814-《英语综合考试》考试大纲
一、考查目标
全日制攻读英语语言文学硕士学位入学考试科目《英语语言文学综合考试》的考查内容包括英美文学、英美文化及语言学三门英语语言文学专业的基础课程,要求考生系统掌握相关学科的基本知识、基础理论和基本方法,并能运用相关理论和方法分析、解决实际问题。
二、考试形式与试卷结构
(一)试卷成绩及考试时间
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。
(三)试卷内容结构
各部分内容所占分值为:
英美文学 70分(其中,英国文学35分,美国文学35分)
英美文化 40分
语言学 40分
(四)试卷题型结构
1. 英美文学题型(共70分,其中,英国文学35分,美国文学35分)
(1)英国文学部分题型 (共35分)
作家与作品相匹配 约5分
判断所给作品选段的出处 约10分
小论文写作 约20分
(2)美国文学部分题型
文学常识 (多种形式) 约20分
论述题 约15分
2. 英美文化部分题型 (共40分)
正误判断题或选择题 约10分
名词解释 约10分
论述题 约20分
3.语言学部分题型 (共40分)
正误判断题或选择题 约10分
分析题 约10分
论述题 约20分
三、考查范围
英国文学
英国文学部分的考察范围分为英国文学史和英国文学作品选读两个部分。英国文学史部分主要考察考生对英国文学史各个阶段及各阶段中的重要作家基本情况的掌握。英国文学作品选读部分考察考生对部分重要作家有代表性的部分作品的掌握。
英国文学史考察范围
The Anglo-Saxon Period: Beowulf
The Anglo-Norman Period: Chaucer; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Renaissance: More; Bacon; Sidney; Spenser; Marlowe; Shakespeare
The 17th Century: Donne; Jonson; Milton; Dryden; Bunyan
The 18th Century: Defoe; Swift; Addison and Steele; Pope; Johnson; Gray; Goldsmith; Fielding; Sheridan; Blake; Burns
The Romantic Period: Wordsworth; Coleridge; Byron; Shelley; Keats; Scott; Austen; Lamb
The Victorian Age: E. B. Browning; Tennyson; Robert Browning; The Bronte Sisters; Dickens; Thackeray; Eliot
The 20th Century: Hardy; Shaw; Conrad; Yeats; Forster; Woolf; Joyce; Lawrence; T. S. Eliot; Orwell
英国文学作品选读考查范围
Popular ballads: Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale; Get Up and Bar the Door
Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (General Prologue)
Shakespeare: Hamlet(Act III, Scene I); Sonnets 18, 29, and 106
Bacon: Of Studies
Donne: Song; A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Milton: Paradise Lost (Book I)
Swift: Gulliver’s Travels (Part IV)
Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Blake: London; The Chimney Sweeper
Burns: John Anderson, My Jo; A Red, Red Rose
Wordsworth: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; The Solitary Reaper
Lord Byron: Don Juan (The Isles of Greece)
Shelley: Ozymandias; Ode to the West Wind
Keats: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer; Ode on a Grecian Urn
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Lord Tennyson: Ulysses
Robert Browning: My Last Duchess
美国文学
Chapter 1 Before the Revolution of Independence
1.1 Native American Literature
1.2 Colonial America
Chapter 2 Around the Revolution of Independence
Chapter 3 American Romanticism/Renaissance
3.1 Pre-Romanticism
3.2 The Peak of Romanticism
3.3 Post-Romanticism
Chapter 4 The Age of Realism
Chapter 5 The Age of Modernism
Chapter 6 American Literature since 1945
英美文化
1. British Society & Culture
1.1 Land and People
1.2 History
1.3 Economy
1.4 Politics and Society
1.5 Education
2. American Society & Culture
2.1 Land and People
2.2 History
2.3 Economy
2.4 Politics and Law
2.5 Family
2.6 Society
2.7 Education
2.8 Beliefs and Values
语言学
Chapter 1 Language and Linguistics
The nature of language
The functions of language
Language families
Some important distinctions in linguistics
The scope of linguistics
Chapter 2 Phonetics and phonology
2.1 Production of sounds
2.2 Phonemes
2.3 Sound patterns
2.4 Suprasegmental features
Chapter 3 Morphology and lexicon
3.1 Word and word class
3.2 Morpheme
3.3 Inflection and word-formation
3.4 Lexicon
Chapter 4 Syntax
4.1 Sentence structure
4.2 Syntactic function and category
4.3 Transformational rules
Chapter 5 Semantics
5.1 Approaches to meaning
5.2 Semantic field and semantic relations
5.3 Semantic analysis
Chapter 6 Pragmatics and text analysis
6.1 Speech act theory
6.2 The Cooperative principle and the politeness principle
6.3 Presupposition and the structure of spoken text
6.4 Cohesion
6.5 Thematic structure ad information unit
Chapter 7 Language and social culture
7.1 Language varieties
7.2 Language and culture
7.3 Language change
7.4 Language planning
Chapter 8 Language acquisition and thought
8.1 First language acquisition
8.2 Second language acquisition
8.3 Language and thought
Chapter 9 Linguistics and Language teaching
9.1 Approaches to language teaching
9.2 Syllabus design
9.3 Language testing
9.4 Error analysis