【考研类试卷】2006年中国人民大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案解析.doc

1、2006 年中国人民大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案解析(总分：82.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、填空题(总题数：22，分数：44.00)1. 1, by Ezra Pound, employs the complex association of scholarly lore, anthropology , modern history and personages, private history and Witticism, and obscure literary interpolations in various languages.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_2.Vi

2、rginia Woolf s novel 1, published in 1925, made her reputation as an important psychological writer.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_3. 1satirizes bourgeois businessmen whose ill-gotten money is squeezed out of poor, suffering people. The main characters in the play include Trench and Blanche.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_4.The A

3、merican writers of the 1950s often used the psychological insights taken from the writing of the Austrian psychiatrist 1and his followers.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_5.Lawrence“ s novel 1was positively taken as a typical example of Oedipus Complex in fiction.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_6.Early in the 1920s, the most promin

4、ent of the new American playwrights, whose name is 1, established an international reputation.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_7.Eliot“ s 1is a morality play in verse dealing with the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket by knights of Henry II.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_8. 1wrote about the disintegration of the old social

5、 system in the American Southern States and its effect on the lives of modern people, both black and white.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_9. 1was successful in two fields of activity which did not seem compatible with one another; he was a very successful businessman and a very remarkable contemporary poet at the

6、same time.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_10.Set in Spain during the Civil War, the novel 1stated again Hemingway“ s view of love found and lost, and described the indomitable spirit of the common people.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_11.English 1of the 19th century flourished in the forties and in the early fifties.（分数：2.00）填空项

7、1:_12.The Victorian Age in English literature was largely an age of prose, especially of the 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_13.Mr. Peggotty and Steerforth are two characters in Dickens“s novel 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_14. 1, a lyrical drama, is Shelly“ s masterpiece. The story was taken from Greek mythology.（分数：2.00）填空

8、项 1:_15.Among Hardy“ s novels, the best-known are 1 and Jude the Obscure.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_16.The American novelist 1probed deeply at the individual psychology of his characters , writing in a rich and intricate style that supported his intense scrutiny of complex human experience.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_17.T

9、he name of the heroine in The Portrait of a Lady is 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_18.The best work that Mark Twain ever produced is 1, which was a success from its fast publication in 1884, and has always been regarded as one of the great books of western literature and western civilization.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_19.D

10、reiser“ s novel 1,a commercial and critical failure when first published in 1900, was reissued in 1907 and won high praise for its grim, naturalistic portrayal of American society.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_20. 1is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_21.The way in which 1wrote

11、The Scarlet Letter suggests that American Romanticism adapted itself to American Puritan moralism.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_22.Byron is chiefly known for his two long poems, one is Childe Harold“s Pilgrimage, the other is 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_二、名词解释(总题数：6，分数：12.00)23.heroic couplet（分数：2.00）_24.villanelle（分数：2.00

12、）_25.the Muses（分数：2.00）_26.tercet（分数：2.00）_27.Renaissance literature（分数：2.00）_28.“Trilogy of Desire“（分数：2.00）_三、问答题(总题数：5，分数：10.00)29.How many books does Paradise Lost consist of? Who are the four main characters in the epic, and what are the respective relations between them?（分数：2.00）_30.List four

13、of the main points made by Wordsworth in the preface to Lyrical Ballads.（分数：2.00）_31.Why does Oscar Wilde put forward the doctrine “Art for art“ s sake“?（分数：2.00）_32.Give some different explanations of the symbolic meaning of “A“ in The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne.（分数：2.00）_33.Mention some aspects i

14、n which Gatsby“ s behavior appears to be “great“ and explain why Scott Fitzgerald says Gatsby is great.（分数：2.00）_四、评论题(总题数：2，分数：4.00)34.As a pioneering novelist of England, Daniel Defoe is often given the credit for the discovery of the modern novel. Does he deserve that honor? What is the title of

15、his great work? When was the book published, and what real experiences is it based upon? What is the significance of the novel? What are some of the author“ s biases revealed in the novel if we examine it from a modern Critic“ s point of view?（分数：2.00）_35.What is the subject of T. S. Eliot“ s master

16、piece The Waste Land? What is the significance of the poem? Point out some of the features and innovations that you particularly appreciate in it. Who was T. S. Eliot probably influenced by in creating the poem?（分数：2.00）_五、分析题(总题数：6，分数：12.00)36.But most thro“ midnight streets I hear How the youthful

17、 Harlot“ s curse Blasts the new born Infant“ s tear , And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse .（分数：2.00）_37.Snake. They were, madam; and, as I copied them myself in a feigned hand , there can be no suspicion whence they came. Lady Sneer. Did you circulate the report of Lady Britle“ s intrigue w

18、ith Captain Boastall ? Snake. That“ s in as fine a train as your ladyship could wish. In the common course of things, I think it must reach Mrs. Clackitt“ s ears within four-and-twenty hours; and then, you know, the business is as good as done .（分数：2.00）_38.It is in the nature of a Forsyte to be ign

19、orant that he is a Forsyte; but young Jolyon was well a-ware of being one. He had not known it till after the decisive step which had made an outcast ; since then the knowledge had been with him continually. He felt it throughout his alliance, throughout all his dealings with his second wife , who w

20、as emphatically not a Forsyte.（分数：2.00）_39.Boys have generally excellent appetites, He and his companions suffered the tortures of slow starvation for three months:, at last they got so voracious and wild with hunger, that one boy, who was tall for his age, and hadn“ t been used to that sort of thin

21、g (for his father had kept a small cook-shop), hinted darkly to his companions, that unless he had another basin of gruel per diem , he was afraid he might some night happen to eat the boy who slept next him, who happened to be a weakly youth of tender age.（分数：2.00）_40.Isabel always felt an impulse

22、to pull out the pins; not that she imagined they inflicted any damage on the tough old parchment , but because it seemed to her aunt might make better use of her sharpness. She was very critical herselfit was incidental to her sex, and her nationality ; but she was very sentimental as well, and ther

23、e was something in Mrs. Touchett“ s dryness that set her own moral fountains flowing.（分数：2.00）_41.It was the private property of three confederate white seamen of that ship, one of whom, it seems, communicated it to Tashtego with Romish injunctions of secrecy, but the following night Tashtego ramble

24、d in his sleep, and revealed so much of it in that way, that when he was wakened he could not well withhold the rest. Nevertheless, so potent an influence did this thing have on those seamen in the Pequod who came to the full knowledge of it , and by such a strange delicacy , to call it so, were the

25、y governed in this matter, that they kept the secret among themselves so that it never transpired abaft the Pequod“ s mainmast .（分数：2.00）_2006 年中国人民大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷答案解析(总分：82.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、填空题(总题数：22，分数：44.00)1. 1, by Ezra Pound, employs the complex association of scholarly lore, anthropology , mo

26、dern history and personages, private history and Witticism, and obscure literary interpolations in various languages.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：The Cantos）解析：2.Virginia Woolf s novel 1, published in 1925, made her reputation as an important psychological writer.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Mrs. Dall

27、oway）解析：3. 1satirizes bourgeois businessmen whose ill-gotten money is squeezed out of poor, suffering people. The main characters in the play include Trench and Blanche.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Widowers“ Houses）解析：4.The American writers of the 1950s often used the psychological insights taken fro

28、m the writing of the Austrian psychiatrist 1and his followers.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Sigmund Freud）解析：5.Lawrence“ s novel 1was positively taken as a typical example of Oedipus Complex in fiction.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Son and Lovers）解析：6.Early in the 1920s, the most prominent of the new Am

29、erican playwrights, whose name is 1, established an international reputation.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Eugene O“ Neil）解析：7.Eliot“ s 1is a morality play in verse dealing with the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket by knights of Henry II.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Murder in the Cathedral）解析：

30、8. 1wrote about the disintegration of the old social system in the American Southern States and its effect on the lives of modern people, both black and white.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：William Faulkner）解析：9. 1was successful in two fields of activity which did not seem compatible with one another;

31、he was a very successful businessman and a very remarkable contemporary poet at the same time.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Wallace Stevens）解析：10.Set in Spain during the Civil War, the novel 1stated again Hemingway“ s view of love found and lost, and described the indomitable spirit of the common peop

32、le.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：For Whom the Bell Tolls）解析：11.English 1of the 19th century flourished in the forties and in the early fifties.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：novel）解析：12.The Victorian Age in English literature was largely an age of prose, especially of the 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：no

33、vel）解析：13.Mr. Peggotty and Steerforth are two characters in Dickens“s novel 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：David Copperfield）解析：14. 1, a lyrical drama, is Shelly“ s masterpiece. The story was taken from Greek mythology.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Oedipus Tyrannus）解析：15.Among Hardy“ s novels, the best

34、-known are 1 and Jude the Obscure.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Tess of the D“ Urbervilles）解析：16.The American novelist 1probed deeply at the individual psychology of his characters , writing in a rich and intricate style that supported his intense scrutiny of complex human experience.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_

35、（正确答案：正确答案：Henry James）解析：17.The name of the heroine in The Portrait of a Lady is 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Isabel Archer）解析：18.The best work that Mark Twain ever produced is 1, which was a success from its fast publication in 1884, and has always been regarded as one of the great books of weste

36、rn literature and western civilization.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn）解析：19.Dreiser“ s novel 1,a commercial and critical failure when first published in 1900, was reissued in 1907 and won high praise for its grim, naturalistic portrayal of American society.（分数：2.00）填空

37、项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Sister Carrie）解析：20. 1is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Martin Eden）解析：21.The way in which 1wrote The Scarlet Letter suggests that American Romanticism adapted itself to American Puritan moralism.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Nathaniel

38、 Hawthorne）解析：22.Byron is chiefly known for his two long poems, one is Childe Harold“s Pilgrimage, the other is 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Don Juan）解析：二、名词解释(总题数：6，分数：12.00)23.heroic couplet（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：heroic couplet: A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly us

39、ed for epic and narrative poetry; it refers to poems constructed form a sequence of rhyming pairs of iambic pentameter lines)解析：24.villanelle（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：villanelle; An intricate verse form of French origin, consisting of several three-line stanzas and a concluding four-line stanza.)解析：25.th

40、e Muses（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：the Muses: The muses originally refer to nine goddesses in Greek myth who provide inspiration to artists and poets of all kinds, which refer to inspiration of artists.)解析：26.tercet（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：tercet:Tercet refers to a unit of three verse lines, usually rhyming either with each other or with neighboring lines and three-line stanzas of terza rima and of the villanelle are known as tercets.)解析：27.Renaissance literature（分数：2.00）_