1、2009年厦门大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案解析(总分：46.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、名词解释(总题数：6，分数：12.00)1.folktale（分数：2.00）_2.first-person narrative（分数：2.00）_3.tragedy（分数：2.00）_4.confessional poetry（分数：2.00）_5.new historic（分数：2.00）_6.satire（分数：2.00）_二、匹配题(总题数：8，分数：16.00)7.Poor Richard“s Almanac（分数：2.00）_8.The Raven and Other Poems（
2、分数：2.00）_9.“ Self-Reliance“（分数：2.00）_10.Merchant of Venice（分数：2.00）_11.For Whom the Bell Tolls（分数：2.00）_12.The Grass Is Singing（分数：2.00）_13.Women in Love（分数：2.00）_14.Passage to India（分数：2.00）_三、问答题(总题数：2，分数：4.00)15.Discuss the symbols used in The Scarlet Letter.（分数：2.00）_16.What are the main charact
3、eristics of modernism in literature?（分数：2.00）_四、评论题(总题数：6，分数：12.00)17.Jude(from: Jude the Obscure)（分数：2.00）_18.Granny Weatherall(from: “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall“)（分数：2.00）_19.Nick Carraway(from: The Great Gatsby)（分数：2.00）_20.Montresor(from: “The Cask of Amontillado“)（分数：2.00）_21.Hamlet(from;
4、 Hamlet)（分数：2.00）_22.Jane Eyre(from: Jane Eyre)（分数：2.00）_五、分析题(总题数：1，分数：2.00)23.Read the following poem and write a short essay based on the following questions in about 100 words(8 points):The Song of the Old MotherBy W. B. Yeats(1865-1939)I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow Till the seed of t
5、he fire flicker and glow; And then I must scrub and bake and sweep Till stars are beginning to blink and peep; And the young lie long and dream in their bed Of the matching of ribbons for bosom and head, And their days go over in idleness.And they sigh if the wind but lift a tress: While I must work
6、 because I am old, And the seed of the fire gets feeble and cold. Questions:A. What must the old mother do?B. What do the young do while the mother works?C. What does the last line mean? How do you feel about the mother presented in the poem?（分数：2.00）_2009年厦门大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷答案解析(总分：46.00，做题时间：90 分钟)
7、一、名词解释(总题数：6，分数：12.00)1.folktale（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：folktale; A folktale is a story passed on by word of mouth rather than by writing, and thus partly modified by successive retellings before being written down or recorded. The category includes legends, fables, jokes, fairy tales etc. Many folktal
8、es involve mythical creatures and magical transformations. A famous folktale is Thousand and One Nights.)解析：2.first-person narrative（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：first-person narrative: First-person narrative is a narrative mode in which a story is narrated by only one character at a time, who explicitly ref
9、ers to him-or herself using words and phrases involving “I“ and/or “we“. This allows the reader or audience to see the point of view(including opinions, thoughts, and feelings)only of the narrator, and no other characters.)解析：3.tragedy（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：tragedy: A tragedy is a story that presents
10、courageous individuals who confront powerful forces within or outside themselves with a dignity that reveals the breadth and depth of the human spirit in the face of failure, defeat, and even death. Tragedies recount an individual“ s downfall; they usually begin high and end low. Shakespeare is know
11、n for his tragedies, including Macbeth, King Lear, Othello, and Hamlet.)解析：4.confessional poetry（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：confessional poetry: Confessional poetry traffics in intimate, and sometimes unflattering, information about details of the poet“ s personal life, such as in poems about illness, sexu
12、ality, and despondence. The confessionalist label was applied to a number of poets of the 1950s and 1960s. John Berryman, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell and Anne Sexton have all been called “ Confessional Poets“.)解析：5.new historic（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：new historic; New Historicism is a school of liter
13、ary theory that developed in the 1980s, primarily through the work of the critic Stephen Greenblatt, and gained widespread influence in the 1990s. New Historicists aim simultaneously to understand the work through its historical context and to understand cultural and intellectual history through lit
14、erature, which documents the new discipline of the history of ideas.)解析：6.satire（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：satire: Satire is the literary art of ridiculing a folly or vice in order to expose or correct it. It e-vokes attitudes of amusement, contempt, scorn, or indignation toward its faulty subject in the
15、hope of somehow improving it. A tradition of English verse satire runs through Donne, Jonson, Dryden, Pope, and Samuel Johnson; of prose satire, Addison, Swift, and Fielding.)解析：二、匹配题(总题数：8，分数：16.00)7.Poor Richard“s Almanac（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Benjamin Franklin)解析：解析：(富兰克林的穷理查历书1732 年问世，印发持续长达 25年之久
16、，极受读者欢迎。)8.The Raven and Other Poems（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Edgar Allan Poe)解析：解析：(坡是美国著名诗人、短篇小说家和文学评论家。乌鸦及其它诗歌是他的诗集。)9.“ Self-Reliance“（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Ralph Waldo Emerson)解析：解析：(爱默生是美国著名哲学家、诗人和散文家。论自助是其超验主义著作之一。)10.Merchant of Venice（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：William Shakespeare)解析：解析：(威尼斯商人是莎士比亚的著名喜剧。
17、)11.For Whom the Bell Tolls（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Ernest Hemingway)解析：解析：(丧钟为谁而鸣(或译战地钟声)是海明威的小说，以 1936年西班牙内战为背景。)12.The Grass Is Singing（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Doris Lessing)解析：解析：(野草在歌唱是诺贝尔文学奖获得者莱辛的一部小说。)13.Women in Love（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：David Herbert Lawrence)解析：解析：(恋爱中的女人是劳伦斯的一部长篇小说，代表了他小说创作的最高成就。)
18、14.Passage to India（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Edward Morgan Forster)解析：解析：(福斯特是英国著名小说家和散文家。印度之行是福斯特六部长篇小说中取得声望最高的作品，是根据他在印度的实际经历和感受写成的。)三、问答题(总题数：2，分数：4.00)15.Discuss the symbols used in The Scarlet Letter.（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：The most important symbol in the novel is the scarlet letter; “A“. Symbolic of
19、Hester“ s moral development is the gradual, imperceptible change which the scarlet letter undergoes in meaning. At first it is a token of shame, “ Adultery,“ but then the genuine sympathy and help Hester offers to her fellow villages changes it to “Able“. Later in the story, the letter A appears in
20、the sky, signifying “ Angel. “ There is reason to agree with the critical observation that A may represent Adamic, or prehistoric, or archetypal vice suggestive of “original sin“. The names of Dim-mersdale and Chillingworth are symbolic too, as are the flower at the prison door, little Pearl, the wi
21、ldness on the verge of which stands the Puritan community, and so forth.)解析：16.What are the main characteristics of modernism in literature?（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：The theoretical base is irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis. Common themes are the distorted, alienated and ill relatio
22、nships between man and nature, man and society, man and man, and man and himself. Modernism writing shows a strong and conscious break with the past, by rejecting the moral, religious and cultural values of the past. Focuses in this period move away from the public to the private, from the objective
23、 to the subjective. Writers emphasize the psychic time over the chronological one, maintaining that the past, the present and the future are one and exist at the same time in the consciousness of individual as a continuous flow rather than a series of separate moments. A partial reaction against rea
24、lism is also dominated.)解析：四、评论题(总题数：6，分数：12.00)17.Jude(from: Jude the Obscure)（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Jude(from: Jude the Obscure): Jude is the protagonist in Jude the Obscure. Jude is entrapped into marrying Arabella Donn, and then falls in love with his cousin, Sue. But their love is not allowed by
25、the social morality. The tragic death of their children casts Sue in an agony of remorse and self-debasement, so she returns to Phillotson. Jude takes to drink and dies miserably.)解析：18.Granny Weatherall(from: “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall“)（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Granny Weatherall(from: “The Jilti
26、ng of Granny Weatherall“): Granny Weatherall is the protagonist in “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall“ , a famous story by Katherine Anne Porter. Granny Weatherall, now eighty years old, is dying. On this last day of her life, her mind is busy shuttling back and forth between now and the past, trying
27、 to look for an answer to the puzzle that has bothered her all her life.)解析：19.Nick Carraway(from: The Great Gatsby)（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Nick Carraway(from: The Great Gatsby): Nick Carraway is the narrator and a character of The Great Gatsby, a famous novel by American writer Fitzgerald. In The Grea
28、t Gatsby, Nick is the neighbor of Gatsby. He is a 29-year-old bond salesman from Minnesota, a Yale graduate, a World War I veteran, and a resident of Long Island.)解析：20.Montresor(from: “The Cask of Amontillado“)（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Montresor(from: “The Cask of Amontillado“): Montresor is the protago
29、nist in “The Cask of A-montillado“ , a short story by Allan Poe. Montresor tells the story of the night that he took his revenge on Fortunato, a fellow nobleman. Angry over some unspecified insult, Montresor murders his friend during Carnival when the man is drunk, and hangs his body by chains.)解析：2
30、1.Hamlet(from; Hamlet)（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Hamlet(from; Hamlet); Hamlet is a fictional character, the protagonist in Shakespeare“ s tragedy Hamlet. He is the Prince of Denmark, nephew to the usurping Claudius and son of the previous King of Denmark, Old Hamlet. Throughout the play he struggles with
31、whether, and how, to avenge the murder of his father, and struggles with his own sanity along the way.)解析：22.Jane Eyre(from: Jane Eyre)（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案： Jane Eyre(from: Jane Eyre): Jane Eyre is the protagonist of Jane Eyre. Orphaned as a baby, Jane Eyre struggles through her nearly loveless chil
32、dhood and becomes governess at Thornfield Hall. Her strong sense of conscience does not permit her to become Edward Rochester“ s mistress , and she does not return to him until his insane wife is dead and she herself has come into an inheritance.)解析：五、分析题(总题数：1，分数：2.00)23.Read the following poem and
33、 write a short essay based on the following questions in about 100 words(8 points):The Song of the Old MotherBy W. B. Yeats(1865-1939)I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow; And then I must scrub and bake and sweep Till stars are beginning to blink and pe
34、ep; And the young lie long and dream in their bed Of the matching of ribbons for bosom and head, And their days go over in idleness.And they sigh if the wind but lift a tress: While I must work because I am old, And the seed of the fire gets feeble and cold. Questions:A. What must the old mother do?
35、B. What do the young do while the mother works?C. What does the last line mean? How do you feel about the mother presented in the poem?（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案： The old mother must work hard from the dawn to the midnight. She must get up early in the dawn. She has to start the stove, scrub the kitchen,
36、bake the bread and sweep the yard. The young keep idle everyday. They lie long and dream in their bed, and their days go over in idleness, and they sigh for mere nothingness. The last line means the mother is old, and the fire of her life is getting feeble and cold now. In the poem, the fire the Old Mother lights in the morning is meant to represent the Old Mother herself, waking up wh
