2014年温州大学研究生考试821英语文学及文化试题A

2014年温州大学研究生考试821英语文学及文化试题A 2014年硕士研究生招生入学考试试题(A) 科目代码及名称: 821 英语文学及文化 适用专业:英语语言文学 (请考生在答题纸上答题，在此试题纸上答题无效) 第一部分 英语文学(共80分) I. Identify the following works and quotations with their authors, write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (10分) 1. The Fairy Queen 2. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 3. “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment, and disposition of business.” 4. Prometheus Unbound 5. “But O, as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.” 6. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 7. Jude the Obscure 8. The Waste Land 9. Life on Mississippi 10. The Sun Also Rises II. Explain FOUR of the following literary terms in about 50 wards for each. (20分) Poet laureate American Romanticism Art for art’s sake Dramatic monologue Stream of consciousness Psychoanalysis Poststructuralism III. Choose TWO from the following topics and then do according to the requirement in about 100 words for each.(20分) 1. What are the different aspects between the literature of Elizabethan period and the literature of the Revolution period? 2. What is the strength and weakness of English critical realism? 3. The Scarlet letter is notable for its allegory and symbolism, and it has been considered the first American symbolic novel. Try to discuss the function of allegory and symbolism by taking examples from the novel. 4. Why do we say Philip Freneau heralded American literary independence? 5. Choose one of the following authors and make a comment on any one of his/her literary works: Alice Munro, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Faulkner. 第 1 页～共5 页 IV. Comment on TWO of the following selected texts in about 100 words for each.(20分) 1. It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great town or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin doors, crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags and importuning every passenger for an alms. These mothers, instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in strolling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants: who as they grow up either turn thieves for want of work, or leave their dear native country to fight for the Pretender in Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbadoes. I think it is agreed by all parties that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom a very great additional grievance; and, therefore, whoever could find out a fair, cheap, and easy method of making these children sound, useful members of the commonwealth, would deserve so well of the public as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. 2. I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. 3. THERE was music from my neighbor's 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 stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before. V. Choose ONE poem from the list below, and make a comment on the theme of it in about 100 words (Use at least three of the following elements develop and reinforce your analysis: diction, tone, image, figure of speech, symbols, irony, syntax, rhythm and meter, rhyme). (10分) 1(' Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path 第 2 页～共5 页 Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self! Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music:—do I wake or sleep? 2"O 'Melia, my dear, this does everything crown! Who could have supposed I should meet you in Town? And whence such fair garments, such prosperity?" -- "O didn't you know I'd been ruined?" said she. "You left us in tatters, without shoes or socks, Tired of digging potatoes, and spudding up docks; And now you've gay bracelets and bright feathers three!" -- "Yes: that's how we dress when we're ruined," said she. "At home in the barton you said `thee' and `thou,' And `thik oon,' and `theäs oon,' and `t'other'; but now Your talking quite fits 'ee for high compa-ny!" -- "Some polish is gained with one's ruin," said she. "Your hands were like paws then, your face blue and bleak But now I'm bewitched by your delicate cheek, And your little gloves fit as on any la-dy!" -- "We never do work when we're ruined," said she. "You used to call home-life a hag-ridden dream, And you'd sigh, and you'd sock; but at present you seem To know not of megrims or melancho-ly!" -- "True. One's pretty lively when ruined," said she. "I wish I had feathers, a fine sweeping gown, And a delicate face, and could strut about Town!" -- "My dear -- a raw country girl, such as you be, Cannot quite expect that. You ain't ruined," said she. 第 3 页～共5 页 第二部分 英语国家文化(共70分) I. Fill in the blanks in the following ten statements with proper words or expressions. (15 分) 1. In terms of party politics, America is characterized by bipartisanism. At present, the two major parties are the Republican Party and the ________ Party. 2. The President of the United States is elected every _____ years in a general election. 3. _____ is a national health insurance program in the United States for persons aged 65 and over. 4. As a division of the US Department of Justice, FBI is the abbreviation of Federal Bureau of _______, which is charged with probing into all violations of federal laws except those assigned to other federal agencies. 5. In the United States, _____ schools are free and open to all at the elementary and secondary levels, but some children choose to attend private schools. 6. George ________ was the first president of the United States. 7. The incumbent president of the U.S. is Barack ______, who is regarded as the first African American president in the history. 8. In terms of political system, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland today is a constitutional _____ and a parliamentary democracy. 9. The United States is located between two large oceans: the Atlantic Ocean in the east and the ____ Ocean in the west. 10. The two most famous universities in Britain are known as “Oxbridge”, which refers to Oxford and ______. II. Choose the best one from the four possible answers provided for each statement. (15分) 1. Who were the ancestors of the English people and the founders of England? A. the Romans B. the Normans C. the Vikings D. the Anglo-Saxons 2. Which of the following has the power to make federal laws and levy federal taxes in the U.S.? A. The executive B. The legislative C. The judicial D. The president 3. Who wrote the famous pamphlet The Common Sense before the American Revolution? A. Thomas Jefferson B. Thomas Paine C. John Adams D. Benjamin Franklin 4. Which of the following is NOT one of the major religions in America? A. Protestantism B. Catholicism C. Judaism D. Islam 5. The New Deal was started by ________. A. Franklin D. Roosevelt B. J. F. Kennedy C. George Washington D. Thomas Jefferson 6. The Constitution of the United States was framed in Philadelphia in _________. A. 1776 B. 1783 C. 1787 D. 1620 7. Of the two parts of UK, Great Britain is composed of the following three EXCEPT ______. A. England B. Northern Ireland C. Scotland D. Wales 8. Who wrote "the Declaration of Independence" and later became the third U.S. President? A. Thomas Jefferson B. Benjamin Franklin C. Thomas Paine D. John Adams 第 4 页～共5 页 9. In the U.S., two-year community colleges grant ________ to students after two years of study. A. master’s degrees B. doctor’s degrees C. bachelor’s degrees D. associate degrees 10. The president who liberated African Americans from slavery during the American Civil War was______. A. Andrew Jackson B. Abraham Lincoln C. Thomas Jefferson D. George Washington III. Explain the following terms. (15分) 1. Laissez faire 2. Affirmative action program 3. Federalism IV. Answer the following questions briefly. (10分) 1. What are the major ideas in the Declaration of Independence? 2. Describe the structure of the U.S. federal court system and their respective functions. V. Make a comment on ONE of the following topics. Your comment should be no fewer than 150 words. (15分) 1. American higher education 2. Checks and balances 第 5页～共5 页