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1、2017年浙江温州大学英美文学考研真题Part I Literary Identification (Read the following 10 excerpts, and identify the names of the works and their authors. 3 points for each excerpt, and 30 points in all.)1.“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a
2、 wife.”2.“The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, / If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”3.“When in April the sweet showers fall / And pierce through the drought of March to the root, / And all the veins are bathed in liquor of such power / As brings about the engendering of the flower, / When also
3、 Zephyrus with his sweet breath / Exhales an air in every grove and heath / Upon the tender shoots, and the young sun / His half-course in the sign of the Ram has run, / And the small fowl are making melody / That sleep away the night with open eye”4.“For oft, when on my couch I lie / In vacant or i
4、n pensive mood, / They flash upon that inward eye / Which is the bliss of solitude; / And then my heart with pleasure fills, / And dances with the daffodils.”5.“North Richmond street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers School set the boys free. An uninhabi
5、ted house of two stories stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbors in a square ground. The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces.”6.“It was not fear or dread. It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all
6、 a nothing and a man was nothing too. It was only that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it was already nada y pues nada y pues nada. Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it
7、 is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.”7.“IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
8、 / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea. / So twice five miles of fertile ground / With walls and towers were girdled round: / And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills / Where blossomd many an incense-bearing tree; / And here were forests ancient as the hills, / Enfoldi
9、ng sunny spots of greenery.”8.“April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain. / Winter kept us warm, covering / Earth in forgetful snow, feeding / A little life with dried tubers”9.“Simon Wheeler backed me int
10、o a corner and blockaded me there with his chairand then sat down and reeled off the monotonous narrative which follows this paragraph. He never smiled, he never frowned, he never changed his voice from the quiet, gently-flowing key to which he turned the initial sentence, he never betrayed the slig
11、htest suspicion of enthusiasmbut all through the interminable narrative there ran a vein of impressive earnestness and sincerity, which showed me plainly that so far from his imagining that there was anything ridiculous or funny about his story, he regarded it as a really important matter, and admir
12、ed its two heroes as men of transcendent genius in finesse. To me, the spectacle of a man drifting serenely along through such a queer yarn without ever smiling was exquisitely absurd. As I said before, I asked him to tell me what he knew of Rev. Leonidas W. Smily, and he replied as follows. I let h
13、im go on in his own way, and never interrupted him once”10.“Gatsby believed in that green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but thats no mattertomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms fartherAnd one fine morning- / So we beat on, boats again
14、st the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”Part II Literary and Critical Terms (Choose FIVE terms, and explain each of them in English in about 80 words. 6 points for each, and 30 points in all.)1. criticism2. elegy3. free verse4. humanism5. Realism6. novel7. point of view8. Renaissance 9
15、. Transcendentalism10. tragedyPart III Literary Analysis (Read the following 6 excerpts, and answer the questions following each excerpt according to the requirement. 10 points for each excerpt, and 60 points in all.)1. Read the following excerpt and answer the questions followedShall I compare thee
16、 to a summers day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summers lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or natures changing course untrimmed; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest, N
