第1页 共6页 电子科技大学 2015年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题 考试科目：845 英美文学基础知识及运用 注：所有答案必须写在答题纸上，写在试卷或草稿纸上均无效。 I Multiple Choices: choose the best answer among the four choices and fill in the blank. （15 items, 30 points） 1) Geoffrey Chaucers literary contribution to English literature lies in the following facts except _. A Canterbury Tales as his masterpiece B writing in London dialect C Beowulf as his masterpiece D introducing rhymed couplet into England 2) _ is the author of the long poem of Faerie Queene, written and dedicated to Queen Elizabeth in the English Renaissance time. A William Shakespeare B Edmund Spencer C Philip Sydney D Christopher Marlowe 3) John Bunyans masterpiece is _, which is famous for its form of religious allegory. A The Pilgrims Progress B Spring, Sweet Spring C Paradise Lost D The Jew of Malta 4) _ has been regarded as the most important figure of Neo-classical school in British literature in the first half of the 18th century. A James Boswell B Samuel Johnson C Alexander Pope D John Dryden 5) In the 19th century, female writing was a unique literary phenomenon in British literature, which was represented by such following extraordinary writers except _. A George Eliot B Mrs. Gaskell C Emily Bronte D Virginia Woolf 6) The poetic collection of _ cooperated by William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge marked the beginning of English Romanticism in 1798. A My Solitary Reaper B Lyrical Ballads C Ode to West Wind D Ode to Autumn 7) The following are great English playwrights except _. A Oscar Wilde B George Bernard Shaw C William Makepeace Thackeray D William Shakespeare 第2页 共6页 8) The following novels are all written by Charles Dickens, expect _. A Erewhon B The Tale of Two Cities C Oliver Twist D The Great Expectation 9) New England Transcendentalism was represented by Ralph Emerson and _ against the prevailing vice of materialism. A Washington Irving B James Cooper C Henry David Thoreau D Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 10) _ is celebrated as the father of psychoanalytic criticism and detective story in American literature and his aesthetics exerted great influences on French symbolists and the devotees of art for arts sake. A Edgar Allen Poe B Mark Twain C Emily Dickenson D Walt Whitman 11) An image was that which presents intellectual and emotion complex in an instant of time. The sentence utters the aesthetics of Imagism represented first by _. A T. S. Eliot B Ezra Pound C Robert Frost D W. B. Yeats 12) American Naturalism was represented by the following writers except _. A Stephen Crane B Frank Norris C Theodore Dreiser D Herman Melville 13) _ written by Walt Whitman celebrates dignity, the self-reliant spirit and the joy of the common man, revealing a world of equality without rank and hierarchy. A To Science B To Nature C Song of Myself D The Scarlet Letter 14) Critical Realism appeared in the 1940s in British literature, while _ echoed the similar spirit after American Civil War. A Romanticism B Local Colorism C The Southern Renaissance D Aestheticism 15) The following are famous American playwrights except _. A Eugene ONeill B Richard Sheridan C Tennessee Williams D Arthur Miller II Reading the following ten selected passages and answer the questions briefly. (100 points) Passage One Two roads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could 第3页 共6页 To where it bent in the undergrowth. Then took the other as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same. -from The Road Not Taken Questions 1 Identity the author of the two stanzas (2 points) 2 Scan the two stanzas: its rhyme and rhythm. (3 points) 3 What is the theme of the poem? What choices in your life have made a difference in the course it has taken? (5 points) Passage Two It was late and every one had left the café except an old man who sat in the shadow of the leaves of the tree made against the electric light. In the day-time the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference. The two waiters inside the café knew that the old man was a little drunk, and while he was a good client they knew that if he became too drunk he would leave without paying, so they kept watch on him. -From A Clean Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway Questions: 1 List other two representative works by Ernest Hemingway. (4 points) 2 What is the function for the contrasting description between the interior and exterior of the cafe and contrast between day and night? (6 points) Passage Three The Red Wheel barrow so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. Questions 1 Identify the author of the poem. (2 points) 2 What is the theme of the poem? How does the form help to express the theme? (5 points) 3 Make a comment of the dominant image of red wheelbarrow? (3 points) 第4页 共6页 Passage Four And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsbys wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisys dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night. Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but thats no matter-tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms fartherand one fine morning- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. -From The Great Gatsby Questions: 1 Identify the author of the novel. (2 points) 2 The novel typically reflects the life of roaring time of Jazz Age. Please define the term of Jazz Age. (3 points) 3 Make a comment on the narrative voice and ending and explain how do the elements help to utter the authors attitude towards Gatsby? (5 points) Passage Five Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those happy mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound. If left to himself, he would have whistled life away in perfect contentment; but his wife kept continually dinning in his ears about his idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family. Morning, noon, and night, her tongue was incessantly going, and everything he said or did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence. Rip had but one way of replying to all lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This, however, always provoked a fresh volley from his wife; so that he was fain to draw off his forces, and take to the outside of the house - the only side which, in truth, belongs to a hen-pecked husband. -From Rip Van Winkle Questions: 1 Identify the author of the story. (2 points) 2 Please summarize the characterization of Winkle.（4 points） 3 State briefly the reasons why the story is labeled as a romantic piece . (4 points) Passage Six My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky So was it when my life began So is it now I am a man So be it when I shall grow old Or let me die! 第5页 共6页 The child is father of the Man And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. -From My Heart Leaps Up Questions: 1 Identify the author of the lines (2 points) 2 Please define the term of Lake Poets. (4 points) 3 How do you understand the line that the child is father of the Man? (4 points) Passage Seven Nepommuck: I have not your imposing appearance, your chin, your brow. Nobody notices me when I shave. Now I am famous. They call me Hairy Faced Dick. Higgins: and what are you doing here among all these swells? Nepommuck: I am interpreter. I speak 32 languages. I am indispensable at these international parties. You are great cockney specialist. You place a man anywhere in London the moment he opens his mouth. I place any man in Europe. -From Pygmalion Questions: 1 Identify the author of the play and list one more representative work by the same author. (4 points) 2 Please explain the phrase of cockney specialist? (2 points) 3 What is your impression on Nepommuck from the dialogue? Make comments on him. (4 points) Passage Eight Whenever he suggested that they should leave their shelter and go forwards towards Southampton or London she showed a strange unwillingness to move. “why should we put an end to all thats sweet and lovely!” she deprecated “what must come will come”. And, looking through the shutter-chink: “all is trouble outside there, inside here content. -From Tess of the DUrbervilles Questions: 1 Identify the author of the novel. (2 points) 2 How does the heroine (Tess) react to Clares suggestion that they should leave their shelter? Why? (4 points) 3 Summarize the main features of the authors writing. (4 points) Passage Nine April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. -From The Waste Land Questions: 1 Identify the author of the lines. (2 points) 第6页 共6页 2 what do you think of the four lines? What does the author want to say? (4 points) 3 please translate the four line into Chinese. (4 points) Passage Ten And so the house came to be haunted by the spoken phrase: There must be more money! There must be more money! The children could hear it all the time, though nobody said it aloud. They heard it at Christmas, when the expensive and splendid toys filled the nursery. Behind the shining modern rocking-horse, behind the smart dolls house, a voice would start whispering: There must be more money. There must be more money. And the children would stop playing, to listen for a moment. They would look into each others eyes, to se if they had all heard. And each one saw in the eyes of the other two that they too had heard. “There must be more money! There must be more money!” -From The Rocking-horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence Questions: 1 List a representative novel by Lawrence (2 points) 2 Does the house really whisper? Make comments on the repetition of the phrase “There must be more money”. (4 points) 3 The dominant image Rocking horse in the story appears for the first time in the passage. Please comment on the role of image and authors intention to use it as the title of the story. (4 points) III What are the main features of Modernism in literature in terms of theme and techniques. Please use one example to support your each point. (10 points) IV List one book or one writer which attracts you most and then develop your idea in no less than 200 words. (10 points)