【正确答案】：
A. HAWTHORNE'S LITERARY WORLD TURNS OUT TO BE A MOST DISTURBED, TORMENTED AND PROBLEMATICAL ONE POSSIBLE TO IMAGINE.
B. THIS HAS MUCH TO DO WITH HIS “BLACK” VERSION OF LIFE AND HUMAN BEINGS. ACCORDING TO HAWTHORNE, THERE IS EVIL IN EVERY HUMAN HEART THROUGH THE WHOLE LIFE; BUT CIRCUMSTANCES MAY ROUSE IT TO ACTIVITY.
C. LITERARY WORK SHOULD “SHOW HOW WE ARE ALL WRONGED AND WRONGERS, AND AVENGE ONE ANOTHER“. IN EVERY BOOK HE WROTE, HAWTHORNE DISCUSSES SIN AND EVIL.
D. ONE SOURCE OF EVIL THAT HAWTHORNE IS CONCERNED MOST IS OVER-REACHING INTELLECT, REFERRING TO SOMEONE WHO IS TOO PROUD, TOO SURE OF HIMSELF. HIS VIEW OF MAN AND HUMAN HISTORY ORIGINATES IN PURITANISM.
E. IN MANY OF HIS STORIES AND NOVELS, THE PURITAN CONCEPT OF LIFE IS CONDEMNED OR THE PURITAN PAST IS SHOWN IN AN ALMOST TOTALLY NEGATIVE LIGHT.
【题目解析】：本题主要考查霍桑作品的主题。1. 霍桑的文学世界是一个最混乱、最痛苦、最有问题的世界。2. 这与他“黑暗”的人生观有关。霍桑认为，每个人的一生都有邪恶的一面；但环境可能会唤醒它的活动。3. 文学作品就是“表现我们是如何被冤枉的和冤枉别人并且互相报复的”。霍桑在他写的每一本书中都谈到罪与恶。4. 霍桑最关心的一个邪恶的根源是过度的智慧，指的是过于骄傲，过于自信的人。他对人与人类历史的看法起源于清教主义。5. 在他的许多故事和小说中，清教徒的生活观念遭到谴责，或者清教徒的过去几乎被完全否定。