英语语言文学专业和外国语言学及应用语言学专业参考样题

英语语言文学专业和外国语言学及应用语言学专业参考样题(综合知识)
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考试科目：英语专业综合知识
适用专业：英语语言文学、外国语言学及应用语言学
研究方向：英美文学、美国文化研究、加拿大文化研究、欧洲文化研究、现代英语及语言理论、英语翻译理论与实践、现代外语教育及教育技术
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Part One European and American Cultures (50 points)
1.Explain any THREE out of the following five terms IN ABOUT 50 WORDS each: (15 points)
1William the Conqueror
2Homer
3The War of Roses
4Martin Luther
5The melting pot
6 1.Fill in the blanks in the following to complete the idea: (10
points)
1. The full name of the United Kingdom is _____________________ .
2. Thanksgiving Day falls on _______, on which Americans give thanks for _ _.
1.The supreme law-making authority in Britain is _____________; the executive government is ___________.
4. The “Age of Drama” in ancient Greece is said to be represented by three dramatic poets, they are__________________, ____________________, and ___________________.
5. The Bible is a collection of religious writings comprising two parts: the __________________ and the__________________.
6. The word “Renaissance” means _______________, it generally refers to the period in Western civilization between the ____________ and mid _______________century.
7. In the early 1930s, ___________________ brought poverty and humiliation to millions of people in the United States and Europe. 8. The American War of Independence began in _____________ and ended in _________.
9. The United States government form is based on the three main principles: Federalism, ___________________________________and ________________________________.
10. Henrik Ibsen was born in ________________, as the Father of Modern Drama he was famous for his “ __________ plays.”
III. Answer the following questions IN ABOUT 150 ENGLISH WORDS each: (25 points)
1. Americans have usually believed that government should play a limited role in society. What are some of the reasons for this belief? (8 points) What are the main elements of humanism? How are these elements reflected in art
and literature during the Italian Renaissance? (9 points)
3. Why was the sixteenth century so important to English history? (8 points)
Part II British and American Literature (50points)
I. Explain any THREE of the following five terms IN ABOUT 50 ENGLISH WORDS each: (15 points)
1. Geoffrey Chaucer
2. The Romantic Period in English literature
3. Henry James
4. American naturalism
5. Washington Irving
II. Multiple Choice: ( 15 points )
Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write down your answer on the answer sheet.
1. Which of the following is NOT directly related to Humanism during the Renaissance period?
[A] to emphasize the dignity of human beings and the importance of the present life.
[B] to regard human beings as creatures capable of development in the direction of perfection.
[C] to prepare people’s souls for a future life in heaven.
[D] to restore a medieval reverence for the ancient Greek and Roman authors.
2. Beowulf, a typical example of __________, is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.
[A] modern drama [B] medieval drama
[C] modern poetry [D] Old English poetry
3. John Milton wrote all the following works EXCEPT______.
[A] Samson Agonistes [B] Paradise Regained
[C] Lycidas [D] The Pilgrim’s Progress
4.The following statements about the Victorian age are all true EXCEPT_________.
5.[A] New inventions and discoveries in geology, astronomy, biology and anthropology shook people’s religious convictions.
6.[B] England became the workshop of the world as well as its financial and political center.
7.[C] During this period, Britain’s colonial territory became smaller
and smaller.
8.[D] The Victorian age witnessed the rise of novels as a dominant literary genre.
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10.5. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?
11.[A] The modernist writers find in symbol a means to express their inexpressible selves.
12.[B] Its major concern is the external, objective, material world.
13.[C] In modernist writings, the past, the present and the future are mingled together and exist at the same time in the consciousness of an individual.
14.[D] It advocates a free experimentation in new forms and new techniques in literary creation.
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16.6. Which one of the following writers belongs to the Theatre of the Absurd?
17.[A] Samuel Beckett [B] T. S. Eliot
18.[C] John Osborne [D] W. H. Auden
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20.7. Many American romantic writings in the 19th century have the following features EXCEPT ______.
21.[A] a new emphasis upon the imaginative and emotional qualities of literature
22.[B] a strong tendency to exalt the individual
23.[C] a lack of interest in external nature
24.[D] the use of the more colorful aspects of the past
25.8. _______ is the author of “Song of Myself”.
26.[A] Henry Thoreau [B] Washington Irving
27.[C] Walt Whitman [D] Emily Dickinson
28.9. Which ONE of the following is a typical feature of the literary scene of the Realistic Period in the American literary history?
29.[A] The Americans began to be interested in the sentimental feelings of Romanticism
30.[B] A new generation of writers aimed at the interpretation of the actualities of any aspect of life
31.[C] Most writers stick to the Gothic tradition
32.[D] Writers who described the Indians of the Far West began to gain the favor of the reading public.
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34.10. _________ is the leading spokesman of transcendentalism in the history of American literature.
35.[A] Nathaniel Hawthorn [B] Edgar Allan Poe
36.[C] Ralph Emerson [D] Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
37.
38.10. Which ONE of the following is not a naturalistic writer?
39.
40.[A] Stephen Crane [B] William Dean Howells
41.[C] Frank Norris [D] Theodore Dreiser
42.
43.II. Answer the following questions IN ABOUT 150 ENGLISH WORDS each: (20 points)
44.
7Please tell things you know about Shakespeare’s great tragedy Hamlet.
8Please make a statement about the contributions of Mark Twain to American literature.
Part III Linguistics (50 points) 9State, in ONE SENTENCE for each item, what you understand about the following terms: (10 points)
1. displacement as a design feature of language
2. the informative function of language
3. language competence
4. oral stop
5. voiceless sound
2Use the tree diagram to illustrate the relationship among the following terms: (10 points)
3morpheme affix root free root bound root inflectional affix derivational affix prefix suffix
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5III. Complete the words with suitable negative prefixes: (10 points)
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7tangible usual logical thinkable sensible removable mobile legal rational human
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9IV. Answer the following questions IN ABOUT 150 ENGLISH WORDS each:
(10 points)
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10What is the difference between morpheme and word?
11Can you list with examples some basic word formation processes?
V. Use IC analysis to explain the following expressions: (10 points)
12They can fish here.
13a fat mayor’s wife
14more expensive clothes。