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　　26. Which of the following statements is wrong in describing Nathaniel Hawthorne?

　　A. One source of evil that Hawthorne is concerned most is the over-reaching intellect.

　　B. Hawthorne is also a great allegorist.

　　C. Hawthorne is also a master of symbolism.

　　D. Hawthorne is a realistic writer.

　　27. Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is not true?

　　A. It explores man’s never-ending search for the satisfaction of materialistic desires.

　　B. It relates the conflicts between the society and the individual.

　　C. It is about the effect of sin on the people involved and the society as a whole.

　　D. It presents a psychological analysis of the inward tensions of the characters.

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

　　A. Religion B. Life and death C. Love and marriage D. War and peace

　　29. Dickinson’s poems include poems of ______.

　　A. nature B. love C. death D. all of the above

　　30. Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works in a ______ language.

　　A. grand B. pompous C. simple D. vernacular

　　31. In writing “In a Station of the Metro”, Pound got his inspiration from _____.

　　A. English sonnet B. Chinese classical poetry

　　C. Japanese haiku D. French poetry

　　32. William Faulkner’s works mainly concern the American _______.

　　A. New England B. Mid West C. South D. West

　　33. _____ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.

　　A. T. S. Eliot B. Robert Frost C. Ezra Pound D. Emily Dickinson

　　34.______ wrote about the society in the American South by inventing families which represented different forces: the old decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the “poor whites”; and the negroes who labored for both of them.

　　. A. Faulkner B. Fitzgerald C. Hemingway D. Steinbeck

　　35. Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems depicted mostly _____.

　　A. the frontier life B. the sea adventures

　　C. puritain community D.the landscape and people in New England

　　36.Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”, can be regarded as a symbol standing for all the following except ______.

　　A. old values B. rigid distinction of social status

　　C. bigotry and eccentricity D. harmony and integrity

　　37. Which of the following statements is not a typical feature of Imagism?

　　A. To use the language of common speech, but to employ always the exact word.

　　B. To create new rhythms, as the expression of a new mood.

　　C. To allow absolute freedom in the choice of subject.

　　D. To recommend heroic couplet as a preferable verse form.

　　38. “In a Station of the Metro” is a typical imagist poem that fully displays Pound’s definition of image, which is ______.

　　A. to reveal a poet’s instantaneous experience of life

　　B. to present an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time

　　C. to bring out a natural outburst of the poet’s emotions

　　D. to retell a poet’s past moment of experience

　　39. Which of the following statements is not a typical feature of Frost’s poetry?

　　A. It is usually presented in the dramatic monologue.

　　B. It is rich in images, metaphors and symbols.

　　C. Most of his poems are written in the form of free verse.

　　D. Nature is one of the most important thematic concerns in his poetry.

　　40. “My little horse must think it queer /To stop without a farmhouse near.”

　　The above two lines are taken from Frost’s “Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening”, a beautifully structured poem which follows _______.

　　A. iambic tetrameter B. iambic pentameter

　　C. trochaic tetrameter D. trochaic pentameter

　　41. In “petals on a wet, black bough”, the figure of speech used here is ______.

　　A. metaphor B. hyperbole C. pun D.simile

　　42. “In a Station of the Metro” is regarded by critics as a classic specimen of ______.

　　A. the romantic poetry B. the absurd poetry

　　C. the transcendental poetry D. the imagist poetry

　　43. Which of the following best describes the protagonist of Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”?

　　A. She is a conservative aristocrat B. She is a wealthy lady

　　C. She is a prisoner of the past D. She has good taste.

　　44. Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms --- the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse --- with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of _______ farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.

　　A. Western B. New England C. New Hampshire D. southern

　　45. Fitztegerald’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of ____.

　　A. the Jazz Age B. the Romantic Period

　　C. the Renaissance Period D. the Neoclassical Period

　　46. Which of the following statements about Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” is not true?

　　A. She has a distorted personality.

　　B. She is physically deformed and paralyzed.

　　C. She is the victim of the past glory.

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

　　47. At the beginning of “A Rose for Emily”, there is a detailed description of Emily’s old house. The purpose of such description is to imply that the person living in it ______.

　　A. is a wealthy lady B. is a prisoner of the past

　　C. has good taste D. is a conservative aristocrat

　　48. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

　　And sorry I could not travel both…

　　In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”, the poet ,by implication, was referring to _______..

　　A. a travel experience B. a marriage decision

　　C. a middle-age crisis D. one’s course of life

　　49. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such description is to show _______.

　　A. emptiness of life B. the corruption of the upper class

　　C. contrast of the rich and the poor D. the happy days of the Jazz Age

　　50. Lots of people rushed to Gatsby’s party at the weekend and they clustered around　Gatsby’s wealth like___.

　　A. gluttons B. flies C. insects D. moths