温州大学研究生入学考研真题【2015】821英语文学与文化试题A

2015年硕士研究生招生入学考试试题(A)

科目代码及名称:821英语文学及文化适用专业：英语语言文学（请考生在答题纸上答题，在此试题纸上答题无效）

第一部分英语文学（共80分）

I.Identify the following works or quotations with their authors,write your answers on the

Answer Sheet.10分

1.Measure for Measure

2.Novum Organum

3.Wuthering Heights

4.Ivanhoe

5.“Behold her,single in the field,

Yon solitary Highland Lass!

Reaping and singing by herself;

Stop here,or gently pass!

Alone she cuts and binds the grain,

And sings a melancholy strain;

O listen!for the Vale profound

Is overflowing with the sound.”

6.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

7.“And the raven,never flitting,still is sitting,still is sitting

On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;

And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,

And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;

And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor

Shall be lifted-nevermore!”

8.“Because I could not stop for Death—

He kindly stopped for me—

The Carriage held but just Ourselves—

And Immortality.”

9.“Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood,and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.”

10.Of Mice and Men

II.Explain FOUR of the following literary terms in about50words for each.20分

Heroic couplet

Shakespearean Sonnet

Neo-classicalism

American Puritanism

Imagism

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New Criticism

Reader-Response Criticism

Cultural Studies

III.Choose TWO from the following topics and then do according to the requirements in about100words for each.20分

1.Briefly comment on the influence of KJV Bible on English literature.

2.What are the symbolic meanings of Thomas Hardy’s descriptions of environments in Tess of the D’Urbervilles?

3.Why did Benjamin Franklin emphasize the significance of the thirteen virtues in his Autobiography?

4.The Scarlet letter is notable for its symbolism,and it has been considered the first American symbolic novel.Try to discuss the function of symbolism by taking examples from the novel.

5.Choose one of the following authors and make a comment on any one of his/her literary works:Patrick Modiano,Geoffrey Chaucer,John Keats,Mark Twain,Ernest Hemingway.

https://www.wendangku.net/doc/9d686664.html,ment on TWO of the following selected texts in about100words for each.20分

1.I had three encouragements-1st,a smooth,calm sea;2ndly,the tide rising,and setting in to the shore;3rdly,what little wind there was blew me towards the land.And thus,having found two or three broken oars belonging to the boat-and,besides the tools which were in the chest,I found two saws,an axe,and a hammer;with this cargo I put to sea.For a mile or thereabouts my raft went very well,only that I found it drive a little distant from the place where I had landed before;by which I perceived that there was some indraft of the water,and consequently I hoped to find some creek or river there,which I might make use of as a port to get to land with my cargo.

2.I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,to front only the essential facts of life,and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,and not,when I came to die,discover that I had not lived.I did not wish to live what was not life,living is so dear;nor did I wish to practise resignation,unless it was quite necessary.I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life,to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life,to cut a broad swath and shave close,to drive life into a corner,and reduce it to its lowest terms,and,if it proved to be mean,why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it,and publish its meanness to the world;or if it were sublime,to know it by experience,and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.For most men,it appears to me,are in a strange uncertainty about it,whether it is of the devil or of God,and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to“glorify God and enjoy him forever.”

3.Oh,Carrie,Carrie!Oh,blind strivings of the human heart!Onward onward,it saith,and where beauty leads,there it follows.Whether it be the tinkle of a lone sheep bell o'er some quiet landscape,or the glimmer of beauty in sylvan places,or the show of soul in some passing eye, the heart knows and makes answer,following.It is when the feet weary and hope seems vain that the heartaches and the longings arise.Know,then,that for you is neither surfeit nor content. In your rocking-chair,by your window dreaming,shall you long,alone.In your rocking-chair, by your window,shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.

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V.Choose ONE poem from the list below,and make a comment on the theme of it in about 100words(Use at least three of the following elements develop and reinforce your analysis: diction,tone,image,figure of speech,symbols,irony,syntax,rhythm and meter,rhyme).10分

1.Home Thoughts,from Abroad

By Robert Browning(1812-1889)

O,TO be in England

Now that April's there,

And whoever wakes in England

Sees,some morning,unaware,

That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf

Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,

While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough

In England—now!

And after April,when May follows,

And the whitethroat builds,and all the swallows!

Hark,where my blossom'd pear-tree in the hedge

Leans to the field and scatters on the clover

Blossoms and dewdrops—at the bent spray's edge—

That's the wise thrush;he sings each song twice over,

Lest you should think he never could recapture

The first fine careless rapture!

And though the fields look rough with hoary dew,

All will be gay when noontide wakes anew

The buttercups,the little children's dower

—Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower!

2.Symposium

By Paul Muldoon(1951-)

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it hold

its nose to the grindstone and hunt with the hounds.

Every dog has a stitch in time.Two heads?You've been sold

one good turn.One good turn deserves a bird in the hand.

A bird in the hand is better than no bread.

To have your cake is to pay Paul.

Make hay while you can still hit the nail on the head.

For want of a nail the sky might fall.

People in glass houses can't see the wood

for the new broom.Rome wasn't built between two stools.

Empty vessels wait for no man.

A hair of the dog is a friend indeed.

There's no fool like the fool

who's shot his bolt.There's no smoke after the horse is gone.

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第二部分英语国家文化（共70分）

I.Fill in the blanks in the following ten statements with proper words or expressions.10分

1.American party politics is characterized by bipartisanship,which means that there are two major parties in America:Democratic Party and________Party.

2.The capital city of the United States is____________D.C.

3.America is located between two large oceans:the Atlantic Ocean in the east and the_________Ocean in the west.

4.The national flag of the United States consists consists of50____and13stripes.

5.Before the arrival of Europeans,North America was inhabited by a large number of American_______,also known as native Americans.

6.There are two branches in the Congress of the United States:the Senate and the House of ______________.

7.The United Kingdom is composed of two parts:Great Britain and Northern Ireland.The former consists of Scotland,______and Wales.

8.The capital city of the United Kingdom is__________.

9.Known as the Lower House in Britain,the House of________is the assembly chamber for the651Members of Parliament who are selected by people of their constituencies in a general election.

10.The two major parties in the United Kingdom are the Conservative Party and the_________ Party.

II.Choose the best one from the four possible answers provided for each statement.10分1.America is said to be a country of immigrants.Of the various racial and ethnic groups, ____________were involuntary immigrants and suffered from slavery and segregation for a long time in the history.

https://www.wendangku.net/doc/9d686664.html, Americans

B.African Americans

C.Irish Americans

D.American Indians

2.The historic pamphlet The Common Sense,which was written by________,played an important role in the American Revolution.

A.Thomas Jefferson

B.Thomas Paine

C.John Adams

D.Benjamin Franklin

3.___________brought an end to the slavery in the south of America.

A.The War of Independence

B.The Civil War

C.The First World War

D.The Mexican-American War

4.The members in the Senate of the United States normally serve a(an)___term.

A.two-year

B.four-year

C.six-year

D.eight-year

5.Higher education in the United States began with the founding of______in163

6.

A．MIT B．Yale University C．Harvard College D．Princeton University

6.The Constitution of the United States was framed in Philadelphia in_________.

A.1776

B.1783

C.1787

D.1620

7.The New Deal was started by________.

A.Franklin D.Roosevelt

B.J.F.Kennedy

C.George Washington

D.Thomas Jefferson

8.Which branch of the U.S.Federal government has the power to make federal laws and levy federal taxes?

A.The executive

B.The legislative

C.The judicial

D.None of them

9.In the U.S.,two-year community colleges grant________to students after two years of study.

A.master degrees

B.doctor degrees

C.bachelor degrees

D.associate degrees

10.__________was impeached for the Watergate Scandal and forced to resign.

A.President Johnson

B.President Wilson

C.President Clinton

D.President Nixon

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III.Define FOUR of the following terms.20分

1.Federalism

2.Judicial Review

3.Affirmative Action

4.Constitutional Monarchy

5.Manifest Destiny

6.New Deal

IV.Answer THREE of the following questions briefly.15分

1.What are the presidential election’s proceedings in the United States?

2.What are the major ideas in the Declaration of Independence?

3.What are the major values of American people?

4.Describe the structure of American educational system.

5.What are the criteria to determine admission into a college in America?

6.Describe the structure of the US federal court system and their respective functions.

V.Make a comment on ONE of the following topics.Your answer should be no less than 300words.15分

1.The United States of America has a history of no more than500years,yet it is the most powerful country in the world.What factors do you think have contributed to its rapid development and prosperity?You should mention at least five factors in your comment with some explanation.

2.Racism in America

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