1、专业英语八级(人文知识)模拟试卷 40及答案与解析 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 1 Winesburg, Ohio is the representative collection of short stories by Sherwood Anderson, noted for his_. ( A) setting of plo
2、t ( B) psychological analysis ( C) irony ( D) writing style 2 Thomas Wolfe is famous for his novel_. ( A) Look Homeward, Angel ( B) The Web and the Rock ( C) From Death to Morning ( D) Flowering Judas 3 _describes the period from 1918 - 1930; the years after the end of World War I and ending with th
3、e rise of the Great Depression, with a focus on all Modernism in historical and cultural studies. ( A) The Roaring Twenties ( B) The Lost Generation ( C) The Jazz Age ( D) The Beat Generation 4 The Old Man and the Sea centers upon Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin
4、far out in the Gulf Stream. It is a significant factor in the selection of _for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 195 ( A) William Faulkner ( B) Ernest Hemingway ( C) Sinclair Lewis ( D) John Steinbeck 5 _won the Nobel Prize for literature with his novels, The Grapes of Wrath, In Dubious Battle, Of M
5、ice and Men, for his realistic and imaginative writing, combining as it does sympathetic humor and keen social perception in 196 ( A) Sinclair Lewis ( B) John Steinbeck ( C) William Faulkner ( D) Ernest Hemingway 6 The Harlem Renaissance refers to the flowering of_cultural and intellectual life duri
6、ng the 1920s and 1930s. ( A) African American ( B) Hispanic ( C) Native American ( D) Jewish 7 Not Without Laughter is written by_, the leading character of the Harlem Renaissance. ( A) Langston Hughes ( B) Richard Wright ( C) Frederick Douglass ( D) Alice Walker 8 Native Son is the masterpiece of_.
7、 ( A) Ralph Ellison ( B) Langston Hughes ( C) Richard Wright ( D) John Dos Passos 9 _is NOT a novel in the Harlem Renaissance. ( A) To Tell It on the Mountain ( B) My Bondage and My Freedom ( C) I Wonder as I Wander ( D) Simple Speaks of His Mind 10 The novel_addresses many of the social and intelle
8、ctual issues facing African-Americans in the early twentieth century, especially the black identity. ( A) Invisible Man ( B) I Wonder as I Wander ( C) Native Son ( D) Not Without Laughter 11 _is NOT a writer of the Harlem Renaissance. ( A) Langston Hughes ( B) James Baldwin ( C) Richard Wright ( D)
9、Sinclair Lewis 12 _is the leading character of American drama. ( A) Eugene ONeill ( B) James Baldwin ( C) Sherwood Anderson ( D) Edgar Allan Po 13 Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is written by_. ( A) Jerome David Salinger ( B) Tennessee William ( C) Arthur Miller ( D) Edward Albee 14 Beyond the Horiz
10、on is a play by_. ( A) Tennessee William ( B) Eugene ONeill ( C) Sinclair Lewis ( D) James Baldwin 15 _is NOT a play. ( A) The Death of a Salesman ( B) Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ( C) A Streetcar Named Desire ( D) The Cather in the Rye 16 _is NOT a novel by Saul Bellow. ( A) The Adventures of Au
11、gie March ( B) Humboldts Gift and Ravelstein ( C) Dangling Man ( D) Native Son 17 The Naked and the Dead is the masterpiece of_. ( A) Arthur Miller ( B) Langston Hughes ( C) Richard Wright ( D) Norman Mailer 18 Joseph Heller is widely regarded as one of the best post-World War II satirists for his n
12、ovel_. ( A) Why Are We in Vietnam? ( B) Catch-22 ( C) The Victim ( D) Something Happened 19 The Floating Opera is written by_. ( A) John Barth ( B) Joseph Heller ( C) Thomas Pynchon ( D) Saul Bellow 20 _is NOT the representative work of the Beat Generation. ( A) Howl ( B) On the Road ( C) Naked Lunc
13、h ( D) Dangling Man 21 _is the leading figure of the Beat Generation. ( A) Jack Kerouac ( B) Arthur Miller ( C) Jerome David Salinger ( D) Eugene ONeill 22 The Thin Red Line, a novel by_, was adapted to the film The Thin Red Line, a sudden success in 199 ( A) Jack Kerouac ( B) James Jones ( C) Norma
14、n Mailer ( D) John Barth 23 Herzog, the masterpiece of_, is a novel set in post-war United States and is about the midlife crisis of a Jewish man named Moses E. Herzog. ( A) Joyce Carol Oates ( B) John Updike ( C) Isaac Bashevis Singer ( D) Saul Bellow 24 The trilogy Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbi
15、t Is Rich is written by_. ( A) Kurt Vonnegut ( B) Joyce Carol Oates ( C) John Updike ( D) Jerome David Salinger 25 The Spinoza of Market Street and Gimpel the Fool are the representative short stories of ( A) Isaac Bashevis Singer ( B) Joseph Heller ( C) John Barth ( D) Joyce Carol Oates 专业英语八级(人文知识
16、)模拟试卷 40答案与解析 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 1 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 Winesburg, Ohio是 Sherwood Anderson的短篇小说集,Anderson本人深受弗洛伊德心理分析理论的影响。 【知识模块】 人文知识 2 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 人文知识 3 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析
17、】 The Jazz Age是 F Scott Fitzgerald创作的一个词组,表述的正是他所处的那个时代。 【知识模块】 人文知识 4 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 老人与海是海明威的重要作品。 【知识模块】 人文知识 5 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 斯坦贝克的小说多数描写下层人民的艰辛生活,饱含对贫苦人民的生活状态的同情。 【知识模块】 人文知识 6 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 哈莱姆文艺复兴是一次黑人文学运动。 【知识模块】 人文知识 7 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 休斯不仅仅是一位诗人,他也是一位出色的小说家。 【知识模块】 人文知识 8 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析
18、】 土生子是理查 赖特的作品,在黑人文学中有着重要的地位。 【知识模块】 人文知识 9 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 我的枷锁和我的自由是费雷德里克 道格拉斯的作品,属于早期黑人文学作品。 【知识模块】 人文知识 10 【正确答案 】 C 【知识模块】 人文知识 11 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 人文知识 12 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 奥尼尔是美国戏剧的杰出代表。 【知识模块】 人文知识 13 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 人文知识 14 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 天边外是奥尼尔的成名作。 【知识模块】 人文知识 15 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 麦田里的守望者是一部
19、小说。 【知识模块】 人文知识 16 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 土生子是理查 赖特的作品,被公认为是黑人文学的里程碑。 【知识模块】 人文知识 17 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 人文知识 18 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 在第二十二条军规中,海勒用黑色幽默特有的荒诞手法揭示了战争对美国社会的各种影响。 【知识模块】 人文知识 19 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 人文知识 20 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 摇来晃去的人是索尔 贝娄的作品。 【知识模块】 人文知识 21 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 Beat Generation一词就是由凯鲁亚克创造的。 【知识模块】 人文知识 22 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 人文知识 23 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 人文知识 24 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 兔子三部曲是厄普代克的代表作。 【知识模块】 人文知识 25 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 这两篇短篇小说是辛格的杰出作品。 【知识模块】 人文知识