09年英語專業(yè)八級人文知識精講NO.38

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__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. 選B。斯托夫人(Harriet Beecher Stowe)是廢奴文學(xué)的杰出代表,她的《湯姆大叔的小屋》(Uncle Tom’s cabin)被林肯總統(tǒng)稱為“發(fā)動了一場大戰(zhàn)的小說”。
    2. 選C。威廉.布朗于1853年出版的《克羅特爾》被認(rèn)為是美國黑人發(fā)表的第一部小說。
    3. 選D。埃米莉.狄金森(Emily Dickinson)的詩歌遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)超出了她所在的時(shí)代局限,雖然她留給后人1775首詩歌,但其中只有很少的一部分是在他生前發(fā)表的。
    4. 選B。拉爾夫.華爾多.愛默生(Ralph Waldo Emerson)主張打破神學(xué)統(tǒng)治,擯棄以身為中心的請教主義,強(qiáng)調(diào)人再宇宙萬物中的地位,人能超越感覺獲得知識,人有能力憑直覺直接認(rèn)識真理。更多信息
    5. 選D。1837年,拉爾夫.華爾多.愛默生(Ralph Waldo Emerson)在哈佛大學(xué)發(fā)表了的《美國學(xué)者》(The American Scholar)的演講,指出真正的“美國學(xué)者”應(yīng)當(dāng)是“思維者”,即具有獨(dú)立思想的人,而不應(yīng)該盲從任何約束,講演引起了轟動。
    6. 選C。1837年,拉爾夫.華爾多.愛默生(Ralph Waldo Emerson)在哈佛大學(xué)發(fā)表了震動人心的《神學(xué)院畢業(yè)班演說》(Divinity School Address),將批評的矛頭直指因循守舊的教會,再獲得革命者歡呼的同時(shí),遭到了教會人士的強(qiáng)烈反對和*,此后將近30年時(shí)間,哈佛大學(xué)再也沒有邀請他們這位的校友回母校演講。
    7. 選D。海明威(Ernest Hemingway)曾給予馬克.吐溫極高的評價(jià),他斷言“一切的當(dāng)代美國文學(xué)都來自于馬克.吐溫的一本書,即《哈克貝里.費(fèi)恩》(The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)……它是所有書中的書,它是所有美國作品文學(xué)作品的源頭,它之前沒有作品可以和它相比,它之后也沒有作品可以和它媲美”。
    8. 選D?!督鹜搿罚═he Golden Bowl)是亨利.詹姆斯(Henry James)的小說?!渡底訃饴眯杏洝罚↖nnocent Abroad)是馬克.吐溫的幽默游記?!犊ɡS拉縣馳名的跳蛙》(The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County)是馬克.吐溫發(fā)表的第一篇幽默小說。《湯姆.索亞歷險(xiǎn)記》(The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)則是馬克.吐溫一部兒童文學(xué)小說。
    9. 選A。馬克.吐溫(Mark Twain)是薩繆爾.郎荷恩.克萊門斯(Samuel Langhorne Clemens)的筆名。
    10.選D?!而澮怼罚═he Wings of the Dove),《一位女士的畫像》(A Lady’s Portrait)都是亨利.詹姆斯(Henry James)的代表作。