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天津外国语大学《801英语语言文学》（英美文学方向）历年考研真题汇总

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2014年天津外国语大学801英语语言文学（英美文学方向）考研真题

I.
Chinese-English Translation (40 points)

Directions:
Translate the underlined three paragraphs in the following essay
into English. Write your translation on the ANSWER SHEET.

母亲井

陈延禄

儿时记忆越来越模糊，惟村中那口老井，仍历历在目，忘却不了。

老井建于何时，已无从考证。父亲说，井的年龄比爷爷还大。

这口老井建于村子正中，呈圆形，井深五六丈，用石砖砌成，井口长满了青苔。井台上，用两根呈十字的圆木交叉挺起一个木制的辘轳，前面插上一根半弓形的把儿，一根长长的绳子拴着柳罐斗子直垂井底。

前来打水的人要双腿叉开，前腿弓起，后脚蹬地，双手握住辘轳把做圆心摇动，任凭那井绳在辘轳上有规则地做圆圈缠绕。老井就吱吱嘎嘎地呻吟，声音低沉、古老、悠长，犹如病重老者的喘息声。当柳罐斗子被提升到进口时，就得腾出一只手抓住它的脊骨，倒到井沿的水桶里。

打出的井水清冽纯净，有如泉水般的甘甜。它旱天不枯，雨天不涝，像一位慈祥的老母亲，无论春夏秋冬、风雪雨霜，始终滋养着村里的一辈又一辈。

每天人们都要在井边见面，特别是收工以后和到傍晚的时候，担水的人特别多，吱吱扭扭的响声，扑踏扑踏的脚步声陆陆续续，井台就成为乡亲们沟通的最佳场所。打水的人们非常有秩序，壮的谦让弱的，男的谦让女的，遇上力气小的，就有力气大的过来帮忙摇轳。更多的人在等待的时候，放下肩上的挑子，一屁股儿坐在架在两只桶上的扁担上，从裤兜里掏出纸和旱烟，用手捋着，就卷好一支烟，也顺便友好地捏一撮烟叶，递给没带烟的人。于是人们一边逍遥地吞云吐雾，一边拉着家常讲着故事，开一些无伤大雅的玩笑，惬意的笑声总在井边荡漾。一切疲劳和烦恼在这里烟消云散。

此时的牛羊也在黄昏的夕照里慢悠悠地回来了，畅饮着井旁木槽里清净的水，姿态安适。

……

II.
Critical Writing (40 points)

Directions:
Read the following passage and write an essay on it.

Reform policies issued by a few provinces and municipalities in
China on the Gaokao, or the National College Entrance Exam, in 2014, tend to
start with the English test, such as the lowering of the share of English
scores in Beijing and the deletion of the listening comprehension part from the
English exam in Shandong. The phenomenon has triggered quite a debate over its
impact on the teaching of English and Chinese in China,
on Gaokao itself, on China’s efforts for
internationalization, on fairness and some other aspects.

Participate
in the debate with an essay of around 300 words with a title of your own
choice, a clearly stated view point, and detailed analysis to support your view
point.

Section
Three:英美文学方向部分（ 70 points）

Questions
in this section are set for applicants to the MA program of American &
British Literature. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.

1.Factual Questions: (15 points)

Directions: Fill
in the blanks or choose the best answer. Write the number of the question,
horizontally two in each line, and (the letter representing) your answer on the
ANSWER SHEET.

1) _____________ is regarded as the third greatest English poet after
Chaucer and Shakespeare, and the greatest in the 17^th century.

2) In more than one sense Alexander Pope was the most important English
poet to come out of the 18^th century. For one thing, he was the best
known and the most influential not only in England
but in the Europe of his time, and his __________, in rhymed iambic pentameter,
took the stage and became the dominant vogue in poetic creation on both sides
of the English Channel.

3) The lines “The
Trumpet of a prophecy! O, Wind,/ if Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”
are quoted from P.B. Shelley’s ______.

4) James Joyce’s
first published book, _______, is a collection of 15 stories, the most famous
of which are “The Dead” and “Araby”.

5) Which of the following works is not
written in epistolary form? ________

A. Pamela   B.
The Golden Notebook

C. Letters from an American Farmer   D. The Color Purple

6) Who among the following writers is a non-Nobel Prize winner? ________

A.
Sylvia Plath 　  B.
Sherwood Anderson

C.
Harold Pinter. D.
Doris Lessing

7) The Edwardian
novelists laid much emphasis on the description of external world in their
representation of life. Who could have complained about this? _______

A.
Virginia Woolf 　  B.
George Eliot

C. Jane Austen D.
Charlotte Bronte

8) According to
Everett Carter, as a literary movement, realism came in the latter half of the
nineteenth century as a reaction against “the lie” of _______.

9) Nature’s
voice pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New England _______, the summit of American Romanticism.

10) The poetic style
Walt Whitman invented is now called ___________, that is, poetry without a
fixed beat or regular scheme.

11) Henry James’s
fame rests largely upon his handling of his major fictional theme, ______: the
meeting of America and Europe, American innocence in contact and contrast with
European decadence, and its moral and psychological complications.

12) The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary
theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French
literature on the American men of letters gave rise to another school of
realism: American _______.

13) Black Literature
attained a higher degree of maturity in the spring of 1952 when Ralph Ellison’s
_________________________was published.

14) Wallace Stevens
was absolutely committed to the notion that a poet lives in two worlds—the
world of reality and the world of _______—and builds bridges between them.

15) J. D. Salinger’s
novel __________________ describes an adolescent’s disgust and despair at the
decadent adult world.

2.Briefly explain four of the following literary terms. (10 points)

1) Genesis

2) Sonnet

3) Paradox

4) The Absurd Theater

5) Dramatic Irony

3.Essay Questions (45 points)

Directions:
Answer threeof the following essay questions without citing the same
literary work for two different questions. Your answer is expected to have a
clearly stated and well focused central argument that is supported with
discussion, explanation, examples, and other evidence rather than a plot
summary.

1）Othello
is usually described as a man of suspicion, which finally costs the life of
Desdemona. What do you think might be the causes of his doubtfulness?

2）The
typical nineteenth-century novel, as is the case with David Copperfield,
Jane Eyre and Adam Bede, uses the name of the main character as
its title. By contrast, some of the most significant modernist novels employ a
metaphoric title, such as Lawrence’s
The Rainbow and Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. What does
this change reflect?

3）In
Problems of a Writer in War Time, Hemingway said, “A writer’s problem
does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his
problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and, having found
what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes a part of the
experiences of the person who reads it.” Comment on Hemingway’s view with
examples from American or British literature.

4）Death
and immortality are the two main themes in Emily Dickinson’s poems. Illustrate
how Dickinson
explores these themes in “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” or “I Heard a Fly
Buzz—When I Died.”

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