel represents John Paul Jones introduction,
A. Ernest Hemingway B. James Fenimore Cooper C. Mark Twain D. William Faulkner
15.With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway became the spokesman for what the Gertrude Stein had called ________.
A.an angry generation B.a beat generation C.a great generation D.a lost generation
II. Identify the sources of the following quotations. Give the names of the works and their authors.
16. These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; 17.Tell me, what did Caty do?
18.The immediate cause, however, of the prevalence of supernatural stories in these parts, was doubtless owing to the vicinity of Sleepy Hollow. 19. Vainly the fowler’s eye
Might Mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong.
As, darkly painted on the crimson sky.
20.I shall ever bear about me a memory of the many solemn hours I thus spent alone with the master of the House of User.
III. Cloze
As we have seen, theology dominated the ___21___ phase of American writing, politics was the next great subject to command the attention of the best mind. Since ideals, in the written and spoken word, inspire and direct men’s actions, the writers held vitally important places in the movement for ___22___. Freedom was as much by the fiery rhetoric of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense and the eloquence of the Declaration of Independence as by the weapon ___23___ of Lafayette. Without the writings of Thomas Paine, the might have no army foe Washington to lead; without Thomas Jefferson’s work, the ___24___ might never have aided the cause. Other nations were hammered together on the anvil, but the ___25__ original American states were persuaded to become a single nation by argument of statement and men of letter.
In the later half of the 19th century, although Americans continued to read work of Irving __26___, Cooper and Poe, the great age of American __27__ had eneded.
By the 1870s the ___28___ Renaissance have waned. Only Whitman continued to offer his ___29___. ____30____ replaced Boston as the nation’s literary center.
IV. Read the following passage and answer the questions. Passage One
I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame,
I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done,
I see, in low life, the mother misused by her children, dying, neglected, gaunt, desperate,
I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous seducer of young women,
31. What’s the title of the poem? And who is the author? 32. Is this poem called blank verse or free verse? 33.What is the theme of the poem
2021年4月广东省高等教育自学考试 美国文学选读
