1、2009年南开大学英语专业（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、名词解释(总题数：5，分数：10.00)1.Metaphysical poetry（分数：2.00）_2.Denotation and connotation（分数：2.00）_3.Ezra Pound and The Cantos（分数：2.00）_4.British neoclassicism（分数：2.00）_5.Imagism（分数：2.00）_二、分析题(总题数：3，分数：20.00)Questions 1 to 3 are based on the following passag
2、e of The Canterbury Tales. From The Canterbury Tales Speaking of his equipment, he(the knight)possessed Fine horses, but he was not gaily dressed. He wore a fustian tunic stained and dark With smudges where his armor had left mark.（分数：6.00）(1).1. What does the fact that the knight owns fine horses i
3、ndicate?（分数：2.00）_(2).2. What does the clothes he wears indicate?（分数：2.00）_(3).3. What does Geoffrey Chaucer want to show through these details?（分数：2.00）_6.Question 4 is based on the following passage of The Canterbury Tales. From The Canterbury Tales No morsel from her lips did she(the nun)let fall
4、 Nor dipped her fingers in the sauce too deep And she would wipe her upper lip so clean That not a trace of grease was to be seen Upon the cup when she had drunk.4. What does the narrator think of the nun? Why do you think so?（分数：2.00）_Questions 5 to 10 are based on the following passage. The stars
5、 awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret nor lose his curiosity by finding out all
6、 her perfection. Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals , the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood. When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind.
7、 We mean the integrity of impression made by manifold natural objects. It is this which distinguishes the stick of timber of the wood-cutter from the tree of the poet. The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke
8、 that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men“ s farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title. Yet it is cer
9、tain that the power to produce this delight, does not reside in nature, but in man, or in a harmony of both. It is necessary to use these pleasures with great temperance. For, nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the
10、 frolic of the nymphs is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is l
11、ess grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.（分数：12.00）(1).5. According to paragraph 1, why does the author believe the star awaken a reverence in people?（分数：2.00）_(2).6. What does the sentence “Nature never became a toy to the wise spirit“ mean?（分数：2.00）_(3).7. What does the author
12、imply when he talks about the difference between farms and landscapes?（分数：2.00）_(4).8. What do you think is the difference between the meaning the author or a poet finds in nature and the meaning a woodcutter, a botanist, a geographer or an engineer finds in nature?（分数：2.00）_(5).9. Where does the au
13、thor believe the power to produce a delight in nature comes from according paragraph 3?（分数：2.00）_(6).10. What does the phrase “the color of the spirit“(line 5 in paragraph 3)mean?（分数：2.00）_2009年南开大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷答案解析(总分：30.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、名词解释(总题数：5，分数：10.00)1.Metaphysical poetry（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案
14、Metaphysical poetry: The term “Metaphysical poetry“ is used to describe a certain type of 17 th century poetry. Dryden originally used the term to criticize John Donne for being too arcane and Samuel Johnson later used it to describe the specific poetic method used by poets like Donne. Metaphysical
15、 poets are generally in rebellion against the highly conventional imagery of the Elizabethan lyric. The Metaphysical poetry is characterized by wits, subtle argumentations, “metaphysical conceits“ , and/or an unusual simile or metaphor.)解析：2.Denotation and connotation（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Denotation
16、and connotation: Denotation is often associated with symbolism, as the denotation of a particular media text often represents something further; a hidden meaning is often encoded into a media text. In semiotics, denotation is the surface or literal meaning encoded to a signifier, and the definition
17、most likely to appear in a dictionary. Connotation is a subjective cultural and/or emotional coloration in addition to the explicit or denotative meaning of any specific word or phrase in a language.)解析：3.Ezra Pound and The Cantos（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Ezra Pound and The Cantos; Ezra Weston Loomis Pou
18、nd(1885-1972)was an American expatriate poet, critic and intellectual who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in the first half of the 20th century. His significant contributions to poetry begin with his promotion of Imag-ism. The Cantos by Ezra Pound is a long, incomplete poem in 120 secti
19、ons, each of which is a canto. Most of it was written between 1915 and 1962, although much of the early work was abandoned and the early cantos, as finally published, date from 1922 onwards. Strong claims have been made for it as the most significant work of modernist poetry of the twentieth century
20、 The most striking feature of the text, to a casual browser, is the inclusion of Chinese characters as well as quotations in European languages other than English.)解析：4.British neoclassicism（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：British neoclassicism: In English literature, the stylistic trend between the Restoratio
21、n and the advent of romanticism at the beginning of the 19 th century is referred to as neoclassicism. The term “neoclassicism“ is derived from the convictions of the leading poet-critics of the age that literary theory and practice should follow the models established by Greek and Latin writers. Th
22、ese critics held that writers should emphasize types rather than individual characteristics; adhere to “nature“ by aspiring to order and regularity; and strictly observe the unities of time, place, and action in dramatic composition. Major British neoclassicists are John Dryden, Alexander Pope and S
23、amuel Johnson.)解析：5.Imagism（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Imagism: Imagism is a poetic movement that flourished in the U. S. and Britain between 1909 and 1917. The movement was led by the American poets Ezra Pound and, later, Amy Lowell. The imagist poets placed stressed precision in the choice of words, free
24、dom in the choice of subject matter and form and the use of colloquial language. Most of them wrote in free verse, using such devices as assonance and alliteration rather than formal metrical schemes to give structure to their poetry. Notable collections of imagist poetry are Des Imagistes: An Antho
25、logy, compiled by Pound, and the three anthologies compiled by Amy Lowell, all under the title Some Imagist Poets.)解析：二、分析题(总题数：3，分数：20.00)Questions 1 to 3 are based on the following passage of The Canterbury Tales. From The Canterbury Tales Speaking of his equipment, he(the knight)possessed Fine ho
26、rses, but he was not gaily dressed. He wore a fustian tunic stained and dark With smudges where his armor had left mark.（分数：6.00）(1).1. What does the fact that the knight owns fine horses indicate?（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：The fact indicates that the knight represents a real knight and the ideal of a med
27、ieval Christian man-at-arms.)解析：(2).2. What does the clothes he wears indicate?（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：The knight wears a fustian tunic stained and dark with smudges, which indicates that he has recently returned from an expedition.)解析：(3).3. What does Geoffrey Chaucer want to show through these detail
28、s?（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Through these details, Chaucer wants to show that the knight is brave, experienced, devout and prudent. The Knight rides at the front of the procession described in the General Prologue, and his story is the first in the sequence. The Host clearly admires the Knight, as does t
29、he narrator.)解析：6.Question 4 is based on the following passage of The Canterbury Tales. From The Canterbury Tales No morsel from her lips did she(the nun)let fall, Nor dipped her fingers in the sauce too deep And she would wipe her upper lip so clean That not a trace of grease was to be seen Upon th
30、e cup when she had drunk.4. What does the narrator think of the nun? Why do you think so?（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：The narrator does not admire the nun. The author describes the nun with irony. Though the nun is well-educated and has good manners, she gives much importance to those things that should not
31、 be important for a nun. For example, the author is sarcastic when he uses the example of her feeling for a mouse to testify her charity and pity. Her dress is also not suitable for a nun; “She wore a coral trinket on her arm, / A set of beads, the gaudies tricked in green, / Whence hung a golden br
32、ooch of brightest sheen/ On which there first was graven a crowned A, / And lower, Amor vincit omnia. “)解析：Questions 5 to 10 are based on the following passage. The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impressi
33、on when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret nor lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals , the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his
34、 best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood. When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind. We mean the integrity of impression made by manifold natural objects. It is this which distinguishes the stick of timber of the w
35、ood-cutter from the tree of the poet. The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has b
36、ut he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men“ s farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title. Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight, does not reside in nature, but in man, or in a harmony of both. It is necessary to us
37、e these pleasures with great temperance. For, nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under c
38、alamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.（分数：12.00）(1).5. According to paragraph 1, why does the author believ
39、e the star awaken a reverence in people?（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：The star is a symbol of the universe, the nature. The author regards nature as the purest, and the most sanctifying moral influence on man, and advocates a direct intuition of a spiritual and immanent God in nature.)解析：(2).6. What does the
40、 sentence “Nature never became a toy to the wise spirit“ mean?（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Nature is not the toy of a wise man, for the wise man will never extort her secret nor lose her curiosity by finding all her perfection. Nature reflects the wisdom of a wise man, as much as she has delighted the simpl
41、icity of his -childhood.)解析：(3).7. What does the author imply when he talks about the difference between farms and landscapes?（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Recalling the farms he sees while walking, Emerson encourages us to perceive nature as an integrated wholeand not merely as a collection of individual objects. He distinguishes between knowing who owns various farms and being able to see a unified landscape vista, of which the farms form but a single part.)解析：(4).8. What do you think is the difference between the meaning the author or a poet finds in nature and the meaning a woodcutter, a bo
