1、2006年南开大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案解析(总分：82.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、单项选择题(总题数：20，分数：40.00)1.Four Quartets was written by_.（分数：2.00）A.D.H. LawrenceB.T. S. EliotC.William Butler YeatsD.Robert Burns2.Nineteen Eighty-four is_.（分数：2.00）A.H. G. Wells“s last literary attempt to predict the futureB.a novel depicting life in
2、 a completely authoritarian stateC.a Blake-like poem replete with apocalyptic visionD.an account of an atomic war3.The experience which William Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser had in common was the following:_.（分数：2.00）A.They all wrote poems on the subject of Venus and AdonisB.They
3、 all wrote sonnet sequenceC.They all dedicated poems to the earl of SouthamptonD.They all wrote tragedies4.Dickens“ last novel was_.（分数：2.00）A.Great ExpectationsB.Hard TimesC.Oliver TwistD.The Mystery of Edwin Drood5.The book most widely recognized as the best Arthurian story was done_.（分数：2.00）A.in
4、 free verseB.as a group of balladsC.in prose formD.partly in verse, party in metrical form6.The line “studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability“ is written by_.（分数：2.00）A.Francis BaconB.John DonneC.William ShakespeareD.Ben Jonson7.Poems and their authors are correctly matched in all o
5、f the following except_.（分数：2.00）A.Paradise LostJohn MiltonB.Ode to a NightingaleJohn KeatsC.The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockT. S. EliotD.I Wandered Lonely as a CloudSamuel Taylor Coleridge8.Of the following novels, the one that was not published in the 19th century is_.（分数：2.00）A.Vanity FairB.Pa
6、st and PresentC.The Picture of Dorian GrayD.Moll Flanders9.Quotation and author are correctly paired in all the following except_.（分数：2.00）A.To be, or not to be: that is the question. William ShakespeareB.Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them Samuel JohnsonC.If th
7、ey be two, they are two so/ As stiff twin compasses are two/ Thy soul the fixt foot, make no show/to move, but doth if th“ other do.John DonneD.To begin, then, with Shakespeare. He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. John Dryden10.“A
8、ll his novels present the losing struggle of individuals against the obscure power which move the universe“ best characterizes the work of_.（分数：2.00）A.Thomas HardyB.Arnold BennettC.John GalsworthyD.George Meredith11.The author of Civil Disobedience is_.（分数：2.00）A.Benjamin FranklinB.Henry David Thore
9、auC.James Fenimore CooperD.Frank Norris12.Who is the author of the following poem?Huffy Henry hid sic. the dayUnappeasable Henry sulked.All the world like a woolen loverOnce did seem on Henry s side.Then came a departure.Thereafter nothing fell out as it might or ought（分数：2.00）A.John BerrymanB.Randa
10、ll JarrellC.James MerrillD.Richard Wilbur13.Thomas Pynchon has created The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity“s Rainbow, and_.（分数：2.00）A.The Naked lunchB.V.C.On the RoadD.Lolita14.Identify the author of the following quotation;_.The puff of a coat imprisoning;A face kissing the water-deathA weary slow sway o
11、f a lost handAnd the sea, the moving sea, the sea.Good is cold.（分数：2.00）A.Langston HughesB.Emily DickinsonC.H.D.D.Huck Finn15.Go Tell It on the Mountain is mainly about the experience of a boy named_.（分数：2.00）A.Bigger ThomasB.Henry FlamingC.John GrimesD.Huck Finn16.The author of Death of a Traveling
12、 Salesman is_.（分数：2.00）A.Eudora WeltyB.Arthur MillerC.Tennessee WilliamsD.Carson McCullers17.The Confessional School includes Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich and_.（分数：2.00）A.Gary SnyderB.Kenneth KochC.Anne SextonD.Allen Ginsberg18.The Cantos consists of_poems.（分数：2.00）A.108B.110C.117D.118
13、19.Identify the author of the following quotation_:“Say Joe,“ was his greeting to his old-time working mate next morning, “there“s a Frenchman out on Twenty-eighth Street. He“s made a pot of money, and he“s going back to France. It“s a dandy, well-appointed, small steam laundry. There“s start for yo
14、u if you want to settle down. Here, take this; buy some clothes with it and be at this man“s office by ten o“clock. He looked up the laundry for me, and he“ll take you out and show you around. If you like, and think it is worth the price twelve thousandlet me know and it is yours. Now run along. I“m
15、 busy, I“ll see you later.“（分数：2.00）A.Mark TwainB.William Dean HowellsC.Frank NorrisD.Jack London20.The author of China Men is_.（分数：2.00）A.Amy TanB.C.Y. LeeC.Maxine Hong KingstonD.Pearl Buck二、问答题(总题数：5，分数：32.00)The Art of Fiction (Henry James)I should not have affixed so comprehensive a title to the
16、se few remarks, necessarily wanting in any completeness upon a subject the full consideration of which would carry us far, did I not seem to discover a pretext for my temerity in the interesting pamphlet lately published under this name by Mr. Walter Besant. Mr. Besant“s lecture at the Royal Institu
17、tionthe original form of his pamphletappears to indicate that many persons are interested in the art of fiction, and are not indifferent to such remarks, as those who practice it may attempt to make it. I am therefore anxious not to lose the benefit of this favorable association, and to edge in a fe
18、w words under cover of the attention which Mr. Besant is sure to have excited. There is something very encouraging in his having put into from certain of his ideas on the mystery of story-telling.（分数：4.00）(1).Summarize Henry James“ theory on fiction. (5 points)（分数：2.00）_(2).Define “the international
19、 theme.“ (5 points)（分数：2.00）_Who Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Edward Albee)Nick: Indeed?George: No, kids, hunh?Nick: Not yet.George: People do.uh.have kids. That“s what I meant about history. You people are going to make them in test tubes, aren“t you? You biologists. Bebies. Then the rest of us.them
20、as wants to.can screw to their heart“s content. What will happen to the tax deduction? Has anyone figured that out yet?(Nick, who can think of nothing better to do, laughs mildly)But you are going to have kids.anyway. In spite of history.Nick (Hedging): Yes.certainly. We.want to wait.a little.until
21、we“re settled.George: And this.(With a handsweep taking in not only the room, the house, but the whole countryside)., this is your heart“s content- =Illyria.Penguin Island.Gomorrah You think you“re going to be happy here in New Carthage, eh?Nick (A little defensively): I hope we“ll stay here.（分数：6.0
22、0）(1).What is the theme of this play? (4 points)（分数：2.00）_(2).What are the techniques used by the playwright? (4 points)（分数：2.00）_(3).Comment on one character in this play. (4 points)（分数：2.00）_I Hear America Singing (Walt Whitman)I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all opp
23、ression and shame;I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men, at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done;I see, in low life, the mother misused by her children, dying, neglected, gaunt, desperate;I see the wife misused by her husbandI see the treacherous seducer of young women;I mark
24、the rankling of jealousy and unrequited love, attempted to be hidI see these sights on he earth;I see the working of battle, pestilence, tyrannyI see martyrs and prisoners;I observe a famine at seaI observe the sailors casting lots who shall be kill“d, to preserve the lives of the rest;I observe the
25、 slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like;All these-All the meanness and agony without end, I sitting, look out upon,See, hear, and am silent.（分数：6.00）(1).Comment on the theme of the poem. (4 points)（分数：2.00）_(2).Define “free verse“. (
26、2 points)（分数：2.00）_(3).Point out the techniques used by the poet. (4 points)（分数：2.00）_Shall I compare thee to a summer“s day?Thou are more lovely and more temperate.Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer“s lease hath all too short a date.Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And
27、 often in his gold complexion dimmed;And every fair form fair sometime declines,By chance or nature“s changing course untrimmed;But thy eternal summer shall not fade,Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow“st,Not shall Death brag thou wand“ rest in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow“
28、stSo long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.（分数：4.00）(1).By means of what comparison does the author achieve this movement form tangible to intangible? Trace his logic to show his movement. (5 points)（分数：2.00）_(2).What does “this“ refer to in the last
29、 line? What is the speaker“s purpose in writing his “eternal lines,“ and what conditions are necessary for his purpose to be carried out? (5 points)（分数：2.00）_Dover BeachThe sea is calm tonight.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits; on the French coast the lightGleams and is gone; the
30、cliffs of England stand,Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!Only, from the long line of sprayWhere the sea meets the moon-blanched land,Listen! You hear the grating roarOf pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,At their return, up the high st
31、rand,Begin, and cease, and then again begin,With tremulous cadence slow, and bringThe eternal note of sadness in.Sophocies long agoHeard it on the Aegean, and it broughtInto his mind the turbid ebb and flowOf human misery; weFind also in the sound a thought,Hearing it by this distant northern sea.Th
32、e sea of FaithWas once, too, at the full, and round earth“s shoreLay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.But now I only hearIts melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,Retreating, to the breathOf the night-wind, down the vast edges drearAnd naked shingles of the worldAh, love, let us be trueTo one a
33、nother! For the world, which seemsTo lie before us like a land of dreams,So various, so beautiful, so new,Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;And we are here as on a darkling plainSwept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,Where ignorant ar
34、mies clash by night.Matthew Arnold（分数：12.00）(1).Who is the speaker here? Who is he addressing? (4 points)（分数：2.00）_(2).What is the speaker“s mood? Show what elements contribute to this mood. (4 points)（分数：2.00）_(3).Identify the elements of figurative language and show how they contribute to the tone
35、 and theme. (5 points)（分数：2.00）_(4).What is the tone of this poem? What details - specific words and events - contribute to the establishment of the tone? (5 points)（分数：2.00）_(5).What is the tone of this poem? What details contribute to this? (6 points)（分数：2.00）_(6).Do you think the view of human li
36、fe presented in Dover Beach is applicable to today“s world? Why or why not? (4 points)（分数：2.00）_作文21.The Afro-American literature has achieved significant growth since 1940s. Discuss with a look at the works of at least two of the following writers: Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison and Al
37、ice Walker.（分数：2.00）_22.Define the basic features of the American Postmodernist Novel. Analysis of works created by at least two American writers is needed.（分数：2.00）_23.Discuss the “moral Christian tradition“ found in the character of Hamlet or some other acknowledged literary work.（分数：2.00）_24.Read
38、 the two poems that follow. Then compare the tone of the first with the tone of the second. Show how they are the same and different. Use specific lines from each work to support your points.A Man Adrift On a Slim SparA man adrift on a slim sparA horizon smaller than the rim of a bottleTented waves
39、rearing ashy dark pointsThe neat whine of froth in circles.God id cold 5The incessant raise and swing of the seaAnd growl after growl of crestThe sinkings, green, seething, endlessThe upheaval half-completed.God is cold. 10The seas are in the hollow of The Hand; Oceans may be turned to spray Raining
40、 down through the stars Because of a gesture of pity toward a babe,Oceans may become gray ashes,Die with a long moan and a roarAmid the tumult of the fishesAnd the cries of the shipsBecause The Hand beckons the mice.A horizon smaller than a doomed assassin“s cap,Inky, surging tumultsA reeling, drunk
41、en sky and no skyA pale hand sliding from a polished spar.God is cold. 24The puff of a coat imprisoning air;A face kissing the water-deathA weary slow sway of a lost handAnd the sea, the moving sea, the sea.God is cold.On His BlindnessWhen I consider how my light is spent,Ere half my days, in this d
42、ark world and wide,And that one talent which is death to hideLodged with me useless, though my soul more bentTo serve therewith my Maker, and presentMy true account, lest he returning childe,“Doth God exact day labor, light denied?“I fondly ask: but patience, to preventThat murmur, soon replies: “Go
43、d doth not needEither man“s work or his own gifts; who bestBear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His stateIs kingly; thousands at his bidding speedAnd post orer land and ocean without rest.They also serve who only stand and wait.“（分数：2.00）_25.Read the following passage. Write an essay discussing the passage. Your essay should include such elements as its social significance, the setting, plot, characters, theme, and writing technique.One Flew over the Cuckoo“s Nest (Ken Kesey) I know how they work it, the fog machine. We had a w
