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1． Herman Melville’s __________ is an encyclopedia of everything: history, philosophy religion, etc. in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.
A. The Old Man and the Sea B. Moby Dick C. White Jacket C. Billy Budd 【答案】B
2． Which of the following is not written by Ernest Hemingway, one of the best-known American authors of the 20th century?__________
A. The Sun Also Rises.
B. The Old Man and the Sea. C. Mosses From the Old Manse. D. The Green Hills of Africa. 【答案】C
3． Who was considered as the “poet of American Revolution”?__________
A. Anne Bradstreet B. Edward Taylor
C. Michael Wigglesworth D. Philip Freneau
【答案】D
4． The Publication of __________established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.
A. Nature
B. Self-Reliance
C. The American Scholar D. The Over-Soul 【答案】A 5． In Robert Frost’s famous poem \like these: “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, / But I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep,/ And miles to go before I sleep”. The second sleep refers to__________.
A. die
B. calm down C. fall into sleep D. stop walking
【答案】A青岛掌к心博阅╕电子书
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6． “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by __________.
A. T.S. Eliot B. Robert Frost C. Ezra Pound D. E.E.Cumings 【答案】C
7． Natty Bumppo is the hero in Cooper’s __________
A. The Precaution B. The Spy
C. The Gleanings in Europe D. Leatherstocking Tales
【答案】D
8． Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms -the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse -with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of __________farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.
A. Southern B. Western
C. New Hampshire D. New England 【答案】 D
9． \
And sorry I could not travel both ...\
In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to __________.
A. a travel experience
B. a marriage decision青岛掌к心博阅╕电子书 C. a middle-age crisis D. one’s course of life 【答案】D
10．Edgar Allen Poe’s first collection of short stories is __________.
A. Tales of a Traveler B. Leatherstocking Tales C. Canterbury Tales
D. Tales of the Grotesque of Arabesque 【答案】D
11．At the beginning of Faulkner’s A Rose For Emily, there is a detailed description of Emily’s old house. The purpose of such description is to imply that the person living in it __________.
A. is a wealth lady B. has good taste
C. is a prisoner of the past D. is a conservative aristocrat 【答案】C
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