北京科技大学874综合英语考研真题考研试题考研试卷.docx

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1、北京科技大学 2008年硕士学位研究生入学考试试题试题编号:74 试题名称:综合英语（共6页）适用专业:外国语言学与应用语言学英语语言文学说明:所有答案必须写在答题纸上,做在试题或草稿纸上无效.说明: This paper covers FOUR subjects: (1) A Survey of Great Britain and the United States* (2) British Literature, (3) American Literature, and (4) General Linguistics. Ybu have 180 minutes to complete th

2、e whole paper. Please time your pace well.Part I. Survey of Great Britain and the United States (30 points)I. Fill in the blanks: Read the jbllowing unfinished statements or questions carefully. For each unfinished sentence or question four suggested choices marked A, Bf C, and D are given. Choose t

3、he ONE that you think best completes the statement or answers the question. Write the letter of your choice in the corresponding space on your Ansyer Sheet after the numbers, (10 points)1. British recorded history begins with the which took place in 55 BC,A. CeltsB. Roman invasionC. The Anglo-Saxon

4、invasionD. Norman Conquest2. Partly fighting for territory and partly for economic interest, the Hundred Years5 War eventually ended with the defeat ofin 1453.A. EnglandB. FranceC. SpainD. Gennany3. Two of the most famous English literary works of the late 17th century were written by Puritans: John

5、 Bunyanand John Miltons Paradise Lost.A. Vanity FairB. Pilgrims ProgressC. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight D. Beowulf4. Britains two parties originated with. The Whigs were those who opposed absolute monarchy and supported the right to religious freedom for Nonconformists. The Tories were those who

6、supported hereditary monarchy.A. the French RevolutionB. the Civil WarC. the Norman ConquestD. the Glorious Revolution5. As a result of the industrial revolution, Britain was bythe workshop of the world： no othercountry was yet ready to compete with her in industrial production.A. 1930B.1620C 1830D,

7、 17306. The first English colony in America was founded atin 1607. Between 1607 and 1733 theBritish established 13 colonies along the east coast of north America.A. MaineB. MassachusettsC. PennsylvaniaD. Jamestown7. At the beginning of the American Civil War, the Union army suffered a lot of setback

8、s. Lincoln realized that he could win support for the Union at home and abroad by making the war a just war against slavery. So he issued the famousA. Gettysburg speechB. I have a dreamC. Common SenseD. Emancipation Proclamation8. To prevent the collapse of the American economic and political system

9、, Roosevelt made, in the first 100 days in the White House, the Congress pass a large number of acts, which are called.A. the New DealB. the program of New FreedomC. the program of Fourteen PointsD. the Truman Doctrine9. The North Atlantic Treaty, signed on April 4, provided that an attack on any of

10、 the parties to the treaties would be regarded as an attack on all, and force, if necessary, wouldbe usedtorestoreand maintain peace and security. Thismarked the beginning of U.S. effortsin settingupamilitaryalliance around the Soviet Union and its allies.A. 1919B. 1949C. 1930D. 198010. Watergate Sc

11、andal refers to the political consequence, particularly Presidents resigning, caused by the illegal breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate apartment. The illegal breaking turned out to be part of an official plot to defeat the Democrats in the election.A. Reg

12、anB. McCarthyC. NixonD. Trumann. Fill in the blanks: Answer the following questions in the corresponding space on your Answer Sheet. (20 points, 5 fbr each)1. When did Mrs Thatcher come into power? What are the main contents of Thatcherism?2. What were the causes of the War of 1812 between the U.S.

13、and Britain?3. What was the American foreign policy in the early 1930s? How did the event of Pearl Harbor change Americas stance in the II World War?4. What event marked the change of U.S.China relations from hostility to the re-establishment of diplomatic relations?Part U. British Literature (30 po

14、ints)I, Fill in the blanks: write your answers on your Answer Sheet after the numbers. (10 points)1. Of the earliest poetry in English literature, the most important poem now preserved is.2. A sonnet is a poem of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter with various rhyming schemes. It was first writt

15、en by the Italian poet and introduced to England by Thomas Wyatt. But the bestBritish sonneteer is whose sonnet consists of three quatrains with a rhyming scheme ababcdcd efef and ends with a couplet rhyming gg.3. British Civil War broke out in 1642. After years of fight, the parliamentary army led

16、by Oliver Cromwell defeated the royal aimy. Charles I was beheaded in 1649 and England became a.4. The greatest event in the 18th century British literature is the appearance of fiction. Among the early British novelists, Henry fielding might be the most distinguished one, whose masterpiecewas consi

17、dered as the best constructed novel in English literature.第2页 5. The publication ofby Wordsworth and in 1798 is always considered as a beginning ofBritish romanticism, in which Wordsworth openly expresses his theory of poetry as the spontaneously overflow of emotions.6. During the long reign of, Eng

18、land grew from an agricultural country into an industrialized oneand became the workshop of the world as well as its financial and political center. And during her reign, literature flourished, particularly in the form of,7. During the 1950s there appeared a group of young writers who were fiercely

19、critical of the established order. They were called fiC Angry Young men，a term froms play Look Back in Anger,II. Identify the title of the work of the following excerpts: wite the titles of the works on your Answer Sheet.G points)1. There also was a nun, a Prioress;Simple her way of smiling was and

20、coy.Her greatest oath was only By St Loy!12. When, in disgrace with fortune and mens eye, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself and curse my fate .3. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretched in

21、 never-ending line Along the margin of a bay:4. .To die, to sleep;No more; and by a sleep to say we endThe heartache, and the thousand natural shock That flesh is heir to, tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.5. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without for

22、m, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.6. In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man7. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man

23、in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”My dear Mr Bennet,1 said his lady to him one day, “have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?*8. Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton? a machine without feeling?Do you think, because I am

24、 poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong .ID. Answer the questions concerning the following poem: write your answers on your Answer SheeL(12 points)0 WILD West Wind, thou breath of Autumns being Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves deadAre driven like gho

25、sts from an enchanter fleeing,Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes! 0 thouWho chariotest to their dark wintry bedThe winged seeds, where they lie cold and low,Each like a corpse within its grave, untilThine azure sister of the Spring shall blowHer clarion o*er

26、the dreaming earth, and fill(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air) With living hues and odours plain and hill;Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;Destroyer and preserver; hear, O hear!1. What images does the poet use to depict the leaves blown by the west wind? Explain it.2. What image

27、s does the poet use to depict the seeds lying in the earth? Explain it.3. What images does the poet use to depict the Spring that fills the plain and hill with colors and odours? Explain it.4. In what way does the west wind work as a destroyer and preserver?Part HI. American Literature (30 points)1.

28、 Fill in the blanks: write your answers on your Answer Sheet after the numbers. (10 points)1.1, the author of The Legend of Sleepy hollow”, was the first American writer of imaginative literature to gain internal recognition and fame.2. As the leading New England Transcendentalist, Emerson states in

29、 his. which is regarded as the Bible of Transcendentalism, lthe universe is composed of Nature and the SouL3. All his life, Hawthorne seems to be haunted by the theme of . Evil exist in the human heart. Everyone possesses some evil secret as tales like set out to show.4. Melville is best known as th

30、e author ofwhich is one of the worlds greatest masterpieces. Oneof the major themes in Melville is, which can be best shown in Ahab.5. By the 1870s, New England Renaissance had waned. Hawthorne and Thoreau were dead. Emerson and other New England writers were old and feeble. With such new writers as

31、 Howells, Henry James and Twain appearing, the age ofhad arrived.6. By the 1890s, American industrialism not only produced financial giants, but also created a proletariat entirely at the mercy of external forces beyond their control. Under the influence ofconceptslike the survival of the fittest an

32、d human beast”, new ideas about man and mans place in the universe began to take root in America. In literature, French naturalism appealed to the imagination of such writers as Crane, Norris and.7. Fitzgeralds greatness lies in the fact that he found intuitively in his personal experience the embod

33、iment of that of the nation and created a myth out of American life. The story of The Great Gatsby is a good example. Gatsby5s life pattern-at first, , then disenchantment, and finally asense of despair -approximates the whole of the American experience.IL Identify the title of the work of the follo

34、wing excerpts: write the titles of the works on your Answer Sheet. (Z points)1. I am invisible man . I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distortin

35、g glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figures of their imagination indeed, everything and anything except me.1. 1 celebrate myself, and sing myselfi.I loafe and invite my soul,I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.3. We passed the School

36、, where the Children strove At Recessin the Ring- We passed the fields of Gazing Grain一 We passed the Setting Sun一4. I see Jim before me, all the time, in the day, and in the nighttime, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a floating along, talking and singing, and laughing. But somehow I c

37、ouldnt seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the other kind. Fd see him standing my watch on top of his，n, stead of calling me, so I could go on sleeping; and see him how glad he was when I come out of the fog 5. So much depends upon a red wheel banow glazed with rain water bes

38、ide the white chickens.6. But, on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to ofifer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned crimina

39、l as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart ofNature could pity and be kind to him.7. My little horse must think it queer lb stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year.8. And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I th

40、ought of X5s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisys dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.UI. Essay questions: write your angers on your Answer Sheet. (12 points)1. How does Henry Ja

41、mes difier from Mark Twain in thematic terms and artistic features?2. Read the except from The Scarlet Letter (in which the minister confesses his sin of adultery to his people) and then answer the questions.With a conclusive motion, he tore away the ministerial band from before his breast. It was r

42、evealed! But it were irreverent to describe that revelation. For an instant, the gaze of the horror-stricken multitude was concentrated on the ghastly miracle; while the minister stood, with a flush of triumph in his face, as one who, in the crisis of acutest pain, had won a victory. Then, down he s

43、ank upon the scafibld! Hester partly raised him, and supported his head against her bosom. Old Roger Chillingworth knelt down beside him, with a blank, dull countenance, out of which the life seemed to have departed.“Thou hast escaped me!” he repeated more than once. Thou hast escaped me!” May God f

44、orgive thee! said the minister. cThou, too hast deeply sinned!”1) How do you think of Dimmesdales gesture of revealing the hidden scarlet letter A on his breast? Why does the minister do this with “a flush of triumph in his face,5?2) What does Chillingworth mean by saying Thou hast escaped me!”？Part

45、 Four General Linguistics (60 points)Part I Define the following linguistic terms in your own words (20 points, 4 points each).1. Duality2. Bound morpheme3. Deep structure4. The referential theory5. Sapir-Whorf hypothesisPart n Finish the following according to the requirements for each (15 points,

46、5 points each):1. Does the subject of a sentence always match with the theme? Give an example to support yourself2. Discuss the difference between sentence meaning and utterance meaning, using the sentence My watch has stopped again as an example.3. Using specific examples to illustrate the difieren

47、ce between entailment and presupposition.Part III Provide as much information as you know about each of the following topics (25 points, 12,5 points each),L What are some of the diflferences between the so-called traditional grammar and modem grammar?2. What do you know about the theory of conversational implicature?