专八人文知识模拟试题(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

答案详解(反白可见):
1.D 《老人与海》是海明威的作品。

2.C Jonathan Swift的Gulliver's Travels(《格列弗游记》)中yahoo暗指人类,集人类丑陋面于一身,服务于动物的一类生物。

3.A The Catcher in the Rye(《麦田里的守望者》)是J.D. Salinger(J.D. 赛琳格)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 二十世纪出现Jazz Age,这一代的年轻人物欲膨胀,沉迷酒色。Scott Fitzgerald的 Great Gatsby《了不起的盖茨比》根据时代特征,对深深讽刺了所谓的美国梦。

6.C Emerson是超验主义的重要代表,所著Nature《论自然》代表了他的哲学观。

7.D Emily Dickinson(1709-1784),美国女诗人,终生未嫁。主要诗歌包括:I Could Not Sto for Death还有,I'm Nobody. Who Are You?
诗歌主题为:爱情,自然,友谊,死亡与不朽。

8.C Robert Frost是十九世纪的美国诗人,后因父亲过世已经英国,在新英格兰享有很高名望。主要作品有:The Road Not Taken,Mending Wall。

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

10.A 1865-1914,也就是美国内战结束之后,第一次世界大战爆发之前。这个时候涌现的作家,比如Mark Twain刻画出美国经济政治发展引发的社会现实问题,包括“Gold Rush”。