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II
．
Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)
41
．
A
from percy shelley
’
s
“
men of
England”

B.


metonymy
C
．
Here
“
drones”
refers to the parasitic class in human socity.

42
．
A
．
The love song of Prufrock
B.
Prufrock

C
．

Prufrock is conscious of the fact that he is like hamlet in some respect. But he is
sensible enough that he cant be compared with hamlet.
43
．
A
．
Walt Whitman

B.
“



there was a child went forth
”
from
“
leaves of grass
”

C.
The poem describes the growth of a child who learned about the world around him
and improved himself accordingly. In the poem, Whitman
’
s own early experience may
well be identified with the childhood of a young, growing American.
44
．
A
．

Emily Dickinson

B.
The god of death
C
．

The poem is trying to describe the moment of death.
III
．
45
．
List at least two leading neoclassicists in England
．
What did Neoclassicists
celebrate in literary creation?

A. Alexander pope, John Dryden, Samuel Johndon
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
literacy
expression,
in
an
effort
to
delight,
instruct
and
correct
human
beings.
Thus
a
polite,
elegant,
witty
and
intellectual art developed.
46
．
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 socity.
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.
47
．
Who are the three dominant figures of the American Age of Realism and what are
the differences in their understanding of the
“
truth
”
?

A. William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Henry James.
B. Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the
“
life
”
of the
Ameicans. Howells focused his discussion on the rising middle class and the way they
lived: Mark Twain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his
stories; Henry James had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the
“
inner world
”
of
man.
48
．
What's
Dreiser'
s
naturalistic
belief?
Please
discuss
the
question
with
Carrie,
a
character in Sister Carrie as an example.
A. Dreiser believes that while men are controlled and conditioned by heredity, instinct
and chance, a few
extraordinary and unsophisticated human beings refuse to
accept
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their fate wordlessly and instead strive, unsuccessfully, to find meaning and purpose
for their existence.
B. Carrie, as one of such, senses that she is merely a cipher in an uncaring world yet
seeks to grasp the mysteries of life and thereby satisfies her desires for social status
and material comfort, but in spite of her success, she is lonely and dissatisfied.
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
．
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
psychoanalytical
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 storybook, fron ancient Greek or Roman sources. In order to make the play more
lively
and
compact,
he
would
shorten
the
time
and
intensify
the
story.
There
are
usually
several
clues
running
through
the
play,
thus
providing
the
story
with
the
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 readers.
50
．
Briefly discuss Mark Twain's art of fiction in terms of the setting,the language,
and the characters, etc.,based on his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
A. Mark Twain uses the Mississippi Vally as his fictional kingdom, Writing about the
landscape
and
people,
the
customs
and
the
dialects
of
one
particular
region,
and
is
therefore known as a local colorist.
B. he creates life-like characters, especially the conventional Huckleberry Finn, who
runs away from civilization and stands opposite to conventional morality.
C. He uses a simple, direct vernacular language, totally different from any
previous
literary language.
It is the kind of colloquial language belonging to the lower class,
the living local American English.
D.
he
has
created
a
special
humor
to
satirize
social
injustices
and
the
decayed
convention.


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Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)

41. A. Shelley & A Song : Men of England.

B. This poem was written in 1819, the year of the
*Peterloo
Massacre(
彼得卢屠杀
).

*
1819
年
8
月
16
日发生在英国 曼彻斯特圣彼得广场上的
一场流血惨案。
由于镇压这次集会的军队，
有的曾参加过滑铁 卢战役，
群众乃讥称这次流血
惨案为彼得卢屠杀。


C.
It
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.


42.

A.
It presents the meditation of an aging young man over the business of proposing marriage.

B.
dramatic monologue

C.
The poem is in a form of dramatic monologue, suggesting an ironic
contrast between a pretended
up to love and to life in a sterile upper-class world.

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A.
Emily
Dickinson

B.
Entitled
thus,
the
poem
expresses Dickinson's
anxiety
about
her
communication
with
the
outside
world.)
C.

In
her
poetry
there
is
a
particular
stress
pattern,
in
which
dashes
are
used
as
a
musical
device
to
create
cadence
and
capital
letters
as
a
means
of
emphasis.

44.

A.

the
Jazz
Age

B.

A
masterpiece
in
American
literature,
the
Great
Gatsby
evokes
a
haunting mood of a glamorous, wild time that seemingly will never come again.

C.
Gatsby's failure magnifies to a great extent the end of the American Dream.


III. Questions
and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)

Give a brief answer to each of the following questions
in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
45.


At
the
center
of
the
conflict
between
human
love
and
spiritual
duty
lies
Milton's
fundamental
concern
with
freedom
and

theme
is
the

of
Man,
i.e.
man's
disobedience and the loss of the fall of man Adam discovered his full humanity. The
freedom of the will is the keystone of Milton's creed.


46.


The
Songs
of
Innocence
(1809)
is
a
lovely
volume
of
poems,
presenting
a
happy
and
innocent world, though not without its evils and sufferings. His Songs of Experience (1794) 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.

47.


The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of
the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of
realism: American naturalism. Darwin, in his The Origin of Species (1859) and Descent of Man
(1871),
hypothesized
that
over
the
millennia
man
had
evolved
from
lower
forms
of
life.
The
American naturalists accepted the more negative implications of this theory and used it to account
for the behavior of those characters in literary works who were conceived as more or less complex
combinations of inherited attributes, their habits conditioned by social and economic forces.
或


In
a
word,
naturalism
is
evolved
from
realism
when
the
author's
tone
in
writing
becomes
less
serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more pessimisti
c.
It is no more than a different
philosophical approach to reality, or to human existence.


48.


Briefly state Mark Twain’s magic power with language in his novels.

A.
Setting: In the novel Mark Twain recreates a small-town world of America and presents the
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local color.


B.
Language:
He
uses
simple,
direct
language
faithful
to
the
colloquial
speech,
the
vernacular
language of the local people.



C.
Character
（
s
）
: The author recreates two rebels and fugitives running away from civilization,
especially
Huckleberry
Finn,
an
innocent
boy
who
refuses
to
accept
the
conventional
village
morality.



D.
Theme:
The
novel
is
a
criticism
of
social
injustice,
hypocrisy,
conservativeness
and
narrow-mindedness
of
the
American
small
town
society.


:
The
novel
employs
a
humorous
style
of
narration
and
is
also
highly
symbolic
with
the
central
symbol.


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.


A.
He read Darwin's The Origin of Species and accepted the idea of
He was also influenced by Spencer's The First Principle, which led him to the belief that man's
fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of
his works, man is shown inevitably bound by his won inherent nature and hereditary traits which
prompt him to go and search for some specific happiness or success and set him in conflict with
the environment. Man proves impotent before Fate, however he tries, and he seldom escapes his
ordained destiny. This pessimistic view of life predominates most of Hardy's later works and earns
him a reputation as a naturalistic writer.


B.
His best local- colored works are his later ones, such as The Return of the Native (1878), The
Trumpet Major (1880), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), The Woodlanders (1887), Tess of the
D'Urbervilles
and
Jude
the
Obscure.
These
works,
known
as

of
character
and
environment,

50.


A.
International themes:

In almost all the stories and novels he wrote during this period,
James
treated
with
great
care
the
clashes
between
tow
different
cultures
and
the
emotional
and
moral
problems
of
Americans
in
Europe,
or
Europeans
in
America.
Nearly
every
work
is
important in its own way in terms of James's cultivation of the theme.

B.
Representative works
：
Daisy Miller (1878), a novella about a young American girl who gets


The Portrait
of
A
Lady
(1881)
is
generally
considered
to
be
his
masterpiece,
which
incarnates
the
clash
between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a European cultural
environment.

C.
Language:

As to his language, James is not so easy to understand. He is often highly refined
and insightful. With a large vocabulary, he is always accurate in word selection, trying to find the
best expression for his literary imagination.

D.
Style
：

Moreover, James's realism is characterized by his psychological approach to his subject
matter. One of the James's literary techniques innovated to cater for this psychological emphasis is
his
narrative

of
view.
E.

Summary
：
That

is
why
James
is
generally
regarded
as
the
forerunner
of
the
20th- chentury

novels
and
the
founder
of
psychological realism.

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II. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)
41. A. Sonnet 18, Shakespeare;

B. Personification

C. A nice summer’s day is usually transient, but the beauty in poetry can last for ever.


A
、
B
点各
1
分，
C
点
2
分。语言错误酌情扣分。

42. A. The Tyger, William Blake

B. The God

C. Lamb symbolizes peace and purity.

A
、
B
点各
1
分，
C
点< br>2
分。语言错误酌情扣分。

43. A. Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”;


B. His native land, America or his country

C. I was born and nurtured by this land and shall from now on devote my whole life to the
country

A
、
B
点各
1
分，
C
点
2
分。语言错误酌情扣分。

44. A. Ernest Hemingway, India Camp

B. Life and death

C. When the father says that dying is pretty easy, he might be thinking about the
self- murdered husband. But when h
e reflects on the wife’s miracle survival of the violent
pain in the whole process of birth, he adds the final sentence. Dying is both hard and easy, it
all depends on individuals.

A
、
B
点各
1
分，
C
点
2
分。语言错误酌情扣分。

III Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)
45. A. The novel is a riddle which means different things to different people.

B. From a social point of view, it is a story about a poor man abused;

C. As a love story, beautiful and horrible passion in human beings.

A
、
B
、
C
三点各
2
分，语言错误酌情扣分。

46. A. As one of the influential members of the Fabian Society, Shaw regarded the
establishment of socialism by the emancipation of land and industrial capital from
individual and class ownership as the final goal.

B. As a realistic dramatist, he took the modern social issues as his subjects. Most of his
plays are concerned with political, economic, moral, or religious problems.

C. Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a play about the economic oppression of women.

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