1、2013 年厦门大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案解析(总分：50.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、名词解释(总题数：15，分数：30.00)1.The House of Mirth（分数：2.00）_2.Herzog（分数：2.00）_3.The Sound and the Fury（分数：2.00）_4.The Grass Is Singing（分数：2.00）_5.Lord of the Flies（分数：2.00）_6.Possession（分数：2.00）_7.Pygmalion（分数：2.00）_8.“Wherever I sat, there I might live, an
2、d the landscape radiated from me accordingly. “（分数：2.00）_9.“ Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. “（分数：2.00）_10.postmodernism（分数：2.00）_11.feminism（分数：2.00）_12.unreliable narrator（分数：2.00）_13.the Beat Generation（分数：2.00）_14.dramatic monologue（分数：2.00
3、）_15.Bildungsroman（分数：2.00）_二、评论题(总题数：5，分数：10.00)16.Shylock(in The Merchant of Venice)（分数：2.00）_17.Friday(in Robinson Crusoe)（分数：2.00）_18.Mr. Kurtz(in Heart of Darkness)（分数：2.00）_19.Sethe(in Beloved)（分数：2.00）_20.Blanche(in A Streetcar Named Desire)（分数：2.00）_三、问答题(总题数：2，分数：4.00)21.“The American Dream
4、“ is a major theme running through the American literary history. Please define the term in cultural, historical contexts, and then illustrate with examples.（分数：2.00）_22.What is the significance of “Harlem Renaissance“ in the American literary history? Please illustrate your points with examples.（分数
5、：2.00）_四、分析题(总题数：1，分数：6.00)Read the following poem and write a short essay based on the following questions in no less than 100 words.(10 points)Fire and Iceby Robert Frost(18741963)Some say the world will end in fire,Same say in ice.From what I“ve tasted of desireI hold with those who favor fire.Bu
6、t if it had no perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo say that for destruction iceIs also greatAnd would suffice.（分数：6.00）(1).Do you think the natural world will end someday? If yes, how will the world end in you opinion?（分数：2.00）_(2).What“s the relationship between fire and desire and that be
7、tween ice and hate?（分数：2.00）_(3).What“s your interpretation of the poem?（分数：2.00）_2013 年厦门大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷答案解析(总分：50.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、名词解释(总题数：15，分数：30.00)1.The House of Mirth（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Edith Wharton)解析：2.Herzog（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Saul Bellow)解析：3.The Sound and the Fury（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案
8、：William Faulkner)解析：4.The Grass Is Singing（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Doris Lessing)解析：5.Lord of the Flies（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：William Golding)解析：6.Possession（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：A. S. Byatt)解析：7.Pygmalion（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：George Bernard Shaw)解析：8.“Wherever I sat, there I might live, and the landscape
9、radiated from me accordingly. “（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Henry David Thoreau)解析：9.“ Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. “（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：John Keats)解析：10.postmodernism（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：It is a tendency in contemporary culture characterized by th
10、e rejection of objective truth and global cultural narrative. It emphasizes the role of language, power relations, and motivations; in particular it attacks the use of sharp classifications such as male versus female, straight versus gay, white versus black, and imperial versus colonial.)解析：11.femin
11、ism（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights for women. This includes seeking to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment. A feminist advocates or su
12、pports the rights and equality of women.)解析：12.unreliable narrator（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：An unreliable narrator is a narrator, whether in literature, film, or theatre, whose credibility has been seriously compromised. The term was coined in 1961 by Wayne C. Booth in The Rhetoric of Fiction. This narra
13、tive mode is one that can be developed by an author for a number of reasons, usually to deceive the reader or audience. Most often unreliable narrators are first-person narrators, but sometimes third-person narrators can also be unreliable.)解析：13.the Beat Generation（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：The Beat Gene
14、ration referred to a loose-knit group of poets and novelists, writing in the second half of the 1950s and early 1960s. They shared a set of social attitudesanti-establishment, anti-political, anti-intellectual, opposed to the prevailing cultural, literary, and moral values, and in favor of unfettere
15、d self-realization and self-expression. The most famous literary creations produced by this group should be Allen Ginsberg“s long poem Howl and Jack Kerouac“s On the Road.)解析：14.dramatic monologue（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：It is a tendency in contemporary culture characterized by the rejection of objectiv
16、e truth and global cultural It is a kind of narrative poem in which one character speaks to one or more listeners whose replies are not given in the poem. The occasion is usually a crucial one in the speaker“s life, and the dramatic monologue reveals the speaker“s personality as well as the incident
17、 that is the subject of the poem.)解析：15.Bildungsroman（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Bildungsroman defines a genre of the novel which focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood, and in which characters“ change is thus extremely important. In a Bildungsroman, the go
18、al is maturity. Charles Dickens“ David Copperfield is a classic Bildungsroman.)解析：二、评论题(总题数：5，分数：10.00)16.Shylock(in The Merchant of Venice)（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Shylock is the most controversial character in the play. He is a man who has suffered a lot and is destined to suffer a great deal more. Hi
19、s desire for revenge eventually takes him over, becoming an obsession with the destruction of Antonio for previous wrongs. When the court finds against him, he is a shattered man.)解析：17.Friday(in Robinson Crusoe)（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Friday is the first nonwhite character to be given a realistic, ind
20、ividualized, and humane portrayal in the English novel. If Crusoe represents the first colonial mind in fiction, then Friday represents not just a Caribbean tribesman, but all the natives of America, Asia, and Africa who would later be oppressed in the age of European imperialism. Friday is also a k
21、ey figure in the novel and in many ways he is the most vibrant character, Friday“s exuberance and emotional directness often point out the wooden conventionality of Crusoe“s personality.)解析：18.Mr. Kurtz(in Heart of Darkness)（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Kurtz is a central character in this book. As a trader
22、of ivory in Africa and commander of a trading post, he monopolizes his position as a demigod among native Africans. He resembles the archetypal “evil genius“ : the highly gifted but ultimately degenerate individual whose fall is the stuff of legend. He is significant both for his style and eloquence
23、 and for his grandiose, almost megalomaniacal scheming.)解析：19.Sethe(in Beloved)（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Sethe is a strong woman who lives under an oppressive cultural and social system that does not permit her to be nurtured or to nurture others reliably. Slavery forces her to kill all her children rath
24、er than seeing them grow up. As a result, she is haunted by guilt throughout the novel. When she tries to leave it behind without confronting it, the past comes back to her embodied and demanding in the form of Beloved. In the end, under the help of her fellowmen, she is able to accept herself and t
25、ake a path toward wholeness.)解析：20.Blanche(in A Streetcar Named Desire)（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：Blanche was once a high school English teacher, but when she arrives in New Orleans, she is destitute. She is a loquacious and fragile woman around the age of thirty. Though she has strong sexual urges and ha
26、s many lovers, she puts on the airs of a woman who has never known indignity. She avoids reality, preferring to live in her own imagination. As the play progresses, her instability grows along with her misfortune.)解析：三、问答题(总题数：2，分数：4.00)21.“The American Dream“ is a major theme running through the Am
27、erican literary history. Please define the term in cultural, historical contexts, and then illustrate with examples.（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：The American Dream is a national ethos of the United States. The idea is rooted in the Declaration of Independence which proclaims that “all men are created equal“
28、 and that they are “endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights“ including “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. “ Historically the Dream originated in the mystique regarding frontier life. As the Royal Governor of Virginia noted in 1774, the Americans “for ever imagine the Lands
29、 further off are still better than those upon which they are already settled“. The ethos today implies an opportunity for Americans to achieve prosperity through hard work. James Adams said in 1931, “life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to abi
30、lity or achievement“ regardless of social class or circumstances of birth. In American literature, the American Dream was present in writings about the Puritanism immigrations craving for free belief and free creation ranging from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin to Mark Twain“s The Adventures
31、 of Huckleberry Finn, Willa Cather“s My Antonia, F. Scott Fitzgerald“s The Great Gatsby.)解析：22.What is the significance of “Harlem Renaissance“ in the American literary history? Please illustrate your points with examples.（分数：2.00）_正确答案：(正确答案：The Harlem Renaissance was successful in that it brought
32、the Black experience clearly within the corpus of American cultural history. Not only through an explosion of culture, but on a sociological level, the legacy of it redefined how America, and the world, viewed African Americans. The migration of southern Blacks to the north changed the image of the
33、African-Americans from rural, undereducated peasants to one of urban, cosmopolitan sophistication. This new identity led to a greater social consciousness, and African Americans became players on the world stage, expanding intellectual and social contacts internationally. It also provided a growing
34、sense of Black militancy as well as a foundation for the community to build upon for the civil rights struggles in the 1950s and 1960s. The Harlem Renaissance encouraged the new appreciation of folk roots and culture. For instance, folk materials and spirituals provided a rich source for the artisti
35、c and intellectual imagination, which freed Blacks from the establishment of past condition. Through sharing in these cultural experiences, a consciousness sprung forth in the form of a united racial identity. On the literary scene, Mckay“s poetry and novels, exalting the African American heritage,
36、Langston Hughes“ oeuvre exhibiting his love and knowledge for his own people, novelist-poet Jean Toomer“s widely acclaimed novel Cane and his other works played an indispensable part in the flowering of Black Harlem.)解析：四、分析题(总题数：1，分数：6.00)Read the following poem and write a short essay based on the following qu
