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1、八級模擬美國文學(xué)常識1The first colony was set up in_ at, _off the coast of North Carolina; The second colony was more permanent:_, established in_. A. 1585 Roanoke,Jamestown1607B. Jamestown1607,concord,1609C. 1492,New England1585 RoanokeD. 1492New England Jamestown16072. _ wrote the story recounts how Pocahon

2、tas, favorite daughter of Chief Powhatan, saved Captain Smiths life when he was a prisoner of the chief. Later, when the English persuaded Powhatan to give Pocahontas to them as a hostage, her gentleness, intelligence, and beauty impressed the English, and, in 1614, she married John Rolfe, an Englis

3、h gentleman. The marriage initiated an eight-year peace between the colonists and the Indians, ensuring the survival of the struggling new colony.A. Cristopher Columbus B. HarioitC. WinthropeD. Captain John Smith3. The_ definition of good writing was that which brought home a full awareness of the i

4、mportance of worshipping God and of the spiritual dangers that the soul faced on EarthA. Prostestant B. PuritanC. Catholic D. Indian 4. The link between_ is Both rest on ambition, hard work, and an intense striving for success.A. Puritanism and consumerismB. Capitalism and commercialismC. Puritanism

5、 and capitalismD. Commercialism and capitalism 5 The first Puritan colonists who settled _exemplified the seriousness of Reformation Christianity. Known as the _, they were a small group of believers who had migrated from England to Holland - even then known for its religious tolerance - in 1608, du

6、ring a time of persecutions. A. RoanokedevelopmentB. RoanokeprogressC. New England adventureD. New England pilgrims6. Of Plymouth Plantation was written by _A.William Bradford B.Captain John Smith C.HariotD.Cristopher Clumbus 7. “If ever two were one, then surely we./If ever man were loved by wife,

7、then thee;/If ever wife was happy in a man,/Compare with me, ye women, if you can./I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold/Or all the riches that the East doth hold./My love is such that rivers cannot quench(平熄),/Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense./Thy love is such I can no way rep

8、ay,/The heavens reward thee manifold（多種）, I pray./Then while we live, in love let s so persevere/That when we live no more, we may live ever” is form the first published book of poems by an American was also the first American book to be published by a woman - _(c. 1612-1672). It is not surprising t

9、hat the book was published in England, given the lack of printing presses in the early years of the first American colonies A. Miss Bradford B. Anne Bradstreet C. Miss John Smith D. Anne Bradford8. 500-page Metrical History of Christianity was written by_ A. Anne Bradstreet B. Winthrope C. Edward Ta

10、ylor D. Captain John Smith9. The 18th-century American _was a movement marked by an emphasis on rationality rather than tradition, scientific inquiry instead of unquestioning religious dogma, and representative government in place of monarchy. Enlightenment thinkers and writers were devoted to the i

11、deals of justice, liberty, and equality as the natural rights of man.A. RenaissanceB. RevolutionC. PuritanismD. Enlightenment10. _, whom the Scottish philosopher David Hume called Americas first great man of letters, embodied the Enlightenment ideal of humane rationality. Practical yet idealistic, h

12、ard-working and enormously successful.A. Captain John SmithB. Edward TaylorC. Benjamin FranklinD. Anne Bradstreet11. _ lists 13 virtues: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humilityA. JeffersonB. Frankli

13、nC. BradstreetD. St. John de Crvecoeur 12. Common Sense sold over 100,000 copies in the first three months of its publication. It is still rousing today. The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind,_wrote, voicing the idea of American exceptionalism still strong in the United

14、 States - that in some fundamental sense, since America is a democratic experiment and a country theoretically open to all immigrants, the fate of America foreshadows the fate of humanity at large. A. AnneB. PaineC. FranklinD. Jefferson13. literary writing was not as simple and direct as political w

15、riting. When trying to write poetry, most educated authors stumbled into the pitfall of elegant_. The epic, in particular, exercised a fatal attraction. American literary patriots felt sure that the great American Revolution naturally would find expression in the epic - a long, dramatic narrative po

16、em in elevated language, celebrating the feats of a legendary hero.A. RenaissanceB. RationalismC. NeoclassicismD. Classicism14. _, whose poem The British Prison Ship is a bitter condemnation of the cruelties of the British, who wished to stain the world with gore. This piece and other revolutionary

17、works, including Eutaw Springs, American Liberty, A Political Litany, A Midnight Consultation, and George the Thirds Soliloquy, brought him fame as the Poet of the American Revolution.A. Philip FreneauB. Long FellowC. Thomas PaineD. Ben Franklin15. the first professional American writer is _A. Thoma

18、s PaineB. Charles Brockden Brown C. Philip FreneauD. Anne Bradstreet16.No writer was as successful as _ at humanizing the land, endowing it with a name and a face and a set of legends. The story of Rip Van Winkle, who slept for 20 years, waking to find the colonies had become independent, eventually

19、 became folklore. It was adapted for the stage, went into the oral tradition, and was gradually accepted as authentic American legend by generations of Americans. A. Jupiter HammonB. Olaudah EquianoC. Washington IrvingD. Robert Beverley17. _ was the first to sound the recurring tragic note in Americ

20、an fiction, whose representative work is _. A. Washington Irvingthe Leather-Stocking Tales B. James Fenimore CooperSketch Book C. Washington IrvingSketch Book D. James Fenimore Cooperthe Leather-Stocking Tales18. The first African-American author of importance in the United States, _, whose work is

21、a sincere expression; it confronts white racism and asserts spiritual equality. Indeed, she was the first to address such issues confidently in verse, as in On Being Brought from Africa to America: A. Phyllis Wheatley B. Susanna Rowson C Hannah Foster D. Judith Sargent Murray19 ._ ideas centered aro

22、und art as inspiration, the spiritual and aesthetic dimension of nature, and metaphors of organic growth. Art, rather than science, Romantics argued, could best express universal truth. The development of the self became a major theme; self- awareness a primary method. If, according to Romantic theo

23、ry, self and nature were one, self-awareness was not a selfish dead end but a mode of knowledge opening up the universe. If ones self were one with all humanity, then the individual had a moral duty to reform social inequalities and relieve human suffering. The idea of self - which suggested selfish

24、ness to earlier generations - was redefined. New compound words with positive meanings emerged: self-realization, self-expression, self- reliance.A. NeoclassicB. TranscendentalistC. RomanticD. Rational20. The _movement was a reaction against 18th century rationalism and a manifestation of the genera

25、l humanitarian trend of 19th century thought. The movement was based on a fundamental belief in the unity of the world and God. The soul of each individual was thought to be identical with the world - a microcosm of the world itself. The doctrine of self- reliance and individualism developed through

26、 the belief in the identification of the individual soul with God.A. NeoclassicB. TranscendentalistC. RomanticD. Rational21. _was the first rural artists colony, and the first place to offer a spiritual and cultural alternative to American materialism. It was a place of high-minded conversation and

27、simple living.A. JamestonB. WashingtonC. Concord D. San Fransisco22. The British critic Matthew Arnold said the most important writings in English in the 19th century had been Wordsworths poems and _ s essays, who edited The Dial . A great prose-poet, he influenced a long line of American poets, inc

28、luding Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, and Robert Frost. He is also credited with influencing the philosophies of John Dewey, George Santayana, Friedrich Nietzsche, and William James. A. William Ellery Channing B. Margaret Fuller C. Henry David T

29、horeau D. Ralph Waldo Emerson23. _ is the most attractive of the Transcendentalists today because of his ecological consciousness, do-it-yourself independence, ethical commitment to abolitionism, and political theory of civil disobedience and peaceful resistance. His ideas are still fresh, and his i

30、ncisive poetic style and habit of close observation are still modern. A. William Ellery Channing B. Margaret Fuller C. Henry David Thoreau D. Ralph Waldo Emerson24. D.H. Lawrence, the British novelist and poet, accurately called _the poet of the open road. The poems innovative, unrhymed, free-verse

31、form, open celebration of sexuality, vibrant democratic sensibility, and extreme Romantic assertion that the poets self was one with the poem, the universe, and the reader permanently altered the course of American poetry.A. Emily DickensonB. Walt Whitman C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow D. James Russe

32、ll Lowell25. _, professor of modern languages at Harvard, was the best-known American poet of his day. He was responsible for the misty, ahistorical, legendary sense of the past that merged American and European traditions. He wrote three long narrative poems popularizing native legends in European

33、meters Evangeline (1847), The Song of Hiawatha (1855), and The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858).A . Emily DickensonB. Walt Whitman C. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowD. James Russell Lowell26. _is the Matthew Arnold of American literature. He began as a poet but gradually lost his poetic ability, ending

34、 as a respected critic and educator. As editor of the Atlantic and co-editor of the North American Review, he exercised enormous influence. A. James Russell Lowell B. Oliver Wendell Holmes C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow D. Walt Whitman27The first professional woman journalist of note in America, _wro

35、te influential book reviews and reports on social issues such as the treatment of women prisoners and the insane. Some of these essays were published in her book Papers on Literature and Art (1846). A year earlier, she had her most significant book, Woman in the Nineteenth Century. It originally had

36、 appeared in the Transcendentalist magazine, The Dial, which she edited from 1840 to 1842. A. Margaret Fuller B. John Greenleaf Whittier C. Oliver Wendell Holmes D. Emily Dickinson28. _s 1,775 poems continue to intrigue critics, who often disagree about them. Some stress her mystical side, some her

37、sensitivity to nature; many note her odd, exotic appeal. One modern critic, R.P. Blackmur, comments that Dickinsons poetry sometimes feels as if a cat came at us speaking English. Her clean, clear, chiseled poems are some of the most fascinating and challenging in American literature. A. Margaret Fu

38、ller B. John Greenleaf Whittier C. Oliver Wendell Holmes D. Emily Dickinson29. The Romantic vision tended to express itself in the form Hawthorne called the _, a heightened, emotional, and symbolic form of the novel. They were not love stories, but serious novels that used special techniques to comm

39、unicate complex and subtle meanings. A. Fable B. Romance C. Allegory D. Novella 30. For its time, _was a daring and even subversive book. Hawthornes gentle style, remote historical setting, and ambiguity softened his grim themes and contented the general public, but sophisticated writers such as Ral

40、ph Waldo Emerson and Herman Melville recognized the books hellish power. It treated issues that were usually suppressed in 19th-century America, such as the impact of the new, liberating democratic experience on individual behavior, especially on sexual and religious freedom. A. The House of the Sev

41、en Gables B. The Blithedale Romance C. The Scarlet Letter D. The Marble Faun31._ has been called a natural epic - a magnificent dramatization of the human spirit set in primitive nature - because of its hunter myth, its initiation theme, its Edenic island symbolism, its positive treatment of pre-tec

42、hnological peoples, and its quest for rebirth. In setting humanity alone in nature, it is eminently American. The French writer and politician Alexis de Tocqueville had predicted, in the 1835 work Democracy in America, that this theme would arise in America as a result of its democracy:A. Moby-DickB

43、. TypeeC. The Marble FaunD. The Scarlet Letter 32. _a southerner, shares a darkly metaphysical vision mixed with elements of realism, parody, and burlesque. He refined the short story genre and invented detective fiction. Many of his stories prefigure the genres of science fiction, horror, and fanta

44、sy so popular today. A. Lydia Child B. Herman Melville C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Edgar Allan Poe33. An activist, _founded a private girls school, founded and edited the first journal for children in the United States, and published the first anti- slavery tract, An Appeal in Favor of that Class of A

45、mericans Called Africans, in 1833A. Lydia Child B. Angelina Grimk C. Elizabeth Cady Stanton D. Sojourner Truth34. _novel; or, Life Among the Lowly was the most popular American book of the 19th century. First published serially in the National Era magazine (1851- 1852), it was an immediate success.

46、Forty different publishers printed it in England alone, and it was quickly translated into 20 languages, receiving the praise of such authors as Georges Sand in France, Heinrich Heine in Germany, and Ivan Turgenev in Russia. Its passionate appeal for an end to slavery in the United States inflamed t

47、he debate that, within a decade, led to the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865).A Lydia ChildsAn Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called African. B. Harriet WilsonsThe Womans Bible C. Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin D. Harriet Jacobssthe Narrative of Sojourner Truth35. _the most famous blac

48、k American anti-lavery leader and orator of the era._ is the best and most popular of many slave narratives. The slave narrative was the first black literary prose genre in the United States. It helped blacks in the difficult task of establishing an African-American identity in white America, and it

49、 has continued to exert an important influence on black fictional techniques and themes throughout the 20th century. The search for identity, anger against discrimination, and sense of living an invisible, hunted, underground life unacknowledged by the white majority have recurred in the works of su

50、ch 20th- century black American authors as Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison.A Lydia ChildAn Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called African. B. Frederick DouglassNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass C. Sojourner Truththe Narrative of Sojourner TruthD.

51、Elizabeth Cady StantonThe Womans Bible36. Ernest Hemingways famous statement that all of American literature comes from one great book, _, indicates this authors towering place in the tradition. Early 19th-century American writers tended to be too flowery, sentimental, or ostentatious - partially be

52、cause they were still trying to prove that they could write as elegantly as the English. His style, based on vigorous, realistic, colloquial American speech, gave American writers a new appreciation of their national voice. He was the first major author to come from the interior of the country, and

53、he captured its distinctive, humorous slang and iconoclasm. For him and other American writers of the late 19th century, realism was not merely a literary technique: It was a way of speaking truth and exploding worn-out conventions. Thus it was profoundly liberating and potentially at odds with soci

54、ety. The most well-known example is a poor boy who decides to follow the voice of his conscience and help a Negro slave escape to freedom, even though the boy thinks this means that he will be damned to hell for breaking the law.A. Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass B. Tw

55、ains Adventures of Huckleberry Finn C. Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms CabinD. Bret Hartes The Luck of Roaring Camp37. _once wrote that art, especially literary art, makes life, makes interest, makes importance. His fiction and criticism is the most highly conscious, sophisticated, and difficult o

56、f its era. With Twain, He is generally ranked as the greatest American novelist of the second half of the 19th century. A. Edith Wharton B. Stephen Crane C. Henry JamesD. Jack London38. _ is essentially a literary expression of determinism. Associated with bleak, realistic depictions of lower-class life, determinism denies religion as a motivating force in the world and instead perceives the universe as a machine. Eighteenth-century Enlightenment thinkers had also imagined the world as a machine, but as a perfect one, invented