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专业名称：外国语言学及应用语言学 共 6 页

Section One ADVANCED ENGLISH (70%)

I. Explain each of the following cultural figures or terms briefly: (15%)

1. Mark Twain

Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), America’s most famous humorist and the author of popular and outstanding autobiographical works, travel books and novels. His earlier life as a boy in a little town in Missouri, as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi, as a reporter on the far western frontier and as a traveler abroad supplied him with copious material which he used later for his best and most successful writings, Among them are Innocents Abroad (1869), Tom Sawyer (1876), and Huckleberry Finn (1885).

2. Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde (1856-1900) was born in Dublin and educated at Dublin and Oxford. At Oxford he gained the reputation of founder of an aesthetic cult, the champion of “Art for art’s sake.” In 1881 he published his first volume of “poems”, followed by works of fictions and comedies, of which are The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893). But the most remarkable of his works were the Ballad of Reading Gaol (1895) and De Profundis (1905) written from his experiences in prison.

3. Herman Wouk

Herman Wouk (1915- ) was American novelist, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrant parents. After his graduation from Columbia University in 1934, he worked for a time as a radio scriptwriter. During World War II he served in the United States Navy and began his first novel during off-duty hours at sea. His novels includes The Caine Mutiny (1951), a Pulitzer Prize novel of events aboard a naval vessel, The Winds of War (1971), and War and Remembrance (1977), which are known as companion novels on the war.

4. The Sad Young Men

The Sad Young Men is term created by F. Scott Fitzgerald in his book All the Sad Young Men to describe the disillusioned post-World War I younger generation, especially the young intellectuals, writers and aesthetes of the years who lived as expatriates in west Europe for a short time and rebelled 1