[考研类试卷]2010年厦门大学英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷及答案与解析.doc
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1、2010 年厦门大学英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷及答案与解析一、名词解释1 Vanity Fair 2 “Anecdote of the Jar“3 The Color Purple 4 “Dover Beach“5 A Passage to India 6 Possession7 O Pioneers! 8 Desire Under the Elms9 black humor 10 Beat Generation11 New Criticism 12 round character二、评论题13 Holden Caulfield(from; The Catcher in the Rye)14
2、 Willy Loman(from; Death of a Salesman)15 Elizabeth Bennet(from: Pride and Prejudice)16 Sartoris Snopes, or the younger son(from: “Barn Burning“)17 Tess(from; Tess of the dUrbervilles)18 Ahab(from: Moby Dick)三、问答题19 English Romanticism is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of
3、Wordsworth and Coleridges Lyrical Ballads. Why is Lyrical Ballads considered the milestone to mark the beginning of English Romanticism?20 Please explain Ernest Hemingways “iceberg theory“ of writing, How does Hemingways own writing illustrate this theory? Please illustrate your points with examples
4、 from one of his novels or short stories.四、分析题21 Read the following poem and write a short essay based on the following questions in about 100 words.(8 points)Saturday at the Canal(1998)By Gary Soto(1952)I was hoping to be happy by seventeen.School was a sharp check mark in the roll book,An obnoxiou
5、s tuba playing at noon because our teamWas going to win at night. The teachers wereToo close to dying to understand. The hallwaysStank of poor grades and unwashed hair. Thus,A friend and I sat watching the water on Saturday,Neither of us talking much, just warming ourselvesBy hurling large rocks at
6、the dusty groundAnd feeling awful because San Francisco was a postcardOn a bedroom wall. We wanted to go there,Hitchhike under the last migrating birdsAnd be with people who knew more than three chordsOn a guitar. We didnt drink or smoke,But our hair was shoulder length, wild whenThe wind picked up
7、and the shadows ofThis loneliness gripped loose dirt. By bus or car,By the sway of train over a long bridge,We wanted to get out. The years frozeAs we sat on the bank. Our eyes followed the water,White-tipped but dark underneath, racing out of town.Questions:A. What does the first line “I was hoping
8、 to be happy by seventeen“ imply about the theme of the poem? How is the theme developed in this poem?B. The poem is marked with vivid imagery. Please pick out some dominant images/ motion/ activity and stillness/ stagnation and tell the meanings they each convey.C. What kind of reaction to life doe
9、s this poem display? How universal is the schoolboys emotional experience?D. Meanwhile, considering the fact that the poet comes from a Mexican American working-culture background, how does the poem specifically relate to minority groups experience in the United States?2010 年厦门大学英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷答案与解析一
10、、名词解释1 【正确答案】 William Makepeace Thackeray2 【正确答案】 Wallace Stevens3 【正确答案】 Alive Walker4 【正确答案】 Mathew Arnold 5 【正确答案】 E. M. Forster6 【正确答案】 A. S. Byatt7 【正确答案】 Willa Cather 8 【正确答案】 Eugene ONeill9 【正确答案】 Black humor is the grotesque or morbid humor used to express the absurdity, insensitivity, parad
11、ox, and cruelty of the modern world. Ordinary characters or situations are usually exaggerated far beyond the limits of normal satire or irony. The novels of such writers as Kurt Vonnegut, John Bath contain elements of black humor.10 【正确答案】 The Beat Generation referred to a loose-knit group of poets
12、 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 unfettered self-realization and self-expression.The mos
13、t famous literary creations produced by this group should be Allen Ginsbergs long poem Howl and Jack Kerouacs On the Road.11 【正确答案】 New Criticism is a movement in literary theory that dominates American literary criticism in the middle decades of the 20th century. It emphasizes close reading, partic
14、ularly of poetry, to discover how a work of literature functions as a self-contained, self-referential aesthetic object.12 【正确答案】 Round characters are complex and undergo development, sometimes sufficiently to surprise the readers. This type of characters is defined by E. M. Forster in his book Aspe
15、cts of the Novel. The opposite of round characters is flat characters, who are two-dimensional and relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work.二、评论题13 【正确答案】 Holden is the protagonist and the narrator of the novel, a sixteen-year-old junior, who has just been expelled
16、from a school for academic failure. Although he is intelligent and sensitive, he narrates in a cynical and jaded voice. He finds the hypocrisy and ugliness of the world around him almost unbearable, and through his cynicism he tries to protect himself from the pain and disappointment of the adult wo
17、rld.14 【正确答案】 Loman is an insecure, self-deluded traveling salesman. He believes wholeheartedly in the American Dream of easy success and wealth, but he never achieves it, nor do his sons fulfill his hope that they will succeed where he has failed. When his illusions begin to fail under the pressing
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