中国人民大学英美文学、英美文化2001年考研真题考研试题

中国人民大学 2001 年研究生入学考试试题
招生专业：英语语言文学
考试科目：英美文学 英美文化
考试时间：1 月 15 日上午
考题编号：532
英美文学
I. Explain briefly the following terms: mention an author or a literary work that may be associated
with each of the terms defined. (12%)
The Middle Ages
Local Colonsm
Metaphysical Poets
New England Renaissance
Romance
Stream of Consciousness School
II. Place the following works in their proper century, indicate whether each is a poem, a play, a
novel, etc, and give the full name of the author. (22%)
AFarewell to Arms
Death of a Salesman
Waiting for Godot
Of Mice and Men
Moll Flanders
Life on the Mississippi
Julius Caesar
The Catcher in the Rye
Ulysses
The Cantos
Ivanhoe
Ⅲ. Identify (the title of the work and the full name of the author) the following quotations and
explain the implications of the underlined parts. (11%)
1.To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them 'too much for ornament, is affectation; to
make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humors of a scholar.
2.It is a math universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be
in want of a wife.
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a
neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is
considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
3.The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveler returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have,
Than fly to others that we know not of？.
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sick lied o'er with the pale east of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment,