1、北京外国语大学英语语言文学专业英美文学真题 2007年及答案解析(总分：149.99，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Section Matching(总题数：1，分数：30.00)Passage 1 1. But the Idols of the Marketplace are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through the alliances of words and names. For men believe that their reason governs wor
2、ds; but it is also true that words react on the understanding; and this it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences sophistical and inactive. Passage 2 2. I, John Faustus of Wittenberg, Doctor, by these presents do give both body and soul to Lucifer, Prince of the East. Passage 3 3. To go in
3、to solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly words, will separate between him and vulgar things. Passage
4、4 4. Most Utopians, however, and among these all the wisest, believe nothing of the sort: the believe in a single power, unknown, eternal, infinite, inexplicable, far beyond the grasp of the human mind, and diffused throughout the universe, not physically, but in influence. Passage 5 5. Nature, in i
5、ts ministry to man, is not only the material, but is also the process and the result. All the parts incessantly work into each other“s hands for the profit of man. The wind sows the seed; the sun evaporates the sea; the wind blows the vapor to the field; the ice, on the other side of the planet, con
6、denses rain on this; the rain feeds the plant; the plant feeds the animal; and thus the endless circulations of the divine charity nourish man. Passage 6 6. The passions that build up our human Soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things, With life an
7、d nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline, Both pain and fear; until we recognize A grandeur in the beating of the heart. Passage 7 7. Success is counted sweetest By those who ne“er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need. Passa
8、ge 8 8. Of man“s first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our owe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat Passage 9 9. It the censure of Yahoos could any way affect me, I should have gr
9、eat reason to complain that some of them are so bold as to think my book of travels a mere fiction out of mine own brain. Passage 10 10. I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir Sidney Lee“s life of the poet. She died youngalas, she never w
10、rote a word. She lies buried where the omnibuses now stop, opposite the Elephant and Castle. Now my belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was buried at the crossroads still lives. She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here tonight, for they are washing up the
11、dishes and putting the children to bed. Authors A. Christopher Marlowe B. Emily Dickinson C. Flannery O“Connor D. Francis Bacon E. John Milton F. Jonathan Swift G. Ralph Waldo Emerson H. Sir Thomas More I. T.S. Eliot J. Virginia Woolf K. William Shakespeare L. William Wordsworth（分数：30.00）二、Section S
12、hort Stor(总题数：1，分数：100.00)Story of an HourKate ChopinKnowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as Possible the news of her husband“s death. It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences, veiled hints that revealed in
13、half concealing. Her husband“s friend Richards was there, too near her. It was he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallard“s name leading the list of “killed“. He had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a sec
14、ond telegram, and had hastened to forestall any less careful, less tender friend in bearing the sad message. She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister“s arms. Whe
15、n the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her. There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul. She could se
16、e in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which someone was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows w
17、ere twittering in the eaves. There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and piled above the other in the west facing her window. She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and
18、shook her, as a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams. She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength. But now there was a dull stare in her eyes, whose gaze was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky.
19、 It was not a glance of reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought. There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name. But she felt it, creeping out of the sky, reaching toward her t
20、hrough the sounds, the scents, the color that filled the air. Now her bosom rose and fell tumultuously. She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her willas powerless as her two white slender hands would have been. When s
21、he abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath: “Free, free, free!“ The vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes. They stayed keen and bright. Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood wa
22、rmed and relaxed every inch of her body. She did not stop to ask if it were not a monstrous joy that held her. A clear and exalted perception enabled her to dismiss the suggestion as trivial. She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had ne
23、ver looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead. But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome. There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would
24、 live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending her in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a fight to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief mom
25、ent of illumination. And yet she had loved himsometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being! “Free! Body and soul free!“ she kept whis
26、pering. Josephine was kneeling before the closed door with her lips to the keyhole, imploring for admission. “Louise, open the door! I beg; open the dooryou will make yourself ill. What are you doing, Louise! For heaven“s sake open the door.“ “Go away. I am not making myself ill.“ No; she was drinki
27、ng in a very elixir of life through that open window. Her fancy was running riot along those days ahead of her. Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. She arose at length and opened the door to her sister“s impo
28、rtunities. There was a feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwitting like a goddess of Victory. She clasped her sister“s waist, and together they descended the stairs. Richards stood waiting for them at the bottom. Someone was opening the front door with al latchkey. It was Brently
29、 Mallard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his gripsack and umbrella. He had been far from the scene of accident, and did not even know there had been one. He stood amazed at Josephine“s piercing cry; at Richards“ quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife. But Rich
30、ards was too late. When the doctors came they said she had died of heart diseaseof joy that kills.（分数：99.99）(1).Summarize the plot of the following story in your own words (around 200 Words). （分数：33.33）_(2).What does Louise“s house symbolize? （分数：33.33）_(3).What is the theme of the story?（分数：33.33）_
31、三、Section Critical T(总题数：5，分数：20.00)1.Think of all the families of the murder victims. Think of their suffering. Think of their pain and agony. Support capital punishmentfor their sake. （分数：4.00）_2.Either we raise taxes by 10% or we drown ourselves in a budget deficit. （分数：4.00）_3.When two people st
32、eal the national flag and the pole from the top of a building, a citizen says that this just demonstrates the lack of law and order. （分数：4.00）_4.A doctor can consult books to make a diagnosis. Why can“t a medical student consult books when being tested. （分数：4.00）_5.“Most men who have never been marr
33、ied are obsessed with girls.“ “Oh? I don“t know.“ “Well, I do, because I know all bachelors are.“ （分数：4.00）_北京外国语大学英语语言文学专业英美文学真题 2007年答案解析(总分：149.99，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Section Matching(总题数：1，分数：30.00)Passage 1 1. But the Idols of the Marketplace are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept int
34、o the understanding through the alliances of words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words; but it is also true that words react on the understanding; and this it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences sophistical and inactive. Passage 2 2. I, John Faustus of Wittenberg,
35、 Doctor, by these presents do give both body and soul to Lucifer, Prince of the East. Passage 3 3. To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the
36、 stars. The rays that come from those heavenly words, will separate between him and vulgar things. Passage 4 4. Most Utopians, however, and among these all the wisest, believe nothing of the sort: the believe in a single power, unknown, eternal, infinite, inexplicable, far beyond the grasp of the hu
37、man mind, and diffused throughout the universe, not physically, but in influence. Passage 5 5. Nature, in its ministry to man, is not only the material, but is also the process and the result. All the parts incessantly work into each other“s hands for the profit of man. The wind sows the seed; the s
38、un evaporates the sea; the wind blows the vapor to the field; the ice, on the other side of the planet, condenses rain on this; the rain feeds the plant; the plant feeds the animal; and thus the endless circulations of the divine charity nourish man. Passage 6 6. The passions that build up our human
39、 Soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline, Both pain and fear; until we recognize A grandeur in the beating of the heart. Passage 7 7.
40、 Success is counted sweetest By those who ne“er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need. Passage 8 8. Of man“s first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our owe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, a
41、nd regain the blissful seat Passage 9 9. It the censure of Yahoos could any way affect me, I should have great reason to complain that some of them are so bold as to think my book of travels a mere fiction out of mine own brain. Passage 10 10. I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare
42、had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir Sidney Lee“s life of the poet. She died youngalas, she never wrote a word. She lies buried where the omnibuses now stop, opposite the Elephant and Castle. Now my belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was buried at the crossroads still lives.
43、 She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here tonight, for they are washing up the dishes and putting the children to bed. Authors A. Christopher Marlowe B. Emily Dickinson C. Flannery O“Connor D. Francis Bacon E. John Milton F. Jonathan Swift G. Ralph Waldo Emerson H. Sir Th
44、omas More I. T.S. Eliot J. Virginia Woolf K. William Shakespeare L. William Wordsworth（分数：30.00）解析：D 解析 文章节选自弗朗西斯培根(Francis Bacon)的新工具论( New Instrument )。新工具论是培根散文中的名篇之一，文章揭示了人类思想产生谬误的根源，并以此推出了著名的“四假象说”(four idols)“种族假象”(人的天性引起的认识错误)、“洞穴假象”(个人的好恶及教育环境导致的认识错误)、“市场假象”(人际交往中言语导致的认识错误)和“剧场假象”(迷信权威和传统而产生
45、的认识错误)。文中出现的 Marketplace以及 idols可以帮助我们得出正确答案。解析：A 解析 文章节选自克里斯托弗马洛(Christopher Marlowe)的浮士德博士的悲剧( The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus )。选文开始的 John Faustus以及 Lucifer便是重要的线索。 克里斯托弗马洛，1564-1593，英国诗人、莎士比亚之前最重要的剧作家。其代表作为帖木儿( Tamburblaine )、马耳他的犹太人( The Jew of Malta )、迦太基的女王狄多(Dido，Queen of Carthage)、浮士
46、德博士的悲剧。马洛的作品对莎士比亚的影响比较大。解析：G 解析 文章节选自拉尔夫瓦尔多爱默生(Ralph Waldo Emerson)的论自然( Nature )，论自然一文包含了爱默生的基本哲学思想和他对大自然的观点和深厚的感情，是超验主义的代表作品。这篇散文和美国学者( The American Scholar )、论自立( Self-Reliance )是文学考试常考的文章，考生对其内容需有所了解。解析：H解析 文章节选自托马斯摩尔的乌托邦(Utopia)。文中的 Utopians便是提示。托马斯摩尔(Sir Thomas More)，1478-1535，英国政治家、人文主义学家和作家。
47、解析：G解析 文章节选白论自然。参见文段 3的解析。解析：L 解析 诗歌节选自华兹华斯(William Wordsworth)的序曲( The Prelude )。自传体长诗序曲是华兹华斯最有代表性的作品之一。解析：B 解析 诗歌节选自艾米丽狄金森(Emily Dickinson)的成功的滋味最甜蜜( Success is Counted Sweetest )。解析：E 解析 诗歌节选自约翰弥尔顿(John Milton)的失乐园( Paradise Lost )。失乐园取自于圣经，它以史诗一般的磅礴气势揭示了人的原罪与堕落。诗中叛逆之神撒旦，因为反抗上帝的权威被打入地狱，却毫不屈服，为复仇寻至伊甸园。亚当与夏娃受被撒旦附身的蛇的引诱，偷吃了上帝明令禁吃的知识树上的果子。最终，撒旦及其同伙遭谴全变成了蛇，亚当与夏娃被逐
