1、 usually wore black clothes15. As a great innovator in American literature, Walt Whitman wrote his poetry in an unconventional style which is now called _; that is _.( )A. hymn.poetry with chanting refrainsB. blank verse.poetry without rhymes at the end of the lines but with a fixed beatC. free vers
2、e.poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme自考人网校专本套读 2018 春季招生进行中，零学历 2.5 年拿本科，支持学费分期，0 利率 0 手续费！应用市场搜索“自考人”下载自考 APP 神器，随时随地无忧备考，自测练习强化巩固，考试重点轻松装进口袋！D. ode.poetry in an irregular metric form and expressing noble feelings16. In her life, Emily Dickinson makes enchanting poetry out of( )A. a
3、 happy and active lifeB. adventurous experiencesC. a single household and an inactive lifeD. a hard and suffering life17. Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be( )A. transcendentalists B. optimistsC. pessimists D. idealists18. It was a sort of
4、first attempt at writing his masterpiece _, (1925) which made Fitzgerald one of the greatest American novelists.( )A. This Side of Paradise B. Tender is the NightC. The Great Gatsby D. Tales of the Jazz Age19. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, _ became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein
5、 had called “The Lost Generation”.( )A. Fitzgerald B. Faulkner C. Hemingway D. Steinbeck20. The 1950s American writers often used the narrative techniques derived from( )A. William Faulkner B. Henry James C. Ernest Hemingway D. James Joyce21. _was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he call
6、ed “Imagist” movement.( )A. Eliot B. Pound C. Frost D. Dickinson22. Capping his career and leading to his receipt of the Nobel Prize, _ is about an old Cuban fisherman Santiago and his losing battle with a giant marlin.( )A. The Old Man and the Sea B. For Whom the Bell TollsC. The Sun Also Rises D.
7、A Farewell to Arms 23. The modern stream-of-consciousness technique was frequently and skillfully exploited by _ to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator. He captured the dialects of the Mississippi characters, including Negroes and the redneck, as well as more refined and educat
8、ed narrators like Quentin.( )A. Faulkner B. Fitzgerald自考人网校专本套读 2018 春季招生进行中，零学历 2.5 年拿本科，支持学费分期，0 利率 0 手续费！应用市场搜索“自考人”下载自考 APP 神器，随时随地无忧备考，自测练习强化巩固，考试重点轻松装进口袋！C. Hemingway D. Steinbeck24. _ won the Pulitzer Prize four times and was the only dramatist ever to win a Nobel Prize. He is widely acclaime
9、d “founder of the American drama,” and recognized even more as a major figure in world literature.( )A. MillerB. WilliamC. Heller D. ONeill25. As one of the best-known American authors of 20th century, Ernest Hemingway wrote all the following novels EXCEPT( )A. For Whom the Bell Tolls B. The Green H
10、ills of AfricaC. A Rose for Emily D. The Old Man and the SeaPart III: Interpretation (20 points in all, 5 points for each)Read the following selections and then answer the questions. Passage 1There was music from my neighbors house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came an
11、d went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of f
12、oam. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with
13、mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.Questions:1. Who is the author and where is this passage taken from?2. What does the author most likely indicate in the quoted passage?Passage 2 I shall be telling this with a sigh,Somewhere ages and ages hence:Two roa
