2018北外英美文学复试笔试题目回忆

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2018年北外英美文学复试笔试没有像以往考术语+经典作品分析，而是考了短篇小说分析。先给出了一篇短篇小说文章，之后就文本提出了六个问题，每个问题里一般有两个小问（30分）。最后要求就文章的主题写一篇不少于300字的分析（70分）。

今年的题目是Mark Halliday的Young Man on Sixth Avenue
文章链接http://brainstorm-services.com/wcu-2005/pdf/sixth-avenue.pdf


以下题目并不是采用原文的措辞，而是依据我自己的回忆。

一、
1.  \"his brown shoes attaining the sidewalk without any faltering, his gait unaware of the notion that legs might ever want to rest.\"
Paraphrase this sentence. What is the young man\'s state of mind at this moment?

2.  \"the all had to see him, all the young women had to perceive him reaching the corner of Forty-ninth and Sixth, and they had to know he was a candidate.\"
What in particular is the young man a candidate for?
How to interpret these \"had to\"?

3.  \"a hard combination to beat\"
What does it means?

4.   Why \"this day in 1938 was the present\"?
Why it later changes into \"this pseudo-present\"?
（具体提问方式不记得了。大概就是分别解释为什么有这两种状态。不用把二者联系起来。）

5.   What is the narrative tone of this story?
Why is this young man not given a name?


6.   How does the time proceed in this story? Why？


二、short essay (in no less than 300words)
  Is there any difference between the young man\'s outlook and the old man\'s? Find evidence from the story and talk about your opinions about this change.
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