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I.Fill in the blanks. (20 points in all, 2 points for each blank)

1.By the end of the Civil War, most of the forces that would typify 20th century had begun to emerge. Northern

had triumphed over Southern .

2.The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called ——that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular

rhyme scheme.

3.The publication in 1922 of ’s The Waste Land, the most significant American poem of the 20th

century, helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.

4.Writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were a , devoid of faith

and alienated from a civilization.

5.American Puritans wanted to make pure their religious and . They wished to

restore simplicity to church services and the authority of the Bible to theology.

6.——a movement supported by all progressive forces of the country which opposed themselves to

the old colonial order and religious obscurantism.

7. The secular ideals of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in the life and career of .

8. was considered the Father of American short story and familiar essays, and the first American

author to make a living by his pen.

II. Identify the fragments. (30 points in all, 6 for each passage)

Passage 1: From a Child I was fond of Reading, and all the little money that came into my Hands was ever laid out in Books. Pleas’d with the Pilgrim’s Progress, my first Collection was of John Bunyan’s Works, in separate little V olumes…This Bookish Inclination at length determin’d my Father to make me a Printer, tho’ he had already one Son, (James) of that Profession.

Questions:

1) From which work is it excerpted and what is the author’s name? (2 points)

2) What is the language style in this work? (4 points)

Passage 2: At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house. I have thus surveyed the country on every side within a dozen miles of where I live. In imagination I have bought all the farms in succession, for all were to be bought and I knew their price.

Questions:

1) From which work is it excerpted and who wrote it? (2 points)

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Passage 3: Tom joined the new order of Cadets of Temperance, being attracted by the showy character of their “regalia.”

He promised to abstain from smoking, chewing, and profanity as long as he remained a member…Tom soon found himself tormented with a desire to drink and swear; the desire grew to be so intense that nothing but the hope o f a chance to display himself in his red sash kept him from withdrawing from the order.

Questions:

1) From which work is it excerpted and who wrote it? (2 points)

2) What is his style like? (4 points)

Passage 4: Let us go then, you and I,

When the evening is spread out against the sky

Like a patient etherized upon a table;

Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,

The muttering retreats

Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels

…

Let us go and make our visit.

Questions:

1)From which poem is this stanza excerpted? Who wrote it? (2 points)

2) What is his style like? (4 points)

Passage 5: The apparition of these faces in the crowd;

Petals on a wet, black bough.

Questions:

1) What is the title of this poem? Who wrote it? (2 points)

2)What is his style? (4 points)

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1. Naturalism evolved from realism when the author ’s tone in writing became less serious and less sympathetic but more

ironic and more .

A. optimistic

B. pessimistic

C. humorous

D. rational

2. Among the following, Jack London wrote all the other three but .

A. The Call of the Wild

B. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

C. The Sea Wolf

D. Martin Eden

3. Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over .

A. Whitman

B. Ezra Pound

C. Emily Dickinson

D. Edgar Allan Poe

4. Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about .

A. men and women

B. man and society

C. man and nature

D. man and machine

5. , which one American critic described as “an outrage to American girlhood ”, brought Henry James his

first international fame.

A. The American

B. The Portrait of a Lady

C. Daisy Miller

D. The Ambassadprs

6. Edgar Allan Poe ’s works don’t include .

A. The Raven

B. To Helen

C. “The Fall of the House of Usher ”

D. To His Coy Mistress

7. The American social upheavals and the literary concerns of the Great Depression years ended with the prosperity and

turmoil brought by the .

A. World War Ⅰ

B. War of Independence

C. Civil War

D. World War Ⅱ

8. was John Steinbeck ’s most clearly “proletarian ” novel of class struggle, depicting the lives of migrants

workers and their resistance to exploitation by the entrenched forest of society .

A. The Grapes of Wrath

B. Tortilla Fla t

C. Of Mice and Men

D. In Dubious Battle

9. Early in the 1920s the most prominent of the new American playwrights, established an international reputation with such plays as The Emperor , Anna Christie and The Hairy Ape.

A. Eugene O ’Neill

B. James Joyce

C. E. E. Cummings

D. Langston Hughes

10. America ’s literary dismissed the validity of comforting moral truths. They attempted to achieve extreme objectivity and frankness, presenting characters of low social and economic classes who were dominated by their environment and heredity .

A. naturalists

B. realists

C. romanticists

D. modernists

IV . Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10 points, 1 for each)

Group 1

Column A Column B

( )1. Ralph Waldo Emerson a. The Hairy Ape

( )2. William Faulkner b. Daisy Miller

( )3. Henry James c. Nature

( )4. Eugene O ’Neil d. A Farewell to Arms

( )5. Ernest Hemingway e. A Rose for Emily

Group 2

Column A Column B

( )6. Emily Grierson a. The Scarlet Letter

( )7. Hester b. The Old Man and the Sea

( )8. Ishmael c. Martin Eden

( )9. Santiago d. A Rose for Emily

( )10. Ruth e. Moby Dick

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V. Commentary. (20 points)

Following is Robert Frost’s short poem “Stopping by W oods on a Snowy Evening”. Please read

it and fulfill the tasks as required below.

Stopping by W oods on a Snowy Evening

Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near

Between the woods and frozen lake

The darkest evening of the year

He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake.

The only other sound’s the sweep

Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

1) Analyze the theme of this poem. (10 points)

2) Translate this poem into Chinese. (10 points)

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