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2017 年广东暨南大学外国语言文学综合考研真题学科、专业名称：外国语言文学、外国语言学及应用语言学研究方向：各研究方向考试科目名称：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 linguistics candidates and literature candidates must do this part. (20%) 1. The Statue of Liberty was given to America by _______ as a gift. A. France B. Spain C. Italy D. Britain 2. The famous poem A Red, Red Rose was written by ______. A. Wordsworth B. Byron C. Burns D. Keats 3. Thanksgiving Day is celebrated in ________. A. the United Kingdom B. the United Kingdom and the United States of America C. the United States of America D. all the English-speaking countries 4. Big Ben is a famous ________ in London. A. statue B. bridge C. hotel D. clock 5. The longest river in Britain is _____. A. the Severn River B. the Clyde River C. the Thames River D. the Potomac River 6. The General Election in Britain is held every ___ years. A. three B. four C. five D. six

7. The capital of New Zealand is _______. A. Auckland B. Christchurch C. Wellington D. Dunedin 8. Samuel Johnson is most famous for _________. A. A Dictionary of the English Language B. Ulysses C. Paradise Lost D. Wuthering Heights 9. The world’s largest freshwater lake is Lake _________. A. Superior B. Ontario C. Huron D. Michigan 10. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a well-known policy called ________ to save the economic situation in the 1930s. A. the Open Door Policy B. the Big Stick C. Good Neighbor Policy D. the New Deal 11. _________ is the only president ever to resign in the history of the United States of America. A. John K. Kennedy B. Richard Nixon C. Dwight D. Eisenhower D. Bill Clinton 12. John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas Texas in _____. A. 1861 B. 1963 C. 1929 D. 1972 13. Utopia was written by __________. A. Thomas Moore B. Thomas More C. Thomas Paine D. Francis Bacon

14. _________was the first permanent English colony in North America and was named after the ‘Virgin Queen’, Elizabeth I. A. Philadelphia B. Pennsylvania C. Virginia D. Georgia 15. The famous patriotic saying “ I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country” is attributed to _________. A. Patrick Henry B. William Wordsworth C. Thomas Paine D. Nathan Hale 16. In the history of Britain, the Norman Conquest took place in _________. A. 449 B. 1066 C. 1476 D. 1616 17. Washington D. C. is named after __________. A. the U. S. president George Washington B. Christopher Columbus C. both George Washington and Christopher Columbus D. neither of them 18. The __________refers to the events in Britain in 1688 when the Roman Catholic James II was removed as king without resistance and replaced by his daughter Mary and her husband William III. A. Glorious Revolution B. Boston Tea Party C. Constitutional Monarchy D. Louisiana Purchase 19. __________ was the only Prime Minister in Britain who won the Nobel Prize for literature. A. Margaret Thatcher B. John Major C. Winston Churchill D. David Cameron

20. The following were the founding fathers of the United States of America except_________. A. George Washington B. William Penn C. Thomas Jefferson D. Benjamin Franklin II. Fill in the blanks with proper answers. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. Both linguistics candidates and literature candidates must do this part. (20%) 1. ___________, as a design feature of language, refers to the fact that language has two levels of structure or patterning, such that units of the primary level are composed of elements of the secondary level and each of the two levels has its own principles of organization. 2. In pronunciation, the [p] in peak is different from the [p] in speak in that the first [p] is_________________. 3. The word unhappy has three morphemes, namely, un-, hap, and -y, of which hap is a ________ morpheme, while un- and -y are ________ morphemes. 4. A statement is said to be _____________ if the speaker unnecessarily says the same thing twice using the same or different words. 5. ______________ means that the meaning of one sentence is contained in that of another. 6. ___________________ are words which refer to things, qualities, states, or actions and which have stable lexical meanings or semantic contents. 7. An ________________________________ is a group of syntactically related words where none of the words is functionally equivalent to the group as a whole. 8. ______________ is a word formation process by means of joining two or more words to form a new word. 9. ____________ is the description of the system and patterns of speech sounds in a particular language. 10. ______________ aims to preserve imagined standards of language use by insisting

on norms of usage and criticizing violations of these norms. 11. is the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, whose masterpiece TheCanterburyTalesis one of the most famous works in all literature. 12. “ Shall I compare thee to a Summer ’ s day?/Thou art more lovely and more : /Rough winds do shake the darling buds of Maie,/And Summer’ s lease hath all too short a date.” 13. Of all the romantic poets of 18th century, is the most independent and the most original, and his representative works include SongsofInnocence, Songs of Experiences and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. 14. With the publication of William Wordsworth’s LyricalBalladsin collaboration with S. T. Coleridge, __________ began to bloom and found a firm place in the history of English literature. 15. The 18th century in English literature is an age of prose, not because the poetry is very bad, but because the prose is very good. The supreme master in the first part of the century is Jonathan Swift, who is known chiefly for his novel ___________. 16. Nathaniel Hawthorne ’ s The Scarlet Letter is a story about a woman named __________ living in seventeenth - century Boston, then a puritan settlement. 17. As an American poet of nature, __________ (1874-1963) had obvious affinities with romantic writers, notably Wordsworth and Emerson. He saw nature as a storehouse of analogy and symbol, but he had little faith in religious dogma or speculative thought. 18. The title of Hemingway’s novel For Whom the Bell Tolls was taken from a poem of the 17th century English poet __________. 19. The publication in 1922 of __________’s The Waste Land, the most significant American poem of the twentieth century, helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought. 20. Early in the 1920s the most prominent of the new American playwrights, __________, established an international reputation with such plays as The Emperor Jones,

Anna Christie and The Hairy Ape. III. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. Both linguistics candidates and literature 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 and if it is false, write F. 1. According to Chomsky, performance refers to an ideal speaker's knowledge of his language as manifest in his ability to produce and understand a theoretically infinite number of sentences. 2. Ambiguity involves expressions with more than one normal interpretation. 3. Deep structure is the abstract syntactic representation of a sentence, that is, an underlying level of structural organization displaying all the factors that govern how a sentence should be interpreted. 4. The variant pronunciations of a phoneme are called allomorphs. 5. Blending is the formation of new words by combining parts of two words or a word plus a part of another word. Section B: Identify the author and indicate the genre of each of the following works. 1. “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” 2. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 3. The Sound and the Fury 4. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” 5. Man and Superman IV. Choose SIX from the following terms and explain them briefly. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (30%) 1. productivity 2. antonymy

3. diachronic studies 4. co-articulation 5. endophora 6. proposition 7. dramatic irony 8. Puritanism 9. Shakespearean sonnet 10. The Jazz Age 11. The Aesthetic Movement 12. free verse V. Answer the following questions: Section A for linguistics candidates and Section B for literature candidates. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (40%) Section A： 1. What is the relationship between cohesion and coherence? 2. Give an immediate constituent analysis of the following ambiguous sentence: We would like to attract more intelligent students. 3. How do you understand conceptual metaphor? 4. Illustrate the difference between denotation and connotation with examples. Section B： 1. In what way does “The Raven” reflect Edgar Allen Poe’s literary theory? 2. Based on A Farewell to Arms, discuss Ernest Hemingway’s writing technique. 3. Based on Jack London’s The SeaWolf, discuss the typical features of American Naturalism. 4. How does Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” reflect the spirit of the English Romanticism? VI. Choose ONE of the following questions and write your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.

(30%) 1. What is grammaticality? What might make a grammatically meaningful sentence semantically meaningless? (for linguistics candidates) 2. Analyze the theme, poetic form and rhetorical devices of the following poem and develop it into an essay with no less than 200 words (for literature candidates). On His Blindness When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide; “Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?” I fondly ask; but Patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, “God doth not need Either man’s work or his own gifts; who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed And post o’er land and ocean without rest: They also serve who only stand and wait.”

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