【考研类试卷】2008年南京大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案解析.doc

1、2008年南京大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案解析(总分：60.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、填空题(总题数：20，分数：40.00)1.Author 1Title 2 The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars. As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright That birds would sing and think it were not night.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_2

2、.Author 1Title 2 Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag today? Can tell the definition, So clearly, of victory.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_3.Author 1Title 2 Thus speaking, Fortunato possessed himself of my arm; and putting on a mask of black silk and drawing a roquelaire closely about my person, I suf

3、fered him to hurry me to my palazzo. There were no attendants at home; they had absconded to make merry in honour of the time.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_4.Author 1Title 2 His mother“s hand touched his shoulder. “Does hit hurt?“ she said. “Naw,“ he said. “Hit don“t hurt. Lemme be.“（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_5.Author 1Titl

4、e 2 Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade. And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten. And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_6.Author 1Title 2 For no very intelligible reason, Mr. Lucas had hurried ahead of his part

5、y. He was perhaps reaching the age at which independence becomes valuable, because it is so soon to be lost.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_7.Author 1Title 2 Viciously, with full intention, he hurled his spear at Ralph. The point tore the skin and flesh over Ralph“s ribs, then sheared off and fell in the water. Ral

6、ph stumbled, feeling no pain but panic, and the tribe, screaming now like the Chief, began to advance.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_8.Author 1Title 2 Every layer they strip Seems camped on before. The bog holes might be Atlantic seepage The wet center is bottomless.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_9.Author 1Title 2 The report of

7、his undeniable delirium at sea was likewise popularly ascribed to a kindred cause. And so too, all the added moodiness which always afterwards, to the very day of sailing in the Pequod on the present voyage, sat brooding on his brow.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_10.Author 1Title 2 I used to wonder About here and

8、there I think the distance Is nowhere.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_11.Author 1 Title 2 It didn“t start out that way. The minute I walked in and the Big Bozo introduced us, I got sick to my stomach. It was one thing to be taken out of your own bed early in the morningit was something else to be stuck in a strange

9、 place with a girl from a whole other race.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_12.Author 1Title 2 Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiati

10、on of daily non-appearance on paradise.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_13.Author 1Title 2 Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_14.Author 1Title 2 So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_15.Author 1Title 2 Jane tugged at her multi

11、ple earrings, coils of gold wire and little glass beads. I had a go at the tension, she said. I can“t get it to go back. Jane was forthright and attacking with many things Veronica had her generations“ classic inadequacy about: machines group living, authority.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_16.Author 1Title 2 Weav

12、e a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with hold dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_17.Author 1Title 2 Of vapors, from whose solid atmosphere Black rain, and fire, and hail will burst: oh hear!（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_18.Author 1Title 2 Business had

13、taken Herbert on a journey to Marseilles. I was alone, and had a dull sense of being alone. Dispirited and anxious, long hoping that tomorrow or next week would clear my way, and long disappointed, I sadly missed the cheerful face and ready response of my friend.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_19.Author 1Title 2 Th

14、e white man sat up. Arsat rose and stood, an indistinct and silent figure above the dying embers of the fire. Over the lagoon a mist drifting and low had crept, erasing slowly the glittering images of the stars.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_20.Author 1Title 2 ABBIE: He“s dead. CABOT: stares at her bewilderedly Wh

15、at. ABBIE: I killed him.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_二、问答题(总题数：8，分数：16.00)21.What does the word “irony“ mean in literary writing?（分数：2.00）_22.Could you briefly explain a pair of terms “round characters“ and “flat characters“ as E. M. Forester presents in his book Aspects of the Novell（分数：2.00）_23.Who is the prot

16、agonist in the story A Woman on a Roof by Doris Lessing?（分数：2.00）_24.Discuss the symbolic meaning of the hawk in Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes.（分数：2.00）_25.What does the title Our Nicky“s Heart by Graham Swift suggest?（分数：2.00）_26.Discuss the implication of the letter “A“ in The Scarlet Letter by Nath

17、aniel Hawthorne.（分数：2.00）_27.Analyze the character of Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller.（分数：2.00）_28.Comment on the artistic features of the poem In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound.（分数：2.00）_三、论述题(总题数：2，分数：4.00)29.“The conflict created when the will of an individual opposes th

18、e will of the majority is recurring theme of many novels plays, and essays.“ From a novel or play of recognized literary merit, select a fictional character who is in opposition to his or her society, and analyze the conflict.（分数：2.00）_30.Make comments on the following passage. Use at least one majo

19、r literary work to support your argument.“Modernism reacted to a top-heavy Victorian rationalism by turning to the exotic, the primitivist, the archaic and unconscious. Truth was to be felt in the guts and genitals, not in the head. Animal spontaneity was the latest cerebral experiment. For all its

20、self-conscious modernity, it was a period rife with myth and sour with blood and soil. We would be blown backwards into the future by gazing on the archaic images of the past, a past which resembled Utopia in its absolute non-existence.“Terry Eagleton（分数：2.00）_2008年南京大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷答案解析(总分：60.00，做题

21、时间：90 分钟)一、填空题(总题数：20，分数：40.00)1.Author 1Title 2 The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars. As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright That birds would sing and think it were not night.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：William Shakespeare，Romeo and

22、 Juliet）解析：解析：注意到文中的五步抑扬格。2.Author 1Title 2 Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag today? Can tell the definition, So clearly, of victory.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Emily Dickenson，Success is Counted Sweetest）解析：解析：狄金森诗歌的形式比较单一，诗行常以三音步和四音步抑扬格及其变体构成。从这一点可以对诗歌的作者进行判定。3.Author 1Title 2 Thus

23、speaking, Fortunato possessed himself of my arm; and putting on a mask of black silk and drawing a roquelaire closely about my person, I suffered him to hurry me to my palazzo. There were no attendants at home; they had absconded to make merry in honour of the time.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Edgar

24、Allan Poe，The Casket of Amontillado）解析：解析：一桶白葡萄酒(The Casket of Amontillado)是爱伦坡悬疑小说的代表作。小说以第一人称为视角描述了主人公蒙特里梭(Montresor)对福吐纳托(Fortunato)的报复。在狂欢节的傍晚，蒙特里梭将醉酒的福吐纳托引入一座公馆(palazzo)，借鉴赏一桶白葡萄酒为名，将其杀害在公馆地窖的最深处。本题解题的关键在于 Montresor和 palazzo。4.Author 1Title 2 His mother“s hand touched his shoulder. “Does hit hu

25、rt?“ she said. “Naw,“ he said. “Hit don“t hurt. Lemme be.“（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：William Faulkner,Barn Burning）解析：解析：烧马棚(Barn Burning)是福克纳的短篇小说，讲述了美国内战后南方白人农民阿伯纳一家的生活经历。注意文中的黑人英语。5.Author 1Title 2 Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colon

26、nade. And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten. And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：TSEliot，The Waste Land）解析：解析：Starnbergersee 与 Hofgarten是判断作者和文章的关键。6.Author 1Title 2 For no very intelligible reason, Mr. Lucas had hurried ahead of his party. He was perhaps reach

27、ing the age at which independence becomes valuable, because it is so soon to be lost.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：EMForster,The Road from Colonus）解析：解析：科林斯之路是福斯特的短篇小说，讲述了 Lucas在旅途中对无奈的社会现实的顿悟。文中出现的人名 Lucas是解题的关键。7.Author 1Title 2 Viciously, with full intention, he hurled his spear at Ralph. The point

28、 tore the skin and flesh over Ralph“s ribs, then sheared off and fell in the water. Ralph stumbled, feeling no pain but panic, and the tribe, screaming now like the Chief, began to advance.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：William Golding，Lord of Flies）解析：解析：威廉戈尔丁(William Golding)，19111994，英国 20世纪最富影响的小说家

29、之一，其代表作则为蝇王(Lord of Flies)，他也因此获得了诺贝尔文学奖。小说蝇王的故事很简单，未来的一场战争毁掉了人类的和平，有一群孩子乘着飞机路过海上时发生了坠机事件并困在了一个荒岛上。最初孩子们齐心协力，共同应付随之而来的种种困难，但由于对“野兽”的恐惧使孩子们渐渐分裂成两派代表理智与文明的一派与代表野性与原始的一派，并于最终爆发了两派的矛盾，主人公为代表理性的拉尔夫(Ralph)和代表野性的杰克(Jack)。 蝇王的典故来源于圣经，原词为 Baalzebub，代表人性最深层的黑暗和无法避免的劣根性。这里人名是解题的关键。8.Author 1Title 2 Every layer

30、 they strip Seems camped on before. The bog holes might be Atlantic seepage The wet center is bottomless.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Seamus Heaney,Bogland）解析：解析：谢默斯希尼(Seamus Heaney)，1939-，爱尔兰诗人。主要诗集有自然主义者之死(Dean of a Naturalist)(1966)、 引向黑暗之门(Door into the Dark)(1969)、外出度冬(Wintering Out)(1972)、 北方(N

31、orth) (1975)、 农活(FieldWork)(1979)和斯特森岛(Station Island)(1984)等，1995 年获诺贝尔文学奖。本文选自沼泽地。9.Author 1Title 2 The report of his undeniable delirium at sea was likewise popularly ascribed to a kindred cause. And so too, all the added moodiness which always afterwards, to the very day of sailing in the Pequod

32、 on the present voyage, sat brooding on his brow.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Herman Melville，Moby Dick）解析：解析：注意文中出现的 Pequod。在本部小说中，麦尔维尔使用了大量的隐喻和象征，考生可以对这些隐喻和象征的使用进行一定的分析。10.Author 1Title 2 I used to wonder About here and there I think the distance Is nowhere.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Langston Hugh

33、es，Border Line）解析：解析：兰斯顿休斯(Langston Hughes)，19021967，美国作家，在诗歌、散文和戏剧方面有卓越成就，代表作有消沉的蓝色(Weary Blues)、 白人的方式 (The Ways ofWhite Folks)11.Author 1 Title 2 It didn“t start out that way. The minute I walked in and the Big Bozo introduced us, I got sick to my stomach. It was one thing to be taken out of your

34、 own bed early in the morningit was something else to be stuck in a strange place with a girl from a whole other race.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Tony Morrison，Recitatif.）解析：解析：叙述 (Recitatif)，托尼莫里森出版的唯一一本短篇小说，讲述了黑人女孩 Twyla和白人女孩 Roberta之间所引发的友谊与冲突。本文以 Twyla的口吻叙述了整个故事情节。Big Bozo 是两个孩子的保姆 MrsItkin 的绰号，

35、也是解题的关键所在。12.Author 1Title 2 Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on paradise.（分数：2.00）填

36、空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Ralph Waldo Emerson，Self-Reliance）解析：13.Author 1Title 2 Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Robert Frost，Fire and Ice）解析：解析：本题文章节选自冰与火。弗罗斯特的叙事诗一般都格调低沉，体现了诗人思想和性格中阴郁的一面。弗罗斯特的世界观是比较复杂的，他把世界看成是一个善与恶的混合体。因此，他的诗一方面描写了大自然的美和自然对人类的恩惠，另一方面也写了其破坏

37、力以及给人类带来的不幸和灾难。弗罗斯特诗歌风格上的一个最大特点是朴素无华，含义隽永，寓深刻的思考和哲理于平淡无奇的内容和简洁朴实的诗句之中。这既是弗罗斯特的艺术追求，也是他事业成功的秘密所在。考生可以借助于这首诗，分析诗人的这种思想以及后结构主义的思想。14.Author 1Title 2 So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：FScott Fitzgerald，The Great Gatsby）解析：解析：这里选自小说

38、了不起的盖茨比的最后一段。这一本小说往往被看做是美国梦的终结，考生应需要重点把握这本小说的主题。15.Author 1Title 2 Jane tugged at her multiple earrings, coils of gold wire and little glass beads. I had a go at the tension, she said. I can“t get it to go back. Jane was forthright and attacking with many things Veronica had her generations“ classic

39、 inadequacy about: machines group living, authority.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Antonia Susan Byatt，Rose-coloured Teacups，）解析：解析：本文选自玫瑰色茶杯(Rose-coloured Teacups)。小说叙述方法独特，女主人公维罗妮卡的思绪在现在与过去、现实与想象之间来回跳跃，打破了传统的时空界线。女儿简将家里一台老缝纫机弄坏了，维罗妮卡感到十分心疼，因为缝纫机是已故母亲的结婚礼物，简却不懂得爱护。维罗妮卡正要朝女儿发火，耳边突然想起当年自己打碎粉红色茶杯后母亲责骂的声音

40、： “你怎么能”维罗妮卡的愤怒转变为沉思，回想起年轻时自己与母亲的矛盾，进而重新审视她与简的关系。文中的主人公维罗妮卡(Veronica)和简(Jane)是解题的关键。 作家介绍 AS拜厄特(Antonia Susan Byatt，1936)，英国当代杰出的女作家、批评家。自 1964年第一部小说太阳的影子(Shadow of the Sun)问世以来，她已经出版了游戏(The Game，1967)、 花园里的处女(The Virgin in the Garden，1978)、 寂寞的生活(Still Life: A Novel，1985)、 占有(Possession：A Romance，1

41、990)和通天塔(BabelTower，1996)等多部长篇小说和糖与其他故事(Sugar and Other Stories，1987)等 4部中、短篇小说集。 占有是她最成功的小说，获 1990年布克奖。16.Author 1Title 2 Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with hold dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Samuel Taylor Cole

42、ridge，Kubla Khan）解析：解析：忽必烈汗是一首非理性的诗，其意义在于逻辑或理性之外的某种韵味。全诗分三节，起首突如其来，随后不断涌进恍惚离奇的幻象。诗中既无故事情节，也没有明确的题旨，而只是传达了一种幻觉或印象。作品虽然以忽必烈汗为题，但并没有刻意描写或赞颂这位中国帝王的伟业，而是将这位传奇人物当作寄情表意的媒介充分发挥诗人的想象力。诗人在叙述过程中不断出现语义断裂和不连贯现象可以使读者更加关注诗歌的形式，充分领略其神奇而优美的韵律。虽然这首诗只是一个片段，但诗人奇特的想象、神秘的感觉、富于音乐性的文字却赋予他经久不衰的魅力，达到了诗人刻意追求的令人“情愿暂时信以为真”(will

43、ingsuspension of disbelief for the moment)的忘我境界。诗中富于节奏的音乐美，尤为西方文学评论家所称道。 作家介绍 塞缪尔泰勒柯勒律治(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)，1772-1834，英国诗人和评论家。主要代表作为忽必烈汗和古舟子咏(The Rime of the Ancient Mariner)。这些诗表现了诗人奇特的想象力如何驰骋在遥远的海洋和中古的月下城堡之间，立意新颖，感情激荡，想象奇特，语言瑰丽，音律优美，代表了浪漫主义的神秘，奇幻的一面，在技巧上则发掘了诗的音乐美。他还写有一些伤感、阴郁的抒情短诗，表现了诗人不幸的生活遭

44、遇和抑郁的心情。他写有大量的文学、哲学、神学论著，论述精辟，见解独到，在英国文学史上占有重要地位。17.Author 1Title 2 Of vapors, from whose solid atmosphere Black rain, and fire, and hail will burst: oh hear!（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：PBShelly，Ode to the West Wind）解析：解析：西风颂是 19世纪英国伟大的抒情诗人雪莱的代表作之一，在诗中诗人把西风当作革命力量的象征，它横扫败叶、席卷残云、震荡大海，是无所不及、无处不在的“不羁的精灵”。同时西风对新生事物起了保护和促进作用，是“破坏者兼保护者”。诗人愿意做一把预言的号角，告知人们：如果冬天已经来了，呵，西风，春天还会遥远吗?这有名的诗句一百多年来鼓舞了无数革命者。 西风颂全诗气势豪放，想象奇丽，意境雄浑，思想深沉，感情强烈，在艺术上达到辉煌的境界。18.Author 1Title 2 Business had taken Her