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1.The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ____

A Jack London

B Charles Dickens

C Samuel Coleridge

D Ernest Hemingway

2.In which novel can “Yahoo” be found?

A John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progre

B Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queen

C Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

D Henry Fielding's Tom Jones

3.The Catcher in the Rye is written by ____

A J.D.Salinger

B Jack London

C Flannery O'Connor

D Saul Bellow

4.The image of the famous “henpecked husband” is created by____

A Washington Irving

B Fennimore Cooper

C Edith Wharton

D William Dean Howells

5.The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be ____

A O'Neil

B Pound

C Robert Frost

D Scott Fitzgerald

6.____ is the most important person of the transcendental club.A Hawthorn

B Whitman

C Emerson

D Hemingway

7.The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except____

A fridendship

B love and marriage

C life and death

D war and peace

8.Robert Frost is a famous ____

A novelist

B playwright

C poet

D literary critic

9.Dover Beach is written by ____

A Robert Browning

B Alfred Tennyson

C Mathew Arnold

D Dylan Thomas

10.The period from 1865-1914 has been referred to as the ____ in the literary history of the United States.A Age of Realism

B Age of Clasicalism

C Age of Romanticism

D Age of Renaiance

答案及解析:

1.D 《老人与海》是海明威的作品。

2.C Jonathan Swift的Gulliver's Travels(《格列弗游记》)中yahoo暗指人类，集人类丑陋面于一身，服务于动物的一类生物。

3.A The Catcher in the Rye(《麦田里的守望者》)是J.D.Salinger(J.D.赛琳格)的名著。

4.A henpecked husband 是指“怕老婆的男人”，改典型形象出自Washington Irving 的Rip Van Winkle。

5.D 二十世纪出现Jazz Age，这一代的年轻人物欲膨胀，沉迷酒色。Scott Fitzgerald的 Great Gatsby《了不起的盖茨比》根据时代特征，对深深讽刺了所谓的美国梦。

6.C Emerson是超验主义的重要代表，所著Nature《论自然》代表了他的哲学观。

7.D Emily Dickinson(1709-1784)，美国女诗人，终生未嫁。主要诗歌包括：I Could Not Sto for Death还有，I'm Nobody.Who Are You?

诗歌主题为：爱情，自然，友谊，死亡与不朽。

8.C Robert Frost是十九世纪的美国诗人，后因父亲过世已经英国，在新英格兰享有很高名望。主要作品有：The Road Not Taken，Mending Wall。

9.C Dover Beach(《多弗的海滩》)是Mathew Arnold 的作品。

10.A 1865-1914，也就是美国内战结束之后，第一次世界大战爆发之前。这个时候涌现的作家，比如Mark Twain刻画出美国经济政治发展引发的社会现实问题，包括“Gold Rush”。