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1、PartIFillintheblanks:(20points,2pointforeach)1.TheFirstWorldWarstandsasagreatdividinglinebetweenthenineteenthcenturyandthecontemporaryAmericanliterature.2.Americanwritersofthefirstpostwareraself-consciouslyacknowledgedthattheywerea"_LostGeneration",devoidoffaithandalienatedfromac

2、ivilization.3.ThemostsignificantAmericanpoemofthetwentiethcenturywasTheWasteLand.4.ThepublicationofTheWasteLand,writtenbyThomasSte¬arnsEliot,helpedtoestablishamoderntraditionofliteraturerichwithlearningandallusivethought.5.F.ScottFitzgeraldsummarizedtheexperiencesandattitudesofth

3、e1920sdecadeinhismasterpiecenovelTheGreatGatsby.6.TheGreatDepressionofthe1930sgreatlyweakenedtheAmericannation'sself-con¬fidence.7.AnAmericanwomanwriternamedGertrudeSteinwhohadlivedinParissince1903,welcomedtheyoungexpatriatestoherliterarysalon,andgavethemaname"theLostGeneration".

4、8.EzraPoundwastheleaderofanewmovementinpoetrywhichhecalledthe"Imagist"movement.9.EzraPound'smajorworkofpoetryisthelongpoemcalledTheCantos.10.RobertFrost'sfirstbookABoy'sWillbroughthimtotheattentionofinfluentialcritics,suchasEzraPound,whopraisedhimasanauthenticpoet.PartIMultiplech

5、oice:(20points,1pointforeach)Directions:Inthispartofthetest,therearetwentyitems.ChoosethebestanswerandwritethecorrespondingletterontheAnswerSheet.1.Dreiser’snaturalismandhischoiceofsubjectoftenechohispredecessor,__B____,buthisstyleandmethodareverydifferent.A.MarkTwainB.StephenCra

6、neC.HenryJamesD.Emerson2.SisterCarriewrittenby___B___isconsideredasoneoftherepresentativenaturalisticnovelintheAmericanliterature.A.SinclairLewisB.TheodoreDreiserC.F.ScottFitageraldD.H.L.Mencken3.MarkTwain’s___B___tellsastoryofhisboyhoodambitioustobecomeariverboatpilot,upanddownt

7、heMississippi.A.RoughingItB.TheAdventuresofHuckleberryFinnC.LifeontheMississippiD.TheAdventuresofTomSawyer4.___B___isthesceneofDreiser’sSisterCarrie.A.NewYorkB.ChicagoC.CaliforniaD.Washington5.MarkTwaincreated,in__A_____,amasterpieceofAmericanrealismthatisalsooneofthegreatbooksof

8、worldliterature.A.TheAdventuresofHuckleb