Choose two of the following questions and give bri...

Choose two of the following questions and give brief answers in English Give explanations of the symbolic meaning of “Pequod” in Moby-Dick by Melville. Discuss the allegory and symbolism in Moby-Dick. Analyze the characters in Melville’s works. What’s Herman Melville’s “black” vision of life and human beings? Why do you think Longfellow can earn such a great popularity in the readers of the 19thcentury? Summarize Longfellow’s typical poetic features in your own words. Exemplify the optimistic feeling expressing in Longfellow’s poems.

Choose ONE of the following questions and give brief answers in English. What are the literary characteristics in the works of American romantic period? What is the theme of Rip Van Winkle? List the major works of Washington Irving and discuss the artistic characteristics of his works. What are Cooper’s major works and what is “frontier novel”? What are the characteristics of Cooper’s writing techniques? What are the artistic achievements of Edgar Allan Poe? Discuss the allegory and symbolism in Young Goodman Brown. Analyze the effects of Puritanism on Nathaniel Hawthorne.

ne 1. Give some different explanations of the symbolic meaning of “A” in The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne. 2. Discuss the allegory and symbolism in Young Goodman Brown. 3. Analyze the effects of Puritanism on Nathaniel Hawthorne. 4. What’s Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “black” vision of life and human beings? 5. What are the artistic achievements of Edgar Allan Poe?

stic achievements of Edgar Allan Poe? Give some different explanations of the symbolic meaning of “A” in The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne. Discuss the allegory and symbolism in Young Goodman Brown. Analyze the effects of Puritanism on Nathaniel Hawthorne. What’s Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “black” vision of life and human beings?

n 1. What is American Transcendentalism? 2. What is the influence of Transcendentalism? 3 .What is Ralph Waldo Emerson’s transcendental idea and his view of nature? Henry David Thoreau 1. Comment on Thoreau’s Walden. 2. What are the themes in Thoreau’s Walden? 3. How did Thoreau achieve self- reliance in his book Walden?

ranscendentalism? 2. What is the influence of Transcendentalism? 3 .What is Ralph Waldo Emerson’s transcendental idea and his view of nature? 4. Discuss the allegory and symbolism in Moby-Dick. 5. Analyze the characters in Melville’s works. 6. Summarize Longfellow’s typical poetic features in your own words. 7. Please define “free verse”.

Give the name of the following sport.

A、basketball

B、baseball

C、volleyball

D、table tennis

Give the name of the following currency.

A、Euro

B、RMB

C、dollar

D、pound

The author do not do which of the following things?

A．Give some facts.

B．Point out the underlying causes of some problems.

C．Raise some problems.

D．Give some suggestions.

Which of the following is NOT the reason why Europeans and Americans regard "risk" differently?

A．According to related policies, Europeans only have one chance to run new companies.

B．Failure to try a venture leads to more serious result in Europe than in the U. S.

C．European tradition is more conservative than that of America.

D．The EU doesn"t give enough support to European people to open their own companies.