浙江省2007年4月高等教育自学考试
美国文学选读试题
课程代码：10055
Part Ⅰ: Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10 points in all, 1 point for each)
Group 1
Column A Column B
（ ）1. Nathaniel Hawthorne a. Sound and Fury
（ ）2. Henry David Thoreau b. The House of Seven Gables
（ ）3. Walt Whitman c. Daisy Miller
（ ）4. Henry James d. Walden
（ ）5. William Faulkner e. Leaves of Grass
Group 2
Column A Column B
（ ）1. Mildred Douglas a. Moby Dick
（ ）2. Ishmael b. The Hairy Ape
（ ）3. Hurstwood c. Indian Camp
（ ）4. Nick d. Sister Carrie
（ ）5. Adams e. The Great Gatsby
Part Ⅱ: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternatives. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (50 points in all, 2 points for each)
1. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT ______.（ ）
A. common sense B. imagination
C. intuition D. individualism
2. ______ was the first great belletrist, writing always for pleasure, to produce pleasure.（ ）
A. Irving B. Cooper
C. Emerson D. Whitman
3. In 1836, a little book came out which made a tremendous impact on the intellectual life of America. It was entitled______ by Emerson.（ ）
A. American Scholar B. Nature
C. The Poet D. Self-Reliance
4.Which of the following statements concerning the basic tenets of American Transcendentalism is Not correct?（ ）
A. Individualism is elevated by the Transcendentalists.
B. Intuition is less important than experience.
C. Nature is only another side of God.
D. Transcendentalists have a new and delight thrill in nature.
5.Melville’s novel ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.（ ）
A. Typee B. Omoo
C. White Jacket D. Moby Dick
6. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne’s novel ______.（ ）
A. Moses from an Old Manse B. Twice-Told Tales
C. The Scarlet Letter D. The Blithedale Romance
7. 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
8. Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as ______.（ ）
A. Rip Van Winkle B. Legend of the Alhambra
C. Life of Goldsmith D. Life of Washington
9. Realism was a reaction against______ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism. （ ）
A. Rationalism B. Romanticism
C. Neoclassicism D. Enlightenment
10.______ had an evident influence on naturalism. It seemed to stress the animality of man, to suggest that he was dominated by the irresistible forces of evolution.（ ）
A. Transcendentalism B. Darwinism
C. Marxism D. Freudianism
11. Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known by the pen name ______.（ ）
A. Mark Twain B. Henry James
C. William D. Howells D. Theodore Dreiser
12. ______ is considered the founder of Psychological realism.（ ）
A. Henry James B. Jack London
C. Mark Twain D. Nathaniel Hawthorne
13. “The Way of the Beaten: A Harp in the Wind” is the title of one chapter in Dreiser’s novel ______.（ ）
A. An American Tragedy B. Sister Carrie
C. Dreiser Looks at Russia D. Jannie Gerhardt
14. Which of the following works concerns most concentratedly the Calvinistic view of original sin?（ ）
A. The Waste Land B. The Scarlet Letter
C. Leaves of Grass D. As I Lay Dying
15. We can summarize that Walt Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they are ______.（ ）
A. conventional and casual B. lyrical and well structured
C. simple and rather crude D. free-flowing
16. “This is my letter to the World” is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinson’s ______ about her communication with the outside world.（ ）
A. indifference B. anger
C. anxiety D. sorrow
17. The publication of The Waste Land, written by ______ helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.（ ）
A. T. S. Eliot B. Robert Frost
C. Ezra Pound D. William Faulkner
18. Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in his masterpiece novel ______.（ ）
A. This Side of Paradise B. Tender is the Night
C. The Great Gatsby D. Tales of the Jazz Age
19. Early in the 1920s, the most prominent of the new American playwrights, whose name is ______, established an international reputation. （ ）
A. T. S. Eliot B. William B.Yeats
C. Eugene O’Neill D. Bernard Shaw
20. Which of the following novels can be regarded as typically belonging to the school of literary modernism?（ ）
A. The Sound and the Furry B. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
C. Daisy Miller D. The Gilded Age
21. Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called “______” movement.
（ ）
A. naturalistic B. imagist
C. modernistic D. impressionist
22. Hemingway was badly wounded in Italy and sent to a hospital where he fell in love with a nurse. These two persons later became the characters of his novel ______.（ ）
A. The Old Man and the Sea B. For Whom the Bell Tolls
C. The Sun Also Rises D. A Farewell to Arms
23. ______ wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which represented different social forces: the old decaying upper class, the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the “Poor Whites”, and the Negroes who labored for both of them.（ ）
A. Faulkner B. Fitzgerald
C. Hemingway D. Steinbeck
24. “For I have too much /Of apple-picking: I am overtired/ Of the great harvest I myself desired”. From these lines we can conclude that the speaker ______.（ ）
A. is happy about the harvest B. is tired of the work of apple-picking
C. is not tired when seeing the harvest D. becomes indifferent to the job
25. Which of the following statements about Hemingway’s works is Not true?（ ）
A. Man can be physically destroyed and spiritually defeated.
B. Hemingway’s style is actually polished and tightly controlled, but highly suggestive and connotative.
C. Hemingway develops the style of colloquialism initiated by Mark Twain.
D. “Grace under pressure” is actually an attitude towards life that Hemingway had been trying to demonstrate in his works.
Part Ⅲ: Interpretation (20 points in all, 5 points for each)
Read the following selections and then answer the questions.
Passage 1
There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquility. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder, ...
Questions:
1. Who is the author and where is this passage taken from?
2. Whom does “He” refer to? How many years have passed since he left?
Passage 2
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Questions:
1. Who is the poet and which poem is this stanza taken from?
2. What does the quoted stanza express?
Passage 3
So I was full of trouble, full as I could be; and didn’t know what to do. At last I had an idea; and I says, I’ll go and write the letter -- and then see if I can pray. Why, it was astonishing, the way I felt as light as a feather , right straight off, and my troubles all gone. So I got a piece of paper and a pencil, all glad and excited, and set down and wrote:
Miss Watson, your runaway nigger Jim is down here two mile below Pikesville, and Mr. Phelps has got him and he will give him up for the reward if you send.
Huck Finn.
I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. But I didn’t do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking -- thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell. And went on thinking. And got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see Jim before me , all the time: in the day and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a floating along, talking and singing and laughing. But somehow I couldn’t seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the other kind. I’d see him standing my watch on top of his instead of calling me, so I could go on sleeping; and see him how glad he was when I come back out of the fog; and when I come to him again in the swamp, up there where the feud was; and such-likes times; and would always call me honey, and pet me and do everything he could think of for me, and how good he always was; and at last I struck the time I saved him by telling the men we had small-pox aboard, and he was so grateful, and said I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the ONLY one he’s got now; and then I happened to look around and see that paper.
It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a trembling because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself:
“All right, then, I’ll go to hell” —— and tore it up.
Questions:
1. Which novel is this passage taken from? Who is the author?
2. What is the quoted passage about?
Passage 4
When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old-servant—a combined gardener and cook—had seen in at least ten years.
Questions:
1. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.
2. Why Emily is regarded as “a fallen monument”?
Part Ⅳ: Give brief answers to the following questions. (20 points in all, 10 points for each)
1. What is the most famous theme in Henry James’ fiction? And what is his favorite approach in characterization, which makes him different from Mark Twain and W. D. Howells as realists? Give two titles of his works in which this theme and this approach are employed.
2. Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view?
Please discuss the above question in relation to the basic principles of literary naturalism.
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