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北京第二外国语学院2006年硕士研究生入学考试试卷英语专业文学专业综合考试1卷Instructions: Y ou are required to answer all the following questions in English.

I. Explain the following (15)

1. the Glorious Revolution

2. the Ku Klux Klan

3. Progressive Movement

II. Choose the correct answer from teach of the following (15)

1. Which of the following is the most famous of all British newspapers?

A. The Times.

B. The Guardian.

C. Daily Telegraph

D. Daily Mirror

2. Which of the following is a tabloid?

A. New Statesman.

B. The Sun.

C. Sunday Times.

D. Morning Star

3. How many terms was Franklin Roosevelt elected for?

A. One.

B. Two.

C. Three.

D. Four.

4. The nuclear family consists of the following except .

A. grandmother.

B. mother.

C. father.

D. unmarried children.

5. The first group of English Puritans to land in America called themselves "Pilgrims" because

A. it was the name of their church

B. they had been persecuted .,.

C. they had wandered for a great distance in search of freedom

D. they came from Holland

III. Answer the following question (20)

What, according to the author, is the fundamental cause of poverty in affluent America?

IV. Complete each of the following statements. (8)

1. A morpheme is one that cannot constitute a word by itself.

2. By duality is meant the property of having two levels of structures, such that units of the level are composed of elements of the level and each of the two levels has its own principles of organization.

3. According to Chomsky, the object of investigation in linguistics is the ideal speaker\'s rather than his performance.

4. According to G Leech, meaning is the communicative value an expression has by virtue of what it refers to, over and above its purely conceptual content.

5. "X buys something from Y" and "Y sells something to X" are in a relation of .

6. In linguistics, languages are studied at a theoretical point in time: one describes a \'state\' of the language, disregarding whatever changes might be taking place.

7. The features that define our human languages can be called features.

V. Tell if each of the following statements is true or false. (8)

l. The last sound of "sit" can be articulated as an unreleased or released plosive. These different realizations of the same phoneme are in complementary distribution.

2. All words contain a root morpheme.

3. After comparing "They stopped at the end of the corridor" with "At the end of the corridor, they stopped", you may find some difference in meaning, and the difference can be interpreted in terms of collocative meaning.

4."Tulip", "rose" and "violet" are all inc luded in the notion of "flower", therefore they are super ordinates of "flower".

5. The words "water" and "teacher" have a common phoneme and a common morpheme as well.

6. Paradigmatic relation in syntax is alternatively called horizontal relation.

7. Root also falls into two categories: free and bound.

8. The theory of meaning which relates the meaning of a word to the thing it refers to, or stands for,

is known as the referential theory.

VI. Fulfill the following requirements.(22)

1. Distinguish between the two possible meanings of more beautiful flowers by means of IC analysis.(4)

2. Classify the following pairs of antonyms into the three types such as complementary, gradable, and converse.(4)

Host----guest borrow ----lend innocent-----guilty strong ------weak

3. Tell whether each of the underlined part is endocentric or exocentric.(4)

a matter of degree the man who laughed It is going to take place The train arrived on time.

4. Give the phonetic term for each of the following descriptions. (2)

(1) the sound produced by the lower lip and the upper front teeth

(2) the sound produced with a complete closure in the mouth so that the air stream cannot escape through the mouth

5. Fill in the blank: (1)

=CHILD (x, y) & MALE (x)

6. Tell the sense relation between a and b in each pair: (3)

(1) a. She got a tulip. b. She got a flower.

(2) a. Y ou haven t returned the book to me. b. Y ou received a book from me.

(3) a. The boy chased the dog. b. The dog was chased by the boy.

7. Analyze the following dialogue with reference to Grice\'s Cooperative Principle: (4)

A: I know you are a famous sociologist. Could you define the term "culture", please1?

B: Well, culture is culture. That\'s it.

VII. Answer the following questions briefly. (12)

1. What is a root used in morphology? (3)

2. Define "minimal pairs". (3)

3. What is meant by "arbitrariness" according to Saussure? (6)

VIII. Complete the following sentences by choosing and mark the best alternative (A, B, C or D) in each bracket (20)

( ) 1. Geoffrey Chaucer, the "father of English poetry", is one of the greatest poets of England.

A. Lyrical

B. narrative

C. sonnet

D. dramatic

( ) 2. "To be, or not to be: that is the question: / Whether \'tis nobler in the mind to suffer/The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, /And by opposing end them." This excerpt is taken from Shakespeare\'s tragedy .

A. Romeo and Juliet

B. King Lear

C. Othello, the Moore of V enice

D. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

( ) 3. The trumpet of a prophecy "0 Wind,/If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" is from .

A. Keat\'s Ode to a nightingale

B. Byron\'s The Isles of Greece

C. Shelly\'s Ode to the West Wind

D. Frost\'s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening ( ) 4. The following works are all of Charles Dickens except .

A. Oliver Twist

B. David Copperfield

C. Great Expectation

D. Martin Eden ( ) 5. The form of John Bunyan\'s masterpiece, The Pilgrim\'s Progress, is

A. allegory

B. epic

C. fairytales

D. legend

( ) 6. Jane Erye and the greater WutheringHeight by brought to the novel an introspection and an intense concentration on the inner life of emotion which before them had been the province of poetry alone.

A. Virginia Woolf

B. George Eliot

C. the Bronte sisters

D. Emily Dickinson ( ) 7. The V ictorian poets include (①Lord Alfred Tennyson ②Robert Browning ③ Matthew Arnold ④John Keats)

A. ①②④

B. ②③④

C. ①②③

D. ①③④

( ) 8. The spokesman for the school of "Art for Art\'s Sake" is

A. Oscar Wilde

B. Bernard Shaw

C. William Y eats .

D. Thomas Hardy ?

( ) 9. "Diedrich Knickerbocker" is the pseudonym of for his works which combines European legends with New England reality.

A. Cooper

B. Washington Irving

C. Nathaniel Hawthorne

D. Philip Frenau

( ) 10. Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the greatest American litterateurs whose call for an independent American culture played a crucial part in the American intellectual history.

The following works are all his except

A. Nature

B. "The Poet"

C. The American Scholar

D. Walden

( ) 11. The term of "the gilded age" comes from \'s work with the same name.

A. F. S. Fitzgerald

B. William Faulkner

C. Mark Twain

D. James Joyce ( ) 12. The following authors are famous American realist novelists except

A. Henry James

B. Jack London

C. Mark Twain

D. Stephen Crane

( ) 13. The novel describes the struggle of a young country girl, half aware of her powers, to protect herself against the cunning wiles of the capitalist society.

A. Tess of the D\'Urbervilles

B. Pride and Prejudice

C. The Purple Color

D. Sister Carrie ( ) 14. "The Lost generation" refers to the young who experienced the disillusion after WWI. One of its representative writers is

A. William Faulkner

B. F. S. Fitzgerald

C. Langston Hughes

D. Vladimir Nabokov ( ) 15. Mark Twain\'s claim to greatness in American literature lies in the fact that his works reflect the keynote of localism at

A. the Romantic Age

B. the Age of Modernism

C. the Age of Realism

D. the Jazz Age ( ) 16. Although modernism is a vague term in definition, it might contain some characteristics such as __________ (①complexity ②the use of symbols ③allusion ④irony)

A. ①②④

B. ②③

C.①②③

D. ①②③④

( ) 17. The title of the following poem "The apparition of these faces in the crowd/ Petals on a wet, black bough.” is

A. "The Waste Land"

B. "In a Station of the Metro"

C. "The Road not Taken"

D. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers

( ) 18. is the only Afro-American woman writer who won the Nobel Prize in literature.

A. Toni Morrison

B. Lalita Tademy

C. Catherine Ann Porter

D. Alice Walker ( ) 19. As the leader of the Harlem writers who created the Black Renaissance, was known as the "Poet Laureate of Harlem".

A. Ralph Ellison

B. Langston Hughes

C. Richard Wright

D. Alice Walker ( ) 20. As the first important American playwright with 49 published plays, did a

great to establish the modes of the modern theatre in the country.

A. Beckett

B. Eugene O\'Neil

C. Richardson

D. Bernard Shaw

IX. Explain the following literary phrases and indicate at least one representative writer with one of his major works respectively. (15)

1. Code hero

2. Angry Y oung Man

3. The Jazz Age

X. Read the following excerpt and answer the questions. (15)

One night I accidentally bumped into a man, and perhaps because of the near darkness he saw me and called me an insulting name. I sprang at him, seized his coat lapels and demanded that he apologize. He was a tall blond man, and as my face close to his he looked insolently out of his blue eyes and cursed me, his breath hot in my face as he struggled. I pulled his chin down sharp upon the blood gush out, and I yelled, "Apologize! Apologize!" But he continued to curse and struggle, and I butted him again and again until he went down heavily, on his knees, profusely bleeding. I kicked him repeatedly, in a frenzy because he still uttered insults though his lips were frothy with blood. Oh yes, I kicked him! And in my outrage I got out my knife and prepared to slit his throat, right there beneath the lamplight in the deserted street, holding him by the collar with one hand, and opening the knife with my teeth - when it occurred to me that man had not see me, actually; that me, as far as he knew, was in the midst of a walking nightmare! And I stopped the blade, slicing the air as I pushed him away, letting him fall back to the street. I stared at him hard as the lights of a car stabbed through the darkness, he lay there, moaning on the asphalt; a man almost killed by a phantom. It unnerved me. I was both disgusted and ashamed. I was like a drunken man myself, wavering about on weakened legs. Then I was amused. Something in this man\'s thick head has sprung out and beaten him within an inch of his life. I began to laugh at this crazy discovery. Would he have awakened at the point of death? Would Death himself have freed him for wakeful living? But I didn\'t linger. I ran away into the dark, laughing so hard I feared I might rupture myself. The next day I saw his picture in the Daily News, because a captain stating that he has been "mugged". Poor fool, poor blind fool, I thought with sincere compassion, mugged by an invisible man!

1. What novel is this excerpt chosen from? Who is the author?

2. Summarize the narrator\'s change of emotion in encountering the white man and analyze the causes for the change.

3. What is the significance of this novel in literature history?

英美概况部分

I. Explain the following (15)

1. the Glorious Revolution

a. It refers to the event of 1688 the English Revolution, when the Catholic king James II was forced to flee with his baby son to France.

b. The throne was offered to his daughter and her husband Dutch king William.

c. The Bill of Rights was passed by Parliament to restrict the power of the Monarchy.

d. This was the beginning of the Constitutional Monarchy in Britain.

2. the Ku Klux Klan

a. After the Civil War, some southern whites formed the Ku Klux Klan.

b. It was a violent secret society that hoped to protect white interests and advantages by

terrorizing blacks and preventing them from making social advances.

c. By 1872, the federal government had suppressed the Klan, but it revived several times in later history.

3. Progressive

a. It was a movement in early 20th century to reform society and indiv iduals through government action.

b. It was primarily a movement of social engineer who believed that scientific and cost-efficient solutions could be found to all political problems.

II. Choose the correct answer from teach of the following (15)

1. A

2. B

3. D

4. A

5. C

III. Answer the following question (20)

The fundamental cause of poverty in affluent America is the overall unequal distribution of wealth and income. The richest fifth of American family receives over 40 percent of the national income, whereas the poorest fifth receives only 5.21 percent.

语言学部分

https://www.360docs.net/doc/722289301.html,plete each of the following statements. (8)

1. bound

2. primary, secondary

https://www.360docs.net/doc/722289301.html,petence

4. connotative

5. synonymy

6.synchronic

7.design

V. Tell if each of the following statements is true or false. (8)

l. F 2.T 3. F 4. F 5. F 6. F 7. T 8.T

VI. Fulfill the following requirements. (22)

1. ((more beautiful) flowers) (more (beautiful flowers))

2. complementary: innocent---guilty,

gradable: strong---weak,

converse: host---guest borrow---lend

3. endocentric: a matter of degree the man who laughed It is going to take place exocentric: The train arrived on time.

4. (l) labiodental (2) nasal

5. son

6. (1) entailment (2) presupposition (3)synonymy

7. B fails to comply with Maxim of quantity and Maxim of manner.

VII.Answer the following questions briefly. (12)

See the text book

英美文学部分

VIII. Complete the following sentences by choosing and mark the best alternative (A, B, C or D) in each bracket. (20 )

1-5. BDCDA6-10. C CABD 11-15. CDDBC 16-20. DBABB

IX.Explain the following literary phrases and indicate at least one representative writer with one of his major works respectively. (15)

X. Read the following excerpt and answer the questions. (15)