I. Fill in the blanks
1. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was written by _____.
【答案】Washington Irving
【解析】华盛顿·欧文，美国著名作家，被称为“美国文学之父”。《睡谷传奇》是欧文的著名短篇小说，收在他的著名散文集《见闻札记》中。 2. The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was _____.
【答案】American Puritanism
【解析】美国文化源于清教文化，由清教徒移民时传入北美。美国主流价值观都可以追溯到殖民地时期一统天下的清教主义，并且清教思想对美国文学有着根深蒂固的影响。
3. Mark Twain once described the theme of a book as the struggle between a healthy heart and a deformed conscience, and he attributed this description to the character _____ in that book.
【答案】Huckleberry Finn
【解析】马克吐温曾说《哈克贝利·费恩》这部小说的主题是健康的心灵与扭曲的良心之间的斗争，他这段描述是针对小说主人公哈克贝利·费恩而言的。
4. “Dr oning a drowsy syncopated tune,
Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,
I heard a Negro play,”
The figure of speech used in the first line of the poem is _____.
【答案】alliteration
【解析】在第一句中，droning和drowsy押头韵。题中诗句节选自美国黑人作家兰斯通·休斯Langston Hughes的《忧伤的蓝调》（The Weary Blues），译文：低沉的切分音符闷声闷气，/柔美的低吟摇来摆去，/我听见黑人演唱。
5. Author _____ Title _____.
ABBIE: He’s dead.
CABOT: [stares at her—bewilderedly] What…
ABBIE: I killed him.
【答案】Author: Eugene O’Neil, Title: Desire Under the Elms
【解析】题目节选自尤金·奥尼尔Desire Under the Elms（《榆树下的愿望》）中的一段对话。他被誉为“美国戏剧之父”，也作美国的“莎士比亚”。因为有了奥尼尔，美国的戏剧才真正开始。
II. Multiple Choice
1. Which statement about Benjamin Franklin is not true?
A. He instructed his countrymen as a printer.
B. He was a scientist.
C. He was a master of diplomacy.
钛磁铁矿D. He was a Puritan.
【答案】D
【解析】本杰明·富兰克林有一连串的头衔——作家，发明家，出版商，科学家，外交家。他没有显赫的家世，没有富裕的生活，仅仅靠自己对宗教的虔诚，对教育的重视，生活的简朴，以及不屈的奋斗获得了在各个领域的成功，他是美国“清教主义”的杰出代表。所以选项D对本杰明·富兰克林的陈述显然是不对的。
2. The term defining the philosophy outlined in the following selection is _____.
A. Pragmatism
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B. Transcendentalism
C. Humanism
D. Existentialism
Man has ideas that come not through the five senses or the powers of reasoning; but are either the result of direct revelation from God, his immediate inspiration or his immanent presence in the spiritual world.
【答案】B
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【解析】超验主义(transcendentalism)的核心观点是主张人能超越感觉和理性而直接认识真理，认为人类世界的一切都是宇宙的一个缩影。超验主义者强调万物本质上的统一，万物皆受“超灵”制约，而人类灵魂与“超灵”一致。超验主义者是以美国作家爱默生为首的。 林默涵
3. Choose the novel which is not written by Henry James.
A. The Ambassadors
B. The Wings of the Dove
C. The Bostonians
D. The Mysterious Stranger
【答案】D
【解析】《神秘的陌生人》（The Mysterious Stranger）是马克·吐温的作品，其余三项《大使》（The Ambassadors），《鸽翼》（The Wings of the Dove），《波士顿人》（The Bostonians）都是亨利·詹姆斯的作品。
4. Which of the following is not written by William Faulkner?
A. The Sound and the Fury
B. For Whom the Bell Tolls
C. Light in August
D. Hamlet
【答案】B
【解析】《丧钟为谁而鸣》的作者是海明威。选项D《村子》是福克纳的斯诺普斯三部曲的第一部。
5. Catch-22 is a novel with outstanding _____.
A. euphemism
超导失超B. black humor
C. allusion
D. stream of consciousness
【答案】B
【解析】《第二十二条军规》是著名的黑幽默小说，作者是海勒。
III. Explain the following term
1. Romanticism
Key:(1) It refers to the literary and artistic movements of the late 18th and early 19th century in Europe.
(2) It was characterized by a rejection against the precepts of order, calm, harmony, balance, idealization, and rationality that were held by the neoclassicists. Instead romanticism emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental. Romanticists also showed interest in the medieval, exotic, primitive, and nationalistic.
(3) Romanticism prevailed in England from the publication of Lyrical Ballad in 1798 to the death of Walter Scott in 1832. The English Romantic Period is a age of poetry. Major romantic poets include William Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats.
2. Ernest Hemingway
Key: Ernest Hemingway was regarded as the most important spokesman for the
超临界二氧化碳萃取Lost Generation. He was famous for his novels and short stories written in his spare, laconic, terse, clear, telegraph-like, yet intense prose with short sentences and very specific details. This style is his famous “Iceberg Principle” that emphasizes simplicity and economy of expression. Almost all his stories deal with the theme of courage in the face of tragedy. They reveal man’s impotence and despairing courage to assert himself against overwhelming odds. These heroes are called “The Hemingway Code Hero”.
IV. Read the following quotations and answer the questions
Passage 1
During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as he shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by
any of that half-pleasureable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me—upon ‘the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain—upon the bleak walls—upon the vacant eye-like windows—upon a few rank sedges—and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees—with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly
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