考研专业课 英语专业英美文学模拟试题

I. Name authors and literary forms of the following works. (10 items, 2 points for each, 20 in all)1. Major Barbara

2. Under Western Eyes

3. Wuthering Heights

4. Leaves of Grass

5. The American Scholar

6. The Merchant of Venice

7. Neighbor Rosicky

8. The Rape of the Lock

9. Lolita

10. The Red Badge of Courage

II. Fill in the blanks with the word or words that make the sentence correct (10 items, 1 points for each, 10 in all):1. __________, a collection of love poems, was written by E.B. Browning.

2.Though only seven of her poems were published during her lifetime, Emily Dickinson totally wrote about ___________poems.

3. Shirley written by Charlotte Bronte deals with the life of the English workers at the time of in early 19th century.

4.The Great Gatsby was written by ,

5."Beauty is truth, truth beauty". These words are from the famous poem__________.

6. John Milton, in the last dozen years of his life, wrote his three major poetical works:Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained and__________, a tragedy in verse.

7. The word "zephyrus" in The Canterbury Tales means the personified __________wind.

8. T.S. Eliot once declared that he was " Anglo-catholic in religion, royalist in politics and ____________ in literature."

9. Dr. Manette is one of the main characters in Dickens' novel __________.

10. The famous line "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." appears in A. Tennyson's __________

III. Choose THREE of the following writers and make a comment (3x 30 =30%):William Wordsworth

Robert Frost

Geoffrey Chaucer

Virginia Woolf

Percy Bysshe Shelley

IV. Composition. Read the following poem, written by a South African poet under apartheid:(40%)a conversation with my son:

Johannesburg prison, project 3, april 30 1988

taking me by the hand

and pulling me towards

the visitors' exit door

my six-year-old son said

come home with us now daddy

i cannot said i

because i am a political prisoner

and must stay here for some time

then i will stay here with you

he replied emphatically

no mandela i replied gently

you cannot stay here

with your daddy

only political prisoners

stay here and—

daddy! he interjected excitedly

with sweet innocence

daddy then tell them

i am also a political prisoner...

(Selected from Prison Poems, by Dikobe Wa Mogale)

Write an essay of about 300 words, discussing ONE of the ideas that come to

your mind as you read this poem. You should clearly state your opinion and

support it with concrete evidence.