自考英美文学历年真题和答案

the Atlantic Ocean is（ ）.

A. Washington Irving

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Nathaniel Hawthorne

D. Walt Whitman

24.The American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne is known for his“black vision.”The term“black vision”refers to（ ）.

A. Hawthorne’s observation that every man faces a black wall

B. Hawthorne’s belief that all men are by nature evil

C. that Hawthorne employed a dream vision to tell his story

D. that Puritans of Hawthorne’s time usually wore black clothes

25.Theodore Dreiser was once criticized for his（ ）in style, but as a true artist his strength just lies in that his style is very serious and well calculated to achieve the thematic ends he sought.

A. crudeness B. elegance

C. conciseness D. subtlety

26.“He is the last of the romantic heroes, whose energy and sense of commitment take him in search of his personal Grail; his failure magnifies to a great extent the end of the American Dream.”The character referred to in the passage is most likely the protagonist of（ ）.

A. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

B. Dreiser’s An American Tragedy

C. Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls

D. Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

27.Almost all Faulkner’s heroes turned out to be tragic because（ ）.

A. all enjoyed living in the declining American South

B. none of them was conditioned by the civilization and social institutions

C. most of them were prisoners of the past

D. none were successful in their attempt to explain the inexplicable

28.Yank, the protagonist of Eugene O’Neill’s play The Hairy Ape, talked to the gorilla and set it free because（ ）.

A. he was mad, mistaking a beast for a human

B. he was told by the white young lady that he was like a beast and he wanted to see how closely he resembled the gorilla

C. he was caged with the gorilla after he insulted an aristocratic stroller

D. he could feel the kinship only with the beast

29.In（ ）, Robert Frost compares life to a journey, and he is doubtful whether he will regret his choice or not when he is old, because the choice has made all the difference.

A. “After Apple-Picking”

B. “The Road Not Taken”

C. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”

D. “Fire and Ice”

30.Though Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were romantic poets in theme and technique, they

differ from each other in a variety of ways. For one thing, whereas Whitman likes to keep his eye on human society at large, Dickinson often addresses such issues as（ ）, immortality, religion, love and nature.

A. progress B. freedom

C. beauty D. death

31.The Romantic Writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the（ ）in the American literary history.

A. individual feeling B. survival of the fittest

C. strong imagination D. return to nature

32.Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be（ ）.

A. transcendentalists B. optimists

C. pessimists D. idealists

33.With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene,（ ）became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.

A. Sentimentalism B. Romanticism