1、共3页，第2页Studies serve for delight,for ornament,and for ability.Their chief use for delight,is inprivateness and retiring;for ornament,is in discourse;and for ability,is in the judgement anddisposition of business.For expert men can execute,and perhaps judge of particulars,one by one;but the general c
2、ounsels,and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that arelearned.To spend too much time in studies is sloth;to use them too much for ornament.isaffectation;to make judgement wholly by their rules,is the humour of a scholar.They perfectnature,and are perfected by experience:for n
3、atural abilities are like natural plants,that needproyning by study;and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large,except theybe bounded in by experience.Crafty men contemn studies,simple men admire them,and wisemen use them;Section Three:British and American LiteratureV.Identify
4、the authorship of the following literary works:(10 points)1.To Autumn”2.To the Lighthe好考研研博试卷网3.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight4.Moby Dick5.Anthony and Cleopatra6.The Hairy pchttp:/7.“The Second Coming8.Light in the Augusi9.The Posthumous Papers of Pickwick Club 10.Animal FarmVI.Choose from among th
5、e following items FIVE terms and give a brief and relevantexplanation for each of them:(15 points)1.ode2.historic fiction3.beat generation4.round character5.modernism6.fable7.Poet Laureate8.irony9.pastoral10.objective correlativeVII.Read carefully the following poem and then accomplish the required
6、tasks:Much have I travelld in the realms of goldAnd many goodly states and kingdoms seen;Round many western islands have I beenWhich bards in fealty to Apollo hold.代码：489(考生注意：请将答案做在专用答题纸上，做在该试卷上无效！)共页，第3页40689Oft of one wide expanse had I been toldThat deep-browd Homer ruled as his demesne:Yet did
7、I never breathe its pure sereneTill I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:-Then felt I like some watcher of the skiesWhen a new planet swims into his ken:Or like stout Cortez,when with eagle eyesHe stared at the Pacific-and all his menLookd at each other with a wild surmise-Silent,upon a peak in D
8、arienQuestions and Commentary:1.In what verse form do you think the poem is written?(2.5 points)2.What are the metrical pattern and rhyme scheme of th3.What theme does the poet reveal in the second stanza好考研研博试卷网4.Who do you think is the author of the pocm?(2.5 pointshttp:hkaoyannet5.Please write a
9、short comment on the poem in no fewer than 150 English words.(10 points)VIII:Choose any THREE topics from the following ones and develop your understanding ofthem into short essays.(45 points)1.Edgar Allan Poes achievements in his literary career.2.The influence of British Romanticism on the formation of the American Transcendentalism.3.The development of sonnet as a literary genre.4.The development of the feminist novel.5.A comparison between Lord of the Flies and Robinson Crusoe as Desert Island fiction.考试科目：489语言文学与文化综合知识
