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单选题

The Financier,The Titan and The Stoic by Theodore Dreiser are called his “Trilogy of( ). ”

A
Hatred
B
Death
C
Desire
D
Fate

题目答案

C

答案解析

德莱赛在1912到1914年间创作的三部小说,合称为《欲望三部曲》

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单选题

It was his masterpiece The Great Gatsby that made( )one of the greatest American novelists.

A
Fitzgerald
B
WilliamFaulkner
C
ErnestHemmingway
D
GertrudeSteinbeck

题目答案

A

答案解析

《了不起的盖茨比》是菲茨杰拉德的代表作,也使其成为了美国文坛上得一颗明星。

单选题

Like all naturalists,( )was restrained from finding a solution to the social problems that appeared in his novels and accordingly almost all his works have tragic endings.

A
TheodoreDreiser
B
HenryJames
C
WashingtonIrving
D
WaltWhitman

题目答案

A

答案解析

美国自然主义作家的的通病是:深刻地洞察到社会问题,但是都无法解决这些问题,这些是由于他们汲取的是进化论中得糟粕部分,德莱塞也是如此,所以他的作品大多是悲剧结局。

单选题

Greatly and permanently affected by the( )experiences,Hemingway formed his own writing style,together with his theme and hero.

A
mining
B
farming
C
war
D
sailing

题目答案

C

答案解析

海明威人生经历丰富,做过战地记者,在战地救护车上工作过,所以他的作品也大多和战争有关,也形成了自己独特的写作风格。

单选题

In 1950,one of the leading American writers( )was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.

A
RobertFrost
B
TheodoreDreiser
C
WilliamFaulkner
D
Fitzgerald

题目答案

C

答案解析

福克纳的反种族歧视政治观点在他的作品中得以体现,他也因此被授予了诺贝尔文学奖。

单选题

The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised( )for “his powerful style - forming mastery of the art ” of creating modern fiction.

A
EzraPound
B
ErnestHemingway
C
RobertFrost
D
TheodoreDreiser

题目答案

B

答案解析

海明威是美国文学发展到现代主义时期的一位大师,他将由马克.吐温开创的口语体小说发展到了顶峰时期,为美国现代文学的发展作出了卓越的贡献。

单选题

“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one -eighth of it being abov e water. ” This “iceberg ” analogy about prose style was put forward by( ).

A
WilliamFaulkner
B
HenryJames
C
ErnestHemingway
D
F·ScottFitzgerald

题目答案

C

答案解析

这里的“冰山”指的是海明威的写作风格,海明威自己称其为冰山一角,没有完全展现给读者。

单选题

Most literary critics think that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of( )with a double vision.

A
theJazzAge
B
theAgeofReasonandRevolution
C
theBabyboomingAge
D
thePost-ModernAge

题目答案

A

答案解析

菲茨杰拉德是20世纪20年代的杰出文学代表人物,他所处的年代正是美国拜金主义,名利主义泛滥时期,也是美国人物质生活丰富,精神生活空虚的年代,菲茨杰拉德的言行放荡不羁,菲茨杰拉德的作品批判现实,所以,无论从哪个角度讲,他都是那个时代的人物。

单选题

“My last Duchess ” is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning ’s( ).

A
sensitiveearforthesoundsoftheEnglishlanguage
B
excellentchoiceofwords
C
masteringofthemetricaldevices
D
useofthedramaticmonologue

题目答案

D

答案解析

戏剧独白”是在维多利亚时期英国诗歌的一种创作形式,它由坦尼桑首创,由布朗宁来完善。所以,布朗宁的作品中,对“戏剧独白”的应用已是相当的娴熟。

单选题

“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one- eighth of it being above water. ” This “iceberg ” analogy is put forward by( ).

A
MarkTwain
B
EzraPound
C
WilliamFaulkner
D
ErnestHemingway

题目答案

D

答案解析

海明威的这一比喻实际上是来形容自己的写作风格的,做为?迷失的一代“的代言人,海明威的文风是经过不懈的努力而形成的,所以才有这样的比喻。

单选题

Unlike his contemporaries in the early 20th century,( )did not break up with the poetic tradition nor made any experiment on form.

A
WaltWhitman
B
RobertFrost
C
EzraPound

题目答案

B

答案解析

很难说佛罗斯特是属于新派诗人还是旧派诗人,因为他从来就没有脱离过旧派诗人的文风,也没有尝试着做任何的革新,但是他是生活在新派年代的。