29. According to ____________ , the life - death cycle, the spring and winter of the earth, the birth and death of the animals is reality.
A. Theodore Dreiser
B. William Faulkner
C. Henry James
D. F·Scott Fitzgerald
30. “Though life is but a losing battle, it is a struggle man can dominate in such a way that loss becomes dignity. ” This is an outlook towards life that ____________ had been trying to illustrate in his works.
A. F·Scott Fitzgerald
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. Theodore Dreiser
D. William Faulkner
31. More than five hundred poems ____________ wrote are about nature, in which his (her) general skepticism about the relationship between man and nature is well -expressed.
A. Robert Frost
B. Emily Dickinson
C. Ezra Pound
D. Walt Whitman
32. In 1954, the Nobel Prize for literature was granted to ____________ , one of the greatest of American writers.
A. Ernest Hemingway
B. Robert Frost
C. Henry James
D. Theodore Dreiser
33. North of Boston is described by Robert Frost as “a book of poople,” which shows a brilliant insight into ____________ character and the background that formed it.
A. Eastern
B. Western
C. Southern
D. New England
34. Walt Whitman is radically innovative in terms of the form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new poetic feelings is “ ____________ ”.
A. standardized rhyming
B. regular rhyming
C. free verse
D. strict verse
35. Henry James’ fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the____________ theme.
A. international
B. local
C. colonial
D. post-modern
36. The Financier, The Titan and The Stoic by Theodore Dreiser are called his “Trilogy of _________. ”
A. Hatred
B. Death
C. Desire
D. Fate
37. In 1920, F·Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel ____________ was published, which was, to some extent, his own story.
A. This Side of Paradise
B. Tales of the Jazz Age來自www.Examw.com
C. All the Sad Young Men
D. Taps at Reveille
38. In 1837, Nathaniel Hawthorne published Twice - Told Tales, a collection of ____________ which attracted critical attention.
A. poems
B. short stories
C. essays
D. plays
39. William Faulkner set most of his works in the American ____________ , with his emphasis on the ________subjects and consciousness.
A. North... Northern
B. East... Eastern
C. West... Western
D. South... Southern
40. The House of the Seven Gables was based on the tradition of a curse pronounced on ____________’s family when his great - grandfather was a judge in the Salem witchcraft trials.
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
B. Washington Irving
C. Ezra Pound
D. Walt Whitman