江西师范大学硕士研究生入学考试初试科目
考　试　大　纲

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 afamous play. 20分

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

第二部分　语言学 75分

I. Define thefollowing 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

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. Namethe 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. Definethe following terms (15%)

1. Beat Generation

2. Naturalism

3. The Rise of the English Novel

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

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

Whether ‘tisnobler in the mind to suffer

The slings andarrows of outrageous fortune

Or to take armsagainst a sea of troubles

And by opposingend them. To die, to sleep ---

No more --- and bya sleep to say we end

The heartache, andthe thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heirto, ‘Tis a consummation

Devoutly to bewished. To die, to sleep ---

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

For in that sleepof death what dreams may come

When we haveshuffled off this mortal coil,

Must give uspause. There’s the respect

That makescalamity of so long life.

For who would bearthe whips and scorns of time,

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

The pangs ofdespised love, the law’s delay,

The insolence ofoffice, and the spurns

That patient meritof th’ unworthly-takes,

When he himselfmight his quietus make

With a barebodkin? Who would fardels bear,

To grunt and sweatunder a weary life,

But that the dreadof something after death,

The undiscoveredcountry, from whose bourn

No travellerreturns, puzzles the will,

And makes usrather bear those ills we have

Than fly to othersthat we know not of?

Thus consciencedoes make cowards of us all,

And thus thenative hue of resolution

Is sicklied o’erwith the pale cast of thought,

And enterprises ofgreat pitch and moment

With this regardtheir currents turn awry

And lose the nameof action.

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

Linguistics

I.Define the followingterms. (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 bestanswer to the question.

1. _______ means that human languages enable their users to symbolizeobjects, events and concepts which are not present at the moment ofcommunication.

A. Creativity.B. Arbitrariness

C. DisplacementD.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. JacobsonD. 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 ?