[考研类试卷]2011年北京第二外国语学院英语专业（英美文学）真题
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一、单项选择题
1 Anglo-Saxon literature is almost exclusively a verse literature in______. It was passed down by words of mouth from generation to generation.
（A）realistic form
（B）lyrical form
（C）oral form
（D）no form
2 The______is an important form of British literature in the 15th century.
（A）epic
（B）popular ballad
（C）sonnet
（D）quatrain
3 Chaucer's literary career is highlighted by the publication of his work______.
（A）The Song of Beowulf
（B）The Canterbury Tales
（C）The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
（D）Confessio Amantis
4 Merchant of Venice shows the achievements made in______.
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（A）comedy
（B）tragicomedy
（C）tragedy
（D）absurd theatre
5 The most distinguished literary figure of the Restoration Period was John Dryden, poet,______and playwright.
（A）novelist
（B）essayist
（C）critic
（D）editor
6 Friday is a character in the novel written by______.
（A）Charles Dickens
（B）Thomas Woolf
（C）Daniel Defoe
（D）Henry Fielding
7 ______is NOT one of the first generation of English Romantic poets.
（A）Coleridge
（B）Keats
（C）Wordsworth
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（D）Southey
8 Jane Eyre stands for those______working women, who are struggling for the recognition of their basic rights as a human being.
（A）lower class
（B）first class
（C）middle class
（D）grass root
9 D.H. Lawrence's works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. Among his works,______explores the possibilities for life and is concerned with the nature of relationships that can be had within industrial settings.
（A）Lady Chatterley's Lover
（B）A Lost Lady
（C）Gravity's Rainbow
（D）The Escaped Peacock
10 ______is the symbol of America in the Age of Enlightenment.
（A）Benjamin Franklin
（B）Washington Irving
（C）Thomas Jefferson
（D）George Washington
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11 ______has been addressed by Faulkner \artistic innovation and concern of the south in his works.
（A）Benjamin Franklin
（B）Washington Irving
（C）Thomas Jefferson
（D）Mark Twain
12 Basically, Melville's most well-known novel Moby Dick shows his______view of human power and the world.
（A）optimistic
（B）negative
（C）pragmatic
（D）objective
13 1925 witnesses great events in American literary field: Hemingway published his novel In Our Time, and so did Fitzgerald with his______.
（A）The Gilded Age
（B）The Last Tycoon
（C）The Great Gatsby
（D）Tender Is the Night
14 John Dos Passos' trilogy of U.S.A. in the 1930s includes ______(① The 42nd Parallel ②1919 ③District of Columbia ④The Big Money)
（A）①③④
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（B）①②③
（C）①②④
（D）②③④
15 The following authors are all black EXCEPT______.
（A）Arthur Miller
（B）Richard Wright
（C）James Baldwin
（D）Alice Walker
二、名词解释
16 Absurd theatre(3 points)
17 Roaring twenties(3 points)
18 Local color(3 points)
三、分析题
18 Essay questions.(11 points)
This text below is Robert Frost's Poem \
following questions according to it: The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; 5 Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same, 10 And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black.
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Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. 15 I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence;
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. 20
19 What is the form of this poem: is it a lyrical poem or a narrative poem? Use your own words to give an illustration to prove your idea.(3 points)
20 \sorrow. Please give your own interpretation of its meaning.(4 points)
21 Themes of this poem could be explained in more than one aspect. Give out two themes that you can find in this poem.(4 points)
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