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2011
年招收攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题
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学科、专业名
称：
外国语言文学、外国语言学及应用语言学
研究方向：
各研究方向
考试科目名称：
外国语言文学综合考试
考试科目代码：
808
考生注意：所有
答案必须写在答题纸（卷）上，写在本试题上一律不给分。
SECTION A
Ⅰ
.
Fill the blanks with proper answers
（
10%
）
1.
The English sonnet, also known as ________________________ sonnet, usually has a regular
rhyme scheme a-b-
a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g.
2.
It was in 1798, with the publication of William Wordsworth’s ___________, in collaboration
with S.T. Coleridge, that romanticism
began to bloom and found a firm place in the
history of
English literature.
3.
The typical feature of Robert Browning's poetry is the ____________________.
4.
The Graveyard Poets were a number of pre- Romantic English poets of the 18th century
characterized by their gloomy
meditations on mortality in the context of the
graveyard. A
contemplative and mellow
mood is achieved in the celebrated opening verse
of Gray's
_____________________.
5.
As one of the great innovators of the modern novel, Virginia Woolf developed the technique of
__________________________ in her
writing, which focuses on the complex lives of
characters’ inner minds instead of
outward actions.
6.
It was ___________________ , as the primary author who wrote “the Declaration of
Independence”, togeth
er with other four men including Benjamin Franklin.
7.
____________________’s “The Raven” is a dark reflection on lost love, death, and loss of hope.
8.
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s
Scarlet Letter
is a story about a woman named _________________
living in seventeenth - century Boston,
then a puritan settlement.
9.
Early in the 1920s the most prominent of the new American playwrights, ______________,
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established an
international reputation with such plays as
The Emperor Jones
and
The Hairy
Ape
.
10.
Hemingway’s stature as a wr
iter was confirmed with the publication of his novel _________
in 1929, which portrayed a farewell
both to war and to love.
Ⅱ
.
Define
the
terms
listed
below
according
to
your
knowledge
of
English
and
American
literature
and criticism.
（
20%
）
novel
2.
Byronic hero
3. Critical
Realism
4.
Transcendentalism
Ⅲ
. Identify the following quotations by giving
（
1
）
the title of the work; (2) the name
of its
author, and (3) explain briefly the implications
of the underlined
parts.
（
20%
）
1. Crafty men condemn studies, simple
men admire them, and wise men use them, for they
teach not their own use; but that is a
wisdom without them, for they teach not their own
use; but that is a without them, and
above them, won by observation.
2. If I were a dead
leaf thou mightest bear; / If I were a swift cloud
to fly with thee; / A wave to pant
beneath
thy
power,
and
share
/
The
impulse
of
thy
strength,
only
less
free
/
Than
thou,
O
Uncontrollable!
3. Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt, /
Whene’er I passed her; but who passed
without / Much the same
smile? This
grew
：
I gave commands
；
/Then all smiles stopped altogether.
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4. He smiled
understandingly
—much more than understandingly. ……Precisely at
that
point it vanished
—
and I was looking at an elegant young roughneck, a year or
two over thirty, whose elaborate
formality of speech just missed being absurd.
Some time before he introduced himself
I’d got a strong impression that he was
picking his words with care.
5.
To
go
into
solitude,
a
man
needs
to
retire
as
much
from
his
chamber
as
from
society.
I
am
not
solitary whilst I
read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a
man would be alone, let him
look at the
stars. The rays that come from those heavenly
worlds, will separate between him and
vulgar things.
Ⅳ
. Writing: Choose one of the following pair and write a comparative essay of no less than 200
words (25%):
1. Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy
2. The Lost Generation &
The Beat Generation
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