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北京外国语大学

2003年英语语言文学专业试题

Time Limit: 3 Hours Total Points: 150

Part I （20 points）

Match the following quotes with their authors.

Quotes

1.

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery; and another portion as the site of a prison.

2.

Only teaching on Tuesdays, book-worming

in pajamas fresh from the washer each morning.

3.

You do not do, you do not do

Any more, black shoe

In which I have lived like a foot

For thirty years, poor and white.

Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.

4.

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

5.

And the strange and beautiful song,

The groves are repeating it still:

"A boy's will is the wind's will.

And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts."

6.

Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of the x vegetation.

7.

The Soul selects her own Society

Then--shuts the Door--

To her divine Majority--

Present no more

8.

Mrs. Brooks had strange qualms of misgiving. She got upon the table, and touched the spot in

the spot in the ceiling with her fingers. It was damp, and she fancied that it was a bloodstain. 9.

One flesh was called, who had her eye

On worldly wealth and vanity;

The other Spirit, who did rear

Her thoughts unto a higher sphere.

10.

He would not take that direction, to the darkness, to follow her. He walked towards the

faintly humming, glowing town, quickly.