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MultipleChoice（1’×15=15’）

1.______wasthefirstcolonyinAmericanhistory.

A.MassachusettsB.NewJerseyC.VirginiaD.Georgia

2.______wastheonlygoodAmericanauthorbeforetheRevolutionaryWar.One

ofhisfellowAmericanssaid,“Hisshadowliesheavierthananyotherman’son

thisyoungnation.”

A.JohnSmithB.BenjaminFranklinC.ThomasJeffersonD.ThomasPaine

3.RomanticsputemphasisonthefollowingEXCEPT______.

A.commonsenseB.imaginationC.intuitionD.individualism

4.TheRavenwaswrittenin1844by________

A.PhilipFreneauB.EdgarAllanPoe

C.HenryWadsworthLongfellowD.EmilyDickinson

5.Theship______carriedaboutonehundredPilgrimsandtook66daystobeat

itswayacrosstheAtlantic.InDecemberof1620,itputthePilgrimsashoreat

Plymouth,Massachusetts.

A.SunflowerB.ArmadaC.MayflowerD.Titanic

6.Melville’snovel______isatremendouschronicleofawhalingvoyagein

pursuitofaseeminglysupernaturalwhitewhale.

A.TypeeB.OmooC.WhiteJacketD.MobyDick

7.Asaphilosophicalandliterarymovement,______flourishedinNewEngland

fromthe1830stotheCivilWar.

A.ModernismB.RationalismC.SentimentalismD.Transcendentalism

8.Thethemeoforiginalsinisfullyreflectedin_________.

A.TheScarletLetterB.SisterCarrie

C.TheGreatGatsbyD.TheOldManandSea

9.InallhisnovelsTheodoreDreisersetshimselftoprojectthe______Americanvalues.Forexample,inSisterCarrie,thereisnotonecharacterwhosestatusis

notdeterminedeconomically.

　A.PuritanB.materialisticC.psychologicalD.religious

10.Realismwasareactionagainst______oramoveawayfromthebiastowardsromanceandself-creatingfictions,andpavedthewaytoModernism.

A.Rationalism   B.Romanticism  C.Neoclassicism      D.Enlightenment

11.________wasapoetinAmericanmodernperiodwhowasdeeplyinfluencebyeasternculture.

A.T.SEliotB.RobertFrostC.EzraPoundD.WaltWhitman

12.WhichofthefollowingstatementsaboutEmilyDickinsonisNOTtrue?

A.After1862shebecameatotalrecluse,notleavingherhousenorseeing

closefriends.

B.SheoncefeltadeepaffectionforCharlesWadsworth,amarriedagedminister,butitprovedtobeafrustratedloveaffairforDickinson.

C.Shewroteaboutdeath,immortality,nature,successandfailure.

D.Duringherlifetime,allherpoemsarepublished.

13.Therealisticperiodisreferredtoas“theGildedAge”by_______.

A.MarkTwainB.HenryJamesC.EmilyDickinsonD.TheodoreDreiser

14.WhichofthefollowingworksisNOTbyErnestHemingway?

A.TheOldManandSeaB.AFarewelltoArms

C.SoundandFuryD.ForWhomtheBellTolls

15.WhichoneisNOTthecharacteristicofmodernism?

A.Modernisminliteratureischaracterizedbyexperimentation,anti-realism,individualismandastressonthecerebralratherthanemotiveaspects.

B.Modernismisgreatlyinfluencedbythetwoworldwars.

C.TheworkofMarx,andFreud,hadmountedanassaultagainstorthodoxreligiousfaiththatlastedintothetwentiethcentury.

D.Modernistsbelievethathumannatureiskind.

I.MatchtheColumnAwithColumnB（1’×10=10’）

ColumnAColumnB

（）1.Dimmesdalea.RobertFrost

（）2.Ahabb.MarkTwain

（）3.Drouetc.TheScarletLetter

（）4.PulitzerPrizerd.ThomasJefferson

（）5.Reclusivepoete.MobyDick

（）6.humoristandsatiristf.ErnestHeminway

（）7.TheDecalrationofIndepenenceg.HenryDavidThoreau

（）8.transcendentalisth.EmilyDickinson

（）9.TheGreatGatsbyi.SisterCarrie

（）10.TheLostGenerationj.F.ScottFitzgerald

II.Definethefollowingwordswithinonephrase

（2’×5=10’）

1.freeverse2.RalphWaldoEmerson3.MarkTwain

4.BenjaminFranklin5.EzraPound

III.Simplequestions（5’×4=20’）

1.WhatarePuritanthoughts?

2.WhatisTranscedentalismandlistsomerepresentativefigures?

3.Explainthesymbolicmeaningsof“A”inTheScarletLetter.

4.IllustratethethreeprinciplesofImagistPoetry.

IV.Interpretingthefollowingtexts（45’）

Text1

Whenagirlleavesherhomeateighteen,shedoesoneoftwothings.Eithershefallsintosavinghandsandbecomesbetter,orsherapidlyassumesthecosmopolitanstandardofvirtueandbecomesworse.Ofanintermediatebalance,underthecircumstances,thereisnopossibility.Thecityhasitscunningwiles,nolessthantheinfinitelysmallerandmorehumantempter.Therearelargeforceswhichallurewithallthesoulfulnessofexpressionpossibleinthemostculturedhuman.Thegleamofathousandlightsisoftenaseffectiveasthepersuasivelightinawooingandfascinatingeye.Halftheundoingoftheunsophisticatedandnaturalmindisaccomplishedbyforceswhollysuperhuman.Ablareofsound,aroaroflife,avastarrayofhumanhives,appealtotheastonishedsensesinequivocalterms.Withoutacounsellorathandtowhispercautiousinterpretations,whatfalsehoodsmaynotthesethingsbreatheintotheunguardedear!

Unrecognisedforwhattheyare,theirbeauty,likemusic,toooftenrelaxes,thenweakens,thenpervertsthesimplerhumanperceptions.

Questions

1.Pleaseuseonephrasetosummarizetheaboveparagraph（2’）

2.Whatarethetwopossibilitiesforagirlofeighteenleavingherhome?

（2’）

3.Pleasefindoutthefiguresofspeech（2’）

4.Whataretheattractiveforcesmentionedinabigcity?

（4’）

5.Howarenaturalistviewsarereflectedinthisparagraph?

Illustrateyourpointswithexamples（5’）

Text2

BecauseIcouldnotstopforDeath–

Hekindlystoppedforme--

TheCarriageheldbutjustOurselves--

AndImmortality.

Weslowlydrove--Heknewnohaste

AndIhadputaway

Mylaborandmyleisuretoo,

ForHisCivility–

WepassedtheSchool,whereChildrenstrove

AtRecess--intheRing--

WepassedtheFieldsofGazingGrain--

WepassedtheSettingSun–

…

Sincethen--'tisCenturies--andyet

FeelsshorterthantheDay

IfirstsurmisedtheHorses'Heads

WeretowardEternity–

Questions:

1.Identifythepoetandthetitleofthispoem?

（2’）

2.Explaintheunderlinedwords（4’）

3.Whataretheimplicationsof“theSchool”,“thefieldsofGazingGrain”,“theSettingSun”?

（3’）

4.Howdoyouunderstand“Sincethen--'tisCenturies--andyet/Feels

shorterthantheDay”?

（3’）

5.Whatarethespeaker’sopinionsaboutdeath?

（3’）

Text3

Tworoadsdivergedinayellowwood,

AndsorryIcouldnottravelboth

Andbeonetraveler,longIstood

AndlookeddownoneasfarasIcould

Towhereitbentintheundergrowth.

Thentooktheother,asjustasfair,

Andhavingperhapsthebetterclaim,

Becauseitwasgrassyandwantedwear;

Thoughasforthatthepassingthere

Hadwornthemreallyaboutthesame.

Andboththatmorningequallylay

Inleavesnostephadtroddenblack.

Oh,Ikeptthefirstforanotherday!

Yetknowinghowwayleadsontoway,

IdoubtedifIshouldevercomeback.

Ishallbetellingthiswithasigh

Somewhereagesandageshence:

Tworoadsdivergedinawood,andI--

Itooktheonelesstraveledby,

Andthathasmadeallthedifference.

Questions:

1.Pleaseexaminethepoeticform（rhymeandmeter）（2’）

2.Describethesimilaritiesanddifferencesofthesetworoads.Whichonedoesthespeakertake?

（3’）

3.Howdoyouunderstandtheword“sigh”?

（4’）

4.Whatmightthetworoadsstandforinthespeaker’smind?

（4’）

5.Whatisthethemeofthispoem?

（2’）

V.Interpretingthefollowingtexts（45’）

Text1

1.Pleaseuseonephrasetosummarizetheaboveparagraph（2’）

2.Whatarethetwopossibilitiesforagirlofeighteenleavingherhome?

（2’）

3.Pleasefindoutthefiguresofspeech（2’）

4.Whataretheattractiveforcesmentionedinabigcity?

（4’）

5.Howarenaturalistviewsarereflectedinthisparagraph?

Illustrateyourpointswithexamples（5’）

Text2

1.Identifythepoetandthetitleofthispoem?

（2’）

2.Explaintheunderlinedwords（4’）

3.Whataretheimplicationsof“theSchool”,“thefieldsofGazingGrain”,“theSettingSun”?

（3’）

4.Howdoyouunderstand“Sincethen--'tisCenturies--andyet/FeelsshorterthantheDay”?

（3’）

5.Whatarethespeaker’sopinionsaboutdeath?

（3’）

Text3

V.Pleaseexaminethepoeticform（rhymeandmeter）（2’）

VI.Describethesimilaritiesanddifferencesofthesetworoads.Whichonedoesthespeakertake?

（3’）

VII.Howdoyouunderstandtheword“sigh”?

（4’）

VIII.Whatmightthetworoadsstandforinthespeaker’smind?

（4’）

IX.Whatisthethemeofthispoem?

（2’）

参考答案

I.MultipleChoice（1’×15=15’）

1._C___2._B__3.__A__4.__B__5.__C___

6.__D_7.__D__8._A__9.__B__10.__B___

11._C__12.__D__13._A_14._C__15._D__

II.MatchtheColumnAwithColumnB（1’×10=10’）

1.（c）2.（e）3.（i）4.（a）5.（h）

6.（b）7.（d）8.（g）9.（j）10.（f）

III.Definethefollowingwordswithinonephrase（2’×5=10’）

（Anyrelatedinformationcanbegivenmarks）

1.poetrywithoutafivedbeatorregularrhymescheme,producedbyWaltWhitman

2.istherepresentativeoftranscedentalists,whobelievesinindividualismandself-reliance