专业综合A试题.docVIP

2010年硕士研究生招生入学考试试题 科目代码及名称: 815专业综合A 适用专业：英语语言文学 （请考生在答题纸上答题，在此试题纸上答题无效） Part One English Linguistics I. Define the following terms, using examples when necessary. (10%) 1. Cooperative principle 2. phonology 3. denotation 4. componential analysis 5. diachronic linguistics II. Analyze the following according to the requirements. (10%) 1. Describe the following speech sounds. (5%) (1) [u:] (2) [?] (3) [?] (4) [?] (5) [z] 2. Draw the tree diagrams in IC analysis of the following constructions. (5%) (1) my small child’s cog (2) He is dancing with the fat mayor’s wife. III. Give brief answers to the following questions. (10%) 1. Why is context said to be crucial to Pragmatics? 2. What are theme and rheme according to M.A.K. Halliday? Cite examples for illustration. VI. Write a short article in about 300 words on ONE of the following two topics. (20%) 1. Recursiveness 2. What is your understanding of meaning? 第 1 页，共10页 Part Two English Literature I. Completions (10%) Directions: identify the following works or quotations with their authors. 1. The Canterbury Tales 2. The Merchant of Venice 3. The Pilgrim’s Progress 4. Gulliver’s Travels 5. “The Trumpet of a prophecy! O, wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” 6. A Christmas Carol 7. Wuthering 8. Light in August 9. A Farewell to Arms 10. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd, Petals on a wet, black bough.” II. Define TWO of the following literary terms. (10%) 1. Epic 2. Tragedy 3. Heroic Couplet 4. Shakespearian sonnet 5. Metaphysical poets 6. Renaissance in England 7. Transcendentalism 8. Lost Generation III. Answer only TWO of the following questions. (10%) 1. While in a very depressed state of mind, Tess, the heroine in Hardy’s novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles, said something like this: “Once a thief, always a thief.” What does Tess mean by uttering this proverb?