吴伟仁《美国文学史及选读》（重排版）配套题库【考研真题精选＋章节题库】.pdf

第一部分　考研真题精选一、填空题 1. As an American poet of nature, _______ (1874—1963) had obvious affinities with romantic write
, notably Wordsworth and Eme
on. He saw nature as a storehouse of analogy and symbol, but he had little faith in religious dogma or speculative thought.[暨南大学2017研] 【答案】Robert Frost查看答案 【解析】罗伯特·弗罗斯特被誉为美国非官方的“桂冠诗人”，代表作有诗集《少年的意志》（1913）、《波士顿以北》（1914）。其诗歌多以新英格兰为背景，取材于普通人的日常生活，以自然为主要内容，诗歌中充满着机敏与智慧，平静与和谐。 2. A very influential novel in the 1960s America is Salinger’s _____ which relates the painful story of a high-school boy growing up in the world of decadent New York.[北科大2011研] 【答案】The Catcher in the Rye查看答案 【解析】塞林格的代表作《麦田里的守望者》的故事的起止局限于16岁的中学生霍尔顿·考尔菲德从离开学校到纽约游荡的三天时间内，并借鉴了意识流天马行空的写作方法，充分探索了一个十几岁少年的内心世界。愤怒与焦虑是此书的两大主题。 3. In 1620, led by William Bradford, a group of Pilgrims arrived in present-day Massachusetts on a ship called ______.[暨南大学2013研] 【答案】Mayflower查看答案 【解析】1620年9月16日，在牧师布莱斯特率领下乘“五月花号”前往北美。此次航行的主要领袖是威廉·布拉德福德(William Bradford)和威廉·布鲁斯特(William Brewster)。 4. James Fenimore Cooper’s claim to greatness in American literature lies in the fact that he created a myth about the formative period of the American nation. Yet the image he created of the American India
has been a distorted one. In his “Leathe
tocking Tales,” the good India
are almost always those who stand on the side of the British agai
t the _____.[北科大2007研] 【答案】French查看答案 【解析】库柏的《皮护腿故事集》主要讲述的是英军和法军在北美争夺殖民地，其间两军受到持不同意见的印第安人的协助的故事。 5. Melville is best known as the author of _____which is one of the world’s greatest masterpieces. One of the major themes in Melville is _____, which can be best shown in Ahab.[北科大2008研] 【答案】Moby Dick; alienation查看答案 【解析】《白鲸》代表了麦尔维尔对他所生活的时代悲凉的世界观。小说的主题是疏离。 6. As a reaction agai
t Calvinism, tra
cendentalism in the 19th century stressed the importance of the individual. Tra
cendentalists like ______ and Thoreau were telling people to depend upon themselves for spiritual perfection.[北科大2009研] 【答案】Ralph Waldo Eme
on查看答案 【解析】“超验主义”如爱默生所说，表示“任何属于直觉意识范畴的思想”。代表人物包括爱默生、梭罗、