2012年天津外国语大学英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷.doc

2012年天津外国语大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷(总分：42.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、填空题(总题数：17，分数：34.00)1. 1by 2records the history of modern civilization advancing on the receding wilderness, and its basic conflict is between the protagonist who insists on man"s old forest freedom and the judge who believes that man remains savage without law and order.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________2."To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the 1. " These lines are taken from Nature by 2.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________3.Isabel Archer, who comes to Europe with a will to live a free life only to become the victim of two American expatriates" scheming, is the protagonist of 1by 2.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________4.In 1, Stephen Crane has 2as the historical setting to faithfully represent the cowardice and fear of the protagonist who tries to flee from the combat.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________5."The Burial of the Dead," "A Game of Chess," "The Fire Sermon," " Death by Water," and "What the Thunder Said" compose the five parts of the poem 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________6. 1"s play 2successfully portrays the Wingfields as a family of escapists who are indulged in their own illusory worlds.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________7.Most of 1"s heroes are Jewish intellectuals or writers who, facing violence and victimization, try to discover "the queerness of existence" and overcome it.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________8.In 1, the unnamed African American who is trapped in a coal-filled manhole recalls his past experiences from a small southern town to New York.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________9. 1is regarded by many critics as the earliest narrative poem in the history of British literature.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________10.John Bunyan is an English novelist of the 17th century. The main narrative technique he uses in his famous work The Pilgrim"s Progress is 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________11.In the 18th century, heroic couplet as a poetic medium reached its perfection in the hands of（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________12.In 1"s 2, the protagonist begins as a man of integrity and a pillar of his countiy, but ends with a tragic vision of human existence, voicing that " Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. "（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________13.The poem 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge literally relates how a king commands a palace to be built, but thematically suggests that a great poet has to touch hell and the unconscious in order to see into the essence of things and compose great poetry.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________14. 1by 2 traces the growth of young Pip from innocence to experience and from immaturity to maturity.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________15.In "My Last Duchess," Robert Browning employs 1as the poetic form to have the speaker reveal his inner psychology.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________16.The three major characters in 1"s masterpiece 2represent three different human archetypes in education, taste, and attitude toward life, with Stephen Dedalus the most cultured, Leopold Bloom in the middle of the social and educational ladder, and Molly settling comfortably at the bottom.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________17. 1is an example of paradox.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________二、分析题(总题数：4，分数：8.00)18.By Aristotle"s definition of tragedy, a tragic character suffers the change of fortune from good to bad, order to disorder, and this change is a result not of vice but of some great error or frailty in character. Analyze the tragic flaw of a character in American or British literature.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 19.As a theorist of short story, Edgar Allan Poe proposes that the first sentence should help bring out the single effect of the story. Explain what is the single effect of "The Fall of the House of Usher" and how it is achieved through the beginning sentence.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 20.Define and illustrate what the omniscient point of view is with reference to one novel by Jane Austen or Charles Dickens.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 21.Writers or poets are often lumped together as a group for the same artistic assertion they share or the same significant social event(s)they are influenced by. The Lost Generation is a particular term referring to the writers and artists who spoke for the young people that came of age during and shortly after the First World War, alternatively known as the World War I generation. Please describe the characteristics of " The Lost Generation" with references to writers and literary works.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________。