Thoreau hoped to isolate himself from society in order to gain a more objective 客观的 understanding of it. Simplicity and self-reliance were Thoreau's other goals, and the whole project was inspired by ___________ philosophy. Transcendentalist 65.

Walden emphasizes the importance of solitude, contemplation, and closeness to _________ in transcending the \of most people. Nature 66. 67.

William Faulkner’s works mainly concern the American _____. South _________ is often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time. Emily Dickinson 68.

In William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury喧哗与\\骚动\\, he used a technique called _________, in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character. stream of consciousness 69.

It is on his____________ that Washington Irving’s fame mainly rested. tales about America 70.

At the middle of 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering 兴盛 which is called ―____________________‖. the American Renaissance 71.

As a philosophical and literary movement, the main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally concerning ____________________. nature, man and the universe 72.

The

great

sea

adventure

story

Moby-Dick

is

usually

considered____________________________. an adventurous exploration into man’s relationship with nature 73.

Which statement is right about the novel A Farewell to Arms? --- The author emphasizes his belief that man is trapped both physically and mentally and suggests that man is doomed to be entrapped. 74.

In American literature the first important writer who earned an international fame on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean is_______________. Washington Irving 75.

In Emily Dickinson’s Because I Could Not Stop for Death, ______________. death is a stage of life and it leads people to the Heaven of immortality

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76. Which is generally regarded as the manifesto and the Bible of American Transcendentalism? Emerson’s Nature

77. The Publication of ______established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism. Nature 78. ―The apparition of these faces in the crowd, Petals on a wet, black bough.‖ This is the shortest poem written by _________. Ezra Pound 这几张脸在人群中幻景般闪现\\； 湿漉\\漉的黑树\\枝上花瓣\\数\\/点\\/。——庞/德/ 《在地\\铁\\/站\\里\\/》

79. Benjamin Franklin’s masterpiece_________ records his rising from poverty or humble beginnings to success. Autobiography 80. The greatest Transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is ________. Walden 81. _______was the first American to achieve an International literary reputation. Washington Irving

82. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay The American Scholar has been regarded as America’s Declaration of ________Independence. Intellectual 83. Thanatopsis is William Cullen Bryant’s most famous nature poem, the Greek title means _________. view of death

84. Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the ―________movement‖. imagist 85. Nature has been called ―the manifesto of American _________‖ . Transcendentalism

86. In 1954, Ernest Hemingway was awarded a ________ for his ―mastery of the art of modern narration‖. Nobel Prize 87. 88.

What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s? ________ The Jazz Age

The famous lines from The Declaration of Independence are ―We hold these truth …with certain unalienable rights, that among them are Life, ________ and the pursuit of Happiness. Liberty 89. The Slave’s Dream not only shows Longfellow’s sympathy for slaves but also revealed the ______________. cruelty of drivers

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90. Hard work, thrift, piety 虔诚and sobriety冷静\\节制were the_________ values that dominated much of the early American writing. Puritan 91. ―God help those who help themselves天助自助者‖ is a proverb from Benjamin Franklin’s ________. Poor Richard’s Almanac 92. As a genre, naturalism emphasized heredity and ______ as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters that were presented in special and detailed circumstances. Environment作为一种体裁，自然主义强调―遗传和环境‖在塑造特殊和复杂环境下个性化人物的重要决定力量。

93. According to Hawthorne, the scarlet Letter ―A‖ which originally stands for ―_____‖. adultery 94. The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called ______, which is poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. free verse

95. In American literature, the 18th century was an age of _________ and Revolution. Enlightenment 96. In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald completed his best novel ______. It is the story of an idealist who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him. The Great Gatsby 97. 98.

―The Cop and the Anthem‖ is a short story written by ______. O. Henry In 1954, _______ won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his ―mastery of the art of modern narration‖. Ernest Hemingway 99. Near Sleepy Hollow is a village called Tarry Town. It was settled many years ago by people from _______. The village had a small school. And one teacher, named Ichabod Crane. Holland 100. James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was the_____________________. His

enduring fame rests on his The Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels. first American novelist 101. Yoknapatawpha is depicted as the mythical county in William Faulkner’s novels? 102. The following writers William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway were

awarded Nobel Prize for literature except F. Scott. Fitzgerald

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III. Find the relevant match from column B for each item in column A. (1分 x 10题 = 10 分)

1. Washington Irving --- The Sketch Book; The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon,

Gent 《见闻札记》;Rip Van Winkle《里普·凡·温克尔》;The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 《睡谷的传说》major character Icabod Crane;Life of George Washington《华盛顿传》

2. Thomas Paine --- Common Sense 常识》;The American Crisis; The Rights of Man;

The Age of Reason

3. Philip Freneau --- The Wild Honey Suckle

4. William Cullen Bryant --- Thanatopisis《死亡随想录》（Thanatopsis）翻译美国浪漫

主义诗人William cullen bryant 的诗作; To a Waterfowl

5. Theodore Dreiser --- Sister Carrie, major charaters: Charles Drouet , George

Hurstwood, Carrie

6. Philip Freneau --- The Indian Burying Ground

7. F. Scott Fitzgerald --- The Great Gatsby, major charaters: Daisy, Nick, Jay Gatsby,

Tom

8. Walt Whitman --- Leaves of Grass 9. Jack London --- The Call of the Wild 10. Edgar Allan Poe --- The Raven

11. Mark Twain --- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 12. John Steinbeck --- The Grapes of Wrath

13. James Fenimore Cooper --- The Last of Mohicans

14. Ezra Pound --- The Cantos 庞德在他的《诗篇》（The Cantos）中把中国文字、历史及

思想都纳人他的思想体系中.

15. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --- The Slave’s Dream; ―人/生礼赞\\‖ \Psalm of

Life\海华/沙之歌‖ \伊凡/ 吉/林/‖ Evangeline\ 16. Walt Whitman --- I Sit and Look Out

17. Henry James --- Daisy Miller 《黛西·米勒》是―经典印象小说名作坊‖系列之一。你也

许读过爱尔兰著名作家科尔姆·托宾的小说《大师》（这部小说为他赢得了2006年的都柏林国际文学奖），你或许也看过有英国钱锺书之称的戴维·洛奇的《作者，作者》，但你很

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