《英美文学选读》自考真题试题及答案解析

( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th —century “stream— of —consciousness ” novels and the founder of psychological realism.

Closely relate d to Dickinson ’s religious poetry are her poems concerning( ),ranging over the physical as well as the psychological and emotional aspects of death.

considered( ) “the true father of our national literature ”.

Among the following writers( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th - century “stream - of - consciousness ” novels and the founder of psychological realism.

The childhood of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in the Mississippi is a record of a vanished way of life in the( )Mississippi valley

The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be( )masterpiece,which describes the life journey of an American( )in a European cultural environment.

Which of the following statements is NOT true of Emily Dickinson and her poetry?

Henry James’ fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the( )theme.

After the American Civil War,the literary interest in the so- called “reality ” of life started a new period in the American literary writings know an the Age of( ).

Mark Twain employed an unpretentious style of( )in his novels which is best described as “vernacular ”.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and,especially,its sequence( )proved themselves to be the milestone in the American literature.

Mark Twain’s particular concern about the local character of a region came about as “local colorism, ” a unique va riation of American literary( ).

Hemingway’s “Indian Camp ” is one of the fourteen short stories collected under the title of( ).This title is very ironic because there is no peace at all in the stories.

At the age of eighty -seven,( )read his poetry at the inauguration of President John in 1961.

Unlike his contemporaries in the early 20th century,( )did not break up with the poetic tradition nor made any experiment on form.

With the publication of( ),Theodore Dreiser was launching himself upon a long career that would ultimately make him one of the most significant American writers of the school later known as literary naturalism.

“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one- eighth of it being above water. ” This “iceberg ” analogy is put forward by( ).

“My last Duchess ” is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning ’s( ).

Most literary critics think that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of( )with a double vision.

“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one -eighth of it being abov e water. ” This “iceberg ” analogy about prose style was put forward by( ).

The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised( )for “his powerful style - forming mastery of the art ” of creating modern fiction.

In 1950,one of the leading American writers( )was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.

Greatly and permanently affected by the( )experiences,Hemingway formed his own writing style,together with his theme and hero.

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.

It was his masterpiece The Great Gatsby that made( )one of the greatest American novelists.

The Financier,The Titan and The Stoic by Theodore Dreiser are called his “Trilogy of( ). ”

In Death in the Afternoon( )presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.

Eugene O’Neill ’s first full — length play,( ),won him the first Pulitzer theme is the choice between life and death,the interaction of subjective and objective factors.

In 1920,( )published his first novel This Side of Paradise which was,to some extent,his own story.

Man is a “victim of forces over which he has no control. ” This is a notion held strongly by( ).

The attitude towards life that( )had been trying to demonstrate in his works is known as “grace under pressure ”.

Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in( ).

In most of his writings,( )deliberately broke up the chronology of his narrative by juxtaposing the past with the present,in the way the montage does in a movie.

Ezra Pound,a leading spokesman of the “( ) ”,was one of the most important poets in his time.

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.

William Faulkner set most of his works in the American( ),with his emphasis on the( )subjects and consciousness.

The( )Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.

In 1950,( )was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.

William Faulkner once said that( )is a story of “lost innocence, ” which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.

In Go Down,Moses,( )illuminates the problem of black and white in Southern society as a closeknit destiny of blood brotherhood.

This type of desk and chair can be adjusted ________ the height of students at different ages

The teacher told us the fact _______.

What he had done is _______

That is the house _______ you can enjoy the scenery.

Some persons gain goal and direction from their tensions;others ________ under pressure.

She disagrees ______ him ______ everything.

Nobody but you _______ what he said.

In the original test，all the animals in a test group are given a substance _______ half of them die

Now many major employers are beginning to demand _______ the completion of school

Opposition leaders will be watching carefully to see how the Prime Minister ________ the crisis.