Walden is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by Henry David Thoreau, a famous American writer. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau\'s living in a cabin near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau lived at Walden for two years, two months, and two days with expressed seasonal divisions.
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Thoreau hoped to isolate himself from society in order to gain a more objective 客观的 understanding of it. Simplicity and self-reliance were Thoreau\'s other goals, and the whole project was inspired by ___________ philosophy. Transcendentalist 65.
Walden emphasizes the importance of solitude, contemplation, and closeness to _________ in transcending the of most people. Nature 66. 67.
William Faulkner’s works mainly concern the American _____. South _________ is often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time. Emily Dickinson 68.
In William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury喧哗与\\骚动\\, he used a technique called _________, in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character. stream of consciousness 69.
It is on his____________ that Washington Irving’s fame mainly rested. tales about America 70.
At the middle of 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering 兴盛 which is called ―____________________‖. the American Renaissance 71.
As a philosophical and literary movement, the main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally concerning ____________________. nature, man and the universe 72.
The
great
sea
adventure
story
Moby-Dick
is
usually
considered____________________________. an adventurous exploration into man’s relationship with nature 73.
Which statement is right about the novel A Farewell to Arms? --- The author emphasizes his belief that man is trapped both physically and mentally and suggests that man is doomed to be entrapped. 74.
In American literature the first important writer who earned an international fame on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean is_______________. Washington Irving 75.
In Emily Dickinson’s Because I Could Not Stop for Death, ______________. death is a stage of life and it leads people to the Heaven of immortality
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76. Which is generally regarded as the manifesto and the Bible of American Transcendentalism? Emerson’s Nature
77. The Publication of ______established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism. Nature 78. ―The apparition of these faces in the crowd, Petals on a wet, black bough.‖ This is the shortest poem written by _________. Ezra Pound 这几张脸在人群中幻景般闪现\\； 湿漉\\漉的黑树\\枝上花瓣\\数\\/点\\/。——庞/德/ 《在地\\铁\\/站\\里\\/》
79. Benjamin Franklin’s masterpiece_________ records his rising from poverty or humble beginnings to success. Autobiography 80. The greatest Transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is ________. Walden 81. _______was the first American to achieve an International literary reputation. Washington Irving
82. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay The American Scholar has been regarded as America’s Declaration of ________Independence. Intellectual 83. Thanatopsis is William Cullen Bryant’s most famous nature poem, the Greek title means _________. view of death
84. Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the ―________movement‖. imagist 85. Nature has been called ―the manifesto of American _________‖ . Transcendentalism
86. In 1954, Ernest Hemingway was awarded a ________ for his ―mastery of the art of modern narration‖. Nobel Prize 87. 88.
What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s? ________ The Jazz Age
The famous lines from The Declaration of Independence are ―We hold these truth …with certain unalienable rights, that among them are Life, ________ and the pursuit of Happiness. Liberty 89. The Slave’s Dream not only shows Longfellow’s sympathy for slaves but also revealed the ______________. cruelty of drivers
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90. Hard work, thrift, piety 虔诚and sobriety冷静\\节制were the_________ values that dominated much of the early American writing. Puritan 91. ―God help those who help themselves天助自助者‖ is a proverb from Benjamin Franklin’s ________. Poor Richard’s Almanac 92. As a genre, naturalism emphasized heredity and ______ as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters that were presented in special and detailed circumstances. Environment作为一种体裁，自然主义强调―遗传和环境‖在塑造特殊和复杂环境下个性化人物的重要决定力量。
93. According to Hawthorne, the scarlet Letter ―A‖ which originally stands for ―_____‖. adultery 94. The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called ______, which is poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. free verse
95. In American literature, the 18th century was an age of _________ and Revolution. Enlightenment 96. In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald completed his best novel ______. It is the story of an idealist who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him. The Great Gatsby 97. 98.
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