翻译硕士英语2011（211）.pdf

211 华南理工大学 2011 年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试卷（请在答题纸上做答，试卷上做答无效，试后本卷必须与答题纸一同交回）科目名称：翻译硕士英语 适用专业：英语笔译(专业学位)本卷满分：100 分 共 12 页 第 1 页 Part I.Vocabulary and Grammar(30 points,1 point for each)Directions:After each statement there are four choices marked A,B,C,and D.Choose the only one choice that best completes the statement.Write your answers on your answer sheet.1.Please explain your statement.I have no _ what you are talking about.A.contemplation B.norm C.notion D.imagination 2.On August 18th the president announced a general _ for political exiles.A.yoga B.ado C.quartet D.amnesty 3.When two straight lines meet,_ an angle.A.formed B.it is formed C.they form D.to form 4.It is not _much the language as the background that makes the novel difficult to understand.A.that B.that C.so D.very 5.The machine got somewhat eroded,but this oil will _ it well.A.extinct B.decorate C.illuminate D.lubricate 6.The digestive enzyme pepsin breaks down proteins into components _ readily absorbed by the human body.A.that can be B.and are C.which they D.are to be 7._ the precise qualities of the hero in literary works may vary over time,the basic exemplary function of the hero seems to remain constant.A.Whatever B.Even though C.In spite of D.Regardless 8.The baby monkey _ to its mother all day.A.held B.grasped C.clung D.stuck 9._at in this way,the situation does not seem so desperate.A.Looked B.Looking C.To look D.Being looked 第 2 页 10.Because caricature tends to emphasize the peculiarities of a subject,_ an effective vehicle for pictorial satire.A.which is often B.and often seen as C.it is often D.many of which are 11.It is absolutely essential that Mary _her study in spite of some leaning difficulties.A.will continue B.continued C.continue D.continues 12.Please the staff that the inspectors will be here on Monday and let them make good preparations.A.modify B.ratify C.rectify D.notify 13.The meeting took on a different _after his moving speech.A.presage B.posture C.travesty D.trauma 14.In the nineteenth century,Samuel Gridley Howe founded the Perkins School for the blind,_ for children in Boston,Massachusetts.A.that institutes B.while instituted C.was an institution D.an institute 15.People in prehistoric times created paints by grinding materials such as plants and clay into powder _.A.water to be added B.for adding water then C.and water added D.and then adding water 16.While she had the fever,she _for hours.A.raved B.sniggered C.perforated D.tittered 17.Seeing the General coming his way,the soldier stopped and gave him a smart _.A.toast B.salute C.tribute D.solution 18.Often very annoying weeds,_ and act as hosts to many insect pests.A.that crowd out less hardy plants than goldenrods B.crowding out less hardy plants by goldenrods C.the goldenrods crowding out of less hardy plants D.goldenrods crowd out less hardy plants 19.If you spill hot liquid on your skin it will _ you.A.scale B.scald C.shun D.shunt 20.Starting around 7000 B.C.,and for the next four thousand years,much of the Northern Hemisphere _ temperatures warmer than at present.A.with experience of B.experienced C.experiencing D.experience 第 3 页 21.Did you get any _ when you are dismissed from your job?A.fund B.loan C.bonus D.compensation 22.When you are suffering from_ you have red spots on your skin and you feel as if you have a cold,A.apathy B.schizophrenia C.impotence D.measles 23.He was _ on the telephone so I asked him to speak more clearly.A.muttering B.grumbling C.groping D.shuddering 24.Now,with the _ and popularity of the home computer,its advantages and disadvantages have been a subject of discussion.A.adventure B.advance C.advent D.adult 25.They _ evidence and threatened witnesses not to tell the truth to anyone else.A.produced B.fabricated C.created D.manipulated 26.Is there any possible _ explanation for his bad health since he seems to have no obvious disease?A.psychiatric B.psychological C.surgical D.physical 27.Many animals display _ instincts only while their offspring are young and helpless.A.cerebral B.imperious C.rueful D.maternal 28._ the bad weather has delayed the flight,so it would be several hours before they could arrive.A.Presumably B.Respectively C.Imaginably D.Plausibly 29.They send information every week,_ whether its useful or not.A.in consideration of B.irrespective of C.with the exception of D.with regard to 30.Children of poor health are very _ to colds in winter and should be taken care of particularly.A.willing B.ready C.reluctant D.prone 第 4 页 Part II.Reading Comprehension(50 points)Section 1 Multiple choice questions(30 points,3 points for each)Directions:In this section there are 2 reading passages followed by multiple-choice questions.Read the passages and then write your answers on your answer sheet.Passage 1 Given the lack of fit between gifted students and their schools,it is not surprising that such students often have little good to say about their school experience.In one study of 400 adults who had achieved distinction in all areas of life,researchers found that three-fifths of these individuals either did badly in school or were unhappy in school.Few MacArthur Prize fellows,winners of the MacArthur Award for creative accomplishment,had good things to say about their precollegiate schooling if they had not been placed in advanced programs.Anecdotal reports support this.Pablo Picasso,Charles Darwin,Mark Twain,Oliver Gold smith,and William Butler Yeats all disliked school.So did Winston Churchill,who almost failed out of Harrow,an elite British school.About Oliver Goldsmith,one of his teachers remarked,Never was so dull a boy.Often these children realize that they know more than their teachers,and their teachers often feel that these children are arrogant,inattentive,or unmotivated.Some of these gifted people may have done poorly in school because their gifts were not scholastic.Maybe we can account for Picasso in this way.But most fared poorly in school not because they lacked ability but because they found school unchallenging and consequently lost interest.Yeats described the lack of fit between his mind and school:Because I had found it difficult to attend to anything less interesting than my own thoughts,I was difficult to teach.”As noted earlier,gifted children of all kinds tend to be strong-willed nonconformists.Nonconformity and stubbornness(and Yeatss level of arrogance and self-absorption)are likely to lead to Conflicts with teachers.When highly gifted students in any domain talk about what was important to the development of their abilities,they are far more likely to mention their families than their schools or teachers.A writing prodigy studied by David Feldman and Lynn Goldsmith was taught far more about writing by his journalist father than his English teacher.High-IQ children,第 5 页 in Australia studied by Miraca Gross had much more positive feelings about their families than their schools.About half of the mathematicians studied by Benjamin Bloom had little good to say about school.They all did well in school and took honors classes when available,and some skipped grades.31.The main point the author is making about schools is that A.they should satisfy the needs of students from different family backgrounds B.they are often incapable of catering to the needs of talented students C.they should organize their classes according to the students ability D.they should enroll as many gifted students as possible 32.The author quotes the remarks of one of Oliver Goldsmiths teachers A.to provide support for his argument B.to illustrate the strong will of some gifted children C.to explain how dull students can also be successful D.to show how poor Olivers performance was at school 33.Pablo Picasso is listed among the many gifted children who A.paid no attention to their teachers in class B.contradicted their teachers much too often C.could not cope with their studies at school successfully D.behaved arrogantly and stubbornly in the presence of their teachers 34.According to the passage author,the development of highly gifted students is attributed A.mainly to parental help and their education at home B.both to school instruction and to their parents coaching C.more to their parents encouragement than to school training D.less to their systematic education than to their talent 35.The root cause of many gifted students having bad memories of their school years is that A.their nonconformity brought them a lot of trouble B.they were seldom praised by their teachers C.school courses failed to inspire or motivate them D.teachers were usually far stricter than their parents 第 6 页 Passage 2 It came as something of a surprise when Diana,Princess of Wales,made a trip to Angola in 1997,to support the Red Crosss campaign for a total ban on all anti-personnel landmines.Within hours of arriving in Angola,television screens around the world were filled with images of her comforting victims injured in explosions caused by landmines.I knew the statistics,she said.But putting a face to those figures brought the reality home to me;like when I met Sandra,a 13-year-old girl who had lost her leg,and people like her.The Princess concluded with a simple message:We must stop landmines.And she used every opportunity during her visit to repeat this message.But,back in London,her views were not shared by some members of the British government,which refused to support a ban on these weapons.Angry politicians launched an attack on the Princess in the press.They described her as very ill-informed and a loose cannon”.The Princess responded by brushing aside the Criticisms:This is a distraction we do not need.All Im trying to do is help.Opposition parties,the media and the public immediately voiced their support for the Princess.To make matters worse for the government,it soon emerged that the Princesss trip had been approved by the Foreign Office,and that she was in fact very well-informed about both the situation in Angola and the British governments policy regarding landmines.The result was a severe embarrassment for the government.To try and limit the damage,the Foreign Secretary,Malcolm Rifkidnd,claimed that the Princesss views on landmines were not very different from government policy,and that it was working towards a worldwide ban.The Defence Secretary,Michael Portillo,claimed the matter was a misinterpretation or misunderstanding.-For the Princess,the trip to this war-torn country was an excellent opportunity to use her popularity to show the world how much destruction and suffering landmines can cause.She said that the experience had also given her the chance to get closer to people and their problems.36.Princess Diana paid a visit to Angola in 1997 A.to clarify the British governments stand on landmines B.to establish her image as a friend of landmine victims C.to investigate the sufferings of landmine victims there D.to voice her support for a total ban of landmines 37.What did Diana mean when she said.putting a face to those figures brought the reality 第 7 页 home to me(Paragraph 1)?A.Meeting the landmine victims in person made her believe the statistics.B.She just couldnt bear to meet the landmine victims face to face.C.The actual situation in Angola made her feel like going back home.D.Seeing the pain of the victims made her realize the seriousness of the situation.38.Some members of the British government criticized Diana because A.she had not consulted the government before the visit B.she was ill-informed of the governments policy C.they were actually opposed to banning landmines D.they believed that she had misinterpreted the situation in Angola 39.How did Diana respond to the criticisms?A.She made more:appearances on TV.B.She paid no attention to them.C.She rose to argue with her opponents.D.She met the 13-year-old girl as planned.40.What did Princess Diana think of her visit to Angola?A.It had caused embarrassment to the British government.B.It had greatly promoted her popularity.C.It had brought her closer to the ordinary people.D.It had affected her relations with the British government.Section 2 Answering questions(20 points,4 points for each)Directions:Read the following passages and the answer IN COMPLETE SENTENCES the questions following each passage.Use only information from the passage you have read and write your answer in the corresponding space in your ANSWER SHEET.Passage 3 At the University of Virginia in Charlottesville,psychology professor Bella DePaulo got 77 students and 70 twonspeople to volunteer for an unusual project.All kept diaries for a week,recording the numbers and details of the lies they told.One student and six Charlottesville residents professed to have told no falsehoods.The other 第 8 页 140 participants told 1,535.The lies were most often not what most of us would call earth-shattering.Someone would pretend to be more positive or supportive of a spouse or friend than he or she really was,or feign agreement with a relatives opinion.According to DePaulo,women in their interactions with other women lied mostly to spare the others feelings.Men lied to other men generally for self-promoting reasons.Most strikingly,these tellers-of-a-thousand-lies reported that their deceptions caused them“little preoccupation or regret”.Might that,too,be a lie?Perhaps.But there is evidence that this attitude toward casual use of prevarication is common.For example,20,000 middle-and-high-schoolers were surveyed by the Josephson Institute of Ethics-a nonprofit organization in Marina de Rey,Calif.,devoted to character education.Ninety-two percent of the teenagers admitted having lied to their parents in the previous year,and 73 percent characterized themselves as“serial liars”,meaning they told lies weekly.Despite these admissions,91 percent of all respondents said they were“satisfied with my own ethics and character”.Think how often we hear the expression“Ill call you”or“The check is in the mail”or“Im sorry,but he stepped out”.And then there are professions-lawyers,pundits,PR consultants-whose members seem to specialize in shaping or spinning the truth to suit clients needs.Little white lies have become ubiquitous,and the reason we give each other for telling fibs are familiar.Consider,for example,a Southern California corporate executive whom Ill call Tom.He goes with his wife and son to his mother-in-laws home for Thanksgiving dinner every year.Tom dislikes her“special”pumpkin pie intensely.Invariably he tells her how wonderful it is,to avoid hurting her feelings.“Whats wrong with that?”Tom asked Michael Josephson,president of the Josephson Institute.Its a question we might all ask.Josephson replied by asking Tom to consider the lie from his mother-in-laws point of view.Suppose that one day Toms child blurts out the truth,and she discovers the deceit.Will she tell her son-in-law,“Thank you for caring so much?”Or is she more likely to feel hurt and say,“How could you have misled me all these years?”And what might Toms mother-in-law now susp