武科大考研辅导班：2019年武汉科技大学857英美文学基础考研真题

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武科大考研辅导班：2019年武汉科技大学857英美文学基础考研真题

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., 1—R, 5—B, etc.) on your answer sheet. (共20小题，每小题1分，共20分)

A		B
1	Nathaniel Hawthorne	A	Songs of Experience
2	William Shakespeare	B	Catch-22
3	Herman Melville	C	Pygmalion
4	Jonathan Swift	D	Desire Under the Elms
5	Henry James	E	The Merchant of Venice
6	William Blake	F	Death of a Salesman
7	Mark Twain	G	Sons and Lovers
8	John Keats	H	‘The Fall of the House of Usher’
9	Eugene O’Neill	I	The Scarlet Letter
10	Oscar Wilde	J	‘A Modest Proposal’
11	Tennessee Williams	K	Humbolt’s Gift
12	D. H. Lawrence	L	Four Quartets
13	Arthur Miller	M	The Portrait of a Lady
14	Virginia Woolf	N	‘Ode to a Nightingale’
15	Saul Bellow	O	Leaves of Grass
16	George Gordon Byron	P	Moby Dick
17	Joseph Heller	Q	A Streetcar Named Desire
18	T. S. Eliot	R	The Importance of Being Earnest
19	Toni Morrison	S	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
20	George Bernard Shaw	T	Beloved
		U	Mrs. Dalloway
		V	Don Juan

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. Epiphany 2. Iceberg principle

3. Transcendentalism 4. Sarty (in ‘Barn Burning’)

5. Algernon (in The Importance of Being Earnest) 6. Imagism

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: The Sick Rose (by William Blake)

O Rose thou art sick.

The invisible worm,

That flies in the night

In the howling storm:

Has found out thy bed

Of crimson joy:

And his dark secret love

Does thy life destroy.

Questions 1 to 4 are based on the above poem :

1. In what sense do you think the rose is “sick”?

2. What do “the night” and “the storm” symbolize?

3. Why does the worm’s love destroy the rose?

4. In what sense is the rose responsible for its sickness?

Poem 2: Fire and Ice (by Robert Frost)

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I’ve tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.

Questions 5 to 8 are based on the above poem:

4. What are the symbolic meanings of fire in this poem?

5. Why does the speaker say that ice is also great for destruction? Explain what ice stands for here.

6. What is your opinion about fire and ice? Which one is more destructive? Why?

8. What does the poem suggest so that destruction could be avoided?

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. What do you think Doris Lessing wants to say about the relationship between men and women in modern society in “A Woman on a Roof”? Does she ever show any sympathy to the three men in the story? How (if yes) or why not (if no)?

2. In what sense is Stephen Crane's “The Open Boat” a typical naturalist story? What naturalist themes can be found in the story? How are the themes illustrated in the story?

In Gulliver's Travels，what is the author’s attitude towards his master? How does he feel to be a human being? Why do you think Yahoos are kept by the Houyhnhnms?