北京科技大学-874综合英语【2014】考研真题
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北 京 科 技 大 学
2014 年硕士学位研究生入学考试试题
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试题编号： 874 试题名称： 综合英语 （共 6 页）
适用专业： 外国语言文学
说明： 所有答案必须写在答题纸上，做在试题或草稿纸上无效。
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说明： This paper covers FOUR subjects: (1) A Survey of Great Britain and the United
States, (2) British Literature, (3) American Literature, and (4) General
Linguistics. You have 180 minutes to complete the whole paper. Please time
your pace well.
Part I. Survey of Great Britain and the United States (30 points)
I. Fill in the blanks: Read the following unfinished statements or questions carefully.
For each two unfinished sentences or questions four suggested choices marked A, B,
C, and D are given. Choose the ONE that you think best completes the statement or
answers the question. Write the letter of your choice in the corresponding space on
your Answer Sheet after the numbers. (10 points)
1. Britain had been one of the most important countries in the world. About 100 years
ago, as a result of its ____________, Britain ruled an empire that had 1/4 of the
world’s people and 1/4 of the world’s land area. However, ____________ greatly
weakened Britain. The British Empire gradually disappeared and it was replaced by
the British Commonwealth in 1931.
A. industrialization B. imperialist expansion
C. the two world wars D. independence of India
2. The harsh terms of the Treaty of _________ after WWI had left Germany embittered
and unstable. With the coming of Hitler and Nazism in Germany, the treaty
arrangements began to crumble. Hitler reoccupied __________ in 1936, and then
Austria in 1938.
A. Berlin B. Versailles
C. Sudetenland D. Rhineland
3. At the general election of 1945 _________ was heavily defeated. The British people
had suffered the Blitz and the warfare, and they didn’t want Britain to return to the
politics of the 1930s and hoped that the _________ Party would sort out the problems
of the war-torn country.
A. Churchill B. Chamberlain
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C. Conservative D. Labor
4. As a result of the _________ and the Watergate scandal, American prestige became
much lower abroad in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and in the face of Soviet
aggressive expansion the US seemed impotent. This made many Americans feel
humiliated. All this brought about a rise in New Right conservatism. It was this trend
of conservatism that brought_________ into the White House.
A. Vietnam War B. Cuban Missile Crisis
C. Regan D. Clinton
5. In Feb 1972, President _________ visited China and the two countries issued the
Shanghai Communique, which led to the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1979.
But soon, American congress, supported by the _________ Administration, adopted
the Taiwan Relations Act which, in words and spirit, violates the spirit of the
agreement.
A. Regan B. Nixon
C. Truman D. Carter
II. Answer the following questions in the corresponding space on your Answer Sheet.
(20 points)
1. What are the main contents of Thatcherism? What was the situation of Britain during
Mrs Thatcher’s administration? (8)
2. What are the major decisions at the three meeting of the leaders of the US, the Soviet
Union and Britain during the WWII? (6)
3. What was the American policy towards the Soviet Union during the WWII? (6)
Part II. British Literature (30 points)
I. Fill in the blanks: write your answers on your Answer Sheet after the numbers. (10
points)
1. A sonnet is a poem of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter with various rhyming
schemes. It was first written by the Italian poet ______ and introduced to England
by Thomas Wyatt. But the best British sonneteer is ______, whose sonnet consists
of three quatrains with a rhyming scheme abab cdcd efef and ends with a couplet
rhyming gg.
2. As the author of Auld Lang Syne and A Red, Red Rose, ______ was born in
Scotland in a poor peasant family. He wrote poems and songs in the Scottish
dialect and his works are permeated with ______spirit.
3. Known as a pioneer novelist of England, Daniel Defoe was particularly
remembered for two novels: ________, whose hero is typical of the rising English
bourgeois class, practical and diligent; and ________ which tells the story of the
daughter of a woman who had committed theft and was later transported to
Virginia.
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