专业英语3
语言学部分
一． Define the following terms (30分)
1. assimilation rule:
2. root:
3. bound morphemes:
4. surface structure:
5. performance:
6. bilingualism:
7. creole:
8. the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis:
9. fossilization:
10. palatal:
二The phonological features that occur above the level of individual sounds are called suprasegmental features. Discuss the main suprasegmental features, illustrating with examples how they function in the distinction of meaning. （10分）
三 What is the distinction between competence and performance? （10分）
四 How does a sentence differ from an utterance? How are sentence meaning and utterance meaning different from each other? （10分）
五What do you think are the similarities and dissimilarities between learning a first and a second language?（15分）
英国文学部分
一Read the following stanza and answer the questions below.(10分)
“Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;
Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! The very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!”
1. Who is the poet of this poem? And what is the title of this poem?
2. What kind of figure of speech is used by wordsworth to describe the “river”?
二Short-answer questions.（15分）
1. State your understanding Robert Browning’s “ My Last Duchess” as one of his best representatives of dramatic monologue.
2. Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe was a great success partly because the protagonist was a real middle-class hero. Discuss Crusoe, the protagonist of the novel, as an embodiment of the rising middle class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England.
三．Topic discussion.（15分）
How is Romanticism different from Neoclassicism? Provide brief evidence from the literary works you know best.（more than 200 words）
美国文学部分
一Read the following stanza and answer the questions below.(10分)
“I heard a Fly buzz-when I died-
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air-
Between the Heaves of Storm
1. Who is the author and what is the poem?
2. What is the writing feature of the poet?
二Short-answer questions.（15分）
1. The white whale, Moby Dick, is the most important symbol in Melville’s novel. What symbolic meaning can you draw from it?
2. How do you understand Henry James’ international theme? Please exemplify it based on his novels.
三．Topic discussion.（10分）
What makes Mark Twain\"s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn more than a child\"s adventure story? Briefly discuss the question from the following aspects: the setting, the language, the character（s）, the theme and the style. （more than 150 words）
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