北京语言大学14秋《英美文学选读》作业3

14秋《英美文学选读》作业3
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单选题
一、单选题（共 20 道试题，共 100 分。）
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1. Which of the following is not written by Robert Frost?
A. To Autumn
B. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
C. Mending Wall
D. A Boy＇s Will
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2. Robert Frost won___ Plitzer prices.
A. two
B. three
C. four
D. five
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3. O Captain, My Capain is written by___
A. Robert Burns
B. Robert Frost
C. Walt Whitman
D. John Keats
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4. In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _______.
A. Mark Twain＇s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B. Dreiser＇s Sister Carrie
C. Copper＇s Leather-Stocking Tales
D. Thoreau＇s Walden
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5. Which book marked the turning point of Hawthornw＇ career and his personal life?
A. Twice-Told Tales
B. Fanshawe
C. The Scarlet Letter
D. Mosess from an Old Manse
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6. In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the ______ American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined economically.
A. Puritan
B. materialistic
C. psychological
D. religious
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7. In Sister Carrie, Hurstwood, extremely hopeless and totally devastated, ends his life by turning on 　　the gas, while at the same time Carrie is rocking comfortably in her luxurious hotel room before she 　　boards a ship for _______.
A. New York
B. London
C. Paris
D. Geneva
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8. In Fitzgerald＇s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show _______.
A. emptiness of life
B. the corruption of the upper class
C. contrast of the rich and the poor
D. the happy days of the Jazz Age
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9. Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true?
A. Mark Twain published his last and most important novel.
B. F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize.
C. Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.
D. Most writers were politically radical.
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10. Dreiser＇s Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and _______ .
A. The Genius
B. The Tycoon
C. The Stoic
D. The Giant
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11. American writers of the first postwar era who were devoid of faith and alienated from the 　　civilization were commonly called "______."
A. sons of liberty
B. fatherless children
C. a beat generation
D. a lost generation
此题选: D 满分：5 分
12. The poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is selected from____
A. A Witness Tree
B. Steeple Bush
C. New Hampshire
D. A Further Range
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13. "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not travel both ..."In the above two lines of Robert Frost＇s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.
A. a travel experience
B. a marriage decision
C. a middle-age crisis
D. one＇s course of life
此题选: D 满分：5 分
14. The pen name Mark Twain means___
A. water
B. safe water
C. river
D. clear water
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15. Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms - the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse - with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of _______ farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.
A. Southern
B. Western
C. New Hampshire
D. New England
此题选: D 满分：5 分
16. The story of the Scarlet Letter is set in___
A. New York
B. England
C. Boston
D. Salt lake City
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17. As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly influenced by _______.
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
B. Charles Darwin
C. Henry James
D. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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18. Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is NOT true?
A. It explores man＇s never-ending search for the satisfaction of materialistic desires.
B. It relates the conflicts between the society and the individual.
C. It is about the effect of sin on the people involved and the society as a whole.
D. It presents a p
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19. According to Mark Twain, in river towns up and down the Mississippi, it was every boy＇s dream to some day grow up to be ______.
A. Methodist preacher
B. a justice of the peace
C. a riverboat pilot
D. a pirate on the Indian ocean
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20. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ____.
A. international theme
B. waste-land imagery
C. local color
D. symbolism
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