英美文学与翻译2004答案

1、东南大学学位2004 年攻读492入学试题课程试题名称：英美文学与翻译English and American Literature Part: (90%). Identify the authorship and genre of the following works: (20%)Of Mice and ManMobyShall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day? 4, Desire Under the EThe Importance of Being EarnestHowlPygmalionFinnegans WakeThe White PeacockWhe

2、re Angels Fear to Tread. Name two works by each of the following authors: (I0%)I. CharlesensDoris LessingVirginia WoolfToni MorrisonErnest HemingwayT. S. EliotWilliam WordsworthRobert FrostWilliam FaulknerJane Austen. Choose from the given choithe onet best suits the sement: (1% 15=15%)1.he early st

3、age of the Renaissance,and poetic drama were the most outstandingliterary forms.a. biographyc. essayb. fictiond. poetry2. Miltons mastiece and the greatest Englishc is.a. Paradise Lostc. Samson Agonistesb. Paradise Regainedd. The Faerie Queene3. has been regarded as Father of the English Novel.a. Sw

4、iftc. Sheridanb. Defoed. Milton4. , Byrons mastiece, is a poem basea traditional Spanish legend of agreover and seducer of women.a. Cainc.b. Oriented Talesd. The Prisoner of ChillonJuan5. Which of the following is not a novel by Jane Austen?a. Pride and Prejudiceb. Sense and Sensibilityd. Jane Eyrec

5、. Nornger Abbey6. “She stiffened a little on the kerb, waiting for Durtnalls van to pass. A Charming woman, Scrope Purvis thought her (knowing her as one does know people who live next door to one in Westminster); a touch of the bird about her, of the jay, blue-green, light, vivacious, though she wa

6、s over fifty, and grown very white since her illness. There she perched, never seeing him, waiting to cross, very, upright.”The above paragraph may be taken froma. Sons and Loversc. Ulyssesb. Blissd. Mrs. Dalloway7. Which of the following is not a novel by Mark Twain?a. The Gilded Agec. The Adventur

7、e of Huckb. The Adventure of Tom Sawyerd. The Leaning Towererry Finn8. “The apparition of these fahe crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.”The above two lines a re most probably taken from a poem bya. Ezra Poundc. Sylvia Plathb. Robert Frostd. Walt Whitman9. “Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of t

8、hought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!”The above lines are most probably taken from.a. Ode on a Gren Urnc. Ode to Libertyb. Ode to the West Windd. Ode to Nightingale10. “Thou who didst waken from himmer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay,Lulled by the coil of his crystalline streams”Who do

9、es the poet refer to by saying himmer dreamsheline?a. The poet himselfc. The Mediterraneanb. The west windd. England11. is a typical feature of Swifts writings.a. Bitter satirec. Casual narrationb. Elegant styled. Psycho-ysis12. “My dear, you flatter me. I certainly have had my share of beauty, but

10、Iot pretend tobe anything extraordinary, now. When a woman has five gown-up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.”The above passage is taken froma. Jane Eyrec. Pride and Prejudiceb. Wuthering Heightsd. A Portrait of a Ladys13. Mark Twain was the pseuym of.Samuel Langhome Clem

11、ensWilliam Sydney PorterCutter Belld. Wallatevens14. The name of Robert Browning is often assoted with the term.a. critical realismc. odeb. blversed. dramatic monologue15. has been regarded as the forerunner of the English modem poetry.a. Ezra Poundc. William Butler Yeatsb. T.S. Eliotd. Philip Larki

12、nDefine the following terms: (5% x3- 15%)Metaphysical poetryStream-of-ConsciousnessBlack HumorAnswer the following questions: (5% 12=10%)What is the symbolic meaning of “the west wind” in Percy Bysshe S West Wind”?eys “Ode to the2. In whase is Tess story tragic?VI. Discuss TWO of the following passa

13、ges and support your argument with specific exlesfrom the relevant passage. Your comment on each one should be no less(10% x 2=20%)n 200 words:1. When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book,And slowly read, and dr

14、eam of the soft lookYour eyes hace, and of their shadows deep;How many loved your moments of glad grace,And loved your beauty with love false and true,But one man loved thlgrim soul in you,And loved the sorrows of your changing face;And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, h

15、ow Love fledAnd paced upon the mountains overheadAnd hid his face amid a crowd of stars.2. (Excts from The Decay of Friendship by Dr. Samuel Johnson)Friendship is often destroyed by opition oferest, not only by the ponderous and visibleerest which the desire of wealnd greatness forms and maains, but

16、 by a thousand secretand slight competitions, scarcely known to the mind upon which they operate. There is scarcelyany man without some favorite trifle which he values above greater attaents, some desire ofpetty praise which he cannot patiently suffer to be frustrated. This minute ambition is someti

17、mes crossed .before it is known, and sometimes defeated by wanton petulance; but such attacks are seldom made without the loss of friendship; for whoever has once found the vulnerable part will always be feared, and the resentment will burn on in secret, of which shame hinders the discovery.The most

18、 fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causestoo slender for compla, and too numerous for removal. Those who are angry may be reconciled;those who have been injured may receive apense: but when the desire of pleasing andwillingness to be pleased is silently dim

19、inished, the renovation of friendship is hopeless; as, whenthe vitalers sinko languor, there is not longer any use of the physin.3. (Excepts from Heat of Darkness by Joseph Conrad)We were wanderers on a prehistoric earth, on an eartht wore the aspect of an unknownplanet. We could have fancied oursel

20、ves theof men takingsesof an accursedinheritance, to be subdued all the cost of profound anguish and of exsive toil. But suddenly, aswe struggled round a bend, there would be a glimpse of rush walls, of peaked grass-roofs, a burstof yells, a whirl of black limbs, a mass of hands clap, of feet sting,

21、 of bodies swaying, ofer toiled along slowly oneyes rolling, under the droop of heavy and motionless foliage. Thethe edge of a black andprehensible frenzy. The prehistoric man was cursing us, praying tous,ing us-who couldl? We were cut orom the comprehenof our surroundings;we glided past like phanto

22、ms, wondering and secretly appalled, as sane men would be before anenthusiastic outbreak in a madhouse.Part Two Translation(60)Note: Write your translation on the Answer Sheet.I. Translate the followingo Chi:( 30 )l. An infans to learn the meaning of the information which its senses convey to it, an

23、d thisseems to be its employment. It fancies allt the eye presents to it to be close to it, till it actuallylearns the contrary, and thus by practice does it ascertain the relations and uses of thoseelements of knowledge which are nesary for its animal existence. A parallel teaching isnesary for our

24、 sol beings, and it is secured by a large school or a college, and this effect maybe fairly called in its own department an enlargement of mind . Here then is a real teaching,whatever be its standards and principles, true or false; and ileast tends towards cultivation oftheellect; it at least recogn

25、izest knowledge is something moren a sort of passivereception of scraps and details; it is a something, and it does a something, which never will iefrom the most strenuous efforts of a set of teachers, with no mutual sympathies and no munication, of a set of examiners with no opinions which they dar

26、e profess, and with nocommon principles, who are teaching or questioning a set of youths whoot know them, andot know each other, on a large number of subjects, different in kind, and connected by no widephilosophy, three times aor on a pompousk, or three times a year. or oncehree years, in chill lec

27、ture-rooms. How muore profitable for the independent mind, after themere rudiments of education, to range through a library at random, taking down books as theymeet him, and pursuing tile trains of thought which his mother wit suggests! How much healthierto wandero the fields, and there with the exi

28、led prince to find “tongues m the trees, and bookshe running brooks!”2. Of all the memorials which are offered to a university by the gratitude of her sons, thereare none which serve so closely and fully the pures of her life as those monuments whichcommemorate her dead heroes. The most important pa

29、rt of teaching of a place like Yale is found in the lessons of public spirit and devotion to high ideas which it gives. These things can in some measure be learned in books of poetry and of history. They can in some measure be learned fromdaily life of the college and the sentiments which it inculca

30、tes. But they are most solemnly andvividly brought home by visible signs, such as this gateway furnishes,t the spirit of ancientheroism is not dead, andt its highest lessons are not lost.II. Translate the followingo English:(30)1.平则门外，有一道护城河。河道虽比不上朝阳门外的运河那么宽，但春秋，绿水粼粼，也尽够浮着锦帆，乘风南下。垂杨古道，倒影入河水中间，也大有板诸的

31、风味。河边隙地，长成一片绿芜，晚来时候，老有闲人在那里调鹰放马。将落末落之际，站在这城河中间的渡船上，之，看得出两直门的城楼，似烟似雾的，融化成金碧的颜色，飘扬在垂杨夹着的河水高头。春秋佳节，的时候，你若一个人上城河边上来走走。她像是在看后期印象派的风景面，几乎能使你忘记是身在红尘十丈的城外。数不尽的，又如笑如眠，带着的暮色，静躺在绿荫起伏的春野西拉，你若叫它一声，好象是这些远山，都能慢慢地走上你身边来的样子。2.他板着脸进了家门，走道客厅脱了鞋，换拖鞋，接着挨个解衬衣扣子，一声不吭，横眼瞧着摊手摊脚地坐在沙发上的老头子，然后猛地脱下衬衣，穿着小背心去卫生间，拧开水龙头，哗哗地洗，片刻，拿着大

32、毛巾回到客厅用力地擦，继续用眼瞧着老头子。东南大学学位2004 年攻读课程492入学试题试题名称：英美文学与翻译English and American Literature Part: (90%). Identify the authorship and genre of the following works: (20%)Of Mice and ManMobyShall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day? 4, Desire Under the E5. The Importance of Being EarnestHowlPygmalionFinnegans

33、WakeThe White PeacockWhere Angels Fear to Tread：未完参考John SteinbeckHerman MelvilleWilliam ShakespeareEugene ONeilOscar WildeAllen GinsbergBernard ShawJames JoyceDH Lawrence 10 E. M. Forstertrivial comedyc poem. Name two works by each of the following authors: (I0%)I. CharlesensDoris LessingVirginia W

34、oolfToni MorrisonErnest HemingwayT. S. EliotWilliam WordsworthRobert FrostWilliam FaulknerJane Austen参考：1 “Oliver Twist” “David Copperfield”2 “Time Bites” “The Stest Dream”3 “The Voyage Out” “Three Guineas” 4 “The bluest eye” “Jazz”5 “For Whom The Bell Tolls” “The Sun Also Rises” 6 The Love Song of

35、J. Alfred Prufrock “The Was7 “To a Skylark” “, Lyrical Ballads”and”8 After Applcking Home Burial“The Sound and The Fury” “Absalom, Absalom!”“Pride And Prejudice” “Sense And Sensibility”. Choose from the given choithe onet best suits the sement: (1% 15=15%)1.he early stage of the Renaissance,and poet

36、ic drama were the most outstandingliterary forms.a. biographyc. essayb. fictiond. poetry2. Miltons mastiece and the greatest Englishc is.a. Paradise Lostc. Samson Agonistesb. Paradise Regainedd. The Faerie Queene3. has been regarded as Father of the English Novel.a. Swiftc. Sheridanb. Defoed. Milton

37、4. , Byrons mastiece, is a poem basea traditional Spanish legend of agreover and seducer of women.a. Cainc.b. Oriented Talesd. The Prisoner of Chill onJuan5. Which of the following is not a novel by Jane Austen?a. Pride and Prejudiceb. Sense and Sensibilityd. Jane Eyrec. Nornger Abbey6. “She stiffen

38、ed a little on the kerb, waiting for Durtnalls van to pass. A Charming woman, Scrope Purvis thought her (knowing her as one does know people who live next door to one in Westminster); a touch of the bird about her, of the jay, blue-green, light, vivacious, though she was over fifty, and grown very w

39、hite since her illness. There she perched, never seeing him, waiting to cross, very, upright.”The above paragraph may be taken froma. Sons and Loversc. Ulyssesb. Blissd. Mrs. Dalloway7. Which of the following is not a novel by Mark Twain?a. The Gilded Agec. The Adventure of Huckb. The Adventure of T

40、om Sawyerd. The Leaning Towererry Finn8. “The apparition of these fahe crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.”The above two lines are most probably taken from a poem bya. Ezra Poundc. Sylvia Plathb. Robert Frostd. Walt Whitman9. “Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold P

41、astoral!”The above lines are most probably taken from.a. Ode on a Gren Urnc. Ode to Libertyb. Ode to the West Windd. Ode to Nightingale10. “Thou who didst waken from himmer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay,Lulled by the coil of his crystalline streams”Who does the poet refer to by saying

42、himmer dreamsheline?a. The poet himselfc. The Mediterraneanb. The west windd. England11. is a typical feature of Swifts writings.a. Bitter satirec. Casual narrationb. Elegant styled. Psycho-ysis12. “My dear, you flatter me. I certainly have had my share of beauty, but Iot pretend tobe anything extra

43、ordinary, now. When a woman has five gown-up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.”The above passage is taken froma. Jane Eyrec. Pride and Prejudiceb. Wuthering Heightsd. A Portrait of a Ladys13. Mark Twain was the pseuym of.Samuel Langhome ClemensWilliam Sydney PorterCutter

44、Belld. Wallatevens14. The name of Robert Browning is often assoted with the term.a. critical realismc. odeb. blversed. dramatic monologue15. has been regarded as the forerunner of the English modem poetry.a. Ezra Poundc. William Butler Yeats：b. T.S. Eliotd. Philip Larkin参考1 b 2 a 3 b 4 c 5 c 6 d 7 d

45、 8 a 9 a 10 b 11 a 12 c 13 a 14 d 15 aDefine the following terms: (5% x3- 15%)Metaphysical poetryStream-of-ConsciousnessBlack HumorAnswer the following questions: (5% 12=10%)What is the symbolic meaning of “the west wind” in Percy Bysshe S West Wind”?eys “Ode to the2. In whase is Tess story tragic?V

46、I. Discuss TWO of the following passages and support your argument with specific exlesfrom the relevant passage. Your comment on each one should be no less(10% x 2=20%)n 200 words:1. When You Are Old by William Butler YeatsWhen you are old and grey and full of sleep,And nodding by the fire, take dow

47、n this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft lookYour eyes hace, and of their shadows deep;How many loved your moments of glad grace,And loved your beauty with love false and true,But one man loved thlgrim soul in you,And loved the sorrows of your changing face;And bending down beside the glo

48、wing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fledAnd paced upon the mountains overheadAnd hid his face amid a crowd of stars.2. (Excts from The Decay of Friendship by Dr. Samuel Johnson)Friendship is often destroyed by opition oferest, not only by the ponderous and visibleerest which the desire of we

49、alnd greatness forms and maains, but by a thousand secretand slight competitions, scarcely known to the mind upon which they operate. There is scarcelyany man without some favorite trifle which he values above greater attaents, some desire ofpetty praise which he cannot patiently suffer to be frustr

50、ated. This minute ambition is sometimes crossed .before it is known, and sometimes defeated by wanton petulance; but such attacks are seldom made without the loss of friendship; for whoever has once found the vulnerable part will always be feared, and the resentment will burn on in secret, of which

51、shame hinders the discovery.The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causestoo slender for compla, and too numerous for removal. Those who are angry may be reconciled;those who have been injured may receive apense: but when the desire of pleasing andwilli

52、ngness to be pleased is silently diminished, the renovation of friendship is hopeless; as, whenthe vitalers sinko languor, there is not longer any use of the physin.3. (Excepts from Heat of Darkness by Joseph Conrad)We were wanderers on a prehistoric earth, on an eartht wore the aspect of an unknown

53、planet. We could have fancied ourselves theof men takingsesof an accursedinheritance, to be subdued all the cost of profound anguish and of exsive toil. But suddenly, aswe struggled round a bend, there would be a glimpse of rush walls, of peaked grass-roofs, a burstof yells, a whirl of black limbs,

54、a mass of hands clap, of feet sting, of bodies swaying, ofer toiled along slowly oneyes rolling, under the droop of heavy and motionless foliage. Thethe edge of a black andprehensible frenzy. The prehistoric man was cursing us, praying tous,ing us-who couldl? We were cut orom the comprehenof our sur

55、roundings;we glided past like phantoms, wondering and secretly appalled, as sane men would be before anenthusiastic outbreak in a madhouse.Part Two Translation(60)Note: Write your translation on the Answer Sheet.I. Translate the followingo Chi:( 30 )l. An infans to learn the meaning of the informati

56、on which its senses convey to it, and thisseems to be its employment. It fancies allt the eye presents to it to be close to it, till it actuallylearns the contrary, and thus by practice does it ascertain the relations and uses of thoseelements of knowledge which are nesary for its animal existence.

57、A parallel teaching isnesary for our sol beings, and it is secured by a large school or a college, and this effect maybe fairly called in its own department an enlargement of mind . Here then is a real teaching,whatever be its standards and principles, true or false; and ileast tends towards cultiva

58、tion oftheellect; it at least recognizest knowledge is something moren a sort of passivereception of scraps and details; it is a something, and it does a something, which never will ie from the most strenuous efforts of a set of teachers, with no mutual sympathies and nomunication, of a set of exami

59、ners with no opinions which they dare profess, and with nocommon principles, who are teaching or questioning a set of youths whoot know them, andot know each other, on a large number of subjects, different in kind, and connected by no widephilosophy, three times aor on a pompousk, or three times a y

60、ear. or oncehree years, in chill lecture-rooms. How muore profitable for the independent mind, after themere rudiments of education, to range through a library at random, taking down books as theymeet him, and pursuing tile trains of thought which his mother wit suggests! How much healthierto wander