中国人民大学2005硕士生入学考试年考研真题考研试题

中国人民大学 2005 年硕士生入学考试试题
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 英语语言学
考试时间：1 月 23 日 下午
考题编号：441
参考答案：
英美文学
I.
1． The Gilder Age is an age of excess, of decline and progress, of poverty and dazzling wealth,
of gloom and buoyant hope.
2． Canto is a section or division of a long poem.
3． Interpolation is a passage inserted into a test by some later writers, usually without the
authority of the original author; or the act of introducing such additional material.
4． Quatrain is usually a stanza or poem of four lines. It may also be any group of four lines
unified by a thyme scheme. Quatrains usually follow an abab, abba, or abcb thyme scheme.
5． It is the long narrative poem, elevated and dignified in theme, tone, and style, celebrating
heroic deeds and historical important events, usually focus on the adventures of hero who has
qualities that a superman or divine and on whose fate very often depends the destiny of
triumph of a nation or even the whole human race.
6． It is a burst of literary achievement in the 1920s by Negro playwrights, poets and novelists
who presented new insights into the American experience and prepares the way for the
emergence of numerous Black writers after mid-twentieth century.
II
1.19
th
century novel Herman Melville
2. 19
th
century novel Thomas Hardy
3. 20
th
century poem Robert Frost
4. 17
th
century play William Shakespeare
5. 19
th
century novel Mark Twain
6. 19
th
century comedy Oscar Wilde
7. 18
th
century poem William Blake
8. 20
th
century novel Theodore Dreiser
9. 19
th
century poem John Keats
10. 19
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century poem Edgar Allan Poe
III
1. Title: Lines Composed upon the Titan Abbey
Author: Henry Wordsworth
2. Title: AModest Proposal
Author: Jonathan Swift
Artificially: skillfully shambles: slaughterhouses
3. Title: The Legend of Sleep Hollow
Author: Washington Irving
The nightmare, in folk superstition, was a demon, and her whole ninefold is the offspring of a