【考研类试卷】2011年南京大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案解析.doc

1、2011年南京大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案解析(总分：88.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、填空题(总题数：34，分数：68.00)1.1 , a nineteenth-century literary critic, describes literary criticism as “ a disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world“.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_2.At the turn of the twentieth century

2、, there arose a more deliberate kind of realism called 2 which aimed to provide a precise description of actual circumstances of human life in minute details.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_3.Poets usually create a 3 , or fictitious “character“ to express feelings and thoughts.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_4.For a time American

3、poetry imitated the traditional verse of England. It was 4 who brought a new American voice to the world.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_5.For the generation who had lived through the wars, the problem of communication in an increasingly complex and terrifying world became the major issue. Their response to the spi

4、ritual and material impoverishment, and the ultimate threat of total annihilation was put clear in 5（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_6.James Joyce styled 6 in his fiction, each being shaped around a moment of revelation as “ a sudden spiritual manifestation. “（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_7.E. M. Forster makes a distinction betwe

5、en 7 and 8 characters. The former are simple and unchanging; the latter are complex and dynamic.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_8.Many writers who figured prominently in the 1920s, belong to the group which Gertrude Stein dubbed the 9（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_9.In the 1960s and 1970s there appeared 10 that explicitly concern

6、s itself with the process of narration, writing, and composition.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_10.Author 1Title 2 Here is no water but only rock Rock and no water and the sandy road The road winding above among the mountains Which are mountains of rock without water（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_11.Author 1Title 2 I relinquishe

7、d the intention he had detected, for I knew him! Even yet I could not recall a single feature, but I knew him! If the wind and the rain had driven away the intervening years, had scattered all the intervening objects, had swept up to the churchyard where we first stood face to face on such different

8、 levels, I could not have known my convict more distinctly than I knew him now, as he sat in the chair before the fire.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_12.Author 1Title 2 Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear“d, Pipe to th

9、e spirit ditties of no tone:（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_13.Author 1Title He felt that his luck was better than usual today. When he had reported for work that morning he had expected to 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,

10、 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 the distribution of the checks. It was true that it was a city job; nobody expected you to push too hard at a city job.（分数：2.00）填

11、空项 1:_14.Author 1Title 2 He was an odd old guy,my grandfather,and I am told I take after him. It was he who caused the trouble. On his deathbed he called my father to him and said, “Son, after I“m gone I want you to keep up the good fight. I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a tr

12、aitor all my born days, a spy in the enemy“s country ever since I give up my gun back in the Reconstruction. Live with your head in the lion“s mouth. I want you to overcome“em with yeses, undermine“em with grins, agree“em to death and destruction, let“em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open

13、. “（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_15.Author 1Title 2 What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always find those who think th

14、ey know what is your duty better than you know it.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_16.Author 1Title 2 It was father“s idea that both he and mother should try to entertain the people who came to eat at our restaurant. I cannot now remember his words but he gave the impression of one about to become in some obscure wa

15、y a kind of public entertainer.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_17.Author 1Title 2 Honey, I told you I thoroughly checked on these stories! Now wait till I finished. The trouble with Dame Blanche was that she couldn“t put on her act any more in Laurel! They got wised up after two or three dates with her and then the

16、y quit, and she goes on to another, the same old line, same old act, same old hooey!（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_18.Author 1Title 2 I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_19.Author 1Title 2 When the young womanthe mother of t

17、his childstood fully revealed before the crowd, it seemed to be her first impulse to clasp the infant closely to her bosom; not so much by an impulse of motherly affection, as that she might thereby conceal a certain token, which was wrought or fastened into her dress.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_20.Author 1Titl

18、e 2 I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. We think by feeling. What is there to know? I hear my being dance from ear to ear. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_21.Author 1Title 2 When the corresponde

19、nt again opened his eyes, the sea and the sky were each of the gray hue of the dawning. Later, carmine and gold was painted upon the waters. The morning appeared finally, in its splendor with a sky of pure blue, and the sunlight flamed on the tips of the waves.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_22.Author 1Title 2 I wa

20、s seated by the shore of a small pond, about a mile and a half south of the village of Concord and somewhat higher than it, in the midst of an extensive wood between that town and Lincoln, and about two miles south of that our only filed known to fame, Concord Battle Ground;.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_23.Autho

21、r 1Title 2 A succession of loud and shrill screams, bursting suddenly from the throat of the chained form, seemed to thrust me violently back. For a brief moment I hesitated, I trembled. Unsheathing my rapier, I began to grope with it about the recess; but the thought of an instant reassured me. I p

22、laced my hand upon the solid fabric of the catacombs and felt satisfied. I reapproached the wall. I replied to the yells of him who clamoured.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_24.Author 1Title 2 Summertime, oh, summertime, pattern of life indelible, the fade-proof lake, the woods unshatterable, the pasture with the s

23、weetfern and the juniper forever and ever, summer without end; .（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_25.Author 1Title 2 Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou her maid art far more fair than she.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_26.Author 1Title 2 The earth seemed unearthly. We are a

24、ccustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but therethere you could look at a thing monstrous and free. It was unearthly, and the men wereNo, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of itthis suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. T

25、hey howled, and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; that what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_27.Author 1Title 2 Nor did wild rumors of all sorts fail to exaggerate, and still the more horrify the tale histories of these deadly encounters. For not only do fab

26、ulous rumors naturally grow out of the very body of all surprising terrible events, as the smitten tree gives birth to its fungi; but, in maritime life, far more than in that of terra firma, wild rumors abound, wherever there is any adequate reality for every other sort of maritime life, in the wond

27、erfulness and fearfulness of the rumors which sometimes circulate there.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_28.Author 1Title 2 Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Aegean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea.（分数

28、：2.00）填空项 1:_29.Author 1Title 2 I imagined that I bore my chalice safely through tile throng of foes. Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears(I could not tell why)and at times a flood from my heart seeme

29、d to pour itself out into my bosom. I thought little of the future. I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.（分数：2.00）填

30、空项 1:_30.Author 1Title 2 The artist spends a lifetime in pursuing the things that haunt him, in having his mind “teased“ by them, in trying to get these conceptions down on paper exactly as they are to him and not in conventional poses supposed to reveal their character; trying this method and that,

31、 as a painter tries different lightings and different attitudes with his subject to catch the one that presents it more suggestively than any other. And at the end of a lifetime he emerges with much that is more or less happy experimenting, and comparatively little that is the very flower of himself

32、 and his genius.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_31.Author 1Title 2 At this point the woman, still lying prone, brought her two hands up behind her shoulders with the ends of a scarf in them, tied it behind her back, and sat up. She wore a red scarf tied around her breasts and brief red bikini pants. This being the

33、first day of the sun she was white, flushing red.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_32.Author 1Title 2 I have already thought of ending Charles“s career here and now; of leaving him for eternity on his way to London. But the conventions of Victorian fiction allowed on place for the open, the inconclusive ending; and I

34、 preached earlier of the freedom characters must be given.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_33.Author 1Title 2 Butter sunk under More than a hundred years Was recovered salty and white. The ground itself is kind, black butter Melting and opening underfoot. Missing its last definition By millions of years. They“ll nev

35、er dig coal here,.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_34.Author 1Title 2 I really don“t see anything romantic about proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then, the excitement is all over. The very essen

36、ce of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I“ll certainly try to forget the fact.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_二、问答题(总题数：6，分数：12.00)35.Briefly review the contributions that Washington Irving made to the history of American literature.（分数：2.00）_36.Write a short comment on The Jazz Age.（分数：2.00）_37.Write

37、a summary of ANY story of the following: “ Looking for Mr. Green,“ “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place“ , “Barn Burning“.（分数：2.00）_38.Tess of the D“Urbervilles is subtitled “a pure woman faithfully represented“. Why is Tess, a fallen woman who commits felony, considered by the author a pure woman?（分数：2.00）

38、_39.Robert Browning is noted as a writer of dramatic monologues, in which a single “actor“ speaks to an implied auditor. Explain the special effects of the literary form in relation to poetic themes.（分数：2.00）_40.Write a summary of Either of the following stories; “Araby“ and “Rose-Colored Teacups“.（

39、分数：2.00）_三、分析题(总题数：2，分数：8.00)Read the following poem and fulfill the tasks.(20 points)Touch it; it won“t shrink like an eyeball, This egg-shaped bailiwick, clear as a tear.Here“s yesterday, last yearPalm-spear and lily distinct as flora in the vastWindless threadwork of a tapestry.Flick the glass wi

40、th your fingernail:It will ping like a Chinese chime in the slightest air stirThough nobody in there looks up or bothers to answer.The inhabitants are light as cork,Every one of them permanently busy.At their feet, the sea waves bow in single file.Never trespassing in bad temper;Stalling in midair,S

41、hort-reined, pawing like paradeground horses.Overhead, the clouds sit tasseled and fancyAs Victorian cushions. This familyOf valentine faces might please a collector:They ring true, like good china.Elsewhere the landscape is more frank.The light fails without letup, blindingly.A woman is dragging he

42、r shadow in a circleAbout a bald hospital saucer.It resembles the moon, or a sheet of blank paperAnd appears to have suffered a sort of private blitzkrieg.She lives quietlyWith no attachments, like a foetus in a bottle,The obsolete house, the sea; flattened to a pictureShe has one too many dimension

43、s to enter.Grief and anger, exorcised,Leave her alone now.The future is a grey seagullTattling in its cat-voice of departure.Age and terror, like nurses, attend her,And a drowned man, complaining of the great cold,Crawls up out of the sea.（分数：6.00）(1).Identify its author(2 points);（分数：2.00）_(2).Try

44、to give it a suitable title(3 points);（分数：2.00）_(3).Write a short essay to discuss its thematic concerns.(15 points)（分数：2.00）_41.Write a critical essay in response to the following questions about Shakespeare“s Hamlet.(30 points)1. Is Hamlet a “a sweet prince“ or an “arrant knave“?(4 points)2. Why d

45、oes Hamlet delay in killing Claudius?(4 points)3. Is Hamlet mad?(2 points)4. To what extent is it right to call Hamlet a revenge play?(10 points)5. How important are politics and comedy in Hamlet?(10 points)（分数：2.00）_2011年南京大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷答案解析(总分：88.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、填空题(总题数：34，分数：68.00)1.1 , a nineteenth-century literary cr