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不知道各位报考北外英语学硕方向的同学们经过两天的初试感觉如何，略有变化的题型可能让大家有些意外，但相信扎实的积累总会迎来回报。

北外2022英语语言文学方向硕士基础和写作考题还是注重考查同学们对英美文学、文化和历史的了解和主观输出的能力。

一、基础英语

基础英语的题目较为繁琐一点，比较难详细回忆起来，但True or False和Gap Filling七选五的题目直接换成了问答题和填词题。

填词题开头会有字母提示，文章内容则与“交通规则和自动驾驶”相关。

阅读题还涉及到“智能汽车的伦理问题”，“南北战争时期美国护士的职业发展”，“饮食健康”等话题，有道简答题需要用120词左右回答是否支持作者观点。

可以看出主观输出的作答很大程度上取代了客观选择的题目，基英的考查方式有向写作靠拢的趋势，需要大家平时阅读、思考、积累的时候更细致，更勤于动笔。

二、写作能力

写作能力中的Gap Filling填词题分值提到了40分，20个空，但每个空只需要填一个单词，不需要填短语或句子，文章内容与“新闻/报纸是否会被网络取代（Newspaper in the 21st Century）”相关，延续了写作命题风格关于“现代社会人文与科技发展极不同步”的隐忧（同时也是Humanities & Social Sciences 中常见social criticism的子题）。

诗歌鉴赏的题目是美国20世纪最重要的现代诗人之一Wallace Stevens的The Plain Sense of Things:

The Plain Sense of Things

BY WALLACE STEVENS

After the leaves have fallen, we return

To a plain sense of things. It is as if

We had come to an end of the imagination,

Inanimate in an inert savoir.

It is difficult even to choose the adjective

For this blank cold, this sadness without cause.

The great structure has become a minor house.

No turban walks across the lessened floors.

The greenhouse never so badly needed paint.

The chimney is fifty years old and slants to one side.

A fantastic effort has failed, a repetition

In a repetitiousness of men and flies.

Yet the absence of the imagination had

Itself to be imagined. The great pond,

The plain sense of it, without reflections, leaves,

Mud, water like dirty glass, expressing silence

Of a sort, silence of a rat come out to see,

The great pond and its waste of the lilies, all this

Had to be imagined as an inevitable knowledge,

Required, as a necessity requires.

全诗以一种冷静甚至略带玄学诗形而上的哲学感的笔触描述和探讨了“想象”与“创造”之间的联系，想象的枯竭常常会导致创造的停滞，但在长远的创造过程中，从荒凉、废墟之中重新发掘认知与想象，从边缘、静默中重新挖掘价值，也一定是一个必不可少的过程。

具体英文解析可参考：

The poem uses a variety of images to describe a period that occurs annually during which one’s imagination is in a slump. While it might seem desolate and as though nothing is ever going to change, it is, in fact, a necessary part of the creative process. One must go through these periods, ‘The Plain Sense of Things’ says, in order to move on.

Summary

‘The Plain Sense of Things’ by Wallace Stevens is a thoughtful and well-loved poem about creativity and imagination.

The poem starts out with the speakernoting the time when one returns to the “plain sense of things.” It’s after the colorful fall leaves are gone, and one’s left with the barren time between autumn and winter. There, the speaker notes, all imagination seems to die. One is left with a silence that feels impenetrable and entirely uncreative. 

But, this period in which everything seems raw and uninteresting is also a time to reset and reconsider one’s work. It is incredibly necessary to continue the creative process. 

Detailed Analysis 

Stanza One 

After the leaves have fallen, we return

(…)

Inanimate in an inert savoir.

In the first stanza of ‘The Plain Sense of Things,’ the speaker begins by describing how “we,” human beings, come back to a “plain sense of things” once autumn has come. This suggests that during the prior summer months, things are different. When this period comes around, the “imagination” feels as though it’s at an end. This is the first clear reference to creativity, and specifically writing, that one can find in this piece. As it progresses, these allusions are going to become more obvious. 

Stanzas Two and Three

It is difficult even to choose the adjective

(…)

No turban walks across the lessened floors.

The greenhouse never so badly needed paint.

(…)

In a repetitiousness of men and flies.

In the second stanza, the speaker notes how during this period, it’s “even difficult to choose the adjective” to describe it. It is a “sadness without cause.” It makes one’s mind shrink up, and the imagination collapses. 

The period inspires the speaker to consider their surroundings and use them as symbols for the lost feeling he suffers as creativity declines. It feels as though everything has failed during these creative slumps. He’s left with the broken down and slanted remnants of previous efforts. 

Stanzas Four and Five

Yet the absence of the imagination had

Itself to be imagined. The great pond,

The plain sense of it, without reflections, leaves,

(…)

Required, as a necessity requires.

In the fourth stanza, the speaker notes that the “absence of the imagination / had Itself to be imagined.” There is a purpose to this “absence.” It wasn’t just a negative. It expresses, like a dirty pond, “silence.” Its “water like dirty glass” is without reflection or sound. It’s compared in the fifth stanza to the “silence of a rat come out to see.” 

The dirty pond is not without merits; it’s filled with “lilies,” all of which had to be imagined, the speaker says, “as an inevitable knowledge.” It is required that one have these periods of imaginative distance so that one may succeed creatively in times to come. 

Structure and Form 

‘The Plain Sense of Things’ by Wallace Stevens is a five-stanza poem that is divided into quatrains or sets of four lines. These lines are written in free verse. This means that the poem does not follow a specific rhyme scheme or metrical pattern. This is quite common with contemporary verse, but it doesn’t mean that the poem is entirely without rhyme or rhythm. For example, readers should note the use of half-rhymes with “flies” and “side” in stanza two. This is one of a few instances. 

Literary Devices 

Throughout this poem, the poet uses a variety of literary techniques. These include but are not limited to: 

解析来自：https://poemanalysis.com/wallace-stevens/the-plain-sense-of-things/

最后一题长作文的题目是适应不安：Getting comfortable in being uncomfortable. This is how you cross the plateau and reach a new level.

与不安、焦虑共处并克服艰难，是一个比较老生常谈的话题，尤其在我们现在所处的后疫情时代，一切似乎仍然受到巨大的不确定性的笼罩，大家可以联系时代背景也可以从哲理分析入手（或二者结合），逻辑清晰，紧扣题目，表达正确、完整即可。

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不管考得如何，初试已成为过去式，估分后成绩比较乐观的同学休整几天后建议马上开始对于复试的准备，即使你的初试成绩并没有那么高，但是复试表现好了，依旧有可能赶超一大票竞争对手。