暨南大学考研历年真题之外国语言文学综合考试考研真题文档格式.docx

1、考试科目名称：外国语言文学综合考试 考试科目代码：808考生注意：所有答案必须写在答题纸（卷）上，写在本试题上一律不给分。 SECTION A. Fill the blanks with proper answers（10%）1. The English sonnet, also known as _ sonnet, usually has a regular rhyme scheme a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g.2. It was in 1798, with the publication of William Wordsworths _, in colla

2、boration with S.T. Coleridge, that romanticism began to bloom and found a firm place in the history of English literature.3. The typical feature of Robert Brownings poetry is the _. 4. The Graveyard Poets were a number of pre-Romantic English poets of the 18th century characterized by their gloomy m

3、editations on mortality in the context of the graveyard. A contemplative and mellow mood is achieved in the celebrated opening verse of Grays _.5. As one of the great innovators of the modern novel, Virginia Woolf developed the technique of _ in her writing, which focuses on the complex lives of cha

4、racters inner minds instead of outward actions.6. It was _ , as the primary author who wrote “the Declaration of Independence”, together with other four men including Benjamin Franklin.7. _s “The Raven” is a dark reflection on lost love, death, and loss of hope. 8. Nathaniel Hawthornes Scarlet Lette

5、r is a story about a woman named _ living in seventeenth - century Boston, then a puritan settlement.9. Early in the 1920s the most prominent of the new American playwrights, _, established an international reputation with such plays as The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape. 10. Hemingways stature as

6、a writer was confirmed with the publication of his novel _ in 1929, which portrayed a farewell both to war and to love. Define the terms listed below according to your knowledge of English and American literature and criticism. （20%）1.Gothic novel2. Byronic hero3. Critical Realism4. Transcendentalis

7、m. Identify the following quotations by giving（1）the title of the work; （2） the name of its author, and （3） explain briefly the implications of the underlined parts.（20%）1. Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them, for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisd

8、om without them, for they teach not their own use; but that is a without them, and above them, won by observation. 2. If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; / If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee; / A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share / The impulse of thy strength, only less free / Th

9、an thou, O Uncontrollable!3. Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt, / Wheneer I passed her; but who passed without / Much the same smile? This grew：I gave commands；/Then all smiles stopped altogether.4. He smiled understandinglymuch more than understandingly. Precisely at that point it vanished and I was loo

10、king at an elegant young roughneck, a year or two over thirty, whose elaborate formality of speech just missed being absurd. Some time before he introduced himself Id got a strong impression that he was picking his words with care.5. To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chambe

11、r as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. Writing: Choose one of the following pair and write a comparativ

12、e essay of no less than 200 words （25%）:1. Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy2. The Lost Generation & The Beat GenerationSECTION B I. There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET. （10%）1. Which of the following soun

13、ds does not belong to the allomorphs of the English simple past morpheme? A. d B. t C. it D. id2. When -ion in television is removed to get a verb televise, we call this way of creating words _.A. suffixation B. back-formation C. blending D. acronymy3. In the following conversation: - Beirut is in P

14、eru, isnt it? - And Rome is in Romania, I suppose. The second person violates the _ of the Cooperative Principle. A. Quantity Maxim B. Quality Maxim C. Relation Maxim D. Manner Maxim4. As modern linguistics aims to describe and analyze the language people actually use, and not to lay down rules for correct linguistic behavior, it is said to be _.A. prescriptive B. sociolinguistic C. descriptive D. psycholinguistic5. The discovery of the Indo-European language family began with the work of _.A. Jacob Grimm B. Bronislaw Malinowski C. Leonard Bloomfield D. Sir William Jones6. On