21.D. H. Lawrence’s novels ____________ are generally regarded as his masterpieces.

　　A. The Rainbow; Women in Love

　　B. The Rainbow; Sons and Lovers

　　C. Sons and Lovers; Lady Chatterley’s Lover

　　D. Women in Love; Lady Chatterley’s Lover

　　22. The best representatives of the English humanists are Thomas More, Christopher Mar-lowe and____________.

　　A. William Shakespeare

　　B. John Milton

　　C. Henry Fielding

　　D. Jonathan Swift

　　23. Mark Twain’s particular concern about the local character of a region came about as “l(fā)ocal colorism,” a unique variation of American literary____________.

　　A. romanticism

　　B. nationalism

　　C. modernism

　　D. realism

　　24. As a poet with a strong sense of mission, Walt Whitman devoted all his life to the creation of the “single” poem,____________.

　　A. Drum Taps

　　B. North of Boston

　　C. A Boy’s Will

　　D. Leaves of Grass

　　25. William Faulkner creates his own mythical kingdom that mirrors not only the decline of the ____________ society of America but also the spiritual wasteland of the whole American society.

　　A. Eastern

　　B. Western

　　C. Southern

　　D. Northern

　　26. In his final years, Herman Melville turned again to prose fiction and wrote what is probably his second famous work, ____________ , which was published after his death.

　　A. Billy Budd

　　B. Redburn

　　C. Moby - Dick

　　D. Typee

　　27. The Sun Also Rise casts light on a whole generation after ____________ and the effects of the war by way of a vivid portrait of “the Lost Generation. ”

　　A. the Spanish Civil War

　　B. the American- Mexican War

　　C. WWI

　　D. WWII

　　28. Herman Melville went to the South Seas on a whaling ship in 1841, where he gained the first -hand information about whaling that he used later in____________.

　　A. Typee

　　B. Redburn

　　C. Moby - Dick

　　D. Omoo

　　29. According to ____________ , the life - death cycle, the spring and winter of the earth, the birth and death of the animals is reality.

　　A. Theodore Dreiser

　　B. William Faulkner

　　C. Henry James

　　D. F·Scott Fitzgerald

　　30. “Though life is but a losing battle, it is a struggle man can dominate in such a way that loss becomes dignity. ” This is an outlook towards life that ____________ had been trying to illustrate in his works.

　　A. F·Scott Fitzgerald

　　B. Ernest Hemingway

　　C. Theodore Dreiser

　　D. William Faulkner