09年英语专业八级人文知识精讲NO.38TEM考试
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__1__ Harriet Beecher Stowe is most famous for her ___ that spoke for blacks.
A Voice of Freedom
B Uncle Tom’s cabin
C Clotel
D The Garies and Their Friends
__2__ The first novel published by the blacks in ___ Clotel.
A Harriet Beecher Stowe
B Harriet Wilson
C Williams Wells Brown
D John Brown
__3__ Most of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published ___.
A when she was young
B after her failed love affair
C in her old age
D after her death
__4__ Palph Waldo Emerson, the American Transcendentalist, argued for the following ideas except ___.
A man’s dependence on himself for spiritual perfection
B Faith in Christianity
C direct intuition of a spiritual God in nature
D the importance of an independent American culture
__5__ In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled ___ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as “Our intellectual Declaration of Independence”.
A “Nature”
B “Self-Reliance”
C “Divinity School Address”
D “The American Scholar”
__6__ In 1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled ___ at Harvard, which expressed his disapproval to the faith in church and caused the protest by church.
A “Nature”
B “Self-Reliance”
C “Divinity School Address”
D “The American Scholar”
__7__ ___ is Mark Twain’s master work, the one book form which as Ernest Hemingway noted, “all modern American literature comes”.
A The Gilded Age
B The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
C The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
D The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
__8__ Which of the following is NOT the fiction written by Mark Twain?
A Innocent Abroad
B The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
C The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
D The Golden Bowl
__9__ Mark Twain is the pseudonym of ___.
A Samuel Langhorne Clemens
B Henry James
C William Dean Howells
D Stephen Crane
__10__ The Wings of the Dove was written by ___ who also wrote ___.
A Mark Twain… Tom Sawyer
B Hawthorne… The Scarlet Letter
C Walt Whitman… Song of Myself
D Henry James… A Lady’s Portrait
答案:
1. 选B。斯托夫人(Harriet Beecher Stowe)是废奴文学的杰出代表,她的《汤姆大叔的小屋》(Uncle Tom’s cabin)被林肯总统称为“发动了一场大战的小说”。
2. 选C。威廉.布朗于1853年出版的《克罗特尔》被认为是美国黑人发表的第一部小说。
3. 选D。埃米莉.狄金森(Emily Dickinson)的诗歌远远超出了她所在的时代局限,虽然她留给后人1775首诗歌,但其中只有很少的一部分是在他生前发表的。
4. 选B。拉尔夫.华尔多.爱默生(Ralph Waldo Emerson)主张打破神学统治,摈弃以身为中心的请教主义,强调人再宇宙万物中的地位,人能超越感觉获得知识,人有能力凭直觉直接认识真理。