考生注意：所有答案必须写在答题纸（卷）上，写在本试题上一律不给分。I. Multiple choices. There are 20 questions in this part. Choose the best answer to each question. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. Both linguistics candidates and literature candidates must do this part. (20%) 1. The Statue of Liberty was given to America by _______ as a gift. A. FranceB. SpainC. ItalyD. Britain 2. The famous poem A Red, Red Rosewas written by ______. A. WordsworthB. ByronC. BurnsD. Keats3. Thanksgiving Day is celebrated in ________. A. the United KingdomB. the United Kingdom and the United States of America C. the United States of AmericaD. all the English-speaking countries 4. Big Ben is a famous ________ in London. A. statueB. bridgeC. hotelD. clock 5. The longest river in Britain is _____. A. the Severn RiverB. the Clyde RiverC. the Thames RiverD. the Potomac River 6. TheGeneralElectioninBritainisheldevery___ years. A. threeB. fourC. fiveD. six7. The capital of New Zealand is _______. A. AucklandB. ChristchurchC. WellingtonD. Dunedin8. Samuel Johnson is most famous for _________. A. A Dictionary of the EnglishLanguageB. UlyssesC. Paradise LostD. Wuthering Heights9. The world’s largest freshwater lake is Lake _________. A. SuperiorB. OntarioC. HuronD. Michigan 10. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a well-known policy called ________ to save theeconomic situation in the 1930s. A. the Open Door PolicyB. the Big StickC. Good Neighbor PolicyD. the New Deal11. _________ is the only president ever to resign in thehistoryof the United States of America. A. John K. KennedyB. Richard Nixon C. Dwight D. EisenhowerD. Bill Clinton12. John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas Texas in _____. A. 1861B. 1963C. 1929D. 197213. Utopia was written by __________. A. Thomas MooreB. Thomas More C. Thomas PaineD. Francis Bacon14. _________was the first permanent English colony in North America and was named after the ‘Virgin Queen’, Elizabeth I.A. PhiladelphiaB. PennsylvaniaC. VirginiaD. Georgia15. The famous patriotic saying “Ionlyregret thatIhavebut onelifetolose formycountry” is attributed to _________. A. Patrick HenryB. William WordsworthC. Thomas PaineD. Nathan Hale 16. In the history of Britain, the Norman Conquest took place in _________.A. 449B. 1066C. 1476D. 161617. Washington D. C. is named after __________.A. the U. S. president George Washington B. Christopher Columbus C. both George Washington and Christopher Columbus D. neitherof them18. The __________refers to the events in Britain in 1688 when the Roman Catholic James II was removedas king without resistanceand replaced by his daughter Mary and her husband William III. A. Glorious RevolutionB. Boston Tea PartyC. Constitutional MonarchyD. LouisianaPurchase 19. __________ was the only Prime Minister in Britain who won the Nobel Prize for literature. A. Margaret ThatcherB. John Major C. Winston ChurchillD. David Cameron 20. The following were the founding fathers of the United States of America except_________. A. George WashingtonB. William PennC. Thomas JeffersonD. Benjamin Franklin II. Fill in the blanks with proper answers. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. Both linguistics candidates and literature candidates must do this part. (20%)
1.___________, as a design feature of language, refers to the fact that language has two levels of structure or patterning, such that units of the primary level are composed of elements of the secondary level and each of the two levels has its own principles of organization. 2.In pronunciation, the [p] in peakis different from the [p] in speakin that the first [p] is_________________. 3.The word unhappyhas three morphemes, namely, un-, hap, and -y, of which hapis a ________ morpheme, while un- and -y are ________ morphemes. 4.A statement is said to be_____________ if the speaker unnecessarily says the same thing twice using the same or different words.5.______________ means that the meaning of one sentence is contained in that of another.6.___________________ are words which refer to things, qualities, states, or actions and which have stable lexical meanings or semantic contents.7.An ________________________________is a group of syntactically related words where none of the words is functionally equivalent to the group as a whole.8.______________ is a word formation process by means of joining two or more words to form a new word.9.____________ is the description of the system and patterns of speech sounds in a particular language.10.______________ aims to preserve imagined standards of language use by insisting on norms of usage and criticizing violations of these norms.11.is the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, whose masterpiece The Canterbury Talesis one of the most famous works in all literature.12.“Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?/Thou art more lovely and more : /Rough winds do shake the darling buds of Maie,/And Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”13.Of all the romantic poets of 18th century, is the most independent and the most original, and his representative works include Songs of Innocence,Songs of Experiencesand The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.14.With the publication of William Wordsworth’s Lyrical Balladsin collaboration with S. T. Coleridge, __________ began to bloom and found a firm place in the history of English literature.15.The 18th century in English literature is an age of prose, not because the poetry is very bad, but because the prose is very good. The supreme master in the first part of the century is Jonathan Swift, who is known chiefly for his novel ___________.16.Nathaniel Hawthorne’s TheScarlet Letteris a story about a woman named __________livingin seventeenth- century Boston, then a puritan settlement.17.As an American poet of nature, __________(1874-1963) had obvious affinities with romantic writers, notably Wordsworth and Emerson. He saw nature as a storehouse of analogy and symbol, but he had little faith in religious dogma or speculative thought.18.The title of Hemingway’s novelFor Whom the Bell Tollswas taken from a poem of the 17th century English poet __________.19.The publication in 1922 of __________’s The Waste Land, the most significant American poem of the twentieth century, helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought. 20.Early in the 1920s the most prominent of the new American playwrights, __________, established an international reputation with such plays as The Emperor Jones, Anna Christieand The Hairy Ape. III. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. Both linguistics candidates and literature candidates must do this part. (10%)Section A: Decide whether each of the following statements is True or False. If it is true, write Tand if it is false, write F. 1.According to Chomsky, performancerefers to an ideal speaker's knowledge of his language as manifest in his ability to produce and understand a theoretically infinite number of sentences. 2.Ambiguity involves expressions with more than one normal interpretation. 3.Deep structure is the abstract syntactic representation of a sentence, that is, an underlying level of structural organization displaying all the factors that govern how a sentence should be interpreted. 4.The variant pronunciations of a phoneme are called allomorphs. 5.Blending is the formation of new words by combining parts of two words or a word plus a part of another word.
Section B: Identify the author and indicate the genre of each of the following works.1.“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”2.The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling3.The Sound and the Fury4.“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”5.Man and SupermanIV. Choose SIX from the following terms and explain them briefly. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (30%) 1.productivity2.antonymy3.diachronic studies4.co-articulation5.endophora6.proposition7.dramatic irony8.Puritanism9.Shakespearean sonnet10.The Jazz Age11.The Aesthetic Movement12.free verse
V. Answer the following questions:Section A for linguistics candidatesand Section B for literature candidates. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (40%)Secttion A：1.What is the relationship between cohesionand coherence? 2.Give an immediateconstituentanalysis of the following ambiguous sentence: We would like to attract more intelligent students.3.How do you understand conceptual metaphor?4.Illustrate the difference between denotation and connotation with examples.Section B：1.In what way does “The Raven”reflect Edgar Allen Poe’s literary theory?2.Based on A Farewell to Arms, discuss Ernest Hemingway’s writing technique.3. Based on Jack London’s The Sea Wolf, discuss the typical features of American Naturalism.4.How does Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”reflect the spirit of the English Romanticism?VI. Choose ONE of the following questions and write your answer on the ANSWER SHEET. (30%)1.What is grammaticality? What might make a grammatically meaningful sentence semantically meaningless?(for linguistics candidates) 2.Analyze thetheme, poetic form and rhetorical devices of the following poem and develop it into an essay with no less than200 words (for literature candidates).
On His BlindnessWhen I consider how my light is spentEre half my days, in this dark world and wideAnd that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bentTo serve therewith my Maker, and presentMy true account, lest he returning chide;“Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?”I fondly ask; but Patience to preventThat murmur, soon replies, “Goddoth not needEither man’s work or his own gifts; who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His stateIs kingly. Thousands at his bidding speedAnd post o’er land and ocean without rest:They also serve who only stand and wait.”考研高分咨询罗老师电话/微信：**咨询QQ：**