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1、武汉科技大学英美文学基础(857)2013考研试题研究生入学考试试题考研真题-二 O 一三年招收硕士研究生入学考试试题 B 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。准考证号码：. Multiple Choice Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. W
2、rite your choice on the answer sheet. (1 point for each, 24 points in total) 1. Daniel Defoe describes _ as a typical English Middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist. A. Tom Jones B. Gulliver C. Moll Flanders D. Robinson Crusoe 2.
3、We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelleys poem Ode to the West Wind with all the following terms except _ . A. tamed B. swift C. proud D. wild 3. .Most of the poems in Whitmans Leaves of Grass sing of the en-mass and the _ as well. A. nature B. self-reliance C. self D. life 4. The first line
4、 of William Blakes well-known poem The Tyger reads, Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright. The repeated word tyger (tiger) with an exclamation mark suggests_. A. joy B. fear C. pain D. fondness第 1 页 共 4 页姓名：报考学科、专业：密 封 线 内 不 要 答 题5. My Last Duchess is a poem that best exemplifier Robert Brownings _. A. sensi
5、tive ear for the sounds of the English language B. excellent choice of words C. mastering of the metrical devices D. use of the dramatic monologue 6. Which of the following works concerns most concentrated the Calvinistic view of original sin? A. The Wasteland. B. The Scarlet Letter. C. Leaves of Gr
6、ass. D. As I Lay Dying 7. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his _. A. international theme B. waste-land imagery C. local color D. symbolism 8. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is _. A. insignifi
7、cant B. vicious by nature C. divine D. forward-looking 9. In Hawthornes novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _. A. commentators B. observers C. villains D. saviors 10. Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is not a usual subjec
8、t of her poetic expression? A. Religion. B. Life and death. C. Love and marriage. D. War and peace. 11. In English poetry, a four-line stanza is called _. A. heroic couplet B. quatrain C. Spenserian stanza D. terza rima第 2 页 共 4 页12. The 18th century witnessed a new literary formthe modern English n
9、ovel, which, contrary to the medieval romance, gives a _ presentation of life of the common people. A. romantic B. realistic C. prophetic D. idealistic 13. Beside symbolism, all the following qualities EXCEPT _are fused to make Melvilles Moby-Dick a world classic. A. narrative power B. psychological
10、 analysis C. speculative agility D. optimistic view of life 14. “.This grew: I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped altogether.” (Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”) . The above lines imply that A. the Duchess was killed by her husband B. the Duchess stopped smiling at her husbands order C. the Du
11、chess died of laughing too much D. the Duchess did not want to smile as much as her husband requested 15. “Drive my dead thought over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth.” What rhetorical device does the poet use in the quoted lines? A. Synecdoche. B. Metaphor. C. Simile. D. Ono
12、matopoeia. 16. Which terms can best describe the modernists concern of the human situation in their fiction? A. Fragmentation and alienation. B. Courage and honor. C. Tradition and faith. D. Poverty and desperation. 17. American “Transcendentalists most typically believe that . A. man is divine in n
13、ame B. art is superior to life C. man can transform nature D. poetry is the highest form of art 18. Linguistically, compared with the writings of Mark Twain, Henry Jamess fiction is noted for his _. A. frontier vernacular B. rich colloquialism C. vulgarly descriptive words D. refined elegant languag
14、e 19. Which of the following plays by ONeill can be said to contain tragic elements? A. The Hairy Ape B. The Emperor Jones C. The Iceman Cometh D. Desire Under the Elms第 3 页 共 4 页20. When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in the qu
15、est of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing about _s thematic concern in his fiction writing. A. Henry James B. Scott Fitzgerald C. Ernest Hemingway D. William Faulkner 21. Shakespeares tragedies include all the following except _ . A. Hamlet and King Lear B. Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth C. Julius Caesar and Othello D. The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Nights Dream 22. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following except _. A. the using of everyday language spoken by the common people B. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling
