[考研类试卷]2009年四川大学英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷.doc

[考研类试卷]2009年四川大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷

一、单项选择题

1 One of V. S. Naipaul' s best-known nonfictional works is______.

（A）Between Father and Son

（B）Green Gables

（C）Enchanted Castle

（D）Railway Children

2 Which of the following is NOT directly related to the Irish Dramatic Movement?

（A）The Abbey Theatre

（B）Lady Augusta Gregory

（C）Sean O'Casey

（D）Sartor Resartus

3 Which of the following reflects the spirit of chivalry, i. e. , the quality and ideal of knightly conduct, in the early feudal age?

（A）Morality Play

（B）Romance

（C）Epic

（D）Gothic novel

4 One of the most noticeable features of John Donne' s poetry is his use of______.

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（A）classical vocabulary

（B）conceit

（C）dramatic monologue

（D）exaggeration

5 \A host of golden daffodils. \

In the above quotation taken from William Wordsworth' s poem \a Cloud\

（A）a large number

（B）few

（C）dancing group

（D）quiet group

6 Point out the work that was written by Henry David Thoreau. ______

（A）The Fall of the House of Usher

（B）The Rise of Silas Lapham

（C）Walden

（D）The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

7 Jack London: the author of______ , is a naturalist writer.

（A）The Red Badge of Courage

（B）The Octopus

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（C）The Gilded Age

（D）Martin Eden

8 Which ONE of the following poems is authored by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?

（A）The Raven.

（B）Wild Nights-Wild Nights!

（C）The Indian Burying Ground.

（D）The Slave's Dream.

9 Which ONE of the following is an influential poet whose poems often express a thematic concern about the issue of death and eternity?

（A）Walt Whitman

（B）Ralph Waldo Emerson

（C）Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

（D）Emily Dickinson

10 \every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. \

In the above quoted verse lines taken from Walt Whitman' s poem \what does the central image \

（A）Merely the poet himself.

（B）The common people of America.

（C）Masculine sublime ego.

（D）American puritans.

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二、名词解释

11 My Last Duchess

12 Martin Amis

13 Vanity Fair

14 American Local Colorism

15 Henry James

三、问答题

16 Answer the following questions IN ABOUT 150 ENGLISH WORDS each:(20 points) Please briefly comment on Walter Scott' s Ivanhoe.

17 Make an introductory comment on James Fenimore Cooper' s frontier saga The Leather Stocking Tales.

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