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2016年温州大学外国语学院821英语文学及文化考研真题
2015年温州大学外国语学院821英语文学及文化考研真题
2014年温州大学外国语学院821英语文学及文化考研真题
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2016年温州大学外国语学院821英语文学及文化考研真题
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Part One English and American Literature（80points in all）
I. Identify the following works or quotationswith their authors. Please write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (10 points)
1.Paradise Lost
2.The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
3.The Great Gatsby
4.Death of a Salesman
5．“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
6.Hamlet
7.The Wasteland
8. “The door of the jail being flung open from within, thereappeared, in the first place, like a black shadow emerging into sunshine, thegrim and gristly presence of the town-beadle, with a sword by his side, and hisstaff of office in his hand. This personage prefigured and represented in hisaspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which it was hisbusiness to administer in its final and closest application to the offender.Stretching forth the official staff in his left hand, he laid his right uponthe shoulder of a young woman, whom he thus drew forward, until, on thethreshold of the prison-door, she repelled him, by an action marked withnatural dignity and force of character, and stepped into the open air as if byher own free will. She bore in her arms a child, a baby of some three monthsold, who winked and turned aside its little face from the too vivid light ofday; because its existence, heretofore, had brought it acquaintance only withthe grey twilight of a dungeon, or other darksome apartment of the prison.”
9. “Almost five thousand years agone, there were Pilgrims walking tothe C?lestial City, as these two honest persons are; and Beelzebub, Apollyon,and Legion, with their Companions, perceiving by the path that the Pilgrimsmade, that their way to the City lay through this Town of Vanity, theycontrived here to set up a Fair; a Fair wherein should be sold all sorts ofVanity, and that it should last all the year long.”
10. “The Harivansa says, ‘An abode without birds is like a meatwithout seasoning.’ Such was not my abode, for I found myself suddenly neighborto the birds; not by having imprisoned one, but having caged myself near them.”
II. Explain FOUR of thefollowing literary terms in about 50 words for each. (20 points)
1.English Renaissance
2.Allegory
3.Satire
4.Enlightenment
5.Aestheticism
6.Alliteration
7.Modernism
8.New Criticism
III. Prose Commentary.(10 points) Read the following prose excerpt and answer the questions followed.
STUDIES servefor delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is inprivateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is inthe judgment, and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, andperhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and theplots and marshalling of affairs, come best, from those that are learned. Tospend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, isaffectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar.They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities arelike natural plants, that need proyning, by study; and studies themselves, dogive forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in byexperience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise menuse them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them,and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute; nor tobelieve and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh andconsider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few tobe chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts;others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and withdiligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts madeof them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, andthe meaner sort of books, else distilled books are like common distilledwaters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; andwriting an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have agreat memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if heread little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know, that he doth not.Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; naturalphilosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studiain mores. Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wroughtout by fit studies; like as diseases of the body, may have appropriateexercises. Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs andbreast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. Soif a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for indemonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study theSchoolmen; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters,and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study thelawyers’ cases. So every defect of the mind, may have a special receipt.
What is thefunction of studies? How many types of reading does Bacon introduce? In whatsense does reading makes a full man?
IV. Novel Commentary.(20 points)
Oscar Wildewrites, “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are wellwritten, or badly written. That is all.” Do you agree or not? Illustrate yourpoints with examples from your reading of English or American literature.
V. Poetry Commentary. (20 points) Write acommentary on William Wordsworth’s poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” inrelation to Wordsworth’s comments in his Preface to Lyrical Ballads.
“The principleobject, then, which I proposed to myself in these poems was to choose incidentsand situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, asfar as possible, in a selection of language really used by them; and, at thesame time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, wherebyordinary things should be represented to the mind in an unusual way; andfurther, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting bytracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of ournature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in astate of excitement.”
(Prefaceto Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth)
I wanderedlonely as a cloud
That floats onhigh o’er vales and hills,
When all at onceI saw a crowd,
A host, ofgolden daffodils;
Beside the lake,beneath the trees,
Fluttering anddancing in the breeze.
Continuous asthe stars that shine
And twinkle onthe milky way,
They stretchedin never-ending line
Along the marginof a bay:
Ten thousand sawI at a glance,
Tossing theirheads in sprightly dance.
The waves besidethem danced; but they
Out-did thesparkling waves in glee:
A poet could notbut be gay,
In such a jocundcompany:
I gazed---andgazed---but little thought
What wealth theshow to me had brought:
For oft, when onmy couch I lie
In vacant or inpensive mood,
They flash uponthat inward eye
Which is thebliss of solitude;
And then myheart with pleasure fills,
And dances withthe daffodils.
(“IWandered Lonely as a Cloud”, William Wordsworth)
Part Two Cultures of English Speaking Countries (70 points)
I. Directions: In this part, there are 10questions or statements. For each question or statement, there are four choicesmarked A, B, C and D. You should choose the best one and write thecorresponding letter on the answer sheet. (10×1.5 = 15)
1. The following figures were often considered the founding fathersof the American Republic except ________.
A. GeorgeWashington
B. ThomasJefferson
C. RogerWilliams
D. John Adams
2.The general election in the US is held every ______ years.
A. two
B. three
C. four
D. five
3.Which one of the following writers was an African American?
A. Arthur Miller
B. Toni Morrison
C. Mark Twain
D. J.D. Salinger
4.Great Britain includes the following EXCEPT _______.
A. England
B. Wales
C. Scotland
D. NorthernIreland
5. The role of the American president includes the following EXCEPT_______.
A. command thearmed forces
B. negotiate andsign treaties
C. pass laws
D. appointcertain personnel
6. In the UK, the party that wins the majority of _____________ willform the government.
A. votes inParliament
B. votes in thegeneral election
C. seats in theHouse of Lords
D. seats in theHouse of Commons
7. All of the following are characteristics of American publicschools EXCEPT ______.
A. religiousteaching
B. locallycontrolled
C. coeducational
D. publiclysupported by taxes
8. The Founders of the United States wanted the ________ branch tobe the dominant one of the federal government.
A. executive
B. legislative
C. judicial
D. none of them
9. In the history of the UK, the Great Charter was made in theinterests of ________.
A. the king
B. the feudallords
C. the townsmen
D. the serfs
10. What is the most important weapon in the hand of the SupremeCourt in the US?
A. Veto
B. Overriding a veto
C. Impeachment
D. Judicial review
II. Directions: Definethe following 3 terms and write your answer on the answer sheet. (3×5= 15)
1.Constitutional Monarchy
2.Federalism in US
3.Laissez faire
III. Fill in the blankswith appropriate words. (5×2 = 10)
1. The Congress of the United States consists of two parts: theSenate and the House of _______.
2.The incumbent president of the United States is Barack _________.
3. In the national flag of the United States, there are fifty________ which represent the fifty states in this country, and thirteen stripeswhich represent the original thirteen states.
4. In terms of religion, the United Kingdom is traditionally a_______ state.
5. In America, WASP is the abbreviation of "white Anglo-Saxon__________."
IV. Answer the followingtwo questions briefly. (2×5 =10)
1.What makes up the British Constitution?
2. What were the major ideas in theDeclaration of Independence?
V. Make a comment on thefollowing topic in the form of an essay in no less than 300 words. (1×20= 20)
The federalgovernment of the United States of America is based on the principle of checksand balances. How does this principle operate?
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