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1、三 峡 大 学研究生入学考试试题考试科目：英美文学及比较文学 （答案必须写在答题纸上）I. Choose the One that best completes the sentence. (20 points) (Write your answer on the answer sheet)1. Who is the only American poet to be honored with a bust in the Poets Corner of Westminster Abbey? a. Edagr Allan Poe b. Ezra Poundc. Walt Whitman d. He

2、nry Wadsworth Longfellow2. The novel The Gilded Age was written by _.a. Charles Dickens b. Herman Melvillec. Samuel Langhorne Clemens d. Jack London3. Thomas Hardy was good not only at writing Novel, but also at writing _.a. essays b. plays c. poems d. short stories4. The following authors are famou

3、s English critical realist novelists except _.a. William M. Thackeray b. Charles Dickensc. Mrs. Gaskell d. Walter Scott5. In A Tale of Two Cities, the two cities refer to London and _.a. Dublin b. Parisc. New York d. Vienna “ _” is often regarded as the semi-autobiography of the author Dickens in wh

4、ich the early life of the hero is largely based on the authors owna. Oliver Twist b. Little Dorritc. Great Expectations d. David Copperfield7. The Lyrical Ballads written by Wordsworth and Coleridge was published in _. a. 1789 b. 1798 c. 1829 d. 19038. Both John Bunyan and William Makepeace Thackery

5、 once wrote _. a. Paradise Lost b. Of Studies c. Vanity Fair d. Oliver Twist 9. The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,/ If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? This is from _. a. Shelleys Ode to the West Wind b. Keats Ode to a Nightingale c. Byrons The Isles of Greece d. Miltons Paradise Lost10. The

6、Novel _ describes a country where disease is considered to be a kind of crime while theft and other vices are considered to be diseases. a. News from Nowhere b. Erewhon Revisited c. The Way of All Flesh d. Erewhon 11. _ is the representative of Aestheticism and Decadence in English literature. a. R.

7、 L. Stevenson b. Oscar Wilde c. Samuel Butler d. Charles Dickens 12. Which of the following novels does not belong to the stream of consciousness school of novel writing? a. Ulysses b. Mrs. Dalloway c. The Rainbow d. To the Lighthouse 13. One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk (Ode to a Nightinga

8、le) Lethe is the river of _. a. happiness b. sleep c. memory d. forgetfulness 14. Which of the following plays written by George Bernard Shaw deals with the problem of correct pronunciation in English language learning? a. Widowers Houses b. Pygmalion c. Mrs. Warrens Profession d. Major Barbara 15.

9、The following writers were awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature except _. a. G. B. Shaw b. T. S. Eliot c. Emily Bront d. John Galsworthy 16. Please, Sir, I want some more. The master was a fat, healthy man, but he turned very pale This description is from _. a. Oliver Twist b. A Modest Proposal c.

10、 Tom Jones d. Hard Times17. When little birds are busy with their song/Who sleep with open eyes the whole night long/Life sirs their hearts and tingles in them so,”This means the birds cannot sleep at night because they _.a. keep singing the whole night b. are excited by the beauty of naturec. have

11、a heart full of love d. are busy with picking seeds18. “Because I could not stop for Death_/ He kindly stopped for me_/ The Carriage held but just Ourselves _/And Immortality.”Who wrote this stanza?a. William Wordsworth b. Emily Dickinsonc. Robert Frost d. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 19. John Keats l

12、oved literature so much that he soon abandoned _to devote himself to poetry.a. business b. painting c. medicine d. philosophy20. The first successful novel of Charles Dickens is _.a. David Copperfield b. Oliver Twist d. The Old Curiosity Shop d. The Pickwick Papers the relevant match from Column B f

13、or each item in Column A.(20 points) (Write your answer on the answer sheet)1. ( ) Edmund Spenser A. Women In Love 2. ( ) Oliver Goldsmith B. Sense and Sensibility;3. ( ) Laurence Sterne C. Queen Mab 4. ( ) Daniel Defoe D. Young Goodman Brown5. ( ) Henry Fielding E. The Portrait of A Lady 6. ( ) Geo

14、rge Gordon Byron F. The Sound and the Fury 7. ( ) Percy Bysshe Shelley G. The Great Gatsby 8. ( ) Jane Austen H. For Whom the Bell Tolls 9. ( ) Sir Walter Scott I. Childe Harolds Pilgrimage 10. ( ) Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell J. The Faerie Queene 11. ( ) George Eliot K. Ivanhoe12. ( ) John Galsworthy

15、 L. Mary Barton 13. ( ) Washington Irving M. The Forsyte Saga14. ( ) Nathaniel Hawthorne N. Robinson Crusoe 15. ( ) Henry James O. Tom Jones16. ( ) Theodore Dreiser P. The Vicar of Wakefield 17. ( ) Scott Fitzgerald Q. A Sentimental Journey18. ( ) Ernest Hemingway R. American Tragedy19. ( ) William

16、Faulkner S. Middlemarch20. ( ) David Herbert Lawrence T. Rip Van Winkle III. Read the following excerpts and answer the following questions (30 points)(Write your answer on the answer sheet)A. I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed dar

17、kness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the furit-tree wild; White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine; Fast fading violets coverd up in leaves; And mid-Mays eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summ

18、er eves.Questions: 1. Who is the writer of this poem?2. This stanza is taken from a well-known ode. What is the title of this poem?3. This stanza consists of 10 lines of iambic verse and the rime scheme is _.4. What kind of images have the poet given us in this stanza?B. Neat was her wimple in its e

19、very plait,Her nose well formed, her eyes as gray as slate.Her mouth was very small and soft and red.She had so wide a brow I think her headWas nearly a span broad, for certainly,She was not undergrown, as all could see.Questions: 5. The above lines of poetry are taken from a famous poem. What is th

20、e title of it?6. Who is the writer of this poem?7. What kind of metrical form is used in the poem?8. The description is about a young beautiful lady. Do you think Chinese people describe beauty of a lady just like this? Write some sentences about the comparison. C. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like th

21、ose Nican barks of yore,That gently, oer a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore.Questions:9. What is the title of the poem?10. Who is the author of it?11. Explain the stanza in your own words. IV. Choose any six of the following and tell briefly what you know about

22、 each. (30 points) (Write your answer on the answer sheet)1. Romanticism2. Lost Generation1. Heroic Couplet2. Ballad3. Blank Verse4. Narrative Poem5. Epic6. Sonnet 7. Shylock8. Hamlet11. Leaves of Grass12. The Old Man and the SeaV. Discuss the following questions and write a short critical essay on

23、each one. (50%)(Write your answer on the answer sheet)1. Hawthorne is a master of symbolism. In his novel The Scarlet Letter, the letter A is the biggest symbol, but it is ambiguous and there are different interpretations, such as adultery, able, angel, admirable, Arthur, America, etc. What is your

24、interpretation about the symbol A? (Write about 200 words to comment on it. ): (20 points)2. In Emily Bronts Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff seems entirely wicked, or a criminal. Yet Emily Bront manages him at least a sympathetic figure. Do you think he is a hero or a villain? Please write about 300 words to support your idea and compare the characters of Heathcliff and Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre. (30 points)