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 17^th Century: Donne; Jonson; Milton; Dryden; Bunyan

The 18^th 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 20^th 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