1、【题目】Mark Twain’s particular concern about the local character of a region came about as “local colorism, ” a unique va riation of American literary( ).
选项:
A.romanticism
B.nationalism
C.modernism
D.realism
答案:
D
解析:
马克吐温作品的选材多是美国西部和密西西比河流域的事情,所以被誉为美国地方色彩主义作家,也是美国现实主义作家的代表人物。
1、【题目】William Faulkner set most of his works in the American( ),with his emphasis on the( )subjects and consciousness.
选项:
A.North...Northern
B.East...Eastern
C.West...Western
D.South...Southern
答案:
D
解析:
福克纳被称为南方作家,他的作品主要关注南方的衰败,以及南方的种族问题。
1、【题目】In Death in the Afternoon( )presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.
选项:
A.WilliamFaulkner
B.JackLondon
C.ErnestHemingway
D.MarkTwain
答案:
C
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。
1、【题目】()isgenerallyregardedastheforerunnerofthe20th—century“stream—of—consciousness”novelsandthefounderofpsychologicalrealism.
选项:
A.TheodoreDreiser
B.WilliamFaulkner
C.HenryJames
D.MarkTwain
答案:
C
解析:
亨利 . 詹姆斯是美国现实主义文学大师, 他的作品往往涉及美国之外的主题, 其作品的风格是“心理活动”。被誉为 20 世纪美国意识流文学的先驱。
1、【题目】EugeneO’Neill’sfirstfull—lengthplay,(),wonhimthefirstPulitzerthemeisthechoicebetweenlifeanddeath,theinteractionofsubjectiveandobjectivefactors.
选项:
A.BoundEastforCardiff
B.TheHairyApe
C.DesireUndertheElms
D.BeyondtheHorizon
答案:
D
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。
1、【题目】Likeallnaturalists,()wasrestrainedfromfindingasolutiontothesocialproblemsthatappearedinhisnovelsandaccordinglyalmostallhisworkshavetragicendings.
选项:
A.TheodoreDreiser
B.HenryJames
C.WashingtonIrving
D.WaltWhitman
答案:
A
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。
1、【题目】Man is a “victim of forces over which he has no control. ” This is a notion held strongly by( ).
选项:
A.RobertFrost
B.TheodoreDreiser
C.HenryJames
D.HamlinGarland
答案:
B
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。
1、【题目】Withthepublicationof(),TheodoreDreiserwaslaunchinghimselfuponalongcareerthatwouldultimatelymakehimoneofthemostsignificantAmericanwritersoftheschoollaterknownasliterarynaturalism.
选项:
A.SisterCarrie
B.TheTitan
C.AnAmericanTragedy
D.TheStoic
答案:
A
解析:
德莱赛的成名作就是《嘉莉妹妹》,也是其所有作品中成就最高的一部。
1、【题目】Mark Twain employed an unpretentious style of( )in his novels which is best described as “vernacular ”.
选项:
A.standardEnglish
B.Afro-AmericanEnglish
C.colloquialism
D.urbanism
答案:
C
解析:
马克.吐温的写作特点素有“地方色彩主义”的美称,也就是语言口语化,取材地方化。