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二 O 一三年招收硕士研究生入学考试试题 B 卷 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。 准考证号码： Ⅰ. Multiple Choice Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your choice on the answer sheet. (1 point for each, 24 points in total) 1. Daniel Defoe describes _______ as a typical English Middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist. A. Tom Jones B. Gulliver C. Moll Flanders D. Robinson Crusoe 2. We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley's poem "Ode to the West Wind" with all the following terms except _______ . A. tamed B. swift C. proud D. wild 3. .Most of the poems in Whitman's Leaves of Grass sing of the "en-mass" and the _______ as well. A. nature B. self-reliance C. self D. life 4. The first line of William Blake’s well-known poem "The Tyger" reads, "Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright". The repeated word "tyger" (tiger) with an exclamation mark suggests_______. A. joy B. fear C. pain D. fondness 第 1 页 共 4 页 姓名： 报考学科、专业： 密 封 线 内 不 要 答 题

5. "My Last Duchess" is a poem that best exemplifier Robert Browning’s ________. A. sensitive ear for the sounds of the English language B. excellent choice of words C. mastering of the metrical devices D. use of the dramatic monologue 6. Which of the following works concerns most concentrated the Calvinistic view of original sin? A. The Wasteland. B. The Scarlet Letter. C. Leaves of Grass. D. As I Lay Dying 7. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ____. A. international theme B. waste-land imagery C. local color D. symbolism 8. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is _______. A. insignificant B. vicious by nature C. divine D. forward-looking 9. In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _______. A. commentators B. observers C. villains D. saviors 10. Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is not a usual subject of her poetic expression? A. Religion. B. Life and death. C. Love and marriage. D. War and peace. 11. In English poetry, a four-line stanza is called ______. A. heroic couplet B. quatrain C. Spenserian stanza D. terza rima 第 2 页 共 4 页

12. The 18th century witnessed a new literary form－the modern English novel, which, contrary to the medieval romance, gives a ______ presentation of life of the common people. A. romantic B. realistic C. prophetic D. idealistic 13. Beside symbolism, all the following qualities EXCEPT ______are fused to make Melville’s Moby-Dick a world classic. A. narrative power B. psychological analysis C. speculative agility D. optimistic view of life 14. “...This grew: I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped altogether....” (Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”) . The above lines imply that A. the Duchess was killed by her husband B. the Duchess stopped smiling at her husband’s order C. the Duchess died of laughing too much D. the Duchess did not want to smile as much as her husband requested 15. “Drive my dead thought over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth.” What rhetorical device does the poet use in the quoted lines? A. Synecdoche. B. Metaphor. C. Simile. D. Onomatopoeia. 16. Which terms can best describe the modernists’ concern of the human situation in their fiction? A. Fragmentation and alienation. B. Courage and honor. C. Tradition and faith. D. Poverty and desperation. 17. American “Transcendentalists most typically believe that . A. man is divine in name B. art is superior to life C. man can transform nature D. poetry is the highest form of art 18. Linguistically, compared with the writings of Mark Twain, Henry James’s fiction is noted for his ______. A. frontier vernacular B. rich colloquialism C. vulgarly descriptive words D. refined elegant language 19. Which of the following plays by O’Neill can be said to contain tragic elements? A. The Hairy Ape B. The Emperor Jones C. The Iceman Cometh D. Desire Under the Elms 第 3 页 共 4 页

20. When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing about ______’s thematic concern in his fiction writing. A. Henry James B. Scott Fitzgerald C. Ernest Hemingway D. William Faulkner 21. Shakespeare’s tragedies include all the following except ____ . A. Hamlet and King Lear B. Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth C. Julius Caesar and Othello D. The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream 22. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following except ______. A. the using of everyday language spoken by the common people B. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings C. the humble and rustic life as subject matter D. elegant wording and inflated figures of speech 23. Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance humanism? A. Cultivation of the art of this world and this life. B. Tolerance of human foibles. C. Search for the genuine flavor of ancient culture. D. Glorification of religious faith. 24.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”is an epigrammatic line by ______. A. John Keats B. William Blake C. William Wordsworth D. Percy Bysshe Shelley 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. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne’s novel ______. is the spokesman for Lost Generation. 2. 3. The leader of the literary movement Imagism is . 4. With the publication of William Wordsworth’s ____ in collaboration with S.T Coleridge, Romanticism began to bloom and found a firm place in the history of English literature. 5. As a leading Romanticist, Byron’s chief contribution is his creation of the “__ hero” a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin. 6. Dickens took the French Revolution as the background of his novel_____. 7. Shaw is considered as the __ English dramatist since Shakespeare. 8. Conrad’s work is concerned with the nature and effects of European_____. 9. Mrs. Dalloway, Woolf’s novel, employs __ technique to explore the inner world of an upper-class lady in one day. 第 4 页 共 4 页

10. In the novel of Tess, naturalistic tendency is strong. In a way, Tess seems to be led to her final destruction by_____. 11. The success of Jane Eyre is not only because of its sharp criticism of the existing society, but also due to its introduction to the English novel the first __ heroine. 12. Imagism stressed the use of a __________ image, or a quick succession of related images. 13. The _____ Age refers to 1920’s which is also called the roaring twenties. 14. In Moby Dick, the ship Pequod is a symbol of _____. 15. In the poem ‘Fire and Ice’, fire symbolizes _____ and ice is a symbol of hate. III Define the following literary terms (choose three terms). Write your answers on your answer sheet. (7 point for each term, 21points 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。) 1. Classicism 2. Dramatic monologue 3. Flashback 4. Setting IV Read the following two poems carefully and write your answers to the corresponding questions on your answer sheet. (30 points in total) Poem 1 What though the field be lost? All is not lost: the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome? That glory never shall his wrath or might Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee, and deify his power Who, from the terror of this arm, so late Doubted his empire--that were low indeed; That were an ignominy and shame beneath This downfall; since, by fate, the strength of gods And this empyreal substance, cannot fail; Since, through experience of this great event, In arms not worst, in foresight much advanced, We may with more successful hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grand Foe, 第 5 页 共 4 页

Who now triumphs, and in th’ excess of joy Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heaven. QUESTIONS: 1. In the 2nd line, “the unconquerable will” refers to the will of ______.（5 points） 2. These lines are taken from a famous epic entitled________. （5 points） 3. What is the central theme of these lines? （5 points） Poem 2 In a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd； Petals on a wet，black bough. QUESTIONS: 4. Who wrote this poem? （5 points） 5. What do “petals” and “bough” stand for? （5 points） 6. Translate this poem into Chinese. （5 points） 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。) 1. Do you think Gatsby is great? Why or why not? (20 points) 2. What are Shakespeare’s major achievements? (20 points) 3. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen explored three kinds of motivations of marriage that the middle-class people had in the second half of the 18th century. Try to make a brief discussion about them with specific examples from the novel. Make comments on Austen’s attitude towards these motivations. (20 points) 4. Explain the symbolic meanings of “A” in The Scarlet Letter. the end of the test 第 6 页 共 4 页