三峡大学-891英美文学与比较文学【2014年】考研真题
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2014 年研究生入学考试试题(A 卷)
科目代码： 891 科目名称：英美文学及比较文学
考试时间为 3小时，卷面总分为 150 分
答案必须写在答题纸上
I．Choose the One that best completes the sentence.(30 points)
1. With William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Mark Twain active on the scene,
_______became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.
A. romanticism B. realism
C. sentimentalism D. naturalism
2. In Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called _________, in
which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character.
A. stream of consciousness B. omniscient point of view
C. symbolism D. modernism
3. Bryant’s Thanatopsis was his greatest poem. The title in Greek means
A. a view of life B. a view of nature
C. a view of death D. a view of beauty
4. Which of the following is not true as far as Poe’s short stories are concerned?
A. His stories show complex characters in deep psychological states.
B. His stories are lack of carefully crafted symbols.
C. The Fall of the House of Usher inherits Gothic tradition.
D. His short stories are roughly divided into two kinds: those of
horror and those of ratiocination.
5．As he is a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”, ____ famous one
image poem “In a Station of the Metro” would serve as a typical example of the
imagist ideas.
A. T. S. Eliot’s B. Robert Frost’s
C. Ezra Pound’s D. Wallace Stevens’
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6. “There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his
blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and
the champagne and the stars. ” The above is taken from ________.
A．Henry James’s Daisy Miller B．F. S. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
C．Ernest Hemingway’s Indian Camp D．W. Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily
7. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” This line is taken from one of
Shakespeare’s____________.
A. Sonnet 18 B. the tragedy King Lear
C. a long poem Venus and Adonis D. the comedy As You Like It
8. The Merchant of Venice belongs to Shakespeare’s plays of comedy in which
Shakespeare highly praises the wits and wisdom of the heroin______ .
A. Sophia B. Olivia
C. Ophilia D. Portia
9. ________ is acclaimed not only as “ the father of English poetry” but also as “the
father of English fiction”. His masterpiece is The Canterburry Tales.
A. William Shakespeare B. Christopher Marlowe
C. Geoffrey Chaucer D. John Milton
10. Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of America and made a combination of
_______ and serious literature.
A. American folk humor B. funny jokes
C. English folklore D. American values
11. “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft
pipes, play on; / Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d / Pipe to the spirit
ditties of nc tone. ” These lines are taken from Keat’s poem ________.
A．“Ode on Melancholy
”
B．“Ode to Psyche”
C．“Ode on a Grecian Urn” D．“Ode to a Nightingale”
12. Charles Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Victorian age.
In ________, he attacks the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark,
criminal underworld life in England.
A．Nicholas Nickleby B．Bleak House
C．Oliver Twist D．Hard Times
13. Daniel Defoe is best known for his creation of the literary figure ___.
A. Jane Eyre B. Robinson Crusoe
C. David Copperfield D. Guillver
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第1页共5页三峡大学2014年研究生入学考试试题(A卷)科目代码：891科目名称：英美文学及比较文学考试时间为3小时，卷面总分为150分答案必须写在答题纸上I．ChoosetheOnethatbestcompletesthesentence.(30points)1.WithWilliamDeanHowells,HenryJames,andMarkTwainactiveonthescene,_______becamethemajortrendintheseventiesandeightiesofthe19thcentury.A.romanticismB.realismC.sentimentali...
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