[考研类试卷]2006年中国人民大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷
一、填空题
1 ______, by Ezra Pound, employs the complex association of scholarly lore, anthropology , modern history and personages, private history and Witticism, and obscure literary interpolations in various languages.
2 Virginia Woolf s novel______, published in 1925, made her reputation as an important psychological writer.
3 ______satirizes bourgeois businessmen whose ill-gotten money is squeezed out of poor, suffering people. The main characters in the play include Trench and Blanche.
4 The American writers of the 1950s often used the psychological insights taken from the writing of the Austrian psychiatrist______and his followers.
5 Lawrence' s novel______was positively taken as a typical example of Oedipus Complex in fiction.
6 Early in the 1920s, the most prominent of the new American playwrights, whose name is ______, established an international reputation.
7 Eliot' s ______is a morality play in verse dealing with the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket by knights of Henry II.
8 ______wrote about the disintegration of the old social system in the American Southern States and its effect on the lives of modern people, both black and white.
9 ______was successful in two fields of activity which did not seem compatible with one another; he was a very successful businessman and a very remarkable contemporary poet at the same time.
10 Set in Spain during the Civil War, the novel______stated again Hemingway' s view of love found and lost, and described the indomitable spirit of the common people.
11 English______of the 19th century flourished in the forties and in the early fifties.
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12 The Victorian Age in English literature was largely an age of prose, especially of the______.
13 Mr. Peggotty and Steerforth are two characters in Dickens's novel ______.
14 ______, a lyrical drama, is Shelly' s masterpiece. The story was taken from Greek mythology.
15 Among Hardy' s novels, the best-known are______ and Jude the Obscure.
16 The American novelist______probed deeply at the individual psychology of his characters , writing in a rich and intricate style that supported his intense scrutiny of complex human experience.
17 The name of the heroine in The Portrait of a Lady is______.
18 The best work that Mark Twain ever produced is______, which was a success from its fast publication in 1884, and has always been regarded as one of the great books of western literature and western civilization.
19 Dreiser' s novel______,a commercial and critical failure when first published in 1900, was reissued in 1907 and won high praise for its grim, naturalistic portrayal of American society.
20 ______is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself.
21 The way in which______wrote The Scarlet Letter suggests that American Romanticism adapted itself to American Puritan moralism.
22 Byron is chiefly known for his two long poems, one is Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, the other is______.
二、名词解释
23 heroic couplet
24 villanelle
25 the Muses
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26 tercet
27 Renaissance literature
28 \
三、问答题
29 How many books does Paradise Lost consist of? Who are the four main characters in the epic, and what are the respective relations between them?
30 List four of the main points made by Wordsworth in the preface to Lyrical Ballads.
31 Why does Oscar Wilde put forward the doctrine \
32 Give some different explanations of the symbolic meaning of \Letter by Hawthorne.
33 Mention some aspects in which Gatsby' s behavior appears to be \why Scott Fitzgerald says Gatsby is great.
四、评论题
34 As a pioneering novelist of England, Daniel Defoe is often given the credit for the discovery of the modern novel. Does he deserve that honor? What is the title of his great work? When was the book published, and what real experiences is it based upon? What is the significance of the novel? What are some of the author' s biases revealed in the novel if we examine it from a modern Critic' s point of view?
35 What is the subject of T. S. Eliot' s masterpiece The Waste Land? What is the significance of the poem? Point out some of the features and innovations that you
particularly appreciate in it. Who was T. S. Eliot probably influenced by in creating the poem?
五、分析题
36 But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlot' s curse
Blasts the new born Infant' s tear,
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And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.
37 Snake. They were, madam; and, as I copied them myself in a feigned hand, there can be no suspicion whence they came.
Lady Sneer. Did you circulate the report of Lady Britle' s intrigue with Captain Boastall?
Snake. That' s in as fine a train as your ladyship could wish. In the common course of things, I think it must reach Mrs. Clackitt' s ears within four-and-twenty hours; and then, you know, the business is as good as done.
38 It is in the nature of a Forsyte to be ignorant that he is a Forsyte; but young Jolyon was well a-ware of being one. He had not known it till after the decisive step which had made an outcast; since then the knowledge had been with him continually. He felt it throughout his alliance, throughout all his dealings with his second wife, who was emphatically not a Forsyte.
39 Boys have generally excellent appetites, He and his companions suffered the tortures of slow starvation for three months:, at last they got so voracious and wild with hunger, that one boy, who was tall for his age, and hadn' t been used to that sort of thing(for his father had kept a small cook-shop), hinted darkly to his companions, that unless he had another basin of gruel per diem , he was afraid he might some night happen to eat the boy who slept next him, who happened to be a weakly youth of tender age.
40 Isabel always felt an impulse to pull out the pins; not that she imagined they inflicted any damage on the tough old parchment, but because it seemed to her aunt might make better use of her sharpness. She was very critical herself—it was incidental to her sex, and her nationality; but she was very sentimental as well, and there was something in Mrs. Touchett' s dryness that set her own moral fountains flowing.
41 It was the private property of three confederate white seamen of that ship, one of whom, it seems, communicated it to Tashtego with Romish injunctions of
secrecy, but the following night Tashtego rambled in his sleep, and revealed so much of it in that way, that when he was wakened he could not well withhold the rest. Nevertheless, so potent an influence did this thing have on those seamen in the Pequod who came to the full knowledge of it, and by such a strange delicacy , to call it so, were they governed in this matter, that they kept the secret among themselves so that it never transpired abaft the Pequod' s mainmast.
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