美国文学课堂测验答案1.doc

浙江财经学院英语系《美国文学》课堂测验（1）
学号： 班级： 姓名： 成绩

In thus ____________(1) myself I shall yield to the inclination so natural to old men of talking of themselves and their own actions, and I shall indulge it, without being _________(2) to those who, from respect to my _______(3), might conceive themselves obliged to listen to me, since they will be always free to read me or not. And lastly (I may as well confess it, as the denial of it would be believed by nobody) I shall perhaps not a little gratify my own vanity. Indeed, I never heard or saw the introductory words, "Without Vanity I may say," etc., but some ______(4) thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in ________(5) whatever share they have of it themselves, but I give it fair __________(6) wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor and to others who are within his _______(7)of action. And therefore, in many cases it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life. And now I speak of thanking God, I desire with all humility to ___________(8) that I owe the mentioned happiness of my past life to His divine providence, which led me to the means I used and gave them success. My belief of this induces me to hope, though I _________(9)not presume, that the same goodness will still be exercised toward me in continuing that happiness or enabling me to bear a fatal reverse, which I may experience as others have done------the complexion of my future _________being known to him only, and in whose power it is to bless to us even our afflictions.

1) A applying B using C employing D persuading
2) A tiresome B awe C sorrow D unhappiness
3）A education B status C inclination D age
4）A vain B vanity C obscure D unexpected
5）A senior citizens B others C men D those
6）A standing B means C quarter D reason
7）A sphere B domain C own D ability
8）A appreciate B acknowledge C thank D think
9）A shall B must C should D would
10）A fortune B fate C destiny D lot
浙江财经学院英语系《美国文学》课堂测验（1）
学号： 班级： 姓名： 成绩

I have been the more ___particular________(1) in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first __entry___(2) into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there. I was in my ___ working ____(3) dress, my best cloaths being to come round by sea. I was dirty from my journey; my pockets were stuffed out with shirts and stockings, and I knew no _____soul__(4), nor where to look for lodging. Fatigued with walking, rowing, and want of sleep, I was very _______hungry___(5), and my whole stock of cash consisted of a Dutch dollar and about a shilling in copper coin, which I gave to the boatmen for my passage. At first they refused it on account of my having rowed, but I insisted on their taking it. A man is sometimes more __generous______(6) when he has little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little. I walked towards the top of the street, gazing about till near Market Street, __where_____(7) I met a boy with bread. I had often made a meal of dry bread, and inquiring where he had bought it, I went immediately to the baker's he directed me to. I asked for biscuit meaning such as we had in Boston, but that sort, it seems, was not made in Philadelphia. I then asked for a three-penny loaf and was told they had none such. Not knowing the different prices nor the __names______(8)of the different sorts of any bread, I told him to give me three-penny worth of any sort. He gave me accordingly three great puffy rolls. I was surprised at the quantity but took it, and having no room in my pockets, walked off with a roll under each arm and eating the other. Thus I went up Market-street as far as Fourth-street, passing by the door of Mr. ___Read____(9), my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance. Then I turned and went down Chestnut-street and part of Walnut-street, eating my roll all the way, and, corning round, _found_____(10) myself again at Market-street wharf near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.
1) A happy B serious C particular D furious
2) A entry B person C time D one
3) A casual B working C apprentice D Sunday
4) A soul B natives C relatives D city
5) A frustrated B hungry C fatigued D worried
6) A happy B satisfied C proud D generous
7) A which B there C where D then
8) A shapes B names C prices D making
9) A Read B Henryson C Franklin D Hood
10) A located B found C went D turned

浙江财经学院英语系《美国文学》课堂测验（1）
学号： 班级： 姓名： 成绩

Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those happy _______(1), of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or _______(2), whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would rather ________(3) on a penny than work for a pound. If left to himself, he would have ______(4) life away, in perfect contentment; but his wife kept continually dinning in his ears about his idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family. Morning, noon, and night, her _______(5) was incessantly going, and everything he said or did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence. Rip had but one way of replying to all lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his ________(6), shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This, however, always provoked a fresh volley from his wife; so that he was fain to draw _______(7) his forces, and take to the outside of the house------the only side which, in truth, belongs to a hen-pecked husband.
Rip’s sole domestic adherent was his dog ________(8), who was as much henpecked as his master; for Dame Van Winkle regarded them as companions in idleness, and even looked upon Wolf with an evil eye, as the cause of his master’s going so often astray. True it is, in all points of spirit befitting an honorable dog, he was as courageous an animal as ever scoured the woods------but what courage can withstand the ever-during and all-besetting terrors of a woman’s tongue? The moment Wolf entered the house his _______(9) fell, his tail drooped to the ground or curled between his legs, he sneaked about with a gallows air, casting many a sidelong glance at Dame Van Winkle, and at the least flourish of a broom-stick or ______ (10), he would fly to the door with yelping precipitation.
1) A persons B husbands C souls D mortals
2)A wine B water C brown D milk
3)A earn B save C starve D budget
4)A whistled B mooned C killed D wasted
5)A words B tongue C curse D complaint
6)A shoulders B arms C clothes D eyes
7)A on B off C away D down
8)A Tiger B Franklin C Lion D Wolf
9) A crest B body C mask D legs
10) A Stick B knife C ladle D chops

浙江财经学院英语系《美国文学》课堂测验（1）
Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony ___ ___(1) on; a tart temper never _______(2) with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used to console himself, when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the _____(3), philosophers, and other idle personages of the village; which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait of His Majesty George the _____(4). Here they used to sit in the shade, of a long lazy ________(5) day, talking listlessly over village gossip, or telling endless sleepy stories about nothing. But it would have been worth any statesman’s money to have heard the profound discussions that sometimes took place, when by chance an old newspaper fell into their hands, from some passing traveler. How solemnly they would listen to the contents, as drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, a dapper learned little man, who was not to be daunted by the most _______(6) word in the dictionary; and how sagely they would deliberate upon public events some months after they had taken place.
The opinions of this junto were completely controlled by Nicholas Vedder, a patriarch of the village, and landlord of the inn, at the door of which he took his seat from morning till night, just moving sufficiently to avoid the _______(7), and keep in the shade of a large tree; so that the neighbors could tell the hour by his movements as accurately as by a _____(8). It is true he was ________(9) heard to speak, but smoked his pipe incessantly. His adherents, however (for every great man has his adherents), perfectly understood him, and knew how to gather his opinions. When anything that was read or related displeased him, he was observed to smoke his pipe vehemently, and send forth short, frequent and angry _ (10); but when pleased, he would inhale the smoke slowly and tranquilly, and emit it in light and placid clouds; and sometimes, taking the pipe from his mouth, and letting the fragrant vapor curl about his nose, would gravely nod his head in token of perfect approbation.

1) A rolled B came C cumulated D grew
2)A softened B mellows C dies D disappears
3) A old B wise C wizards D sages
4) A First B Second C Third D Fourth
5) A Spring’s B Summer’s C Fall’s D Winter’s
6) A unfamiliar B big C gigantic D difficult
7) A sun B noise C wife D shadow
8) A clock B alarm C sundial D ben
9)A frequently B the last C often D rarely
10)A smoke B puffs C sniff D snare

浙江财经学院英语系《美国文学》课堂测验（1）
1) What is the name of Rip’s dog? Wolf

2) Where was Washington Irving born? The New York City

3) Irving’s taste was essentially conservative. The story set against the background of the inevitable changing America. In Rip Van Winkle Irving skillfully presents to us paralleled juxtapositions of 2 totally different worlds.
Please name the two juxtaposed worlds. 略(知道答案的同学班级群里面说一声）

4) Who is the author of the following stanza?
William Butler Yeats(1865 1939)爱尔兰诗人和剧作家。
WHEN you are old and gray and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

5) Fill in the blank:

It was many and many a year ago,
In a ____kingdom____ by the sea,
That a _____maiden_____there lived whom you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
And this maiden she lived with ____no___ other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a ____love____ that was more than love
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of ___heaven___
Coveted her and me.
And this was the __reason___ that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, __chilling____
My beautiful Annabel Lee;

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