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[单项选择]In Henry James' Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of ______.
A. the corruption of the newly rich
B. the free spirit of the New World
C. the decline of aristocracy
D. the force of convention
[填空题]Henry James was to some degree interested in voyeuristically exploring his characters’’ psychologies, though he was________this enterprise less by________than by sympathy.
A. A．seduced into … affection
B．impelled to … curiosity
C．goaded into … loath
D．discouraged from … apathy
E．intrigued by … self-pity
[单项选择]Stylistically, Henry James's fiction is characterized by ______.
A. short, clear sentences
B. highly refined language
C. ordinary American speech
D. abundance of local images
[单项选择]Henry James was most famous for （ ）.
A. his poems
B. his plays
C. his novels
D. his short stories
[单项选择]Henry James was regarded as one of the pioneers of______, and had great influence on the age that followed.
A. black humour
B. existential novel
C. psychoanalytical novel
D. psychological novel
[单项选择]The fame of Henry James generally rests upon his novels and stories with （ ）.
A. historical themes
B. the international themes
C. tragic themes
D. the American theme
[填空题]
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Henry James When he was growing up in New York, Henry was given a great deal of independence, so much in fact, that he felt isolated from other people. As a quiet child among exuberant brothers and cousins, Henry was more often an observer than a participant in their activities. When, as a young man, a back injury prevented his fighting in the Civil War, he felt even more excluded from the events of his time. While the adult Henry James developed many close friendships, he retained his attitude of observer, and devoted much of his life to solitary work on his writing.
Henry’s family lived for a time in Boston, where he became acquainted with New England authors and friends of his father, began his friendship with William Dean Howells, and attended Harvard Law School. After 1866, James lived in Europe much of the time and in 1875 decided to make it his permanent home. He lived in Paris for a year, where he met Turgenev, Flaubert, and Zola. The nex
[单项选择]In his realistic fiction, Henry James's primary concern is to present the ______.
A. inner life of human beings
B. American Civil War and its effects
C. life on the Mississippi River
D. Calvinistic view of original sin
