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四十一、 大连外国语学院
1992 年攻读硕士研究生入学考试试题
1. What are the striking characteristics of the Renaissance?
2. Which poet do you like better, Byron or Shelley? Why?
3. Which novelist do you like better, Dickens or Mark Twain? Why?
4. Analyse ONE of Shakespeare’s plays.
Match the following works with their respective authors.
1. The Novel and the People a. William Somerset Maugham
2. News from Nowhere b. Gerge Meredith
3. Of Human Bondage c. Alfred Tennyson
4. I.ady Chatterley's Lover d. George Goprdon Byron
5. Mrs Warren's Profession e. Charles Dickens
6. The Forsyte Saga f. William Shakespeare
7. The Mayor of Casterbridge g. John Galsworthy
8. The Egoist h. Richard Sheridan
9. In Memoriam i. Ralph Fox
10. Heroes and Hero Worship j. Walter Scott
11. Mary Barton k. Gerge Bernard Shaw
12. Pride and Prejudice 1. Thomas Carlyle
13. ATale of Two Cities m. Charles Lamb
14. Ivanhoe n. Jane Austen
15. Essays of Elis o. John Keats
16. Isabella p. William Morris
17. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage q. Thomas Hardy
18. Songs of Innocence r. Mrs. Gaskell
19. The School for Scandal s. William Blake
20. The Twelfth Night t. D.H. Lawrence
Key
1. The rise of the bourgeoisie soon showes its influence in the sphere of cultual life. The result
is an intellectual movement known as the Renaissance, or, the result of letters. It sprang
first in Italy in the 14th century and gradually spread all over Europe. Two features are
striking of this movement. The one is a strong desire for classical literature. Old
manuscripts, secondly, were dug out. There arose a general revival of the study of Greek
and Latin authors. The third characteristic of the movement is the great interest in life and
human activities. People ceased to regard themselves as living only for God and a future
world. Thinkers, artists and poets arose, who gave expression, to the new feeling of
admiration for human beauty and human achievement, a feeling in sharp contrast with
medieval theology. Henence arose Humanism. Humanism appears the key-note of the
Renaissance.
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4. “Romeo and Juliet” is one of Shakespeare’s best known tragedies and it fully deserves its
fame though it was the product of a youthful poet, judged both from its theme and from its
artistic form. Romeo and Juliet belong to two families engaged in family feud of long
standing, but the two fall in love and are secretly married. When Romeo is banished for
killing one of Juliet’s kinsmen Tybalt and the girl's parents insist on marrying her to another,
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