2003北京第二外国语学院----综合英语2003 年硕士研究生入学考试试卷考试科目：综合考试（英美文学）满分：40分I. Complete the following sentences by choosing and circling the best alternative (A, B or C) under each (20 points):1. The most prevalent kind of literature in feudal England was _. It was a long composition, sometimes in verse, sometimes in prose. describing the life and adventures of a noble here.A. the farceB. the romance C the melodrama2. Geoffrey Chaucer's language, now called . is vivid and exact.A. Old EnglishB. Middle EnglishC. Primitive English3. Apart from its religious significance, has had a great influence on English language and literature.A. the King Arthur BibleB. the King George BibleC. the King James Bible4. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus was written by .A. Christopher MarloweB. John MiltonC. William Shakespeare5. John Donne (1573-1631), the founder of the school of poetry, lived and wrote during the successive reigns of Elizabeth to Charles I.A. MetaphoricalB. MetamorphicC. Metaphysical6. Essay on Criticism, a didactic poem written by Alexander Pope in heroic couplets, tells the poets and critics how to write and appreciate poetry according to the principles set up by the old writers.A. Anglo-SaxonB. Greek and RomanC. French and German7. The following quotation is taken from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell—"What is now proved was once only "A. imagin'dB. reason'dC. learn'd8. William Wordsworth, have often been mentioned as the "Lake Poets" because they lived in the lake district in the northwestern part of England.A. John Keats and William Butler YeatsB. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert SoutheyC. George Gordon Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley9. Walter Scott's historical novels may be conveniently divided into three groups according to their subject-matter, namely, the group on the history of , the group on English history and the group on the history of European countries.A. ScotlandB. WalesC. Northern Ireland10. Matthew Arnold said, "It is of the last importance that English criticism should clearly discern what rule for its course, in order to avail itself of the field now opening to it; and to produce fruit for the future it ought to take. The rule may be summed upin one word ."A. disobedienceB. disinterestednessC. disconnectedness11. American literature grew out of humble origins. Diaries, histories, journals, letters, commonplace books, travel books, sermons, in short, personal literature in its various forms, occupied a major position in the literature of .A. the early colonial periodB. the pre-colonial periodC. the pre-Christian period12. Puritan influence over American romanticism was conspicuously noticeable. One of its palpable manifestations was the fact that American romantic writers tended more than their English and European brothers.A. to socializeB. to philosophizeC. to moralize13. Alone in the woods one day, experienced a moment of ecstasy which he recorded thus in his Nature: "I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or panicle of God.".A. Benjamin FranklinB. Henry David ThoreauC. Ralph Waldo Emerson14. Henry David Thoreau helped Ralph Waldo Emerson edit the Transcendentalist journal The Dial, and was susceptible to oriental influences such as Hinduism and .A. ConfucianismB. MaterialismC. Epicureanism15. A handy way of seeing modern American poetry is to find its sources in the two founts, .A. Wallace Stevens and Sylvia PlathB. Walt Whitman and Emily DickinsonC. Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop16. Although William Dean Howells, Henry James and Mark Twain all worked for ,there were obvious differences between them. In thematic terms, for instance, James wrote mostly of the upper reaches of American society, and Howells concerned himself chiefly with middle class life, whereas Twain dealt largely with the lower strata of society.A. naturalismB. neoclassicismC. realism17. The reason that Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell found value in Chinese poetry was because Chinese poetry is, by virtue of the ideographic and pictographic nature of the Chinese language, essentially poetry.A. impressionisticB. imagisticC. expressionistic18. F. Scott Fitzgerald's s eeks to trace the moral doom of its protagonist to thesapping influence of wealth and portrays an America dying, in bar-room brawls and decadence, of spiritual sterility and meaninglessness which characterized the times.A. The Gilded AgeB. The Sun Also RisesC. Tender Is the Night19. Both Beyond the Horizon and The Hairy Ape were written by .A. Eugene O'NeillB. Arthur MillerC. Sinclair Lewis20. career reached its exciting climax in 1976 when he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature.A. Saul Bellow'sB. John Steinbeck'sC. William Faulkner'sII. Read the following poem by William Butler Yeats, and answer the three questions (10 points):The Second ComingTurning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity.Surely some revelation is at hand:Surely the Second Coming is at hand.The Second Coming! Hardly are those words outWhen a vast image out of Spiritus MundiTroubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desertA shape with lion body and the head of a man,A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,Is moving its slow thighs, while all about tReel shadows of the indignant desert birds.The darkness drops again; but now I knowThat twenty centuries of stony sleepWere vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?1. What images are used in the first stanza? What do they indicate respectively?2. What are the implications of the description of the "rough beast" in the second stanza?3. Why do you think the poem ends with a question mark?III. The following excerpt is taken from the short story A Clean, Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway. Read it, and answer the three questions (10 points): "Good night," said the younger waiter."Good night," the other said. Turning off the electric light he continued the conversation with himself. It is the light of course, but it is necessary that the place be clean and pleasant. You do not want music. Certainly you do not want music. Nor can you stand before a bar with dignity although that is all that is provided for these hours. What did he fear? It was not fear or dread. It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too. It was only that the light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada. Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Had nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee. He smiledand stood before a bar with a shining steam pressure coffee machine."What's yours?" asked the barman."Nada.""Otro loco mas." said the barman and turned away."A little cup," said the waiter.The barman poured it for him."The light is very bright and pleasant but the bar is unpolished." the waiter said.The barman looked at him but did not answer. It was too late at night for conversation."You want another copita?" the barman asked."No, thank you," said the waiter and went out. He disliked bars and bodegas. A clean, well-lighted cafe was a very different thing. Now, without thinking further, he would go home to his room. He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.1.What is the significance of the parodied Lord's Prayer?2.Why does the older waiter think that a clean, well-lighted cafe is "a very different thing"?3.What is the significance of the last sentence of the story ("Many must have it.")?2003 年硕士研究生入学考试试卷考试科目：综合考试（语言学）满分：30分I. Fill in each blank with a proper term. (15 points )1.L inguistics is usually defined as the ____ study of language.2.O ne general principle of linguistic analysis is the primacy of speech over .3.I n Saussure's view, the relationship betweensignifier(sound image) and signified (concept) is .4.T he branch of linguistics which studies the sound patterns of a language is called .5.A________ morpheme is one that cannot constitute a word by itself.6.The branch of general linguistics which is named ____ s tudies the internal structure of sentences.7.The relation, which was originally called associative relation by Saussure, is a relation holding between elements replaceable with each other at a particular place in a structure, or between one element present and the others absent.8.The sense relation between " A lent a book to B" and "B borrowed a book from A" is________..9.The sound [k] can be described with "voiceless, ____ , stop".10.Human languages enable their users to symbolize objects, events and concepts which are not present (in time and space) at the moment of communication. This quality is labelled as .11.Antonyms like "husband" v. "wife" are antonyms.12.Terms like "desk" and "stool" are ____ of the term " furniture".13.According to G. Leech, ______ meaning refers to logic, cognitive, or denotative content.14.IC is the short form of immediate ___ used in the study of syntax.15.Chomsky initiated the distinction between ___ and performance.II. Choose the correct one among the three choices for each statement. (5points) 1.A sound which is capable of distinguishg one word or one shape of word from another in agiven language is a ________________________ .a. allophoneb. phone c phoneme2.T he is the minimal distinctive unit in grammar, a unit which cannot be dividedwithout destroying or drastically altering the meaning, whether it is lexical or grammatical.a. morphemeb. phonemec. syllable3.W ords like pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, articles are items.a. open-classb. closed-classc. neither open-class nor closed-class4.C ompound words consist of __________ morphemes.a. boundb. freec. both bound and free5.W hen language is used to get information from others, it serves an function./doc/628515796.html,rmativeb. directivec. InterrogativeIII. Give the phonetic term for each of the following locations in articulation. (4 points)1.Both lips2. Teeth3. Opening between vocal cords4. Ridge behind upper teethIV. Tell if each of the following statements is true or false. Ifyou think it false, correct it.(6 points)1.All syllables contain three parts: onset, nucleus and coda.2.Broad Transcription is intended to symbolize all the possible speech sounds, including the minute shades.3.The most important sociological use cf language is the performative function, by which people establish and maintain their status in society.2003 年硕士研究生入学考试试卷考试科目：综合考试（英美概况）满分：30分Instruction:You are required to answer all questions of this section on the pa per. In part II and partIII, answers should be given in English. The total time for this section is about 45 minutes.I . Choose the correct answer from the following four choices: (10分)4.In England, the Protestant Reformation began withA. Bloody MaryB. Queen ElizabethC. King Henry VIID. King Henry VIII5.Victorianism was characterized by the following exceptA.It was in an age of imperialism.B.It saw the great progress in social sciences.C.It was the age when the great progress was made in the field of communication.D.It was an age when the Battle of Waterloo was won by the Duke of Wellington.6.The Supreme Court of U.S.A. is composed ofA. six JudgesB. seven JudgesC. eight JudgesD. nine Judges7.The pilgrims were able to survive in America becauseA.they received help from the Indians.B.they were supported by rich companiesC.many ships brought them food from England.D.they had signed the Mayflower Compact8.Which of the following did not take place in the 1960s?A.The Anti-Viet Nam War MovementB.The Anti-Drug MovementC.Women's Liberation MovementD.Public protests by blacks and other minority groups.II .Explain the following in English. (20 分)1.the pioneer spirit2.the American Dream3.John Locke4.the separation of powers5.The Boston Tea PartyII. Answer the following question. (10分)Describe the divesity of the physical conditions of the U.S.A.2003 年硕士研究生入学考试试卷考试科目：综合考试（翻译）满分：40分6.英译汉（20分）说明：下为In Praise of the Humble Comma一文的节选。
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