1、2009 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：80.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、名词解释(总题数：10，分数：20.00)1.Robinson Crusoe（分数：2.00）_2.Henry Fleming（分数：2.00）_3.The Bible（分数：2.00）_4.Samuel Taylor Coleridge（分数：2.00）_5.Death of a Salesman（分数：2.00）_6.The Gothic novel（分数：2.00）_7.Santiago（分数：2.00）_8.Samuel Beckett（分数：2.00）_9.Uncle To
2、m（分数：2.00）_10.Ideology（分数：2.00）_二、分析题(总题数：11，分数：60.00)11.Why is the Knight first in the General Prologue to tell a tale in Canterbury Tales ?（分数：2.00）_12.Moby-Dick features several seemingly insane characters. How does insanity relate to this story? How do these characters contrast with one another?
3、（分数：2.00）_13.Analyze the theme of Social Class in Dickens“ Great Expectations .（分数：2.00）_To be, or not to bethat is the question:Whether this nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortuneor to take arms against a sea of troublesAnd by opposing end them. To die, to sleepNo m
4、ore.Questions:（分数：8.00）(1).A. From which play are these lines taken from?（分数：2.00）_(2).B. Who is the playwright?（分数：2.00）_(3).C. Who is the speaker?（分数：2.00）_(4).D. What does this speech show?（分数：2.00）_The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. Questions:（分数：8.00）(1).A
5、. What is the title of this short poem?（分数：2.00）_(2).B. Who is the author?（分数：2.00）_(3).C. What two images are juxtaposed or placed next to each other in this poem?（分数：2.00）_(4).D. How do you appreciate this poem?（分数：2.00）_It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a g
6、ood fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood , this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters. Q
7、uestions:（分数：8.00）(1).A. From which novel is this passage taken from?（分数：2.00）_(2).B. Who is the author of this novel?（分数：2.00）_(3).C. What is the literary style of this novel?（分数：2.00）_(4).D. What is this story about?（分数：2.00）_Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset into the street at Salem villag
8、e; but put his head back after crossing threshold, to exchange a parting kiss with his wife. And Faith, as the wife was aptly named, thrust her own pretty head into the street, letting the wind play with the pink ribbons on her cap while she called to Goodman Brown. Questions:（分数：6.00）(1).A. This pa
9、ssage is taken from Young Goodman Brown , who is the author?（分数：2.00）_(2).B. What is the symbolic meaning of “pink ribbons“?（分数：2.00）_(3).C. What is a symbol in literature?（分数：2.00）_O, my love“ s like a red, red rose. That“ s newly sprung in June; O, my love“ s like the melodie That“ s sweetly playe
10、d in tune. As fair art thou, my bonnie lass. So deep in love am I; And I will love thee still, my dear. Till a“ the seas gone dry.Questions:（分数：10.00）(1).A. Who wrote this poem?（分数：2.00）_(2).B. What is the title of the poem?（分数：2.00）_(3).C. The odd-numbered lines are iambic tetrameters, what about t
11、he even-numbered lines?（分数：2.00）_(4).D. What is the rhyme scheme?（分数：2.00）_(5).E. What do you know about the poem?（分数：2.00）_EUNICE; What“s the matter, honey? Are you lost?BLANCHE: They told me to take a street-car named Desire. And then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get o
12、ff atElysian Fields!EUNICE: That“ s where you are now. Questions:（分数：6.00）(1).A. From which play are the conversations taken?（分数：2.00）_(2).B. Who is the playwright?（分数：2.00）_(3).C. How to define “Desire“ in the play?（分数：2.00）_We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
13、 Mother Night , 1961 Anyone who cannot understand how useful a religion based on lies can be will not understand this book either. Cat“s Cradle , 1963 This is a novel somewhat in the telegraphic schizophrenic manner of tales of the planet Tralfa-madore, where the flying saucers come from. Slaughterh
14、ouse-Five , 1969 Questions:（分数：4.00）(1).A. The author of these novels is Kurt Vonnegut, name some other novelists who employ black humor.（分数：2.00）_(2).B. Define the literary term Black Humor with reference to the above quotations.（分数：2.00）_Tragedy is, then, an imitation of a noble and complete actio
15、n, having the proper magnitude; it employs language that has been artistically enhanced by each of the kinds of linguistic adornment, applied separately in the various parts of the play; it is presented in dramatic, not narrative form, and achieves, through the representation of pitiable and fearful
16、 incidents, the catharsis of such pitiable and fearful incidents. Questions:（分数：4.00）(1).A. This definition of Tragedy is quoted from Poetics , who is the author of Poetics ?（分数：2.00）_(2).B. Highlight the chief contributions of Poetics to the theory of tragedy.（分数：2.00）_2009 年北京航空航天大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷答
17、案解析(总分：80.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、名词解释(总题数：10，分数：20.00)1.Robinson Crusoe（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Robinson Crusoe is a key character in Daniel Defoe“ s most famous novel Robinson Crusoe. The realistic presentation of the successful struggle of Robinson single-handedly against the hostile nature proves the best p
18、art of the novel. Robinson is here a real hero; a typical eighteenth century English middle-class man, with a great capacity for work, inexhaustible energy, courage, patience and persistence in overcoming obstacles, in struggling against the hostile natural environment. He is the very prototype of t
19、he empire builder, the pioneer colonist. In describing Robinson “ s life on the island, Defoe glorifies human labor and the Puritan fortitude, which save Robinson from despair and are a source of pride and happiness.)解析：2.Henry Fleming（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Henry Fleming is the protagonist of The Red
20、Badge of Courage, written by American novelist Stephen Crane. Henry Fleming is a young farm boy whose dreams of glorious battle lead him to join in the American Civil War. Upon entering battle, his initial confrontation with true war perplexes him and he flees into the woods and feels like a coward.
21、 After he receives his “ red badge of courage,“ a head wound, this shame begins to disappear, and however, he feels guilty. He managed to return to battlefield. In the following battles, Henry becomes one of the best fighters in his battalion as well as the flag bearer, finally proving his courage a
22、s a man.)解析：3.The Bible（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：The Bible refers to one of two closely related religious texts central to Judaism and Christianity. The Bible is the main source for the history of ancient Israel. Judaism recognizes a single set of canonical books known as the Tanakh, also called Hebrew B
23、ible, traditionally divided into three parts; the Torah(“teaching“ or “law“), the Nevi“ im(“prophets“), and the Ketuvim(“writings“). The Bible as used by Christians is divided into the Old Testament and the New Testament. The New Testament is comprised of the Gospels(“good news“), the Acts of the Ap
24、ostles, the Epistles(letters), and the Book of Revelation. The Bible is one source of English and American literature.)解析：4.Samuel Taylor Coleridge（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772-1834)was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsw
25、orth, was one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as for his major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly infl
26、uential. He coined many familiar words and phrases, including the celebrated suspension of disbelief. He was a major influence, via Emerson, on American transcendentalism.)解析：5.Death of a Salesman（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Death of a Salesman(1949)is a play written by American playwright Arthur Miller. Th
27、e play ran for 742 performances, winning both the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize for drama. In this drama, Arthur Miller explored the dilemma of modern man in relation to his family and work. This drama is a sad version of the American dream. Willy Loman, the salesman of the title, believes in th
28、e American capitalism in a crazy sense. He wants to succeed, but finally walks toward disillusion. Though living in a rough world where modern civilization is suffocating, Willy never seems to be aware of that and keeps on dreaming of success and living in illusions and lies.)解析：6.The Gothic novel（分
29、数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Gothic novel is a type of romantic fiction that predominated the late eighteen century, was one phase of the Romantic Movement. Its principal elements are violence, horror, and the supernatural , which strongly appeal to the reader“ s emotion. With its descriptions of the dark, ir
30、rational side of human nature, the Gothic form has exerted a great influence over the writers of the Romantic period.)解析：7.Santiago（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Santiago is the protagonist of The Old Man and the Sea, written by American novelist Ernest Hemingway. He is an old man who hasn“ t caught any fishe
31、s for eighty-four days. On the final journey he has a fight with shakes. This character depicted by Hemingway is a typical “tough guy“. Santiago embodies Hemingway“ s definition of courage as “grace under pressure“. He never loses dignity in the face of death. The glory and honor Santiago accrues co
32、mes not from his battle itself but from his pride and determination to fight. His famous words are “ A man is not made for defeat. a man can be destroyed but not defeated. “)解析：8.Samuel Beckett（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Samuel Barclay Beckett(1906-1989)was an Irish avant-garde writer, dramatist and poet.
33、Beckett“ s work offers a bleak outlook on human culture and both formally and philosophically became increasingly minimalist. Beckett is considered one of the last modernists; as an inspiration to many later writers, he is sometimes considered one of the first postmodernists. He is also considered o
34、ne of the key writers in “ Theatre of the Absurd. “ Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969 for his “writing, whichin new forms for the novel and dramain the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation“.)解析：9.Uncle Tom（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Uncle Tom is a pejorative term for a
35、black person who is perceived by others as behaving in a subservient manner to white authority figures, or as seeking ingratiation with them by way of unnecessary accommodation. The term comes from the title character of American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe“s 1852 novel Uncle Tom“ s Cabin. In the novel the Uncle Tom character is a Christian martyr, morally superior to his white owners in an antebellum fiction. Numerous adaptatio
