广东外语外贸大学英语语言文学考研复试真题
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广东外语外贸大学攻读硕士学位研究生入学复复试样题
考试专业：专业方向：考试科目：英美文学 科目代码：557
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PART 1 GENERAL KNLOWLEDGE (20%)Choose the best answer and mark the answer ON YOUR ANSWERSHEET.1One of the important themes of the 19th century English fiction was the feminine predicament, a common theme shared by the following novels except. A. Jane Eyre B. Henry Esmond C. The Portrait of a Lady D. Daniel DerondaPART TWO: READING AND APPRECIATION (40%)Section I. Read the following poem and answer the questions given on the Answer Sheet.WILLIAM SHAKESPEARESonnet 73That time of year thou mayst in me beholdWhen yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hangUpon those boughs which shake against the cold,Bare choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.In me thou seest the twilight of such dayAs after sunset fadeth in the west,Which by and by black night doth take away,Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest.In me thou seest the glowing of such fireThat on the ashes of his youth doth lie,As the death-bed whereon it must expire,Consum’d with that which it was nourish’d by.This thou perceiv’st, which makes thy love more strong,To love that well, which thou must leave ere long.
Section II. Read the following short story and answer the questions given on the Answer Sheet.SHERWOOD ANDERSONPaper Pills1He was an old man with a white beard and huge nose and hands. Long before the time during which we will know him, he was a doctor and drove a jaded white horse from house to house through the streets of Winesburg. Later he mamed a girl who had money. She had been left a large fertile farm when her father died. The girl was quiet, tall, and dark, and to many people she seemed very beautiful. Everyone in Winesburg wondered why she married the doctor. Within a year after the marriage she died.
PART THREE: ESSAY WRITING (40%)Read the following excerpt and write a comment in essay form in about 350 words.1The word for ‘biography’ has been universal in all European languages for the last two hundred years. Since it is derived from the Greek root ‘bios’ meaning life, there appears to be some serious error in my title. Surely I mean, ‘Biography and Life’?(Biography and Death---The text of the 1997 HuizingaLecture by Richard Holmes)
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