1、2012年厦门大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案解析(总分：46.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、匹配题(总题数：1，分数：16.00)Match the authors or poets in Column I with the literary trends in Column II.(8 points)1)Modernism2)Imagism3)Romanticism4)Transcendentalism5)Pre-romanticism6)Realism7)Post-modernism8)Neo-classicism（分数：16.00）(1).Henry David Thoreau
2、（分数：2.00）_(2).George Gordon Byron（分数：2.00）_(3).Joseph Conrad（分数：2.00）_(4).Thomas Pynchon（分数：2.00）_(5).Amy Lowell（分数：2.00）_(6).Henry Fielding（分数：2.00）_(7).Henry James（分数：2.00）_(8).Thomas Gray（分数：2.00）_二、名词解释(总题数：6，分数：12.00)1.Allegory（分数：2.00）_2.avant-garde（分数：2.00）_3.ballad（分数：2.00）_4.Black Mountain
3、poets（分数：2.00）_5.Bloomsbury Group（分数：2.00）_6.Eco-criticism（分数：2.00）_三、评论题(总题数：6，分数：12.00)7.Pecola Breedlove(from: The Bluest Eye)（分数：2.00）_8.Frederic Henry(from: A Farewell to Arms)（分数：2.00）_9.Emma Woodhouse(from; Emma)（分数：2.00）_10.Pip(from: Great Expectations)（分数：2.00）_11.Yossarian(from; Catch-22)（
4、分数：2.00）_12.Quentin Compson(from; The Sound and the Fury)（分数：2.00）_四、问答题(总题数：2，分数：4.00)13.The first half of the 18th century is called the Age of Pope. Why?（分数：2.00）_14.Sinclair Lewis is the first American writer who got the Nobel Prize for Literature. Why do you think he deserve the prize?（分数：2.00）
5、_五、分析题(总题数：1，分数：2.00)15.Read the following poem and write a short essay based on the following questions in about 100 words.(8 points)I“m nobody by Emily Dickinson(1830 - 1886)I“m nobody, Who are you?Are you nobody too?Then there“s a pair of us.Don“t tellthey“d banish us, you know.How dreary to be s
6、omebody!How publiclike a frogTo tell your name the livelong JuneTo an admiring bog.What, in your opinion is the theme of this poem?What is the meaning of each stanza?What is your attitude towards fame?（分数：2.00）_2012年厦门大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷答案解析(总分：46.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、匹配题(总题数：1，分数：16.00)Match the authors or
7、 poets in Column I with the literary trends in Column II.(8 points)1)Modernism2)Imagism3)Romanticism4)Transcendentalism5)Pre-romanticism6)Realism7)Post-modernism8)Neo-classicism（分数：16.00）(1).Henry David Thoreau（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Transcendentalism)解析：(2).George Gordon Byron（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Roma
8、nticism)解析：(3).Joseph Conrad（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Modernism)解析：(4).Thomas Pynchon（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：D)Post-modernism)解析：解析：托马斯品钦(1937 一)，美国作家，作品常描写荒诞晦涩的主题，是后现代主义文学的代表人物之一。代表作有V、万有引力之虹(Gravity Rainbow)等。(5).Amy Lowell（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：E)Imagism)解析：解析：艾米洛威尔是意象派诗歌运动的后期领导者，她的贡献在于把意象派诗歌引人美国，并扩大了其影响。她
9、的诗集有男人、女人和幽灵(Men，Women and Ghosts)、浮世图(Pictures of the Floating World)。(6).Henry Fielding（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：F)Neo-classicism)解析：解析：英国新古典主义时期介于 1660年英国斯图亚特王朝复辟与以华兹华斯和柯勒律治 1798年合作出版的抒情歌谣集(Lyrical Ballads)为创始标志的浪漫主义时期之间。该时期的作家在创作时寻求表达与措辞上的协调、统一、和谐与典雅，努力使作品喜闻乐见并富于教义。亨利菲尔丁(1707 一1754)就是这一时期小说领域的代表人物，其作
10、品有大人物乔纳森菲尔德传(The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild，the Great)、汤姆琼斯(The History of Tom Jones，a Foundling)等。(7).Henry James（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：G) Realism)解析：(8).Thomas Gray（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：H)Pre-romanticism)解析：解析：托马斯格雷(1805 一 1869)是 18世纪英国诗人，墓畔挽歌(Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard)是其代表作。墓畔挽歌体现了英
11、国诗歌从新古典主义向浪漫主义的过渡。一方面，该诗歌的语言精雕细琢，符合新古典主义推崇的诗歌用词要求；另一方面，该诗歌表现了对自然以及对人与人之间和谐关系的渴望，这首诗歌标志着英国早期浪漫主义诗歌的开始。二、名词解释(总题数：6，分数：12.00)1.Allegory（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Allegory is a story with a second distinct meaning partially hidden behind its literal meaning. The principal technique of allegory is personifica
12、tion, whereby abstract qualities are given human shape. An allegory may be conceived as a metaphor that is extended into a structured system, as it involves a continuous parallel between two levels of meaning in a story.)解析：2.avant-garde（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Avant-garde was once the French military a
13、nd political term. Since the late 19th century, it extended to artists and writers who were dedicated to the idea of art as experiment and revolt against tradition. Ezra Pound“s view “Artists are the antennae of the race“ , is a distinctly modern one, implying a duty to stay ahead of one“s time thro
14、ugh innovation in forms and subjects.)解析：3.ballad（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Ballad is a folk song or orally transmitted poem telling in a direct and dramatic manner. Some ballad stories usually derived from a tragic incident in local history or legend. These stories are told simply, impersonally, and ofte
15、n with vivid dialogues. Appearing in many parts of Europe in the late Middle Age, ballads flourished particularly strongly in Scotland from the 15th century onward.)解析：4.Black Mountain poets（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：The Black Mountain poets, sometimes called projectivist poets, are a group of the mid-20t
16、h century American avant-garde or postmodern poets centered on Black Mountain College. Turning away from the poetic tradition espoused by T. S. Eliot, these poets emulated the free style of William Carlos Williams. Charles Olson“s essay Projective Verse became their manifesto. Olson emphasized the c
17、reative process, in which the poet“s energy is transferred through the poem to the reader. Inherent in this new poetry was the reliance upon decidedly American conversational language.)解析：5.Bloomsbury Group（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Bloomsbury group is a loose coterie of writers linked by friendship to th
18、e homes of Vanessa Stephen and her sister Virginia in Bloomsbury from 1906 to the late 1930s. It had no doctrine or aim, despite a shared admiration for the moral philosophy of G. E. Moore, but the group had some importance as a centre of modernizing liberal opinion in the 1920s.)解析：6.Eco-criticism（
19、分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Eco-criticism is the study of literature and environment from an interdisciplinary point of view, where all sciences come together to analyze the environment, and brainstorm possible solutions for the correction of the contemporary environmental situation. Eco-criticism borrows m
20、ethodologies and theoretically informs approaches liberally from other fields of literary, social and scientific study.)解析：三、评论题(总题数：6，分数：12.00)7.Pecola Breedlove(from: The Bluest Eye)（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Pecola Breedlove is the protagonist of the novel, an eleven-year-old black girl who considers h
21、erself ugly, while having blue eyes would make her beautiful. Sensitive and delicate, she passively suffers the abuse of her mother, father, and classmates. Pecola is a symbol of the black community“s self-hatred and belief in their own ugliness. At the end of the novel, we are told that Pecola has
22、been a scapegoat for the entire community. She becomes a reminder of human cruelty and an emblem of human suffering.)解析：8.Frederic Henry(from: A Farewell to Arms)（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Frederic Henry is the novel“s narrator and protagonist. Being a young American ambulance driver in the Italian army d
23、uring World War I, Henry meets his military duties with quiet stoicism. He displays courage in battle, but he distances himself from such abstract notions as faith, honor, and patriotism. His life lacks real passion until he meets the beautiful Catherine Barkley, and his narration after Catherine“s
24、death confirms his love and his loss.)解析：9.Emma Woodhouse(from; Emma)（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Emma Woodhouse is the protagonist of the novel. She is pretty, clever and rich. But in some way, Emma is mature for her age, as she is already the head of her father“s household and she cares for her father and
25、 oversees the social goings-on in the village. She always misplaces confidence in her abilities as a matchmaker and her prudish fear of love creates obstacles to her own achievement of true love. Thanks to the help and guides of Mr. Knightley, Emma develops in maturity and self-awareness.)解析：10.Pip(
26、from: Great Expectations)（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Pip is the protagonist and narrator of the novel. He begins the story as a young orphan boy being raised by his sister and brother-in-law in the marsh country of Kent. Pip is passionate, romantic, and somewhat unrealistic at heart, and he tends to expect
27、 more for himself than is reasonable. Pip also has a powerful conscience, and he deeply wants to improve himself, both morally and socially.)解析：11.Yossarian(from; Catch-22)（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Yossarian is the protagonist of the novel. He is a captain in the Air Force and a lead bombardier in his sq
28、uadron, but he hates the war. His powerful desire to live has led him to the conclusion that millions of people are trying to kill him. This insistence on self-preservation creates a conflict for him. Even though he is determined to save his own life at all costs, he nonetheless cares deeply for the
29、 other members of his squadron and is traumatized by their deaths.)解析：12.Quentin Compson(from; The Sound and the Fury)（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Quentin Compson is the oldest one in the Compsons. He feels an inordinate burden of responsibility to live up to the family“s past greatness and prestige. He is
30、a very intelligent and sensitive young man, but is paralyzed by his obsession with Caddy and his preoccupation with a very traditional Southern code of conduct and morality. When he found his own family members have disregarded the Southern code, he was driven to despondency and eventually suicided.
31、)解析：四、问答题(总题数：2，分数：4.00)13.The first half of the 18th century is called the Age of Pope. Why?（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：The first half of the 18th century is the Neo-classical Age or the Age of Pope. It is under the influence of the Enlightenment, the guiding principle of which is ration, natural right an
32、d equality. So the Neo-classicism not only reflects principles and concerns of the literature of ancient Greece and Rome, but also emphasizes the simple form, restrained emotion and balanced, orderly rationality. Pope“s poems fully express the essential features of English Neo-classicism, such as th
33、e control of emotion, worship of reason and adherence to the styles and aesthetic principles of ancient Greek and Roman classical art. His philosophical essays, his keen satiric and moral sensibility and his mastering of the heroic couplet make him outshoot his age and win him the position of one of
34、 the greatest poets and satirists. Above all, Pope and his works best exemplify the Neo-classicism, so the first half of the 18th century is called the Age of Pope.)解析：14.Sinclair Lewis is the first American writer who got the Nobel Prize for Literature. Why do you think he deserve the prize?（分数：2.0
35、0）_正确答案：(正确答案：Lewis is well-known for his masterpiece Main Street, which is a bitter criticism of the dullness, hypocrisy, prejudice and oppression of life in a Middle Western village. Though some critics of America do not think Lewis deserves the honor of Nobel Prize, I believe he deserves the hono
36、r for the following reasons; First, Lewis works very hard to capture characteristic details. The pretensions of a small-town society, the thinness of its culture, the pathos and pettiness of the lives, the scenes, the colors and the appearances and actions of the characters in his novel are portrayed in such a great detail that they produce photographic verisimilitude. Second, he is the master of satire. In this novel, Lewis displays his ability to reveal the ludi
