英美文学基础考研真题(A卷)

[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷6一、填空题1 ______is often given the credit for the discovery of the modern novel; but whether or not he deserves that honor remains an open question.2 "If the censure of Yahoo could any way affect me, I should have great reason to complain that some of them are so bold as to think my book of travels a mere fiction out of mine own brain." This question is selected from______.3 Henry Fielding has been regarded as "______", for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.4 British novel came of age in______.5 The Vicar of Wakefield is the only novel of______, which describes misfortunes falling on the central character and the family.6 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by______is taken a model of sentimentalist poetry, esp. the Graveyard school.7 Friday is a character in the novel______.8 Among the representatives of the Enlightenment,______was the first to introduce rationalism to England.9 Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in the form of______.10 Auld Lang Syne written by______deals with the friendship and has long become a universal parting-song of all the English-speaking countries.11 War in Crane's novel______is a plain slaughterhouse. There is nothing like valor or heroism on the battlefield, and if there is anything, it is the fear of death, cowardice, the natural instinct of man to run form danger.12 The literary career of Henry James is generally divided into______periods, in the first period(1865-1882), James took great interest in______theme.13 The name of the heroine in the Portrait of a Lady was______.14 ______was the first literary giant born west of the Mississippi.15 Dreiser visited the Soviet Union in 1927 and published______the following year.16 Mrs. Stowe's masterpiece is______.17 ______influences American literature a lot and led American romanticism turn into American realism.18 Mark Twain made a more extensive combination of______and______than previous writers had ever done.二、名词解释19 The Graveyard School20 Satire21 Classicism22 The Heroic Couplet23 Meter24 The Age of Realism25 American Naturalism26 Darwinism27 Regionalism28 First-person narrative三、单项选择题29 ______is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.（A）Genesis A（B）Exodus（C）The Pilgrim's Progress（D）The Holy War30 The object of______novels was to present a faithful picture of life, "the just copies of human manners", with sound teaching woven into their texture, so as to teach them to know themselves, their proper spheres and appropriate manners.（A）John Bunyan's（B）Alexander Pope's（C）Jonathan Swift's（D）Henry Fielding's31 Of all the 18th century novelists,______was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "comic epic in prose".（A）Henry Fielding（B）Daniel Defoe（C）John Bunyan（D）Jonathan Swift32 ______was very much concerned with the theme of the vanity of human wishes and tried to awaken men to this folly and hoped to cure them of it through his writing.（A）Samuel Johnson（B）Jonathan Swift（C）Richard Brinsley Sheridan（D）Thomas Gray33 The Rivals and______are generally regarded as important links between the masterpieces of Shakespeare and those of Bernard Shaw.（A）The School for Scandal（B）The Duenna（C）Widowers Houses（D）The Doctor's Dilemma34 ______is a sharp satire on the moral degeneracy of the aristocratic-bourgeois society in the 18th century England.（A）The Rivals（B）Gulliver's Travels（C）Tom Jones（D）The School for Scandal35 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,______best and most representative work has been ranked among the best of the 18th century English Poetry.（A）Alexander Pope's（B）Thomas Gray's（C）Samuel Johnson's（D）William Blake's36 As the representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce______to England.（A）rationalism（B）criticism（C）romanticism（D）realism37 The Enlightenment Movement did not advocate_____.（A）rationality, reason, order and rules（B）return to the ancient classical works（C）inner feelings of individuals（D）universal education38 An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in______.（A）heroic couplets（B）English sonnet（C）bland verse（D）Italian sonnet39 Which of the following comments on Thomas Gray's poetry is NOT true? （A）Distorted in word order.（B）Highly artificial in diction.（C）Calculated in rhythm.（D）Light-hearted in tone.40 In The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great the word "great" is used______.（A）allegorically（B）satirically（C）objectively（D）euphemistically41 By writing in apparently admiring terms of the life of a notorious criminal in The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great Henry Fielding suggests that there is little difference between______.（A）noted rogues and great politicians（B）the nobles and the commons（C）great rogues and lesser rogues.（D）discovered criminals and secret sinners42 What makes Jonathan Swift's satire all the more bitter, biting and poignant is that his satire is often masked by______on the part of the author.（A）an apparent eagerness, gravity, sincerity and detachment in tone（B）a softness and persuasiveness in manner and firmness and thoroughness in action （C）a strong indignation in tone and open defiance and challenge（D）a friendliness and frankness in tone and the seeming indifference and nonchalance43 Henry Fielding adopted "the third-person narration", which enables the author to present as the ______ not only the characters' external behavior but also the internal workings of their minds.（A）all-knowing God（B）intimate participant（C）invisible man（D）ignorant narrator44 The novel, which prospered in the hands of Swift, Defoe and Fielding, gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people. This is quite contrary to the traditional ______of aristocrats.（A）elegy（B）epic（C）romance（D）morality play45 The chief force that motivated John Bunyan to write The Pilgrim's Progress was his______.（A）political commitment（B）religious fervency（C）artistic pursuit.（D）long suffering in the person46 As a result of the conscientious study he made of the Bible, Bunyan's language was______.（A）satiric, concise and well-balanced（B）concrete, living and colloquial（C）general, Latinate and polysyllabic（D）comic, neat and decent47 The enlighteners believed that if the masses were well educated, there would be greater chance for a______human society.（A）reasonable（B）progressive（C）democratic（D）enlightened48 Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism is a(n)______poem.（A）ironic（B）didactic（C）sarcastic（D）exaggerated49 The tone of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels is______.（A）sad（B）sarcastic（C）praising（D）detached50 The______was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century.（A）Renaissance（B）Enlightenment（C）Religious Reformation（D）Chartist Movement51 During the reign of reason the enlightenment meant education of people to free them from all the unreasonable fetters which include______.（A）theology（B）conventional ideology（C）feudal government（D）all the above52 Which of the following is NOT Samuel Johnson's work?（A）London.（B）Tom Jones.（C）Lives of the Poets.（D）A Dictionary of the English Language.53 "Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?" The above passage is taken from______.（A）Francis Bacon's Of Studies（B）William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice（C）Samuel Johnson's To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield（D）Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal54 The 18th century witnesses a new literary form — the modern English novel, which, contrary to the medieval romance, gives a______presentation of life of the common English people.（A）romantic（B）idealistic（C）prophetic（D）realistic55 In Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray compared the common folk with the great ones, wondering what the commons could have achieved if they had had the______.（A）chance（B）love（C）money（D）material sources56 When he writes, in An Essay on Criticism, "A vile conceit in pompous words expressed, / Is like a clown in regal purple dresses," Alexander Pope means that______. （A）pompous words are always destructive to good taste（B）the purple color is for the royal only and it is ridiculous to dress a clown in purple （C）conceits are always misleading（D）true wit is best set in a plain style57 "The shepherd in Virgin grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of rocks."(Samuel Johnson's To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield)The speaker here is______.（A）cheerful（B）ironic（C）mysterious（D）nonchalant58 "He has a servant called Friday." "He" in the quoted sentence is a character in______. （A）Henry Fielding's Tom Jones（B）John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress（C）Richard Bringsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal（D）Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe59 Which of the following is NOT written by Theodore Dreiser?（A）The Genius.（B）The Titan.（C）Light in August.（D）Jennie Gerhardt.60 One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human"______".（A）bestiality（B）goodness（C）compassion（D）greed61 Which of the following writings is NOT a poem of Emily Dickinson's?（A）This is my letter to the World.（B）I heard a Fly buzz—When I died.（C）The Road Not Taken.（D）I like to see it lap the Miles.62 Mark Twain created, in______, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.（A）Huckleberry Finn（B）Tom Sawyer（C）The Man That Corrupted Hadleybury（D）The Gilded Age63 What is the analogy that Emily Dickinson uses in her poem Because I Could not Stop for Death?（A）Horse and carriage.（B）Stage and performance.（C）Cloud and shade.（D）Ship and harbor.64 Here is a passage from a novel: "The man gave him a last push and closed the door. As he did so, Hurstwood slipped and fell in the snow. It hurt him, and some vague sense of shame returned. He began to cry and swear foolishly. The novel must be______. （A）Dreiser's Sister Carrie（B）Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath（C）London's Martin Eden（D）Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer65 However, innocence, the keynote of Daisy Miller's character, turns out to be an admiring but dangerous quality and her______of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.（A）admiration（B）defiance（C）sympathy（D）disgusting8. American66 In Henry James Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the protagonist as an embodiment of______.（A）the force of convention（B）the decline of aristocracy（C）the free spirit of the New World（D）the corruption of the new rich67 The three dominant figures of the American Realistic Period are William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and______.（A）Emily Dickinson（B）Henry James（C）Theodore Dreiser（D）Ezra Pound68 As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly influenced by______.（A）Nathaniel Hawthorne（B）Charles Darwin（C）Henry James（D）Ralph Waldo Emerson69 Henry James's idea of realism differs from that of the other realist writers because his emphasis is on man's______.（A）language（B）inner world（C）surroundings（D）real actions70 Emily Dickinson got inspiration from______in her writing of poetry.（A）hymns（B）sonnets（C）free verse（D）heroic couplets71 Henry James is mostly concerned with______in his fiction.（A）the inner life of human beings（B）violent events in history（C）small-town life in backward regions（D）sufferings of the aged72 "Even then he stood there, hidden wholly in that kindness which is night, while the uprising fumes filled the room. When the odor reached his nostrils, he quit his attitude and fumbled for the bed. 'What's the use?' he said, weakly, as he stretched himself to rest." The passage is taken from______.（A）Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence（B）Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte（C）Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser（D）Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte73 ______, a novella about a young American girl who gets "killed" by the winter in Rome, brought its author international fame for the first time.（A）The American（B）Daisy Miller（C）The Portrait of a Lady（D）The Europeans74 By the end of Sister Carrie, Dreiser writes: "It was forever to be the pursuit of that radiance of delight which tints the distant hilltops of the world." Dreiser impliesthat______.（A）there is a bright future lying ahead（B）one should always have forward looking（C）one can never fulfill one's desire（D）happiness is found in the end75 After Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom's buddy Huck in a book entitled______.（A）Life on the Mississippi（B）The Gilded Age（C）The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn（D）A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court76 However,______, the keynote of Daisy Miller's character, turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality and her defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.（A）experience（B）sophistication（C）worldliness（D）innocence77 "I was letting on to give up sin, but always inside of me I was holding on to the biggest one of all. The sentence, which is taken from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is written in a(n)______tone.（A）ironic（B）regretful（C）sincere（D）delightful78 In I heard a fly buzz — When I died and Because I could not stop for Death, Emily Dickinson's attitude toward death is that of______.（A）eager embrace（B）helpless anxiety（C）peaceful acceptance（D）terrified despair79 ______is considered to be Theodore Dreiser's greatest work.（A）An American Tragedy（B）Sister Carrie（C）The Financier（D）The Titan80 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is best known for Mark Twain's wonderful characterization of "______" a typical American boy.（A）Jim（B）Tom Sawyer（C）Huck（D）Miss Watson81 Where Mark Twain satirized European manners at times,______was an admirer.（A）O. Henry（B）Henry James（C）Walt Whitman（D）Jack London82 With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene,______became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.（A）sentimentalism（B）romanticism（C）realism（D）naturalism83 In the following writers,______is regarded as "the true father of our national literature."（A）H. L. Menken（B）Mark Twain（C）Frank Noris（D）Theodore Dreiser84 The sentence "only the fittest can survive in a competitive, amoral society" may be regarded as an appropriate summary of______.（A）Jack London's Martin Eden（B）Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls（C）Dreiser's Sister Carrie（D）Melville's Moby Dick85 ______was the first American writer to conceive his career in international terms. （A）Washington Irving（B）T. S. Eliot（C）Ezra Pound（D）Henry James86 Compared with the writings of Mark Twain's, Henry James's fiction is noted for their______.（A）frontier vernacular（B）rich colloquialism（C）refined elegant language（D）vulgarly descriptive words87 In Sister Carrie, Hurstwood, extremely hopeless and totally devastated, ends his life by turning on the gas, while at the same time Carrie is rocking comfortably in her luxurious hotel room before she boards a ship for______.（A）New York（B）London（C）Paris（D）Geneva88 Which of the following best describes the young woman in Henry James's Daisy Miller?（A）She is an embodiment of the force of convention.（B）She means the decline of aristocracy.（C）She represents the free spirit of the New World.（D）She is reflection of the corruption of the newly rich.四、问答题89 "Most mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of he universe, whose dominions extend five thousand blustrugs(about twelve miles in circumference)to the extremities of the globe; Monarch of all Monarchs; taller than the sons of men; whose feet press down to the center, and whose head strikes against the sun; at whose nod the princes of the earth shake their knees; pleasant as spring, comfortable as summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter."A. Identify the work and the author.B. What is the tone of the author?C. What does the author parody here?90 "I consulted several things in my situation which I found would be proper for me: first, health and fresh water I just now mentioned; secondly, shelter from the heat of thesun; thirdly, security from ravenous creatures, whether men or beasts; fourthly, a view to the sea, that if God sent any ship in sight, I might not lose any advantage for my deliverance, of which I was not willing to banish all my expectation yet.A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.B. Who is the narrator?C. Explain the meaning of the last thing mentioned in the passage.91 "When each of the combatants had borne off sufficient spoils of hair from the head of her antagonist, the next rage was against the garments. In this attack they exerted so much violence, that in a very few minutes they were both naked to the middle.A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which this passage is taken.B. What is the passage describing?C. What are the names of the two combatants?92 "Some to conceit alone their taste confines,And glittering thoughts struck out at every line;Pleased with a work where nothing's just or fit,One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.Poets, like painters, thus unskilled to traceThe naked nature and the living grace,With gold and jewels cover every part,And hide with ornaments their want of art.True wit is Nature to advantage dressed,What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed;"A. Identify the author and the work.B. What idea does the poem express?C. What is the significance of the poem?93 "I had sent so many memorials and petitions for my liberty, that his Majesty at length mentioned the matter first in the cabinet, and then in a full council; where it was opposed by none, except Skyresh Bolgolam, who was pleased, without any provocation, to be my mortal enemy.A. Identify the author and the work.B. Who is this "Skyresh Bolgolam"?C. Why does the author make Skyresh Bolgoalm a mortal enemy of the narrator?94 "This is my letter to the WorldThat never wrote to me—The simple News that Nature told—With tender Majesty"A. Identify the poet.B. What does the word "World" refer to?C. What idea does the quoted passage express?95 "It is when the feet weary and hope seems vain that the heartaches and the longings arise. Know, then, that for you is neither surfeit nor content. In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel."A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which the passage is taken.B. What does the rocking-chair symbolize?C. How do you classify this novel?96 "I like to see it lap the Miles—And lick the Valleys up—And stop to feed itself at Tanks—And then—prodigious step"A. Please give the name of the poet.B. What does "it" in this poem refer to?C. What idea does this poem express?97 Isabel always felt an impulse to pull out the pins; not that she imagined they inflicted any damage on the tough old parchment, but because it seemed to her her aunt might make better use of her sharpness. She was very critical herself— it was incidental to her sex, and her antionalit but she was very sentimental as well, and there was something in Mrs. Touchett's dryness that set her own moral fountains flowing."Now what's your point of view?" she asked of her aunt. "When you criticize everything here you should have a point of view. Yours doesn't seem to be American you thought everything over there so disagreeable. When I have time; it's thoroughly American!" "My dear young lady", said Mrs. Touchett, "there are as many points of view in the world as there are people of sense to take them. You may say that doesn't make them very numerous. American? Never in the world; that's shockingly narrow, my point of views, thank God, is personal!"A. What is the name of the novel from which this passage is taken?B. Who is the author of this novel?C. Make a brief comment on the heroine Isable Arther.D. What is Jamesian theme?五、论述题98 Give a brief comment on Alexander Pope's literary outlook.99 What's the theme of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal?100 Robinson Crusoe is universally regarded as Daniel Defoe's masterpiece. Give some reasons for its success.101 As a rule, an allegory is a story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surface meaning, and an implied meaning. List two works as examples of allegory. What is an allegory usually concerned with by its implied meaning?102 Give a brief comment on Enlightenment Movement.103 What makes Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn more than a child's adventure story? Briefly discuss the question from THREE of the following aspects: the setting, the language, the character(s), the theme and the style.104 "Even then he stood there, hidden wholly in that kindness which is night, while the uprising fumes filled the room. When the odor reached his nostrils, he quit his attitude and fumbled for the bed. 'What's the use?' he said, weakly, as he stretched himself to rest." The above is quoted from Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie. Briefly tell the situation that leads to the suicide and interpret Hurstwood's final words — "what's the use?"105 Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view? Please discuss the above question in relation to the basic principles of literary naturalism.106 In American literature what is the significance of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain?107 What are the similarities and differences between the three literary giants, Howells, Mark Twain, Henry James, in terms of their literary orientation?。

英语文学研究生试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 以下哪位作家是“现代主义”文学的代表人物？A. 简·奥斯汀B. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫C. 威廉·莎士比亚D. 查尔斯·狄更斯2. 威廉·福克纳的代表作《喧哗与骚动》的文学风格属于以下哪类？A. 现实主义B. 浪漫主义C. 现代主义D. 后现代主义3. 英语文学中的“流意识”技巧是由哪位作家首次使用的？A. 詹姆斯·乔伊斯B. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫C. 威廉·福克纳D. 托马斯·曼4. 以下哪部作品不是乔治·奥威尔所著？A. 《1984》B. 《动物农场》C. 《了不起的盖茨比》D. 《穷人的死》5. 英语文学中的“荒诞派”戏剧的代表作是？A. 《等待果陀》B. 《死亡与少女》C. 《哈姆雷特》D. 《麦克白》二、简答题（每题10分，共30分）6. 简述“现代主义”文学的特点。

7. 描述“后现代主义”文学与“现代主义”文学的主要区别。

8. 简述“新批评”理论的主要观点。

三、论述题（每题25分，共50分）9. 论述威廉·福克纳的《喧哗与骚动》中的时间与叙事技巧。

10. 分析《了不起的盖茨比》中的象征主义手法及其对主题的贡献。

英语文学研究生试题答案一、选择题1. B. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫2. C. 现代主义3. B. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫4. C. 《了不起的盖茨比》5. A. 《等待果陀》二、简答题6. 现代主义文学的特点包括对传统叙事结构的颠覆，强调内心体验和心理流意识，以及对现实与时间的非线性表现。

7. 后现代主义文学与现代主义文学的主要区别在于后现代主义更加强调文本的开放性、多样性和互文性，以及对权威的解构和对现实主义的怀疑。

8. 新批评理论的主要观点是强调文本的自足性，主张对文本进行客观分析，忽略作者的意图和作品的社会背景。

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870华南理工大学2012年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试卷（请在答题纸上做答，试卷上做答无效，试后本卷必须与答题纸一同交回）科目名称：语言学和英美文学基础知识适用专业：英语语言文学；外国语言学及应用语言学本卷满分：150分共7页Part OneFundamentals of Linguistics and Literature（英语语言文学和外国语言学及应用语言学考生共答部分）I. Define the following terms in your own words (20 points)1. morpheme2. hyponymy3. language variety4. relation maxim5. metaphor6. Romanticism7. Sentimentalism8. Metaphysical poetry9. Free verse10. Lost GenerationII. Answer the following questions (30 points)1. How to classify errors in terms of their sources?2. What is the significance of Saussure’s distinguishing between langue and parole?3. Why [p, p h] are taken as allophones of the same phoneme /p/?4. What is the stream-of-consciousness novel?5. What is the significance of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer?6. Why is Romanticism considered the greatest poetic movement in British literature?Part TwoTest for Students of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics（仅供外国语言学及应用语言学考生用，英语语言文学考生不作答）I. Discuss and comment on the following topics (40 points)1. transcription of speech sounds2. inflectional morphology and differences between languages3. universal grammar and specific grammars4. the meaning of meaningII. Analyze the Language data according to the requirements (60 points)1. Explain the following sentence by way of IC-analysis (15 points):Go and ask Mr. Smith who is sitting by the window.2. Analyze the following speech event in terms of the related pragmatic theory (10points):Mary: Do you like rugby?Tony: I am a New Zealander.3. Explain the rules and principles underlying the ungrammaticality or inappropriatenessinvolved in the following sentences (20 points):a. * I’m grateful to Professor Smith for providing me food and accommodationduring my visit to Harvard University.b. * Hearing the shouting, David saw the birds flying away immediately.4. Analyze the following passage in terms of the related stylistic theory (15 points):If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?(William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, II. ix)Part ThreeTest for Students of English Language and Literature（仅供英语语言文学考生用，外国语言学及应用语言学考生不作答）I. Discuss and comment on the following topics (40 points)1. What led to the rise of American Realism?2. What are the major themes of modernist literature?3. Comment on the historical development of sonnet as a poetic form.4. Discuss the characteristics of Edgar Allan Poe’s poems.II. Analysis and appreciation (60 points)1. Please read the following excerpt from Tess of D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, and analyze it in a 200-word essay. (30 points)Chapter 35Clare performed the irrelevant act of stirring the fire: the intelligence had not even yet got to the bottom of him. After stirring the embers he rose to his feet: all the force of her disclosure had imparted itself now. His face had withered. In the strenuousness of his concentration he treaded fitfully on the floor. He could not, by any contrivance, think closely enough; that was the meaning of his vague movement. When he spoke it was in the most inadequate, commonplace voice of the many varied tones she had heard from him.“Tess!”“Yes, dearest.”“Am I to believe this? From your manner I am to take it as true. O you cannot be out of your mind! You ought to be! Yet you are not. … My wife, my Tess ─ nothing in you warrants such a supposition as that?”“I am not out of mind,” she said.“And yet —” He looked vacantly at her, to resume with dazed senses: “Why didn’t you tell me before? Ah, yes ─you would have told me —in a way; but I hindered you.I remember!”These, and other of his words, were nothing but the perfunctory babble of the surface while the depths remained paralyzed. He turned away, and bent over a chair. Tess followed him to the middle of the room where he was, and stood there staring at him with eyes that did not weep. Presently she slid down upon her knees beside his foot, and from this position she crouched in a heap.“In the name of our love, forgive me!” she whispered with a dry mouth. “I have forgiven you for the same!”And, as he did not answer she said again;“Forgive me as you are forgiven! I forgive you, Angel.”“You, — yes, you do.”“But you do not forgive me?”“O Tess, forgiveness does not apply to the case. You were one person: now you are another. My God — how can forgiveness meet such a grotesque — prestidigitation as that!”He paused, contemplating this definition; then suddenly broke into horrible laughter — as unnatural and ghastly as a laugh in hell.“Don’t — don’t! It kills me quite, that!” she shrieked. “O have mercy upon me — have mercy!”He did not answer; and, sickly white, she jumped up. “Angel, Angel? What do you mean by that laugh?” she cried out. “Do you know — what this is to me?”He shook his head.“I have been hoping, longing, praying, to make you happy! I have thought what joy it will be to do it, what an unworthy wife I shall be if I do not! That’s what I have felt, Angel?”“I know that.”“I thought, Angel, that you loved me — me, my very self! If it is I you do love, O how can it be that you look and speak so? It frightens me! Having begun to love you, I love you for ever — in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself. I ask no more. Then how can you, O my own husband, stop loving me?”“I repeat, the woman I have been loving is not you.”“But who?”“Another woman in your shape.”…“Angel,” she said suddenly in her natural tones, the insane dry voice of terror having left her now. “Angel, am I too wicked for you and me to live together?”“I have not been able to think what we can do.”“I shan’t ask you to let me live with you, Angel; because I have no right to. I shall not write to mother and sisters to say we be married, as I said I would do. And I shan’t finish the good-hussif’ I cut out and meant to make while we were in lodgings.”“Shan’t you?”“No, I shan’t do anything, unless you order me to. And if you go away from me I shall not follow’ee; and if you never speak to me any more I shall not ask why, unless you tell me I may.”“And if I do order you to do anything?”“I will obey you, like your wretched slave, even if it is to lie down and die.”…But she went on pleading in her distraction; and perhaps said things that would have been better left to silence. “Angel, Angel: I was a child — a child when it happened! I knew nothing of men.”“You were more sinned against than sinning, that I admit.”“Then will you not forgive me?”“I do forgive you. But forgiveness is not all.”“And love me?”To this question he did not answer.“O Angel — my mother says that it sometimes happens so — she knows several cases when they were worse than I, and the husband has not minded it much — has got over it, at least. And yet the woman has not loved him as I do you.”“Don’t, Tess; don’t argue. Different societies different manners. You almost make me say you are an unapprehending peasant woman, who have never been initiated into the proportions of social things. You don’t know what you say.”“I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!”…“During the interval of the cottager’s going and coming she had said to her husband, “I don’t see how I can help being the cause of much misery to you all your life. The river is down there: I can put an end to myself in it. I am not afraid.”“I don’t wish to add murder to my other follies,” he said.“I will leave something to show that I did it myself — on account of my shame. They will not blame you then.”“Don’t speak so absurdly — I wish not to hear it. It is nonsense to have such thoughts in this kind of case, which is rather one for satirical laughter than for tragedy. You don’t in the least understand the quality of the mishap. It would be viewed in the light of a joke by nine-tenths of the world, if it were known. Please oblige me by returning to the house and going to bed.”“I will,” said she dutifully.…Having nothing more to fear, having scarce anything to hope, for that he would relent there seemed no promise whatever, she lay down dully. When sorrow ceases to be speculative sleep sees her opportunity. Among so many happier moods which forbid repose this was a mood which welcomed it, and in a few minutes the lonely Tess forgot existence, surrounded by the aromatic stillness of the chamber that had once, possibly, been the bride-chamber of her own ancestry.Later on that night Clare also retraced his steps to the house. Entering softly to thesitting-room he obtained a light, and with the manner of one who had considered his course he spread his rugs upon the old horse-hair sofa which stood there, and roughly shaped it to a sleeping-couch. Before lying down he crept shoeless upstairs, and listened at the door of her apartment. Her measured breathing told that she was sleeping profoundly.“Thank God!” murmured Clare; and yet he was conscious of a pang of bitterness at the thought — approximately true, thought not wholly so — that having shifted the burden of her life to his shoulders she was now reposing without care.…The check was sufficient. He resumed his retreat and descended.His air remained calm and cold, his small compressed mouth indexing his powers of self-control; his face wearing still that terribly sterile expression which had spread thereon since her disclosure. It was the face of a man who was no longer passion’s slave, yet who found no advantage in his enfranchisement. He was simply regarding the harrowing contingencies of human experience, the unexpectedness of things. Nothing so pure, so sweet, so virginal as Tess had seemed possible all the long while that he had adored her, up to an hour ago; butThe little less, and what worlds away!He argued erroneously when he said to himself that her heart was not indexed in the honest freshness of her face; but Tess had no advocate to set him right. Could it be possible he continued that eyes which as they gazed never expressed any divergence from what the tongue was telling, were yet ever seeing another world behind her ostensible one, discordant and contrasting.He reclined on his couch in the sitting-room, and extinguished the light. The night came in, and took up its place there, unconcerned and indifferent; the night which had already swallowed up his happiness, and was now digesting it listlessly; and was ready to swallow up the happiness of a thousand other people with as little disturbance or change of mien.2. The following is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson. Write an analytic essay on it in about 250 words. (30 points)Break, break, break,On thy cold gray stones, O sea!And I would that my tongue could utterThe thoughts that arise in me.O, well for the fisherman’s boy,That he shouts with his sister at play!O, well for the sailor lad,That he sings in his boat on the bay!And the stately ships go onTo their haven under the hill;But for touch of a vanish’d handAnd the sound of a voice that is still!Break, break, break,At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!But the tender grace of the day that is dead Will never come back to me.。

英语文学考研试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 莎士比亚的《哈姆雷特》中，主人公哈姆雷特的叔叔是谁？A. 克劳狄斯B. 奥菲利亚C. 波洛涅斯D. 拉尔特斯答案：A2. 简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》中，伊丽莎白·班内特最终与谁结婚？A. 达西先生B. 宾利先生C. 威克姆先生D. 柯林斯先生答案：A3. 在弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的《到灯塔去》中，拉姆齐夫人的丈夫是谁？A. 拉姆齐先生B. 班克斯先生C. 塔斯利先生D. 卡迈克尔先生答案：A4. 乔治·奥威尔的《1984》中，主人公温斯顿·史密斯在哪个部门工作？A. 真理部B. 和平部C. 富足部D. 仁爱部答案：A5. 在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》中，白鲸的名字是什么？A. 莫比·迪克B. 艾哈布船长C. 斯塔布D. 弗拉斯克答案：A6. 狄更斯的《双城记》中，故事发生在哪个国家？A. 英国B. 法国C. 德国D. 意大利答案：B7. 在《了不起的盖茨比》中，盖茨比的真正名字是什么？A. 詹姆斯·盖茨B. 汤姆·布坎南C. 乔治·威尔逊D. 迈耶·沃尔夫舍姆答案：A8. 艾米莉·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》中，希斯克利夫是如何得到呼啸山庄的？A. 通过继承B. 通过购买C. 通过婚姻D. 通过欺诈答案：C9. 在《简·爱》中，简·爱在桑菲尔德庄园担任什么职位？A. 女管家B. 家庭教师C. 仆人D. 园丁答案：B10. 托马斯·哈代的《德伯家的苔丝》中，苔丝·德伯因何被判刑？A. 谋杀B. 盗窃C. 通奸D. 私奔答案：A二、简答题（每题10分，共40分）1. 描述《麦克白》中麦克白夫人的性格特点，并分析她对麦克白的影响。

答案：麦克白夫人是一个野心勃勃、冷酷无情的人物。

她对权力的渴望促使她鼓励丈夫麦克白谋杀国王邓肯，以夺取王位。

英语基础考研题目及答案### English Proficiency Test for Postgraduate Entrance: Practice Questions and Answers#### Section A: Vocabulary and GrammarQuestion 1: Choose the correct word to fill in the blank. The scientist's new theory has been widely ______ by the academic community.a) embracedb) rejectedc) ignoredd) disputedAnswer: a) embracedQuestion 2: Fill in the blank with the appropriate preposition.The company's profits have increased significantly ______ the past year.Answer: in#### Section B: Reading ComprehensionPassage 1:The article discusses the impact of technology on education. It highlights how the integration of digital tools hastransformed the learning process, making it more interactive and personalized. The author also addresses concerns about the potential loss of human touch in teaching.Question 1: According to the passage, what is the primary benefit of integrating technology into education?a) Increased cost-efficiencyb) Enhanced student engagementc) Greater accessibilityd) Improved teacher-student interactionAnswer: b) Enhanced student engagementQuestion 2: What concern does the author mention regarding the use of technology in classrooms?a) The potential for distractionb) The risk of cyberbullyingc) The possibility of a loss of human touchd) The challenge of maintaining privacyAnswer: c) The possibility of a loss of human touch#### Section C: WritingTask: Write an essay discussing the role of social media in modern society. Consider the advantages and disadvantages.Sample Answer:Social media has become an integral part of modern society, serving as a platform for communication, information sharing, and social networking. On one hand, it has democratized theflow of information, allowing individuals to access news and engage in global conversations instantly. It has also provided a space for self-expression and creativity, with users sharing their thoughts, art, and experiences.However, the pervasiveness of social media also brings challenges. It can lead to the spread of misinformation and has been linked to mental health issues such as anxiety and depression due to the pressure to maintain a certain image online. Additionally, the addictive nature of social media platforms can distract individuals from real-lifeinteractions and responsibilities.In conclusion, while social media offers numerous benefits, it is crucial to approach it with a critical eye and a balanced perspective to mitigate its potential negative impacts.#### Section D: Listening ComprehensionQuestion 1: Listen to the conversation and choose the correct answer.What is the main topic of the conversation?a) Planning a vacationb) Discussing a business proposalc) Talking about a new movied) Arguing about a political issueAnswer: b) Discussing a business proposalQuestion 2: What is the man's opinion about the proposal?a) He is in favor of it.b) He is against it.c) He is undecided.d) He is not interested.Answer: a) He is in favor of it.Please note that the above content is a fictional representation of a postgraduate entrance English proficiency test and is provided for illustrative purposes only.。

【北京外国语大学-英美文学-考研真题及答案】英美文学方向专业试卷（考试时间3 小时，满分150分，全部写在答题纸上，答在试题页上无效）Section 1 Matching (30points)Match each of the following ten passages with its. author. There are more authors than passages here, and one author may be matched with more than onepassage.Write the passage number (1-10) and the corresponding author letter (A 句for each answer. For example, thefollowing is Passage2:Only one same reason is shared by all of us: we wish to create worlds as real as, but other than the world that is. Or was. This is why we cannot plan. We know a world is an organism, not a machine. We also know that a genuinely created world must be independent of its creator; a planned world (a world that fully reveals its planning) is a dead world. It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to l ive.And its author is [M] F owles. Then your answer should be: 2M.Passages1.Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. Aboslve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.2.It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger - but I done it, and I wam't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither. I didn't do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn't done that one ifl'd a knowed it would make him feel that way.3.While arranging my hair, I looked at my face in the glass and felt it was no longer plain: there was hope in its aspect and life in its colour; and my eyes seemed as if they had beheld the fount of fruition and borrowed beams from the lustrous ripple. I had often been unwilling to look at my master, because I feared he could not be pleased at my look: but I was sure I might lift my face to his now, and not cool his affection by its expression.4.Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.5.Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I've tasted of desire,I hold with those who favour fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo say that for destructionice Is also greatAnd would suffice.6.I wander thro' each charter'd street,Near where the charter'd Thames does flow,And mark in every face I meetMarks of weakness, marks of woe.7.Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is:What if my leaves are falling like its own!The tumult of thy mighty harmoniesWill take from both a deep, autumnal tone,Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce,My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!8.Another thing in Joe that I could not understand when it fi订st began to develop itself, but which I soon arrived at sorrowful comprehension of, was this: As I became stronger and better, Joe became a little less easy with me.9.All Nature is but art, unknown to thee;All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;All discord, harmony not understood;All partial evil, universal good;And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite,One truth is clear: whatever IS, is RIGHT.10.The grass-plot before the jail, in Prison Lane, on a certain summer morning, not less than two centuries ago, was occupied by a pretty large number of the inhabitants of Boston, all with their eyes intently fastened on the iron-clamped oaken door. Amongst any other population, or at a later period in the history of New England, the grim rigidity that petrified the bearded physiognomies of these good people would have ugured some awful business in hand.AuthorsA.Henry Divid ThoreauB.William WordsworthC.Charles DickensD.Alexander PopeE.Francis BaconF.Charlotte BronteG.Percy Bysshe ShelleyH.Robert FrostI.Mark TwainJ.William ShakespeareK.Nathaniel Haw出orneL.Ralph W. EmersonM.Willam BlakeSection 2 Short Story (120points)1.Summarize the p lot o f t hefollowing .sto疗in y our own words. (30points)2.De fine the ma j or theme o f the following short sto叮'.(40points)3.Make a brief comment on the characterization of the man and his wife. (30points)4.C omment on the ending part o f the story.{20points)The Enormous RadioJim and Irene Wescott were the kind of people who seem to strike that satisfactory average of income, endeavor, and respectability that is reached by the statistical reports in college alumni bulletins. They were the parents of two young children, they had been married nine years, they lived on the twelfth floor of an apartment house near Sutton Place, they went to the theater on an average of 10.3 times a year, and they hoped someday to live in Westchester. Irene Wescott was a pleasant, rather plain g订l with soft brown hair, and a wide, fine forehead upon which nothing at all had been written, and in the cold weather she wore a coat of fitch skins dyed to resemble mink. You could not say that Jim Westcott looked younger than he was, but you could at least say of him that he seemed to feel younger. He wore his graying hair cut very short, he dressed in the kind of clothes his class had worn at Andover, and his manner was earnest, vehement, and intentionally na'ive. The Westcotts differed from their friends, their classmates, and their neighbors, only in an interest they shared in serious music. They went to a great many concerts - although they seldom mentioned t压s to anyone - and they spent a good deal of time listening to music on the radio.Their radio was an old instrument, sensitive, unpredictable, and beyond repair. He promised to buy Irene a new radio, and on Monday when he came home from work he told her that he had got one. He refused to describe it, and said it would be a surprise for her when it came.The radio was delivered at the kitchen door the follo劝ng afternoon, and with the assistance of her maid and the handyman Irene uncrated it and brought it into the living room. She wasstruck at once with the physical ugliness of the large gumwood cabinet. Irene was proud of her living room, she.had chosen its furnishings and colors as carefully as she chose her clothes, and now it seemed to her that her new radio stood among her intimate possessions like an aggressive intruder. She was confounded by the number of dials and switches on the instrument panel, and she studied them thoroughly before she put the plug into a wall socket and turned the radio on. The dials flooded with a malevolent green light, and in the distance she heard the music of a piano quartet. The quintet was in the distance for only an instant; it bore down upon her with a speed greater than light and filled the apartment with the noise of music amplified so mightily that it knocked a china ornament from a table to the floor. She rushed to the instrument and reduced the volume. The violent forces that were snared in the ugly gumwood cabinet made her uneasy. Her children came home from schoc,l then, and she took them to the Park. It was not until later in the afternoon that she was able to return to the radio.The maid had given the children their suppers and was supervising their baths when Irene turned on the radio, reduced the volume, and sat down to listen to a Mozart quintet that she knew and enjoyed. The music came through clearly. The new instrument had a much purer tone, she thought, than the old one. She decided that tone was most important and that she could conceal the cabinet behind the sofa. But as soon as she had made her peace with the radio, the interference began. A crackling sound like the noise of a burning powder fuse began to accompany the singing of the strings. Beyond the music, there was a rustling that reminded Irene unpleasantly of the sea, and as the quintet progressed, these noises were joined by the many others. She tried all the dials and switches but nothing dimmed the interference, and she sat down, disappointed and bewildered, and tried to trace the flight of the melody. The elevator shaft in her building ran beside the living-room wall, and it was the noise of the elevator that gave her a clue to the character of the static. The rattling of the elevator cables and the opening and closing of the elevator doors were reproduced in her loudspeaker, and, realizing that the radio was sensitive to electrical currents of all sorts, she began to discern through the Mozart the ringing of telephone bells, the dialing of phones, and the lamentation of a vacuum cleaner. By listening more carefully, she was able to distinguish doorbells, elevator bells, electric razors, and Waring mixers, whose sounds had been picked up from the apartments that surrounded hers and transmitted through her loudspeaker. The powerful and ugly instrument, with its mistaken sensibility to discord, was more than·she could hope to master, so she turned the thing off and went into the nursery to see her children.When Jim came home that night, he was tired, and he took a bath and changed his clothes. Then he joined Irene in the living room. He had just turned on the radio when the maid .announced dinner, so he left it on, and Irene went to the table.Jim was too tired to make even·pretense of sociability, and there was nothing about the dinner to hold Irene's interest, so her attention wandered from the food to the deposits of silver polish on the candlesticks and from there to the music in the other room. She listened for a few minutes to a Chopin prelude and then was surprised to hear a man's voice break in. ."For Christ's sake, Kathy," he said, "do you always have to play the piano when I get home?" The music stopped abruptly. "It's the only chance I have," the woman said. "I'm at the office all day." "So am I," the man said. He added something obscene about an upright piano, and slammed a door. The passionate and m elancholy music began again."Did you hear that?" Irene asked."What?" Jim was eating his dessert."The radio. A man said something while the music was still going on -- something dirty.""It's probably a play.""I don't think it is a play," Irene said.They left the table and took their coffee into the living room. Irene asked Jim to try another station. He turned the knob. "Have you seen my garters?" A man asked. "Button me up," a woman said. "Have you seen my garters?" the man said again. "Just button me up and I'll find your ga廿ers," the woman said. Jim shifted to another station. "I wish you wouldn't leave apple cores in the ashtrays," a man said. "I hate the smell.""This is strange," Jim said."Isn't it?" Irene said.Jim turned the knob again. "'On the coast of Coromandel where the early pumpkins blow,"' a woman with a pronounced English accent said, "'in the middle of the woods lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs, and half a candle, one old jug without a handle "' "My God!" Irene cried. "That's the Sweeneys' nurse.""'These were all his worldly goods,"' the British voice continued."Turn that thing off," Irene said."Maybe they can hear us." Jim switched the radio off. "That was Miss Armstrong, the Sweeneys' nurse," Irene said. "She must be reading to the little girl. They live in 17-B. I've talked with Miss Armstrong in the Park. I know her voice very well. We must be getting other people's apartments.""That's impossible," Jim said."Well, that was the Sweeneys' nurse," Irene said hotly. "I know her voice. I know it very well. I'm wondering if they can hear us."Jim turned the switch. First from a distance and then nearer, nearer, as if borne on the wind, came the pure accents of the Sweeneys' nurse again: '"Lady Jingly! Lady Jingly!"' she said, '"sitting where the pumpkins blow, will you come and be my wife? said the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo '"Jim went over to the radio and said, "Hello" loudly into the speaker.'"/ am tired of living singly, "' the nurse went on, '"on this coast so wild and shingly, I'm a-weary of my life; ifyou 'll come and be my wife, quite serene would be my life '""I guess she can't hear us," Irene said. "Try something else."Jim turned to another station, and the living room was filled with the uproar of a cocktail party that had overshot its mark. Someone was playing the piano and singing the "Whiffenpoof Song," and the voices that surrounded the piano were vehement and happy. "Eat some more sandwiches," a woman shrieked. 1h e r e were screams of laughter and a dish of some sort crashed to the floor."Those must be the Fullers, in 11-E," Irene said. "I knew they were giving a party this afternoon. I saw her in the liquor store. Isn't this too divine? Try something else. See if you can get those people in 18-C."The Westcotts overheard that evening a monologue on salmon fishing in Canada, a bridge game, running comments on home movies of what had apparently been a fortnight at Sea Island, and a bitter family quarrel about an overdraft at the bank. They turned off their radio at midnight and went to bed, weak with laughter.The following morning, Irene cooked breakfast for the family - the maid didn't come up from her room in the basement until ten - braided her daughter's hair, and waited at the door until her children and her husband had been carried away in the elevator. Then she went into the living room and tried the radio. "I don't want to go to school," a child screamed. "I hate school. I won't go to school. I hate school." "You will go to school," an enraged woman said. "We paid eight hundred dollars to get you into that school and you'll go if it kills you." The next number on the dial produced the worn record of the "Missouri Waltz." Irene shifted the control and invaded the privacy of several breakfast tables. She overheard demonstrations of indigestion, carnal love, abysmal vanity, faith, and despair. Irene's life was nearly as simple and sheltered as it appeared to be, and the forthright and sometimes brutal language that came from the loudspeaker that morning astonished and troubled her. She continued to listen until her maid came in. Then she turned off the radio quickly, since this insight, she realized, was a furtive one.Irene had a luncheon date with a friend that day, and she left her apartment a little after twelve.Irene had two Martinis at lunch, and she looked searchingly at her friend and wondered what her secrets were. They had intended to go shopping after lunch, but Irene excused herself and went home. She told the maid that she was not to be disturbed; then she went into the living room, closed the doors, and switched on the radio. She heard, in the course of the afternoon, the halting conversation of a woman entertaining her aunt, the hysterical conclusion of a luncheon party, and hostess briefing her maid about some cocktail guests. "Don't give the best Scotch to anyone who hasn't white hair," the hostess said. "See if you can get rid of the liver paste before you pass those hot things, and could you lend me five dollars? I want to tip the elevator man."As the afternoon waned, the conversations increased in intensity. From where Irene sat, she could see the open sky above the East River. There were hundreds of clouds in the sky, as though the south wind had broken the winter into pieces and were blowing it north, and on her radio she could hear the arrival of cocktail guests and the return of children and businessmen from their schools and offices. "I found a good-sized diamond on the bathroom floor this morning," a woman said. "It must have fallen out of the bracelet Mrs. Dunston was wearing last night." "We'll sell it," a man said. 'Take it down to the jeweler on Madison Avenue and sell it. Mrs. Dunston won'tknow the difference, and we could use a couple of hundred bucks " "'Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clement's,'" the Sweeneys' nurse sang. "Halfpence and farthings, say the bells of St. Martin's. When will you pay me? say the bells at old Bailey ..."' "It's not a hat," a womancried, and at her back roared a cocktail party. "It's not a hat, it's a love affair. That's what Walter Florell said. He said it's not a hat, it's a love affair," and then, in a lower voice, the same woman added, "Talk to somebody, for Christ's sake, honey, talk to somebody. If she catches you standing here not talking to anybody, she'll take us off her invitation list, and I love these parties."Jim came home at about six the next night. Emma, the maid, let him in , and he had taken off his hat and was taking off his coat when Irene ran into the hall. Her face was shining with tears and her hair was disordered. "Go up to 16-C, Jim!" she screamed. "Don't take off your coat. Go up to 16-C. Mr Osborn's beating his wife. They've been quarreling since four o'clock, and now he is hitting her. Go up there and stop him."From the radio in the living room, Jim heard screams, obscenities, and thuds. "You know you don't have to listen to this sort of thing," he said. He strode into the living room and turned the switch. "It's indecent," he said. "It's like looking into windows. You know you don't have to listen to this sort of thing. You can turn it off.""Oh, it's so terrible, it's so dreaful," Irene was sobbing. I've been listening all day, and it's so depressing.""Well, if it's so depressing, why do you listen to it? I brought this dammed radio to give you some pleasure," he said. "I paid a great deal of money for it. I thought it might make you happy. I wanted to make you happy.""Don't , don't, don't,,don't quarrel with me," she moaned, and laid her head on his shoulder. "All the others have been quarreling all day. Everybody's been quarreling. They're all worried about money. Mrs. Hutchinson's mother is dying of cancer in Florida and they don't have enough money to send her to the Mayo Clinic. At least, Mr Hutchinson says they don't have enough money. And some woman in this building is having an affair with the handyman - with that hideous handyman. It's too disgusting. And Mrs. Melville has heart trouble, and Mr. Hendricks is going to lose his job in April and Mrs. Hendricks is horrid about the whole thing and that girl that plays the "Missouri Waltz" is a whore, a common whore, and the elevator man has tuberculosis and Mr. Osborn has been beating his wife." She wailed, she trembled with grief and checked the stream of tears down her face with the heel of her palm."Well why do you have to listen?" Jim asked again. "Why do you have to listen to this stuff if it makes you miserable?""Oh, don't, don't, don't," she cried; "Life is too terrible, too sordid and awful. But we'venever been like that, have we, darling"? Have we? I mean, we've always been good and decent and loving to one another, haven't we? And we have two children, two beautiful children. Our lives aren't sordid, are they, darling? Are they?" She flung her arms around his neck and drew his face down to hers. "We're happy, aren't we, darling? We are happy, aren't we?""Of course we're happy," he said tiredly. He began to surrender his resentment. "Of course we are happy. "I'll have that dammed radio fixed or taken away tomorrow." He stroked her soft hair. "My poor girl," he said."You love me, don't you? she asked. "And we're not hypercritical or worried about money or dishonesty, are we?"A man came in the morning and fixed the radio. Irene turned it on cautiously and was happy to hear a California-wine commercial and a recording of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, including Schiller's "Ode to Joy." She kept the radio on all day and nothing untoward came toward the speaker.A Spanish suite was being played when Jim came home. "Is everything all right?" he asked. His face was pale, she thought. They had some cocktails and went to dinner to the "Anvil Chorus" from II Trovatore. This was followed by Debussy's "La Mer.""I paid the bill for the radio today," Jim said. "It cost four hundred dollars. I hope you'll get some enjoyment out of it.""Oh, I'm sure I will," Irene said."Four hundred dollars is a good deal more than I can afford," he went on. "I wanted to get something that you'd enjoy. It's the last extravagance we'll indulge in this year. I see that you haven't paid your clothing bills yet. I saw them on.your dressing table." He looked directly at her. "Why did you tell me you paid them? Why did you lie to me?""I just didn't want you to worry, Jim," she said. She drank some water. "I'll be able to pay my bills out of this months allowance. There were the slipcovers last month, and that party.""You've got to learn to handle the money I give you a little more intelligently, Irene," he said. "You've got to understand that we don't have as much money this year as we had last. I had a very sobering talk with Mitchell today. No one is buying anything. We're spending all of our timepromoting new issues, and you know how long that takes. I'm not getting any younger you know. I'm thirty-seven. My hair will be gray next year. I haven't done as well as I hoped to do. And I don't suppose things will get any better.""Yes dear," she said."We've got to start cutting down," Jim said. "We've got to think of the children. To be perfectly frank with you, I worry about money a great deal. I'm not at all sure of the future. No one is. If anything should happen to me, there's the insurance, but that won't go very far today. I've worked awfully hard to give you and the children a comfortable life," he said bitterly. "I don't like to see all my energies, all my youth, wasted in fur coast and radios and slipcovers and -""Please Jim," she said. "Please. They'll hear us.""Who'll hear us? Emma can't hear us.""The Radio.""Oh, I'm sick! He shouted. "I'm sick to death of your apprehensiveness. The radio can't hear us. Nobody can hear us. And what if they can hear us? Who cares?"Irene got up from the table and went into the living room. Jim went to the door and shouted from there. "Why are you so Christly all of a sudden? What's turned you overnight into a convent girl? You stole your mother's jewelry before they probated her will. You never gave your sister a cent of that money that was intended for her - not even when she needed it. You made Grace Rowland's life miserable, and where was all your all your piety and your virtue when you went to that abortionist? I'll never forget how cool you were. You packed your bag and went off to have that child murdered as if you were going to Nassau. If you had any reasons, if you had any good reasons -Irene stood for a minute before the hideous cabinet , disgraced and sickened, but she held her hand on the switch before she extinguished the music and the voices, hoping the instrument might speak to her kindly, that she might hear the Sweeney's nurse. Jim continued to shout at her from the door. The voice on the radio was suave and noncommital. "An early-morning railroad disaster in Tokyo," the loudspeaker said, "killed twenty-nine people. A frre in a Catholic hospital near Buffalo for the care of blind children was extinguished early this morning by nuns. The temperature is forty-seven. The humidity is eighty-nine."。

[考研类试卷]2010年北京第二外国语学院英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷一、单项选择题1 Sonnet in English poetry contains______.（A）four lines（B）a couplet（C）fourteen lines（D）a terza rima2 Francis Bacon, one of the most important British essayists, was active in the______.（A）Middle Age（B）Anglo-Saxon Period（C）English Renaissance（D）Victoria Age3 ______, whose name comes from Greek words meaning "no place" , is written by Thomas More to name his ideal society.（A）Utopia（B）Shangrila（C）News from Nowhere（D）Wonderland4 Of the following writers who is NOT a poet in English Renaissance? ______.（A）William Shakespeare（B）Robert Burns（C）Edmund Spenser（D）John Milton5 ______founded a new school of poetry by the name of metaphysical school. （A）John Smith（B）John Bunyan（C）John Milton（D）John Donne6 Modern English novel arose in the______century.（A）16th（B）17th（C）18th（D）19th7 Don Juan is______'s poetic drama with the material taken from Biblical stories. （A）Byron（B）Shelley（C）Wordsworth（D）Coleridge8 In 1878,______moved to London. His lifestyle and humorous wit made him soon spokesman for Aestheticism, the late 19th century movement in England that advocated art for art's sake.（A）Walter Scott（B）Oscar Wilde（C）Robert Browning（D）Alfred Tennyson9 ______belongs to "stream of consciousness" school.（A）Virginia Woolf（B）Thomas Wolfe（C）Somerset Maugham（D）Thomas Hardy10 American Colonial literature is longer than any other literary period, which started when the first settlers kept diaries and sermons and developed till______.（A）the mid of 18th C.（B）early 17th C.（C）the end of 17th C.（D）the end of 18th C.11 "Oh Captain! My Captain!" is Whitman's mourning poem to______.（A）Martin Luther King（B）utilitarian（C）New England transcendentalism（D）Abraham Lincoln12 Of the following writers______is not influenced by naturalistic writing. （A）Theodore Dreiser（B）Stephen Crane（C）Isaac Singer（D）Frank Norris13 F. S. Fitzgerald is NOT the writer of______.（A）The Great Gatsby（B）The Last Tycoon（C）As I Lay Dying（D）Tender Is the Night14 ______addressed Ernest Hemingway and his peers as "the lost generation". （A）Gertrude Stein（B）William Dean Howells（C）Sherwood Anderson（D）Henry James15 The author of Long Day's Journey into Night also wrote______.（A）Death of a Salesman（B）The Hairy Ape（C）A Streetcar Named Desire（D）Looking Back in Anger二、名词解释16 American Transcendentalism(3 points)17 The Southern Renaissance(3 points)18 The Beat Generation(3 points)三、分析题18 When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old manservant—a combined gardener and cook—had seen in at least ten years.It was a big, squarish frame house and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street. But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps— an eyesore among eyesores. And now Miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson(the Town of Jefferson).Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of heredity obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris invented an involved tale to the effect that Miss Emily's father had loaned money to the town, which the town, as a matter of business, preferred this way of repaying. Only a man of Colonel Sartoris' generation and thought could have invented it, and only a woman could have believed it. This section above is an excerpt from William Faulkner's short story A Rose for Emily.Please answer the following questions according to the excerpt:19 What is the town people's response toward Emily's death and what's the reason for that? Use your own words to give an illustration.(3 points)20 These paragraphs typically show Faulkner's major concern in literary writing. Please explain Faulkner's literary concern in general with one representative work except this short story.(4 points)21 In the 3rd paragraph, Miss Emily is referred to as "a tradition". What does this tradition mean? When the paragraph ends with the sentence " Only a man of Colonel Sartoris' generation and thought could have invented it, and only a woman could have believed it" , what information does the writer want to give to his readers?(4 points)。

[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷2一、填空题1 The Elizabethan______, in its totality, is the real mainstream of the English Renaissance.2 ______is the essence of the Renaissance.3 Among the works by John Milton,______is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.4 John Donne's famous analogy of parting lovers to a drawing compass provides a prime example of______.5 ______, the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded as Shakespeare's most popular play on the stage.6 A stanza of nine lines, with the first eight lines in iambic pentameter and the last line in iambic hexameter, rhyming ababbcbcc is called______.7 ______refer to a group of scholars during the Elizabethan Age who graduated from either Oxford or Cambridge. They came to London with the ambition to become professional writers. Some of them later became famous poets and playwrights.8 ______is acclaimed as "the poets' poet" in English literature.9 ______is the most popular of Bacon's essays.10 The Pilgrim's Progress is John Bunyan's masterpiece. It is the most successful religious______.11 _____ was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation in the American literary history.12 The Romantic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington living's ______and ended with Whitman's Leaves of Grass.13 ______was the "Great Commoner of Mankind", son of a nominal Quaker of Thetford, England.14 As a poet,______heralded American literary independence, his close observation of nature distinguished his treatment of indigenous wild life and other native American subjects.15 ______by Cooper was a rousing tale about espionage against the British during the Revolutionary War.16 In their order of events, the novels in the Leatherstocking Tales are______,______, ______,______and______.二、名词解释17 the poets' poet18 Metaphysical poetry19 sonnet20 blank verse21 University Wits22 New England poets23 Theme24 Symbol25 American Puritanism26 Symbolism三、单项选择题27 The first and second parts of Henry IV are undoubtedly the most widely read among Shakespeare's history plays. Shakespeare presents the______spirit in it.（A）patriotic（B）pessimistic（C）optimistic（D）ironic28 The Merchant of Venice takes a step forward in its realistic presentation of human nature and human conflict. All the following characters are all from the play EXCEPT______.（A）Nick Adams（B）Portia（C）Bassanio（D）Antonio29 Crafty men contempt studies, simple men admire them, and wise men______them. （A）make（B）use（C）respect（D）hate30 The lines "Death, be not proud, though some have called thee/Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so…" are found in______.（A）William Wordsworth's writings（B）John Keat's writings（C）John Donne's writings（D）Percy Bysshe Shelley's writings31 The following comments on Shakespeare's great works are true EXCEPT ______（A）The successful romantic comedy is Romeo and Juliet, which eulogizes the faithfulness of love and the spirit of pursuing happiness.（B）Hamlet, the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded as Shakespeare's most popular play on the stage.（C）The Merchant of Venice takes a step forward in its realistic presentation of human nature and human conflict.（D）The three history plays on the reign of Henry VI are the beginning of Shakespeare's epic treatment of English history.32 "To fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline" best describes ______principal intention.（A）Edmund Spenser's（B）Daniel Defoe's（C）William Shakespeare's（D）John Milton's33 Which of the following statements about Shakespeare's greatest tragedies is NOT true? （A）Macbeth's lust for power stirs up his ambition and leads him to incessant crimes.（B）The Old King Lear who is willing to totally give up his power makes himself suffer from treachery and infidelity.（C）Hamlet, the melancholic scholar-prince, faces the dilemma between action and mind.（D）Othello's inner weakness is made use of by the outside evil force.34 In Spenser's masterpiece The Faerie Queene, he speaks of______virtues of the private gentleman.（A）10（B）12（C）15（D）1135 Which of the following statements does NOT describe Spenser's poetry?（A）A perfect melody.（B）Realism.（C）A splendid imagination.（D）A rare sense of beauty.36 "To be or not to be—that is the question; whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer. The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?" Who is the speaker?（A）King Lear.（B）Hamlet.（C）Macbeth.（D）Othello.37 Which writing is a typical example of Shakespeare's pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years?（A）The Tempest.（B）King Lear.（C）Hamlet.（D）Othello.38 ______lays the foundation for modern science with his insistence on scientific way of thinking and fresh observation rather than authority as a basis for obtaining knowledge. （A）Francis Bacon（B）Thomas Hardy（C）Charles Dickens（D）William Blake39 Which of the following comments Christopher Marlowe is NOT true?（A）Marlowe is so strong in dramatic construction that he is superior to Shakespeare.（B）Marlowe's greatest achievement lies in that he perfected the blank verse and made it the principal medium of English drama.（C）Marlowe composed 6 plays within his short lifetime.（D）Marlowe's second achievement is his creation of the Renaissance hero for English drama.40 ______'s dominant moral is human rather than religions, it celebrates the human passion for knowledge, power and happiness; it also reveals man's frustration in realizing the high aspirations in a hostile moral order.（A）Tamburlaine（B）the Jew of Malta（C）Dr. Faustus（D）Paradise Lost41 The most gifted wit among University Wits is______.（A）Robert Greene（B）Thomas Kyde（C）Christopher Marlowe（D）Edmund Spenser42 Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from______. ,（A）The Renaissance（B）The Old Testament（C）Greek Mythology（D）The New Testament43 In the second period, Shakespeare's style and approach became highly individualized. He wrote six comedies, which one doesn't belong to them?（A）Titus Andronicus.（B）A Midsummer Night's Dream.（C）The Merchant of Venice.（D）Twelfth Night.44 Shakespeare's greatest tragedies are______.（A）Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear（B）Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice（C）Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth（D）Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Hamlet45 ______'s history plays are mainly written under the principle that national unity undera mighty and just sovereign is a necessity.（A）Edmund Spenser（B）Christopher Marlowe（C）William Shakespeare（D）John Donne46 Shakespeare claims through the mouth of Hamlet that the "end" of dramatic creation is to give ______of the social realities of the time.（A）allegorical description（B）instructive representation（C）faithful reflection（D）imaginative narration47 Dr. Faustus is a play based on the______legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.（A）American（B）German（C）French（D）British48 Christopher Marlowe's second achievement is his creation of______ for the English drama.（A）the Romantic hero（B）the Byronic hero（C）the Renaissance hero（D）the Realistic hero49 Humanists of the Renaissance turned to the spirit of______culture for inspiration. （A）Greek and Roman（B）Anglo-Saxon（C）Celtic（D）Medieval50 Donne's famous analogy of parting lovers to a drawing compass provides a prime example of______.（A）conceit（B）dramatic monologue（C）exaggeration（D）paradox51 ______is the leading figure of the metaphysical school.（A）John Milton（B）John Donne（C）John Bunyan（D）John Keats52 ______Essays is the first example of that genre in English literature.（A）John Milton's（B）Thomas Gray's（C）John Bunyan's（D）Francis Bacon's53 In the line "Every fair from fair sometimes declines"(Shakespeare, Sonnet 18), what does the first and second "fair" mean?（A）The beautiful person or thing/ beauty.（B）Sound reason/ justice.（C）Loveliness/ beautiful women.（D）Light complexion/ beauty.54 The most important and popular comedy written by Shakespeare is______.（A）As You Like it（B）Twelfth Night（C）Romeo and Juliet（D）The Merchant of Venice55 In his "To be or not to be" soliloquy, Hamlet gives the reasons why he wants to commit suicide. Apart from his personal revenge, that he______is another reason. （A）cannot bear the social injustice and grievances（B）is mentally tormented by his father's ghost（C）is unable to restore his earlier idealized image of his mother（D）thinks the next world is far better than the harsh reality56 In King Lear, Shakespeare has not only made a profound analysis of the social crisis in which the evils can be seen everywhere, but also criticized______.（A）the bourgeois egoism（B）tyranny（C）anarchy and rebellion（D）supernatural forces57 living's Rip Van Winkle got ideas from______legends.（A）British（B）Italian（C）German（D）French58 ______is not the member of Transcendental Club.（A）Fuller（B）Emerson（C）Whitman（D）Thoreau59 The unofficial manifesto for the Transcendental Club was______.（A）Walden（B）Nature（C）Self-Reliance（D）The American Scholar60 In the early 19th century, nothing has left a deeper imprint on the characters of the American people as a whole than did______.（A）Rationalism（B）Sentimentalism（C）Puritanism（D）Romanticism61 In the poem Song of Myself, Whitman sets forth the principle beliefs of______. （A）the theory of universality（B）singularity and equality of all beings in value（C）both A and B（D）none above62 Which of the following had influence on Melville's writing?（A）Shakespearean tragic vision.（B）Hawthorne's black vision.（C）Emersonian Transcendentalism.（D）All the above.63 The white whale Moby-Dick is a symbol of______.（A）nature（B）God（C）culture（D）knowledge64 In his essays,______put forward his philosophy of the over-soul, the importance of the Individual and Nature.（A）Nathaniel Hawthorne（B）Washington Irving（C）Mark Twain（D）Ralph Waldo Emerson65 In______, Whitman airs his sorrow at President Lincoln's death.（A）There was a Child Went Forth（B）A Pact（C）When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom 'd（D）Cavalry Crossing a Ford66 ______, the tragic hero of Moby-Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst to destroy evil.（A）Ahab（B）Moby Dick（C）Queequeg（D）Pip67 In______, Hawthorne sets out to prove that everyone possesses some evil secret. （A）The Custom-House（B）Young Goodman Brown（C）Rappaccini's Daughter（D）The Birthmark68 For Melville, as well as for the reader and______, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.（A）Ahab（B）Ishmael（C）Stubb（D）Starbuck69 The period before the American Civil War is commonly referred to as______.（A）the Romantic Period（B）the Realistic Period（C）the Naturalist Period（D）the Modern Period70 In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject EXCEPT______.（A）Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn（B）Dreiser's Sister Carrie（C）Cooper's Leather-Stocking Tales（D）Thoreau's Walden71 Led by Hawthorne, Emerson and______, there arose a kind of teachings of transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century.（A）Melville（B）Thoreau（C）Mark Twain（D）Dreiser72 When Emerson states in the introduction to his Nature: "our age is retrospective." Which of the following is closest to its understanding?（A）We are conservative.（B）We see this world through our ancestors' eyes.（C）We usually look back upon the good old days.（D）We write a lot of books about the past.73 Which of the following cannot be used to describe Whitman's poetry?（A）Elegant and gentle.（B）Simple and open.（C）Unconventional.（D）Colloquial.74 Which of the following is NOT a famous concept of Transcendentalism?（A）Nature is ennobling.（B）The individual is divine and self-reliant.（C）Man is capable of knowing truth by intuition.（D）Man is corrupted in nature.75 Walt Whitman was a founding figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of______, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.（A）blank verse（B）heroic couplet（C）free verse（D）iambic pentameter76 The statement that a man's journey to the dark forest and his encounter with the devil are symbolic of man's life journey from innocence to knowledge, from good to evil may well sum up one of the major themes of______.（A）living's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow（B）Edgar Allen Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher（C）Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown（D）O. Henry's The Cop and the Anthem77 The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the______in the American literary history.（A）individual feelings（B）idea of survival of the fittest（C）strong imagination（D）return to nature78 The literary characters of the American type in early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they______.（A）speak local dialects（B）are polite and elegant gentlemen（C）are simple and crude farmers（D）are noble savages(red and white)untainted by society79 "The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrant of salt marsh and shore mud. These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day." The two lines are taken from______.（A）There was a Child Went Forth by Walt Whitman（B）In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound（C）Cavalry Crossing a Ford by Walt Whitman（D）Ulysses by Joyce80 Statement "______" is not true in describing Washington Irving.（A）Washington Irving is regarded as Father of the American long stories（B）Irving's relationship with the Old World in terms of his literary imagination can hardly be ignored considering his success both abroad and at home（C）He has always been regarded as a writer who "perfected the best classic style that American literature ever produced"（D）Irving's taste was essentially conservative81 Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle is famous for______.（A）Rip's escape into a mysterious world（B）the story's German legendary source material（C）Rip's seeking for happiness（D）Rip's 20-year sleep82 Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual communication with______.（A）nature（B）transcendentalist ideas（C）human beings（D）celestial beings83 By Brown in Young Goodman Brown, Hawthorne means he is a(n)______.（A）protagonist（B）everyman（C）colossus（D）spokesman84 Which of the following accounts is not true for Ralph Waldo Emerson?（A）He is the chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.（B）Emerson is generally known as a dramatist.（C）His works were usually derived from his journals or lectures he had already given.（D）In Nature, he employed "a transparent eyeball" to illustrate his philosophical discussion.85 Washington Irving was one of the first American writers to earn an international reputation and regarded as______.（A）Father of the American drama（B）Father of the American poetry（C）Father of the American literature（D）Father of the American short stories86 ______is the most ambivalent writer in the American literary history.（A）Nathaniel Hawthorne（B）Walt Whitman（C）Ralph Waldo Emerson（D）Mark Twain四、问答题87 "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."A. Identify the author and the work.B. What kind of language can be found in this quotation?C. What idea does this quotation express?88 "Come live with me and be my love,And we will all the pleasures proveThat valleys, groves, hills and fields,Woods, or steepy mountain yields."A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What kind of literary tradition can be found in this stanza?C. What idea does this stanza express?89 "One short sleep past, we wake eternallyAnd death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.A. Identify the poet and the poem.B. What does the phrase "One short sleep" mean?C. What idea does these two lines express?90 "The quality of mercy is not strain'd,It droppeth as the gentle rain from heavenUpon the place beneath: it is twice blest.It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes:Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomesThe throned monarch better than his crown;His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,The attribute to awe and majesty,Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;But mercy is above this sceptred sway,It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,It is an attribute to God himself;And earthly power doth then show likest God'sWhen mercy seasons justice."A. Identify the author poet and the work.B. Who is the speaker? What figure of speech does the speaker use?C. What is the main idea of this quotation?91 "…If they be two, they are two soAs stiff twin compasses are two;Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no showTo move, but doth, it th's other do.And though it in the center sit,Yet when the other far doth roam,It leans and hearkens after it,And grows erect, as that comes home.Such wilt thou be to me, who mustLike th's other foot, obliquely run;Thy firmness makes my circle 10 just,And makes me end where I begun."A. Identify the poet and the poem.B. What is typical of the poetry by the poet?C. What idea does these three stanzas express?92 "When the minister spoke from the pulpit, with power and fervid eloquence, and, with his hand on the open Bible, of the sacred truths of our religion, and of saint-like lives and triumphant deaths, and of future bliss or misery unutterable, then did Goodman Brown turn pale, lest the roof should thunder down upon the gray blasphemer and his hearers."A. Identify the title of the short story from which this part is taken.B. What had happened in the story before this church scene?C. Why was Goodman Brown afraid the roof might thunder down?93 Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those happy mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, which ever can be gotwith least thought or trouble, and would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound. If left to himself, he would have whistled life away in perfect contentment; but his wife kept continually dinning in his ears about his idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family.A. Who is the writer of this short story from which the passage is taken?B. What is the title of this short story?C. Give a definition of "short story".94 I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loafe and invite my soul,I learn and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.A. This is the first two stanzas in the first section of a long poem entitled"______".B. The name of the poet is______.C. Who is the poet celebrating? Whom do lines 2-3 also include in the celebration?D. What is the verse structure?E. Take the fifth line as a hint, can you write out the name of the poet's completed collection of poems?95 "A line in long array where they wind betwixt green islands,They take a serpentine course, their arms flash in the sun-hark to the musical clank, Behold the silvery river, in it the splashing horses loitering stop to drink,Behold the brown-faced men, each group, each person, a picture, the negligent rest on the saddles,Some emerge on the opposite bank, others are just entering the ford-while,Scarlet and blue and snowy white,The guidon flags flutter gaily in the wind."A. Who is the author of this poem?B. What is the essence of this poem?C. What is the unique character in this poem?96 "The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows."A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which this passage is taken.B. How do you interpret "daily food?C. What does the passage imply?五、论述题97 List three distinctive features of English Renaissance movement in literature and then illustrate each with proofs from either the concerned chapter in your textbook or your own reading.98 Briefly discuss why Hamlet is so impressive in Shakespeare's Hamlet.99 Give a brief analysis of Shylock, a character in Shakespeare's play, The Merchant of Venice.100 Comment briefly on Marlowe's literary contribution to English literature.101 What are the main themes in Shakespeare's plays?102 Comment briefly on the theme in Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown.103 Moby Dick by Herman Melville is one of the few books in American literature that has produced an exciting effect upon readers. Try to discuss the symbolism in the book. 104 What is the significance of Washington Irving in American Literature?105 Comment briefly on the general artistic features of Walt Whitman's poetry.106 Based on Hawthorne's works The Scarlet Letter, discuss the characters of his writings.。