温州大学研究生入学考研真题【2015】820英语语言学试题A

2015年浙江温州大学英语教学法考研真题Part I Notion Explaining 名词解释 (20 points, 2 points for each)Directions: Explain the following ten notions.1. communicative competence2. curriculum3. hidden resources4. in-the –use evaluation of textbooks5. the direct method6. knowing a word7. the bottom-up model for teaching listening8. a process approach to writing9. interactional view (on language)10. brainstormingPart II Statement Judging判断题 (20 points, 1point for each )Directions: Read the following 20 statements, and decide which one of them is true or false. If the statement is true, put T in the bracket to the right of the sentence; if false, put F in the bracket.1. Language is a system of arbitrary, vocal symbols which permit all people in a given culture, or other people who have learned the system of that culture, to communicate or to interact. ( Finocchiaro, 1964:8)2. The functional view not only sees language as a linguistic system but also a means for remembering things.3. Communicative competence includes knowledge of what to say, when, how, where, and to whom.4. Communicative Language Teaching is, in fact, a further development of task-basedLanguage Teaching.5. A PPP cycle leads from accuracy to fluency; a TBL cycle leads from fluency to accuracy (combined with fluency).6. Teaching objectives should focus on the teachers’ performance rather than the learners’.7. To develop students’ communicative competence means to develop their linguistic competence, pragmatic competence, discourse competence, strategic competence, and accuracy.8. The Five-step Teaching Method includes such steps as Revision, Presentation, Practice, Production and Consolidation.9. The impact of moral education can be enhanced by adapting a whole school approach to morality.10. One of the possible assessment purposes is to discover learners’ weaknesses.11. It is assumed that speech varies in different social circumstances and that there are speech varieties within a speech community.12. Language and society are in many ways closely linked, either in education or in social science.13. Stern (1999) thinks that language teaching has interacted for a long time with linguistics and with psychology, and that social science and language teaching have only recently come into contact with each other.14. Language teaching can be defined as the activities which are intended to bring about language learning.15. Controlled activities mainly focus on form and accuracy. Teachers don’t have to consider meaning when designing them.16.The success of role-plays are affected by the following factors: the teacher’s enthusiasm;careful instructions; clear situations and roles.17.Reading aloud without comprehension can be very difficult and it can easily destroy students’ self-confidence.18.For silent reading, we need effective strategies such as skimming, scanning, predicting. Etc.to help us extract information efficiently.19. Assessment is part of testing, but it is only one means of gathering information about a student.20. Summative assessment is mainly based on testing.Part III Question answering简答题 (30 points, 5 points for each )Directions: Answer each of the following 6 questions. Your answers are suggested to show the basic principles or connotations contained in the questions.1. How is task-based Language Teaching different from Communicative Language Teaching?2. What are the differences between a weak version of Communicative Language Teaching and strong version of Communicative Language Teaching? And how should we apply them in English teaching?3.What components does a language lesson plan usually have? How to use them in language teaching?4.In professor Wang Qiang’s opinion, what are the six conditions to be needed in achieving efficient classroom management? Which component do you think is the most important? Why？5.What are the differences between assessment and evaluation? And what are the assessment purposes?6.How can a teacher create his/her own resources for teaching and learning?Part IV Lesson Planning教案设计 (40 points)Directions: The reading material -- Sally’s Email – in Appendix 1 is taken from the textbook learned by junior middle school students. You are invited to base on the material to design a 30- minute lesson. Following your designed lesson, you are asked to provide a rationale, describing why you design the lesson in this way, and what language teaching theory (or theories) supports you in planning the lesson.1. Design a 30- minute lesson (20 points)2. Describe the Rationale (20 points)Part V Learning Plan Evaluating学案评价 (40 points)Directions: Read the following learning plan for a revision lesson, which is Module 4 in the English textbook for grade 7(see Appendix 2). You are asked to complete the following tasks:1)Make comments on the learning plan by referring to related theories including the national ”English Curriculum Standards”;2)List at least five advantages and disadvantages of the learning plan and analyze why they are such.1. Make comments on the learning plan with theories. (20 points)2. List and analyze the advantages and disadvantages. (20 points)。

2015年硕士研究生招生入学考试试题（A卷）科目代码及名称:820英语语言学适用专业：英语语言文学01、03方向考生（请考生在答题纸上答题，在此试题纸上答题无效）I.Discriminate the following pairs of terms.(25points)1.psycholinguistics vs.cognitive linguistics;2.error vs.mistake;petence vs. communicative competence;4.synchronic vs.diachronic;5.phonetics vs.phonology.II.Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false.If it is true, write A on the answer sheet;if it is false,write B on it.(20points)1.The study of language in use is called pragmatics.2.Chomsky has been called father of modern linguistics.3.The idea that the meaning of a sentence depends on the meanings of the constituent words and the way they are combined is usually known as the principle of compositionality.4.There are three main subtypes of antonymy:gradable antonymy,converse antonymy,and relational antonymy.5.We can divide a syllable into two parts,the RHYME(or RIME)and the ONSET.The vowel within the rhyme is the NUCLEUS,with the consonant(s)after it termed the CODA.6.The study of how words are combined to form sentences is called syntax.7.The sound[s]is shared by“maps”and“keeps”as a common morpheme.8.When we use a simple set of symbols in our transcription,it is called a NARROW TRANSCRIPTION.9.The change of the negative prefix“in-”to“im-”when preceding/p/is through a process called assimilation.10.The lower terms for a superordinate are class members.11.Garden path sentences are sentences that are initially interpreted with a different structure than they actually have.12.A stem is any morpheme or combination of morphemes to which a derivational affix can be added.13.The word“interpersonal”consists of three morphemes.14.Nouns,adverbs,and adjectives belong to function words.15.Polymorphemic words which consist wholly of free morphemes are called compounds.第1页，共2页ngue is defined by Saussure as the concrete utterances of a speaker.17.Positional relation,or word order,refers to the sequential arrangement of words in a language.18.All the words in a language can be used to refer to,but only some have senses.19.Sense is regarded as a kind of intralinguistic relationship.20.The word“baby-sit”is an exocentric compound.III.Answer the following questions.(30points)1.How do you comment on Paul Herbert Grice’s CP(COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE)?2.How do you interpret REGISTER?IV.Analysis.(25points)1.Write down the phonetic symbol according to each of the following descriptions,andthen give an English word that contains this sound.(10points)Phonetic description phonetic symbol English word(1)bilabial nasal[](2)voiced postalveolar affricate[](3)voiceless velar stop[](4)mid central unrounded lax vowel[](5)back high rounded tense vowel[]2.Disambiguate the given two constructions below using IC(immediate constituent) analysis.Tree diagrams are required.(10points)(1)John loves old towns and villages.(2)The children watched the firework from the hill.3.Write out the semantic components of each word.(5points)(1)raise;(2)wifeV.Write a short essay in about500words on either of the two topics below. (50points)1.In Chinese,expressions for moving from one city to another by way of yet another city must take the form‘from X pass-through Y to Z’,and cannot be expressed as‘from X to Z pass-through Y’.How would you characterize the form-meaning relationship exhibited by these Chinese expressions?2.Is it necessary to distinguish between semantics and pragmatics?Please argue for your view.第2页，共2页。

2012年硕士研究生招生入学考试试题科目代码及名称: 817 英语语言学A卷适用专业：英语语言文学I. Explain the following terms. (25%)1. endocentric construction;2. denotation;3. psycholinguistics;4. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis;5. minimal piars II. Decide whether each of the given statements is TRUE or FALSE. If it is true, write down A on your ANSWER SHEET; if it is false, write down B on it. (20%)1. Acoustic phonetics is the study of the perception of sounds by the human ear.2. Morphemes such as –ing, -ed, -able, are known as inflectional morphemes.3. The affixes in the English language are traditionally called bound morphemes.4. In separating langue from parole we are at the same time separating (1) what is social from what isindividual; and (2) what is essential from what is accessory.5. By Saussure, arbitrariness refers to the fact that the forms of linguistic signs bear no natural relationship totheir meaning.6. Suprasegmentals mainly include syllables, tone, intonation, distinctive features.7. In English, we can have the syllable structure of CCCVCCCC.8. By Leonard Bloomfield (1933), word should be treated as “the minimum free form”.9. The different shapes or phonetic forms of a morpheme are allomorphs of this morpheme, e.g. the differentforms of the plural morpheme in English are /s/, /z/, /iz/, and so on.10. ad, bike, math, etc. are instances of backformation.11. Noam Chomsky is hailed as the father of modern linguistics.12. Systemic-Functional grammar consists of the two inseparable components --- Systemic Grammar andFunctional Grammar.13. The TEXTUAL FUNCTION refers to the fact that language has mechanisms to make any stretch ofspoken or written discourse into a coherent and unified text and make a living passage different from a random list of sentences.14. Phonetic similarity means that the allophones of a phoneme must bear some morphological resemblance.15. The first stage of TG grammar is the Standard Theory, and the fifth stage of it is the Minimalist Program.16. Sense refers to the concrete entities with some properties, while reference refers to the abstract propertiesof an entity.17. Propositional Logic treats a simple proposition as an unanalyzed whole, while Predicate Logic studies theinternal structure of simple propositions.18. Children’s first words are different in different language environments.19. Among the three levels of categories, the subordinate level categories are most culturally salient and arerequired to fulfill our cognitive needs the best.20.Nouns, verbs, adjectives and many adverbs are closed-class words.III. Give brief answers to the following questions (30%)1. Do you think there are true synonyms in English? Why?2. Why do we need to teach culture in our language classroom?3. What is the relation between arbitrariness and conventionality?IV. Do the analysis as required (25%)1. Disambiguate the following sentences, using the tree diagrams. (15%)(1) John left the book on the shelf.(2) The professor’s appointment was shocking.(3) Beautiful villages and cities can be seen.2. Make the componential analysis of the following words. (10%)(1) chopsticks; (2) teacher; (3) son; (4) take; (5) giveV. Write an essay in about 500 words after reading the following quote (50%)The word TEXT is used in linguistics to refer to any passage, spoken or written, of whatever length, that does form a unified whole. We know, as a general rule, whether any specimen of our own language constitutes a TEXT or not. This does not mean there can never be any uncertainty. The distinction between a text and a collection of unrelated sentences is in the last resort a matter of degree, and there may always be instances about which we are uncertain – a point that is probably familiar to most teachers from reading their students’ compositions. But this does not invalidate the general observation that we are sensitive to the distinction between what is text and what is not. (Halliday and Hasan 1976: 1)第 1 页，共 2 页2015年硕士研究生招生入学考试试题（A卷）科目代码及名称: 820 英语语言学适用专业：英语语言文学01、03方向考生（请考生在答题纸上答题，在此试题纸上答题无效）I. Discriminate the following pairs of terms. (25 points)1. psycholinguistics vs. cognitive linguistics;2. error vs. mistake ;3. competence vs. communicative competence ;4. synchronic vs. diachronic ;5. phonetics vs. phonology.II. Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false. If it is true, write A on the answer sheet; if it is false, write B on it. (20 points)1. The study of language in use is called pragmatics.2. Chomsky has been called father of modern linguistics.3. The idea that the meaning of a sentence depends on the meanings of the constituent words and the way they are combined is usually known as the principle of compositionality.4. There are three main subtypes of antonymy: gradable antonymy, converse antonymy, and relational antonymy.5. We can divide a syllable into two parts, the RHYME (or RIME) and the ONSET. The vowel within the rhyme is the NUCLEUS, with the consonant(s) after it termed the CODA.6. The study of how words are combined to form sentences is called syntax.7. The sound [s] is shared by “maps” and “keeps” as a common morpheme.8. When we use a simple set of symbols in our transcription, it is called a NARROW TRANSCRIPTION.9. The change of the negative prefix “in-” to “im-” when preceding /p/ is through a process called assimilation.10. The lower terms for a superordinate are class members.11. Garden path sentences are sentences that are initially interpreted with a different structure than they actually have.12. A stem is any morpheme or combination of morphemes to which a derivational affix can be added.13. The word “interpersonal” consists of three morphemes.14. Nouns, adverbs, and adjectives belong to function words.15. Polymorphemic words which consist wholly of free morphemes are called compounds.第 1 页，共 2 页16. Langue is defined by Saussure as the concrete utterances of a speaker.17. Positional relation, or word order, refers to the sequential arrangement of words in a language.18. All the words in a language can be used to refer to, but only some have senses.19. Sense is regarded as a kind of intralinguistic relationship.20. The word “baby-sit” is an exocentric compound.III. Answer the following questions. (30 points)1. How do you comment on Paul Herbert Grice’s CP(COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE)?2. How do you interpret REGISTER?IV. Analysis. (25 points)1. Write down the phonetic symbol according to each of the following descriptions, andthen give an English word that contains this sound. (10 points)Phonetic description phonetic symbol English word(1) bilabial nasal [ ](2) voiced postalveolar affricate [ ](3) voiceless velar stop [ ](4) mid central unrounded lax vowel [ ](5) back high rounded tense vowel [ ]2. Disambiguate the given two constructions below using IC (immediate constituent) analysis. Tree diagrams are required. (10 points)(1) John loves old towns and villages.(2) The children watched the firework from the hill.3. Write out the semantic components of each word. (5 points)(1) raise; (2) wifeV. Write a short essay in about 500 words on either of the two topics below.(50 points)1. In Chinese, expressions for moving from one city to another by way of yet another city must take the form ‘from X pass-through Y to Z’, and cannot be expressed as ‘from X to Z pass-through Y’. How would you characterize the form-meaning relationship exhibited by these Chinese expressions?2. Is it necessary to distinguish between semantics and pragmatics? Please argue for your view.第 2 页，共 2 页2016年硕士研究生招生考试试题（A卷）科目代码及名称: 820 英语语言学适用专业：英语语言文学01、03方向考生（请考生在答题纸上答题，在此试题纸上答题无效）I. Define the following terms. (50 points)1. I-narrator;2. locutionary act;3. Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis;4. reference;5. relational opposites;6. exocentric construction;7. back-formation;8. blending;9. phonology; 10. competenceII. Answer the two given questions. (30 points)1. Do you agree with the view that no language is especially simple?2. How does language relate to culture?III. Analyses. (20 points)1. Write out the different meanings of the following two ambiguous constructions. (10 points)(1) The chicken is too hot to eat.(2) Visiting relatives can be boring.2. Do the componential analysis on the lexical meanings of the given words below. (10 points)(1) raise; (2) wifeIV. Write a short essay in about 500 words on either of the two topics below.(50 points)1. In cognitive linguistics, metaphor is not a figure of speech merely, it is conceptual. In what sense is metaphor said to be conceptual?2. Give a comment on Noam Chomsky’s Innateness Hypothesis.第 1 页，共 1 页2017年硕士研究生招生考试试题 (A卷)科目代码及名称: 820 英语语言学适用专业：英语语言文学01、03方向考生I. Define the following terms. (30 points)1. exocentric;2. phonology;3. root;4. converse antonymy;5. Nida’s classification of culture;6. constativeII. Analyses. (30 points)1. Use tree diagrams in IC analysis to clarify the given constructions. (15 points)(1) beautiful cities and villages(2) Chinese geography teachers(3) The boy was crying.2. Describe the following sound segments. (15 points)(1) /d/; (2) /n/; (3) /θ/; (4) /ʌ/; (5) /æ/; (6) /ә:/III. Answer the given questions below. (40 points)1. What are some important contributions that sociolinguistics has made to linguistic studies? (10 points)2. Do you think there are true synonyms in English? Why (not)? (10 points)3. In what way do we say Chinese is a tone language? (10 points)4. What is the distinction between inflectional affixes and derivational affixes? (10 points) IV. Write a short essay in about 500 words on the given topic. (50 points) What is your understanding of the relationship between language and literature?第1 页，共1 页2018年硕士研究生招生考试试题科目代码及名称: 820 英语语言学适用专业：英语语言文学01、03方向考生（请考生在答题纸上答题，在此试题纸上答题无效）I. Define the following terms. (30 points)(1) allophone; (2) free morpheme; (3) design features;(4) complementary antonymy; (5) endocentric construction; (6) referenceII. Analyses. (30 points)1. Use tree diagrams in IC analysis to clarify the given constructions. (10 points)(1) Leave the book on the shelf.(2) Mary became very ill.2. Describe the following sound segments. (10 points)(1) /t/; (2) /m/; (3)/s/; (4) /i:/; (5) /u/;3. Write out the semantic components of each word. (10 points)(1) gentleman; (2) killIII. Answer the given questions below. (40 points)1. How do you understand the distinction between performance and competence? (10 points)2. What would language be like if it had not the property of duality? (10 points)3. How can a linguist make his analysis scientific? (10 points)4. Why should language teachers learn some knowledge of linguistics? (10 points)IV. Write a short essay in about 500 words on the given topic. (50 points) What is pragmatic failure? Support your statement with some instances of pragmatic failure in the English used by Chinese learners of English.第 1 页，共 1 页。

2013年硕士研究生招生入学考试试题科目代码及名称:621英语基础适用专业：英语语言文学（请考生在答题纸上答题，在此试题纸上答题无效）A卷Part One Blank-filling20%For each of the blanks in the following passage you are allowed to fill in only one word.Professor Bill Morse was my instructor for a seminar in John Milton during the first_1_-of my sophomore year at Holy Cross.Truth be told,I had no business_2_the upper-level class,and my presence there was largely due to a registrar mishap,_3_for some reason,Bill let me stay.I was scared that first day when he told us to_4_our chairs in a circle.You can’t hide in a circle.And_5_I looked around for someone who lived in my dorm,I quickly_6_I was outranked here.The fact that I was allowed to stay,_7_the ranking,inspired me.Perhaps Bill saw_8_in me during those first few classes.Or perhaps he noticed all the Post-it_9_and hi-lighting I had done in my Milton handbook.Regardless,his confidence in me was inspiring.I spent most of my days preparing for that weekly_10_.I read the assigned reading.I read the_11_reading.I read supporting texts and notable opinions.And then I began to_12_my own.I was the first to enter the circle each week and the last to leave_13_.My friends dreaded dinners in Kimball dining hall with me that year,because I would often ask them what they thought of the_14_of Eve and what it meant to them when she crouched by the river’s_15_to see her own_16_I asked them if they thought the theory of the dialectic could be applied to our own trivial lives, and if they felt more passionate_17_life when they thought about it within the_18_of dying.These questions proved to be table-clearing topics,and it’s quite surprising that I ended that semester with any friends at all. But I couldn’t_19_my enthusiasm.Professor Morse had triggered something in me.He had_20_an independence of thought that I hadn’t yet found in myself.Part Two Reading Comprehension40%When Wenzhou SneezesWenzhou is known for making shoes,buttons,eyeglasses,electric switches,water valves and 70%of the world's cigarette lighters.But its most famous product is entrepreneurs.(1)Hemmed in by mountains and with little arable land,this city on China's southeastern coast has relied on trade for centuries.Even in the Maoist era,when capitalism came under sustained and violent attack,private enterprise was never entirely extinguished there.So after China began market reforms in the late1970s,Wenzhou flourished."The Wenzhou Model"of small,low-costcompanies,and its businessfolk have invested across the country in everything from real estate to mining.The city is the locus and symbol of private enterprise in China.But in recent weeks,the reputation of Wenzhou's entrepreneurs has taken a serious hit.Dozens of factory bosses have fled(2)bad debts,and at least two have committed suicide.Part of the cause is the challenging operating environment for manufacturers.Demand from export markets like the U.S.and Europe is weak,wage and materials costs at home are rising,and China's currency,the renminbi,has been steadily(3)appreciating,making Chinese goods more expensive abroad."Orders have been down this year and last—that causes a lot of pressure,"says Cai Jianguo.He started his Wenzhou eyeglass company,Zhengshi Optical,with just$1,200and eight employees in1997.Today he has more than100employees churning out some30,000pairs of plastic frames a month,mostly for export.But he's(4)feeling the pinch."For small businesses like ourselves,survival itself is a big challenge."The main cause of Wenzhou's ills is far more explosive,however,and lies in the local tradition of private lending.Because Chinese banks prefer to lend to larger,state-owned enterprises that are ultimately backed by the central government,Wenzhou's entrepreneurs have long turned to one another for financing."Private lending and private enterprises are a natural couple,"says Hu Zhenhua,a professor of economics at Wenzhou University."One cannot exist without the other." That relationship has come under extreme strain.The central government's efforts to control inflation over the past year have restricted bank credit,(5)driving up the demand for underground loans even more.In Wenzhou,local investors,including a significant share of the town's businesses,have been chasing(6)hefty earnings through making private loans that have interest rates as high as60%.But such levels of return are unsustainable,and over the past month the credit market has collapsed.In a town where almost everyone has lent or borrowed through the informal networks,the pain has been severe.Wenzhou entrepreneurs'ability to access nonbank credit may have been one of the sources of the city's success,but it now threatens to bring the local economy down.And given the extent to which local entrepreneurs have invested throughout China,the shocks will likely be felt nationwide.Shanghai Daily calls the Wenzhou meltdown"China's subprime crisis."Cai's anxieties about(7)slim margins in the eyeglass business are almost mundane compared with those of another Wenzhou entrepreneur known as the Kid.(For his safety,he asked that his real name and some identifying details not be divulged.)The Kid is a private moneylender.Some would call him a loan shark.He pools money from local investors and loans it out to businesses that need cash.He started lending in2007with about$1million of his own,bank loans against family property and money from hundreds of investors.A year later,when the global financialcrisis hit,the Chinese government initiated a$586billion economic-stimulus package and ordered banks to flood the market with credit,all in an effort—ultimately successful—to keep the domestic economy(8)humming.But even amid that sea of credit,SMEs in places like Wenzhou still found it difficult to get bank loans because state enterprises were soaking up most of the money.For private firms,the stimulus was"like the rain that never reached the land—it was intercepted in mid-air,"the Kid says."So the land had to draw water from underground." That underground supply did not come cheap.The Kid made loans at2.5%monthly interest, or about34.5%annualized,far higher than the7%to8%charged to those getting bank loans. Things really took off for him over the past year as the central government tightened credit, raising benchmark interest rates and upping banks'reserve requirements."You've got an environment where growth for the past few years has been driven by almost limitless easy credit,"says Patrick Chovanec,an associate professor at Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management in Beijing."When the People's Bank of China began to impose limits on credit in order to rein in inflation,that demand for limitless credit as a driver of GDP growth didn't go away."Rather than squelching the demand for credit,those actions shifted it to the informal market.For a while,business was very good for the Kid.His fund grew to$15million at its peak. Borrowers were paying back their debts quickly.In one week in May,for instance,the Kid took in nearly$8million in repaid loans and interest.Many of the borrowers were small-scale real estate developers who needed money to fund projects—but that's precisely why the Kid and others like him face problems now.Continued economic uncertainties and tighter mortgage policies have made property buyers increasingly cautious,and real estate sales have slowed dramatically.The people of Wenzhou"plowed their money into high-interest loans,"says Victor Shih,a political scientist at Chicago's Northwestern University who studies China's financial system."That was unsustainable because the high-interest loans went back into real estate projects.Eventually all of them will go bust."For Wenzhou exporters facing ever narrowing margins,the temptation to put money into high-interest,informal(9)syndicated loans has been especially high.Cai,the eyeglassmaker, resisted."I never wanted that kind of money,"he says."It was too dangerous."But many others went ahead.The government estimated earlier this year that60%of Wenzhou businesses and an astonishing90%of households were involved in some form of private lending.Problems began to really emerge in late summer,when some large borrowers stopped repaying.In September,Hu Fulin,president of Xintai Group,another eyeglass manufacturer,fled to the U.S.to escape some $300million in debts.He has since returned,but the situation remains dire—some90othercompany heads have absconded.The Kid collected about$3million in August and early September,but says he recovered a mere$50,000between late September and late October."Everyone is hoarding money,"he says. "Once they get it back,nobody lends it out again—not even to their closest friends."The Wenzhou bubble has burst.Everything appears normal in Wenzhou.The streets leading from the city center to the surrounding factory districts are jammed as usual with trucks and delivery vans,new Range Rovers and dilapidated Citroen taxis.Beneath the surface,however,a mad race to collect debts is under way.For much of October,the Kid says he slept only two or three hours a night as he pondered how to claw back(10)outstanding loans."If people could get their money back just by holding other people at gunpoint,there would have been a riot in Wenzhou,"he says."It seems calm on the surface,but the chaos is underneath."In early October,Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited Wenzhou,where he ordered local banks to lend more and promised a crackdown on abusive underground lending.The local government has organized a$160million fund to help overstretched businesses,and the fund is likely to grow.The big issue,says Professor Hu,is what happens in January,ahead of the Chinese New Year, when Wenzhou's private lenders traditionally call in their outstanding loans.To come up with cash,indebted locals may unload real estate at discounted rates,which could truly burst the property bubble not just at home but also in Shanghai,Beijing and other cities where they have invested."Should the liquidity chain in Wenzhou collapse to spark either sell-offs in the property market or the cutoff of liquidity for manufacturing or mining,this local crisis could evolve into a national problem,"Xianfang Ren,Beijing-based senior economist for consultancy IHS Global Insight,wrote in mid-October.Still,Wenzhou accounts for just1%of China's GDP.Manufacturer Cai says he plans to keep on churning out eyeglass frames,despite his ever tightening margins."What else would I do?" he asks.And the Kid,if he can ever climb out of the massive hole he's dug,says he'll continue too."When the market recovers,I'll still be willing to put30%of my assets in private lending," he says."If a Wenzhou person has10million renminbi,he wouldn't deposit it all in the bank. He'd at least spend3.5million on some kind of investment.Wenzhou people aren't stupid."The rest of China fervently hopes so.Language Work(1)Explain the underlined parts above on the answer sheet(from number1--10)(20)(2)Explain the following two statements in relation to the article.(20)(a):“When Wenzhou Sneezes”(b):“Wenzhou people aren't stupid”Part Three Translation work40%Put the following passage into English.若遇着晴天，人的影子迅速地在路上移动着，好像看电影似的，非常有趣；雨天，路太坏了，不但感不到什么好处，而且非常恨这块地方。

2015年硕士研究生招生入学考试试题(A)（请考生在答题纸上答题，在此试题纸上答题无效）第一部分英语文学（共80分）I. Identify the following works or quotations with their authors, write your answers on theAnswer Sheet. 10分1. Measure for Measure2. Novum Organum3. Wuthering Heights4. Ivanhoe5. “Behold her, single in the field,Yon solitary Highland Lass!Reaping and singing by herself;Stop here, or gently pass!Alone she cuts and binds the grain,And sings a melancholy strain;O listen! for the Vale profoundIs overflowing with the sound.”6. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow7. “And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sittingOn the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floorShall be lifted - nevermore!”8. “Because I could not stop for Death—He kindly stopped for me—The Carriage held but just Ourselves—And Immortality.”9. “Somewhere 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.”10. Of Mice and MenII. Explain FOUR of the following literary terms in about 50 words for each. 20分Heroic coupletShakespearean SonnetNeo-classicalismAmerican PuritanismImagism。

温州大学考研专业课真题目专业综合A卷2011年硕士研究生招生入学考试试题 (A)科目代码及名称: 815专业综合适用专业：050201英语语言文学（请考生在答题纸上答题，在此试题纸上答题无效）A 卷第一大部分英语语言学(共50分)I. Define the following terms. (10%)1. arbitrariness;2. duality;3. macrolinguistics;4. diachronic linguisticsII. Judge whether each of the following statements is true(T) or false(F). (10%)1.Applied linguistics is the branch of the study on the application of concepts andfindings of linguistics to language acquisition.2.The speech sounds which are in complementary distribution are definitely allophonesof the same phoneme.3. A stem is any morpheme or combinations of morphemes to which an inflectional affixcan be added.4.Variable words refer to those which do not have inflective changes.5.The word “editor” derives from the word “edit” plus the suffix “-or”.6.Contrastive analysis of errors is a major strand of psycholinguistic research.7.Every speaker of a langauge is, in a strict sense, a speaker of a distinct idiolect.8.After comparing “slowly the artist brought out a piece of paper and a brush” with“The artist brought out a piece of paper and brush slowly”, you may find somedifference in meaning, and the difference can be interpreted in terms of collocativemeaning.9.“Tulip”, “rose”and “violet”are all included in the notion of “flower”. Therefore,they are superordinates of “flower”.10.For Leonard Bloomfied, linguistics is a branch of psychology, and specifically of thepositivistic brand of psychology known as behaviorism.III. Discriminate the following pairs of term. (10%)1. langue vs. parole;2. pragmatics vs. semanticsIV. Do the analysis according to the requirements. (10%)1. Analyze the meanings of the following words into semantic components. (4%)(1) give; (2) father; (3) woman2. Do the immediate constituent analysis of the following grammatical constructions usingtree diagrams. (6%)第1页，共6页(1) He glanced at her in a suspicious manner.(2) Jane showed her baby pictures.V. Answer one of the following two questions. (10%)1. How do you comment on Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?2. What do you think of the relationship between psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics?第二部分英语文学（共50分）VI. Identify the following works and quotations with their authors, write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (10% )1. Troilus and Cressie2. Much Ado about Nothing3. School for Scandal4. Pamela5. “She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that's best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyes:Thus mellow'd to that tender lightWhich heaven to gaudy day denies.”6. The Joy Luck Club7. Dubliners8. “Lo, in yon brilliant window-nicheHow statue-like I see thee stand,The agate lamp within thy hand,Ah! Psyche, from the regions whichA re Holy Land!”9. The Catcher in the Rye10. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's StoneVII. Explain TWO of the following literary terms in about 50 wards for each (10%)Dramatic Monologue PuritanismStream of consciousness Iceberg theoryReader-Response Criticism Feminism3VIII. Choose TWO from the following topics and then do according to the requirement in about 100 words for each (10%)1. What’s the difference between Old English literature and Middle English literature?2. To some extent, we can say, Samson is John Milton, Why?3. What are the features of the American literature in the Romantic Period?4. What are Henry David Thoreau's views on nature and individualism and how they are第2共页6页expressed in Thoreau's Walden?5. Choose one of the following authors and make a comment on any one of his/her literary works: Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald.VIV. Comment on ONE of the following selected texts in about 100 words. 10%1. My next care was for some ammunition and arms. There were two very good fowling-pieces in the great cabin, and two pistols. These I secured first, with some powder-horns and a small bag of shot, and two old rusty swords. I knew there were three barrels of powder in the ship, but knew not where our gunner had stowed them; but with much search I found them, two of them dry and good, the third had taken water. Those two I got to my raft with the arms. And now I thought myself pretty well freighted, and began to think how I should get to shore with them, having neither sail, oar, nor rudder; and the least capful of wind would have overset all my navigation.2. When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. Of an intermediate balance, under the circumstances, there is no possibility. The city has its cunning wiles, no less than the infinitely smaller and more human tempter. There are large forces which allure with all the soulfulness of expression possible in the most cultured human. The gleam of a thousand lights is often as effective as the persuasive light in a wooing and fascinating eye. Half the undoing of the4unsophisticated and natural mind is accomplished by forces wholly superhuman. A blare of sound, a roar of life, vast array of human hives, appeal to the astonished senses in equivocal terms. Without a counsellor at hand to whisper cautious interpretations, what falsehoods may not these things breathe into the unguarded ear! Unrecognised for what they are, their beauty, like music, too often relaxes, then weakens, then perverts the simpler human perceptions.X. Choose ONE poem from the list below, and make a comment on the theme of it in about 100 words (Use at least three of the following elements develop and reinforce your analysis: diction, tone, image, figure of speech, symbols, irony, syntax, rhythm and meter, rhyme). 10%1A little black thing among the snow:Crying weep, weep, in notes of woe!Where are thy father & mother! say!They are both gone up to the church to pray.第3页共6页Because I was happy upon the heath,And smil'd among the winters snow:They clothed me in the clothes of death,And taught me to sing the notes of woe.And because I am happy, & dance & sing,They think they have done me no injury:And are gone to praise God & his Priest & KingWho make up a heaven of our misery.2Traveling through the dark I found a deerdead on the edge of the Wilson River road.5It is usually best to roll them into the canyon:that road is narrow; to swerve might make more dead.By glow of the tail-light I stumbled back of the carand stood by the heap, a doe, a recent killing;she had stiffened already, almost cold.I dragged her off; she was large in the belly.My fingers touching her side brought me the reason—her side was warm; her fawn lay there waiting,alive, still, never to be born.Beside that mountain road I hesitated.The car aimed ahead its lowered parking lights;under the hood purred the steady engine.I stood in the glare of the warm exhaust turning red;around our group I could hear the wilderness listen.I thought hard for us all--my only swerving--,then pushed her over the edge into the river.第4页，共6页第三部分英美文化 (共50分)XI. Read the following unfinished statements or questions carefully. For each unfinished statement or question, four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D are given. Choose the one that you think best completes the statement or answers the question. Write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (10%)1. The Constitution of the United States was framed in Philadelphia in _________.A. 1776B. 1783C. 1787D. 16202. In the United States, the Department of ______ advises the President on foreign relations.A. DefenseB. StateC. CommerceD. Labor3. Representatives in the Unites States are elected _________.6A. annuallyB. every two yearsC. every three yearsD. every four years4. The New Deal was started by ________.A. Franklin D. RooseveltB. J. F. KennedyC. George WashingtonD. Thomas Jefferson5. Which of the following has the power to make federal laws and levy federal taxes?A. The executiveB. The legislativeC. The judicialD. The president6. ________ were the ancestors of the English and the founders of England.A. The Anglo-SaxonsB. The NormansC. The Danish VikingsD. The Romans7. In Britain, a “vote of no confidence” is decided by _________.A. the House of CommonsB. the House of LordsC. the two major partiesD. the Prime Minister8. Through the examination called “the 11 plus”, students with academic potential go to _____.A. grammar schoolsB. comprehensive schoolsC. public schoolsD. technical schools9. Which of the following is not involved in making the foreign policy in Britain?A. The QueenB. The Foreign and Commonwealth OfficeC. The Prime Minister and the CabinetD. The Ministry of Defence and the Treasury10. All of the following was invented in Britain except ________.A. footballB. tennisC. basketballD. cricketXII. Define TWO of the following terms. (10%)1. Bill of Rights in the United States2. Judicial review3. The House of Lords4. Constitutional monarchy in Britain第5 页共6页XIII. Answer THREE of the following questions briefly. (15%)1. What are the four basic requirements for secondary school students who want to apply for a respected university in the United States?2. Describe briefly the three-tiered national court system of the U.S.3. It is said that British history has been a history of invasions. What are the major invasions?4. What were the major ideas in the Declaration of Independence?75. What factors play an important role in the contemporary foreign policy of UK?XIV. Make a comment on ONE of the following topics. (15%)1. Is American President directly elected by the people? Why or why not? And what are the major procedures in U.S. presidential election?2. Discuss the factors which have contributed to the special relationship between Britain and the United States.第6页，共6 页8。

温州大学考研真题温州大学是位于中国浙江省温州市的一所综合性大学。

自1999年开始，温州大学每年都会举行考研入学考试，以选拔优秀的研究生。

考研真题是考试前真实的试题，通过对真题的复习和解析，考生可以更好地了解考试形式和内容，提高备考效果。

本文将从历年的温州大学考研真题中选取几道典型题目，进行解析和讲解。

一、英语专业硕士(MA)考研真题阅读理解：Passage 1The United States has developed a new system to predict tornadoes.Research by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows that its new method forecasts the intensity and duration of tornadoes with an accuracy of up to 90%.The system, called High-Resolution Rapid Refresh, uses the current weather data and computer modeling to predict the pattern of tornadoes. The research team analyzed 147 tornadoes in the US Midwest last year to validate their predictions.According to the NOAA's prediction, there will be an 80% chance of severe weather conditions, including tornadoes, in parts of Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.NOAA scientist Steve Weiss said, "The method has been used in predictions for only a year, and its performance has been outstanding."Tornadoes usually occur in the US Midwest in the late spring and early summer. In recent years, tornadoes have caused significant damage and lossof life in the region. With the new prediction system, it is hoped that the people in tornado-prone areas can be better prepared and protected.1. What is the new method developed by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)?A) A method to analyze tornado patterns.B) A method to predict severe weather conditions.C) A method to forecast tornado intensity and duration.D) A method to validate weather predictions.答案：C) A method to forecast tornado intensity and duration.解析：根据Passage 1中的第一段和第三段可以得知，NOAA开发了一种新的系统，用于预测龙卷风的强度和持续时间，所以答案是C。