三峡大学考研专业课试题891英美文学2014.doc

1、第1页共 5页三 峡 大 学2014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 考试时间为3小时，卷面总分为150分答案必须写在答题纸上IChoose the One that best completes the sentence.(30 points)1. With William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Mark Twain active on the scene, _became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.A.

2、 romanticism B. realism C. sentimentalism D. naturalism2. In Faulkners The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called _, in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character.A. stream of consciousness B. omniscient point of viewC. symbolism D. modernism3. Bryants Thanatopsis w

3、as his greatest poem. The title in Greek means A. a view of life B. a view of nature C. a view of death D. a view of beauty4. Which of the following is not true as far as Poes short stories are concerned?A. His stories show complex characters in deep psychological states. B. His stories are lack of

4、carefully crafted symbols.C. The Fall of the House of Usher inherits Gothic tradition. D. His short stories are roughly divided into two kinds: those of horror and those of ratiocination.5As he is a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”, _ famous one image poem “In a Station of the Metro” woul

5、d serve as a typical example of the imagist ideas.A. T. S. Eliots B. Robert FrostsC. Ezra Pounds D. Wallace Stevens第 2 页6. “There was music from my neighbors 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 st

6、ars. ” The above is taken from _.AHenry Jamess Daisy Miller BF. S. Fitzgeralds The Great GatsbyCErnest Hemingways Indian CampDW. Faulkners A Rose for Emily7. “Shall I compare thee to a summers day?” This line is taken from one of Shakespeares_.A. Sonnet 18 B. the tragedy King LearC. a long poem Venu

7、s and Adonis D. the comedy As You Like It8. The Merchant of Venice belongs to Shakespeares plays of comedy in which Shakespeare highly praises the wits and wisdom of the heroin_ .A. Sophia B. Olivia C. Ophilia D. Portia9. _ is acclaimed not only as “ the father of English poetry” but also as “the fa

8、ther of English fiction”. His masterpiece is The Canterburry Tales. A. William Shakespeare B. Christopher Marlowe C. Geoffrey Chaucer D. John Milton10. Mark Twain shaped the worlds view of America and made a combination of _ and serious literature.A. American folk humor B. funny jokesC. English folk

9、lore D. American values11. “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; / Not to the sensual ear, but, more endeard / Pipe to the spirit ditties of nc tone. ” These lines are taken from Keats poem _.A“Ode on Melancholy”B“Ode to Psyche”C“Ode on a Grec

10、ian Urn”D“Ode to a Nightingale”12. Charles Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Victorian age. In _, he attacks the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life in England. ANicholas Nickleby BBleak House COliver TwistDHard Times13. Daniel Defoe is b

11、est known for his creation of the literary figure _.A. Jane Eyre B. Robinson Crusoe C. David Copperfield D. Guillver第 3 页14. The lines “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I / I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference” are taken from a poem by _. AEmily Dickinson BEzra Po

12、und CRobert Frost DWalt Whitman15. _ is the first black female American ever to receive Nobel Prize in Literature, whose major novel is Beloved.A. Toni Morrison B. Ralph EllisonC. Sinclair Lewis D. Langston HughesII Read the following excerpts and answer the following questions. (30 points) (Write y

13、our answer on the answer sheet)Excerpt 1: Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,And things are not what they seem.Life is real-life is earnest-And the grave is not its goal:Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.Question

14、s: 1 Who is the writer of this poem? (2)2 What is the title of this poem? (2)3 Whats the rhyme scheme of the poem? (2)4 How do you understand the last two lines?(4)第 4 页Excerpt 2:It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man is possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.Howeve

15、r little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.Questions:1. This passage is the opening of a

16、novel entitled _. (2)2. The writer of the novel is the famous woman novelist whose name is _. (2)3. What is the style of this passage? What are the writing features of the writer?(6)Excerpt 3:My tongue, every atom of my blood, formd from this soil, this air,Born here of parents born here from parent

17、s the same, and their parents the same,I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,Hoping to cease not till death.Questions: 1. Who is the writer of this poem? (2)2. What is the title of this poem? (2)3. How do you appreciate this poem? (6)III. Choose any five of the following and tell bri

18、efly what you know about each. (30 points) (Write your answer on the answer sheet)1. Sonnet 2. Free Verse3. Tess of the DUrbervilles4. Psychological realism5. The Lost Generation6. Harlem Renaissance7. Lord of the Flies第 5 页IV. Discuss the following questions and write a short critical essay on each

19、 one. (60 points) (Write your answer on the answer sheet)1. Emily Bronte used a very complicated narrative technique in writing her novel Wuthering Heights. Try to tell Brontes way of narration briefly. (30)2. In Sister Carrie, the narrator said that “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”. What is your understanding of the idea? (30)