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(完整word)广州大学外国语学院2018研究生复试广州大学外国语学院2018年英语语言文学学术型研究生复试试题Part One American and British Literature （50) I。 Fill in the Blanks with the Words Chosen from the Word Blank （15%, 1 point for each blank)The chosen words are running as follows:1. The Roaring Twenties2. excursions3. absence of personal4. crucial5. the loss of faith6. a great new moral idea7. deepest level8. express mild surprise9. ones own boss10. the conformity11. private moment of conflict12. waitandsee detachment13. object14. Dostoyevsky15. VoltaireThe Lost Generation is a postwar generation， and, in a world which seems to mark its cycles by its wars, it is already being compared to that other postwar generation， which dubbed itself lost._（1） , and the generation that made them roar, are going through a sentimental revival， and the comparison is valuable。 The Lost Generation was discovered in a roadster， laughing hysterically because nothing meant anything anymore. The Lost Generation， do not concern young people today. They take these things frighteningly for granted。 They were brought up in these ruins and no longer notice them. They drink to come down or to get high, not to illustrate anything. Their _(2) into drugs or promiscuity come out of curiosity， not disillusionment。 Only the most bitter among them would call their reality a nightmare and protest that they have indeed lost something, the future. The _(3） and social values is to them， not a revelation shaking the ground beneath them， but a problem demanding a day-today solution. How to live seems to them much more _（4） than why。 And it is precisely at this point that the copywriter and the hotrod driver meet and their identical beatness becomes significant, for， unlike the Lost Generation， which was occupied with _（5）, the Beat Generation is becoming more and more occupied with the need for it. As such, it is a disturbing illustration of _（6)s reliable old joke: If there were no God， it would be necessary to invent him。 Not content to bemoan his absence， they are busily and haphazardly inventing totems for him on all sides. The shock that older people feel at the sight of this Beat Generation is， at its_（7） , not so much repugnance at the facts, as it is distress at the attitudes which move it. Though worried by this distress， they most often argue or legislate in terms of the facts rather than the attitudes. Contemporary historians _（8) at the lack of organized movements, political， religious， or otherwise, among the young. The articles they write remind us that being _(9） and being a natural joiner are two of our most cherished national traits。 Everywhere people with tidy moralities shake their heads and wonder what is happening to the younger generation。 Perhaps they have not noticed that， behind the excess on the one hand， and _（10） on the other, lies that _(11) that results from having to fall back for support more on ones capacity for human endurance than on ones philosophy of life。 Not that the Beat Generation is immune to ideas； they fascinate it。 Its wars, both past and future， were and will be wars of ideas. It knows， however, that in the final， _（12) a man is really fighting another man， and not an idea。 And that the same goes for love. So it is a generation with a greater facility for entertaining ideas than for believing in them。 But it is also the first generation in several centuries for which the act of faith has been an obsessive problem， quite aside from the reasons for having a particular faith or not having it. It exhibits on every side， and in a bewildering number of facets， a perfect craving to believe. More than anything else, this is what is responsible for this generations reluctance to name itself， its reluctance to discuss itself as a group, sometimes its reluctance to be itself. For invented gods invariably disappoint those who worship them。 Only the need for them goes on， and it is this need, exhausting one_（13) after another, which projects the Beat Generation forward into the future and will one day deprive it of its beatness。 But a beat generation, driven by a desperate craving for belief and as yet unable to accept the moderations which are offered it, is quite another matter。 Thirty years later, after all, the generation of which _（14） wrote was meeting in cellars and making bombs。 This generation may make no bombs; it will probably be asked to drop some, and have some dropped on it, however， and this fact is never far from its mind。 It is one of the pressures which created it and will play a large part in what will happen to it。 There are those who believe that in generations such as this there is always the constant possibility of_（15） ， conceived in desperation, coming to life. Others note the self-indulgence, the waste, the apparent social irresponsibility, and disagree。 But its ability to keep its eyes open, and yet avoid cynicism; its ever-increasing conviction that the problem of modern life is essentially a spiritual problem； and that capacity for sudden wisdom which people who live hard and go far possess， are assets and bear watching Your Answer should be:II. Explain Briefly the Following Terms （15%, 3 points for each term)1. original sin 2. free verse3. Jazz Age4. the lake poets 5. Hemingways hero III。 Decide where the following sentences riginated from。 (10%， 1 point for each)1 ”Do you think， because I am poor， obscure， plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless？And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me， as it is now for me to leave you。” The original work is _.2。 ”Shall I compare thee to a summers day？The original work is _.3. To be great is to be misunderstood。The original work is _。4. April is the cruest season。The original work is _.5。 A man can be destroyed but not defeated. The original work is _.6. You better not never tell nobody but God。The original work is _.7. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.The original work is _.8. Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man； and writing an exact man.The original work is _。9. Ill go home， and Ill think of some way to get him back! After all， tomorrow is another day!The original work is _.10。 It was the best of times, it was the worst of times， it was the age of wisdom， it was the age of foolishness， it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light， it was the season of darkness， it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair。The original work is _.IV。 Read the following statements, then briefly explain your own understanding of the statements。(10%， 5 points for each）1. Hemingway once described Mark Twains novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as the one book from which “all modern American literature comes。” Why does Hemingway make such a high remarks on Mark Twain？2. Shakespeare once said ”What a piece of work is man？ How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty！ In form and moving how express and admirable! “Why does Shakespeare put so much emphasis on man?(命题人： 陆道夫，研究生教学部主任）