1、2012 年北京第二外国语学院英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案与解析一、单项选择题1 In Benjamin Franklins The Autobiography, 13 virtues are enlisted for seek of self-discipline, which show representatively _.（A）the American value（B） spirit of democracy（C） ideal of equality（D）the great awakening2 Different from other writers of_, Edgar All
2、an Poes works show reminiscence of a genteel tradition.（A）the colonial time（B） American Romanticism（C） American Realism（D）American Naturalism3 The spirit of the Romantic Age of American literature is _.（A）retrospect of American pastoral life（B） understanding and sympathy to the poor（C） affirmation o
3、f American identity（D）criticism of industrialization and urbanization4 Which of the following is NOT true about Emily Dickinson?（A）One of the major themes of her poetry is death.（B） Her use of dash and capitalized letters in poems influences modern poetry deeply.（C） She is a radical fighter against
4、patriarchal society.（D）Although there is a frequent use of first person narration in her poem, the “I“ has a diversified connotation except a reference to the author.5 Edgar Allan Poe is not only a poet, but also the founding father of _in American literature.（A）detective stories（B） psychological al
5、legory（C） political comments（D）folklore6 Of the following writers, _ is NOT a writer of Realism.（A）Mark Twain（B） William Dean Howells（C） Herman Melville（D）Henry James7 The most influential poets in early 20th century are _. Ezra Pound Robert Frost T.S. Eliot Longfellow（A）（B） （C） （D）8 _ period extend
6、ed from the invasion of the Celtic England by German tribes in the first half of the 5 th century to the conquer of England in 1066 by the Norman French under the leadership of William the Conqueror.（A）The Anglo-Norman（B） The Middle English（C） The Chaucerian English（D）The Old English9 A group of tal
7、es in several languages concerning _ and his knights developed into a literary tradition around a core of possible historical authenticity.（A）King Lear（B） King Arthur（C） King Solomon（D）King Henry III10 According to Paradise Lost, Adam and Eve are forbidden to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge o
8、f_.（A）Wisdom and Ignorance（B） Love and Hatred（C） Faith and Betrayal（D）Good and Evil11 _ has been considered the most famous British dramatist since Shakespeare, who advocates that artistic work should reflect the urgent social problem in the late 19th century.（A）Bernard Shaw（B） Henrik Johan Ibson（C）
9、 Jonathan Swift（D）Virginia Woolf12 There are two types of poetry: narrative poetry and _ poetry according to their different stress on action or emotion.（A）epic（B） folkloric（C） lyric（D）romantic13 In _, morality and common sense became the predominant preoccupation in literary works.（A）Victorian time
10、（B） Elizabethan time（C） modern time（D）old English time14 “Ode to the West Wind“ is the representative work of romantic poet_.（A）Milton（B） Shelly（C） Byron（D）Yeats15 The Hero in Romance is usually the（A）king（B） knight（C） Christ（D）churchman二、名词解释16 Byronic hero17 West humor18 Imagism三、分析题18 Read the fo
11、llowing passage and answer the questions:This text below is taken from Alice Walkers short story “ Everyday Use“. Please answer the following questions according to the excerpt:Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn sc
12、ars down her arms and legs, eying her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. * She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that “ no“ is a word the world never learned to say to her. *Youve never doubt seen those TV shows where. mother and child embrace and smile into each ot
13、hers faces. Sometimes I dream a dream in which Dee and I are suddenly brought together on a TV program of this sort.In real life I am a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands. In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls during the day. I can kill and clean a hog as merc
14、ilessly as a man. My fat keeps me hot in zero weather. I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for washing; I can eat pork liver cooked over the open fire minutes after it comes steaming from the hog. One winter I knocked a bull calf straight in the brain between the eyes with a sledge
15、 hammer and had the meat hung up to chill before nightfall. But of course all this does not show on television. Im the way my daughter would want me to be: a hundred pounds lighter, my skin like an uncooked barley pancake. My hair glistens in the hot bright lights. Jonny Carson has much to do to kee
16、p up with my quick and witty tongue.I never had an education myself. After second grade the school was closed down. Dont ask me why; * in 1927 colored asked fewer questions than they do now. * Sometimes Maggie reads to me. She stumbles along good-naturedly but cant see well. .She will marry John Tho
17、mas and then Ill be free to sit here and I guess just sing church songs to myself. Although I never was a good singer. Never could carry a tune. I was always better at a mans job. Notes:1. Maggie and Dee are the daughters of the narrator. “her sister“ refers to Dee.2. Jonny Carson is a very popular
18、TV host in 1960s in the States.19 Paraphrase the underlined sentence between the asterisks in Paragraph 1.(2 points)20 What kind of person is “I“ according to the excerpt?(2 points)21 What writing skills are used to construct the narrators image? What artistic effect does this kind of narration achi
19、eve?(4 points)22 Comment on the underlined sentence between the asterisks in the last paragraph and explain what social movement influenced the ethnic Americans when the story happened?(3 points)2012 年北京第二外国语学院英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷答案与解析一、单项选择题1 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 富兰克林在其自传中列举了十三种美德，分别是：节制、缄默、秩序、决心、节俭、勤奋、真诚、正义、中
20、庸、整洁、冷静、节欲和谦虚。这些美德体现了清教徒思想与实用主义的结合，是美国价值观的代表。2 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 埃德加爱伦坡是十九世纪美国浪漫主义时期的代表作家，在诗歌和小说方面都有独到建树。其诗歌中追求的“美”不同于其他浪漫主义作家所追求的自然之美，而是一种遥远、古典、虚幻的美，如诗歌致海伦。3 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 美国浪漫主义文学始于 18 世纪末期，到美国内战爆发时开始衰落。在这期间文学家们都力图突出本土文化特征，通过描述美国本土自然风光刻画本土人物，以此反映美国人的民族性格和气质。浪漫主义时期是美国文化独立、美国精神确立的重要时期，确立了美国的民族文学和民族精神，
21、激发了美国人强烈的爱国热情和民族意识。4 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 艾米莉狄金森是著名的隐士女诗人，诗风独特，文字细腻、观察敏锐、意象突出，题材多半有关门然、死亡和永生，但是其诗中没有女性主义反抗男权的特点。5 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 爱伦坡是侦探小说的鼻祖、科幻小说先驱之一，恐怖小说、短篇哥特小说(gothic novel)大师。6 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 梅尔维尔(Herman Melville，1819 一 1891)是美国浪漫主义时期的作家，不是现实主义作家，代表作是莫比迪克(Moby Dick)。7 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 朗费罗(Henry Wadsworth
22、 Longfellow，18071882)是 19 世纪的美国浪漫主义诗人。8 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 古英语时期又称盎格鲁一萨克逊时期(Anglo Saxon)，从公元 450到 1066 年，这期间的文学代表作是贝奥武夫(Beowulf)。The Anglo-Norman(1066 一 1350)为盎格鲁一诺曼时期。9 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 亚瑟王(King Arthur)是传说中英格兰的国王，圆桌骑士团的首领。他在罗马帝国瓦解之后，率领圆桌骑士团统一了不列颠群岛。关于亚瑟王的传奇故事源自何处，已无从查考，究竟他是不是以某位历史人物为基础而塑造出来的虚构角色也不得而知。10
23、【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 亚当和夏娃偷吃的是善恶树上的果子。11 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 萧伯纳(George Bernard Shaw，1856 一 1950)是英国现实主义戏剧家，他主张艺术作品应当反映社会的突出问题，提倡剧本的任务就是激发观众的思考。代表作有鳏夫的房产(WidowersHouse)和华伦夫人的职业(MrsWarrens Profession) 。12 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 根据诗歌所强调的重点不同，诗歌可分为叙事诗和抒情诗。13 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 维多利亚时代(Victorian era)是维多利亚女王从 1837 年到 1901 年的统治时
24、期，这期间的文学体现了该时代的精神风貌，既包括了一整套高贵、体面、严肃、克制的道德体系，同时又深刻地揭露出当时飞速发展的社会中的种种残酷的阴暗面。14 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 西风颂是英国浪漫主义诗人雪莱的代表作之一。15 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 骑士文学产生于 11 到 13 世纪，大多取材于民间传说和史诗，其基本主题都是骑士建功立业、侠义冒险、及其与贵妇的爱情等。二、名词解释16 【正确答案】 Byronic hero is a character-type found in Byrons celebrated narrative poem Childe Harolds Pil
25、grimage, his verse drama Manfred, and other works. He is a boldly defiant but bitterly self-tormenting outcast, proudly contemptuous of social norms but suffering for some unnamed sin. Heathcliff in Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights is an example of Byronic hero.17 【正确答案】 West humor is the type of hum
26、or in the tall tales. West humor is not only of witty remark mocking at small things or of farcical elements making people laugh, but a kind of artistic style used to criticize the social injustice. West humor is best represented in Mark Twains short stories, e. g. Notorious Jumping Frog of Calavera
27、s County.18 【正确答案】 Imagism is a doctrine and poetic practice of a small but influential group of American and British poets calling themselves imagists between 1912 and 1917. The group rejected most of the 19th century poetries as cloudy verbiage, and aimed at a new clarity and exactness in the shor
28、t lyric poem instead. The imagism cultivated concision and directness, building their short poems around single image. Ezra Pounds In a Station of the Metro is a typical poem of imagism.三、分析题19 【正确答案】 She thinks her sister has a firm control of her own life.20 【正确答案】 The narrator describes herself a
29、s a big-boned woman with rough hands toughened by manual labor. Poor and uneducated, she was not given the opportunity to break out of her rural life. But she is a loving and strong mother, and always cares about her daughters.21 【正确答案】 The colorful language, specialized diction and sharp contrast a
30、re used to construct Mamas unique phrases and observation, giving this narration a sense of realism; the elliptical and short, simple sentences are used to show us the image of an uneducated black woman. Her detailed description of all kinds of labors is compared with her brief fantasy about reuniti
31、ng with her daughter Dee on a talk show. This contrast shows she is a practical and tough woman with few illusions.22 【正确答案】 The underlined sentence reveals the change of self-awareness to the African Americans: compared with the past, they are now more concerned about their identity, rights and mor
32、e entitled to question the unfair.This story took place during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In that period, there was a movementBlack Power Movement by African Americans, which paid stress on the consciousness, rights, and the culture of black people. The movement aimed at eliminating the racial
33、discrimination and apartheid. The African Americans learn more about their African rootsthe African culture which was separated by time, space and racial suppress in this movement, and also reject to admit or even to desert the American culture.【试题解析】 日用家当(Everyday Use) 是美国黑人女作家艾丽斯?沃克最著名的短篇小说之一。作品以第一人称母亲为叙述人，故事围绕祖先留下来的一些日常用品如板凳、搅乳桶盖、牛奶搅拌器，特别是外婆留下来的两床手工缝制的被子被展开，成功塑造了三个不同性格的女性形象：母亲、大女儿迪伊和小女儿麦吉。接受过教育的大女儿迪伊从大城市回到乡下与母亲和妹妹之间发生了冲突。表面上看，母女之间的冲突是由两床被子遗产引起的，但深层原因却在于双方对民族文化遗产产生了不同理解。母亲的生活状况决定其现实主义和物质主义的个性，而迪伊受过教育，她的思维更加活跃、超前，充满了平等和权利的认知。透过故事情节的发展和母女三人对黑人文化遗产态度的转变，作者在字里行间隐藏了深沉厚重的民族文化身份意识。
