A. Robert Frost
B. Theodore Dreiser
C. William Faulkner
D.F. Scott Fitzgerald
30. Walt Whitman ’s ______ is a collection of poems incorporating his emotions and feelings before and during the Civil War when he stood firmly on the side of the North.
A. Leaves of Grass
B. “Cavalry Crossing a Ford”
C. “Song of Myself”
D. Drum Taps
31. It was his masterpiece The Great Gatsby that made ______ one of the greatest American novelists.
A. F. Scott Fitzgerald
B. William Faulkner
C. Ernest Hemmingway
D. Gertrude Steinbeck
32. The childhood of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in the Mississippi is a record of a vanished way of life in the ______ Mississippi valley.
A. pre - War of Independence
B. post - War of Independence
C. pre - Civil War
D. post - Civil War
33. In Moby-Dick, for the character Ahab, the white whale represents only ______.
A. evil
B. nature
C. society
D. purity
34. Melville’s semi- autobiographical novel, ______, concerns the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.
A. Moby-Dick
B. Redburn
C. Mardi
D. Typee
35. Closely related to Dickinson’s religious poetry are her poems concerning ______, ranging over the physical as well as the psychological and emotional aspects of death.
A. love and nature
B. death and universe
C. death and immortality
D. family and happiness
36. The effect of Darwinist idea of “survival of the fittest” was shattering in ______ ’s fictional world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” was the law.
A. Mark Twain
B. Henry James
C. Theodore Dreiser
D. Walt Whitman
37. Though Robert Frost’s subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in ______, he wrote many poems that investigate the basic themes of man’s life in his long poetic career.
A. the South
B. the West
C. England
D. New England
38. Like all naturalists, ______ was restrained from finding a solution to the social problems that appeared in his novels and accordingly almost all his works have tragic endings.
A. Theodore Dreiser
B. Henry James
C. Washington Irving www.lexue88.com
D. Walt Whitman
39. “The Birthmark” drives home symbolically Hawthorne’s point that ______ is man’s birthmark, something he is born with.
A. purity
B. generosity
C. evil
D. love
40. The Blithedale Romance is a novel ______ wrote to reveal his own experiences on the Brook Farm and his own methods as a psychological novelist.
A. Herman Melville
B. Nathaniel Hawthorne
C. Washington Irving
D. Walt WhitmanPART TWO (60 POINTS)
Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension ( 16 points in all, 4 for each)
Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
41. “To be, or not to be —— that is the question;
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?”
Questions:
A. Who is the writer of this work? What’s the title of the work?
B. What does the phrase “to take arms against a sea of troubles ” mean?
C. How do you understand the quotation “To be, or not to be -that is the question”?
42. “Beside a pumice isle in Baiae’s bay,
And saw in sleep old palaces and towers
Quivering within the wave’s intenser day,
All overgrown with azure moss and flowers
So sweet, the sense faints picturing them! Thou
For whose path the Atlantic’s level powers”
(From Shelley’s“ Ode to the West Wind”)
Questions:
A. In what form is the poem written?
B. What does the quotation“ the sense faints picturing them” mean?
C. What idea does Shelley express in this poem?
43. “ We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess- in the Ring-
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain -
We Passed the Setting Sun- ”
( From Emily Dickinson’s poem Because I could not stop for Death)
Questions:
A. What does the phrase “Fields of Gazing Grain” symbolize?
B. What figure of speech is used in the poem?
C. What are Dickinson’s unique writing features?
44. (A lot of common objects have been enumerated in the previous lines, and here are the last two lines of the poem. )
“The horizon’s edge, the flying sea - crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud.
These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day. ”
Questions:
A. Who is the author of this poem? What is the title of the poem?
B. What does the child stand for in the poem?
C. How do you understand “ These became part of the child” ?
Ⅲ. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)
Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
45. What are the features of George Bernard Shaw’s characterization in his plays?
46. Thomas Hardy is often regarded as a transitional writer. Some critics believe that he is emotionally traditional and intellectually advanced. How do you understand this idea?
47. What is the most famous theme in Henry James’s fiction? And what is his favourate approach in characterization, which makes him different from Mark Twain and W. D. Howlles as realists? Give two titles of his works of his first period in which this theme and this approach are employed.
48. “Young Goodman Brown”is one of Hawthorne’s most profound tales.
What is the allegorical meaning of Brown, the protagonist? What does Hawthorne set out to prove in this tale? How does Melville comment on Hawthorne’s manner of concerning with guilt and evil?
IV. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)
Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
49. Please elaborate Wordsworth’s theory of poetry, taking examples from the poems you have learned to support your ideas.
50. A Rose for Emily is one of Faulkner’s short stories. Discuss the character of Emily Grierson and how this character is depicted.
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