【正文】 nce of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to another school of realism: American ______.　　A. Romanticism B. TranscendentalismC. Realism D. Naturalism20. Which of the following is not written by Henry James?　　A. The Portrait of A Lady and The Europeans.　　B. The Wings of the Dove and The Ambassadors.　　C. What Maisie Knows and The Bostonians.D. The Genius and The Gilded Age.21. More than five hundred poems Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which her general Skepticism about the relationship between ______ is wellexpressed.　　A. man and man B. men and womenC. man and nature D. men and God22. Which of the following is right about Emily Dickinson’s poems about nature?　　A. In them, she expressed her general affirmation about the relationship between man and nature.　　B. Some of them showed her disbelief that there existed a mythical bond between man and nature.　　C. Her poems reflected her feeling that nature is restorative to human beings.　　D. Many of them showed her feeling of nature’s inscrutability and indifference to the life and interests of human beings.23. As a great innovator in American literature, Walt Whitman wrote his poetry in an unconventional style which is now called free verse, that is _________.　　A. lyrical poetry with chanting refrains　　B. poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme　　C. poetry without rhymes at the end of the lines but with a fixed beatD. poetry in an irregular metric form and expressing noble feelings24. In the first part of the 20th century，apart from Darwinism, there were two thinkers ______， whose ideas had the greatest impact on the period.　　A. the German Karl Marx and the Austrian Sigmund Freud　　B. the German Karl Marx and the American Sigmund Freud　　C. the Swiss Carl Jung and the American William JamesD. the Austrian Karl Marx and the German Sigmund Freud25. Which of the following can be said about Eugene O’Neill plays?　　A. Most of his plays are concerned about the root, the truth of human desires and human frustrations.　　B. His tragic view of life is reflected in many of his works.　　C. His plays are concerned about the relationship between man and nature as well as man and woman.D. Both A and B.26. Most of O’Neill’s plays are concerned about the following except______.　　A. success and failure in man’s literary career　　B. life and death, illusion and disillusion, dream and reality　　C. alienation and munication, self and society, desire and frustrationD. the basic issues of human existence and predicament27. Which of the following can be said about a typical modern literary work?　　A. It is a record of sequence and coherence of the history and the world.　　B. It is a juxtaposition of the past and present, of the history and the memory.　　C. It is a book of integrity drawn from diverse areas of experience.D. Its perspective is shifted from the internal to the external, from the private to the public.28. As to the great American poet Ezra Pound, which of the following is not right?　　A. His language is usually oblique yet marvelously pressed and his poetry is dense with personal, literary, and historical allusions.　　B. His artistic talents are on full display in the history of the Imagist Movement.　　C. From his analysis of the Chinese ideogram Pound learned to anchor his poetic language in concrete, perceptual reality, and to organize images into larger patterns through juxtaposition.　　D. For he was politically controversial and notorious for what he did in the wartime, his literary achievement and influence are somewhat reduced.29. In his poetry, Robert Frost made the colloquial ______ speech into a poetic expression.　　A. England B. New EnglandC. Plymouth D. Boston30. Which of the following statements is right about Robert Frost’s poetry?A. He bined traditional verse forms with the difficult and highly ornamental language.B. He bined traditional verse forms with the pastoral language of the Southern area.C. He bined traditional verse forms with a simple spoken languagethe speech of New England farmers.D. He bined traditional verse forms with the experimental.31. Which of the following statements can be said about the works of Scott Fitzgerald, a spokesman of the “Roaring 20s”?A. Many of them portrayed the hollowness of the American worship of riches and the unending American dream of fulfillment.B. They are symbolic of the psychological journey of the modern man and his helplessness in the modern world.C. They show the primitive struggle of individuals in the context of irresistible natural forces.D. They penetrate into the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself.32. Which of the following is not written by Ernest Hemingway, one of the bestknown 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.33. Which of the following statements is right about the novel A Farewell to Arms?　　A. The author favored the idea of nature as an expression of either god’s design or his beneficence.　　B. The author attempted to write the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation in the 1930s.　　C. The author emphasizes his belief that man is trapped both physically and mentally and suggests that man is doomed to be entrapped.　　D. It tells a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with an Italian nurse.34. Which of the following is depicted as the mythical county in William Faulkner’s novels?　　A. Cambridge. B. Oxford.C. Mississippi. D. Yoknapatawpha. 35. To Faulkner, the primary duty of a writer was to explore and represent the infinite possibilities inherent in human life. Therefore a writer should ______.　　A. observe with no judgment whatsoever.　　B. r