2020年江西师范大学硕士研究生入学考试初试科目
考试大纲

科目代码、名称:		842 英语专业基础
适用专业:	050201英语语言文学

一、考试形式与试卷结构

（一）试卷满分 及 考试时间

本试卷满分为 150 分，考试时间为180分钟。

（二）答题方式

答题方式为闭卷、笔试。

试卷由试题和答题纸组成；答案必须写在答题纸相应的位置上。

（三）试卷内容结构（考试的内容比例及题型）

各部分内容所占分值为：

第一部分　英美文学   75分

I.                    Name the author.  15分

II.                 Define the following terms.  15分

III.               Please comment on the following lines which are taken from a famous play. 20分

IV.               Please comment on William Faulkner’s style, theme and point of view. 25分

第二部分　语言学    75分

    I.     Define the following terms.  15

    II.     Multiple Choice.  10

    III.    True or False Questions.  10

    IV.    Short answer questions.  15

    V.     Short Essay writing.  25

（四）试卷题型结构

第一部分  英美文学

      作家作品题：15小题，每小题1分，共15分

      名词解释题（概念题）：3小题，每小题5分，共15分

简答题（简述题）：   20分

分析论述题（综合题）：25分

第二部分   语言学

          名词解释题（概念题）：5小题，每小题3分，共15分 

选择题：10小题，每小题1分，共10分

判断题：10小题，每小题1分，共10分

简答题（简述题）：   15分

分析论述题（综合题）：25分

    

二、样卷

2020年江西师范大学2011年硕士研究生入学考试试题（  A  卷）

专业：  英语语言文学                 科目：  英语专业基础                             

注：考生答题时，请写在考点下发的答题纸上，写在本试题纸或其他答题纸上的一律无效。

（本试题共  5   页）

 

British and American Literature

 

I.     Name the author (15%)

 

1.    Light in August

2.    Poor Richard’s Almanac

3.    In a Station of the Metro

4.    The House of the Seven Gables

5.    Catch-22

6.    Death of a Salesman

7.    Desire Under the Elms

8.    The Road Not Taken   

9.    To the Lighthouse

10.  Ulysses

11.  Jude the Obscure

12.  Oliver Twist

13.  Ivanhoe

14.  Auld Lang Syne

15.  Utopia

 

II.   Define the following terms (15%)

 

1.    Beat Generation

2.    Naturalism

3.    The Rise of the English Novel

 

III. Please comment on the following lines which are taken from a famous play. Write your answer in about 150 words. (20%)

 

To be, or not to be ---- that is the question:

Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles

And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep ---

No more --- and by a sleep to say we end

The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to, ‘Tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep ---

To sleep --- perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub,

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,

Must give us pause. There’s the respect

That makes calamity of so long life.

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,

Th’ oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely

The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay,

The insolence of office, and the spurns

That patient merit of th’ unworthly-takes,

When he himself might his quietus make

With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,

To grunt and sweat under a weary life,

But that the dread of something after death,

The undiscovered country, from whose bourn

No traveller returns, puzzles the will,

And makes us rather bear those ills we have

Than fly to others that we know not of?

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,

And thus the native hue of resolution

Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,

And enterprises of great pitch and moment

With this regard their currents turn awry

And lose the name of action.

 

 

IV.  Please comment on William Faulkner’s style, theme and point of view. (25%)

 

 

 

Linguistics

I.                   Define the following terms. (15%)

1.      duality

2.      illocutionary force

3.      unassisted MT

4.      synecdoche

5.      Q-principle

 

II.                Multiple Choice. (10%)

Directions: In each question there are four choices. Decide which one would be the best answer to the question.

1. _______ means that human languages enable their users to symbolize objects, events and concepts which are not present at the moment of communication.

A. Creativity.                    B. Arbitrariness

C. Displacement                  D. Duality

2. ______ put forward the distinction between Competence and Performance? 

A. Saussure    B. Chomsky    C. Halliday    D. Lakoff

3. In his famous article, Linguistics and Poetics (1960), ______ defined six primary factors of any speech event, namely: speaker, addressee, context, message, code, contact.

A. Jespersen                 B. Firth

C. Jacobson                 D. Halliday

4. .The relationship between “furniture” and “sofa” is _______

A. homonymy   B. hyponymy   C. polysemy    D. synonymy

5. ______ is a grammatical category used for the analysis of word classes displaying such contrasts as singular, dual, plural, etc.

A. Lexicon     B.Number      C. Syntax      D. Aspect

6. Which of the following sounds does not belong to the allomorphs of the English plural morpheme ? 

    A. [s]          B. [iz]         C. [ai]         D. [is]

7. .American Black English is _______.

A） a social variety                          B） a regional variety

C） a combination of social and regional dialect   D） a temporal dialect

8 Pragmatics is a study of ________.

A） language learning         B） language acquisition

C） language planning         D） language in use

9. .The organized network of knowledge that helps us to understand new knowledge is called ______

A. paradigm       B. aphasia      C. hedge    D. schema

10. Grammatical changes may be explained, in part, as analogic changes, which are _______or generalization.

A.elaboration                 B. simplification 

C. external borrowing          D. internal borrowing

 

III.             True or False Questions. (10%)

Directions: decide whether the following statements are true or false. Write T for true and F for false in your answer sheet.

(   ) 1.A synchronic description takes a fixed instant as its point of observation.

(   ) 2.Even pre-school children know virtually all the rules of language except for some subtleties.

(   ) 3.Coordination refers to the process or result of linking linguistic units  so that they have different syntactic status, one being dependent upon the other, and usually a constituent of the other.

(   ) 4. A containment schema involves repetitious events and event series.

(   ) 5.Linguistically, names for superordinate categories are often mass nouns when basic level terms are count nouns.

(   ) 6. In John loves Mary, which may be represented as L (j, m), we have three arguments John, loves and Mary.

(   ) 7. Folk etymology refers to a process involving a change in the sequence of sounds.

(   ) 8. When we use a simple set of symbols in our transcription, it is called a Broad Transcription.

(   ) 9.Quatrains are two lines of verse, usually connected by a ryhme.

(   ) 10. Root is the base form of a word that cannot be further analyzed without destroying its meaning.

 

IV.              Short answer questions. (15%)

1.      Tell the differences between inflectional affix and derivational affix.(8%)

 

2.      Try to summarize the characteristics of basic-level category in the field of cognitive linguistics (7%)

 

V.                 Short Essay writing (25%)

1.      What do you know about the features of women register? (13%)