2004 北京第二外国语学院----综合英语

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1 北京第二外国语学院

2004年硕士研究生入学考试

考试科目：综合考试 (英美文学) 满分：40分

考试说明：请将答案直接写在试卷上 总分阅卷人

I. Fill in the blanks with proper information (10 points):

1.The Renaissance period in which Shakespeare wrote his poems and plays is generally known as

______________in the history of England.

2. The novel of Waiter Scott that deals with a stage of English history, covering the days after the Norman

Conquest, is .

3. John Milton’s is a poetical drama modeled on the Greek tragedy, which takes its story

from the Old Testament of the Bible.

4. The rising of the naturalistic novel was influenced mainly by Taine’s application of deterministic theories to

literature, Comte’s application of scientific ideas to the study of society, and .

5. A line of verse that ends on a stressed syllable, as any regular iambic line does, is called ending.

6. The publication of the Lyrical Ballads in the year of marked the beginning of the

Romantic period of English literature.

7. The first major, self-conscious literary movement of American black writers after the First World War is known

as .

8. Falstaff is a comic character that first appeared in .

9. Henry James sought perfection in his style and technique. He made various experiments in novel writing. In

addition to an abundant production of fiction, he wrote a theoretical book on fiction, which is

named . .

10. William Faulkner’s novel The Sound and the Fury employs the technique of and

introduces us to the Compson family through the mind of the idiot Benjy.

II. Read the following excerpts and identify the author (full name) and work respectively (10 points):

1. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.

And sorry I could not travel both.

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Author: Work:

2. 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 intensely fastened on the

iron-clamped oaken door. Among 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 augured some awful

business in hand.

Author: Work:

3. Thus consciousness does make cowards of us all;

And thus the native hue of resolution

Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,

And enterprises of great pitch and moment

With this regard their currents turn awry 北京环球时代学校 内部资料严谨翻印

2 And lose the name of action.

Author: Work:

4. April is the cruelest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain.

Winter kept us warm, covering

Earth in forgetful snow, feeding

A little life with dried tubers.

Summer surprised us, ...

Author: Work:

5. “What is it, Angel?” she said starting up. “Have they come for me?”

“Yes, dearest,” he said. “They have come.”

“It is as it should be!” she murmured. “Angel--I am almost glad--yes, glad! This happiness could not have

lasted--it was too much--I have had enough; and now I shall not live for you to despise me.”

She stood up, shook herself, and went forward, neither of the men having moved. “I am ready,” she said

quietly.

Author: Work:

Ⅲ. Analyze the following poem by William Wordsworth and elucidate how it illustrates Romanticism in

poetic creation (20 points):

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

I wondered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o’er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of daffodils;

Beside the lakes, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin ora bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they

Outdid the sparkling waves in glee;

A poet could not but be gay.

In such a jocund company;

I gazed—and gazed—but little thought 北京环球时代学校 内部资料严谨翻印

3 What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

北京第二外国语学院

2004年硕士研究生入学考试试卷

考试科目：英语综合试卷(语言学部分) 满分：30分

考试说明：请将答案直接写在试卷上

I. Complete each of the following statements. (5)

1. Consonant articulations are relatively easy to feel, and as a result are most conveniently described in terms

of____________ and manner of articulation.

2. transcription should transcribe all the possible speech sounds, including the minute shades.

3. The sound［b］can be described with “ bilabial, stop”.

4. The branch of grammar which studies the internal structure of words is called .

5. An approach in linguistic study which attempts to lay down rules of correctness as to how language should be

used is .

II. Choose a, b or c for each blank. (5)

1. When the word “root” means “part of plant that keeps it firmly in the soil and absorbs water and food from the

soil”, the meaning is meaning.

a. connotative b. conceptual c. reflected

2. Of the three cavities, is the most variable and active in amplifying and modifying speech sounds.

a. nasal cavity b. pharynx cavity c. oral cavity

3. refers to the relation holding between elements replaceable with each other at particular place in

structure, or between one element present and the others absent.

a. Syntagmatic relation b. Paradigmatic relation c. Co-occurrence relation

4. All syllables contain a .

a. nucleus b. coda c. onset

5. The sense relationship between “John plays the piano” and “John plays a musical instrument” is .

a. synonymy b. antonymy c. entailment

III. Fulfill the following requirements. (12)

1. Distinguish the two possible meanings of “more beautiful flowers” by means of IC analysis.(4)

2. Tell whether each of the underlined part is endocentric or exocentric .(4)

the politician who often lies the issue of great moment He will be arriving soon. The house fell into disrepair.

3. There are several kinds of antonymy. Classify the following pairs of antonyms into three types such as

complementary, gradable, and converse. (4)

husband—wife dead—alive odd—even generous—stingy

Ⅳ. Answer the two questions briefly. (8)