三峡大学2004年研究生入学英美文学及比较文学试题

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考试科目：英美文学及比较文学

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I. Choose the One that best completes the sentence. (20 points)

(Write your answer on the answer sheet)

1. Who is the only American poet to be honored with a bust in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey?

a. Edagr Allan Poe b. Ezra Pound

c. Walt Whitman d. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2. The novel The Gilded Age was written by _________.
a. Charles Dickens b. Herman Melville
c. Samuel Langhorne Clemens d. Jack London

3. Thomas Hardy was good not only at writing Novel, but also at writing _________.

a. essays b. plays

c. poems d. short stories






4. The following authors are famous English critical realist novelists except _________.



a. William M. Thackeray b. Charles Dickens



c. Mrs. Gaskell d. Walter Scott

5. In A Tale of Two Cities, the "two cities" refer to London and _________.

a. Dublin b. Paris
c. New York d. Vienna
“ ___________” is often regarded as the semi-autobiography of the author Dickens in which the early life of the hero is largely based on the author's own life.

a. Oliver Twist b. Little Dorrit



c. Great Expectations d. David Copperfield

7. The Lyrical Ballads written by Wordsworth and Coleridge was published in ________.

a. 1789 b. 1798

c. 1829 d. 1903

8. Both John Bunyan and William Makepeace Thackery once wrote ________.



a. Paradise Lost b. Of Studies



c. Vanity Fair d. Oliver Twist

9. The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,/ If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? This is from ________.

a. Shelley's Ode to the West Wind b. Keat's Ode to a Nightingale

c. Byron's The Isles of Greece d. Milton's Paradise Lost

10. The Novel "_______" describes a country where disease is considered to

be a kind of crime while theft and other vices are considered to be diseases.

a. News from Nowhere b. Erewhon Revisited

c. The Way of All Flesh d. Erewhon

11. _______ is the representative of Aestheticism and Decadence in English literature.

a. R. L. Stevenson b. Oscar Wilde

c. Samuel Butler d. Charles Dickens

12. Which of the following novels does not belong to the "stream of consciousness"

school of novel writing?

a. Ulysses b. Mrs. Dalloway

c. The Rainbow d. To the Lighthouse

13. "One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk" (Ode to a Nightingale)

Lethe is the river of _______.

a. happiness b. sleep

c. memory d. forgetfulness

14. Which of the following plays written by George Bernard Shaw deals with the problem of correct pronunciation in English language learning?

a. Widowers' Houses b. Pygmalion

c. Mrs. Warren's Profession d. Major Barbara

15. The following writers were awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature except ______.

a. G. B. Shaw b. T. S. Eliot

c. Emily Brontë d. John Galsworthy
16. "Please, Sir, I want some more."

The master was a fat, healthy man, but he turned very pale

This description is from ______
a. Oliver Twist b. A Modest Proposal
c. Tom Jones d. Hard Times

17. "When little birds are busy with their song/Who sleep with open eyes the whole night long/Life sirs their hearts and tingles in them so,”

This means the birds cannot sleep at night because they ____________.

a. keep singing the whole night b. are excited by the beauty of nature

c. have a heart full of love d. are busy with picking seeds

18. “Because I could not stop for Death__/ He kindly stopped for me___/ The Carriage held but just Ourselves __/And Immortality.”

Who wrote this stanza?

a. William Wordsworth b. Emily Dickinson
c. Robert Frost d. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

19. John Keats loved literature so much that he soon abandoned _________to devote himself to poetry.

a. business b. painting

c. medicine d. philosophy

20. The first successful novel of Charles Dickens is "____________".

a. David Copperfield b. Oliver Twist

d. The Old Curiosity Shop d. The Pickwick Papers
I. Find

the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A.(20 points)

(Write your answer on the answer sheet)

1. ( ) Edmund Spenser A. Women In Love

2. ( ) Oliver Goldsmith B. Sense and Sensibility;

3. ( ) Laurence Sterne C. Queen Mab

4. ( ) Daniel Defoe D. Young Goodman Brown

5. ( ) Henry Fielding E. The Portrait of A Lady

6. ( ) George Gordon Byron F. The Sound and the Fury

7. ( ) Percy Bysshe Shelley G. The Great Gatsby

8. ( ) Jane Austen H. For Whom the Bell Tolls

9. ( ) Sir Walter Scott I. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

10. ( ) Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell J. The Faerie Queene

11. ( ) George Eliot K. Ivanhoe

12. ( ) John Galsworthy L. Mary Barton

13. ( ) Washington Irving M. The Forsyte Saga

14. ( ) Nathaniel Hawthorne N. Robinson Crusoe

15. ( ) Henry James O. Tom Jones

16. ( ) Theodore Dreiser P. The Vicar of Wakefield

17. ( ) Scott Fitzgerald Q. A Sentimental Journey

18. ( ) Ernest Hemingway R. American Tragedy

19. ( ) William Faulkner S. Middlemarc
20. ( ) David Herbert Lawrence T. Rip Van Winkle

III. Read the following excerpts and answer the following questions (30 points)

(Write your answer on the answer sheet)
A. I cannot see what flowers are at my feet,

Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs,

But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet

Wherewith the seasonable month endows

The grass, the thicket, and the furit-tree wild;

White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine;

Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves;

And mid-May's eldest child,

The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine,

The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.

Questions:

1. Who is the writer of this poem?

2. This stanza is taken from a well-known ode. What is the title of this poem?

3. This stanza consists of 10 lines of iambic verse and the rime scheme is _____.

4. What kind of images have the poet given us in this stanza?

B. Neat was her wimple in its every plait,

Her nose well formed, her eyes as gray as slate.

Her mouth was very small and soft and red.

She had so wide a brow I think her head

Was nearly a span broad, for certainly,

She was not undergrown, as all could see.

Questions:

5. The above lines of poetry are taken from a famous poem. What is the title of it?

6. Who is the writer of this poem?

7. What kind of metrical form is used in the poem?

8. The description is about a young beautiful lady. Do you think Chinese people describe beauty of a lady just like this? Write some sentences about the comparison.

C. Helen, thy beauty is to me

Like those Nicëan barks of yore,

That gently, o’er a perfumed sea,

The weary, way-worn wanderer bore

To his own native shore.

Questions:

9. What is the title of the poem?

10. Who is the author of it?

11. Explain the stanza in your own words.

IV. Choose any six of the following and tell briefly what you know about each. (30 points)
(Write your answer on the answer sheet)

1. Romanticism

2. Lost Generation
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1. Heroic Couplet

2. Ballad

3. Blank Verse

4. Narrative Poem

5. Epic

6. Sonnet

7. Shylock

8. Hamlet

11. Leaves of Grass

12. The Old Man and the Sea

V. Discuss the following questions and write a short critical essay on each one. (50%)

(Write your answer on the answer sheet)


1. Hawthorne is a master of symbolism. In his novel The Scarlet Letter, the letter A is the biggest symbol, but it is ambiguous and there are different interpretations, such as adultery, able, angel, admirable, Arthur, America, etc. What is your interpretation about the symbol A? (Write about 200 words to comment on it. ): (20 points)

2. In Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff seems entirely wicked, or a criminal. Yet Emily Brontë manages him at least a sympathetic figure. Do you think he is a hero or a villain? Please write about 300 words to support your idea and compare the characters of Heathcliff and Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre. (30 points)








Part II Eliminating Unnecessary Words. (20%)



Example: If it is true, as it seems to be, that life makes a wise man smile and a foolish man cry …



Perhaps the most interesting person I have ever met is an interesting Italian professor of philosophy who teaches courses at University of Pisa in Italy. Although I last met this man eight years ago, I have not forgotten over the long years his special qualities. First of all, I was impressed from the beginning by his complete devotion to teaching his students. Because his lectures were always well-prepared and invariably clearly delivered, a great many students always swarmed into his classroom, filling the classroom to capacity. His many followers also appreciated the fact that he thoroughly believed in what he taught to students and that he was always intellectually stimulating to hear. Further more, he could be counted on in every class session to explain his ideas in an imaginative way, introducing such various aids to student understanding as oiling painting,phonograph records, pieces of sculpture, and guest lectures who were invited to speak to the class. Once he even sang a song in class before the students’ eyes in order to illustrate a philosophical points. Second, I admired the fact that he would confer with students at almost any time outside of the classroom or talk with them on the telephone. Drinking coffee in the snack bar after having taught a class, he would easily make friends with students with great ease. Sometimes he would issue a challenge to a student to join with him in a game of chess. At other times, he would quite readily join groups of students to discuss subjects ranging broadly from astronomy to scuba diving. Many young people visited him at one time or another in his office for academic advice; others came to his home for the purpose of social evenings. Finally, I was favorably impressed and attracted by his lively wit. He believed that no class hour is a success unless, during it, the students and the professor have a reason to join together to share several chuckles and at least one loud laugh. Through his inimitable and captivating sense of humor, he made learning much more enjoyable and much more lasting.
Part III Fill in the blanks with appropriate words. (10%)



The threat comes from two main directions: from the Russians and the Eastern bloc countries who are now in the middle of a massive ___1___ of their merchant navies, and carving their way into the international shipping ____2___ by severely undercutting Western shipping ___3___; and from the merchant fleet of the developing nations, who are ___4___ on taking over the lion’s __5__ of the trade between Europe and Africa, Asia and the Far East – __6__ in which Britain has a big stake.



Today, the British fleet no longer dominates the high seas: our share of the world’s merchant fleet has fallen from 40 per cent to around eight per cent. But, in terms of ___7___, the British merchant navy has __8__ expand. It can now carry ___9__ two-thirds more than it could in 1914, and, almost alone among our traditional industries, shipping has remained a major __10__ story.



Part V Translation (30%)



Section A Translation the following passage from English into Chinese. (15%)



Both Crosby and Presley were creations of the microphone. It made it possible for people with frail voices not only to be heard beyond the third row but also to caress millions. Crosby was among the first to understand that the microphone made it possible to sing to multitudes by singing to a single person in a small room.



Presley cuddled his microphone like a lover. With Crosby the microphone was usually concealed, but Presley brought it out on stage, detached it from its fitting, stroked it, pressed it to his mouth. It was a surrogate for his listener, and he made love to it unashamedly.



The difference between Presley and Crosby, however, reflected generational differences which spoke of changing values in American life. Crosby’s music was soothing; Presley’s was disturbing. It is too easy to be glib about this, to say that Crosby was singing to, first, Depression America and, then, to wartime America, and that his audiences had all the disturbance they could handle in their daily lives without buying more at the record shop and movie theater.


Section B Translate the following passage into English. (15%)






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随着女儿越来越大，我发现她喜欢爸爸明显多于我。有好吃的，总要给爸爸留一份，我有没有吃她倒很少关心。每次出去玩照合影女儿都是与爸爸脸贴着脸，紧紧抱住爸爸，把我晾在一边。 以前如果有人问女儿：“爸爸好还是妈妈好？”女儿的回答一律是爸爸好。后来经过老公的调教，现在的回答是爸爸妈妈都好。去年九月份我们搬到新房，买了两棵室内植物，我们管它叫小树。我老公认为室内植物的光合作用对改善空气成份有很大作用，又买了一棵，我嫌多余，而且装树的瓷瓶看起来很土。第二天老公上班后，女儿告诉我：“妈妈，这树多漂亮啊！”小家伙居然会替爸爸说话。新房装修时因为老公没时间，就把我父母接过来，一段时间过后，母亲笑对我说：“闺女，你以后的日子也不好过啊！”原来老人家是担心以后我闺女会帮着爸爸“欺负”她闺女。





Part VI Writing (30%)



Those who take up careers on the stage are usually more popular and wealthier than either scientists or professors. Despite their popularity, don’t they experience some disadvantages? Write a composition of about 300 words on the following topic:



Are Pop Stars Happy?

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