10055自考浙江省2012年4月美国文学选读试题详解.docVIP

HYPERLINK 超越60自考网 浙江省2012年4月高等教育自学考试 美国文学选读试题 课程代码：10055 Part Ⅰ: Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10 points in all, 1 point for each) Group 1 Column A Column B ( ) 1. Ezra Pound a. The Sun Also Rises ( ) 2. F. Scott Fitzgerald b. This Side of Paradise ( ) 3. William Faulkner c. The Sound and the Fury ( ) 4. Mark Twain d. Innocents Abroad ( ) 5. Ernest Hemingway e. The Cantos Group 2 Column A Column B ( ) 1. Daisy a. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( ) 2. Huck Finn b. Indian Camp ( ) 3. Faith c. The Great Gatsby ( ) 4. Charles Drouet d. Sister Carrie ( ) 5. Nick e. Young Goodman Brown Part Ⅱ: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (50 points in all, 2 points for each) 1. About Washington Irving, Father of American short stories, which of the following statement is right?( ) A. As a writer, he remained democratic and always exalted a disappearing past. B. He preferred the Old World to the New in his writing. C. Many of his writings are focused on American subjects, landscapes, particularly the legends of the Hudson River region of the fresh young land. D. He is well-known for his international theme across the Atlantic. 2. Despite strong foreign influences, American romantic writings are typically American which can be revealed in the following ______.( ) A. a desire for an escape from civilized society and a return to the ennobling nature B. the American national experience of “pioneering into the west” C. American type of characters speaking local dialects appeared in the fiction D. all of the above 3. In the well-known story Rip Van Winkle, Rip is asleep for 20 years, during which ______ takes place.( ) A. World War I B. the Civil War C. World War II D. the Revolutionary War 4. According to Emerson, which of the following is not mentioned as the special terms in his Nature