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美国文学

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1. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ____.

A. Jack¹ 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 Bellow²

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 Age is often thought to be ____.

A. Eugene O'Neill B. Ezra Pound C. Robert Frost D. Scott Fitzgerald

6. ____ is the most important person of the transcendental club.

A. Hawthorn³ 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. playwright⁴ 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 Renaissance⁵

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”。

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1 jack
n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克
参考例句：
I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。 He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

2 bellow
v.吼叫，怒吼；大声发出，大声喝道
参考例句：
The music is so loud that we have to bellow at each other to be heard.音乐的声音实在太大，我们只有彼此大声喊叫才能把话听清。 After a while,the bull began to bellow in pain.过了一会儿公牛开始痛苦地吼叫。

3 hawthorn
山楂
参考例句：
A cuckoo began calling from a hawthorn tree.一只布谷鸟开始在一株山楂树里咕咕地呼叫。 Much of the track had become overgrown with hawthorn.小路上很多地方都长满了山楂树。

4 playwright
n.剧作家，编写剧本的人
参考例句：
Gwyn Thomas was a famous playwright.格温·托马斯是著名的剧作家。 The playwright was slaughtered by the press.这位剧作家受到新闻界的无情批判。

5 renaissance
n.复活，复兴，文艺复兴
参考例句：
The Renaissance was an epoch of unparalleled cultural achievement.文艺复兴是一个文化上取得空前成就的时代。 The theme of the conference is renaissance Europe.大会的主题是文艺复兴时期的欧洲。