2013年首都师范大学英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷.doc

2013年首都师范大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷

(总分：50.00，做题时间：90分钟)

一、单项选择题(总题数：10，分数：20.00)

1.______is a form of poetry that refrains from consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern.（分数：

2.00）

A.Blank verse

B.Sonnet

C.Free verse

D.Heroic couplet

2.The ______narrator understands what he is relating less than the reader does.（分数：2.00）

A.omniscient

B.objective

C.first person

D.innocent eye

3.Jane Eyre and The Turn of the Screw have at least one thing in common, i. e. both of them can be called ______novel.（分数：2.00）

A.picaresque

B.gothic

C.psychological

D.sociological

4.Characters can be grouped as round characters and flat characters by the degrees of their development according to E. M. Forster. All the followings are round characters except for（分数：2.00）

A.Emma

B.Huckleberry Finn

C.Roger Chillingworth

D.Pip

5.In " It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. " ______is used.（分数：2.00）

A.symbolism

B.irony

C.imagism

D.analogy

6.Tragedy describes the______of a great individual because he has transgressed against the great moral principles which govern the universe.（分数：2.00）

A.fall

B.rise

C.life

D.development

7."One fatal Tree there stands of Knowledge call"d,/Forbidden them to taste: knowledge forbidden?" is written by______.（分数：2.00）

A.Shakespeare

B.William Blake

C.John Milton

D.Jane Austin

8.The title Vanity Fair is borrowed from______.（分数：2.00）

A.The Bible

B.Of Human Bondage

C.A Passage to India

D.Pilgrim"s Progress

9."In a minute there is time/For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. " is the dramatic monologue spoken by______.（分数：2.00）

A.Hamlet

B.Godot

C.Tom Sawyer

D.Prufrock

10.The______of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.（分数：2.00）

A.appearance

B.lookings

C.apparition

D.hallucination

二、问答题(总题数：4，分数：24.00)

Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th"other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.（分数：6.00）

(1).Name the author of this poem.(1 point)（分数：2.00）

__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).Discuss what the image is about.(2 points)（分数：2.00）

__________________________________________________________________________________________ (3).The word "like" denotes the use of figure of speech, but in this case, the comparison is farfetched. Could you give similar examples in other poems?(2 points)（分数：2.00）

__________________________________________________________________________________________ Ere this speech ended, I became sensible of Heathcliffs presence. Having noticed a slight movement, 1 turned my head, and saw him rise from the bench and steal out noiselessly. He had listened till he heard Catherine say it would degrade her to marry him, and then he stayed to hear no farther.My companion, sitting on the ground, was prevented by the back of the settle from remarking his presence or departure; but 1 started, and bade her hush!"Why?" she asked, gazing nervously round." Joseph is here," I answered, catching opportunely the roll of his cartwheels up the road, "and Heathcliff will come in with him. I"m not sure whether he were not at the door this moment.（分数：6.00）

(1).From which novel is this excerpt taken?(1 point)（分数：2.00）

__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).Who is the narrator?(1 point)（分数：2.00）

__________________________________________________________________________________________ (3).Please analyze the relationship between the narrator and Catherine.(3 points)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito"s wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and without perturbation; let company come and let company go, let the bells ring and the children cry, —determined to make a day of it.（分数：6.00）

(1).Name the author of this essay.(1 point)（分数：2.00）

__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).What is the author"s attitude towards nature?(2 points)（分数：2.00）

__________________________________________________________________________________________ (3).What literary school do you know has something to do with nature? Give some descriptions.(2 points)（分数：2.00）

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