[单项选择]Theodore Dreiser belonged to the school of literary ______ which .emphasized heredity and environment as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances.
A. naturalism
B. realism
C. determinism
D. humanism

[单项选择]Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser is a(n)
A. novel．
B. short story．
C. poem．
D. autobiography．

[单项选择]Theodore Dreiser's ______ found expression in almost every book he wrote in which "kill or to be killed" was the law.
A. romanticism
B. naturalism
C. cubism
D. classicalism

[单项选择]______ is written by Theodore Dreiser.
A. A Psalm of Life B. Sister Carrie
C. Moby Dick D. Emma

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Theodore Dreiser is old — he is very, very old. I do not know how many years he has lived, perhaps forty, perhaps fifty, but he is very old. Something gray and bleak and hurtful, that has been in the world perhaps forever, is personified in him.
When Dreiser is gone, men shall write books. Many of them, in the books, shall write there will be so many of the qualities Dreiser lacks. The new, the younger man shall have a sense of humor, and everyone knows Dreiser has no sense of humor. More than that, American prose writers shall have grace, lightness of touch, a dream of beauty breaking through the husks of life.
Of those who follow him shall have many things that Dreiser does not have. That is a part of the wonder and beauty of Theodore Dreiser, the things that others shall have because of him,
Long ago, when Dreiser was an editor of the Delineator, he went one day, with a woman friend, to visit an orphan asylum. The woman once told me the story of t
A. dreiser went to an orphan asylum one day
B. he lived a hard life
C. dreiser paved a way for the younger writers in America
D. Both B & C.

[单项选择]Theodere Dreiser was one of the first American novelists to portray immoral characters without condemnation（　）.
A. hostility
B. sadness
C. blame
D. pity

[单项选择]Dreiser's "Trilogy of Desire" includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and ______.
A. The Tycoon
B. The Stoic
C. The Genius
D. The Giant

[单项选择]In ______, Dreiser expressed his naturalistic pursuit by expounding the purposelessness of life and attacking the conventional moral standards.
A. An American Tragedy
B. Sister Carrie
C. The Financier
D. The Stoic

[填空题]In November of 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt was on a hunting trip in Mississippi. His hunt was going 【31】 that day, and he couldn’’t seem to find anything worthy of 【32】 his rifle. Then, his staff captured a black baby bear for the President to shoot, but he could not. The thought of shooting a bear that was tied to a tree did not seem sporting, so he 【33】 the life of the baby bear and set it free. Based on this story, a famous political cartoonist for the Washington Star drew a cartoon, which showed Teddy Roosevelt, rifle 【34】 . with his back turned on a cute (可爱的) baby bear. Morris Michtom, owner of a Brooklyn toy store, was 【35】 by the cartoon to make a stuffed baby bear. Intending it only as a display, he placed the stuffed bear in his toy store 【36】 , and next to it placed a copy of the cartoon from the newspaper. To Michtom’’s surprise, his store was flooded by customers 【37】 to buy. He asked for and received President Roosevelt’’s 【38】 to use his name for the band-sew
A. A．encouraged
B．inspired
C．urged
D．pictured

[填空题]Theodore Roosevelt greatly expanded both the national forest and national park systems and created a system of ______.

[单项选择]Passage One I know I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else. ——Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe’s career as an actress was only 16 years. She made 29 films, 24 in the first 8 years of her career Born as Norma Jeanne Mortenson on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles General Hospital, her mother, Gladys, listed the father’s name as unknown. Marilyn would never know the true identity of her father. On July 23, 1946 she signed a contract with Twentieth Century-Fox Studios. She selected her mother’s family name of Monroe. From this point on she would be known as Marilyn Monroe to all her fans. Her first serious acting job came in 1950 when she had a small but important role in “The Asphalt Jungle” and received favorable reviews. “Clash By Night” in 1952 earned her several notices. Alton Cook of the Ne
A. Marilyn Monroe gave herself her family name
B. Marilyn’s mother named Monroe in hospital
C. Arthur Miller selected the name for Marilyn Monroe
D. Marilyn Monroe was named after her father