第一篇：英语专业美国文学期末考试重点,小字号已排

1.The puritanpietyAn American Tragedyproves to be his greatest 2.Anne BradstreetTenth MuseThe three dominant figuresWilliam Howells Henry 3.In American literature,RationalismAbout Dreiser's It traces the tragic and the matrial rise of4.At the reason and revolutionEnlightenment MovementAs a genre ,naturalismheredity and environment 5.Captain John Smithusually was regarded as the firstIt is not surprising to findDreiser's 6.From 1732 to 1758Poor Richard's AlmanacA big change which tookhe became bitterly sceptical 7.The AmericanPuritanismas a culturalThe most recognizable literary movementExpatriate th8.The romantic period of American literatureThe Sketch BookIn the first part of the 20the Austrian Sigmund Fre 9.In the middle of 19th century,the American RenaissanceAs to the descriptions ofLewis is a sociological writer 10.New England Transcendentalismis usually agreed to be theHemingway once saidiceberg 11.In the following works, The Sketch Booksigns the beginningYoknapatawphahas become an allegory or a parable 12.According toRalph Emerson,man's capacity is infiniteWhich from 1945 onwards?A group of new writers who13.As a philosophical and literaryEmerson and ThoreauThe followingmodern workIts perspective is shifted14.Which of the following poet isJames Russell LowellMost of O'NeillSuccess and failure in man's literary 15.The essayNature,written by Ralph Waldo EmersonWhich “Roaring 20s”Many of them portrayed the 16.In spite of strong foreign influences,American type of charaAbout the first few decadesThere was a decline in so 17.18.Which of the 19.Moby Dick, 20.Emily DickinsonRomantic period Melville's masterpiece,is regarded asMost heroes and heroinesis now recognized not only as a great21.Dickinson's poems are usually 22.The subjects of Emily Dickinson'sthe whole human beings,whicman and morality23.Which charact Emily 24.In American literature the firsther poems are usually rather long and25.Irving was best known forThe Legend of Sleepy Washington Irving26.Washington got his idea 27.Rip van winkle is foundGerman legend28.It is on his 29.In Rip Van Winkletales about AmericaThe Sketch Book, washington agrees with the protagonist onthat Washington30.F31.In the well-known story Rip.James Cooper is worth the honor of being “the American S”the War for Independence32.Washington Rip famous for 33.“strange names were over”Rip's 20-years sleepIrving:“Rip Van Winkle”34.in the following statements,Irving describes Rip;s response35.The famous 20 years in Rip 36.Which about Washington is notconcern with the passage of timeHe is preoccupied with the37.About Washingt , Father of American 38.New england Transcendentalism was 39.The publication ofNatureestablished Emerson as the mostHis writings preferred 1830s40.The main issues involved in 41.American Transcendentalists42.According to Emerson,both A and Bman is pine in namenature,man and the universe43.which by 44.About the basic principlesthe Transcendental 45.walt Whitman was Which ofthe poems in Whitman'sIntuition is less important thanNature is ennobling andThey sing of the“ en-”46.as a great innovator47.as a man of literary 48.“There is evil in every human heart”free verse poetry without a fixed beatexploring the complexity of human49.Hawthorne's unique gift 50.Pearl is the heroine About the novel The ScarletT he Scarlet Lettersymbolic storiesNathaniel HawthorneWhitman's poemsIn it the letter“A”takes the sameWhich of Whitman's poetic style?a strict poetic formHemingway once regarded theHis strong tendency to use ofWho is described by Mark TwainAdventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain, one of Winterbourne is used aslocal colorHuckleberry FinnWhich of the American naturalinarrator of the eventsWhich about Mark languageTheir characters were conceivedThe American realists approachedHis sentence structures are long By the turn of the centurya comprehensive picture ofThe Portrait of a Lady About the titled heroineis about a young American girl whoan optimist...an almost despairingWhich the novel Sister Carrie?She comes from the new world but As to the American realistsIts heroine is a country girlTheodore Dreiser was influencedThey aimed at the interpretationHenry James is generally regarded asRalph Waldo Emerson

Another fact that made About Naturalismstream of consciousness ChicagoThe term“The Gilded Age”is the scene of Dreiser'sAmerican Naturalism is a reaction against Twain

Henry James's emphasis on

Henry JamesGenerally speaking,all thoseis considered the founder of Psychologicalthe characters' psychology and thethe Realistic Period

Dreiser's naturalism and hispessimists

Which of writing style Mark Twainis considered“the true father of American”

all of themStephen Grane

In his novels ,Faulkner Which Imagist Movement?the decline of the Southern Which Hemingway's heroes?The treatment of the medium In his poetry,Robert Frost Which of to Arms?He can be physically destro Despite all its apparentNew England

About the major plotIt tells a story about the tragic men standing alone in the bleakAs to Hemingway's writingThe hero became a victim of the In the following Fitzgerald summarizedThe Crash marked the beginning ofThe use of short, simpleWhich The leading playwrightrefined languageThe Great Gatsby

“The Apparition of these”Which of William Faulkner?His poems are mostly conEugene O'Neill After the First World War, As a poet inImagismHe often depicts slumThe publication of The Waste Land20th ,Robertrejected the...way to be new The Lost Generation Early in the 1920s,WhichEugene O'Neill T.S.EliotFaulkner of literary modernism?A Farewell to Arms “For i have too much”wrote about the society Which about Hemingway'sis tired of the work of apple-picChinese poetry an philosophyMan can be physically In American literatureEzra Pound

One of the major subjectsWhich in O'Neill'sthe expatriate movement John Steinbeck is Which..features ofHe looked upon...symblosThey are always seeking meaning The American social upheavalst he Great Depressionthe dislocation of narrative time Ezra Pound is a leadingWorld War2In the 1960s and 1970s,Imagist In the 1920s,O'Neill establishedboth B and CIn 1954,Typical of the “iceberg”Ernest HemingwayThe Hairy Ape O'Neillwas awarded Allen Ginsburg's Howlwon the Pulitzer Prize four Ernest Hemingway's Chinesethe Beat Generation Hemingway's first truepoetry and philosophy have In William Faulkner's The SoundThe Sun Also Risesstream of conscious

第二篇：美国文学 期末考试 总结一

1.The Minister’s Black Veil--Hawthorne, 人物：Hooper

总结：A universally beloved minister appears in church one Sunday wearing a small black

veil which hides his face from the forehead to the mouth.Everyone is made uneasy by this.After he has worn it for several Sundays a delegation from the congregation go to his home

to ask him to remove it, or at least explain why he is wearing it.But intimidated胁迫 by the veil,they are afraid to raise the subject.His bride-to-be then declares she will speak to him about it.When he will not discuss the

matter with her she says she is afraid to marry him unless he lifts the veil at least once, or tells her

why he must refuses.He will not but begs her to marry him anyway, instead of condemning them

each to a lonely life.He continues to wear the veil throughout a lonely life.Everyone avoids him

but his sermons布道 become even more impressive and many people are brought to a state of

grace by them.“black veil”symbolizes the cover used to keep one’s guilt as a secret.2.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—Mark Twain 人物：Huck, Jim 1.Huck’s quest for freedom and Jim’s quest for anti-slavery

2.Society vs.inpidual

3.Huck’ birth and rebirth

4.Huck’s loneliness and isolation 人物性格分析：Huck is always practical and natural, exhibiting good common sense.Huck is

extremely adaptable.Huck is also very shrewd and possesses a good inventive ability.His

sympathy for other human beings, his shrewdness and ingenuity, his basic intelligence, his good

common sense and his basic practicality.3.An American Tragedy--Theodore Dreiser 人物：Clyde Griffths

总结：Clyde thinks money and success will bring him happiness.When a pregnant girlfriend

threatens to destroy this dream, he plans to kill her.At the last moment, he changes his mind, but

the girl dies accidentally anyway.Since Clyde has decided not to kill her, is he really responsible

for her death? This becomes the main question during the trial审判.The trial itself is not really

fair.The newspapers stir up public anger against him.In the end, Clyde is executed.Clearly,Dreiser believes that Clyde is not really guilty.Dreiser calls his novel a tragedy, and in certain

ways it is similar to classical Greek tragedy.It concentrates on a single inpidual, who gives it

unity;and his inpidual is eventually destroyed by forces which he cannot control.4.The Hairy Ape—Eugene O’Neill人物：Yank

全文总结：Yank, the ape-like seaman, attempts to rise to a higher level.Yank’s initial crisis is

seeing himself unfavorably in the mirror of the society girl when she calls him a filthy beast.After

this incident, and throughout the play, he struggles to find out exactly who and what he is.Ultimately he tries to find meaning and purpose in the animal world by freeing a caged gorilla, but

this final effort fails also.In the end, Yank dies, without ever finding his place of belonging.The

general feeling is one of despair: Man is rootless in an indifferent and impersonal universe.The next day Yank goes to the monkey house at the zoo.The gorilla’s brute

strength impresses him and he speaks to the animal as a friend.He describes the feelings he had in

the park, watching the sun rise on the sea.At last he understood Paddy’s nostalgia for the old life,but he knew he could never belong to it.This realization led him to seek out the gorilla.Yank says

the gorilla is lucky to belong to one world while he belongs to neither heaven nor earth.Identifying himself with the animal, Yank frees him to get even with the men who have put him in the cage.The gorilla picks him up, crushes him and throws him into the open cage.When the door has slammed shut on him and the gorilla has gone the dying Yank calls out mockingly to imaginary spectators to step right up and have a look at the one and only---Hairy Ape.He dies, having pronounced this final judgment on himself.In a stage note the playwright suggests that perhaps Yank at last belongs.5.A Farewell to Arms—Ernest Hemingway 人物：Henry, Catherine Barkley, Emilio

Dialogue

Interior monologue// stream of consciousness

Understatement The Grim Reality of War

The Relationship between Love and Pain

Feelings of lossThe novel tells about the war experience and the love story of an American lieutenant, Henry, during the World War I.Henry serves in the Italian ambulance crops, and fall in love with an English nurse, Catherine.Although in civilian clothes, he is suspected, and forced to flee with Cat to Switzerland.They go to Lausanne for the birth of their child, but the baby is stillborn and Cat dies in childbirth.Henry is left alone in a strange land;his dream of leading a decent life broke into smithereens.So the novel is both farewell to war, and a farewell to love.6.Autobiography--Benjamin FranklinIt is probably the first autobiography in American literature.It is an interesting record of a man rising to wealth and fame from a state of poverty and obscurity.It’s a record of self-examination and self-improvement.He wrote it at 65.

第三篇：大四美国文学期末考试题型及例题

大四美国文学期末考试题型及例题 大四美国文学期末考试题型及例题：

1.选择/对错 60分（40道选择，20个对错）

2.名词解释 10分（5个）

3.选段配对 10分（5个）

4.问答20分（10/2）

1．历史：Father / poetess…

2.名作家：Hemingway, Faulkner, Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson

3．作品：The Wasteland/Moby Dick/Scarlet Letter

1.At the age of reason and revolution, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the ________.A.Chartist MovementB.Romanticist Movement

C.Enlightenment MovementD.Modernist Movement

2.Which is NOT connected to Benjamin Franklin? ________

A.He was born in a poor family.B.He was a pious puritan.C.He was phrased as “Jack of all trades”.D.He was a master of diplomacy.3.Ernest Hemingway is noted for the following EXCEPT ________.A.Lost Generation

B.Iceberg theory

C.American Dream

D.Code Heroes

4.Which character is NOT from The Scarlet Letter? ________

A.Hester Prynne

B.Roger Chillingworth

C.Captain Ahab

D.Pearl

5.Jack London’s semi-biographical novel ________ well presents the disillusionment of American Dream.A.The American Tragedy

B.The Call of the Wild

C.Martin Eden

D.The Grapes of Wrath

1.Poe’s masterpiece “To Helen” is written to memorize his deceased wife.(F)

2.The tone of “Annabel Lee” is optimistic and hopeful.(F)

3.Mark Twain's novel Jumping Frog was an artistic failure, but it gave its name to the America of the postbellum period which it attempts to satirize.(F)

4.Sister Carrie ended up in tragedy because she could not control her fate.(F)

1.It refers to the religious beliefs held by the Puritans, who had intended to “purify” or simplify the religious ritual of the Church of England.They believed in the original sin and the harsh Day of Doom, although some good people---the chosen people or “the Elect”---may be saved.（2.A literary doctrine that called for “reality and truth” in the depiction of ordinary life．It had originated in France and was very popular in 19th century.（1.Fair flower, that dost so comely grow,Hid in this silent, dull retreat,Untouched thy honeyed blossoms blow,Unseen thy little branches greet:

No roving foot shall crush thee here,No busy hand provoke a tear.2.During the whole of a dull, dark and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the cloud hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country;and at length found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.I know not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.1.Transcendentalism

(a)Transcendentalism(p56)

{1}As a moral philosophy, it exalted feeling over reason, inpidual expression over the restraints of law and custom.& believed in the transcendence of the“oversoul” {2}A literary movement flourishing in New England from the 1830s to the Civil war.It stresses intuitive understanding of God, without the help of the church and advocated independence of the mind.The representative writers are Emerson and Thoreau.{b}Transcendentalism exerted a dominating notion onto the major wirers of the Romantic period and its essence has been permanently absorbed into the main stream of American thought.As a moral philosophy, Transcendentalists took their ideas from the romantic literature of Europe, from neo-Platonism, from German idealistic philosophy and from the revelations of Oriental mysticism.They spoke for cultural rejuvenation and against the materialism of American society.They believed in the transcendence of the “Oversoul”, an all-pervading power for goodness from which all things come and of which all things are a part.As a philosophical and literary

movement, Transcendentalism flourished in New England from the 1830’s to the Civil War.Its doctrines found their greatest literary advocated in Emerson, who believed that man was a part of absolute good, and in Thoreau who beheld pinity in the “unspotted innocence” of nature.It was a powerful expression of the intellectual mood of the age, and the ideas it represented have remained a strong influence on great American writers from the days of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman to the present.2.“The Road Not Taken”

In this poem, the author uses two roads in the woods to symbolize the choices in the real life.The author suggests us not being afraid to take a chance, not following the crowd and trying new things.Inpidualism is highlighted in the poem because the speaker chooses to go his own way, taking the “road less traveled”.Caution is also taken before deciding to take the “road less traveled”, for the speaker takes time to consider the other road.Commitment is symbolized in the poem because the speaker does not have second thoughts after making his decision.The last symbolized theme is accepting a challenge.It may be that the road the

speaker chooses is less traveled because it represents trials or perils.Such challengesseem to appeal to the speaker.The Road Not Taken

This poem, as many of Frost’s poems, begins with the observation of nature, as if the poet is a traveler sightseeing in nature.By the end, all the simple words condense into a serious proposition: When anyone in life is confronted with making a choice, in order to possess something worthwhile, he has to give up something which seems as lovely and valuable as the chosen one.Then, whatever follows, he must accept the consequence of his choice for it is not possible for him to return to the beginning and have another chance to choose differently.Frost is asserting that nature is fair and honest to everyone.Thus all the varieties of human destiny result from each person’s spontaneous capability of making choices.Form: The poem is very regularly structured with 4 classic 5-line stanzas, with the rhyme scheme “abaab” and in conversational rhythm.3.The Great Gatsby

Thematically，the novel is a parody of the American dream as represented by Gatsby’s pursuit for wealth and love．

(1)American Dream(derived the Puritanism)is a popular belief that people can achieve success，whether it is wealth，fame or love through honest hard working in a new world of liberty，equality，chances and promises．(e.g.Franklin, Obama)

(2)It is true that Gatsby had a huge wealth，but it was built up through illegal means—bootlegging.Daisy was the embodiment of love for Gatsby，but the Daisy in Gatsby’s illusion was not the Daisy in reality——a mindless and spiritless woman only with a beautiful appearance，who retreated to her boring but secure way of life rather than accept the responsibility at the moment of crisis．

(3)Like Franklin，Gatsby also made a time table and a list of “do’s and don'ts”．But unfortunately he did not know that the time had changed．

(4)Therefore, G’s dream is tarnished by his material possessions, much like America is now with the obsession with wealth.In any case, Gatsby would have failed to his idealistic dream inevitably, namely disillusion of American dream.Together with Martin Eden, it well presents the disillusionment of American Dream.Main ideas:

Nick Caraway, the narrator decided to leave his family in the Midwest to study bond business in New York．He took a small house at West Egg of Long Island and became a neighbor of Jay Gatsby，a mysterious man of great wealth．He resumed acquaintance with Tom Buchanan and his wife Daisy at a dinner party in their home．There he also met Jordan Baker，an attractive but arrogant young lady．He soon learned that their marriage was not happy and Tom has a mistress，Myrtle，wife of George Wilson，a garage owner in the Valley of Ashes．A few days later he was invited to Gatsby’s party.From Gatsby and later from Jordan, Nick learned of the love affair between Daisy and Gatsby before she married Tom．Gatsby then made a request of Nick：to bring Daisy to tea and meet Gatsby．At the reunion Gatsby changed from nervousness to excitement and from excitement to a remote fantasy．At a party Gatsby gave to the Buchanans，Nick and Jordan，Gatsby and Tom had a fierce quarrel over Daisy and Daisy sided with both men in turns．Then Daisy and Gatsby left in Gatsby’s car while the others followed in Tom’s．On the way Gatsby’s car knocked Myrtle dead and ran away，but he later told Nick that Daisy was driving at the time of the accident．Myrtle，thinking Tom was in the car，ran toward it and was hit．Meanwhile Mr．Wilson traced Gatsby’s car and found Gatsby's house．A few hours later both of them were found dead．Apparently Wilson shot Gatsby and then himself．Although Nick tried to make Gatsby’s funeral respectable，none of his friends came．Only Gatsby’s father appeared，still thinking that his son was a great man．On another occasion Nick met Tom and Daisy and was reluctant to shake hands with them．He already knew that it was Tom who made Wilson believe that Myrtle was Gatsby’s lover and was run over by Gatsby．Soon Nick went back to his people in the Middle West．

第四篇：英语专业八级人文知识练习题：美国文学

1.The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ____

A Jack London

B Charles Dickens

C Samuel Coleridge

D Ernest Hemingway

2.In which novel can “Yahoo” be found?

A John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

B Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queen

C Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

D Henry Fielding's Tom Jones

3.The Catcher in the Rye is written by ____

A J.D.Salinger

B Jack London

C Flannery O'Connor

D Saul Bellow

4.The image of the famous “henpecked husband” is created by____

A Washington Irving

B Fennimore Cooper

C Edith Wharton

D William Dean Howells

5.The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be ____

A O'Neil

B Pound

C Robert Frost

D Scott Fitzgerald

6.____ is the most important person of the transcendental club.A Hawthorn

B Whitman

C Emerson

D Hemingway

7.The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except____

A fridendship

B love and marriage

C life and death

D war and peace

8.Robert Frost is a famous ____

A novelist

B playwright

C poet

D literary critic

9.Dover Beach is written by ____

A Robert Browning

B Alfred Tennyson

C Mathew Arnold

D Dylan Thomas

10.The period from 1865-1914 has been referred to as the ____ in the literary history of the United States.A Age of Realism

B Age of Clasicalism

C Age of Romanticism

D Age of Renaissance

答案及解析:

1.D 《老人与海》是海明威的作品。

2.C Jonathan Swift的Gulliver's Travels(《格列弗游记》)中yahoo暗指人类，集人类丑陋面于一身，服务于动物的一类生物。

3.A The Catcher in the Rye(《麦田里的守望者》)是J.D.Salinger(J.D.赛琳格)的名著。

4.A henpecked husband 是指“怕老婆的男人”，改典型形象出自Washington Irving 的Rip Van Winkle。

5.D 二十世纪出现Jazz Age，这一代的年轻人物欲膨胀，沉迷酒色。Scott Fitzgerald的 Great Gatsby《了不起的盖茨比》根据时代特征，对深深讽刺了所谓的美国梦。

6.C Emerson是超验主义的重要代表，所著Nature《论自然》代表了他的哲学观。

7.D Emily Dickinson(1709-1784)，美国女诗人，终生未嫁。主要诗歌包括：I Could Not Sto for Death还有，I'm Nobody.Who Are You?

诗歌主题为：爱情，自然，友谊，死亡与不朽。

8.C Robert Frost是十九世纪的美国诗人，后因父亲过世已经英国，在新英格兰享有很高名望。主要作品有：The Road Not Taken，Mending Wall。

9.C Dover Beach(《多弗的海滩》)是Mathew Arnold 的作品。

10.A 1865-1914，也就是美国内战结束之后，第一次世界大战爆发之前。这个时候涌现的作家，比如Mark Twain刻画出美国经济政治发展引发的社会现实问题，包括“Gold Rush”。

第五篇：英语专业推荐文学书目

英语专业推荐书目及电影

书目：

1.演讲的艺术 第十版（中国版）外研社 2.中式英语之鉴 琼•凭卡姆 外研社 3.英汉翻译教程 张培基 外教社 4.英译中国现代散文选 张培基 外教社 5.英语语法新思维 张满胜 群言出版社 6.英语写作构思与技巧 汪福祥 外文社 7.通过翻译学英语 李学平南开大学出版社8.英语教学法教程 王蔷 高等教育出版社 9.实战口译 林超伦 外研社 10.人性的弱点 卡耐基（英文版）电影：

《小妇人》、《西雅图夜未眠》 《雾都孤儿》、《天堂电影院》 《特洛伊》、《双城记》

《人鬼情未了》、《贫民窟的百万富翁》 《美丽心灵》、《乱世佳人》 《绿野仙踪》、《卡萨布兰卡》 《魂断蓝桥》、《海上钢琴师》 《愤怒的葡萄》、《成为简·奥斯汀》 《埃及艳后》、《巴黎圣母院》 The Godfather / 教父 / 1972

The Shawshank Redemption / 肖申克的救赎 / 1994

Schindler's List / 辛德勒的名单 / 1993 American Beauty / 美国丽人 / 1999

The Silence of the Lambs / 沉默的羔羊 / 1991 Brave Heart / 勇敢的心 / 1995 Seven / 七宗罪 / 1995 The Graduate / 毕业生 / 1967 Forrest Gump / 阿甘正传 1994 King Kong / 金刚 / 2005

Pirates of the Caribbean / 加勒比海盗 / 2003 Pearl Harbor / 珍珠港 / 2001 Titanic / 泰坦尼克号 / 1997 Four Brothers / 四兄弟 / 2005 The Transporter / 非常人贩 / 2002 Gone With the Wind / 乱世佳人 / 1993 The Lord Of The Rings / 魔戒

Once Upon a Time in America / 美国往事 / 1984 Rome Holiday / 罗马假日 / 1953 Harry Potter / 哈利伯特 Sixth Sense / 第六感 / 1999

The Butterfly Effect / 蝴蝶效应 / 2004 The 300 Spartans / 斯巴达300勇士 /2007 A Beautiful Mind / 美丽心灵 / 2001 Hotel Rwanda / 卢旺达饭店 / 2004 Legends of the Fall / 燃情岁月 / 1994 The Last Castle / 最后的城堡 / 2001 Leon / 这个杀手不太冷 /1994

Sleepless in Seattle / 西雅图不眠夜 / 1993 Ghost / 人鬼情未了 / 1990 Mission: Impossible / 碟中谍

The Last Samurai / 最后的武士 / 2003 The Day After Tomorrow / 后天 / 2004 Around the World in 80 Days / 环游地球80天 / 2004

The Passion of the Christ / 耶稣受难记 / 2004 Scent of a Woman / 闻香识女人 / 1992 Babel / 通天塔 / 2006 Rain Man / 雨人 / 1988

学地道英文必看的10部美剧

1.Desperate housewives 绝望主妇

时而压抑、时而诙谐、人物性格刻划得鲜明，只是觉得剧情不是那么贴近生活，不过里面的句子还有哲理性，几个主演的英语也是非常标准，是一部学习英语值得推崇的super soup。

2.Ugly Betty 丑女贝蒂

里面能学到很多商务类的英语词汇，而且对个人的性格修为有所帮助，我很喜欢Daniel的处世风格。

3.Sex and the city 欲望都市

欲望都市是很有内涵的片子，不是一般肥皂剧比得了的。从女性的视角叙述女人的性与情感，中国男人看了估计会受不了。4.Friends 六人行

老友记是一部很好的帮助我们学习英语口语及常用短语、日常用品的单词的连续剧，就我个人而言，我会在第一遍不看字幕过一遍，第二遍借助字幕理解第一遍不清楚的地方，第三遍把印象深的短语句子写下来，反复读记，第四遍在过一遍。比如我就会想起：snow in a can 雪花罐;working on commission 赚佣金;look no further!不要再找了;take you forever to find……(要花费很长时间找到某件物品)。5.Boston Legal 律师风云

有趣的电视剧，可以熟悉法律方面的词汇内容，但是还是有好多涉及专业方面的词听不懂，发音清楚，有些人讲话略快。法庭辩论精彩。

6.House MD 豪斯医生

可以熟悉医学方面的词汇，不过也都是稀奇古怪的那种。也是拣点小芝麻，医生确实是讲的另一个星球的语言在涉及到医学方面。不过可以看到许多奇怪的幽默，比喻，等等，总

是就是绕着弯子讲话，的确有意思。类似以某种专业为主题的电视剧都不是很适合英语的学习，CSI，Law and Order等等。7.Prison Break 越狱

讲话俚语较多，某些人的口音听不清楚，认为不适合学习口语，而且听力没有必要听懂所有的俚语。类似俚语较多的还有Weeds单身毒妈，可能这个取决于编剧的习惯和尺度。8.My name is earl 愚人善事

俚语多，讲话不甚清楚，但是还能听的清。却是比较好的一部喜剧，美国的劳动人民也很生猛。

9.How I met your mother 老爸老妈浪漫史也算是上面两部适合学习口语的剧集的候补，青年人的话语比较多一些，本最佳的情景喜剧。

10.Grey’s Anatomy 实习医生格蕾医务类剧集，有适当的医学词汇，但是还是以生活为主。口语较快，收视率很不错。人文素质推荐书目

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1、《道德经》

2、周国平《高贵 丰富 善良》

3、李开复《做最好的自己》

4、休谟《人性论》

5、季羡林《季羡林谈人生》

6、余秋雨《问学》

7、卡耐基版《人性的弱点》

8、《人性的优点》

9、《智慧背囊》系列丛书

10、陆幼青《死亡日记》