中国人民大学中国人民大学 2003 年研究生入学考试试题年研究生入学考试试题 招生专业：英语语言文学 考试科目：英美文学 英美文化 英语发展史 英语语言史 考试时间：1 月 19 日下午 考题编号：442 一、英美文学 . Define, in complete sentences, the following terms and phrases in English and American literature. (12 points) 1. neo-classicism 2. blank verse 3. lyric 4.terza rima 5. modernism 6. stream-of-consciousness . Place each of the following works in its proper century, indicate its genre, and give the full name of the author.(20 points) 1. In a Station of the Metro 2. From the People, Yes 3. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 4. Mrs. Warrens Profession 5. The Hollow Men 6. Self-Reliance 7. A Room of Ones Own 8. The Sound and the Fury 9. Break, Break, Break 10. A Modest Proposal . Identify each of the following quotations by giving the title of the work and the full name of the author, and explain the implications of the underlined parts.(12 points) 1. I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. The wilderness rose up to it, And sprawled around, no longer wild. The jar was round upon the ground And tall and of a port in air. It took dominion everywhere. The jar was gray and bare. It did not give of bird or bush, Like nothing else in Tennessee. 2. “I thought, Angel, that you loved meme, my very self! If it is I you do love, O how can it be that you look and speak so? It frightens me! Having begun to love you, I love you forever in all changed, in all disgraces, because you are yourself. I ask no more. Then how can you, O my own husband, stop loving me?” “I repeat, the woman I have been loving is not you” “But who?” “Another woman in your shape.” She perceived in his words the realization of her own apprehensive foreboding in former times. He looked upon her as a species of imposter, a guilty woman in the guise of an innocent one. Terror was upon her white face as she saw it; her cheek was flaccid, and her mouth had almost the aspect of a round little hole. The horrible sense of his view of her so deadened her that she staggered; and he stepped forward, thinking she was going to fall. 3. Isabel Archer was a young person of many theories; her imagination was remarkably active. It had been her fortune to possess a finer mind than most of the persons among whom her lot was cast; to have a larger perception of surrounding facts and to care of knowledge that was tinged with the unfamiliar. It is true that among her contemporaries she passed for a young woman of extraordinary profundity; for these excellent people never withheld their admiration from a reach of intellect of which they themselves were not conscious, and spoke of Isabel as a prodigy of learning, a creature reported to have read the classic authorsin translations. Her paternal aunt, Mrs. Varian, once spread the rumor that Isabel was writing a bookMrs. Varian having a reverence for booksand averred that the girl would distinguish herself in print. . Answer the following questions according to your understanding of English and American literary history and criticism. (16 points) 1. What is the central theme revealed by the conflict between the group of Christians such as Antonio, Bassanio, Portia, and the others, and the Jew Shylock in Shakespeares comedy The Merchant of Venice? On which side, Antonios or Shylocks, does Shakespeare stand and why? And what is the progressive significance of the play? 2. What do you know of Emest Hemingways style in prose writing? What are the features of the modern world revealed in Hemingways novels? What spirit does Hemingway advocate for the people living in that kind of world. 二、英美文化 .Fill in each of the following blanks with one proper word (10 points) 1. Greek culture reached a high point of development in the 5th century B.C. marked by the successful repulse of the （1） invasion early in the century, the establishment of democracy and the flourishing of knowledge in （2） . 2. In ancient Greece there was a very influential philosophical debate begun by a group of professional teachers called （3） who were the masters of art of arguing, and the most eminent of them was （4） , who is chiefly noted for his doctrine that “man is the measure of all things.” 3. One of the most famous sculptures in ancient Greece is （5） de Milo, whose broken arms have long been the focus of discussion in artistic circles. 4. The Romans had a lot in common with the Greeks. For example, both people had traditions rooted in the idea of the （6） , hostile to （7） and to servility. 5. Virgil, the greatest of Latin poets, wrote the great epic, the （8） which tells the story of one of the princes of Troy, who escaped from that burning city to carry on the Trojan cause in a new place, （9） . 6. The Old Testament consists of 39 books, the oldest and most important of which are the first five books, called （10） . And Deuteronomy, one of the five contains the final wards of （11） to his people. 7. The clearest histor