三峡大学考研专业课试题891英美文学及比较文学2012.doc

1、第1页共 6 页三 峡 大 学2012年研究生入学考试试题(A卷)科目代码： 891 科目名称： 英美文学及比较文学 （考生必须将答案写在答题纸上）IChoose the One that best completes the sentence.(30 points)(Write your answer on the answer sheet)1. The ship “_” carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, i

2、t put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.A. Sunflower B. ArmadaC. Mayflower D. Pequod2. As a great innovator in American literature, Walt Whitman wrote his poetry in an unconventional style which is now called free verse，that is _.A. lyrical poetry with chanting refrains B. poetry withou

3、t a fixed beat or regular rhyme schemeC. poetry without rhymes at the end of the lines but with a fixed beatD. poetry in an irregular metric form and expressing noble feelings3. Mark Twain and Henry James are commonly described by literary historians asA. Transcendentalists B. SymbolistsC. Realists

4、D. Romantics4. In Edgar Allan Poes poem “The Raven”, the single word the raven could speak is _.A. Encore B. LenoreC. Evermore D. Nevermore第 2 页5. _ is the first black female American ever to receive Nobel Prize in Literature, whose major novel is Beloved.A. Sinclair Lewis B. Ralph EllisonC. Toni Mo

5、rrison D. Langston Hughes6. Which of the following is true as far as Emily Dickinsons poetry is concerned?A. She seldom uses dashes.B. Her poems are very personal and meditative.C. Her poems usually have well-chosen titles.D. All her poems are about death or immorality.7. In Theodore Dreisers Sister

6、 Carrie, the story begins with Caroline Meeber leaving her hometown for _.A. London B. New YorkC. Chicago D. Columbia City8. Which of the following novels is NOT written by William Faulkner?A. Sound and Fury B. As I Lay DyingC. Go Down, Moses D. The Sun Also Rises9. The following novels are Thomas H

7、ardys works except _.A. Far From the Madding Crowd B. The Forsyte SagaC. The Return of the Native D. Jude the Obscure10. Which of the following”-isms” does not belong into the 20th century?A. Transcendentalism B. Surrealism C. Dadaism D. Expressionism11. Daniel Defoe is best known for his creation o

8、f the literary figure _.A. Jane Eyre B. Robinson Crusoe C. David Copperfield D. Gulliver12. In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet stands for _ .A. marriage choice B. PrideC. love D. prejudice第3页13.John Bunyans The Pilgrims Progress uses two forms which are pre-Renaissance: the moral fable or _ an

9、d the dream-vision.A .allegory B. mythC. nursery D. superstition14.“The quality of mercy is not straind; / It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven / Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: / It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. ” These lines are taken from _.AHamlet BDr. FaustusCThe

10、Merchant of VeniceD“The Sun Rising”15. D.H. Lawrences first major novel _ is largely autobiographical and chronicles the domestic conflicts in his own home between a coarse, inarticulate father and a self-consciously genteel mother. A. Sons and Lovers B. Lady Chatterleys LoverC. The Rainbow D. Women

11、 in LoveII Read the following excerpts and answer the following questions. (30 points) (Write your answer on the answer sheet)Excerpt 1:Tiger! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? Did He smile His work to see? Did He who made

12、the Lamb make thee? Questions: 1. Who is the writer of this poem? (2) What is the title of this poem? (2)2. What is the theme of this poem? Paraphrase the underlined part. (6)第 4 页Excerpt 2:O my luve is like a red, red rose,Thats newly sprung in JuneO my luve is like the melodieThats sweetly played

13、in tune.Questions:1. Who is the writer of this poem? (2) What is the title of this poem? (2)2. What is the feature of the poet? Give your commentary on the poem. (6)Excerpt 3:There was music from my neighbors house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths

14、 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 week-ends

15、 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, foiled all day with mops and scrubbin

16、g-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.Questions:1. Who is the narrator here? Were the people to the parties familiar with Gatsby? Why did they go to Gatsbys parties? (5)2. How do you interpret the atmosphere of contradiction which is evoked in this chapte

17、r? (5)第5页III. Choose any five of the following and tell briefly what you know about each. (30 points) (Write your answer on the answer sheet)1.Puritanism2.Narrator3. Symbolism4.Heroic Couplet5.Lake Poets6.Trilogy of Desire7.Hester PrynneIV. Discuss the following questions and write a short critical

18、essay on each one. (60 points) (Write your answer on the answer sheet)1. What is the literary achievement of Victorian Age? Make a comparison between two Victorian writers. (15 points)2. Emily Bronte used a very complicated narrative technique in writing her novel Wuthering Heights. Try to tell Bron

19、tes way of narration briefly. (15points)3. Robert Frost is one of the most popular poets in America. His favorite subject matter was New England life and farming. But underneath the descriptions of country life there is often a deeper and wider meaning. Discuss the features of Robert Frosts poems by

20、 using The Road Not Taken as an example. What might the roads represent? What does his choice indicate about the speaker? (30 points)第 6 页The Road Not TakenTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo wh

21、ere it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same,And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.