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电子科技大学
2016 年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题
考试科目：845 英美文学基础知识及运用
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I Multiple Choices: choose the best answer among the four choices and fill in the blank.（15
items, 30 points）
1) The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events except
_________.
A．the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture
B．the new discoveries in geography and astrology
C．the vast expansion of British colonies in North America
D．the religious reformation and the economic expansion
2) The following novels are all written by Henry Fielding, expect __________.
A. Joseph Andrews B. Tom Jones
C. Amelia D. A Cosmopolite in a Café
3) William Blake’s central concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience is_______,
which gives the two books a strong social and historical reference.
A．youth hood B．childhood
C．happiness D．sorrow
4) The poetic view of ______ is best presented in his remark about poetry, that is, "all good poetry
is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings."
A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge B. Percy Bysshe Shelly
C. William Wordsworth D. John Keats
5) The poem ______ is a metaphysical poem by John Donne, who is considered the pre-eminent
representative of the metaphysical poets.
A. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning B. The Fury of the Flowers and Worms
C. The Red Wheelbarrow D. On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
6) Herman Melville’s ______, considered an outstanding work of Romanticism and the American
Renaissance, is an encyclopedia of everything, history, philosophy, religion, etc.
A. The Story of an Hour B. White Jacket
C. Moby Dick D. Billy Budd
7) T. S. Eliot’s most significant poem______ has been hailed as a landmark of the 20th
century
English poetry.
A. The Waste Land B. The Hollow Man
C. Ash Wednesday D. Murder in the Cathedral
8) Thomas Hardy’s pessimistic view of life predominates most of his later works and earns him a
reputation as a ________ writer.
A. realistic B. naturalistic
C. stylistic D. romantic
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9) George Bernard Shaw’s ______ explored his idea of “Life Force”, the power that would create
superior beings to be equal to God and to solve all the social, moral, and metaphysical
problems of human society.
A. Pygmalion B. The Apple Cart
C. Man and Superman D. Too True to Be Good
10) The following poems are all written by Emily Dickinson, expect ________.
A. Because I Could Not Stop for Death B. In a Station of the Metro
C. I Heard a Fly Buzz When I died D. A Bird Came down the Walk
11) All of the following belong to stream-of-consciousness novels except ______.
A. Ulysses B. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
C. Mrs. Dalloway D. Pilgrimage
12）In most of his writings, ______ deliberately broke up the chronology of his narrative by
juxtaposing the past with the present, in the way the montage does in a movie.
A. William Faulkner B. Walt Whitman
C. Ernest Hemingway D. F. Scott Fitzgerald
13）Like all naturalists, ______ was restrained from finding a solution to the social problems that
appeared in his novels and accordingly almost all his works have tragic endings.
A. Theodore Dreiser B. Henry James
C. Washington Irving D. Mark Twain
14) The Blithedale Romance is a novel ______ wrote to reveal his own experiences on the Brook
Farm and his own methods as a psychological novelist.
A. Herman Melville B. Robert Frost
C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Joseph Heller
15) The Lost Generation was represented by the following writers except ______.
A. Stephen Crane B. Ernest Hemingway
C. Sherwood Anderson D. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ⅱ Define or explain briefly the following terms. Please write all your answers on the answer
sheet. (6 items, 20 points)
1. Allegory (4 points)
2. Aestheticism (4 points)
3. Naturalism (3 points)
4. Free Verse (3 points)
5. Black humor (3 points)
6. Imagism (3 points)
Ⅲ Read the following quotations and answer the questions briefly. Please write all your
answers on the answer sheet. (5 passages, 50 points)
Passage 1
For herein Fortune shows herself more kind
Than is her custom. It is still her use
To let the wretched man outlive his wealth,
To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow
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