综合考试(英美文学、语言学、英美概况、翻译)2004(含答案)

北京第二外国语学院

2004

年硕士研究生入学考试

考试科目：综合考试

(

英美文学

)

满分：

40

分

考试说明：请将答案直接写在试卷上

Ⅰ

. Fill in the blanks with proper information (10 points):

Renaissance

period

in

which

Shakespeare

wrote

his

poems

and

plays

is

generally

known as ________________________ in the history of England.

novel of Walter Scott that deals with a stage of English history, covering the days after

the Norman Conquest, is ________________________.

Milton

’s

________________________

is

a

poetical

drama

modeled

on

the

Greek

tragedy, which takes its story from the Old Testament of the Bible.

rising

of

the

naturalistic

novel

was

influenced

mainly

by

Taine

’s

application

of

deterministic

theories

to

literature,

Comte

’s

application of

scientific

ideas

to

the

study

of

society, and ________________________.

5.A line of verse that ends on a stressed syllable, as any regular iambic line does, is called

________________________ ending.

publication of the Lyrical Ballads in the year of ________________________ marked

the beginning of the Romantic period of English literature.

first major, self- conscious literary movement of American black writers after the First

World War is known as ________________________.

ff is a comic character that first appeared in ________________________.

James sought perfection in his style and technique. He made various experiments in

novel writing. In addition to an abundant production of fiction, he wrote a theoretical book

on fiction, which is named________________________.

m

Faulkner

’s

novel

The

Sound

and

The

Fury

employs

the

technique

of

________________________ and introduces us to the Compson family through the mind

of the idiot Benjy.

Ⅱ

.Read the following excerpts and identify the author (full name) and work respectively (10

points)

roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both.

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Author: ________________________

Work: ________________________

grass-plot before the jail, in Prison Lane, on a certain summer morning, not less than

two centuries ago, was occupied by a pretty large number of the inhabitants of Boston; all

with

their

eyes

intensely

fastened

on

the

iron-clamped

oaken

door.

Among

any

other

population,

or

at

a

later

period

in

the

history

of

New

England,

the

grim

rigidity

that

petrified the bearded physiognomies of these good people would have augured some awful

business in hand.

Author:________________________

Work: ________________________

consciousness does make cowards of us all;

And thus the native hue of resolution

Is sicklied o’

er with the pale cast of thought,

And enterprises of great pitch and moment

With this regard their currents turn awry.

And lose the name of action.

Author: ________________________

Work: ________________________

is the cruelest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain.

Winter kept us warm, covering

Earth in forgetful snow, feeding

A little life with dried tubers.

Summer surprised us ....

Author: ________________________ Work: ________________________

5.

“What is it, Angel?” she said starting up.

“Have they come for me?”

“Yes, dearest,” he said. “They have come.”

“It is as it should be!”

she murmured. “Angel

－

I am almost glad

－

yes, glad ! This

happiness could not have lasted--it was too much--I have had enough; and now I shall

not live for you to despise me.”

She stood up, shook herself, and went forward, neither of the men having moved. “I

am ready,”

she said quietly.

Author: ________________________ Work: ________________________

III. Analyze the following poem by William Wordsworth and elucidate how it illustrates

Romanticism in poetic creation (20 points):

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

I wondered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of daffodils;

Beside the lakes, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they

Outdid the sparkling waves in glee;

A poet could not but be gay.

In such a jocund company;

I gazed

－

and gazed

－

but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:

For off, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

北京第二外国语学院

2004

年硕士研究生入学考试评分标准、

参考答案

考试科目：综合考试

(

英美文学

)

满分：

40

分

Ⅰ

. Fill in the blanks with proper information (10 points):

Elizabeth Age

e

Agonistes

’

s biological theories

ine

6.1798

Renaissance

IV by Shakespeare

Art of fiction

stream of consciousness

Ⅱ

.Read the following excerpts and identify the author (full name) and work respectively

(10 points):

: Robert Frost

Work: The Road Not Taken

: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Work: The Scarlet Letter

: William Shakespeare

Work: Hamlet

:

Work: The Waste land

: Thomas Hardy

Work: Tess of the D

’

llrberville

Ⅲ

.

The speaker says that, wandering like a cloud floating above hills and valleys, he encountered

a

field

of

daffodils

beside

a

lake.

The

dancing,

fluttering

flowers

stretched

endlessly

along

the

shore, and though the waves of the lake danced beside the flowers, the daffodils outdid the water

in

glee.

The

speaker

says

that

a

poet

could not

help

but

be

happy

in

such

a

joyful

company

of

flowers. He says that he stared and stared, but did not realize what wealth the scene would bring

him. For now, whenever he feels

/ That is the bliss of solitude,

The four six-line stanzas of this poem follow a quatrain-couplet rhyme scheme: ababcc. Each

line is metered in iambic tetrameter.

This simple poem, one of the loveliest and most famous in the Wordsworth canon, revisits

the familiar Romanticism

’

s subjects of nature and memory, this time with a particularly (simple)

spare,

musical

eloquence.

The

plot

is

extremely

simple,

depicting

the

poet's

wandering

and

his

discovery of a field of daffodils by a lake, the memory of which pleases him and comforts him

when

he

is

lonely,

bored,

or

restless.

The

characterization

of

the

sudden

occurrence

of

a

memory--the

daffodils

upon

the

inward

eye

/

Which

is

the

bliss

of

solitude

psychologically acute, but the poem's main brilliance lies in the reverse personification of its early

stanzas. The speaker is metaphorically compared to a natural object, a cloud--

as a cloud / That floats on high...

dancing and

between

man

and

nature,

making

it

one

of

Wordsworth's

most

basic

and

effective

methods

for

instilling in the reader the feeling the poet so often describes himself as experiencing.

The poem reflects the principles of the Romanticism

’

s poetic creation. Firstly, Romanticism

insists that good poetry is

“

the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.

”

This kind of powerful

feeling does not mean an emotional outburst contrived on the spur of the moment, but

“

emotion

recollected in tranquility, feelings experienced in the past and contemplated later by the poet until

those feelings were imaginatively recalled. The poet wrote the poem two years after he saw the

daffodils. Secondly, the object which excites these emotions are to be ordinary ones. In this poem,

it is the daffodil. Thirdly, the style selected for the poetry is simple. So is this poem.

北京第二外国语学院

2004

年硕士研究生入学考试试卷

考试科目：英语综合试卷（语言学部分）满分：

30

考试说明：请将答案直接写在试卷上

I. Complete each of the following statements.(5)

ant

articulations

are

relatively

easy

to

feel.

and

as

a

result

are

most

conveniently

described in terms of

and manner of articulation.

2.

transcription should transcribe all the possible speech sounds, including the

minute shades.

sound [b] can be described with

“

_____________,

bilabial, stop”.

branch of grammar which studies the internal structure of words is called _____________.

approach

in

linguistic

study

which

attempts

to

lay

down

rules

of

correctness

as

to

how

language should be used is_____________.

II. Choose A, B or C for each blank.(5)

1. When the word “root” means “p

art of plant that keeps it firmly in the soil and absorbs water and

food from the soil”, the meaning is

_____________ meaning.

A. connotative

B. conceptual

C. reflected

2.

Of

the

three

cavities.

_____________

is

the

most

variable

and

active

in

amplifying

and

modifying speech sounds.

A. nasal cavity

B. pharynx cavity

C. oral cavity

3. _____________ refers to the relation holding between elements replaceable with each other at

particular place in structure, or between one element present and the others absent.

A. Syntagmatic relation

B. Paradigmatic relation C. Co- occurrence relation

4. All syllables contain a____________.