人文知识练习附讲解 38
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1. Harriet Beecher Stowe is most famous for her ___ that spoke1 for blacks.
  A Voice of Freedom
  B Uncle Tom’s cabin
  C Clotel
  D The Garies and Their Friends
 
2. The first novel published by the blacks in ___ Clotel.
  A Harriet Beecher Stowe
  B Harriet Wilson
  C Williams Wells Brown
  D John Brown
 
3. Most of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published ___.
  A when she was young
  B after her failed love affair
  C in her old age
  D after her death
 
4. Palph Waldo Emerson, the American Transcendentalist, argued for the following ideas except ___.
  A man’s dependence2 on himself for spiritual perfection
  B Faith in Christianity
  C direct intuition of a spiritual God in nature
  D the importance of an independent American culture
 
5. In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled ___ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as “Our intellectual Declaration of Independence”.
  A “Nature”
  B “Self-Reliance”
  C “Divinity School Address”
  D “The American Scholar”
 
6. In 1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled ___ at Harvard, which expressed his disapproval3 to the faith in church and caused the protest by church.
  A “Nature”
  B “Self-Reliance”
  C “Divinity School Address”
  D “The American Scholar”
 
7. ___ is Mark Twain’s master work, the one book form which as Ernest Hemingway noted4, “all modern American literature comes”.
  A The Gilded5 Age
  B The Celebrated6 Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
  C The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  D The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 
8. Which of the following is NOT the fiction written by Mark Twain?
  A Innocent Abroad
  B The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
  C The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  D The Golden Bowl
 
9. Mark Twain is the pseudonym7 of ___.
  A Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  B Henry James
  C William Dean Howells
  D Stephen Crane
 
10. The Wings of the Dove was written by ___ who also wrote ___.
  A Mark Twain… Tom Sawyer
  B Hawthorne… The Scarlet8 Letter
  C Walt Whitman… Song of Myself
  D Henry James… A Lady’s Portrait  
 
【答案】
 
1. 选B
 
斯托夫人(Harriet Beecher Stowe)是废奴文学的杰出代表,她的《汤姆大叔的小屋》(Uncle Tom’s cabin)被林肯总统称为“发动了一场大战的小说”。
 
2. 选C
 
威廉.布朗于1853年出版的《克罗特尔》被认为是美国黑人发表的第一部小说。
 
3. 选D
 
埃米莉.狄金森(Emily Dickinson)的诗歌远远超出了她所在的时代局限,虽然她留给后人1775首诗歌,但其中只有很少的一部分是在他生前发表的。
 
4. 选B
 
拉尔夫.华尔多.爱默生(Ralph Waldo Emerson)主张打破神学统治,摈弃以身为中心的请教主义,强调人再宇宙万物中的地位,人能超越感觉获得知识,人有能力凭直觉直接认识真理。更多信息
 
5. 选D
 
1837年,拉尔夫.华尔多.爱默生(Ralph Waldo Emerson)在哈佛大学发表了著名的《美国学者》(The American Scholar)的演讲,指出真正的“美国学者”应当是“思维者”,即具有独立思想的人,而不应该盲从任何约束,讲演引起了轰动。
 
6. 选C
 
1837年,拉尔夫.华尔多.爱默生(Ralph Waldo Emerson)在哈佛大学发表了震动人心的《神学院毕业班演说》(Divinity School Address),将批评的矛头直指因循守旧的教会,再获得革命者欢呼的同时,遭到了教会人士的强烈反对和抗议,此后将近30年时间,哈佛大学再也没有邀请他们这位著名的校友回母校演讲。
 
7. 选D
 
海明威(Ernest Hemingway)曾给予马克.吐温极高的评价,他断言“一切的当代美国文学都来自于马克.吐温的一本书,即《哈克贝里.费恩》(The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)……它是所有书中最好的书,它是所有美国作品文学作品的源头,它之前没有作品可以和它相比,它之后也没有作品可以和它媲美”。
 
8. 选D
 
《金碗》(The Golden Bowl)是亨利.詹姆斯(Henry James)的小说。《傻子国外旅行记》(Innocent Abroad)是马克.吐温的幽默游记。《卡拉维拉县驰名的跳蛙》(The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County)是马克.吐温发表的第一篇幽默小说。《汤姆.索亚历险记》(The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)则是马克.吐温一部儿童文学小说。
 
9. 选A
 
马克.吐温(Mark Twain)是萨繆尔.郎荷恩.克莱门斯(Samuel Langhorne Clemens)的笔名。
 
10.选D
 
《鸽翼》(The Wings of the Dove),《一位女士的画像》(A Lady’s Portrait)都是亨利.詹姆斯(Henry James)的代表作。


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1 spoke XryyC     
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
参考例句:
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
2 dependence 3wsx9     
n.依靠,依赖;信任,信赖;隶属
参考例句:
  • Doctors keep trying to break her dependence of the drug.医生们尽力使她戒除毒瘾。
  • He was freed from financial dependence on his parents.他在经济上摆脱了对父母的依赖。
3 disapproval VuTx4     
n.反对,不赞成
参考例句:
  • The teacher made an outward show of disapproval.老师表面上表示不同意。
  • They shouted their disapproval.他们喊叫表示反对。
4 noted 5n4zXc     
adj.著名的,知名的
参考例句:
  • The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
  • Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。
5 gilded UgxxG     
a.镀金的,富有的
参考例句:
  • The golden light gilded the sea. 金色的阳光使大海如金子般闪闪发光。
  • "Friends, they are only gilded disks of lead!" "朋友们,这只不过是些镀金的铅饼! 来自英汉文学 - 败坏赫德莱堡
6 celebrated iwLzpz     
adj.有名的,声誉卓著的
参考例句:
  • He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
  • The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。
7 pseudonym 2RExP     
n.假名,笔名
参考例句:
  • Eric Blair wrote under the pseudonym of George Orwell.埃里克·布莱尔用乔治·奧威尔这个笔名写作。
  • Both plays were published under the pseudonym of Philip Dayre.两个剧本都是以菲利普·戴尔的笔名出版的。
8 scarlet zD8zv     
n.深红色,绯红色,红衣;adj.绯红色的
参考例句:
  • The scarlet leaves of the maples contrast well with the dark green of the pines.深红的枫叶和暗绿的松树形成了明显的对比。
  • The glowing clouds are growing slowly pale,scarlet,bright red,and then light red.天空的霞光渐渐地淡下去了,深红的颜色变成了绯红,绯红又变为浅红。
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