江西师范大学硕士研究生入学考试初试科目
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科目代码、名称: 842 英语专业基础 适用专业: 050201英语语言文学 一、考试形式与试卷结构
（一）试卷满分 及 考试时间
本试卷满分为 150 分，考试时间为180分钟。 （二）答题方式 答题方式为闭卷、笔试。
试卷由试题和答题纸组成；答案必须写在答题纸相应的位置上。 （三）试卷内容结构（考试的内容比例及题型） 各部分内容所占分值为： 第一部分 英美文学 75分
I. II. III. IV.
Name the author. 15分
Define the following terms. 15分
Please comment on the following lines which are taken from a famous play. 20分 Please comment on William Faulkner’s style, theme and point of view. 25分
第二部分 语言学 75分
I. Define the following terms. 15 II. Multiple Choice. 10 III. True or False Questions. 10 IV. Short answer questions. 15 V. Short Essay writing. 25 （四）试卷题型结构 第一部分 英美文学
作家作品题：15小题，每小题1分，共15分 名词解释题（概念题）：3小题，每小题5分，共15分
简答题（简述题）： 20分 分析论述题（综合题）：25分 第二部分 语言学
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名词解释题（概念题）：5小题，每小题3分，共15分
选择题：10小题，每小题1分，共10分 判断题：10小题，每小题1分，共10分 简答题（简述题）： 15分 分析论述题（综合题）：25分
二、样卷
江西师范大学2011年硕士研究生入学考试试题（ A 卷）
专业： 英语语言文学 科目： 英语专业基础
注：考生答题时，请写在考点下发的答题纸上，写在本试题纸或其他答题纸上的一律无效。
（本试题共 5 页）
British and American Literature
I. Name the author (15%)
1. Light in August
2. Poor Richard’s Almanac 3. In a Station of the Metro
4. The House of the Seven Gables 5. Catch-22
6. Death of a Salesman 7. Desire Under the Elms 8. The Road Not Taken 9. To the Lighthouse 10. Ulysses
11. Jude the Obscure 12. Oliver Twist 13. Ivanhoe
14. Auld Lang Syne 15. Utopia
II. Define the following terms (15%)
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1. Beat Generation 2. Naturalism
3. The Rise of the English Novel
III. Please comment on the following lines which are taken from a famous play. Write your answer in about 150 words. (20%)
To be, or not to be ---- that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep --- No more --- and by a sleep to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, ‘Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep ---
To sleep --- perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There’s the respect That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th’ oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th’ unworthly-takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action.
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IV. Please comment on William Faulkner’s style, theme and point of view. (25%)
Linguistics
I.
Define the following terms. (15%)
1. duality
2. illocutionary force 3. unassisted MT 4. synecdoche 5. Q-principle II.
Multiple Choice. (10%)
Directions: In each question there are four choices. Decide which one would be the best answer to the question.
1. _______ means that human languages enable their users to symbolize objects, events and concepts which are not present at the moment of communication. A. Creativity. B. Arbitrariness C. Displacement D. Duality
2. ______ put forward the distinction between Competence and Performance?
A. Saussure B. Chomsky C. Halliday D. Lakoff
3. In his famous article, Linguistics and Poetics (1960), ______ defined six primary factors of any speech event, namely: speaker, addressee, context, message, code, contact.
A. Jespersen B. Firth C. Jacobson D. Halliday
4. .The relationship between “furniture” and “sofa” is _______
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A. homonymy B. hyponymy C. polysemy D. synonymy
5. ______ is a grammatical category used for the analysis of word classes displaying such contrasts as singular, dual, plural, etc.
A. Lexicon B.Number C. Syntax D. Aspect
6. Which of the following sounds does not belong to the allomorphs of the English plural morpheme ?
A. [s] B. [iz] C. [ai] D. [is] 7. .American Black English is _______.
A） a social variety B） a regional variety C） a combination of social and regional dialect D） a temporal dialect 8 Pragmatics is a study of ________.
A） language learning B） language acquisition C） language planning D） language in use
9. .The organized network of knowledge that helps us to understand new knowledge is called ______
A. paradigm B. aphasia C. hedge D. schema
10. Grammatical changes may be explained, in part, as analogic changes, which are
_______or generalization.
A.elaboration B. simplification C. external borrowing D. internal borrowing III.
True or False Questions. (10%)
Directions: decide whether the following statements are true or false. Write T for true and F for false in your answer sheet.
( ) 1.A synchronic description takes a fixed instant as its point of observation. ( ) 2.Even pre-school children know virtually all the rules of language except for
some subtleties.
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江西师范大学硕士研究生入学考试初试科目
