1、2007年南京大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案解析(总分：74.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、填空题(总题数：15，分数：30.00)1.Author 1Title 2 April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull rots with spring rain.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_2.Author 1Title 2 Next day was cloudless, and they decided to finis
2、h the work in the basement. They felt excluded, shut in the grey cement basement fitting pipes, from the holiday atmosphere of London in a heat wave. At lunchtime they came up for some air, but while the married couples, and the men in shirtsleeves or vests, were thee, she was not there, either on h
3、er usual patch of roof or where she had been yesterday.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_3.Author 1Title 2 Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_4.Author 1Title 2 For having lived in Westminsterhow many years now? over twentyone feels even in the midst of
4、the traffic, or waking at night, Clarissa was positive, a particular husk, or solemnity; an indescribable pause; a suspense (but that might be her heart, affected, they said, by influenza) before Big Ben strikes. There! Out it boomed. First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden
5、circles dissolved in the air. Such fools we are, she thought, crossing Victoria Street.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_5.Author 1 Title 2 My feet are locked upon the rough bark. It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather; Now I hold Creation in my foot（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_6.Author 1Title 2 At othe
6、r times, the like battles have been fought between the Yahoos of several neighborhoods, without any visible cause: those of one district watching all opportunities to surprise the next, before they are prepared. But if they find their project has miscarried they return home, and, for want of enemies
7、, engage in what I call a civil war among themselves.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_7.Author 1Title 2 To die to sleep. To sleep perchance to dream: ay, there“s the rub! For in that sleep of death what dreams may come. When we have shuffled off this mortal coil. Must give us pause.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_8.Author 1Title 2
8、“He is not my husband, not ever will be. He does not love me: I do not love him. He loves (as he can love, and that is not as you love) a beautiful young lady called Rosamond. He wanted to marry me only because he thought I should make a suitable missionary“s wife, which she would not have done. He
9、is good and great, but severe; and, for me cold as an iceberg. He is not like you sir: I am not happy at his side, nor near him, nor with him. He has no indulgence for me no fondness, He sees nothing attractive in me: not even youthonly a few useful mental points. Then I must leave you, sir, to go t
10、o him?“（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_9.Author 1Title 2 The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls: He watches from his mountain wall, And like a thunderbolt he falls.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_10.Author 1Title 2 The city of Wintoncesterthe fine old city, aforetime capital of Wessexlay amidst its convex and concave down lands in al
11、l the brightness and warmth of a July morning. The gabled brick, tile, and freestone houses had almost dried off for the season their integument of lichen, the streams in the meadows were low, and in the sloping Highstreet, from the West Gateway to the mediaeval cross, and from the mediaeval cross t
12、o the bridge, that leisurely dusting and sweeping was in progress which usually ushers in an old-fashioned market-day.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_11.Author 1Title 2 I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth I knew not where; For who has the sight so keen and strong That can follow the flight of a song.（分
13、数：2.00）填空项 1:_12.Author 1Title 2 Well, and what if she was? She still had ears. It was like Cornelia to whisper around doors. She always kept things secret in such a public way. She was always being tactful and kind. Cornelia was dutiful; that was the trouble wit her. Dutiful and good: “So good and
14、dutiful.“ Said Granny, “that I“d like to spank her.“（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_13.Author 1Title 2 The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_14.Author 1Title 2 It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere
15、I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only could answer.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_15.Author 1Title 2 He dis
16、liked bars and bodegas. A clean, well-lighted cafe was a very different thing. Now, without thinking further, he would go home to his room. He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.（分数：2.0
17、0）填空项 1:_二、名词解释(总题数：10，分数：20.00)16.The Marble Faun（分数：2.00）_17.English Traits（分数：2.00）_18.The Purloined Letter（分数：2.00）_19.Herzog（分数：2.00）_20.After the Fall（分数：2.00）_21.The Confidence Man（分数：2.00）_22.Something Happened（分数：2.00）_23.This Side of Paradise（分数：2.00）_24.Cathay（分数：2.00）_25.Pater son（分数：2.0
18、0）_三、问答题(总题数：9，分数：18.00)26.In what way is the West Wind both a destroyed and a preserver in Shelly“s Ode to the West Wind?（分数：2.00）_27.Who kills Paul in The Rocking-Horse Winner?（分数：2.00）_28.What does the title of The Road from Colonus by E. M. Forster suggest?（分数：2.00）_29.How to understand Ralph W.
19、 Emerson“s statement “What I must to is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous I actual and in intellectual life, may serve of for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness,“ in terms of American characteristics?（分数：2.00）_30.Why is Gatsby, the protagon
20、ist in F. Scott Fitzgerald“s novel The Great Gatsby, called “the great“?（分数：2.00）_31.Take the poem A Supermarket in California as an example to relate some artistic similarities between. W. Whitman and A. Ginsberg.（分数：2.00）_32.Compare the attitudes toward women of two male characters from any texts
21、in Selected Readings in British Literature or Selected Readings in American Literature: Sufficient textual information is required to illustrate your viewpoints.（分数：2.00）_33.Compare and contrast the way the main character(s) in the work of THREE of the following authors was able or unable to accept
22、death: Walt Whitman, Sherwood Anderson, William Faulkner, Robert Frost and Eugene O“Neill. Sufficient textual information is required to illustrate your viewpoints.（分数：2.00）_34.Hemingway“s war novel ends with a scene in a maternity hospital. How does this final topic, the death of a woman and a chil
23、d in childbirth, force us to enlarge or reconsider what we took to be the central subject of the novel? In what sense is the novel a war novel? What is its subject if it is not war, battle, engagement with the enemy, strategy, etc.? Sufficient textual information is required to illustrate your viewp
24、oints.（分数：2.00）_四、论述题(总题数：2，分数：4.00)35.In the opening sentences of Wharton“s The House of Mirth we find the following: “.“ what was Miss Bart doing in town at that season? If she had appeared to be catching a train, he might have inferred that he had come on her in the act of transition between one
25、and another of the country houses which disputed her presence after the close of the Newport season, but her desultory air perplexed him. She stood apart from the crowd, letting it drift by her to the platform or the street, and wearing an air of irresolution which might, as she surmised, be the mas
26、k of a very definite purpose. An impulse of curiosity made him turn out of his direct line to the door, and stroll past her. He knew that if she did not wish to be seen she would contrive to elude him; and it amused him to think of putting her skill to the test. What do we know about the kind of soc
27、iety Wharton will be describing from these sentences and opening moments of action?（分数：2.00）_36.“She had been a big woman once but now her skeleton rose, draped loosely in unpadded skin that tightened again a paunch almost dropsically, as though muscle and tissue had been courage or fortitude which
28、the days or the ears had consumed until only the indomitable skeleton was left rising like a ruin or a landmark above the somnolent and impervious guts, and above that the collapsed face that gave he impression of the bones themselves being outside the flesh, lifted into the driving day with an expr
29、ession at once fatalistic and of a child“s astonished disappointment, until she turned and entered the house again and closed the door.“ Faulkner“s description of Dilsey. List the features of Faulkner“s style present in this description.（分数：2.00）_五、评论题(总题数：1，分数：2.00)37.Make comments on the following
30、 passage. Use at least one major novel to support your argument.For most of its history the British novel has been primarily a domestic melodrama about money and sex, and the modern novel is no exception. Nineteenth-century realism especially is an encyclopedia of entries on English class and gender
31、 anxieties, and on the links between them. There is of course, another tradition of adventure and travel, rooted in the maritime imperialism of the British Isles. This tradition is also well represented by the modern novel, which often followed earlier travel adventure narratives in providing a crit
32、ical commentary on life at home.Vincent P. Pecora（分数：2.00）_2007年南京大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷答案解析(总分：74.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、填空题(总题数：15，分数：30.00)1.Author 1Title 2 April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull rots with spring rain.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确
33、答案：TSEliot，The Waste Land）解析：2.Author 1Title 2 Next day was cloudless, and they decided to finish the work in the basement. They felt excluded, shut in the grey cement basement fitting pipes, from the holiday atmosphere of London in a heat wave. At lunchtime they came up for some air, but while the
34、married couples, and the men in shirtsleeves or vests, were thee, she was not there, either on her usual patch of roof or where she had been yesterday.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Doris Lessing，A Woman on a Roof）解析：3.Author 1Title 2 Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy And his dark secret love Does t
35、hy life destroy.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：William Blake，The Sick Rose）解析：4.Author 1Title 2 For having lived in Westminsterhow many years now? over twentyone feels even in the midst of the traffic, or waking at night, Clarissa was positive, a particular husk, or solemnity; an indescribable pause; a
36、 suspense (but that might be her heart, affected, they said, by influenza) before Big Ben strikes. There! Out it boomed. First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air. Such fools we are, she thought, crossing Victoria Street.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案
37、：Virginia Woolf，MrsDalloway）解析：解析：黛洛维夫人(MrsDalloway)是弗吉尼亚伍尔芙于 1925年发表的意识流小说，描述了女主人公卡拉丽莎(Clarissa)一天的生活，作者尤为详尽地描述了主人公在黛洛维夫人家中晚会的一言一行。文章节选片段中出现的人名和地名正是解题的关键所在。5.Author 1 Title 2 My feet are locked upon the rough bark. It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather; Now I hold Creati
38、on in my foot（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Ted Hughes，Hawk Roosting）解析：解析：栖息之鹰以第一人称的口吻写成，这是其他作品都少有的。6.Author 1Title 2 At other times, the like battles have been fought between the Yahoos of several neighborhoods, without any visible cause: those of one district watching all opportunities to surprise t
39、he next, before they are prepared. But if they find their project has miscarried they return home, and, for want of enemies, engage in what I call a civil war among themselves.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Jonathan Swift，Gulliver“s Travels）解析：解析：从 Yahoos一词中可以判断出来答案。7.Author 1Title 2 To die to sleep. T
40、o sleep perchance to dream: ay, there“s the rub! For in that sleep of death what dreams may come. When we have shuffled off this mortal coil. Must give us pause.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：William Shakespeare，Hamlet）解析：解析：这里考查了哈姆雷特中的名段，要求考生对一些比较著名的经典文章要有所记忆。8.Author 1Title 2 “He is not my husband, n
41、ot ever will be. He does not love me: I do not love him. He loves (as he can love, and that is not as you love) a beautiful young lady called Rosamond. He wanted to marry me only because he thought I should make a suitable missionary“s wife, which she would not have done. He is good and great, but s
42、evere; and, for me cold as an iceberg. He is not like you sir: I am not happy at his side, nor near him, nor with him. He has no indulgence for me no fondness, He sees nothing attractive in me: not even youthonly a few useful mental points. Then I must leave you, sir, to go to him?“（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Charlotte Bronte，J
