英美文学基础考研真题(A卷答案)
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二O 一四年招收硕士研究生入学考试试题A卷
考试科目及代码：英美文学基础（代码：857）
适用专业：英语语言文学；外国语言学及应用语言学
答题内容写在答题纸上，写在试卷或草稿纸上一律无效。考完后试题随答题纸交回。
考试时间3小时，总分值 150 分。
参考答案及评分标准
Ⅰ Multiple Choice（24 points, 1 point for each）每题1分，共24分。
1. C
2.A
3.B
4.D
5.A
6.B
7. C
8.D
9. C 10.A 11.C 12. D 13.D 14.D 15.C 16.B
17. C 18. D 19. A 20. A 21. B 22. D 23.B 24. A
II Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the context. Write your answers on your answer sheet.
(1 point for each, 15 points in total)
1. poetry
2. English
3. Lyrical Ballads
4. dominant
5. heredity
6. stream-of-consciousness
7. Iceberg
8. Songs of Experience
9. greatest
10. Imperialism
11. marriage
12. Y ossarian
13. transcendentalism
14. The American Scholar
15. death/doom
III Define the following literary terms (choose just three terms). Write your answers on your answer sheet. (7 point for each question, 21points in total)(注意：请任选三题作答，多回答的题不给分！如有多答的题，请在答题纸上用笔划掉，否则改卷时将按照答题的顺序评分。)
参考答案要点
1.Iambic pentameter: A poetic line consisting of five verse feet, with each foot an iamb—that is, an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Iambic pentameter is the most common verse line in English poetry. （7 points）
2. Alliteration: The repetition of the initial consonant sounds in poetry. （7 points）
3. Protagonist: The central character of a drama, novel, short story, or narrative poem. The protagonist is the character on whom the action centers and with whom the reader sympathizes most. Usually the protagonist strives against an opposing force, or antagonist , to accomplish something. （7 points）
4. Naturalism: An extreme form of realism. Naturalistic writers usually depict the sordid side of life and show characters who are severely, if not hopelessly, limited by their environment or heredity. （7 points）
IV Read the following two poems carefully and write your answers to the corresponding questions on your answer sheet. (30 points in total)
参考答案要点
Poem 1
QUESTIONS:
1. These lines are taken from Frost’s poem entitled______. （5 points）Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
2. In the poem, the rhyming scheme of the first stanza is _____ .（5 points）
aaba
3. Who is He in the first line of the poem? （5 points）
The horse
Poem 2
QUESTIONS:
4. These lines are taken a poem written by ______. （5 points）
William Butler Yeats
5. In the poem, what does “the Second Coming” mean? （5 points）
"The Second Coming" means the coming of Jesus Christ.
6. Translate the first 9 lines into Chinese.（5 points）
确乎有某种启示近在眼前；
确乎“再度降临”近在眼前。
“再度降临”！这几个字尚未出口，
蓦地一个巨大形象出自“世界灵魂”，
闯入我的眼界：在大漠的尘沙里，
一个狮身人面的形体，
目光似太阳茫然而冷酷，
正挪动着迟钝的腿股；它周围处处
旋舞着愤怒的沙漠野禽的阴影。
V Choose and answer ANY3 of the following questions with adequate details from the works related.Write your answers on your answer sheet.
(20 point for each question, 60 points in total) (注意：请任选三题作答，多回答的题不给分！如有多答的题，请在答题纸上用笔划掉，否则改卷时将按照答题的顺序评分。)
(For wrong spelling of a key word, 0.5 point will be subtracted, otherwise neglected; if a writer’s name should be given, either the last name should be given out correctly or the full name should be correct.)
1. Make brief comments on Gulliver’s Travels. (20 points)
参考答案要点
the name of the writer (5 points) , main plot (5 points) , and brief comment on the work (5 points) .It is a satire on politics, history, science, human nature and English society (5