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南京大学2003年攻读硕士学位研究生入学复试试题

考试科目名称及代码：英语语言学、英美文学

适用专业：英语语言文学

1. （0.5 x 20 = 10%）Name the author of each of the following works:

（1）The Parliament of Fowls

（2）The House of the Seven Gables

（3）Billy Budd

（4）Samson Agonistes

（5）Winter’s Tale

（6）Idylls of the King

（7）The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

（8）Bleak House

（9）Tender is the Night

（10）Northanger Abbey

（11）The Crucible

（12）Something Happened

（13）Major Barbara

（14）Jude the Obscure

（15）Strange Interlude

（16）Beloved

（17）The American Scholar

（18）The Magus

（19）As I Lay Dying

（20）Under Western Eyes

2. （25 x 2 = 50%）Discussion

（1）Discuss the following statement and support your argument with specific examples from the story “A Woman on a Roof.”

Doris Lessing’s “A Woman on a Roof” allows us to understand how some men view woman: as mere objects for display and possession. Lessing shows how each of the male characters reacts and deals with rejection from a woman sunbathing on a nearby rooftop. We discover how the three men’s preoccupation with sex keeps them unaware of how their advances may be unwanted and ignorant of their action’s possible consequences.

（2）What does the following statement suggest to you? Give your opinions.

Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world, －as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding. I ask primary evidence that you are a man, and refuse this appeal from the man to his actions. I know that for myself it makes no difference whether I do or forbear those actions which are reckoned excellent. I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right. Few