2010级中期考核试题

郑州大学外语学院2010级研究生中期考核试题

一、研究方法（25分）

1. What are the basic criteria for a good questionnaire? (5 points)

2. What are the important differences between quantitative and qualitative research designs? (10 points)

3. Briefly describe procedures of designing an experimental study. (10 points)

二、跨文化交际（25分）

I. Of the following terms define just 5 of them (15points, 3 points each).

1. Paralanguage

2. M-time and P-time cultures

3. The Dozens

4. High- and Low-context communication

5. Stereotypes

6. Culture shock

7. Activity orientation

8. Uncertainty avoidance

II. of the following 3 questions just answer one of them briefly (10 points)

1. What are the functions of nonverbal communication?

2. What are the potential problems of intercultural communication?

3. What are the characteristics of communication?

三、西方文化（25分）

1. How did the Enlightenment influence the French Revolution? (10 points)

2. What are the characteristics of the Italian Renaissance? (10 points)

3. What is the relationship between Christianity and Judaism? (5 points)

四、西方文学基础（25分）

1. Name one important Romantic writer and give a brief introduction to his or her works. (5%)

2. “…my strongest effort is to avoid any such arbitrary picture, and to give a faithful account of men and things as they have mirrored themselves in my mind. The mirror is doubtless defective; the outlines will sometimes be disturbed, the reflection faint or confused; but I feel as much bound to tell you as precisely as I can what that reflection is, as if I were in the witness-box narrating my experience on oath.”

The passage above is taken from George Eliot’s novel Adam Bede. How do you understand this passage? What is its relevance to literary realism? (10%)

3. Give a critical analysis of the following passage. (10%)

“Some to conceit alone their taste confine,

And glittering thoughts struck out at every line;

Pleased with a work where nothing's just or fit;

One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.

Poets, like painters, thus, unskilled to trace

The naked nature and the living grace,

With gold and jewels cover every part,

And hide with ornaments their want of art.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed;

What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed…”