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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 第一章 吴伟仁《美国文学史及选读》模拟试题及详解（一）
1. ______, by Ezra Pound, employs the complex association of scholarly lore, anthropology, modern history and personages, private history and Witticism, and obscure literary interpolations in various languages. 【答案】The Cantos
【解析】庞德的《诗章》包罗万象，是庞德的代表作。
2. ______ was regarded as the first great prose stylist of American romanticism. 【答案】Washington Irving
【解析】华盛顿·欧文是美国著名作家，他被誉为美国第一位浪漫主义散文文体作家。
3. The protagonist of Theodore Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire is ______. 【答案】Frank Cowperwood
【解析】西奥多·德莱塞的《欲望三部曲》（Trilogy of Desire） 包括《金融家》（The Financier），《巨人》（The Titan），《斯多葛》（The Stoic）。《欲望三部曲》的主人公是
法兰克·柯帕乌（Frank Cowperwood）。
4. The great work ______ not only demonstrates Emersonian ideas of self-reliance but also develops and tests Thoreau’s own transcendental philosophy. 【答案】Self-Reliance
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www.100xuexi.com 验主义思想。
圣才电子书 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 【解析】富兰克林的《论自立》不仅表现了爱默生关于自立的思想，同时也表达了他的超
5. Edgar Allan Poe’s poem ______ is perhaps the best example of onomatopoeia in the English language. 【答案】The Bells
【解析】埃德加·爱伦·坡（Edgar Allan Poe）（1809～1849）的诗《钟》（The Bells）是英语语言中成功运用拟声法的范例。）
II. Multiple Choice
1. The English colonies in North America rose in arms against their parent country and the Continental Congress adopted ______ in 1776. A. the Declaration of Independence B. the Sugar Act C. the Stamp Act
D. the Mayflower Compact 【答案】A
【解析】1776年13个英属北美殖民地奋起反击英国的殖民统治，并且1776年7月4日，大陆会议通过了一份由托马斯·杰弗逊起草的《独立宣言》（Declaration of Independence）。
2. In ______, Captain Ahab is obsessed with the revenge on a whale which sheared
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www.100xuexi.com 圣才电子书 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 off his leg on a previous voyage, and his crazy chasing of it eventually brings death to all on board the whaler except Ishmael, who survives to tell the tale. A. Typee B. White Jacket C. Moby Dick D. Billy Budd 【答案】C
【解析】Captain Ahab（亚哈船长）是梅尔维尔的小说Moby Dick（《白鲸》）里的主人公。
3. From 1732 to 1758, Benjamin Franklin wrote and published his famous ______, an annal collection of proverbs. A. The Autobiography
B. Poor Richard’s Almanac
C. Common Sense
D. The General Magazine
【答案】B
【解析】《穷理查历书》（Poor Richard’s Almanac）它是由美国资本主义精神最完美的代表——本杰明·富兰克林所写。该出版物从1732年至1758年不断出现。它幽默、睿智、形式奇特，通篇贯彻着人类的智慧精华，书中的名言警句与人生箴言即使在现在看来也具有很积极的作用。
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www.100xuexi.com A. intuition B. logic
C. data of the senses D. thinking 【答案】A
圣才电子书 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 4. Transcendentalists recognized ______ as the “highest power of the soul”.
【解析】超验主义者将直觉作为“心灵最伟大的力量”。
5. “______” was a term created by the French novelist, Emile Zola. A. realism
B. transcendentalism C. naturalism D. veritism 【答案】C
【解析】自然主义是由法国小说家左拉提出的。这一术语对美国自然主义产生了深远影响。
III. Explain the following term 1. free verse
Key: Free verse is a term describing various styles of poetry that are written without using a strict rhyme scheme, but still recognizable as poetry by virtue of complex patterns of one sort or another that readers will perceive to be part of a coherent whole. Walt Whitman is a representative who employed free verse
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2. American Naturalism
圣才电子书 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 Key: American Naturalism appeared in the late 19th to early 20th century. The movement was inspired by the principles and methods of natural science, especially Darwinism, which were adapted to literature and art. In literature, naturalism extended the tradition of realism, aiming at an even more faithful, pseudoscientific representation of reality, presented without moral judgment. Characters in naturalistic literature typically illustrate the deterministic role of heredity and environment on human life. Typical American Naturalism is represented by Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage, Frank Norris’s
McTeague and Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrier.
IV. Read the following quotations and answer the questions Passage 1
Although, as boys, we had been even intimate associates, yet I really knew little of my friend. His reserve had been always excessive and habitual. I was aware, however, that this very ancient family had been noted, time out of mind, for a peculiar sensibility of temperament, displaying itself through long ages, in many works of exalted art, and manifested, of late, in repeated deeds of munificent yet unobtrusive charity, as well as in a passionate devotion to the intricacies, perhaps even more than to the orthodox and easily recognizable
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