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1、人文知识部分题目构成：•10道英语专业知识单选题，分值均分到三块：1）英语国家概况，主要包括政治、历史、地理等内容；2）英美文学常识：主要考察对代表作家及其代表作的掌握，文学阶段特征、时期划分等；3）语言学基础：要求掌握Chomsky等语言学家及其主要理论；语言学常用概念，如semantics,syntax等。例题1：ThecapitalofAustraliaisA.Sydney.BMelbourne.C.Canberra.D.Perth.例题2：JohnGalsworthywasmostfamousf

2、orA.  HeartofDarkness.B.  Ulysses.C.  TheForsyteSaga.D. APassagetoIndia.例题3：ThestudyofhowsoundsareputtogetherandusedtoconveymeaningincommunicationisA.  morphology.B.  generallinguistics.C.  phonology.D.semantics.分块知识梳理•英国文学•美国文学•语言学要点•英语国家概况1.英国文学I.Medie

3、valLiterature（5thcentury-1485）1.Beowulf《贝奥武甫》:nationalepicinoldEnglish；oldestsurvivingepicintheEnglishlanguage2.SirGawainandtheGreenKnight《高文爵士和绿衣骑士》:storiesaboutKingArthurandhisknightsoftheroundtable3.GeoffreyChaucer:fatherofEnglishpoetry;thefirstonetou

4、semiddleEnglish;--TheCanterburyTales《坎特伯雷故事集》(Londondialect,iambicparameter,theheroiccouplet)II.TheAgeofRenaissance(Late15thcentury-Early17thcentury)Renaissance:anintellectualmovement.ItsprangfirstinItalyinthe14thcenturyandgraduallyspreadalloverEurope.Tw

5、ofeatures:1)athirstingcuriosityfortheclassicalliterature;2)thekeeninterestintheactivitiesofhumanity.1.ThomasMore–Utopia2.FrancisBacon–Essays,TheNewAtlantis3.WilliamShakespeare–sonnets,longpoemsandplays--Hometown:Straford--Fourgreattragedies;Fourgreatcome

6、dies;lovetragedy--“Apoundofflesh”;“tobeornottobe”;……III.17thcentury1.JohnMilton–ParadiseLost(greatepic);ParadiseRegained;SamsonAgonistes2.JohnDonne–TheFlea(metaphysicalpoems)3.JohnBunyan–Pilgrim’sProgress(Itisregardedasthemostsuccessfulreligiousallegoryi

7、ntheEnglishlanguage.)IV.TheAgeofEnlightenment(Late17thcentury-Middle18thcentury)1.JonathanSwift–agreatsatirist:Gulliver’sTravels;AModestProposal2.DanielDefoe–RobinsonCrusoe(riseofthenovel);MollFlanders4.HenryFielding–TomJones5.SamuelRichardson–Pamela6.La

8、wrenceSterne–TheLifeandOpinionsofTristramShandy7.OliverGoldsmith–TheDesertedVillage;TheCitizenoftheWorld(ChineseLetters)8.ThomasGray–ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard(TheGraveyardSchool)9.SamuelJohnson–ADictionaryoftheEngli