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河南大学学科教学英语综合真题回忆版

英语综合真题回忆版

2014年

一、单选题：30道题，词汇选择

二、修辞选择：给了十几个修辞，五个句子，选择句子所对应的修辞

三、名词解释：1、Transcendentalism

2、William Wordsworth

3、Types of Word Formation 里边的一个，具体哪个记不太清了

4、语言学的，记不太清了

四、翻译：汉译英，今年是散文翻译，张培基的散文里边的一段

五、英英summary(50字以内)

六、简答题：1、语言学：考的是Reference和Deixis，出个句子让你分析

2、语言学的，具体记不太清了

3、Anti-hero的特点，从英美文学中选择两个人物举例说明。

4、Shakespeare的悲剧的主题？举2个例子说明。

2013年

一：30个词义辨析。这个考得很细节

二：5个英语修辞手法选择。

三：150字左右的汉翻英。

四：150字左右的英英summary。

五：名词解释。（linguistics&literature）

1 derivation

2 language

3 Hamlet

4 The lost generation

六：（整张试卷的重难点）

1 如何添加新词（英语语言的词汇丰富过程）

2 试尽可能多的写出“It is cold outside”的各种会话意义。

3 分析T.S.Eliot的作品The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock（J·阿尔弗瑞德·普鲁弗洛克的情歌）中的Prufrock的性格特点。

4 分析Thomas Hardy的作品Tess of the D'Urbervilles（德伯家的苔丝）中tess的这一人物。

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一、30个词汇选择

二、名次解释：1、Shakespeare

2、the lost generation

3、语言学的两个忘记了

三、论述题：1、哈克费恩历险记中他的性格特征

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