环球时代文学模拟题

1、环球时代 2013 年文学模拟题Instructions: You are required to answer all the following questions in English.I. Explain the following (15)1. the Glorious Revolution2. the Ku Klux Klan3. Progressive MovementII. Choose the correct answer from teach of the following (15)1. Which of the following is the most famous

2、of all British newspapers?A. The Times.B. The Guardian. C. Daily Telegraph2. Which of the following is a tabloid?A. New Statesman. B. The Sun.C. Sunday Times.3. How many terms was Franklin Roosevelt elected for?A. One.B. Two.C. Three.D. Daily MirrorD. Morning StarD. Four.4. The nuclear family consis

3、ts of the following except.A. grandmother. B. mother. C. father. D. unmarried children.5. The first group of English Puritans to land in America called themselves "Pilgrims" becauseA. it was the name of their churchB. they had been persecuted.,.C. they had wandered for a great distance in

4、search of freedomD. they came from HollandIII. Answer the following question (20)What, according to the author, is the fundamental cause of poverty in affluent America?IV. Complete each of the following statements. (8)1. Amorpheme is one that cannot constitute a word by itself.2. By duality is meant

5、 the property of having two levels of structures, such that units of thelevel are composed of elementsof thelevel and each of the two levels has its own principles of organization.3. According to Chomsky, the object of investigation in lingu istics is the ideal speaker'srather than his performan

6、ce.4. According to G Leech,meaning is the communicative value an expression has by virtue of what it refers to, over andabove its purely conceptual content.5. "X buys something from Y" and "Y sells something to X" are in a relation of.of the languag6. Inlinguistics, languages are

7、 studied at a theoretical point in time: one describes a' state 'whatever changes might be taking place.7. The features that define our human languages can be calledfeatures.V. Tell if each of the following statements is true or false. (8)l. The last sound of "sit" can be articulat

8、ed as an unreleased or released plosive. These different realizations of the same phoneme are in complementary distribution.2. All words contain a root morpheme.3. After comparing "They stopped at the end of the corridor" with "At the end of the corridor, they stopped", you may f

9、ind some difference in meaning, and the difference can be interpreted in terms of collocative meaning.4. "Tulip", "rose" and "violet" are all included in the notion of "flower", therefore they are super ordinates of "flower".5. The words "water&

10、quot; and "teacher" have a common phoneme and a common morpheme as well.6. Paradigmatic relation in syntax is alternatively called horizontal relation.7. Root also falls into two categories: free and bound.8. The theory of meaning which relates the meaning of a word to the thing it refers

11、to, or stands for, is known as the referential theory.VI. Fulfill the following requirements.(22)1. Distinguish between the two possible meanings of more beautiful flowers by means of IC analysis.(4)2. Classify the following pairs of antonyms into the three types such as complementary, gradable, and

12、 converse.(4) Hostguest borrow lend innocentguilty strong weak3. Tell whether each of the underlined part is endocentric or exocentric.(4) a matter of degreethe man who laughed It is going to take placeThe train arrived on time.4. Give the phonetic term for each of the following descriptions. (2)(1)

13、 the sound produced by the lower lip and the upper front teeth(2) the sound produced with a complete closure in the mouth so that the air stream cannot escape through the mouth5. Fill in the blank: (1)=CHILD (x, y) & MALE (x)6. Tell the sense relation between a and b in each pair: (3)(1)a. She g

14、ot a tulip.b. She got a flower.(2)a. You haven t returned the book to me.b. You received a book from me.(3) a. The boy chased the dog.b. The dog was chased by the boy.7. Analyze the following dialogue with reference to Grice's Cooperative Principle: (4)A: I know you are a famous sociologist. Cou

15、ld you define the term "culture", please1?B: Well, culture is culture. That's it.VII. Answer the following questions briefly. (12)1. What is a root used in morphology? (3)2. Define "minimal pairs". (3)3. What is meant by "arbitrariness" according to Saussure? (6)VII

16、I. Complete the following sentences by choosing and mark the best alternative (A, B, C or D) in each bracket (20)() 1. Geoffrey Chaucer, the "father of English poetry", is one of the greatest poets of England.A. LyricalB. narrative C. sonnet D. dramatic() 2. "To be, or not to be: that

17、 is the question: / Whet her ' tis nobler in the mind to suffer/The slings and arrows of outrageousfortune, / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, /And by opposing end them." This excerpt is taken from Shakespeare ' s tragedy .A. Romeo and JulietB. King LearC. Othello, the Moore o

18、f VeniceD. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark() 3. The trumpet of a prophecy "0 Wind,/If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" is from.A. Keat ' s Ode to a NightingaleB. Byron ' s The Isles of GreeceC. Shelly 's Ode to the WestnWd iD. Frost ' s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evenin

19、g() 4. The following works are all of Charles Dickens except.A. Oliver TwistB. David CopperfieldC. Great Expectation D. Martin Eden() 5. The form of John Bunyan' s masterpiece, The Pilgrim' s Progress, isA. allegoryB. epicC. fairytalesD. legend) 6. Jane Erye and the greater WutheringHeight b

20、ybrought to the novel an introspection and an intenseconcentration on the inner life of emotion which before them had been the province of poetry alone.B. George EliotA. Virginia WoolfC. the Bronte sisters) 7. The Victorian poets includeD. Emily Dickinson ( LordAlfredTennyson Robert Browning Matthew

21、 Arnold JohnKeats)A. B. C. D. ) 8. The spokesman for the school of "Art for Art' s Sake" isA. Oscar WildeB. Bernard ShawC. William YeatsD. Thomas Hardy) 9. "Diedrich Knickerbocker" is the pseudonym offor his works which combines European legends with NewA. CooperC. Nathaniel

22、HawthorneD. Philip FrenauEngland reality.B. Washington Irving) 10. Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the greatest American litterateurs whose call for an independent American culture played a crucial part in the American intellectual history.The following works are all his exceptA. NatureB. "The Po

23、et"C. "The American Scholar" D. Walden( ) 11. The term of "the gilded age" comes from' s work with the same name.A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. William FaulknerC. Mark Twain D. James Joyce( ) 12. The following authors are famous American realist novelists exceptA. Henry James B.

24、 Jack LondonC. Mark Twain D. Stephen Crane( ) 13. The novel describes the struggle of a young country girl, half aware of her powers, to protect herself against the cunning wiles of the capitalist society.A. Tess of the D ' Urbervilles B. Pride and PrejudiceC. The Purple Color D. Sister Carrie(

25、) 14. "The Lost generation" refers to the young who experienced the disillusion after WWI. One of its representative writers isA. William Faulkner B. F. S. FitzgeraldC. Langston Hughes D. Vladimir Nabokov( ) 15. Mark Twain ' s claim to greatness in American literature lies in the fact

26、that his works reflect the keynote of localisamtA. the Romantic Age B. the Age of ModernismC. the Age of Realism D. the Jazz Age( ) 16. Although modernism is a vague term in definition, it might contain some characteristics such as ( complexity the use of symbols allusion irony)A.B.C.D.() 17. The ti

27、tle of the following poem "The apparition of these faces in the crowd/ Petals on a wet, black bough.” isA. "The Waste Land"B. "In a Station of the Metro"C. "The Road not Taken"D. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers() 18.is the only Afro-American woman writer who won t

28、he Nobel Prize in literature.A. Toni MorrisonB. Lalita TademyC. Catherine Ann PorterD. Alice Walker() 19. As the leader of the Harlem writers who created the Black Renaissance,was known as the "Poet Laureate ofHarlem".A. Ralph EllisonB. Langston HughesC. Richard WrightD. Alice Walker() 20.

29、 As the first important American playwright with 49 published plays,did a great to establish the modes of themodern theatre in the country.A. BeckettB. Eugene O ' NeilC. RichardsonD. Bernard ShawIX. Explain the following literary phrases and indicate at least one representative writer with one o

30、f his major works respectively. (15)1. Code hero2. Angry Young Man3. The Jazz AgeX. Read the following excerpt and answer the questions. (15)One night I accidentally bumped into a man, and perhaps because of the near darkness he saw me and called me an insulting name. I sprang at him, seized his coa

31、t lapels and demanded that he apologize. He was a tall blond man, and as my face close to his he looked insolently out of his blue eyes and cursed me, his breath hot in my face as he struggled. I pulled his chin down sharp upon the blood gush out, and I yelled, "Apologize! Apologize!" But

32、he continued to curse and struggle, and I butted him again and again until he went down heavily, on his knees, profusely bleeding. I kicked him repeatedly, in a frenzy because he still uttered insults though his lips were frothy with blood. Oh yes, I kicked him! And in my outrage I got out my knife

33、and prepared to slit his throat, right there beneath the lamplight in the deserted street, holding him by the collar with one hand, and opening the knife with my teeth - when it occurred to me that man had not see me, actually; that me, as far as he knew, was in the midst of a walking nightmare! And I stopped the blade, slicing the air as I pu