專八人文知識模擬試題(7)

1.The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ____
A Jack London
B Charles Dickens
C Samuel Coleridge
D Ernest Hemingway
2.In which novel can "Yahoo" be found?
A John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress
B Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queen
C Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
D Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
3.The Catcher in the Rye is written by ____
A J.D. Salinger
B Jack London
C Flannery O'Connor
D Saul Bellow
4.The image of the famous "henpecked husband" is created by____
A Washington Irving
B Fennimore Cooper
C Edith Wharton
D William Dean Howells
5.The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be ____
A O'Neil
B Pound
C Robert Frost
DScott Fitzgerald
6.____ is the most important person of the transcendental club.
A Hawthorn
B Whitman
C Emerson
D Hemingway
7. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except____
A fridendship
B love and marriage
C life and death
D war and peace
8.Robert Frost is a famous ____
A novelist
B playwright
C poet
D literary critic
9.Dover Beach is written by ____
A Robert Browning
B Alfred Tennyson
C Mathew Arnold
D Dylan Thomas
10.The period from 1865-1914 has been referred to as the ____ in the literary history of the United States.
A Age of Realism
B Age of Clasicalism
C Age of Romanticism
D Age of Renaissance

答案詳解(反白可見)：
1.D 《老人與?！肥呛Ｃ魍淖髌贰?br>

2.C Jonathan Swift的Gulliver's Travels（《格列弗游記》）中yahoo暗指人類，集人類丑陋面于一身，服務(wù)于動物的一類生物。

3.A The Catcher in the Rye（《麥田里的守望者》）是J.D. Salinger（J.D. 賽琳格）的名著。

4.A henpecked husband 是指“怕老婆的男人”，改典型形象出自Washington Irving 的Rip Van Winkle。

5.D 二十世紀(jì)出現(xiàn)Jazz Age，這一代的年輕人物欲膨脹，沉迷酒色。Scott Fitzgerald的 Great Gatsby《了不起的蓋茨比》根據(jù)時代特征，對深深諷刺了所謂的美國夢。

6.C Emerson是超驗主義的重要代表，所著Nature《論自然》代表了他的哲學(xué)觀。

7.D Emily Dickinson（1709-1784），美國女詩人，終生未嫁。主要詩歌包括：I Could Not Sto for Death還有，I'm Nobody. Who Are You?
詩歌主題為：愛情，自然，友誼，死亡與不朽。

8.C Robert Frost是十九世紀(jì)的美國詩人，后因父親過世已經(jīng)英國，在新英格蘭享有很高名望。主要作品有：The Road Not Taken，Mending Wall。

9.C Dover Beach（《多弗的海灘》）是Mathew Arnold 的作品。

10.A 1865-1914，也就是美國內(nèi)戰(zhàn)結(jié)束之后，第一次世界大戰(zhàn)爆發(fā)之前。這個時候涌現(xiàn)的作家，比如Mark Twain刻畫出美國經(jīng)濟政治發(fā)展引發(fā)的社會現(xiàn)實問題，包括“Gold Rush”。