[考研类试卷]2008年天津外国语学院英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷
一、单项选择题
1 Thomas Hardy is a prolific writer who works include the following except______.
（A）Far from the Madding Crowd
（B）To the Light Hou
（C）Under the Greenwood Tree
（D）Jude the Obscure
2 In the first half of the 19th century English drama experienced a general decline;
______ two famous English playwrights revived the British theatre after this period of time.
（A）William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe
（B）Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett
（C）George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde
（D）Henrik Ibn and August Strindberg
3 The three most eminent novelists who reprent the three phas of the Victorian novels are Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy and______.
（A）George Moore
（B）Louis Stevenson
（C）James Joyce
（D）George Eliot
4 Which of the following books deals with American Civil War?
中译英翻译（A）The Red Badge of Courage
（B）For Whom the Bell Tolls
（C）Slaughterhou-Five
（D）Catch 22
egold5 The first writer who took the vernacular as a rious way of prenting reality after Mark Twain is______.
（A）Robert Frost
（B）Ernest Hemingway
（C）William Carlos Williams
（D）Sherwood Anderson
6 Direct treatment of the "thing" , whether subjective or objective, is one of the poetic principles advocated by______.
（A）Imagists
（B）Realists
（C）Naturalists
（D）Romanticists
二、填空题新东方职业教育
7 Geoffrey Chaucer' s famous work______contains 20-odd stories unified by a fictitious pilgrimage.
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8 In______, Thomas More offers an ideal social system, with which people replace tyranny with______.
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9 The definition that "all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" was written by______in______.
10 Harold Pinter, who______, is one of the most gifted English playwrights in the post-war period.
11 In his______Benjamin Franklin creates the image of a boy' s ri from ______to riches and demonstrates his belief that the new world of America was a land of opportunities which might be met through hard work and wi management.
12 As a reflection of Hester Prynne' s moral development, the______symbolically undergoes a gradual and imperceptible change from "______"to "able" and last to "angel".
淡泊的意思13 Known as African Americans' poet laureate, ______articulates the miries and agonies of the blacks in face of racial discrimination.
三、名词解释
14 Briefly explain five—only the first Ave will be assd in ca more than five answers are provided—out of the following ven terms. Provide an example where you feel adequate. Write your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.(30 points)
allegory
在职工程管理硕士15 Oedipus Complex
疯颠16 tragedy
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17 Questions in this ction are t for applicants to the MA program of American & British Literature. Answer any three of the following essay questions. Your answer is expected to have a clearly stated and focud central argument that is supported with discussion, explanation, example
s, and other evidence rather than a plot summary.(50 points) In what way does Daniel Defoe' s Robinson Crusoe reflect the history of British colonization in the 18th century?
18 Charles Dickens is believed to be basically an optimistic writer. Can you justify the view with reference to one of his novels?
19 Emily Dickinson' s poetry abounds in images. In the best of her poems every word is
a picture en. Comment on the images in either "Becau I Could Not Stop for Death" or "I Like to See It Lap the Miles".2012年大学英语四级成绩查询
20 In The Glass Menagerie, Tenne Williams successfully portrays a family of escapists. Explain how the theme of escapism is developed in this play.
21 Marxist literary criticism, psychoanalytic criticism, deconstruction and feminist criticism are some of the popular approaches that Chine students take in the study of literature. Try to explain any one of the four approaches to literature.
五、作文
22 Write in English an essay of approximately 300 words on one poem, story or play you have read from British or American literature of the twentieth century and comment on some very specific aspect of literary work. You are expected to write an essay with a clearly stated and focud central argument that is supported with discussion, explanation , examples, and other evidence rather than a plot summary. Write your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.(20 points)
