英语专业八级人文知识练习附讲解第36讲
日期:2009-07-20 15:10

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练习

【练习】

1. Rip Van Winkle is a short story written by _____.

A James Fenimore Cooper

B Washington Irving

C Edgar Allan Poe

D Mark Twain

2. The Legend of Sleeping Hallow is a short story written by ____.

A James Fenimore Cooper

B Washington Irving

C Edgar Allan Poe

D Mark Twain

3. Cooper’s Leather Stocking Tales consists of ____stories.

A 3 B 4

C 5 D 6

4. Which of the following is not one of the Leather Stocking Tales by James F. Cooper

A The Pioneers B The Last of the Mohicans

C The Pathfinder D The Crater

5. The Purloined Letter is a detective story by _____.

A Arthur Conan Doyle B Edgar Allan Poe

C Washington Irving D James F. Cooper

6. The Romantic Period in American Literary history started with the publication of ____.

A Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book

B Washington Irving’s Tales of A Traveller

C Whitman’s Leaves of Grass

D James Fenimore Cooper’s Leather Stocking Tales

7. “The American Renaissance” is the period of ____in the history of American literature.更多信息

A Local Colorism

B Romanticism

C New England Transcendentalism

D Colonism

8. Edgar Allan Poe is known as a poet and critic but most famous as the first master of the ___ form.

A poem B drama

C short story D essay

9. The Raven is a poem by ____.

A Edgar Allan Poe

B Walt Whitman

C Ralph Waldo Emerson

D Henry David Thoreau

10. The Philosophy of Composition was written by ____who also wrote The Poetic Principle

A Edgar Allan Poe

B Walt Whitman

C Ralph Waldo Emerson

D Henry David Thoreau

答案

【答案】

1. B.

《瑞普.凡.温克而》(Rip Van Winkle)是华盛顿.欧文短篇(Washington Irving)小说集《札记集》(The Sketch Book)中的一篇。

2. B.

《睡谷的传说》(The Legend of Sleeping Hallow)是华盛顿.欧文短篇(Washington Irving)小说集《札记集》(The Sketch Book)中的一篇。

3. C.

《皮裹腿故事集》(the Leather Stocking Tales)包括5部小说,这五部小说根据发表的时间先后顺序依次为《开拓者》(The Pioneers),《最后一个莫西干人》(The Last of the Mohicans),《大草原》(The Prairie),《探路人》(The Pathfinder),《猎鹿人》(The Deerslayer)。

4. D.

《皮裹腿故事集》(the Leather Stocking Tales)包括5部小说,这五部小说根据发表的时间先后顺序依次为《开拓者》(The Pioneers),《最后一个莫西干人》(The Last of the Mohicans),《大草原》(The Prairie),《探路人》(The Pathfinder),《猎鹿人》(The Deerslayer)。《火山口》(The Crater)是库柏的另一部小说。

5.B.

《丢失的信》(The Purloined Letter)是爱德加.艾伦.坡(Edgar Allan Poe)创作的著名侦探小说。

6.A.

美国文学的浪漫主义时期指从18世纪末到美国内战爆发这段时期,它的起止分别以华盛顿.欧文(Washington Irving)的《见闻札记》(The Sketch Book)与惠特曼(Whitman)的《草叶集》(Leaves of Grass)为标志。

7.B.

美国文学的浪漫主义时期指从18世纪末到美国内战爆发这段时期,它的起止分别以华盛顿.欧文(Washington Irving)的《见闻札记》(The Sketch Book)与惠特曼(Whitman)的《草叶集》(Leaves of Grass)为标志。这是美国文学空前繁荣的时期,也被称为美国文学的“文艺复兴时期”。

8.C.

爱德加.艾伦. 坡(Edgar Allan Poe)是美国著名的诗人和评论家,但他还是以“第一位短篇小说大师”的身份最为人所知,特别是他的神秘恐怖小说。

9. A.

《乌鸦》(The Raven)是艾伦.坡(Edgar Allan Poe)最著名的诗歌代表作之一。

10.A.

爱德加.艾伦.坡()是美国第一位文艺理论家,著有《创作哲学》(Philosophy of Composition)和《诗歌原理》(The Poetic Principle)等论著

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重点单词
  • principlen. 原则,原理,主义,信念
  • sketchn. 素描,草图,概述,梗概 v. 速写,草拟,(简略地
  • literaryadj. 文学的
  • leathern. 皮革,皮制品 adj. 皮革制的 vt. 用皮革覆
  • renaissancen. 文艺复兴,再生
  • romanticadj. 浪漫的 n. 浪漫的人
  • compositionn. 作文,著作,组织,合成物,成份
  • criticn. 批评家,评论家
  • detectiveadj. 侦探的 n. 侦探
  • hallowvt. 使 ... 神圣,视为神圣