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2015 年广东财经大学英美文学考研真题考试年度：2015 年考试科目代码及名称：804-英美文学适用专业：050201 英语语言文学［友情提醒：请在考点提供的专用答题纸上答题，答在本卷或草稿纸上无效！］ I. Explain the following literary terms. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (25 points, 5 points for each.) 1. Enlightenment 2. Metaphysical poetry 3. The theatre of the absurd 4. Transcendentalism 5. Dramatic monologue II. For each statement there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the statement. (20 points, 1 point for each) 1. _____ can be justly termed England’s national epic, and its most striking feature is the use of ____. A. Cynewulf, alliteration B. Beowulf, alliteration C. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, D. Robin Hood, rhyme rhyme 2. The 18th century sees the birth of the greatest satirist in English literature: . His masterpiece , comprises the extraordinary adventures of an Englishman, descriptions of fantastic lands visited by him, and their social systems and is always regarded as a bitter sarcasm and deadly irony of the contemporary England. A. Samuel Johnson, Gulliver’sTravels B. Alexander Pope, TheRapeoftheLock C. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe D. Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’sTravels 3. Which of the following works is NOT considered as William Shakespeare’s four great tragedies?

A. King Lear C. Macbeth B. Romeo and Juliet D. Othello 4. , Byron’s greatest work, was written in the prime of his creative power and still remained unfinished when the poet’s life was ended by a romantic and generous death. A. Don Juan B. Giaour C. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage D. Manfred 5. The publication of in 1798 — the joint work of William Wordsworth and________—marked the break with the conventional poetical tradition of the 18th century, i.e. with classicism. A. Lyrical Ballads, Robert Southey B. The Prelude, Samuel Taylor Coleridge C. Lyrical Ballads, Samuel Taylor D. Biographia Literaria, Samuel Coleridge Taylor Coleridge 6. William Makepeace Thackeray’s masterpiece is , and the title of the novel is taken from Bunyan’s greatest work . A. Vanity Fair, Paradise Regained B. Vanity Fair, Pilgrim’s Progress C. Vanity Fair, Samson Agonistes D. The Book of Snobs, Pilgrim’s 7. established himself both as a writer and as a spokesman for the school Progress of “Art for Art’s Sake.” A. Thomas Gray C. Oscar Wilde B. Charles Lamb D. Walter Scott 8. __________, written by P. B. Shelley’s wife, Mary Shelley, is regarded the best of its kind, ______, in the 19th century England. A. Prometheus Unbound, Gothic novel B. Frankenstein, Realistic novel C. Adonis, Romantic novel D. Frankenstein, Gothic novel 9. “April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain.” These lines are taken from T. S. Eliot’s modern classic poem_______, which remind us the opening

lines of the“General Prologue”in TheCanterburyTalesby the greatest literary figure_______ in 14th century England. A. Four Quartets, Geoffrey Chaucer B. The Waste Land, Geoffrey Chaucer C. Hollow Man, Edmund Spencer D. The Waste Land, John Milton 10. Joseph Conrad’s _________ is central to the evolution of what is called postcolonial fiction, and says something that only said in a novel: A historian looking at European colonialism will arrive at historical judgments. A. Heart of Darkness C. Lord Jim B. Nostromo D. Typhoon 11._________, with his famous poem, “Annabel Lee”, justified his poetic idea that the death of a beautiful woman, is “unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world”. A. W. B. Yeats C. Ezra Pound B. Edgar Allan Poe D. W. H. Auden 12. Around 1920, the American literary world rediscovered an almost forgotten book and suddenly became aware of a major American writer. The book was _______, a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale. A. Moby-Dick B. Omoo C. The Last of the Mohicans D. Billy Budd 13. With Warner, Mark Twain collaborated on __________, a satire that gave its name to the era of corrupt materialism that followed the American Civil War. A. The Golden Age B. The Silver Age C. The Gilded Age D. The Bronze Age 14.________, Stephen crane’s finest literary achievement, depicts a picture of American Civil War in a naturalistic way. A. War Is Kind B. The Black Riders C. The Red Badge of Courage D. The Age of Innocence 15. Hemingway’s novel TheSunAlsoRises, brilliantly captures his years in Paris as one of ______, a name given by the writer Gertrude Stein.

A. The Beat Generation B. The Lost Generation C. The Angry Young Men D. The Younger Generation 16. By the end of his life he had become a national bard; when he was eighty-seven he read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. The poet is ___________. A. Ezra Pound C. E. E. Cummings B. T. S. Eliot D. Robert Frost 17. As a poet and as a painter, _________uses the small letters, the unconventional syntax, and the unusual spacing of words, to express individuality and participate in what he called “The New Art”. A. Ezra Pound B. E. E. Cummings C. William Carlos Williams D. Wallace Stevens 18._______, an epic depiction of one dispossessed Oklahoma family’s migration to California in search a new life, written by ___________, is among the most widely read novel of 20th century. A. TheGrapeofWrath, John Steinbeck B. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck C. In Our Time, Ernest Hemingway D. Light in August, William Faulkner 19. Which of the following writers is NOT a Nobel Prize Winner? A. Ezra Pound B. Ernest Hemingway C. William Faulkner D. Saul Bellow 20. Early in 1920s the most prominent of the new American playwrights, _______, established an international reputation with such plays as TheEmperorJones, Anna Christie and The Hairy Ape. A. Arthur Miller C. Walt Whitman B. Tennessee Williams D. Eugene O’Neill III. Matching. Find the relevant match from column B for each item in column A and put the letters on the answer sheet. (20 points, 1 point for each.) Section A

Column A Column B 1. Francis Bacon A. For Whom the Bell Tolls 2. John Milton B. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 3. Herman Melville C. Seize the Day 4. W. B. Yeats D. A Streetcar Named Desire 5. Washington Irving E. Paradise Lost 6. Henry Fielding F. Sailing to Byzantium 7. E. M. Forster G. Moby Dick 8. Ernest Hemingway H. Advancement of Learning 9. Saul Bellow I. Tom Jones 10. Tennessee Williams J. Howards End Section B Column A Column B 1. The Tempest A. Lord Henry 2. Sister Carrie B. Catherine Linton 3. Great Expectation C. Leopold Bloom 4. Sons and Lovers D. Nick Carraway 5. Native Son E. Lady Teazle 6. Wuthering Heights F. Prospero 7. The Great Gatsby G. Bigger Thomas 8. Ulysses H. G. W. Hurstwood 9. The School for Scandal I. Mrs. Morel 10.The Picture of Dorian Gray J. Pip IV. Read the following pieces of selected works and answer the question followed by the passage. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (40 points, 8 points for each.) 1. It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel

in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms. These mothers instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in strolling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants who, as they grow up, either turn thieves for want of work, or leave their dear native country, to fight for the Pretender in Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbadoes. Q: This text is from Jonathan Swift’ s “A Modest Proposal”. What is Swift’s attitude toward the beggars he describes? 2. 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! The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. Q： This is a short poem written by William Wordsworth. Please explain the underlined lines. 3. 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 practice 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.” Q： This text is selected from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, under the title “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For.” Please explain the underlined sentence. 4. “Shall I?” I said briefly; and I looked at his features, beautiful in their harmony, but strangely formidable in their still severity; at his brow, commanding, but not open; at his eyes, bright and deep and searching, but never soft; at his tall imposing figure; and fancied myself in idea his wife. Oh! it would never do! As his curate, his comrade, all would be right: I would cross oceans with him in that capacity; toil under Eastern suns, in Asian deserts with him in that office; admire and emulate his courage and devotion and vigour: accommodate quietly to his masterhood; smile undisturbed at his ineradicable ambition. . . . I should suffer often, no doubt, attached to him only in this capacity: my body would be under a rather stringent yoke, but my heart and mind would be free. I should still have my unblighted self to turn to: my natural unenslaved feelings with which to communicate in moments of loneliness. There would be recesses in my mind which would be only mine, to which he never came; and sentiments growing there, fresh and sheltered, which his austerity could never blight, nor his measured warrior-march trample down: but as his wife—at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked

—forced to keep the fire of my nature continually low, to compel it to burn inwardly and never utter a cry, though the imprisoned flame consumed vital after vital— this would be unendurable. Q：This passage is from Jane Eyre. It occurs in Chapter 34. St. John Rivers has just asked Jane to join him as his wife on his missionary trip to India. Please evaluate Jane’s interior conflict involved in making her decision. 5. When Miss Emily Grieison died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old manservant--- combined gardener and cook---had seen in at least ten years. … Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from the day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor—he who lathered the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the streets without an apron—remitted her taxes, die dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity. Q： This text is from William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily”. Please explain the underlined part. V. Answer the following questions, and elaborate your opinion with examples. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (45 points, 15 points for each.) 1. What are the features of Realism of Victorian novels? Elaborate them with the novels of Victorian writers. 2. State the literary achievements of T. S. Eliot, and elaborate them with his works. 3. Please make a comparison between “ The Angry Young Man” and “ The Beat

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