__1__ Harriet Beecher Stowe is most famous for her ___ that spoke 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 dependence 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 disapproval 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 noted, “all modern American literature comes”. A The Gilded Age B The Celebrated 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 pseudonym 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 Scarlet 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。 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。 |
热门资料下载: |
专四专八考试论坛热贴: |
【责任编辑:苏婧 纠错】 |
|
阅读上一篇:09年英语专业八级人文知识精讲NO.39 |
|
阅读下一篇:09年英语专业八级人文知识精讲NO.35 |
|
|
·选调生考试与专八考试同日 主管部门称不让路 |
·2010年英语专四专八报名时间 |
·2010年专四专八级报名结束 |
·英语专业四级听写评分标准 |
·2009英语专业四级作文评分标准 |
·毕业了是否还能报考英语专业考试? |
·专业英语学生什么时候才能考专四专八? |
·2009年度英语专业八级考试须知 |
·2009年英语专业四级八级考试成绩查询通知 |
·2009年英语专业四、八级准考证打印 |