2017年上海大学基础英语考研初试大纲

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考试科目：822基础英语

一、复习要求：

要求考生熟悉英语语言的功能、规则、形式与结构，学会优化自己使用的语言，掌握与语言和文学等有关的基本概念和理论，能够合理、有效、且灵活自如地运用各种语体的英语，具备较为精深的英语读、写、译方面的功底。

二、主要复习内容：

2.1 From About Languages: A Reader for Writers
(1) Gender, Race, and Language Conflict: Sexism in English; rapport-talk and report-talk; anti-male bias in English; how names define relationships; names for the race; black English.
(2) Right Words, Wrong Words, My Words: What dictionaries can do for us; four-letter words; the E word; taboo language; English that belongs to everybody.
(3) Language and Cultural Diversity: Vanishing languages; whether English should be the law; bilingual children; Americanization; names in the melting pot.
(4) The Language of Politics and Advertising: How language may serve as the rhetoric of democracy; the doublespeak of weasel words; unprotected sex talk; types of propaganda.
(5) Writers and the Writing Process: Some instructions on writing and life; how to hold the reader; writing as rewriting; concision; computers and writing.
2.2 From Reader’s Choice
(1) Unit 2: International Agency Reports and Essay (Social Essay); Mystery; Essay and International Agency Reports.
(2) Units 3, 4 and 6: Newspaper Advertisements; News and Information; Science Reporting; News and Advertisements.
(3) Units 7 and 10: Poetry; Science Reporting (Genetic Engineering); Short Story.
(4) Units 8 and 9: Technical Prose and Sicence Reporting (Economics); Magazine Article (Popular Psychology); Bus Schedule.
(5) Units 12, 13 and 14: Textbook (Psychology); Psychology; Suspense; Family Narratives; Business text