天津外国语大学业务二(美国文学)2004答案考研试题研究生入学考试试题考研真题
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天津外国语学院
2004年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题（A ）
考试科目：美国文学
I. Fill in the blanks (1 point each, 45 points all together)
1. In 1630 on board of the Arbella and in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, John Winthrop delivered his sermon_______________________________ in which he set out clearly and eloquently the ideals of a harmonious Christian community, saying that they should establish "a city upon a hill" in New England.
2. In the second book of Plymouth Plantation, William Bradford describes the signing of the “___________________”, a civil covenant designed to protect the rights of citizens beyond the reach of established governments.
3. In________________________ (1775), John de Crevecoeur reveals the pride of a man being an American, the "new man," who left behind him the old world with its oppression and servility, working and getting rewards from his industry.
4. “We hold these truths to be self evident: that________________________; that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights; that among these are life____________, and____________________ ."
5. American Romanticism placed much emphasis on the “____________________________ ” of the American experience and of Americans as a nation.
6. Brom Bones, who scares Ichabod Crane in_______________’s “__________________” is a frontier archetype in American literature.
7. American Transcendentalism placed emphasis on spirit, or the Oversoul, stressed the importance of_______________, and offered a fresh perception of nature as symbolic of the Spirit.
8. “I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic; ... I embrace the comrnon, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low" This is quoted from _______________'s “__________________”
9. _______________advocates a life of simplicity, saying in his_______________: “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
10. Composed in even metrical flow, _______________ portrays a young, man grieving for his lost Lenore in “_______________”.
11. The Scarlet Letter achieves symmetry of structure by means of the_______________, which appear three times, each time bringing the major characters, Hester, _________, _________, and Pearl, together.
12. In his relentless pursuit of Moby Dick, _______________attains tragic dimensions, but in spite of the heroism of his uncompromising aspirations, he leads himself to death and brings about total destruction to the_______________ symbolized by Pequod.
13. Leaves of Grass was condemned to be “noxious weeds,” and “a mass of stupid filth,” because of its_______________and_______________.
14. Because I could not stop for Death—
He kindly stopped for me—
The Carriage held but just Ourselves—
And_______________.
15. The three staunch advocates of realism in nineteenth-century American literature