[考研类试卷]2010年北京外国语大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案与解析.doc

1、2010 年北京外国语大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案与解析一、匹配题0 AuthorsA. Henry David Thoreau B. William Wordsworth C. Charles DickensD. Alexander Pope E. Francis Bacon F. Charlotte BronteG. Percy Bysshe Shelley H. Robert Frost I. Mark TwainJ. William Shakespeare K. Nathaniel Hawthorne L. Ralph W. EmersonM. William Blake1

2、Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.2 It

3、was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a niggerbut I done it, and I warnt ever sorry for it afterwards, neither. I didnt do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldnt done that one if Id a knowed it would make him feel that way.3 While arranging my hair, I looked at

4、 my face in the glass and felt it was no longer plain; there was hope in its aspect and life in its colour; and my eyes seemed as if they had beheld the fount of fruition and borrowed beams from the lustrous ripple. I had often been unwilling to look at my master, because I feared he could not be pl

5、eased at my look: but I was sure I might lift my face to his now, and not cool his affection by its expression.4 Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.5 Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.Fr

6、om what Ive tasted of desire,I hold with those who favor fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo say that for destruction iceIs also greatAnd would suffice.6 I wander thro each charterd street,Near where the charterd Thames does flow,And mark in every face I meetMarks of w

7、eakness, marks of woe.7 Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is;What if my leaves are falling like its own!The tumult of thy mighty harmoniesWill take from both a deep, autumnal tone,Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce,My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!8 Another thing in Joe that I co

8、uld not understand when it first began to develop itself, but which I soon arrived at sorrowful comprehension of, was this: As I became stronger and better, Joe became a little less easy with me.9 All Nature is but art, unknown to thee;All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;All discord, har

9、mony not understood;All partial evil, universal good;And, spite of pride, in erring reasons spite,One truth is clear; whatever is, is right.10 The grass-plot before the jail, in Prison Lane, on a certain summer morning, not tell than two centuries ago, was occupied by a pretty large number of the in

10、habitants of Boston, all with their eyes intently fastened on the iron-clamped oaken door. Amongst any other population, or at a later period in the history of New England, the grim rigidity that petrified the bearded physiognomies of these good people would have augured some awful business in hand.

11、 二、分析题10 The Enormous RadioJim and Irene Westcott were the kind of people who seem to strike that satisfactory average of income, endeavor, and respectability that is reached by the statistical reports in college alumni bulletins. They were the parents of two young children, they had been married ni

12、ne years, they lived on the twelfth floor of an apartmenthouse near Sutton Place, they went to the theater on an average of 10.3 times a year, and they hoped someday to live Westchester. Irene Westcott was a pleasant, rather plain girl with soft brown hair, and a wide, fine forehead upon which nothi

13、ng at all had been written, and in the cold weather she wore a coat of fitch skins dyed to resemble mink. You could not say that Jim Westcott looked younger than he was, but you could at least say of him that he seemed to feel younger. He wore his graying hair cut very short, he dressed in the kind

14、of clothes his class had worn at Andover, and his manner was earnest, vehement, and intentionally naive. The Westcotts differed from their friends, their classmates, and their neighbors, only in an interest they shared in serious music. They went to a great many concertsalthough they seldom mentione

15、d this to anyone and they spent a good deal of time listening to music on the radio.Their radio was an old instrument, sensitive, unpredictable, and beyond repair. He promised to buy flrene a new radio, and on Monday when he came home from work he told her that he had got one. He refused to describe

16、 it, and said it would be a surprise for her when it came.The radio was delivered at the kitchen door the following afternoon, and with the assistance of her maid and the handyman Irene uncrated it and brought it into the living room. She was struck at once with the physical ugliness of the large gu

17、mwood cabinet. Irene was proud of her living room, she had chosen its furnishings and colors as carefully as she chose her clothes, and now it seemed to her that her new radio stood among her intimate possessions like an aggressive intruder. She was confounded by the number of dials and switches on

18、the instrument panel, and she studied them thoroughly before she put the plug into a wall socket and turned the radio on. The deals flooded with a malevolent green light, and in the distance she heard the music of a piano quintet. The quintet was in the distance for only an instant; it bore down upo

19、n her with a speed greater than light and filled the apartment with the noise of music amplified so mightily that it knocked a china ornament from a table to the floor. She rushed to the instrument and reduced the volume. The violent forces that were snared in the ugly gumwood cabinet made her uneas

20、y. Her children came home from school then, and she took them to the park. It was not until later in the afternoon that she was able to return to the radio.The maid had given the children their suppers and was supervising their baths when Irene turned on the radio, reduced the volume, and sat down t

21、o listen to a Mozart quintet that she knew and enjoyed. The music came through clearly. The new instrument had a much purer tone, she thought, than the old one. She decided that tone was most important and that she could conceal the cabinet behind the sofa. But as soon as she had made her peace with

22、 the radio, the interference began. A crackling sound like the noise of a burning powder fuse began to accompany the singing of the strings. Beyond the music, there was a rustling that reminded Irene unpleasantly of the sea, and as the quintet progressed, these noises were joined by many others. She

23、 tried all the dials and switches but nothing dimmed the interference, and she sat down, disappointed and bewildered, and tried to trace the flight of the melody. The elevator shaft in her building ran beside the living-room wall, and it was the noise of the elevator that gave her a clue to the char

24、acter of the static. The rattling of the elevator cables and the opening and closing of the elevator doors, were reproduced in her loudspeaker, and, realizing that the radio was sensitive to electrical currents of all sorts, she began to discern through the Mozart the ringing of telephone bells, the

25、 dialing of phones, and the lamentation of a vacuum cleaner. By listening more carefully, she was able to distinguish doorbells, elevator bells, electric razors, and Waring mixers, whose sounds had been picked up from the apartments that surrounded hers and transmitted through her loudspeaker. The p

26、owerful and ugly instrument, with its mistaken sensibility to discord, was more than she could hope to master, so she turned the thing off and went into the nursery to see her children.When Jim came home that night, he was tired, and he took a bath and changed his clothes. Then he joined Irene in th

27、e living room. He had just turned on the radio when the maid announced dinner, so he left it on, and Irene went to the table.Jim was too tired to make even pretense of sociability, and there was nothing about the dinner to hold Irenes interest, so her attention wandered from the food to the deposits

28、 of silver polish on the candlesticks and from there to the music in the other room. She listened for a few minutes to a Chopin prelude and then was surprised to hear a mans voice break in. “ For Christs sake, Kathy,“ he said, “do you always have to play the piano when I get home?“ The music stopped

29、 abruptly. “Its the only chance I have,“ the woman said. “ So am I,“ the man said. He added something obscene about an upright piano, and slammed a door. The passionate and melancholy music began again.“Did you hear that?“ Irene asked.“What?“ Jim was eating his dessert.“The radio. A man said somethi

30、ng while the music was still going on-something dirty. “Its probably a play. “I dont think it is a play,“ Irene said.They left the table and took their coffee into the living room. Irene asked Jim to try another station. He turned the knob. “Have you seen my garters?“ A man asked. “Button me up,“ a

31、woman said. “Have you seen my garters?“ the man said again. “Just button me up and Ill find your garters,“ the woman said. Jim shifted to another station. “ I wish you wouldnt leave apple cores in the ashtrays,“ a man said. “ I hate the smell. “This is strange,“ Jim said.“Isnt it?“ Irene said.Jim tu

32、rned the knob again. “On the coast of Coromandel where the early pumpkins blow,“ a woman with a pronounced English accent said, “ in the middle of the woods lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs, and half a candle, one old jug without a handle.“My God!“ Irene cried. “Thats the Sweeneys nurse. “

33、These were all his worldly goods, “ the British voice continued.“Turn that thing off,“ Irene said. “Maybe they can hear us. “ Jim switched the radio off. “That was Miss Armstrong, the Sweeneys nurse,“ Irene said. “ She must be reading to the little girl. They live in 17-B. Ive talked with Miss Armst

34、rong in the park. I know her voice very well. We must be getting other peoples apartments. “Thats impossible,“ Jim said.“Well, that was the Sweeneys nurse,“ Irene said hotly. “I know her voice. I know it very well. Im wondering if they can hear us. “Jim turned the switch. First from a distance and t

35、hen nearer, nearer, as if borne on the wind, came the pure accents of the Sweeneys nurse again: “ Lady Jingly! Lady Jingly!“ she said, “ sitting where the pumpkins blow, will you come and be my wife, said the Yonggy-Bonggy-Bo.“Jim went over to the radio and said “ Hello“ loudly into the speaker.“I a

36、m tired of living singly, “ the nurse went on, “on this coast so wild and shingly, Im a-weary of my life; if youll come and be my wife, quite serene would be my life.“I guess she cant hear us,“ Irene said. “Try something else. “Jim turned to another station, and the living room was filled with the u

37、proar of a cocktail party that had overshot its mark. Someone was playing the piano and singing the “ Whiffenpoof Song,“ and the voices that surrounded the piano were vehement and happy. “ Eat some more sandwiches,“ a woman shrieked. There were screams of laughter and a dish of some sort crashed to

38、the floor.“Those must be the Fullers, in 11-E,“ Irene said. “I knew they were giving a party this afternoon. I saw her in the liquor store. Isnt this too divine? Try something else. See if you can get those people in 18-C. “The Westcotts overheard that evening a monologue on salmon fishing in Canada

39、, a bridge game, running comments on home movies of what had apparently been a fortnight at Sea Island, and a bitter family quarrel about an overdraft at the bank. They turned off their radio at midnight and went to bed, weak with laughter.The following morning, Irene cooked breakfast for the family

40、the maid didnt come up from her room in the basement untilshe braided her daughters hair, and waited at the door until her children and her husband had been carried away in the elevator. Then she went into living room and tried the radio. “I dont want to go to school,“ a child screamed. “I hate scho

41、ol. I wont go to school. I hate school. “ “You will go to school,“ an enraged woman said. “We paid eight hundred dollars to get you into that school and youll go if it kills you. “ The next number on the dial produced the worn record of the “ Missouri Waltz. “ Irene shifted the control and invaded t

42、he privacy of several breakfast tables. She overheard demonstrations of indigestion, carnal love, abysmal vanity, faith, and despair. Irenes life was nearly as simple and sheltered as it appeared to be, and the forthright and sometimes brutal language that came from the loudspeaker that morning asto

43、nished and troubled her. She continued to listen until her maid came in. Then she turned off the radio quickly, since this insight, she realized, was a furtive one.Irene had a luncheon date with a friend that day, and she left her apartment a little after twelve.Irene had two Martinis at lunch, and

44、she looked searchingly at her friend and wondered what her secrets were. They had intended to go shopping after lunch, but Irene excused herself and went home. She told the maid that she was not to be disturbed; then she went into the living room, closed the doors, and switched on the radio. She hea

45、rd, in the course of the afternoon, the halting conversation of a woman entertaining her aunt, the hysterical conclusion of a luncheon party, and hostess briefing her maid about some cocktail guests. “ Dont give the best Scotch to anyone who hasnt white hair, “the hostess said. “See if you can get r

46、id of the liver paste before you pass those hot things, and could you lend me five dollars? I want to tip the elevator man. “As the afternoon waned, the conversations increased in intensity. From where Irene sat, she could see the open sky above the East River. There were hundreds of clouds in the s

47、ky, as though the south wind had broken the winter into pieces and were blowing it north, and on her radio she could hear the arrival of cocktail guests and the return of children and businessmen from their schools and offices. “I found a good-sized diamond on the bathroom floor this morning,“ a wom

48、an said. “It must have fallen out of the bracelet Mrs. Dunston was wearing last night. “ “Well sell it,“ a man said. “Take it down to the jeweler on Madison Avenue and sell it. Mrs. Dunston wont know the difference, and we could use a couple of hundred bucks.“ “Oranges and lemons, say the bells of S

49、t. Clements“ the Sweeneys nurse sang. “Half-pence and farthings, say the bells of St. Martins. When will you pay me? Say the bells at old Bailey.“ “Its not a hat,“ a woman cried, and at her back roared a cocktail party. “Its not a hat, its a love affair. Thats what Walter Florell said. He said its not a hat, its a love affair,“ and then, in a lower voice, the same woman added, “Talk to somebody, for Christs sake, honey, talk to somebody. If she catches you standing here not talking to anybody, shell take us off her invitation list