【正文】 69. ________, a poetic tragedy on the betrayal of Thomas Becket, is a drama of impressive spiritual power.A. The Confidential Clerk B. The Cocktail PartyC. The Family Reunion D. Murder in the Cathedral70. The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friend and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as _______.A. The Roaring Twenties B. The Jazz AgeC. The Dollar Decade D. All of the above71. Faulkner’s novel _________ is about a poor white family’s journey through fire and flood to bury the mother in her hometown, Yoknapatawpha.A. Intruder in the Dust B. As I Lay DyingC. Absalom, Absalom! D. Light in August72. Choose the novel which is not written by Henry James.A. The Ambassadors B. The Wings of the Dove B. The Bostonians D. The Mysterious Stranger 73. Henry James’ first important fiction was _______, in which he took up for the first time the theme of The AmericaninEurope.A. A Passionate Pilgrim B. The AmericanC. The Portrait of a Lady D. The Wings of the Dove 74. _______ is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself.A. The Call of the Wild B. Martin EdenC. White Fang D. The SeaWolf75. Three years’ life on the Mississippi left such a fond memory with Mark Twain that he returned to the theme more than once in his writing career. His book______ relates it in a vivid, moving way.A. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer B. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Life on the Mississippi D. The Gilded Age1Calvinism（加爾文主義即新教神學(xué)家加爾文畢生的許多主張的統(tǒng)稱。s political independence. Yet, romantics frequently shared certain general characteristics: moral enthusiasm, faith in value of individualism and intuitive perception, and a presumption that the natural world was a source of goodness and man39。s revolutionary heritage and its frontier egalitarianism.3Transcendentalism(1) Transcendentalism refers to the religious and philosophical doctrines of Ralph Waldo Emerson and others in New England in the middle 1800’s, which emphasized the importance of individual inspiration and intuition, the Oversoul, and Nature. Other concepts that acpanied Transcendentalism include the idea that nature is ennobling and the idea that the individual is divine and therefore, selfreliant. (2) New England Transcendentalism is the product of a bination of native American Puritanism and European Romanticism.4Free verse(1) Free verse means the rhymed or unrhymed poetry posed without paying attention to conventional rules of meter. (2) Free verse was originated by a group of French poets of the 19th century. (3) Their purpose was to free themselves from the restrictions of formal metrical patterns and to recreate instead the free rhythms of natural speech. (4) Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass is, perhaps, the most notable example.5Symbol(1) Symbol means an act, a person, a thing, or a spectacle that stands for something else, usually something less palpable than the named symbol. (2) The relationship between the symbol and its referent is not often one of simple equivalence. Allegorical symbols usually express a neater equivalence with what they stand for than the symbols found in modern realistic fiction.6Theme(1) Theme means the unifying point or general idea of a literary work. (2) It provides an answer to such question as “What is the work about?” (3) Each literary work carries its own theme or themes. For example, King Lear has many themes, among which are blindness and madness.7American Naturalism(1) The American naturalists accepted the more negative interpretation of Darwin’s evolutionary theory and used it to account for the behavior of those characters in literary works who were regarded as more or less plex binations of inherited attributes, their habits conditioned by social and economic forces. (2) American Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing bees less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more pessimistic. It is no more than a gloomy philosophical approach to reality, or to human existence. (3) Dreiser is a leading figure of his school.8Darwinism(1) Darwinism is a term that es form Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory. (2) Darwinists think that those who survive in the world are the fittest and those who fail to adapt themselves to the environment will perish. They believe that man has evolved from lower forms of life. Humans are special not because God created them in His image, but because they have successfully adapted to changing environmental conditions and have passed on their survivalmaking characteristics genetically. (3) Influenced by this theory, some American naturalist writers apply Darwinism as an explanation of human nature and social reality.9Local Colorists(1) Generally speaking, the writings of local colorists are concerned with the life of a small, welldefined region or province. The characteristic setting is the isolated small town. (2) Local colorists were consciously nostalgic historians of a vanishing way of life, recorders of a present that faded before their eyes. Yet for all their sentimentality, they dedicated themselves to minutely accurate descriptions of the life of their regions. They worked from personal experience to record the facts of a local environment and suggested that the native life was shaped by the curious conditions of the local. (3) Major local colorists include Hamlin Garland, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, etc..10The Lost Generation(1) The Lost Generation is a term first used by Gertrude Stein to describe the postWorld WarⅠgeneration of American writers: men and women haunted by a sense of betrayal and emptiness brought about by the destructiveness of the war. (2) Full of youthful idealism, these individuals sought the meaning of life, drank excessively, ha