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A.sons of liberty
B.fatherless children
C.a beat generation
D.a lost generation
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A．Henry James
B．Sherwood Anderson
C．Stephen Crane
D．Ernest Hemingway
A．some, any
B．other, some
C．some, other
D．other, other
The writer believes that______.
A．serious writers would rather not use the word "Okay"
B．the word is invented by a political organization
C．the word is absolutely an American invention
D．the word was first used by the Indians
Why might Irving' s literary ability have been surprising to the English？
A．They feared competition from American writers.
B．They did not expect the United States to produce good writers.
C．They disapproved of the language American writers used.
D．They thought of the United States as a purely commercial power.
In the second paragraph, the author ______.
A．criticizes fathers for not taking enough responsibilities in bringing up their children
B．excuses the American writers for ignoring the difficulties of being a father
C．supports the idea that chief role of a father is to earn money for the family
D．complains about the lack of social programs to help husbands adjust themselves to being a father
Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in a doctor's family in Oak Park, in the【4】of Chicago. The novel【5】established Hemingway's【6】was The Sun Also Rises (1926). The story described a group of【7】Americans and Britons living in France. That is to【8】, it described the life of the members of the【9】Lost Generation after World War I. Hemingway's second major novel was A Farewell to Arms (1929), a love story【10】in wartime Italy. That novel was【11】by Death in the Afternoon (1932) and Green Hills of Africa (1935). His two【12】of short stories Men without Women (1927) and Winner Take Nothing (1933) established his fame【13】the master of short stories.
In the late 1930's, Hemingway began to express【14】about social problems. His novel To Have and Have Not (1937)【15】economic and political injustices. The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)【16】the conflict of the Spanish Civil War. In 1952, Hemingway published em＞The Old Man and the Sea, for【17】he won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize. In 1954, Hemingway was【18】the Nobel Prize of Literature. Later, being【19】and ill, he shot【20】on July 2, 1961.
(1)
A．outstanding
B．monotonous
C．awkward
D．modest
Passage One
One of the well-known of American writers is Samuel Clemens, whose pen name is Mark Twain. Bom in 1835, Twain grew up in the Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Missouri. As did many other boys of his day,
Twain dreamed of traveling on river boats and of someday becoming a riverboat pilot. Twain used his memories of the life of a river town in his two most famous books, Huckleberry Finn and Torn Sawyer.
As a young man, Twain held many jobs. He was a printer, a good miner, and, for a time, he was a riverboat pilot. During his pilot days, he adopted the name Mark Twain. This was a term used by the boatmen to mean that the water measured two fathoms, or twelve feet, which was deep enough for safe passage.
Finally Twain became a successful writer. He traveled a great deal, writing and speaking, and became very popular both in the United States and in Europe.
Twain's style. of writing was simple and direct. Among the things he wrote about were superstitious (迷信的) people and people who were easily fooled. He used his unusual gift for humor to write about many things of importance.
36. Generally speaking, this article is about______.
A. a riverboat pilot
B. a printer
C. a gold miner
D. a famous writer
This common perspective is almost always universalized. Its emphasis is not upon the individual as a particular European or American, but upon the human as universal, freed from the accidents of time, space, birth, and talent. Thus, for Emerson, the "American Scholar" turns out to be simply "Man Thinking"; while, for Whitman, the "Song of Myself" merges imperceptibly into a song of all the "children of Adam", where "every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you".
Also common to all five writers is the belief that individual virtue and happiness depend upon self-realization, which, in turn, depends upon the harmonious reconciliation of two universal psychological tendencies., first, the self-asserting impulse of the individual to withdraw, to remain unique and separate, and to be responsible only to himself or herself and second, the self-transcending impulse of the individual to embrace the whole world in the experience of a single moment and to know and become one with that world. These conflicting impulses can be seen in the democratic ethic. Democracy advocates individualism, the preservation of the individual's freedom and self-expression. But the democratic self is torn between the duty to self, which is implied by the concept of liberty, and the duty to society, which is implied by the concepts of equality and fraternity.
A third assumption common to the five writers is that intuition and imagination offer a surer road to truth than does abstract logic or scientific method. It is illustrated by their emphasis upon introspection—their belief that the clue to external nature is to be found in the inner world of individual psychology—and by their interpretation of experience as, in essence, symbolic. Both these stresses presume an organic relationship between the self and the cosmos, of which only intuition and imagination can properly take account. These writers' faith in the imagination and in themselves as practitioners of imagination led them to conceive of the writer as a seer and enabled them to achieve supreme confidence in their own moral and metaphysical insights.
Notes: Transcendentalist先验论的。self-transcending;超越自我的。ethic伦理标准，道德规范。be torn between,在....之间左右为难。fraternity博爱。introspection 反省。seer预言家,先知。metaphysical形而上学的
Which of the following best reflects the humanistic perspective of the five writers？
A．The spiritual and the material worlds are incompatible.
B．Humanity can scarcely account for humans and the world.
C．Self-knowledge stems partly from the perception of the universe.
D．The structure of the universe can be discovered through self-knowledge.
As a young man, Twain held many jobs. He was a printer, a good miner, and, for a time, he was a riverboat pilot. During his pilot days, he adopted the name Mark Twain. This was a term used by the boatmen to mean that the water measured two fathoms, or twelve feet, which was deep enough for safe passage.
Finally Twain became a successful writer. He traveled a great deal, writing and speaking, and became very popular both in the United States and in Europe.
Twain's style. of writing was simple and direct. Among the things he wrote about were superstitious(迷信的)people and people who were easily fooled. He used his unusual gift for humor to write about many things of importance.
Generally speaking, this article is about ______.
A．a riverboat pilot
B．a printer
C．a gold miner
D．a famous writer
A．从下列单词中选择适当的词填空，每个词只能用一次。
clerk in looking news on spent
started took were which without won
Bill Grant was a famous American newspaper editor. He worked for the same newspaper from 1926 through 1968. He 51 as a clerk but by 1948 he had become the editor, 52 was the position he held until he retired.
Bill wrote his first story for the newspaper 53 the day the New York Stock Market crashed in 1929. Two of the newspaper’s writers 54 thirty miles away from town 55 into an airplane crash and the other was in San Francisco investigating Chinatown. When the 56 of the stock market crash came into the office Bill immediately sat down and write up the story. The editor liked it so much that he used the story 57 making any change in it. After that the editor decided that Bill should be a writer, not a 58.
After this first story Bill became especially interested in financial news, though he wrote stories on just about everything. In 1945 he 59 five months in Europe and wrote stories about the end of World War II.
One of Bill’s greatest moments came in 1946. A story he had written about the war 60 the National Newspaperman’s Award. Bill took the prize but gave all the credit to his editor.
