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第 1 页 共 4 页姓名：报考专业：准考证号码：密封线内不要写题2018 年全国硕士研究生招生考试初试自命题试题科目名称：英美文学基础（ A 卷 B 卷）科目代码： 857考试时间：3 小时 满分 150 分可使用的常用工具：无 计算器 直尺 圆规注意：所有答题内容必须写在答题纸上，写在试题或草稿纸上的一律无效；考完后试题随答题纸交回。I. Find out the matches from column B for items in column A (注意：B栏中有两个多余的、干扰选项). Write the corresponding matches (e.g., 1R, 5B, etc.) on your answer sheet. (共 20 小题，每小题 1 分，共20 分)A B1 William Faulkner A The People, Yes2 Rudyard Kipling B David Copperfield3 Lawrence Sterne C A Passage to India4 Willa Cather D Light in August5 Charles Dickens E The Tempest6 Upton Sinclair F Kim7 Joseph Conrad G Oh, Pioneers!8 F. Scott Fitzgerald H The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy9 Thomas Gray I The Jungle10 Theodore Dreiser J Gullivers Travels11 Eugene ONeill K Tender Is the Night12 John Milton L Heart of Darkness13 Carl Sandburg M Beowulf14 E. M. Forster N The Hairy Ape15 George Bernard Shaw O “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”16 Robert Frost P The Call of the Wild17 William Shakespeare Q Samson Agonistes18 Henry James R Sister Carrie19 John Bunyan S Mending Wall20 Jack London T The Pilgrims ProgressU The Golden BowlV Saint Joan第 2 页 共 4 页II. Explain the following literary terms or characters with adequate details. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (共 6 小题，每小题5 分，共 30 分)1. art for arts sake 2. Cabot (in Desire Under the Elms)3. code hero 4. Stanley (in A Streetcar Named Desire)5. Puritanism 6. Jack (in Lord of the Flies)III. Read the following two poems carefully and write your answers to the corresponding questions on your answer sheet. (共 8 小题，每小题5 分，共 40 分)Poem 1: Ode to the West Wind (excerpt, by Percy Bysshe Shelley) O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumns being, Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion oer the dreaming earth, and fill (Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air) With living hues and odours plain and hill: 第 3 页 共 4 页Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere: Destroyer and preserver; hear, O hear!Questions 1 to 4 are based on the above poem :1. In what sense is the West Wind both a destroyer and a preserver? 2. What social or political hopes might the poem symbolize? 3. What do you know about the relationship between the poet and nature as reflected in the poem?4. How does Shelleys treatment of nature differ from that of William Wordsworth? Poem 2: The Red Wheelbarrow (by William Carlos Williams)So much dependsupona red wheelbarrowglazed with rainwaterbeside the whitechickens.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the above poem:5. How does the first two lines differ from the other three pairs of 第 4 页 共 4 页lines?6. What is the most visually compelling word in each of the last three pairs of lines?7. In what sense is the poem a typical imagist poem?8. What do you think are the purposes (or significances) of imagist poetry? IV Answer the following questions with adequate details from the works related. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (共 3 小题，每小题 20 分，共 60 分)1. In Great Expectations, what is least admirable about Pip? When is he most virtuous? Does he know when he has done right or wrong? How does he know that?2. Wilde originally subtitled The Importance of Being Earnest “A Serious Comedy for Trivial People” but changed that to “A Trivial Comedy for Serious People.” What is the difference between the two subtitles? How does the subtitle reflect about the theme(s) of the play?3. Thoreaus stay in the wilderness is not a lifelong choice but rather a temporary experiment. Does the short duration of his stay at Walden undercut the importance of his experiment? Why?
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