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湖南工程学院试卷用纸 __2006__至_2007_学年第__二__学期 专业班级____________ 姓名__________ 学号_____ 共___4__页 第__1__页
(装 订 线 内 不 准 答 题）

命题教师_____王荣富___________________审核________________________

课程名称 英美文学史(II） 考（查）___A___（卷）

适用专业班级____英语0401—0404______考试形式__闭卷___

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I. True & False statement： (1，×20）
( ） 1。The first settlers who became the founding fathers of the American nation were quite a few of them Puritans。
（ ） 2。Diaries, histories, journals， letters, commonplace books， travel books， sermons， occupy a major position in American literature of the early colonial period.
（ ) 3.The common thread throughout American literature has been the emphasis on the Rationalism。
( ）4。Franklin，s best writing is found in his masterpiece Autobiography。
( ）5。Common Sense and American Crisis are among Thomas Paine，s greatest works.
( ) 6.The American Crisis stirred the world and helped form the American republic.
( )7。 American Romantic period started with the publication of Washington lrving，s The Sketch Book and ended with Whitman，s Leaves of Grass。
（ ） 8.The Transcendentalists stressed the importance of the individual。
( ） 9。Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Norris and Crane were all the members of New England Transcendentalism。
（ ) 10。 Emersonian Transcendentalism is actually a philosophical school which absorbed some ideological concerns of American Puritanism and European Realism.
( ) 11. American Realism was a reaction against Romanticism or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions.
( ）12.The Age of Realism is also what Mark Twain referred to as “The Golden Age”.
（ ) 13。In 1859， Darwin published The Origin of the Species， which exerted great influence on American Naturalism.
( ) 14.The best work that Mark Twain ever produced is The Prince and the Pauper.
（ )15.Howells，s The Rise of Silas Lapham is a fine specimen of American realistic writing.
( )16。Fitzgerald，s The Great Gatsby is set in the 1930s.
（ ) 17.The Yoknapatawpha County is a legendary kingdom created by Faulkner。
（ ）18.Ezra Pound,s major work of poetry is the long poem called Cathay。
( ）19.In Faulkner,s The Sound and the Fury， he used a technique called stream of consciousness, in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character。
（ )20.In 1954，Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his “mastery of the art of modern narration”。

II。 Match the following information: （1，×10）
1.Henry David Thoreau a。 Uncle Tom，s Cabin
2. Nathaniel Hawthorne b。 This Side of Paradise
3。 Harriet Beecher Stowe c. The Golden Bowl
4.Mark Twain d。 Howl
5. Henry James e. The Scarlet Letter
6. Jack London f。 As I Lay Dying
7.F.Scott Fitzgerald g. Walden, or Life in the Woods
8。William Faulkner h。 Beyond the Horizon
9.Eugene O，Neill i. The Call of the Wild
10。 Allen Ginsberg j. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

III。 Filling the blanks：(1，×20)
1. A series of sixteen pamphlets by Paine was entitled__________.
2。__________was regarded as Father of the American short stories。
3。In __________,Whitman，s own early experience may well be identified with the childhood of a young growing America。
4.Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne，s novel__________.
5。__________has been regarded as “America,s Declaration of Intellectual Independence。”
6。While Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the “life”of the Americans， Henry James had apparently laid great emphasis on the “__________”of man。
7.__________was the first literary giant born West of the Mississippi.
8。 The name of the heroine in The Portrait of a Lady is __________。
9.The Financier, The Titan and The Stoic form Dreiser,s“__________。”
10。__________is the pioneer who wrote in the naturalistic tradition。
11。Crane，s novel__________ relates the story of a good woman，s downfall and destruction in a slum environment.
12。 After the Civil War, the Frontier was closing。 Disillusionment and frustration were widely felt. What had been expected to be a “Golden Age”turned to be “___________”one.
13。__________became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein had called “the lost generation”.
14.Fitzgerald,s The Great Gatsby is set in the __________Age.
15. In 1920, Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation of American small—town Provincialism in __________.
16.The __________of the 1930s greatly weakened the American nation，s self-confidence.
17.Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the “__________"movement。
18。 Fitzgerald，s first novel__________， with its portrayal of casual dissipations of“flaming youth”， was an immediate commercial success。
19.Hemingway，s status as a writer was confirmed with the publication of his novel __________in 1929。The novel portrayed a farewell both to war and to love。
20. In the novel The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway portrayed an old fisherman named __________, who shows triumphant even in defeat。

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IV. Multiple Choice： (1,×20）
1. Which is not connected with Thomas Paine?
A。 Common Sense B。 The American Crisis
C. The Rights of Man D。 The Autobiography
2. In Walt Whitman，s “There was a Child Went Forth，” The child refers to ________.
A. the poet himself as a child B。 any American child
C. the young America D. one of the poet，s neighbor
3。 Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual communication with ________.
A. nature B. transcendentalist ideas
C。 human beings D. celestial beings
4。 ________ tells a simple but very moving story in which four people living in a puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways.
A。 Twice—Told Tales B. The Scarlet Letter
C。 The House of the Seven Gables D。 The Marble Faun
5。 Washington Irving，s social conservation and literature for the past is revealed， to some extent, in his famous story，________.
A。 “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" B。 “Rip Van Winkle"
C. “The Custom—House” D。 “The Birthmark”
6. As a philosophical and literary movement， ________flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War。
A。 modernism B. rationalism
C. sentimentalism D。 transcendentalism
7.________is not the member of Transcendental Club。
A。 Emerson B. Thoreau
C。 Whitman D. Fuller
8. In the following works， which signs the beginning of the American literature?
A. The Sketch Book B。 Leaves of Grass.
C。 Leatherstocking Tales. D。 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
9. The Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States refers to the period from ________to________。
A.1861…1914 B。1863…1918
C.1865…1914 D。1865…1918
10。________is a novella about a young American girl who gets “killed" by the winter in Rome， and it brought Henry James international fame for the first time.
A。 The American B. The Europeans
C。 Daisy Miller D. The Portrait of a Lady

11. Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism, of which Theodore Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representative writers?
A. Freud. B. Darwin。
C. W。D.Howells. D。 Emerson.
12.In Henry James，s Daisy Miller， the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of ________。
A. the force of convention B. the free spirit of the New World
C. the decline of aristocracy D。 the corruption of the newly rich
13。 Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a ________language。
A. grand B。 pompous
C。 simple D。 vernacular
14。Theodore Dreiser is generally regarded as one of America，s ________.
A. naturalists B。 realists
C。 modernists D。 romanticists
15.________is Hemingway，s first true novel in which he depicts a vivid portrait of “The Lost Generation”。
A。 The Sun Also Rises B.A Farewell to Arms
C。 In Our Time D. For Whom the Bell Tolls
16.Which of the following figures does not belong to “The Lost Generation”?
A。 Ezra Pound。 B. William Carlos Williams.
C. Robert Frost。 D. Theodore Dreiser。
17。Who，one of the most important poets in his time, is a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement"？
A. J。D.Salinger. B. Ezra Pound。
C. Richard Wright。 D。 Ralph Ellison。
18. In A Rose For Emily, Faulkner makes best use of ________devices in narration。
A. romantic B。 realistic
C. gothic D。 modernist
19.From Eugene O，Neill，s works, we can see he is ________.
A. a man of optimism B. a man of pessimism
C。 a man of apathy D。 a man of inactivity
20。________showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po into English， and was influenced by Confucian ideas.
A。 Ezra Pound。 B. Robert Frost
C. T.S.Eliot D。 E。E.Cummings

湖南工程学院试卷用纸 专业班级____________ 姓名______________ 学号______ 共____4__页 第___3___页
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V. Answer questions: （10’，×3)
1. What is the “international theme”in Henry James，novels and stories?

2. In what way was O，Neill an experimentalist in dramatic art?

3. What is “The Lost Generation”?

湖南工程学院答卷用纸 ___2006_至__2007__学年第___二_学期 专业班级_________ 姓名_________ 学号_____ 共__4_页 第__4__页
（装 订 线 内 不 准 答 题)

命题教师__________王荣富_______审核________________________

课程名称________英美文学史（II)___考（查）__A____（卷)

适用专业班级______英语0401-0404__考试形式__闭卷____

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I。 True ＆ False statement: (1，×20)
1。 2. 3. 4。 5. 6。 7。 8。 9。 10.

11. 12. 13。 14。 15。 16. 17。 18。 19。 20.
II. Match the following information： （1，×10）
1。 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7。 8。 9. 10.
III. Filling the blanks： (1,×20）
1. 2. 3。

4。 5. 6。

7。 8. 9。

10 11. 12。

13。 14 15。

16. 17. 18。

19. 20。

IV。 Multiple Choice： (1，×20）
1。 2. 3. 4。 5。 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

11。 12. 13. 14. 15。 16. 17。 18。 19. 20。
V。 Answer questions： （10，×3)
1.

2.

3.
湖南工程学院试卷参考答案及评分标准（A卷） 专业班级__英语0401-0404 命题老师_王荣富_ __2006_至__2007_学年第_二___学期

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课题名称________英美文学史（II）_________________________
I. True & False statement. （1，×20)
1___5 T T F T T 6__10 F T T F F 11__15 T F T F T 16__20 F T F T T
II. Match the following information: （1,×10)
1___5 g e a j c 6____10 i b f h d
III. Filling the blanks： （1，×20）
1。American Crisis 2.Washington Irving 3。Song of Myself
4。The Scarlet Letter 5。The American Scholar 6.psychology
7。Mark Twain 8。Isabel Archer 9。Trilogy of Desire
10。Stephen Crane 11.Maggie：A girl of streets 12.Gilded
13.Hemingway 14.Jazz 15.Main Street
16。Great Depression 17。imagist 18.This Side of Paradise
19.A Farewell to Arms 20。Santiago
IV. Multiple Choice： (1,×20）
1. D 2.C 3.A 4. B 5.B 6。 D 7.D 8。 A 9。C 10。C
11。B 12.B 13。D 14.A 15。A 16.D 17.B 18.A 19。B 20。A
V。 Answer questions： （10，×3)
1. Henry James,fame rested largely on his handling of his major fictional theme,“the international theme” : the meeting of America and Europe， American innocence in contact and contrast with European decadence and the moral and psychological complications arising from it。 The typical pattern of the conflict between the two cultures would be that of a young American man or an American girl who goes to Europe and affronts his or her destiny. Marriage and love are used by James as the focal point of the confrontation between the two value systems， and the protagonist usually goes through a painful process of spiritual growth, gaining knowledge of good and evil from the conflict。

2. O,Neill introduced the realistic or even the naturalistic aspect of life into the American theatre。 He borrowed freely from the best traditions of Europe drama， such as Greek tragedies， or the realism of Ibsen, or the expressionism of Stringberg, and fused them into the organic art of his own。 He borrowed freely from modern literary techniques such as the stream_of_consciousness device with the help of which he managed to reveal the emotional and psychological complexities of modern man. He made use of setting and stage property in his dramatic representation. And he frequently wrote the lines in dialect, or spelled words in ways which indicate a particular accent or manner of speech。 O,Neill，s
Ceaseless experimentation enriched American drama and influenced later playwrights.

3. When the First World War broke out， many young people volunteered to take part in “the war to end wars”only to find that modern warfare was not as glorious or heroic as they thought it to be。 Disillusioned and disguised by the frivolous, greedy, and heedless way of life in America, they began to write and they wrote from their own experience in the war。 Among these young writers were the most prominent figures in American literature， especially in modern American literature。 They were basically expatriates who left America and formed a community of writers and artists in Paris, involved with other European novelists and poets in their experimentation on new modes of thought and expression. These writers were later named“The Lost Generation"。