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中国人民大学2005年硕士生入学考试试题

招生专业：英语语言文学

考试科目：英美文学 英美文化 英语发展史 英语语言学

考试时间：1月23日 下午

考题编号：441

英美文学

I. Define, in complete sentences，the following terms and phrases in English and American literature. (12 points)

1. The Gilded Age

2. Canto

3. interpolation

4. quatrain

5. epic poetry

6. Harlem Renaissance

II. Place each of the following works in its proper century, indicate its

Genre, and give the full name of the author. (20 points)

1. Moby-Dick

2. The Return of the Native

3. Design ．

4. Timon of Athens

5. The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg

6. An Ideal Husband

7. The Tiger

8. An American Tragedy

9. Ode on a Grecian Um

10. Annabel Lee

III. Identify each of the following quotations by giving the title of the work and the full name of the author, and explain the implications of the underlined parts. (12 points)

1. Then at dawn we came down to a temperate valley,

With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness, And an old white horse galloped away in the meadow.

Then we came to a tavern with vine-1eaves over the lintel,

Six hands at an open door dicing for pieces of silver,

And feel kicking the empty, wine-skins.

But there was no information, and so we continued

And arrived at evening, not a moment too soon

Finding the place; it was (you may say) satisfactory

2. Those who are more thrifty (as I must confess the times require) may flay the carcass; the for fine gentlemen.