暨南大学2016考研真题之808外国语言文学综合考试.doc
考试科目:外国语言文学综合考试 1 / 13暨南大学 2016 考研真题之 808 外国语言文学综合考试考生注意:所有答案必须写在答题纸(卷)上,写在本试题上一律不给分。 I. Multiple choices. There are 20 questions in this part. Choose the best answer to each question. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. Both literature candidates and linguistics candidates must do this part. (20%) 1. Britain is separated from the rest of Europe by the English Channel in the _ and the North Sea in the _. A. east; north C. southeast; northeastB. south; north D. south; east 2. Which of the following does NOT belong to the British Parliament in the full sense? A. The House of Commons C. SenateB. The House of Lords D. Sovereign 3. Students who pass the exam of “the 11 plus” in Britain can go to _.A. grammar schools C. public schools考试科目:外国语言文学综合考试 2 / 13B. comprehensive schools D. technical schools 4. The Falkland Islands War was between Britain and _. A. France C. ArgentinaB. New Zealand D. Australia 5. The Open University in UK does not offer degrees and other courses for adult students from _. A. America C. FranceB. Belgium D. Germany 6. _ has earned the name of “Cottonpolis”. A. Birmingham C. EdinburghB. Cardiff D. Manchester 7. The famous Silicon Valley is in the state of _. A. California C. IllinoisB. Idaho D. Texas8. The economic problem caused by the depression in 1929 was eventually solved by _. A. the New Deal C. technological changes考试科目:外国语言文学综合考试 3 / 13B. new energy sources D. World War II 9. _ is often used to refer to the U.S. Department of Defense. A. Capitol Hill C. The PentagonB. The Empire State Building D. The White House10. The First Continental Congress was held in 1774 in _. A. Louisiana C. PhiladelphiaB. New York D. Washington 11. The Expenditure in American public schools is guided or directed by _. A. boards of education C. studentsB. headmaster D. teachers 12. The invention of _ marked the beginning of “the Age of Visual Information”. A. computer C. telegraphB. newspaper D. television 13. Detroit is famous for the production of _. A. automobile C. steel考试科目:外国语言文学综合考试 4 / 13B. bamboo D. timber 14. Admission to a university is determined by _ in the United States. A. each university C. students pointsB. education board D. the secondary school 15. The European discovery of Canada can be traced back to the end of _. A. 12th century C. 14th centuryB. 13th century D. 15th century 16. In Canada, the term of the Governor General is _ years. A. three C. fiveB. four D. six 17. _ claimed that Australia and New Zealand belonged to Britain in 1770. A. Abel Tasman C. Christopher ColumbusB. Amerigo Vespucci D. James Cook 18. In Australia, the Constitution can be changed only by _. 考试科目:外国语言文学综合考试 5 / 13A. referendum C. the Prime MinisterB. British Queen D. the Supreme Court 19. Which city is known as “city of sails” in New Zealand? A. Auckland C. DunedinB. Christchurch D. Wellington20. The population of Ireland is predominantly of _ origin. A. English C. NormanB. Celtic D. French II. Fill in the blanks with proper answers. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. Both literature candidates and linguistics candidates must do this part. (20%)1. Chomskys _ Hypothesis states that children are born with a language acquisition device, a unique kind of knowledge that fits them for language learning. 2. Speech organs, also known as vocal organs, are those parts of the human body involved in the _ of speech. 考试科目:外国语言文学综合考试 6 / 133. The word distempered has three morphemes, namely, dis-, temper, and -ed, of which temper is a _ morpheme, while dis- and -ed are _ morphemes. 4. The borrowing of _ is a process in which both form and meaning are borrowed with only a slight change to the phonological system of the new language.5. _, together with openness, is generally regarded as the core of creativity of language.6. Propositional logic studies the _ for propositions, while predicate logic studies the _ of simple propositions.7. From a psycholinguistic point of view, we store a great deal of information about the properties of words in our _, and retrieve this information when we understand language.8. Mark Johnson (1987) defines a(n) _ as a recurring, dynamic pattern of our perceptual interactions and motor programs that gives coherence and structure to our experiences.9. The 1970s witnessed a change in language teaching when Hymes theory of _ was introduced into the field.10. In saying “Morning!” the speaker intends to perform a(n) _ act of greeting.考试科目:外国语言文学综合考试 7 / 1311. It was in 1798, with the publication of William Wordsworths _, in collaboration with S.T. Coleridge, that romanticism began to bloom and found a firm place in the history of English literature.12. The typical feature of Robert Brownings poetry is the _. 13. As one of the great innovators of the modern novel, Virginia Woolf developed the technique of _ in her writing, which focuses on the complex lives of characters inner minds instead of outward actions.14. Thomas Grays _ is regarded to be the most representative works of Graveyard school.15. The English sonnet, also known as Shakespearean sonnet, usually has a regular rhyme scheme of _.16. Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of _.17. _ is a current of literary theory that dominated Anglo-American literary criticism in the middle decades of the 20th century. It emphasizes close reading, to discover how a work of literature functioned as a self-contained, self-referential aesthetic object.18. _ established himself as the spokesman for the school of “Art for arts sake“, which affirmed that art was valuable as art, that artistic 考试科目:外国语言文学综合考试 8 / 13pursuits were their own justification and that art did not need moral justification.19. J. Alfred Prufrock is a representative character in _s poem which deals with spiritually exhausted people and captures their sense of defeat for failing to act courageously.20. In 1925, Fitzgerald wrote his best novel _. It is a story of an idealist who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.III. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET according to requirements. Both literature candidates and linguistics candidates must do this part. (10%)Section A: Decide whether each of the following statements is True or False. If it is true, write T on the ANSWER SHEET. If it is false, write F on the ANSWER SHEET. 1. According to Chomsky, a universal grammar is a theory for studying the initial states, and particular grammars are theories for studying the states of acquisition. 2. The weak version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis claims that language plays a decisive role in shaping our ways of thinking. 考试科目:外国语言文学综合考试 9 / 133. Linguistically, names for superordinate categories are often mass nouns when basic level terms are count names. 4. In English, the “chtS” of church and the “jdZ” of jet are both fricatives. 5. In literary texts, the grammatical system of language is often exploited, experimented with, or made to deviate from other, more everyday, forms of language. Section B: Identify the author and indicate the genre of each of the following works.1. Oliver Twist 2. Mrs Warrens Profession 3. “To My Coy Mistress”4. The Grapes of Wrath5. The Hairy ApeIV. Choose SIX terms from the following and explain them briefly. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (30%) 1. The IPA 2. Back-formation 考试科目:外国语言文学综合考试 10 / 133. Semantic Triangle 4. Construal 5. Performatives 6. Error Analysis 7. Byronic Hero 8. Critical Realism 9. Metaphor 10. Imagist Movement 11. The Beat Generation 12. Black Humor V. Answer the following questions. According to different majors, choose the ones you must do. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (40%)Section A (for linguistics candidates only):1. What is the relationship between arbitrariness and convention? 2. Give a componential analysis of such words as father, mother, son and daughter.