I. Choose the one answer that best answer the question or completes/explains the sentence. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (20points for 20 questions) Five examples are given below as sample questions. 1. Which of the following American authors made colloquial speech an accepted, respectable literary medium in the literary history of America. A. Mark Twain B. Washington Irving C. Herman Melville D. Ezra Pound 2. Of the following plays by Shakespeare, which one is not a comedy? A. King Lear B. The Merchant of Venice来源：www.examda.com C. As You Like It D. Much Ado About Nothing 3. If you meet a stranger from Britain, which of the following questions can you ask him? A. How old are you? B. When did you buy your watch? C. How often do you travel abroad? D. What is your salary? 4. About 40 million Americans change residences every year because of the following reasons except__________. A. the need for bigger or smaller living quarters as family size changes. B. the desire to start a new life in a new place. C. deteriorating pollution around their communities. D. job opportunities. 5. Which of the following is an affricate? A. [ɡ] B. [z] C. [θ] D. [dr] II. Fill in each blank with an appropriate word or phrase to complete the following passage. Write your answer on the ANSWER SHEET. (30 points) Five examples are given as samples. 1. _________ was keenly aware of the misdeeds of his Puritan ancestors, and this awareness led to his understanding of evil being at the core of human life, a theme he successfully dealt with in his masterpiece The Scarlet Letter. 2. In _____________’s Tess of the D’urbervilles, Tess, a pure woman brought up with the traditional idea of womanly virtues, is abused and destroyed by both Alec and Angel, agents of the destructive force of the society. 3. “All men are created equal” is a famous statement which appears in ____________________. 4. The person who established the translation theory of Fidelity, Fluency and Elegance is ___________________. 5. The term ___________ is defined as the scientific study of language. III. Briefly explain each of the following six terms. Write your answer on the ANSWER SHEET. (30 points) 1. sonnet 2. paradox 3. the Lost Generation 4. Cold War 5. discourse analysis 6. foreignization IV. Please write in English an essay of approximately 300 words on the title given below on the ANSWER SHEET. (20 points) Which is your favorite Shakespearian play? Why? V. Answer the questions, or do the translation, under the area of study for which you are making the application. Write your answers or your translation on the ANSWER SHEET. (50 points) (American &. British Literature) Answer three of the following essay questions:来源：www.examda.com 1. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is humiliated in the market place, she then chooses to live in a small thatched cottage on “the outskirts of the town, within the verge of the peninsula, but not in close vicinity to any other habitation,” and seven years later, she meets Dimmesdale in the forest. Comment on the setting of the novel. 2. Dramatic issues in some of Williams’s plays revolve around the “imposition” of an “other” imposing his/her sense of “what should be” on another in relation to personal or societal expectations. Illustrate this point with evidence from The Glass Menagerie Or A Streetcar Named Desire. 3. Comment on Walt Whitman’s use of imagery Or rhythm in One of the following poems: “There Was a Child Went Forth” “I Hear America Singing” “O Captain, My Captain” “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” 4. Why do most of the critics call Shakespeare’s sonnets a story? 5. English romanticism is seen as a strong reaction to neoclassicism of the 18th century. Could you tell us the difference between romanticism and classicism in terms of the concept of poetry and the poet? 6. With the influence of Ibsen, a great Norwegian playwright, G. B. Shaw made great contributions to the modern English theatre. In his long literary career, Shaw wrote many plays. Pleas name at least 5 of his famous plays and tell us the main artistic features of his dramaturgy.