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

1、2010年武汉大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案解析(总分：24.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、填空题(总题数：4，分数：8.00)1.Two men fight a duel in the border region of England and Scotland and the loser causes more shame than pain to his aged father with his loss because his loss is considered not a loss of his own but a loss of the nation. Answer; “

2、 1“ by 2（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_2.With its hero traveling into different places with different companions the story discusses the features of each stage of human life. Answer; “ 1“ by 2（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_3.Lord Murchison tells of his love experience with a young woman who is mysterious in her actions. Answer;

3、“ 1“ by 2（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_4.Arsat, after successfully running away with the woman of his ruler, is troubled deep at heart by the thought that he had left his brother in the midst of enemies to die. Answer; “ 1“ by 2（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_二、单项选择题(总题数：5，分数：10.00)5.In one sense _ wrote all his life about one t

4、heme, which is neatly summed up in the famous phrase “grace under pressure“ , and created one hero who acts that theme out.（分数：2.00）A.F. S. FitzgeraldB.Ernest HemingwayC.William FaulknerD.Sinclair Lewis6.The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called_, that is, poetry without a fixed beat or re

5、gular rhyme scheme.（分数：2.00）A.free verseB.blank verseC.lyricD.epic7.America“s greatest playwright for the first half of the 20th century is _.（分数：2.00）A.Arthur MillerB.Tennessee WilliamsC.Eugene O“NeillD.Edward Albee8.In the light of American _, man is living in a cold, indifferent, and essentially

6、Godless world, and is no longer free in any sense of the word.（分数：2.00）A.PuritanismB.RomanticismC.RealismD.Naturalism9.The term_mainly refers to those young American expatriate writers caught in the war and cut off from the old values and yet unable to come to terms with the new era after World War

7、I when civilization had gone mad.（分数：2.00）A.The Beat GenerationB.The Lost GenerationC.postwar realistsD.local colorists三、分析题(总题数：3，分数：6.00)10.Based on The Waste Land, discuss the features of T. S. Eliot“s poetry and his contribution to Modernist literature.（分数：2.00）_11.Give a summary of Mrs. Warren“

8、s Profession and then briefly discuss Bernard Shaw“s social criticism through this play.（分数：2.00）_12.Essay Question on American Literature.(20 points)“ An innocent man in a different world“ is a recurrent theme, and perhaps one of the most important themes, in American literature. Write a short essa

9、y on it by taking for example at least two American literary works, of whatsoever genres.（分数：2.00）_2010年武汉大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷答案解析(总分：24.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、填空题(总题数：4，分数：8.00)1.Two men fight a duel in the border region of England and Scotland and the loser causes more shame than pain to his aged father with

10、 his loss because his loss is considered not a loss of his own but a loss of the nation. Answer; “ 1“ by 2（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Death of the Laird“s Jock, Sir Walter Scott）解析：2.With its hero traveling into different places with different companions the story discusses the features of each stag

11、e of human life. Answer; “ 1“ by 2（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：The Pilgrims Progress, John Bunyan）解析：3.Lord Murchison tells of his love experience with a young woman who is mysterious in her actions. Answer; “ 1“ by 2（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：The Sphinx Without a Secret, Oscar Wilde）解析：4.Arsat, aft

12、er successfully running away with the woman of his ruler, is troubled deep at heart by the thought that he had left his brother in the midst of enemies to die. Answer; “ 1“ by 2（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：The Lagoon, Joseph Conrad）解析：二、单项选择题(总题数：5，分数：10.00)5.In one sense _ wrote all his life about o

13、ne theme, which is neatly summed up in the famous phrase “grace under pressure“ , and created one hero who acts that theme out.（分数：2.00）A.F. S. FitzgeraldB.Ernest Hemingway C.William FaulknerD.Sinclair Lewis解析：6.The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called_, that is, poetry without a fixed be

14、at or regular rhyme scheme.（分数：2.00）A.free verse B.blank verseC.lyricD.epic解析：7.America“s greatest playwright for the first half of the 20th century is _.（分数：2.00）A.Arthur MillerB.Tennessee WilliamsC.Eugene O“Neill D.Edward Albee解析：8.In the light of American _, man is living in a cold, indifferent,

15、and essentially Godless world, and is no longer free in any sense of the word.（分数：2.00）A.PuritanismB.RomanticismC.RealismD.Naturalism 解析：9.The term_mainly refers to those young American expatriate writers caught in the war and cut off from the old values and yet unable to come to terms with the new

16、era after World War I when civilization had gone mad.（分数：2.00）A.The Beat GenerationB.The Lost Generation C.postwar realistsD.local colorists解析：三、分析题(总题数：3，分数：6.00)10.Based on The Waste Land, discuss the features of T. S. Eliot“s poetry and his contribution to Modernist literature.（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答

17、案：The feature of Eliot“s poem first lies in its theme. In The Waste Land, the Western Europe, or Western civilization as a whole is regarded as a waste land. From the theme of The Waste Land, we can see the thematic concerns of the modernismloneliness, isolation and despair. The charm of The Waste L

18、and is more in its language. Eliot has made radical innovations in modern poetry writing by experimenting with various techniques. His unique features in this poem include subtle ironies, disconnected passages, contrasts of the present and past, the mixture of erudition and common speech in his dict

19、ion, and the juxtaposition of mythic or symbolic images and allusions from past literary works, from fragments of songs and scriptures, from history, and from modern life. Thus, Eliot has woven the whole poem into a web of imagery and allusions, bringing out a strong effect of multi-dimensionless in

20、 its theme. The thematic concern to the world after the war in this poem, along with his experimenting writing techniques, has great impact to the modern literature.)解析：11.Give a summary of Mrs. Warren“s Profession and then briefly discuss Bernard Shaw“s social criticism through this play.（分数：2.00）_

21、正确答案：(正确答案：Mrs. Warren“s Profession is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893. The story centers on the relationship between Mrs. Kitty Warren, a brothel owner, described by the author as “on the whole, a genial and fairly presentable old blackguard of a woman“ and her daughter, Vivie. It cen

22、ters young, recent Cambridge graduate Vivie Warren“s discovery that her mother“s wealthand its obvious relationship to Vivie“s own material comforts, education, and station in lifeis the product of a prostitution enterprise. The play follows how Vivie“s discovery of her mother“s secret profession ch

23、allenges and changes their relationship. In this play Shaw accuses the bourgeoisie of making profit by fostering prostitution. The prostitution houses are used as a way for exploitation, and for investment not only by Mrs. Warren, who has been a prostitute herself, but by respectable aristocrats lik

24、e Sir George Crofts. Therefore, Shaw also exposes the extreme hypocrisy in his society, because at the back of the respectability, moral dignity and nobility of character, all that sort of gibberish uttered by the ruling classes to cover themselves with honors and glory, there are the dirtiest and c

25、rudest ways of exploitation with which they make their money and live their grand, civilized lives.)解析：12.Essay Question on American Literature.(20 points)“ An innocent man in a different world“ is a recurrent theme, and perhaps one of the most important themes, in American literature. Write a short

26、 essay on it by taking for example at least two American literary works, of whatsoever genres.（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：“An innocent man in a different world“ is a recurrent theme in American literature. We can see this theme in Henry James“ The American, Daisy Miller and Salinger“s The Catcher in the Ry

27、e. Most of Henry James“ novels have the “international theme“ ; the meeting of America and Europe, American innocence in contact and contrast with European decadence, the moral and psychological complications arising from there. Christopher Newman in The American, frustrated by the evil of French ar

28、istocratic selfishness, finds his infinite dismay that the dead hand of its traditions has reached out to snatch his happiness away from him. Daisy Miller relates the tale of a young girl of America, who goes to Rome and never realizes for one moment that European values can be any different from th

29、ose of her hometown. For these Americans, it was a process of progression from inexperience to experience, from innocence to knowledge and maturity. Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye doesn“t go abroad, but he also experiences a world different from his own. After being expelled from school

30、and afraid of meeting his parents, Holden wanders in the world of decadent New York, and becomes aware of the fact that the world of adults is a “ phony“ one, and he is surrounded by “jerks“ of all kinds. It is the innocence of children and reminiscences of childhood experience that have ultimately saved Holden from despair and doom.)解析：