2014 年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题845

William Wordsworth was brought up by his relatives beacaus of the death of his parents.()

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As a literary figure, John Rivers appears in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.()

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William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech.()

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Among the following, the one who was also an artist of engraving is ________.

A.A.Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B.B.Robert Burns

C.C.William Wordsworth

D.D.William Blake


参考答案:D


The term “metaphysical poetry” is commonly used to name the work of the 17th-century writers who wrote under the influence of________

A.John Milton

B.John Donne

C.Ben Jonson

D.John Bunyan


参考答案:B


共共 3 页,第页,第 1 页页 电子科技大学电子科技大学 2014 年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题 考试科目:考试科目:845 英美文学基础知识及运用英美文学基础知识及运用 注:所有答案必须写在答题纸上,写在试卷或草稿纸上均无效。注:所有答案必须写在答题纸上,写在试卷或草稿纸上均无效。 1. Name a representative work by the following writers and then give a brief summary on the writers literary contribution. (20 points) 1 Earnest Hemingway 2 William Wordsworth 3 John Milton 4 William Blake 5 Jane Austen II Define the following literary terms (30 points) 1 Soliloquy 2 Elegy 3 Sonnet 4 Stream of consciousness 5 Aestheticism 6 Imagism III Read the following selected passages and answer the questions briefly. (50 points) 1 What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angle in apprehension, how like a god! Questions: 1) Identify the title of the play from which the passage is selected and its author. (2 points) 2) In what way does the passage reflect humanistic spirit? (3 points) 2 One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more; Death, thou shall die. Questions: 1) Identify the title of the poem from which the lines are selected and its author. (2 points) 2) Make a comment on the poets attitude towards death and its significance? (3 points) 3 My thoughts were now wholly employed about securing my self against either savages, if any should appear, or wild beasts, if any were in the island, and I had many thoughts of the method how to do this, and what kind of dwelling to make, whether I should make me a cave in the earth, or tent upon the earth. 共共 3 页,第页,第 2 页页 Questions: 1) Identify the title of the novel from which the passage is quoted and its author. (2 points) 2) What do you find admirable or extraordinary in the central figure? (3 points) 4 He clasps the crag with crooked hands Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. Questions: 1) Identity the title of the poem from which the lines are quoted and its author. (2 points) 2) Make a summary on the musical effect in the three lines? (3 points) 5 Justice was done, and the President of the Immortals had ended his sport with Tess. And the DUrbervilles knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. Questions: 1) Identity the title of the novel from which the passage is selected and its author (2 points) 2) Comment on the first sentence. In what sense is Tess story tragic? (3 points) 6 She stiffened a little on the kerb, waiting for Durtnalls van to pass. A charming woman, Scrope Purvis thought her (knowing her as one does know people who live next door to one in Westminster); a touch of the bird about her, of the jay, blue- green, light, vivacious, though she was over fifty, and grown very little since her illness. There she perched, never seeing him, waiting to cross, very upright. Questions: 1) Identify the title of the novel from which the passage is quoted and its author. (2 points) 2) Comment the use of shifting point of views in the passage and its significance. (3 points) 7 Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread against the sky. Like a patient etherized upon the table. Questions: 1) Identify the title of the poem from which the lines are quoted and its author. (2 points) 2) How do you interpret the two juxtaposed images of evening and patient? (3 points) 8 I celebrate myself, and sing myself And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belong to me as good belongs to you. Questions: 1) Identify the title of the poem from which the lines are selected and its author. (2 points) 2) State briefly the main features in rhythm. (3 points) 9 It made me shiver. And I about made up my mind to pray; and see if I couldnt try to quit being the kind of a boy I was, and be better. So I kneeled down. But the words wouldnt come. Why wouldnt they? It warnt no use to try and hide it from Him. Nor from me, neither. I knowed very well why they wouldnt come. I was my heart warnt right; it was 共共 3 页,第页,第 3 页页 because I warnt square; it was because I was playing double. Questions: 1) Identify the title of the novel from which the passage is quoted and its author. (2 points) 2) What kind of sensation has been expressed in the passage? (3 points) 10 The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance, on a large scale. She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam, and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion, had the impressiveness belo、nging to a marked brow and deep black eyes. She was lady- like, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days; characterized by a certain state and dignity, rather than by the delicate, evanescent, and indescribable grace, which is now recognized as its indication. Never had Hester Prynne appeared more lady- like, in the antique interpretation of the term, than as she issued from the prison. Questions: 1) Identify the title of the novel from which the passage is quoted and its au

Which of the following could be William Wordsworth’s preference for the language in poetry writing?

A.local dialect

B.decorum

C.the language of the common people

D.archaic words


参考答案:C


The ideas of writers like John Locke had an effect upon the American Declaration of Independence.()


参考答案:正确


Born in 1805, ___________ produced such great works as the The Ugly Ducking, The Emperor′s New Clothes and The Little Mermaid.

A.William Shakespeare
B.Ernest Hemingway
C.Hans Christian Andersen
D.Jane Austen

答案:C
解析:
考查文学常识。《丑小鸭》《皇帝的新装》《小美人鱼》这些童话故事都是安徒生的代表作品。


Which of the following group of writers are the playwrights of the 17th century?

A.Ben Jonson and John Dryden
B.Christopher Marlowe and Daniel Defoe
C.John Milton and Oscar Wilde
D.Ben Jonson and George Bernard Shaw

答案:A
解析:
本?琼森(Ben Jonson)是16~17世纪时的剧作家、诗人。约翰?德莱顿(John Dryden)是17世纪著名的剧作家、诗人、文学评论家。克里斯托弗?马洛(Christopher Marlowe)是16世纪时的诗人、剧作家。丹尼尔?笛福(Daniel Defoe)是17—18世纪时的作家,被誉为“欧洲小说之父”。约翰?弥尔顿(John Milton)是17世纪时的诗人、政论家。奥斯卡?王尔德(Oscar Wilde)在19世纪以其以其剧作、诗歌、童话和小说闻名。萧伯纳(George Bernard Shaw)是19~20世纪著名的现实主义戏剧作家。故选A。


From whose works the term "TheLost Generation" in American literary history originated?

A.Jack Kerouac.
B.Earnest Hemingway.
C.Mark Twain.
D.Jack London.

答案:B
解析:
The Lost Generation(迷惘的一代)是第一次世界大战后美国的一个文学流派。20世纪20年代初.侨居巴黎的美国作家格?斯泰因对海明威说:“你们都是迷惘的一代。”海明威把这句话作为他第一部长篇小说The Sun Also Rises(《太阳照常升起》)的题词,“迷惘的一代”从此成为这批虽无纲领和组织但有相同的创作倾向的作家的称谓。

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