2011天津师大英语专业考研真题——英美文化
英美文化概况10套试题与答
英美文化概况10套试题与答第一套：Ⅰ.1. Sinn Fein is not a legal political party in Northern Ireland. F2. Northern Ireland is the smallest of the four nations, but is quitewell-known: in the world for its endless political problems. T3. The purpose of British education is not only to provide children withliteracy and the other basic skills but also to socialize children. T4. Sputniks are man-made satellites made by the Soviet Union. T5. Edinburgh is the largest city in Scotland. F6. In the seventeenth century, the English government encouraged peoplefrom Scotland and Northern England to emigrate to the north of Ireland, because they wanted to increase its control over Ireland. T7. When George W. Bush became president, his foreign strategy has twoprominent elements: isolationism and faith in military strength. F8. Britain, like Israel, has a written constitution of the sort which mostcountries have. F9. Today, the United States has two major political parties. One is theDemocratic Party and the other is the Republican Party. T10. The oldest institution of government in Britain is the Monarchy. T11. There are about 60 members of the Commonwealth. F12. Americans have to join a political party in order to vote or to be acandidate for public office.F13. The Servicemen's Readjustment Act, or GI Bill of Rights, gave veteranspriority in finding better jobs. F14. Pax Americana indicates American policy to create a world order dominatedby the United States. T15. Most people in Scotland speak the old Celti c language, called “Gaelic”F16. The UK was awarded a seat on the UN Security Council in recognition ofits continuing importance in world politics. F17. Easter is the biggest and best loved British holiday. F18. Northern Ireland today is governed by separate jurisdictions: that ofRepublic of Ireland and that of Great Britain. F19. It is commonly believed that Boxing Day involves the sport of boxing. F20. Harvard College was originally founded to train government officials. FⅡ.21. Who were the ancestors of the English and the founders of England? AA. The Anglo-Saxons.B. The Normans.C. The Vikings.D. The Romans.22. Which of the following was NOT one of the three forces that led to the modern development of Europe? D A. The growth of capitalism. B. The Renaissance.C. The Religious Reformation.D. The Spiritual leadership of the Roman Catholic Church.23. Which countries are the permanent members of the UN Security Council? CA. France, China, Germany, Russia and Britain.B. The United States, France, Britain, Germany and Russia.C. China, Russia, France, Britain and the United States.D. China, Britain, France, the United States and Japan.24. What did the US mean by Containment? AA. It would use whatever means to prevent the Soviet Union from breakingout of its sphere of influence.B. It wanted to reverse the situation in which the Soviet Union reachedparity with the US in nuclear forceC. It planned to drag the Soviet Union into another round of arms raceD. It intended to shift the balance of terror25. Nowadays the British foreign policy is largely shaped by itsparticipation in CA. the CommonwealthB. the European Economic CommunityC. the United Nations, the EU, NATO, etcD. a European federal government26. Which of the following sports was NOT invented in Britain? CA. Football.B. Tennis.C. Basketball.D. Cricket.27. After the WWII, the United States became a stronger country, proved by the following facts except A.A. the US suffered no losses in the war.B. the US was the sole possessor of atomic bombs.C. the US had over 70% of the gold reserve of the world in its coffers.D. the US had over 50% of industrial production of the world in its hand.28. Lord Baltimore’s fe udal p lan failed NOT because D.A. there were more Protestant than Catholics in Maryland.B. the wilderness of the continent made the plan impossible.C. there was plenty of land while labor was scarce.D. the English king did not like the plan.29. Of which people is Robert Burns a national poet? CA. the Welsh peopleB. the Irish peopleC. the Scottish peopleD. the English people30. Which of the following is the only branch that can make federal laws, and levy federal taxes? BA. the executiveB. the legislativeC. the judicialD. the president31. Which of the following statements is NOT correct? cA. There are no legal restraints upon Parliament.B. Strictly speaking, the Queen is part of the Parliament.C. Parliament has no power to change the terms of the Constitution.D. Parliament has the supreme power of passing laws.32. The Norman Conquest in English history happened in C.A. 1035B. 1042C. 1066D. 160633. Which of the following can not be found in London? AA. teahousesB. art galleriesC. museumsD. theatres34. “No taxation without representation” was the rallying cry of D.A. the settlers of VirginiaB. the people of PennsylvaniaC. the colonists in New EnglandD. the people of the 13 colonies on the eve of the American Revolution35. Where do the majority of people in Scotland live? BA. in the HighlandsB. in the LowlandsC. in the UplandsD. in the west of Scotland36. Which of t he following was not an activity inShakespeare’s time? AA. attending the Grand NationalB. having a drink at a pubC. working the landD. playing football37. Which of the following is NOT a true description of the Queen’s role?AA. The Queen selects the Prime Minister and the Cabinet.B. The Queen symbolizes the tradition and unity of the British state.C. The Queen acts as a confidante to the Prime Minister.D. The Queen is the temporal head of the Church of England.38. Colored eggs and bunny are traditional symbols of AA. EasterB. ChristmasC. ValentineD. New Year’s Day39. Which of the following is a privately funded university in Britain? DA. the University of CambridgeB. the University of OxfordC. the University of EdinburghD. the University of Buckingham40. Where is the international tennis championship held? BA. WembleyB. WimbledonC. LondonD. EdinburghⅢ. 41. The Functions of Parliament42. Puritanism43. Grammar School44. The declaration of Independence45. The strategy of PreemptionⅣ. Answer one of the following two questions. （本大题任选一题，20分）46. What are the purposes of the British education system? Please commenton these purposes.47. What are the foundations of Britain’s foreign policy?第二套：Ⅰ. Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F). （本大题共20小题，每小题1分，共20分）1. The first English permanent settlement was founded in California.F2. When people outside the UK talk about England, they mistake it as Britainsometimes. t3. By the early 1760s, the 13 English colonies in North America were readyto separate themselves from Europe. T4. Sputniks are man-made satellites made by the Soviet Union. T5. Edinburgh is the largest city in Scotland. F6. Britain is both a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy. T7. When George W. Bush became president, his foreign strategy has twoprominent elements: isolationism and faith in military strength.8. American foreign policy has been swinging betweenisolationism andinterventionism since WWII. F9. Today, the United States has two major political parties. One is theDemocratic Party and the other is the Republican Party.10. Easter is the biggest and best loved British holiday. F11. The origin of Bowling lies in the victory celebration ceremony by theancient warriors. t12. Americans have to join a political party in order to vote or to be acandidate for public office. F13. The divine right of the king means the sovereign derived his authorityfrom his subjects. F14. The British host a large American military presence and there are 63American military bases in the UK. T15. Most people in Scotland speak the old Celtic language, called “Gaelic”. F16. British universities are public bodies which receive funds from centralgovernment. T17. When the War of Independence was over, the United States was one unifiednation as it is today. F18. One of the things that decide whether an applicant can be accepted bya college is his/her scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Tests. t19. It is commonly believed that Boxing Day involves thesport of boxing. F20. Wales is rich in coal deposits. TⅡ. Choose the answer that best com pletes the statement or answers the question. （本大题共20小题，每小题1分，共20分）21. Which of the following was NOT one of the three forces that led to themodern development of Europe? DA. The growth of capitalism.B. The Renaissance.C. The Religious Reformation.D. The Spiritual leadership of the Roman Catholic Church.22. The expenditure in American public schools is guided or decided by D.A. teachersB. studentsC. headmasterD. boards of education23. Which of the following is not involved in making the British foreignpolicy? AA. The Queen of BritainB. The Foreign and Commonwealth OfficeC. The Prime Minister and the Cabinet.D. The Ministry of Defense and the Treasury.24. What did the US mean by containment? AA. It would use whatever means to prevent the Soviet Union from breakingout of its sphere of influence.B. It wanted to reverse the situation in which the Soviet Union reachedparity with the US in nuclear forceC. It planned to drag the Soviet Union into another round of arms raceD. It intended to shift the balance of terror25. In the United States school systems, which of the following divisionsis true? CA. Elementary school, grammar school.B. Elementary school, junior high school.C. Elementary school, secondary school.D. Junior high school, senior high school.26. Which of the following is NOT true of London? DA. the cultural centerB. the business centerC. The financial centerD. the sports center27. Which of the following was not an activity in Shakespeare’s time? AA. attending the Grand NationalB. having a drink at a pubC. working the landD. playing football28. Which of the following states refused to participate in the Constitutional Convention? BA. VirginiaB. Rhode IslandC. New YorkD. Maryland29. The following were the main Reformation leaders exceptB.A. Martin Luther.B. Martin Luther King.C. John Calvin.D. The English King Henry Ⅷ.30. Which of the following is truly a sport of the royal family? DA. cricketB. skiingC. golfingD. horse racing31. In Britain, ___ formally appoints important government ministers, judges, etc. bA. the QueenB. the Prime MinisterC. the Lord President of the CouncilD. the Speaker of the House of Commons32. Colored eggs and bunny are traditional symbols of A.A. EasterB. ChristmasC. ValentineD. New Year’s Day33. Which of the following is a privately funded university in Britain? DA. the University of CambridgeB. the University of OxfordC. the University of EdinburghD. the University of Buckingham34. In Britain, children from the age of 5 to 16 B.A. can legally receive partly free education.B. can legally receive completely free education.C. can not receive free education at all.D. can not receive free education if their parents are rich.35. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of British government? AA. It offers the Queen high political status and supreme power.B. It is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy.C. It is the oldest representative democracy in the world.D. It has no written form of Constitution.36. Lord Baltimore’s feudal plan failed because D.A. there were more Protestant than Catholics in Maryland.B. the wilderness of the continent made the plan impossible.C. there was plenty of land while labor was scarce.D. the English king did not like the plan.37. In order to go to university in the US, secondary school students mustmeet the following requirements except that D.A. they have high school records and recommendations from their teachersB. they make good impressions during the interviewsC. they get good scores in the Scholastic Aptitude TestsD. they pass the college entrance examinations38. Of which people is Robert Burns a national poet? CA. the Welsh peopleB. the Irish peopleC. the Scottish peopleD. the English people39. Why did the government decide to replace the power-sharing policy with“direct rule” from London? DA. the power-sharing policy was not accepted by the majority of Protestants.B. the Northern Irish Parliament could not govern the power effectively.C. the power-sharing policy couldn’t be carried out.D. all the above40. Which of the following schools would admit children without referenceto their academic abilities? AA. Comprehensive schoolsB. Secondary schoolsC. Independent schoolsD. Grammar schoolsⅢ.Tell what you know about the following in your own words. （本大题共5小题，每小题8分，共40分）41. Comprehensive schools42. The Bill of Rights43. The making of Britain’s foreign policy44. The functions of Parliament45. The strategy of PreemptionⅣ. Answer one of the following questions. （本大题任选一题，20分）46. In what way did Puritanism influence American culture?47. How do you understand that Britain has a “special relationship” with th第三套：Ⅰ. Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F). （本大题共20小题，每小题1分，共20分）1. Britain is both a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy.T2. The first English permanent settlement was founded in California. F3. Great Britain includes 3 constituent countries: England, Scotland andWales. F4. Most people in Scotland speak the o ld Celtic language, called “Gaelic”F5. Edinburgh is the largest city in Scotland. F6. The purpose of British education is not only to provide children withliteracy and the other basic skills but also to socialize children.T7. Sinn Fein is not a legal political party in Northern Ireland.F8. Christmas Pantomime is one of the three Christmas traditions that areparticularly British. T9. Today, the United States has two major political parties. One is theDemocratic Party, formed before 1800. The other is the Republican Party,formed in the 1850s, by people in the states of the North and West. T10. The game of golf was invented by the Scottish. T11. When the War of Independence was over, the United States was one unifiednation as it is today. F12. Grammar schools selects children at the age of 11 and provide them witha general education. F13. American foreign policy has been swinging between isolationism andinterventionism since WWII. F14. Pax Americana indicates American policy to create a world order dominatedby the United States. T15.Harvard College was originally founded to train government officials.F16. The UK was awarded a seat on the UN Security Council in recognition ofits contribution in setting up the United Nations. F17. Easter is the biggest and best loved British holiday. F18. American foreign policy has been swinging between isolationism andinterventionism since WWII. F19. One of the things that decide whether an applicant can be accepted bya college is his/her scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Tests. t20. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Abraham Lincoln were regardedas the founding fathers of the United States of America. FⅡ. Choose the answer that best completes the statement or answers the question. （本大题共20小题，每小题1分，共20分）21. Which of the following is not involved in making the British foreignpolicy? AA. The Queen of BritainB. The Foreign and Commonwealth OfficeC. The Prime Minister and the Cabinet.D. The Ministry of Defense and the Treasury.22. Which of the following was NOT one of the three forces that led to themodern development of Europe? DA. The growth of capitalism.B. The Renaissance.C. The Religious Reformation.D. The Spiritual leadership of the Roman Catholic Church.23. The expenditure in American public schools is guided or decided by D.A. teachersB. studentsC. headmasterD. boards of education24. What did the US mean by containment? AA. It would use whatever means to prevent the Soviet Union from breakingout of its sphere of influence.B. It wanted to reverse the situation in which the Soviet Union reachedparity with the US in nuclear forceC. It planned to drag the Soviet Union into another round of arms raceD. It intended to shift the balance of terror25. Which of the following sports was not invented in Britain?CA. footballB. tennisC. basketballD. cricket26. Which celebration particularly happens on the Queen’s birthday?CA. BonfiresB. The Orange MarchC. Trooping the ColorD. Masquerades27. Which of the following is Not a characteristic of British government? AA. It offers the Queen high political status and supreme power.B. It is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy.C. It is the oldest representative democracy in the world.D. It has no written form of Constitution.28. Which of the following states refused to participate in the Constitutional Convention? BA. VirginiaB. Rhode IslandC. New YorkD. Maryland29. The following were the main Reformation leaders exceptB.A. Martin Luther.B. Martin Luther King.C. John Calvin.D. The English King Henry Ⅷ.30. Which of the following is the only branch that can makefederal laws, andlevy federal taxes? BA. the executiveB. the legislativeC. the judicialD. the president31. Which of the following statements is NOT correct? CA. They are no legal restraints upon Parliament.B. Strictly speaking, the Queen is part of the Parliament.C. Parliament has no power to change the terms of the Constitution.D. Parliament has the supreme power of passing laws.32. Which of the following is truly a sport of the royal family? DA. cricketB. skiingC. golfingD. horse racing33. Which of the following is NOT true of London? DA. the cultural centerB. the business centerC. The financial centerD. the sports center34. Which of the following was not an activity in Shakespeare’s time? AA. attending the Grand NationalB. having a drink at a pubC. working the landD. playing football35. Where do the majority of people in Scotland live? BA. in the HighlandsB. in the LowlandsC. in the UplandsD. in the west of Scotland36. Which of the following is true about the British Commonwealth? dA. Members of nations are joined together politically.B. The Commonwealth has special powers.C. The decision to become a member of the Commonwealth is made by Britain.D. It is a free association of independent countries that were once colonies of Britain.37. In Britain, ___ formally appoints important government ministers, judges, etc. BA. the QueenB. the Prime MinisterC. the Lord President of the CouncilD. the Speaker of the House of Commons38. Colored eggs and bunny are traditional symbols of A.A. EasterB. ChristmasC. ValentineD. New Year’s Day39. Which of the following is a privately funded university in Britain? DA. the University of CambridgeB. the University of OxfordC. the University of EdinburghD. the University of Buckingham40. In Britain, children from the age of 5 to 16 B.A. can legally receive partly free education.B. can legally receive completely free education.C. can not receive free education at all.D. can not receive free education if their parents are rich.Ⅲ.Tell what you know about the following in your own words. （本大题共5小题，每小题8分，共40分）41. Comprehensive schools42. The Bill of Rights43. The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act44. The functions of the British Parliament.45. George WashingtonⅣ. Answer one of the following two questions. （本大题任选一题，20分）46. Discuss the similarities and differences in Great Britain and the Unite concerningthe goal of education47.what is the US containment policy? Is it successful? Illustrate your point wi第四套：Ⅰ. Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F). （本大题共20小题，每小题1分，共20分）1. Cardiff, the capital of Wales, is a large city. F2. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Abraham Lincoln were regardedas the founding fathers of the United States of America. F3. The Scots and the Welsh have a strong sense of being British. F4. The most important single factor which influences Britishpolicy-makersis its history. t5. Most British people are Protestants while most Irish people areCatholics.F6. Northern Ireland today is governed by separate jurisdictions: that ofRepublic of Ireland and that of Great Britain. F7. When the War of Independence was over, the United States was one unifiednation as it is today. F8. Independent schools get money mainly through the private sector andtuition rates, with some government support. T9. The first English permanent settlement was founded in California. F10. Britain, like Israel, has a written constitution of the sort which mostcountries have. F11. The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, or GI Bill of Rights, gave veteranspriority in finding better jobs. F12. British universities are public bodies which receive funds fromcentral government. T13. In 1948 President Truman put forward the Truman Doctrine, which isgenerally regarded as the formal declaration of the implementation of the US containment foreign policy. T14. The biggest Bonfire Night celebration is held in London.F15. When Ronald Reagan became president in 1982, he wanted to beat the SovietUnion in the space technology race and so he initiated the Star Wars project. T16. The Prime Minister and Cabinet decide on the general direction on Britain’s foreign policy. T17. The divine right of the king means the sovereign derived his authority from his subjects. F18. The British host a large American military presence and there are 63 American military bases in the UK. T19. Sputniks are man-made satellites made by the Soviet Union. T20. Christmas Pantomime is one of the three Christmas traditions that are particularly British. TⅡ. Choose the answer that best completes the statement or answers the question. （本大题共20小题，每小题1分，共20分）21. Of which people is Robert Burns a national poet? CA. the Welsh peopleB. the Irish peopleC. the Scottish peopleD. the English people22. Lord Baltimore’s feu dal plan failed because D.A. there were more Protestant than Catholics in Maryland.B. the wilderness of the continent made the plan impossible.C. there was plenty of land while labor was scarce.D. the English king did not like the plan.23. The Norman Conquest in English history happened in C.A. 1035B. 1042C. 1066D. 160624. Which of the following is the only branch that can make federal laws, and levy federal taxes? BA. the executiveB. the legislativeC. the judicialD. the president25. What did the US mean by containment? AA. It would use whatever means to prevent the Soviet Union from breaking outof its sphere of influence.B. It wanted to reverse the situation in which the Soviet Union reached parity with the US in nuclear forceC. It planned to drag the Soviet Union into another round of arms raceD. It intended to shift the balance of terror26. Easter commemorates D.A. the birth of Jesus ChristB. the Crucifixion of Jesus ChristC. the coming of springD. the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ27. In order to go to university in the US, secondary school students must meet the following requirements except that DA. they have high school records and recommendations from their teachersB. they make good impressions during the interviewsC. they get good scores in the Scholastic Aptitude TestsD. they pass the college entrance examinations28. Which of the following is NOT a true description of theQueen’s role? AA. The Queen selects the Prime Minister and the Cabinet.B. The Queen symbolizes the tradition and the Cabinet.C. The Queen acts as a confidante to the Prime Minister.D. The Queen is the temporal head of the Church of England.29. The expenditure in American public schools is guided or decided by D.A. teachersB. studentsC. headmasterD. boards of education30. When was the NATO founded? DA. In 1945.B. in 1955C. In 1948D. in 194931. Nowadays the British foreign policy is largely shaped by its participation in C.A. the CommonwealthB. the European Economic CommunityC. the United Nations, the EU, NATO, etc.D. a European federal government32. Who are the ancestors of the English and the founders of England? AA. the Anglo-SaxonsB. the NormansC. the VikingsD. the Romans33. When did President Nixon make a trip to China to improve relations with the People’s Republic of China? AA. In 1972B. In 1973C. In 1970D. In 197134. “No taxation without representation” was the rallying cry of D.A. the settlers of VirginiaB. the people of PennsylvaniaC. the colonists in New EnglandD. the people of the 13 colonies on the eve of the American Revolution35. The New Deal was started by A.A. Franklin RooseveltB. J. F. KennedyC. George WashingtonD. Thomas Jefferson36. The following were the main Reformation leaders exceptB.A. Martin Luther.B. Martin Luther King.C. John Calvin.D. The English King Henry Ⅷ37. Which of the following can not be found in London? AA. teahousesB. art galleriesC. museumsD. theatres38. Why did the government decide to replace the power-sharing policy with “direct rule” from London? DA. the power-sharing policy was not accepted by the majorityof Protestants.B. the Northern Irish Parliament could not govern the power effectively.C. the power-sharing policy couldn’t be carried out.D. all the above39. Which of the following is Not a feature of the House of Lords? CA. Lords do not receive salaries and many do not attend Parliament sittings.B. It consists of the Lords Spiritual and the Lords Temporal.C. The Lords are expected to present the interests of the public.D. Most of the Lords in the House of Lords are male.40. Which of the following sports was NOT invented in Britain? CA. Football.B. Tennis.C. Basketball.D. Cricket.Ⅲ.Tell what you know about the following in your own words. （本大题共5小题，每小题8分，共40分）41. The Open University42. The three traditions of Christmas in Britain43. The strategy of preemption 44. The functions of Parliament45. The Bill of RightsⅣ. Answer one of the following two questions. （本大题共任选一题， 20分）46. In what way did Puritanism influence American culture?47. What are some of the major powers of each of the three。
2011学科教学(英语)908英语教育理论
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[考研类试卷]2013年天津外国语大学英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷.doc
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[考研类试卷]2013年天津外国语大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷一、单项选择题1 The majority of Robert Burns' poems were written in the ______dialect.（A）Scottish（B）Welsh（C）Irish（D）Celtic2 Which of the following novels is written in epistolary style? ______（A）Moll Flanders（B）Tom Jones（C）The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman（D）Pamela, Or Virtue Rewarded3 Which of the following poems could be employed to explain Wordsworth's theory of poetry writing as "a spontaneous overflow of powerful emotion" "recollected in tranquility"? ______（A）I wandered lonely as a cloud（B）Ode on a Grecian Urn（C）The Rime of the Ancient Mariner（D）To Autumn4 Direct psychoanalysis could not possibly be found in the works of______.（A）Edgar Allan Poe（B）Washington Irving（C）Henry James（D）Ernest Hemingway5 Compared with the writings of Mark Twain's, Henry James's fiction is noted for their______.（A）frontier vernacular（B）rich colloquialism（C）refined elegant language（D）vulgarly descriptive words6 Which of the following plays is highly autobiographic? ______（A）A Streetcar Named Desire（B）Death of a Salesman（C）Long Day's Journey into Night（D）The Hairy Ape7 ______doesn't directly employ sexual impotence to symbolize spiritual poverty in his works.（A）Ernest Hemingway（B）T. S. Eliot（C）Walt Whitman（D）Edward Albee二、填空题8 The human defect of______mainly causes the tragedy of Macbeth.9 In John Milton's______, Satan seems to embody the human fight for freedom and against control in life.10 "Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?" The speaker is______.11 Heroic couplet is one of the traditional verse forms in English poetry. ______is believed to be the first English poet to have adopted this form in his poems.12 Great Expectations is a novel of Bildungsroman, or a novel of______.13 Determinism is a theme in Joseph Conrad's ______.14 "Art for art's sake" finds a fluent expression in Oscar Wilde's only novel ______, but is disapproved of by______, the author of Pygmalion.15 Ulysses is a highly symbolic novel, which bears a striking resemblance to Homer's______.16 " Let us go then, you and IWhen the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table..."These lines are taken from a poem entitled______.17 "Young Goodman Brown" is intended to reveal that______exists in the hearts of all human beings.18 "The universe is composed of Nature and the soul... Spirit is present everywhere. " This is the voice out of the book______, which pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New England Transcendentalism.19 Life is real! Life is earnest!And the grave is not its goalDust thou art, to dust returnestWas not spoken of the soul.These lines are taken from a poem entitled______.20 ______tore the mask of gentility to pieces and wrote about the helplessness of man, his insignificance in a cold world, and his lack of dignity in face of the crushing forces of environment and heredity.21 The Compsons, the Sartorises, and the Sutpens are representative southern aristocratic families in ______'s novels, and they are all portrayed as prisoners of the past, who cannot reconcile with the fall of the south after______.22 In The Woman Warrior,______rewrites the legend of Chinese heroine to express her desire to become a woman warrior in a racist and sexist society.23 " A moist young moon hung above the mist of a neighboring meadow. " In the sentence from Conclusive Evidence, Vladimir Nabokov uses the figure of speech called ______.三、分析题24 Many writers seem to believe in the therapeutic and revitalizing power of nature. Illustrate the image of nature and its impact on human beings in a specific novel, play, poem or short story by an American or British writer/playwright/poet.25 At the end of Tess' story, Hardy wrote that " ' Justice ' was done, and the President of the Immortals(in Aeschylean phrase)had ended his sport with Tess. " How do you understand this sentence? In what sense is Tess' story tragic?26 In For Whom the Bell Tolls, the readers see a clear change of Hemingway's former individualistic attitude shown as in The Sun Also Rises to a fresh faith of social destinies of men. Illustrate this point on the basis of these two novels.27 The ship(or the boat, or the like)has been a key symbol in western literature. W. H. Auden holds that there are mainly two views of a ship: as a vessel isolated in the ocean, thus a microcosm of society; and as a vehicle of escape from the shore, thus an image of freedom. Elaborate on the symbolic meaning of the ship/boat, or a boarded floating object in one American or British novel.。
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英美文化答案解析【篇一：英美文化答案解析】1、introduction to course1.1、western names1.2、what is culture1、cultureis the beliefs, ( ) and way-of-life of a community or society.a、traditionsb、habitsc、customsd、costumes 我的答案：c得分：33.3 分2、which one is not the keyaspect of chinese culture?( )a、chinese foodb、spring festivelc、chinese medicined、football 我的答案：d 得分：33.3 分3、chineseculture is better than american culture.( )2、geography of the usa2.1、topography of the usa1、which is the largest statesby population?( )a、texasb、new yorkc、californiad、florida 我的答案：c 得分：33.3 分2、() and hawaii are seperated from american mainland.a、coloradob、indianac、alabamad、alaska 我的答案：d 得分：33.3 分 3、 the two significant mountain ranges ofamerican are ( ) and appalachian mountains. a、rocky mountains b、andes mountains c、alps mountains d、atlas mountains 我的答案：a 得分：33.3 分2.2、three icons of america1、why is yellowstone national park important?( ) a、becauseit is the first national park in the world. b、because it is in america. c、because it is the biggest national park in america. d、because it is the first national park in america.我的答案：a 得分：33.3 分2、washington, jefferson, () and lincoln s faces are made onthe mount rushmore.( ) a、madison b、roosevelt c、kennedy d、adams我的答案：b 得分：33.3 分3、which country provided the statue of liberty to america?( )a、the united kingdomb、canadac、australiad、france 我的答案：d 得分：33.3 分2.3、comparison of the usa and china (1)1、in 2013, the populationof china is about ( ) more than that of america.a、3 timesb、4 timesc、5 timesd、6 times 我的答案：b 得分：20.0 分2、which one is wrong, about thegeography of america and china?( )a、china has more railways than america.b、america has two neighbour countries, canada and mexico.c、both america and china s climates vary greatly.d、america s land is less than china s, but water in america is more than china. 我的答案：a得分：20.0 分3、which is notthe major environment issues of america?( )a、air pollutionb、water shortagec、loss of agricultural landd、desertification 我的答案：c 得分：20.0 分4、thetotal area of china is bigger than america.( )5、america spopulation growth rate is lower than china s.( )2.4、comparison of the usa and china (2)1、allthe countries in the world adopt the metric system, except ( ), myanmar and liberia. a、the uk b、the usac、franced、japan 我的答案：b 得分：25.0 分2、in china,the life expectancy is ( ) years.a、70b、72c、75d、79 我的答案：c 得分：25.0 分3、thefirst three ethnic groups in the usa are ( ).a、white, hispanic and blackb、white, black and hispanicc、white, black and asiand、white, asian and black 我的答案：a得分：25.0 分4、1kilogram is ( ) pounds.a、0.6b、1.7c、2.1d、2.2 我的答案：d 得分：25.0 分3、economy of the usa3.1、overview1、which countryis the second largest economy in the world?( )a、chinab、japanc、south koread、germany 我的答案：d 得分：0.0 分2、which one offollowing is not an american company?( )a、googleb、cocacolac、facebookd、airbus 我的答案：d 得分：33.3 分3、percapita means a person.( )我的答案：√得分：33.3 分3.2、comparison of usa and china1、which one is right about thelabour force in america and china?( )3.3、agriculture in the usa1、(), missouri, iowa, oklahoma and california have the most farms in the usa.a、arizonab、marylandc、texasd、nevada4、in 2008, most ofamerican agriculture imports were from china.( )3.4、global financial crisis1、which one offollowing is wrong about the gfc recession? ( )a、banks stopped lending.b、companies cut jobs.c、stock market crashed.d、people got more job opportunity. 我的答案：d 得分：25.0 分 2、recession is ( ) of negative gdp growth. a、1 quarter b、2 quarters c、3 quarters d、4 quarters 我的答案：d得分：25.0 分 3、the gfc recession started in ( ). a、the usa b、the uk c、japan d、france 我的答案：a 得分：25.0 分 4、china was not affected much by the gfc recession.( ) 我的答案：√得分：25.0 分3.5、a hero and a villain1、berniemadoff s clients lost about ( ) billion dollars.a、10b、204、history of america4.1、discovery of the new world1、themain european power was spain, france, ( ) and great britain.4.2、british colonies1、thebritain founded ( ) colonies along the east coast in america.a、11b、12c、13d、14 我的答案：c 得分：25.0 分2、thefirst fight between local people and british soldiers was at ( ).a、washington d.c.b、new yorkc、bostond、lexington and concord 我的答案：d 得分：25.0 分 3、john adams, roger sherman, robert livingston, thomas jefferson and ( ) wrote the declaration of independence. a、benjamin franklin b、abraham lincoln c、george washington d、paul revere 我的答案：a 得分：25.0 分 4、british people migrated to america with the ship called mayflower in 1620.( ) 我的答案：√得分：25.0 分4.3、american war of independence1、thewar of independence was between ( ).4.4、building the new nation1、therewere ( ) chief justice in the supreme court.a、 1b、3c、 8d、9 我的答案：a 得分：25.0 分2、alexanderhamilton was the first secretary of ( ) of america.4.5、a hero, traitor and genius1、which one is wrongabout benjamin franklin?( )a、he was also a doctor.b、he loved reading.c、he startedthe first public library in philadelphia. d、he was 81 when he went to the constitutional convention. 我的答案：a 得分：20.0分2、georgewashington declared ( )a、thanksgiving dayb、christmasc、halloweend、new year s day 我的答案：a 得分：20.0 分3、which one is right about georgewashington?( )5、benjamin franklin wasborn in a rich family and well educated.（）4.6、timeline of major events (1800-1899)1、thefirst railway was built in ( ).a、1827b、1828c、1829d、1830 我的答案：b 得分：33.3 分 2、the war with mexico was started in ( ). a、1846 b、1847 c、1848 d、1849 我的答案：a 得分：33.3 分 3、the first telephone line was built in 1877.( ) 我的答案：√得分：33.3 分4.7、territorial expansion1、americapurchased louisiana territory with ( ) million dollars from france.a、 2b、5c、10d、15 我的答案：d 得分：20.0 分 2、which one is wrong about hawaii?( ) a、it is in the atlantic ocean. b、there are 8 main islands. c、it is the 50th states of america. d、america took over hawaii government from the local king. 我的答案：a 得分：20.0 分 3、texas was the ( ) state of america. a、26th b、27th c、28th d、29th 我的答案：c 得分：20.0 分 4、the usa purchased florida from ( ). a、spain4.8、the american civil war1、which one offollowing is wrong about abraham lincoln?( )5、in the civilwar, the north lost more people than the south.( )我的答案：√得分：20.0 分4.9、america s economic development1、which one is wrongabout john d. rockefeller?( ).a、he established his first oil refinery when he was 24.b、at first, he worked as a bookkeeper.c、when he was 20, hestarted his own company. d、he donated all his money to the rockefeller foundation.我的答案：d 得分：33.3 分 2、which one is wrong aboutthomas edison?( ) a、he was educated in school. b、his firstjob is telegraph operator. c、he had many patents. d、he invented electric light bulb. 我的答案：a 得分：33.3 分 3、because the northern america is cold, james naismith invented basketball which is a good sport for winter.( ) 我的答案：√得分：33.3 分4.10、timeline of major events (1900-2014)1、thefirst long distance telephone was built in ( ).a、1915b、1916c、1917d、1918 我的答案：a 得分：33.3 分 2、in ( ), the first humans walked on the moon. a、1967 b、1968 c、1969 d、1970 我的答案：c 得分：33.3 分3、presidentnixon visited china in ( ).a、1971b、1972c、1973d、1974 我的答案：b 得分：33.3 分4.11、the panama canal1、thepanama canal was finally built by a ( ) consortium.a、franceb、italyc、britaind、america 我的答案：d 得分：33.3 分 2、why did the french consortium gave up to build the canal?( )4.12、the great depression1、which one is wrongabout franklin delano roosevelt?( )4.13、the cold war1、why didthe cold war avoid direct conflict?( )a、because the second world war was just finished.5、because4.14、911 war on terror1、which one is wrongabout 9/11?( )5、political system of america 15.1、the american constitution1、which is notthe three basic principles of the consititution?( )a、republicb、federationc、rule of lawd、freedom 我的答案：c 得分：0.0 分 2、( ) was elected as the chairman of the constitutional convention. a、abraham lincoln b、george washington c、benjamin franklin d、alexander hamilton 我的答案：b 得分：25.0 分 3、the constituional convention was heldin philadelphia.( ) 我的答案：√得分：25.0 分4、theamerican consitituion is only 4 pages.( )我的答案：√得分：25.0 分5.2、a government of 3 branches1、thereare ( ) justices in the supreme court.a、 6b、7c、 8d、9 我的答案：d 得分：25.0 分 2、the legislative branch is to ( ). a、interpret laws b、execute laws c、change laws d、make laws 我的答案：d 得分：25.0 分 3、there are ( ) congressional districts in the house of representatives.a、200b、2315.3、characteristics of the constitution1、theamerican bill of rights was effective in ( ).a、1787b、1786c、1791d、1792 我的答案：c 得分：25.0 分2、president obamais the ( ) president of america.6、political system of america 26.1、political parties1、thesymbol of the democratic party is ( ).a、eagleb、elephantc、donkeyd、horse4、themembership of the democratic party is hard.( )6.2、voting1、registeringto vote costs ( ).6.3、elections1、in (), barack obama was elected as the 44th president of the usa.a、2006b、2007c、2008d、2009 我的答案：c 得分：25.0 分 2、the american president can be elected for ( ). a、many times4、in 2012presidential election, mitt romney is from republican party.( )我的答案：√得分：25.0 分7、religion in america7.1、what is religion1、which is notthe reason why people are religious?( )7.2、major religions1、thebiggest religion by followers is ( ).a、islamb、hinduismc、christianityd、buddhism 我的答案：c 得分：33.3 分 2、people follow hinduism are mainly from ( ).7.3、christianity1、about () of christians belong to catholics.a、45%b、50%c、55%d、60% 我的答案：c 得分：25.0 分 2、the leader of catholic church is called ( ) a、priest b、pastor c、disciple d、pope 我的答案：d 得分：25.0 分 3、originally, the christians were called catholics.( ) 我的答案：√得分：25.0 分4、thereare no catholics in china.( )7.4、religion in america1、accordingto the 2008 aris, ( ) of american follow christianity.a、76%b、70%c、51%d、40% 我的答案：a 得分：25.0 分 2、according to aris, in 1990, 2001, 2008, the number of christian, catholic and ( ) decease. a、judaismb、islamc、protestantd、no religion 我的答案：c 得分：25.0 分 3、which is not the key characteristics of religion in america?( ) a、seperation of church and state b、variety of belief c、concerned with morality d、helping everyone in the world 我的答案：d 得分：25which is not the reason why people are religious.0 分4、agnostic is 100%certain that there is no god.( )7.5、china1、why doesn t western scholarsthink confucianism is religion?( )8、way of life 18.1、way of life (1-1)1、thesuper bowl is usually held ( ).a、at the end of januaryb、in marchc、in may4、in 2013, theseattle seahawks was the best defensive team during the season.( )我的答案：√得分：25.0 分8.2、way of life (1-2)1、michaelphelps won ( ) olympic medals.8.3、way of life (1-3)1、themost popular pets in america is ( ).a、dogb、fishc、birdd、cat 我的答案：d 得分：33.3 分 2、in america, about ( ) of household have at least one pet.a、60%b、65%c、70%d、75% 我的答案：b 得分：33.3 分 3、it s expensive to have a horse.( ) 我的答案：√得分：33.3 分8.4、way of life (1-4)1、why don tmany people in new york city want a car?( )a、because car is expensive in new york city.b、becausetraffic is bad in new york city. c、because there is no place to park cars in new york city. d、because the number of cars is limited by government. 我的答案：c 得分：25.0 分 2、in 2013,the best seller in china was ( ). a、gm b、ford c、toyota d、volkswagen 我的答案：c 得分：0.0 分 3、which car companyhas the most market in america?( ) a、gm b、ford c、toyota d、honda 我的答案：b 得分：0.0 分 4、in america and australia, people prefer to big motorbikes.( ) 我的答案：√得分：25.0 分8.5、way of life (1-5)1、in american countries,( ) has the highest homicide rate.a、usab、brazilc、jamaicad、honduras 我的答案：a 得分：0.0 分 2、which is not the reason why american people like guns.( ) a、personal protection4、 overthe lasr few years, guns are becoming more and more popularin america.( )5、theviolent crime rate delines when the incarceration rate increases.( )我的答案：√得分：20.0 分9、way of life 29.1、way of life 2-11、68% ofthe 79 inventors with more than 300 utility paten families are from ( ).9.2、way of life 2-21、the9.3、way of life 2-31、which is rightabout american college?( )9.4、way of life 2-41、45is belong to ( ) at the stages in a person s life. a、young adult b、middle age c、mature d、senior 我的答案：b 得分：33.3 分 2、when is the independent day of america?( ) a、3rd june b、4th june c、3rd july d、4th july 我的答案：d 得分：33.3 分 3、10%of people in america use left hand.( ) 我的答案：√得分：33.3 分9.5、way of life 2-51、whois the most powerful person according to the 2013 forbeslist?( )10、way of life 310.1、way of life 3-11、which is wrongabout american people?( )a、american people are patriotic.b、american people like totalk about politics and religion. c、american people are outspoken. d、american people respect time. 我的答案：b 得分：25.0 分 2、which one of following is polite in western culture?( )a、throwing paper on the groundb、smoking in restaurantc、spitting in the streetd、waiting bus in a queue 我的答案：d 得分：25.0 分 3、in western countries, eye contact is important.( ) 我的答案：√得分：25.0 分4、in western countries, peopledon t always say thank you to other people.( )10.2、way of life 3-21、in america, it s commonto add ( ) to a bill as a tip.a、10%-15%b、15%c、15%-20%d、20% 我的答案：c 得分：25.0 分 2、which one of following statement is wrong?( ) a、in western countries, drivers can speak on the mobile phonewhile driving. b、in western countries, when pedestrians are walking on zebra crossing, cars must stop. c、in western countries, you should chew with mouth closed. d、in western countries, before taking more food, you should finish what you have in your mouth. 我的答案：a 得分：25.0 分 3、the first course in western food is called (). a、main course b、dessert 10.3、way of life 3-31、which statementabout western marriage is wrong?( )4、manywestern students go on a gap year after finishing highschool.( )我的答案：√得分：25.0 分10.4、way of life 3-41、which one offollowing is not the feature of australia?( )a、koalab、kangarooc、aboriginesd、maoris 我的答案：d 得分：33.3 分 2、the capital city of australia is ( ). a、sydney b、canberra c、melbourne d、brisbane 我的答案：b 得分：33.3 分3、most islandof australia is dessert.( )我的答案：√得分：33.3 分【篇二：英美文化答案解析】圣才学习网是一家为全国各类考试和专业课学习提供高清视频课程、3d电子书、3d题库、圣才图书等学习产品的教育类网站，拥有近100种考试（含418个考试科目）、194种经典教材（含英语、经济、管理、证券、金融等共16大类），合计近万小时的高清视频课程，包括考研考博、英语类、证券类、管理类、心理类、工程类、医学类等34个类别的考试和经典教材。
2009年天津外国语学院英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷.doc
2009年天津外国语学院英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷(总分：58.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、单项选择题(总题数：15，分数：30.00)1.Beowulf, the oldest great long poem ever written in English, is composed in a form of______.（分数：2.00）A.epicsB.lyricsC.folk songsD.sagas2.Geoffrey Chaucer planned originally to have each of the pilgrims tell______stories on the way to Canterbury and the same number of stories on the way back in his famous The Canterbury Tales.（分数：2.00）A.1B.2C.3D.43.Christopher Marlow was born only two months before William Shakespeare. In his life time he wrote some famous tragedies such as Tamburlain, The Jew of Malta and Dr. Faustus. All these tragedies portray a hero who passionately pursues______.（分数：2.00）A.moneyB.powerC.territoryD.women4.The poetry of John Donne represents a sharp break from the poetry of his predecessors in the Eliz-abethian era. One of the outstanding features in his poetry is " conceit " which means______.（分数：2.00）A.ironyB.satireC.elaborated metaphorD.contrast5.In addition to Paradise Lost, John Milton" s another famous poem Lycidas is a______in which he uses some artificial imagery supplied by an idyllic shepherd" s existence to bewail the loss of a friend.（分数：2.00）A.pastoral elegyB.odesC.cantosD.ballads6.Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele are famous English essayists. They developed a new type of English writing, periodic essays. They often publish their writings in a journal which is called______.（分数：2.00）A.The GuardianB.The AtlanticC.New YorkerD.The Spectator7.The central character J. Alfred Prufrock in T. S. Eliot" s famous poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is .______.（分数：2.00）A.an old manB.a godlike figureC.a restless young manD.a muse8.E. M. Forster is a novelist but also a novel critic. His famous book on novel criticism is entitled （分数：2.00）A.Politics and the English LanguageB.Aspects of the NovelC.The Rise of the NovelD.A Room of One"s Own9.Harold Pinter is a contemporary British dramatist. His plays are characterized by the following EXCEPT______.（分数：2.00）A.pauses and silence in dialoguesB.mysterious motivation of charactersC.spacious confinementD.happy ending10.Which of the following words does not describe the features of Irving" s writings?______（分数：2.00）A.decorumB.humorC.musicalityD.imagination11.Which of the following works by Henry James does not deal with " the international theme"?______（分数：2.00）A.Daisy MillerB.The Turn of the ScrewC.The Portrait of a LadyD.The Ambassadors12.Which of the following pairs of characters does not form a contrast of ideas between them?______（分数：2.00）A.Natty Bumpoo and Judge TempleB.Ichabod Crane and Brom BonesC.Jay Gatsby and Nick CarrawayD.Ishmael and Ahab13.Which of the following pairs concerning the writer and the main setting in his/her works is incorrect?（分数：2.00）A.Kate Chopin—LouisanaB.Willa Cather—GeorgiaC.O. Henry—New YorkD.Sherwood Anderson—Ohio14.Of the four Compson Children, ______" s life embodies all the vices of the modern world.（分数：2.00）A.QuentinB.CaddyC.JasonD.Benjy15."I am cruel only to be kind to you" The rhetorical device used in this statement is______.（分数：2.00）A.MetonymyB.MetaphorC.OxymoronD.Allusion二、填空题(总题数：10，分数：20.00)16.Each literary movement can be seen as a strong reaction to the previous aesthetic principles. Romanticism in the history of English literature can be presented as a strong reaction to 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________17.With the narrative technique of stream of consciousness, modern novelists aim at revealing 1of characters.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________18.W.B.Yeats can be regarded as an Irish nationalist poet. All his life is engaged in the rejuvenation of the Irish culture. He organized the Rhymers" Club and launched 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________19.The literary school of 1can be defined as having "such quality of texture and background that it could not have been written in any other place or by anyone else than a native. "（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________20.Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. I become a 1; I am nothing, I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________21.In 1, a novel about American Civil War, the protagonist keeps asking himself the question. "Will I run from a battle?" and at last he does run away from the battle field.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________22.In the 1950s, there was a widespread discontentment among the postwar generation, whose voice was one of protest against all the mainstream culture that America had come to represent. This generation was known as the 1generation.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________23. 1the second book of The Old Testament, tells how Moses leads the Israelites out of Egypt to the Promised Land.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________24." Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,I heard a Negro play,"The figure of speech used in the first line of the poem is 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________25." Forbidden public transportation, chased by debt and filthy " talking sheets" , they followed secondary routes, scanned the horizon for signs and counted heavily on each other. " The historic event referred to in the quotation is 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________三、问答题(总题数：4，分数：8.00)26.Two types of novels were prominent in the late eighteen century. One is the "gothic novel" and the other is "novel of purpose". Write a passage to illustrate the major characteristics of gothic novels and take Wuthering Heights as an example to illustrate your points.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 27.George Bernard Shaw" s plays aim at social reforms. He holds that the theatre has a didactic function. Please write a passage to tell us what morals Shaw wants to teach us in his well-known play Pygmalion.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 28.In what way is Emily Grierson a monument of tradition?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________29.Irving Howe considers The Great Gatsby as a prose version of The Wasteland. What do you think of this view?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________。
2011—2014年人民大学英语专业初试真题
中国人民大学英语专业历年真题2014年815 英美文学试题A版本(由14 年试题可看到往年试题的影子。
)Ⅰ.Blankfilling.（20*1）1.TheimportanteventsintheearlypartofEnglishhistoryareRomanConquest,_____ConquestandNormanConquestinsequence,whichexertgreatinfluenceonthed evelopmentofEnglandandEnglishlanguages.(英语专业考研考点精梳与精炼第一章第一句)2.F．ScottFitzgerald’sfirstnovelis_____.3.Pionners’heroine/hero_____depictthefullyoftheAmerican……4．Hemingway’snovel_____setinSpanishCivilWar……5._____istheforemostnovelistduringtheGreatDepression.6.Beowulfisthe……7.GeoffreyChaucer’sTheCanterburyTaleswrittenin……8.ThomasMore’s_____waswritteninLatin.9.SamuelLanghorneClemenswasthepennameof_____.Ⅱ.Terms1.Sonnet2.WessexNovel3.HistoricalNovel4.PsychologicalrealismⅢ.简答1.Whydoesdramabecomeflourishingin theElizabethanPeriod？2.WhydoesIsabelleArcherdoesnotaccepttheloveofherAmericansuitorCor saandrejoinwithherhusbandandchildren?3.WhydidPrufrockhesitateallthetimewhileproposingtoaladyintheupper society?4.What’sthethemeofJohnMilton’sParadiseLost?Ⅳ.问答1.DescribeandcommentonShakespeare’sfourperiodsofdramacareer.（吴伟仁英国文学选读为三段，但罗经国新编英国文学选读上是fourperiods。
英美文化概论 问答题
1. What do you know about the Roman invasion of Britain?—— In 55 BC and 54 BC, Julius Caesar, a Roman general, invaded Britain twice. In AD 43, the Emperor Claudius invaded Britain successfully. For nearly 400 years Britain was under the Roman occupation, though it was never a total occupation. British recorded history begins with the Roman invasion.2. What were the contents and the significance of the Great Charter?—— The Great Charter, or the Magna Carta, was document signed in 1215 between the barons and King John. It had altogether 63 clauses, of which the most important contents were these: (1) no tax should be made without the approval of the Grand Council; (2) no freeman should be arrested, imprisoned, or deprived of his property except by the law of the land; (3) the church should possess all its rights and privileges; (4) London and other towns should retain their ancient rights and privileges; (5) there should be the same weights and measures throughout the country. The Great Charter was a statement of the feudal and legal relationship between the Crown and the barons, a guarantee of the freedom of the Church and a limitation of the powers of the king. The spirit of the Great Charter was the limitation of the powers of the king, but it has long been regarded as the foundation of English liberties.3. Why did the early settlers come to America? Who were the Pilgrims? Who were the Puritans? What were the features in the colonial period which had influence on later American development?——The early settlers came to America either for the opportunity to realize their dreams and better their lives or for the freedom from religious and governmental persecution. The Pilgrims were persons who suffered religious persecution in England and went to Holland and later moved to America in 1620. The Puritans were the members of a Protestant group in England who wanted to purify the Church of England. Dissatisfied and threatened in England, they saw America as a refuge and migrated to America since 1630. There were a number of features in the colonial period which had influence on later American development. They were: representative form of government, rule of law, respect of individual rights, religious tolerance and a strong spirit of individual enterprise.4. What were the causes of the War of Independence?——The economy in the thirteen colonies developed very fast and people wanted more power to determine their own business. But the policy of the British government was to bring the development under control and to collect more taxes from the colonies. On April 19, 1775, on their way to Concord to seize the military supplies of the militia there, the British soldiers met armed militiamen. The shots were fired, the War of Independence began.I. Multiple Choices: Choose one right answer from the four choices:1. The highest mountain in Britain is ____.A. ScafellB. Ben NevisC. the CotswoldsD. the Forth2. The longest river in Britain is _____.A. the ClydeB. the MerseyC. the SevernD. the Thames3. The largest lake in Britain is _____.A. the Lough NeageB. Windermere WaterC. Coniston WaterD. the Lake District6. The first inhabitants in Britain were _____.A. the NormansB. the CeltsC. the IberiansD. the Anglo-Saxons7. British Recorded history began with _____.A.Roman invasionB. the Norman Conquest9. Christmas Day ____, Duke William was crowned in Westminster Abbey.A. 1056B. 1066C. 1006D. 106010. Henry II was the first king of the _____ dynasty.A. WindsorB. TudorC. MalcolmD. Plantagenet12. The Hundred Years’ war started in ____ and ended in ____, in which the English had lost all the territories of France except the French port of ____.A. 1337, 1453, FlandersB. 1337, 1453, CalaisC. 1346, 1453, ArgencourtD. 1346, 1453, Brest13. The Wars of Roses lasted for _____ years and king _____ was replaced by king _____.A.30, Richard III, Henry TudorB. 50, Richard III, Henry TudorB. C. 30, Richard I, Henry Tudor D. 50, Richard I, Henry Tudor15. The English Civil War is also called _____.A. the Glorious RevolutionB. the Bloody RevolutionC. the Catholic RevolutionD. the Puritan Revolution16. In _____, a small group of Puritans sailed from _____ in the Mayflower to be the first settlers in the North America.A. 1620, LondonB. 1620, PlymouthC. 1720, LondonD. 1720, Plymouth17. In the 18th century, there appeared ____ in England, which owed a great deal to the invention of machines.A. the Industrial RevolutionB. the Bourgeois RevolutionC. the Wars of the RosesD. the Religious Reformation18. English colonial expansion began with the colonization of _____ in 1583.A. CanadaB. AustraliaC. IndiaD. Newfoundland25. The House of Lords is presided over by _____.A. the Lord ChancellorB. the QueenC. the Archbishop of CanterburyD. the Prime Minister26. A General Election is held every _____ years and there are _____ members of Parliaments are elected.A. five, 600B. five, 650C. five, 651D. four, 65127. The Prime Minister is appointed by _____ and he or she always sits in _____.A. the Archbishop of Canterbury, the House of CommonsB. the Archbishop of Canterbury, the House of LordsC. the Queen, the House of CommonsD. the Queen, the House of Lords36. About 90 per cent of the state secondary school population in the UK attend _____.A. independent schoolsB. junior schoolsC. independent schoolsD. primary schools38. In Britain, children from the age of 5 to 16 can _____ by law.A. receive completely free educationB. receive parly free educationC. receive no free education if their families are richD. receive no free education at all39. With regard to its size, the USA is the _____ country in the world.A. largestB. second largestC. third largestD. fourth largest40. In the following rivers, _____ has been called the American Ruhr.A. the MississippiB. the MissouriC. the HudsonD. the Ohio41. Among the following rivers, _____ forms a natural boundary between Mexico and the U.S.A. the PotomacB. the ColumbiaC. the Rio Grande RiverD. the Colorado43. The nation’s capital city Washington D.C. and New York are located in _____.A. the American WestB. the Great PlainsC. the MidwestD. the Middle Atlantic States44. The M idwest in America’s most important _____ area.A. agriculturalB. industrialC. manufacturingD. mining in dustry45. In the case of Brown versus Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled that _____.A. separate educational facilities had been illegalB. educational facilities had been separate but equalC. educational facilities had been equalD. separate educational facilities were inherently unequal47. The first immigrants in American history came from ____ and ____.A. Ireland/FranceB. England/ChinaC. Scotland/EnglandD. England/Netherland51. The Declaration of Independence was drafted by _____.A. James MadisonB. Thomes JeffersonC. Alexander HamiltonD. George Washington52. On July 4, 1776, _____ adopted the Declaration of Independerce.A. the First Continental CongressB. the Second Continental CongressC. the Third Continental CongressD. the Constitutional Convention53. The victory of _____ was the turning point of the War of Independence.A. SaratogaB. GettysburgC. TrentonD. Yorktown54. Ten amendments introduced by James Madison in 1789 were added to the Constitution. They are knows as _____.A. the Articles of ConfederationB. the Bill of RightC. the Civil RightsD. Federalist Papers55. President Jeffer son bought _____ from France and doubled the country’s territory.A. New MexicoB. the Louisiana TerritoryC. KansasD. Ohio56. The Declaration of Independence came from the theory of British philosopher _____.A. Paul RevereB. John LockeC. CornwallisD. Frederick DouglassII. Fill in the blanks:1. Ceographically speaking, the north and west of Britain are _______, while the east and south-east are mostly______.2. Welsh is located in the ______ of Great Britain.3. The ancestors of the English ______, while the Scots, Welsh and Irish the ______.4. In the mid-5th century, three Teuronic tribes ______, _____, and _____ invaded Britain. Among them, the _____ gave their name to English people.5. The battle of _______ witnessed the death of Harold in October, 1066.6. Under William, the ______ system in England was completely established.7. The property record in William’s time is known as ______, which was compiled in _____.9. ______ was the deadly bubonic plague, which reduced England’s po pulation from four million to ______ million by the end of the 14th century.10. One of the consequences of the Uprising of 1381 was the emergence of a new class of ______ farmers.11. James I and his son Charles I both believed firmly in ______.12. During the Civil War, the Cavaliers supported ________, while the Roundheads supported _______.13. After the Civil War, Oliver Cromwell declared England a ______, later, he became _________.15. The two parties originated with the Glorious Revolution were _____ and _______. The former were the forerunners of the ______ Party, the latter were of the ______ party.16. In 1765, the Scottish inventor _____ produced a very efficient _____ that could be applied to textile and other machinery.17. After the Industrial Revolution, Britain became the “______” of the world.24. The Prime Minister is appointed by ______, and his/her official residence is _____.25. There are two tiers of local government throughout England and Wales: _____ and ______.30. The two established churches in Britain are ____ and _____.31. Education in the UK is compulsory for all between the ages of (______ in Northen Ireland) and _____.32. In the past children in Britain were allocated to different secondary schools on the basis of selection tests known as _______, which was replaced by ______.33. Education after 16 in the UK is divided into _____ and ______.34. The most-known universities in Britain are _____ and _____ which date from the _____ and _____ centuries.35. In ____, Alaska and Havaii became the 49th and 50th states.36. In the Great Lakes, only _____ belongs to U.S. completely while the other four are shared with Ganada.37. _______ is separated from the main land by Canada.38. The Rockies, the backbone of the North American Continent, is also known as _____.39. _____ is the largest continental state in area in the U.S.40. The West can be divided into three parts: the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains and _____.41. The South is the headquarters of a large segment of the ______ and ________ industry.42. New England is sometimes called the ______ of America.43. _______ is considered to be one of the characteristics of the American people since one in five moves to a new home every year.II. Fill in the blanks:1. highlands, lowlands2. west3. Anglo-Saxons, Celts4. Jutes, Saxons, Angles, Angles5. Hastings6. feudal7. Domesday Book, 10868. Thomas Becket9. Black Death, two 10. yeomen 11. the Divine Right of Kings 12. the king, the Parliament 13. Commonwealth, Lord Protector 14. Union, Scotland 15. Whigs Tories Liberal Conservative 16. James Watt steam engine 17. workship 18. Winston Churchill19. oil 20. the North Sea 21. Scotland 22. microprocessors and computer, biotechnology 23. Opposition, shadow 24. the Queen, No. 10 Downing 25. country councils, district councils 26. innocence 27. 12, 15 28. the House of Lords 29. the National Health Service, social security 30. the Church of England, the Church of Scotland 31. 5, 4, 16 32. eleven-plus, comprehensive schools 33. further education, high education34. Oxford, Cambridge, 12th, 13th 35. 1959 36. Lake Michigan 37. Alaska 38. the Continental Divide 39. Texas 40. the Intermountain Basin and Plateau 41. rocket/missile 42. birthplace 43. Mobility 44. 1619 45. Chinese-Americanshe Magna Carta (Barons Vs the King)♦Henry II –Richard – John (1199)♦“King of Lackland” granted the list of demands of the barons and signed The Magna Carta (Great Charter) in 1215, which contains:♦①extra payments not exacted without the vassals consent;♦②laws not arbitrarily modified♦③the king not free from lawSignificance: freedom of trade and self-government of the townspeople; merchants and craftsmen appeared as a political force; formation of liberty, limitation of King’s power8. List the reasons why people migrate to the United States. (5%)Many people see America as the land of opportunity - the land of milk and honey - the Promised Land. Whether this is true or not, it becomes a matter of personal experience. For many, the move to America may be the best thing they ever did, and these are the people who become successful in their endeavors. For other people, the move to America may become a nightmare, and this will depend under what conditions these people moved to this country. The issue is that for illegal immigrants,it will be much difficult to find better employment, which may end up slowing down their dreams and shortening their quality of life and opportunities. Therefore, to be able to have certain advantage, immigrating legally is number one option when moving to America.People come to America in search of better employment opportunities and more money.For many people, moving here represents a better way of life and more freedom of expression.Another reason is the cost of living. In many European countries, the cost of living is much higher than in the USA, so if they have similar political liberties, they decide to move to America. Others visit and see those liberties in amazement and decide they want to enjoy that type of freedom. Other foreigners may have relatives in the country and decide to come to America as well.The American Dream•The pursuit of the American Dream has been alive in the imagination of its immigrants since the beginning of the nation. Many people havebeen inspired by the belief that in the United States, hard work leads toprosperity and social mobility.Pop Culture•After World War II, the United States has exported its popular culture to the world. Many aspiring immigrants grew up watching U.S. movies and television, listening to U.S. music and wanting to wear and possess U.S.brands. This American image represented all that was cool and modern for the youth abroad.Land of Opportunity•Being a relatively new country, with an abundance of land and resources, America was once seen as a land of opportunity, wherethere was enough land and a vibrant economy to accommodate all itsresidents.Education and Career•Because of its economic wealth and large middle-class, immigrants come to the United States to study at its well-known universities or workin its market leader industries for generally higher salaries than intheir home countries.Starting Fresh•Because of its size and its being a country of immigrants, many foreigners see America as a clean slate, taking the country's younghistory to symbolize the potential for their own new beginning. New developments• A new trend, however, finds many foreigners who came to the United States to study or work returning to their home countries for bettercareer prospects and a higher quality of life that was not availablebefore in their native country.。
2008年天津外国语学院英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷.doc
2008年天津外国语学院英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷(总分：44.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、单项选择题(总题数：6，分数：12.00)1.Thomas Hardy is a prolific writer whose works include the following except______.（分数：2.00）A.Far from the Madding CrowdB.To the Light HouseC.Under the Greenwood TreeD.Jude the Obscure2.In the first half of the 19th century English drama experienced a general decline; ______ two famous English playwrights revived the British theatre after this period of time.（分数：2.00）A.William Shakespeare and Christopher MarloweB.Harold Pinter and Samuel BeckettC.George Bernard Shaw and Oscar WildeD.Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg3.The three most eminent novelists who represent the three phases of the Victorian novels are Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy and______.（分数：2.00）A.George MooreB.Louis StevensonC.James JoyceD.George Eliot4.Which of the following books deals with American Civil War?（分数：2.00）A.The Red Badge of CourageB.For Whom the Bell TollsC.Slaughterhouse-FiveD.Catch 225.The first writer who took the vernacular as a serious way of presenting reality after Mark Twain is______.（分数：2.00）A.Robert FrostB.Ernest HemingwayC.William Carlos WilliamsD.Sherwood Anderson6.Direct treatment of the "thing" , whether subjective or objective, is one of the poetic principles advocated by______.（分数：2.00）A.ImagistsB.RealistsC.NaturalistsD.Romanticists二、填空题(总题数：7，分数：14.00)7.Geoffrey Chaucer" s famous work 1contains 20-odd stories unified by a fictitious pilgrimage.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________8.In 1, Thomas More offers an ideal social system, with which people replace tyranny with 2.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________9.The definition that "all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" was written by 1in 2.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________10.Harold Pinter, who 1, is one of the most gifted English playwrights in the post-war period.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________11.In his 1Benjamin Franklin creates the image of a boy" s rise from 2to riches and demonstrates his belief that the new world of America was a land of opportunities which might be met through hard work and wise management.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________12.As a reflection of Hester Prynne" s moral development, the 1symbolically undergoes a gradual and imperceptible change from " 2"to "able" and last to "angel".（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________13.Known as African Americans" poet laureate, 1articulates the miseries and agonies of the blacks in face of racial discrimination.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________三、名词解释(总题数：3，分数：6.00)14.Briefly explain five—only the first Ave will be assessed in case more than five answers are provided—out of the following seven terms. Provide an example where you feel adequate. Write your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.(30 points)allegory（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 15.Oedipus Complex（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 16.tragedy（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________四、问答题(总题数：5，分数：10.00)17.Questions in this section are set for applicants to the MA program of American & British Literature . Answer any three of the following essay questions. Your answer is expected to have a clearly stated and focused central argument that is supported with discussion, explanation, examples, and other evidence rather than a plot summary.(50 points) In what way does Daniel Defoe" s Robinson Crusoe reflect the history of British colonization in the 18 th century?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 18.Charles Dickens is believed to be basically an optimistic writer. Can you justify the view with reference to one of his novels?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 19.Emily Dickinson" s poetry abounds in images. In the best of her poems every word is a picture seen. Comment on the images in either "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" or "I Like to See It Lap the Miles".（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 20.In The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams successfully portrays a family of escapists. Explain how the theme of escapism is developed in this play.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 21.Marxist literary criticism, psychoanalytic criticism, deconstruction and feminist criticism are some of the popular approaches that Chinese students take in the study of literature. Try to explain any one of the four approaches to literature.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 作文22.Write in English an essay of approximately 300 words on one poem, story or play you have read from British or American literature of the twentieth century and comment on some very specific aspect of literary work. You are expected to write an essay with a clearly stated and focusedcentral argument that is supported with discussion, explanation , examples, and other evidence rather than a plot summary. Write your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.(20 points)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________。
2010年天津外国语大学英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷.doc
2010年天津外国语大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷(总分：48.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、填空题(总题数：20，分数：40.00)1.The only organic whole poem to come out of the Anglo-Saxons period is 1, an example of the mingling of nature myths and heroic legends.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________2." A little learning is a dangerous thing/Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian sping," a famous quotation is from An Essay on Criticism written by 1, the high priest and magistrate of the Age of Reason.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________3.The 16th century in the history of English literature is viewed as a great period of Elizabethan drama, which witnessed the birth of two great playwrights; William Shakespeare and 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________4.John Bunyan, a village tinker, with his strength and sincerity inscribed his name in the English literary history by his famous work 1written in the old-fashioned, medieval form of allegory and dream.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________5.The famous English critic Mathew Arnold called the 18th century in Britain "an age of prose". In this period, no novelists were as popular and well known as 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________6.Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele are always remembered together because they started a journalistic tradition that is still alive in Britain and the United State. Their collaboration on a series of essays for the Taller and the 1strongly influenced 18th century English taste and opinion.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________7.Like Ibsen, 1was much concerned about the social problems of his time. His career as a dramatist began in 1892, when his first play 2was put on and turned out a success.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________8.Modernist writers such as James Joyce and Virginia Wolf approached the internal world of characters in their novels by the technique of "stream of consciousness" which means 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________9.According to historians of English literature, the First World War saw the start of a poetic revolution which was initiated by the imagist movement and the symbolist movement. The imagist movement was led by 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________10.The revolution of the British drama came in the decade following the ending of the World War II. The tremors in the post-war British theatre were caused by Samuel Beckett"s play 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________11.Edgar Allan Poe"s stories fall into two categories; 1and "tales of ratiocination".（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________12." The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them. The waving of the boughs in the storm, is new to me and old. It takes me by surprise,and yet is not unknown. Its effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right.Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight, does not reside in 1, but in 2, or in a harmony of both. It is necessary to use these pleasures with great temperance. "（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________13.In Emily Dickinson"s poem Because I Could not Stop for Death, she uses personification to compare death to 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________14.In William Dean Howell"s 1, the burning of the house symbolizes the protagonist"s economic fall but he achieves his moral and ethical rise.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________15.Allen Ginsberg"s 1(1956), William S. Burroughs"s Naked Lunch(1959)and Jack Kerouac"s On the Road(1957)are considered to be the literary representatives of the 2of the 1950s.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________16.The Southern Renaissance was the reinvigoration of American Southern literature that began in the 1920s and 1930s with the appearance of, among others, novelist 1, playwright 2, short-story writer Katherine Anne Porter.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________17.The concept of "double consciousness" which has beeh widely employed in the literary criticism of ethnic American literatures originated from the enduring classic The Souls of Black Folk(1903) by 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________18.In 1by Arthur Miller, the main character 2"s determination to live up to his "American Dream" and only to seek material happiness takes his life.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________19. 1by J.D.Salinger reflects the moral crisis and disillusionment of the post-war American society.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________20."The suits on Wall Street walked off with most of our savings. " The figure of speech used in the sentence is 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________二、问答题(总题数：4，分数：8.00)21.Charles Lamb is sometimes called the Shakespeare of the English essay. Do you agree or disagree on the statement? Give details to support your argument.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 22.British romanticism is a very important literary trend in the history of the English literature. Scholars singled out six major poets in this period of time: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelly, Keats and Blake and constructed the basic notions of a unified Romanticism. What are the basic notions of Romanticism? Illustrate these notions of Romanticism with one or two examples.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 23.How do Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow embody two different value systems?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 24.Give the importance of mobility in the ideological underpinnings of America, it is hardly surprising to find that American literature has from its beginnings been"a literature of movement, of motion, its great icons the track through forest and superhighway. " Please name one novel from the canonical American literature to elaborate on the theme of mobility.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________。
天津师范大学英语语言文学考研资料与经验
天津师范大学英语语言文学考研资料与经验天津师范大学英语语言文学考研的同学们的福利来了~天津考研网为报考天津师范大学英语语言文学专业的同学们整理了一些专业课复习资料以及学长学姐们的复习经验，希望能对大家的复习有所帮助。
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一、天津师范大学英语语言文学考研主要参考教材天津师范大学英语语言文学考研报考方向有两个，01(全日制)英美文化，考试科目是①101思想政治理论②243日语（自命题）或244法语（自命题）③641基础英语④895英美文化；02(全日制)英美文学，考试科目是①101思想政治理论②243日语（自命题）或244法语（自命题）③641基础英语④896英美文学。
天津考研网组织多名一线大学老师及过去几年在天津大学研究生初试中专业课取得高分的考生共同整理了考研复习主要参考教材供大家参考：895英美文化1．《新编英美概况(修订版)》，青岛海洋大学出版社，2007，许鲁之；2．A Cultural History of the English Language(《英语语言文化史》)，北京大学出版社，2004，Knowles,Gerry；3．Language and Culture(《语言与文化》),上海外语教育出版社,2000,Kramsch,Claire。
896英美文学1《新编简明英国文学史》外语教育出版社2002,张定铨吴刚2《英美小说选读》湖南师大出版社2004宁一中邓颖玲易艳等3《20世纪英美文学选读―后现代主义卷》(下册),上海交大出版社2003胡全生林玉珍4《美国文学简史》(第二版),南开大学出版社,2003,常耀信《天津师范大学英语语言文学专业英美文化方向考研红宝书》，由天津考研网主编。
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英美文化期末试题
2005－2006学年第二学期英语外事管理系2002 级《英美文化》期末考试试卷考试时间：90 分钟Part 1: Read the following statements and judge whether they are true or false. Write “T” or “F” on your answer sheets.(15 points)1.British has no written form of Constitution2.Big parties can buy time to broadcast their policies on the television in the electoral campaigns of the UK.3.Britain remains one of the Group of Seven large industrial economies.4.Sense and Sensibility is a tragedy written by Shakespeare5.In Britain, the great majority of parents send their children to private schools6.Britain has its nuclear naval force since it’s a traditional sea power7. Australia as the world’s smallest continent and largest island8. God Save the Queen is the present Australian national anthem.9. Thomas Jefferson is the first president of the United States10. Canada is not a member of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.11.The Supreme Court in the USA today consists of a chief justice and 10 associate justices.12. The first English permanent settlement in America was founded in 1607 in Virginia13.The Democratic Party and the Republican Party are the two major political parties in the UK14. Today, the majority of Americans belong to the Protestant church. Over 60% of Americans are said to be protestant believers.15.Drug abuse in the USA has come to be regarded as one of the most challenging problems facing the nation.Part 2: There are 30 questions in this part. Each question is followed by four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the correct answer to each of the questions and mark your answer at the corresponding place on the ANSWER SHEET. (20 points)1.Which of the following is not a characteristic of London?A.The cultural centerB. The business centerC. The financial centerD. The sports center2.Who were the ancestors of the English and the founders of England?A.the Anglo-SaxonsB. the NormansC. the VikingsD. the Romans3.Which is the largest city in Scotland?A. CardiffB. EdinburghC. GlasgowD. Manchester4.Where do the majority of people in Scotland live?A. in the HighlandsB. in the LowlandsC. in the UplandsD. in the west of Scotland5.Northern Ireland is the smallest of the four nations, but is quite well-known in the world forA. its most famous landmark, the “Giant’s wall ”B. its rich cultural lifeC. its low living standardsD. its endless political problems6.How many countries do you know there are in Northern Ireland?A. 26B. 6C. 32D. 207.Which of the following is not characteristic of British government?A.It offers the Queen high political statues and supreme powerB.It is both a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchyC.It is the oldest representative democracy in the worldD.It has no written form of Constitution8.Which group of people can not vote in the general election in Britain?A.Members in the House of CommonsB.Lords in the House of LordsC.The UK citizens above the age of 18D.The UK residents citizens of the Irish Republic9.By whom is a “VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE ”decided?A.the House of CommonsB.the House of LordsC.the two major partiesD.the Prime Minister10.Who is the leader of the Labor Party at present in Britain?A.JOHN MAJPRB. TONY BLAIRC. HAROLD WILSOND. MARGARET THA TCHER11.Which of the following is not an effect of the immigration on the British society?A.There are now a varied cuisine for people to chooseB.Class tension has been increasedC.New forms of popular music have emergedD.Different religious beliefs have been practices actively12.Which of the following about class system in the UK is not true?A.People of different class tend to read different kinds of newspaperB.Class-division is only decided by people’s incomeC.Though social advancement is possible, class affects a person’s life chanceD.The way people speak identifies themselves to particular class.13.In its imperial prime, Britain once ruledA. a fourth of the globeB. a fifth of the globeC. a third of the globeD. two-thirds of the globe14. Which of the following is not involved in making the British foreign policy?A. the Queen of BritainB. The Foreign and Commonwealth OfficeC. the Prime MinisterD. the Ministry of Defense and the Treasury15.Which of the following countries does not have nuclear weapons capabilities?A. BritainB. ItalyC. the USAD. Russia16.The following were the main Reformation leaders exceptA.Martin LutherB. Martin Luther KingC. John CalvinD. The English King Henry VIII17.The New Deal was started byA. Franklin RooseveltB.J.F. KennedyC. Gorge WashingtonD. Thomas Jefferson18.Which is not guaranteed in the BILL of RIGHTA.The freedom of religionB.The freedom of searching a person’s home by policeC.The freedom of speech and of pressD.The right to own weapons if one wishes19.which of the following is the only branch that can make federal laws, and levy federal taxes?A. The executiveB. The legislativeC. The JudicialD. The president20.The united states was rated _____ in the world in terms of land and the size of populationA, second B. third C. fourth D. fifthPart 3: There are altogether 15 blanks in the following sentences. Fill in the blanks and write your answer at the corresponding places on the ANSWER SHEET. (30 points)1.The full name of the Unites Kingdom is2.The capital of Scotland is _________,which is well-known for its natural beauty.3.in the 18th century, King George I left the job of chairing cabinet meeting to one of hisministers who later became to be called____________4.In Britain, the official head of the state is the Queen while the real center of political life is in__________________5.There are 3 major parties in the UK: the Conservative party, ______________ and the LiberalDemocrats6.“The Jewel of the Crown”of the British Empire was _____________,which provided rawmaterial for British goods, gained independence in 1947.7.Since 1945, the UK economy has experience a ____________decline rather than absolutedecline.8.the UK economy can be divided into three main sectors:____________ industry, secondaryindustry and service industry.9.Manual (or blue collar) workers would usually call themselves working-class; while office (or_________) workers would call themselves middle-class.10.The general direction of Britain’s foreign policy is decided by Prime Minister and ________11.The city where the Declaration of independence was signed and where the US Constitutionwas made is __________12.The best-know stock exchange is New York Stock Exchange located in____________ area ofNew York City13.The Three Faiths in the US refer to Protestant, _____________ and Jewish14.The first permanent settlement in North America was established in today’s __________in1607.15.“Uncle Sam” is a nickname for the country---_________________Part 4: translate the following phrases into Chinese. (20 points)1.Devine right of kings2. The Bill of Rights3.The House of Lords4.Life peers5.MPs6. Magna Carta7.The Articles of Confederation8.checkes and balances 9.Industrial Revolution 10.white Anglo-Saxon ProtestantPart 5: answer the question （15points）Do you think the course “The Society and Culture of the Major English-speaking Countries” is useful for your English learning? Why?2005－2006学年第二学期英语外事管理系2002 级《英美文化》期末考试试卷考试时间：90 分钟Part 1: Read the following statements and judge whether they are true or false. Write “T” or “F” on your answer sheets.(15 points)1._____________2_____________3. ___________ 4. _____________ 5. ___________6. _____________7. ___________8. _____________9. ___________ 10. ___________11. ___________12. ___________ 13. ___________ 14. ___________ 15. ___________Part 2: There are20 questions in this part. Each question is followed by four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the correct answer to each of the questions and mark your answer at the corresponding place on the ANSWER SHEET. (20 points)1. A B C D2. A B C D3. A B C D4. A B C D5. A B C D6. A B C D7. A B C D 8. A B C D9. A B C D 10. A B C D11. A B C D 12. A B C D13. A B C D 14. A B C D15. A B C D 16. A B C D17. A B C D 18. A B C D19. A B C D 20. A B C DPart 3: There are altogether 15 blanks in the following sentences. Fill in the blanks and write your answer at the corresponding places on the ANSWER SHEET. (30 points)1. ____________________________________________2.____________________________________________3.____________________________________________4.____________________________________________5.____________________________________________6.____________________________________________7.____________________________________________8.____________________________________________9.____________________________________________10.____________________________________________11.____________________________________________12.____________________________________________13.____________________________________________14.____________________________________________15.____________________________________________Part 4: translate the following phrases into Chinese. (20 points)1____________________________________________2____________________________________________3____________________________________________4____________________________________________5____________________________________________6____________________________________________7____________________________________________8____________________________________________9____________________________________________10____________________________________________part 5: answer the question (15 POINTS)_______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________四川外语学院成都学院英语外事管理系2005-2006下学期期末《英美文化》参考答案Part 1: Read the following statements and judge whether they are true or false. Write “T” or “F” on your answer sheets.(15 points)1.t2.f3.t4.f5.f6.t7.t8.f9.f 10.t11.f 12.t 13.f 14.t 15.tPart 2: There are30 questions in this part. Each question is followed by four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the correct answer to each of the questions and write your answer at the corresponding place on the ANSWER SHEET. (30 points)DACBD BABAB BBCAC BABBCPart 3: There are altogether 15 blanks in the following sentences. Fill in the blanks and write your answer at the corresponding places on the ANSWER SHEET. (30 points)1. the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland16.Edinburgh 3. Prime Minister 4.the House of Commons5. the Labor Party6. India7.relative8.primary 9.white collar 10. cabinet11.Philadelphia 12. Wall Street 13. Catholic14.Virginia 15. the United StatesPart 4: translate the following phrases into Chinese. (20 points)1君权神授2权利法案3上议院3终身贵族5议员6大宪章7联邦条款8制约与平衡9.工业革命10.盎格鲁撒克逊白人新教文化part 5: answer the question四川外语学院成都学院英语外事管理系2005-2006下学期期末《英美文化》评分标准Part 1: Read the following statements and judge whether they are true or false. Write “T” or “F” on your answer sheets.(15 points)Part 2: There are30 questions in this part. Each question is followed by four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the correct answer to each of the questions and write your answer at the corresponding place on the ANSWER SHEET. (30 points)Part 3: There are altogether 15 blanks in the following sentences. Fill in the blanks and write your answer at the corresponding places on the ANSWER SHEET. (30 points)单词拼写失误扣除0.5分答案错误不得分Part 4: translate the following phrases into Chinese. (20 points)翻译失误扣除0.5分答案错误不得分part 5: answer the question根据考生的观点，按论据给分，一个论据3分，其中单词拼写失误与语法错误按照每处0.5分扣除。
自考英美文学选读2011年7 月真题及答案
2011年7月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读试题课程代码：00604全部题目用英文作答，请将答案填在答题纸相应位置上PART ONE (40 POINTS)I. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice and write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.1. All of Charles Dickens’ works, with the exception of _________, present a criticism of the more complicated and yet most fundamental social institutions and morals of the Victorian England.A. Bleak HouseB. Hard TimesC. Great ExpectationsD. A Tale of Two Cities2. From ____________ on, the tragic sense becomes the keynote of Thomas Hardy’s novels, the conflict between the traditional and the moden is brought to the center of the stage.A. The Return of the NativeB. The Mayor of CasterbridgeC. Tess of the D’UrbervillesD. Jude the Obscure3. George Bernard Shaw’s play ____________ shows his almost nihilistic bitterness on the subjects of the cruelty and madness of World War I and the aimlessness and disillusion of the young.A. Getting MarriedB. Too True to Be GoodC. Widowers’ HousesD. The Apple Cart4. It was only after the publication of ____________ that D.H. Lawrence was recognized as a prominent novelist.A. The TrespasserB. The White PeacockC. Sons and LoversD. The Rainbow5. T. S. Eliot’s poem ____________ is heavily indebted to James Joyce in terms of the stream- of -consciousness technique, also a prelude to The Waste Land.A. “Prufrock”B. “Gerontion”C. The Hollow MenD. Lyrical Ballads6. Charlotte Brontё’s ____________ is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society, e. g. the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions.A. The ProfessorB. Wuthering HeightsC. VilletteD. Jane Eyre7. Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four - act poetic drama ____________ , which is an ex- ultant work in praise of humankind’s potential.A. AdonaisB. Queen MabC. Prometheus UnboundD. Kubla Khan8. Among the Romantic poets ____________ is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”.A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. George Gordon ByronD. John Keats9. The most perfect example of the verse drama after Greek style in English is John Milton’s____________.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Areopagitica10. The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is____________.A. love and moneyB. money and social statusC. social status and marriageD. love and marriage11. T. S. Eliot’s most important single poem ____________ has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry.A. The Hollow MenB. The Waste LandC. Murder in the CathedralD. Ash Wednesday12. According to the subjects, William Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified into two groups, poems about____________.A. nature and human lifeB. happiness and childhoodC. symbolism and imaginationD. nature and commonlife13. Among the following writers ____________ is considered to be the best -known English dramatist since Shakespeare.A. Oscar WildeB. John GalsworthyC. W. B. YeatsD. George Bernard Shaw14. William Blake’s ____________ composed during the climax of the French Revolution plays the double role both as a satire and a revolutionary prophecy.A. The Book of UrizenB. The Book of LosC. Poetical SketchesD. Marriage of Heaven and Hell15. Charles Dickens’ works are characterized by a mingling of ____________ and pathos.A. metaphorB. passionC. satireD. humor16. Daniel Defoe describes ____________ as a typical English middle -class man of the eigh- teenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist.A. Robinson CrusoeB. Moll FlandersC. GulliverD. Tom Jones17. In Thomas Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent ____________ touch in his de- scription of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.A. nostalgicB. tragicC. romanticD. ironic18. Of all the eighteenth - century novelists ____________ was the first to set out, both in the-ory and practice, to write specially a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the mode rn novel its structure and style.A. Thomas GrayB. Richard Brinsley SheridanC. Jonathan SwiftD. Henry Fielding19. Shakespeare’s authentic non-dramatic poetry consists of two long narrative poems: Venus and Adonis and____________.A. Julius CaesarB. The Winter’s TaleC. The Rape of LucreceD. The Two gentlemen of Verona20. John Milton’s ____________ is probably his most memorable prose work, which is a great plea for freedom of the press.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise regainedC. AreopagiticaD. Lycidas21.D. H. Lawrence’s novels ____________ are generally regarded as his masterpieces.A. The Rainbow; Women in LoveB. The Rainbow; Sons and LoversC. Sons and Lovers; Lady Chatterley’s LoverD. Women in Love; Lady Chatterley’s Lover22. The best representatives of the English humanists are Thomas More, Christopher Mar-lowe and____________.A. William ShakespeareB. John MiltonC. Henry FieldingD. Jonathan Swift23. Mark Twain’s particular concern about the local character of a region came about as “local color ism,” a unique variation of American literary____________.A. romanticismB. nationalismC. modernismD. realism24. As a poet with a strong sense of mission, Walt Whitman devoted all his life to the creation of the “single” poem,____________.A. Drum TapsB. North of BostonC. A Boy’s WillD. Leaves of Grass25. 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. EasternB. WesternC. SouthernD. Northern26. 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 BuddB. RedburnC. Moby - DickD. Typee27. 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 WarB. the American- Mexican WarC. WWID. WWII28. 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. TypeeB. RedburnC. Moby - DickD. Omoo29. According to ____________ , the life - death cycle, the spring and winter of the earth, the birth and death of the animals is reality.A. Theodore DreiserB. William FaulknerC. Henry JamesD. F·Scott Fitzgerald30. “Though life is but a losing battle, it is a struggle man can dominate in such a way that loss become s dignity. ” This is an outlook towards life that ____________ had been trying to illustrate in his works.A. F·Scott FitzgeraldB. Ernest HemingwayC. Theodore DreiserD. William Faulkner31. More than five hundred poems ____________ wrote are about nature, in which his (her) general skepticism about the relationship between man and nature is well -expressed.A. Robert FrostB. Emily DickinsonC. Ezra PoundD. Walt Whitman32. In 1954, the Nobel Prize for literature was granted to ____________ , one of the greatest of American writers.A. Ernest HemingwayB. Robert FrostC. Henry JamesD. Theodore Dreiser33. North of Boston is described by Robert Frost as “a book of poople,” which shows a brilliant insight into ____________ character and the background that formed it.A. EasternB. WesternC. SouthernD. New England34. Walt Whitman is radically innovative in terms of the form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new poetic feelings is “ ____________ ”.A. standardized rhymingB. regular rhymingC. free verseD. strict verse35. Henry James’ fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the____________ theme.A. internationalB. localC. colonialD. post-modern36. The Financier, The Titan and The Stoic by Theodore Dreiser are called h is “Trilogy of_________. ”A. HatredB. DeathC. DesireD. Fate37. In 1920, F·Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel ____________ was published, which was, to some extent, his own story.A. This Side of ParadiseB. Tales of the Jazz AgeC. All the Sad Young MenD. Taps at Reveille38. In 1837, Nathaniel Hawthorne published Twice - Told Tales, a collection of ____________ which attracted critical attention.A. poemsB. short storiesC. essaysD. plays39. William Faulkner set most of his works in the American ____________ , with his emphasis on the ________subjects and consciousness.A. North... NorthernB. East... EasternC. West... WesternD. South... Southern40. The House of the Seven Gables was based on the tradition of a curse pronounced on____________’s family when his great - grandfather was a judge in the Salem witchcraft trials.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Washington IrvingC. Ezra PoundD. Walt WhitmanPART TWO (60 POINTS)II. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41. “Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. ”Questions:A. Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what’s the title of the poem?B. What does the word “this” in the last line refer to?C. What idea do the quoted lines express?42. “Never did sun more beautifully steepIn his first splendor, valley, rock or hill;Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep !The river glideth at his own sweet will:Dear God! The very houses seem asleep;And al l that mighty heart is lying still!”( From Wordsworth’s sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge)Questions:A. What does this sonnet describe?B. What does the phrase “mighty heart” refer to?C. The sonnet follows strictly the Italian form. What is the feature of the Italian form of sonnet?43. “ The woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep. ”Questions:A. Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what’s the title of the poem?B. What does the word “sleep” mean?C. What idea do the four lines express?44. “ I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loafe and invite my soul,I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. ”( From Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself)Questions:A. Who does “myself” refer to?B. How do you understand the line “I loafe and invite my soul” ?C. What does “a spear of summer grass” s ymbolize?III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. What’s the theme of the poem Paradise Lost? What’s the author’s intention to create it and the implication that the poem expresses?46. The Waste Land is T. S. Eliot’s most important single poem. What’s the theme of the poem?47. In American literature, Emily Dickinson’s poetry is unique and unconventional in its own way. What are the features of Dickinson’s poems?48. What’s the theme of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby?IV. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49. Discuss Charles Dickens’ art of fiction: the setting, the character- portrayal, the language, etc. , based on his novel Oliver Twist.50. Summarize Ernest Hemingway’s artistic features.。
英语专业-英美文学试卷及答案-期末
英美文学试卷AI.Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F).(10 x 1’=10’)1.( ) Chaucer is the first English short-story teller and the founder of English poetry as well as the founder of English realism.His masterpiece The Canterbury tales contains 26 stories.2.( ) English Renaissance is an age of essay and drama.3.( ) The rise of the modern novel is closely related to the rise of the middle class and an urbanlife.4.( ) The French Revolution and the American War of Independence were two big influencesthat brought about the English Romantic Movement.5.( ) Charlotte’s novels are all about lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longingfor life and love.Her novels are more or less based on her own experience and feelings and the life as she sees around.6.( ) The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of 19th century are Thomas Hardy, John Galsworthy and Bernard Shaw.7.( ) Emily Dickinson is remembered as the “All American Writer”.8.( )The Civil War divides the American literature into romantic literature and realist literature.9.( ) Mark Twain is the first American writer to discover an American language and Americanconsciousness.10.( ) In the decade of the 1910s, American literature achieved a new diversity and reached itsgreatest heights.II.Fill in the blanks.(20 x 1’=20’)11.The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was ___________.12.The War of Independence lasted eight years till__________.13.Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay__________ has been regarded as "America's Declaration of Intellectual Independence". It called on American writers to write about America in a way peculiarly American.14.The American ___________ writers paid a great interest in the realities of life and described the integrity of human character reacting under various circumstances and pictured the pioneers of the Far West, the new immigrants and the struggles of the working class.The leading figures were ____________, ____________, ____________, ____________, etc.15.No period in American history is more eventful than that between the two world wars.The literary features of the time can be seen in the writings of those ________ writers as Ezra Pound, and the writers of the Lost Generation as ___________.16.Two features of English Renaissance are the curiosity for ___________ and the interest in the activities of _____________________.17.Shakespeare’s earliest great success in tragedy is ____________, a play of youth and love, with the famous balcony scene.18.There are three types of poets in 17th century English literature.They are Puritan poets, ___________ poets and ______________ poets.19.Pope’s An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in ___________________.20.___________ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel”for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.21.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”is an epigrammatic line by _______________.wrence’s most controversial novel is ___________, the best probably _________.III.Multiple choice.(20 x 1’=20’)23.Among the three major works by John Milton ________ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.A.Paradise RegainedB.Samson AgonistesC.LycidasD.Paradise Lost24. Francis Bacon’s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and __________.plicityplexityC.powerfulnessdness25.As one of the greatest masters of English prose, _______ defined a good style as “proper words in proper places”.A.Henry FieldingB.Jonathan SwiftC.Samuel JohnsonD.Alexander Pope26.The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for _________.A.material wealthB.spiritual salvationC.universal truthD.self-fulfillment27.“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”The quoted part is taken from _________.A.Jane EyreB.Wuthering HeightsC.Pride and PrejudiceD.Sense and Sensibility28.Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?A.Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB.“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”by William WordsworthC.“Remorse”by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD.Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman29.The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’works is his _________.A.simple vocabularyB.bitter and sharp criticismC.character-portrayalD.pictures of happiness30.“My Last Duchess”is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning’s ________.A.sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB.excellent choice of wordsC.mastering of the metrical devicese of the dramatic monologue31.________ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, with ______as hisencyclopedia-like masterpiece.A James Joyce, UlyssesB.E.M.Foster, A Passage to Indiawrence, Sons and loversD.Virginia Woolf, Mrs.Dalloway32.Which of the following comments on Charles Dickens is wrong?A.Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Modern PeriodB.His serious intention is to expose and criticize all the poverty, injustice, hypocrisy andcorruptness he sees all around him.C.The later works show the development of Dickens towards a highly conscious artist of themodern type.D.A Tale of Two Cities is one of his late works.33._____was known as “the poets’poet”.A.William ShakespeareB.Edmund SpenserC.John DonneD.John Milton34.Which of the following poet belongs to the active Romantic poet?A.KeatsB.SoutheyC.WordsworthD.Coleridge35.______ is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.A.BeowulfB.The Canterbury TalesC.Don JuanD.Paradise Lost36.___________ is the first modern American novel.A.Tom SawyerB.Huckleberry FinnC.The Sketch BookD.The Leatherstocking Tales37.Which of the following statements is NOT true of American Transcendentalism?A.It can be clearly defined as a part of American Romantic literary movement.B.It can be defined philosophically as “the recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth intuitively”.C.Ralph Waldo Emerson was the chief advocate of this spiritual movement.D.It sprang from South America in the late l9th century.38.The theme of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle is _________.A.the conflict of human psycheB.the fight against racial discriminationC.the familial conflictD.the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past39.The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised ________ for “his powerful style-forming mastery of the art”of creating modern diction.A.Ezra PoundB.Ernest HemingwayC.Robert FrostD.Theodore Dreiser40.Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism?A.EmersonB.Jack LondonC.Theodore DreiserD.Darwin41.________ is NOT true in describing American naturalists.A.they were deeply influenced by DarwinismB.they were identified with French novelist and theorist Emile ZolaC.they chose their subjects for the lower ranks or societyD.they used more serious and more sympathetic tone in writing than realists42.Henry James’s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with ________.A.international themeB.national themeC.European themeD.regional themeIV.Explain the following literary items.(4x 5’=20’)43.Spenserian Stanzake Poets45.Humanism46.BalladV.Questions.(3x 10’=30’)47.“Robinson Crusoe”is usually considered as Daniel Defoe’s masterpiece.Discuss why it became so successful when it was published?48.What is "Byronic hero"?49.Mark Twain and Henry James are two representatives of the realistic writers in American literature.How is Twain’s realism different form James’s realism?参考答案:I.Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F).(本题共10空，每空1分，共10分)1-5: FFTTT 6-10: FFTTFII.Fill in the blanks.(本题共20小题, 每题1分, 共20分)11.(American) Puritanism12.178313.The American Scholar14.realistic; Mark Twain; Henry James; Jack London; Theodore Dreiser.15.Imagist; Hemingway.16.the classical literature; humanity.17.Romeo and Juliet18.Cavalier; Metaphysical19.heroic couplet20.Henry Fielding21.John Keatsdy Chatterley’s lover; The RainbowIV. Ex pla in the foll owi ng lite rar y ite ms.（本题4小题,每小题5分,共20分）43.Spenserian Stanza: it refers to a verse form created by Edmund Spenser for his poems.Each stanza has nine lines.Each of the first eight lines is in iambic pentameter, and the ninth line is an iambic hexameter line.The rhythm scheme is ababbcbccke Poets: it refers to those English romantic poets at the beginning of th e19th century, William Wordsworth, for example, who lived in the heart of the Lake District in the north-western part of England and enjoyed the experience of living close to nature, and these poets were the older generation of Romantic poets who had been deeply influenced by the French Revolution of 1789 and its effects.In their writings, they described the beautiful scenes and the country people of the area.45.Humanism refers to the literary culture in the Renaissance.Humanists emphasize the capacities of the human mind and the achievements of human culture.Humanism became the central theme of English Renaissance.Thomas More and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the English humanists.46.Ballad: a story told in songs, usually in 4-line stanzas, with the second and fourth rhymed. V.Questions.（本题3小题,每小题10分,共30分）47.A: Robinson Crusoe is supposedly based on the real adventure of an Alexander Selkirk who once stayed alone on the uninhabited island for five year4s.Actually, the story is an imagination.B: In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe traces the growth of Robinson from a naïve and artless youth into a shrewd and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life.C.In the novel, Robinson is a real hero and he is an embodiment of the rising middle-class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England.Robinson is a true empire-builder, a colonizer and a foreign trader, who has the courage and will to face hardships and who has determination to preserve himself and improve his livelihood by struggling against nature.D.Robinson Crusoe is an adventure story very much in the spirit of the time.Because of the above reasons, when it was published, people all liked that story, and it became an immediate success.48.Byronic hero is a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.With immense superiorityin his passions and powers, this Byronic hero would carry on his shoulders the burden of righting all the wrongs in a corrupt society, and would rise single-handedly against any kind of tyrannical rules wither in government, in religion, or in moral principles with unconquerable wills and inexhaustible energies.The conflict is usually one of rebellious individuals against outworn social systems and conventions.Such a hero appeared in many of his works, for example, "Don Juan".The figure is somewhat modeled on the life and personality of Byron himself, and makes Byron famous both at home and abroad.49.A.Mark Twain’s realism is tainted with local color, preferring to have his won region and people at the forefront of his stories.B.James’s realism is concerned with the “inner world”of man and the international theme.C.Twain’s language is simple and colloquial and he employs humor in his writing.D.James’s language is elaborate and refined with lengthy psychological analyses.。
英美社会与文化试题参考答案(仅供参考)
1.what are the general features of Britain`s independent schools？An independent school in the United Kingdom is a school relying upon private sources for all of its funding, predominantly in the form of school fees. In England and Wales the term public school is often used to refer to what is normally called in other countries a "private" school, a term which originally referred to those schools named in the Public Schools Act 1868. These schools themselves tend to prefer the term "independent school".2.why is the United States regarded as a "melting pot" and a "salad"？The melting pot is a metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous, the different elements "melting together" into a harmonious whole with a common culture. It is particularly used to describe the assimilation of immigrants to the United States; the melting-together metaphor was in use by the 1780s.After 1970 the desirability of assimilation and the melting pot model was challenged by proponents of multiculturalism, who assert that cultural differences within society are valuable and should be preserved, proposing the alternative metaphor of the salad bowl –different cultures mix, but remain distinct.3.why did America change its policy and enter world war two?Because the Great Depression lead a worldwide warfare crisis . But in the face of the Warfare crisis，the thinking of isolationism and anthropocentrism filled the society of America,most of American pay no attention on the war of other countries. It was until March of 1941 when the warfare fo west Europe is become incandescent the Capitol Hill adopt the Act of Lease. This marked US was no longer neutral state but a member of Allies. Than the Pearl Harbor incident finally made the United States enter The World War II on the side of the Allies.4.what were Nixon's well-known contributions during his presidency?Nixon is noted for his diplomatic foreign policy, especially with the Soviet Union and China, and his efforts to end the Vietnam War. He is also noted for his middle-of-the-road domestic policy that combined conservative rhetoric and, in many cases, liberal action, as in his environmental policy.As president, Nixon imposed wage and price controls, indexed Social Security for inflation, and created Supplemental Security Income. The number of pages added to the Federal Register each year doubled under Nixon. He advocated gun control, reduced speed limits, and eradicated the last remnants of the gold standard. Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration and implemented the Philadelphia Plan, the first significant federal affirmative action program.5.what was the cause of the American civil war?1. Economic and social differences between the North and the South.2. States versus federal rights3. The fight between Slave and Non-Slave State Proponents.4. Growth of the Abolition Movement.5. The election of Abraham Lincoln.6.what are the two characteristics of the U.S construction?the Statue of Liberty The Capitol7.what are the qualifications for a senator and a representative respectively? Senator:1) each senator must be at least 30 years old, 2) must have been a citizen of the United States for at least the past nine years, and 3) must be (at the time of the election) an inhabitant ofthe state he or she seeks to represent.Each representative must: (1) be at least twenty-five years old; (2) have been a citizen of the United States for the past seven years; and (3) be (at the time of the election) an inhabitant of the state they represent.8.what are the Major powers of the supreme court?The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States, and leads the federal judiciary. It consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight Associate Justices, who are nominated by the President and confirmed with the "advice and consent" of the Senate. Justices serve "during good Behaviour," which terminates at death, resignation, retirement, or conviction on impeachment. The Court meets in Washington, D.C. in the United States Supreme Court building. The Supreme Court is primarily an appellate court, but has original jurisdiction in a small number of cases.9.how does an American university choose its applicants?It will through some aspects：transcript，academic performance，extra-curricular achievements，personnel，inherence，artistic skills10.what are the origins of thanksgiving day?Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a traditional North American holiday, which is a form of harvest festival. The date and whereabouts of the first Thanksgiving celebration is a topic of modest contention, though the earliest attested Thanksgiving celebration was on September 8, 1565 in what is now Saint Augustine, Florida. Despite any scholarly research to the contrary, however, the traditional "first Thanksgiving" presented by Chief Massasoit is venerated as having occurred at the site of Plymouth Plantation, in 1621.11.what is the essence of American puritanism?1，puritanism is a strict religious doctrine.2, puritanism also has practical aspects. Puritans have to work hard, and prepare for the obstacles they will meet in their life.American puritanism contains origional sin, predestination,total depravity，limited atonement of God's grace12.what is the lost generation?The Lost Generation is a term used to refer to a collective group of artists and writers who settled in Europe in the wake of the First World War. Members of the Lost Generation lived in Europe in the 1920s and early 1930s, and they had a profound impact on society and the arts. This generation is referred to as “lost” not because it has faded from memory, but because the individuals in the Lost Generation often expressed a sense of emotional confusion, feeling lost in their own society.13.what are the characteristics of American writing during the romantic period? reaction against logic and reason; antiscientific in its bent; faith in something inherently good and transcendent in the human spirit in no need of salvation, but rather in need of awakening..."In this romantic period, writers put more emphasis on moral enthusiasm, and their masterpieces were full of passion, emotion, fancy and imagination. They also had a faith in the value of individualism and intuitive perception, they displayed personalities, express feelings and ideas, emphasize men’s rights for freedom and happiness.For their part human nature is of good will. Men can learn the world through their own ability, conscience and intuition. The romantic showed a deep admiration and love for nature. Theypraised America’s landscape of its primitive forests, meadows, vast plains, seas and blue oceans. The beauty and perfection of nature could enable them to have unutterable joy and exuberance. And nature was regarded as a source of goodness while man’s societies a source of corruption. Writers like Freneau, Cooper and Bryant took a great interest in external nature in their respective works.14.state the background for the American civil rights movement.The Civil Rights Movement in the United States has been a long, primarily nonviolent struggle to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to primarily African American citizens of United States. There have been many movements on behalf of other groups in the U.S. over time, but the term is often used to refer to the struggles between 1955 and 1968 to end discrimination against African-Americans and to end racial segregation, especially in the U.S. South. See African American for information on how various terms have been used at that time period for African Americans.15.make comments on women's liberation movement.The changes women worked for included changes in economic practices, such as not only asking equal work, but also equal opportunity for jobs in fields such as science and technology, management and politics.They wanted changes in social practices and attitudes which would acknowledge that women were not inferior to men in intelligence or abilityLegal segregation ended in the South as a result of the civil rights movement.The women's movement continues to gain more rights and opportunities for women.The social movements of the 1960s had a strong effect on the way people think and caused changes in many laws.16.what is the lvy league?name at least 4 of its members.The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The term is most commonly used to refer to those eight schools considered as a group. The term also has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and a reputation for social elitism.Brown UniversityHarvard UniversityYale UniversityColumbia University。
2011年天津外国语大学英语专业语言学真题试卷_真题-无答案
2011年天津外国语大学英语专业（语言学）真题试卷(总分62,考试时间90分钟)1. 单项选择题1. ______ is a central vowel.A. [e]B. [i]C. [u]D. [a]2. Which of the following is a pair of relational opposites?A. single vs. marriedB. hot vs. coldC. alive vs. deadD. husband vs. wife3. Which of the following is a minimal pair?A. pet, kidB. put, pestC. cave, shaveD. must, taste4. Which of the following ways of word-formation does not change the grammatical class of the stems?A. compoundB. inflectionC. derivationD. coinage5. Which of the following statements is true?A. Larynx is what we sometimes call "Adam"s apple".B. The International Phonetic Alphabet uses narrow transcription.C. There are two nasal consonants in English.D. It is sounds by which we **municative meaning.6. A ______has been added to Chomsky"s first model of grammar as shown in his Aspects of the Theory of Syntax(1965).A. set of rewriting rulesB. component of categoriesC. **ponentD. word classification7. According to the manner of articulation,[m]is a______.A. bilabialB. plosiveC. nasalD. lateral8. "I can refer to Confucius even though he was dead 2,000 years ago. " This shows that language has the design feature of______.A. arbitrarinessB. creativityC. dualityD. displacement9. ______ refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a **munity.A. LangueB. CompetenceC. **petenceD. Linguistic potential10. Which of the following is an "inflectional suffix"?A. -istB. -aryC. -ingD. -ify11. In today"s grammar we normally say that English does not have a " future tense". This is because in English ______.A. the future is not expressed by morphological changeB. the future can be expressed in many waysC. the future belongs to the category of "aspect"D. the future is expressed by modal verbs12. ______is a phenomenon that in some **munities two languages exist side by side with each having a different role to play; and language switching occurs when the situation changes.A. BilingualismB. DiglossiaC. PidginD. Creole13. ______ is a personal dialect of an individual speaker **bines elements regarding regional, social, gender, and age variations.A. RegisterB. Linguistic repertoireC. IdiolectD. Dialect14. Which of the following is NOT included in the three classes of syntactic relations?A. positional relationsB. relations of co-occurrenceC. relations of expansionD. relations of substitutability15. All of the following are characteristics of implicature EXCEPT______.A. conventionalityB. non-detachabilityC. cancellabilityD. calculability16. "He has already trunked two packs" is an example of______error.A. anticipationB. exchangeC. morpheme-exchangeD. perception17. The criterion used in IC analysis is______.A. constructionB. constituentC. structureD. substitutability18. According to G. Leech, who recognizes 7 types of meaning in his Semantics, ______ makes up the central part.A. conceptual meaningB. connotative meaningC. social meaningD. thematic meaning19. "The Club" is a device for blocking an automobile"s steering wheel, thus protecting the car from being stolen. And one of its ads reads:The Club ! FD Anti-theft device for cars Police Say: " Use it" or Lose It In terms of the Gricean theory, what maxim is exploited here?A. the maxim of mannerB. the maxim of relevanceC. the maxim of qualityD. the maxim of quantity20. What semantic relation do the following sentences have?A. I saw a girl.B. I saw a child.A. contradictionB. entailmentC. synonymD. Presupposition2. 名词解释1. semantic field theory(3 points)2. favourite sentence type(4 points)3. free variation(3 points)4. Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis(4 points)5. endocentric construction(3 points)6. back formation(3 points)3. 写作题1. Choose any THREE of the following questions to analyze. Write the number of the question and your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.Discuss the major contributions of Saussure to modern linguistics.2. Comment on the "innateness hypothesis".3. Explain the purpose and significance of reconstruction in historical linguistics and the method employed by historical linguists.4. How do you interpret the distinctions between language acquisition and language learning?5. How do **ment on the two frequently used analogies for attempted inference on the origin of language: the acquisition of speech by children and the structures and characteristics of so-called "primitive" languages?。
2011年国际关系学院英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷.doc
2011年国际关系学院英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷(总分：60.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、匹配题(总题数：1，分数：40.00)Please match the following authors with their works.(10 points)1. The Waves2. All"s Well that Ends Well3. Where Angels Fear to Tread4. Song of Myself5. Ulysses6. The Hairy Ape7. Women in Love8. The Pit9. Death in the Afternoon10. Babbitt11. Adam Bede12. Burmese Days13. The Innocents Abroad14. The Open Boat15. The Sketch Book16. Oliver Twist17. Lord Jim18. The American19. Light in August20. Typee（分数：40.00）(1).William Faulkner（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).James Joyce（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (3).Sinclair Lewis（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (4).George Eliot（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (5).Stephen Crane（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (6).Charles Dickens（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (7).Mark Twain（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (8).E. M. Forster（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (9).Eugene O"Neill（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (10).William Shakespeare（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (11).Frank Norris（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (12).Joseph Conrad（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (13).Henry James（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (14).Herman Melville（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (15).Ernest Hemingway（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (16).Walt Whitman（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (17).George Orwell（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (18).D.H. Lawrence（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (19).Virginia Woolf（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (20).Washington Irving（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________二、填空题(总题数：8，分数：16.00)1.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is an autobiographical sketch of(1)"s childhood and early(2)（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________2.The Romantic period in American literature stretches from(3)to(4)（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________3.James Fenimore Cooper created a(5)about the(6)period of the American nation.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________4.Edgar Allan Poe believes(7)is the most legitimate of all the poetic tones and the(8)__of a beautiful woman is the most poetical topic in the world.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________5.The Lake Poets criticized the industrialized(9)society by advocating the(10)to the patriarchal society of the past while Byron and Shelley attacked the forces of oppression both (11)and(12)and called on the oppressed people to rise against earthly tyrants.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________6.The height of Thomas Hardy"s achievement as a novelist was reached in his last two novels both published in the 1890"s. The central figures in the two novels are(13)and(14)（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________7.Hemingway"s(15)hero is a man of(16)rather than a man of thought. He can be destroyed but not(17)and he always shows(18)under pressure.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________8.The central theme of Paradise Lost is taken from the(19)and deals with the Christian story of "the(20)of man".（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________三、评论题(总题数：2，分数：4.00)9.Please read the following poem and make comments in about 300 words.(50 points)The Wild Swans at Coole *The trees are in their autumn beauty,The woodland paths are dry,Under the October twilight the waterMirrors a still sky;Upon the brimming water among the stonesAre nine-and-fifty swans.The nineteenth autumn has come upon meSince I first made my count;I saw, before I had well finished,All suddenly mountAnd scatter wheeling in great broken ringsUpon their clamorous wings.I have looked upon those brilliant creatures,And now my heart is sore.All"s changed since I, hearing at twilight,The first time on this shore,The bell-beat of their wings above my head,Trod with a lighter tread.Unwearied still, lover by lover,They paddle in the coldCompanionable streams or climb the air;Their hearts have not grown old;Passion or conquest, wander where they will,Attend upon them still.But now they drift on the still water,Mysterious, beautiful;Among what rushes will they build,By what lake"s edge of poolDelight men"s eyes when I awake some dayTo find they have flown away?* Coole was the estate of Lady Augusta Gregory, the poet"s friend and patron, who encouraged the young poet and made her house a second home to him.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 10.Please read the following story and make comments in about 500 words.(70 points)A Rose for EmilyIWhen Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old man-servant—a combined gardener and cook—had seen in at least ten years.It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street. But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily"s house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps—an eyesore amongeyesores. And now Miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and Confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson.Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor—he who fathered the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the streets without an apron—remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity. Not that Miss Emily would have accepted charity. Colonel Sartoris invented an involved tale to the effect that Miss Emily"s father had loaned money to the town, which the town, as a matter of business, preferred this way of repaying. Only a man of Colonel Sartoris" generation and thought could have invented it, and only a woman could have believed it.When the next generation, with its more modern ideas, became mayors and aldermen, this arrangement created some little dissatisfaction. On the first of the year they mailed her a tax notice. February came, and there was no reply. They wrote her a formal letter, asking her to call at the sheriffs office at her convenience. A week later the mayor wrote her himself, offering to call or to send his car for her, and received in reply a note on paper of an archaic shape, in a thin, flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all. The tax notice was also enclosed, without comment.They called a special meeting of the Board of Aldermen. A deputation waited upon her, knocked at the door through which no visitor had passed since she ceased giving china-painting lessons eight or ten years earlier. They were admitted by the old Negro into a dim hall from which a stairway mounted into still more shadow. It smelled of dust and disuse—a close, dank smell. The Negro led them into the parlor. It was furnished in heavy, leather-covered furniture. When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the single sun-ray. On a tarnished gilt easel before the fireplace stood a crayon portrait of Miss Emily"s father.They rose when she entered—a small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. Her skeleton was small and spare; perhaps that was why what would have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her. She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue. Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough as they moved from one face to another while the visitors stated their errand.She did not ask them to sit. She just stood in the door and listened quietly until the spokesman came to a stumbling halt. Then they could hear the invisible watch ticking at the end of the gold chain.Her voice was dry and cold. "I have no taxes in Jefferson. Colonel Sartoris explained it to me. Perhaps one of you can gain access to the city records and satisfy yourselves. ""But we have. We are the city authorities, Miss Emily. Didn"t you get a notice from the sheriff, signed by him?""I received a paper, yes," Miss Emily said. "Perhaps he considers himself the sheriff... I have no taxes in Jefferson. ""But there is nothing on the books to show that, you see. We must go by the—""See Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson. ""But, Miss Emily—"" See Colonel Sartoris. "(Colonel Sartoris had been dead almost ten years.)" I have no taxes in Jefferson. Tobe!" The Negro appeared. "Show these gentlemen out. "IISo she vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before about the smell. That was two years after her father"s death and a short time after her sweetheart—the one we believed would marry her —had deserted her. After her father"s death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all. A few of the ladies had the temerity to call, but were not received, and the only sign of life about the place was the Negro man—a young man then—going in and out with a market basket." Just as if a man—any man—could keep a kitchen properly," the ladies said; so they were not surprised when the smell developed. It was another link between the gross, teeming world and the high and mighty Griersons.A neighbor, a woman, complained tothe mayor, Judge Stevens, eighty years old."But what will you have me do about it, madam?" he said."Why, send her word to stop it," the woman said. "Isn"t there a law?"" I"m sure that won"t be necessary," Judge Stevens said. " It"s probably just a snake or a rat that nigger of hers killed in the yard. I"ll speak to him about it. "The next day he received two more complaints, one from a man who came in diffident deprecation. "We really must do something about it, Judge. I"d be the last one in the world to bother Miss Emily, but we"ve got to do something. " That night the Board of Aldermen met—three graybeards and one younger man, a member of the rising generation."It"s simple enough," he said. "Send her word to have her place cleaned up. Give her a certain time to do it in, and if she don"t...""Dammit, sir, " Judge Stevens said, "will you accuse a lady to her face of smelling bad?"So the next night, after midnight, four men crossed Miss Emily"s lawn and slunk about the house like burglars, sniffing along the base of the brickwork and at the cellar openings while one of them performed a regular sowing motion with his hand out of a sack slung from his shoulder. They broke open the cellar door and sprinkled lime there, and in all the outbuildings. As they recrossed the lawn, a window that had been bark was lighted and Miss Emily sat in it, the light behind her, and her upright torso motionless as that of an idol. They crept quietly across the lawn and into the shadow of the locusts that lined the street. After a week or two the smell went away.That was when people had begun to feel really sorry for her. People in our town, remembering how old lady Wyatt, her great-aunt, had gone completely crazy at last, believed that the Griersons held themselves a little too high for what they really were. None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such. We had long thought of them as a tableau; Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip, the two of them framed by the back-flung front door. So when she got to be thirty and was still single, we were not pleased exactly, but vindicated; even with insanity in the family she wouldn"t have turned down all of her chances if they had really materialized.When her father died, it got about that the house was all that was left to her; and in a way, people were glad. At last they could pity Miss Emily. Being left alone, and a pauper, she had become humanized. Now she too would know the old thrill and the old despair of a penny more or less.The day after his death all the ladies prepared to call at the house and offer condolence and aid, as is our custom. Miss Emily met them at the door, dressed as usual and with no trace of grief on her face. She told them that her father was not dead. She did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body. Just as they were about to resort to law and force, she broke down, and they buried her father quickly.We did not say she was crazy them. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will.IIIShe was sick for a long time. When we saw her again, her hair was cut short, making her look like a girl, with a vague resemblance to those angels in colored church windows—sort of tragic and serene.The town had just let the contracts for paving the sidewalks, and in the summer after her father"s death they began the work. The construction company came with niggers and mules and machinery, and a foreman named Homer Barron, a Yankee—a big, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face. The little boys would follow in groups to hear him cuss the niggers, and the niggers singing in time to the rise and fall of picks. Pretty soon he knew everybody in town. Whenever you heard a lot of laughing anywhere about the square, Homer Barron would be in the center of the group. Presently we began to see him and Miss Emily on Sunday afternoons driving in the yellow-wheeled buggy and the matched team of bays from the livery stable.At first we were glad that Miss Emily would have an interest, because the ladies all said, " Of course a Grierson would not think seriously of a Northerner, a day laborer. " But there were still others, older people, who said that even grief could not cause a real lady to forget noblesse oblige— without calling it noblesse oblige. They just said, "Poor Emily. Her kinsfolk shouldcome to her. " She had some kin in Alabama; but years ago her father had fallen out with them over the estate of old lady Wyatt, the crazy woman, and there was no communication between the two families. They had not even been represented at the funeral.And as soon as the old people said, "Poor Emily," the whispering began. "Do you suppose it"s really so?" they said to one another. "Of course it is. What else could..." This behind their hands; rustling of craned silk and satin behind jalousies closed upon the sun of Sunday afternoon as the thin, swift clop-clop-clop of the matched team passed; "Poor Emily. "She carried her head high enough—-even when we believed that she was fallen. It was as if she demanded more than ever the recognition of her dignity as the last Grierson; as if it had wanted that touch of earthiness to reaffirm her imperviousness. Like when she bought the rat poison, the arsenic. That was over a year after they had begun to say " Poor Emily," and while the two female cousins were visiting her." I want some poison," she said to the druggist. She was over thirty then, still a slight woman, though thinner than usual, with cold, haughty black eyes in a face the flesh of which was strained across the temples and about the eyesockets as you imagine a lighthouse-keeper"s face ought to look " I want some poison," she said."Yes, Miss Emily. What kind? For rats and such? I"d recom—""I want the best you have.I don"t care what kind. "The druggist named several. "They"ll kill anything up to an elephant. But what you want is—""Arsenic," Miss Emily said. "Is that a good one?"" Is... arsenic ? Yes, ma"am. But what you want—""I want arsenic.The druggist looked down at her. She looked back at him, erect, her face like a strained flag. "Why, of course," the druggist said. "If that"s what you want. But the law requires you to tell what you are going to use it for.Miss Emily just stared at him, her head tilted back in order to look him eye for eye, until he looked away and went and got the arsenic and wrapped it up. The Negro delivery boy brought her the package; the druggist didn"t come back. When she opened the package at home there was written on the box, under the skull and bones; "For rats.IVSo the next day we all said, " She will kill herself" ; and we said it would be the best thing. When she had first begun to be seen with Homer Barron, we had said, " She will marry him. " Then we said, " She will persuade him yet, " because Homer himself had remarked—he liked men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks" Club —that he was not a marrying ter we said, "Poor Emily" behind the jalousies as they passed on Sunday afternoon in the glittering buggy, Miss Emily with her head high and Homer Barron with his hat cocked and a cigar in his teeth, reins and whip in a yellow glove.Then some of the ladies began to say that it was a disgrace to the town and a bad example to the young people. The men did not want to interfere, but at last the ladies forced the Baptist minister—Miss Emily"s people were Episcopal—to call upon her. He would never divulge what happened during that interview, but he refused to go back again. The next Sunday they again drove about the streets, and the following day the minister"s wife wrote to Miss Emily"s relations in Alabama.So she had blood-kin under her roof again and we sat back to watch developments. At first nothing happened. Then we were sure that they were to be married. We learned that Miss Emily had been to the jeweler"s and ordered a man"s toilet set in silver, with the letters H. B. on each piece. Two days later we learned that she had bought a complete outfit of men"s clothing, including a nightshirt, and we said, "They are married. " We were really glad. We were glad because the two female cousins were even more Grierson than Miss Emily had ever been.So we were not surprised when Homer Barron —the streets had been finished some time since— was gone. We were a little disappointed that where was not a public blowing-off, but we believed that he had gone on to prepare for Miss Emily"s coming, or to give her a chance to get rid of the cousins.(By that time it was a cabal, and we were all Miss Emily"s allies to help circumvent the cousins.)Sure enough, after another week they departed. And, as we had expected all along, within three days Homer Barron was back in town.A neighbor saw the Negro man admit him at the kitchen door at dusk one evening.And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron. And of Miss Emily for some time. The Negro man went in and out with the market basket, but the front door remained closed. Now and then we would see her at a windowfor a moment, as the men did that night when they sprinkled the lime, but for almost six months she did not appear on the streets. Then we knew that this was to be expected too; as if that quality of her father which had thwarted her woman"s life so many times had been too virulent and too furious to die.When we next saw Miss Emily, she had grown fat and her hair was turning gray. During the next few years it grew grayer and grayer until it attained an even pepper-and-salt iron-gray, when it ceased turning. Up to the day of her death at seventy-four it was still that vigorous iron-gray, like the hair of an active man.From that time on her front door remained closed, save for a period of six or seven years, when she was about forty, during which she gave lessons in china-painting. She fitted up a studio in one of the downstairs rooms, where the daughters and granddaughters of Colonel Sartoris" contemporaries were sent to her with the same regularity and in the same spirit that they were sent to church on Sundays with a twenty-five-cent piece for the collection plate. Meanwhile her taxes had been remitted.Then the newer generation became the backbone and the spirit of the town, and the painting pupils grew up and fell away and did not send their children to her with boxes of color and tedious brushes and pictures cut from the ladies" magazines. The front door closed upon the last one and remained closed for good. When the town got free postal delivery, Miss Emily alone refused to let them fasten the metal numbers above her door and attach a mailbox to it. She would not listen to them.Daily, monthly, yearly we watched the Negro grow grayer and more stooped, going in and out with the market basket. Each December we sent her a tax notice, which would be returned by the post office a week later, unclaimed. Now and then we would see her in one of the downstairs windows—she had evidently shut up the top floor of the house—like the carven torso of an idol in a niche, looking or not looking at us, we could never tell which. Thus she passed from generation to generation—dear, inescapable, impervious, tranquil, and perverse.And so she died. Fell ill in the house filled with dust and shadows, with only a doddering Negro man to wait on her. We did not even know she was sick; we had long since given up trying to get any information from the Negro. He talked to no one, probably not even to her, for his voice had grown harsh and rusty, as if from disuse.She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight.VThe Negro met the first of the ladies at the front door and let them in, with their hushed, sibilant voices and their quick, curious glances, and then he disappeared. He walked right through the house and out the back and was not seen again.The two female cousins came at once. They held the funeral on the second day, with the town coming to look at Miss Emily beneath a mass of bought flowers, with the crayon face of her father musing profoundly above the bier and the ladies sibilant and macabre; and the very old men—some in their brushed Confederate uniforms—on the porch and the lawn, talking of Miss Emily as if she had been a contemporary of theirs, believing they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the old do, to whom all the past is not a diminishing road, but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches, divided from them now by the narrow bottleneck of the most recent decade of years.Already we knew that there was one room in that region above stairs which no one had seen in forty years, and which would have to be forced. They waited until Miss Emily was decently in the ground before they opened it.The violence of breaking down the door seemed to fill this room with pervading dust. A thin, acrid pall as of the tomb seemed to lie everywhere upon this room decked and furnished as for a bridal: upon the valance curtains of faded rose color, upon the rose-shaded lights, upon the dressing table, upon the delicate array of crystal and the man"s toilet things backed with tarnished silver, silver so tarnished that the monogram was obscured. Among them lay a collar and tie, as if they had just been removed, which, lifted, left upon the surface a pale crescent in the dust. Upon a chair hung the suit, carefully folded; beneath it the two mute shoes and the discarded socks.The man himself lay in the bed.For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleepthat outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him. What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay; and upon him and upon the pillow beside him lay that even coating of the patient and biding dust.Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________。
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1 When the romans invaded Britain around the year 43A.D,Britain was a land of the Celts.2 Which of the following is not one of the three Germanic tribes that come to be the basis of modern English race the Viking Dances3 In 43A.D,Roman Emperor,Claudius,evaded Britain.4 Christianity was introduced into Britiain by the Romans.5 Who was killed in the Battle of Hastings Harold Godwinson6 For much of the Middle Ages,Britain was ruled by a French-speaking aritocracy.7 Which of the following words were not regarded as the luanguage of the upper class in the Middle Ages Deer8 In the 14th century English became dominant in Britain again.9 Which of the following English poets is known as "the Father of English literature" W.Shakespeare10 Normans under William the Conqueror invaded England from France, defeating the Saxon king Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.11 The full name of the United Kingdom is?The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland12 The two largest islands of the British Isles are Britain and Ireland.13 All the kings of the Middle Ages in Britain spoke French as their mother tongue, and after the Hundred Years’ War, the English language took its place.14 What are the main consequences of the Norman Conquest?The significance of Norman Conquest lies in the following aspects: the foundation of aristocracy, the final unification of England, the great administrative process, and a link to France.15 The ancestors of the Welsh are the Celts.16 The historical Arthur is believed by most historians as a ____ warrior.A. Celtic B Anglo C Saxon D Norman1 Which is the name of the series of children's horror fiction novellas by R.L.Stine Goosebumps2 Which novel is known as the most famous vampire novel ever Dracular3 Which fictional figure is not a derective Holden Gaulfield4 At what age is the Harry Potter introduced to the wizarding world 115 Which animated figure earns the most for Walt Disney Company Winnie the Pooh6 What is Ten Little Niggers entitled when it was published in the United State And Then Three Were None7 Which fiction is most likely to be chosen as the bedtime story Winnie the Pooh8 Someone who knows nothing about witchcraft or wizardry is called a Muggle in Harry Potter9 Which novel is most likely to be grouped as literary fiction A Tale of Two Cities10 One of the following took place during the Elizabethan age:the defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English navy11 In England, the monarch, King Henry VIII, declared that the Pope was no longer head of the Church of England.12. Three of the following were characteristics of the Elizabethan age. Which of the four is the exception?Queen Elizabeth advocated the Divine Right and quarreled with Parliament.13. Victorianism was characterized by the following except It was an age when the Battle of Hastings was won by the Duke of Wellington.14. The Origin of Species was written by Charles Darwin15. All English official documents bear the initials OHMS which stands for On Her Majesty’s Service16. In Britain, the executive power is in the hands of __________.17. Queen Victoria takes the credit of the longest reign in British history.18. In the “Grab for Africa” Britain got the lion’s share, which confirmed its supremacy.1 Which of the following was discovered by the Virginians Growing tobacco in Virginia2 Which of the following states is called "the Old Colony State" Massachusetts3 Virginia is an American state named in honor of Queen Elizabeth I4 Which of the following is the 50th state admitted into the US Hawaii5 Which of the following is not the motive of English Puritans who went to New England as immigrants They believed the the Church of England was not Catholic enough6 Thanksgiving Day was originally celebrated by people for harvest7 Benjamin Franklin was the only Founding Father to sign The Declaration of Independence,The United States Constitution,The Treaty of Alliance with France,and The Treaty of Paris.8 The Confederacy was the government formed from 1861 to 1865 by 11 Southern states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S.9 The famous "this government of the people,by the people,for the people"was from The Gettysburg Address1 The world's first commercial motion picture was exhibited in the year of 18942 The name "Hollywood" was coined by H.J.Whitley3 In Old California was known as the first film ever shot in Hollywood.4 Strongheart was the first of three dogs to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame5 Which of the following is the oldest award ceremony in the media The Oscar Awards6 How many Oscars did Walt Disney win 267 Which of the following Disney theme park was designed and built under the direct supervision of Walt Disney himself Disneyland8 Tokyo Disney Resort is the first resort complex outside the United States9 How many theme parks does Hong Kong Disneyland consist of ?one1 The Victorian novelists include the following except Willam Wordsworth2 Which of the following is a tragedy written by Shakespeare? Othello3 The most outstanding Victorian novelist in the aspect of literary merits was Charles Dickens4 "To be or not to be"is the question from which play by Shakespeare? Hamlet5 Which fictional character is not created by Charles Dickens? Herzog6 Shakespeare lived under the reign of Queen Elizabeth I7 Charles Dickens lived under the reign of Queen Victoria8 Which statement about Shakespeare is not right? Shakespeare has a profound influence on the Christmas celebration nowadays.9 Which statement about Dickens is not right? Dickens is ignored during his life time but earns recognition afterwards.1 Which university is usually considered the first university in the world? University Of Bologna2 What is the motto of Harvard University? Veritas3 So far,how many US Presidents have been produced by Yale University? 54 Which of the following US universities is NOT the member of the Ivy League? MIT5 Oxford University began growing rapidly in 12th century6 From which university did John Harvard graduate? Cambridge University7 What was the result of the first Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge? Oxford win8 Which university was the site of the first practical electron microscope? University Of Toronto9 According to Asian University Rankings,2009,which university ranked the highest in Asia? University Of Hong Kong1 The nickname for the USA national flag is Old Glory2 The state of Virginia was named in honor of Queen Elizabeth I.3 As US national motto, “E Pluribus Unum” means out of many, one4 The meaning of Mississippi is great waters / father of waters5 Some Puritans, called the Pilgrims, crossed the Atlantic in the ship Mayflower and settled at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620.6 The writer O. Henry called Thanksgiving the one holiday that is purely American.7 The first shot in the American War of Independence was heard at the village of Lexington on April 19, 1775.8 In May, 1775, the 2nd Continental Congress met in Philadelphia and began to assume the functions of a national government.9 On June 14, 1776, the second Continental Congress officially appointed George Washington as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.10 Thomas Jefferson was instructed by the Committee of Five to write the Declaration of Independence.11 The Independence Day of the United States is on July 4th12 On January 1, 1863, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which granted freedom to all slaves in areas still controlled by the Confederacy.13 The famous “that this government of the people, by the people, for the people” was from th e Gettysburg Address14 The 2nd Amendment in the Bill of Rights granted the American people the right to keep and bear arms15 The most extreme form of Jim Crow violence is lynching16 The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 serves as the first in US history to ban a specific racial group from entering America.17 The term “Father of Waters” is used to refer to the Mississippi River18 Which of the following was not first grown by Native Americans?cabbage19 George Washington served two term(s) as US President.20 The author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin was Harriet Beecher Stowe21 Angel Island was destroyed by a fire in 1940 and was never reopened.22 Which Act removed the last barriers to Chinese immigration initiating a new era in the history of America’s melting pot? The Immigration Act。
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Unit 5I. Blank-filling1. The nickname for the USA national flag is “_____Old Glory________________”.2. The state of ____Virginia______ was named in honor of Queen Elizabeth I.3. As US national motto, “E Pluribus Unum” means _____out of many,one__________5. As pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mark Twain means ___Mark number two_______.6. The largest state in terms of area is ___Alaska_______ and the largest state in terms of population is _____California_____.7. The meaning of Mississippi is “_____Father of Waters___”.8. Some ____Puritans_______, called the Pilgrims, crossed the Atlantic in the ship Mayflower andsettled at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620.9. The writer O. Henry called ____Thanksgiving Day _______ the one holiday that is purelyAmerican.10. The first shot in the American War of Independence was heard at the village of______Lexington_____ on April 19, 1775.11. In May, 1775, ______the 2th Continental Congress______ met in Philadelphia and began toassume the functions of a national government.12. On June 14, 1776, the second Continental Congress officially appointed __GeorgrWashington___ as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.13. ___Thomas_Jefferson_ was instructed by the Committee of Five to write the Declaration ofIndependence.14. The Independence Day of the United States is on _____July_4th_______.15. On January 1, 1863, President Lincoln issued the ____ Emancipation Proclamation___________, which granted freedom to all slaves in areas still controlled by the Confederacy.16. The famous “that this government of the people, by the people, for the people”was from___the Gettysburg Address_______17. The 2nd Amendment in the Bill of Rights granted the American people the right to keep andbear ____Arms______.18. The most extreme form of Jim Crow violence is ____Lynching______.19. ___Chinked-out_______ is a new musical style created by Lee-Hom Wang, which blendsChinese traditional music with Western hip-hop rhythms.20. ____The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882______ serves as the first in US history to ban a specific racial group from entering America.II. Multiple-Choice21. Which of the following states is called “the Old Colony State”? BA. PennsylvaniaB. MassachusettsC. DelawareD. Georgia22. The term “Father of Waters” is used to refer to __________. CA. the Amazon River C. the Mississippi RiverB. the Nile River D. the Hudson River23. Which of the following was not first grown by Native Americans? BA. potato C. pumpkinB. cabbage D. corn24. The first colony at Jamestown in Virginia survived because the colonists discovered a way to earn money. Which of the following was discovered by the Virginians? BA. shipping cotton to EuropeB. growing tobacco in VirginiaC. making a profit by fishingD. growing cotton25. Three of the following were the motives of the English Puritans who went to New England asimmigrants. Which was the exception? AA. They believed that the Church of England was not Catholic enough.B. They believed that the Church of England was too Catholic in religious practices.C. They were persecuted in England.D. They wanted to established a colony based on their own religious ideals.26. Thanksgiving Day is originally celebrated by people for _____. DA. healthB. safetyC. freedomD. harvest27. _____ was the only Founding Father to sign the Declaration of Independence, the UnitedStates Constitution, the Treaty of Alliance with France, and the Treaty of Paris. CA. George WashingtonB. Thomas JeffersonC. Benjamin FranklinD. John Adams28. The following words of wisdom were given by Benjamin Franklin except _____ BA. A penny saved is a penny earned.B. All for one, one for all. ([法] Dumas pére大仲马)C. Time is money.D. Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.29. George Washington served _____ term(s) as US President. BA. oneB. twoC. threeD. four30. The author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin was ____________. CA. Thomas PaineB. Barbara SmithC. Harriet Beecher StoweD. Mark Twain31.The following people played a great role in Civil Rights Movement except _____. CA. Emmett TillB. Rosa ParksC.Oprah WinfreyD. Martin Luther King, Jr.32. Angel Island was destroyed by _____ in 1940 and was never reopened. CA. an earthquakeB. a thunderstormC.a fireD. a flood33. Which Act removed the last barriers to Chinese immigration initiating a new era in the history of America’s melting pot? CA. The Chinese Exclusion ActB. The Chinese Exclusion Repeal ActC.The Immigration ActD. The Walter-McCarren Act34. Which of the following is not a slur word? AA. blondeB. chinkC.niggerD. round-eyeIII. Question35. What is the significance of the Second Continental Congress? 大陆会议的重要性有3点37. What social problems did the American Civil War solve? 2点38. What are the contributions of the Civil Rights Laws of the 1960s?IV. True or False39. The first English colony was set in Delaware. F40. The bald eagle was chosen as the representative of the United States. T41. Geographically the United States can be roughly divided into three parts—the western part, the southern part and New England. F42. The Appalachian Mountains are the backbone of North America. F43. Fishing and hunting were only a way for American Indians to survive.44. Totem poles were used as the objects of worship.45. Pilgrim Fathers settled at Plymouth in 1607. F46. The purpose of the First Continental Congress was to seek independence from Britain. F47. Benjamin Franklin was the first to celebrate the American Dream. T48. Under the Articles of Confederation, the 13 states were united under a strong centralgovernment.49. US Constitution was signed on September 17, 1787.50. The Bill of Rights ensured the efficient central authority of the federal government. F51. Mount Rushmore is famous for the faces of four American Presidents, who are G. Washington,T. Jefferson, A. Lincoln, and F. Roosevelt. F（Theodore Roosevelt）52. The Battle of Gettysburg was fought on July 1 and 2, 1863 and is considered the turning pointin the Revolutionary War. F(应该是内战Civil War)1. The ancestors of the Welsh are ___a__.A. the CeltsB. the RomansC. the AnglesD. the Normans2. Which of the following is not one of the three Germanic tribes that came to be the basisof modern English race? __a___A. the Viking DanesB. the AnglesC. the SaxonsD. the Jutes3. The historical Arthur is believed by most historians as a __a__ warrior.A. Celtic B Anglo C Saxon D Norman4. For much of the Middle Ages, Britain was ruled by a(n) __b____-speaking aristocracy.A. EnglishB. FrenchC. GermanD. Gaelic5. Normans under William the Conqueror invaded England from France, Defeating theSaxon king Harold at the Battle of ____Hastings_______ in 1066. Hastings6. The full name of the United Kingdom is ____ The United Kingdom of Great Britain___7. The two largest islands of the British Isles are __ Britain __ and _ Ireland ___.8. All the kings of the Middle Ages in Britain spoke ___French__ as their mother tongue,and after the Hundred Years’ War, the __English____ language took its place.9. What are the main consequences of the Norman Conquest?The significance of Norman Conquest lies in the following aspects: The foundation of aristocracy,the final u nification of England ,the great administrative process,and a link to FranceUnit 11 The ancestors of the Welsh are ___A__.A. the CeltsB. the RomansC. the AnglesD. the Normans2 Which of the following is not one of the three Germanic tribes that came to be the basis of modern En glish race? AA. the Viking DanesB. the AnglesC. the SaxonsD. the Jutes3 The historical Arthur is believed by most historians as a _A___ warrior.A. Celtic B Anglo C Saxon D Norman4 For much of the Middle Ages, Britain was ruled by a(n) __B____-speaking aristocracy.A. EnglishB. FrenchC. GermanD. Gaelic5 Normans under William the Conqueror invaded England from France, defeating the Saxon king Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.6 The full name of the United Kingdom is The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland .7 The two largest islands of the British Isles are England and Ireland.8 All the kings of the Middle Ages in Britain spoke French as their mother tongue, and after the Hund red Years’War, the French-English language took its place.9 When the Romans invaded Britain around the year 43 A.D, Britain was a land of B .A. The PictsB. The CeltsC. The Angles10 Which of the following is not one of the three Germanic tribes that came to be the basis of modern English race ? AA. The Viking DanesB. The AnglesC. The Saxons11 In 43 A.D. ,Roman Emperor, C , evaded Britain.A. Julius CaesarB. Augustus CaesarC. Claudius12 Christianity was introduced into Britain by CA. The CeltsB. The GermansC. The Romans13 Who was killed in the Battle of Hastings ? BA. Edward the ConfessorB. Harold GodwinsonC. Harald Hardrade14 For much of the Middle Ages, Britain was ruled by a(n) AA. French-speakingB. English-speakingC. German-speaking15 Which of the following words were not regarded as the language of the upper class in the Middle A ges? AA. DeerB. MuttonC. Pork16 In the C century English became dominant in Britain again.A. 12thB. 13thC. 14th17 Which of the following English poets is known as “the Father of English literature”? AA. G. ChaucerB. J. MiltonC. W. Shakespeare10 What are the main consequences of the Norman Conquest?The significance of Norman Conquest lies in the following aspects: the foundation of aristocracy, the fi nal unification of England, the great administrative process, a link to France, a great influence of French on English.Unit 21. One of the following took place during the Elizabethan age: BA. the making of the Magna CartaB. the defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English navyC. the rule of Alfred the GreatD. the defeat of King Harold by France2. In England, the monarch, D , declared that the Pope was no longer head of the Church of England.A. Bloody MaryB. Queen Elizabeth I.C. King Henry VD. King Henry VIII3. Three of the following were characteristics of the Elizabethan age. Which of the four is the exception?AA. Queen Elizabeth advocated the Divine Right and quarreled with Parliament.B. Protestantism gradually became the dominant faith.C. This was the age of literature when Shakespeare lived and when English literature blossomed.D. This was the age of adventure on the sea.4. Victorianism was characterized by the following except DA. It was in an age of imperialismB. It saw the great progress in sciences with Charles Darwin as a prominent figure.C. It was the age when the great progress was made in the field of communications.D. It was an age when the Battle of Hastings was won by the Duke of Wellington.?5. The Origin of Species was written by Charles Darwin .6. All English official documents bear the initials OHMS which stands for On His/Her Majesty's Service .7 In Britain, the executive power is in the hands of Cabinet .8. Queen Victoria takes the credit of the longest reign in British history.9. In the “Grab for Africa” Britain got the lion’s share, which confirmed its supremacy.1. The first colony at Jamestown in Virginia survived because the colonists discovered a way to earn mo ney. Which of the following was discovered by the Virginians? CA. Growing cottonB. Making a profit by fishingC. Growing tobacco in Virginia2. Which of the following states is called “ the Old Colony State ”? BA. PennsylvaniaB. MassachusettsC. Virginia3. Virginia is an American state named in honor of AA. Queen Elizabeth IB. Queen Mary IC. Queen Victoria4. Which of the following is the 50th state admitted into the US? CA. ArizonaB. AlaskaC. Hawaii5. Which of the following is not the motive of the English Puritans who went to New England as immigra nts? AA. They believed that the Church of England was not Catholic enoughB. They were persecuted in England.C. They wanted to establish a colony based on their own religious ideals.6. Thanksgiving Day was originally celebrated by people for AA. HarvestB. SafetyC. Freedom7. C was the only Founding Father to sign The Declaration of Independence, The United States Constitution, The Treaty of Alliance with France, and The Treaty of Paris. CA. George WashingtonB. Thomas JeffersonC. Benjamin Franklin8. The Confederacy was the government formed from 1861 to 1865 by B Southern states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S.A. 10B. 11C.129. The famous “this government of the people, by the people, for the people” was from AA. The Gettysburg AddressB. Emancipation ProclamationC. The Mayflower Compact10. What were the main features of the Elizabethan age?The Elizabethan age is often remembered by two things. The first is literature, especially the literature o f William Shakespeare. It was at the age that Shakespeare lived and English literature blossomed. The s econd is adventure on the sea The victory of English fleets marked the beginning of an English naval tra dition.11.Explain the atmosphere of Victorianism.Victorianism was an age of national development and national optimism. Tremendous social reform took place. The greatest one of all was made in the field of communications. Victorianism family life had the quality of stability and the victorias were extremely religious. It was also an age of imperialism.Unit 5I. Blank-filling1. The nickname for the USA national flag is “ Old Glory ”.2. The state of Virginia was named in honor of Queen Elizabeth I.3. As US national motto, “E Pluribus Unum”means “ Out of Many，One ”5. As pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mark Twain means Mark Number Two .6. The largest state in terms of area is Alaska and the largest state in terms of population is California .7. The meaning of Mississippi is “ Great Waters ”.8. Some Puritans, called the Pilgrims, crossed the Atlantic in the ship Mayflower and settled at Plymo uth,Massachusetts in 1620.9. The writer O. Henry called Thanksgiving the one holiday that is purely American.10. The first shot in the American War of Independence was heard at the village of Lexington on April 19, 1775.11. In May, 1775, The 2nd Continental Congress met in Philadelphia and began to assume the functio ns of a national government.12. On June 14, 1776, the second Continental Congress officially appointed George Washington as co mmander-in-chief of the Continental Army.13. Thomas Jefferson was instructed by the Committee of Five to write the Declaration of Independe nce.14. The Independence Day of the United States is on July 4th .16. The famous “that this government of the people, by the people, for the people”was from the Gettys burg Address17. The 2nd Amendment in the Bill of Rights granted the American people the right to keep and bear ar ms .1. The Victorian novelists include the following except AA. William WordsworthB. William ThackerayC. Charles Dickens2. Which of the following is a tragedy written by Shakespeare? AA. OthelloB. The TempesC. Twelfth Night3. The most outstanding Victorian novelist in the aspect of literary merits was BA. Jonathan SwiftB. Charles DickensC. Charlotte Bronte4. “To be or not to be” is the quotation from which play by Shakespeare? CA. OthelloB. MacbethC. Hamlet5. Which fictional character is not created by Charles Dickens? CA. Oliver Twist.B. ScroogeC. Herzog6. Shakespeare lived under the reign of AA. Queen Elizabeth IB. Queen Mary IC. Queen Victoria7. Charles Dickens lived under the reign of CA. Queen ElizabethB. Queen Mary IC. Queen Victoria8. Which statement about Shakespeare is not right? CA. Shakespeare is a great master of the English languageB. Shakespeare started his career as an actorC. Shakespeare has a profound influence on the Christmas celebration nowadays9. Which statement about Dickens is not right? BA. Dickens incorporates autobiographical elements into his fictionB. Dickens is ignored during his life time but earns recognition afterwardsC. Dickens’ writing style is florid and poetic, with a strong comic touchII. Multiple-Choice21. Which of the following states is called “the Old Colony State”? BA. PennsylvaniaB. MassachusettsC. DelawareD.Georgia22. The term “Father of Waters”is used to refer to ____C______.A. the Amazon River C. the Mississippi RiverB. The Nile River D. The Hudson River23. Which of the following was not first grown by Native Americans? BA. potato C. pumpkinB. cabbage D. corn24. The first colony at James town in Virginia survived because the colonists discovered a way to earn money. Which of the following was discovered by the Virginians? BA. shipping cotton to EuropeB. growing tobacco in VirginiaC. making a profit by fishingD. growing cotton25. Three of the following were the motives of the English Puritans who went to New England as immigr ants. Which was the exception? AA. They believed that the Church of England was not Catholic enough.B. They believed that the Church of England was too Catholic in religious practices.C. They were persecuted in England.D. They wanted to established a colony based on their own religious ideals.26. Thanksgiving Day is originally celebrated by people for ___D__.A. healthB. safetyC. freedomD. harvest27. ___C__ was the only Founding Father to sign the Declaration of Independence, the United States C onstitution, the Treaty of Alliance with France, and the Treaty of Paris.A. George WashingtonB. Thomas JeffersonC. Benjamin FranklinD. John Adams28. The following words of wisdom were given by Benjamin Franklin except _B____A. A penny saved is a penny earned.B.All for one, one for all. ([法] Dumas pére大仲马)C. Time is money.D. Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.29. George Washington served ___B__ term(s) as US President.A. oneB. twoC. threeD. four30. The author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin was _____C_______.A. Thomas PaineB. Barbara SmithC. Harriet Beecher StoweD. Mark TwainIII. Question35. What is the significance of the Second Continental Congress?In May 1775, the second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia and began to assume the functions o f a national government. It founded a Continental Army and Navy under the command of George Washi ngton.On June 11th, 1776, the second Continental Congress appointed a committee of five men to draft a Declaration of Independence.The young Thomas Jefferson was chosen by the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence, which the congress adopted on July 4th, 1776.37. What social problems did the American Civil War solve?The war resolved two fundamental questions that had divided the United States since 1776.It put an en d to slavery, which was completely abolished by the 13th Amendment to the constitution in 1865.It also decided, once and for all, that American was not a collection of semi-independent states, but a single i ndivisible nation.IV. True or False39. The first English colony was set in Jamestown in Virginia40. The bald eagle was chosen as the representative of the United States.41. Geographically the United States can be roughly divided into three parts—（The Atlantic Seacoast and the Appalachian Mountains in the east，the great Mississippi River Basin in the middle and the Rockies west to the Pacific Ocean）42. The Rocky Mountains are the backbone of North America.45. Pilgrim Fathers settled at Plymouth in 1620.46. The purpose of the First Continental Congress was to 放宽高压政策.47. Benjamin Franklin was the first to celebrate the American Dream.50. The Bill of Rights ensured the individual liberties.51. Mount Rushmore is famous for the faces of four American Presidents, who are G. Washington, T. Je fferson, A. Lincoln, and T. Roosevelt.52. The Battle of Gettysburg was fought on July 1 and 2, 1863 and is considered the turning point in the Civil War.1.which university is usually considered the first university in the world? BA. University of ConstantinopleB. University of BolognaC. University of Oxford2. What is the motto of Harvard University? AA. VeritasB. Lux et veritasC. Mens et Manus3. So far, how many US presidents have been produced by Yale University? CA. 3B. 4C. 54. Which of the following US universities is NOT the member of the Ivy League? CA. Yale UniversityB. Princeton UniversityC. MIT5. Oxford University began growing rapidly in A century.A. 12thB. 13thC. 14th6. From which university did John Harvard graduate? CA. Harvard UniversityB. Oxford UniversityC. Cambridge University7. What was the result of the first Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge? AA. Oxford wonB. Cambridge wonC. It ended with a dead heat8. Which university was the site of the first practical electron microscope? BA. Stanford UniversityB. University of TorontoC. Australian National University9. According to Asian University Rankings, 2009, which university ranked the highest in Asi a? BA. Beijing UniversityB. University of TokyoC. University of Hong Kong美国枪支泛滥君主立宪制。