10. ABBIE--(suddenly lifts her head and turns on him--wildly) I killed him, I tell
ye! I smothered him. Go up an' see if ye don't b'lieve me! (Cabot stares at her a second, then bolts out the rear door, can be heard bounding up the stairs, and rushes into the bedroom and over to the cradle. Abbie has sunk back lifelessly into her former position. Cabot puts his hand down on the body in the crib. An expression of fear and horror comes over his face.)
Author: A.W. C. Williams B. E. G. O’neill C. Saul Bellow
Work: A. Desire Under the Elms B. Looking for Mr. Green C.Catch-22
IV: Complete the following: 20%
1. To make a __ prairie ___ it takes a __ clover ___ One ___ clover __ and a _ bee ____. And __ revery ___.
__ Revery ___ alone will do, If ___ bees __ are few. (8%)
2. How ___ dreary __ to be somebody! How public, like a ___ frog __
To tell your name the __ livelong ___ day To an __ admiring ___ bog! (4%)
3. The __ apparition ___ of these faces in the crowd; __ Petals ___ on a wet, black __ bough ___. (3%) 4. So much __ depends ___ upon
a red __ wheel ___ __ barrow ___
__ glazed ___ with rain water
besides the ___ white __ chickens (5%)
V. Rewrite the following into modern English: 10% Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both. And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that passing there
Had worn them really about the same.
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and one ___ bee __, In a yellow wood, I could see two roads diverged, but I felt sorry because I could not walk on both of them. As a traveler, I stood there for a long time and tried to look down one road as far as I could to the place where it changed the direction in the deep wood. Then I chose the other road just as beautiful as this. And perhaps it would be more attractive, because it was covered with grass and very quiet, even though I could see that these two roads bore almost the same amount of footprints.
VII. Comment: 20%
1. None of them knew the color of the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and were fastened upon the waves that swept toward them. These waves were of the hue of slate, save for the tops, which were of foaming white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its edge was jagged with waves that seemed thrust up in points like rocks. …
When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea’s voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters. Answer the following questions:
(1) What does the opening sentence imply? (5%)
(2) In what way could the survivors be interpreters? (5%)
2. I want you to pick all the fruit this year and see that nothing is wasted. There’s always someone who can use it. Don’t let good things rot for want of using. You waste life when you waste good food. Don’t let things get lost. It’s bitter to lose things. Now, don’t let me get to thinking, not when I am tired and taking a little nap before supper…
Answer the following questions:
(1) What intelligent advice and wisdom does Granny give her family? (5%) (2) What do you see from behind her words? (5%)
美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题三
True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item)
(F ) 1. ―To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your
private heart is true for all men — that is genius.‖ The sentence shows the opinion of Joseph Heller.
(F ) 2. Part One of The Autobiography opens with a letter to Dorothy James,
Franklin's wife.
(T ) 3. In ―The Cask of Amontillado‖, Montresor suddenly chains the slow-footed
Fortunato to a stone, and walls up the entrance to this small crypt, thereby trapping Fortunato inside forever.
(F ) 4. Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter is a specimen of Hawthorne’s
chilling, cold-blooded human animals.
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(T ) 5. The lines — ―A poem should not mean / But be‖ comes from ―Ars Poetica‖
by MacLeish.
(T ) 6. O’Neill’s great purpose was to try and discover the root of human desires and
frustrations. He showed most of the characters in his plays as seeking meaning and purpose in their lives but all met disappointment.
(T ) 7. Catch-22 combines comic absurdity with the horrors of war in order to criticize
bureaucratic authority and people over the lives of others.
(F ) 8. Saul Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975. (T ) 9. Ezra Pound was one of the prime movers of Imagism. (T ) 10. Emerson is the mentor to Thoreau.
(T ) 11. In The Open Boat, Crane explores the theme that men is more powerful than
nature and men will consequently defeat natural disasters with natural and impressionistic approaches.
(T ) 12. Stephen Crane is considered as one of American naturalistic writers.
(F ) 13. Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in
his masterpiece novel Tender is the Night.
(F ) 14. The narrator in The Great Gatsby is a minor character named Nick Carraway,
who is also a participant in the event.
(F ) 15. William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949 and the
Pulitzer Prize in 1954 and 1962.
(T ) 16. A Farewell to Arms is Hemingway’s first true novel in which he depicts a
vivid portrait of ―the lost generation‖.
(T ) 17. Hemingway’s writing style, together with his theme and hero, is greatly and
permanently influenced by his experience in the war.
(F ) 18. In Walt Whiteman’s poem ―O Captain! My Captain!‖, captain refers to
President Lincoln.
(F ) 19. Emily Dickinson’s poetic idiom is noted for obscure.
(F ) 20. Invisible Man explores the theme of the white man from the lower social class strive for their identity.
VIII. Match the following writers and their works: 10% (One point for each
item)
Writers: Works: ( a ) 1. Ralph Waldo Emerson a. Self-Reliance ( e ) 2. Robert Frost b. Invisible Man ( i ) 3. Saul Bellow c. Pale Horse, Pale Rider ( h ) 4. Joseph Heller d. The Sun Also Rises (b ) 5. Ralph Waldo Ellison e. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy ( j ) 6. Ezra Pound Evening ( d ) 7. Ernest Hemingway f. Success is Counted Sweetest ( f ) 8. Emily Dickinson g. Song of Myself ( c ) 9. Katherine Anne Porter h. Catch-22 ( g ) 10. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow i. Looking for Mr. Green
j. Canto
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Identify the following by choosing the author’s name and the name of the works: 20% (1 points for each item)
1. That felicity, when I reflected on it, has induced me sometimes to say, that
were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. So I might, besides correcting the faults, change some sinister accidents and events of it for others more favorable.
Author: A. William Faulkner B. Benjamin Franklin C. Ralph Waldo Ellison Work: A. The Autobiography B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby
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2. It was now midnight, and my task was drawing to a close. I had completed the
eighth, the ninth, and the tenth tier. I had finished a portion of the last and the eleventh; there remained but a single stone to be fitted and plastered in. I struggled with its weight; I placed it partially in its destined position. But now there came from out the niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head. It was succeeded by a sad voice, which I had difficulty in recognising as that of the noble Fortunato.
Author: A. Edgar Allan Poe B. William Faulkner C. Ralph Waldo Ellison Work: A. The Cask of Amontillado B. Barn Burning C.The Autobiography
3. The world has been instructed by its kings, who have so magnetized the eyes
of nations. It has been taught by this colossal symbol the mutual reverence that is due from man to man. The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king, the noble, or the great proprietor to walk among them by a law of his own, make his own scale of men and things, and reverse theirs, pay for benefits not with money but with honor, and represent the law in his person, was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified their consciousness of their own right and comeliness, the right of every man.
Author: A. Walt Whitman B. William Faulkner C. Ralph W. Emerson Work: A. The Road Not Taken B.I Shot An Arrow C. Self-reliance
4. A lane was forthwith opened through the crowd of spectators. Preceded by the
beadle, and attended by an irregular procession of stern-browed men and unkindly visaged women, Hester Prynne set forth towards the place appointed for her punishment. A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys, understanding little of the matter in hand, except that it gave them a half-holiday, ran before her progress, turning their heads continually to stare into her face and at the winking baby in her arms, and at the ignominious letter on her breast. It was no great distance, in those days, from the prison door to the market-place.
Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner C. Emily Dickenson Work: A. Moby Dick B. The Scarlet Letter C.Walden
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