中国人民大学英美文化 英语发展史 英语语言史2004年考研真题考研试题

中国人民大学 2004 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 英语发展史 英语语言史
考试时间：1 月 11 日下午
考题编号：442
英美文学
Ⅰ. Define, in complete sentences, the following terms and phrases in English and American
literature.(12%)
1. narrative poetry
2. naturalism
3. acrostic stanza
4. sentimentalism
5. historical novel
6. supreme fiction
Ⅱ. Place each of the following works in its proper century, indicate its genre, and give the
full name of the author.(20%)
1. Civil Disobedience
2. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
3. My Last Duchess
4.Ash-Wednesday
5. Vanity Fair
6. The Indian Burying Ground
7.The School for Scandal
8. The House of the Seven Gables
9. Mrs. Warren‘s Profession
10. Martin Eden
Ⅲ. Identify each of the following quotations by giving the title of the work and the full name
of the author, and explain the implications of the underlined parts.(12%)
1.Tell me not, in mournful numbers.
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers.
And things are not what they seem.
Art is long ,and time is fleeting.
And our hearts though stout and brave.
Still, like muffled drums, are beating.
Funeral marches to the grave.
2.“What have I done—what have I done! I have not told of anything that interferes with or
belies my love for you. You don‘t think I planned it, do you? It is in your own mind what you are
angry at. Angel; it is not in me. O, it is not in me, and I am not that deceitful woman you think
me!”
“H‘m—well. Not deceitful, my wife; but not the same. No, not the same. But do not make
me reproach you. I have sworn that I will not; and I will do everything to avoid it.”
But she went on pleading in her distraction; and perhaps said things that would have been
better left to silence.