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1、2013 年天津外国语大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案解析(总分：54.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、单项选择题(总题数：7，分数：14.00)1.The majority of Robert Burns“ poems were written in the _dialect.（分数：2.00）A.ScottishB.WelshC.IrishD.Celtic2.Which of the following novels is written in epistolary style? _（分数：2.00）A.Moll FlandersB.Tom JonesC.The Life and O

2、pinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanD.Pamela, Or Virtue Rewarded3.Which of the following poems could be employed to explain Wordsworth“s theory of poetry writing as “a spontaneous overflow of powerful emotion“ “recollected in tranquility“? _（分数：2.00）A.I wandered lonely as a cloudB.Ode on a Grecian

3、UrnC.The Rime of the Ancient MarinerD.To Autumn4.Direct psychoanalysis could not possibly be found in the works of_.（分数：2.00）A.Edgar Allan PoeB.Washington IrvingC.Henry JamesD.Ernest Hemingway5.Compared with the writings of Mark Twain“s, Henry James“s fiction is noted for their_.（分数：2.00）A.frontier

4、vernacularB.rich colloquialismC.refined elegant languageD.vulgarly descriptive words6.Which of the following plays is highly autobiographic? _（分数：2.00）A.A Streetcar Named DesireB.Death of a SalesmanC.Long Day“s Journey into NightD.The Hairy Ape7._doesn“t directly employ sexual impotence to symbolize

5、 spiritual poverty in his works.（分数：2.00）A.Ernest HemingwayB.T. S. EliotC.Walt WhitmanD.Edward Albee二、填空题(总题数：16，分数：32.00)8.The human defect of 1mainly causes the tragedy of Macbeth.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_9.In John Milton“s 1, Satan seems to embody the human fight for freedom and against control in life.（分

6、数：2.00）填空项 1:_10.“Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?“ The speaker is 1.（分数：2

7、.00）填空项 1:_11.Heroic couplet is one of the traditional verse forms in English poetry. 1is believed to be the first English poet to have adopted this form in his poems.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_12.Great Expectations is a novel of Bildungsroman, or a novel of 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_13.Determinism is a theme in Josep

8、h Conrad“s 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_14.“Art for art“s sake“ finds a fluent expression in Oscar Wilde“s only novel 1, but is disapproved of by 2, the author of Pygmalion.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_15.Ulysses is a highly symbolic novel, which bears a striking resemblance to Homer“s 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_16.“ Let us go then

9、, you and IWhen the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table.“These lines are taken from a poem entitled 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_17.“Young Goodman Brown“ is intended to reveal that 1exists in the hearts of all human beings.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_18.“The universe is composed of N

10、ature and the soul. Spirit is present everywhere. “ This is the voice out of the book 1, which pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New England Transcendentalism.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_19.Life is real! Life is earnest!And the grave is not its goalDust thou art, to dust returnestWas no

11、t spoken of the soul.These lines are taken from a poem entitled 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_20. 1tore the mask of gentility to pieces and wrote about the helplessness of man, his insignificance in a cold world, and his lack of dignity in face of the crushing forces of environment and heredity.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_

12、21.The Compsons, the Sartorises, and the Sutpens are representative southern aristocratic families in 1“s novels, and they are all portrayed as prisoners of the past, who cannot reconcile with the fall of the south after 2.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_22.In The Woman Warrior, 1rewrites the legend of Chinese hero

13、ine to express her desire to become a woman warrior in a racist and sexist society.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_23.“ A moist young moon hung above the mist of a neighboring meadow. “ In the sentence from Conclusive Evidence, Vladimir Nabokov uses the figure of speech called 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_三、分析题(总题数：4，分数：8.00)

14、24.Many writers seem to believe in the therapeutic and revitalizing power of nature. Illustrate the image of nature and its impact on human beings in a specific novel, play, poem or short story by an American or British writer/playwright/poet.（分数：2.00）_25.At the end of Tess“ story, Hardy wrote that

15、“ “ Justice “ was done, and the President of the Immortals(in Aeschylean phrase)had ended his sport with Tess. “ How do you understand this sentence? In what sense is Tess“ story tragic?（分数：2.00）_26.In For Whom the Bell Tolls, the readers see a clear change of Hemingway“s former individualistic atti

16、tude shown as in The Sun Also Rises to a fresh faith of social destinies of men. Illustrate this point on the basis of these two novels.（分数：2.00）_27.The ship(or the boat, or the like)has been a key symbol in western literature. W. H. Auden holds that there are mainly two views of a ship: as a vessel

17、 isolated in the ocean, thus a microcosm of society; and as a vehicle of escape from the shore, thus an image of freedom. Elaborate on the symbolic meaning of the ship/boat, or a boarded floating object in one American or British novel.（分数：2.00）_2013 年天津外国语大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷答案解析(总分：54.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、

18、单项选择题(总题数：7，分数：14.00)1.The majority of Robert Burns“ poems were written in the _dialect.（分数：2.00）A.Scottish B.WelshC.IrishD.Celtic解析：解析：罗伯特彭斯(Robert Burns，17591796)是苏格兰农民诗人，诗歌大部分用苏格兰语写成。2.Which of the following novels is written in epistolary style? _（分数：2.00）A.Moll FlandersB.Tom JonesC.The Life and

19、 Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanD.Pamela, Or Virtue Rewarded 解析：解析：帕米拉，又名美德受到了奖赏(Pamela，Or Virue Rewarded)是英国作家理查逊(Samuel Richardson，1689 一 1761)的一部书信体小说，他常常被称为书信体小说的创始人。3.Which of the following poems could be employed to explain Wordsworth“s theory of poetry writing as “a spontaneous overflo

20、w of powerful emotion“ “recollected in tranquility“? _（分数：2.00）A.I wandered lonely as a cloud B.Ode on a Grecian UrnC.The Rime of the Ancient MarinerD.To Autumn解析：解析：华兹华斯强调，诗歌是“强烈感情的自然进发”，源于“在宁静中经过沉思的”感情。我似流云天自游(I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud)是诗人独自漫游时，忽然发现湖边一大片金黄色的水仙花在微风中摇曳起舞，顿时心旷神怡，被大自然折服，于是写下这首诗，是典型

21、的“强烈感情的自然进发”。4.Direct psychoanalysis could not possibly be found in the works of_.（分数：2.00）A.Edgar Allan PoeB.Washington Irving C.Henry JamesD.Ernest Hemingway解析：解析：爱伦坡、詹姆斯、海明威的作品中都有直接心理分析，而欧文是美国浪漫主义早期的作家，其作品没有涉及心理分析。5.Compared with the writings of Mark Twain“s, Henry James“s fiction is noted for th

22、eir_.（分数：2.00）A.frontier vernacularB.rich colloquialismC.refined elegant language D.vulgarly descriptive words解析：解析：马克吐温的语言偏向口语化，而亨利詹姆斯出身贵族，其语言风格是精致典雅。6.Which of the following plays is highly autobiographic? _（分数：2.00）A.A Streetcar Named DesireB.Death of a SalesmanC.Long Day“s Journey into Night D.T

23、he Hairy Ape解析：解析：长夜漫漫路迢迢是美国剧作家奥尼尔(Eugene O“Neill，1888 一 1953)的同名自传戏，他将自己家中的事情毫不保留地公之于众。7._doesn“t directly employ sexual impotence to symbolize spiritual poverty in his works.（分数：2.00）A.Ernest HemingwayB.T. S. EliotC.Walt Whitman D.Edward Albee解析：解析：海明威的太阳照常升起(The Sun Also Rises)、艾略特的荒原(The Waste L

24、and)，以及阿尔比的谁害怕弗吉尼亚伍尔夫(Who“s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)中都有关于性无能的描写，象征着精神的空虚。二、填空题(总题数：16，分数：32.00)8.The human defect of 1mainly causes the tragedy of Macbeth.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：political ambition）解析：解析：麦克白(Macbeth)是莎士比亚的四大悲剧之一，主要讲述了麦克白为苏格兰国家和人民立功之后萌生了做国王的念头，为了当上苏格兰国王，他不惜杀掉兄长，而后又被忠臣杀死的故事。麦克白的

25、悲剧在于自己的政治野心。9.In John Milton“s 1, Satan seems to embody the human fight for freedom and against control in life.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Paradise Lost）解析：解析：失乐园是约翰弥尔顿(John Milton，16081674)最重要的作品，主要内容是：撒旦率领天使反抗上帝失败后被打入地狱，在烈火中受罪，为了报复，撒旦潜入伊甸园，引诱夏娃偷食禁果，随后亚当也在夏娃的怂恿下偷食了禁果，因此二人被上帝赶出伊甸园。作品中的撒旦常常被看作人类反对权威

26、、追求自由的代表。10.“Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?“ The speaker is 1.（分数：2.00）填

27、空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Shylock）解析：解析：夏洛克是威尼斯商人(The Merchant of Venice)里的重要角色之一，他说的这段话成为追求宗教、种族平等的重要代表。11.Heroic couplet is one of the traditional verse forms in English poetry. 1is believed to be the first English poet to have adopted this form in his poems.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Geoffrey Chaucer）解析

28、：解析：英国诗人乔叟(13401400)被认为是最先使用英雄双韵体的诗人。12.Great Expectations is a novel of Bildungsroman, or a novel of 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：coming-of-age）解析：解析：远大前程是一部成长小说。狄更斯的成长三部曲包括雾都孤儿(1838)、大卫科波菲尔(1850)和远大前程(1861)。13.Determinism is a theme in Joseph Conrad“s 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Almayer“s Folly

29、）解析：解析：阿尔迈耶的愚蠢是康拉德的第一部小说，其主题体现了宿命论(determinism)。14.“Art for art“s sake“ finds a fluent expression in Oscar Wilde“s only novel 1, but is disapproved of by 2, the author of Pygmalion.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：The Picture of Dorian Gray，George Bernard Shaw）解析：解析：奥斯卡王尔德(Oscar Wilde，1854 一 1900)写过很多著名的

30、戏剧，如认真的重要性(The Importance of Being Earnest)、一个无足轻重的女人(A Woman of No Importance)、理想的丈夫(An Ideal Husband)等，唯一的一部小说是道林格雷的画像。他一直强调的“为艺术而艺术”的观点并不被皮格马利翁的作者萧伯纳(George Bernard Shaw，18561950)认同，萧伯纳大力倡导创作以讨论社会问题为主旨的文学作品。15.Ulysses is a highly symbolic novel, which bears a striking resemblance to Homer“s 1.（分数

31、：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Odyssey）解析：解析：乔伊斯(James Joyce)的尤利西斯的题目来源于希腊神话中的奥德修斯(Odysseus，拉丁名是尤利西斯)；而作品的章节和内容也与荷马的奥德赛有着非常强烈的平行对应关系，二者都是非常具有象征意义的小说，如奥德赛的海上航行和尤利西斯的街头漫步都象征着人生的旅途。16.“ Let us go then, you and IWhen the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table.“These lines a

32、re taken from a poem entitled 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock）解析：解析：这几句诗选自艾略特(TSEliot，18881965)的普鲁弗洛克的情歌。17.“Young Goodman Brown“ is intended to reveal that 1exists in the hearts of all human beings.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：evil）解析：解析：好人布朗是霍桑(Nathaniel Hawthorne，1

33、804 一 1864)的一部短篇小说，其中体现了霍桑关于人类本性的观点：人生来就是邪恶的，也就是原罪论(original sin)。从亚当夏娃偷吃禁果开始，人类后代就都是罪恶的。18.“The universe is composed of Nature and the soul. Spirit is present everywhere. “ This is the voice out of the book 1, which pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New England Transcendent

34、alism.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Nature）解析：解析：这句话出自爱默生(Ralph Waldo Emerson，1803 一 1882)的论自然。19.Life is real! Life is earnest!And the grave is not its goalDust thou art, to dust returnestWas not spoken of the soul.These lines are taken from a poem entitled 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：A Psalm of Li

35、fe）解析：解析：这几句诗选自朗费罗(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)的人生颂。20. 1tore the mask of gentility to pieces and wrote about the helplessness of man, his insignificance in a cold world, and his lack of dignity in face of the crushing forces of environment and heredity.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：American naturalist

36、s）解析：解析：题目是关于美国的自然主义的，它强调人像其他动物一样都是自然界的生物，人的命运受自然界的控制，人类对此无能无力。21.The Compsons, the Sartorises, and the Sutpens are representative southern aristocratic families in 1“s novels, and they are all portrayed as prisoners of the past, who cannot reconcile with the fall of the south after 2.（分数：2.00）填空项 1

37、:_ （正确答案：正确答案：William Faulkner；the American Civil War）解析：解析：福克纳是美国 20 世纪 20 年代最重要的小说家之一，他的作品多以美国南方的历史为题材，虚构了一个叫做“约克纳帕塔法县”(Yoknapatawpha)的地方，里面生活着诸如沙特里斯家族、康普森家族以及沙特潘家族等败落的南方贵族家庭。22.In The Woman Warrior, 1rewrites the legend of Chinese heroine to express her desire to become a woman warrior in a racis

38、t and sexist society.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Maxine Hong Kingston）解析：解析：女勇士是著名的美国华裔女作家汤亭亭(Maxine Hong Kingston)的代表作。23.“ A moist young moon hung above the mist of a neighboring meadow. “ In the sentence from Conclusive Evidence, Vladimir Nabokov uses the figure of speech called 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:

39、_ （正确答案：正确答案：personification）解析：解析：在这句话中，作者把草坪比作邻居，是拟人的修辞手法。三、分析题(总题数：4，分数：8.00)24.Many writers seem to believe in the therapeutic and revitalizing power of nature. Illustrate the image of nature and its impact on human beings in a specific novel, play, poem or short story by an American or British

40、writer/playwright/poet.（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Thoreau“s masterpiece Walden is a great transcendentalist work. As a young man, Thoreau takes a more than usual interest in the natural world. Like his mentor Emerson, but more than him, he sees nature as a genuine restorative , healthy influence on man“s

41、spiritual well-being, and regards it as a symbol of the spirit. In fact, nature has influenced Thoreau in more than one way. First, to Thoreau, nature is the example from which human beings must learn for self-reliance. Nature itself is self-reliant and it never demands things from humans; therefore

42、, the most important thing for men to do with their lives is to be independent and strive to achieve personal spiritual perfection. The fact that Thoreau moved into his little cabin on the day of American independence fully demonstrates his desire to be independent of worldly affairs, just as he wro

43、te, “a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone“. Second, nature gives him the inspiration that men should live as simple as possible. The modern craze for monetary success in the wakening of mechanization and commercialization pushes Thoreau to cry out “Sim

44、plicity, simplicity, simplicity!“ To solve the modern dissatisfaction with one“s life, he prescribes two methods; one may acquire more, or reduce one“s desires. As his living near the pond illustrates, one can become more rejuvenated by choosing the latter choice. Third, spiritual richness is the re

45、al wealth and the elevation of one“s soul is the real progress. Any other progress is only an illusion. For example, to most people, the train is a huge technological progress, but to Thoreau, he thinks the train encroaches on the rustic calm and beauty of nature and that it confines people to fixed train schedules and routes.)解析：25.At the end of Tess“ story, Hardy wrote that “ “ Justice “ was done, and the President of the Immortals(in Aeschylean phrase)had ended his sport with Tess. “ How do you understand this sentence? In what sense is Tess“ story tragic?（分数：2.00）_正确答案