I. Make the best choice. （每小题1.5分，共30分)
1.Puritanism is the attitude of a party which stresses the following except_______
a. restoration of the church b. predestination and original sin
c .hardworking and thrift d. loose morality
2.The first American literature was the work ________
a. mainly of immigrants from England. b. of great literary merits
c. in the form of poetry, essays or fiction d. about the native subjects of America.
3.Which of the following is NOT true of colonial American literature?
a.full of religious sermons
b.. showing a distrust of the mystical
b.mainly in the form of diary, autobiography and travel account
c.characterized with logical structure and simplicity of diction.
4.. With an unshakable belief in the power of reason, the 18th century Enlighteners regarded __________ as the principal means of the development of society
a. education and reason
b. hard working
c. self-inspection
d. free thinking
5.Ben Franklin was a universal genius whose masterpiece_______ became a classic of its kind.
a. Poor Richard’s Almanac b. Autobiography
c. Rip Van Winkle d. The Sketch Book
6.The following words best describe Rip Van Winkle except_______
a. kind b. gentle
c. hardworking d. lazy
7.The first American writer of imaginative literature and short stories was ________
a.Nathaniel Hawthorne
b.Benjamin Franklin
c.James Fenimore Cooper
d.Washington Irving
8. Natty Bumppo’s friendship with Chingachgook is symbolic of ________.
the understandings between two different peoples.
the relationship between the civilized and the savages
the conflict between the whites and the American Indians
the development of the frontiers
9. Romanticism can best be described by which of the following words?
a.realism b. logic
c. imagination d. reason
10. James Fenimore Cooper was a Romanticist because he ________
a.glorified nature b. loved people
c. loved society d. wrote poetry
11. James Fenimore Cooper was the first American writer to write about_________
a. the American South b. the American frontiers life
c. the American legends d. the American culture
12.__________ was known as “the poet of American Revolution”.
a. Franklin b. Irving c. Freneau d. Poe
13. Phillip Freneau’s poem The Wild Honey Suckle is about________
a. the death of a flower b. the beauty of nature
c. the transience of life d. the bless of God
14. “And planted here the guardian shade
and sent soft waters murmuring by”
The forms of rhyming in these two lines are ______________
a.assonance and consonance
b.alliteration and consonance
c.assonance and alliteration
d.slant rhyme and alliteration
15. There’s a certain slant of light,
On winter afternoons,
That appears like the weight
Of cathedral tunes”
The images used in these few lines are mainly_____ ___
a.visual and olfactory
b.visual and tactile
c.visual and auditory
d.kinesthetic
16.. Poetry is a literary genre that uses metrical form to chiefly _____________
a. communicate information b. create imagery
c. reveal character d. express emotional experience.
17. Poe believed the greatest theme for poetry is ___________
a.death of a relative.
b.death of a honorable man.
c.death of a lover
d.death of a beautiful woman..
18. According to Poe, all elements of a story or a poem should have one purpose. That is __________
a . to tell the story b. to create an effect.
a.to keep the reader in suspense. d.. to be humorous
19. In the development of the plot, _____ ,which pushes the story forward, is of the primary importance
a. conflict b. point of view c. theme d. climax
20.Edgar Allan Poe’s poems are of the following features except__________
a. being melancholic b. being musical c. being brief d. being moralistic
II. Match the works with the authors given below. The works given are more than the authors given. (每小题1 分，共10分)
a. Ben Franklin
b. Washington Irving
c. James Fenimore Cooper
d. Phillip Freneau
e. Edgar Allan Poe
1.( ) Poor Richard’s Almanac
2.( ) Rip Van Winkle
3.( ) The Sketch Book
4.( ) Autobiography
5.( ) The Wild Honey suckle
6.( ) Israfel
7.( ) The Deerslayer
8 ( ) The Cask of Amontillado
9.( ) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
10.( ) The Indian Burying Ground
III. Decide the following statements are true or false.
Write T for true and F for false. (每小题 1 分，共20分)
1．The colonial American literature was in the form of poetry, novels and short stories
2．American poetry of the eighteenth century has an imitative character, imitating the reigning English models of the 18th century.
3. The early American romanticism stressed emotion, feeling, intuition instead of reason.
4. Philip Freneau was a most important poet in the 18th century American literature.
5. Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure tale, and the frontier stories.
6. American Puritanism derived its theological principles from Calvinism and aimed at a thorough reform of the church.
7. The first American settlers came to America to escape religious persecution.. .
8.Ben Franklin was versatile in every possible field and he was chiefly noted as .a man of civic mind.
9. Autobiography by Franklin was a fascinating record of the age of American Revolution, in which great political turmoil was faithfully depicted.
10. American Romantic literary movement was characterized with an interest in nature, imagination as well as the a tendency to depict the grotesque .
11. Washington Irving was the first American writer who wrote poetry in its true sense.
12. .James F, Cooper was notable for his first exploration of the native theme of American frontier life.
13. The Leather Stocking Tales consists .of three novels-----The Pioneers, The Prairie and The Last of the Mohicans.
14. Philip Freneau was remembered mostly for his patriotic poems such as The Wild Honey Suckle and the Indian Burial Ground.
15. The Wild Honey Suckle is a poem on the theme of glorifying the Indian Culture.
16. The only standard by which we designate a short story is its length.
17. .Poe is a poet of the first rank, a literary critic of great insight and a short story writer of large popularity.
18. .Poe defined poetry as the rhythmic creation of beauty.
19. Israfel expresses the poet’s deep regret for the earthly existence and strong longing for superior beauty. .
20.. “The death of a beautiful woman” is the most legitimate poetic theme to Poe.
IV .Identify the following excerpts.( 每小题4 分,共28分)
1.At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled to the vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris.
2.“If I could dwell
Where Israfel
Hath dwelt, and he where I,
He might not sing so wildly well
A mortal melody
3. At the next moment, the breech of Hawkeye’s rifle fell on the naked head of his adversary, whose muscles appeared to wither under the shock, as he sank from the arms of Duncan, flexible and motionless.
4. The by-standers began now to look at each other, nod , wink significantly, and tap their fingers against their foreheads.
5.“ From morning suns and evening dews
At first thy little being came:
If nothing once, you nothing lose,
For when you die you are the same;”
6. From these circumstances, I have thought that there is some inconsistency in our common mode of teaching languages. We are told that it is proper to begin first with the Latin, and having acquired that, it will be more easy to attain those modern languages…
7.I was a child and she was a child
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love---
V. Identify the following passage. Then answer the following questions. (共12%)
“Be it so,” I said, replacing the tool beneath the cloak, and again offering him my arm. He learned upon it heavily. We continued our route in search of the Amontillado. We passed through a range of low arches, descended , passed on and descending again arrived at a deep crypt, in which the foulness of the air caused our flambeaus rather to glow than flame.
1.What is the title of this work? （1分）
2.Who is the author of this work? （1分）’
3.What’s the author’s idea concerning the creation of short story?（10分）
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I. Make the best choice. （每小题1.5分，共30分)
1-5 c a b a b 6-10 c d a c a 11-15 b c c c c 16-20 d d b a d
II. Match the works with the authors given below. The works given are more than the authors given. (每小题1 分，共10分)
1-5:a b b a d 6-10 e c e b d
III. Decide the following statements are true or false.
Write T for true and F for false. (每小题 1 分，共20分)
1-5 F T T T T 6-10 T T T F T 11-15 F T T F F 16-20 F T T T T
IV .Identify the following excerpts.( 每小题4 分,共28分)
1.from The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
2. form Israfel by Allan Poe
3. from The Last of the Mohicans by James Fennimore Cooper
4. fromRip Van Winlke by Washington Irving
5. from The Wild Honey Suckle by Philip Freneau
6. from Autobiography by Ben. Franklin
7. Annabel Lee by Allan Poe.
V. Identify the following passage. Then answer the following questions. (共12%)
1. The Cask of Amontillado. (1%)
2. Allan Poe (1%)
According to Poe,
the primary purpose of a short story is to create an effect, then the writer may proceed to find the events and characters in aid of constructing the effect. (2%)
The very first sentence of the story should bring out this effect.(2%)
A short story, according to Poe, must be work of brevity---- to be read at one sitting.;(2%)
work with totality of effect----- the unity of tone, setting, characters etc. No word should be used which doesn’t contribute to the “pre-established design of the work(2%);
work of authenticity and finality---- the last sentence should leave the reader with a sense of finality.(2%) 下载本文
