A．Realism
　　B．Reason and Revolution
　　C．Romanticism
　　D．Modernism

　　33．H．L．Mencken considered ______ “the true father of our national literature”.
　　A．Bret Harte
　　B．Mark Twain
　　C．Washington Irving
　　D．Walt Whitman

　　34．Altogether, Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, of which only ______ had appeared during her lifetime.
　　A．three
　　B．five
　　C．seven
　　D．nine

　　35．The ______ Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.
　　A．Lost
　　B．Jazz
　　C．Reason
　　D．Gilded

　　36．Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in ______.
　　A．the west
　　B．the south
　　C．Alaska
　　D．New England

　　37．As ______ saw it, poetry could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation. It could enable Americans to celebrate their release from the Old World and the colonial rule.
　　A．Wordsworth Longfellow
　　B．William Bryant
　　C．Walt Whitman
　　D．Robert Frost

　　38．Walt Whitman is a poet with a strong sense of mission, having devoted all his life to the creation of the “single” poem, ______.
　　A．The Love Song of J．Alfred Prufrock
　　B．The Waste Land
　　C．Murder in the Cathedral
　　D．Leaves of Grass

　　39．Realism was a reaction against Romanticism and paved the way to ______.
　　A．Modernism
　　B．Scientism
　　C．Post-Modernism
　　D．Feminism

　　40．Mark Twain employed an unpretentious style of ______ in his novels which is best described as “vernacular”.
　　A．standard English
　　B．Afro-American English
　　C．colloquialism
　　D．urbanism

　　II．Reading Comprehension （16 points in all,4 for each）
　　Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.

　　41．“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

　　Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

　　Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

　　And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:”

　　Questions:
　　A．Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.
　　B．Name the figure of speech employed in the poem.
　　C．What is the theme of the poem?

　　42．“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? —You think wrong!… And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you…—it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal—as we are!”

　　Questions:
　　A．Identify the author and the novel from which the quoted part is taken.
　　B．To whom is the speaker speaking?
　　C．What does the quoted part imply about the speaker?

　　43．“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.”

　　Questions:
　　A．Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.
　　B．What does the word “sleep” mean?
　　C．What idea do the four lines express?

　　44．“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,

　　And what I assume you shall assume,

　　For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

　　I loafe and invite my soul,

　　I learn and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.”

　　(from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”)

　　Questions:
　　A．Whom does “myself” refer to?
　　B．How do you understand the line “I loafe and invite my soul”?
　　C．What does “a spear of summer grass” indicate?

　　III．Questions and Answers（24 points in all, 6 for each）
　　Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.

　　45．“ ‘My boy!’ said the old gentleman, leaning over the desk. Oliver stated at the sound. He might be excused for doing so, for the words were kindly said, and strange sounds frighten one. He trembled violently, and burst into tears.”（from Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist） 转贴于：自考_考试大

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