1．Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety, these were the _____ values that dominated much of the early American writing.
【答案】Puritan
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【解析】清教主义，来历于英国，在北美殖民地得以实习与打开。清教徒偏重艰苦斗争、节俭节约、忠诚和淡泊。这些价值观也影响了前期的美国文学。
2．The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was _____.
【答案】American Puritanism
【解析】美国文明源于清教文明，由清教徒移民时传入北美。美国干流价值观都可以追溯到殖民地时期统一全国的清教主义，而且清教思维对美国文学有着根深柢固的影响。
3．The term “Puritan”
was applied to those settlers who originally were devout members of the Church of _____.
【答案】England
【解析】清教徒（Puritan），是指需求铲除英国国教Church of England中天主教剩下的变革派。其字词于16世纪60年代初步运用，源于拉丁文的Purus，意为“清洗”。
4．Many Puritans wrote verse, but the works of two writers, Anne Bradstreet and _____, rose to the level of real poetry.
【答案】Edward Taylor
【解析】美国殖民时期最闻名的诗人是安·布莱德斯特律和爱德华·泰勒。
5．The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America is a collection of poems composed by _____.
【答案】Anne Bradstreet
【解析】安·布莱德斯特律是美国殖民时期闻名的诗人。其代表作是诗集《迩来在北美呈现的第十位缪斯》（The Tenth Muse Late Sprung up in America）。
6．On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet _____ appeared.
【答案】Common Sense
【解析】1776年美国独立的风潮初步，托马斯·潘恩撑持美国独立，对立英国的殖民专政，撰写了他的成名小册子《常识》，为美国从英国殖民中独立出来争辩，批判英国国王严格无能，认为独立后的美国大约树立共和国。
7．Except Common Sense, Paine’s the other two famous works were _____ and __
___.
【答案】The Rights of Man，The Age of Reason
【解析】潘恩闻名的作品包括，《常识》、《人的权力》、《理性的年代》。
8．Thomas Paine’s second most important work _____ was an impassioned plea against hereditary monarchy.
【答案】The Rights of Man
【解析】1791年3月，托马斯·潘恩在伦敦出书《人权论》，剧烈冲击埃德蒙·伯克（Edmund Burke，1729-1797）的《法国改造感言录》（Reflections on the Revolution in France）（1790）。《人权论》的可贵之处还在于，它打破了其时笼罩于整个西方思维界对英国君主立宪政体的迷信，深化骨髓地批判了这一政体，给其时还处于探究状况的法国改造指明晰共和主义的簇新方向。
9．Thomas Paine, with his natural gift for pamphleteering and rebellion, was appropriately born into an age of_____.
【答案】Revolution
【解析】潘恩是美国独立改造时期闻名的作家之一。
10．Philip Freneau was noteworthy first because of the nature of his poems. They were truly American and very patriotic. In this respect, he reflected the spirit of his age. Therefore, he has been called the “_____ of American Poetry”.
【答案】Father
【解析】菲利普·弗瑞诺是翻开美国民主主义的杰出代表之一，他被称为“美国诗歌之父。”
11．From 1621 until his death, _____ probably possessed more power than any other colonial governor.
【答案】William Bradford
12．William Bradford’s work _____ consists of two books. The first book deals with the persecutions of the Separatists in Scrooby, England, and the second book describes the signing of the “Compact”.
【答案】Mayflower
13．_____’s best verse is to be found in a series called “Preparatory Meditations”.
14．In the book _____ John Smith wrote that “here nature and liberty afford us that
freely which in England we want, or it costs us dearly.”
【答案】A Description of New England
II. Multiple Choice
1．Early in _____, the English settlements in Virginia and Massachusetts started the main stream of the American national history.（北二外2007研）
A. 14th century
B. 15th century
C. 17th century
D. 16th century
【答案】C
【解析】17世纪初，英国人在弗吉尼亚和马萨诸塞久居，这也是美国前史的初步。
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