1、2008年浙江大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案解析(总分：30.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、匹配题(总题数：10，分数：20.00)1.Tender is the Night（分数：2.00）_2.The Rites of Passage（分数：2.00）_3.The Rainbow（分数：2.00）_4.My Last Duchess（分数：2.00）_5.Frederick Douglass（分数：2.00）_6.The House of the Seven Gables（分数：2.00）_7.The Tempest（分数：2.00）_8.The Negro on the Nar
2、cissus（分数：2.00）_9.Light in August（分数：2.00）_10.Mourning Becomes Electra（分数：2.00）_二、评论题(总题数：4，分数：8.00)11.What a lark! What a Plunge! For so it had always seemed to her, when, with little squeak of the hinges, which she could hear now, she had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bour-ton into
3、the open air. How fresh, how calm, stiller than this of course, the air was in the early morning; like the flap of a wave; the kiss of a wave; chill and sharp and yet(for a girl of eighteen as she then was)solemn, feeling as she did, standing there at the open window, that something awful was about
4、to happen; looking at the flowers; at the trees with the smoke winding off them and the rooks rising, falling; standing and looking until Peter Wash said, “ Musing among the vegetables?“was that it“I prefer men to cauliflowers“was that it?（分数：2.00）_12.Could it be true? She clutched the child so fier
5、cely to her breast, that it sent forth a cry; she turned her eyes downward at the scarlet letter, and even touched it with her finger, to assure herself that the infant and the shame were real. Yes! these were her realities, all else had vanished!（分数：2.00）_13.And yet the voices in the house, behind
6、the sprays of mimosa and almond blossom, and from under the piles of iridescent cushions, simply trilled and screamed in a sort of ecstasy: “ There must be more money! Oh-h-h; there must be more money. Oh, now, now-w! Now-w-wthere must be more money! More than ever! More than ever!“（分数：2.00）_14.Choo
7、se one of the following authors and make a comment on any one of his/her literary works.(20 points)Joseph Conrad D. H. LawrenceMark Twain Toni Morrison（分数：2.00）_三、分析题(总题数：1，分数：2.00)15.Analyze the following poem.(15 points) Dover Beach Matthew Arnold The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moo
8、n lies fair Upon the straits; on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the 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 spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land, Listen! you hear the gr
9、ating roarOf pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in.Sophocles long agoHeard it on the Aegean, and it broughtInto his mind the turbid ebb and flowO
10、f human misery; weFind also in the sound a thought,Hearing it by this distant northern sea.The 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-
11、wind, down the vast edges drearAnd naked shingles of the world.Ah, love, let us be trueTo one another! 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
12、 here as on a darkling plainSwept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,Where ignorant armies clash by night.（分数：2.00）_2008年浙江大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷答案解析(总分：30.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、匹配题(总题数：10，分数：20.00)1.Tender is the Night（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Scott Fitzgerald, novel)解析：解析：(夜色温柔是美国“迷惘的一代”的代表作家菲茨杰拉德的长篇小说。)2
13、.The Rites of Passage（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：William Golding, novel)解析：解析：(通过仪式是诺贝尔奖获得者、十九世纪英国小说家威廉戈尔丁的一篇日记体小说。)3.The Rainbow（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：David Herbert Lawrence, novel)解析：解析：(彩虹是英国作家劳伦斯的一部小说。)4.My Last Duchess（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Robert Browning, poem)解析：解析：(我已故的公爵夫人是英国诗人罗伯特布朗宁的一首采用戏剧独白形式的诗歌。)5
14、.Frederick Douglass（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Frederick Douglass, autobiography)解析：解析：(道格拉斯自述是美国黑人文学的先驱弗雷德里克道格拉斯的一部自传。)6.The House of the Seven Gables（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Nathaniel Hawthorne, novel)解析：解析：(七个尖角的阁楼是美国作家纳撒尼尔霍桑的小说。)7.The Tempest（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：William Shakespeare, comedy)解析：解析：(暴风雨是英国剧作家
15、威廉-莎士比亚的最后一部戏剧。)8.The Negro on the Narcissus（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Joseph Conrad, novel)解析：解析：(水仙号上的黑家伙是英国小说家康拉德的一部小说。)9.Light in August（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：William Faulkner, novel)解析：解析：(八月之光是诺贝尔文学奖获得者、美国作家威廉福克纳的一部小说。)10.Mourning Becomes Electra（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Eugene O“ Neill, trilogy)解析：解析：(尤金奥
16、尼尔被誉为美国戏剧之父，哀悼是一部三部曲，将奥尼尔的戏剧创作推到了高峰。)二、评论题(总题数：4，分数：8.00)11.What a lark! What a Plunge! For so it had always seemed to her, when, with little squeak of the hinges, which she could hear now, she had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bour-ton into the open air. How fresh, how calm, stiller
17、than this of course, the air was in the early morning; like the flap of a wave; the kiss of a wave; chill and sharp and yet(for a girl of eighteen as she then was)solemn, feeling as she did, standing there at the open window, that something awful was about to happen; looking at the flowers; at the t
18、rees with the smoke winding off them and the rooks rising, falling; standing and looking until Peter Wash said, “ Musing among the vegetables?“was that it“I prefer men to cauliflowers“was that it?（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：This passage is taken from Virginia Woolf“ s Mrs. Dalloway. This novel described a
19、giant web of thoughts of several groups of people during the course of a single day. In this paragraph, the stream of consciousness technique is prominent. There is little action or plot, but much movement in time from present to past and back again through the character“ s memories. The song of a l
20、ark and the strike of the clock indicate the real time and bring her back to the present real world. Then she falls into the memory of the morning she spent with Peter. The last sentence shows she came back to the real world again. In this paragraph, the happy memory of Mrs. Dalloway with her first
21、lover Peter is impressing, indicating her yearning for her free life with Peter, which is not lost in the hollow high-class life filled with parties. Woolf s hate towards secular life is revealed.)解析：12.Could it be true? She clutched the child so fiercely to her breast, that it sent forth a cry; she
22、 turned her eyes downward at the scarlet letter, and even touched it with her finger, to assure herself that the infant and the shame were real. Yes! these were her realities, all else had vanished!（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：This passage is taken from Nathaniel Hawthorne“ s novel The Scarlet Letter. In th
23、is paragraph, Hester Prynne stood on the scaffold of the pillory, beginning to think back of her hometown and her husband. But her daughter and the scarlet letter reminded her of the cruel realities and great pain in her own heart, as if she fell from heaven down to earth. This paragraph focuses on
24、describing Hester“ s pain from different perspectives. Sound(her daughter“ s cry), sight(the scarlet letter and feeling)and touching it with her finger, told her the reality. Symbols are applied, as the infant and the scarlet letter symbolizing her shame. Character“ s psychological activities and in
25、stinct feeling are put in the first place in description, directly and clearly.)解析：13.And yet the voices in the house, behind the sprays of mimosa and almond blossom, and from under the piles of iridescent cushions, simply trilled and screamed in a sort of ecstasy: “ There must be more money! Oh-h-h
26、; there must be more money. Oh, now, now-w! Now-w-wthere must be more money! More than ever! More than ever!“（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：This passage is taken from David Herbert Lawrence“ s The Rocking-Horse Winner. A boy named Paul begins to gamble on horse to win his mother“ s love. At first, he always w
27、ins and gets lots of money for his mother. But his mother is so greed and never satisfied. After once running the rocking-horse, he falls down on the ground and dies. This paragraph describes after Paul wins a large amount of money, the voices in the house are more and more, which indicates the gree
28、dy heart of people for more money to satisfy their need for luxury life. The voices are so dense that they linger in every corner in the house, symbolizing the human nature twisted by industrial civilization and money.)解析：14.Choose one of the following authors and make a comment on any one of his/he
29、r literary works.(20 points)Joseph Conrad D. H. LawrenceMark Twain Toni Morrison（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Choose one of the following authors and make a comment on any one of his/her literary works.(20 points) Comment on Joseph Conrad“ s Heart of Darkness Heart of Darkness tells the story of Marlow who i
30、s the narrator, Mr. Kurtz, an ivory trader, black Natives and white Pilgrims. Themes of this novel are powerful literary indictment of imperialism , spiritual journey of self-discovery for Marlow, retracing of the stages of human evolution to the prehistoric beginning, a descent into the underworldH
31、ades. The main character is Kurtz, an idealist when young, who worked for civilization and progress. He was shocked by the harsh reality. Driven by desires for power, wealth and fame, he degenerated into a demon-like creature. With the basest means of cheating, fooling, and playing tricks on the nat
32、ives, Kurtz established himself on a semi-god status among certain native tribes. He is “ a first class agent“ who “sends in as much ivory as all the others put together. “Kurtz is a symbol for the faithlessness and inner emptiness of the modern world, the climactic example of all the monstrous colo
33、nizers. The structure of Heart of Darkness is like that of Russian dolls, which means that you open each doll up, and there is another doll inside. Much of the meaning in Heart of Darkness is found not in the center of the book, the heart of Africa, but on the periphery of the book. Patterns of Thre
34、e is employed in this novelyou will find three chapters, three times Marlow breaks the story, three stations, three women(Aunt, Mistress, Intended), three central characters(Kurtz, Marlow, Narrator)and three views of Africa(adventure, religious, economic). Contrast in Heart of Darkness is obvious. M
35、uch of the imagery is arranged in patterns of opposition and contrast, for example light/dark, black/white, civilized/savaged, outer/inner. Black/dark symbolizes death, evil, ignorance, mystery, savagery, uncivilized, which is a symbol existing in European society for centuries. According to Christi
36、anity, in the beginning of time all was dark and God created light. Middle Ages, when science and knowledge was suppressed, then became the Dark Ages. According to Heart of Darkness, before the Romans came, England was dark. In the same way, Africa was considered to be in the “dark stage“. White/lig
37、ht symbolizes life, goodness, enlightenment, civilized, religion. Yet, in Conrad, the usual pattern is reverse and darkness means truth, while whiteness means falsehood. This contrast tells a political truth about colonialism in the Congo. The contrast also suggests a psychological truth about Marlo
38、w and the Europeans mind. The truth within, therefore is dark and obscure. White also suggests any number of unpleasant moral truths. The trade in ivory is white and dirty. Kurtz the white man is totally corrupt. Civilization and savagery is another contrast. The book implies that civilizations are
39、created by the laws and codes that encourage men to achieve higher standards. The law acts as a buffer to prevent men from reverting back to their darker tendencies. Civilization, however, must be learned. London itself, in the book a symbol of enlightenment, was once “one of the darker places of th
40、e earth“ before the Romans forced civilization upon the Britons. But civilized society does not get rid of primeval savage tendencies which lurk in the background. This savagery is seen in Kurtz. Marlow meets Kurtz and he finds a man that has totally thrown off the restraint of civilization and has
41、de-evolved into a primitive state. Marlow and Kurtz are two opposite examples of human conditions. Kurtz represents what every man will become if left to his own intrinsic desires without a protective, civilized environment. Marlow represents the civilized soul that has not been drawn back into savagery by a dark, alienating jungle. When Marlow arrives at the station he is
