1、江江 西西 财财 经经 大大 学学2007 年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题(B 卷)卷)专 业:英语语言文学考试科目:专业理论知识重要提示:考生必须将所有答案写在答题纸上,本试题上的任何标记均不作判题依据A.Linguistics(60%)IFill in the blanks(30%)1)_ studies how speakers use language in ways which can not be predicted from linguistic knowledge alone.2)Corpus linguistics deals with th
2、e principles and practice of using_in language study.3)Halliday identifies three variables of context,namely,_field,tenor and_.4)According to Leech,there exist seven types of meaning,five of which are included in the _meaning.5)Conceptual meaning is also called_.6)Man can be defined by the contrasti
3、ve features+Human,+Male,+Adult,as distinct from girl,which can be defined as _.7)According to Halliday,_ can be defined as the element which serves as the point of departure of the message conveyed by the clause.In English,this element always takes the first position of a clause.8)According to the p
4、roperty of the referents,there are three types of reference:personal reference,demonstrative reference and_reference.9)In TG grammar,each sentence is said to consist of two levels of structure:_.10)_is the minimum phonemic unit that is not further analyzable into smaller units.II.Define the followin
5、g terms(20%)1)affix2)complementary antonyms3)meronymy4)hyponymy5)exophora IIIThere are two main ways of classifying languages:the genetic(or genealogical)and the typological.Please define and comment on them.(10%)BTranslation Theory(40%)IPlease explain(supported with examples)the following terms(20%
6、)1)literal translation2)liberal translation3)transliteration4)formal translation5)explanatory translation IIMatch the author with the work(20%)1.Baker,M._A.Translation Criticism,the Potentials&Limitations.2.Bell,R.T._B.英汉对比研究3.Catford,C.J._C.林纾的翻译4.House,J._D.In Other Words:A Coursebook on Translati
7、on.5.Reiss,K._E.尤利西期6.李运兴_F.A Linguistic Theory of Translation7.连淑能_G.语篇翻译引论8.谢天振_H.Translation and Translating:Theory and Practice.9.钱钟书_I.译介学10.乔伊斯_J.Translation Quality Assessment.C.English Literature(50%)I.Match the literary work with the author.For each question(A-T)fill in the blank with one f
8、igure(1-20).(20%)1.Utopia _A.Christopher Marlowe2.Doctor Faustus _B.Robert Burns3.Julius Caesar _C.William Shakespeare4.The Pilgrims Progress _D.William Wordsworth5.Gullivers Travels _E.Jonathan Swift6.A Red,Red Rose _F.George Gordon Byron7.I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud _G.J.D.Salinger8.Don Juan _H.T
9、homas More9.A Defence of Poetry _I.Percy Bysshe Shelley10.Vanity Fair _J.Ralph Waldo Emerson 11.The Forsyte Saga _K.William Makepeace Thackeray 12.Leatherstocking Tales _L.Ernest Hemingway13.Leaves of Grass _M.Walt Whitman14.The Scarlet Letter _N.James Fenimore Cooper15.The Sun Also Rises _O.Nathani
10、el Hawthorne16.The Grapes of Wrath _P.John Steinbeck17.Invisible Man _Q.Ralph Ellison18.The Iceman Cometh _R.Eugene ONeill19.The Adventures of Augie March _S.John Bunyan20.The Catcher in the Rye _T.Saul BellowII.Multiple Choice(30%)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers
11、the question or completes the statement.1._ is regarded as the founder of English poetry.A.Geoffrey Chaucer B.Edmund SpenserC.Francis Bacon D.William Shakespeare2._,as we are told at the outset,was“to justify the ways of God to man”,i.e.to preach submission to the Almighty.But the reader soon gets t
12、he impression that the main idea of the poem is the heroic revolt against Gods authority.A.Hamlet B.King LearC.Robinson Crusoe D.Paradise Lost3.William Wordsworth,a romantic poet,advocated all the following EXCEPT _.A.the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech B.the expression of the
13、spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings C.the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter D.the use of everyday language spoken by the common people 4.Wordsworth,Coleridge and _ have often been mentioned as the“Lake poets”because they lived in the lake district in the northwestern part of Engl
14、and.The three traversed the same path in politics and in poetry,beginning as radicals and ending up as conservatives.A.George Gordon Byron B.Percy Bysshe ShelleyC.John Keats D.Robert Southey5.Which of the following works is NOT written by Charles Dickens?A.The Pickwick Papers B.David CopperfieldC.Ha
15、rd Times D.Emma6.The whole story is filled with a feeling of dismal foreboding and doom.Fateful circumstances and tragic coincidences abound in the book of _.A.Jane Eyre B.Wuthering HeightsC.Tess of the DUrbervilles D.Adam Bede7.In 1836,a little book came out which made a tremendous impact on the in
16、tellectual life of America.It was entitled Nature by _.A.Jonathan Edwards B.Ralph Waldo EmersonC.Benjamin Franklin D.Henry David Thoreau8._,by emphasizing the inner awareness and inward movements of his characters in face of outside occurrences rather than merely delineating their environment in any
17、 detail,became probably the first of the modern psychological analysts in the novel and anticipated in his works the modern stream-of-consciousness technique so widely employed in the first decades of 20th century.A.William Dean Howells B.Henry JamesC.Mark Twain D.Stephen Crane9.The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their _.A.war experiences B.pessimistic view of life C.indestructible spirit D.masculinity 10.The first American author to win the Nobel Prize for literature is _.A.T.S.Eliot B.Sherwood AndersonC.William Faulkner D.Sinclair Lewis