2014广州大学英语专业考研复试

广州大学外国语学院2014年学术型硕士研究生复试试题（英美文学部分）

(英语语言文学方向)

Part One: English Linguistics (50%)

(Omitted)

Part Two: English Literature (50%)

Ⅰ.Multiple Choice（10 points, 1 point for each）

Directions: Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.

1. The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare's ________ .

A. comedies

B. tragedies

C. sonnets

D. histories

2. The major concern of _______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.

A. Charles Dickens's

B. wrence's

C. Thomas Hardy's

D. John Galsworthy's

3."Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?…And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you."

The above quoted passage is most probably taken from _______ .

A. Pride and Prejudice

B. Jane Eyre

C. Wuthering Heights

D. Great Expectations

4. It is generally regarded that Keats's most important and mature poems are in the form of _______ .

A. ode

B. elegy

C. epic

D. sonnet

5. Alexander Pope strongly advocated _______, emphasizing that literary works

should be judged by rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.

A. sentimentalism

B. romanticism

C. idealism

D. neoclassicism

6. In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled _______ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as "Our intellectual Declaration of Independence."

A. "Nature"

B. "Self-Reliance"

C. "Divinity School Address"

D. "The American Scholar"

7. Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true?

A. Mark Twain published his last and most important novel.

B. F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize.

C. Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.

D. Most writers were politically radical.

8. Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms - the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse - with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of _______ farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.

A. Southern

B. Western

C. New Hampshire

D. New England

9. Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include _______ , symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.

A. impressionism

B. expressionism

C. multiple points of view

D. first person point of view

10. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show _______.

A. emptiness of life

B. the corruption of the upper class

C. contrast of the rich and the poor

D. the happy days of the 1920’s