云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题

云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题五

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. Hawthorne concludes that “the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the word.” ( ) 2. Transcendentalists recognized intuition as the “highest power of the soul.”

( ) 3. The misshapen scholar mentioned in Chapter 2 of The Scarlet Letter is Hester Prynne’s husband.

( ) 4. The finest example of Hawthorne’s expressionism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in The Scarlet Letter. ( ) 5. MacLeish often wrote his poetry with short lines and the strong rhythm of jazz. ( ) 6. The poet compares hatred to fire in “Fire and Ice”.

( ) 7. Heller’s sardonic novel, Catch-22 is considered to be one of the most significant works of “protest literature” to

appear since the Second World War.

( ) 8. The bulk of The Autobiography was written in 1771, 1784 and 1788.

( ) 9. Through his efforts, the American theatre grew up during the 1920s; O’Neill had a great influence on American

playwrights.

( ) 10. The narrator, Fortunato, opens the story, “The Cask of Amontillado”, by stating that he has been irreparably

insulted by his acquaintance, Montresor, and that he seeks revenge.

( ) 11. William Dean Howells thinks The Red Badge of Courage is Stephen Crane’s beast work and praises it as “a real

Crane’s work”.

( ) 12. One of Porter’s contributions is that she described the women’s liberation from the perspective of feminism. ( ) 13. In 1925, Fitzgerald wrote his best novel The Great Gatsby. It is a story of an idealist who was destroyed by the

disillusion of American Dream.

( ) 14. Sarty is one of the main characters in Barn Burning created by Faulkner.

( ) 15. Ernest Hemingway revealed his life values and standards in the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls and was awarded

the Nobel Prize for literature.

( ) 16. Writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were a Beat Generation. ( ) 17. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is one of the most famous American realistic poets in 19th century. ( ) 18. Poe is influenced by romantic style. His poems are noted for nice rhythm and images.

( ) 19. n the poem “One’s Self I sing”, Whiteman set forth the principle beliefs of the modern man. ( ) 20. Emily Dickinson has published 1775 poems during her lifetime.

得分 评卷人 II. Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each item) Writers: ( ) 1. Toni Morrison ( ) 2. Joseph Heller

( ) 3. Eugene Glastone O’Neill ( ) 4. Archibald MacLeish ( ) 5. Emily Dickinson ( ) 6. Benjamin Franklin

( ) 7. Ralph Waldo Emerson ( ) 8. F·Scott Fitzgerald ( ) 9. William Faulkner ( ) 10. Wallace Stevens Works:

a. The Hairy Ape b. I’m Nobody!

c. We Bombed in New Haven d. English Traits

e. The Sound and the Fury f. The Autobiography g. Tender is the Night h. Anecdote of the Jar i. Song of Solomon j. J.B.

得分 评卷人 III. Identify the following by choosing the author’s name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each

item)

1. Indeed, I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, \vanity I may say,\&c., but some vain thing

immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others that are within his sphere of action; and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.

Author: A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo Ellison Work: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby

2. He had a weak point -- this Fortunato -- although in other regards he was a man to be respected and

even feared. He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine. Few Italians have the true virtuoso spirit. For the most part their enthusiasm is adopted to suit the time and opportunity to practise imposture upon the British and Austrian MILLIONAIRES. In painting and gemmary, Fortunato, like his countrymen , was a quack, but in the matter of old wines he was sincere. Author: A. William Faulkner B. Edgar Allan Poe C. Ralph Waldo Ellison Work: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C.The Cask of Amontillado

3. In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanour on the part of the spectators, as befitted a people

among whom religion and law were almost identical, and in whose character both were so thoroughly interfused, that the mildest and severest acts of public discipline were alike made venerable and awful. Meagre, indeed, and cold, was the sympathy that a transgressor might look for, from such bystanders, at the scaffold. On the other hand, a penalty which, in our days, would infer a degree of mocking infamy and ridicule, might then be invested with almost as stern a dignity as the punishment of death itself.

Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C. Emily Dickenson Work: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C.Walden

4. The cook squatted in the bottom and looked with both eyes at the six inches of gunwale which separated him from the

ocean. His sleeves were rolled over his fat forearms, and the two flaps of his unbuttoned vest dangled as he bent to bail out the boat. Often he said: \broken sea.

Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen Crane Work: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C.Miss Jewett

5. They sat together in the same seat, and each rowed an oar. Then the oiler took both oars; then the correspondent took

both oars; then the oiler; then the correspondent. They rowed and they rowed. The very ticklish part of the business

was when the time came for the reclining one in the stern to take his turn at the oars. By the very last star of truth, it is easier to steal eggs from under a hen than it was to change seats in the dingey. Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen Crane Work: A.Catch-22 B. The Open Boat C.Miss Jewett

6. It was Hapsy she really wanted. She had to go a long way back through a great many rooms to find Hapsy standing with

a baby on her arm. She seemed to herself to be Hapsy also, and the baby on Hapsy’s arm was Hapsy and himself and herself, all at once, and there was no surprise in the meeting. Then Hapsy melted from within and turned flimsy as gray gauze and the baby was a gauzy shadow, and Hapsy came up close and said, “I thought you’d never come,” and looked at her very searchingly and said, “You haven’t changed a bit!” They leaned forward to kiss, when Cornelia began whispering from a long way off, “Oh, is there anything you want to tell me? Is there anything I can do for you?” Author: A. Oscar Wilde B.H. W. Longfellow C. Katherine Anne Porter Work: A. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall B. Moby Dick C.The Jolly Corner

7. After Gatsby’s death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes’ power of correction. So when

the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.

Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller C. H. W. Longfellow Work: A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C.The Great Gatsby

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his hat still on his head. And now the boy saw the prints of the stiff foot on the doorjamb and saw them appear on the pale rug behind the machinelike deliberation of the foot which seemed to bear (or transmit) twice the weight which the body compassed. The Negro was shouting \

Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. William Faulkner C. Robert Frost Work: A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning C.The Happy Prince

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youth and confidence although those things are very beautiful. Each night I am reluctant to close up because there may be someone who needs the cafe.\

Author: A. Wallace Stevens B. William Faulkner C. Ernest Hemingway Work: A. Death of a Salesman B.A Clean, Well-lighted Place C.Recitatif

10. EBEN--Nor me--but it led up t' the other--an' the murder ye did, ye did 'count o' me--an' it's my murder, too, I'll tell the

Sheriff--an' if ye deny it, I'll say we planned it t'gether--an' they'll all b'lieve me, fur they suspicion everythin' we've done, an' it'll seem likely an' true to 'em. An' it is true--way down. I did help ye--somehow. Author: A.W. C. Williams B. E. G. O’neill C. Saul Bellow

Work: A. Desire Under the Elms B. Looking for Mr. Green C.Catch-22

得分 评卷人 IV: Complete the following: 20% 1. I used to _____

About _____ and _____— I think the _____ Is _____. (5%) 2. Long, long afterwards in an _____,

I found the ____ still unbroken,

And the _____, from beginning to end, I found again in the _____ of a friend. (4%) 3. Art is_____, and Time is _____,

And our hearts, though _____ and _____, Still, like muffled _____, are beating _____ marches to the _____. (7%)

4.On desperate seas long wont to _____,

Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy naiad airs have brought me_____ To the _____ that was Greece, And the _____ that was Rome. (4%)

得分 评卷人 V. Rewrite the following into modern English: 10% Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!---- For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. 得分 评卷人 VI. Comment: 20% 1. That night I dreamed I was at a circus with him and that he refused to laugh at the clowns no matter what they did. Then later he told me to open my brief case and read what was inside ad I did, finding an official envelope stamped with the state seal; and inside the envelope I found another and another; endlessly, and I thought I would fall of weariness. “Them’s years,” he said. “Now open that one.” And I did and in it I found an engraved document containing a short message on letters of gold. “Read it,” my grand-father said. “Out loud!”

“To Whom It May Concern,” I intoned, “Keep This Nigger-Boy Running.”

I awoke with the old man’s laughter ringing in my ears. (It was a dream I was ti remember and dream again for many years after. But at that time I had no insight into its meaning. First I had to attend college.)

How do you understand the message “Keep This Nigger-Boy Running”? (10%)

2. Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt goose pimples clacking all over his as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden had spilled all over the messy floor. It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter that was Snowden’s secret. Drop him out a window and he’ll fall. Set fire to him and he’ll burn. Bury him and he’ll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit is gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden’s secret. Ripeness was all.

How are we to understand the message Yossarian reads in Snowden’s entrails? (10%)