[填空题]

A=Henry James B=Theodore Dreiser C=Carl Sandburg D=Sinclair Lewis

Who...
· died at the age of 89 71. ______
· graduated from Yale after some unhappy years there 72. ______
· described daily life in America and made his readers laugh at some silliness of their country 73. ______
· made Europe his permanent home 74. ______
· wrote his first novel about a prostitute 75. ______
· was usually too shy to take part in his brothers’ activities when he was young 76. ______
· died in England 77. ______
· was a journalist

[填空题]
Who...
· died at the age of 89 71. ______
· graduated from Yale after some unhappy years there 72. ______
· described daily life in America and made his readers laugh at some silliness of their country 73. ______
· made Europe his permanent home 74. ______
· wrote his first novel about a prostitute 75. ______
· was usually too shy to take part in his brothers’ activities when he was young 76. ______
· died in England 77. ______
· was a journalist

[单项选择]Theodore Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire does NOT include （　）.
A. An American Tragedy
B. The Financier
C. The Titan
D. The Stoic

[单项选择]

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, and in the books they shall write there will be so many of the qualities Dreiser lacks. The new, the younger men 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.
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 he was editor of the Delineator, Dreiser went one day, with a woman friend, to visit an orphan asylum. The woman once told me the story of that aft
A. criticize Theodore Dreiser
B. praise Theodore Dreiser
C. defend Theodore Dreiser
D. ridicule Theodore Dreiser

[单项选择]Henry James was most famous for
A. his poems.
B. his plays.
C. his novels.
D. his short stories.

[简答题]Daisy Miller brought Henry James international fame for the first time. What’s the character of Daisy Miller, the protagonist

[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