英美文学与翻译2011年真题回忆版

2011 年全国硕士研究生入学考试英语(一)Section I Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark [A], [B], [C] or [D] on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle viewed laughter as “a bodily exercise precious to health.” But __1___some claims to the contrary, laughing probably has little influence on physical fitness Laughter does __2___short-term changes in the function of the heart and its blood vessels, ___3_ heart rate and oxygen consumption But because hard laughter is difficult to __4__, a good laugh is unlikely to have __5___ benefits the way, say, walking or jogging does.__6__, instead of straining muscles to build them, as exercise does, laughter apparently accomplishes the __7__, studies dating back to the 1930’s indicate that laughter__8___ muscles, decreasing muscle tone for up to 45 minutes after the laugh dies down.Such bodily reaction might conceivably help _9__the effects of psychological stress. Anyway, the act of laughing probably does produce other types of ___10___ feedback, that improve an individual’s emotional state. __11____one classical theory of emotion, our feelings are partially rooted ____12___ physical reactions. It was argued at the end of the 19th century that humans do not cry ___13___they are sad but they become sad when the tears begin to flow. Although sadness also ____14___ tears, evidence suggests that emotions can flow __15___ muscular responses. In an experiment published in 1988,social psychologist Fritz Strack of the University of würzburg in Germany asked volunteers to __16___ a pen either with their teeth-thereby creating an artificial smile –or with their lips, which would produce a(n) __17___ expression. Those forced to exercise their smiling muscles ___18___ more exuberantly to funny cartons than did those whose mouths were contracted in a frown, ____19___ that expressions may influence emotions rather than just the other way around __20__ , the physical act of laughter could improve mood.1．[A]among [B]except [C]despite [D]like2．[A]reflect [B]demand [C]indicate [D]produce3．[A]stabilizing [B]boosting [C]impairing [D]determining4．[A]transmit [B]sustain [C]evaluate [D]observe5．[A]measurable [B]manageable [C]affordable [D]renewable6．[A]In turn [B]In fact [C]In addition [D]In brief7．[A]opposite [B]impossible [C]average [D]expected8．[A]hardens [B]weakens [C]tightens [D]relaxes9．[A]aggravate [B]generate [C]moderate [D]enhance10．[A]physical [B]mental [C]subconscious [D]internal11．[A]Except for [B]According to [C]Due to [D]As for12．[A]with [B]on [C]in [D]at13．[A]unless [B]until [C]if [D]because14．[A]exhausts [B]follows [C]precedes [D]suppresses15．[A]into [B]from [C]towards [D]beyond16．[A]fetch [B]bite [C]pick [D]hold17．[A]disappointed [B]excited [C]joyful [D]indifferent18．[A]adapted [B]catered [C]turned [D]reacted19．[A]suggesting [B]requiring [C]mentioning [D]supposing20．[A]Eventually [B]Consequently [C]Similarly [D]ConverselySection II Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing [A], [B], [C] or [D]. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)Text 1The decision of the New York Philharmonic to hire Alan Gilbert as its next music director has been the talk of the classical-music world ever since the sudden announcement of his appointment in 2009. For the most part, the response has been favorable, to say the least. “Hooray! At last!” wrote Ant hony Tommasini, a sober-sided classical-music critic.One of the reasons why the appointment came as such a surprise, however, is that Gilbert is comparatively little known. Even Tommasini, who had advocated Gilbert’s appointment in theTimes, calls him “a n unpretentious musician with no air of the formidable conductor about him.” As a description of the next music director of an orchestra that has hitherto been led by musicians like Gustav Mahler and Pierre Boulez, that seems likely to have struck at least some Times readers as faint praise.For my part, I have no idea whether Gilbert is a great conductor or even a good one. To be sure, he performs an impressive variety of interesting compositions, but it is not necessary for me to visit Avery Fisher Hall, or anywhere else, to hear interesting orchestral music. All I have to do is to go to my CD shelf, or boot up my computer and download still more recorded music from iTunes.Devoted concertgoers who reply that recordings are no substitute for live performance are missing the point. For the time, attention, and money of the art-loving public, classical instrumentalists must compete not only with opera houses, dance troupes, theater companies, and museums, but also with the recorded performances of the great classical musicians of the 20th century. There recordings are cheap, available everywhere, and very often much higher in artistic quality than today’s live performances; moreover, they can be “consumed” at a time and place of the listener’s choosing. The wi despread availability of such recordings has thus brought about a crisis in the institution of the traditional classical concert.One possible response is for classical performers to program attractive new music that is not yet available on record. Gilbert’s own interest in new music has been widely noted: Alex Ross, a classical-music critic, has described him as a man who is capable of turning the Philharmonic into “a markedly different, more vibrant organization.” But what will be the nature of that diffe rence? Merely expanding the orchestra’s repertoire will not be enough. If Gilbert and the Philharmonic are to succeed, they must first change the relationship between America’s oldest orchestra and the new audience it hops to attract.21. We learn from Par a.1 that Gilbert’s appointment has[A]incurred criticism.[B]raised suspicion.[C]received acclaim.[D]aroused curiosity.22. Tommasini regards Gilbert as an artist who is[A]influential.[B]modest.[C]respectable.[D]talented.23. The author believes that the devoted concertgoers[A]ignore the expenses of live performances.[B]reject most kinds of recorded performances.[C]exaggerate the variety of live performances.[D]overestimate the value of live performances.24. According to the text, which of the following is true of recordings?[A]They are often inferior to live concerts in quality.[B]They are easily accessible to the general public.[C]They help improve the quality of music.[D]They have only covered masterpieces.25. Regarding Gilbert’s role in r evitalizing the Philharmonic, the author feels[A]doubtful.[B]enthusiastic.[C]confident.[D]puzzled.Text 2When Liam McGee departed as president of Bank of America in August, his explanation was surprisingly straight up. Rather than cloaking his exit in the usual vague excuses, he came right out and said he was leaving “to pursue my goal of running a company.” Broadcasting his ambition was “very much my decision,” McGee says. Within two weeks, he was talking for the first time with the board of Hartford Financial Services Group, which named him CEO and chairman on September 29.McGee says leaving without a position lined up gave him time to reflect on what kind of company he wanted to run. It also sent a clear message to the outside world about his aspira tions. And McGee isn’t alone. In recent weeks the No.2 executives at Avon and American Express quit with the explanation that they were looking for a CEO post. As boards scrutinize succession plans in response to shareholder pressure, executives who don’t get the nod also may wish to move on. A turbulent business environment also has senior managerscautious of letting vague pronouncements cloud their reputations.As the first signs of recovery begin to take hold, deputy chiefs may be more willing to make the jump without a net. In the third quarter, CEO turnover was down 23% from a year ago as nervous boards stuck with the leaders they had, according to Liberum Research. As the economy picks up, opportunities will abound for aspiring leaders.The decision to quit a senior position to look for a better one is unconventional. For years executives and headhunters have adhered to the rule that the most attractive CEO candidates are the ones who must be poached. Says Korn/Ferry senior partner Dennis Carey:”I can’t think of a single search I’ve done where a board has not instructed me to look at sitting CEOs first.”Those who jumped without a job haven’t always landed in top positions quickly. Ellen Marram quit as chief of Tropicana a decade age, saying she wanted to be a CEO. It was a year before she became head of a tiny Internet-based commodities exchange. Robert Willumstad left Citigroup in 2005 with ambitions to be a CEO. He finally took that post at a major financial institution three years later.Many recruiters say the old disgrace is fading for top performers. The financial crisis has made it more acceptable to be between jobs or to leave a bad one. “The traditional rule was it’s safer to stay where you are, but that’s been fundamentally inverted,” says one headhunter. “The people who’ve been hurt the worst are those who’ve stayed too long.”26.When McGee announced his departure, his manner can best be described as being[A]arrogant.[B]frank.[C]self-centered.[D]impulsive.27. According to Paragraph 2, senior executives’ quitting may be spurred by[A]their expectation of better financial status.[B]their need to reflect on their private life.[C]their strained relations with the boards.[D]their pursuit of new career goals.28.The word “poached” (Line 3, Paragraph 4) most probably means[A]approved of.[B]attended to.[C]hunted for.[D]guarded against.29.It can be inferred from the last paragraph that[A]top performers used to cling to their posts.[B]loyalty of top performers is getting out-dated.[C]top performers care more about reputations.[D]it’s safer to stick to the traditional rules.30. Which of the following is the best title for the text?[A]CEOs: Where to Go?[B]CEOs: All the Way Up?[C]Top Managers Jump without a Net[D]The Only Way Out for Top PerformersText 3The rough guide to marketing success used to be that you got what you paid for. No longer. While traditional “paid” media – such as television commercials and print advertisements –still play a major role, companies today can exploit many alternative forms of media. Consumers passionate about a product may create “owned” media by sending e-mail alerts about products and sales to customers registered with its Web site. The way consumers now approach the broad range of factors beyond conventional paid media.Paid and owned media are controlled by marketers promoting their own products. For earned media , such marketers act as the initiator for users’ responses. But in some cases, one marketer’s owned media become another marketer’s paid media –for instance, when an e-commerce retailer sells ad space on its Web site. We define such sold media as owned media whose traffic is so strong that other organizations place their content or e-commerce engines within that environment. This trend ,which we believe is still in its infancy, effectively began with retailers and travel providers such as airlines and hotels and will no doubt go further. Johnson & Johnson, for example, has created BabyCenter, a stand-alone media property that promotes complementary and even competitive products. Besides generating income, the presence of other marketers makes the site seem objective, gives companies opportunities tolearn valuable information about the appeal of other companies’ marketing, and may help expand user traffic for all companies concerned.The same dramatic technological changes that have provided marketers with more (and more diverse) communications choices have also increased the risk that passionate consumers will voice their opinions in quicker, more visible, and much more damaging ways. Such hijacked media are the opposite of earned media: an asset or campaign becomes hostage to consumers, other stakeholders, or activists who make negative allegations about a brand or product. Members of social networks, for instance, are learning that they can hijack media to apply pressure on the businesses that originally created them.If that happens, passionate consumers would try to persuade others to boycott products, putting the reputation of the target company at risk. In such a case, the company’s response may not be sufficiently quick or thoughtful, and the learning curve has been steep. Toyota Motor, for example, alleviated some of the damage from its recall crisis earlier this year with a relatively quick and well-orchestrated social-media response campaign, which included efforts to engage with consumers directly on sites such as Twitter and the social-news site Digg.31.Consumers may create “earned” media when they are[A] obscssed with online shopping at certain Web sites.[B] inspired by product-promoting e-mails sent to them.[C] eager to help their friends promote quality products.[D] enthusiastic about recommending their favorite products.32. According to Paragraph 2,sold media feature[A] a safe business environment.[B] random competition.[C] strong user traffic.[D] flexibility in organization.33. The author indicates in Paragraph 3 that earned media[A] invite constant conflicts with passionate consumers.[B] can be used to produce negative effects in marketing.[C] may be responsible for fiercer competition.[D] deserve all the negative comments about them.34. Toyota Motor’s experience is cited as an example of[A] responding effectively to hijacked media.[B] persuading customers into boycotting products.[C] cooperating with supportive consumers.[D] taking advantage of hijacked media.35. Which of the following is the text mainly about ?[A] Alternatives to conventional paid media.[B] Conflict between hijacked and earned media.[C] Dominance of hijacked media.[D] Popularity of owned media.Text 4It’s no surprise that Jennifer Senior’s insightful, provocative magazine cover story, “I love My Children, I Hate My Life,” is arousing much chatter –nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience. Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition. Even though the day-to-day experience of raising kids can be soul-crushingly hard, Senior writes that “the very things that in the moment dampe n our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and delight.”The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week. There are also stories about newly adoptive – and newly single –mom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual “Jennifer Aniston is pregnant” news. Practically every week features at least one celebrity mom, or mom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands.In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing ? It doesn’t seem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the children. Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wond er if they shouldn’t have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in theirlives.Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock. According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all. No shock there, considering how much work it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on; yet to hear Sandra and Britney tell it, raising a kid on their “own” (read: with round-the-clock help) is a piece of cake.It’s hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut. But it’s interesting to wonder if the images we see every wee k of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren’t in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting “ the Rachel” might make us look just a littl e bit like Jennifer Aniston.36.Jennifer Senior suggests in her article that raising a child can bring[A]temporary delight[B]enjoyment in progress[C]happiness in retrospect[D]lasting reward37.We learn from Paragraph 2 that[A]celebrity moms are a permanent source for gossip.[B]single mothers with babies deserve greater attention.[C]news about pregnant celebrities is entertaining.[D]having children is highly valued by the public.38.It is suggested in Paragraph 3 that childless folks[A]are constantly exposed to criticism.[B]are largely ignored by the media.[C]fail to fulfill their social responsibilities.[D]are less likely to be satisfied with their life.39.According to Paragraph 4, the message conveyed by celebrity magazines is[A]soothing.[B]ambiguous.[C]compensatory.[D]misleading.40.Which of the following can be inferred from the last paragraph?[A]Having children contributes little to the glamour of celebrity moms.[B]Celebrity moms have influenced our attitude towards child rearing.[C]Having children intensifies our dissatisfaction with life.[D]We sometimes neglect the happiness from child rearing.Part BDirections:The following paragraph are given in a wrong order. For Questions 41-45, you are required to reorganize these paragraphs into a coherent text by choosing from the list A-G to filling them into the numbered boxes. Paragraphs E and G have been correctly placed. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)[A] No disciplines have seized on professionalism with as much enthusiasm as the humanities. You can, Mr Menand points out, became a lawyer in three years and a medical doctor in four. But the regular time it takes to get a doctoral degree in the humanities is nine years. Not surprisingly, up to half of all doctoral students in English drop out before getting their degrees.[B] His concern is mainly with the humanities: Literature, languages, philosophy and so on. These are disciplines that are going out of style: 22% of American college graduates now major in business compared with only 2% in history and 4% in English. However, many leading American universities want their undergraduates to have a grounding in the basic canon of ideas that every educated person should posses. But most find it difficult to agree on what a “general education” should look like. At Harvard, Mr Menand notes, “the great books are read because they have been read”-they form a sort of social glue.[C] Equally unsurprisingly, only about half end up with professorships for which they entered graduate school. There are simply too few posts. This is partly because universities continue to produce ever more PhDs. But fewer students want to study humanities subjects: English departments awarded more bachelor’s degrees in 1970-71 than they did 20 years later. Fewer students requires fewer teachers. So, at the end of a decade of theses-writing, manyhumanities students leave the profession to do something for which they have not been trained.[D] One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is that they can cut across the insistence by top American universities that liberal-arts educations and professional education should be kept separate, taught in different schools. Many students experience both varieties. Although more than half of Harvard undergraduates end up in law, medicine or business, future doctors and lawyers must study a non-specialist liberal-arts degree before embarking on a professional qualification.[E] Besides professionalizing the professions by this separation, top American universities have professionalised the professor. The growth in public money for academic research has speeded the process: federal research grants rose fourfold between 1960and 1990, but faculty teaching hours fell by half as research took its toll. Professionalism has turned the acquisition of a doctoral degree into a prerequisite for a successful academic career: as late as 1969a third of American professors did not possess one. But the key idea behind professionalisation, argues Mr Menand, is that “the kn owledge and skills needed for a particular specialization are transmissible but not transferable.”So disciplines acquire a monopoly not just over the production of knowledge, but also over the production of the producers of knowledge.[F] The key to reforming higher education, concludes Mr Menand, is to alter the way in which “the producers of knowledge are produced.”Otherwise, academics will continue to think dangerously alike, increasingly detached from the societies which they study, investigate and crit icize.”Academic inquiry, at least in some fields, may need to become less exclusionary and more holistic.”Yet quite how that happens, Mr Menand dose not say.[G] The subtle and intelligent little book T he Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University should be read by every student thinking of applying to take a doctoral degree. They may then decide to go elsewhere. For something curious has been happening in American Universities, and Louis Menand, a professor of English at Harvard University, captured it skillfully.Part CDirections:Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written carefully on ANSWER SHEET 2. (10 points)With its theme that “Mind is the master weaver,” creating our inner character and outer circumstances, the book As a Man Thinking by James Allen is an in-depth exploration of the central idea of self-help writing.(46) Allen’s contribution was to take an assumption we all share-that because we are not robots we therefore control our thoughts-and reveal its erroneous nature.Because most of us believe that mind is separate from matter, we think that thoughts can be hidden and made powerless; this allows us to think one way and act another. However, Allen believed that the unconscious mind generates as much action as the conscious mind, and (47) while we may be able to sustain the illusion of control through the conscious mind alone, in reality we are continually faced with a question: “Why cannot I make myself do this or achieve that? ”Since desire and will are damaged by the presence of thoughts that do not accord with desire, Allen concluded : “ We do not attract what we want, but what we are.” Achievement happens because you as a person embody the external achievement; you don’t “ get” success but become it. There is no gap between mind and matter.\Part of the fame of Allen’s book is its contention that “Circumstances do not make a person, they reveal him.”(48) This seems a justification for neglect of those in need, and a rationalization of exploitation, of the superiority of those at the top and the inferiority of those at the bottom.This ,however, would be a knee-jerk reaction to a subtle argument. Each set of circumstances, however bad, offers a unique opportunity for growth. If circumstances always determined the life and prospects of people, then humanity would never have progressed. In fat, (49)circumstances seem to be designed to bring out the best in us and if we feel that we have been “wronged” then we are unlikely to begin a conscious effort to escape from our situation .Nevertheless, as any biographer knows, a person’s early life and its conditions are often the greatest gift to an individual.The sobering aspect of Alle n’s book is that we have no one else to blame for our present condition except ourselves. (50) The upside is the possibilities contained in knowing that everything is up to us; where before we were experts in the array of limitations, now webecome authorities of what is possible.Section Ⅲ WritingPart A51.Directions:Write a letter to a friend of yours to1) recommend one of your favorite movies and 2) give reasons for your recommendation Your should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2Do not sign your own name at the end of the leter. User“LI MING” instead.Do not writer the address.(10 points)Part B52. Directions:Write an essay of 160---200 words based on the following drawing. In your essay, you should1)describe the drawing briefly,2)explai n it’s intended meaning, and3)give your comments.Your should write neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (20 points)旅程之“余”2011年考研英语一真题答案及详解Section I Use of English1-5 CDBBA 6-10 BADCA 11-15 BCDCB 16-20 DADAC1.C解析：语义逻辑题。

2011 英语语言文学选择（30题30分）1不是Bloomsbury group 成员的是2 Mr Bennet and Mrs Brown 是谁写的，其中提出什么（Virginia Woolf, steam of conciousness）3 Death of a Salesman(都是选出的答案)4 Nientneen Eighty-Four5 local colorism and regionism belongs to the early stage of ---- (realism)6 Vanity Fair 题目出自谁的作品7不是玄学派诗人的是（John Donne）8 Childe Harold 诗体是（Spenserian stanzas）9下列作家中获得Nobel Prize 和Booker Prize 的是谁（不会）a10 不属于美国Origin stories 的是哪个（白色书上第六页标题）11 Because I could not stop for Death是谁写的（迪金森）12South Renaissance 的代表作家(Faulkerner)13 不是Saul Bellow 的代表作品的是(The Assistant)14The Sun Also Rises 表现了那类人（the lost generation）15其他题目实在记不得了名词解释（6题30分）1Epistoloary novels in English liturature2 LeatherstockingTales3 James Joyce4 Unity of effect5 Metaphysical poets6 muckracking黑幕揭发选段（10段30分）1 When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse, containing her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister's address in Van Buren Street, and four dollars in money. It was in August, 1889. She was eighteen years of age, bright, timid, and full of the illusions of ignorance and youth. Whatever touch of regret at parting characterised her thoughts, it was certainly not for advantages now being given up. A gush of tears at her mother's farewell kiss, a touch in her throat when the cars clacked by the flour mill where her father worked by the day, a pathetic sigh as the familiar green environs of the village passed in review, and the threads which bound her so lightly to girlhood and home were irretrievably broken.This passage is from--------- written by------2 What art thou that usurp'st this time of nightTogether with that fair and warlike formIn which the majesty of buried DenmarkDid sometimes march? By heaven I charge thee speak!This passage is from------written by---- (Hamlet,William Shakespear)3Sleepy Hollow4 The catcher of the rye5I lingered before her stall, though I knew my stay was useless, to make my interest in her wares seem the more real. Then I turned away slowly and walked down the middle of the bazaar. I allowed the two pennies to fall against the sixpence in my pocket. I heard a voice call from one end of the gallery that the light was out. The upper part of the hall was now completely dark.Araba（James Joyce）6 Pride and prejudice7I placed a jar in Tennessee,And round it was, upon a hill.It made the slovenly wildernessSurround that hillThe passage is from----written by---(ANECDOTE OF THE JARby Wallace Stevens)8None of them knew the color of the sky. Their eyes glanced level，and were fastened upon the waves that swept toward them. These waves were of the hue of slate ， save of the tops ， which were of foaming white，and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened ， and dipped and rose， and at all times its edge was jagged with waves that seemed thrust up in points like rocks. Many a man ought to have a bath-tub larger than the boat which here rode upon the sea. These waves were most wrongfully and barbarously abrupt and tall， and each froth-top was a problem in small boat navigation. The cook squatted in the bottom and looked with both eyes at the six inches of gunwale which separated him from the ocean. His sleeves were rolled over his fat forearms，This passage is from----written by----(The Open BoatStephen Crane)9 sons and lovers10 忘记了简答题（4段60分）1阅读下列选段（Oliver Twist）,分析狄更斯的representation of boys in the orphan house(150字以内)The bowls never wanted washing. The boys polished them with their spoons till they shone again; and when they had performed this operation (which never took very long, the spoons being nearly as large as the bowls), they would sit staring at the copper, with such eager eyes, as if they could have devoured the very bricks of which it was composed; employing themselves, meanwhile, in sucking their fingers mostassiduously, with the view of catching up any stray splashes of gruel that might have been cast thereon. Boys have generally excellent appetites. Oliver Twist and his companions suffered the tortures of slow starvation for three months: at last they got so voracious and wild with hunger, that one boy, who was tall for his age, and hadn't been used to that sort of thing (for his father had kept a small cook-shop), hinted darkly to his companions, that unless he had another basin of gruel per diem, he was afraid he might some night happen to eat the boy who slept next him, who happened to be a weakly youth of tender age. He had a wild, hungry eye; and they implicitly believed him. A council was held; lots were cast who should walk up to the master after supper that evening, and ask for more; and it fell to Oliver Twist.The evening arrived; the boys took their places. The master, in his cook's uniform, stationed himself at the copper; his pauper assistants ranged themselves behind him; the gruel was served out; and a long grace was said over the short commons. The gruel disappeared; the boys whispered each other, and winked at Oliver; while his next neighbors nudged him. Child as he was, he was desperate with hunger, and reckless with misery. He rose from the table; and advancing to the master, basin and spoon in hand, said: somewhat alarmed at his own temerity:'Please, sir, I want some more.'The master was a fat, healthy man; but he turned very pale. He gazed in stupefied astonishment on the small rebel for some seconds, and then clung for support to the copper. The assistants were paralysed with wonder; the boys with fear.'What!' said the master at length, in a faint voice.'Please, sir,' replied Oliver, 'I want some more.'The master aimed a blow at Oliver's head with the ladle; pinioned him in his arm; and shrieked aloud for the beadle.The board were sitting in solemn conclave, when Mr. Bumble rushed into the room in great excitement, and addressing the gentleman in the high chair, said,'Mr. Limbkins, I beg your pardon, sir! Oliver Twist has asked for more!'There was a general start. Horror was depicted on every countenance.'For more!' said Mr. Limbkins. 'Compose yourself, Bumble, and answer me distinctly. Do I understand that he asked for more, after he had eaten the supper allotted by the dietary?''He did, sir,' replied Bumble.'That boy will be hung,' said the gentleman in the white waistcoat. 'I know that boy will be hung.'Nobody controverted the prophetic gentleman's opinion. An animated discussion took place. Oliver was ordered into instant confinement; and a bill was next morning pasted on the outside of the gate, offering a reward of five pounds to anybody who would take Oliver Twist off the hands of the parish. In other words, five pounds and Oliver Twist were offered to any man or woman who wanted an apprentice to any trade, business, or calling.'I never was more convinced of anything in my life,' said the gentleman in the white waistcoat, as he knocked at the gate and read the bill next morning: 'I never was more convinced of anything in my life, than I am that that boy will come to be hung.'As I purpose to show in the sequel whether the white waistcoated gentleman was right or not, I should perhaps mar the interest of this narrative (supposing it to possess any at all), if I ventured to hint just yet, whether the life of Oliver Twist had this violent termination or no.2 雪莱的一首歌（怎么也没找到）中的effect of imagery分析（150字到200字）3 Self-reliance 分析（没写字数要求）4 伟大的盖茨比中，分析SCHEDULE的文化意义和与主题的关系（没写字数要求）When I left his office the sky had turned dark and I got back to West Egg in a drizzle. After changing my clothes I went next door and found Mr. Gatz walking up and down excitedly in the hall. His pride in his son and in his son’s possessions was continually increasing and now he had something to show me.“Jimmy sent me this picture.” He took out his wallet with trembling fingers. “L**.”It was a photograph of the house, cracked in the corners and dirty with many hands. He pointed out every detail to me eagerly. “L**!” and then sought admiration from my eyes. He had shown it so often that I think it was more real to him now than the house itself.“Jimmy sent it to me. I think it’s a very pretty picture. It shows up well.”“Very well. Had you seen him lately?”“He come out to see me two years ago and bought me the house I live in now. Of course we was broke up when he run off from home, but I see now there was a reason for it. He knew he had a big future in front of him. And ever since he made a success he was very generous with me.” He seemed reluctant to put away the picture, held it for another minute, lingeringly, before my eyes. Then he returned the wallet and pulled from his pocket a ragged old copy of a book called HOPALONG CASSIDY.“L**, this is a book he had when he was a boy. It just shows you.”He opened it at the back cover and turned it around for me to see. On the last fly-leaf was printed the word SCHEDULE, and the date September 12, 1906. and underneath:Rise from bed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.00 A.M. Dumbbell exercise and wall-scaling . . . . . .6.15-6.30 ” Study electricity, etc . . . . . . . . . . . .7.15-8.15 ” Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8.30-4.30 P.M. Baseball and sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.30-5.00 ” Practice elocution, poise and how to attain it 5.00-6.00 ” Study needed inventions . . . . . . . . . . . 7.00-9.00 ”GENERAL RESOLVES No wasting time at Shafters or [a name, indecipherable] No more smokeing or chewing Bath every other day Read one improving book or magazine per week Save $5.00 {crossed out} $3.00 per week Be better to parents“I come across this book by accident,” said the old man. “It just shows you, don’t it?”“It just shows you.”“Jimmy was bound to get ahead. He always had some resolves like this or something. Do you notice what he’s got about improving his mind? He was always great for that. He told me I et like a hog once, and I beat him for it.”He was reluctant to close the book, reading each item aloud and then looking eagerly at me. I think he rather expected me to copy down the list for my own use.。

2011年华东师范大学大学翻译硕士真题回顾今天先谈谈百科知识和汉语写作。

百科知识是25道选择题，题目客观地说，难度不大，很多都是常识，我考试只花了15分钟不到就全部搞定。

我也看过华师大去年的百科真题，发现一个小规律，华师大的百科知识有很多是考English-speaking国家的东西，美国，英国（包括苏格兰那些国家），澳大利亚等等。

所以同学在复习的时候，要注意这点，不要将太多的精力放在中国的东西上。

应用文写作是书信，去年也考的是书信。

我想这是有原因的。

虽然mti大纲中说关于应用文的考察很多种形式，如通知，广告，说明书之类的，但因为字数要求是400多字。

除了书信等为数不多的考查形式，其它的其实不需要这么多字数；你写一个什么广告通知的，有必要写这么多字吗？所以我觉得，同学们要更加注意书信这种形式。

下面我把真题大概说一下：有一青年自幼品学兼优，毕业于国内顶级医药大学，想要去一家500强医药公司上班。

他参加了该公司的招聘考试，考完后感觉不错，但出成绩后他不幸落榜，所以一气之下走上轻生之路。

因为自杀技术不佳，没死成。

后来得到消息，因为公司的计算出现失误，该青年的成绩是上榜的。

他欣喜若狂，但马上接到了公司的解聘通知：如果你连落榜的压力都承受不了，又怎么能承受公司繁忙的业余压力呢？要求写两封信，一封是青年给公司老总的，另一封是老总的回信。

汉语大作文的题目是“活在俗世中的我”，材料给了两段菜根谭的话，涉世浅，点染亦浅；历事深，机械亦深。

故君子与其练达，不若朴鲁：与其曲谨，不若疏狂；“势利纷华，不近冬为洁，近之而不染者尤洁；智械机巧，不知者为高，知之而不用者为尤高。

”要求思考如何做一个真君子，以“活在俗世中的我”为题，写一篇800字的文章。

自己立意和选择角度。

好了，今天就说这些了，下次我再谈谈翻译卷和基础卷哈~~:lov eliness:再谈谈翻译卷。

大家都知道翻译卷是有30分的单词词组英汉互译和120分的英汉段落互译。

2011 年7 月全国英美文学选读自考试题1. All of Charles Dickens ' works, with the exception of _____________ , present a criticism ofthe more complicated and yet most fundamental social institutions and morals of the Victorian England.A. Bleak HouseB. Hard TimesC. Great ExpectationsD. A Tale of Two Cities2. From ___________ on, the tragic sense becomes the keynote of Thomas Hardy ' snovels, the conflict between the traditional and the moden is brought to the center of the stage.A. The Return of the NativeB. The Mayor of CasterbridgeC. Tess of the D ' UrbervillesD. Jude the Obscure3. George Bernard Shaw ' s play ___________ shows his almost nihilistic bitterness onthe subjects of the cruelty and madness of World War I and the aimlessness and disillusion of the young.A. Getting MarriedB. Too True to Be GoodC. Widowers ' HousesD. The Apple Cart4. It was only after the publication of __________ that D.H. Lawrence was recognizedas aprominent novelist.A. The TrespasserB. The White PeacockC. Sons and LoversD. The Rainbow5. T. S. Eliot ' s poem ___________ is heavily indebted to James Joyce in terms of thestream- of -consciousness technique, also a prelude to The Waste Land.A. “ Prufrock ”B. “ Gerontion ”C. The Hollow MenD. Lyrical Ballads6. Charlotte Bront e' s ________________ is no ted for its sharp criticism of the exist ing society,e. g. the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions.A. The ProfessorB. Wuthering HeightsC. VilletteD. Jane Eyre7. Shelley ' s greatest achievement is his fo ur - act poetic drama ____________ , which isan ex- ultant work in praise of humankind ' s potential.A. AdonaisB. Queen MabC. Prometheus UnboundD. Kubla Khan8. Among the Romantic poets __________ is regarded as a “ worshipper of natureA. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. George Gordon ByronD. John Keats9. The most perfect example of the verse drama after Greek style in English is John Milton ' s .A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Areopagitica10. The major theme of Jane Austen ' s novels is ____________ .A. love and moneyB. money and social statusC. social status and marriageD. love and marriage11. T. S. Eliot ' s most important single poem ___________ has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry.A. The Hollow MenB. The Waste LandC. Murder in the CathedralD. Ash Wednesday12. According to the subjects, William Wordsworth ' s short poems can be classified into two groups, poems about ____________ .A. nature and human lifeB. happiness and childhoodC. symbolism and imaginationD. nature and commonlife13. Among the following writers ________________ is considered to be the best -knownEnglish dramatist since Shakespeare.A. Oscar WildeB. John GalsworthyC. W. B. YeatsD. George Bernard Shaw14. William Blake ' s _____________ composed during the climax of the French Revolution playsthe double role both as a satire and a revolutionary prophecy.A. The Book of UrizenB. The Book of LosC. Poetical SketchesD. Marriage of Heaven and Hell15. Charles Dicke ns ' works are characterized by a min gli ng of ____________ a nd pathos.A. metaphorB. passi onC. satireD. humor16. Daniel Defoe describes ___________ as a typical En glish middle -class man of theeigh- tee nth cen tury, the very prototype of the empire builder, the pion eer coloni st.A. Robinson CrusoeB. Moll Fla ndersC. GulliverD. Tom Jones17. In Thomas Hardy ' s Wessex novels, there is an apparen t ____________ t ouch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.A. no stalgicB. tragicC. roma nticD. iro nic18. Of all the eightee nth - cen tury no velists _________ was the first to set out, both inthe- ory and practice, to write specially a “ comic epic in prose ” , the first to give the moder no vel its structure and style.A. Thomas GrayB. Richard Brin sley Sherida nC. Jon athan SwiftD. Henry Fieldi ng19. Shakespeare ' s authentic non -dramatic poetry consists of two long narrative poems:Venus and Ado nis and ___________ .A. Julius CaesarB. The Win ter ' s TaleC. The Rape of LucreceD. The Two gen tleme n of Verona20. Joh n Milt on ' s ____________ i s probably his most memorable prose work, which is agreatplea for freedom of the press.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise rega inedC. AreopagiticaD. Lycidas21. D. H. Lawre nee ' s no vels __________ are gen erally regarded as his masterpieces.A. The Rai nbow; Wome n in LoveB. The Rain bow; Sons and LoversC. Sons and Lovers; Lady Chatterley ' s LoverD. Women in Love; Lady Chatterley ' s Lover22. The best representatives of the English humanists are Thomas More, ChristopherMar-lowe and ___________ .A. William ShakespeareB. John Milt onC. Henry FieldingD. Jon athan Swift23. Mark Twa in ' s particular concern about the local character of a region came about as "local colorism, ” a unique variation of American literary _____________ .A. roma nticismB. n ati on alismC. moder nismD. realism24. As a poet with a strong sense of mission, Walt Whitman devoted all his life to the creation of the “ single ” poem, ____________ .A. Drum TapsB. North of Bost onC. A Boy ' s WillD. Leaves of Grass25. William Faulkner creates his own mythical kingdom that mirrors not only the decline ofthe _____________ society of America but also the spiritual wasteland of the wholeAmerica n society.A. Easter nB. WesternC. Souther nD. Northern26. In his final years, Herman Melville turned again to prose fiction and wrote what isB. RedburnC. Moby - DickD. Typee27. The Sun Also Rise casts light on a whole generation after ____________________ and the effects of the war by way of a vivid portrait of “ the Lost Gen erati on. ”A. the Spa nish Civil WarB. the America n- Mexica n WarC. WWID. WWII28. Herman Melville went to the South Seas on a whaling ship in 1841, where he gainedthe first -ha nd in formati on about whali ng that he used later in _________ .A. TypeeB. RedburnC. Moby - DickD. Omoo29. Accord ing to ___________ , the life - death cycle, the spri ng and win ter of the earth,the birth and death of the animals is reality.A. Theodore DreiserB. William Faulk nerC. Henry JamesD. F Scott Fitzgerald30. “ Though life is but a los ing battle, it is a struggle man can domin ate in such a way thatloss becomes dignity. ” This is an outlook towards life that _______________ had been tryingto illustrate in his works.A. F Scott FitzgeraldB. Ern est Hemin gwayC. Theodore DreiserD. William Faulk ner31. More tha n five hun dred poems __________ wrote are about n ature, in which his(her) gen eral skepticism about the relati on ship betwee n man and n ature is well-expressed.C. Ezra PoundD. Walt Whitman32. In 1954, the Nobel Prize for literature was gran ted to ___________________ , one of thegreatest of America n writers.A. Ern est Hemin gwayB. Robert FrostC. Henry JamesD. Theodore Dreiser33. North of Bost on is described by Robert Frost as “ a book of poople, ” which shows a brillia nt in sight i nto _________ character and the backgro und that formed it.A. Easter nB. WesternC. Souther nD. New En gla nd34. Walt Whitma n is radically inno vative in terms of the form of his poetry. What he prefersfor his new poetic feeli ngs is “__________ ”.A. sta ndardized rhy mingB. regular rhy mingC. free verseD. strict verse35. Henry James ' fame gen erally rests upon his no vels and stories with the ___________theme.A. intern ati onalB. localC. colo nialD. post-moder n36. The Finan cier, The Tita n and The Stoic by Theodore Dreiser ar e called his “ Trilogy ofA. HatredB. DeathC. DesireD. Fate37. In 1920, F • Scott Fitzgerald ' s first novel_________________ was published, which was, to some exte nt, his own story.A. This Side of ParadiseB. Tales of the Jazz AgeC. All the Sad Young MenD. Taps at Reveille38. In 1837, Nathaniel Hawthorne published Twice - Told Tales, a collection of ___________ which attracted critical atte ntio n.C. essaysD. plays39. William Faulkner set most of his works in the American ____________________ , with his emphasis on the ________ subjects and con scious ness.A. North... NorthernB. East... Easter nC. West... WesternD. South... Souther n40. The House of the Seven Gables was based on the traditi on of a curse pronouncedon _____________ 's family when his great - grandfather was a judge in the Salemwitchcraft trials.A. Natha niel Hawthor neB. Wash ington IrvingC. Ezra PoundD. Walt WhitmanPART TWO (60 POINTS)II. Readi ng Comprehe nsion (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write youran swers in the corresp onding space on the an swer sheet.41. “ Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow ' st;Nor shall Death brag thou wander ' st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow ' st:So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. ”Questio ns:A. Who' s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what ' s the title of the poem?Willian Shakespeare; "Sonnet 18 ”B. What does the word “ th i n the last line refer to?The poemC. What idea do the quoted lines express?When you are in my eternal poetry,you are even with time.The nice summer ' day istransient,but the beauty in poetry can last forever.42. “ Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock or hill; Ne ' er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! The very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!”( From Wordsworth ' s sonnet Composed upon Westm inster Bridge) Questions: A. What does this sonnet describe?The sonnet describes a vivid picture of a beautiful morning in London. B. What does the phrase“ mighty heart ” refer to?“ Mightyheart ”refers to LondonC. The sonnet follows strictly the Italian form. What is the feature of the Italian form ofsonnet?It follows strictly the Italian form,with a clear division between the octave and the sestet;the rhyme scheme is abbaabba,cdcdcd.43. “ The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. ” Questions:A. Who ' s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what Robert Lee Frost;Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningB. What does the word“ sleep ” mean?C. What idea do the four lines express? 44.“ 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 lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. ”( From Walt Whitman ' s Song of Myself) Questions:A. Who does “ myself ” refer to?B. How do you understand the line“ I loafe and invite my soul ” ?C. What does “ a spear of summer grass ” symbolize? III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. What 's the theme of the poem Paradise Lost? What ' s the authorand the implication that the poem expresses? 46. The Waste Land is T. S. Eliot ' s most important single poem. Whatpoem?own way. What are the features of Dickinson 's poems?48. What 's the theme of F. Scott Fitzgerald 's The Great Gatsby?IV. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on thes the title of the poem?Write yours intention to create it' s the theme of the47. In American literature, Emily Dickinson s poetry is unique anudnconventional in itsanswer sheet.49. Discuss Charles Dickens 'art of fiction: the setting, the character - portrayal, the language, etc. , based on his novel Oliver Twist.50. Summarize Ernest Hemingway 's artistic features.。

2011年国际关系学院英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷(总分：60.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、匹配题(总题数：1，分数：40.00)Please match the following authors with their works.(10 points)1. The Waves2. All"s Well that Ends Well3. Where Angels Fear to Tread4. Song of Myself5. Ulysses6. The Hairy Ape7. Women in Love8. The Pit9. Death in the Afternoon10. Babbitt11. Adam Bede12. Burmese Days13. The Innocents Abroad14. The Open Boat15. The Sketch Book16. Oliver Twist17. Lord Jim18. The American19. Light in August20. Typee（分数：40.00）(1).William Faulkner（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).James Joyce（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (3).Sinclair Lewis（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (4).George Eliot（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (5).Stephen Crane（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (6).Charles Dickens（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (7).Mark Twain（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (8).E. M. Forster（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (9).Eugene O"Neill（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (10).William Shakespeare（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (11).Frank Norris（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (12).Joseph Conrad（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (13).Henry James（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (14).Herman Melville（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (15).Ernest Hemingway（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (16).Walt Whitman（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (17).George Orwell（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (18).D.H. Lawrence（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (19).Virginia Woolf（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (20).Washington Irving（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________二、填空题(总题数：8，分数：16.00)1.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is an autobiographical sketch of(1)"s childhood and early(2)（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________2.The Romantic period in American literature stretches from(3)to(4)（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________3.James Fenimore Cooper created a(5)about the(6)period of the American nation.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________4.Edgar Allan Poe believes(7)is the most legitimate of all the poetic tones and the(8)__of a beautiful woman is the most poetical topic in the world.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________5.The Lake Poets criticized the industrialized(9)society by advocating the(10)to the patriarchal society of the past while Byron and Shelley attacked the forces of oppression both (11)and(12)and called on the oppressed people to rise against earthly tyrants.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________6.The height of Thomas Hardy"s achievement as a novelist was reached in his last two novels both published in the 1890"s. The central figures in the two novels are(13)and(14)（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________7.Hemingway"s(15)hero is a man of(16)rather than a man of thought. He can be destroyed but not(17)and he always shows(18)under pressure.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________8.The central theme of Paradise Lost is taken from the(19)and deals with the Christian story of "the(20)of man".（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________三、评论题(总题数：2，分数：4.00)9.Please read the following poem and make comments in about 300 words.(50 points)The Wild Swans at Coole *The trees are in their autumn beauty,The woodland paths are dry,Under the October twilight the waterMirrors a still sky;Upon the brimming water among the stonesAre nine-and-fifty swans.The nineteenth autumn has come upon meSince I first made my count;I saw, before I had well finished,All suddenly mountAnd scatter wheeling in great broken ringsUpon their clamorous wings.I have looked upon those brilliant creatures,And now my heart is sore.All"s changed since I, hearing at twilight,The first time on this shore,The bell-beat of their wings above my head,Trod with a lighter tread.Unwearied still, lover by lover,They paddle in the coldCompanionable streams or climb the air;Their hearts have not grown old;Passion or conquest, wander where they will,Attend upon them still.But now they drift on the still water,Mysterious, beautiful;Among what rushes will they build,By what lake"s edge of poolDelight men"s eyes when I awake some dayTo find they have flown away?* Coole was the estate of Lady Augusta Gregory, the poet"s friend and patron, who encouraged the young poet and made her house a second home to him.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 10.Please read the following story and make comments in about 500 words.(70 points)A Rose for EmilyIWhen 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 man-servant—a combined gardener and cook—had seen in at least ten years.It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas 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 amongeyesores. 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.Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor—he who fathered the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the streets without an apron—remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity. Not that Miss Emily would have accepted charity. 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.When the next generation, with its more modern ideas, became mayors and aldermen, this arrangement created some little dissatisfaction. On the first of the year they mailed her a tax notice. February came, and there was no reply. They wrote her a formal letter, asking her to call at the sheriffs office at her convenience. A week later the mayor wrote her himself, offering to call or to send his car for her, and received in reply a note on paper of an archaic shape, in a thin, flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all. The tax notice was also enclosed, without comment.They called a special meeting of the Board of Aldermen. A deputation waited upon her, knocked at the door through which no visitor had passed since she ceased giving china-painting lessons eight or ten years earlier. They were admitted by the old Negro into a dim hall from which a stairway mounted into still more shadow. It smelled of dust and disuse—a close, dank smell. The Negro led them into the parlor. It was furnished in heavy, leather-covered furniture. When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the single sun-ray. On a tarnished gilt easel before the fireplace stood a crayon portrait of Miss Emily"s father.They rose when she entered—a small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. Her skeleton was small and spare; perhaps that was why what would have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her. She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue. Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough as they moved from one face to another while the visitors stated their errand.She did not ask them to sit. She just stood in the door and listened quietly until the spokesman came to a stumbling halt. Then they could hear the invisible watch ticking at the end of the gold chain.Her voice was dry and cold. "I have no taxes in Jefferson. Colonel Sartoris explained it to me. Perhaps one of you can gain access to the city records and satisfy yourselves. ""But we have. We are the city authorities, Miss Emily. Didn"t you get a notice from the sheriff, signed by him?""I received a paper, yes," Miss Emily said. "Perhaps he considers himself the sheriff... I have no taxes in Jefferson. ""But there is nothing on the books to show that, you see. We must go by the—""See Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson. ""But, Miss Emily—"" See Colonel Sartoris. "(Colonel Sartoris had been dead almost ten years.)" I have no taxes in Jefferson. Tobe!" The Negro appeared. "Show these gentlemen out. "IISo she vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before about the smell. That was two years after her father"s death and a short time after her sweetheart—the one we believed would marry her —had deserted her. After her father"s death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all. A few of the ladies had the temerity to call, but were not received, and the only sign of life about the place was the Negro man—a young man then—going in and out with a market basket." Just as if a man—any man—could keep a kitchen properly," the ladies said; so they were not surprised when the smell developed. It was another link between the gross, teeming world and the high and mighty Griersons.A neighbor, a woman, complained tothe mayor, Judge Stevens, eighty years old."But what will you have me do about it, madam?" he said."Why, send her word to stop it," the woman said. "Isn"t there a law?"" I"m sure that won"t be necessary," Judge Stevens said. " It"s probably just a snake or a rat that nigger of hers killed in the yard. I"ll speak to him about it. "The next day he received two more complaints, one from a man who came in diffident deprecation. "We really must do something about it, Judge. I"d be the last one in the world to bother Miss Emily, but we"ve got to do something. " That night the Board of Aldermen met—three graybeards and one younger man, a member of the rising generation."It"s simple enough," he said. "Send her word to have her place cleaned up. Give her a certain time to do it in, and if she don"t...""Dammit, sir, " Judge Stevens said, "will you accuse a lady to her face of smelling bad?"So the next night, after midnight, four men crossed Miss Emily"s lawn and slunk about the house like burglars, sniffing along the base of the brickwork and at the cellar openings while one of them performed a regular sowing motion with his hand out of a sack slung from his shoulder. They broke open the cellar door and sprinkled lime there, and in all the outbuildings. As they recrossed the lawn, a window that had been bark was lighted and Miss Emily sat in it, the light behind her, and her upright torso motionless as that of an idol. They crept quietly across the lawn and into the shadow of the locusts that lined the street. After a week or two the smell went away.That was when people had begun to feel really sorry for her. People in our town, remembering how old lady Wyatt, her great-aunt, had gone completely crazy at last, believed that the Griersons held themselves a little too high for what they really were. None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such. We had long thought of them as a tableau; Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip, the two of them framed by the back-flung front door. So when she got to be thirty and was still single, we were not pleased exactly, but vindicated; even with insanity in the family she wouldn"t have turned down all of her chances if they had really materialized.When her father died, it got about that the house was all that was left to her; and in a way, people were glad. At last they could pity Miss Emily. Being left alone, and a pauper, she had become humanized. Now she too would know the old thrill and the old despair of a penny more or less.The day after his death all the ladies prepared to call at the house and offer condolence and aid, as is our custom. Miss Emily met them at the door, dressed as usual and with no trace of grief on her face. She told them that her father was not dead. She did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body. Just as they were about to resort to law and force, she broke down, and they buried her father quickly.We did not say she was crazy them. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will.IIIShe was sick for a long time. When we saw her again, her hair was cut short, making her look like a girl, with a vague resemblance to those angels in colored church windows—sort of tragic and serene.The town had just let the contracts for paving the sidewalks, and in the summer after her father"s death they began the work. The construction company came with niggers and mules and machinery, and a foreman named Homer Barron, a Yankee—a big, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face. The little boys would follow in groups to hear him cuss the niggers, and the niggers singing in time to the rise and fall of picks. Pretty soon he knew everybody in town. Whenever you heard a lot of laughing anywhere about the square, Homer Barron would be in the center of the group. Presently we began to see him and Miss Emily on Sunday afternoons driving in the yellow-wheeled buggy and the matched team of bays from the livery stable.At first we were glad that Miss Emily would have an interest, because the ladies all said, " Of course a Grierson would not think seriously of a Northerner, a day laborer. " But there were still others, older people, who said that even grief could not cause a real lady to forget noblesse oblige— without calling it noblesse oblige. They just said, "Poor Emily. Her kinsfolk shouldcome to her. " She had some kin in Alabama; but years ago her father had fallen out with them over the estate of old lady Wyatt, the crazy woman, and there was no communication between the two families. They had not even been represented at the funeral.And as soon as the old people said, "Poor Emily," the whispering began. "Do you suppose it"s really so?" they said to one another. "Of course it is. What else could..." This behind their hands; rustling of craned silk and satin behind jalousies closed upon the sun of Sunday afternoon as the thin, swift clop-clop-clop of the matched team passed; "Poor Emily. "She carried her head high enough—-even when we believed that she was fallen. It was as if she demanded more than ever the recognition of her dignity as the last Grierson; as if it had wanted that touch of earthiness to reaffirm her imperviousness. Like when she bought the rat poison, the arsenic. That was over a year after they had begun to say " Poor Emily," and while the two female cousins were visiting her." I want some poison," she said to the druggist. She was over thirty then, still a slight woman, though thinner than usual, with cold, haughty black eyes in a face the flesh of which was strained across the temples and about the eyesockets as you imagine a lighthouse-keeper"s face ought to look " I want some poison," she said."Yes, Miss Emily. What kind? For rats and such? I"d recom—""I want the best you have.I don"t care what kind. "The druggist named several. "They"ll kill anything up to an elephant. But what you want is—""Arsenic," Miss Emily said. "Is that a good one?"" Is... arsenic ? Yes, ma"am. But what you want—""I want arsenic.The druggist looked down at her. She looked back at him, erect, her face like a strained flag. "Why, of course," the druggist said. "If that"s what you want. But the law requires you to tell what you are going to use it for.Miss Emily just stared at him, her head tilted back in order to look him eye for eye, until he looked away and went and got the arsenic and wrapped it up. The Negro delivery boy brought her the package; the druggist didn"t come back. When she opened the package at home there was written on the box, under the skull and bones; "For rats.IVSo the next day we all said, " She will kill herself" ; and we said it would be the best thing. When she had first begun to be seen with Homer Barron, we had said, " She will marry him. " Then we said, " She will persuade him yet, " because Homer himself had remarked—he liked men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks" Club —that he was not a marrying ter we said, "Poor Emily" behind the jalousies as they passed on Sunday afternoon in the glittering buggy, Miss Emily with her head high and Homer Barron with his hat cocked and a cigar in his teeth, reins and whip in a yellow glove.Then some of the ladies began to say that it was a disgrace to the town and a bad example to the young people. The men did not want to interfere, but at last the ladies forced the Baptist minister—Miss Emily"s people were Episcopal—to call upon her. He would never divulge what happened during that interview, but he refused to go back again. The next Sunday they again drove about the streets, and the following day the minister"s wife wrote to Miss Emily"s relations in Alabama.So she had blood-kin under her roof again and we sat back to watch developments. At first nothing happened. Then we were sure that they were to be married. We learned that Miss Emily had been to the jeweler"s and ordered a man"s toilet set in silver, with the letters H. B. on each piece. Two days later we learned that she had bought a complete outfit of men"s clothing, including a nightshirt, and we said, "They are married. " We were really glad. We were glad because the two female cousins were even more Grierson than Miss Emily had ever been.So we were not surprised when Homer Barron —the streets had been finished some time since— was gone. We were a little disappointed that where was not a public blowing-off, but we believed that he had gone on to prepare for Miss Emily"s coming, or to give her a chance to get rid of the cousins.(By that time it was a cabal, and we were all Miss Emily"s allies to help circumvent the cousins.)Sure enough, after another week they departed. And, as we had expected all along, within three days Homer Barron was back in town.A neighbor saw the Negro man admit him at the kitchen door at dusk one evening.And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron. And of Miss Emily for some time. The Negro man went in and out with the market basket, but the front door remained closed. Now and then we would see her at a windowfor a moment, as the men did that night when they sprinkled the lime, but for almost six months she did not appear on the streets. Then we knew that this was to be expected too; as if that quality of her father which had thwarted her woman"s life so many times had been too virulent and too furious to die.When we next saw Miss Emily, she had grown fat and her hair was turning gray. During the next few years it grew grayer and grayer until it attained an even pepper-and-salt iron-gray, when it ceased turning. Up to the day of her death at seventy-four it was still that vigorous iron-gray, like the hair of an active man.From that time on her front door remained closed, save for a period of six or seven years, when she was about forty, during which she gave lessons in china-painting. She fitted up a studio in one of the downstairs rooms, where the daughters and granddaughters of Colonel Sartoris" contemporaries were sent to her with the same regularity and in the same spirit that they were sent to church on Sundays with a twenty-five-cent piece for the collection plate. Meanwhile her taxes had been remitted.Then the newer generation became the backbone and the spirit of the town, and the painting pupils grew up and fell away and did not send their children to her with boxes of color and tedious brushes and pictures cut from the ladies" magazines. The front door closed upon the last one and remained closed for good. When the town got free postal delivery, Miss Emily alone refused to let them fasten the metal numbers above her door and attach a mailbox to it. She would not listen to them.Daily, monthly, yearly we watched the Negro grow grayer and more stooped, going in and out with the market basket. Each December we sent her a tax notice, which would be returned by the post office a week later, unclaimed. Now and then we would see her in one of the downstairs windows—she had evidently shut up the top floor of the house—like the carven torso of an idol in a niche, looking or not looking at us, we could never tell which. Thus she passed from generation to generation—dear, inescapable, impervious, tranquil, and perverse.And so she died. Fell ill in the house filled with dust and shadows, with only a doddering Negro man to wait on her. We did not even know she was sick; we had long since given up trying to get any information from the Negro. He talked to no one, probably not even to her, for his voice had grown harsh and rusty, as if from disuse.She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight.VThe Negro met the first of the ladies at the front door and let them in, with their hushed, sibilant voices and their quick, curious glances, and then he disappeared. He walked right through the house and out the back and was not seen again.The two female cousins came at once. They held the funeral on the second day, with the town coming to look at Miss Emily beneath a mass of bought flowers, with the crayon face of her father musing profoundly above the bier and the ladies sibilant and macabre; and the very old men—some in their brushed Confederate uniforms—on the porch and the lawn, talking of Miss Emily as if she had been a contemporary of theirs, believing they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the old do, to whom all the past is not a diminishing road, but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches, divided from them now by the narrow bottleneck of the most recent decade of years.Already we knew that there was one room in that region above stairs which no one had seen in forty years, and which would have to be forced. They waited until Miss Emily was decently in the ground before they opened it.The violence of breaking down the door seemed to fill this room with pervading dust. A thin, acrid pall as of the tomb seemed to lie everywhere upon this room decked and furnished as for a bridal: upon the valance curtains of faded rose color, upon the rose-shaded lights, upon the dressing table, upon the delicate array of crystal and the man"s toilet things backed with tarnished silver, silver so tarnished that the monogram was obscured. Among them lay a collar and tie, as if they had just been removed, which, lifted, left upon the surface a pale crescent in the dust. Upon a chair hung the suit, carefully folded; beneath it the two mute shoes and the discarded socks.The man himself lay in the bed.For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleepthat outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him. What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay; and upon him and upon the pillow beside him lay that even coating of the patient and biding dust.Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________。

全国2011年7月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题课程代码：00604全部题目用英文作答，请将答案填在答题纸相应位置上PART ONE (40 POINTS)I. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice and write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet. 1. All of Charles Dickens’ works, with the exception of _________, present a criticism of the more complicated复杂，难懂的and yet most fundamental social institutions制度and morals of the Victorian England. A. Bleak House B. Hard Times C. Great Expectations远大前程D. A Tale of Two Cities双城记2. From ____________ on, the tragic sense becomes the keynote of Thomas Hardy’s novels, the conflict between the traditional and the moden is brought to the center of the stage. A. The Return of the Native B. The Mayor of Casterbridge C. Tess of the D’UrbervillesD. Jude the Obscure 3. George Bernard Shaw’s play ____________ shows his almost nihilistic bitterness on the subjects of the cruelty and madness of World War I and the aimlessness and disillusion of the young. A. Getting Married B. Too True to Be Good C. Widowers’ HousesD. The Apple Cart 4. It was only after the publication of ____________ that D.H. Lawrence was recognized as a prominent novelist. A. The Trespasser B. The White Peacock C. Sons and Lovers D. The Rainbow ce in terms of the stream 5. T. S. Eliot’s poem ____________ is heavily indebted to James Joy- of -consciousness technique, also a prelude序幕，前奏to The Waste Land. A. “Prufrock”布鲁富克劳B. “Gerontion”衰老C. The Hollow Men D. Lyrical Ballads e existing society, e. g. the 6. Charlotte Brontё’s ____________ is noted for its sharp criticism of threligious hypocrisy of charity institutions.它以对当时社会尖锐的批评而闻名于世。

2011年北京航空航天大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷(总分52, 做题时间90分钟)1. 名词解释1.Waiting for GodotSSS_TEXT_QUSTI该问题分值: 2答案:正确答案：Waiting for Godot is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett,in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for someone named Godot to arrive.2.Harlem renaissanceSSS_TEXT_QUSTI该问题分值: 2答案:正确答案：Harlem renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as " New Negro Movement". It was a burst of literary achievement by Negro playwrights, poets, and novelists who presented new insights into American experience and prepared the way for the emergence of numerous black writers after mid-twentieth century.3.AntagonistSSS_TEXT_QUSTI该问题分值: 2答案:正确答案：Antagonist is a person, or a group of people who oppose the main character. The antagonist may also represent a major threat or obstacle to the main character by their very existence, without necessarily deliberately targeting him or her.4.Comedy of mannersSSS_TEXT_QUSTI该问题分值: 2答案:正确答案：Comedy of manners is a genre of play or novel which satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often represented by stock characters, such as the miles gloriosus in ancient times, the fop and the rake during the Restoration. The plot of a comedy, often concerned with scandal, is generally less important than its witty dialogue. A great writer of comedy of manners is Oscar Wilde, who writes the famous play The Importance of Being Earnest.5.Blank verseSSS_TEXT_QUSTI该问题分值: 2答案:正确答案：Blank verse is the poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. It has been described as "probably the **mon and influential form that English poetry has taken since the sixteenth century".2. 翻译题1.Please translate the following English into Chinese, and payattention to its literary quality.It was New Year"s Night. An aged man was standing at a window. He raised his mournful eyes towards the deep blue sky, where the stars were floating like white lilies on the surface of a clear calm lake. Then he cast them on the earth, where few more hopeless people than himself now moved towards their certain goal—the tomb. He had already passed sixty of the stages leading to it, and he had brought from his journey nothing but errors and remorse. Now his health was poor, his mind vacant, his heart sorrowful, and his old age short of comforts.SSS_TEXT_QUSTI该问题分值: 2答案:正确答案：新年之夜。

2011年厦门大学MTI考试真题回忆版第一篇：2011年厦门大学MTI考试真题回忆版2011年厦门大学MTI考试真题回忆版考试科目：英语翻译基础总分150分一、短语翻译 30分A、短语汉译英（15小题共15分）补缺选举次贷危机保兑银行本命年小道消息摆架子不见不散三国演义种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆不以物喜，不以己悲上海五国第九次峰会闪婚世博会吉祥物海宝布达拉宫论语B、短语英译汉（15小题共15分）UCLA china rose infortainment sock puppet the Mathew Effect Possible repercussion of our actions IAEA Scale back productionVital statisticMemorandum of Understanding for the Collaborative Program on Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases between The Department of Health and Human Services of the United States of America and The Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China（该部分还缺5条短语，以后想起或者找到再补上）二、语篇翻译（共120分）英译汉（60分）第一篇与心脏病有关的一则报道第二篇资源节约，可持续发展政府公司社会的要求汉译英（60分）第一篇欢乐谷创新发展核心竞争力第二篇张裕干红的发展史葡萄酒葡萄庄园。

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2011年英语历年考研真题阅读翻译2011Part AText 1The decision of the New York Philharmonic to hire Alan Gilbert as its next music director has been the talk of the classical-music world ever since the sudden announcement of his appointment in 2009. For the most part, the response has been favorable, to say the least. “Hooray! At last!” wrote Anthony Tommasini, a sober-sided classical-music critic.One of the reasons why the appointment came as such a surprise, however, is that Gilbert is comparatively little known. Even Tommasini, who had advocated G ilbert’s appointment in the Times, calls him “an unpretentious musician with no air of the formidable conductor about him.” As a description of the next music director of an orchestra that has hitherto been led by musicians like Gustav Mahler and Pierre Boulez, that seems likely to have struck at least some Times readers as faint praise.For my part, I have no idea whether Gilbert is a great conductor or even a good one. To be sure, he performs an impressive variety of interesting compositions, but it is not necessary for me to visit Avery Fisher Hall, or anywhere else, to hear interesting orchestral music. All I have to do is to go to my CD shelf, or boot up my computer and download still more recorded music from iTunes.Devoted concertgoers who reply that recordings are no substitute for live performance are missing the point. For the time, attention, and money of the art-loving public, classical instrumentalists must compete not only with opera houses, dance troupes, theater companies, and museums, but also with the recorded performances of the great classical musicians of the 20th century. There recordings are cheap, available everywhere, and very often much higher in artistic quality than today’s live performances; moreover, they can be “consumed” at a time and place of the listener’s choosing. The widespread availability of such recordings has thus brought about a crisis in the institution of the traditional classical concert.One possible response is for classical performers to program attractive new music that is not yet available on record. Gilbert’s own interest in new music has been widely noted: Alex Ross, a classical-music critic, has described him as a man who is capable of turning the Philharmonic into “a markedly different, more vibrant organization.” But what will be the nature of that difference? Merely expanding the orchestra’s repertoire will not be enough. If Gilbert and the Philharmonic are to succeed, they must first change the relationship between America’s oldest orchestra and t he new audience it hops to attract.译文：纽约爱乐乐团决定聘请Alan Gilbert作为下一任的音乐总监，这从2009年任命被宣布之日起就在古典音乐界引起了热议.别的不说，大部分人的反应是积极的.“好啊，终于好了！” Anthony Tommasini写道，他可是一个以严肃著称的古典音乐评论家.但是，这个任命之所以一起人们惊讶的原因却是Gilbert相对而言并不是很有名.甚至在时代杂志上发文支持Gilbert任命的Tommasini都称其为：低调的音乐家，在他身上找不到那种飞扬跋扈的指挥家的气质.纽约爱乐乐团迄今为止都是由像Gustav Mahler(古斯塔夫•马勒)和Pierre Boulez布列兹那样的音乐家领导的.这样去描述这个乐团的下一位指挥，至少对于时代的读者而言，这是一种苍白的表扬.就我看来，我不知道Gilbert是否是一个伟大的指挥家或者是一个好的指挥.但是我能确定的是，他能表现出很多有趣的乐章，但是我却应该不会去Avery Fisher Hall或者其他地方去听一场有趣的交响乐演出.我要做的事情就是去我的CD架上，或者打开的我的电脑从ITUNES上下载更多的唱片.那些忠实的音乐会观众会讲唱片并不能代替现场的演出，但是他们忽略了一些事情.当下为了获得艺术爱好者的钱，时间，关注度，古典音乐的演奏家们(其实就是指交响乐团，同意复述)不仅要和剧院，舞蹈队，演出公司和博物馆竞争，而且还需要和那些记录了20世纪的伟大的古典音乐演奏者表演的唱片竞争.唱片很便宜，那里都能买到，并且比现在很多现场音乐会的艺术质量要高.进一步的讲，听众能选择听唱片的时间和地点.这些到处可以获得的唱片给传统的演出机构带来了危机.对于古典音乐演奏者而言，他们可能的一个回应就是排练出唱片上没有的曲目.Gilbert对新音乐兴趣已经被广泛的关注了：Alex Ross，一名古典音乐的批评家，就这样描述道：他能够把爱乐乐团变成一个完全不同，更加有活力的组织.但是那种不同的性质也是什么呢？可能仅仅增加乐团演出的曲目是不够的，如果Gilbert和他的乐团要进步的话，他们就必须首先改变美国最古老的乐团(就是纽约爱乐乐团)同他们想吸引的新观众间的关系.Text 2When Liam McGee departed as president of Bank of America in August, his explanation was surprisingly straight up. Rather than cloaking his exit in the usual vague excuses, he came right out and said he was leaving “to pursue my goal of running a company.” Broadcasting his ambition was “very muc h my decision,” McGee says. Within two weeks, he was talking for the first time with the board of Hartford Financial Services Group, which named him CEO and chairman on September 29.McGee says leaving without a position lined up gave him time to reflect on what kind of company he wanted to run. It also sent a clear message to the outside world about his aspirations. And McGee isn’t alone. In recent weeks the No.2 executives at Avon and American Express quit with the explanation that they were looking for a CEO post. As boards scrutinize succession plans in response to shareholder pressure, executives who don’t get the nod also may wish to move on. A turbulent business environment also has senior managers cautious of letting vague pronouncements cloud their reputations.As the first signs of recovery begin to take hold, deputy chiefs may be more willing to make the jump without a net. In the third quarter, CEO turnover was down 23% from a year ago as nervous boards stuck with the leaders they had, according to Liberum Research. As the economy picks up, opportunities will abound for aspiring leaders.底改变了. 那些受伤最厉害的就是那里在一个地方待太久的人.”Text 3The rough guide to marketing success used to be that you got what you paid for. No longer. While traditional “paid” media – such as television commercials and print advertisements – still play a major role, companies today can exploit many alternative forms of media. Consumers passionate about a product may create "earned" media by willingly promoting it to friends, and a company may leverage “owned” media by sending e-mail alerts about products and sales to customers registered with its Web site. In fact，the way consumers now approach the process of making purchase decisions means that marketing's impact stems from a broad range of factors beyond conventional paid media.Paid and owned media are controlled by marketers promoting their own products. For earned media , such marketers act as the initiator for users’ responses. But in some cases, one marketer’s owned media become another marketer’s paid media – for instance, when an e-commerce retailer sells ad space on its Web site. We define such sold media as owned media whose traffic is so strong that other organizations place their content or e-commerce engines within that environment. This trend ,which we believe is still in its infancy, effectively began with retailers and travel providers such as airlines and hotels and will no doubt go further. Johnson & Johnson, for example, has created BabyCenter, a stand-alone media property that promotes complementary and even competitive products. Besides generating income, the presence of other marketers makes the site seem objective, gives companies opportunities to learn valuable information a bout the appeal of other companies’ marketing, and may help expand user traffic for all companies concerned.The same dramatic technological changes that have provided marketers with more (and more diverse) communications choices have also increased the risk that passionate consumers will voice their opinions in quicker, more visible, and much more damaging ways. Such hijacked media are the opposite of earned media: an asset or campaign becomes hostage to consumers, other stakeholders, or activists who make negative allegations about a brand or product. Members of social networks, for instance, are learning that they can hijack media to apply pressure on the businesses that originally created them.If that happens, passionate consumers would try to persuade others to boycott products, putting the reputation of the target company at risk. In such a case, the company’s response may not be sufficiently quick or thoughtful, and the learning curve has been steep. Toyota Motor, for example, alleviated some of the damage from its recall crisis earlier this year with a relatively quick and well-orchestrated social-media response campaign, which included efforts to engage with consumers directly on sites such as Twitter and the social-news site Digg.译文：过去，市场营销的成功诀窍简而言之就是一分钱一分货.然而时过境迁.虽然传统的“付费”(paid)媒介，比如电视和广播广告、平面广告和路边广告牌等，仍然扮演着重要角色，但企业如今还可以利用许多其他形式的媒介.比如，痴迷于某种产品的消费者，可能会乐意将之推荐给朋友，从而为企业创造因产品的优良品质带来的“无偿”(earned)媒介.企业还可以利用“自有”(owned)媒介，通过邮件向其网站的注册用户发送产品和销售提示.事实上，如今消费者作出购买决定的方式，意味着市场营销的影响力来自于传统付费媒介之外的广泛因素.营销人员通过付费和自有媒介推销其产品，而在“无偿”媒介方面，营销人员就像是触发用户响应的初始催化剂.在某些情况下，某营销者的自有媒介会成为另一个营销者的付费媒介.比如，当某电子商务零售商出售其网站的广告空间时，我们就将这种“售出”媒介定义为拥有巨大流量、以致其他机构纷纷前来投放内容或电子商务引擎的自有媒介.我们认为，这种趋势已蓬勃发端于零售商和航空、酒店等旅游供应商，虽然还处于初始阶段，但无疑可以走得更远.比如，强生公司创建了著名网站BabyCenter，借以推广互补性乃至竞争性产品，而其他营销者的出现不仅带来了收入，还令该网站看起来公正客观，并且使企业有机会从其他公司的营销活动中获得可贵的信息，最后还有助于扩大所有相关企业的用户流量.剧烈的技术变革使营销人员获得了数量更多、种类更广的沟通选择，但同时也带来了更高的风险，因为激动的消费者能够以更迅速、更明显、更有害的方式来表达他们的意见.这就是与“无偿”媒介相对的“劫持”媒介：某项资产或活动变成了对某个品牌或产品不满的消费者、其他股东或积极分子的劫持物.比如，社交网络用户正领悟到，他们可以通过“劫持”媒介来对最初创建该媒介的企业施加压力.如果那种事情发生，激动的消费者试图劝服其他人共同抵制两家公司的产品，从而危及企业声誉.当这种事情发生的时候，如果企业的回应不够快或不够好，那么就可能酿成悲剧.比如，在今年较早前发生的召回危机中，丰田汽车公司采取了较快且较有序的社交媒体回应行动，包括在Twitter和社会新闻网站Digg等网站上与客户进行直接交流，从而挽回了部分损失.Text 4It’s no surprise that Jennifer Senior’s insightful, provocative magazine cover story, “I love My Children, I Hate My Life,” is arousing much chatter –nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience. Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition. Even though the day-to-day experience of raising kids can be soul-crushingly hard, Senior writes that “the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and delight.”The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week. There are also stories about newly adoptive – and newly single – mom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual “Jennifer Aniston is pregnant” news. Practically every week features at least one celebrity mom, or mom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands.In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you supportkitten-killing ? It doesn’t seem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the children. Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn’t have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock. According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all. No shock there, considering how much work it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on; yet to hear Sandra and Britney tell it, raising a kid on their “own” (read: with round-the-clock help) is a piece of cake.It’s hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut. But it’s interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren’t in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting “ the Rachel” might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.译文：毫无疑问，Jennifer Senior在有煸动意味的的杂志封面故事中表达了她的独到见解，“我爱我的孩子们，我讨厌我的生活”——这唤起了人们的谈兴.人们一谈到养孩子就会觉得这是一件完全令人愉悦、生活充实的事情.Jennifer Senior没有指出养孩子到底是使得父母快乐呢还是痛苦呢，她倒是认为，我们需要重新定义幸福：幸福不应该是一个个瞬间的快乐组合的可以被衡量的东西；我们应该把幸福视为一种过去式的状态.尽管抚养孩子的日子漫长难熬，令人筋疲力尽，但是Jennifer Senior认为，正是那些心绪沉重的时刻，日后却成为我们欢乐的源泉.杂志封面上一位给力的母亲抱着一个可爱的婴儿，这种圣母与圣子(麦当娜和孩子)的图画这周在杂志上多次出现.例如杂志上讲到最近刚收养孩子的母亲——有时是刚变成单身母亲——桑德拉布鲁克，以及那种很常见的“詹尼弗阿尼斯顿怀孕了”的新闻.实际上，每周都有至少一位名人母亲、或者准母亲在杂志上笑迎读者.在一个不断地庆祝生育的社会中，承认自己后悔生育孩子就相当于承认自己支持杀小猫，这难道不值得反思吗？把父母的后悔与孩子的后悔相比较，这显然并不合理.没有人会去让不情愿养孩子的父母去反思自己是否不该养孩子，但是那不幸福的没有孩子的人却为类似这样的信息所困扰：“孩子是世上唯一最可珍惜的东西”，显然，你们的不幸必须通过生儿育女才能得以消除.当然，像美国周刊与人物这样的杂志提供的名人父母的形象是非常不切实际的.特别是像Bullock这样的单身母亲时更是如此.多项研究表明，有孩子的父母很少比没有孩子的夫妇更快乐，而单亲家庭是最不快乐的.这并不奇怪，因为一个人养一个孩子实在太麻烦了，没有人可以依靠.然而，你听听Sandra和Britney 说的话：自己“一个人”养孩子，其实非常简单.(她们当然觉得简单了，因为她们是在周围有一帮人全天侯的侯着啊.)很难想象有的人生孩子就只是很傻很天真因为Reese和Angelina这种名流使这种行为变的很光鲜，——多数成年人其实理解：养孩子可不是剪头发那样简单.但这确实有趣：反思一下我们每周看到的无忧无虑，幸福诱人的为人父母的生活会不会从一种微小的，无意识的方面加剧我们对于现实生活的不满.这种方式就好像：我们有那种想成为“ the Rachel”(老友记中的单身妈妈)的心理，这种心理，使得我们看上去有点像詹尼弗安尼斯顿(Rachel 的扮演者).。

2011年南开大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷(总分30,考试时间90分钟)1. 名词解释1. assonance2. transcendentalism3. medieval romances in England4. foot5. humanism2. 分析题Questions 1 to 6 are based on the following poem by Emily Dickinson. Because I Could not Stop for Death Because I could not stop for Death— He kindly stopped for me— The Carriage held but just Ourselves— And Immortality.We slowly drove—He knew no haste, And I had put away My labor, and my leisure too, For his Civility—We passed the School, where Children strove At Recess—in the Ring— We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain— We passed the Setting Sun—Or rather, He passed Us— The Dews drew quivering and chill— For only Gossamer, my Gown—My tippet—only tulleWe paused before a House that seemed A Swelling of the Ground— The Roof was scarcely visible—The Cornice—in a GroundSince then—" tis centuries—and yet Feels shorter than the Day I first surmised the horses" heads Were toward Eternity.1. Why did Death stop for me?2. Why couldn"t I stop for Death?3. What did the Death"s carriage hold?4. What three things did the speaker and Death pass?5. What is the "House" in the ground in Stanza 5? Why do the centuries seem shorter than the Day?6. What is the theme of the poem?Questions 7 to 10 are based on the letter written by Samuel Johnson to the Earl of Chesterfield.To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield February 7, 1755 My Lord:I have been lately informed by the proprietor of the World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honor which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre; that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending; but I found my attendance so little encouraged thatneither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with love, and found him a native of the rocks.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 notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, my Lord,Your Lordship"s most humble, most obedient servant, Sam. Johnson7. Why did Johnson first visit Lord Chesterfield? What was Johnson"s impression of Lord Chesterfield and how was he treated?8. How does Johnson define a patron?9. In the letter, Johnson wrote "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with love, and found him a native of the rocks. " What does the sentence mean?10. How does Johnson feel about the notice Lord Chesterfield had taken of his work after he had finished his Dictionary? What is the real purpose of Johnson"s letter?。

全国2011年7月自学考试英美文学选读试题1课程代码：00604Ⅰ.Find the items in the right column which fit the left column the best and write your letters on the AnswerⅡ.Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook.(20%)1.In the field of literature, the Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classical works. This tendency is known as .2.Swift is one of the greatest masters of English prose. He is almost unsurpassed in the writing of simple, direct, precise prose. He defined a good style as “_______.”3.Wordsworth is regarded as a “_______.”He can penetrate to the heart of things and give the reader the very life of nature.4._______ is the most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’ works.5.In his long dramatic career, Shaw wrote more than _______ plays.6.James Joyce is regarded as the most prominent _______ novelist, concentrating on the revealing in his novels the psychic being of the characters.7.Galsworthy is essentially a bourgeois liberal, a_______.8.Structurally and thematically, Shaw followed the great tradition of _____.9.Most of Faulkner’s works are about people from a small region in _______, Y oknapatawpha County.10.In Our Times is the first book to present a Hemingway hero—_______.Ⅲ.Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and write you answer on the Answer Sheet.(10%)1._______ is regarded as “worshipper of nature.”A. ColeridgeB. WordsworthC. T.S.EliotD. Robert Browning2.Marlowe’s play Dr.Faustus is based on _______ of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the devil.A. the ScandinavianB. the GermanC. the ancient EnglishD. the French3.Who defined a good style as “proper words in proper places?”A. Jonathan SwiftB. Charles Dickens第 1 页C. Edmund SpencerD. George Bernard Shaw4._______ is central to Blake’s concern in the Sogns of Innocence and Songs of Experience?A. innocence and experienceB. the poorC. societyD. childhood5.As a novelist _______ wrote within a very narrow sphere, the provincial life of the late 1818-century England.A. Jonathan SwiftB. Jane AustenC. Thomas HardyD. Henry Fielding6.“Trust thyself,”Emerson wrote in his_______.A. The American ScholarB. The Sketch BookC. Self-RelianceD. Nature7.Hawthorne’s view of man and human history originates, to a great extent ,in _______.A. PuritanismB. TranscendentalismC. his childhoodD. his unhappy marriage8.As _______ saw it, poetry could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation.A. EmersonB. HawthorneC. WhitmanD. Emily Dickinson9._______ was the first American writer to conceive his career in international terms.A. EmersonB. Henry JamesC. Mark TwainD. Ernest Hemingway10.According to Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury is a story of “______.”A. lost generationB. lost innocenceC. farmersD. industrial laborsⅣ.For each of the questions listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work.(20%) 1.“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,And we will sit upon the rocks,Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,By shallow rivers to whose falls,Melodious birds sing madrigals.”2.“The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.”3.“He pulled back the blanket from the Indian’s head. His hand came away wet. He mounted on the edge of the lower bunkwith the lamp in one hand and looked in. The Indian lay with his face toward the wall. His throat had been cut from ear to ear.”4.“Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and thename of that town is vanity; and at that town there is a fair kept, called vanity Fair,…”5.“And because I am happy & dance & singThey think they have done me no injury,And are gone to praise God & his Priest & king,Who make up a heaven of our misery.”第 2 页Ⅴ.Give brief answers to the following questions.(20%)1.Why has Fielding been regarded as “Father of the English novel?”2.What’s the symbolic meaning of Browning’s poem,“The Ring and the Book?”3.What is literary naturalism?4.How’s Y eats’ style like?Ⅵ.Short Essay Questions:(20%)1.What’s the artistic tendency of wrence?2.Give a brief discussion of Henry James’ literary achievement.第 3 页。

复旦2011 英美文学真题回忆基础英语+文学史基础英语I. Engliish-Chinese Translation(Except From Emerson, Nature)The high and divine beauty which can be loved without effeminacy, is that which is found in combination with the human will. Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue. Every natural action is graceful. Every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine. We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creep into a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution. In proportion to the energy of his thought and will, he takes up the world into himself. "All those things for which men plough, build, or sail, obey virtue;" said Sallust. "The winds and waves," said Gibbon, "are always on the side of the ablest navigators." So are the sun and moon and all the stars of heaven. When a noble act is done, -- perchance in a scene of great natural beauty; when Leonidas and his three hundred martyrs consume one day in dying, and the sun and moon come each and look at them once in the steep defile of Thermopylae; when Arnold Winkelried, in the high Alps, under the shadow of the avalanche, gathers in his side a sheaf of Austrian spears to break the line for his comrades; are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed? When the bark of Columbus nears the shore of America; -- before it, the beach lined with savages, fleeing out of all their huts of cane; the sea behind; and the purple mountains of the Indian Archipelago around, can we separate the man from the living picture? Does not the New World clothe his form with her palm-groves and savannahs as fit drapery? Ever does natural beauty steal in like air, and envelope great actions.II. Chinese-English TranslationFrom 王蒙《高原的风》（试题中间略有删节）说这个话的是老宋的至交，身高一米九的老赵。

2011年英美文学考研真题（诗歌部分）一、填空题1.The Publication of The Waste Land, written by ___T.S.Eliot________ , helped toestablished a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.二、选择题1. (同2009/二/1)The following fragment is taken from a poem written by______.A. Robert BurnsB. William ShakespeareC. Geoffrey ChaucerD. Robert BrowningWhen the sweet showers of April fall and shootDown through the drought of March of pierce the root,Bathing every vein in liquid powerFrom which there springs the engendering of the flower,When also Zephyrus with his sweet breathExhales an air in every groove and heathUpon the tender shoots, and the young sunHis half-course in the sign of the Ram has run,And the small fowls are making melodyThat sleep away the night with open eye(So nature picks them and their heart engages)The people long to seek the stranger strandsOf far-off saints, hallowed in sundry lands…2. The following selection is written by _________ .A. William ShakespeareB. T.S. EliotC. John KeatsD. Mark TwainThe quality of mercy id nit strain’dIt droppeth as the gentle rain from heavenUpon the place beneath: it is twice bless’dIt blesseth him that gives, and him that takes:‘Tis mightiest; it becomesThe throned monarch better than his crownHis scepter shows the force of temporal powerThe attribute to awe and majesty,Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;But mercy is above this sceptred sway,It is attribute to God himself;And earthly power doth then show l ikest God’sWhen mercy seasons justice. Therefore Jew,Though justice be thy plea, consider this,That in the course of justice none of usShould see salvation: we do pray for mercy,And that same prayer doth teach us all to renderThe deeds of mercy.3. (同2006/二/9) (同2007/二/7)The author of the following sonnet is ___________ .A.William ShakespeareB.Geoffrey ChaucerC.Edmund SpenserD.John MiltonWhen, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,I all alone beweep my outcast stateAnd trouble deaf heaven with my bootless criesAnd look upon myself and curse my fate,Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd,Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,With what I most enjoy contented least;Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,Haply I think on thee, and then my state,Like to the lark at break of day arisingFrom sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth bringsThat then I scorn to change my state with kings.4. The following fragment is from a poem written by ________ .A.T.S. EliotB.Ezra PoundC.Gertrude SteinD.Henry JamesLet us go then, you and I,When the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table;Let us go; through certain half-deserted streets,The muttering retreats,Of restless nights, in one-night cheap hotels,And sawdust restaurant with oyster-shells:Streets that follow like a tedious argumentOf insidious intentTo lead you to an overwhelming question…..Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”Let us go and make our visit.5. (同2006/二/10) (同2009/二/7)The following poem is one of the 19 sonnets written by _________ before his ordination.A.William ShakespeareB.Geoffrey ChaucerC.John DonneD.Thomas GrayDeath be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadful, for, thou art not soe,For, those, whom thou think’st, thou dost overthrow,Die riot, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill mee.From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,Rest of their bones, and souls deliverie.Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,And dost with poyson, warre, and sickness dwell,And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,And better than thy stroake; why swell’st thou then?One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,And death shall be no more, Death thou shalt die.6. The following fragment is from a poem written by ________ .A.Robert BurnsB.John KeatsC.Robert FrostD.Carl SandburgHeard melodies are sweet, but those unheardAre sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;Not to the sensual ear, but more endear’d,Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone;Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leaveThy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,Though winning near the goal-yet, do not grieve;She can not fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!7.(同2009/二/9)The following fragment is taken fr om a poem entitled “in Just----”by ____.A.Hart CraneB.Robert FrostC. E. E. CummingsD.Robinson Jefferin Justspring when the world is mud-luscious the littlelame balloonmanwhistles far and weeand eddieandbill comerunning from marbles andpiracies and itsspring…8. The following fragment is taken from a poem entitled “I Died For Beauty—but WasScarce” by ____.A.Silvia PlathB.Eudora WeltyC.Emily DickinsonD.Maya AngelouI died for beauty—but was scarceAdjusted in the TombWhen one who died for truth, was lain,In an adjoining Room---9. The following fragment is taken from a poem entitled The Negro Speaks of Rivers.What’s the name of the poet?E.Richard Wrightngston HughesG.James BaldwinH.Toni MorrisonI’ve known rivers:I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow ofHuman blood in human veins.My soul has grown deep as the rivers.I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.10. The following fragment is taken from a poem entitled Daddy by ______ .A.Emily DickinsonB.Maya AngelouC.Silvia PlathD.Willa CatherYou do not do, you do not doAny more, black shoeIn which I have lived like a footFor thirty years, poor and white,Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.Daddy, I have had to kill you.You died before I had time---Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,Ghastly statue with one grey toeBig as a Frisco seal11.(同2009/二/11)The following fragment is taken from a collection of poemsentitled ____.A.The Lyrical BalladsB.Leaves of GrassC.The Flowers of EvilD.The Canterbury TalesI celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongsto you.I loafe and invite my soulI lean and loafe at my ease observing a spearOf summer grass.12. In the line “So long lives this, and this gives life to thee” of Sonnet 18, Shakespeare _____________.A.Meditates on man’s m ortalityB.Eulogizes the power of artistic creationC.Satirizes human vanityD.Presents a dream vision12.“O prince, O chief of many throned powers.That led th’embattled seraphim to warUnder thy conduct, and in dreadful deedsFearless, endangered Heaven’s perpetual King.”In the third line of the above fragment quoted from Milton’s Paradise Lost, the phrase “thy conduct” refers to ________ conduct.A.Satan’sB.God’sC.Adam’sD.Eve’s13.“Metaphysical poetry” refers to the works of the 17th century writers who wroteunder the influence of ______________ .A.John MiltonB.Christopher MarloweC.John DonneD.John Bunyan14.Alexander Pope worked painstakingly on his poems and finally brought to its lastperfection ____________ Dryden had successfully used in his plays.A.the heroic coupletB.the free verseC.the blank verseD.the Spenserian stanza15. The poetic view of __________ can be best understood from his remark about poetry, that is, “all goog poetry is the spontaneous overflow of power feelings.”A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. John KeatsC. William WordsworthD. Percy Bysshe Shelley15.In The Lake Isle of Innisfree William Butler Yeats expresses his ________.A.desire to escape from the materialistic societyB.fear caused by the impending warC.interest in the Irish legendsD.love for Maud Gonne, a beautiful Irish actress16.Walt Whitman was a founding figure of American poetry. His innovation first ofall lies in his use of ______, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A.blank verseB.heroic coupleC.free verseD.iambic pentameter三、主观题1. The following is a fragment taken from a lyric written by Robert Browning “My LastDuchess”. Analyze this fragment with reference to the entire poem.That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,Looking as if she were alive. I callThat piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf's handsWorked busily a day, and there she stands.Will 't please you sit and look at her? I said'Frà Pandolf' by design, for never readStrangers like you that pictured countenance,The depth and passion of its earnest glance,But to myself they turned (since none puts byThe curtain I have drawn for you, but I)And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst,How such a glance came there; so, not the firstAre you to turn and ask thus.………………………………………………I repeat,The Count your master's known munificenceIs ample warrant that no just pretenceOf mine for dowry will be disallowed;Though his fair daughter's self, as I avowedAt starting，is my object. Nay, we'll goTogether down, sir. Notice Neptune, though,Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity,Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!This poem is loosely based on historical events involving Alfonso, th e Duke of Ferrara, who lived in the 16th century. The Duke is the spe aker of the poem, and tells us he is entertaining an emissary who has come to negotiate the Duke’s marriage (he has recently been widowed ) to the daughter of another powerful family. As he shows the visitor through his palace, he stops before a portrait of the late Duchess, apparently a young and lovely girl. The Duke begins reminiscing about the portrait sessions, then about the Duchess herself. His musings g ive way to a diatribe on her disgraceful behavior: he claims she flir ted with everyone and did not appreciate his “gift of a nine-hundred -years- old name.” As his monologue continues, the reader realizes w ith ever-more chilling certainty that the Duke in fact caused the Duc hess’s early demise: when her behavior escalated, “[he] gave comman ds; / Then all smiles stopped together.” Having made this disclosure , the Duke returns to the business at hand: arranging for another mar riage, with another young girl. As the Duke and the emissary walk lea ve the painting behind, the Duke points out other notable artworks in his collection.。

英语翻译基础(rachellin/eddyrainy)：Cancun conference 2010 UN security council 千年发展计划雷曼兄弟国家一二五计划上海合作组织美联储1.Cancun Conference 20102.G203.Confucius4.Gaza Strip5.3R economy6.Bogor Goals7.the UN Security 8.quantitative easing 9. WTO 10.Reforestation汉译英1.循环经济2.雷曼兄弟3.天人合一4.《国富论》5.千禧年发展计划6.货币战争7.上海合作组织8.国家十二五计划9.朝核危机10.2011南开大学翻译硕士汉语写作与百科知识第一部分25道百科，每题2分靖国神社钓鱼岛夏威夷《日美安保条约》二十国美联储全球金融安全网量化宽松货币政策人民币汇率政策金砖四国居民消费价格指数存款储备金率同比上证综合指数世博会亚洲运动会环保低碳生活新理念金靴奖世界足联辛亥革命国台办君主专制制度杜尚别上合组织中俄战略伙伴关系2011南开大学翻译硕士翻译基础第一部分，30个词的英汉互译CPUNGOPhDGREOEMUFOFOBUKVIPAIDSCEOAir FranceIT industryAmerica Stock ExchangeUnited Nation Peacekeeping Forces恐怖主义世界博览会自治区宏观调控公共卫生体系综合国力科学发展观商业贿赂平等互利出口退税自主创新生态环境保护西部大开发自然资源私营经济2011年山东大学翻译硕士真题回顾(sjuan2011)汉语写作与百科知识一，25个名词解释法家，解构，解蔽，五脏六腑，殷墟，和而不同，印象主义，逻辑中心主义，为艺术而艺术，狂飙突进运动，全球经济一体化，贸易条约与协定，自由，人权，产权，智慧，法理，理念，2011年浙江大学翻译硕士真题回顾(羽之殇)第一大题翻译词语共30个WTO（旅游类）FIT（旅游类）punch （新闻类）[size=-1]The New York Review of Books （新闻类）spinster（法律类）defendant（法律类）lump-sum contracteconomic giantsex worker港龙航空中国国际航空公司中国人民广播电台保税工厂进口税美食家《石头记》《阿Q正传》东汉吐鲁番市道家2011年河南大学翻译硕士真题回顾(kevinforest)百科：第一部分名词解释，20个，50分文艺复兴、启蒙运动、一战、二战、人文主义、人道主义、世界银行、国际货币基金组织、伏尔泰、马克思、世贸组织、理性、国际贸易组织、唯物主义、无神论2011四川大学翻译硕士（felicehappy31）百科新青年新文化运动胡适狂人日记欧洲文艺复兴工业革命但丁米开朗基罗存款准备金利率贸易顺差外商直接投资宏观调控世博会上海世博会知识产权民商法翻译基础解释的词有IOC CAAC CPPCC NBA UNEP FBI purchasing power parity "三农"工作伪娘大规模杀伤性武器易经京都议定书经济适用房中国达人秀 African Union Fannie Mae& Freddie Mac MDGs 亚运会可再生资源第十一届全国人民代表大会第三次会议2011年首都师范大学翻译硕士真题回顾(KevinDurant)名词翻译英汉： currency appreciation/ the book of songs/ NPC / the divine comedy/汉英：少数民族地区 / 股市指数 / 国际法主体 / 国际法准则 / 素质教育 / 公务员 /网络空间/【翻译基础】低保国家主权和领土完整农副产品加工中东和平进程科教兴国节能减排低碳经济法治社会migrant rural laborsweapons of massive destructioninternational practiceglobal warmingbrain drainGDP ASEAN山东师范大学翻译基础：第一题 15个英翻汉的短语术语记得有：demographic statistics stamp duty ozone layer war correspondent Byzantine art energy conservation international protocol job intermediary interlingual translation game theory functional equivalence15个汉翻英的短语术语记得有：领土完整养老基金国际惯例急救站反倾销原油记者招待会房地产勇于创新分期付款贸易技术壁垒英语翻译基础the Authorized Version; flesh and blood;a wet blanket; puppy love;the Analects; contact lenses;crime police; proof positive;track and field; child's play;danger money; pull sb's leg; in for a penny,in for a pound; real economy.between the devil and the deep blue sea;汉译英音译；国内生产总值；八折优惠；左上角；淡酒；老于世故的人；硬性推销；天道酬勤；隔墙有耳；三三两两；耐用消费品；招领启事；拦路虎；可持续发展；新兴市场国家Diesel oil 、 border defence 、 odd number 、 lyrical poem 、 congnitive psychology 、UNESCO 、WTO 、 A Midsummer Night‘s dream 、 Trade show 、 environmental Justice 、inverse translation 、 CIF 、Black Europe 、 Symphony orchestra 、 Armistice Day东盟、残奥会、廉租房、钓鱼岛、公务用车、不可抗力、论文答辩、再生能源、人均排放、实体经济、第三产业、包容性增长、野生动物园、（世博会）展馆、《与台湾关系法》（美国）中国海洋大学2012年硕士研究生入学考试模拟试题一、百科知识启蒙运动法国革命马赛曲1.美国独立宣言 1787年费城制宪会议美国联邦制度（6分）2.市场经济公平效率（6分）3.印欧语系日耳曼语族诺曼征服现代英语（8分）4.论语老子佛教（6分）5.社会保险新医改扩大内需（6分）6.碳排放温室效应清洁能源（6分）7.好莱坞美国电影学院奖艾美奖（6分）8.进化论达尔文社会达尔文主义（6分）2012广东外语外贸大学百科知识第一段据香港《文汇报》报道，在第61届的（1）法兰克福书展中，（2）Google 表示有意透过Goolge Books计划，将数以百万计的书籍电子化，供读者在网上阅读。

[考研类试卷]2011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 Anglo-Saxon literature is almost exclusively a verse literature in______. It was passed down by words of mouth from generation to generation.（A）realistic form（B）lyrical form（C）oral form（D）no form2 The______is an important form of British literature in the 15th century.（A）epic（B）popular ballad（C）sonnet（D）quatrain3 Chaucer's literary career is highlighted by the publication of his work______.（A）The Song of Beowulf（B）The Canterbury Tales（C）The Ecclesiastical History of the English People（D）Confessio Amantis4 Merchant of Venice shows the achievements made in______.（A）comedy（B）tragicomedy（C）tragedy（D）absurd theatre5 The most distinguished literary figure of the Restoration Period was John Dryden, poet,______and playwright.（A）novelist（B）essayist（C）critic（D）editor6 Friday is a character in the novel written by______.（A）Charles Dickens（B）Thomas Woolf（C）Daniel Defoe（D）Henry Fielding7 ______is NOT one of the first generation of English Romantic poets.（A）Coleridge（B）Keats（C）Wordsworth（D）Southey8 Jane Eyre stands for those______working women, who are struggling for the recognition of their basic rights as a human being.（A）lower class（B）first class（C）middle class（D）grass root9 D.H. Lawrence's works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. Among his works,______explores the possibilities for life and is concerned with the nature of relationships that can be had within industrial settings.（A）Lady Chatterley's Lover（B）A Lost Lady（C）Gravity's Rainbow（D）The Escaped Peacock10 ______is the symbol of America in the Age of Enlightenment.（A）Benjamin Franklin（B）Washington Irving（C）Thomas Jefferson（D）George Washington11 ______has been addressed by Faulkner " the Father of American literature" for his artistic innovation and concern of the south in his works.（A）Benjamin Franklin（B）Washington Irving（C）Thomas Jefferson（D）Mark Twain12 Basically, Melville's most well-known novel Moby Dick shows his______view of human power and the world.（A）optimistic（B）negative（C）pragmatic（D）objective13 1925 witnesses great events in American literary field: Hemingway published his novel In Our Time, and so did Fitzgerald with his______.（A）The Gilded Age（B）The Last Tycoon（C）The Great Gatsby（D）Tender Is the Night14 John Dos Passos' trilogy of U.S.A. in the 1930s includes ______(① The 42nd Parallel ②1919 ③District of Columbia ④The Big Money)（A）①③④（B）①②③（C）①②④（D）②③④15 The following authors are all black EXCEPT______.（A）Arthur Miller（B）Richard Wright（C）James Baldwin（D）Alice Walker二、名词解释16 Absurd theatre(3 points)17 Roaring twenties(3 points)18 Local color(3 points)三、分析题18 Essay questions.(11 points)This text below is Robert Frost's Poem "The Road Not Taken". Please answer the following questions according to it: The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; 5Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same, 10And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back. 15I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence;Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference. 2019 What is the form of this poem: is it a lyrical poem or a narrative poem? Use your own words to give an illustration to prove your idea.(3 points)20 "Sigh" on the 16th verse can indicate relief or happiness, or it can indicate regret or sorrow. Please give your own interpretation of its meaning.(4 points)21 Themes of this poem could be explained in more than one aspect. Give out two themes that you can find in this poem.(4 points)。

一．2011首都师范翻硕真题1.名词翻译英汉：currency appreciation 货币升值the book of songs 诗经NPC 全国人民代表大会the divine comedy 神曲汉英：少数民族地区the minority areas股市指数the stock market(exchange) index国际法主体subject of international law国际法准则standard of international law素质教育education for all-round development公务员civil servant网络空间cyberspace2.翻译formal usage about english, several occasions the formal english is required, including, report by profession group to a government, writings to a seriousjournal, job application, etc.??an unintended consequences of globalization, some countries thrive and others furstrated, and all those take accounts for terrision, which we have the very best interest to wipr it out.汉英一篇象讲话? 在当今的国际关系下，只有。

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2011年7月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读试题课程代码：00604全部题目用英文作答，请将答案填在答题纸相应位置上PART ONE (40 POINTS)I. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice and write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.1. All of Charles Dickens’ works, with the exception of _________, present a criticism of the more complicated and yet most fundamental social institutions and morals of the Victorian England.A. Bleak HouseB. Hard TimesC. Great ExpectationsD. A Tale of Two Cities2. From ____________ on, the tragic sense becomes the keynote of Thomas Hardy’s novels, the conflict between the traditional and the moden is brought to the center of the stage.A. The Return of the NativeB. The Mayor of CasterbridgeC. Tess of the D’UrbervillesD. Jude the Obscure3. George Bernard Shaw’s play ____________ shows his almost nihilistic bitterness on the subjects of the cruelty and madness of World War I and the aimlessness and disillusion of the young.A. Getting MarriedB. Too True to Be GoodC. Widowers’ HousesD. The Apple Cart4. It was only after the publication of ____________ that D.H. Lawrence was recognized as a prominent novelist.A. The TrespasserB. The White PeacockC. Sons and LoversD. The Rainbow5. T. S. Eliot’s poem ____________ is heavily indebted to James Joyce in terms of the stream- of -consciousness technique, also a prelude to The Waste Land.A. “Prufrock”B. “Gerontion”C. The Hollow MenD. Lyrical Ballads6. Charlotte Brontё’s ____________ is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society, e. g. the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions.A. The ProfessorB. Wuthering HeightsC. VilletteD. Jane Eyre7. Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four - act poetic drama ____________ , which is an ex- ultant work in praise of humankind’s potential.A. AdonaisB. Queen MabC. Prometheus UnboundD. Kubla Khan8. Among the Romantic poets ____________ is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”.A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. George Gordon ByronD. John Keats9. The most perfect example of the verse drama after Greek style in English is John Milton’s____________.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Areopagitica10. The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is____________.A. love and moneyB. money and social statusC. social status and marriageD. love and marriage11. T. S. Eliot’s most important single poem ____________ has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry.A. The Hollow MenB. The Waste LandC. Murder in the CathedralD. Ash Wednesday12. According to the subjects, William Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified into two groups, poems about____________.A. nature and human lifeB. happiness and childhoodC. symbolism and imaginationD. nature and commonlife13. Among the following writers ____________ is considered to be the best -known English dramatist since Shakespeare.A. Oscar WildeB. John GalsworthyC. W. B. YeatsD. George Bernard Shaw14. William Blake’s ____________ composed during the climax of the French Revolution plays the double role both as a satire and a revolutionary prophecy.A. The Book of UrizenB. The Book of LosC. Poetical SketchesD. Marriage of Heaven and Hell15. Charles Dickens’ works are characterized by a mingling of ____________ and pathos.A. metaphorB. passionC. satireD. humor16. Daniel Defoe describes ____________ as a typical English middle -class man of the eigh- teenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist.A. Robinson CrusoeB. Moll FlandersC. GulliverD. Tom Jones17. In Thomas Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent ____________ touch in his de- scription of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.A. nostalgicB. tragicC. romanticD. ironic18. Of all the eighteenth - century novelists ____________ was the first to set out, both in the-ory and practice, to write specially a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the mode rn novel its structure and style.A. Thomas GrayB. Richard Brinsley SheridanC. Jonathan SwiftD. Henry Fielding19. Shakespeare’s authentic non-dramatic poetry consists of two long narrative poems: Venus and Adonis and____________.A. Julius CaesarB. The Winter’s TaleC. The Rape of LucreceD. The Two gentlemen of Verona20. John Milton’s ____________ is probably his most memorable prose work, which is a great plea for freedom of the press.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise regainedC. AreopagiticaD. Lycidas21.D. H. Lawrence’s novels ____________ are generally regarded as his masterpieces.A. The Rainbow; Women in LoveB. The Rainbow; Sons and LoversC. Sons and Lovers; Lady Chatterley’s LoverD. Women in Love; Lady Chatterley’s Lover22. The best representatives of the English humanists are Thomas More, Christopher Mar-lowe and____________.A. William ShakespeareB. John MiltonC. Henry FieldingD. Jonathan Swift23. Mark Twain’s particular concern about the local character of a region came about as “local color ism,” a unique variation of American literary____________.A. romanticismB. nationalismC. modernismD. realism24. As a poet with a strong sense of mission, Walt Whitman devoted all his life to the creation of the “single” poem,____________.A. Drum TapsB. North of BostonC. A Boy’s WillD. Leaves of Grass25. William Faulkner creates his own mythical kingdom that mirrors not only the decline of the____________ society of America but also the spiritual wasteland of the whole American society.A. EasternB. WesternC. SouthernD. Northern26. In his final years, Herman Melville turned again to prose fiction and wrote what is probably his second famous work, ____________ , which was published after his death.A. Billy BuddB. RedburnC. Moby - DickD. Typee27. The Sun Also Rise casts light on a whole generation after ____________ and the effects of the war by way of a vivid portrait of “the Lost Generation. ”A. the Spanish Civil WarB. the American- Mexican WarC. WWID. WWII28. Herman Melville went to the South Seas on a whaling ship in 1841, where he gained the first -hand information about whaling that he used later in____________.A. TypeeB. RedburnC. Moby - DickD. Omoo29. According to ____________ , the life - death cycle, the spring and winter of the earth, the birth and death of the animals is reality.A. Theodore DreiserB. William FaulknerC. Henry JamesD. F·Scott Fitzgerald30. “Though life is but a losing battle, it is a struggle man can dominate in such a way that loss become s dignity. ” This is an outlook towards life that ____________ had been trying to illustrate in his works.A. F·Scott FitzgeraldB. Ernest HemingwayC. Theodore DreiserD. William Faulkner31. More than five hundred poems ____________ wrote are about nature, in which his (her) general skepticism about the relationship between man and nature is well -expressed.A. Robert FrostB. Emily DickinsonC. Ezra PoundD. Walt Whitman32. In 1954, the Nobel Prize for literature was granted to ____________ , one of the greatest of American writers.A. Ernest HemingwayB. Robert FrostC. Henry JamesD. Theodore Dreiser33. North of Boston is described by Robert Frost as “a book of poople,” which shows a brilliant insight into ____________ character and the background that formed it.A. EasternB. WesternC. SouthernD. New England34. Walt Whitman is radically innovative in terms of the form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new poetic feelings is “ ____________ ”.A. standardized rhymingB. regular rhymingC. free verseD. strict verse35. Henry James’ fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the____________ theme.A. internationalB. localC. colonialD. post-modern36. The Financier, The Titan and The Stoic by Theodore Dreiser are called h is “Trilogy of_________. ”A. HatredB. DeathC. DesireD. Fate37. In 1920, F·Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel ____________ was published, which was, to some extent, his own story.A. This Side of ParadiseB. Tales of the Jazz AgeC. All the Sad Young MenD. Taps at Reveille38. In 1837, Nathaniel Hawthorne published Twice - Told Tales, a collection of ____________ which attracted critical attention.A. poemsB. short storiesC. essaysD. plays39. William Faulkner set most of his works in the American ____________ , with his emphasis on the ________subjects and consciousness.A. North... NorthernB. East... EasternC. West... WesternD. South... Southern40. The House of the Seven Gables was based on the tradition of a curse pronounced on____________’s family when his great - grandfather was a judge in the Salem witchcraft trials.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Washington IrvingC. Ezra PoundD. Walt WhitmanPART TWO (60 POINTS)II. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41. “Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. ”Questions:A. Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what’s the title of the poem?B. What does the word “this” in the last line refer to?C. What idea do the quoted lines express?42. “Never did sun more beautifully steepIn his first splendor, valley, rock or hill;Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep !The river glideth at his own sweet will:Dear God! The very houses seem asleep;And al l that mighty heart is lying still!”( From Wordsworth’s sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge)Questions:A. What does this sonnet describe?B. What does the phrase “mighty heart” refer to?C. The sonnet follows strictly the Italian form. What is the feature of the Italian form of sonnet?43. “ The woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep. ”Questions:A. Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what’s the title of the poem?B. What does the word “sleep” mean?C. What idea do the four lines express?44. “ 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 lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. ”( From Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself)Questions:A. Who does “myself” refer to?B. How do you understand the line “I loafe and invite my soul” ?C. What does “a spear of summer grass” s ymbolize?III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. What’s the theme of the poem Paradise Lost? What’s the author’s intention to create it and the implication that the poem expresses?46. The Waste Land is T. S. Eliot’s most important single poem. What’s the theme of the poem?47. In American literature, Emily Dickinson’s poetry is unique and unconventional in its own way. What are the features of Dickinson’s poems?48. What’s the theme of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby?IV. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49. Discuss Charles Dickens’ art of fiction: the setting, the character- portrayal, the language, etc. , based on his novel Oliver Twist.50. Summarize Ernest Hemingway’s artistic features.。