[考研类试卷]2009年南开大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷
一、名词解释
1 Metaphysical poetry
2 Denotation and connotation
3 Ezra Pound and The Cantos
4 British neoclassicism
5 Imagism
二、分析题
5 Questions 1 to 3 are based on the following passage of The Canterbury Tales. From The Canterbury Tales
Speaking of his equipment, he(the knight)possessed Fine horses, but he was not gaily dressed. He wore a fustian tunic stained and dark With smudges where his armor had left mark.
6 1. What does the fact that the knight owns fine horses indicate?
7 2. What does the clothes he wears indicate?
8 3. What does Geoffrey Chaucer want to show through these details?
9 Question 4 is based on the following passage of The Canterbury Tales. From The Canterbury Tales
No morsel from her lips did she(the nun)let fall, Nor dipped her fingers in the sauce too deep And she would wipe her upper lip so clean That not a trace of grease was to be seen Upon the cup when she had drunk.
4. What does the narrator think of the nun? Why do you think so?
9 Questions 5 to 10 are based on the following passage.
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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are
inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret nor lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals , the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood. When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind. We mean the integrity of impression made by manifold natural objects. It is this which distinguishes the stick of timber of the wood-cutter from the tree of the poet. The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men' s farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title. …
Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight, does not reside in nature, but in man, or in a harmony of both. It is necessary to use these pleasures with great temperance. For, nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs is overspread with
melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.
10 5. According to paragraph 1, why does the author believe the star awaken a reverence in people?
11 6. What does the sentence \
12 7. What does the author imply when he talks about the difference between farms and landscapes?
13 8. What do you think is the difference between the meaning the author or a poet finds in nature and the meaning a woodcutter, a botanist, a geographer or an engineer finds in nature?
14 9. Where does the author believe the power to produce a delight in nature comes from according paragraph 3?
15 10. What does the phrase \
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[考研类试卷]2009年南开大学英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷.doc
