1、2013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：54.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、名词解释(总题数：5，分数：10.00)1.Point of view（分数：2.00）_2.Allegory（分数：2.00）_3.Gothic（分数：2.00）_4.Flashback（分数：2.00）_5.Didactic（分数：2.00）_二、翻译题(总题数：2，分数：4.00)6.Translate the following English into Chinese.Regular all-over bathing, elaborated in ancient Greece
2、 and Rome and celebrated in luxurious contemporary ensuite bathrooms, was distrusted for about 400 years in the second millennium. Water was thought to carry disease into the skin; pores nicely clogged with dirt were a means to block it out. In the 17th century the European aristocracy, who washed l
3、ittle, wore linen shirts in order to draw out dirt from the skin instead, and heavy perfumes and oils to mask bad smells.（分数：2.00）_7.我对人充满信心，我相信纯洁无暇的人性。我愿意倾听人们的心声，帮助他们实现自己的愿望、获取所需的东西。当然，也有人行同禽兽，他们残杀无辜、行骗撒谎、破坏成性。但不相信人对人类未来丧失信心就会对未来绝望，哀叹今不如昔。我认为每个人都必须有自己遵循的人生哲学。有些人的人生哲学是怀疑一切。他们宣称世界上没有真理，美德不过是自私的巧妙伪装。他
4、们认为人生苦短，生于痛苦，又终将走向坟墓。（分数：2.00）_三、分析题(总题数：9，分数：40.00)8.English Renaissance playwright Christopher Marlowe successfully depicts “over-reachers“ of one kind or another. In his masterpiece The Tragical History of Dr. Fautus, Dr. Faustus perishes out of his unquenchable thirst for yet more power through
5、knowledge. Please make a comment on this tragedy, together with a comment on the relationship between knowledge and morality.（分数：2.00）_9.Please analyze Charlotte Bronte(18161855)“s Jane Eyre from the perspective of “ the madwoman in the attic.（分数：2.00）_10.How do you interpret the death of Willy Loma
6、n in Arthur Miller“s famous play Death of a Salesman？ Please discuss the factors that contribute to Willy“s death.（分数：2.00）_It made me shiver. And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn“t try to quit being the kind of a boy I was and be better. So I kneeled down. But the words wouldn“t
7、 come. Why wouldn“t they? It warn“t no use to try and hide it from Him. Nor from ME, neither. I knowed very well why they wouldn“t come. It was because my heart warn“t right; it was because I warn“t square; it was because I was playing double. I was letting On to give up sin, but away inside of me I
8、 was holding on to the biggest one of all. I was trying to make my mouth SAY I would do the right thing and the clean thing, and go and write to that nigger“s owner and tell where he was; but deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can“t pray a lieI found that out.So I was full
9、of trouble, full as I could be; and didn“t know what to do. At last I had an idea; and I says, I“ll go and write the letterand then see if I can pray. Why, it was astonishing, the way I felt as light as a feather right straight off, and my troubles all gone. So I got a piece of paper and a pencil, a
10、ll glad and excited, and set down and wrote:Miss Watson, your runaway nigger Jim is down here two mile belowPiKesville, and Mr. Phelps has got him and he will give him up for the reward if you send.HUCK FINN.I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, an
11、d I knowed I could pray now. But I didn“t do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinkingthinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell. And went on thinking. And got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see Jim before
12、 me all the time: in the day and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a-floating along, talking and singing and laughing. But somehow I couldn“t seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the other kind, I“d see him standing my watch on top of his “ n, “
13、stead of calling me, so I could go on sleeping; and see him how glad he was when I come back out of the fog; and when I come to him again in the swamp, up there where the feud was; and such-like times; and would always call me honey, and pet me and do everything he could think of for me, and how goo
14、d he always was; and at last I struck the time I saved him by telling the men we had small-pox aboard, and he was so grateful, and said I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the ONLY one he“s got now; and then I happened to look around and see that paper.It was a close place. I to
15、ok it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I“d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then say to myself; “All right, then, I“ll GO to hell“and tore it up.（分数：6.00）(1).Identify the author and the work from whi
16、ch the passage is selected.（分数：2.00）_(2).Define the literary school/ trend to which the author belongs?（分数：2.00）_(3).Comment on the selection.（分数：2.00）_Disgusting! The porridge is burnt again! “ Silence! “ ejaculated a voice; not that of Miss Miller, but one of the upper teachers, a little and dark
17、personage, smartly dressed, but of somewhat morose aspect, who installed herself at the top of one table, while a more buxom lady presided at the other. I looked in vain for her I had first seen the night before; she was not visible: Miss Miller occupied the foot of the table where I sat, and a stra
18、nge, foreign -looking, elderly lady, the French teacher, as I afterwards found, took the corresponding seat at the other board. A long grace was said and a hymn sung; then a servant brought in some tea for the teachers, and the meal began.Ravenous, and now very faint, I devoured a spoonful or two of
19、 my portion without thinking of its taste; but the first edge of hunger blunted, I perceived I had got in hand a nauseous mess; burnt porridge is almost as; famine itself soon sickens over it. The spoons as bad as rotten potatoes; famine itself soon sickens over it. The spoons were moved slowly: I s
20、aw each girl taste her food and try to swallow it; but in most cases the effort was soon relinquished. Breakfast was over, and none had breakfasted. Thanks being returned for what we had not got, and a second hymn chanted, the refectory was evacuated for the schoolroom. I was one of the last to go o
21、ut, and in passing the tables, I saw one teacher take a basin of the porridge and taste it; she looked at the others; all their countenances expressed displeasure, and one of them, the stout one, whispered“ Abominable stuff“ How shameful! “The only marked event of the afternoon was, that I saw the g
22、irl with whom I had conversed in the verandah dismissed in disgrace by Miss Scatcherd from a history lass, and sent to stand in the middle of the large schoolroom. The punishment seemed to me in a high degree ignominious, especially for so great a girlshe looked thirteen or upwards, I expected she w
23、ould show signs of great distress and shame; but to my surprise she neither wept nor blushed: composed, though grave, she stood, the central mark of all eyes. “ How can she bear it so quietlyso firmly? I asked of myself. Were I in her place, it seems to me I should wish the earth to open and swallow
24、 me up. She looks as if she were thinking of something beyond her punishmentbeyond her situation: of something not round her nor before her. I have heard of day-dreamsis she in a day-dream now? Her eyes are fixed on the floor, but I am sure they do not see ither sight seems turned in, gone down into
25、 her heart: she is looking at what she can remember, I believe; not at what is really present. I wonder what sort of a girl she iswhether good or naughty.Soon after five P. M. we had another meal, consisting of a small mug of coffee, and half a slice of brown bread. I devoured my bread and drank my
26、coffee with relish, but I should have been glad of as much moreI was still hungry. Half an hour“s recreation succeeded, then study; then the glass of water and the piece of oat-cake, prayers, and bed. Such was my first day at Lowood.（分数：6.00）(1).Identify the author and the work from which the passag
27、e is selected.（分数：2.00）_(2).Comment on the selected paragraphs.（分数：2.00）_(3).Why the book is regarded as a great novel?（分数：2.00）_Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing the
28、ir heads in sprightly dance.For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffodils.（分数：4.00）(1).Identify the author and the work from which the passage is selected.（
29、分数：2.00）_(2).Define the poet“s theory of poetry with the analysis of the quoted passage.（分数：2.00）_Wild spirit, which art moving everywhere;Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O Near!Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse
30、, Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O, Wind If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?（分数：6.00）(1).Identify the author and the work from which the passage is selected.（分数：2.00）_(2).Exp
31、lain the meaning of “Destroyer and Preserver“ in terms of the theme.（分数：2.00）_(3).Define the literary trend to which the poet belongs.（分数：2.00）_But all this part of it seemed remote and unessential. INickfound myself on Gatsby“s side, and alone. From the moment I telephoned news of the catastrophe t
32、o West Egg Village, every surmise about him, and every practical question, was referred to me.（分数：6.00）(1).Identify the author and the work from which the passage is selected.（分数：2.00）_(2).How do you understand the word “great“ , which is used to describe the titular hero? Is he really great ?（分数：2.
33、00）_(3).What is the theme of the work?（分数：2.00）_Laura: little articles of it, they“re ornaments mostly! Most of them are little animals made out of glass, the tiniest little animals in the world.Oh, be carefulif you breathe, it breaks!Jim: I“d better no take it. I“m pretty clumsy with things.Laura;
34、Go on, I trust you with him!She places the piece in his palm.There nowyou“re holding him gently! Hold him over the light, he loves the light! You see how the light shines through him? Jim; it sure does shine!Laura; I shouldn“t be partial, but he is my favorite one. Jim; What kind of a thing is this
35、one supposed to be? Laura; Haven“t you noticed the single horn on his forehead? Jim; A unicorn, huh? Laura; Mmmm-hmmm!Jim; Unicornsaren“t they extinct in the modern world? Laura; I know!Jim; Poor little fellow, he must feel sort of lonesome. Laura; Well, if he does, he doesn“t complain about it. He
36、stays on a shelf with some horses that hasn“t have horns and all or them seem to get along nicely together.（分数：6.00）(1).Identify the author and the work from which the passage is selected.（分数：2.00）_(2).Do you see any connection between Laura“s personality and the unicorn?（分数：2.00）_(3).What is the th
37、eme of the work?（分数：2.00）_2013年北京航空航天大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷答案解析(总分：54.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、名词解释(总题数：5，分数：10.00)1.Point of view（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：It is the vantage point from which a narrative is told. There are two basic points of view; first-person and third-person.)解析：2.Allegory（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案： Allego
38、ry is a narrative that serves as an extended metaphor. Allegories are written in the form of fables, parables, poems, stories and almost any other style or genre. The main purpose of an allegory is to tell a story that has characters, a setting, as well as other types of symbols that have both liter
39、al and figurative meanings.)解析：3.Gothic（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案： Gothic literature emphasizes the grotesque, the mysterious, and the desolate. Gothic, originally in the sense “ medieval, not classical, “ was applied by Horace Walpole to his novel The Castle of Otranto published in 1765. Popular in the 1
40、8th century, Gothic literature is an ancestor of the modern mystery story, fantasy and science fiction. The typical Gothic novel has a medieval setting, tantalizing plot of revenge and terrifying scenes and endings.)解析：4.Flashback（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案： Flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached. Flashbacks are often used to recount events that happened before the story“s primary sequence of events to fill in crucial back-story. The method
