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考试科目：外国语言文学综合考试第1页共6页 2021年招收攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题(A卷)*招生专业与代码：外国语言文学0502 (涵盖英语语言文学050201、外国语言学及应用语言学050211)考试科目名称及代码：808外国语言文学综合考试考生注意：所有答案必须写在答题纸（卷）上，写在本试题上一律不给分。I. Multiple choice. There are 20 questions in this part. Choose the best answer toeach question. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. Both linguisticscandidates and literature candidates must do this part. (20%)1. The vowel u in English is not _. A. close B. front C. tense D. rounded2. The consonant d in English is not _.A. obstruent B. affricate C. voiced D. alveolar3. _ is not a minimal pair.A. this/these B. cough/cot C. lease/leash D. pear/bare4. _ has a different morphological structure from the others.A. headstrong B. rightwing C. sleepwalk D. childlike5. The word democratically” has _ morphemes.A. three B. four C. five D. six 6. The bracketed part in _ is not a constituent.A. She found a lovely pillow for the couch.B. Pete and Max are fighting over the phone.C. Michael ran up the bill.D. I gave a book to Jack and to Jill yesterday.7. The bracketed part in _ is a complement.A. the ocean with white foamB. the destruction of the cityC. the woman from China 考试科目：外国语言文学综合考试第2页共6页 D. the voter for Trump8. _ has a different semantic relation from the others.A. give/receive B. teacher/pupil C. awake/asleep D. buy/sell9. I am sorry that the team lost_ that the team did not win.A. presupposes B. entails C. implicates D. asserts10. _ is not a contradiction.A. Kings are poor.B. The evening star isnt the evening star.C. My brother is a witch. D. Cats are canine.11. The Essence of Renaissance, the most significant intellectual movement, was_.A. Geographical exploration B. Religious reformationC. Publishing and translation D. Humanism12. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from_.A. Greek Mythology B. Roman legendC. The Old Testament D. The New Testament13. The period before theAmerican Civil War is generally referred to as _.A. The Naturalist Period B. The Modern Period C. The Romantic Period D. The Realistic Period14. Fitzgeralds fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of_.A. the Jazz age B. the Romantic PeriodC. the Renaissance Period D. the Neoclassical Period15. The English novel as a genre began to prosper in the _A. 16th century B. 7th centuryC. 18th century D. 19th century16. The well-known verse of Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright/In the forest of night/What immortalhand or eyes/Could frame thy fearful symmetry? is written by_ A. William Shakespeare B. William BlakeC. William James D. William Bradford 考试科目：外国语言文学综合考试第3页共6页 17. Alexander Pope worked painstakingly on his poems and finally brought to its last perfection_Dryden had successfully used in his plays.A. the heroic couplet B. the free verseC. the blank verse D. the Spenserian stanza18. _is a typical feature of Swifts writings.A. Elegant style B. Causal narrationC. Bitter satire D. Complicated sentence structure19. According to Whitman, the genuine participation of a poet in a common cultural effort was tobehave as a supreme_. A. democrat B. individualistC. romanticist D. leader20. In Hawthornes novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as_.A. saviors B. villainsC. commentators D. observersII. Decide whether each of the following statements is True or False. If it is true,write T and if it is false, write F on the ANSWER SHEET. Both linguisticscandidates and literature candidates must do this part. (10%) 1. Shakespeares works were written in Early Modern English.2. Indian English is a deficient variety of English.3. Mandarin and Cantonese are dialects of the Chinese language because they are mutuallyintelligible.4. Prior knowledge is required for children to learn a native language.5. The fact that L2 English learners can speak fluent English does not constitute evidence that UG isaccessible to L2 learners.6. The Sound and the Fury is a novel written by Mark Twain about people and life on theMississippi. 7. Geoffrey Chaucer is the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets ofEngland, whose masterpiece The Canterbury Tales is one of the most famous works in all 考试科目：外国语言文学综合考试第4页共6页 literature.8. Many of O. Henrys stories tell about the life of poor people in Dublin.9. Local Colorism as a trend first came to prominence in the late 19th century in America. Therepresentative local colorists were Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Joel Chandler and Ezra Pound.10. “The Lost Generation” is a term used to refer to the group of American post-WWII writers whocame to prominence in the 1950s. Representative writers include Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouacand William Burroughs.III. Explain the following terms. Terms in Section A are for linguistics candidatesand terms in Section B are for literature candidates. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (30%)SectionA: for linguistics candidates1. the cardinal vowels2. metalingual function of language3. syntax4. hyponymy5. cohesion6. Sapir-Whorf hypothesisSection B: for literature candidates 1. American Puritanism2. Neo-classicism3. Metaphysical poetry4. imagism5. Sentimentalism6. SymbolismIV. Answer the following questions. Questions in Section A are for linguisticscandidates and questions in Section B are for literature candidates. Write youranswers on theANSWER SHEET. (50%) 考试科目：外国语言文学综合考试第5页共6页 SectionA: for linguistics candidates1. What makes human language distinctive from languages used by other species?2. Is language study supposed to be prescriptive or descriptive? You can use some examples toillustrate the reasons.3. Explain the morphological processes of derivation and inflection with examples.4. What are the properties of subject in English? (word order, pro-forms, agreement, content question,tag question)5. What are the four stages of language acquisition? You are required to give a brief description foreach stage.Section B: for literature candidates 1. Analyze the style of Charles Dickens.2. What are the main themes of Shakespeares plays?3. Analyze the background of the Victorian Period.4. Please analyze the characteristics of Emily Dickinsons poems.5. Analyze the life of Faulkner and the theme of his writing.V. Essay QuestionsDirections: In this part, the examinees are requested to make comment either on thelinguistic theories and cases; or literary writers andworks(Note: Two essayquestions for linguistic examinees; two essay questions for literature examinees. 20 scores for each essay question, the total score is 40).SectionALinguistic Essay QuestionsEssay Question 1How much does our language influence the way we think? How deeply do language and cultureinterpenetrate and influence one another? These questions about language have fascinated thinkersthroughout the ages. For example, Johann Gottfried Herdre and Wilhelm von Humboldt in theGerman Romantic tradition regarded language as a prisma or grid spread over things in the world sothat each language reflects a different worldview? Write an essay to make comment on such aworldview. 考试科目：外国语言文学综合考试第6页共6页 Essay Question 2Please observe the language use phenomena and make comment on the violation of themaxims of the CP of the Gricean Pragmatics. Do remember to apply the theory to the analysis of thecases and the corresponding conversational implicatures. How are the maxims in clash, if there areany? Case 1A: When is Susans Farwell party?B: Sometimes next month.Case 2 A: Would you like to join us for the picnic on Sunday?B: Im afraid I have got a class on Sunday.Case 3A: How did the math exam go today, Jonnie?B: We had a basketball math with the other class and we beat them.Case 4A: Shall we get something for the kids?B: Yes. But I veto I-C-E-C-R-E-A-M.Section B Literature Essay Questions Question 1Tess of DUrbervilles is subtitled “A pure woman faithfully presented”. Why is Tess consideredas a pure woman by the author? Write a short essay commenting on the character of Tess and thetheme of this novel.Question 2Analyze the theme and artistic features of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman and comment onthe significance of this work inAmerican literature.
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