| I. Multiple choice. There are 20 questions in this part. Choose the best answer to each question. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. Both linguistics ca n didates a n d literature ca n didates must do this part. (20%)
1. The vowel [u] in English is not _____.
A. close B. front C. tense D. rounded
2. The consonant [dʒ] in English is not ______.
A. obstruent B. affricate C. voiced D. alveolar
3. ______ is not a minimal pair.
A. this/these B. cough/cot C. lease/leash D. pear/bare
4. ______ has a different mo rphological structure from the others.
A. headstrong B. rightwing C. sleepwalk D. childlike
5. The wo rd ‘democratically” has _____ mo rphemes.
A. three B. four C. five D. six
6. The bracketed part in _____ is not a constituent.
A. She found [a lovely pillow] fo r the couch.
B. [Pete a n d Max] are fighting over the phone.
C. Michael ran [up the bill].
D. I gave a book to Jack [a n d to Jill] yesterday.
7. The bracketed part in _____ is a complement.
A. the ocean [with white foam]
B. the destruction [of the city]
C. the woman [from China]
D. the voter [fo r Trump]
8. ______ has a different semantic relation from the others.
A. give/receive B. teacher/pupil C. awake/asleep D. buy/sell
9. ‘I am so rry that the team lost’ ______ that the team did not win.
A. presupposes B. entails C. implicates D. asserts
10. ______ is not a contradiction.
A. Kings are poo r.
B. The evening star isn’t 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 explo ration B. Religious refo rmation
C. Publishing a n d translation D. Humanism
12. Paradise Lost is actually a sto ry taken from____.
A. Greek Mythology B. Roman legend
C. The Old Testament D. The New Testament
13. The period befo re the American Civil War is generally referred to as ___________.
A. The Naturalist Period B. The Modern Period
C. The Romantic Period D. The Realistic Period
14. Fitzgerald’s fictional wo rld is the best embodiment of the spirit of_______.
A. the Jazz age B. the Romantic Period
C. the Renaissance Period D. the Neoclassical Period
15. The English novel as a genre began to prosper in the ___
A. 16th century B. 7th century
C. 18th century D. 19th century
16. The well-known verse of "Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright/In the fo rest of night/What immo rtal ha n d o r eyes/Could frame thy fearful symmetry?" is written by___
A. William Shakespeare B. William Blake
C. William James D. William Bradfo rd
17. Alexa n der Pope wo rked painstakingly on his poems a n d finally brought to its last perfection ______Dryden had successfully used in his plays.
A. the heroic couplet B. the free verse
C. the blank verse D. the Spenserian stanza
18. ______is a typical feature of Swift’s writings.
A. Elegant style B. Causal narration
C. Bitter satire D. Complicated sentence structure
19. Acco rding to Whitman, the genuine participation of a poet in a common cultural effo rt was to behave as a supreme_________.
A. democrat B. individualist
C. romanticist D. leader
20. In Hawtho rne’s novels a n d sho rt sto ries, intellectuals usually appear as________.
A. savio rs B. villains
C. commentato rs D. observers
II. Decide whether each of the following statements is True o r False. If it is true, write T a n d if it is false, write F on the ANSWER SHEET. Both linguistics ca n didates a n d literature ca n didates must do this part. (10%)
1. Shakespeare’s wo rks were written in Early Modern English.
2. Indian English is a deficient variety of English.
3. Ma n darin a n d Cantonese are dialects of the Chinese language because they are mutually intelligible.
4. Prio r knowledge is required fo r children to learn a native language.
5. The fact that L2 English learners can speak fluent English does not constitute evidence that UG is accessible to L2 learners.
6. The Sound a n d the Fury is a novel written by Mark Twain about people a n d life on the Mississippi.
7. Geoffrey Chaucer is the “father of English poetry” a n d one of the greatest narrative poets of Engla n d, whose masterpiece The Canterbury Tales is one of the most famous wo rks in all literature.
8. Many of O. Henry’s sto ries tell about the life of poo r people in Dublin.
9. Local Colo rism as a trend first came to prominence in the late 19th century in America. The representative local colo rists were Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Joel Cha n dler a n d Ezra Pound.
10. “The Lost Generation” is a term used to refer to the group of American post-WWII writers who came to prominence in the 1950s. Representative writers include Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac a n d William Burroughs.
III. Explain the following terms. Terms in Section A are fo r linguistics ca n didates a n d terms in Section B are fo r literature ca n didates. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (30%)
Section A: fo r linguistics ca n didates
1. the cardinal vowels
2. metalingual function of language
3. syntax
4. hyponymy
5. cohesion
6. Sapir-Who rf hypothesis
Section B: fo r literature ca n didates
1. American Puritanism
2. Neo-classicism
3. Metaphysical poetry
4. imagism
5. Sentimentalism
6. Symbolism
IV. Answer the following questions. Questions in Section A are fo r linguistics ca n didates a n d questions in Section B are fo r literature ca n didates. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (50%)
Section A: fo r linguistics ca n didates
1. What makes human language distinctive from languages used by other species?
2. Is language study supposed to be prescriptive o r descriptive? You can use some examples to illustrate the reasons.
3. Explain the mo rphological processes of derivation a n d inflection with examples.
4. What are the properties of subject in English? (wo rd o rder, pro-fo rms, agreement, content question, tag question)
5. What are the four stages of language acquisition? You are required to give a brief description fo r each stage.
Section B: fo r literature ca n didates
1. Analyze the style of Charles Dickens.
2. What are the main themes of Shakespeare’s plays?
3. Analyze the background of the Victo rian Period.
4. Please analyze the characteristics of Emily Dickinson’s poems.
5. Analyze the life of Faulkner a n d the theme of his writing.
V. Essay Questions
Directions: In this part, the examinees are requested to make comment either on the linguistic theo ries a n d cases; o r literary writers a n dwo rks(Note: Two essay questions fo r linguistic examinees; two essay questions fo r literature examinees. 20 sco res fo r each essay question, the total sco re is 40).
Section A Linguistic Essay Questions
Essay Question 1
How much does our language influence the way we think? How deeply do language a n d culture interpenetrate a n d influence one another? These questions about language have fascinated thinkers throughout the ages. Fo r example, Johann Gottfried Herdre a n d Wilhelm von Humboldt in the German Romantic tradition regarded language as a prisma o r grid spread over things in the wo rld so that each language reflects a different wo rldview? Write an essay to make comment on such a wo rldview.
Essay Question 2
Please observe the language use phenomena a n d make comment on the violation of the maxims of the CP of the Gricean Pragmatics. Do remember to apply the theo ry to the analysis of the cases a n d the co rresponding conversational implicatures. How are the maxims in clash, if there are any?
Case 1
A: When is Susan’s Farwell party?
B: Sometimes next month.
Case 2
A: Would you like to join us fo r the picnic on Sunday?
B: I’m afraid I have got a class on Sunday.
Case 3
A: How did the math exam go today, Jonnie?
B: We had a basketball math with the other class a n d we beat them.
Case 4
A: Shall we get something fo r the kids?
B: Yes. But I veto I-C-E-C-R-E-A-M.
Section B Literature Essay Questions
Question 1
Tess of D’Urbervilles is subtitled “A pure woman faithfully presented”. Why is Tess considered as a pure woman by the autho r? Write a sho rt essay commenting on the character of Tess a n d the theme of this novel.
Question 2
Analyze the theme a n d artistic features of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman a n d comment on the significance of this wo rk in American literature.
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