【正文】 美國(guó)文學(xué)期末考試試卷模擬試題一I. Fill in the following blanks and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 1 point for each)1. The publication of ______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism. 2. Hard work, thrift, ______ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing.3. At 87, ______ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.4. Jack London’s masterwork _________ is somewhat autobiographical.5. ______, the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, bees evil himself in his thirst to destroy evil.6. Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the “________” movement.7. “The Custom House” is an introductory note to the novel _______. 8. Among the works attacking the “American Dream”, __________by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece.9. Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of ________, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.10. In 1954, _______ won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “mastery of the art of modern narration”.11. In American literary history, ________ is called “the Recluse of Amherst” since she isolated herself from the outside almost for life.12. “The Fall of the House of Usher” is a short story written by _______.13. _______ launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure and the frontier saga, represented by The Leatherstocking Tales.14. The publication of T. S. Eliot’s ________ in 1922, the most significant American poem of the 20th century, helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.15. “The Cop and the Anthem” is a short story written by ______.II. Each of the following statements is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best plete the statement. Then put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each)1. For Melville, as well as for the reader and _____, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimately mystery of the universe.A. Stubb B. Ishmael C. Ahab D. Starbuck2. Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of the “enmass” and the ____ as well.A. nature B. selfreliance C. self D. life3. Which of the following is Not one of the main ideas advocated by Ralph Emerson?A. Importance of the Individual B. Faith in ChristianityC. The OverSoul D. SelfReliance4. In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _____.A. saviors B. villains C. mentators D. observers5. In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a mon subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _____.A. Dreiser’s Sister CarrierB. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Cooper’s Leatherstocking TalesD. Thoreau’s Walden6. Which of the following is Not optimistic about human nature? .A. Ralph Emerson B. Walt Whitman C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Henry Thoreau7. Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as _______.A. Rip Van Winkle and Moby DickB. Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy HollowC. Young Goodman Brown and Moby DickD. The Fall of the House of Usher and Rip Van Winkle8. Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is Not a usual subject of her poetic expression? _____.A. Religion B. Life and death C. Love and marriage D. War and peace9. Henry James is mostly concerned with ______ in his fiction.A. the inner life of human beings B. small town life in backward regionsC. suffering of the aged D. violent events in history10. ______ is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modern American literature es.” A. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer B. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn D. The Gilded Age11. William Faulkner’s works mainly concern the American _____.A. New England B. South C. Mid West D. West12. One of Mark Twain’s contributions to American literature is that he made ______ an accepted standard literary medium.A. tall tale B. local colorism C. humor D. colloquial speech13. Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ____ of which had appeared during her life time.A. 7 B. 8 C. 9 D. 1014. In writing In a Station of the Metro, Pound got his inspiration from _____.A. English sonnet B. Japanese haiku C. Chinese classical poetry D. French15. Of the following American writers, _____ has Not won the Nobel Prize for Literature.A. William Faulkner B. Ernest Hemingway C. John Steinbeck D. F. S. Fitzgerald16. Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the _____.A. life in New York B. country life in New EnglandC. sea adventures D. life on the Mississippi River17. The works of _______ reveal the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. John Steinbeck C. Ernest