考研英美文学必做9道题.doc

What is in the book “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” that makes Hemingway say that all modern American literature comes from this book? (这个题找了2个小时，实在是找不到了。看看下面的会不会有所帮助) (海明威写的Green Hills of Africa中的原文)All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. If you read it you must stop where the Nigger Jim is stolen from the boys. That is the real end. The rest is just cheating. But its the best book weve had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since. The best work that Mark Twain ever produced is, as we noted earlier on, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It tells a story about the United States before the Civil War, around 1850, when the great Mississippi Valley was still being settled. Here lies an America, with its great national faults, full of violence and even cruelty(n. 残酷；残忍；残酷的行为), yet still retaining the virtues of ‘some simplicity, some innocence(n. 清白，无罪；天真无邪), and some peace.’ The story takes place along the Mississippi River, on both sides of which there was unpopulated(adj. 无人居住的) wilderness(n. 荒地) and a dense forest(密林). It relates the story of the escape of Jim from slavery and, more important, how Huck Finn, floating along with him and helping him as best he could, changes his mind, his prejudice about black people, and comes to accept Jim as a man and as a close friend as well. At the heart of Twain’s achievement(n. 成就；完成；达到 is his creation of Huck Finn, who embodies(vt. 体现 that mythic(adj. 神话的；虚构的 America, midway(n. 中途；娱乐场adj. 中途的adv. 中途 between the wilderness and the modern super state. Is Mr. Bennett in “Pride and Prejudice” a positive figure? Why or why not? (这是原题答案，第一句为第一问，剩下的是第二问) Mr. Bennet’s chief characteristics are an ironic detachmentn. 分离，拆开；超然；分遣；分遣队 and a sharp, cutting wit. The distance that he creates between himself and the absurdity(n. 荒谬；谬论； around him often endears(vt. 使…受钟爱；使…亲密 him to the reader and parallels the amused d