第 1 页 共 7 页二 O 一四年招收硕士研究生入学考试试题 A 卷考试科目及代码：英美文学基础（857） 适用专业：英语语言文学；外国语言学及应用语言学 答题内容写在答题纸上，写在试卷或草稿纸上一律无效。考完后试题随答题纸交回。考试时间 3 小时，总分值 150 分。姓名：报考学科、专业：准考证号码：密封线内不要答题第 2 页 共 7 页. Multiple Choice Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your choice on the answer sheet. (1 point for each, 24 points in total)1. Which of the following is not a tragedy? _.A. Othello B. King Lear C. A Midsummer Nights Dream D. King Lear2. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use themThe underlined part means _. A. men of craft/skill B. sly men C. clever men D. wicked men3. The duke in My Last Duchess is characterized with the following except _.A. arrogant B. kind C. greedy D. domineering4. What does the letter A means in The Scarlet Letter? _A. Adultery B. Able C. Angel D. all of the above5. We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelleys poem “Ode to the West Wind” with all the following except_.A. tamed B. swift C. proud D. wild 6.Which is not a narrative poem written by Longfellow? _.A.The Courtship of Miles Standish B. My Lost Youth C. Evangeline D. Hiawatha第 3 页 共 7 页7. Which statement is not true about Emily Dickinsons poetic features? _.A.Her language is brief, direct, and plain. B. She used conventional meters, iambic tetrameter, off-rhymes. C. Each poem has a title. D. Short poetic lines, condensed by using intense metaphors and by extensive use of ellipsis.8. Which is Stephen Cranes work? _.A. Maggie: A Girl of the StreetsB. The Black Riders C. The Red Badge of Courage D. All of the above9.Which play didnt win Pulitzer Prize? _.A.Beyond the Horizon B. Strange Interlude C. Bound East for Cardiff D. Long Days Journey into Night10.Which is not true about the principles of Imagism? _.A. indirect treatment of the “thing”. B. exclusion of superfluous words.C. free verse form and music phrase.D. precision and economy of expression.11.Hamlets hesitation shows him _.A. a typical example of earlier English bourgeoisie B. a Byronic heroC. a typical man of RenaissanceD. a great patriot12. John Miltons style can be summarized as_.A. proper words in proper places.B. whatever is, is right.C. survival of the fittest.D. sublimity of thought and majesty of expression.13. One _the more, one _ the less,Had half Impaird the nameless _.(G. G. Byron)A. ray, shade, grace B. grace; shade; rayC. shade: grace; ray D. shade; ray; grace第 4 页 共 7 页14. Alexander Popes chief contribution to literary criticism is his _, which contains _ lines in 3 parts, advocating _ .A. Essay on Man, 744, classicismB. Essay on Criticism, 10000, realismC. Essay on Man, 10000, realismD. Essay on criticism, 744, classicism15._ a dramatist in the _ century, William Shakespeare in the British Renaissance, and George Bernard Shaw of the 20th century, were considered by some critics to be the three greatest British dramatists. A. John Bunyan, 17th B. John Bunyan, 18th C. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 18thD. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 19th16. Then felt I like some watcher of the skiesWhen a new planet swims into his ken;Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyesHe stared at the Pacific (J. Keats)The poet here is speaking of his excitement of _ .A. finding the New World B. reading Chapmans translation of HomerC. finding the Pacific D. finding a new star17. The daffodils in “I wandered lonely as a cloud” were so important to W. Wordsworth that they eventually became a “ _ of solitude”.A. bless B. bliss C. blessing D. blessed18. Of the following poems by T.S. Eliot, which is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th Century English Poetry? A. Poems 1909-1925 B. The Hollow Men C. Prufrock and Other Observations D. The Waste Land19. Charlottes works are famous for the depiction of the life of the middle-class working women, particularly_. A. Governesses B. Clerks C. baby-sitters D. managers20. _ is Robert Brownings best-known dramatic monologue.A.“My Last Duches” B.“Meeting at Night” C.“Parting at Morning” D.“Pippa Passes”21. Chronologically the Victorian refers to _.A.1798-1832 B.1836-1901 C. the Romantic period D. the Neoclassical Period第 5 页 共 7 页22. Which of the following is taken from John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn? A. I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed! B. They are both gone up to the church to pray. C. Earth has not anything to show more fair. D. Beauty is truth, truth beauty.23. In the Romantic period, _ is the most prosperous literary form. A. Prose B. Poetry C. Fiction D. play24. The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gullivers Travels are_. A. horses that are endowed with reason. B. pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC. gi