要想提高英语专业八级水平，掌握必要的人文知识也是必不可少的。
练习题：
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
练习题答案及题解:
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, 梭罗崇尚自然生活简单，与世无争，不入尘嚣。
5 C, 超验主义的宣言是Nature 一书的发表。
6 B, 19世纪30年代到内战期间是超验主义，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、清新、琅琅上口、易于理解，但并不是按照严格的格律来写。