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2012 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：英语语言文学、外国语言学及应用语言学研究方向：各方向考试科目名称：外国语言文学综合考试考试科目代码：808 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. The first American President to be elected from the Republican Party was_______. A. Abraham Lincoln B. James Monroe C. James Madison D. Thomas Jefferson 2. The most important and largest river in the United States of America is_________. A. the Ohio River B. the Colorado River C. the Missouri River D. the Mississippi River 3. ______________has been called the "cradle of American liberty". A. Philadelphia B. Boston C. Plymouth D. Chicago 4. Junior college in America is_______________. A. two-year college B. four-year college C. three-year college D. five-year college 5. President Nixon decided to resign because he__________________. A. refused to hand over the White House tapes to court B. was tired of political struggle in Washington D. C. C. came to sec that most probably he would be impeached D. was deserted by the Republican Party 6. To its full sense, the British Parliament consists of _______________. A. the House of Lords and the House of Commons B. the House and the Senate

C. the Queen and the House of Lords D. the Sovereign, the House of Lords and the House of Commons 7. Which of the following is true under Thatcher's administration in the UK? A. The proportion of owner-occupation decreased. B. Public housing became more important. C. Many Public houses were sold to people. D. The UK became more European-like in its housing arrangement. 8. The oldest British daily newspaper is______________. A. Daily Express B. The Times C. Financial Times D. The Observer 9. In appearance the Queen of Great Britain seems very powerful, but in reality, she is only______________. A. the Supreme Governor of England B. the Duke of Edinburgh C. a figure-head D. all of the above 10. Britain joined the European Community in_________________. A.1972 B.1973 C. 1974 D. 1975 11. In Industrial Revolution, George Stephenson invented________________. A. railway engine B. spinning machine C. steam engine D. cotton textile 12. London's Metropolitan Police Force is directly under the control of__________. A. the Lord Chancellor B. the Home Secretary C. the Attorney D. the Prime Minister 13. Ireland has a bipolar political system with two major parties. They are_________. A. Sinn Fein and Fianna Fail B. Sinn Fein and Fine Gael C. Fianna Fail and Fine Gael D. IRA and Sinn Fein 14. ________________ is the oldest of all the parties in Ireland. A. The Irish Labour Party B. The Progressive Democrats C. Finna Fail D. Fine Gael 15. In ______________ James Joyce introduced the stream of consciousness technique as a remarkable means of character portrayal. A. Dubliners B. Ulysses

C. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man D. Paradise and Hell 16. By_____________, Upper Canada and Lower Canada were created. A. Canada Act of 1791 B. Quebec Act of 1774 C. British North America Act D. Act of Paris of 1763 17. The _______ are the indigenous people of New Zealand, and have a rich and varied culture. A. Maori B. Cherokee C. People from India D. People from Southeast Asia 18. _____________is Australia's largest and most diverse industry. A. Mining B. Manufacturing C. Fishing D. Agriculture 19. New Zealand became a separate colony of Britain in________________. A. 1841 B. 1857 C. 1907 D. 1931 20. Who produced the first complete map of New Zealand in 1769? A. Abel Tasman. B. A Dutchman. C. Hobson D. James Cook. 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. _________ features are the phonemic features that occur above the level of the segments. They include stress, tone, intonation, etc. 2. English consonants can be classified in terms of _____________ of articulation orin terms of place of articulation. 3. The affix “-ish” in the word boyish conveys a _____________ meaning. 4. ___________ morphemes are those that cannot be used independently but have to be combined with other morphemes to form a word. 5. In the complex sentence， the incorporated or subordinate clause is normally called an _____________ clause. 6. A ______________ is a structurally independent unit that usually comprises a number of words to form a complete statement，question or command. 7. ______________ can be defined as the study of meaning. 8. When two words are identical in sound， but different in spelling and meaning，

they are called ________________. 9. The notion of ______________ is essential to the pragmatic study of language. 10. There are four maxims under the ________________ principle： the maxim of quantity，the maxim of quality，the maxim of relation and the maxim of manner. 11. Lord _______________ (1561-1626), the world-renowned British essayist, found so much leisure for study as to make himself a great philosopher, a good historian and an elegant writer. His concise essay “Of Studies” thoroughly illustrates the functions and significance of study. 12. “I Have Nothing to Offer but Blood, Tears, and Sweat” is a speech given by the British Prime Minister ________________, who is a Nobel Prize winner for literature and a prolific and well-respected painter as well. 13. James Joyce (1882-1941), the Irish novelist, is noted for his experimental use of language in such works as ____________ (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939). 14. In the _______________ point of view, the narrator appears to know everything about all the characters, including what they are thinking. It takes no actions, casts no judgments, expresses no opinions and has no physical form in or out of the story. 15. _______________ writers introduced a new theme into literature: the struggle of the proletariat for its rights. They portrayed the world as it was seen by the poor, the down trodden. 16. An _______________ story is a story whose overall plot is concerned with putting the protagonist through a particular sort of experience. The idea is that the character is forced, by what he/she encounters in the course of the action, to become "a different person," usually someone more complicated, more comprehensive, with wider views. 17. The story of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” can be viewed as an epitome of the late ______________ century American society and culture. 18. Edgar Allan Poe was considered part of the American ____________________ Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the

inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. 19. With the publication of TheSunAlsoRises, three years later, Hemingway became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein called ______________. 20. “I felt a funeral, in my Brain,/ And Mourners to and fro/ Kept treading – treading – till it seemed / That Sense was breaking through –“ The poet who writes these lines is _______________. 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. D-structure is formed by the XP rule in accordance with the head ’ s subcategorization properties. 2. An illocutionary act is the act performed by or resulting from saying something; it is the consequence of the utterance. 3. Phonology is the study of the speech sounds and their functions. 4. Diglossia refers to the dialect having to do with separation brought about by different social conditions. 5. Componential analysis is a way proposed by the structural semantics to analyze lexical/word meaning. Section B: Identify the author and indicate the genre of each of the following works. 6. Dream Children 7. The Raven 8. The Death of the Salesman 9. Shall I compare thee to a Summers day? 10. Vanity Fair IV. Choose SIX terms from the following and explain them briefly. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (30%)

1. stream of consciousness 2. The Aesthetic Movement 3. Iceberg Theory 4. Naturalism 5. Theatre of the Absurd 6. Predication analysis 7. Neurolinguistics 8. Language Acquisition Device (LAD) 9. Idiolect 10. Draw a tree diagram for the surface structure of “The girl bought the book”. 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 Language acquisition in modern linguistics? 2. How do you understand Sapir-Whorf hypothesis? 3. Explain the term sense and reference by using examples. 4. State clearly the term “complementary distribution” in phonemics. Section B: for literature candidates only 1. In the short story “A Rose for Emily”, what does the “rose” in the title symbolize? 2. What are the main features of Metaphysical poetry? 3. Why is Mark Twain acclaimed as “the Father of American National Literature”? 4. What is/are the theme(s) of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels? VI. Choose ONE of the following and write your response to it. Write your answer on the ANSWER SHEET. (30%) 1. In what basic ways does modern linguistics differ from traditional grammar? 2. Analyze the following poem as to its theme, poetic form, and rhetorical devices,

and develop it into an essay of 200 words. London William Blake (1757-1827) I wander thro’ each charter’d street, Near where the charter’d Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infant’s cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg’d manacles I hear. How the Chimney-sweeper’s cry Every black’ring Church appalls; And hapless Soldier’s sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls. But most thro’ midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlot’s curse Blasts the new born Infant’s fear, And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.

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