暨南大学808外国语言文学综合研究生考试试题.doc

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2013年招收攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题
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学科、专业名称：外国语言文学、外国语言学及应用语言学
研究方向：各研究方向
考试科目名称：外国语言文学综合考试 考试科目代码：808
考生注意：所有答案必须写在答题纸（卷）上写在本试题上一律不给分。
Ⅰ. Multiple choices. There are 20 questions in this part. Choose the best answer to each question. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. Both literature candidates and linguistics candidates must do this part.（20%）
1. The smallest state of the United States is______________.
A. Rhode Island B. Maine C. Texas D. Alaska
2. In America, the three biggest newspapers are of the following EXCEPT __________.
A. New York Times
B. Reader's Digest
C. Washington Post
D. Los Angeles Times
3. The economic problem caused by the depression in 1920 was finally solved by_________________.
A. World War II B. the New Deal
C. the presidential election D. technological development
4. Which of following country is located in the Southern Hemisphere?
A. Australia. B. America. C. England. D. Canada.
5. The capital of Australia is_______________.
A. Canberra B. Sydney C. Melbourne D. Queensland
6. The British Isles are made up of________________ large islands and hundreds of small ones.
A. two B. three C. four D. five
7. The largest lake in Britain is ______________.
A. Loch Lomond B. the Lough Neagh
C. Windermere D. Ullswater
8. Australia has always been a continent with few people mainly because ____________.
A. Australia is too far away from Europe
B. Australia is the least mountainous and most level of the world's continents
C. Australia is separated from the rest of the world by seas
D. Most of the continent is hot and dry
9. San Francisco is in ________________.
A. Pacific Coast B. Intermountain Region
C. Rocky Mountains D. Canadian Shield
10. Whose discovery of the law of the universal gravitation is the most important of all his achievements in physics?
A. Kepler. B. Issac Newton. C. Galileo. D. Copernicus.
11. Which of the following is NOT the major newspaper or magazine in the U. S. A.?
A. New York Times. B. Washington Post.
C. National Geography. D. Financial Times.
12. The second largest state of the United States is_______________
A. Texas B. Alaska C. California D. Hawaii
13. _______________ is the financial capital of the world.
A. Washington D. C B. Los Angeles
C. New York D. Philadelphia
14. Since the__________________ Australia has been moving towards multiculturalism.
A. 1950s B. 1960s C. 1970s D. 1980s
15. Australia and New Zealand were first discovered by the_______________explorer.
A. Dutch B. English C. Spanish D. French
16. ___was a national leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the U. S..
A. Earl Warren B. Martin Luther King, Jr. C. McCarthy D. Rosa Parks
17. In the United States, how many years does primary education require?
A. Four years. B. Five years. C. Six years. D. Seven years.
18. The number of the Representatives from each American state depends on the______________.
A. contribution a state has made to the nation
B. population
C. size
D. none of the above
19. The two main land masses in New Zealand are ____________________.
A. the White Island and the thermal region
B. the North Island and the South Island
C. Auckland and the South Island
D. the Southern Alps and the North Island
20. Canada is made up of ten provinces and _________________ territories.
A. two B. three C. four D. five

Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks with proper words. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. Both literature candidates and linguistics candidates must do this part.（20%）
1. ___________ is usually defined as the science of language or, alternatively, as the scientific study of language.
2. ___________ investigates the interrelation of language and mind, in processing and producing utterances and in language acquisition for example.
3. The pharynx, mouth, and nose form the three cavities of the ____________.
4. The IPA makes available some more symbols for frequently occurring vowels. The neutral vowel [ə] is often referred to as _______
5. The rule ordering is however not always needed, as it fails to a much more general rule of language, the ___________.
6. ___________ is the smallest unit of language in terms of the relationship between expression and content, a unit that cannot be divided into further smaller units without destroying or altering the meaning, whether it is lexical or grammatical.
7. __________ is a process to extend or elevate the meaning from its originally specific sense to a relatively general one.
8. By the relation of __________ one means that words of different sets of clauses may permit, or require, the occurrence of a word of another set or class to form a sentence or a particular part of a sentence.
9. The theory of meaning which relates the meaning of a word to the thing it refers to, or stands for, is known as the ____________.
10. The discipline which concentrates on the study of meaning in context is ____________.
11. ______________________ is the oldest poem in the English language, and also the oldest surviving epic in the English language.
12. Today Chaucer is acclaimed not only as “the father of English poetry” but also as “the father of English fiction”. His masterpiece is _______________________.
13. ___________________ tells how Satan rebelled against God and how Adam and Eve were driven out of Eden.
14. Ode to the West Wind was written by ________________, one of the representatives of Romantic poets.
15. Emily Bronte’s chief contribution was her masterpiece _____________________.
16. In 1620, led by William Bradford, a group of Pilgrims arrived in present-day Massachusetts on a ship called ____________.
17. ____________________’s “The Raven” is a dark reflection on lost love, death, and loss of hope.
18. In 1925, Fitzgerald wrote his best novel ______________________________. It is the story of an idealist who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.
19. Hemingway’s stature as a writer was confirmed with the publication of ________________, a novel portrayed a farewell both to war and to love.
20. The greatest American woman writer of the nineteenth century was ____________________, who was almost unknown in her lifetime and only published seven poems when she was alive.

Ⅲ. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET according to requirements. Both literature candidates and linguistics candidates must do this part (10%).
Section A: Decide whether each of the following statements is True or False. If it is true, write T on the ANSWER SHEET. If it is false, Write F on the ANSWER SHEET.
1. Social changes can often bring about language changes.
2. English consonants can be classified in terms of place of articulation and the part of the tongue that is raised the highest. 
3. There are rules that govern which affix can be added to what type of stem to form a new word. Therefore, words formed according to the morphological rules are acceptable words.
4. In English the subject usually precedes the verb and the direct object usually follows the verb.
5. In semantics, meaning of language is considered as the intrinsic and inherent relation to the physical world of experience.  

Section B: Identify the author and indicate the genre of each of the following works.
6．Of Studies
7．Macbeth
8．Sense and Sensibility
9．Annabel Lee
10．The Great Gatsby
IV. Choose SIX of the following terms and explain them briefly. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (30%)
1. synchronic
2. phonology
3. category
4. illocutionary act
5. suffix
6. interlanguage
7. The Graveyard School
8. Romanticism
9. Stream of Consciousness
10. Dramatic Monologue
11. American Naturalism
12. The Beat Generation

V. Answer the following questions. According to different majors, choose the ones you must do. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (40%)
Section A：for linguistics candidates only
1. What are the major distinctions between langue and parole?
2. If there are two affixes –ly, one producing adjectives and the other attaching to adjectives to produce adverbs, can you find words with both of these affixes? Why?
3. Decide whether each of the underlined constructions or word groups is headed or non-headed and name the type of constructions..
(1) Ducks quack.
(2) The ladder in the shed is long enough.
(3) I saw a bridge damaged beyond repair.
(4) He enjoys climbing high mountains.
(5) The man nodded patiently.
4. Discuss the ambiguity of the following sentences. Which are lexically ambiguous? Which are structurally ambiguous?
(1) John sat on Jumbo’s trunk.
(2) The little girl hit the child with the toy.
(3) Chocolate cakes and pies are my favorite desserts.
(4) We used to meet near the bank every afternoon.

Section B：for literature candidates only
1. How do you understand the line “To be or not to be --- that is the question…”? How does it contribute to the theme of Hamlet?
2. What are the common features of Metaphysical poems?
3. Do Heathcliff and Catherine in Wuthering Heights confess their love in a normal way? What do you think of the love between them?
4. What do the American transcendentalists share in common about Humanbeings’ relationship with God and Nature?

VI. Choose one of the followings and write your response to it. According to different majors, choose the one you must do. Write your answer on the ANSWER SHEET. (30%)
1. Illustrate with examples how suprasegmentals affect meaning. (for linguistics candidates only)
2. Analyze the following poem as to its theme, poetic form, and rhetorical devices, and develop it into an essay of 200 words. (for literature candidates only)

Crossing The Bar

Sunset and evening star,
　　and one clear call for me!
　　And may there be moaning of the bar,
　　when I put out to sea.
　　But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
　　too full for sound and foam,
　　When that which drew from out the boundless deep
　　turns again home.
　　Twilight and evening bell,
　　and after that the dark!
　　And may there be no sadness of farewell,
　　when I embark;
　　For though from out our bourne of Time and Place
　　the flood may Pilot face to face
　　when I have crossed the bar.

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