[考研类试卷]2010年国际关系学院英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷.doc

2010年南京大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷(总分：86.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、填空题(总题数：35，分数：70.00)1.Keats" major achievement, and one of the major achievements in English literature, is the sequence of 1that he wrote in his time.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________2.Thomas Gray was the leader of the sentimental poetry, known as " 1".（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________3.Theodore Dreiser"s first novel is 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________4.Eugene O"Neill"s 1is a play that concerns the problem of Yank"s identity.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________5. 1of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby(1925).（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________6.The term " 1" is commonly used to name the work of the 17th-century writers who wrote under the influence of John Donne.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________7. 1defines the poet as " man speaking to men," and poetry as " the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility. "（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________8.The most clearly defined Romantic literary movement in the U. S. is New England 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________9.Walt Whitman is radically innovative in term of the form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is " 1".（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________10.In English literature, 1"s novels blend industrial and rural settings magnificently. He had written about the frustration of desires and there is obvious sexual application in his work.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________11.Author 1Title 2 Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________12.Author 1Title It was a circumstance to be noted, on the summer morning when our story begins its course, that the women, of whom there were several in the crowd, appeared to take a peculiar interest in whatever penal inflictionmight be expected to ensue. The age had not so much refinement, that any sense of impropriety restrained the wearers of petticoat and farthingale from stepping forth into the public ways, and wedging their not unsubstantial persons, if occasion were, into the throng nearest to the scaffold at an execution.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________13.Author 1Title 2 It is not probable that this monomania in him took its instant rise at the precise time of his bodily dismemberment. Then, in darting at the monster, knife in hand, he had but given loose to a sudden passionate, corporal animosity; and when he receive the stroke that tore him, he probably but felt the agonizing bodily laceration, but nothing more.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________14.Author 1Title 2 What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain?What the anvil? What dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp?（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________15.Author 1Title 2 And on that cheek, and o"er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent!（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________16.Author 1Title 2 If only she hadn"t been that robust woman but a woman, in her middle years, with an incurable complaint of the heart. Then of course it wouldn"t have been terrible or even difficult to have made that decision that night, it wouldn"t even have been the source for ever afterwards of confusion, mystery and remorse.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________17.Author 1Title 2 My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near, Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________18.Author 1Title 2 In the day time the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference. The two waiters inside the cafe knew that the old man was a little drunk, and while he was a good client they knew that if he became too drunk he would leave without paying, so they kept watch on him.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________19.Author 1Title 2 But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e"er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________20.Author 1Title 2 Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three and twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character. Her mind was less difficult to develop. She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________21.Author 1Title 2 " Every one asks me what I " think" of everything" said Spencer Brydon; " and I make answer as I can—begging or dodging the question, putting them off with any nonsense. It wouldn"t matter to any of them really, " he went on, " for, even were it possible to meet in that stand-and-deliver way so silly a demand on so big a subject, my " thoughts" would still be almost altogether about something that concerns only myself. "（分数：2.00）22.Author 1Title 2 My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will, The ship is anchor"d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done, From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________23.Author 1Title 2 In fairness to Charles it must be said that he sent to find Sam before he left the White Lion. But the servant was not in the taproom or the stables. Charles guessed indeed where he was. He could not send there; and thus he left Lyme without seeing him again. He got into his four-wheeler in the yard, and promptly drew down the blinds. （分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________24.Author 1Title 2 I found Simon Wheeler dozing comfortably by the bar-room stove of the old, dilapidated tavern in the ancient mining camp of Angel"s, and I noticed that he was fat and bald-headed, and had an expression of winning gentleness and simplicity upon his tranquil countenance. He roused up and gave me good-day.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________25.Author 1Title 2 Yossarian let his eyes fall closed and hoped they would think he was unconscious. "He"s fainted," he heard a doctor say. "Can"t we treat him now before it"s too late? He really might die. " "All right, take him. I hope the bastard does die. "（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________26.Author 1Title 2 I can give you that historical bird"s eye view. But I cannot explain the mystery of Leonard Side"s inheritance. Most of us know the parents or grandparents we come from. But we go back and back, forever; we go back all of us to the very beginning; in our blood and bone and brain we carry the memories of thousands of beings.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________27.Author 1Title 2 The store in which the Justice of the Peace"s court was sitting smelled of cheese. The boy, crouched on his nail keg at the back of the crowded room, knew he smelled cheese, and more: from where he sat could see the ranked shelves close-packed with the solid, squat, dynamic shapes of tin cans whose labels his stomach read, not from the lettering which meant nothing to his mind...（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________28.Author 1Title 2 My mother danced all night and Roberta"s was sick. That"s why we were taken to St. Bonny"s. People want to put their arms around you when you tell them you were in a shelter, but it really wasn"t bad. No big long room with one hundred beds like Bellevue.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________29.Author 1Title 2 He had rolled a handkerchief round his head, and his face was set and lowering in his sleep. But he was asleep, and quietly too, though he had a pistol lying on the pillow. Assured of this, I softly removed the key to the outside of this door, and turned it on him before I again sat down by the fire. Gradually I slipped from the chair and lay on the floor . When I awoke, without having parted in my sleep with the perception of my wretchedness, the clocks of the Eastward churches were striking five, the candles were wasted out, the fire was dead, and the wind and rain intensified the thick black darkness.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________30.Author 1Title 2 He felt that his luck was better than usual today. When he had reported for work that morning he had expected to be shut up in the relief office at a clerk"s job, for he had been hired downtown as a clerk, and he was glad to have, instead, the freedom of the streets and welcomed, at least at first, the vigor of the cold and even the blowing of the hard wind. But on the other hand he was not getting on with the distribution of the checks.（分数：2.00）31.Author 1Title 2 Three men were at work on the roof, where the leads got so hot they had the idea of throwing water on to cool them. But the water steamed, then sizzled; and they make jokes about getting an egg from some woman in the flats under the flats under them, to poach it for their dinner.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________32.Author 1Title 2 The three women sat in the little room, imagined not remembered. Veronica detected in her mother"s cream-coloured dress just a touch of awkwardness, her grandmother"s ineptness at a trade for which she was not wholly suited, a shoulder out of true, a cuff awry, as so many buttons and cuffs and waistbands had been during the making-do in the time of austerity.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________33.Author 1Title 2 Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants, but not always best subjects, for they are light to run away,and almost all fugitives are of that condition.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________34.Author 1Title 2 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________35.Author 1Title 2 Spite, spite, is the word of your undoing! And when you"re down and out, remember what did it. When you"re rotting somewhere beside the railroad tracks, remember, and don"t you dare blame it on me!（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________二、问答题(总题数：6，分数：12.00)36.Briefly state the main ideas of Benjamin Franklin"s The Autobiography and give your comments on them.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________37.What are the qualities that Granny Weatherall has? In what way do such qualities help her live successfully?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________38.What does "the green light" symbolize in The Great Gatsby? Does it exist in reality? Explain your answer.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________39.What does T. S. Eliot"s idea of "an objective of correlative" mean to you?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________40.What does Virginia Woolf use to present the life of the titled character in her Mrs. Dalloway?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________41.What do you find admirable in Robinson Crusoe? Discuss briefly some of his traits.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________三、评论题(总题数：1，分数：2.00)pare Grief with Tears, Idle Tears, commenting particularly on the treatment of their themes.(30 points)1. GriefBy Elizabeth Barrett BrowningI tell you hopeless grief is passionless;That only men incredulous of despair,Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight airBeat upward to God"s throne in loud accessOf shrieking and reproach. Full desertnessIn souls, as countries, lieth silent-bareUnder the blanching, vertical eye-glareOf the absolute heavens. Deep-hearted man, expressGrief for thy dead in silence like to death:Most like a monumental statue setIn everlasting watchand moveless woeTill itself crumble to the dust beneath.Touch it; the marble eyelids are not wet—If it could weep, it could arise and go.2. Tears, Idle TearsBy Alfred, Lord TennysonTears, idle tears. I know not what they mean,Tears from the depth of some divine despairRise in the heart and gather to the eyes.In looking on the happy Autumn-fields.And thinking of the days that are no more.Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail.That brings our friends up from the underworld,Sad as the last which reddens over oneThat sinks with all we love below the verge;So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawnsThe earliest pipe of half-awakened birdsTo dying ears, when unto dying eyesThe casement slowly grows a glimmering square;So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feignedOn lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more!（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________四、作文(总题数：1，分数：2.00)43.Write a critical essay on the following topic.(30 points)Modernism is a reaction against realism. Discuss the features of modernism and illustrate your point with examples.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________。

2010年考研英语真题及答案真题部分：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 the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)Is Feeling the Real Skill?A fundamental difference between our brain and a computer is the size of our working memory. Working memory holds the 1_______ (1) we need to think and make sense of the world. A bit like the whiteboard we have2_______ (2) school, it's where we do our mental 3_______ (3). But crucially, our working memory has a severely limited capacity: it can hold only four items at 4_______ (4). By contrast, the long-term memory at our fingertips via Google is 5_______ (5).The notion that 6_______ (6) it is to "download information" nowadays ruins the cerebral fun. After 7_______ (7) we have four items in our working memory or fewer, the space is 8_______ (8) for daydreams, fantasies and emotion. An obsession with 9_______ (9) multitudes of facts and figures challenges our brain's ability to learn, as well as how much it can deal 10_______ (10) partly because it's usually uninteresting despite the onslaught 11_______ (11) compelling facts.In addition, 12_______ (12) heavy reliance on technology is forcing radical changes to a century-old system of 13_______ (13) that may notwork properly. We will need to teach people differently if heavy use of Google is 14_______ (14) our mental approach. A good lesson for education is to ensure learners are curious and engaged and to 15_______ (15) the chance for them to find answers.0. A. notion B. information C. imagination D. fiction1. A. aspect B. measure C. truth D. thought2. A. left on B. bought from C. written on D. brought up3. A. show B. work C. process D. effect4. A. once B. yet C. even D. instead5. A. bare B. limited C. vast D. everlasting6. A. easy B. common C. difficult D. ironic7. A. occasional B. occasionally C. occasion D. occasions8. A. left B. driven C. taken D. given9. A. learning B. memorizing C. forgetting D. sharing10. A. of B. into C. with D. for11. A. at B. on C. of D. for12. A. this B. that C. a D. an13. A. marking B. studying C. examination D. assessment14. A. to change B. changing C. to have changed D. to be changing15. A. limit B. take C. keep D. set参考答案：0. A 1. D 2. C 3. B 4. A5. C6. C7. D8. A9. B10. A 11. C 12. B 13. D 14. B15. CSection 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 the ANSWER SHEET. (40 points)Text 1There are two classic neurological accounts of how you recognize your home. One says you look for a particular place surrounded by a globally unique set of buildings in an overall configuraTION that is familiar. The other says you come in by one of the roads that lead up to your front door. Each theory is about equally correct, which necessarily means each is about equally wrong—for reasons we shall come to.Then after you park—it’s only now that you feel you have really come home. You open the front door. And you step in. There is no flash of lightning, no sudden, overpowering sensation that says “this is home, I definitely know that…”—in fact, the sensation is so weak and unremarkablethat it would not even pass most psychologists’ test for “awareNESS”. Your sense of you and your sense of home come together in the end, we suggest, only by good organization of the interaction of several different areas of the brain.The particular way the familiar street geometry fits together around your home may indeed form a key part of the representation of home place in your brain. But surely this information reaches your brain only after the composition and layout of the buildings have been spatially coded by the areas that subserve perception of shape, tracings and layout? Then again, how could you, even in principle, perceive the streets around your home layout and location, without the functioning of your long-term memory and your personality-mood-system?And in what format does this memory of place exist? It obviously includes the ability to recognize and recall particular street sequences, but does it also include the ability to monitor your speed and keep track of how far you have moved through the world?What, for example, is the home place in the reference frame of the dynamic optic flow that you see as you walk or drive on the streets around your house? It would surely be an absurd proposition to suggest that the mathematical model of the optic flow should be used to retain and recall your memory of place?Our point, then, is that we expect both theories of landmark recognition to be correct and at the same time not to be correct. Home is a bit like pornography: a marriage of Flemish property porn, soft pornography ofbuildings and space, of streets as well as buildings, and some hardporn that comes in from the optic flow of moving around.16. The author argues that both neurological accounts of recognition of home are equally wrong because _______.A. their approaches are globally uniqueB. they are based on the same kind of reasoningC. all psychologists agree that they are unreliableD. each only focuses on one piece of the puzzle17. The author suggests that the sense of being at home is not immediately recognizable because _______.A. it is not a true awarenessB. people have difficulty organizing their interactionsC. it involves the activation of several brain areasD. it is not supported by psychologists' tests18. According to the text, how do people recognize the familiar geometry of the streets around their home?A. By perceiving their relationship to the house firstB. By tracking their speed as they move along the streetsC. By recalling the layout of the buildings in the areaD. By monitoring their long-term memory and mood19. The author suggests that the memory of place is not limited to recalling street sequences but also involves _______.A. recognition of the optic flowB. frequent monitoring of locationC. understanding of mathematical modelsD. perception of shape and layout20. The final sentence of the text suggests that the memory of home consists of _______.A. a collection of buildings and streetsB. a mixture of visual and emotional experiencesC. a series of mathematical and spatial equationsD. a combination of different neurological approaches参考答案：16. D 17. C 18. C 19. A 20. BPart BDirections:In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 21-25, choose the most suitable one from the list A-G to fit into each of the numbered blanks. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the blanks. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)The Coming Golden AgeEconomic forecasting is a mug's game．But if the next ten years are like the 1990s or the 1950s，even the most cautious fund manager will need to position themselves furiously for the coming golden age.Between 1948-73 the world economy grew at an underlying rate of 4% a year；trade grew at twice that rate．The sheer amounts of people being conned into borrowing huge amounts of money set the scene for a financial crisis．But the reaction to the recession has set the stage for the coming boom．The acceleration of globalization over the past 18 months strongly suggests that the persistent trends of the past 30 years will carry on．Oil and commodities aside，the prices of goods have been falling ever since Richard Nixon ended the gold standard in 1971．The Internet boom of the late 1990s helped damp down inflation still further．We are thus in a world economy where the 7 billionth consumer is about to join our club in China．And the 8 billionth consumer is 30-40 years away，in Africa．China and India have absorbed at least 300 million people intothe market–oriented economy over the past 20 years．China and India are going to surprise on the upside，for years．Efficiency gains and per capita income growth in these two countries will emerge as the two big drivers of the world economy．So why do investors think high productivity and low inflation are bad news for shares? We think the productive use of facilities and labourtranslates into high profits．If 4% trend growth is back，say hello to profit margins around the world at least 20% higher in the next decade than in the previous one．The coming golden age is going to be very good indeed for profits．21．However A．The accelerating trend of globalization22．Furthermore B．Per capita income in Asian emerging markets 23．Meanwhile C．The current low inflation environment24．Moreover D．Efficiency gains in the global economy25．Thus E．The rising affluence of consumers in emerging markets参考答案：21. D 22. B 23. E 24. A 25. CSection III TranslationPart ADirections:Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written neatly on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)The presence of carefully selected plants inside malls, workplaces, and other buildings where people spend a lot of time can help create healthier, more pleasant environments. This is not just an aesthetic judgment; the effect has been proven in numerous studies. For example, in a Seattle office building, workers with a view of trees took fewer sick days and made fewer errors in their work than those without such a view. Other studies in hospitals and workplaces have found plants have similar effects, including enabling people to recover more quickly from surgery, improve concentration, and reduce stress.参考答案：商场、工作场所和其他人们长时间待在的建筑物内安置精心选取的植物可以帮助营造更健康、更愉悦的环境。

2010年首都师范大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷(总分：72.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、单项选择题(总题数：20，分数：40.00)1.Among the following plays, ______is NOT a comedy written by William Shakespeare.（分数：2.00）A.A Midsummer Night"s DreamB.The Merchant of VeniceC.As You Like ItD.Macbeth2."All is not lost, the unconquerable will,/And study of revenge, immoral hate,/And courage never to submit or yield,/And what is else not to be overcome?" are taken from the poem written by______.（分数：2.00）A.William ShakespeareB.John DonneC.John MiltonD.John Keats3.The novel______launched Daniel Defoe on a new career as a novelist.（分数：2.00）A.The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson CrusoeB.Captain SingletonC.Moll FlandersD.The Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell4.Among the following works by William Blake, ______deals with evil, violence and emotion.（分数：2.00）A.Song of InnocenceB.Song of ExperienceC.The Marriage of Heaven and HellD.The Gates of Paradise5.That______is NOT true about William Wordsworth.（分数：2.00）A.Wordsworth is one of the Lake PoetsB.he was made poet laureate by British Government in 1843C.The Prelude can be read as a declaration of RomanticismD.he believed that poetry "takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility"6.______tells of the adversity of the orphan Pip that makes him discard his snobbishness.（分数：2.00）A.Hard TimesB.A Tale of Two CitiesC.David CopperfieldD.Great Expectations7.Among the following works, ______was written by Emily Bronte.（分数：2.00）A.Agnes GreyB.The ProfessorC.Wuthering HeightsD.Jane Eyre8.Virginia Woolf is known as a novelist and critic.______is NOT a novel of hers.（分数：2.00）A.Mrs. DallowayB.To the LighthouseC.The Common ReaderD.The Waves9.______depicts a picture of society in India under the British Raj, of the clash between East and West, and of the prejudice and misunderstanding.（分数：2.00）A.Where Angels Feat to TreadB.A Room with a ViewC.A Passage to IndiaD.Howard"s End10.______is well known for depicting the absurdity of human conditions in the post-industrial society after World War II in his plays.（分数：2.00）A.Samuel BeckettB.George Bernard ShawC.Oscar WildeD.William Golding11.Yoknapatawpha County is often used as the background in the novels written by______.（分数：2.00）A.William FaulknerB.Isaac Bashevis SingerC.Mark TwainD.Katherine Anne Porter12.______is NOT written by Toni Morrison.（分数：2.00）A.The Bluest EyeB.BelovedC.The Color PurpleD.Paradise13.The narrator of The Great Gatsby is ______.（分数：2.00）A.GatsbyB.NickC.DaisyD.Tom14.All the following works are written by Ernest Hemingway EXCEPT______.（分数：2.00）A.A Farewell to ArmsB.The Sum Also RisesC.The Sound and FuryD.For Whom the Bell Tolls15.T. S. Eliot"s______is a precise depiction of the state of culture and society after World WarI and an illustration of the spiritual poverty of the West of the time.（分数：2.00）A.The Waste LandB.Four QuartetsC.The Sacred WoodD.Homage to John Dryden16.All the following novels are written by Henry James EXCEPT______.（分数：2.00）A.The AmericanB.The Portrait of a LadyC.The AmbassadorsD.Innocents Abroad17.______is written by Catherine Anne Porter.（分数：2.00）A.Flowering JudasB.A Rose for EmilyC.Everyday UseD.Song of Solomon18.______is regarded as "America"s Declaration of Intellectual Independence".（分数：2.00）A.NatureB.The Conduct of LifeC.Society and SolitudeD.The American Scholar19."When it comes, the landscape listens,/ Shadows hold their breath;/ When it goes, "tis like the distance/ On the look of death. " are taken from Emily Dickinson"s poem______.（分数：2.00）A.There"s Certain Slant of LightB.Again His Voice Is at the DoorC.Success Is Counted SweetestD.I felt a Funeral, in My Brain20."Where I lived, and What I Lived for" is taken from Thoreau"s______.（分数：2.00）A.A Week on the Concord and Merrimack RiversB.Walden; or, Life in the WoodsC.The Maine WoodsD.Life Without Principle二、名词解释(总题数：5，分数：10.00)21.free verse（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 22.tall tale（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 23.Lost Generation（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 24.Theatre of the Absurd（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 25.Romanticism（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________三、问答题(总题数：5，分数：20.00)I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o"er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils,Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.（分数：4.00）(1).Name the author of this poem.(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).What is the rhyme scheme of the stanza?(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ His smile was so easy, so friendly, that Laura recovered. What nice eyes he had, small, but such a dark blue! And now she looked at the others, they were smiling too. " Cheer up, we won"t bite," their smile seemed to say. How very nice workmen were! And what a beautiful morning! She mustn"t mention the morning; she must be business-like. The marquee.（分数：4.00）(1).Name the title of the short story.(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).Comment on the writing techniques.(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ For the next eight or ten months, Oliver was the victim of a systematic course of treachery and deception. He was brought up by hand. The hungry and destitute situation of the infant orphan was duly reported by the workhouse authorities to the parish authorities. The parish authorities inquired with dignity of the workhouse authorities, whether there was no female then domiciled in " the house" who was in a situation to impart to Oliver Twist, the consolation and nourishment of which he stood in need. The workhouse authorities replied with humility, that there was not.Upon this, the parish authorities magnanimously and humanely resolved, that Oliver should be "farmed" or, in other words, that he should be dispatched to a branch-workhouse some three miles off, where twenty or thirty other juvenile offenders against the poor-laws, rolled about the floor all day, without the inconvenience of too much food or too much clothing, under the parental superintendence of an elderly female, who received the culprits at and for the consideration of sevenpence-halfpenny per small head per week. Sevenpence-halfpenny"s worth per week is a good round diet for a child; a great deal may be got for sevenpence-halfpenny, quite enough to overload its stomach, and make it uncomfortable. The elderly female was a woman of wisdom and experience; she knew what was food for children; and she had a very accurate perception of what was good for herself. So, she appropriated the greater part of the weekly stipend to her own use, and consigned the rising parochial generation to even a shorter allowance than was originally provided for them. Thereby finding in the lowest depth a deeper still; and proving herself a very great experimental philosopher.（分数：4.00）(1).What is the title of the novel?(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).What is the effect of the irony used in the excerpt?(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ We were all at the hospital every afternoon, and there were different ways of walking across the town through the dusk to the hospital. Two of the ways were alongside canals, but they were long. Always, though, you crossed a bridge across a canal to enter the hospital. There was a choice of three bridges. On one of them a woman sold roasted chestnuts. It was warm, standing in front of her charcoal fire, and the chestnuts were warm afterward in your pocket. The hospital was very old and very beautiful, and you entered through a gate and walked across a courtyard and out a gate on the other side. There were usually funerals starting from the courtyard. Beyond the old hospital were the new brick pavilions, and there we met every afternoon and were all very polite and interested in what was the matter, and sat in the machines that were to make so much difference.（分数：4.00）(1).Identify the author of the short story.(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).What is the theme of the short story?(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ There was music from my neighbor"s house through the summer night. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On weekends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden - shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.（分数：4.00）(1).From which novel is this excerpt taken?(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).What is the theme of the novel?(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________四、评论题(总题数：1，分数：2.00)ment on the following excerpt and write a 100-word essay on it.(10 points)From Ralph Waldo Emerson"s The American ScholarBooks are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out ofmy own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world of value is the active soul—the soul, free, sovereign, active. This every man is entitled to; this every man contains within him, although, in almost all men, obstructed, and as yet unborn. The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates. In this action, it is genius; not the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they,—let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward. The eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead. Man hopes, genius creates. To create,—to create, —is the proof of a divine presence. Whatever talents may be if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his;—cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative manners, there are creative actions, and creative words; manners, actions, words, that is, indicative of no custom or authority, but springing spontaneous from the mind"s own sense of good and fair.On the other part, instead of being its own seer, let it receive from another mind its truth, though it were in torrents of light, without periods of solitude, inquest, and self-recovery, and a fatal disservice is done. Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundredyears.Undoubtedly there is a right way of reading, so it be sternly subordinated. Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar"s idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men"s transcripts of their readings. But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must,—when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining,—we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their way, to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is. We hear, that we may speak. The Arabian proverb says, "A fig tree, looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful. "（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________。

2010年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读试卷+答案请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上(全部题目用英文作答)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. Write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.1. T. S. Eliot’ s ______ bearing a strong thematic resemblance to The Waste Land, is generally regarded as the darkest of Eliot’ s poems.A. “Gerontion”B. “Prufrock”C. Murder in the CathedralD. The Hollow Men2. Shell ey’ s political lyrics ______ is not only a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but an address to them pointing out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation.A. “Ode to Liberty”B. “Ode to Naples”C. “Ode to the West Wind”D. “Men of England”3. Charlotte’ s works are famous for the depiction of the life of ______ working women, particularly governesses.A. the middle - classB. the lower - classC. the upper - middle - classD. the upper - class4. All of the following works are known as Hardy’ s “novels of character and environment” EXCEPT ______.A. The Return of the NativeB. Tess of the D’ UrbervillesC. Jude the ObscureD. Far from the Madding Crowd5. Jane Austen’ s practical ideali sm is that love should be justified by ______ and disciplined by self-control.A. reasonB. senseC. rationalityD. sensibility6. Shakespeare’ s ______, an elaborate and fantastic story, is known as the best of his final romances.A. The Winter’s TaleB. The TempestC. The Taming of the ShrewD. Love’ s Labour’ s Lost7. “Where intelligence was fallible, limited, the Imagination was our hope of contact with eternal forces, with the whole spiritual world.” was said by ______.A. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. John Keats8. “To be, or not to be - that is the question;/Whether’ tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/Or to take arms against a sea of troubles ,/And by opposing e nd then?” These lines are taken from ______.A. King LearB. Romeo and JulietC. OthelloD. Hamlet9. John Milton’ s most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model is ______.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Lycidas10. Because of her sensitivity to universal pattens of human behavior, ______ has brought the English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity.A. Charlotte BronteB. Jane AustenC. Emily BronteD. Henry Fielding11. Daniel Defoe’s ______ is universally cons idered as his masterpiece.A. Colonel JackB. Robinson CrusoeC. Captain SingletonD. A Journal of the Plague Year12. Poetry is defined by ______ as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility”.A. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. Robert Southey13. Jonathan Swift’ s ______ is generally regarded as the best model of satire, not only of the period but also in the whole English literary history.A. Gulliver’s Trav elsB. The Battle of the BooksC. “A Modest Proposal”D. A Tale of a Tub14. All of the following statements about the Victorian period is true EXCEPT ______.A. England was the “workshop of the world”.B. The early years was a time of rapid economic development as well as serious social problems.C. Towards the mid -century, England had reached its highest point of development as a world power.D. Capitalism came into its monopoly stage, the gap between the rich and the poor was further deepened.15. George Bernard Shaw’ s ______ is a grotesquely realistic exposure of slum landlordism.A. Widower’ s HouseB. Mrs. Warren’ s ProfessionC. The Apple CartD. Getting Married16. Dickens’ s first child hero is ______.A. Little NellB. David CopperfieldC. Oliver TwistD. Little Dorrit17. Of all the eighteenth - century novelists ______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. Henry FieldingB. Daniel DefoeC. Jonathan SwiftD. Laurence Sterne18. D. H. Lawrence’ s ______ is a remarkable novel in which the individual consciousness is subtly revealed and strands of themes are intricately wound up.A. Sons and LoversB. The RainbowC. Women in LoveD. Lady Chatterley’ s Love19. Dickens attacks the Utilitarian principle that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds in ______.A. Hand TimesB. Great ExpectationsC. Our Mutual FriendD. Bleak House20. The belief of the eighteenth - century neoclassicists in England led them to seek the following EXCEPT ______.A. proportionB. unityC. harmonyD. spirit21. The Renaissance marks a transition from ______ to the modern world.A. the old EnglishB. the medievalC. the feudalistD. the capitalist22. The great political and social events in the English society of neoclassical period were the following EXCEPT ______.A. the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660B. the Great Plague of 1665C. the Great London Fire in 1666D. the Wars of Roses in 168923. With the scarlet letter A as the biggest symbol of all, ______ proves himself to be one of the best symbolists.A. HawthorneB. DreiserC. JamesD. Faulkner24. The author of Leaves of Grass , a giant of American letters, is ______.A. FaulknerB. DreiserC. JamesD. Whitman25. In Tender is the Night, ______ traces the decline of a young American psychiatrist whose marriage toa beautiful and wealthy patient drains his personal energies and corrodes his professional career.A. DreiserB. FaulknerC. FitzgeraldD. Jack London26. Melville is best - known as the author of his mighty book, ________, which is one of the world’ s greatest masterpieces.A. Song of MyselfB. Moby - DickC. The Marble FaunD. Mosses from an Old Manse27. The theme of Henry James’ essay “______” clearly indicates that the aim of the novel is to present life, so it is not surprising to find in his writings human experiences explored in every possible form.A. The AmericanB. The EuropeansC. The Art of FictionD. The Golden Bowl28. During WWI, ______ served as an honorable junior officer in the American Red Cross Ambulance Corps and in 1918 was severely wounded in both legs.A. AndersonB. FaulknerC. HemingwayD. Dreiser29. In order to protest against America’ s failure to join England in WWI, ______ became a naturalized British citizen in 1915.A. William FaulknerB. Henry JamesC. Earnest HemingwayD. Ezra Pound30. Robert Frost described ______as “a book of people,” which shows a brilliant insight into New England character and the background that formed it.A. North of BostonB. A Boy’s WillC. A Witness TreeD. A Further Range31. We can easily find in Dreiser’ s fiction a world of jungle, and ______ found expression in almost every book he wrote.A. naturalismB. romanticismC. transcendentalismD. cubism32. As an active participant of his age, Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the ______.A. Jazz AgeB. Age of ReasonC. Lost GenerationD. Beat Generation33. From the first novel Sister Carrie on, Dreiser set himself to project the American values for what he had found them to be: ______ to the core.A. altruisticB. politicalC. religiousD. materialistic34. The 20th -century stream- of- consciousness technique was frequently and skillfully used by ______ to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.A. HemingwayB. FrostC. FaulknerD. Whitman35. With the help of his friends Phil Stone and Sherwood Anderson, ______ published a volume of poetry The Marble Faun and his first novel Soldiers’ Pay.A. FaulknerB. HemingwayC. Ezra PoundD. Fitzgerald36. The Sun Also Rises casts light on a whole generation after WWI and the effects of the war by way ofa vivid portrait of “______.”A. the Beat GenerationB. the Lost GenerationC. the Babybooming AgeD. the Jazz Age37. Within her little lyrics Dickinson addresses those issues that concern ______, which include religion, death, immorality, love and nature.A. the whole human beingsB. the frontiersC. the African AmericansD. her relatives38. H. L. Mencken, a famous American critic, considered ______ “the true father of our national literature. ”A. Hamlin GarlandB. Joseph KirklandC. Mark TwainD. Henry James39. In his poetry, Whitman shows concern for ______ and the burgeoning life of cities.A. the colonistsB. the capitalistsC. the whole hard -working peopleD. the intellectuals40. In 1837, ______ published Twice - Told Tales, a collection of short stories which attracted critical attention.A. EmersonB. MelvilleC. WhitmanD. HawthorneII. 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. Wherefore, Bees of England, forgeMany a weapon, chain, and scourge,That these stingless drones may spoilThe forced produce of your toil?Questions:A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the lines are taken.B. What do you know about the poem’ s writing background?C. What do you think the poet intends to say in the poem?42. Let 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 retreatsOf restless nights in one -night cheap hotelsAnd sawdust restaurants with oyster- shells:(The lines above are taken from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S E liot. )Questions:A. What does the poem present?B. What form is the poem composed in?C. What does the poem suggest?43. This is my letter to the WorldThat never wrote to Me -The simple News that Nature told -With tender MajestyQuestions:A. Identify the poet.B. What idea does the poem express?C. Why does the poet use dashes and capital letters in the poem?44. There was music from my neighbor’ s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motorboats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week - ends his Rolls - Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing- brushes and hammers and garden - shears, repairing the ravages of the night before. (The passage above is taken from The Great Gatsby )Questions:A. What time does the story reflect?B. What does the novel evoke?C. What does Gatsby’ s failure magnify?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. Working through the tradition of a Christian humanism, Milton wrote Paradise Lost, intending to expose the ways of Satan and to “justify the ways of God to men. ” What is Milton’ s fundamental concern in Paradise Lost?46. Briefly introduce Blake’ s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.47. What are the factors that gave rise to American naturalism?48. Briefly state Mark Twain’ s magic power with language in his novels.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. Why is Hardy regarded as a naturalistic writer in English literature? Discuss in relation to his novels you know.50. Please discuss Henry James’ contribution to American literature in regard to his representative works, themes, writing techniques and language.英美文学选读试题答案及评分参考（课程代码0604）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. Write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.01-05:DDADA 06-10:BBDCB 11-15:BACDA 16-20:CACAD21-25:BDADC 26-30:BCCBA 31-35:AADCA 36-40:BACCDII. 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.A. Shelley & A Song : Men of England.B. This poem was written in 1819, the year of the *Peterloo Massacre(彼得卢屠杀).* 1819年8月16日发生在英国曼彻斯特圣彼得广场上的一场流血惨案。

2010年考研英语真题与答案解析从2010年开始，全国硕士研究生入学考试的英语试卷分为了英语（一）和英语（二）。

英语（一）即原统考“英语”。

英语（二）主要是为高等院校和科研院所招收专业学位硕士研究生而设置的具有选拔性质的统考科目。

英语一考试形式、考试内容与试卷结构（一）考试形式考试形式为笔试。

考试时间为180分钟。

满分为100分。

试卷包括试题册和答题卡。

答题卡分为答题卡1和答题卡2。

考生应将1~45题的答案按要求填涂在答题卡1上，将46~52题的答案写在答题卡2上。

（二）考试内容试题分三部分，共52题，包括英语知识运用、阅读理解和写作。

第一部分英语知识运用该部分不仅考查考生对不同语境中规范的语言要素（包括词汇、表达方式和结构）的掌握程度，而且还考查考生对语段特征（如连贯性和一致性等）的辨识能力等。

共20小题，每小题0.5分，共10分。

在一篇240~280词的文章中留出20个空白，要求考生从每题给出的4个选项中选出最佳答案，使补全后的文章意思通顺、前后连贯、结构完整。

考生在答题卡1上作答。

第二部分阅读理解该部分由A、B、C三节组成，考查考生理解书面英语的能力。

共30小题，每小题2分，共60分。

A节（20小题）：主要考查考生理解主旨要义、具体信息、概念性含义，进行有关的判断、推理和引申，根据上下文推测生词的词义等能力。

要求考生根据所提供的4篇（总长度约为1600词）文章的内容，从每题所给出的4个选项中选出最佳答案。

考生在答题卡1上作答。

B节（5小题）：主要考查考生对诸如连贯性、一致性等语段特征以及文章结构的理解。

本部分有3种备选题型。

每次考试从这3种备选题型中选择一种进行考查。

考生在答题卡1上作答。

备选题型有：1）本部分的内容是一篇总长度为500~600词的文章，其中有5段空白，文章后有6~7段文字。

要求考生根据文章内容从这6~7段文字中选择能分别放进文章中5个空白处的5段。

2）在一篇长度约500~600词的文章中，各段落的原有顺序已被打乱，要求考生根据文章的内容和结构将所列段落（7~8个）重新排序，其中有2~3个段落在文章中的位置已给出。

2010年国际关系学院国际关系史考研真题一、名词解释1、国际联盟2、波茨坦会议3、舒曼计划4、七十七国集团5、猪湾事件6、中美八一七公告二、简答题1、简述斯大林格勒战役的经过及其影响2、简述非洲独立运动的背景原因及阶段三、论述题1、试分析赫鲁晓夫时期和斯大林时期的苏联外交政策异同2、试分析尼克松政府外交战略调整的背景、内容及影响答案：一、名词解释1、国际联盟　在第一次世界大战期间，美国的一些资产阶级和平团体积极主张建立一个调解国际纠纷的机构，得到了美国总统伍德罗·威尔逊和他的顾问爱德华·豪斯（Edward M . House）上校的积极推动。

1918年1月8日，伍德罗·威尔逊在美国国会发表演说，提出了结束战争、缔结和约、维护战后和平的《十四点纲领》，其中的第十四点便是呼吁成立一个国际联盟。

1919年1月，威尔逊参加巴黎和会，向与会各国提议建立国际联盟的方案。

美国力主先讨论建立国联，然后再讨论其他问题，但遭到英、法的反对。

经过一番争执，和会决定将问题交给以威尔逊为主席的专门委员会研究，负责拟订国联盟约草案。

然而，在美国国内，威尔逊要建立国际联盟的做法却遭到了强烈的反对。

1920年1月10日，巴黎和会宣布《凡尔赛条约》正式生效，国际联盟宣告成立，其总部设在瑞士的日内瓦。

盟约规定，美国、英国、法国、中国等32个一战协约国及自治领是国联创始会员国，并邀请阿根廷、智利等13个国家加入。

由于美国政府没有批准《凡尔赛条约》，美国也就没有参加国际联盟。

同年1月16日，国际联盟第一次大会在日内瓦召开。

先后有63个国家加入国联。

1934年9月28日～1935年2月23日，国际联盟会员国最多时达58个。

中国于1920年6月29日加入国际联盟。

1924～1942年，先后有17个国家退出国际联盟。

2、波茨坦会议1945年7月7日至8月2日，斯大林、杜鲁门和丘吉尔（会议后期为新任首相艾德礼）在柏林西郊的波茨坦举行二次大战期间的第三次、也是最后一次三国首脑会议。

[考研类试卷]2010年四川大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷一、名词解释1 Lord Alfred Tennyson2 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus3 The Age of Realism in American Literature4 Ernest Hemingway二、单项选择题5 The poem" Virtue "was written by______.（A）George Herbert（B）Ben Jonson（C）John Donne（D）Robert Herrick6 Which of the following is NOT directly related to the stream of consciousness school of novel?（A）James Joyce（B）Virginia Woolf（C）Finnegans Wake（D）The Plough and the Stars7 Mrs. Crawley is a major character in______.（A）Bleak House（B）Major Barbara（C）Wuthering Heights（D）Vanity Fair8 "Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. "The above lines are quoted from John Keats' poem " On First Looking into Chapman's Homer".The Phrase "western islands" also refers to ______.（A）works by ancient Roman writers（B）works by Homer（C）ancient classic works（D）poetic beauty in classic works9 The Black Prince is a novel by ______.（A）Mrs. Gaskell（B）William Golding（C）Thomas Kyd（D）Iris Murdoch10 Which ONE of the following is the author of The Law of Life?（A）Mark Twain（B）Frank Norris（C）Edgar Allan Poe（D）Jack London11 Which ONE of the following writers is the author of the novel The Sound and the Fury?（A）Harriet Beecher Stowe（B）Stephen Crane（C）William Faulkner（D）Henry James12 Which ONE of the following concepts is related to the understanding of literary realism?（A）spontaneous outflow of feelings（B）faith in individualism, independence of mind and self-reliance（C）representation of characters, human nature and social actualities in a non-idealized way（D）survival of the fittest13 Which one of the following is the novel dealing with the slavery issue?（A）The Fall of the House of Usher（B）Moby Dick（C）Martin Eden（D）Uncle Tom's Cabin14 Which ONE of the following is generally believed to be the main idea of American Transcendentalism ?（A）glorification of the environmental forces（B）advocating the notion of the futility of human efforts（C）stressing hard-work, piety and sobriety（D）emphasis on spirit or the Oversoul, an all-pervading power for goodness三、问答题15 Please briefly comment on George Bernard Shaw's play Major Barbara.16 Please briefly comment on Stephen Crane's naturalistic novel The Red Badge of Courage.。

2010年武汉大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷(总分：24.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、填空题(总题数：4，分数：8.00)1.Two men fight a duel in the border region of England and Scotland and the loser causes more shame than pain to his aged father with his loss because his loss is considered not a loss of his own but a loss of the nation. Answer; " 1" by 2（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________2.With its hero traveling into different places with different companions the story discusses the features of each stage of human life. Answer; " 1" by 2（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________3.Lord Murchison tells of his love experience with a young woman who is mysterious in her actions. Answer; " 1" by 2（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________4.Arsat, after successfully running away with the woman of his ruler, is troubled deep at heart by the thought that he had left his brother in the midst of enemies to die. Answer; " 1" by 2（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________二、单项选择题(总题数：5，分数：10.00)5.In one sense ______ wrote all his life about one theme, which is neatly summed up in the famous phrase "grace under pressure" , and created one hero who acts that theme out.（分数：2.00）A.F. S. FitzgeraldB.Ernest HemingwayC.William FaulknerD.Sinclair Lewis6.The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called______, that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.（分数：2.00）A.free verseB.blank verseC.lyricD.epic7.America"s greatest playwright for the first half of the 20th century is ______.（分数：2.00）A.Arthur MillerB.Tennessee WilliamsC.Eugene O"NeillD.Edward Albee8.In the light of American ______, man is living in a cold, indifferent, and essentially Godless world, and is no longer free in any sense of the word.（分数：2.00）A.PuritanismB.RomanticismC.RealismD.Naturalism9.The term______mainly refers to those young American expatriate writers caught in the war and cut off from the old values and yet unable to come to terms with the new era after World War I when civilization had gone mad.（分数：2.00）A.The Beat GenerationB.The Lost GenerationC.postwar realistsD.local colorists三、分析题(总题数：3，分数：6.00)10.Based on The Waste Land, discuss the features of T. S. Eliot"s poetry and his contribution to Modernist literature.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 11.Give a summary of Mrs. Warren"s Profession and then briefly discuss Bernard Shaw"s social criticism through this play.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________12.Essay Question on American Literature.(20 points)" An innocent man in a different world" isa recurrent theme, and perhaps one of the most important themes, in American literature. Write a short essay on it by taking for example at least two American literary works, of whatsoever genres.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________。

[考研类试卷]2010年首都师范大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷一、单项选择题1 Among the following plays, ______is NOT a comedy written by William Shakespeare. （A）A Midsummer Night's Dream（B）The Merchant of Venice（C）As You Like It（D）Macbeth2 "All is not lost, the unconquerable will,/And study of revenge, immoral hate,/And courage never to submit or yield,/And what is else not to be overcome?" are taken from the poem written by______.（A）William Shakespeare（B）John Donne（C）John Milton（D）John Keats3 The novel______launched Daniel Defoe on a new career as a novelist.（A）The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe（B）Captain Singleton（C）Moll Flanders（D）The Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell4 Among the following works by William Blake, ______deals with evil, violence and emotion.（A）Song of Innocence（B）Song of Experience（C）The Marriage of Heaven and Hell（D）The Gates of Paradise5 That______is NOT true about William Wordsworth.（A）Wordsworth is one of the Lake Poets（B）he was made poet laureate by British Government in 1843（C）The Prelude can be read as a declaration of Romanticism（D）he believed that poetry "takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility"6 ______tells of the adversity of the orphan Pip that makes him discard his snobbishness. （A）Hard Times（B）A Tale of Two Cities（C）David Copperfield（D）Great Expectations7 Among the following works, ______was written by Emily Bronte.（A）Agnes Grey（B）The Professor（C）Wuthering Heights（D）Jane Eyre8 Virginia Woolf is known as a novelist and critic.______is NOT a novel of hers.（A）Mrs. Dalloway（B）To the Lighthouse（C）The Common Reader（D）The Waves9 ______depicts a picture of society in India under the British Raj, of the clash between East and West, and of the prejudice and misunderstanding.（A）Where Angels Feat to Tread（B）A Room with a View（C）A Passage to India（D）Howard's End10 ______is well known for depicting the absurdity of human conditions in the post-industrial society after World War II in his plays.（A）Samuel Beckett（B）George Bernard Shaw（C）Oscar Wilde（D）William Golding11 Yoknapatawpha County is often used as the background in the novels written by______.（A）William Faulkner（B）Isaac Bashevis Singer（C）Mark Twain（D）Katherine Anne Porter12 ______is NOT written by Toni Morrison.（A）The Bluest Eye（B）Beloved（C）The Color Purple（D）Paradise13 The narrator of The Great Gatsby is ______.（A）Gatsby（B）Nick（C）Daisy（D）Tom14 All the following works are written by Ernest Hemingway EXCEPT______. （A）A Farewell to Arms（B）The Sum Also Rises（C）The Sound and Fury（D）For Whom the Bell Tolls15 T. S. Eliot's______is a precise depiction of the state of culture and society after World War I and an illustration of the spiritual poverty of the West of the time.（A）The Waste Land（B）Four Quartets（C）The Sacred Wood（D）Homage to John Dryden16 All the following novels are written by Henry James EXCEPT______.（A）The American（B）The Portrait of a Lady（C）The Ambassadors（D）Innocents Abroad17 ______is written by Catherine Anne Porter.（A）Flowering Judas（B）A Rose for Emily（C）Everyday Use（D）Song of Solomon18 ______is regarded as "America's Declaration of Intellectual Independence".（A）Nature（B）The Conduct of Life（C）Society and Solitude（D）The American Scholar19 "When it comes, the landscape listens,/ Shadows hold their breath;/ When it goes, 'tis like the distance/ On the look of death. " are taken from Emily Dickinson's poem______. （A）There's Certain Slant of Light（B）Again His Voice Is at the Door（C）Success Is Counted Sweetest（D）I felt a Funeral, in My Brain20 "Where I lived, and What I Lived for" is taken from Thoreau's______.（A）A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers（B）Walden; or, Life in the Woods（C）The Maine Woods（D）Life Without Principle二、名词解释21 free verse22 tall tale23 Lost Generation24 Theatre of the Absurd25 Romanticism三、问答题25 I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils,Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.26 Name the author of this poem.(1 point)27 What is the rhyme scheme of the stanza?(1 point)27 His smile was so easy, so friendly, that Laura recovered. What nice eyes he had, small, but such a dark blue! And now she looked at the others, they were smiling too. " Cheer up, we won't bite," their smile seemed to say. How very nice workmen were! And what a beautiful morning! She mustn't mention the morning; she must be business-like. The marquee.28 Name the title of the short story.(1 point)29 Comment on the writing techniques.(1 point)29 For the next eight or ten months, Oliver was the victim of a systematic course of treachery and deception. He was brought up by hand. The hungry and destitute situation of the infant orphan was duly reported by the workhouse authorities to the parish authorities. The parish authorities inquired with dignity of the workhouse authorities, whether there was no female then domiciled in " the house" who was in a situation to impart to Oliver Twist, the consolation and nourishment of which he stood in need. The workhouse authorities replied with humility, that there was not. Upon this, the parish authorities magnanimously and humanely resolved, that Oliver should be "farmed" or, in other words, that he should be dispatched to a branch-workhouse some three miles off, where twenty or thirty other juvenile offenders against the poor-laws, rolled about the floor all day, without the inconvenience of too much food or too much clothing, under the parental superintendence of an elderly female, who received the culprits at and for the consideration of sevenpence-halfpenny per small head per week. Sevenpence-halfpenny's worth per week is a good round diet for a child; a great deal may be got for sevenpence-halfpenny, quite enough to overload its stomach, and make it uncomfortable. The elderlyfemale was a woman of wisdom and experience; she knew what was food for children; and she had a very accurate perception of what was good for herself. So, she appropriated the greater part of the weekly stipend to her own use, and consigned the rising parochial generation to even a shorter allowance than was originally provided for them. Thereby finding in the lowest depth a deeper still; and proving herself a very great experimental philosopher.30 What is the title of the novel?(1 point)31 What is the effect of the irony used in the excerpt?(1 point)31 We were all at the hospital every afternoon, and there were different ways of walking across the town through the dusk to the hospital. Two of the ways were alongside canals, but they were long. Always, though, you crossed a bridge across a canal to enter the hospital. There was a choice of three bridges. On one of them a woman sold roasted chestnuts. It was warm, standing in front of her charcoal fire, and the chestnuts were warm afterward in your pocket. The hospital was very old and very beautiful, and you entered through a gate and walked across a courtyard and out a gate on the other side. There were usually funerals starting from the courtyard. Beyond the old hospital were the new brick pavilions, and there we met every afternoon and were all very polite and interested in what was the matter, and sat in the machines that were to make so much difference.32 Identify the author of the short story.(1 point)33 What is the theme of the short story?(1 point)33 There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer night. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On weekends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden - shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.34 From which novel is this excerpt taken?(1 point)35 What is the theme of the novel?(1 point)四、评论题36 Comment on the following excerpt and write a 100-word essay on it.(10 points) From Ralph Waldo Emerson's The American ScholarBooks are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world of value is the active soul—the soul, free, sovereign, active. This every man is entitled to; this every man contains within him, although, in almost all men, obstructed, and as yet unborn. The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates. In this action, it is genius; not the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they,—let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward. The eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead. Man hopes, genius creates. To create,—to create, —is the proof of a divine presence. Whatever talents may be if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his;—cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative manners, there are creative actions, and creative words; manners, actions, words, that is, indicative of no custom or authority, but springing spontaneous from the mind's own sense of good and fair.On the other part, instead of being its own seer, let it receive from another mind its truth, though it were in torrents of light, without periods of solitude, inquest, and self-recovery, and a fatal disservice is done. Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.Undoubtedly there is a right way of reading, so it be sternly subordinated. Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings. But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must,—when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining,—we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their way, to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is. We hear, that we may speak. The Arabian proverb says, "A fig tree, looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful. "。

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