2020年自考《英美文学选读》试题四

31.After The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom's buddy Huck in a book entitled ___.

A.Life on the Mississippi

B.The Gilded Age

C.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

D.A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

32.However,___,the keynote of Daisy Miller's character,turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality and her defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.

A.experience                B.sophistication

C.worldliness               D.innocence

33.Generally speaking,all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be ___.

A.transcendentalists          B.idealists

C.pessimists                  D.impressionists

34.Emily Dickinson  wrote many short poems on various aspects of life.Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?

A.Religion and immortality.         B.Life and death.

C.Love and marriage.                D.War and peace.

35.In "After Apple-Picking,”Robert Frost wrote:"For I have had too much/Of applepicking:I am overtired/Of the great harvest I myself desired.”From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is ___.

A.happy about the harvest

B.still very much interested in apple-picking

C.expecting a greater harvest

D.indifferent to what he once desired

36.Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over ____.

A.Ezra Pound        B.Ralph Waldo Emerson

C.Robert Frost      D.Emily Dickinson

37.The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their __.

A.indestructible spirtie          B.pessimistic view of life

C.war experiences                 D.masculinity

38.IN The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape,O'Neill adopted the expressionist techniques to portray the ___ of human beings in a hostile universe.

A.helpless situation            B.uncertainty

C.profound religious faith      D.courage and perseverance

39.In Hemingway's "Indian Cmap”,Nick's night trip to the Indian village and his experience inside the hut can be taken as ____.

A.an essential lesson about Indian tribes

B.a confrontation with evil and sin

C.an initiation to the harshness of life

D.a learning process in human relationship

40.which of the following statements about  Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner's story "A Rose for Emily,” is NOT true?

A.She has a distorted personality.

B.She is physically deformed and paralyzed.

C.She is the symbol of the old values of the South.

D.She is the victim of the past glory.