天津外国语大学语言文学1995【试题+答案】考研试题研究生入学考试试题考研真题
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四十三、天津外国语学院1995年研究生入学试题
I . Name two major works by each of the authors listed below. (20%)
William Shakespeare Nathaniel Hawthorne'
James Joyce Henry James
Bernard Shaw Mark Twain
Robert Frost F. Scott Fitzgerald
Charles Dickens William Faulkner
II . Write a simple introduction to one of the above authors with a brief discussion of one of
his works. (20%)
III. Identify the following works by writing out their authors in the blanks to the right. (20%)
Lord of the Flies
The Secret Sharer
Tender is The Night
A Good Man is Hard To Find
The Open Boat
The Dangling Man
The Garden Party
Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger
The Wasteland
in Another Country
IV . Literary interpretation-Give your response to the following, keeping an eye on thematic
possibilities. (40%)
1. War is Kind
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.
Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky.
And the affrighted steed ran on alone,
Do not weep.
War is kind.
Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment,
Little souls who thirst for fight,
These men were born to drill and die.
The unexplained glory flies above them,
Great is the bettle-god, great, and his kingdom—
A field where a thousand corpses lie.
Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.
Because your father tumbled in the yellow trenches.
Raged at his breast, gulped and died,
Do not weep.
War is kind.
Swift blazing flag of the regiment,
Eagle with crest of red and gold,
These men were born to drill and die.
Point for them the virtue of slaughter,
Make plain to them the excellence of killing,
And a field where a thousand corpses lie.
Mother whose heart hung humble as a button
On the bright splendid shroud of your son,