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1、欢迎报考广东财经大学硕士研究生，祝你考试成功！（第 6 页 共 6 页）广东财经大学硕士研究生入学考试试卷考试年度：2015年 考试科目代码及名称：804-英美文学 适用专业：050201 英语语言文学友情提醒：请在考点提供的专用答题纸上答题，答在本卷或草稿纸上无效！I. Explain the following literary terms. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (25 points, 5 points for each.)1. Enlightenment2. Metaphysical poetry3. The theatre o

2、f the absurd4. Transcendentalism5. Dramatic monologueII. For each statement there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the statement. (20 points, 1 point for each)1. _ can be justly termed Englands national epic, and its most striking feature is the use of _.A. C

3、ynewulf, alliterationB. Beowulf, alliterationC. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, rhymeD. Robin Hood, rhyme2. The 18th century sees the birth of the greatest satirist in English literature: . His masterpiece , comprises the extraordinary adventures of an Englishman, descriptions of fantastic lands vi

4、sited by him, and their social systems and is always regarded as a bitter sarcasm and deadly irony of the contemporary England.A. Samuel Johnson, Gullivers TravelsB. Alexander Pope, The Rape of the LockC. Daniel Defoe, Robinson CrusoeD. Jonathan Swift, Gullivers Travels3. Which of the following work

5、s is NOT considered as William Shakespeares four great tragedies?A. King LearB. Romeo and JulietC. MacbethD. Othello4. , Byrons greatest work, was written in the prime of his creative power and still remained unfinished when the poets life was ended by a romantic and generous death.A. Don JuanB. Gia

6、ourC. Childe Harolds PilgrimageD. Manfred5. The publication of in 1798the joint work of William Wordsworth and_marked the break with the conventional poetical tradition of the 18th century, i.e. with classicism.A. Lyrical Ballads, Robert SoutheyB. The Prelude, Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC. Lyrical Balla

7、ds, Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. Biographia Literaria, Samuel Taylor Coleridge6. William Makepeace Thackerays masterpiece is , and the title of the novel is taken from Bunyans greatest work .A. Vanity Fair, Paradise RegainedB. Vanity Fair, Pilgrims ProgressC. Vanity Fair, Samson AgonistesD. The Book of

8、 Snobs, Pilgrims Progress7. established himself both as a writer and as a spokesman for the school of “Art for Arts Sake.”A. Thomas GrayB. Charles LambC. Oscar WildeD. Walter Scott8. _, written by P. B. Shelleys wife, Mary Shelley, is regarded the best of its kind, _, in the 19th century England.A.

9、Prometheus Unbound, Gothic novelB. Frankenstein, Realistic novelC. Adonis, Romantic novelD. Frankenstein, Gothic novel9. “April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain.” These lines are taken from T. S. Eliots

10、 modern classic poem_, which remind us the opening lines of the “General Prologue” in The Canterbury Tales by the greatest literary figure_ in 14th century England.A. Four Quartets, Geoffrey ChaucerB. The Waste Land, Geoffrey ChaucerC. Hollow Man, Edmund SpencerD. The Waste Land, John Milton10. Jose

11、ph Conrads _ is central to the evolution of what is called postcolonial fiction, and says something that only said in a novel: A historian looking at European colonialism will arrive at historical judgments.A. Heart of DarknessB. NostromoC. Lord JimD. Typhoon11._, with his famous poem, “Annabel Lee”

12、, justified his poetic idea that the death of a beautiful woman, is “unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world”.A. W. B. YeatsB. Edgar Allan PoeC. Ezra PoundD. W. H. Auden12. Around 1920, the American literary world rediscovered an almost forgotten book and suddenly became aware of a majo

13、r American writer. The book was _, a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.A. Moby-Dick B. OmooC. The Last of the MohicansD. Billy Budd13. With Warner, Mark Twain collaborated on _, a satire that gave its name to the era of corrupt materialism th

14、at followed the American Civil War.A. The Golden AgeB. The Silver AgeC. The Gilded AgeD. The Bronze Age14._, Stephen cranes finest literary achievement, depicts a picture of American Civil War in a naturalistic way.A. War Is KindB. The Black RidersC. The Red Badge of CourageD. The Age of Innocence15

15、. Hemingways novel The Sun Also Rises, brilliantly captures his years in Paris as one of _, a name given by the writer Gertrude Stein.A. The Beat GenerationB. The Lost GenerationC. The Angry Young MenD. The Younger Generation16. By the end of his life he had become a national bard; when he was eight

16、y-seven he read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. The poet is _.A. Ezra Pound B. T. S. EliotC. E. E. CummingsD. Robert Frost17. As a poet and as a painter, _uses the small letters, the unconventional syntax, and the unusual spacing of words, to express individuality and pa

17、rticipate in what he called “The New Art”.A. Ezra PoundB. E. E. CummingsC. William Carlos WilliamsD. Wallace Stevens18._, an epic depiction of one dispossessed Oklahoma familys migration to California in search a new life, written by _, is among the most widely read novel of 20th century.A. The Grap

18、e of Wrath, John SteinbeckB. Of Mice and Men, John SteinbeckC. In Our Time, Ernest HemingwayD. Light in August, William Faulkner19. Which of the following writers is NOT a Nobel Prize Winner?A. Ezra PoundB. Ernest HemingwayC. William FaulknerD. Saul Bellow20. Early in 1920s the most prominent of the

19、 new American playwrights, _, established an international reputation with such plays as The Emperor Jones, Anna Christie and The Hairy Ape.A. Arthur Miller B. Tennessee WilliamsC. Walt WhitmanD. Eugene ONeillIII. Matching. Find the relevant match from column B for each item in column A and put the

20、letters on the answer sheet. (20 points, 1 point for each.)Section AColumn AColumn B1. Francis BaconA. For Whom the Bell Tolls2. John MiltonB. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow3. Herman MelvilleC. Seize the Day4. W. B. YeatsD. A Streetcar Named Desire5. Washington Irving E. Paradise Lost6. Henry FieldingF

21、. Sailing to Byzantium7. E. M. ForsterG. Moby Dick8. Ernest HemingwayH. Advancement of Learning9. Saul BellowI. Tom Jones10. Tennessee WilliamsJ. Howards End Section BColumn AColumn B1. The TempestA. Lord Henry2. Sister CarrieB. Catherine Linton3. Great ExpectationC. Leopold Bloom4. Sons and LoversD

22、. Nick Carraway5. Native SonE. Lady Teazle6. Wuthering HeightsF. Prospero7. The Great GatsbyG. Bigger Thomas8. UlyssesH. G. W. Hurstwood9. The School for ScandalI. Mrs. Morel10. The Picture of Dorian GrayJ. PipIV. Read the following pieces of selected works and answer the question followed by the pa

23、ssage. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (40 points, 8 points for each.)1.It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or si

24、x children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms. These mothers instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in strolling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants who, as they grow up, either turn thieves for want of work, or

25、leave their dear native country, to fight for the Pretender in Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbadoes. Q: This text is from Jonathan Swift s “A Modest Proposal”. What is Swifts attitude toward the beggars he describes?2.My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life

26、 began, So is it now I am a man, So be it when I shall grow old Or let me die! The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to beBound each to each by natural piety. Q： This is a short poem written by William Wordsworth. Please explain the underlined lines.3.I went to the woods because I

27、 wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was q

28、uite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get

29、 the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God, a

30、nd have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to “glorify God and enjoy him forever.”Q： This text is selected from Henry David Thoreaus Walden, under the title “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For.” Please explain the underlined sentence. 4.“Shall I?” I said briefly; and I

31、looked at his features, beautiful in their harmony, but strangely formidable in their still severity; at his brow, commanding, but not open; at his eyes, bright and deep and searching, but never soft; at his tall imposing figure; and fancied myself in idea his wife. Oh! it would never do! As his cur

32、ate, his comrade, all would be right: I would cross oceans with him in that capacity; toil under Eastern suns, in Asian deserts with him in that office; admire and emulate his courage and devotion and vigour: accommodate quietly to his masterhood; smile undisturbed at his ineradicable ambition. . .

33、. I should suffer often, no doubt, attached to him only in this capacity: my body would be under a rather stringent yoke, but my heart and mind would be free. I should still have my unblighted self to turn to: my natural unenslaved feelings with which to communicate in moments of loneliness. There w

34、ould be recesses in my mind which would be only mine, to which he never came; and sentiments growing there, fresh and sheltered, which his austerity could never blight, nor his measured warrior-march trample down: but as his wifeat his side always, and always restrained, and always checkedforced to

35、keep the fire of my nature continually low, to compel it to burn inwardly and never utter a cry, though the imprisoned flame consumed vital after vitalthis would be unendurable.Q：This passage is from Jane Eyre. It occurs in Chapter 34. St. John Rivers has just asked Jane to join him as his wife on h

36、is missionary trip to India. Please evaluate Janes interior conflict involved in making her decision.5.When Miss Emily Grieison died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her h

37、ouse, which no one save an old manservant- combined gardener and cook-had seen in at least ten years.Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from the day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayorhe who lathered the edict that n

38、o Negro woman should appear on the streets without an apronremitted her taxes, die dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity.Q： This text is from William Faulkners short story “A Rose for Emily”. Please explain the underlined part.V. Answer the following questions, and elab

39、orate your opinion with examples. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (45 points, 15 points for each.) 1. What are the features of Realism of Victorian novels? Elaborate them with the novels of Victorian writers. 2. State the literary achievements of T. S. Eliot, and elaborate them with his works. 3. Please make a comparison between “The Angry Young Man” and “The Beat Generation”.6