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2010年首都师范大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷(总分：72.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、单项选择题(总题数：20，分数：40.00)1.Among the following plays, ______is NOT a comedy written by William Shakespeare.（分数：2.00）A.A Midsummer Night"s DreamB.The Merchant of VeniceC.As You Like ItD.Macbeth2."All is not lost, the unconquerable will,/And study of revenge, immoral hate,/And courage never to submit or yield,/And what is else not to be overcome?" are taken from the poem written by______.（分数：2.00）A.William ShakespeareB.John DonneC.John MiltonD.John Keats3.The novel______launched Daniel Defoe on a new career as a novelist.（分数：2.00）A.The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson CrusoeB.Captain SingletonC.Moll FlandersD.The Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell4.Among the following works by William Blake, ______deals with evil, violence and emotion.（分数：2.00）A.Song of InnocenceB.Song of ExperienceC.The Marriage of Heaven and HellD.The Gates of Paradise5.That______is NOT true about William Wordsworth.（分数：2.00）A.Wordsworth is one of the Lake PoetsB.he was made poet laureate by British Government in 1843C.The Prelude can be read as a declaration of RomanticismD.he believed that poetry "takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility"6.______tells of the adversity of the orphan Pip that makes him discard his snobbishness.（分数：2.00）A.Hard TimesB.A Tale of Two CitiesC.David CopperfieldD.Great Expectations7.Among the following works, ______was written by Emily Bronte.（分数：2.00）A.Agnes GreyB.The ProfessorC.Wuthering HeightsD.Jane Eyre8.Virginia Woolf is known as a novelist and critic.______is NOT a novel of hers.（分数：2.00）A.Mrs. DallowayB.To the LighthouseC.The Common ReaderD.The Waves9.______depicts a picture of society in India under the British Raj, of the clash between East and West, and of the prejudice and misunderstanding.（分数：2.00）A.Where Angels Feat to TreadB.A Room with a ViewC.A Passage to IndiaD.Howard"s End10.______is well known for depicting the absurdity of human conditions in the post-industrial society after World War II in his plays.（分数：2.00）A.Samuel BeckettB.George Bernard ShawC.Oscar WildeD.William Golding11.Yoknapatawpha County is often used as the background in the novels written by______.（分数：2.00）A.William FaulknerB.Isaac Bashevis SingerC.Mark TwainD.Katherine Anne Porter12.______is NOT written by Toni Morrison.（分数：2.00）A.The Bluest EyeB.BelovedC.The Color PurpleD.Paradise13.The narrator of The Great Gatsby is ______.（分数：2.00）A.GatsbyB.NickC.DaisyD.Tom14.All the following works are written by Ernest Hemingway EXCEPT______.（分数：2.00）A.A Farewell to ArmsB.The Sum Also RisesC.The Sound and FuryD.For Whom the Bell Tolls15.T. S. Eliot"s______is a precise depiction of the state of culture and society after World WarI and an illustration of the spiritual poverty of the West of the time.（分数：2.00）A.The Waste LandB.Four QuartetsC.The Sacred WoodD.Homage to John Dryden16.All the following novels are written by Henry James EXCEPT______.（分数：2.00）A.The AmericanB.The Portrait of a LadyC.The AmbassadorsD.Innocents Abroad17.______is written by Catherine Anne Porter.（分数：2.00）A.Flowering JudasB.A Rose for EmilyC.Everyday UseD.Song of Solomon18.______is regarded as "America"s Declaration of Intellectual Independence".（分数：2.00）A.NatureB.The Conduct of LifeC.Society and SolitudeD.The American Scholar19."When it comes, the landscape listens,/ Shadows hold their breath;/ When it goes, "tis like the distance/ On the look of death. " are taken from Emily Dickinson"s poem______.（分数：2.00）A.There"s Certain Slant of LightB.Again His Voice Is at the DoorC.Success Is Counted SweetestD.I felt a Funeral, in My Brain20."Where I lived, and What I Lived for" is taken from Thoreau"s______.（分数：2.00）A.A Week on the Concord and Merrimack RiversB.Walden; or, Life in the WoodsC.The Maine WoodsD.Life Without Principle二、名词解释(总题数：5，分数：10.00)21.free verse（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 22.tall tale（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 23.Lost Generation（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 24.Theatre of the Absurd（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 25.Romanticism（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________三、问答题(总题数：5，分数：20.00)I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o"er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils,Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.（分数：4.00）(1).Name the author of this poem.(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).What is the rhyme scheme of the stanza?(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ His smile was so easy, so friendly, that Laura recovered. What nice eyes he had, small, but such a dark blue! And now she looked at the others, they were smiling too. " Cheer up, we won"t bite," their smile seemed to say. How very nice workmen were! And what a beautiful morning! She mustn"t mention the morning; she must be business-like. The marquee.（分数：4.00）(1).Name the title of the short story.(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).Comment on the writing techniques.(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ For the next eight or ten months, Oliver was the victim of a systematic course of treachery and deception. He was brought up by hand. The hungry and destitute situation of the infant orphan was duly reported by the workhouse authorities to the parish authorities. The parish authorities inquired with dignity of the workhouse authorities, whether there was no female then domiciled in " the house" who was in a situation to impart to Oliver Twist, the consolation and nourishment of which he stood in need. The workhouse authorities replied with humility, that there was not.Upon this, the parish authorities magnanimously and humanely resolved, that Oliver should be "farmed" or, in other words, that he should be dispatched to a branch-workhouse some three miles off, where twenty or thirty other juvenile offenders against the poor-laws, rolled about the floor all day, without the inconvenience of too much food or too much clothing, under the parental superintendence of an elderly female, who received the culprits at and for the consideration of sevenpence-halfpenny per small head per week. Sevenpence-halfpenny"s worth per week is a good round diet for a child; a great deal may be got for sevenpence-halfpenny, quite enough to overload its stomach, and make it uncomfortable. The elderly female was a woman of wisdom and experience; she knew what was food for children; and she had a very accurate perception of what was good for herself. So, she appropriated the greater part of the weekly stipend to her own use, and consigned the rising parochial generation to even a shorter allowance than was originally provided for them. Thereby finding in the lowest depth a deeper still; and proving herself a very great experimental philosopher.（分数：4.00）(1).What is the title of the novel?(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).What is the effect of the irony used in the excerpt?(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ We were all at the hospital every afternoon, and there were different ways of walking across the town through the dusk to the hospital. Two of the ways were alongside canals, but they were long. Always, though, you crossed a bridge across a canal to enter the hospital. There was a choice of three bridges. On one of them a woman sold roasted chestnuts. It was warm, standing in front of her charcoal fire, and the chestnuts were warm afterward in your pocket. The hospital was very old and very beautiful, and you entered through a gate and walked across a courtyard and out a gate on the other side. There were usually funerals starting from the courtyard. Beyond the old hospital were the new brick pavilions, and there we met every afternoon and were all very polite and interested in what was the matter, and sat in the machines that were to make so much difference.（分数：4.00）(1).Identify the author of the short story.(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).What is the theme of the short story?(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ There was music from my neighbor"s house through the summer night. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On weekends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden - shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.（分数：4.00）(1).From which novel is this excerpt taken?(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).What is the theme of the novel?(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________四、评论题(总题数：1，分数：2.00)ment on the following excerpt and write a 100-word essay on it.(10 points)From Ralph Waldo Emerson"s The American ScholarBooks are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out ofmy own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world of value is the active soul—the soul, free, sovereign, active. This every man is entitled to; this every man contains within him, although, in almost all men, obstructed, and as yet unborn. The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates. In this action, it is genius; not the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they,—let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward. The eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead. Man hopes, genius creates. To create,—to create, —is the proof of a divine presence. Whatever talents may be if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his;—cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative manners, there are creative actions, and creative words; manners, actions, words, that is, indicative of no custom or authority, but springing spontaneous from the mind"s own sense of good and fair.On the other part, instead of being its own seer, let it receive from another mind its truth, though it were in torrents of light, without periods of solitude, inquest, and self-recovery, and a fatal disservice is done. Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundredyears.Undoubtedly there is a right way of reading, so it be sternly subordinated. Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar"s idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men"s transcripts of their readings. But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must,—when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining,—we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their way, to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is. We hear, that we may speak. The Arabian proverb says, "A fig tree, looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful. "（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________。
英美文学历年真题
Chapter 1 The Renaissance Period(07)The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" is the beginning line of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18.(10)The Renaissance marks a transition from the medieval to the modern world.(09)In Renaissance, the European humanists thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the following including getting rid of those feudalist ideas, introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie and recovering the purity of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church, except getting control of the parliament and government.(10,09)As the best of Shakespeare's final romances, The Tempest is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.(11)In King Lear, Shakespeare has not only made a profound analysis of the social crisis in which the evils can be seen everywhere, but also criticized the bourgeois egoism.(12)Antonio, Bassanio and Portia are the characters in The Merchant of Venice.(10)"To be, or not to be-that is the question;/Whether' tis nobler in the mind to suffer/The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,/And by opposing end them?"These lines are taken from Hamlet.(12)John Milton wrote Paradise Lost to expose the ways of Satan and to "justify the ways of God to men."(11,09)John Milton's greatest poetical work Paradise Lost is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.(11,10)Among the three major poetical works by John Milton, Samson Agonistes is the most perfect example of verse drama after the Greek style in English.(12)The work Paradise Regain shows how mankind, in the person of Christ, withstands the tempter and is established once more in the divine favor.(07)Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from the Old Testament.旧约(11,08)"Shall I compare thee to a summer's dayThou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake and darling buds of May,And summer's lease hath all too short a date:"Question:A:Who's the poet of the quoted stanza, and what's the title of the poem?B:What figure of speech is employed in the poem?C:What is the theme of the poem?A:Shakespeare, Sonnet 18;B:Personification;拟人法C:A nice summer's day is usually transient, but the beauty in poetry can last for ever.(07)William Shakespeare is one of the most remarkable playwrights the world has ever known. A:Name his four greatest tragedies.B:What are the characteristics of the four tragedies in common?C:Briefly summarize each hero's weakness of nature.A:Shakespeare's four greatest tragedies are Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth.B:Each portrays some noble hero, who faces the injustice of human life and is caught in a difficult situation and whose fate is closely connected with the fate of the whole nation.C:Each hero has his weakness of nature: Hamlet, the melancholic(blue) scholar-prince, faces the dilemma between action and mind; Othello's inner weakness is made use of by the outside evil force; the old King Lear is unwilling to totally give up his power; and Macbeth's lust for power stirs up his ambition and leads him to incessant crimes.(10)Working though the tradition of a Christian humanism, Milton wrote Paradise Lost, intending to expose the way of Satan and to "justify the ways of God to men."What is Milton's fundamental concern in Paradise Lost?At the center of the conflict between human love and spiritual duty lies Milton's fundamental concern with freedom and choice. The theme is the "Fall of Man," i.e. man's disobedience and the loss of Paradise. In the fall of man Adam discovered his full humanity. The freedom of the will is the keystone of Milton's creed.(09)Briefly discuss William Shakespeare 's artistic achievements in characterization, plot construction and language.A:Shakespeare's major characters are neither merely individual ones nor type ones; they represent certain types; they are individuals representing certain types. By employing a psycho-analytical approach, Shakespeare succeeds in exploring the characters' inner world. Shakespeare also portrays his characters in pairs. Contrasts are frequently used to bring vividness to his characters.B:Shakespeare seldom invents his own plot; instead, he borrows them from old plays or storybooks, from ancient Greek or Roman sources. In order to make the play more lively and compact, he would shorten the time and intensity the story. There are usually several clues running through the play, thus providing the story with suspense and apprehension.C:Shakespeare can write skillfully in different poetic forms, such as the sonnet, the blank verse and the rhymed couplet. He has an amazing wealth of vocabulary and idiom. His coinage of new words and distortion of the meaning of the old words also creates striking effects on the reader. Chapter 2 The Neoclassical Period(10)Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is usually considered as his masterpiece.At the age of 60,Daniel Defoe started his first novel Robinson Crusoe, which was an immediate success. In the following years, he wrote four other novels: Captain Singleton(辛利顿船长1720），Moll Flanders(莫尔.弗兰德斯1722), Colonel Jack(杰克上校1722) and Roxana(罗克萨娜1724). Robinson Crusoe, an adventure story very much in the spirit of the time, is universally considered his masterpiece, and the rest novels devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people. (11)Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones, a foundling brings him the name of "Prose Homer".(散文荷马）Fielding, Father of the English Novel.(07)Literature of Neoclassical is different from that of Romanticism in that the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual's feelings and experiences.(10)The great political and social events in the English society of neoclassical period were the following including the Restoration of King Charles II(查理二世复辟) in 1660, the Great Plague (大瘟疫)in 1665 and the Great London Fire in 1666, except the Wars of Roses in 1689.(1689Glorious Revolution)光荣革命(10)The belief of the eighteenth-century neoclassicists in England led them to seek the following, proportion, unity and harmony, except spirit.(09)"Graveyard School" writers are the following sentimentalists, James Thomson, William Collins and William Cowper, except Thomas Jackson.(12)The work The Shortest Way with the Dissenters(成为异教徒的捷径) written by Daniel Defoe brought him into jail and made him go through public pillory.(07)Daniel Defoe describes Robinson Crusoe as a typical English middle-class man of the eighteenth century-the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.(12,08)As one of the greatest masters of English prose, Jonathan Swift defined a good style as "proper words in proper places".(12)In the first part of Gulliver's Travel, Gulliver told his experience in Lilliput.(10)Of all the eighteenth-century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "comic epic in prose"散文体喜剧史诗, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.(12,08)Fielding has been regarded by some as "Father of the English Novel", for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.(12)Into this fence or fortress, with infinite labour, I carry 'd all my riches, all my provisions, ammunition, and stores, of which you have the account above; and I made me a large tent, which, to preserve me from the rains that in one part of the year are very violent there, I made double, viz. one smaller tent within, and one larger tent above it, and covered the uppermost with a large tarpaulin which I had saved among the sails.Question:A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken?B: Who is the narrator?C: What are the narrator's characteristics and whom does he represent?A: From Daniel Defoe 's Robinson Crusoe.B: Robinson Crusoe.C: Robinson is a typical 18th century English middle-class man, with a great capacity for work, inexhaustible energy, courage, patience and persistence in overcoming obstacles, in struggling against the hostile natural environment. He is the very prototype of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist.(09)List at least two leading neoclassicists in England. What did Neoclassicists celebrate in literary creation?A. Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Samuel Johnson(任选两个)B. They believed that the artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion and accuracy and that literature should be judged in terms of its service to humanity. They seek proportion, unity, harmony and grace in literary expressions, in an effort to delight, instruct and correct human beings, primarily as social animals. Thus a polite, urbane, witty and intellectual art developed.(08)Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe was a great success partly because the protagonist wasa real middle-class hero. Discuss Crusoe, the protagonist of the novel, as an embodiment of the rising middle-class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England.A: Social background: The Eighteenth Century England witnessed the growing importance of the bourgeois or middle class.a. The industrial Revolutionb. The expansion of international markets;c. Values/virtues/moral standards/... different from those of the feudal aristocratic class-courageous, full of energy, hard working, practical, resourceful, self-reliant, etc.d. Literature should give/provide a realistic presentation of the life of the common people; it should meet the demand/interest of the middle class people.B. Robinson Crusoe embodies are virtues of the middle class people.a. Crusoe as an adventurous/courageous man full of energy and courage.(He saves Friday from the hands of savages.)b. Crusoe as a practical man(He grows crops, domesticates animals and builds comfortable homes for himself on the island.)c. Crusoe as a resourceful/self-reliant man(同上）d. Crusoe as a patient/persistent man.(He never gives up in the face of trouble.)Chapter 3 The Romantic Period(08)The assertion that poetry originates from "emotion recollected in tranquillity(静谧中找回的情感）" belongs to William Wordsworth.William Wordsworth thinks that common life is the only subject of literary interest. Wordsworth had a long poetic career. His first volumes(Descriptive Sketches, an Evening Walk, 1793)描绘速写，黄昏漫步were written in the tradition of the 18th-century.(10)Jane Austen's practical idealism is that love should be justified by reason and disciplined by self-control.As a novelist, Jane Austen writes within a very narrow sphere.Because of her sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior, Jane Austen has brought the English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity.(08)English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have ended in 1832 with the passage of the first Reform Bill in the parliament.(11)William Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell marks his entry into maturity.(11)The work Songs of Innocence by William Blake is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy world, though not without its evils and sufferings.(12)William Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell was composed during the climax of the French Revolution and it plays the double role both as a satire and a revolutionary prophecy.(11)All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature including I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, An Evening Walking and Tinter Abbey, except The Solitary Reaper.(12)William Wordsworth maintained that the scenes and events of everyday life and the speech of ordinary people were the raw material of which poetry could and should be made.(11)One of Shelley's greatest political lyrics is Men of England, which was later to become a rallying song of the British Communist Party.(12)Prometheus, the hero in Shelly's poetic drama Prometheus Unbound, is a figure in Greek Mythology.(11)"If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" the quoted line comes from Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind".(12,11)Jane Austen's first novel Sense and Sensibility tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.(10,08)Because of her sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior, Jane Austen has brought the English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity.(11)"When the stars threw down their spears,/And water'd heaven with their tears,/Did he smilehis work to see?/Did he who made the Lamb make thee?"Questions:A: Who's the poet of the quoted stanza, and what's the title of the poem?B: Whom does the "he" refer to?C: What does the "Lamb" symbolize?A: The Tyger, William Blake.B: The God.C: Lamb symbolizes peace and purity.(12) What does the poem "The Chimney Sweeper (from Songs of Experience)" reveal?The two "Chimney Sweeper" poems are good examples to reveal the relation between an economic circumstance, i.e. the exploitation of child labor, and an ideological circumstance i.e. the role played by religion in making people compliant to exploitation. The poem from The Songs of Experience reveals the true nature of religion which helps bring misery to the poor children. (10)Briefly introduce Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.The songs of Innocence is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy and innocent world, though not without its evils and sufferings. His Songs of Experience paints a different world, a world of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression with a melancholy tone. Childhood is central to Blake's concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.(12)What is the theme of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice?Pride and Prejudice, originally drafted as "First Impressions" in 1796, is the most delightful of Jane Austen's works. The title tells of a major concern of the novel: pride and prejudice.Chapter 4 The Victorian Period(10)All of the following statements about the Victorian Period is true except ( )A. England was the "workshop of the world".B. The early years was a time of rapid economic development as well as serious social problems.C. Towards the mid-century, England had reached its highest point of development as a world power.D. Capitalism came into its monopoly, the gap between the rich and the poor was further deepened.In the Victorian Period,the novel became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.Among those experimental poets was Robert Browning who created the verse novel by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters.(11)The tragic sense turns into despair in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, where cornered by tradition social morality, the hero morality, the hero and the heroine have to kill their own will and passion and return to their former destructive way of life.Thomas Hardy's best local-colored works are his later ones, such as The Return of the Native, The Trumpet Major, The Major of Casterbridge, The Woodlanders, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure.(11,10)In Charles Dicken's work Hard Times, the Utilitarian principle rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds.(12)All of the following statements are true of Dickens' later works EXCEPT ( )A. There are fewer jokes and the comedy becomes harsher.B. There is always a happy ending.C. The novels are of great compactness and concentration.D. Most of the works present a criticism of the more complicated and yet most fundamental social institutions and morals of Victorian England.(11)The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens' works is character-portrayal.(12)Dickens' best depicted characters are those innocent, virtuous, persecuted and helpless child characters.(07)Dickens' works are characterized by a mingling of humor and pathos.(10)Dickens' first child hero is Oliver Twist.(12)Charlotte Bronte's most autobiographical work, Villette is largely based on her experience in Brussels.(10)Charlotte's works are famous for the depiction of the life of the middle-class working women, particularly governesses.(11)"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 quoted lines are most probably taken from Jane Eyre.(12,08,10)All of the following works are known as Hardy's "novels of character and environment" except ( )A. The Return of the NativeB. Tess of the D'UrbervillesC. Jude the ObscureD. Far from the Madding Crowd(08)"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?- You think wrong!- I have as much as you- and full as much heart! 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. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, or even of mortal flesh:- it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal- as we are!"Questions:A. Identify the author and the novel from which the quoted part is taken.B. To whom is the speaker speaking?C. What does the quoted part imply about the speaker?A. Charlotte Bronte; Jane EyreB. Jane Eyre is speaking to Rochester.C. Jane Eyre loves Rochester but she values her basic rights and equality as a human being.(08)"'My boy!' said the old gentleman, leaning over the desk. Oliver started at the sound. He might be excused for doing so, for the words were kindly said and strange sounds frighten one. He trembled violently, and burst into tears."(Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist.)Explain why Oliver Twist started first then trembled violently and burst into tears when the words were "kindly" said.The boy started at the words because kind words were not expected; it was the first time in all his life that Oliver Twist had ever been "kindly" greeted; strange sounds may predict another suffering/misfortune/torture.(09)Jane Eyre is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age. Why is Jane Eyre such a successful novel?A. It is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society.B. It is an intense moral fable.C. The success of the novel is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine.(11)What's the theme of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights?A. The novel is a riddle which means different things to different people.B. From a society point of view, it is a story about a poor man abused.C. As a love story, beautiful and horrible passion in human beings.(11)Make a comment on the character of Jane Eyre, the heroine of the novel by Charlotte Bronte.A. Jane Eyre is an orphan child with a fiery spirit and a longing for love and be loved.B. She is a poor, plain, little governess who dares to love her master and cuts a completely new woman image.C. Jane Eyre represents those middle-class working women who are struggling for recognition of their basic rights and equality as a human being.(10)Why is Hardy regarded as a naturalistic writer in English literature? Discuss in relation to his novels you know.。
(完整)0604英美文学选读年4_月份历年真题
2010年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试I． Multiple Choice(40 points in all， 1 for each)1. T。
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Eliot’ s ______ bea ring a strong thematic resemblance to The Waste Land， is generally regarded as the darkest of Eliot' s poems.A. “Gerontion”B. “Prufrock"C. Murder in the Cathedral D。
The Hollow Men2. Shelley’ s political lyrics ______ is not only a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors， but an address to them pointing out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation。
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“Ode to Liberty” B。
“Ode to Naples"C。
“Ode to the West Wind” D. “Men of England”3。
Charlotte’ s works are famous for the depiction of the life of ______ working women, particularly governesses.A。
the middle — class B。
the lower - classC。
the upper — middle — class D. the upper — class4. All of the following works are known as Hardy' s “novels of character and environment” EXCEPT ______。
2010年北京大学英语语言文学922专业知识考研真题(回忆版)-考研真题资料
2010年北京大学英语语言文学922专业知识考研试题（回忆版）1.英国文学试题，二选一∶a.discuss the diffrence between Richardson and Fielding, and how each in their own way contributes to the development of english novel.b.ilustrate by specific textual examples how Miton in Paadise Lost applied the Bbke.2.英国文学试题，二选一∶a.Victorian age is one of complexities and paradoxes.discuss in detaltwo vicotrian novels how, by their chaacterization,plo,etc, reflect the victorian society.b.引述了Elizabeth Browning的一段诗，然后问这句诗体现了什么"problemn"，细节记不清楚了。
3.美国文学部分∶三选二a.elaborate and discusshow, both in prose and poetry,imagry was appliedin Puritan writings.b.关于southern dialect 的题目，细节不记得了。
c.考了一首十四行诗，要求对其进行close exualanalysis，描述to whichaspect of the poemdo youmoststronglyrespond to，以及从多方面对诗歌进行分析。
后经考证，是EdnaSt. Vincent Milly所写。
Hcaring your words, and not a word among themby Edna St. Vincent MillayHearing your words, and not a word among themTuned to my liking, on a saly dayWhen inland woods were pushed by winds that flung them Hising to leeward like a ton of spray,I thought how offMaticus the tideCame pounding in, came runing through the Giut,While from the Rock the waming whistle cried,And children whimpered, and the doors blew shut;There in the autumn when the men go forth,With slapping skirts the island women standIn gardens srpped and scattred,pring north,Withdahia tubers dripping from the hand,The wind of their endurance, driving south,Flatened your words against your speaking mouth.。
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33.多余人19世纪俄国文学中贵族知识分子的一种典型。
这些形象大多具有较高的文化修养，接受启蒙思想的影响，厌倦上流社会的生活，渴望有所作为，他们的出现是社会意识觉醒的一种体现。
但是这一类形象往往以自我为中心，没有明确的生活目标，缺乏行动的能力和勇气，因此他们在社会上无所适从，其结局往往也是是悲剧性的。
著名的形象有奥涅金、毕巧林等。
34.表现主义20世纪初至30年代欧美文学一个重要的现代主义流派。
它首先从绘画开始，随后波及文学,代表作家卡夫卡。
35.亡灵书古埃及人十分重视尸体的保存和死后生活的指导，把死者的尸体制成木乃伊，并古埃及所特有的草纸上写下许多诗歌，置于石棺和陵墓中，指导死者对付地下王国的种种磨难。
后人把这些诗歌编辑成集，题名为《亡灵书》。
四、简答题（本大题共3小题，每小题5分，共15分）36.试举出普希金的5部作品。
《致凯恩》、《皇村的回忆》、《十月十九日》、《上尉的女儿》、《驿站长》。
37.《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》的主题思想。
白人孩子哈克和黑奴吉姆沿密西西比河顺流而下，追求自由的故事，表达了反蓄奴制的思想和对民主、自由的真诚向往.38.《等待戈多》的艺术特色。
贝克特为了体现他的创作意图，找到了一种恰当的艺术形式——“荒诞”。
剧作完全摒弃了传统戏剧的情节结构，有意将生活撕成毫无内在联系的断片碎块。
从表面上看，根本没有戏，简直使观众倒胃。
这不可思议的东西却恰恰是《等待戈多》独特的艺术手法。
五、论述题（本大题共2小题，每小题10分，共20分）39.文艺复兴时期人文主义文学的特征。
第一，在思想内容方面，以个人主义为武器，抨击封建观念和宗教禁欲主义。
第二，自觉运用现实主义手法。
第三，文学形式上丰富多彩。
第四，具有民族风格，40.《一千零一夜》的思想内容及艺术特色。
思想内容《一千零一夜》展示了中古时期可拉伯社会生活真实而生动的图景，栩栩如生地描绘了各阶层人们的生活面貌、习俗风尚。
《一千零一夜》生动、忠实地反映了劳动群众对于美好生活的憧憬与追求。
湖南师范大学外国语学院《880英美文学和中文作文》历年考研真题汇编
目 录2010年湖南师范大学外国语学院880英美文学和中文作文考研真题（回忆版）2009年湖南师范大学外国语学院880英美文学和中文作文考研真题2010年湖南师范大学外国语学院880英美文学和中文作文考研真题（回忆版）wm年翻南师密大学$种莫英艾季和中丈作文砌试原（回吹）待歌赏析格Chris-tina Hossciii的The Fir^l Pay戒剧廿选髭Tenasscc WiEliatn^的A Sireel Car Named Desire评论BlancheSummary也Suki的The Open Window,Jn|fl| i£f f_£个何期中攵什文是引用厂梁实秋的段才的作家.没有犬才的批评京.皖批神报雄止你以T比评•这个「•嘶写作变.2009年湖南师范大学外国语学院880英美文学和中文作文考研真题2009年全国硕瓦茹为莓£自命题科目试题册业务课代码：™业务课名祢：英美文学和中文作文考身购：J 笋必婀在答趣纸上。
财麻纸上不伽财改液:题"'领使典' 黑色嬲水或遍一酣备H ｝其他宅朝不结机I F 而篇|：二：看%；：：3严帽询血电血尊％岫瞄& ■丽 r K Old E 壁liuhrciirs Io:投曲E 喀哄一7曲一腿网w —戒r 凡，尸倒"如尸如，初知 0 n 一一・第，页，共〃近/厂](k The term'lhe Yahoos"alludes to lhe novel,,A,Robinson Crusoe B.Mo"FktwigC.The Bartie时the BoohD.Gidlhw i Tra^H.J1L Representing the highest achicveirient in English pociry,the period has been •f1considered the second gre@l period in IZuglish literatUTC,second only to the Elizabelhanperiod.A.RojnamicB.NcoclassicC.Realisdc D,Smimental，「12_____is considered the falher of the hisEoris-al novel.urence SterneB.Walter Scat!C Daniel Ocfoe D.Henry『Fielding/：I3.____$cen as the English precursor of the psychological novel..A.Emily BronteB.George EliotC.Charlotte BronteD.Anne Brome*j】4is a series of novels about the frontier life of American sclIlers during,the Ji Westward movement.A.m Sketch BookB.7r h e Wessex SagaC.Life on the MississippiD.The Lenthe s tocking Tiilex厂15,The idea that"the Universe is composed of Naiurc and I hc SouF1is pul fbmard by^-^the author.A.0.Franklin B,Walt Whitman C,R.W.Emerson□.H.Thoreau[6,fi*Evcrjone possesses some evi I secrcf'is ihc subject mailer of_-•3A*u Young GQtHJman Brown1*&'"Rip van Winkle1C.WaldenD.Moby Dick17.Of the three great writers,is considered tlie champion of liicrars realism in ■^America,A.W.D r HowellsB.H.James C,Mark Twain D,$・L.Clemens/】SL____was considered America^unofficial Poet Laureate in the1940s,'A,C.Sandburg B.R.Frost C.E.E.Cummings D,W Stevens 619,As Thomas Hardy set his works against Wessex,____set his novels against the Yoknapata^vplia County,a fictional place in lhe Deep South of America.A.H+MelvitkB. E.HemingwayC.W.Faulkner l> F.S,八Fitzgerald/J20.____is the literary spokesman of the Jazz.Age.‘' A.F.S.Fitzgerald B.E.I lemingway C；Hart Crane LX G Steini l.Teli the names oFthe authors of the following literary^works.(10points)],Mrs.W tarreni-Profession 2.The Jungle回心3.The Forsyte Saga4,The Passage to India第之页.共/顶5.Flnwgum7.The American Scholar 9；The(Hass Menagerie 6.Lord Jim8.The R.d Budge of C ourage ID.The Airy Apeplete,with a proper word or phrase,each of(he following statements concerning English or American literature.<10points)1.In16U,King.fames Bible,or,came out to have a great infhienw On the English literary language and liieraiure.2."And enterprise of gre.u pith and moment,X With this regard,their currents I urn awry\ And lose the name of action：'These lines,I he hsi3lines of a solibquy,show thespeaker's,3._. a pioneer of the18th cenlury English novth is the founder of lhe epistolary novel.4.According to W.Woi'dsworth,poctrv'comes from F not from-----”5.哄your chimney I sweep,&in spot I sleep."This is a line from the collection of poems entitled M-6.“It is a[ruth universally acknowledged that a single man,吊possession of a&ood tontiEie,niust be in watii of a wife."The figure of speech叔usei!htre at the ver? beginning af a well-known novel,7.«]t is my spirit that addressed your spirit;just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood al God's feet,equal-—as we are!”The speaker is-------■g r“Ail mean c^olism vanish如1become a______-1am nothing,t see all.The currents of the Universal Reing circulate through me;I am pan or particle of God"9.b'|cclcbraie myself,and sing myself And What1assume you shall assumeA For every atom belonging tome as good beiongi to you"This is lite first stanza ofW.Whitmaft'spoem.10.T.S.F.liofs famotis dMirine on poets and poetry is known as the-----theory.TV,Read the folU>wiiig£XMrpl「Em The Merchant of Venice by William Sliak4?spcare and write a short but coherent essay on Shyloek.(25points)SHYLOCK:He hath disgraced me,and hindered me half a miliion,laughed at my losses, moc ked at my gains,scorned my nation,thwarted my bargains,cooled my friends,heated inine enemies;and whai's his reason?I am a Jew；Hath not a Jew eyes?Hath not a Jew第3页.英〃更h.i讪，呻低dimtnsrons,心皿lions,pasions?Fed with theTi扁福「福而出(he same w.咿呜subject io the same rntanj,warmed and妙血d by M sama wiEcr丽summm as u Chri而a n ii-if>ou prick既血总响bkwf?IE“而赤“、,也洌n。
2010年上海交通大学英语语言文学专业考研试题(回忆版)
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年上海交通大学英语语言文学专业考研试题（
224德语（二外）
每年题型都会变动一点，10年考试题型为：
一，选择（考的主要是词汇和语法，复习时要细心，注意一些日常交际用语和一些简单词的用法）
二，词汇（今年没考介词填空，考了词缀填写，选词填空，和首字母填空，首字母填空是参考书第三册上的一篇文章）
三，翻译（六个小题德译中，前五个是参考书中课文上的，最后一个不是，有点难）
四，写作（题型与07年的一样，三个小题，今年考了对德国的了解，你可以为环境做些什么，电脑可以做些什么）
五，阅读（两篇，第一篇五个判断题，第二篇三个主观题，比较难，我基本没看懂那三个问题啥意思）
627英美文学
题型与出题范围较05，06，07变化很大
1，作家作品搭配只考了20分，题型是10个作品写出作者，10作家写出他们的MASTERPIECE.
2，文学术语今年考了ALLEGORY, TRAGEDY, 之类的词，与往年不大一样
3，诗歌今年考了华兹华斯的< 我心似一朵孤独的流云>
4，ESSAY并不像往年一样考了REALISM ,MODERNISM, POSTMODERNISM, 的特征，而是考了海明威对死的看法在他作品中的体现。
5，作文与以往也不同，以往是给个题目写篇ESSAY， 今年的题型与专八题型差不多。
849英语水平考试
题型没变，难度适中，三十个词汇选择题较其他题目要难一些。
2010年武汉大学英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷.doc
2010年武汉大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷(总分：24.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、填空题(总题数：4，分数：8.00)1.Two men fight a duel in the border region of England and Scotland and the loser causes more shame than pain to his aged father with his loss because his loss is considered not a loss of his own but a loss of the nation. Answer; " 1" by 2（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________2.With its hero traveling into different places with different companions the story discusses the features of each stage of human life. Answer; " 1" by 2（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________3.Lord Murchison tells of his love experience with a young woman who is mysterious in her actions. Answer; " 1" by 2（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________4.Arsat, after successfully running away with the woman of his ruler, is troubled deep at heart by the thought that he had left his brother in the midst of enemies to die. Answer; " 1" by 2（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________二、单项选择题(总题数：5，分数：10.00)5.In one sense ______ wrote all his life about one theme, which is neatly summed up in the famous phrase "grace under pressure" , and created one hero who acts that theme out.（分数：2.00）A.F. S. FitzgeraldB.Ernest HemingwayC.William FaulknerD.Sinclair Lewis6.The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called______, that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.（分数：2.00）A.free verseB.blank verseC.lyricD.epic7.America"s greatest playwright for the first half of the 20th century is ______.（分数：2.00）A.Arthur MillerB.Tennessee WilliamsC.Eugene O"NeillD.Edward Albee8.In the light of American ______, man is living in a cold, indifferent, and essentially Godless world, and is no longer free in any sense of the word.（分数：2.00）A.PuritanismB.RomanticismC.RealismD.Naturalism9.The term______mainly refers to those young American expatriate writers caught in the war and cut off from the old values and yet unable to come to terms with the new era after World War I when civilization had gone mad.（分数：2.00）A.The Beat GenerationB.The Lost GenerationC.postwar realistsD.local colorists三、分析题(总题数：3，分数：6.00)10.Based on The Waste Land, discuss the features of T. S. Eliot"s poetry and his contribution to Modernist literature.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 11.Give a summary of Mrs. Warren"s Profession and then briefly discuss Bernard Shaw"s social criticism through this play.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________12.Essay Question on American Literature.(20 points)" An innocent man in a different world" isa recurrent theme, and perhaps one of the most important themes, in American literature. Write a short essay on it by taking for example at least two American literary works, of whatsoever genres.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________。
浙江省2010年10月自考英国文学选读试题
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Multiple-choice questions：Select from the four choices A, B，C， D of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement and write the letter on the answer sheet. （30 points in all， 1 point for each)1. Tennyson’s most ambitious work which took him over 30 years to complete is _____.（）A。
In MemoriamB. Idylls of the KingC. Poems by Two BrothersD. Poems, Chiefly Lyrical2。
The Publication of _____ finally established Browning's position as one of the greatest English poets. （）A。
[考研类试卷]2010年首都师范大学英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷.doc
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[考研类试卷]2010年首都师范大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷一、单项选择题1 Among the following plays, ______is NOT a comedy written by William Shakespeare. （A）A Midsummer Night's Dream（B）The Merchant of Venice（C）As You Like It（D）Macbeth2 "All is not lost, the unconquerable will,/And study of revenge, immoral hate,/And courage never to submit or yield,/And what is else not to be overcome?" are taken from the poem written by______.（A）William Shakespeare（B）John Donne（C）John Milton（D）John Keats3 The novel______launched Daniel Defoe on a new career as a novelist.（A）The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe（B）Captain Singleton（C）Moll Flanders（D）The Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell4 Among the following works by William Blake, ______deals with evil, violence and emotion.（A）Song of Innocence（B）Song of Experience（C）The Marriage of Heaven and Hell（D）The Gates of Paradise5 That______is NOT true about William Wordsworth.（A）Wordsworth is one of the Lake Poets（B）he was made poet laureate by British Government in 1843（C）The Prelude can be read as a declaration of Romanticism（D）he believed that poetry "takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility"6 ______tells of the adversity of the orphan Pip that makes him discard his snobbishness. （A）Hard Times（B）A Tale of Two Cities（C）David Copperfield（D）Great Expectations7 Among the following works, ______was written by Emily Bronte.（A）Agnes Grey（B）The Professor（C）Wuthering Heights（D）Jane Eyre8 Virginia Woolf is known as a novelist and critic.______is NOT a novel of hers.（A）Mrs. Dalloway（B）To the Lighthouse（C）The Common Reader（D）The Waves9 ______depicts a picture of society in India under the British Raj, of the clash between East and West, and of the prejudice and misunderstanding.（A）Where Angels Feat to Tread（B）A Room with a View（C）A Passage to India（D）Howard's End10 ______is well known for depicting the absurdity of human conditions in the post-industrial society after World War II in his plays.（A）Samuel Beckett（B）George Bernard Shaw（C）Oscar Wilde（D）William Golding11 Yoknapatawpha County is often used as the background in the novels written by______.（A）William Faulkner（B）Isaac Bashevis Singer（C）Mark Twain（D）Katherine Anne Porter12 ______is NOT written by Toni Morrison.（A）The Bluest Eye（B）Beloved（C）The Color Purple（D）Paradise13 The narrator of The Great Gatsby is ______.（A）Gatsby（B）Nick（C）Daisy（D）Tom14 All the following works are written by Ernest Hemingway EXCEPT______. （A）A Farewell to Arms（B）The Sum Also Rises（C）The Sound and Fury（D）For Whom the Bell Tolls15 T. S. Eliot's______is a precise depiction of the state of culture and society after World War I and an illustration of the spiritual poverty of the West of the time.（A）The Waste Land（B）Four Quartets（C）The Sacred Wood（D）Homage to John Dryden16 All the following novels are written by Henry James EXCEPT______.（A）The American（B）The Portrait of a Lady（C）The Ambassadors（D）Innocents Abroad17 ______is written by Catherine Anne Porter.（A）Flowering Judas（B）A Rose for Emily（C）Everyday Use（D）Song of Solomon18 ______is regarded as "America's Declaration of Intellectual Independence".（A）Nature（B）The Conduct of Life（C）Society and Solitude（D）The American Scholar19 "When it comes, the landscape listens,/ Shadows hold their breath;/ When it goes, 'tis like the distance/ On the look of death. " are taken from Emily Dickinson's poem______. （A）There's Certain Slant of Light（B）Again His Voice Is at the Door（C）Success Is Counted Sweetest（D）I felt a Funeral, in My Brain20 "Where I lived, and What I Lived for" is taken from Thoreau's______.（A）A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers（B）Walden; or, Life in the Woods（C）The Maine Woods（D）Life Without Principle二、名词解释21 free verse22 tall tale23 Lost Generation24 Theatre of the Absurd25 Romanticism三、问答题25 I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils,Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.26 Name the author of this poem.(1 point)27 What is the rhyme scheme of the stanza?(1 point)27 His smile was so easy, so friendly, that Laura recovered. What nice eyes he had, small, but such a dark blue! And now she looked at the others, they were smiling too. " Cheer up, we won't bite," their smile seemed to say. How very nice workmen were! And what a beautiful morning! She mustn't mention the morning; she must be business-like. The marquee.28 Name the title of the short story.(1 point)29 Comment on the writing techniques.(1 point)29 For the next eight or ten months, Oliver was the victim of a systematic course of treachery and deception. He was brought up by hand. The hungry and destitute situation of the infant orphan was duly reported by the workhouse authorities to the parish authorities. The parish authorities inquired with dignity of the workhouse authorities, whether there was no female then domiciled in " the house" who was in a situation to impart to Oliver Twist, the consolation and nourishment of which he stood in need. The workhouse authorities replied with humility, that there was not. Upon this, the parish authorities magnanimously and humanely resolved, that Oliver should be "farmed" or, in other words, that he should be dispatched to a branch-workhouse some three miles off, where twenty or thirty other juvenile offenders against the poor-laws, rolled about the floor all day, without the inconvenience of too much food or too much clothing, under the parental superintendence of an elderly female, who received the culprits at and for the consideration of sevenpence-halfpenny per small head per week. Sevenpence-halfpenny's worth per week is a good round diet for a child; a great deal may be got for sevenpence-halfpenny, quite enough to overload its stomach, and make it uncomfortable. The elderlyfemale was a woman of wisdom and experience; she knew what was food for children; and she had a very accurate perception of what was good for herself. So, she appropriated the greater part of the weekly stipend to her own use, and consigned the rising parochial generation to even a shorter allowance than was originally provided for them. Thereby finding in the lowest depth a deeper still; and proving herself a very great experimental philosopher.30 What is the title of the novel?(1 point)31 What is the effect of the irony used in the excerpt?(1 point)31 We were all at the hospital every afternoon, and there were different ways of walking across the town through the dusk to the hospital. Two of the ways were alongside canals, but they were long. Always, though, you crossed a bridge across a canal to enter the hospital. There was a choice of three bridges. On one of them a woman sold roasted chestnuts. It was warm, standing in front of her charcoal fire, and the chestnuts were warm afterward in your pocket. The hospital was very old and very beautiful, and you entered through a gate and walked across a courtyard and out a gate on the other side. There were usually funerals starting from the courtyard. Beyond the old hospital were the new brick pavilions, and there we met every afternoon and were all very polite and interested in what was the matter, and sat in the machines that were to make so much difference.32 Identify the author of the short story.(1 point)33 What is the theme of the short story?(1 point)33 There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer night. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On weekends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden - shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.34 From which novel is this excerpt taken?(1 point)35 What is the theme of the novel?(1 point)四、评论题36 Comment on the following excerpt and write a 100-word essay on it.(10 points) From Ralph Waldo Emerson's The American ScholarBooks are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world of value is the active soul—the soul, free, sovereign, active. This every man is entitled to; this every man contains within him, although, in almost all men, obstructed, and as yet unborn. The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates. In this action, it is genius; not the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they,—let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward. The eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead. Man hopes, genius creates. To create,—to create, —is the proof of a divine presence. Whatever talents may be if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his;—cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative manners, there are creative actions, and creative words; manners, actions, words, that is, indicative of no custom or authority, but springing spontaneous from the mind's own sense of good and fair.On the other part, instead of being its own seer, let it receive from another mind its truth, though it were in torrents of light, without periods of solitude, inquest, and self-recovery, and a fatal disservice is done. Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.Undoubtedly there is a right way of reading, so it be sternly subordinated. Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings. But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must,—when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining,—we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their way, to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is. We hear, that we may speak. The Arabian proverb says, "A fig tree, looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful. "。
2010年天津外国语大学英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷.doc
2010年天津外国语大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷(总分：48.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、填空题(总题数：20，分数：40.00)1.The only organic whole poem to come out of the Anglo-Saxons period is 1, an example of the mingling of nature myths and heroic legends.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________2." A little learning is a dangerous thing/Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian sping," a famous quotation is from An Essay on Criticism written by 1, the high priest and magistrate of the Age of Reason.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________3.The 16th century in the history of English literature is viewed as a great period of Elizabethan drama, which witnessed the birth of two great playwrights; William Shakespeare and 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________4.John Bunyan, a village tinker, with his strength and sincerity inscribed his name in the English literary history by his famous work 1written in the old-fashioned, medieval form of allegory and dream.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________5.The famous English critic Mathew Arnold called the 18th century in Britain "an age of prose". In this period, no novelists were as popular and well known as 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________6.Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele are always remembered together because they started a journalistic tradition that is still alive in Britain and the United State. Their collaboration on a series of essays for the Taller and the 1strongly influenced 18th century English taste and opinion.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________7.Like Ibsen, 1was much concerned about the social problems of his time. His career as a dramatist began in 1892, when his first play 2was put on and turned out a success.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________8.Modernist writers such as James Joyce and Virginia Wolf approached the internal world of characters in their novels by the technique of "stream of consciousness" which means 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________9.According to historians of English literature, the First World War saw the start of a poetic revolution which was initiated by the imagist movement and the symbolist movement. The imagist movement was led by 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________10.The revolution of the British drama came in the decade following the ending of the World War II. The tremors in the post-war British theatre were caused by Samuel Beckett"s play 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________11.Edgar Allan Poe"s stories fall into two categories; 1and "tales of ratiocination".（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________12." The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them. The waving of the boughs in the storm, is new to me and old. It takes me by surprise,and yet is not unknown. Its effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right.Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight, does not reside in 1, but in 2, or in a harmony of both. It is necessary to use these pleasures with great temperance. "（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________13.In Emily Dickinson"s poem Because I Could not Stop for Death, she uses personification to compare death to 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________14.In William Dean Howell"s 1, the burning of the house symbolizes the protagonist"s economic fall but he achieves his moral and ethical rise.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________15.Allen Ginsberg"s 1(1956), William S. Burroughs"s Naked Lunch(1959)and Jack Kerouac"s On the Road(1957)are considered to be the literary representatives of the 2of the 1950s.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________16.The Southern Renaissance was the reinvigoration of American Southern literature that began in the 1920s and 1930s with the appearance of, among others, novelist 1, playwright 2, short-story writer Katherine Anne Porter.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________17.The concept of "double consciousness" which has beeh widely employed in the literary criticism of ethnic American literatures originated from the enduring classic The Souls of Black Folk(1903) by 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________18.In 1by Arthur Miller, the main character 2"s determination to live up to his "American Dream" and only to seek material happiness takes his life.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________19. 1by J.D.Salinger reflects the moral crisis and disillusionment of the post-war American society.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________20."The suits on Wall Street walked off with most of our savings. " The figure of speech used in the sentence is 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________二、问答题(总题数：4，分数：8.00)21.Charles Lamb is sometimes called the Shakespeare of the English essay. Do you agree or disagree on the statement? Give details to support your argument.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 22.British romanticism is a very important literary trend in the history of the English literature. Scholars singled out six major poets in this period of time: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelly, Keats and Blake and constructed the basic notions of a unified Romanticism. What are the basic notions of Romanticism? Illustrate these notions of Romanticism with one or two examples.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 23.How do Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow embody two different value systems?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 24.Give the importance of mobility in the ideological underpinnings of America, it is hardly surprising to find that American literature has from its beginnings been"a literature of movement, of motion, its great icons the track through forest and superhighway. " Please name one novel from the canonical American literature to elaborate on the theme of mobility.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________。
史上最全复旦大学翻译硕士(MTI)真题回忆(2010—2013)
education for all-around development; competence-oriented education 二.段落翻译 英译汉是写james henry 还是Henry James啊？考过的同学快过来瞧瞧，我怎么 写的的詹姆士·亨利啊？！
汉译英写外来文化进入中国文化要被吸收同化什么的。 汉语写作与百科 一、词语解释（每题2分，共25题） Barack Obama，globlization，euro tunnel,Mayflower,a nation on wheels,The Declaration of Independence,全球变暖，低碳经济，科学发展观，生态难民，超级 细菌，world Englishes,David Cameron 论语 莎士比亚 神舟七号 上海世博会 G20 （去年考了G2和G7） Euro Tunnel ，DNA 次级贷款 君主立宪制 Encyclopaedia Britannica,dot-com 蔡元培 二、写作 1.小作文，2选1，写一篇450字左右的应用文（40分）
史上最全复旦大学翻译硕士（MTI）真题回忆帖 （2010-2013）
2010年北京师范大学文学院936文学理论与外国文学史(含比较文学)考研真题(回忆版)及详解【圣才】
2010年北京师范大学文学院936文学理论与外国文学史（含比较文学）考研真题（回忆版）及详解第一部分文学理论部分一、名词解释（每题5分，共25分）1．因文生事答：因文生事是金圣叹小说评点的理论术语。
他在《读第五才子书法》中说：“因文生事……只是顺着笔性去，削高补低都由我。
”即在小说的创作中，并不需要依循实录史实的原则，而只需要按照文学成规与审美规律的要求，对素材进行艺术加工处理，其增删补减完全可以由作者依据自己主观审美感受和读者的审美需要来决定。
金圣叹的“因文生事”说，确立了小说叙事的审美特质。
尤其是他把“生事”提到小说创作的原则的高度，这对于作家在创作中自觉地冲破传统的习见，大胆虚构，充分发挥其艺术审美功能，打出了理论旗帜。
2．隐含的读者答：隐含的读者是指本文自身设定的能够把文本提供的可能性加以具体化的预想读者。
它是相对于现实读者而言的，即作家预想出来的他的作品问世之后，可能出现的或应该出现的读者。
“隐含的读者”是德国接受美学家伊瑟尔20世纪60年代末提出的一个重要概念，它对主导西方文论界半个世纪之久的形式主义文评批判最为有力，并最终结束了它的使命，开当今“读者时代”之先河，而“隐含的读者”所针对的正是形式主义的文本自足论。
但接受美学对形式主义的批判却最终导致了自身的危机，引发后结构主义对“形式主义”进行新的本体思考，对西方形而上传统展开更加深入的批判，“隐含的读者”也因此不断受到挑战。
3．余味答：余味是中国古代文论中的术语。
形容事物的性情未尽。
中国文自古就有以味喻诗的传统，许多文人学士在鉴赏文学艺术时，把味觉艺术引申到诗歌美学领域，以味作譬，阐释艺术美学中抽象玄奥的道理。
自陆机《文赋》以味喻诗文之后，后继者蜂起，渐而形成中国古代文论中以味喻诗的一种传统的思维模式，或称之为一种很有影响的文艺理论流派——滋味说。
4．夸示性消费答：夸示性消费是指一些文学消费者买来文学书籍后并不打算或并未进入阅读，而只是为了收藏、摆设或炫耀的消费现象。
2010年复旦大学813英美文学史考研真题(回忆版)-考研真题资料
2010年复旦大学813英美文学史考研试题（回忆版）一、作家作品（60*1分）选择与下面作品匹配的作家名字下面是我能记得起来的一些作品需要你填的∶the portrait of the artist as a young mana room of one's ownThe street car named desireas i lay dyingbrave new worldslaughter house fiveelegy written in the churchgraveyard gravity's rainbowherz0glong jouney into the nightHowlmiddlemarchthe golden notebookThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of CalaverasCounty 1984Endymionthe color purplethe woman warrioIthe decay of lyinglord of fliesthe vicar of wakefieldMurder in the CathedralBartleby, the Scrivener二、名词解释（8选5，50分，字数控制在100左右）三、american transcendentalism四、选做题五、1. 诗歌鉴赏loveliest of trees, the chery now（1）从这首诗的第二节中，你能推断出作者已经多少岁了（2）从这首诗歌当中，你能看出作者对春天对人生有什么样的态度。
2.一段文字，让你对这段文字进行比较，看文学语言跟一般语言有什么不同的。
2010年北京第二外国语学院英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷.doc
2010年北京第二外国语学院英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷(总分：42.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、单项选择题(总题数：15，分数：30.00)1.Sonnet in English poetry contains______.（分数：2.00）A.four linesB.a coupletC.fourteen linesD.a terza rima2.Francis Bacon, one of the most important British essayists, was active in the______.（分数：2.00）A.Middle AgeB.Anglo-Saxon PeriodC.English RenaissanceD.Victoria Age3.______, whose name comes from Greek words meaning "no place" , is written by Thomas More to name his ideal society.（分数：2.00）A.UtopiaB.ShangrilaC.News from NowhereD.Wonderland4.Of the following writers who is NOT a poet in English Renaissance? ______.（分数：2.00）A.William ShakespeareB.Robert BurnsC.Edmund SpenserD.John Milton5.______founded a new school of poetry by the name of metaphysical school.（分数：2.00）A.John SmithB.John BunyanC.John MiltonD.John Donne6.Modern English novel arose in the______century.（分数：2.00）A.16thB.17thC.18thD.19th7.Don Juan is______"s poetic drama with the material taken from Biblical stories.（分数：2.00）A.ByronB.ShelleyC.WordsworthD.Coleridge8.In 1878,______moved to London. His lifestyle and humorous wit made him soon spokesman for Aestheticism, the late 19th century movement in England that advocated art for art"s sake.（分数：2.00）A.Walter ScottB.Oscar WildeC.Robert BrowningD.Alfred Tennyson9.______belongs to "stream of consciousness" school.（分数：2.00）A.Virginia WoolfB.Thomas WolfeC.Somerset MaughamD.Thomas Hardy10.American Colonial literature is longer than any other literary period, which started when the first settlers kept diaries and sermons and developed till______.（分数：2.00）A.the mid of 18th C.B.early 17thC.C.the end of 17th C.D.the end of 18th C.11."Oh Captain! My Captain!" is Whitman"s mourning poem to______.（分数：2.00）A.Martin Luther KingB.utilitarianC.New England transcendentalismD.Abraham Lincoln12.Of the following writers______is not influenced by naturalistic writing.（分数：2.00）A.Theodore DreiserB.Stephen CraneC.Isaac SingerD.Frank Norris13.F. S. Fitzgerald is NOT the writer of______.（分数：2.00）A.The Great GatsbyB.The Last TycoonC.As I Lay DyingD.Tender Is the Night14.______addressed Ernest Hemingway and his peers as "the lost generation".（分数：2.00）A.Gertrude SteinB.William Dean HowellsC.Sherwood AndersonD.Henry James15.The author of Long Day"s Journey into Night also wrote______.（分数：2.00）A.Death of a SalesmanB.The Hairy ApeC.A Streetcar Named DesireD.Looking Back in Anger二、名词解释(总题数：3，分数：6.00)16.American Transcendentalism(3 points)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 17.The Southern Renaissance(3 points)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 18.The Beat Generation(3 points)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 三、分析题(总题数：1，分数：6.00)When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old manservant—a combined gardener and cook—had seen in at least ten years.It was a big, squarish frame house and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street. But garagesand cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily"s house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps— an eyesore among eyesores. And now Miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson(the Town of Jefferson).Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of heredity obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris invented an involved tale to the effect that Miss Emily"s father had loaned money to the town, which the town, as a matter of business, preferred this way of repaying. Only a man of Colonel Sartoris" generation and thought could have invented it, and only a woman could have believed it.This section above is an excerpt from William Faulkner"s short story A Rose for Emily. Please answer the following questions according to the excerpt:（分数：6.00）(1).What is the town people"s response toward Emily"s death and what"s the reason for that? Use your own words to give an illustration.(3 points)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).These paragraphs typically show Faulkner"s major concern in literary writing. Please explain Faulkner"s literary concern in general with one representative work except this short story.(4 points)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (3).In the 3rd paragraph, Miss Emily is referred to as "a tradition". What does this tradition mean? When the paragraph ends with the sentence " Only a man of Colonel Sartoris" generation and thought could have invented it, and only a woman could have believed it" , what information does the writer want to give to his readers?(4 points)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________。
历年英美文学选读真题及答案
2004年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读试题（课程代码0604）全部题目用英文作答，并将答案写在答题纸相应位置上，否则不计分。
PART ONE （40 POINTS）Ⅰ.Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your correct answer on the answer sheet.1.“And we will sit upon the rocks, /Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.” The above lines are taken from ______.A. Milton’s Paradise LostB. Marlowe’s “The Passionate shepherd to His Love”C. Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18”D. John Donne’s “The Sun Rising”2.The English Renaissance period was an age of ______ .A. poetry and dramaB. drama and novelC. novel and poetryD. romance and poetry3.Here are four lines taken from Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene: “But on his brest a bloudie Crosse he bore,/The deare remembrance of his dying Lord,/For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore,/And dead as living ever him adored.” Who is the “dying Lord” discussed in the above lines?A. BeowulfB. King ArthurC. Jesus ChristD. Jupiter4.In Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylock, because ______.A. his money was all invested in the newly-emerging textile industryB. his enterprise went bankruptC. Bassanio was able to pay his own debtD. his ships had all been lost5. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18?A. The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.B. The speaker satirizes human vanity.C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.D. The speaker meditates on man’s salvation.6. In English poetry, a four-line stanza is called ______.A. heroic coupletB. quatrainC. Spenserian stanzaD. terza rima7. “Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,/Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;/Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile /The short and simple annals of the poor.”The above lines are taken from .A. Alexander Pope’s Essay on CriticismB. Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”1word版本可编辑.欢迎下载支持.C. John Donne’s “The Sun Rising”D. Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”8. By making the truth-seeking pilgrims suffer at the hands of the people of Vanity Fair, John Bunyan intends to show the prevalent political and religious ______of his time.A. persecutionB. improvementC. prosperityD. disillusionment9. The 18th century witnessed a new literary form－the modern English novel, which, contrary to the medieval romance, gives a ______ presentation of life of the common people.A. romanticB. realisticC. propheticD. idealistic10. As a whole, ______is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the then English and European life—socially, politically, religiously, philosophically, scientifically, and morally.A. Moll FlandersB. Gulliver’s TravelsC. Pilgrim’s ProgressD. The School for Scandal11. An honest, kind-hearted young man, who is full of animal spirit and lacks prudence, is expelled from the paradise and has to go through hard experience to gain knowledge of himself and finally to have been accepted both by a virtuous lady and a rich relative .The above sentence may well sum up the t heme of Fielding’s work .A. Jonathan Wild the GreatB. Tom JonesC. The Coffe-House PoliticianD. Amelia12. In Sheridan’s The School for scandal, the man who wins the hand of his beloved as well as the inheritance of his rich uncle is ______ .A. Charles SurfaceB. Joseph SurfaceC. Sir Peter TeazleD. Sir Benjamin Backbite13. Which of the following works best represents the national spirit of the 18th-century England?A. Robinson CrusoeB. Gulliver’s TravelsC. Jonathan Wild the GreatD. A Sentimental Journey14. Shelley’s masterpiece, Prometheus Unbound, is a verse drama, which borrows the basic story from ______ .A. the BibleB. a German legendC. a Greek playD. One Thousand and One Nights15. In the first part of the novel Pride and prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a (n) ______ of the Bennet family .A. high opinionB. great admirationC. low opinionD. erroneous view16. In Byron’s poem “Song for the Luddites,” the word “Luddite” refers to the ______ .A. workers who destroyed the machines in their protest against unemploymentB. rising bourgeoisie who fights against the aristocratic classC. descendents of the ancient king ,LudD. poor country people who suffered under the rule of the landlord class17. Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield and Sam Well in Pickwick Papers are perhaps the best ______ characters created by Charles Dickens.2word版本可编辑.欢迎下载支持.A. comicB.tragicC. roundD.sophisticated18. A typical feature of the English Victorian literature is that writers became social and moral ______ , exposing all kinds of social evils.A. revolutionariesB. idealistsC. criticsD. defenders19. “Is it not sufficient for your infernal selfishness, that while you are at peace I shall writhe in the torments of hell?”(Heathcliff uttered the sentence in the death scene of Catherine from Chapter XV of Wuthering Heights.) The word “hell” at the end of the quoted sentence refers to ______ .A. HeavenB. HadesC. the next worldD. this world20. A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of ______ ,who never pays any attention to human feelings.A. justiceB. humorC. moralityD. property21. “He was silent with conceit of his son. Mrs. Morel sniffed, as if it were nothing.”(Sons and Lovers by wrence)From the above quotation, we can see that Mrs. Morel’s attitude to her husband is ______ .A. sincerely warmB. genuinely kindC. seemingly angryD. merely contemptuous22. A boy makes a quest of his idealized childish love through painful experience up to the point of losing his innocence and coming to see the drabness and harshness of the adult world.The above sentence may well sum up the major theme of ______.A. Eliot’s poem The love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockB. Bernard shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s ProfessionC. Joyce’s story ArabyD. Lawrence’s story The Horse Dealer’s Daughter23. Linguistically, compared with the writings of Mark Twain, Henry James’s fiction is noted for his ______.A. frontier vernacularB. rich colloquialismC. vulgarly descriptive wordsD. refined elegant language24. Which of the following statements about Washington Irving is NOT true?A. Literary imagination should breed in a land rich in the past culture.B. He is preoccupied with the Calvinistic view of original sin and the mystery of evil.C. His stories are among the best of the American literature.D. Some of his works are based on the materials of the European legendary tales.25. Which of the following is NOT one of the main ideas advocated by Emerson, the chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism?A. As an individual, man is divine and can develop and improve himself infinitely.B. Nature exercises a healthy and restorative influence on human beings.C. There exists an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal “Oversoul.”D. Evil and sin are ever present in human heart and will pass on from one generation to another.”3word版本可编辑.欢迎下载支持.26. Whitman’s poems are charac terized by all the following features EXCEPT ______ .A. the strict poetic formB. the free and natural rhythmC. the easy flow of feelingsD. the simple and conversational language27. “Then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled o n as it rolled five thousand years ago.” In the quoted sentence, the author might imply that ______.A. nothing changes in the 5000 years of human historyB. man’s desire to conquer nature can only end in his own destructionC. nature is evil as it was 5000 years agoD. nature has the ultimate creative power28. “Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space ,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents o f the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.”The above passage is taken from ______.A. Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s CabinB. Cooper’s “Leatherstocking Tales”C. Emerson’s “Nature”D. Dreiser’s Sister Carrie29. Which of the following works best illustrates the Calvinistic view of original sin?A. Stowe’s Uncle Ton’s CabinB. James’s The Portrait of a Lady.C. Hemingway’s A Farewell to ArmsD. Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.30. Beside symbolism, all the following qualities EXCEPT ______are fused to make Melville’s Moby-Dick a world classic.A. narrative powerB. psychological analysisC. speculative agilityD. optimistic view of life31. In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the ______ American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined economically.A. PuritanB. materialisticC. psychologicalD. religious32. In Daisy Miller,Henry James reveals Daisy’s ______ by showing her r elatively unreserved manners.A. hypocrisyB. cold and indifferenceC. grace and patienceD. Americanness33. The raft with which Huck and Jim make their voyage down the Mississippi River may symbolize all the following EXCEPT ______.A. a return to natureB. an escape from evils, injustices, and corruption of the civilized societyC. the American society in the early 19th centuryD. a small world where people of different colors can live friendly and happily34. Emily Grierson, the protag onist in Faulkner’s story “A Rose for Emily,” can be regarded as a symbol for all the following qualities EXCEPT______.A. old valuesB. rigid ideas of social statusC. bigotry and eccentricityD. harmony and integrity4word版本可编辑.欢迎下载支持.35. As a Modernist poet ,Pound is noted for his active involvement in the ______ .A. cubist school of modern paintingB. Imagist MovementC. stream-of-consciousness techniqueD. German Expressionism36. The statement that a boy’s night journey to an Indian village to witness th e violence of both birth and death provides all the possibilities of a learning experience may well sum up the major theme of ______ .A. Faulkner’s story “A Rose for Emily”B. Hemingway’s story “Indian Camp”C. Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”D. James’s story “Daisy Miller”37. Which of the following plays by O’Neill can be read autobiographically?A. The Hairy ApeB. The Emperor JonesC. The Iceman ComethD. Long Day’s Journey Into Night38. When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing about ______’s thematic concern in his fiction writing.A. Henry JamesB. Scott FitzgeraldC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Faulkner39.After his experiences in the forest, Young Goodman Brown returns to Salem ______.A. desperate and gloomyB. renewed in his faithC. wearing a black veilD. unaware of his own sin40. According to Mark Twain, in river town s up and down the Mississippi, it was every boy’s dream to some day grow up to be ______.A. Methodist preacherB. a justice of the peaceC. a riverboat pilotD. a pirate on the Indian oceanPART TWO (60POINTS)Ⅱ.Reading comprehension(16 points,4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41. “One short sleep past, we wake eternally,And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B.What does the word “sleep” mean?C. What idea do the two lines express?42. “Never did sun more beautifully steepIn his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!The river glideth at his own sweet will:5word版本可编辑.欢迎下载支持.Dear God! The very houses seem asleep;And all that mighty heart is lying still!”(William Wordsworth’s sonnet: “Composed upon Westminster Bridge” September 3, 1802) Questions:A. What does the word “glideth” in the fourth line m ean?B. What kind of figure of speech is used by wordsworth to describe the “river”?C. What idea does the fourth line express?43. “With Blue—uncertain stumbling Buzz—Between the light—and me—And then the Windows failed—and thenI could not see to see—”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What do “Windows” symbolically stand for?C. What idea does the quoted passage express?44. “‘Is dying hard, Daddy?’‘No, I think it’s pretty easy, Nick, It all depends.”’Questions:A. Identify the work and the author.B. What was Nick preoccupied with when he asked the question?C. Why did the father add “It all depends” after he answered his son’s question?Ⅲ. Questions and Answers(24 points in all, 6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. It is said that B. Shaw’s play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, has a strong realistic theme, which fully reflects the dramatist’s Fabianist idea. Try to summarize this theme briefly.46. Emily Bronte used a very complicated narrative technique in writing her novel Wuthering Heights.Try to tell Bronte’s way of narration briefly.47. “In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.” The two sentences are taken from Theodore Dreiser’s novel, Sister Carrie. What idea can you draw from the “rocking-chair”?48. The literary school of naturalism was quite popular in the late 19th century. What are the major characteristics of naturalism?Ⅳ. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49. Discu ss the possible theme in W.B. Yeats’s “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” and how that theme is presented in the poem.50. “My faith is gone!” cried he (Goodman Brown), after one stupefied moment. “There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil! Fo r to thee is this world given.”6word版本可编辑.欢迎下载支持.Comment on this passage from Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”.7word版本可编辑.欢迎下载支持.。
[考研类试卷]2010年北京第二外国语学院英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷.doc
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[考研类试卷]2010年北京第二外国语学院英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷一、单项选择题1 Sonnet in English poetry contains______.（A）four lines（B）a couplet（C）fourteen lines（D）a terza rima2 Francis Bacon, one of the most important British essayists, was active in the______.（A）Middle Age（B）Anglo-Saxon Period（C）English Renaissance（D）Victoria Age3 ______, whose name comes from Greek words meaning "no place" , is written by Thomas More to name his ideal society.（A）Utopia（B）Shangrila（C）News from Nowhere（D）Wonderland4 Of the following writers who is NOT a poet in English Renaissance? ______.（A）William Shakespeare（B）Robert Burns（C）Edmund Spenser（D）John Milton5 ______founded a new school of poetry by the name of metaphysical school. （A）John Smith（B）John Bunyan（C）John Milton（D）John Donne6 Modern English novel arose in the______century.（A）16th（B）17th（C）18th（D）19th7 Don Juan is______'s poetic drama with the material taken from Biblical stories. （A）Byron（B）Shelley（C）Wordsworth（D）Coleridge8 In 1878,______moved to London. His lifestyle and humorous wit made him soon spokesman for Aestheticism, the late 19th century movement in England that advocated art for art's sake.（A）Walter Scott（B）Oscar Wilde（C）Robert Browning（D）Alfred Tennyson9 ______belongs to "stream of consciousness" school.（A）Virginia Woolf（B）Thomas Wolfe（C）Somerset Maugham（D）Thomas Hardy10 American Colonial literature is longer than any other literary period, which started when the first settlers kept diaries and sermons and developed till______.（A）the mid of 18th C.（B）early 17th C.（C）the end of 17th C.（D）the end of 18th C.11 "Oh Captain! My Captain!" is Whitman's mourning poem to______.（A）Martin Luther King（B）utilitarian（C）New England transcendentalism（D）Abraham Lincoln12 Of the following writers______is not influenced by naturalistic writing. （A）Theodore Dreiser（B）Stephen Crane（C）Isaac Singer（D）Frank Norris13 F. S. Fitzgerald is NOT the writer of______.（A）The Great Gatsby（B）The Last Tycoon（C）As I Lay Dying（D）Tender Is the Night14 ______addressed Ernest Hemingway and his peers as "the lost generation". （A）Gertrude Stein（B）William Dean Howells（C）Sherwood Anderson（D）Henry James15 The author of Long Day's Journey into Night also wrote______.（A）Death of a Salesman（B）The Hairy Ape（C）A Streetcar Named Desire（D）Looking Back in Anger二、名词解释16 American Transcendentalism(3 points)17 The Southern Renaissance(3 points)18 The Beat Generation(3 points)三、分析题18 When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old manservant—a combined gardener and cook—had seen in at least ten years.It was a big, squarish frame house and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street. But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps— an eyesore among eyesores. And now Miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson(the Town of Jefferson).Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of heredity obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris invented an involved tale to the effect that Miss Emily's father had loaned money to the town, which the town, as a matter of business, preferred this way of repaying. Only a man of Colonel Sartoris' generation and thought could have invented it, and only a woman could have believed it. This section above is an excerpt from William Faulkner's short story A Rose for Emily.Please answer the following questions according to the excerpt:19 What is the town people's response toward Emily's death and what's the reason for that? Use your own words to give an illustration.(3 points)20 These paragraphs typically show Faulkner's major concern in literary writing. Please explain Faulkner's literary concern in general with one representative work except this short story.(4 points)21 In the 3rd paragraph, Miss Emily is referred to as "a tradition". What does this tradition mean? When the paragraph ends with the sentence " Only a man of Colonel Sartoris' generation and thought could have invented it, and only a woman could have believed it" , what information does the writer want to give to his readers?(4 points)。
2010年北京外国语大学英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷.doc
2010年北京外国语大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷(总分：28.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、匹配题(总题数：1，分数：20.00)AuthorsA. Henry David Thoreau B. William Wordsworth C. Charles DickensD. Alexander Pope E. Francis Bacon F. Charlotte BronteG. Percy Bysshe Shelley H. Robert Frost I. Mark TwainJ. William Shakespeare K. Nathaniel Hawthorne L. Ralph W. EmersonM. William Blake（分数：20.00）(1).Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger —but I done it, and I warn"t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither. I didn"t do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn"t done that one if I"d a knowed it would make him feel that way.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (3).While arranging my hair, I looked at my face in the glass and felt it was no longer plain; there was hope in its aspect and life in its colour; and my eyes seemed as if they had beheld the fount of fruition and borrowed beams from the lustrous ripple. I had often been unwilling to look at my master, because I feared he could not be pleased at my look: but I was sure I might lift my face to his now, and not cool his affection by its expression.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (4).Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (5).Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I"ve tasted of desire,I hold with those who favor fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo say that for destruction iceIs also greatAnd would suffice.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (6).I wander thro" each charter"d street,Near where the charter"d Thames does flow,And mark in every face I meetMarks of weakness, marks of woe.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (7).Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is;What if my leaves are falling like its own!The tumult of thy mighty harmoniesWill take from both a deep, autumnal tone,Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce,My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (8).Another thing in Joe that I could not understand when it first began to develop itself, but which I soon arrived at sorrowful comprehension of, was this: As I became stronger and better, Joe became a little less easy with me.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (9).All Nature is but art, unknown to thee;All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;All discord, harmony not understood;All partial evil, universal good;And, spite of pride, in erring reason"s spite,One truth is clear; whatever is, is right.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (10).The grass-plot before the jail, in Prison Lane, on a certain summer morning, not tell than two centuries ago, was occupied by a pretty large number of the inhabitants of Boston, all with their eyes intently fastened on the iron-clamped oaken door. Amongst any other population, orat a later period in the history of New England, the grim rigidity that petrified the bearded physiognomies of these good people would have augured some awful business in hand.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 二、分析题(总题数：1，分数：8.00)The Enormous RadioJim and Irene Westcott were the kind of people who seem to strike that satisfactory average of income, endeavor, and respectability that is reached by the statistical reports in college alumni bulletins. They were the parents of two young children, they had been married nine years, they lived on the twelfth floor of an apartmenthouse near Sutton Place, they went to the theater on an average of 10.3 times a year, and they hoped someday to live Westchester. Irene Westcott was a pleasant, rather plain girl with soft brown hair, and a wide, fine forehead upon which nothing at all had been written, and in the cold weather she wore a coat of fitch skins dyed to resemble mink. You could not say that Jim Westcott looked younger than he was, but you could at least say of him that he seemed to feel younger. He wore his graying hair cut very short, he dressed in the kind of clothes his class had worn at Andover, and his manner was earnest, vehement, and intentionally naive. The Westcotts differed from their friends, their classmates, and their neighbors, only in an interest they shared in serious music. They went to a great many concerts —although they seldom mentioned this to anyone— and they spent a good deal of time listening to music on the radio.Their radio was an old instrument, sensitive, unpredictable, and beyond repair. He promised to buy flrene a new radio, and on Monday when he came home from work he told her that he had got one. He refused to describe it, and said it would be a surprise for her when it came.The radio was delivered at the kitchen door the following afternoon, and with the assistance of her maid and the handyman Irene uncrated it and brought it into the living room. She was struck at once with the physical ugliness of the large gumwood cabinet. Irene was proud of her living room, she had chosen its furnishings and colors as carefully as she chose her clothes, and now it seemed to her that her new radio stood among her intimate possessions like an aggressive intruder. She was confounded by the number of dials and switches on the instrument panel, and she studied them thoroughly before she put the plug into a wall socket and turned the radio on. The deals flooded with a malevolent green light, and in the distance she heard the music of a piano quintet. The quintet was in the distance for only an instant; it bore down upon her with a speed greater than light and filled the apartment with the noise of music amplified so mightily that it knocked a china ornament from a table to the floor. She rushed to the instrument and reduced the volume. The violent forces that were snared in the ugly gumwood cabinet made her uneasy. Her children came home from school then, and she took them to the park. It was not until later in the afternoon that she was able to return to the radio.The maid had given the children their suppers and was supervising their baths when Irene turned on the radio, reduced the volume, and sat down to listen to a Mozart quintet that she knew and enjoyed. The music came through clearly. The new instrument had a much purer tone, she thought, than the old one. She decided that tone was most important and that she could conceal the cabinet behind the sofa. But as soon as she had made her peace with the radio, the interference began. A crackling sound like the noise of a burning powder fuse began to accompany the singing of the strings. Beyond the music, there was a rustling that reminded Irene unpleasantly of the sea, and as the quintet progressed, these noises were joined by many others. She tried all the dials and switches but nothing dimmed the interference, and she sat down, disappointed and bewildered, and tried to trace the flight of the melody. The elevator shaft in her building ran beside the living-room wall, and it was the noise of the elevator that gave her a clue to the character of the static. The rattling of the elevator cables and the opening and closing of the elevator doors, were reproduced in her loudspeaker, and, realizing that the radio was sensitive to electrical currents of all sorts, she began to discern through the Mozart the ringing of telephone bells, the dialing of phones, and the lamentation of a vacuum cleaner. By listening more carefully, she was able to distinguish doorbells, elevator bells,electric razors, and Waring mixers, whose sounds had been picked up from the apartments that surrounded hers and transmitted through her loudspeaker. The powerful and ugly instrument, with its mistaken sensibility to discord, was more than she could hope to master, so she turned the thing off and went into the nursery to see her children.When Jim came home that night, he was tired, and he took a bath and changed his clothes. Then he joined Irene in the living room. He had just turned on the radio when the maid announced dinner, so he left it on, and Irene went to the table.Jim was too tired to make even pretense of sociability, and there was nothing about the dinner to hold Irene"s interest, so her attention wandered from the food to the deposits of silver polish on the candlesticks and from there to the music in the other room. She listened for a few minutes to a Chopin prelude and then was surprised to hear a man"s voice break in. " For Christ"s sake, Kathy," he said, "do you always have to play the piano when I get home?" The music stopped abruptly. "It"s the only chance I have," the woman said. " So am I," the man said. He added something obscene about an upright piano, and slammed a door. The passionate and melancholy music began again."Did you hear that?" Irene asked."What?" Jim was eating his dessert."The radio. A man said something while the music was still going on-something dirty. ""It"s probably a play. ""I don"t think it is a play," Irene said.They left the table and took their coffee into the living room. Irene asked Jim to try another station. He turned the knob. "Have you seen my garters?" A man asked. "Button me up," a woman said. "Have you seen my garters?" the man said again. "Just button me up and I"ll find your garters," the woman said. Jim shifted to another station. " I wish you wouldn"t leave apple cores in the ashtrays," a man said. " I hate the smell. ""This is strange," Jim said."Isn"t it?" Irene said.Jim turned the knob again. "On the coast of Coromandel where the early pumpkins blow," a woman with a pronounced English accent said, " in the middle of the woods lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs, and half a candle, one old jug without a handle...""My God!" Irene cried. "That"s the Sweeneys" nurse. ""These were all his worldly goods, " the British voice continued."Turn that thing off," Irene said. "Maybe they can hear us. " Jim switched the radio off. "That was Miss Armstrong, the Sweeneys" nurse," Irene said. " She must be reading to the little girl. They live in 17-B. I"ve talked with Miss Armstrong in the park. I know her voice very well. We must be getting other people"s apartments. ""That"s impossible," Jim said."Well, that was the Sweeneys" nurse," Irene said hotly. "I know her voice. I know it very well. I"m wondering if they can hear us. "Jim turned the switch. First from a distance and then nearer, nearer, as if borne on the wind, came the pure accents of the Sweeneys" nurse again: " Lady Jingly! Lady Jingly!" she said, " sitting where the pumpkins blow, will you come and be my wife, said the Yonggy-Bonggy-Bo..."Jim went over to the radio and said " Hello" loudly into the speaker."I am tired of living singly, " the nurse went on, "on this coast so wild and shingly, I"m a-weary of my life; if you"ll come and be my wife, quite serene would be my life...""I guess she can"t hear us," Irene said. "Try something else. "Jim turned to another station, and the living room was filled with the uproar of a cocktail party that had overshot its mark. Someone was playing the piano and singing the " Whiffenpoof Song," and the voices that surrounded the piano were vehement and happy. " Eat some more sandwiches," a woman shrieked. There were screams of laughter and a dish of some sort crashed to the floor."Those must be the Fullers, in 11-E," Irene said. "I knew they were giving a party this afternoon. I saw her in the liquor store. Isn"t this too divine? Try something else. See if you can get those people in 18-C. "The Westcotts overheard that evening a monologue on salmon fishing in Canada, a bridge game, running comments on home movies of what had apparently been a fortnight at Sea Island, and a bitter family quarrel about an overdraft at the bank. They turned off their radio at midnight and went to bed, weak with laughter.The following morning, Irene cooked breakfast for the family—the maid didn"t come up from her room in the basement until—she braided her daughter"s hair, and waited at the door until her children and her husband had been carried away in the elevator. Then she went into living room and tried the radio. "I don"t want to go to school," a child screamed. "I hate school.I won"t go to school. I hate school. " "You will go to school," an enraged woman said. "We paid eight hundred dollars to get you into that school and you"ll go if it kills you. " The next number on the dial produced the worn record of the " Missouri Waltz. " Irene shifted the control and invaded the privacy of several breakfast tables. She overheard demonstrations of indigestion, carnal love, abysmal vanity, faith, and despair. Irene"s life was nearly as simple and sheltered as it appeared to be, and the forthright and sometimes brutal language that came from the loudspeaker that morning astonished and troubled her. She continued to listen until her maid came in. Then she turned off the radio quickly, since this insight, she realized, was a furtive one.Irene had a luncheon date with a friend that day, and she left her apartment a little after twelve.Irene had two Martinis at lunch, and she looked searchingly at her friend and wondered what her secrets were. They had intended to go shopping after lunch, but Irene excused herself and went home. She told the maid that she was not to be disturbed; then she went into the living room, closed the doors, and switched on the radio. She heard, in the course of the afternoon, the halting conversation of a woman entertaining her aunt, the hysterical conclusion of a luncheon party, and hostess briefing her maid about some cocktail guests. " Don"t give the best Scotch to anyone who hasn"t white hair, "the hostess said. "See if you can get rid of the liver paste before you pass those hot things, and could you lend me five dollars? I want to tip the elevator man. "As the afternoon waned, the conversations increased in intensity. From where Irene sat, she could see the open sky above the East River. There were hundreds of clouds in the sky, as though the south wind had broken the winter into pieces and were blowing it north, and on her radio she could hear the arrival of cocktail guests and the return of children and businessmen from their schools and offices. "I found a good-sized diamond on the bathroom floor this morning," a woman said. "It must have fallen out of the bracelet Mrs. Dunston was wearing last night. " "We"ll sell it,"a man said. "Take it down to the jeweler on Madison Avenue and sell it. Mrs. Dunston won"t know the difference, and we could use a couple of hundred bucks..." "Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clement"s" the Sweeneys" nurse sang. "Half-pence and farthings, say the bells of St. Martin"s. When will you pay me? Say the bells at old Bailey..." "It"s not a hat," a woman cried, and at her back roared a cocktail party. "It"s not a hat, it"s a love affair. That"s what Walter Florell said. He said it"s not a hat, it"s a love affair," and then, in a lower voice, the same woman added, "Talk to somebody, for Christ"s sake, honey, talk to somebody. If she catches you standing here not talking to anybody, she"ll take us off her invitation list, and I love these parties. "Jim came home at about six the next night. Emma, the maid, let him in, and he had taken off his hat and was taking off his coat when Irene ran into the hall. Her face was shining with tears and her hair was disordered. "Go up to 16-C, Jim!" she screamed. "Don"t take off your coat. Go up to 16-C. Mr. Osborn"s beating his wife. They"ve been quarreling since four o"clock, and now he is hitting her. Go up there and stop him. "From the radio in the living room, Jim heard screams, obscenities, and thuds. "You know you don"t have to listen to this sort of thing," he said. He strode into the living room and turned the switch. "It"s indecent," he said. "It"s like looking into windows. Yow know you don"t have to listen to this sort of thing. You can turn it off." Oh, it"s so terrible, it"s so dreadful, " Irene was sobbing. I"ve been listening all day, and it"s so depressing."Well, if it"s so depressing, why do you listen to it? I brought this dammed radio to give you some pleasure," he said. "I paid a great deal of money for it. I thought it might make you happy. I wanted to make you happy. ""Don"t, don"t, don"t, don"t quarrel with me," she moaned, and laid her head on his shoulder. "All the others have been quarreling all day. Everybody"s been quarreling. They"re all worried about money. Mrs. Hutchinson"s mother is dying of cancer in Florida and don"t have enough money to send her to the Mayo Clinic. At least, Mr. Hutchinson says they don"t have enough money. And some woman in this building is having an affair with the handyman—with that hideous handyman. It"s too disgusting. And Mrs. Melville has heart trouble, and Mr. Hendricks is going to lose his job in April and Mrs. Hendricks is horrid aboutthewhole thing and that girl that plays the "Missouri Waltz" is a whore, a common whore, and the elevator man has tuberculosis and Mr. Osborn has been beating his wife. " She wailed, she trembled with grief and checked the stream of tears down her face with the heel of her palm."Well why do you have to listen?" Jim asked again. "Why do you have to listen to this stuff if it makes you miserable?""Oh, don"t, don"t, don"t" she cried. "Life is too terrible, too sordid and awful. But we"ve never been like that, have we, darling? Have we? I mean, we"ve always been good and decent and loving to one another, haven"t we? And we have two children, two beautiful children. Our lives aren"t sordid, are they, darling? Are they?" She flung her arms around his neck and drew his face down to hers. "We"re happy, aren"t we, darling? We are happy, aren"t we?"" Of course we"re happy," he said tiredly. He began to surrender his resentment. " Of course we are happy. I"ll have that dammed radio fixed or taken away tomorrow. " He stroked her soft hair. "My poor girl, " he said."You love me, don"t you? "She asked. "And we"re not hypercritical or worried about money or dishonesty, are we?""No, darling," he said.A man came in the morning and fixed the radio. Irene turned it on cautiously and was happy to hear a California-wine commercial and a recording of Beethoven"s Ninth Symphony, including Schiller"s "Ode to Joy. " She kept the radio on all day and nothing untoward came toward the speaker.A Spanish suite was being played when Jim came home. "Is everything all right?" he asked. His face was pale, she thought. They had some cocktails and went to dinner to the "Anvil Chorus" from 77 Trovatore. This was followed by Debusy"s "La Mer. ""I paid the bill for the radio today," Jim said. "It cost four hundred dollars. I hope you"ll get some enjoyment out of it. "" Oh, I"m sure I will," Irene said."Four hundred dollars is a good deal more than I can afford," he went on. "I wanted to get something that you"d enjoy. It"s the last extravagance we"ll indulge in this year. I see that you haven"t paid your clothing bills yet. I saw them on your dressing table. " He looked directly at her. "Why did you tell me you"d paid them? Why did you lie to me?"I just didn"t want you to worry, Jim," she said. She drank some water. "I"ll be able to pay my bills out of this month"s allowance. There were the slipcovers last month, and that party. "" You"ve got to learn to handle the money I give you a little more intelligently, Irene," he said. "You"ve got to understand that we don"t have as much money this year as we had last. I had a very sobering talk with Mitchell today. No one is buying anything. We"re spending all of our time promoting new issues, and you know how long that takes. I"m. not getting any younger you know. I"m thirty-seven. My hair will be gray next year. I haven"t done as well as I hoped to do. And I don"t suppose things will get any better. ""Yes, dear," she said."We"ve got to start cutting down," Jim said. "We"ve got to think of the children. To be perfectly frank with you, I worry about money a great deal. I"m not at all sure of the future. No one is. If anything should happen to me, there"s the insurance, but that won"t go very far today. I"ve worked awfully hard to give you and the children a comfortable life," he said bitterly. "I don"t like to see all of my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coast and radios and slipcovers and—""Please Jim," she said. "Please. They"ll hear us. ""Who"ll hear us? Emma can"t hear us. ""The Radio. ""Oh, I"m sick! "He shouted. " I"m sick to death of your apprehensiveness. The radio can"t hear us. Nobody can hear us. And what if they can hear us? Who cares?"Irene got up from the table and went into the living room. Jim went to the door and shouted at her from there. "Why are you so Christly all of a sudden? What"s turned you overnight into a convent girl? You stole your mother"s jewelry before they probated her will. You never gave your sister a cent of that money that was intended for her—not even when she needed it. You made Grace Howland"s life miserable, and where was all your piety and your virtue when you went to that abortionist? I"ll never forget how cool you were. You packed your bag and went off to have that child murdered as if you were going to Nassau. If you"d had any reasons, if you"d had any good reasons—"Irene stood for a minute before the hideous cabinet, disgraced and sickened, but she held her hand on the switch before she extinguished the music and the voices, hoping the instrument might speak to her kindly, that she might hear the Sweeney"s nurse. Jim continued to shout at her from thedoor. The voice on the radio was suave and noncommittal. " An early morning railroad disaster in Tokyo," the loudspeaker said, "killed twenty-nine people. A fire in a Catholic hospital near Buffalo for the care of blind children was extinguished early this morning by nuns. The temperature is forty-seven. The humidity is eighty-nine. "（分数：8.00）(1).Summarize the plot of the following story in your own words.(30 points)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).Define the major theme of the following short story.(40 points)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (3).Make a brief comment on the characterization of the man and his wife.(30 points)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (4).Comment on the ending part of the story.(20 points)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________。
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一，文学常识，填空10分这题型前几年没有的，不过内容并不难，考到Jazz Age ，Dreiser 的第一部小说名字,Whitman的诗歌主张等等
二，根据选段写作者和篇名，50分前几年只有40分的，今年多了10分，一般只要熟悉两本选读就能写出来，我有两三个不确定的，最后一段是什么Don't blame be for that,不知道哪篇里的。
（3楼同学说是Death of a salesman里的....汗，没出现对白的人物名字我就当小说去想了）
三，选题回答，2个section，一共30分，每section3个小题，选其一回答即可
sectionA有问到Franklin的the Autobiography；the jilting of granny weatherall这篇的What are the most important qualities of the granny？How do these qualities help her to live successfully？；the Great Gatsby里green light的寓意，
SectionB 问了What does T. S. Eliot's idea of "the objective correlative" mean to you.；Woolf的Mrs Dalloway 里的一个题目；What admirable characters can you find in Robinson Crusoe?;
四，Compare and comment particularly on their authors' treatment of the theme, 30分
1. Grief
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you hopeless grief is passionless,
That only men incredulous of despair,
Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air
Beat upward to God's throne in loud access
Of shrieking and reproach. Full desertness
In souls, as countries, lieth silent-bare
Under the blanching, vertical eye-glare
Of the absolute heavens. Deep-hearted man, express
Grief for thy dead in silence like to death—
Most like a monumental statue set
In everlasting watch and moveless woe
Till itself crumble to the dust beneath.
Touch it; the marble eyelids are not wet;
If it could weep, it could arise and go.
2.Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.
Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,
That brings our friends up from the underworld,
Sad as the last which reddens over one
That sinks with all we love below the verge;
So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns
The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds
To dying ears, when unto dying eyes
The casement slowly grows a glimmering square;
So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.
Dear as remembered kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned
On lips that are for others, deep as love,
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;
O Death in Life, the days that are no more.
五，essay 30分
Modernism is the reaction against Realism,write an essay about the features of modernism,use examples to illustrate your opinion.
个人评价
今年文学题目相比往年更“友好”一些，基础分（填空）就有了60分，这些就算强化记几天就能拿分的
2个section，3题中最后一道都是相对好答些的。
后面60分是拉开距离的地方。