[考研类试卷]2007年南京大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案与解析.doc

1、2007年南京大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案与解析 一、填空题 1 Author_Title_ April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull rots with spring rain. 2 Author_Title_ Next day was cloudless, and they decided to finish the work in the basement. They felt excluded, shut i

2、n the grey cement basement fitting pipes, from the holiday atmosphere of London in a heat wave. At lunchtime they came up for some air, but while the married couples, and the men in shirt sleeves or vests, were thee, she was not there, either on her usual patch of roof or where she had been yesterda

3、y. 3 Author_Title_ Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. 4 Author_Title_ For having lived in Westminster how many years now? over twenty one feels even in the midst of the traffic, or waking at night, Clarissa was positive, a particular husk, or solemni

4、ty; an indescribable pause; a suspense (but that might be her heart, affected, they said, by influenza) before Big Ben strikes. There! Out it boomed. First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air. Such fools we are, she thought, crossing Victoria Stree

5、t. 5 Author_ Title_ My feet are locked upon the rough bark. It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather; Now I hold Creation in my foot 6 Author_Title_ At other times, the like battles have been fought between the Yahoos of several neighborhoods, without any visible cause: thos

6、e of one district watching all opportunities to surprise the next, before they are prepared. But if they find their project has miscarried they return home, and, for want of enemies, engage in what I call a civil war among themselves. 7 Author_Title_ To die to sleep. To sleep perchance to dream: ay,

7、 theres the rub! For in that sleep of death what dreams may come. When we have shuffled off this mortal coil. Must give us pause. 8 Author_Title_ “He is not my husband, not ever will be. He does not love me: I do not love him. He loves (as he can love, and that is not as you love) a beautiful young

8、lady called Rosamond. He wanted to marry me only because he thought I should make a suitable missionarys wife, which she would not have done. He is good and great, but severe; and, for me cold as an iceberg. He is not like you sir: I am not happy at his side, nor near him, nor with him. He has no in

9、dulgence for me no fondness, He sees nothing attractive in me: not even youth only a few useful mental points. Then I must leave you, sir, to go to him?“ 9 Author_Title_ The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls: He watches from his mountain wall, And like a thunderbolt he falls. 10 Author_Title_ The city

10、 of Wintoncester the fine old city, aforetime capital of Wessex lay amidst its convex and concave down lands in all the brightness and warmth of a July morning. The gabled brick, tile, and freestone houses had almost dried off for the season their integument of lichen, the streams in the meadows wer

11、e low, and in the sloping Highstreet, from the West Gateway to the mediaeval cross, and from the mediaeval cross to the bridge, that leisurely dusting and sweeping was in progress which usually ushers in an old-fashioned market-day. 11 Author_Title_ I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth I

12、 knew not where; For who has the sight so keen and strong That can follow the flight of a song. 12 Author_Title_ Well, and what if she was? She still had ears. It was like Cornelia to whisper around doors. She always kept things secret in such a public way. She was always being tactful and kind. Cor

13、nelia was dutiful; that was the trouble wit her. Dutiful and good: “So good and dutiful.“ Said Granny, “that Id like to spank her.“ 13 Author_Title_ The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. 14 Author_Title_ It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I ha

14、d been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only could ans

15、wer. 15 Author_Title_ He disliked bars and bodegas. A clean, well-lighted cafe was a very different thing. Now, without thinking further, he would go home to his room. He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomni

16、a. Many must have it. 二、名词解释 16 The Marble Faun 17 English Traits 18 The Purloined Letter 19 Herzog 20 After the Fall 21 The Confidence Man 22 Something Happened 23 This Side of Paradise 24 Cathay 25 Pater son 三、问答题 26 In what way is the West Wind both a destroyed and a preserver in Shellys Ode to t

17、he West Wind? 27 Who kills Paul in The Rocking-Horse Winner? 28 What does the title of The Road from Colonus by E. M. Forster suggest? 29 How to understand Ralph W. Emersons statement “What I must to is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous I actual and in intel

18、lectual life, may serve of for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness,“ in terms of American characteristics? 30 Why is Gatsby, the protagonist in F. Scott Fitzgeralds novel The Great Gatsby, called “the great“? 31 Take the poem A Supermarket in California as an example to relate some

19、artistic similarities between. W. Whitman and A. Ginsberg. 32 Compare the attitudes toward women of two male characters from any texts in Selected Readings in British Literature or Selected Readings in American Literature: Sufficient textual information is required to illustrate your viewpoints. 33

20、Compare and contrast the way the main character(s) in the work of THREE of the following authors was able or unable to accept death: Walt Whitman, Sherwood Anderson, William Faulkner, Robert Frost and Eugene ONeill. Sufficient textual information is required to illustrate your viewpoints. 34 Hemingw

21、ays war novel ends with a scene in a maternity hospital. How does this final topic, the death of a woman and a child in childbirth, force us to enlarge or reconsider what we took to be the central subject of the novel? In what sense is the novel a war novel? What is its subject if it is not war, bat

22、tle, engagement with the enemy, strategy, etc.? Sufficient textual information is required to illustrate your viewpoints. 四、论述题 35 In the opening sentences of Whartons The House of Mirth we find the following: “.“ what was Miss Bart doing in town at that season? If she had appeared to be catching a

23、train, he might have inferred that he had come on her in the act of transition between one and another of the country houses which disputed her presence after the close of the Newport season, but her desultory air perplexed him. She stood apart from the crowd, letting it drift by her to the platform

24、 or the street, and wearing an air of irresolution which might, as she surmised, be the mask of a very definite purpose. An impulse of curiosity made him turn out of his direct line to the door, and stroll past her. He knew that if she did not wish to be seen she would contrive to elude him; and it

25、amused him to think of putting her skill to the test. What do we know about the kind of society Wharton will be describing from these sentences and opening moments of action? 36 “She had been a big woman once but now her skeleton rose, draped loosely in unpadded skin that tightened again a paunch al

26、most dropsically, as though muscle and tissue had been courage or fortitude which the days or the ears had consumed until only the indomitable skeleton was left rising like a ruin or a landmark above the somnolent and impervious guts, and above that the collapsed face that gave he impression of the

27、bones themselves being outside the flesh, lifted into the driving day with an expression at once fatalistic and of a childs astonished disappointment, until she turned and entered the house again and closed the door.“ Faulkners description of Dilsey. List the features of Faulkners style present in t

28、his description. 五、评论题 37 Make comments on the following passage. Use at least one major novel to support your argument. For most of its history the British novel has been primarily a domestic melodrama about money and sex, and the modern novel is no exception. Nineteenth-century realism especially

29、is an encyclopedia of entries on English class and gender anxieties, and on the links between them. There is of course, another tradition of adventure and travel, rooted in the maritime imperialism of the British Isles. This tradition is also well represented by the modern novel, which often followe

30、d earlier travel adventure narratives in providing a critical commentary on life at home. Vincent P. Pecora 2007年南京大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷答案与解析 一、填空题 1 【正确答案】 T S Eliot， The Waste Land 2 【正确答案】 Doris Lessing， A Woman on a Roof 3 【正确答案】 William Blake， The Sick Rose 4 【正确答案】 Virginia Woolf， Mrs Dalloway 【试题解

31、析】 黛洛维夫人 (Mrs Dalloway)是弗吉尼亚 伍尔芙于 1925年发表的意识流小 说，描述了女主人公卡拉丽莎 (Clarissa)一天的生活，作者尤为详尽地描述了主人公在黛洛维夫人家中晚会的一言一行。文章节选片段中出现的人名和地名正是解题的关键所在。 5 【正确答案】 Ted Hughes， Hawk Roosting 【试题解析】 栖息之鹰以第一人称的口吻写成，这是其他作品都少有的。 6 【正确答案】 Jonathan Swift， Gullivers Travels 【试题解析】 从 Yahoos一词中可以判断出来答案。 7 【正确答案】 William Shakespeare

32、， Hamlet 【试题解析】 这里考查了哈姆雷特中的名段，要求考生对一些比较著名的经典文章要有所记忆。 8 【正确答案】 Charlotte Bronte， Jane Eyre 【试题解析】 这里 Rosamond是解题的关键。 9 【正确答案】 Thomas Hardy， Tess of the DUrbervilles 10 【正确答案】 Alfred Tennyson， The Eagle 【试题解析】 鹰 (The Eagle)一诗第一节刻画鹰静止的姿态，用 岩石、太阳和蓝天来衬托鹰的雄姿。这是一幅鲜明的画面，上面是广阔的蓝天，下面是高峻的山，鹰站在山的峭岩之上，气势凛然。第二节刻画

33、鹰的动态，用波涛汹涌的大海作为衬托，写鹰俯冲而飞的速度和声势，同时用雷电作比，给人的视觉和听觉造成强烈冲击，收到极好的效果。该诗动静结合，形象鲜明，具有浓厚的浪漫主义色彩，是写鹰的名诗。考生可以将这首诗与栖息之鹰进行对比。 作家介绍 丁尼生 (Alfred Tennyson)， 1809-1892，维多利亚时期代表诗人，主要作品有诗集悼念集、独白诗剧、莫德、长诗国王叙事诗 等。他的诗作题材广泛，想象丰富，形式完美，词藻绮丽，极富音律之美。 11 【正确答案】 H W Longfellow， The Arrow and the Song 【试题解析】 亨利 沃兹沃斯 朗费罗 (Henry Wad

34、sworth Longfellow)， 1807-1882，美国诗人。在他辞世之际，全世界的人都视他为美国最伟大的诗人。他在英格兰的声誉与丁尼生并驾齐驱。其代表作包括箭与歌、 生命礼赞 (A Psalm of Life)。当批评界盛行严格的现实主义的时候，人们更多地注意到朗费罗的缺点。他被称为 “平庸的诗人 ”。但他恰有这样的天赋 平凡中散发光彩，音乐点缀着平凡。其诗歌的质朴和单纯虽使他深受儿童及一些成年人喜爱，但也常被说成是陈腐和平庸。然而，朗费罗依然以一个有着纯粹、亲切、温文尔雅风格的多才多艺的抒情诗人而获得了不朽的声誉。他的学术成就也令人钦敬。朗费罗对抒情诗这种诗歌形式的出色运用及他对十

35、四行诗的精通使他广受赞誉。 12 【正确答案】 Katherine Anne Porter， The Jilting of Granny Weatherall 【试题解析】 被遗弃的 维瑟罗尔奶奶 (The Jilting of Granny Weatherall)是美国著名作家凯瑟琳安波特的经典短篇小说之一。故事以意识流的手法回顾了维瑟罗尔奶奶辛苦的一生，塑造了一位善良、宽容、吃苦耐劳、倔强的老妇人。 13 【正确答案】 Ezra Pound， In a Station of the Metro 14 【正确答案】 Ralph Euison， The Invisible Man 15 【正确

36、答案】 Earnest Hemingway， A Clean Well一 lighted Place 【试题解析】 一个明亮干净的地方 (A Clean Well一 lighted Place)是海明威一篇简单而令人感动的小说。孤独老人的唯一奢望竟然只是寻找一个干净明亮的地方。年长的侍者深知虚无吞噬一切的威力，所以他理解老者对黑暗孤独的恐惧，年轻侍者也生活在虚无之中只是自己还没有意识到。虚无就是黑暗孤独，无希望、无意义、精神无所寄托的迷惘。 二、名词解释 16 【正确答案】 Nathaniel Hawthorne 17 【正确答案】 Ralph Waldo Emerson 18 【正确答案】

37、Edgar Allan Poe 19 【正确答案】 Saul Bellow 20 【正确答案】 Arthur Miller 【试题解析】 堕落之后 (After the Fall， 1964)描写人类关系的分崩离析及其后果，有着自传性质的描述。 21 【正确答案】 Herman Melville 【试题解析】 骗子及其伪装 (The Confidence一 Man： His Masquerade)是麦尔维尔的最后一部重要小说，小说模仿坎特伯雷故事集的肜式，对美国 式纯真进行了最具哲学性的解构。 22 【正确答案】 Joseph Heller 23 【正确答案】 F Scott Fitzgera

38、ld 24 【正确答案】 Ezra Pound 【试题解析】 庞德在 1912年发起 “意象派 ”并推行自己独树一帜的艺术主张。在接触并翻译了一些中国古典诗歌后，庞德将其归纳成集，也就是 1915年出版的华夏集 (Cathay)。在创作华夏集过程中，庞德深受中国占典涛歌的影响，在后期的创作中对诗歌语言、表现手法等均做了大胆的创新。而这种影响在华夏集中已初露 端倪。 25 【正确答案】 William Carlos Williams 三、问答题 26 【正确答案】 West wind is the destroyer as it is turbulent and strong and destr

39、oys the wide spread vegetation, taking away life signs from trees. In the similar sense, it is the preserver as it brings life to the dead atmosphere, it spreads the seeds and they lie two inches beneath the ground and they eventually sprout into seedlings. 【试题解析】 本题考查考生对西方颂中 “西风 ”的文学形象阐述，即为什么雪莱笔下的

40、“西风 ”是一个 “破坏者兼保护者 ”的形象。题目难度不大，但是要求考生对诗歌内容比较熟悉。 27 【正确答案】 The story describes a young middle-class Englishwoman who “had no luck.“ Though outwardly successful, she is haunted by a sense of failure; the familys lifestyle exceeds its income, and unspoken anxiety about money permeates the household. Her

41、 children, a son Paul and his two sisters, sense this anxiety. Paul thus tries desperately to ride his rocking horse to fetch the “luck“, in return for his mothers maternal love. He rides his horse on the Derby day, despite serious fever, and later dies. According to the author, the cause of tragedy

42、 is material wealth all they can see. And he blames the mother for the death of the boy in the final sacrificing ride. 【试题解析】 本题考查英国作家劳伦斯的短篇小说木马赢家。保罗之死表面是因为发烧，但实际上是为了获得母亲的关爱而拼命练习马术过度劳累的结果。 28 【正确答案】 E. M. Forster openly uses Sophocles tragedy in the title to underscore, by ironic contrast with the h

43、eroically cast death of Oedipus in Greece, the anticlimactic and pathetic survival of his protagonist, Mr. Lucas. For Oedipus, there is no road from Colonus for he refuses to leave the place and dies there. However, Lucas is forced to give up his meaning and the dramatic death in which he could obta

44、in certain dignity, but return to England to be abandoned by his daughter, to age to death. 【试题解析】 通往柯林斯之路 (The Road from Colonus)的标题是用典的手法，作者将卢卡斯的遭遇与俄狄浦斯的悲剧作比，从而营造出一种反讽的效果。 29 【正确答案】 what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distin

45、ction between greatness and meanness,“ in terms of American characteristics? The quotation reveals Emersons philosophy of individualism that Emerson emphasizes individual creation and rejects traditional authority. He believes it makes a difference between a genius and a common lot. Say, every indiv

46、idual possesses a unique genius unless he speaks bravely in public his thoughts and attitudes. The quotation is actually a call for individual creativity, rather than a self-centred assertion. 【试题解析】 本题考查爱默生论自立对个人主义的看法以及对天才的理解。爱默生认为只要敢于表达自我，不在意他人的看法，就是真正的伟大。 30 【正确答案】 The title of the book The Great

47、 Gatsby comes from the character Nick Caraway in the story and is in reference to the character “Jay Gatsby“. Gatsby is “great“ because he manages to live a life of happiness and optimism simply by convincing himself that life is full of hope and goodness and by ignoring the corruption and darkness

48、in the world around him. This makes him great because few people are able to ignore the bad things in life and focus only the good. F. Scott Fitzgerald meant to make the title ironic because although Gatsby is great he is also fake and impossible. The character called “Jay Gatz“ changed his name to

49、“Jay Gatsby“ in order to make himself the perfect persona for the woman he loved (Daisy). When he changed his name he made himself from being an ordinary person into this almost super-human bundle of optimism and hope who strives for perfection in everything. Because of this he started to believe his own lies and couldnt envision a way that Daisy would be able to reject him (to the extent that he blanks out the fact that