[考研类试卷]2010年北京第二外国语学院英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案与解析.doc

1、2010 年北京第二外国语学院英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案与解析一、单项选择题1 Sonnet in English poetry contains_.（A）four lines（B） a couplet（C） fourteen lines（D）a terza rima2 Francis Bacon, one of the most important British essayists, was active in the_.（A）Middle Age（B） Anglo-Saxon Period（C） English Renaissance（D）Victoria Age3 _, who

2、se name comes from Greek words meaning “no place“ , is written by Thomas More to name his ideal society.（A）Utopia（B） Shangrila（C） News from Nowhere（D）Wonderland 4 Of the following writers who is NOT a poet in English Renaissance? _.（A）William Shakespeare（B） Robert Burns（C） Edmund Spenser（D）John Milt

3、on5 _founded a new school of poetry by the name of metaphysical school.（A）John Smith（B） John Bunyan（C） John Milton（D）John Donne6 Modern English novel arose in the_century.（A）16th（B） 17th（C） 18th（D）19th7 Don Juan is_s poetic drama with the material taken from Biblical stories.（A）Byron（B） Shelley（C） W

4、ordsworth（D）Coleridge8 In 1878,_moved to London. His lifestyle and humorous wit made him soon spokesman for Aestheticism, the late 19th century movement in England that advocated art for arts sake.（A）Walter Scott（B） Oscar Wilde（C） Robert Browning（D）Alfred Tennyson9 _belongs to “stream of consciousne

5、ss“ school.（A）Virginia Woolf（B） Thomas Wolfe（C） Somerset Maugham（D）Thomas Hardy10 American Colonial literature is longer than any other literary period, which started when the first settlers kept diaries and sermons and developed till_.（A）the mid of 18th C.（B） early 17th C.（C） the end of 17th C.（D）t

6、he end of 18th C.11 “Oh Captain! My Captain!“ is Whitmans mourning poem to_.（A）Martin Luther King（B） utilitarian（C） New England transcendentalism（D）Abraham Lincoln12 Of the following writers_is not influenced by naturalistic writing.（A）Theodore Dreiser（B） Stephen Crane（C） Isaac Singer（D）Frank Norris

7、13 F. S. Fitzgerald is NOT the writer of_.（A）The Great Gatsby（B） The Last Tycoon（C） As I Lay Dying（D）Tender Is the Night14 _addressed Ernest Hemingway and his peers as “the lost generation“.（A）Gertrude Stein（B） William Dean Howells（C） Sherwood Anderson（D）Henry James15 The author of Long Days Journey

8、 into Night also wrote_.（A）Death of a Salesman（B） The Hairy Ape（C） A Streetcar Named Desire（D）Looking Back in Anger二、名词解释16 American Transcendentalism(3 points)17 The Southern Renaissance(3 points)18 The Beat Generation(3 points)三、分析题18 When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funer

9、al: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old manservanta combined gardener and cookhad seen in at least ten years.It was a big, squarish frame house and spires and scrolled balconi

10、es in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street. But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emilys house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wag

11、ons and the gasoline pumps an eyesore among eyesores. And now Miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson(the Town of Jef

12、ferson).Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of heredity obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris invented an involved tale to the effect that Miss Emilys father had loaned money to the town, which the town, as a matter of business, p

13、referred this way of repaying. Only a man of Colonel Sartoris generation and thought could have invented it, and only a woman could have believed it.This section above is an excerpt from William Faulkners short story A Rose for Emily. Please answer the following questions according to the excerpt:19

14、 What is the town peoples response toward Emilys death and whats the reason for that? Use your own words to give an illustration.(3 points)20 These paragraphs typically show Faulkners major concern in literary writing. Please explain Faulkners literary concern in general with one representative work

15、 except this short story.(4 points)21 In the 3rd paragraph, Miss Emily is referred to as “a tradition“. What does this tradition mean? When the paragraph ends with the sentence “ Only a man of Colonel Sartoris generation and thought could have invented it, and only a woman could have believed it“ ,

16、what information does the writer want to give to his readers?(4 points)2010 年北京第二外国语学院英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷答案与解析一、单项选择题1 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 sonnet 是十四行诗，又叫商籁体。2 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 弗朗西斯培根是文艺复兴时期英国著名的哲学家和散文家。3 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 乌托邦是托马斯莫尔的作品。Utopia 本意为“没有的地方”或者“好地方”。4 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 罗伯特彭斯(17591796)是苏格兰著名的前浪漫主义时期诗人。5 【正确

17、答案】 D【试题解析】 玄学派是指 17 世纪英国文坛出现的一个独特的诗歌流派。诗人约翰 邓恩是这个流派的代表人物，他因在诗歌中精妙地运用“奇喻”的比喻手法而蜚声文坛。6 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 现近代英国小说起源于 18 世纪，鲁滨逊漂流记被誉为英国文学史上第一部长篇小说。7 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 唐璜是英国浪漫主义诗人拜伦的长诗。8 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 王尔德是 19 世纪英国唯美主义的代表人物。9 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 维吉尼亚伍尔夫是英国 20 世纪现代主义和女性主义的先锋之一。她的作品中经常使用意识流的技巧，如著名的达洛维夫人(MrsDalloway)

18、。10 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 早期的移民刚到新大陆时忙于生存斗争，所以直到 18 世纪才开始发展文学。最早发表的关于北美的作品是游记、日记之类的文字。11 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 林肯总统被刺后，惠特曼写下了啊，船长!我的船长!、今天的军营静悄悄等诗篇，表达了对林肯的沉痛哀悼。12 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 Isaac Singer(艾萨克辛格)(19041991)是美国作家。由于“他的充满激情的叙事艺术，这种艺术既扎根于波兰犹太人的文化传统，又反映了人类的普遍处境”，被授予诺贝尔文学奖。辛格被称为当代最会讲故事的作家。其他三位均为自然流派的作家。13 【正确答案】 C【试题

19、解析】 As I Lay Dying(在我弥留之际)是福克纳的作品。14 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 格楚特斯坦因是旅居法国的美国女作家，她用 the lost generation“迷惘的一代”来形容第一次世界大战后登上文坛的一代美国作家，如海明威。15 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 进人黑夜的漫漫旅程是美国剧作家尤金奥尼尔的作品，其他作品包括毛猿(The Hairy Ape)等。Death of a Salesman(推销员之死)是亚瑟 米勒(Arthur Miller) 的作品；A Streetcar NamedDesire(欲望号街车)是田纳西 威廉姆斯(Tennessee Will

20、iams)的作品；Looking Back in Anger(愤怒的回顾)是约翰奥斯本(John Osborne) 的作品。二、名词解释16 【正确答案】 American transcendentalism was an important movement in philosophy and literature that flourished during the early to middle years of the 19th century(about 1836 1860). It spoke for cultural rejuvenation and against the ma

21、terialism of American society. It placed emphasis on spirit, regarding it as the most important thing in the Universe. It also stressed the importance of the individual, seeing nature as symbolic of the spirit of God.The representative writer is Henry Thoreau with his Walden.17 【正确答案】 It was the re-

22、invigoration of American Southern literature that began in the 1920s and 1930s. The southern Renaissance changed the traditional southern literature with its three major themes; The first was the burden of history in a place where many people still remembered slavery, reconstruction, and a devastati

23、ng military defeat. The second theme was to focus on the Souths conservative culture, specifically on how an individual could exist without losing a sense of identity. The final theme that the renaissance writers approached was the Souths troubled history in regards to racial issues.The representati

24、ve writer is William Faulkner with his A Rose for Emily.18 【正确答案】 The Beat Generation referred to a loose-knit group of poets and novelists, writing in the second half of the 1950s and early 1960s. They shared a set of social attitudesanti-establishment, anti-political, anti-intellectual, opposed to

25、 the prevailing cultural, literary, and moral values, and in favor of unfettered self-realization and self-expression.The most famous literary creations produced by this group should be Allen Ginsbergs long poem Howl and Jack Kerouacs On the Road.三、分析题19 【正确答案】 The town peoples response to Emilys de

26、ath could be summarized as relief and sorry, because in her youth, Emily and her family were respected and known as some of the finest citizens, but as she grew old, she couldnt accept the change, she was decaying with her house. She confined herself inside the house, refused to pay taxes and the sm

27、ell from her house disturbed her neighbors. So her death was a relief to those town people. But her death also represented the pass of the old time, thats why people would also feel sorry for her.20 【正确答案】 Faulkners major concern in his writing is the inevitable loss of the American South. He probes

28、 the inner lives of those who live in the South and tries to cope with the problems of a society in decline and transition. Take his The Sound and Fury for example, this novel is a complex account of the breakdown of the once distinguished and honored Compson family. We can see the new social and ec

29、onomic order that emerges in the South after the war has not lost the secret of the old positive moral values, and it also has adopted more ruthless and ambitious ways of the industrialized and mechanized North. So the characters in this novel are often deeply disturbed and in some sense, driven ins

30、ane by the moral confusion and social decay.21 【正确答案】 Tradition here refers all the old order, value and honor of the American South before the Civil War. The writer wants to inform his readers that Colonel Sartoris belongs to the same generation of Emily. He is making lies to maintain the honor of upper and ruling class. But it seems that no one in the town cares about the honor, so the honor is more like a burden to Emily and implies her tragic life.