2009年天津外国语学院英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷
(总分：58.00，做题时间：90分钟)
一、单项选择题(总题数：15，分数：30.00)
1.Beowulf, the oldest great long poem ever written in English, is composed in a form of______.（分数：
2.00）
A.epics
B.lyrics
C.folk songs
D.sagas
2.Geoffrey Chaucer planned originally to have each of the pilgrims tell______stories on the way to Canterbury and the same number of stories on the way back in his famous The Canterbury Tales.（分
数：2.00）
A.1
B.2
C.3
D.4
3.Christopher Marlow was born only two months before William Shakespeare. In his life time he wrote some famous tragedies such as Tamburlain, The Jew of Malta and Dr. Faustus. All these tragedies portray a hero who passionately pursues______.（分数：2.00）
<
B.power
D.women
4.The poetry of John Donne represents a sharp break from the poetry of his predecessors in the Eliz-abethian era. One of the outstanding features in his poetry is " conceit " which means______.（分数：2.00）
A.irony
B.satire
C.elaborated metaphor
5.In addition to Paradise Lost, John Milton" s another famous poem Lycidas is a______in which he uses some artificial imagery supplied by an idyllic shepherd" s existence to bewail the loss of a friend.（分数：2.00）
A.pastoral elegy
B.odes
C.cantos
D.ballads
6.Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele are famous English essayists. They developed a new type of English writing, periodic essays. They often publish their writings in a journal which is called______.（分数：2.00）
A.The Guardian
B.The Atlantic
C.New Yorker
D.The Spectator
7.The central character J. Alfred Prufrock in T. S. Eliot" s famous poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is .______.（分数：2.00）
steele
A.an old man
B.a godlike figure
C.a restless young man
D.a muse
8.E. M. Forster is a novelist but also a novel critic. His famous book on novel criticism is entitled （分数：2.00）
A.Politics and the English Language
B.Aspects of the Novel
C.The Rise of the Novel
D.A Room of One"s Own
9.Harold Pinter is a contemporary British dramatist. His plays are characterized by the following EXCEPT______.（分数：2.00）
A.pauses and silence in dialogues
C.spacious confinement
D.happy ending
10.Which of the following words does not describe the features of Irving" s writings?______（分数：2.00）
A.decorum
B.humor
C.musicality
D.imagination
11.Which of the following works by Henry James does not deal with " the international theme"?______（分数：2.00）
A.Daisy Miller
B.The Turn of the Screw
C.The Portrait of a Lady
D.The Ambassadors
12.Which of the following pairs of characters does not form a contrast of ideas between them?______（分数：2.00）
A.Natty Bumpoo and Judge Temple
B.Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones
C.Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway
D.Ishmael and Ahab
13.Which of the following pairs concerning the writer and the main setting in his/her works is incorrect?（分数：2.00）
A.Kate Chopin—Louisana
B.Willa Cather—Georgia
C.O. Henry—New York
D.Sherwood Anderson—Ohio
14.Of the four Compson Children, ______" s life embodies all the vices of the modern world.（分数：2.00）
A.Quentin
B.Caddy
C.Jason
D.Benjy
15."I am cruel only to be kind to you" The rhetorical device used in this statement is______.（分数：2.00）
A.Metonymy
B.Metaphor
C.Oxymoron
D.Allusion
二、填空题(总题数：10，分数：20.00)
16.Each literary movement can be seen as a strong reaction to the previous aesthetic principles. Romanticism in the history of English literature can be presented as a strong reaction to 1.（分数：2.00）
填空项1:__________________
17.With the narrative technique of stream of consciousness, modern novelists aim at revealing 1of characters.（分数：2.00）
填空项1:__________________
18.W.B.Yeats can be regarded as an Irish nationalist poet. All his life is engaged in the rejuvenation of the Irish culture. He organized the Rhymers" Club and launched 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________
19.The literary school of 1can be defined as having "such quality of texture and background that it could not have been written in any other place or by anyone else than a native. "（分数：2.00）
填空项1:__________________
20.Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. I become a 1; I am nothing, I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.（分数：2.00）
填空项1:__________________
21.In 1, a novel about American Civil War, the protagonist keeps asking himself the question. "Will I run from a battle?" and at last he does run away from the battle field.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________
22.In the 1950s, there was a widespread discontentment among the postwar generation, whose voice was one of protest against all the mainstream culture that America had come to represent. This generation was known as the 1generation.（分数：2.00）
填空项1:__________________
23. 1the second book of The Old Testament, tells how Moses leads the Israelites out of Egypt to the Promised Land.（分数：2.00）
填空项1:__________________
24." Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,I heard a Negro play,"The figure of speech used in the first line of the poem is 1.（分数：2.00）
填空项1:__________________
25." Forbidden public transportation, chased by debt and filthy " talking sheets" , they followed secondary routes, scanned the horizon for signs and counted heavily on each other. " The historic event referred to in the quotation is 1.（分数：2.00）
填空项1:__________________
三、问答题(总题数：4，分数：8.00)
26.Two types of novels were prominent in the late eighteen century. One is the "gothic novel" and the other is "novel of purpose". Write a passage to illustrate the major characteristics of gothic novels an
d take Wuthering Heights as an example to illustrate your points.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 27.George Bernard Shaw" s plays aim at social reforms. He holds that the theatre has a didactic function. Please write a passage to tell us what morals Shaw wants to teach us in his well-known play Pygmalion.（分数：2.00）
__________________________________________________________________________________________ 28.In what way is Emily Grierson a monument of tradition?（分数：2.00）
__________________________________________________________________________________________
29.Irving Howe considers The Great Gatsby as a prose version of The Wasteland. What do you think of this view?（分数：2.00）
__________________________________________________________________________________________

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