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单选题

The attitude towards life that( )had been trying to demonstrate in his works is known as “grace under pressure ”.

A
WilliamFaulkner
B
TheodoreDreiser
C
ErnestHemingway
D
F·ScottFitzgerald

题目答案

C

答案解析

“压力下的优雅”正是海明威要成功塑造的人物性格,海明威曾极力将自己笔下的主人公塑造成这个样子。

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单选题

Man is a “victim of forces over which he has no control. ” This is a notion held strongly by( ).

A
RobertFrost
B
TheodoreDreiser
C
HenryJames
D
HamlinGarland

题目答案

B

答案解析

德莱赛是美国自然主义流派的代表作家,在他看来,人的罪恶是源于无法自控的本能的。

单选题

In 1920,( )published his first novel This Side of Paradise which was,to some extent,his own story.

A
F·ScottFitzgerald
B
ErnestHemingway
C
WilliamFaulkner
D
EmilyDickinson

题目答案

A

答案解析

菲茨杰拉德是美国现在主义作家,他的第一部小说是《乐园的这一边》,出版于1920年。

单选题

Eugene O’Neill ’s first full — length play,( ),won him the first Pulitzer theme is the choice between life and death,the interaction of subjective and objective factors.

A
BoundEastforCardiff
B
TheHairyApe
C
DesireUndertheElms
D
BeyondtheHorizon

题目答案

D

答案解析

欧内尔,是美国有史以来最伟大的剧作家,一生创作了许多的戏剧,其中,《天边外》为他赢得了普利兹奖。

单选题

In Death in the Afternoon( )presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.

A
WilliamFaulkner
B
JackLondon
C
ErnestHemingway
D
MarkTwain

题目答案

C

答案解析

《死在午后》是海明威的早期作品,在该小说中,作者将生与死通过微小的斗牛事件表现的淋漓尽致。

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》

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。