【考研类试卷】2007年国际关系学院英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案解析.doc

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1、2007 年国际关系学院英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案解析(总分：78.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、填空题(总题数：9，分数：18.00)1.Beowulf is the national epic of (1) .（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_2.(2) is generally considered to be Chaucer“s masterpiece.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_3.The Renaissance was an epoch of social and cultural development embracing all parts of (3). It f

2、irst rose in (4) in the (5) century.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_4.Ezra Pound“s lifelong endeavor had been devoted to the writing of (6). which contains (7) poems.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_5.In 1927, T. S. Eliot announced that he was a royalist in (8) . a classicist in (9) . and an Anglo-Catholic in (10).（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_6

3、.The title of James Joyce“s fiction (11) shows that the author intends to model his fiction on the Homeric story of (12).（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_7.Thomas Hardy divided his own novels into (13) series, and Tess of the D“Urbervilles is among the (14) group of his novels（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_8.In Memoriam is often r

4、egarded as the most important of (15) “s longer poems. It started as (16) in memory of Arthur Hallam and grew into a full expression of the poet“s (17) and (18) views.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_9.The first book to treat the (19) theme is Joseph Heller“s (20) .（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_二、名词解释(总题数：10，分数：20.00)10.Ballad（分数

5、：2.00）_11.Simile（分数：2.00）_12.Transcendentalism（分数：2.00）_13.Imagism（分数：2.00）_14.Trochee（分数：2.00）_15.Allegory（分数：2.00）_16.The Jazz Age（分数：2.00）_17.Freudianism（分数：2.00）_18.Determinism（分数：2.00）_19.Gothic Romance（分数：2.00）_三、问答题(总题数：16，分数：38.00)20.How many parts are there in The Waste Land?（分数：2.00）_21.Wh

6、at are the basic Calvinist tenets?（分数：2.00）_22.Which of Emerson“s works is called “America“s Intellectual Declaration of Independence“?（分数：2.00）_23.What are the most striking features of Hemingway“s writing style?（分数：2.00）_24.Why is Mark Twain considered as a social critic?（分数：2.00）_25.How does Henr

7、y James describe the Americans in his novels?（分数：2.00）_26.How does Edgar Allan Poe anticipate the 20th century literature?（分数：2.00）_27.What does the white whale in Moby Dick symbolize? Why do you think so?（分数：2.00）_28.What is the major thematic concern of Walden?（分数：2.00）_29.What modernist technique

8、 does Virginia Woolf employ in her novels like Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse?（分数：2.00）_30.Why is Alexander Pope known as a representative of the Enlightenment?（分数：2.00）_31.What are the two famous epics of John Milton?（分数：2.00）_32.Who are the “Lake Poets“ in English literature? To which literar

9、y movement do they belong?（分数：2.00）_33.Which of William Faulkner“s works impresses you most? Why?（分数：2.00）_34.Which play of Eugene O“Neill“s is autobiographical?（分数：2.00）_Read the following paragraph and answer the questions on your ANSWER SHEET.When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one

10、of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. Of an intermediate balance, under the circumstances, there is no possibility. The city has its cunning wiles, no less than the infinitely smaller and mo

11、re human tempter. There are large forces which allure with all the soulfulness of expression possible in the most cultured human. The gleam of a thousand lights is often as effective as the persuasive light in a wooing and fascinating eye. Half the undoing of the unsophisticated and natural mind is

12、accomplished by forces wholly superhuman. A blare of sound, a roar of life, a vast array of human hives, appeal to the astonished senses in equivocal terms. Without a counselor at hand to whisper cautious interpretations, what falsehoods may not these things breathe, into the unguarded ear? Unrecogn

13、ized for what they are, their beauty, like music, too often relaxes, then weakens, then perverts the simpler human perceptions.（分数：8.00）(1).Who is the author of the novel from which this paragraph is taken? What is the title of the novel? (6 points)（分数：2.00）_(2).With which literary school is the aut

14、hor usually identified? (4 points)（分数：2.00）_(3).How does the paragraph express the main points of that school? (5 points)（分数：2.00）_(4).What do you think about the author“s way of writing as reflected in the paragraph? (5 points)（分数：2.00）_四、评论题(总题数：1，分数：2.00)35.Paraphrase the following poem in your o

15、wn words and then make a comment on its theme.My Heart Leaps UpWilliam Wordsworth My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began;So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old.Or let me die!The Child is father of the Man;And I could wish my days to beBoun

16、d each to each by natural piety.（分数：2.00）_2007 年国际关系学院英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷答案解析(总分：78.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、填空题(总题数：9，分数：18.00)1.Beowulf is the national epic of (1) .（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：England）解析：解析：贝奥武夫(Beowulf)是英格兰最早的民族史诗。2.(2) is generally considered to be Chaucer“s masterpiece.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案

17、：正确答案：The Canterbury Tales）解析：3.The Renaissance was an epoch of social and cultural development embracing all parts of (3). It first rose in (4) in the (5) century.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Western Europe，Italy，14th）解析：解析：本题考查文艺复兴的发展历程。文艺复兴产生于十四世纪的意大利，后席卷了整个西欧。4.Ezra Pound“s lifelong endeavor had

18、been devoted to the writing of (6). which contains (7) poems.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：the Cantos，120）解析：解析：诗章为庞德的代表作，共收录了 120 首诗。5.In 1927, T. S. Eliot announced that he was a royalist in (8) . a classicist in (9) . and an Anglo-Catholic in (10).（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：politics，literature，rel

19、igion）解析：解析：本题考查艾略特的主张，即：政治上保皇党，文学上古典派，宗教上英国天主教徒。6.The title of James Joyce“s fiction (11) shows that the author intends to model his fiction on the Homeric story of (12).（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Ulysses，Odyssey）解析：解析：尤利西斯(Ulysses)为奥德赛(Odyssey)的罗马文拼法，换句话说，作者乔伊斯刻意模仿了荷马奥德赛的故事。7.Thomas Hardy divided

20、 his own novels into (13) series, and Tess of the D“Urbervilles is among the (14) group of his novels（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：three，novels of character and environment）解析：解析：本题考查哈代的小说分类。哈代把创作分为三类： “罗曼史和幻想小说”、“爱情与阴谋小说”、“性格和环境小说”。他将自己的大部分小说划分为“性格与环境小说”。8.In Memoriam is often regarded as the most im

21、portant of (15) “s longer poems. It started as (16) in memory of Arthur Hallam and grew into a full expression of the poet“s (17) and (18) views.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Alfred Tennyson，elegy，philosophical，religious）解析：解析：诗歌悼念(In Memoriam)是丁尼生最重要的长诗，诗歌始于悼念 ArthurHallam 的挽歌，逐渐表达了诗人哲学和宗教的观点。9.The f

22、irst book to treat the (19) theme is Joseph Heller“s (20) .（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Black humor，Catch-22）解析：解析：黑色幽默是后现代小说的一种表现手法，而第一个反映这种手法的小说是海勒的第二十二条军规。二、名词解释(总题数：10，分数：20.00)10.Ballad（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly cha

23、racteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later North America, Australia and North Africa. The subject matter they tell is from the everyday life of the common people.)解析：11.Simile（分数：2.00）_正确

24、答案：(正确答案：Similes are comparisons that show how two things that are not alike in most ways are similar in one important way. Similes are a way to describe something. Authors use them to make their writing more interesting or entertaining. Similes use the words “as“ or “like“ to make the connection be

25、tween the two things that are being compared.)解析：12.Transcendentalism（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：It is a literary and philosophical movement, associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller, asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality that transcends the empirical and scientific and is kn

26、owable through intuition.)解析：13.Imagism（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Imagism is a literary movement launched by British and American poets early in the 20th century that advocated the use of free verse, common speech patterns, and clear concrete images as a reaction to Victorian sentimentalism. Pound is cons

27、idered to be the lead poet of the time.)解析：14.Trochee（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Trochee is a metrical foot used in formal poetry consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one. For example, Round about the cauldron go, In the poisoned entrails throw. Because each foot consists of two syll

28、ables, the trochaic is known as a duple meter.)解析：15.Allegory（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Allegory is a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious,

29、or political significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity, greed, or envy. Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.)解析：16.The Jazz Age（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：The Jazz Age describes the period after the end of World

30、War I, through the Roaring Twenties, ending with the onset of the Great Depression. Traditional values of the previous period declined while the American stock market soared. The age takes its name from popular music, which saw a tremendous surge in popularity. Among the prominent concerns and trend

31、s of the period are the public embrace of technological developments typically seen as progresscars, air travel and the telephoneas well as new modernist trends in social behavior, the arts, and culture.)解析：17.Freudianism（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Freudianism is the theories of Sigmund Freud or the tradit

32、ion of psychological thought (and psychoanalytic practice) spawned by his theories. The philosophical importance and influence of Freudianism derives from its view of human nature, which emphasizes the importance of unconscious forces in determining the beliefs and actions of human beings.)解析：18.Det

33、erminism（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Determinism is the philosophical idea that every event or state of affairs, including every human decision and action, is the inevitable and necessary consequence of antecedent states of affairs. It is a modern name (nineteenth-century) for Democritus“ ancient idea that

34、causal laws control the motion of atoms, and that everything, including human minds, consists merely of atoms in a void.)解析：19.Gothic Romance（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Gothic romance, type of novel that flourished in the late 18th and early 19th century in England. Gothic romances were mysteries, often in

35、volving the supernatural and heavily tinged with horror, and they were usually set against dark backgrounds of medieval ruins and haunted castles. Charlotte Bronte“s Jane Eyre and Daphne du Maurier“s Rebecca are works of the kind.)解析：三、问答题(总题数：16，分数：38.00)20.How many parts are there in The Waste Lan

36、d?（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：The Waste Land is a 434 line modernist poem by T. S. Eliot published in 1922. It has been called “one of the most important poems of the 20th century.“ It consists of five parts, which are entitled: The Burial of the Dead A Game of Chess The Fire Sermon Death by Water What the Thunder Said)解析：解析：本题考查荒原的结构，即这五个部分的标题。21.What are the basic Calvinist tenets?（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：The basic Calvinist tenets, or the five-po