2011年英美文学大外考研真题.doc

2011年英美文学考研真题（诗歌部分） 一、填空题 The Publication of The Waste Land, written by ___T.S.Eliot________ , helped to established a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought. 二、选择题 1. (同2009/二/1)The following fragment is taken from a poem written by______. A. Robert Burns B. William Shakespeare C. Geoffrey Chaucer D. Robert Browning When the sweet showers of April fall and shoot Down through the drought of March of pierce the root, Bathing every vein in liquid power From which there springs the engendering of the flower, When also Zephyrus with his sweet breath Exhales an air in every groove and heath Upon the tender shoots, and the young sun His half-course in the sign of the Ram has run, And the small fowls are making melody That sleep away the night with open eye (So nature picks them and their heart engages) The people long to seek the stranger strands Of far-off saints, hallowed in sundry lands… 2. The following selection is written by _________ . A. William Shakespeare B. T.S. Eliot C. John Keats D. Mark Twain The quality of mercy id nit strain’d It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless’d It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes: ‘Tis mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown His scepter shows the force of temporal power The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God’s When mercy seasons justice. Therefore Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. 3. (同2006/二/9) (同2007/二/7)The author of the following sonnet is ___________ . William Shakespeare Geoffrey Chaucer Edmund Spenser John Milton When, in disgrace with fortune and mens eyes, I all alone beweep my outcas