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1、第 1 页 共 9 页1云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三学院: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. “To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is geniu
2、s.” The sentence shows the opinion of Joseph Heller. ( ) 2. Part One of The Autobiography opens with a letter to Dorothy James, Franklins wife. ( ) 3. In “The Cask of Amontillado”, Montresor suddenly chains the slow-footed Fortunato to a stone, and walls up the entrance to this small crypt, thereby
3、trapping Fortunato inside forever. ( ) 4. Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter is a specimen of Hawthornes chilling, cold-blooded human animals.( ) 5. The lines “A poem should not mean / But be” comes from “Ars Poetica” by MacLeish. ( ) 6. ONeills great purpose was to try and discover the root of
4、 human desires and frustrations. He showed most of the characters in his plays as seeking meaning and purpose in their lives but all met disappointment. ( ) 7. Catch-22 combines comic absurdity with the horrors of war in order to criticize bureaucratic authority and people over the lives of others.
5、( ) 8. Saul Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975. ( ) 9. Ezra Pound was one of the prime movers of Imagism. ( ) 10. Emerson is the mentor to Thoreau. ( ) 11. In The Open Boat, Crane explores the theme that men is more powerful than nature and men will consequently defeat natural
6、 disasters with natural and impressionistic approaches. ( ) 12. Stephen Crane is considered as one of American naturalistic writers. ( ) 13. Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in his masterpiece novel Tender is the Night. ( ) 14. The narrator in The Great Gatsby
7、is a minor character named Nick Carraway, 第 2 页 共 9 页2who is also a participant in the event. ( ) 15. William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 and 1962. ( ) 16. A Farewell to Arms is Hemingways first true novel in which he depicts a vivid por
8、trait of “the lost generation”. ( ) 17. Hemingways writing style, together with his theme and hero, is greatly and permanently influenced by his experience in the war. ( ) 18. In Walt Whitemans poem “O Captain! My Captain!”, captain refers to President Lincoln. ( ) 19. Emily Dickinsons poetic idiom
9、is noted for obscure. ( ) 20. Invisible Man explores the theme of the white man from the lower social class strive for their identity. 得分 评卷人II.Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item) Writers: ( ) 1. Ralph Waldo Emerson ( ) 2. Robert Frost ( ) 3. Saul Bellow ( ) 4.
10、 Joseph Heller ( ) 5. Ralph Waldo Ellison ( ) 6. Ezra Pound ( ) 7. Ernest Hemingway ( ) 8. Emily Dickinson ( ) 9. Katherine Anne Porter ( ) 10. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Works: a. Self-Reliance b. Invisible Man c. Pale Horse, Pale Rider d. The Sun Also Rises e. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
11、f. Success is Counted Sweetest g. Song of Myself h. Catch-22 i. Looking for Mr. Green j. Cantos得分 评卷人第 3 页 共 9 页3III.Identify the following by choosing the authors name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item) 1. That felicity, when I reflected on it, has induced me sometimes to say,
12、that were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. So I might, besides correcting the faults, change some sinister accidents and events of
13、it for others more favorable. Author: A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo Ellison Work: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby2. It was now midnight, and my task was drawing to a close. I had completed the eighth, the ninth, and the tenth tier. I had finished a
14、portion of the last and the eleventh; there remained but a single stone to be fitted and plastered in. I struggled with its weight; I placed it partially in its destined position. But now there came from out the niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head. It was succeeded by a sad voice,
15、which I had difficulty in recognising as that of the noble Fortunato. Author: A. Edgar Allan Poe B. William Faulkner C. Ralph Waldo Ellison Work: A. The Cask of Amontillado B. Barn Burning C. The Autobiography3. The world has been instructed by its kings, who have so magnetized the eyes of nations. It has been taught by this colossal symbol the mutual reverence that is due from man to man. The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king, the noble, or the great proprietor to walk among them by a law of his own, make his own scale of men and things, and reve
