暨南大學2020年《808外國語言綜合》碩士研究生入學考試真題

1、考試科目：外國語言文學綜合考試 第 頁2020年招收攻讀碩士學位研究生入學考試試題(B卷)*招生專業(yè)與代碼：外國語言文學0502 (涵蓋英語語言文學050201、外國語言學及應用語言學050211)考試科目名稱及代碼：808外國語言文學綜合考試考生注意：所有答案必須寫在答題紙（卷）上，寫在本試題上一律不給分。 I. Multiple choice. There are 20 questions in this part. Choose the best answer to each question. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. Both l

2、inguistics candidates and literature candidates must do this part. (20%) 1. The _ of stress in English distinguishes meaning.A. articulation B. location C. manner D. organ 2. The English vowels can be classified according to the _ of the sound. A. height B. length C. width D. shortage3. English word

3、s are pronounced alike but spelled differently are called _. A. coordinates B. homonymies C. homophones D. superordinates 4. The ability to use any word in a sentence requires knowledge of its _. A. lexical category B. complementary distribution C. syntactic rule D. morphological awareness5. The mor

4、pheme -ed in the word collected is a(n) _.A. bound morpheme B. derivational morpheme C. inflectional morpheme D. free morpheme 6. Nouns, verbs and adjectives are referred to as _. A. content words B. grammatical words C. function words D. formative words 7. The sentences The lion licked the trainer

5、and The trainer licked the lion have the same number of words but different in meaning because the _ assigned to each word is different. A. deep structure B. part of speech C. surface structure D. semantic role 8. The core of the word and the major component of the meaning of the word is constituted

6、 by its _. A. affix B. base C. root D. stem 9. In the classic semantic triangle proposed by Ogden and Richards (1923), _ refers to the object of experience. A. reference B. referent C. thought D. symbol 10. The application of the methods and results of linguistic research to such areas as language t

7、eaching, translation, and language in advertising, classrooms, and courts etc. is called _.A. Psycholinguistic B. Cognitive Linguistics C. Applied Linguistics D. Comparative Linguistics 11. In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of the _ devices in narration.A. Romantic B. Realistic C. Gothic

8、D. Modernist12. All of the following books were written by Earnest Hemingway EXCEPT A. The Old Man and the Sea B. For Whom the Bell TollsC. The Sun Also Rises D. Tales of the Jazz Age13. John Milton is a great poet in the _ Period. A. Anglo-Saxon Period B. RenaissanceC. Pre-Romantic Period D. Romant

9、ic14. Shakespeare wrote _sonnets. A. 125 B. 154 C. 245 D. 13815. Nathaniel Hawthornes view of man and human history originates in _.A. Transcendentalism B. NaturalismC. Puritanism D. Romanticism16.Whitman is radically innovative in terms of form of his poetry. The form of poetry he preferred for the

10、 new subjects and new feelings is _. A. epic B. blank verseC. heroic couplet D. free verse17. All of the following books were written by Mark Twain EXCEPT _.A. Life on the Mississippi B. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn C. The Portrait of a Lady D. The Gilded Age18. Jane Austens most popular novel

11、 has consistently been _. It portrays life in the genteel rural society of the early nineteenth century, and tells of the initial misunderstandings and later mutual enlightenment between Elizabeth and Darcy. A. Sense and Sensibility B. EmmaC. Pride and Prejudice D. Persuasion19. “Ode to a Nightingal

12、e” was written in 1819 by _. The poem takes the form of a direct address to a nightingale.A. John Keats B. William WordsworthC. Robert Frost D. Walt Whitman20. Ellen Poe was both a poet and a _. A. dramatist B. essayist C actor D. fiction writer.II. Decide whether each of the following statement is

13、True or False. If it is true, write T and if it is false, write F on the ANSWER SHEET. Both linguistics candidates and literature candidates must do this part. (10%) In linguistics, data and theory stand in a dialectical complementation. A basic way to determine the phonemes of a language is to see

14、if replacing one sound. for another does not result in a change of meaning. According to the naming theory, words are just names or labels for things.4. The learning of a second language in school is increasingly viewed as an intellectual or educational endeavor but not as a social-psychological phe

15、nomenon.5. In the course of language change, if any sound is going to be lost, it is more likely to be a less common one rather than its more common counterpart. 6. The defining formal characteristics of the modernistic works are discontinuity and fragmentation. 7. During the Renaissance Period, hum

16、anism was the pivotal philosophy in England. 8. Ezra Pound is regarded as the father of modern American fiction. 9. Wuthering Heights is one of the 5 novels written by Emily Bronte. 10. Life on the Mississippi tells a story of Henry Jamess boyhood ambition to become a riverboat pilot up and down the

17、 Mississippi.III. Explain the following terms. Terms in Section A are for linguistics candidates and terms in Section B are for literature candidates. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (30%)Section A: for linguistics candidates 1. design features 2. assimilation 3. morphological rules 4. locut

18、ionary act 5. componential analysis 6. interlanguage Section B: for literature candidates 7. ballads8. Critical Realism9. the Lost Generation10. Gothic Novels11. Naturalism12. sonnetIV. Answer the following questions. Questions in Section A are for linguistics candidates and questions in Section B a

19、re for literature candidates. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (50%)Section A: for linguistics candidates 1. What makes modern linguistics different from traditional grammar?2. Illustrate the types of morphemes (bound morphemes, free morphemes, derivational morphemes, inflectional morphemes)

20、with examples.3. According to John Searle, there are five general types of things we can do with language. What are these five types of speech acts? Please illustrate them with examples.4. What is Intercultural Communication? Please illustrate the intercultural communication barriers with at least t

21、wo examples.5. What is speech variety? Give an example to illustrate it.Section B: for literature candidates 6. Comment on Emersons transcendentalist views and his influence in American literature. 7. Discuss the theme and writing techniques of Melvilles Moby Dick.8. What is the symbolic significanc

22、e of The Scarlet Letter?9. Based on Ulysses, comment on James Joyces modernist writing techniques.10. What are the stylistic features of ONeills plays?V. Write your responses or reflections on the following questions on the ANSWER SHEET. Linguistics candidates must do Section A and literature candid

23、ates must do Section B. (40%) Section A: for linguistics candidates 1. J.R Firth, B. Malinowski and M.A.K. Halliday of the London School all stress the importance of context in language use. Please state the main points of their contextual views in language use respectively. Then, make comment on th

24、eir contextual views.2. Mark Johnson（1987）proposes the theory of IMAGE SCHEMAS. He defines an image schema as a recurring pattern of our perceptual interactions and motor programs that gives coherence and structure to our experience. You are expected to develop the theory of IMAGE SCHEMAS by making

25、comment. (1) What are the two characteristics of image schematic structures?(2) Define the following image schemas and illustrate them with examples. 1)A center-periphery schema2)A containment schema3)A cycle schema4)A force schema5)A link Schema6)A part-whole schema7)A path schema8)A scale schema9)A verticality schema(3) Make comment on Mark Johnsons Theory of Image Schemas. Section B: for literature candidates 3. Based on Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights, discuss the theme and w