【考研类试卷】2010年南京大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案解析.doc

1、2010年南京大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案解析(总分：86.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、填空题(总题数：35，分数：70.00)1.Keats“ major achievement, and one of the major achievements in English literature, is the sequence of 1that he wrote in his time.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_2.Thomas Gray was the leader of the sentimental poetry, known as “ 1“.（分数：2.00）填空项

2、 1:_3.Theodore Dreiser“s first novel is 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_4.Eugene O“Neill“s 1is a play that concerns the problem of Yank“s identity.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_5. 1of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby(1925).（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_6.The term “ 1“ is co

3、mmonly used to name the work of the 17th-century writers who wrote under the influence of John Donne.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_7. 1defines the poet as “ man speaking to men,“ and poetry as “ the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility. “（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_

4、8.The most clearly defined Romantic literary movement in the U. S. is New England 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_9.Walt Whitman is radically innovative in term of the form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is “ 1“.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_10.In English literature, 1“s novels blend

5、 industrial and rural settings magnificently. He had written about the frustration of desires and there is obvious sexual application in his work.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_11.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

6、 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 parade.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_12.Author 1Title It was a circumstance to be noted, on the summer morning when our story begins its course, that the women, of whom there were s

7、everal in the crowd, appeared to take a peculiar interest in whatever penal infliction might be expected to ensue. The age had not so much refinement, that any sense of impropriety restrained the wearers of petticoat and farthingale from stepping forth into the public ways, and wedging their not uns

8、ubstantial persons, if occasion were, into the throng nearest to the scaffold at an execution.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_13.Author 1Title 2 It is not probable that this monomania in him took its instant rise at the precise time of his bodily dismemberment. Then, in darting at the monster, knife in hand, he had

9、 but given loose to a sudden passionate, corporal animosity; and when he receive the stroke that tore him, he probably but felt the agonizing bodily laceration, but nothing more.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_14.Author 1Title 2 What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain?What the anvil? What dre

10、ad grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp?（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_15.Author 1Title 2 And on that cheek, and o“er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent!（分数：2.00）填空项 1:

11、_16.Author 1Title 2 If only she hadn“t been that robust woman but a woman, in her middle years, with an incurable complaint of the heart. Then of course it wouldn“t have been terrible or even difficult to have made that decision that night, it wouldn“t even have been the source for ever afterwards o

12、f confusion, mystery and remorse.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_17.Author 1Title 2 My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near, Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_18.Author 1Title 2 In the day time the street was dusty, but at night the dew se

13、ttled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference. The two waiters inside the cafe knew that the old man was a little drunk, and while he was a good client they knew that if he became too drunk he would leave without paying,

14、 so they kept watch on him.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_19.Author 1Title 2 But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e“er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_20.Author 1Tit

15、le 2 Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three and twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character. Her mind was less difficult to develop. She was a woman of mean understanding, little informatio

16、n, and uncertain temper.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_21.Author 1Title 2 “ Every one asks me what I “ think“ of everything“ said Spencer Brydon; “ and I make answer as I canbegging or dodging the question, putting them off with any nonsense. It wouldn“t matter to any of them really, “ he went on, “ for, even were

17、 it possible to meet in that stand-and-deliver way so silly a demand on so big a subject, my “ thoughts“ would still be almost altogether about something that concerns only myself. “（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_22.Author 1Title 2 My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my

18、 arm, he has no pulse nor will, The ship is anchor“d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done, From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_23.Author 1Title 2 In fairness to Charles it must be said that he sent to find Sam before he left the White Lion. But the servan

19、t was not in the taproom or the stables. Charles guessed indeed where he was. He could not send there; and thus he left Lyme without seeing him again. He got into his four-wheeler in the yard, and promptly drew down the blinds.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_24.Author 1Title 2 I found Simon Wheeler dozing comfortab

20、ly by the bar-room stove of the old, dilapidated tavern in the ancient mining camp of Angel“s, and I noticed that he was fat and bald-headed, and had an expression of winning gentleness and simplicity upon his tranquil countenance. He roused up and gave me good-day.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_25.Author 1Title 2

21、 Yossarian let his eyes fall closed and hoped they would think he was unconscious. “He“s fainted,“ he heard a doctor say. “Can“t we treat him now before it“s too late? He really might die. “ “All right, take him. I hope the bastard does die. “（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_26.Author 1Title 2 I can give you that hi

22、storical bird“s eye view. But I cannot explain the mystery of Leonard Side“s inheritance. Most of us know the parents or grandparents we come from. But we go back and back, forever; we go back all of us to the very beginning; in our blood and bone and brain we carry the memories of thousands of bein

23、gs.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_27.Author 1Title 2 The store in which the Justice of the Peace“s court was sitting smelled of cheese. The boy, crouched on his nail keg at the back of the crowded room, knew he smelled cheese, and more: from where he sat could see the ranked shelves close-packed with the solid, sq

24、uat, dynamic shapes of tin cans whose labels his stomach read, not from the lettering which meant nothing to his mind.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_28.Author 1Title 2 My mother danced all night and Roberta“s was sick. That“s why we were taken to St. Bonny“s. People want to put their arms around you when you tell

25、them you were in a shelter, but it really wasn“t bad. No big long room with one hundred beds like Bellevue.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_29.Author 1Title 2 He had rolled a handkerchief round his head, and his face was set and lowering in his sleep. But he was asleep, and quietly too, though he had a pistol lying

26、on the pillow. Assured of this, I softly removed the key to the outside of this door, and turned it on him before I again sat down by the fire. Gradually I slipped from the chair and lay on the floor . When I awoke, without having parted in my sleep with the perception of my wretchedness, the clocks

27、 of the Eastward churches were striking five, the candles were wasted out, the fire was dead, and the wind and rain intensified the thick black darkness.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_30.Author 1Title 2 He felt that his luck was better than usual today. When he had reported for work that morning he had expected to

28、 be shut up in the relief office at a clerk“s job, for he had been hired downtown as a clerk, and he was glad to have, instead, the freedom of the streets and welcomed, at least at first, the vigor of the cold and even the blowing of the hard wind. But on the other hand he was not getting on with th

29、e distribution of the checks.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_31.Author 1Title 2 Three men were at work on the roof, where the leads got so hot they had the idea of throwing water on to cool them. But the water steamed, then sizzled; and they make jokes about getting an egg from some woman in the flats under the fla

30、ts under them, to poach it for their dinner.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_32.Author 1Title 2 The three women sat in the little room, imagined not remembered. Veronica detected in her mother“s cream-coloured dress just a touch of awkwardness, her grandmother“s ineptness at a trade for which she was not wholly suit

31、ed, a shoulder out of true, a cuff awry, as so many buttons and cuffs and waistbands had been during the making-do in the time of austerity.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_33.Author 1Title 2 Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants, but not always best subjects, for they are light to run away,and

32、 almost all fugitives are of that condition.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_34.Author 1Title 2 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_35.Author 1Title 2 Spite, spite, is the word of your undoing! And when you“re down and out, remember what did it.

33、 When you“re rotting somewhere beside the railroad tracks, remember, and don“t you dare blame it on me!（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_二、问答题(总题数：6，分数：12.00)36.Briefly state the main ideas of Benjamin Franklin“s The Autobiography and give your comments on them.（分数：2.00）_37.What are the qualities that Granny Weathera

34、ll has? In what way do such qualities help her live successfully?（分数：2.00）_38.What does “the green light“ symbolize in The Great Gatsby? Does it exist in reality? Explain your answer.（分数：2.00）_39.What does T. S. Eliot“s idea of “an objective of correlative“ mean to you?（分数：2.00）_40.What does Virgini

35、a Woolf use to present the life of the titled character in her Mrs. Dalloway?（分数：2.00）_41.What do you find admirable in Robinson Crusoe? Discuss briefly some of his traits.（分数：2.00）_三、评论题(总题数：1，分数：2.00)42.Compare Grief with Tears, Idle Tears, commenting particularly on the treatment of their themes.

36、(30 points)1. GriefBy Elizabeth Barrett BrowningI tell you hopeless grief is passionless;That only men incredulous of despair,Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight airBeat upward to God“s throne in loud accessOf shrieking and reproach. Full desertnessIn souls, as countries, lieth silent-bareU

37、nder the blanching, vertical eye-glareOf the absolute heavens. Deep-hearted man, expressGrief for thy dead in silence like to death:Most like a monumental statue setIn everlasting watch and moveless woeTill itself crumble to the dust beneath.Touch it; the marble eyelids are not wetIf it could weep,

38、it could arise and go.2. Tears, Idle TearsBy Alfred, Lord TennysonTears, idle tears. I know not what they mean,Tears from the depth of some divine despairRise in the heart and gather to the eyes.In looking on the happy Autumn-fields.And thinking of the days that are no more.Fresh as the first beam g

39、littering on a sail.That brings our friends up from the underworld,Sad as the last which reddens over oneThat sinks with all we love below the verge;So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawnsThe earliest pipe of half-awakened birdsTo dying ears, when unto

40、 dying eyesThe casement slowly grows a glimmering square;So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feignedOn lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days

41、 that are no more!（分数：2.00）_作文43.Write a critical essay on the following topic.(30 points)Modernism is a reaction against realism. Discuss the features of modernism and illustrate your point with examples.（分数：2.00）_2010年南京大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷答案解析(总分：86.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、填空题(总题数：35，分数：70.00)1.Keats“ major

42、achievement, and one of the major achievements in English literature, is the sequence of 1that he wrote in his time.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：odes）解析：2.Thomas Gray was the leader of the sentimental poetry, known as “ 1“.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：the Graveyard School）解析：解析： 托马斯格雷是 18世纪英国的重要诗人，也是英

43、国新古典主义后期的重要诗人。他的著名长诗墓园挽歌(Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard)最初是为了哀悼他在伊顿公学读书时的好友理查德韦斯特，但全诗的内容已经明显超越了对某个具体人物的哀思，而是通过对乡村一处墓地的描写，表达了对下层默默无闻的人民的深切同情，对他们纯朴善良的品质的赞扬，为他们没有机会施展天赋和才华而惋惜；同时也表现了诗人对权贵、人间虚荣的蔑视和嘲讽，对大人物奢侈生活的谴责。这首诗充分体现了格雷的民主思想。弥漫于全诗的感伤情调使它成为 18世纪后期感伤主义诗歌的典范之作。此后他和圈内的朋友们以此为主题写了很多诗篇，后被人们称作是 The Gra

44、veyard School“墓园派诗人”。3.Theodore Dreiser“s first novel is 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Sister Carrie）解析：4.Eugene O“Neill“s 1is a play that concerns the problem of Yank“s identity.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：The Hairy Ape）解析：解析： 毛猿是一部兼有现实主义、表现主义和象征主义的戏剧。主人公扬克是一艘远洋轮船上的司炉，以身强力壮得到同伴的敬畏。一次遭受旅客中一个有钱女人的侮辱，

45、便到外面去寻找他的生活地位，最后只好与动物园的一只大猩猩交朋友，最终却死在它的大力拥抱下。扬克作为一个业已与世界失去和谐的现代人，最终被异化世界吞没了。扬克的死是作者对社会的抨击扬克为有所“归属”和“身份的认同”而奋斗，为让他人接受和承认他的自我而奋斗，这就是本剧的主题。5. 1of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby(1925).（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：The Jazz Age）解析：解析： 爵士时代指的是第一次世界大战结束后(1918)至经济大萧条(1929)到来之前的这段时间，传统的清教徒道德已经土崩瓦解，享乐主义开始大行其道。菲茨杰拉德(FSFitzgerald，1896 一 19