2018山东科技大学研究生入学考试836英语综合真题.pdf
Part I LinguisticsI. Give the definitions of the following terms (20 points)1. Language2. Cultural transmission3. Pidgin4. Phoneme5. Agreement6. Consonant7. Deep structure8. Language transfer9. Indirect speech acts10. SemanticsII. Choose the correct answer (20 points)1. The sense relation between the two words “died” and “killed” is_.A. synonymy B. polysemyC. hyponymy D. co-hyponymy2. The distinction between “langue” and “parole” was introduced by_.A. Bloomfield B. F. SaussureC. N. Chomsky D.M.A. K. Halliday3. Which of the following is not a correct description of f?A. voiceless B. fricative C. palatal D. labiodental4. The word “e-mail” is a _ in terms of word-formation.A. compound B.borrowing C. invention D. blending5. Every speaker has his own pet words and expressions and special way of expressinghis ideas in language. This variety of individual users is called _.A. social dialect B. regional dialectC. temporal dialect D. ethnic dialect6. Utterances often influence the feelings or actions of the audience, which Austin callsthe performance of a/an_.A. locutionary act B. perlocutionary actC. illocutionary act D. performative act7. What kind of function does the sentence “Stand up” have?A. directive B. phatic C. informative D. evocative8. The underlined part in the word “submit” is a_.A. bound root B. free morpheme C. suffix D. stem9. In “He has become a man”, what is communicated in the second “man” iscalled_.A. connotative meaning B. social meaningC. affective meaning D. conceptual meaning10. The study of language development over a period of time is generally termed as_linguistics.A. applied B. diachronic C. comparative D. synchronicIII. True orfalse Questions (10 points)1. In English, long vowels are also tense vowels because when we pronounce a longvowel such as/i:/,the larynx is in a state of tension.2. The smallest meaningful unit of language is morpheme.3. Metaphor and metonymy are two major ways for semantic broadening.4. There is no such a thing as category of aspect in Chinese.5. British English is standard dialect while American English is one regional dialect.6. “His daughter is a teacher” entails “He has a daughter”.7. “Kicking the ball” is an endocentric construction with “kicking” as its head.8. In English, we have five long vowels.9. Tenor is about the relations between the participants in the communication.10. Age, personality, motivation and attitude are all considered variables influencingSLA.IV.Answer the following questions briefly. (20 points)1. Try to explain the semantic triangle. (5 points)2. Explain with examples the various types of antonyms in English. (5 points)3. Which version of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis do you agree with? Why? (5 points)4. Analyze the following sentences with IC analysis. (5 scores)The boy might take my advice. (2)The professor taught linguistics at this university. (3)V.Discussion (20points)1. Primates like Chimpanzees have been trained to communicate with human withbody gestures. What do you think are the differences between this kind of “language”and our language. (10)2. Analyze Bs answer in terms of Grices Cooperative Principle. (10)A: Tehran is in Turkey, isnt it, teacher?B:Yes, dear.And London is in American, I suppose.Part Two LiteratureI. Matching (16 points)SectionA Match the authorsin Column I with the works in Column II. (8 points)Column I Column II1.Arthur Miller A. Lord Jim2. Henry James B. The School for Scandal3. James Fennimore Cooper C. Ivanhoe4. Richard Brinsley Sheridan D. Death of a Salesman5. D. H. Lawrence E. The Wings of the Dove6. George Eliot F. Vanity Fair7. Joseph Conrad G. The Last of the Mohicans8. Jack London H. The Call of the WildI. Lady Chatterlays LoverJ. The Mill on the FlossSectionB Identify the works from which the quotationsare from. (8 points)Column I Column II9. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, A. The Pilgrims ProgressThe lowing herd wind slowly oer the lea,The plowman homeward plods his weary way,And leaves the world to darkness and to me. B. Moby Dick10.As I walked through the wilderness of thisworld, I lighted on a certain place wherewas a den, and I laid me down in that place C. “AValediction:to sleep; and, as I slept, I dreamed a dream. Forbidding Mourning”11. If they be two, they are two soAs stiff twin compasses are two;Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show D. “Elegy Written in aTo move, but doth, of thother do. Country Churchyard”12. The artist is the creator of beautiful things.To reveal art and conceal the artist is arts aim.13. We hold these truths to be self-evident, E. “Stopping by Woods onthat all men are created equal, that a Snowy Evening”they are endowed by their Creator withcertain unalienable Rights, that amongthese are Life, Liberty and the pursuit F. “The Road Not Taken”of Happiness.14. They were careless people, Tom andDaisy-they smashed up things andcreatures and then retreated back G. Uncle Toms Cabininto their money or their vast carelessnessor whatever it was that kept them together,and let other people clean up the H. “Declaration ofmess they had made. Independence”15. Whose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village, though;He will not see me stopping here I. The Picture of Dorian GrayTo watch his woods fill up with snow.16. Call me Ishmael. Some years ago-never mind how long precisely- J. The Great Gatsbyhaving little or no money in my purse,and nothing particular to interest me on shore,I thought I would sail about a little and seethe watery part of the world.II. Explain the following literary terms. (20 points)17. Blank verse18. Neoclassicism19. The Lost Generation20. Local Colorism21. SoliloquyIII. Read the quoted passages and answer the questions following them. (24 points)Passage 1Shall I compare thee to a summers day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate.Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summers lease hath all too short a date.Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimmd;And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance or natures changing course untrimmd;But thy eternal summer shall not fadeNor lose possession of that fair thou owst;Nor shall Death brag thou wanderst in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou growst:So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.Questions: Who is the author of this poem? What are the features of this kind of poem?Analyze its rhyme scheme and comment on its theme. (12 points)Passage 2It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a goodfortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such aman may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the mindsof the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one orother of their daughters.”Questions: What is the title of the novel? Who is the author? Summarize the story of thenovel in brief language and comment the artistic features of this author. (12 points)