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The Beginning of American Literature
American has always been a land of beginnings. After Europeans‘iscovered’ America in the fifteenth century, the mysterious New World became for many people a genuine hope of a new life, an escape from poverty and persecution, a chance to start again. We can say that, as nation, America begins with that hope. When, however, does American literature begin
American literature begins with American experiences. Long before the first colonists arrived, before Christopher Columbus, before the Northmen who ’found’ America about the year 1,000, Native Americans lived here. Each tribe’s literature was tightly woven into the fabric of daily life and reflected the unmistakably American experience of lining with the land. Another kind of experience, one filled with fear and excitement, found its expression in the reports that Columbus and other explorers sent home in Spain, France and England. In addition, t
A. The hope that America would be discovered.
B. The hope to start a new iife.
C. The hope to see the mysteries of the New World.
D. The hope to find poverty here.
[单项选择]The Romantic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving’s
A. The Sketch Book.
B. Tales of a Traveler.
C. The Alhambra.
D. A history of New York.
[单项选择]In American Literature history, the period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as
A. the Realistic Period.
B. the Romantic Period.
C. the Modem Period.
D. the Naturalist Period.
[单项选择]Many modern critics of American literature have called Mark Twain, born Samuel Clemens,（）
A. as America’s greatest writer
B. was America’s greatest writer
C. America’s greatest writer
D. to have been America’s greatest writer
[单项选择]The American literature around the Revolution of Independence experienced an age of
A. sin and predestination.
B. enlightenment.
C. reason and order.
D. philosophical movement.
[单项选择]The book from which "all modem American literature comes" refers to（）.
A. Moby-Dick
B. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
C. The Sun Also Rises
D. The Great Gatsby
[单项选择]In American Literature, the major thread is the focus on the （ ）.
A. independence
B. evolutionism
C. individualism
D. rationalism
[单项选择]Who was named the "Father of the American detective stories"（ ）
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
B. Herman Melville
C. Edgar Allan Poe
D. James Fenimore Cooper
[填空题]Her father bought him a new bike.Her father bought a new bike ______ him.
[单项选择] Happy Father’s Day
The idea for Father’s Day started in 1901. A woman named Sonora Dodd thought about starting a Father’s Day holiday while she was listening to a Mother’s Day speech at church. She wanted a special day to give her father, William Smart. Mr Smart’s wife died while she was giving birth to their sixth child. He raised the baby and his other five children on a farm.
When she became an adult, Sonora Dodd understood how kind and loving her father had been while he was raising his six children alone. She believed her father had worked very hard to make sure his children grew up healthy and strong. Sonora’s father was born in June So she chose to hold the first Father’s Day celebration(庆祝) on June 19th, 1910.
Since 1966 the third Sunday in June has become a national Father’s Day in America. In early times, people wore red roses to show respect for fathers who were still living and white flowers for fathers who had died. Today, Americans cele
