Exercise Three

ⅠWriting the names of the authors.(10%)

1. ( ) The Prince and the Pauper 2. ( ) Annabel Lee

3. ( ) A Farewell to Arms 4. ( ) Nature

5. ( ) A Streetcar Named Desire 6. ( ) The Road Not Taken

7. ( ) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 8. ( ) Because I Could Not Stop for Death 9. ( ) Song of Myself 10. ( ) The Scarlet Letter 得分 ⅡBlank Filling .(10%)

1. In the novel , Hemingway portrayed an old fisherman named Santiago who shows triumphant even in defeat.

2. defined poetry as the rhythmical creation of beauty.

3. While working for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, Samuel Langhorne Clemens

adopted the pseudonym , the way of a boatman taking soundings, and meaning two fathoms.

4. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway became the spokesman for what

Gertrude Stein had called “ ”.

5. When it was first published, Walt Whitman’s collection of poems ___________, failed to gain acceptance from either the majority of critics or the general public. 得分 Ⅲ. Multiple Choice. (30%)

1. Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is NOT true?

A. It explores man’s never-ending search for the satisfaction of materialistic desires. B. It relates the conflicts between the society and the individual.

C. It is about the effect of sin on the people involved and the society as a whole. D. It presents a psychological analysis of the inward tensions of the characters.

2. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ______. A. international theme

B. waste-land imagery

C. local color D. symbolism

3. According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter \obtained the meaning of \ A. adultery B. arrogance

C. accomplishment D. agony

4. Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the _______.

A. life in New York

B. country life in New England C. sea adventures

D. life on the Mississippi

5. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, __ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19thcentury. A. sentimentalism B. romanticism C. realism D. naturalism

6. Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of __ , poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. A. blank verse

B. heroic couple C. free verse D. iambic pentameter

7. Hester Prynne, Dimmsdale, Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in ___ .

A. The Scarlet Letter

B. The House of the Seven Gables C. The Portrait of a Lady D. The pioneers

8. After The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom's buddy Huck in a book entitled ___ . A. Life on the Mississippi B. The Gilded Age C. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

D. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

9. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their __ . A. indestructible spirit

B. pessimistic view of life C. war experiences D. masculinity

10. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _______and Thoreau. A. Jefferson B. Emerson C. Freneau D. Oversoul

11. From the following, choose the poems NOT written by Adgar Allan Poe. A. To Helen B. The Raven C. Annabel Lee D. Design

12. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”? A. The American Scholar B. English Traits

C. The Conduct of Life D. Representative Men

13. The most famous 19th century American female poet during the nineteenth century was ___________.

A. Anne Bradstreet B. Jane Austen C. Emily Dickinson

D. Harriet Beecher Stowe

14. Choose the works NOT written by Mark Twain. A. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer B. A Farewell to Arms C. Life on the Mississippi D. The Prince and the Pauper

15. Choose the works NOT written by Nathaniel Hawthorn. A. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer B. The House of the Seven Gables C. Twice Told Tales D. The Scarlet Letter

得分 IV Decide Whether the Statements Are True or False. (10%)

1. All his literary life, Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil in life. 2. Transcendentalism exalted feeling over reason, individual expression over the restraints

of law and custom.

3. The sound of Whitman’s words casts a magic spell over the readers. His tone is awesome,

sad and melancholy.

4. Mark Twain had, as his aim of writing, the soul, the life, and the speech of the people in

mind.

5. Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about man and nature. 6. Frost’s concern with nature reflected his deep moral uncertainties.

7. In 1954, T. S. Eliot was awarded a Nobel Prize for his “mastery of the art of modern

narration.”

8. Hemingway’s works have sometimes been read as an essentially negative commentary on

a modern world filled with sterility, failure, and death.

9. Women writers have only had a very insignificant role in American literature. 10. According to Dickinson, death means immortality. 得分 V. Identification of Fragments. (20%)

Passage 1

Lo! in you brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand! Ah, Psyche, from the regions which

Are Holy-Land!

Questions:

1. This is the last stanza of a poem . Its writer is ______________. 2. With whom is Helen associated in this stanza? 3. Comment on the beauty of this poem.

Passage 2

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Hester Prynne’s term of confinement was now at an end. Her prison-door was thrown open, and she came forth into the sunshine, which, falling on all alike, seemed, to her sick and morbid heart, as if meant for no other purpose than to reveal the scarlet letter on her breast. Perhaps there was a more real torture in her first unattended footsteps from the threshold of the prison, than even in the procession and spectacle that has been described,

where she was made the common infamy, at which all mankind was summoned to point its finger.

Questions:

1. This part if from the novel , written by . 2. Describe Hester’s character briefly.

得分 VI. Write about 150 words to comment on Hemingway’s theme and writing style . (20%) 答案

得分 ⅠWrite the names of the authors.(1*10=10%) 1. Mark Twain 2. Edgar Allan Poe 3. Ernest Hemingway 4. Ralph Waldo Emerson 5. Tennessee Williams 6. Robert Frost 7. Mark Twain

8. Emily Dickinson 9. Walt Whitman 10. Nathaniel Hawthorne 得分 Ⅱ..Blank Filling .(2*5=10%)

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

The Old Man and the Sea Edgar Allan Poe Mark Twain

“ the lost generation” Leaves of Grass 得分 Ⅲ. Multiple Choice. (2*15=30%)

1 6 11

A C D 2 7 12 C A A 3 8 13 A C C 4 9 14 B A B 5 10 15 C B A