考研专业课备考：2012英语专业英美文学模拟试题一

　　I. Name authors and literary forms of the following works. (10 items, 2 points for each, 20 in all)
　　1. Major Barbara
　　2. Under Western Eyes
　　3. Wuthering Heights
　　4. Leaves of Grass
　　5. The American Scholar
　　6. The Merchant of Venice
　　7. Neighbor Rosicky
　　8. The Rape of the Lock
　　9. Lolita
　　10. The Red Badge of Courage

　　II. Fill in the blanks with the word or words that make the sentence correct (10 items, 1 points for each, 10 in all):
　　1. __________, a collection of love poems, was written by E.B. Browning.
　　2.Though only seven of her poems were published during her lifetime, Emily Dickinson totally wrote about ___________poems.
　　3. Shirley written by Charlotte Bronte deals with the life of the English workers at the time of in early 19th century.
　　4.The Great Gatsby was written by ,
　　5."Beauty is truth, truth beauty". These words are from the famous poem__________.
　　6. John Milton, in the last dozen years of his life, wrote his three major poetical works:Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained and__________, a tragedy in verse.
　　7. The word "zephyrus" in The Canterbury Tales means the personified __________wind.
　　8. T.S. Eliot once declared that he was " Anglo-catholic in religion, royalist in politics and ____________ in literature."
　　9. Dr. Manette is one of the main characters in Dickens' novel __________.
　　10. The famous line "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." appears in A. Tennyson's __________

　　III. Choose THREE of the following writers and make a comment (3x 30 =30%):
　　William Wordsworth
　　Robert Frost
　　Geoffrey Chaucer
　　Virginia Woolf
　　Percy Bysshe Shelley

　　IV. Composition. Read the following poem, written by a South African poet under apartheid:(40%)
　　a conversation with my son:
　　Johannesburg prison, project 3, april 30 1988
　　taking me by the hand
　　and pulling me towards
　　the visitors' exit door
　　my six-year-old son said
　　come home with us now daddy

　　i cannot said i
　　because i am a political prisoner
　　and must stay here for some time
　　then i will stay here with you
　　he replied emphatically

　　no mandela i replied gently
　　you cannot stay here
　　with your daddy
　　only political prisoners
　　stay here and—
　　daddy! he interjected excitedly
　　with sweet innocence
　　daddy then tell them
　　i am also a political prisoner...
　　(Selected from Prison Poems, by Dikobe Wa Mogale)

　　Write an essay of about 300 words, discussing ONE of the ideas that come to
　　your mind as you read this poem. You should clearly state your opinion and
　　support it with concrete evidence.