英语国家概况-谢福之-修正-选择题(3)

6.is sold especially to the upper or upper-middle class and it has a reputation for its

serious attitude and great bulk.

A. The Washington Post

B. The New York Times

C. Los Angeles Times

D. New York Daily News

7.Of the following, is NOT among the three major radio and TV networks in America.

A. the National Broadcasting System (NBS)

B. the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

C. the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)

D. the American Broadcasting System (ABS)

8.The National Day of the United States falls on .

A.June 4th

B. July 4th

C. June 14th

D. July 14th Chapter 13 p176

1.Of the following writers,_______are from the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods.

A.Benjamin Franklin and Edgar Allan Poe

B.Edgar Allan and Jonathan Edwards

C.Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards

D.Edgar Allan and Washington Irving

2._______is regarded as the “father of American and literature”.

A.James Fenimore Cooper

B.Ralph Waldo Emerson

C.Thomas Jeffson

D.Washington Irving

3.Of the following,_______is considered Herman Melville’s masterpiece.

A.The last of the Mohicans

B.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

C.Moby Dick

D.Daisy Miller

4.Of the following,_______is NOT characteristic of Mark Twain’s works.

A.clloquial speech

B.a sense of humor

C.a realistic view

D.an idealistic view

5.Of the following writers,_______is NOT includeed in the group of naturalists.

A.Stephen Crance

B.Frank Norris

C.Theodore Dreiser

D.Herman Melville

6.F.Scott Fitzgerald’s finest novel is _______,and its theme is about _______.

A.The Great Gatsby,the American Dream

B.Tender Is the Night,love

C.Tales of the Jazz Age,the loss of oneself

D.The Beautiful and Damned,the evil of human nature

7.Of the following writers,_______is NOT a Nobel Prize winner.

A.Alice Walker

B.Ernest Hemingway

C.William Faulkner

D.Eugene O’Neill

8._______is the first African-American winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

A.Ralph Ellison

B.Toni Morrison

C.Richard Wright

D.James Baldwin