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一、填空题
圣才电子书 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 第五章 20世纪美国文学
1. The decade of the 1920s in America was a time of carefree prosperity, isolation, social change and a feverish pursuit of pleasure. The most representative novelist of the period is _____, whose works were a harsh judgment on the false values of the 1920s and the loss of the great American dream. 【答案】F. Scott Fitzgerald
【解析】菲茨杰拉德是20世纪20年代最具代表性的作家。菲茨杰拉德的《了不起的盖茨比》通过完美的艺术形式描写了20年代贩酒暴发户盖茨比所追求的“美国梦”的幻灭，揭示了美国社会的悲剧。
2. Fitzgerald’s greatness lies in the fact that he found intuitively in his personal experience the embodiment of that of the nation and created a myth out of American life. The story of The Great Gatsby is a good example. Gatsby’s life pattern—at first, _____, then disenchantment, and finally a sense of despair —approximates the whole of the American experience. 【答案】hope
【解析】盖茨比的个人经历与20世纪前几十年美国整个国家的经历如出一辙。现代人生活在精神的荒原之上，生活已失去目的和意义，看看盖茨比豪华但毫无意义的宴会便可略知一二。盖茨比的个人生活已成为整个国家文化历史上的伟大寓言。菲茨杰拉德在文化思想领域取得的最大成就正在于此。
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圣才电子书 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 3. For Fitzgerald who lived in _____ and was part of it, his greatness lies in his perception of the doom of the American dream, and his depiction of the frustration and despair that result from it in The Great Gatsby. 【答案】roaring twenties
【解析】菲茨杰拉德是20世纪20年代最具代表性的作家。他的短篇小说集《爵士乐时代的故事》赋予了20年代特有的名字，他本人也成为“爵士乐时代“的代言人。
4. The Wall Street crash of 1929 set the tone for the writing of the 1930s. Steinbeck’s _____, a story of the migration of agricultural workers from the dust bowl of Oklahoma to California, is full of bitterness and pain but not exactly despair. 【答案】The Grapes of Wrath
【解析】《愤怒的葡萄》显示了斯坦贝克和其他20世纪30年代反映经济危机的作家有不同之处。那个年代的作品中弥漫着沮丧与失败主义，但在这样的氛围之中，斯坦贝克相信人性，相信未来人们能克服困难，情况能有所好转。
5. Making the history of the Deep South the subject of the bulk of his fiction, _____created a symbolic picture of the remote past in such Yoknapatawpha stories as Go Down. Moses. 【答案】William Faulkner
【解析】福克纳的作品被称为“约克纳帕特发世家小说”。
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www.100xuexi.com 【答案】John Steinbeck
圣才电子书 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 6. Of Mice and Men is written by____.
【解析】《人鼠之间》是美国作家约翰·斯坦贝克的中篇小说。不仅艺术地展现了田园牧歌式的农庄生活和残酷的社会现实的冲突，而且反映了人对生存条件的真切感受。
7. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is written by____. 【答案】T. S. Eliot
【解析】托马斯·斯特恩斯·艾略特，英国著名现代派诗人和文艺评论家。成名作《普鲁弗洛克的情歌》用内心独白表现主人公渴望爱情又害怕爱情的矛盾心态，表现的是现代人的空虚和怯懦。
8. In 1925, Fitzgerald wrote his best novel ______. It is the story of an idealist who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.
【答案】The Great Gatsby
【解析】《了不起的盖茨比》是美国作家弗·司各特·菲茨杰拉德创作的一部以20世纪20年代的纽约市及长岛为背景的中篇小说，出版于1925年。
9. In Robert Frost’s ______, the speaker tells us how the course of his life was determined when he came upon two roads that diverted in a wood. 【答案】The Road not Taken
【解析】《未选择的路》是美国著名诗人罗伯特·弗罗斯特的著名诗篇。这首深邃的哲理诗展
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圣才电子书 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 现了现实生话中人们处在十字路口时难以抉择的心情。
10. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough” was written by __________. 【答案】Ezra Pound
【解析】《在一个地铁车站》是美国诗人庞德的作品。“这些面庞从人群中涌现，湿漉漉的黑树干上花瓣朵朵。”
11. The literary spokesman of the Jazz Age is often thought to be _________. 【答案】Francis Scott Fitzgerald
【解析】弗朗西斯·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德（1896—1940）是二十世纪美国作家，小说《了不起的盖茨比》的问世，奠定了他在现代美国文学史上的地位，成为了二十年代“爵士时代”的发言人和“迷惘的一代”的代表作家。
12. Robert Frost poetry focused on the landscape and people in _______. 【答案】New England
【解析】弗罗斯特的抒情诗主要描写了大自然和农民，尤其是新英格兰的景色和北方的农民。
13. Pound was the leader of a now movement in poetry which he called the “_____” movement. 【答案】imagist
【解析】埃兹拉·庞德（1885—1972）是美国诗人和文学评论家，意向派诗歌云顶的代表人
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二、选择题
圣才电子书 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 物，代表作品《诗章》《在地铁车站》。
1. An Imagist poem often contains a single dominant image, or a succession of related images. Its effect is meant to _____. A. be instantaneous B. stir a strong emotion C. be spontaneous D. attract the readers 【答案】A
【解析】意象派诗歌通常包含一个单一的主导意象，或一系列相关意象。它强调瞬间的即视感。
2. The basic themes of T. S. Eliot’s criticism concerned the relationship between tradition and _____ and between the past, the present, and the future. A. revolution B. reform
C. popular schools of thoughts D. individual talent 【答案】D
【解析】艾略特批评的基本主题是传统与个人才能的关系，过去、现在和未来的关系。
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