专业英语八级英美文学知识分类模拟题4

专业英语八级英美文学知识分类模拟题4

单项选择题

1. ______ was the only female American prose writer in the 19th century.

Dickinson

Austin

Eliot

t Beecher Stowe

答案：D

美国19世纪唯一的女散文作家是Harriet Beecher Stowe(哈利特·比彻·斯托)。Emily Dickirson(艾米丽·迪金森)是女诗人。另外两位是英国女作家。

2. Harriet Beecher Stowe's works mainly focus on ______.

icism

colourism

lism

endentalism

答案：B

Harriet Beecher Stowe(哈利特·比彻·斯托)的作品充满了乡土气息。

3. Which of the following is the masterpiece by Harriet Beecher Stowe?

: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

Lawson's Fireside Stories'

Tom "s Cabin

Gilded Age

答案：C

Uncle Tom's Cabin(《汤姆叔叔的小屋》)是斯托夫人最出名的作品。Dred A Tale of the Great Dismal

Swamp(《德雷德：阴暗大沼地的故事》)和Sam Lawson's Fireside Stories(《山姆·罗森的炉边故事》)也是她的作品，但没有前者有名。The Gilded Age(《镀金时代》)是Mark Twain(马克·吐温)的作品。

4. ______ is the masterpiece written by William Dean Howells.

Rise of Silas Lapham

Innocents Abroad

Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wison

Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

答案：A

The Rise of Silas Lapham(《塞拉斯·拉帕姆的发迹》)是威廉·迪恩·豪威尔斯的名作。其他三部，The

Innocents Abroad(《傻瓜出国记》)、The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wison(《傻瓜威尔逊》)和The Man That

Corrupted Hadleyburg(《败坏哈德莱堡的人》)都是马克·吐温的作品。

5. Which of the following novels does not serve as a good example of William Dean Howells' definition

of Realism - "nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material"?

Rise of Silas Lapham.

Modern Instance.

Cop and the Anthem.

D.A Hazard of New Fortunes.

答案：C

The Cop and the Anthem(《警察与赞美诗》)是O·Henry(欧·亨利)的作品。《塞拉斯·拉帕姆的发迹》和The Modern Instance(《一个现代的例证》)以及A Hazard of New Fortunes(《新财富的危害》)都是豪威尔斯的作品，也都体现了他对现实主义所提出的定义。

6. ______ is the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

Twain

London

re Dreiser

答案：A

马克·吐温是塞缪尔·朗荷恩·克莱门斯的笔名。

7. ______ is written according to Mark Twain's experiences as a steamboat pilot.

Innocents Abroad

Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Adventures of Tom Sawyer

on the Mississippi

答案：D

Life on the Mississippi(《密西西比河上的生活》)是马克·吐温根据他做蒸汽船驾驶员时的经历撰写而成的。

8. Hemingway's comments as "from which all modem American literature comes" refer to Mark

Twain's masterwork ______.

Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Prince and the Pauper

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

D.A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

答案：C

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》)是马克·吐温最出名的作品，海明威曾把该书看作是“所有现代美国文学之源”。其他三部，The Prince and the Pauper(《王子与贫儿》)，The

Adventures of Tom Sawyer(《汤姆·索亚历险记》)和A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court(《亚瑟王宫廷中的美国佬》)也都是他的作品。

9. ______ is the pseudonym of William Sidney Porter, the author of Maggie's Gift.

Porter

London

od Anderson

答案：C

欧·亨利是作家威廉·悉尼·波特的笔名，创作了Maggie's Gift《麦琪的礼物》。

10. Most of 's stories are about the life of the poor in ______.

gton

York

e

答案：B

欧·亨利的大部分作品都是有关纽约穷人生活的。

11. ______ is recognized as the founder of Psychological Realism in American literature.

London

James

t Beecher Stowe

答案：C

Henry James(亨利·詹姆斯)被认为是美国文学史上心理现实主义的创始人。

12. ______written by Henry James is noted as "an outrage to American girlhood."

American

Wings" of the Dove

Ambassadors

Miller

答案：D

The American(《美国人》)，The Wings of the Dove(《鸽翼》)，The Ambassadors(《奉使记》)和Daisy

Miller(《黛西·米勒》)都是亨利·詹姆斯的作品。其中《黛两·米勒》被评论界认为是体现了“美国女孩的愤怒”。

13. Isabel Archer is the heroine of Henry James' ______.

Portrait of a Lady

Golden Bowl

Bostonians

Miller

答案：A

Isabel Archer(伊莎贝拉·阿切尔)是亨利·詹姆斯的作品The Portrait of a Lady(《贵妇人的画像》)中的女主人公。The Golden Bowl(《金碗》)、The Bostonians(《波士顿人》)和Daisy Miler《黛西·米勒》也都是亨利·詹姆斯的作品。

14. ______is an autobiographical novel by Jack London.

Sea-Wolf

Iron Heel

Eden

People of the Abyss

答案：C

Martin Eden(《马丁·伊登》)是杰克·伦敦的自传体小说。The Sea-Wolf(《海狼》)，The Iron Heel(《铁蹄》)和The People of the Abyss(《深渊中的人们》)也都是他创作的小说。

15. ______, the first novel by Jack London, was published in 1902.

A.A Daughter of the Snows

Sea-Wolf

Call of the Wild

Fang

答案：A

A Daughter of the Snows(《雪的女儿》)是杰克·伦敦发表于1902年的第一部小说。The Sea-wolf《海狼》，The Call of the Wild(《野性的呼唤》)和White Fang(《白牙》)都是他的作品。

16. ______, the first collection of Jack London's short stories by Jack London, was published in 1900.

Son of the Wolf

Fang

Sea-Wolf

People of the Abyss

答案：A

The Son of the Wolf(《狼之子》)是杰克·伦敦的第一部短篇小说集。

17. Which of the following works by Jack London has no connection with the socialist movement?

People of the Abyss

tion

War of the Classes

Call of the Wild

答案：D

The Call of the Wild《野性的呼唤》是一本关于淘金热(Gold Rush)的小说。其他三部The people of the

Abyss《深渊中的人们》、Revolution(《革命》)和The War of the Classes(《阶级的战争》)都和社会主义运动相关。

18. Theodore Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire does NOT include ______.

American Tragedy

Financier

Titan

Stoic

答案：A

西奥多·德莱赛创作的Trilogy of Desire(《欲望三部曲》)包括The Financier(《金融家》)，The Titan(《巨

头》)和The Stoic(《斯多葛》)，但是不包括An American Tragedy(《美国悲剧》)。

19. Which of the following is the masterpiece by Theodore Dreiser?

Carrie

Gerhardt

Genius

American Tragedy

答案：D

Sister Carrie(《嘉莉妹妹》)，Jennie Gerhardt(《珍妮姑娘》)、The Genius(《天才》)和An Amencan

Tragedy(《美国悲剧》)都是西奥多·德莱赛创作的，其中《美国悲剧》最有名。

20. ______is an autobiographical work by Theodore Dreiser.

r Looks at Russia

Genius

America

Carrie

答案：B

The Genius(《天才》)是西奥多·德莱赛创作的自传体小说。

21. Winesburg, Ohio is a collection of 23 stories by ______.

re Dreiser

od Anderson

n Crane

James

答案：B

Winesburg Ohio《俄亥俄州瓦恩斯堡镇》是舍伍德·安德森的作品。

22. Stephen Crane is the pioneer who wrote in the ______ tradition.

ental

listic

ic

tic

答案：B

斯蒂芬·克莱恩是自然主义作品的创作先锋。

23. ______ by Stephen Crane shows an unabashed picture of the bitter life of New York slum-dweller.

: A Girl of the Street

City in the Sea

答案：B

在Maggie A Girl of the Street(《街头女郎梅姬》)中，斯蒂芬·克莱恩向读者呈现了美国贫民窟的生活场景。另外三部，Ligeia(《莱琪儿》)，Poems(《诗集》)和The City in the Sea(《海城》)都是埃德加·爱伦·坡的作品。

24. Which of the following statements is NOT true about Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage?

basic theme is the animal man in a cold, manipulating world.

this work, war serves as a plain slaughter-house.

is a demonstration of heroism on the battlefield.

author looks into man's primitive emotions and tries to tell the elemental truth about human life.

答案：C

在The Red Badge of Courage《红英雄勋章》这部作品中，斯蒂芬·克莱恩没有描述浪漫主义作家笔下的英雄主义，相反，他所呈现的是军人在战场上贪生怕死、临阵脱逃、规避危险的本性。

25. Who does not belong to the writers of the Realistic Age?

Twain

James

London

Fenimore Cooper

答案：D

James Fenimore Cooper(詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库珀)是浪漫主义时期的作家。

26. Ezra Pound is regarded as the father of modem American ______.

答案：B

Ezra Pound(埃兹拉·庞德)被认为是“美国现代诗歌之父”。

27. ______ won Ezra Pound the Bollingen Prize.

Pisan Cantos

to Sextus Propertius

Selwyn Mauberley

a Station of the Metro

答案：A

The Pisan Cantos(《比萨诗章》)，Homage to Sextus Propertius(《向塞克斯特斯·普特蒂斯致敬》)，Hugh Selwyn Mauberley(《休·塞尔温·莫伯利》)和In a Station of the Metro(《在地铁站里》)都是艾兹拉·庞德的作品，其中为他赢得博林根奖的是The Pisan Cantos《比萨诗章》。

28. Robert Lee Frost's poetry focuses on people in ______.

Orland

York

England

Jersey

答案：C

Robert Lee Frost(罗伯特·弗罗斯特)的诗作以新英格兰人为素材。

29. Which of the following is NOT a poem written by Robert Lee Frost?

Hampshire.

ae.

C.A Witness Tree.

D.A Boy's Wish.

答案：B

Personae(《人物》)是埃兹拉·庞德的作品。其他三部New Hampshire(《新罕普什尔》)，A Witness Tree(《一株作证的树》)和A Boy's Wish(《少年心愿》)都是罗伯特·弗罗斯特的诗作。

30. ______ was the most prominent American playwright in the early 1920s.

A.T.S. Eliot

Galdstone O'Neill

Updike

Asher Miller

答案：B

Eugene Galdstone O'Neill(尤金·格拉斯通·奥尼尔)是20世纪20年代早期最有名的剧作家。

31. ______ is the only one well-known comedy by Eugene Galdstone O'Neill.

, Wilderness!

Day's Journey into Night

the Horizon

Hairy Ape

答案：A

Ah, Wilderness!(《啊，荒野!》)是尤金·格拉斯通·奥尼尔创作的唯一一部喜剧作品。其他三部，Long Day's

Journey#1to Night(《长夜漫漫路迢迢》)、Beyond the Horizon(《天边外》)；和The Hairy Ape(《毛猿》)也都是他的剧作。

32. Which of the following works did NOT win Eugene Galdstone O'Neill the Pulitzer Prize?

Day's Journey into Night.

the Horizon,

e Interlude.

Great God Brown,

答案：D

The Great God Brown(《大神布朗》)没有为尤金·格拉斯通·奥尼尔赢得普利策奖；其他三部都是获奖作品。

33. Who was the first American playwright winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936.

Kerouac

m Faulkner

Galdstone O'Neill

Updike

答案：C

尤金·格拉斯通·奥尼尔是第一位~1936年荣获诺贝尔文学奖的美国剧作家。

34. Wallace Stevens won all kinds of prizes EXCEPT ______.

Bollingen Prize

Nobel Prize for Literature

Pulitzer Prize

an National Book Award

答案：B

Wallace Stevens(华莱士·史蒂文斯)没有荣获过诺贝尔文学奖。

35. Which of the following works is NOT written by Wallace Stevens?

ium.

Cantos.

Man with the Blue Guitar.

Auroras of Autumn.

答案：B

The Cantos(《诗章》)是埃兹拉·庞德的作品。另外三部，Harmonium(《风琴》)、The Man with the Blue

Guitar(《带着蓝吉他的男人》)和The Auroras of Autumn(《秋日晨曦》)都是华莱士·史蒂文斯的诗作。

36. ______ was identified as the spokesman of the Lost Generation.

Arlington Robinson

Frost

Hemingway

ir Lewis

答案：C

Ernest Hemingway(欧内斯特·海明威)被认为是“迷惘的一代”的代言人。

37. ______ won Ernest Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.

Sun Also Rises

B.A Farewell to Arms

Whom the Bell Tolls

Old Man and the Sea

答案：D

四部作品，The Sun Also Rises(《太阳照样升起》)，A Farewell to Arms(《永别了，武器》)，For Whom

the Bell Tolls(《丧钟为谁而鸣》)和The Old Man and the Sea(《老人与海》)都是欧内斯特·海明威的作品。其中《老人与海》使他问鼎诺贝尔文学奖。

38. In 1940, Ernest Hemingway published the novel entitled ______ which is about the Spanish Civil War.

the River and Into the Trees

Whom the Bell Tolls

C.A Farewell to Arms

Sun Also Rises

答案：B

For whom the Bell Tolls《丧钟为谁而鸣》是欧内斯特·海明威创作的、以西班牙内战为背景的作品。

39. Which of the following is the most famous short story by Ernest Hemingway?

in the Afternoon.

B.A Farewell to Arms.

Hills of Africa.

Snow of Kilimanjaro.

答案：D

The Snow of Kilimanjaro(《乞力马扎罗的雪》)是海明威创作的久负盛名的短篇小说。Death in the

Afternoon(《午后之死》)和Green Hills of Afrrica(《非洲的青山》)是两部非小说类传记作品；A Farewell

to Arms《永别了，武器》是长篇小说。

40. ______is a masterwork written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Great Gatsby

of the Jazz Age

Is the Night

Last Tycoon

答案：A

The Great Gatsby(《了不起的盖茨比》)是弗朗西斯·斯各特·菲兹杰拉德最杰出的作品。Tales of the Jazz

Age(《爵士时代的故事》)、Tender Is the Night(《夜温柔》)和The Last Tycoon(《最后的巨头》)也都是菲兹杰拉德的作品，但不如《了不起的盖茨比》有名。

41. Main Street is written by ______ who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930.

Hemingway

ir Lewis

Steinbeck

D.F. Scott Fitzgerald

答案：B

Main Street(《大街》)是Sinclair Lewis(辛克莱·路易斯)的作品。他在1930年问鼎诺贝尔文学奖。

42. John Steinbeck was awarded both the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for his

masterpiece ______.

Moon Is Down

Dubious Battle

Grapes of Wrath

of Gold

答案：C

The Grapes of Wrath(《愤怒的葡萄》)是约翰·斯坦贝克最杰出的作品，为他赢得了普利策奖和诺贝尔文学奖。另外三部，The Moon Is Down(《月亮下去了》)、In Dubious Battle(《胜负未决》)和Cup of

Gold(《金杯》)也是他的作品。

43. The Catcher in the Rye, written by______, shows the youngster's rebellions against the dubious

values of the adult world.

Sandburg

Stearns Eliot

Arlington Robinson

David Salinger

答案：D

The Catcher in the Rye《麦田里的守望者》是Jerome David Salinger(杰罗姆·戴维·塞林格)创作的小说。

44. The Rabbits Series is written by ______, who is called the "sweet lonesome singer of Protestant

mediocrity."

Ginsberg

Updike

Asher Miller

Galdstone O'Neill

答案：B

The Rabbits Series(《兔子系列》)是John Updike(约翰·厄普代克)的名作。

45. The Sound and the Fury is the masterwork by______, who is the famous southern American writer

of the 20th century.

m Faulkner

David Salinger

Kerouac

Steinbeck

答案：A

The Sound and the Fury(《喧哗与骚动》)是美国20世纪南方作家William Faulkner(威廉·福克纳)的名作。

46. Absalom, Absalom is a well-known historical ______ by William Faulkner.

答案：B

Absalom, Absalom(《押沙龙，押沙龙!》)是威廉·福克纳创作的著名历史小说。

47. Which of the following works is NOT written by Arthur Miller?

My Sons.

of a Salesman.

Crucible.

答案：A

Howl《嚎叫》是Allen Ginsberg(艾伦·金斯堡)的诗作。其他三部，All My Sons(《我的儿子们》)，Death

of a Salesman(《推销员之死》)和The Crucible(《炼狱》)都是Arthur Miller(阿瑟·米勒)的作品。

48. ______ was called the "Poet Laureate of Black."

Arthur Baldwin

Ellison

on Hughes

Morrison

答案：C

Langston Hughes(兰斯顿·休斯)被称作“黑人桂冠诗人”。

49. ______life and identity is a major theme in Saul Bellow's work.

答案：B

Saul Bellow(索尔·贝娄)的作品常以犹太人的生活和身份为素材。

50. ______is NOT written by Toni Morrison.

ble Man

Bluest Eye

d

of Solomon

答案：A

Invisible Man(《看不见的人》)是Ralph Ellison(拉尔夫·埃里森)的作品。其余三部，The Bluest Eye(《最蓝的眼睛》)，Beloved(《宠儿》)和Song of Solomon(《所罗门之歌》)都是Toni Morrison(托尼·莫里森)的作品。