二O一四年招收硕士研究生入学考试试题A卷
考试科目及代码： 英美文学基础（857）
适用专业： 英语语言文学；外国语言学及应用语言学
答题内容写在答题纸上，写在试卷或草稿纸上一律无效。考完后试题随答题纸交回。 考试时间3小时，总分值 150 分。 ：码号证考准 题 答 要 不 内 线 封 ：密业专、科学考报 ：名姓 Ⅰ. Multiple Choice Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your choice on the answer sheet. (1 point for each, 24 points in total) 1. Which of the following is not a tragedy? _____. A. Othello B. King Lear C. A Midsummer Night’s Dream D. King Lear 2. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them…The underlined part means _____. A. men of craft/skill B. sly men C. clever men D. wicked men 3. The duke in My Last Duchess is characterized with the following except _____. A. arrogant B. kind C. greedy D. domineering 4. What does the letter ?A‘ means in The Scarlet Letter? _____ A. Adultery B. Able C. Angel D. all of the above 5. We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley‘s poem “Ode to the West Wind‖ with all the following except__. A. tamed B. swift C. proud D. wild 6.Which is not a narrative poem written by Longfellow? _____. A.The Courtship of Miles Standish B. My Lost Youth C. Evangeline D. Hiawatha 第 1 页 共 10 页
7. Which statement is not true about Emily Dickinson‘s poetic features? _____. A.Her language is brief, direct, and plain. B. She used conventional meters, iambic tetrameter, off-rhymes. C. Each poem has a title. D. Short poetic lines, condensed by using intense metaphors and by extensive use of ellipsis. 8. Which is Stephen Crane‘s work? _____. A. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets B. The Black Riders C. The Red Badge of Courage D. All of the above 9.Which play didn‘t win Pulitzer Prize? _____. A..Beyond the Horizon B. Strange Interlude C. Bound East for Cardiff D. Long Day’s Journey into Night 10.Which is not true about the principles of Imagism? _____. A. indirect treatment of the ―thing‖. B. exclusion of superfluous words. C. free verse form and music phrase. D. precision and economy of expression. 11.Hamlet‘s hesitation shows him ____. A. a typical example of earlier English bourgeoisie B. a Byronic hero C. a typical man of Renaissance D. a great patriot 12. John Milton‘s style can be summarized as__. A. proper words in proper places. B. whatever is, is right. C. survival of the fittest. D. sublimity of thought and majesty of expression. 13. One __the more, one __ the less, Had half Impair‘d the nameless __. (G. G. Byron) A. ray, shade, grace B. grace; shade; ray C. shade: grace; ray D. shade; ray; grace 第 2 页 共 10 页
14. Alexander Pope‘s chief contribution to literary criticism is his ____, which contains _____ lines in 3 parts, advocating ____ . A. Essay on Man, 744, classicism B. Essay on Criticism, 10000, realism C. Essay on Man, 10000, realism D. Essay on criticism, 744, classicism 15.____ a dramatist in the __ century, William Shakespeare in the British Renaissance, and George Bernard Shaw of the 20th century, were considered by some critics to be the three greatest British dramatists. A. John Bunyan, 17th B. John Bunyan, 18th C. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 18th D. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 19th 16. Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific – (J. Keats) The poet here is speaking of his excitement of _________ . A. finding the New World B. reading Chapman‘s translation of Homer C. finding the Pacific D. finding a new star 17. The daffodils in ―I wandered lonely as a cloud‖ were so important to W. Wordsworth that they eventually became a ― ________ of solitude‖. A. bless B. bliss C. blessing D. blessed 18. Of the following poems by T.S. Eliot, which is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th Century English Poetry? A. Poems 1909----1925 B. The Hollow Men C. Prufrock and Other Observations D. The Waste Land 19. Charlotte‘s works are famous for the depiction of the life of the middle-class working women, particularly_____. A. Governesses B. Clerks C. baby-sitters D. managers 20. ____ is Robert Browning’s best-known dramatic monologue. A.―My Last Duches‖ B.―Meeting at Night‖ C.―Parting at Morning‖ D.―Pippa Passes‖ 21. Chronologically the Victorian refers to ____. A.1798---1832 B.1836---1901 C. the Romantic period D. the Neoclassical Period 第 3 页 共 10 页
22. Which of the following is taken from John Keats’ \n Urn\? A. \ B. \ C. \ D. \ 23. In the Romantic period, ____ is the most prosperous literary form. A. Prose B. Poetry C. Fiction D. play 24. The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver‘s Travels are______. A. horses that are endowed with reason. B. pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualities C. giants that are superior in wisdom. D. Hairy, wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways. II Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the context. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (1 point for each, 15 points in total) 1.Geoffrey Chaucer is father of English ____ and founder of English realism. 2. Shakespeare‘s Sonnet 18 belongs to ____ sonnet . 3.The publication of __________ in 1798 marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement in England. 4.Imagism stressed the use of a __________ image, or a quick succession of related images. 5.Naturalism stressed the two crushing forces of __________ and environment. 6. Two of William Faulkner‘s writing techniques are __________ and multiple voices. 7.Hemingway‘s ____ Principle means that one must go very deep beneath the surface to understand the full meaning of his writing. 8. Songs of Innocent and _____ are Blake‘s best-known poetry collections. 9. Shaw is considered as the _____ English dramatist since Shakespeare. 10. Conrad‘s work is concerned with the nature and effects of European____. 11. Jane Austen wrote exclusively on the theme of love and ______ . 12. The protagonist in Catch-22 is named _____, an anti-hero who deserts the army and escapes to Sweden. 13. Emerson was the leader of a philosophy known as _____. 14. _____ is regarded as ―America‘s Second Declaration of Independence / Declaration of Intellectual (Cultural) Independence‖. 15. In Moby Dick, the ship Pequod is a symbol of _____. 第 4 页 共 10 页
III Define the following literary terms (choose three terms). Write your answers on your answer sheet. (7 point for each term, 21 points in total) (注意：请任选三题作答，多回答的题不给分！如有多答的题，请在答题纸上用笔划掉，否则改卷时将按照答题的顺序评分。) 1. Iambic pentameter: 2. Alliteration: 3. Protagonist: 4. Naturalism: IV Read the following two poems carefully and write your answers to the corresponding questions on your answer sheet. (30 points in total) Poem 1 He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. QUESTIONS: 1. These lines are taken from Frost‘s poem entitled______. （5 points） 2. In the poem, the rhyming scheme of the first stanza is _____ .（5 points） 3. Who is He in the first line of the poem? （5 points） Poem 2 Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it 第 5 页 共 10 页
2014年武汉科技大学考研试题857英美文学基础(A卷)和标准答案
