美国文学模拟试题二.doc

云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题二学院:外语学院专业:英语 年级：_班次: 学号： 姓名： 考试方式(闭卷)：考试时量：150分钟 试卷编号( 卷)题号一二三四五六总分评卷人复分人得分评卷人I. True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item)( ) 1. The short story, Poe says, must be of such length as to be read at one sitting, so as to ensure the totality of impression.( ) 2. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in Jefferson and Thoreau.( ) 3. Williams poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” is considered an example of the Imagist movements style and principles.( ) 4. Simeon and Peter are the farm owners in Desire under the Elms. ( ) 5. The quotation “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might” is the theme of “Looking for Mr. Green”.( ) 6. Capt. John Yossarian is a fictional character in Joseph Hellers novel Catch-22.( ) 7. Set in Puritan Boston in the seventeenth century, The Scarlet Letter tells the story of Hester Prynne, who gives birth after committing adultery, refuses to name the father, and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity.( ) 8. Franklin says that because his wife may wish to know about his life, he is taking his one week vacation in the English countryside to record his past.( ) 9. The jar in “Anecdote of the Jar” symbolizes social regulation.( ) 10. In “The Cask of Amontillado”, Fortunato decides to use Montresors fondness for wine against him.( ) 11. Stephen Cranes Maggie: A Girl of Street relates a story of a good womans downfall and destruction in a slum environment. ( ) 12. Katherine Anne Porter is characterized by her employment of the stream of consciousness to probe into the inner world of human reality. ( ) 13. FScott Fitzgerald is often claimed the literary spokesman of the Jazz Age. ( ) 14. The Sound and the Fury won OHenry Award in 1939 and is considered as the representative of his short story. ( ) 15. In the novel The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway portrayed an old man shows triumphant event in defeat. ( ) 16. Hemingways novel The Sun Also Rises pained the image of the whole generation, the lost generation. ( ) 17. In “I Shot an Arrow”, Longfellow takes the traditional verse forms the sonnet with the rhythm of aabb aacc ddee. ( ) 18. In “Sonnet To Science”, Poe praised science for it emancipated the poets imagination. ( ) 19. Emerson has great influence on Emily Dickinsons poems. ( ) 20. Toni Morrison is the first American black woman who wins the Nobel Prize.得分评卷人II. Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item)Writers: ( ) 1. Walt Whiteman( ) 2. Edgar Allan Poe( ) 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson( ) 4. FScott Fitzgerald( ) 5. Wallace Stevens( ) 6. Joseph Heller( ) 7. Eugene Glastone ONeill( ) 8. Ernest Hemingway( ) 9. Katherine Anne Porter( ) 10. Langston HughesWorks:a. The Man with the Blue Guitarb. The Ravenc. Desire under the Elmsd. For Whom the Bell Tollse. Fine Clothes to the Jewf. Natureg. The Leaning Towerh. The Side of Paradisei. God Knowsj. Leaves of Grass得分评卷人III. Identify the following by choosing the authors name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)1. I have ever had pleasure in obtaining any little anecdotes of my ancestors. You may remember the inquiries I made among the remains of my relations when you were with me in England, and the journey I undertook for that purpose. Imagining it may be equally agreeable to some of you to know the circumstances of my life, many of which you are yet unacquainted with, and expecting the enjoyment of a weeks uninterrupted leisure in my present country retirement, I sit down to write them for you. To which I have besides some other inducements.Author: A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby2. I took from their sconces two flambeaux, and giving one to Fortunato bowed him through several suites of rooms to the archway that led into the vaults. I passed down a long and winding staircase, requesting him to be cautious as he followed. We came at length to the foot of the descent, and stood together on the damp ground of the catacombs of the Montresors.Author: A. Edgar Allan Poe B. William Faulkner C. Ralph Waldo EllisonWork: A. The Cask of Amontillado B. Barn Burning C. The Autobiography3. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, - under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are. And, of course, so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blindmans-buff is this game of conformity.Author: A. Walt Whitman B. William Faulkner C. Ralph W. EmersonWork: A. The Road Not Taken B.I Shot An Arrow C. Self-reliance4. The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance on a large scale. She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam; and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion, had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes. She was ladylike, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days; characterised by a certain state and dignity, rather than by the delicate, evanescent, and indescribable grace which is now recognised as its indication. And never had Hester Prynne appeared more ladylike, in the antique interpretation of the term, than as she issued from the prison.Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C. Emily DickensonWork: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C. Walden5. In disjointed sentences the cook and the correspondent argued as to the difference between a life-saving station and a house of refuge. The cook had said: Theres a house of refuge just north of the Mosquito Inlet Light, and as soon as they see us, theyll come off in their boat and pick us up.Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen CraneWork: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C. Miss Jewett6. “Get along and doctor your sick,” said Granny Weatherall. “Leave a well woman alone. Ill call for you when I want youWhere were you forty years ago when I pulled through milk-leg and double pneumonia? You werent even born. Dont let Cornelia lead you on,” she shouted, because Doctor Harry appeared to float up to the ceiling and out. “I pay my own bills, and I dont throw my money away on nonsense!”Author: A. Oscar Wilde B.H. W. Longfellow C. Katherine Anne PorterWork: A. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall B. Moby Dick C. The Jolly Corner7. It was Gatsbys father, a solemn old man, very helpless and dismayed, bundled up in a long cheap ulster against the warm September day. His eyes leaked continuously with excitement, and when I took the bag and umbrella from his hands he began to pull so incessantly at his sparse gray beard that I had difficulty in getting off his coat. He was on the point of collapse, so I took him into the music room and made him sit down while I sent for something to eat. But he wouldnt eat, and the glass of milk spilled from his trembling hand.Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C. H. W. LongfellowWork: A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby8. Hey? the Justice said. Talk louder. Colonel Sartoris? I reckon anybody named for Colonel Sartoris in this country cant help but tell the truth, can they? The boy said nothing. Enemy! Enemy! he thought; for a moment he could not even see, could not see that the justices face was kindly nor discern that his voice was troubled when he spoke to the man named Harris: Do you want me to question this boy? But he could hear, and during those subsequent long seconds while there was absolutely no sound in the crowded little room save that of quiet and intent breathing it was as if he had swung outward at the end of a grape vine, over a ravine, and at the top of the swing had been caught in a prolonged instant of mesmerized gravity, weightless in time.Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. William Faulkner C. Robert FrostWork: A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning C. The Happy Prince9. The waiter took the brandy bottle and another saucer from the counter inside the cafe and marched out to the old mans table. He put down the saucer and poured the glass full of brandy. The waiter took the bottle back inside the cafe. He sat down at the table with his colleague again.Author: A. Wallace Stevens B. William Faulkner C. Ernest Hemingway Work: A. Death of a Salesman B.A Clean, Well-lighted Place C. Recitatif10. ABBIE-(suddenly lifts her head and turns on him-wildly) I killed him, I tell ye! I smothered him. Go up an see if ye dont blieve me! (Cabot stares at her a second, then bolts out the rear door, can be heard bounding up the stairs, and rushes into the bedroom and over to the cradle. Abbie has sunk back lifelessly into her former position. Cabot puts his hand down on the body in the crib. An expression of fear and horror comes over his face.)Author: A.W. C. Williams B. E. G. Oneill C. Saul BellowWork: A. Desire Under the Elms B. Looking for Mr. Green C. Catch-22得分评卷人IV: Complete the following: 20%1. To make a _ it takes a _ and one _,One _ and a _.And _._ alone will do,If _ are few. (8%)2. How _ to be somebody!How public, like a _To tell your name the _ dayTo an _ bog! (4%)3. The _ of these faces in the crowd;_ on a wet, black _. (3%)4. So much _upon a red _ _ _ with rain water besides the _ chickens (5%)得分评卷人V. Rewrite the following into modern English: 10%Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both.And be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that passing thereHad worn them really about the same.得分评卷人VI. Comment: 20%1. None of them knew the color of the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and were fastened upon the waves that swept toward them. These waves were of the hue of slate, save for the tops, which were of foaming white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its edge was jagged with waves that seemed thrust up in points like rocks. When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great seas voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters.Answer the following questions:(1) What does the opening sentence imply? (5%)(2) In what way could the survivors be interpreters? (5%)2. I want you to pick all the fruit this year and see that nothing is wasted. Theres always someone who can use it. Dont let good things rot for want of using. You waste life when you waste good food. Dont let things get lost. Its bitter to lose things. Now, dont let me get to thinking, not when I am tired and taking a little nap before supperAnswer the following questions:(1) What intelligent advice and wisdom does Granny give her family? (5%)(2) What do you see from behind her words? (5%)云南师范大学美国文学期末考试