2012年三峡大学891英美文学与比较文学.doc

第1页共 6 页 三 峡 大 学 2012年研究生入学考试试题(A卷) 科目代码： 891 科目名称： 英美文学及比较文学 （考生必须将答案写在答题纸上） I．Choose the One that best completes the sentence.(30 points) (Write your answer on the answer sheet) 1. The ship “__________” carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts. A. Sunflower B. Armada C. Mayflower D. Pequod 2. As a great innovator in American literature, Walt Whitman wrote his poetry in an unconventional style which is now called free verse，that is ______. A. lyrical poetry with chanting refrains B. poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme C. poetry without rhymes at the end of the lines but with a fixed beat D. poetry in an irregular metric form and expressing noble feelings 3. Mark Twain and Henry James are commonly described by literary historians as A. Transcendentalists B. Symbolists C. Realists D. Romantics 4. In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven”, the single word the raven could speak is _________. A. Encore B. Lenore C. Evermore D. Nevermore  第 2 页 5. _______ is the first black female American ever to receive Nobel Prize in Literature, whose major novel is Beloved. A. Sinclair Lewis B. Ralph Ellison C. Toni Morrison D. Langston Hughes 6. Which of the following is true as far as Emily Dickinson’s poetry is concerned? A. She seldom uses dashes. B. Her poems are very personal and meditative. C. Her poems usually have well-chosen titles. D. All her poems are about death or immorality. 7. In Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie, the story begins with Caroline Meeber leaving her hometown for ______. A. London B. New York C. Chicago D. Columbia City 8. Which of the following novels is NOT written by William Faulkner? A. Sound and Fury B. As I Lay Dying C. Go Down, Moses