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考试科目：   英美文学    

科目代码：   557           

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1．本试卷共    页（含本页）；其中*********（需要说明的问题）。

2．本试卷分    大题，    小题。

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PART 1   GENERAL KNLOWLEDGE  (20%)

Choose the best answer and mark the answer ON YOUR ANSWER SHEET.

1  One of the important themes of the 19th century English fiction was the feminine predicament, a common theme shared by the following novels except        .

      A. Jane Eyre                                B. Henry Esmond

      C. The Portrait of a Lady            D. Daniel Deronda

PART TWO: READING AND APPRECIATION (40%)

Section I. Read the following poem and answer the questions given on the Answer Sheet.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Sonnet 73

That time of year thou mayst in me behold

When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang

Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,

Bare [ruin’d] choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.

In me thou seest the twilight of such day

As after sunset fadeth in the west,

Which by and by black night doth take away,

Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest.

In me thou seest the glowing of such fire

That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,

As the death-bed whereon it must expire,

Consum’d with that which it was nourish’d by.

This thou perceiv’st, which makes thy love more strong,

To love that well, which thou must leave ere long.

Section II. Read the following short story and answer the questions given on the Answer Sheet.

SHERWOOD ANDERSON

Paper Pills

1  He was an old man with a white beard and huge nose and hands. Long before the time during which we will know him, he was a doctor and drove a jaded white horse from house to house through the streets of Winesburg. Later he mamed a girl who had money. She had been left a large fertile farm when her father died. The girl was quiet, tall, and dark, and to many people she seemed very beautiful. Everyone in Winesburg wondered why she married the doctor. Within a year after the marriage she died.

PART THREE: ESSAY WRITING (40%)

Read the following excerpt and write a comment in essay form in about 350 words.

1  The word for ‘biography’ has been universal in all European languages for the last two hundred years. Since it is derived from the Greek root ‘bios’ meaning life, there appears to be some serious error in my title. Surely I mean, ‘Biography and Life’?

 (Biography and Death---The text of the 1997 Huizinga Lecture by Richard Holmes)