2011年北京航空航天大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷
(总分52, 做题时间90分钟)
1. 名词解释
1.
Waiting for Godot
认识五线谱
该问题分值: 2
答案:
正确答案：Waiting for Godot is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characte
rs, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for someone named Godot to arrive.
2.
Harlem renaissance
该问题分值: 2
答案:
正确答案：Harlem renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as " New Negro Movement". It was a burst of literary achievement by Negro playwrights, poets, and novelists who prented new insights into American experience and prepared the way for the emergence of numerous black writers after mid-twentieth century.
3.
狐臭的最佳治疗方法Antagonist荆州将军
该问题分值: 2
答案:
正确答案：Antagonist is a person, or a group of people who oppo the main character. The antagonist may also reprent a major threat or obstacle to the main character by their very existence, without necessarily deliberately targeting him or her.
4.
Comedy of manners
该问题分值: 2
答案:
正确答案：Comedy of manners is a genre of play or novel which satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often reprented by stock characters, such as the miles gloriosus in ancient times, the fop and the rake during the Restoration. The plot of a comedy, often concerned with scandal, is generally less important than its witty dialogue. A great writer of comedy of manners is Oscar Wilde, who writes the famous play The Importance of Being Earnest.
5.
Blank ver
该问题分值: 2
答案:
白磷燃烧的现象
正确答案：Blank ver is the poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. It has been described as "probably the **mon and influential form that English poetry has taken since the sixteenth century".
2. 翻译题
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Plea translate the following English into Chine, and pay attention to its literary quality.It was New Year"s Night. An aged man was standing at a window. He raid his mournful eyes towards the deep blue sky, where the stars were floating like white lilies on the surface of a clear calm lake. Then he cast them on the earth, where few more hopeless people than himlf now moved towards their certain goal—the tomb. He had already pasd sixty of the stages leading to it, and he had brought from his journey nothing but errors and remor. Now his health was poor, his mind vacant, his heart sorrowful, and his old age short of comforts.
该问题分值: 2
答案:
正确答案：新年之夜。一位老人站在窗边，忧伤地眺望着深蓝的天空。夜空中的繁星犹如漂浮在明镜般湖面上的朵朵百合。他把目光投向大地，世间有一些人比他更为绝望，他们正走向人生的终点一一坟墓。在通往死亡的这条路上，他已走过60个春秋，除了错误和悔恨，他一无所获。现在，他体弱多病、精神空虚、心哀神伤，也缺少晚年应有的舒适和安逸。
解析： 本段选自约翰·拉斯金(John Ruskin，1819—1900)的《两条路》(The Two Roads)。他是英国著名作家、艺术家、艺术评论家。1843年，他因《现代画家》(Modern Painters)一书而成名，这以及其后的写作总计39卷，使他成为维多利亚时代艺术趣味的代言人。他是拉斐尔前派的一员，本身亦为有才华且多产的艺术家。
2.
Plea translate the following Chine into English and pay attention to its literary quality.
真正成为自己不是一件很容易的事。世上有很多人，你说他是什么都行，例如是一种职业，一个身份，一个角色，唯独不是他自己。如果一个人总是按照别人的意见生活，总是为外在的事务忙碌，没有自己的内心生活，那么，说他不是他自己一点儿也没有冤枉他。因为的的确确，从他的头脑到心灵，你在其中已经找不到丝毫真正属于他自己的东西了，他只是别人的一个影子和事务的一架机器罢了。
该问题分值: 2
答案:
正确答案：It is not easy for a person to be himlf in a real n. Many people in the world can be easily identified, for you can take his job, his status or his social role as his identity, which has nothing to do with the person himlf. It indeed does him justice to say that he has no identity of his own, if he has no idea about his own mind, and has to follow others" advice or let others make arrangements for him; if his life, always occupied by ext
ernal things, is completely void of an inner world. You won"t be able to find anything whatever, either in his brain or his heart, that truly belongs to him. He is, indeed, no more than a shadow cast by somebody el or a machine capable of conducting orders.
3. 分析题
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Summarize Puritans" beliefs.
该问题分值: 2
答案:
正确答案：The Puritans are en as a society of prudish and extremely strict Christians who posss extremely orthodox and disciplined rules and beliefs, and live their lives acc
ording to the Holy Bible. Unlike others, the Puritans believe in leading a simple and plain life, according to the most supreme scripture of God, the Bible. They believe that their destinies are predetermined by God in terms of the souls that will be saved. They also believe that reading the Bible is the only way to reach the true salvation. Original sin, total depravity and limited atonement form God"s grace are their beliefs, too.
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2.
Illustrate the main characteristics of Modernism from a literary perspective.
该问题分值: 2
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答案:
剑网3纯阳正确答案：Modernism as a literary movement reached its height in Europe between 1900s and the middle 1920s, and its characteristics are given below. In Modernist literatu
re, the individual is more important than the society. Specifically, Modernist writers are fascinated with how the individual adapts to the changing world. Modernist writers break free from old forms and techniques. Poets abandon traditional rhyme schemes and write in free ver. Novelists defy all expectations. Writers mix images from the past with modern languages and themes, creating a collage of styles. The inner workings of consciousness is a common subject for Modernists. The Modernist writers infu objects, people, places and events with significant meanings. They imagine a reality with multiple layers, many of which are hidden or in a sort of code. Writers of the Modernist period e literature more as a craft than a flowering of creativity. They believe that poems and novels are constructed from smaller parts instead of the organic, internal process that earlier generations have described.
3.
Make a **ment on J. R. R. Tolkien"s The Lord of the Rings.
该问题分值: 2
答案:
正确答案：The Lord of the Rings is a high fantasy epic written by philologist and Professor J. R. R. Tolkien. Tolkien is a true scholar, and he understands that a story, historical or fictional, needs a context to give it meaning, so he provides this by constructing a complete Middle-Earth, with well-defined races and cultures, history, folklore, values, politics and even veral created languages that can actually be learned and spoken. As far as I"m concerned, this novel is a trilogy about a journey, and this large journey consists of many smaller journeys, in which individuals and groups are constantly tting off for some places, to pursue a goal of their own, to rescue or escape someone. Merry and Pippin engage themlves in an unintentional journey when they join forces with Frodo and Sam early in The Fellowship of the Ring. Aragorn takes many dramatic journeys across Middle-Earth on his hor, taking the brave and necessary steps to save his people. Gollum journeys with Frodo and Sam with a conflicted soul. The elves journey to their land of immortality. Arwen elects to remain behind—her own journey will be the on
e that leads her to Aragorn and a mortal life. The last time we e Frodo in The Return of the King, he is embarking on yet another journey, this time with the elves, to pursue his next adventure. With the elements of journey, temptation, life, death, love and myth, The Lord of the Rings shares many similarities with the Greek epic Odysy, so this novel could be a modem epic.
