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1、1 英美文学练习测试题库及答案英美文学练习测试题库及答案 本科本科 I Of the four alternative answer, choose the one that would best complete the statement: 1. Benjamin Franklin was born in the family of a small _. A. Landlord B. merchant C. lawyer D. clergyman 2. Ralph Waldo Emersons leading reputation began with the publication of
2、_. A. Essays B. Nature C. Oversoul D. Self-Relience 3. Ellen Poe was both a poet and a _. A. dramatist B. essayist C actor D. fiction writer. 4. Nathaniel Hawthornes view of man and human history originates in _. A. Puritanism B. Socialism C. Transcendentalism D. naturalism 5. Walt Whitman was born
3、and brought up in a family of a _. A. Peasant B. carpenter C. captain D. printer 6. Mark Twains first successful literary work is _. A. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County B. Life on the Mississippi C. The Adventure of Tom Sawyer D. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 7. Closely related t
4、o Emily Dickinsons religious poetry are her poems concerning _. A. Childhood B.youth and happiness C. loneliness D. death and immortality 8. Among the works of Dreiser, the bet known to the Chinese readers is _. A. An American Tragedy B. Sister Carrie C. Th Financier D. The Titan 9. Robert Frosts wo
5、rks mainly focus on the landscape and people in _. A. the West B. American South C. New England D. Mississippi 10. Most of the plays Eugene ONeill wrote are _. A. comedies B. . romances C. historical plays D tragedies 11. Scott Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the _. A. modern tim
6、e B. young Americans C. Jazz Age D. Guilded Age 12. _ is Hemingways masterpiece, which is about the old fisherman Santiago and his losing battle with a giant marlin. A. Farewell to Arms B. For whom the Bell Tolls C. The Sun Also Rises D. The Old Man and The Sea 13. As a great fiction writer, William
7、 Faulker devotes most of his works to the description of the life and the people in the _. A. American West B. New England in America C. American South D. American North 14. When he was young, Benjamin Franklin became an apprentice in a _. A. printing house B. store C. Tailors shop D. factory 15. Ra
8、lph Emerson was born in a family of a _. A. merchant B. businessman C. clergyman D. writer 16. Ellen Poe began his literary career by writing _; A. short stories B. plays C. essays D. poems 17. According to Nathaniel Hawthorne, there is _ in every hearer, which may remain latent, perhaps, through th
9、e whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity. 2 A. evil B. virtue C. kindness D. tragedy 18. Whitman is radically innovative in term of form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new subjects and new feelings is _. A. blank verse B. free verse C. heroic couplet D. sonnet 19. Mark Twain
10、shaped the worlds view of America and made a combination of serious literature and _. A. American folk humor B. English folklore C. American traditional values D. funny jokes 20. Altogether, Emily Dickinson wrote _ poems, of which only severn had appeared during her lifetime. A. 1145 B. 1775 C. 897
11、D. 785 21. Theodore Dreiser is generally acknowledged as one of Americas literary _. A. realists B. naturalists C. romantists D. modernists 22. In Frosts poems, images and metaphors in his poems are drawn from _. A. the simple country life B. the urban life C. the life on the sea D. the adventures a
12、nd trips 23. Scott Fitzgerald never spared an intimate touch in his fiction to deal with the bankruptcy of the _. A. American Dream B. ruling classes B. American Capitalists D.American bourgeoisie 24. Eugene ONeill is regarded as the founder of American _. A. poetry B. drama C. fiction D. literature
13、 25. _ is Hemingways masterpiece, which tells a story about the tragic love of a wounded American soldier with a British nurse. A. A Farewell to Arms B. The Sun Also Rises C. For Whom the Bell Tolls D. In Our Time 26. William Faulkner was born in a family of a _. A. merchant B. colonel C. manager D.
14、 doctor 27. In his essays, _ put forward his philosophy of the over soul, the important of the Individual and Nature. A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. Washington Irving C. Mark Twain D. Ralph Waldo Emerson 28. The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is _ A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. Ralph Waldo Emerson C. Henry David Thoreau D. Washington Irving 29. _ literary world turns out to be a most disturbed, tormented and proble
