1、2010 年首都师范大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案解析(总分：72.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、单项选择题(总题数：20，分数：40.00)1.Among the following plays, _is NOT a comedy written by William Shakespeare.（分数：2.00）A.A Midsummer Night“s DreamB.The Merchant of VeniceC.As You Like ItD.Macbeth2.“All is not lost, the unconquerable will,/And study of reven
2、ge, immoral hate,/And courage never to submit or yield,/And what is else not to be overcome?“ are taken from the poem written by_.（分数：2.00）A.William ShakespeareB.John DonneC.John MiltonD.John Keats3.The novel_launched Daniel Defoe on a new career as a novelist.（分数：2.00）A.The Life and Strange Surpris
3、ing Adventures of Robinson CrusoeB.Captain SingletonC.Moll FlandersD.The Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell4.Among the following works by William Blake, _deals with evil, violence and emotion.（分数：2.00）A.Song of InnocenceB.Song of ExperienceC.The Marriage of Heaven and HellD.The Gates of Para
4、dise5.That_is NOT true about William Wordsworth.（分数：2.00）A.Wordsworth is one of the Lake PoetsB.he was made poet laureate by British Government in 1843C.The Prelude can be read as a declaration of RomanticismD.he believed that poetry “takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility“6._tells
5、 of the adversity of the orphan Pip that makes him discard his snobbishness.（分数：2.00）A.Hard TimesB.A Tale of Two CitiesC.David CopperfieldD.Great Expectations7.Among the following works, _was written by Emily Bronte.（分数：2.00）A.Agnes GreyB.The ProfessorC.Wuthering HeightsD.Jane Eyre8.Virginia Woolf i
6、s known as a novelist and critic._is NOT a novel of hers.（分数：2.00）A.Mrs. DallowayB.To the LighthouseC.The Common ReaderD.The Waves9._depicts a picture of society in India under the British Raj, of the clash between East and West, and of the prejudice and misunderstanding.（分数：2.00）A.Where Angels Feat
7、 to TreadB.A Room with a ViewC.A Passage to IndiaD.Howard“s End10._is well known for depicting the absurdity of human conditions in the post-industrial society after World War II in his plays.（分数：2.00）A.Samuel BeckettB.George Bernard ShawC.Oscar WildeD.William Golding11.Yoknapatawpha County is often
8、 used as the background in the novels written by_.（分数：2.00）A.William FaulknerB.Isaac Bashevis SingerC.Mark TwainD.Katherine Anne Porter12._is NOT written by Toni Morrison.（分数：2.00）A.The Bluest EyeB.BelovedC.The Color PurpleD.Paradise13.The narrator of The Great Gatsby is _.（分数：2.00）A.GatsbyB.NickC.D
9、aisyD.Tom14.All the following works are written by Ernest Hemingway EXCEPT_.（分数：2.00）A.A Farewell to ArmsB.The Sum Also RisesC.The Sound and FuryD.For Whom the Bell Tolls15.T. S. Eliot“s_is a precise depiction of the state of culture and society after World War I and an illustration of the spiritual
10、 poverty of the West of the time.（分数：2.00）A.The Waste LandB.Four QuartetsC.The Sacred WoodD.Homage to John Dryden16.All the following novels are written by Henry James EXCEPT_.（分数：2.00）A.The AmericanB.The Portrait of a LadyC.The AmbassadorsD.Innocents Abroad17._is written by Catherine Anne Porter.（分
11、数：2.00）A.Flowering JudasB.A Rose for EmilyC.Everyday UseD.Song of Solomon18._is regarded as “America“s Declaration of Intellectual Independence“.（分数：2.00）A.NatureB.The Conduct of LifeC.Society and SolitudeD.The American Scholar19.“When it comes, the landscape listens,/ Shadows hold their breath;/ Wh
12、en it goes, “tis like the distance/ On the look of death. “ are taken from Emily Dickinson“s poem_.（分数：2.00）A.There“s Certain Slant of LightB.Again His Voice Is at the DoorC.Success Is Counted SweetestD.I felt a Funeral, in My Brain20.“Where I lived, and What I Lived for“ is taken from Thoreau“s_.（分
13、数：2.00）A.A Week on the Concord and Merrimack RiversB.Walden; or, Life in the WoodsC.The Maine WoodsD.Life Without Principle二、名词解释(总题数：5，分数：10.00)21.free verse（分数：2.00）_22.tall tale（分数：2.00）_23.Lost Generation（分数：2.00）_24.Theatre of the Absurd（分数：2.00）_25.Romanticism（分数：2.00）_三、问答题(总题数：5，分数：20.00)I w
14、andered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o“er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils,Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.（分数：4.00）(1).Name the author of this poem.(1 point)（分数：2.00）_(2).What is the rhyme scheme of the stanz
15、a?(1 point)（分数：2.00）_His smile was so easy, so friendly, that Laura recovered. What nice eyes he had, small, but such a dark blue! And now she looked at the others, they were smiling too. “ Cheer up, we won“t bite,“ their smile seemed to say. How very nice workmen were! And what a beautiful morning!
16、 She mustn“t mention the morning; she must be business-like. The marquee.（分数：4.00）(1).Name the title of the short story.(1 point)（分数：2.00）_(2).Comment on the writing techniques.(1 point)（分数：2.00）_For the next eight or ten months, Oliver was the victim of a systematic course of treachery and deceptio
17、n. He was brought up by hand. The hungry and destitute situation of the infant orphan was duly reported by the workhouse authorities to the parish authorities. The parish authorities inquired with dignity of the workhouse authorities, whether there was no female then domiciled in “ the house“ who wa
18、s in a situation to impart to Oliver Twist, the consolation and nourishment of which he stood in need. The workhouse authorities replied with humility, that there was not. Upon this, the parish authorities magnanimously and humanely resolved, that Oliver should be “farmed“ or, in other words, that h
19、e should be dispatched to a branch-workhouse some three miles off, where twenty or thirty other juvenile offenders against the poor-laws, rolled about the floor all day, without the inconvenience of too much food or too much clothing, under the parental superintendence of an elderly female, who rece
20、ived the culprits at and for the consideration of sevenpence-halfpenny per small head per week. Sevenpence-halfpenny“s worth per week is a good round diet for a child; a great deal may be got for sevenpence-halfpenny, quite enough to overload its stomach, and make it uncomfortable. The elderly femal
21、e was a woman of wisdom and experience; she knew what was food for children; and she had a very accurate perception of what was good for herself. So, she appropriated the greater part of the weekly stipend to her own use, and consigned the rising parochial generation to even a shorter allowance than
22、 was originally provided for them. Thereby finding in the lowest depth a deeper still; and proving herself a very great experimental philosopher.（分数：4.00）(1).What is the title of the novel?(1 point)（分数：2.00）_(2).What is the effect of the irony used in the excerpt?(1 point)（分数：2.00）_We were all at th
23、e hospital every afternoon, and there were different ways of walking across the town through the dusk to the hospital. Two of the ways were alongside canals, but they were long. Always, though, you crossed a bridge across a canal to enter the hospital. There was a choice of three bridges. On one of
24、them a woman sold roasted chestnuts. It was warm, standing in front of her charcoal fire, and the chestnuts were warm afterward in your pocket. The hospital was very old and very beautiful, and you entered through a gate and walked across a courtyard and out a gate on the other side. There were usua
25、lly funerals starting from the courtyard. Beyond the old hospital were the new brick pavilions, and there we met every afternoon and were all very polite and interested in what was the matter, and sat in the machines that were to make so much difference.（分数：4.00）(1).Identify the author of the short
26、story.(1 point)（分数：2.00）_(2).What is the theme of the short story?(1 point)（分数：2.00）_There was music from my neighbor“s house through the summer night. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I wa
27、tched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On weekends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in th
28、e morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden - shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.（分数：4.
29、00）(1).From which novel is this excerpt taken?(1 point)（分数：2.00）_(2).What is the theme of the novel?(1 point)（分数：2.00）_四、评论题(总题数：1，分数：2.00)26.Comment on the following excerpt and write a 100-word essay on it.(10 points)From Ralph Waldo Emerson“s The American ScholarBooks are the best of things, well
30、 used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the w
31、orld of value is the active soulthe soul, free, sovereign, active. This every man is entitled to; this every man contains within him, although, in almost all men, obstructed, and as yet unborn. The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates. In this action, it is genius; not the p
32、rivilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they,let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backwar
33、d and not forward. But genius looks forward. The eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead. Man hopes, genius creates. To create,to create, is the proof of a divine presence. Whatever talents may be if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his;cinders and smoke there
34、 may be, but not yet flame. There are creative manners, there are creative actions, and creative words; manners, actions, words, that is, indicative of no custom or authority, but springing spontaneous from the mind“s own sense of good and fair.On the other part, instead of being its own seer, let i
35、t receive from another mind its truth, though it were in torrents of light, without periods of solitude, inquest, and self-recovery, and a fatal disservice is done. Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramat
36、ic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.Undoubtedly there is a right way of reading, so it be sternly subordinated. Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar“s idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other
37、 men“s transcripts of their readings. But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must,when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining,we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their way, to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is. We hear, that we may speak. The
38、Arabian proverb says, “A fig tree, looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful. “（分数：2.00）_2010 年首都师范大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷答案解析(总分：72.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、单项选择题(总题数：20，分数：40.00)1.Among the following plays, _is NOT a comedy written by William Shakespeare.（分数：2.00）A.A Midsummer Night“s DreamB.The Merchant of Venice
39、C.As You Like ItD.Macbeth 解析：解析：Macbeth(麦克白)是莎士比亚的四大悲剧之一，不是喜剧。2.“All is not lost, the unconquerable will,/And study of revenge, immoral hate,/And courage never to submit or yield,/And what is else not to be overcome?“ are taken from the poem written by_.（分数：2.00）A.William ShakespeareB.John DonneC.Jo
40、hn Milton D.John Keats解析：解析：本句出自 John Milton(约翰密尔顿)的 Paradise Lost(失乐园)中撤旦说的话。3.The novel_launched Daniel Defoe on a new career as a novelist.（分数：2.00）A.The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe B.Captain SingletonC.Moll FlandersD.The Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell解析：
41、解析：四部小说都是笛福的作品，其中鲁滨逊漂流记是笛福的第一部小说，这部小说一问世就风靡英国，享有英国第一部现实主义长篇小说的头衔。辛格顿船长、莫尔弗兰德斯和邓肯坎贝尔均为笛福的后期作品。4.Among the following works by William Blake, _deals with evil, violence and emotion.（分数：2.00）A.Song of InnocenceB.Song of Experience C.The Marriage of Heaven and HellD.The Gates of Paradise解析：解析：经验之歌是英国浪漫主义
42、时期诗人威廉布莱克(William Blake，17571827)的诗集，与之相应的另一本为天真之歌。这两本诗集反映了诗人的思想和创作从孩子般的天真状态走向成人经验的苦涩历程。“天真”阶段的诗清新、活泼、童趣盎然。“经验”阶段的诗笔锋一转，风格迥异，辛辣、苦涩，斥责社会的不公。5.That_is NOT true about William Wordsworth.（分数：2.00）A.Wordsworth is one of the Lake PoetsB.he was made poet laureate by British Government in 1843C.The Prelude
43、can be read as a declaration of Romanticism D.he believed that poetry “takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility“解析：解析：The Prelude(序曲)是华兹华斯的长诗，而标志着浪漫主义宣言的作品是华兹华斯与柯勒律治合著的抒情歌谣集(Lyrical Ballads)。6._tells of the adversity of the orphan Pip that makes him discard his snobbishness.（分数：2.00）
44、A.Hard TimesB.A Tale of Two CitiesC.David CopperfieldD.Great Expectations 解析：解析：远大前程是英国作家狄更斯所写的成长小说，主人公匹普(Pip)以自传式手法，叙述从七岁开始的三个人生阶段，表达了他对生命和人性的看法。7.Among the following works, _was written by Emily Bronte.（分数：2.00）A.Agnes GreyB.The ProfessorC.Wuthering Heights D.Jane Eyre解析：解析：Wuthering Heights(呼啸山庄)是 Emily Bronte 的作品。The Professor 和 Jane Eyre都是 CharlotteBronte 的作品，而 Agnes Grey 是 Anne Bronte 的作品。8.Virginia Woolf is known as a novelist and critic._is NOT a novel of hers.（分数：2.00）A.Mrs. Dall
