2011年天津外国语大学801英语语言文学(英美文学方向)考研真题【圣才出品】

2011年天津外国语大学801英语语言文学（英美文学方向）考研真题I. Chinese English Translation. (40 points)Directions: Translate the underlined sentences in the following passage into English. Write your translation on the ANSWER SHEET.农民工版《春天里》凭什么打动人？“如果有一天／我老无所依／请把我留在／在那时光里，如果有一天我悄然离去／请把我埋在／这春天里”。

在这个寒流不断侵袭的冬日，一对农民工兄弟用嘶哑和苍凉的歌声，给我们带米别样的“春天”。

两位农民工光着膀子在出租屋唱《春天里》的视频，迅速红遍网络。

湖南省委书记周强说，“每看一次都感动得热泪盈眶”。

没有华丽的舞台，没有精心的包装，打动人心的是夹杂着啤酒、香烟和雄性荷尔蒙气息的男人风格，是涌动的不安和悲壮的歌词，更是困境中顽强的呐喊、艰难中无怨无悔的坚持。

像成千上万涌入城市的草根一样，这两位农民工兄弟为了梦想奋斗，哪怕凄风冷雨，哪怕路人白眼!他们用青春写着“奋斗改变命运”的精神，用汗水描绘中国人无怨无悔的心灵之歌。

II.Critical Writing. (40 points)Directions: Respond to ONE of the four theses listed in the following passage in an essay approximately 300 wordswith a title of your own choice, a clearly stated central argument, anddetails／examples to support the argument. Write your answer on theANSWER SHEET.“Television makes you stupid.Virtually all current theories of the medium come down to this simple statement. Four principle theories can be distinguished.The manipulation thesis points to an ideological dimension. It sees in television above all an instrument of political domination. The medium is understood as a neutral vessel, which pours out opinions over a public thought of as passive. Seduced unsuspecting viewers are won over by the wire pullers without actually realizing what is happening to them.The imitation thesis argues primarily in moral terms, According to it television consumption leads above all to moral dangers. Anyone who is exposed to the medium becomes habituated to libertinism, irresponsibility, crime and violence. The private consequences are blunted, callous and obstinate individuals；the public consequences are the loss of social virtues and general moral decline. This form of critique draws, as is obvious at first glance, on traditional, bourgeois sources.More recent is the simulation thesis. According to it, the viewer is rendered incapable of distinguishing between reality and fiction. The primary reality is rendered unrecognizable or replaced by a secondary phantom-like reality.All these converge in the stupefaction thesis. According to it, watching television, not only undermi nes the viewer’s ability to criticise and differentiate,along with the moral and political fibre of their being, but also impair their overall ability to perceive. T elevision produces, therefore, a new type of human being, who can, according to taste, be imagined as a zombie or mutant.III. This part consists of six sections. Answer the question set for the program for which you are making the application. Write your answer or your translation on the ANSWER SHEET. (70 points)Section B 英美文学方向部分(70 points)Questions in this section are set for applicants to the MA program of American & British Literature. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.1. Factual Questions. (22 points)Directions：Fill in the blanks. Write the number of the question and your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.1)In William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, the speaker compares his beloved to the summer season, and in the last two lines(“So long as men can breathe or eyes can see／So long lives this, and this gives life to thee”), written in a rhy med , he states that his beloved will live in eternity through “this”, which refers to .2)A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift is a sharp against the social injustice in .3)William based his poetic theory on the principle that “al l good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of . ”4)The English novel began to prosper in 18th century as a new literary genre. In this period there appeared a number of great novelists such as , Daniel Defoe, and .5)“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little. I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!—. I have as much soul as you, —and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for, you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. ”This selection is taken from the novel .6)Joseph Conrad is one of the pioneers of English modernist literature. The words “The horror! The horror!” in his short story is deemed as Conrad’s indictment of human corruption caused by insatiable greed.7)Pygmalion is one of Bernard Shaw’s popular plays, one of whose themes is identified as the relationship between language and people’s .8)The major theme of D. H. Lawarence’s Sons and Lovers is its exposition of t he “”, a idea proposed by Sigmund Freud in his psychoanalysis.9)The English writer set his major novels in the south and southwest of , which he called “Wessex”.10)In his autobiography, creates the image of a self made man anddemonstrates his belief that the new world of America was a land of which might be met through hard work and wise management.11)“I took the sack of corn meal and took it to where the canoe was hid, andshoved the vines and branches apart and put it in; then I done the same with the side of bacon; then the whisky-jug. I took all the coffee and sugar there was, and all the ammunition；I took the wadding; I took the bucket and gourd；took a dipper and a tin cup, and my old saw and two blankets, and the skillet and the coffee-pot. ”The “I” in this selection refers to .12)In his , Ezra Pound expresses his fascination with Chinese history and thedoctrine of Confucius.13)“Impersonal theory” of poetry was developed by, a famous poet as wellas a distinguished literary critic.14)First produced in 1949, Arthur Miller’s struck an immediate, emotionalchord with audience s. Much of its success is attributed to Miller’s facility in portraying the universal hopes and fears of middle-class America. Through his main character, , Miller examines the myth of the American Dream and the shallow promise of happiness through material wealth.15)No Name Woman is a character in , which established Maxine HongKingston as a preeminent contemporary Asian American2. Essay Questions. (48 points)Directions：Answer any three of the following questions without citing the same literary work for two different questions.Your answer is expected tohave a clearly stated and well focused central argument that issupported with discussion, explanation, examples, and other evidencerather than a plot summary.16)Analyze the function of nature in one British or American novel.17)Analyze a poem by Alfred Tennyson, John Keats. W. H. Auden, William Carlos Williams or Williams Stevens.18)Of the Bronte sisters’ works, Charlotte’s Jane Eyre was considered the bestduring most of the nineteenth century, but many subsequent critics argued at Emily’s Wuthering Height is superior for its originality and achievement. Which。