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2024年全国硕士研究生招生考试初试自命题试题 科目名称：英美文学基础 科目代码： 857 考试时间：3小时 满分150分 可使用的常用工具：■无 □计算器 □直尺 □圆规 注意：所有答题内容必须写在答题纸上，写在试题或草稿纸上的一律无效；考完后试题随答题纸交回。 I. Find out the matches from column B for items in column A (注意：B栏中有两个多余的、干扰选项). Write the corresponding matches (e.g., 1—R, 5—B, etc.) on your answer sheet. (共20小题，每小题1分，共20分) A B 1 William Faulkner A The People, Yes 2 Rudyard Kipling B David Copperfield 3 Lawrence Sterne C A Passage to India 4 Willa Cather D Light in August 5 Charles Dickens E The Tempest 6 Upton Sinclair F Kim 7 Joseph Conrad G Oh, Pioneers! 8 F. Scott Fitzgerald H The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy 9 Thomas Gray I The Jungle 10 Theodore Dreiser J Gulliver’s Travels 11 Eugene O’Neill K Tender Is the Night 12 John Milton L Heart of Darkness 13 Carl Sandburg M Beowulf 14 E. M. Forster N The Hairy Ape 15 George Bernard Shaw O “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” 16 Robert Frost P The Call of the Wild 17 William Shakespeare Q Samson Agonistes 18 Henry James R Sister Carrie 19 John Bunyan S Mending Wall 20 Jack London T The Pilgrim’s Progress U The Golden Bowl V Saint Joan 第 1 页 共 5 页
II. Explain the following literary terms or characters with adequate details. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (共6小题，每小题5分，共30分) 1. art for art’s sake 2. Cabot (in Desire Under the Elms) 3. code hero 4. Stanley (in A Streetcar Named Desire) 5. Puritanism 6. Jack (in Lord of the Flies) III. Read the following two poems carefully and write your answers to the corresponding questions on your answer sheet. (共8小题，每小题5分，共40分) Poem 1: Ode to the West Wind (excerpt, by Percy Bysshe Shelley) O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill (Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air) With living hues and odours plain and hill: 第 2 页 共 5 页
Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere: Destroyer and preserver; hear, O hear! Questions 1 to 4 are based on the above poem : 1. In what sense is the West Wind both a destroyer and a preserver? 2. What social or political hopes might the poem symbolize? 3. What do you know about the relationship between the poet and nature as reflected in the poem? 4. How does Shelley’s treatment of nature differ from that of William Wordsworth? Poem 2: The Red Wheelbarrow (by William Carlos Williams) So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. Questions 5 to 8 are based on the above poem: 5. How does the first two lines differ from the other three pairs of 第 3 页 共 5 页
lines? 6. What is the most visually compelling word in each of the last three pairs of lines? 7. In what sense is the poem a typical imagist poem? 8. What do you think are the purposes (or significances) of imagist poetry? IV Answer the following questions with adequate details from the works related. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (共3小题，每小题20分，共60分) 1. In Great Expectations, what is least admirable about Pip? When is he most virtuous? Does he know when he has done right or wrong? How does he know that? 2. Wilde originally subtitled The Importance of Being Earnest “A Serious Comedy for Trivial People” but changed that to “A Trivial Comedy for Serious People.” What is the difference between the two subtitles? How does the subtitle reflect about the theme(s) of the play? 3. Thoreau’s stay in the wilderness is not a lifelong choice but rather a temporary experiment. Does the short duration of his stay at Walden undercut the importance of his experiment? Why? 第 4 页 共 5 页
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2024年研究生入学考试《857英美文学基础》自命题试题
