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1、英美文化课后答案7Lecture 7Tell whether each of the following statements is true or false.1-10: FTFTT/FTTFT 11-20: TFTFT/TFTTTFill in the blanks with the correct information.1. Old English 2. The Canterbury Tales 3. The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus 4. William Shakespeare 5. historical plays; comedies 6. P
2、. B. Shelley; William Wordsworth 7. Sense and Sensibility 8. Oliver Twist 9. The Heart of Darkness 10. stream of consciousness 11. the Transcendentalist Club 12. Natty Bumpoo 13. Moby Dick 14. Walt Whitman 15. The Red Badge of Courage 16. King of the English 17. Lord Protector 18. Princess Diana 19.
3、 Alchemist 20. calculus, gravitation 21. religious, interpretation 22. Boz 23. clerk, potential 24. florid, poetic 25. Locomotive 26. instructor 27. James Bond Series 28. satirist, boom, 1960s 29. Julie Andrews 30. big, gigantic 31. John Peel 32. The Lady with the Lamp 33. land, water 34. George Was
4、hington 35. New Deal 36. John Fitzgerald Kennedy 37. George Walker Bush 38. Barack Hussein Obama 39. Martin Luther King 40. Ray Kroc 41. Disneyland Park 42. William Henry Bill Gates 43. The Sketch BookChoose the correct answer on the basis of what is stated in the text.1-10: BACCA/DABDB 11-20: CABBA
5、/CDCAD 21-30: CBADC/BACBA 31-32: CDExplain the following terms.1. The Canterbury TalesChaucers The Canterbury Tales is made up of a series of stories. These stories are told by pilgrims who were on their way to the important Christian church at Canterbury. Although these tales are incomplete, they c
6、over all major types of medieval literature. It contains almost all the typical medieval figures. It is a miniature of the English society of Chaucers time. 2. William Shakespeare William Shakespeare is probably the best known literary figure in the world. His many plays include tragedies, comedies
7、and history plays. Shakespeare created four great tragedies. Hamlet is the most performed play in the world. Shakespeare is regarded as one of the founders of realism in the world literature.3. Jane EyreJane Eyre tells the story of an orphan, who has a loveless childhood at a terrible boarding schoo
8、l. When she grows up, she goes to work for Mr. Rochester as a governess to his child. Mr. Rochester becomes attracted to her because of her independence and free spirit. 4. Tess of the DUrbervilles This story tells the tragic fate of Tess, a beautiful country girl. Tess is seduced by Alec Durbervill
9、es and has an illegitimate baby. She meets Angel Clare and they fall in love with each other. However, she is abandoned by Angel when he knows her past story. Tess has no choice but to live with Alec because her father dies and the family is starving. Later Angel regrets how he abandoned Tess and co
10、mes back to find her. Tess kills Alec in strong despair and great madness. 5. Stream of consciousnessIn literary criticism, “stream of consciousness” is a narrative mode that seeks to portray an individuals point of view by giving the written equivalent of the characters thought processes, either in
11、 a loose interior monologue, or in connection to his or her actions.6. TranscendentalismTranscendentalism was a group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture, and philosophy that emerged in New England in the early to middle 19th century. Among transcendentalists core beliefs was an ideal spir
12、itual state that “transcends” the physical and empirical and is only realized through the individuals intuition, rather than through the doctrines of established religions. Prominent transcendentalists included Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.7. The lost generationThis is a term coined b
13、y author and poet, Gertrude Stein. Often it is used to refer to a group of American writers who lived in Paris and other parts of Europe, some after military service in the First World War. Figures identified with the Lost Generation include authors and poets Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, a
14、nd Ezra Pound. The Lost Generation captures the zeitgeist of the time period: disillusionment.8. Moby Dick It is considered one of the worlds greatest masterpieces. This is a story about a whaling voyage. The hero Ishmael went out to sea on the whaling ship, Pequod. The captain, Ahab, lost one leg o
15、n a previous voyage when he met the white whale Moby Dick, so he was determined to kill the white whale. At last Moby Dick appeared and Captain Ahab ordered his ship to fight with it. All the crew were drowned except Ishmael, who survived to tell the story. 9. Mark TwainMark Twain was the pen name o
16、f Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Twain had an American sense of humor; he dealt with the lower strata of society. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was an immediate success and its sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, became his masterwork. Mark Twain made colloquial speech a literary medium. This is his great contribution to American literature. His style influenced
