1、2008 年北京航空航天大学英语专业（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、名词解释(总题数：10，分数：20.00)1.English Enlightenment（分数：2.00）_2.D.H. Lawrence（分数：2.00）_3.Theatre of the Absurd（分数：2.00）_4.Doris Lessing（分数：2.00）_5.American Romanticism（分数：2.00）_6.Southern Renaissance（分数：2.00）_7.The Stream of Consciousness（分数：2.00）_8.Po
2、stmodernism（分数：2.00）_9.Narrator（分数：2.00）_10.Allegory（分数：2.00）_二、分析题(总题数：11，分数：62.00)11.Analyze “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock“（分数：2.00）_12.What contribution did Christopher Marlowe make to English literature?（分数：2.00）_13.Why is “Tom Jones“ a successful novel?（分数：2.00）_Miss Quested and Aziz and
3、 a guide continued the slightly tedious expedition. They did not talk much, for the sun was getting high. The air they felt like a warm bath into which hotter water is trickling constantly, the temperature rose and rose, the boulders said, “ I am alive,“ the small stones answered, “I am almost alive
4、. “ Between the chinks lay the ashes of little plants. They meant to climb to the rocking-stone on the summit, but it was too far, and they contented themselves with the big group of caves. . . And having no one else to speak to on that eternal rock, she gave rein to the subject, of marriage and sai
5、d in her honest, decent, inquisitive way; “ Have you one wife or more than one?“ The question shocked the young man very much. It challenged a new conviction of his community , and new convictions are more sensitive than old. If she had said, “ Do you worship one god or several?“ he would not have o
6、bjected. But to ask an educated India Moslem how many wives he has-appalling, hideous! He was in trouble how to conceal his confusion. “ One, one in my own particular case,“ he spluttered, and let go of her hand. Quite a number of caves were at the top of the track, and thinking, “ Damn the English
7、even at their best,“ he plunged into one of them to recover his balance. She followed at her leisure, quite unconscious that she had said the wrong thing, and not seeing him, she also went into a cave, thinking with half her mind “ sight-seeing bores me“ , and wondering with the other half about mar
8、riage.（分数：8.00）(1).Identify the author and the work from which the passage is selected.（分数：2.00）_(2).Who is the real loser in the novel? Why?（分数：2.00）_(3).Why there is a humming in her mind whenever she thought of the possible rape?（分数：2.00）_(4).Explain the symbolic meaning of the title and the stru
9、cture of story.（分数：2.00）_That“ s my Duchess painted on the wall, looking as if she were alive. I callThat piece a wonder, now; Fra Pandolf s hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Will“ t please you sit and look at her?E“ en then would be some stooping; and I chooseNever to stoop. Oh sir,
10、she smiled, no doubt,When“ er I passed her; but who passed withoutMuch the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;Then all smiles stopped together. There she standsAs if alive. Will“t please you rise? We“ll meetThe Company below, then. I repeat.The count your master“ s known munificenceIs ample warr
11、ant that no just pretenseOf mine for dowry will be disallowed;Though his fair daughter“ s self, as I avowedAt starting, is my object. Nay, we“ll goTogether down, sir. Notice Neptune, though,Taming a sea horse, though a rarity,Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!（分数：8.00）(1).Identify the a
12、uthor of and the work from which the passage is selected.（分数：2.00）_(2).Identify and define the literary device employed in the poem.（分数：2.00）_(3).What does the sentence “I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together“ mean? How does it reveal the protagonist“ s personality?（分数：2.00）_(4).Why at th
13、e end of the poem “statue of Neptune“ is mentioned?（分数：2.00）_And who is the best poet, Heron? asked Boland. Lord Tennyson, of course, answered Heron.O, yes, Lord Tennyson, said Nash. We have all his poetry at home in a book. At this Stephen forgot the silent vows he had been making and burst out;Ten
14、nyson a poet! Why, he“ s only a rhymester!O, get out! said Heron. Everyone knows that Tennyson is the greatest poet.And who do you think is the greatest poet? asked Boland, nudging his neighbor.Byron, of course, answered Stephen.Heron gave the lead and all three joined in a scornful laugh.What are y
15、ou laughing at? asked Stephen.You, said Heron. Byron the greatest poet! He“ s only a poet for uneducated people.He must be a fine poet! said Boland.You may keep your mouth shut, said Stephen, turning on him boldly. All you know about poetry is what you wrote up on the slates in the yard and were goi
16、ng to be sent to the loft for.Boland, in fact, was said to have written on the slates in the yard a couplet about a classmate of his who often rode home from the college on a pony:As Tyson was riding into JerusalemHe fell and hurt his Alec Kafoozelum.This thrust put the two lieutenants to silence bu
17、t Heron went on:In any case Byron was a heretic and immoral too.I don“ t care what he was, cried Stephen hotly.You don“t care whether he was a heretic or not? said Nash.What do you know about it? shouted Stephen. You never read a line of anything in your life except a trans, or Boland either. I know
18、 that Byron was a bad man, said Boland.Here, catch hold of this heretic, Heron called out. In a moment Stephen was a prisoner. Tate made you buck up the other day(5), Heron went on, about the heresy in your essay. I“ll tell him tomorrow, said Boland.Will you? said Stephen. You“ d be afraid to open y
19、our lips. Afraid?Ay. Afraid of your life.Behave yourself! cried Heron, cutting at Stephen“ s legs with his cane.It was the signal for their onset. Nash pinioned his arms behind while Boland seized a long cabbage stump which was lying in the gutter. Struggling and kicking under the cuts of the cane a
20、nd the blows of the knotty stump Stephen was borne back against a barbed wire fence. Admit that Byron was no good. No. Admit. No. Admit. No. No.（分数：8.00）(1).Identify the author and the work from which the passage is selected.（分数：2.00）_(2).What is the symbolic meaning of the protagonist“ s name?（分数：2
21、.00）_(3).Describe his growing process, which is also called Bildungsroman-novels of education/growth.（分数：2.00）_(4).How is his personality is revealed from the above mentioned selections?（分数：2.00）_In Xanadu did Kubla khanA stately pleasure dome decree;Where Alph, the sacred river, ranThrough caverns
22、measureless to manDown to a sunless sea.So twice five miles of fertile groundWith walls and towers were girdled round;And there were gardens bright with sinuous rillsWhere blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.I would bui
23、ld that dome in air, That sunny dome! Those caves of ice! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honeydew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradi
24、se.（分数：6.00）(1).a. Identify the author of the passage.（分数：2.00）_(2).b. What is his theory of poems?（分数：2.00）_(3).c. What kind of philosophy is behind the italic words?（分数：2.00）_I Heard a Fly Buzzwhen I died The Stillness in the RoomWas like the Stillness in the Air Between the Heaves of StormThe Eye
25、s aroundhad wrung them dry And Breaths were gathering firm For that last Onsetwhen the King Be witnessedin the RoomI willed my KeepsakesSigned away What portion of me be Assignableand then it was There interposed a FlyWith Blueuncertain stumbling Buzz Between the lightand me And then the Windows fai
26、ledand then I could not see to see（分数：6.00）(1).a. Identify the author of the passage.（分数：2.00）_(2).b. What are the effect and the meaning of “I heard a Fly buzzwhen I died“?（分数：2.00）_(3).c. What is the meaning of the last two lines?（分数：2.00）_To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most per
27、sons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of inf
28、ancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent grieves, he shall be glad with me. Not the
29、 sun or the summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight; for every hour and change corresponds to and authorizes a different state of the mind, from breathless noon to grimmest midnight. Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece. In good health,
30、 the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. Almost I fear to think how glad I am. In the woods too, a man casts off
31、his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woo
32、ds, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, no disgrace, no calamity,(leaving me my eyes,)which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transpa
33、rent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental. To be brothers, to be acquaintances,master or servant, is then a trifle and disturbance. I am the lover o
34、f uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.（分数：6.00）(1).a. Identify the author and the work
35、 from which the passage is selected.（分数：2.00）_(2).b. Explain the sentence “The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. “（分数：2.00）_(3).c. What kind of philosophical school does the author belong to? And define the term.（分数：2.00）_In the later summer
36、 of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels. Troops went by the house and down the ro
37、ad and the dust they raised powdered the leaves of the trees. The trunks of the trees too were dusty and the leaves fell early that year and we saw the troops marching along the road and the dust rising and leaves, stirred by the breeze, falling and the soldiers marching and afterward the road bare
38、and white except for the leaves.Poor, poor dear Cat. And this was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other. Thank God for gas, anyway. What must it have been like before there were anesthetics? Once it started, they were i
39、n the mill-race. Catherine had a good time in the time of pregnancy. It wasn“ t bad. She was hardly ever sick. She was not awfully uncomfortable until toward the last. So now they got her in the end. You never got away with anything, Get away hell! It would have been the same if we had been married fifty times. And what if she should die? She won“ t die. People don“ t die in childbirth nowadays. That was what all husbands thought. Yes, but what if she should die? She won“t die. She“ s just having a bad time. A
