美国文学秋季学期练习题2----有答案的.doc

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Key to test 2:
I (10%): 1.-5 C. G A .B F 6-10 D E D G E
II. (20%)
1. England 2. The Day of Doom 3. May Flower 4. English 5. reason 6. Autobiograph
7. Rip Van Winkle 8. Adgar Allan Poe 9. The Pioneer 10. Philip Freaneau
III. (30%)
1-5 A B B D D 6-10 D C B D D 11-15. A D C C B
IV. (10%)
T F F T T T T T T T
V. (10%) d b e a f
美国文学史及作品选读练习2
I。 Match the works with the authors given below。 (10％）
a。 Michael Wigglesworth b。 。Franklin
c。 John Smith d。 William Cullen Bryant
e. James Fennimore Cooper f.Philip Freneau g. Washington Irving
1。( ) A Description of New England
2。( ) Rip Van Winkle
3.（ ) The Day of Doom
4.（ ) Autobiography
5.（ ） The Wild Huoney suckle
6。（ ） To a Waterfowl
7。（ ) The Deerslayer
8 （ ） The Thanatopsis
9。( ) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
10.（ ) The Spy

ILI。 Blank Filling. (20％）
1. The term “ Puritan” was applied to those settlers who originally were devout members of the Church of ________.
2. Michael Wiigglesworth, another important colonial poet, achieved wide popularity among his contemporaries with his gloomy entitled ___________________。
3. In 1620, a number of Puritans who tried to purify or reform the church of England stepped on the New England shore at Plymouth in the ship named ________.
4. Among all the settlers in the New Continent, _________ settlers were the most influential.
5. In American Literature， the eighteenth century was an Age of ________ and Revolution.
6. In Franklin’s ________________, he talks first of all about how he studied language。
7. Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as ____________ which is about a good—natured lazy husband who falls into a 20—year sleep.
8. “Supernal beauty” is believed by ______________ to be the principle of Poetry。
9。 Published in 1823， ___________was the first of the Leatherstocking Tales, in their order of publication time， and probably the first true romance of the frontier in American literature.
10. ______________was considered as the “poet of the American Revolution.” And the “Father of American Poetry。"

III。 Multiple Choice.（30％)
1.In the early nineteenth century American moral values were essentially Puritan. Nothing has left a deeper imprint on the character of the people as a whole than did_______。
A.Puritanism B Romanticism C Rationalism D Sentimentalism
2. Franklin wrote and published his famous__________， an annul collection of proverbs。
A。 The Autobiography B。 Poor Richard's Almanack C. Common SenseD。 The General Magazine
3。 In American literature， the eighteenth century was the age of the Enlightenment。 _______was the dominant spirit.
A。 Humanism B Rationalism C Revolution D Evolution
4。________ usually was regarded as the first American writer。
A。William Bradford B。 Anne Bradstreet C.Emily Dickinson D。 Captain John Smith
5。。Which is not Irving's works in the following.
A. The Sketch Book B。 Tales of a Traveller C .A History of New York D To A Waterfowl
6. Choose Freneau’s poem from the following。
A。 The Raven B。 To a Waterfowl C. To Hellen D. The wild Honey Suckle
7。 In 1817， the stately poem called Thanatopsis introduced the best poet______to appear in America up to that time。
A。 Edward Taylor B. Philip Freneau C。 William Cullen Bryant D. Edgar Allan Poe
8.Compared with his contemporaries， _________was no doubt the best in exploring the wildness and frontier in fiction。
A。 Washington Irving B. James Fenimore Cooper C. William Cullen Bryant D Philip Freaneau
9. Washington Irving's ’Rip Van Winkle’ is famous for_________.
A. Rip’s escape into a mysterious valley B. The story's German legendary source material
C。 Rip’s seeking for happiness D. Rip’s 20—years sleep
10. Choose Poe's work from the following
A。 The Day of Doom B。The Last of the Mohicans
C. The Indian Burying Ground D The Cask of Amontillado
11.Choose Irving's work from the following 。
A。 The Sketch Book B。 Thanatopsis C. The Spy D.The British Prison Ship
12。_______ is the most commonly used in English poetry， in which an unstressed syllable comes first followed by a stressed。
A。 the trochaic foot B。 an anapestic foot C.a quatrain D。a iambic foot
13。 The Indian Burying Ground by___________ is the earliest poem which romanticizes the Indian as a child of nature。
A. Washington Irving B。 Adgar Alan Poe C.Philip Freneau D.Nathaniel Hawthorne
14。_______ is a poetic device used to increase the musical quality and link the lines and stanzas of a poem。
A。 Meter B. Repetition C。 Rhyme D。foot
15。Poetry is aimed at conveying and enriching human experience which is formed through sense impressions. __________ is the representation of sense experience through language。
A .meter B. Image C。theme D.assonance
IV。 Decide Whether the Statements are True or False. (10％)
1. The Puritans in New England embraced hardships, together with the discipline of a harsh church。
2. In 1625 a number of Puritans came to settle in Massachusetts
3. Mayflower in American history is the name of a flower.
4. American poetry of the eighteenth century has an imitative character， imitating the reigning English models of the eighteen century。
5. In Franklin’s Autobiography， he talks first of all about how he studied language
6。 Philip Freneau was a most important writer in American poetry of the eighteenth century。
7. The early American romanticism gave emphasis to emotion, feeling, intuition instead of reason。
8. Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure tale， and the frontier stories.
9。 In the 19th century American literature， writers of Gothic terror novels sought to arouse in their readers a turbulent sense of the remote， the supernatural, and the terrifying by describing old castles ，deep valleys or bleak mountain tops.
10。 Puritan influence over American Romanticism was conspicuously noticeable.
V。 Choose the term from the box to match the following definitions. （10%)
a. iambic foot b. meter c. image d . rhyme e. stanz f。 alliteration
g. trochaic foot
h. consonance

1. _______ is the repetition of sounds in two or more words or phrases that usually appear close to each other in a poem.
2. ________ is a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables。
3. ________ is a structural division of a poem， consisting of a series of verse lines which usually comprise a recurring pattern of meter and rhyme.
4. ________ is the most commonly used foot in English poetry， in which an unstressed syllable comes first， followed by a stressed syllable.
5. ________ is the repetition of the same initial consonant sound within a line or a group of words。
参考答案： VI.(20%)
Section A
1. The Wild Honey Suckle
2. B
3. Philip Freneau
4. The writer compares the flower’s charms to the prime time of human being.
5. In this poem, the poet expresses a keen awareness of the loveliness and transience of nature.

VI。 Identify the fragments and answer the following questions.（20％)
Section A。
Fair flower, that does so comely grow,
Hid in this silent， dull retreat，
Untouched thy honied bolssoms blow，
Unseen thy little branches greet；
No roving foot shall crush thee here,
No busy hand provoke a tear.
Questions： (10％)
1.What is the title of this poem from which the selection is selected?
2.The meter of this poem is_______.
A。iambic pentameter B 。tetrameter C anapestic rhythm D sonnet
3.Who is the writer of the poem？
4。To what does the writer compare the flower's charms？ ’
5.What does the writer express in this poem？
Section B。 (10%）
“Be it so,” I said， replacing the tool beneath the cloak, and again offering him my arm. He learned upon it heavily。 We continued our route in search of the Amontillado。 We passed through a range of low arches, descended ， passed on and descending again arrived at a deep crypt, in which the foulness of the air caused our flambeaus rather to glow than flame。
sectionB参考答案1.The Cask of Amontillado
2Adgar Allan Poe
3.murder, revenge
4. 1). A story should try to achieve a single effect.
2) All incidents and events of a short story should help the author to establish this effect.
3). The very first sentence of the story should bring out this effect.
4) The whole composition should follow the author’s pre-established design.
5)A reader should feel a sense of full satisfaction from having read the story.

1. What is the title of this work？ 1’
2. What is the author of this work? 2’
3. What is the theme of this story? 2’
4. Please write out the rules of this author’s principles for short story。 5'