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二 O 一二年招收硕士研究生入学考试试题 考试科目及代码： 英美文学基础（857） 适用专业： 英语语言文学；外国语言学及应用语言学 答题内容写在答题纸上，写在试卷或草稿纸上一律无效。考完后试题随答题纸交回。 考试时间 3 小时，总分值 150 分。 I 准考证号码： Find out the match from column B for each item in column A. Write the corresponding matches (e.g., 1—R, 5—B, etc.) on your answer sheet. (1 point for each, 15 points in total) A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Jane Austen George Gordon Byron John Keats John Milton William Blake Oscar Wilde James Joyce D. H. Lawrence Herman Melville Mark Twain Stephen Crane Nathaniel Hawthorne F. Scott Fitzgerald Ezra Pound Ernest Hemingway A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T 密 封 线 内 不 要 答 题 B Cantos The Scarlet Letter “Kubla Khan” Invisible Man Great Expectations The Gilded Age The Sun Also Rises Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage A Streetcar Named Desire Songs of Innocence Dubliners Sons and Lovers Emma The Picture of Dorian Gray Moby Dick Maggie: A Girl of the Streets “Ode on a Grecian Urn” Catch-22 Paradise Lost This Side of Paradise 报考学科、专业： II Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the context. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (1 point for each, 15 points in total) 1. Geoffrey Chaucer is usually regarded as father of English (16)__________ for his masterpiece The Canterbury Tales, one of the most famous works in all literature. 第 1 页 共 3 页 姓名：

2. Paradise Lost tells how (17)__________ rebelled against God and how (18)__________ and (19)__________ were driven out of the Garden of Eden. 3. (20)__________, Othello, (21)_________, and (22)__________ are generally regarded as Shakespeare’s four great tragedies. 4. With the publication of William Wordsworth’s (23)______ in collaboration with S.T. Coleridge, (24)____ __ began to bloom and found a firm place in the history of English literature. 5. In the novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Tess is seduced by a squire named Alec before she marries the clergyman’s son named (25)______. The subtitle of the novel is (26)______. 6. Walt Whitman was a founding figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of (27)______, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. The title of his great volume of poetry is (28)______. 7. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novels and short stories chronicled changing social attitudes during the 1920s, a period named (29)______ by the author. 8. As a literary genre, (30)______ regards human behavior as controlled by instinct, emotion, or social and economic conditions. Writers of this literary school reject free will, adopting instead the biological determinism of Charles Darwin and the economic determinism of Karl Marx. III Read the following two poems carefully and write your answers to the corresponding questions on your answer sheet. (40 points in total) Poem 1 When a Man Hath No Freedom to Fight for at Home When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home, Let him combat for that of his neighbors; Let him think of the glories of Greece and of Rome, And get knocked on his head for his labors. To do good to mankind is the chivalrous plan, And is always as nobly requited; Then battle for freedom wherever you can, And, if not shot or hanged, you’ll get knighted. Questions 31 to 33 are based on Poem 1: 31. What do you know about the author George Gordon Byron as a poet? What are the contributions he made to literature? (5 points) 32. What should a man fight for according to the poet? What is the difference between this man in Byron’s poem and a hero in your mind? (5 points) 33. What do you know about the Byronic hero? (10 points) 第 2 页 共 3 页

Poem 2 The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Questions 34 to 36 are based on Poem 2: 34. Is there a road less traveled by in this poem? What is the speaker’s initial response to the divergence of the two roads? (5 points) 35. Describe the similarities and differences of these two roads. Which one does the speaker take? Why? (5 points) 36. What might the two roads stand for in the speaker’s mind? What is the symbolic meaning the poem? (10 points) IV Choose and explain ANY 2 of the following literary characters or terms. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (10 point for each question, 20 points in total) (注意：请任选二题作答，多回答的题不给分！如有多答的题，请在答题纸 上用笔划掉，否则改卷时将按照答题的顺序评分。) 37. Satan (in Paradise Lost) 39. Imagism 第 3 页 共 3 页 38. Robinson Crusoe 40. Hester Prynne

V Choose and answer ANY 3 of the following questions with adequate details from the works related. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (20 point for each question, 60 points in total) (注意：请任选三题作答，多回答的题不给分！如 有多答的题，请在答题纸上用笔划掉，否则改卷时将按照答题的顺序评分。) 41. Analyze the title of the novel Pride and Prejudice. What prejudice and pride do the hero and heroine, Darcy and Elizabeth, display? How are their prejudice and pride resolved? What does the novel show the reader about pride and prejudice? 42. In what ways might Jane Eyre be considered a feminist novel? What points does the novel make about the treatment and position of women in Victorian society? With particular attention to the novel’s treatment of marriage, is there any way in which it might be considered anti-feminist? 43. What do you know about the American dream? How does Gatsby represent the American dream? What does the novel have to say about the condition of the American dream in the 1920s? In what way(s) is Gatsby “great”? 44. What do you know about the three characters in Ernest Hemingway’s short story “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”? How are they different? What might be the themes of the story? 第 4 页 共 3 页