1、2010 年天津外国语大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案解析(总分：48.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、填空题(总题数：20，分数：40.00)1.The only organic whole poem to come out of the Anglo-Saxons period is 1, an example of the mingling of nature myths and heroic legends.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_2.“ A little learning is a dangerous thing/Drink deep, or taste not the
2、Pierian sping,“ a famous quotation is from An Essay on Criticism written by 1, the high priest and magistrate of the Age of Reason.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_3.The 16th century in the history of English literature is viewed as a great period of Elizabethan drama, which witnessed the birth of two great playwrig
3、hts; William Shakespeare and 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_4.John Bunyan, a village tinker, with his strength and sincerity inscribed his name in the English literary history by his famous work 1written in the old-fashioned, medieval form of allegory and dream.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_5.The famous English critic Mathew
4、Arnold called the 18th century in Britain “an age of prose“. In this period, no novelists were as popular and well known as 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_6.Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele are always remembered together because they started a journalistic tradition that is still alive in Britain and the Un
5、ited State. Their collaboration on a series of essays for the Taller and the 1strongly influenced 18th century English taste and opinion.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_7.Like Ibsen, 1was much concerned about the social problems of his time. His career as a dramatist began in 1892, when his first play 2was put on a
6、nd turned out a success.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_8.Modernist writers such as James Joyce and Virginia Wolf approached the internal world of characters in their novels by the technique of “stream of consciousness“ which means 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_9.According to historians of English literature, the First World W
7、ar saw the start of a poetic revolution which was initiated by the imagist movement and the symbolist movement. The imagist movement was led by 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_10.The revolution of the British drama came in the decade following the ending of the World War II. The tremors in the post-war British th
8、eatre were caused by Samuel Beckett“s play 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_11.Edgar Allan Poe“s stories fall into two categories; 1and “tales of ratiocination“.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_12.“ The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am
9、 not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them. The waving of the boughs in the storm, is new to me and old. It takes me by surprise, and yet is not unknown. Its effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing rig
10、ht.Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight, does not reside in 1, but in 2, or in a harmony of both. It is necessary to use these pleasures with great temperance. “（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_13.In Emily Dickinson“s poem Because I Could not Stop for Death, she uses personification to compare de
11、ath to 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_14.In William Dean Howell“s 1, the burning of the house symbolizes the protagonist“s economic fall but he achieves his moral and ethical rise.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_15.Allen Ginsberg“s 1(1956), William S. Burroughs“s Naked Lunch(1959)and Jack Kerouac“s On the Road(1957)are consider
12、ed to be the literary representatives of the 2of the 1950s.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_16.The Southern Renaissance was the reinvigoration of American Southern literature that began in the 1920s and 1930s with the appearance of, among others, novelist 1, playwright 2, short-story writer Katherine Anne Porter.（分数
13、：2.00）填空项 1:_17.The concept of “double consciousness“ which has beeh widely employed in the literary criticism of ethnic American literatures originated from the enduring classic The Souls of Black Folk(1903) by 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_18.In 1by Arthur Miller, the main character 2“s determination to live
14、up to his “American Dream“ and only to seek material happiness takes his life.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_19. 1by J.D.Salinger reflects the moral crisis and disillusionment of the post-war American society.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_20.“The suits on Wall Street walked off with most of our savings. “ The figure of speech u
15、sed in the sentence is 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_二、问答题(总题数：4，分数：8.00)21.Charles Lamb is sometimes called the Shakespeare of the English essay. Do you agree or disagree on the statement? Give details to support your argument.（分数：2.00）_22.British romanticism is a very important literary trend in the history o
16、f the English literature. Scholars singled out six major poets in this period of time: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelly, Keats and Blake and constructed the basic notions of a unified Romanticism. What are the basic notions of Romanticism? Illustrate these notions of Romanticism with one or two
17、examples.（分数：2.00）_23.How do Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow embody two different value systems?（分数：2.00）_24.Give the importance of mobility in the ideological underpinnings of America, it is hardly surprising to find that American literature has from its beginnings been“
18、a literature of movement, of motion, its great icons the track through forest and superhighway. “ Please name one novel from the canonical American literature to elaborate on the theme of mobility.（分数：2.00）_2010 年天津外国语大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷答案解析(总分：48.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、填空题(总题数：20，分数：40.00)1.The only organic
19、whole poem to come out of the Anglo-Saxons period is 1, an example of the mingling of nature myths and heroic legends.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Beowulf）解析：解析： 贝尔武夫于公元 5 世纪时已开始口头传诵，约 8 世纪时成书。贝尔武夫是英雄叙事长诗，全诗长 3，183 行。本诗以西撒克斯方言写成，押头韵，不押尾韵，用双字隐喻而不用明喻。是现存古英语文学中最古老的作品，是流传至今最完整的一部欧洲史诗，也是欧洲最早的方言史诗。2.“ A li
20、ttle learning is a dangerous thing/Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian sping,“ a famous quotation is from An Essay on Criticism written by 1, the high priest and magistrate of the Age of Reason.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Alexander Pope）解析：解析： 论批评是英国 18 世纪古典主义代表作家亚历山大蒲伯的作品，蒲伯感慨文学批评缺少真正的趣味，推崇荷马、维吉尔等
21、古典作家的诗论，认为“模仿自然就是模仿他们”。批评论以双行押韵体写作，宣扬古典主义诗论，表达机智、精辟，后成为英国古典主义文学理论的宣言性著作。3.The 16th century in the history of English literature is viewed as a great period of Elizabethan drama, which witnessed the birth of two great playwrights; William Shakespeare and 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Christopher Marl
22、owe）解析：解析： 马洛享有“英国悲剧之父”的美誉。他是莎士比亚之前英国戏剧界最重要的人物。马洛共写了 7 部剧本，均属悲剧或带有悲剧意味的历史剧：帖木儿(Timerlane)、浮士德博士的悲剧(The TragicalHistory of Doctor Faustus)、马耳他的犹太人(The Jew of Malta)、爱德华二世(Edward II)和巴黎的大屠杀(The Massacre at Paris)等。4.John Bunyan, a village tinker, with his strength and sincerity inscribed his name in t
23、he English literary history by his famous work 1written in the old-fashioned, medieval form of allegory and dream.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：The Pilgrim“s Progress）解析：解析： 17 世纪英国清教徒约翰班扬因不信奉国教，被关押在狱十二年之久。天路历程为他在狱中用心血凝成的杰作，书中一个坚韧的基督徒为寻求永生而踏上荆棘遍布的漫漫长旅，充满危险、诱惑与灾难的尘世被他一步步抛弃，只为负罪的灵魂在天上得到迎接。5.The famous E
24、nglish critic Mathew Arnold called the 18th century in Britain “an age of prose“. In this period, no novelists were as popular and well known as 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Francis Bacon）解析：解析： 弗朗西斯培根(156l1626)是英国文艺复兴时期的代表人物，他是杰出的哲学家、科学家及散文家。他的培根散文集被誉为英语散文发展的重要里程碑。6.Joseph Addison and Sir Richard
25、Steele are always remembered together because they started a journalistic tradition that is still alive in Britain and the United State. Their collaboration on a series of essays for the Taller and the 1strongly influenced 18th century English taste and opinion.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Spectator）
26、解析：解析： 闲谈者(Tatler)1709 年 4 月 12 日由斯梯尔创办。兼有政治性和文艺性，每期两页，每周发行三次。以戏剧、轻松论文、文艺作品为主的内容吸引了大批读者。1711 年因政治原因停刊。闲谈者停办后，斯梯尔和艾狄生合办旁观者(Spectatory)。该刊笔调轻松、乐观、富于趣味，娓娓谈论人生问题，指导读者的道德观，易于被人们接受。旁观者是当时发行量最大的杂志，1712 年因印花税颁布停刊。7.Like Ibsen, 1was much concerned about the social problems of his time. His career as a dramat
27、ist began in 1892, when his first play 2was put on and turned out a success.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：George Bernard Shaw, Widower“s Houses）解析：解析： 萧伯纳，爱尔兰剧作家，1925 年“因为作品具有理想主义和人道主义”而获诺贝尔文学奖，是英国现代杰出的现实主义戏剧作家。萧伯纳戏剧的最突出特点是紧密结合现实政治斗争，敢于触及资本主义社会最本质的问题，把剥削阶级的丑恶嘴脸暴露在公众面前。鳏夫的房产是其第一部戏剧，被收录在不愉快的戏剧集(Plays Un
28、pleasant)中。8.Modernist writers such as James Joyce and Virginia Wolf approached the internal world of characters in their novels by the technique of “stream of consciousness“ which means 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：the continuous flow of sense-perceptions, thoughts, feelings in the human mind）解析：9
29、.According to historians of English literature, the First World War saw the start of a poetic revolution which was initiated by the imagist movement and the symbolist movement. The imagist movement was led by 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Ezra Pound）解析：解析： 埃兹拉庞德是意象派运动的主要发起人，也是现代文学的领军人物。意象派的宗旨是要求诗人以鲜
30、明、准确、含蓄和高度凝练的意象生动及形象地展现事物，并将诗人瞬息间的思想感情表现在诗行中。它反对发表议论及感叹。10.The revolution of the British drama came in the decade following the ending of the World War II. The tremors in the post-war British theatre were caused by Samuel Beckett“s play 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Waiting for Godot）解析：解析： 等待戈多是一个两
31、幕剧，出场人物只有 5 个。全剧的主题就是两个百无聊赖的人在等待“戈多”，而戈多却始终没有出现。剧情上没有任何发展，结尾是开端的重复，没有冲突，只有一些乱无头绪的对话。舞台的背景也显得简陋、压抑，令人窒息。它是贝克特的代表作，也是荒诞派戏剧的奠基之作。11.Edgar Allan Poe“s stories fall into two categories; 1and “tales of ratiocination“.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：“ tales of terror“）解析：解析： 爱伦坡是 19 世纪美国诗人、小说家和文学评论家。他既是推理侦探小说的
32、鼻祖，也是恐怖小说的大师。他的恐怖故事包括红死病的假面具(The Masque of the Red Death)、厄舍府的倒塌(The Fallof the House of Usher)等，他的推理小说有莫格街谋杀案(The Murders in the Rue Morgue)、被窃之信(The Purloined Letter)等。12.“ The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetab
33、le. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them. The waving of the boughs in the storm, is new to me and old. It takes me by surprise, and yet is not unknown. Its effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was thinking justly or d
34、oing right.Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight, does not reside in 1, but in 2, or in a harmony of both. It is necessary to use these pleasures with great temperance. “（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：nature, man）解析：解析： 本文选自爱默生的论自然。论自然是爱默生的第一部重要哲学著作，最初发表于1836 年。它虽非作者成熟之作，但却集超验主义思想之大成
35、，有新英格兰超验主义宣言的美称。13.In Emily Dickinson“s poem Because I Could not Stop for Death, she uses personification to compare death to 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：human being）解析：解析： 因为我不能停下来等待死神是美国女诗人狄金森的名诗，诗中她想象了自己的死亡，独自一人随死神的马车穿过学生课间休息的学校(象征童年)，越过成熟的田野(象征成年)，看到夕阳西下(象征晚年)，直到在冰冷的坟墓里待了几个世纪，才发现死神的马车是朝向永恒(意味着
36、诗人的灵魂得到永生)。14.In William Dean Howell“s 1, the burning of the house symbolizes the protagonist“s economic fall but he achieves his moral and ethical rise.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：The Rise of Silas Lapham）解析：解析： 豪拉斯拉帕姆的发迹是豪威尔斯的代表作，也是他最有戏剧色彩、最受读者欢迎的作品。小说描写了一个做矿漆生意发迹的商人拉帕姆。他勤勤恳恳 i 兢兢业业，靠自己的双手勤俭起家。他成了
37、百万富翁之后，便着手在波士顿的豪华地段建造一幢豪宅。但是，就在他春风得意的时候，他的矿漆生意却面临破产。这时他本可把自己的厂子卖给一家英国公司，但考虑到铁路公司插手会使买主受损，他不愿意损人利己，不想把灾难转嫁他人，而是甘愿自己倾家荡产，最后领着家人回到乡下。在这里，小说突出表现了作者以伦理道德为重的人生哲学。拉帕姆用巨资建造的豪宅象征着物质上的“发迹”，豪宅毁于一旦后，他落得一无所有，但他却因此而迎来了另一种“发迹”他在道德上、精神上得到了升华。15.Allen Ginsberg“s 1(1956), William S. Burroughs“s Naked Lunch(1959)and J
38、ack Kerouac“s On the Road(1957)are considered to be the literary representatives of the 2of the 1950s.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Howl, Beat writing）解析：解析： 嚎叫是金斯堡最著名的诗作，同时也是“垮掉的一代”的代表作之一。全诗共分三章，通篇是怨气冲天的牢骚、愤慨不平的责问、狂怒的批评和无可奈何的哀诉，带着强烈的冲动，表现出美国青年在资本主义非人化的世界中的敏感，急躁心情和忧郁、彷徨的态度。这首长诗的主调是绝望和愤恨。作者尖锐地批判了缺乏人性的商
39、业文化，歌颂并肯定了一切生命，包括那些卑贱的，受到灾难袭击的人们。字里行间集中了愤怒的“嚎叫”，并使之宣泄。16.The Southern Renaissance was the reinvigoration of American Southern literature that began in the 1920s and 1930s with the appearance of, among others, novelist 1, playwright 2, short-story writer Katherine Anne Porter.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正
40、确答案：William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams）解析：解析： 美国南北战争后出现在南方的一种严肃而带有悲剧性的文学，被称为“南方文艺复兴”，南方作家重视家庭、宗教和传统道德观念，对南方的过去和现在有着深刻思考，重农轻工，对工业文明有些强烈的疏远和排斥。17.The concept of “double consciousness“ which has beeh widely employed in the literary criticism of ethnic American literatures originated from the enduring
41、 classic The Souls of Black Folk(1903) by 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：William Edward Burghardt Du Bois(W. E.B. Du Bois)）解析：解析： 杜波依斯是 20 世纪上半叶最有影响力的黑人知识分子，其著作黑人的灵魂写于 1903年，其中杜波依斯用“双重意识”这一概念解释黑人经验，认为美国黑人在文化身份上表现为既是黑人又是美国人这两种相互冲突的认证。18.In 1by Arthur Miller, the main character 2“s determination to liv
42、e up to his “American Dream“ and only to seek material happiness takes his life.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman）解析：19. 1by J.D.Salinger reflects the moral crisis and disillusionment of the post-war American society.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：Catcher in the Rye）解析：20.“Th
43、e suits on Wall Street walked off with most of our savings. “ The figure of speech used in the sentence is 1.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：正确答案：metonymy）解析：解析： 转喻(metonymy)是指当甲事物同乙事物不相类似，但有密切关系时，可以利用这种关系，以乙事物的名称来取代甲事物的一种修辞手段。转喻的重点不在“相似”，而在“联想”。除了题中的“西装”代替“穿西装的商人”，还可以用“华盛顿”代替“美国政府”，“刀剑”代表“军事力量”等。二、问答题(总题数：4
44、，分数：8.00)21.Charles Lamb is sometimes called the Shakespeare of the English essay. Do you agree or disagree on the statement? Give details to support your argument.（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：I“m quiet agree on the statement. In my opinion, Lamb“s greatest achievements are his remarkable words in the essay
45、s that he writes under the pseudonym Elia. His style is highly personal and mannered, its function being to create and delineate the persona of Elia, and the writing, though sometimes simple, is never plain. The essays conjure up, with humors(such as A Dissertation upon Roast Pig)and sometimes with
46、pathos(such as Dream Children); they also recall scenes from childhood and from later life, and they indulge the author“s sense of playfulness and fancy. Beneath their whimsical surface, Lamb“s essays are as much an expression of Romantic movement as the verse of Coleridge and Wordsworth. Elia“s love of urban
