1、2008 年北京师范大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案解析(总分：34.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、名词解释(总题数：12，分数：24.00)1.The Importance of Being Earnest（分数：2.00）_2.My Last Duchess（分数：2.00）_3.Bleak House（分数：2.00）_4.The Turn of the Screw（分数：2.00）_5.The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock（分数：2.00）_6.Tom Jones（分数：2.00）_7.The Hairy Ape（分数：2.00）_8.Fran
2、kenstein（分数：2.00）_9.The Golden Notebook（分数：2.00）_10.Herzog（分数：2.00）_11.epistolary novels（分数：2.00）_12.stream of consciousness（分数：2.00）_二、分析题(总题数：2，分数：10.00)Read the following poem by Robert Frost and do according to the requirements. The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I
3、 could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them rea
4、lly about the same. And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, an
5、d I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.（分数：4.00）(1).Please analyze the symbolic meanings of this poem with your understanding of the theme implied in it;(10 points)（分数：2.00）_(2).Please point out one or two artistic features of the poem with the examples in the text
6、.(6 points)（分数：2.00）_This is a passage drawn from Chapter I of The Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham. Please briefly answer the questions below it. I confess that when first I made acquaintance with Charles Strickland I never for a moment discerned that there was in him anything out of the ordin
7、ary. Yet now few will be found to deny his greatness. I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which belongs to the place he occupies rather than to the man; and a change of circumstances reduces it to very discreet p
8、roportions. The Prime Minister out of office is seen, too often, to have been but a pompous rhetorician, and the General without an army is but the tame hero of a market town. The greatness of Charles Strickland was authentic. It may be that you do not like his art, but at all events you can hardly
9、refuse it the tribute of your interest. He disturbs and arrests. The time has passed when he was an object of ridicule, and it is no longer a mark of eccentricity to defend or of perversity to extol him. His faults are accepted as the necessary complement to his merits. It is still possible to discu
10、ss his place in art, and the adulation of his admirers is perhaps no less capricious than the disparagement of his detractors; but one thing can never be doubtful, and that is that he had genius. To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular,
11、I am willing to excuse a thousand faults. I suppose Velasquez was a better painter than El Greco, but custom stales one“ s admiration for him; the Cretan, sensual and tragic, proffers the mystery of his soul like a standing sacrifice. The artist, painter , poet, or musician, by his decoration, subli
12、me or beautiful, satisfies the aesthetic sense; but that is akin to the sexual instinct, and shares its barbarity: he lays before you also the greater gift of himself. To pursue his secret has something of the fascination of a detective story. It is a riddle which shares with the universe the merit
13、of having no answer. The most insignificant of Strickland“ s works suggests a personality which is strange, tormented, and complex; and it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this which has excited so curious an interest in his
14、life and character.（分数：6.00）(1).Please paraphrase the following sentences briefly.a. . that is a quality which belongs to the place he occupies rather than to the man; and a change of circumstances reduces it to very discreet proportions.(5 points)b. He disturbs and arrests.(3 points)（分数：2.00）_(2).C
15、ould you please describe Charles Strickland less than 100 words of your own?(10 points)（分数：2.00）_(3).Can you find out the author“ s attitude to the Art? What“s the author“ s review to Charles Strickland?(12 points)（分数：2.00）_2008 年北京师范大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷答案解析(总分：34.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、名词解释(总题数：12，分数：24.00)1.
16、The Importance of Being Earnest（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Oscar Wilde)解析：解析：(不可儿戏(或译诚实的重要性)是英国唯美主义艺术运动的提倡者奥斯卡王尔德的代表作之一。)2.My Last Duchess（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Robert Browning)解析：解析：(我已故的公爵夫人是英国维多利亚时期著名诗人罗伯特布朗宁的代表作，采用了“戏剧独白”的形式。)3.Bleak House（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Charles Dickens)解析：解析：(荒凉山庄是英国维多利亚时期著名小说家查理狄更
17、斯的重要作品。)4.The Turn of the Screw（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Henry James)解析：解析：(螺丝在拧紧是美国十九世纪小说家亨利詹姆斯一部描写心理的恐怖小说。)5.The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：T. S. Eliot)解析：解析：(普鲁弗洛克的情歌是美国二十世纪著名诗人艾略特的著名诗歌，描写了上层社会庸碌的青年求爱中的矛盾心理。)6.Tom Jones（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Henry Fielding)解析：解析：(汤姆琼斯是英国十八世纪著名小说
18、家、戏剧家亨利菲尔丁的代表作。)7.The Hairy Ape（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Eugene O“Neill)解析：解析：(毛猿是美国二十世纪著名剧作家尤金奥尼尔的著名喜剧，尤金奥尼尔被称为美国的“戏剧之父”。)8.Frankenstein（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Mary Shelley)解析：解析：(佛兰肯斯坦(又译科学怪人)是英国十九世纪著名小说家玛丽雪莱的第一部科幻作品，也是文学史上第一部科幻作品，因而玛丽雪莱被称为“科幻小说之母”。)9.The Golden Notebook（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Doris Lessing)
19、解析：解析：(金色笔记本是 2007 年诺贝尔文学奖得主多丽丝莱辛的代表作，是女权主义者的经典之作。)10.Herzog（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Saul Bellow)解析：解析：(赫索格是美国二十世纪著名小说索尔贝娄的一部小说，深刻地反映了中产阶级知识分子在现代资本主义条件下信仰的失落和对前途的迷惘。)11.epistolary novels（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：epistolary novels: Epistolary novels are novels written in the form of a series of letters exchan
20、ged among the characters of the story, with extracts from their journals sometimes included. A form of narrative often used in English and French novels of the 18th century, it has been revived only rarely since then, as in John Barth“ s Letters. Important examples include Richardson“ s Pamela and C
21、larissa, Rousseau“ s La Nouvelle Heloise. and Laclos“ s Les Liaisons dangereuses.)解析：12.stream of consciousness（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：stream of consciousness: Stream of consciousness is the continuous flow of sense, perceptions, thoughts, feelings, and memories in the human mind, or a literary method
22、of representing such a blending of mental processes in fictional characters, usually in an unpunctuated or disjointed form of interior monologue. This term was created by Henry James in the 19 th century. As an important device of modernist fiction and its later imitators, the technique was pioneere
23、d by Dorothy Richardson in Pilgrimage and by James Joyce in Ulysses, and further developed by Virginia Woolf in Mrs. Dalloway and William Faulkner in The Sound and the Fury. It came to its peak in 1920s.)解析：解析：(本题考查文学术语解释，可从术语的类型、时期、主要特点和代表作家等方面进行阐释。)二、分析题(总题数：2，分数：10.00)Read the following poem by R
24、obert Frost and do according to the requirements. The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having pe
25、rhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same. And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads to way, I doubted if I shoul
26、d ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.（分数：4.00）(1).Please analyze the symbolic meanings of this poem with your understanding of the theme implied i
27、n it;(10 points)（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：The poem seems to be about the poet, walking in the woods in autumn, choosing which road he should follow on his walk. In the poem, the poet hesitates for a long time, wondering which road to take, because they are both pretty. In the end, he follows the one whic
28、h seems to have fewer travelers on it. Symbolically, he chooses to follow an unusual, solitary life; perhaps he is speaking of his choice to become a poet rather than some commoner profession. But he always remembers the road which he might have taken, and which would have given him a different kind
29、 of life. In reality, it concerns the important decisions which one must make in life, when one must give up one desirable thing in order to possess another. Then, whatever the outcome, one must accept the consequences of one“ s choice for it is not possible to go back and have another chance to cho
30、ose differently. The different road one takes, the different kind of life one will have.)解析：(2).Please point out one or two artistic features of the poem with the examples in the text.(6 points)（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：In addition to the symbols used in this poem, other artistic features are employed in
31、 the rhythm aspects. This poem is written in classic five-line stanzas, with the rhyme scheme a-b-a-a-b and conversational rhythm. Alliteration is employed in this poem, such as “wanted wear“ in the third line of the second stanza.)解析：解析：(本题考查了对美国诗人罗伯特?佛罗斯特的著名诗歌未选择的路的理解和掌握情况。这首诗是内容和形式俱佳的典范。在第一问中可先解读
32、这首诗歌的主题，然后阐释其象征意义。在第二问中就这首诗歌的艺术特色进行论述。参考译文：未选择的路黄色的树林里分出两条路可惜我不能同时去涉足我在那路口久久伫立我向着一条路极目望去但我却选择了另外一条路它荒草萋萋，十分幽寂显得更诱人，更美丽/虽然在这两条小路上都很少留下旅人的足迹虽然那天清晨落叶满地两条路都未经脚印污染呵，留下一条路等改日再见但我知道路径延绵无尽头恐怕我难以再回返也许多少年后在某一个地方我将轻声叹息把往事回顾一片森林里分出两条路而我却选择了人迹更少的一条从此决定了我一生的道路。)This is a passage drawn from Chapter I of The Moon a
33、nd Sixpence by Somerset Maugham. Please briefly answer the questions below it. I confess that when first I made acquaintance with Charles Strickland I never for a moment discerned that there was in him anything out of the ordinary. Yet now few will be found to deny his greatness. I do not speak of t
34、hat greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which belongs to the place he occupies rather than to the man; and a change of circumstances reduces it to very discreet proportions. The Prime Minister out of office is seen, too often, to have
35、been but a pompous rhetorician, and the General without an army is but the tame hero of a market town. The greatness of Charles Strickland was authentic. It may be that you do not like his art, but at all events you can hardly refuse it the tribute of your interest. He disturbs and arrests. The time
36、 has passed when he was an object of ridicule, and it is no longer a mark of eccentricity to defend or of perversity to extol him. His faults are accepted as the necessary complement to his merits. It is still possible to discuss his place in art, and the adulation of his admirers is perhaps no less
37、 capricious than the disparagement of his detractors; but one thing can never be doubtful, and that is that he had genius. To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing to excuse a thousand faults. I suppose Velasquez was a bette
38、r painter than El Greco, but custom stales one“ s admiration for him; the Cretan, sensual and tragic, proffers the mystery of his soul like a standing sacrifice. The artist, painter , poet, or musician, by his decoration, sublime or beautiful, satisfies the aesthetic sense; but that is akin to the s
39、exual instinct, and shares its barbarity: he lays before you also the greater gift of himself. To pursue his secret has something of the fascination of a detective story. It is a riddle which shares with the universe the merit of having no answer. The most insignificant of Strickland“ s works sugges
40、ts a personality which is strange, tormented, and complex; and it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this which has excited so curious an interest in his life and character.（分数：6.00）(1).Please paraphrase the following sentences briefly.a. . that is a quality which belongs to the place he occupies rather than to the man; and a change of circumstances reduces it to very discreet proportions.(5 points)b. He
