摘要：2012英语专业八级人文知识模拟题，专门针对专业性知识进行训练，帮助读者考前加强巩固。
1 Which poem is not written by Freneau?
A The British Prison Ship
B The Wild Honey Suckle
C The Indian Burying Ground
D The Flood of Years
2 Thomas Jefferson’s attitude ,that is , a firm belief in progress, and the pursuit of happiness, is typical of the period we now call _____.
A Age of Evolution
B Age of Reason
C Age of Romanticism
D Age of Regionalism
3 Which of the following is NOT one part of the Leather Stocking Tales by Cooper?
A The Spy
B The Pathfinder
C The Pioneers
D The Deerslayer
4 Which statement about Thoreau is NOT right?
A He was a lover of nature.
B He was particular kind of romantic.
C He was polemicist.
D He was a thorough transcendentalist.
5 Which of the following has been called “the manifesto of American Transcendentalism” ?
A Divinity School Address
B Self-reliance
C Nature
D The American Scholar
6 As a philosophical and literary movement, _____ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.
A sentimentalism
B transcendentalism
C modernism
D rationalism
7 The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as _____.
A the Modern Period
B the Realistic Period
C the Romantic Period
D the Naturalist Period
8 All the following are the works by Nathaniel Hawthorne EXCEPT _____.
A The Marble Faun
B Typee
C The Scarlet Letter
D Mosses from an Old Manse
9 Which of the following is not a work of Emily Dickson’s?
A I Heard a Fly Buzz when I Died.
B The Raven
C This is My Letter to the World.
D I Like to See it Lap the Miles.
10 Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT ____.
A the strict poetic form
B the free and natural rhythm
C the easy flow of feelings
D the simple and conversational language
谜底
1 D, 《似水流年》是布莱恩特的作品。其他全为弗伦诺的作品。
2 B, “理性时代”。
3 A, The Spy 不属于《皮靴子》系列。
4 C, 梭罗城楦性然糊口简单，与世无争，不入尘嚣。
5 C, 超验主义的宣言是Nature 一书的揭晓。
6 B, 19世纪30年月到内战时代是超验主义，以爱默生等为代表。
7 C, 内战前是浪漫主义。
8 B, Typee 是Herman Melville 的作品，其他全为霍桑的。
9 B, The Raven 《大乌鸦》是艾伦•坡的作品。其他全为艾米莉的。
10 A, 惠特曼的诗自由、清爽、琅琅上口、易于理解，但并不是按照严酷的格律来写。