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姓名： 报考学科、专业：准考证号码： 密封线内不要答题二O一四年招收硕士研究生入学考试试题A卷考试科目及代码：英美文学基础（857） 适用专业：英语语言文学；外国语言学及应用语言学 答题内容写在答题纸上，写在试卷或草稿纸上一律无效。考完后试题随答题纸交回。考试时间3小时，总分值 150 分。. Multiple Choice Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your choice on the answer sheet. (1 point for each, 24 points in total)1. Which of the following is not a tragedy? _.A. Othello B. King Lear C. A Midsummer Nights Dream D. King Lear2. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use themThe underlined part means _. A. men of craft/skill B. sly men C. clever men D. wicked men3. The duke in My Last Duchess is characterized with the following except _.A. arrogant B. kind C. greedy D. domineering4. What does the letter A means in The Scarlet Letter? _A. Adultery B. Able C. Angel D. all of the above5. We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelleys poem “Ode to the West Wind” with all the following except_.A. tamed B. swift C. proud D. wild 6.Which is not a narrative poem written by Longfellow? _.A.The Courtship of Miles Standish B. My Lost Youth C. Evangeline D. Hiawatha7. Which statement is not true about Emily Dickinsons poetic features? _.A.Her language is brief, direct, and plain. B. She used conventional meters, iambic tetrameter, off-rhymes. C. Each poem has a title. D. Short poetic lines, condensed by using intense metaphors and by extensive use of ellipsis.8. Which is Stephen Cranes work? _.A. Maggie: A Girl of the StreetsB. The Black Riders C. The Red Badge of Courage D. All of the above9.Which play didnt win Pulitzer Prize? _. A.Beyond the Horizon B. Strange Interlude C. Bound East for Cardiff D. Long Days Journey into Night10.Which is not true about the principles of Imagism? _. A. indirect treatment of the “thing”. B. exclusion of superfluous words.C. free verse form and music phrase.D. precision and economy of expression.11.Hamlets hesitation shows him _.A. a typical example of earlier English bourgeoisie B. a Byronic heroC. a typical man of RenaissanceD. a great patriot12. John Miltons style can be summarized as_.A. proper words in proper places.B. whatever is, is right.C. survival of the fittest.D. sublimity of thought and majesty of expression.13. One _the more, one _ the less, Had half Impaird the nameless _.(G. G. Byron)A. ray, shade, grace B. grace; shade; rayC. shade: grace; ray D. shade; ray; grace14. Alexander Popes chief contribution to literary criticism is his _, which contains _ lines in 3 parts, advocating _ .A. Essay on Man, 744, classicismB. Essay on Criticism, 10000, realismC. Essay on Man, 10000, realismD. Essay on criticism, 744, classicism15._ a dramatist in the _ century, William Shakespeare in the British Renaissance, and George Bernard Shaw of the 20th century, were considered by some critics to be the three greatest British dramatists. A. John Bunyan, 17th B. John Bunyan, 18th C. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 18thD. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 19th16. Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific (J. Keats) The poet here is speaking of his excitement of _ .A. finding the New World B. reading Chapmans translation of HomerC. finding the Pacific D. finding a new star17. The daffodils in “I wandered lonely as a cloud” were so important to W. Wordsworth that they eventually became a “ _ of solitude”.A. bless B. bliss C. blessing D. blessed18. Of the following poems by T.S. Eliot, which is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th Century English Poetry? A. Poems 1909-1925 B. The Hollow Men C. Prufrock and Other Observations D. The Waste Land19. Charlottes works are famous for the depiction of the life of the middle-class working women, particularly_. A. Governesses B. Clerks C. baby-sitters D. managers20. _ is Robert Brownings best-known dramatic monologue.A.“My Last Duches” B.“Meeting at Night” C.“Parting at Morning” D.“Pippa Passes”21. Chronologically the Victorian refers to _.A.1798-1832 B.1836-1901 C. the Romantic period D. the Neoclassical Period22. Which of the following is taken from John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn? A. I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed! B. They are both gone up to the church to pray. C. Earth has not anything to show more fair. D. Beauty is truth, truth beauty.23. In the Romantic period, _ is the most prosperous literary form. A. Prose B. Poetry C. Fiction D. play24. The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gullivers Travels are_. A. horses that are endowed with reason. B. pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC. giants that are superior in wisdom. D. Hairy, wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways.II Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the context. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (1 point for each, 15 points in total)1.Geoffrey Chaucer is father of English _ and founder of English realism.2. Shakespeares Sonnet 18 belongs to _ sonnet .3.The publication of _ in 1798 marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement in England.4.Imagism stressed the use of a _ image, or a quick succession of related images.5.Naturalism stressed the two crushing forces of _ and environment.6. Two of William Faulkners writing techniques are _ and multiple voices.7.Hemingways _ Principle means that one must go very deep beneath the surface to understand the full meaning of his writing. 8. Songs of Innocent and _ are Blakes best-known poetry collections. 9. Shaw is considered as the _ English dramatist since Shakespeare. 10. Conrads work is concerned with the nature and effects of European_. 11. Jane Austen wrote exclusively on the theme of love and _ . 12. The protagonist in Catch-22 is named _, an anti-hero who deserts the army and escapes to Sweden.13. Emerson was the leader of a philosophy known as _.14. _ is regarded as “Americas Second Declaration of Independence / Declaration of Intellectual (Cultural) Independence”.15. In Moby Dick, the ship Pequod is a symbol of _.III Define the following literary terms (choose three terms). Write your answers on your answer sheet. (7 point for each term, 21 points in total) (注意：请任选三题作答，多回答的题不给分！如有多答的题，请在答题纸上用笔划掉，否则改卷时将按照答题的顺序评分。)1. Iambic pentameter: 2. Alliteration:3. Protagonist: 4. Naturalism: IV Read the following two poems carefully and write your answers to the corresponding questions on your answer sheet. (30 points in total)Poem 1He gives his harness bells a shakeTo ask if there is some mistake.The only other sounds the sweepOf easy wind and downy flake.The woods are lovely, dark and deep.But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep. QUESTIONS:1. These lines are taken from Frosts poem entitled_. （5 points）2. In the poem, the rhyming scheme of the first stanza is _ .（5 points）3. Who is He in the first line of the poem? （5 points） Poem 2Surely 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 itReel shadows of the indignant desert birds.The darkness drops again; but now