2017年陕西空军工程大学翻译硕士英语考研真题(A卷)
考试科目:翻译硕士英语(A卷)
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PART I
MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
[20 POINTS] SECTION A
GRAMMAR
Directions: Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked [A], [B],
[C] and [D]. Choose one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Mark your answers
on your ANSWER SHEET.
1. Fool
[A] who
Helen is, she could not have done such a thing.
[B] as
[C]that
[D] like
2.
time, John will make a first-class tennis player.
[A] Having
[B] Given
[C] Giving
[D] Had
3. Intellect is to the mind
sight is to the body.
[A] what
4. After
[B] as
[C]that
[D]like
seemed an endless wait, it was his turn to enter the personnel
manager’s office.
[A] that
5.
[B]there
[C] what
[D]it
your timely advice, I would never have known how to go about the work.
[A]Unless
[B] But for
[C] Except for
[D] Not for
6.
7.
Sam is
hardworking than his sister, but he failed in the exam.
[A] no less
[B]no more
[C]not less
[D] no so
for the fact that she broke her leg, Mary might have passed the exam.
[A] Had it not been
[B] Hadn’t it been [C] Was it not
[D] Were it not
8. It is futile to discuss the matter further, because
going to agree upon
anything today.
[A]neither you nor I are
[B] neither you nor me is [C]neither
you nor I am
[D] neither me nor you are
9. Her strong sense of
humor was
make everyone in the room burst out laughing.
[A] so as to
[B] such as to
[C]so that
[D]. such that
10.
at in this way, the present economic situation doesn’t seem so
gloomy. [A]Looking
[B] Looked
[C] Having looked
[D]
To look
11. Acute hearing helps most animals sense the approach of thunderstorms long before
people
[A]do
.
[B] hear
[C]do them
[D]hearing it
12. The meeting was put off because we
a meeting without Peter. [A]objected
having
[B] were objected to having
[C]objected to have
[D] objected to having
13. The oceans
divide the world
unite it.
[A]not…as
[B] / …/
[C] do not so much … as
[D] do so much…than
14. Time is what we want most, but what, alas, many use
.
[A]it
[B] worse
[C] wisely
[D] flexibly
15. It is absolutely essential that John
his study in spite of some learning
difficulties.
[A]will continue
[B] continued
[C] continue
[D] continues
SECTION B VACABULARY
Directions: There are four words or phrases beneath each sentence. Choose the ONE word or
phrase which would best keep the meaning of the original sentence if it were substituted for
the underlined part. Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.
16. The official promised to be candid, but we wondered.
[A]discreet [B] open and frank
[C]casual
[D] sweet
17. Betty advised me to label our luggage carefully in case it gets misplaced in
transit.
[A]misuse
[B]mishandled
[C]mistaken
[D]mislaid
18. His miscellaneous expenses include stamps and haircuts.
[A]daily
[B] many different
[C] additional
[D]annual
19. In winter, many homeless vagabonds prefer to live in prison rather than to live in the
open.
[A]children
[B]wanders
[C]criminals
[D]tramps
20. Because the details of the project were rather hazy, they decided to reject the
proposal.
[A]dubious
[B] unobtainable
[C] lucrative
[D] vague
21. The police decided to make every effort to capture the fiend who murdered the
children.
[A]foolish person
[B] wicked person
[C]hot-headed person
[D] suspected person
22. His father refused to see anyone and remained a hermit all his life.
[A]heretic
[B]fugitive
[C]recluse
[D]
veteran
23. They found a hamlet in the deep forest with only ten families.
[A]an empty space
[B]a cottage
[C]a small village
[D] a tribe
24. Does he love his wealthy mother or only pretend for mercenary reasons?
[A]personal
[B]purely unexplained
[C]instinct [D] selfish
25. People who live in crowded cities often experience breathing problems during the
summer when high temperature combined with hoary polluted air. [A]drab
[B]
stagnant
[C]lurid
[D]greyish white
26. We are at a critical important point in terms of his domestic program.
[A]jig
[B]martin
[C]martini
[D] juncture
27. If he wins this race, it will make up his recent string of defeats.
[A]ameliorate
[B] atone
[C]asperse
[D] ascertain
28. Health inspectors criticized severely the kitchen staff for poor standards of
cleanliness.
[A]castigated
[B]capitulated
[C]corroded
[D] debilitated
29. She was seized the cramps while swimming.
[A]sharks
[B]swift currents
[C]storms
[D] sharp pains
30. He is one of the young lady's fervent admirers.
[A] ardent
[B] young
[C] first
[D] unseen
PART II
Close Text
[10 POINTS]
Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and
markA, B, C or D on your ANSWER SHEET.
The human nose is an underrated tool. Humans are often thought to be insensitive
smellers compared with animals,
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this is largely because, 42 animals, we
stand upright. This means that our noses are
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to perceiving those
smells which float through the air,
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the majority of smells which stick to
surfaces. In fact,
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, we are extremely sensitive to smells,
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we do not generally realize it. Our noses are capable of
47 human
smells even when these are
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to far below one part in one million.
Strangely, some people find that they can smell one type of flower but not another,
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others are sensitive to the smells of both flowers. This may be
because some people do not have the genes necessary to generate
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smell receptors
in the nose. These receptors are the cells which sense smells and send 51
to
the brain. However, it has been found that even people insensitive to a certain smell
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can suddenly become sensitive to it when
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to it
often enough.
The explanation for insensitivity to smell seems
to be that the brain
finds
it
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to keep all smell receptors working all the time but can
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new
receptors if necessary. This may 56 explain why we are not usually sensitive
to our own smells—we simply do not need to be. We are not
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of the usual
smell of our own house, but we 58 new smells when we visit someone else’s. The brain
finds it best to keep smell receptors 59 for
unfamiliar and emergency signals
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the smell of smoke, which might indicate
the danger of fire.
41. [A] but
[B] as
[C] although
[D] while
42. [A] besides
[B] unlike
[C] excluding
[D] above
43. [A] confined
[B] committed
[C] dedicated
[D] limited
44. [A] catching
[B] tracking
[C] missing
[D] ignoring
45. [A] anyway
[B] though
[C] instead
[D] therefore
46. [A] even if
[B] if only
[C] only if
[D] as if
47. [A]
determining
[B]
discovering
[C]
distinguishing
[D] detecting
48. [A] diluted
[B] dissolved
[C] dispersed
[D] diffused
49. [A] when
[B] since
[C] for
[D] whereas
50. [A] unique
[B] particular
[C] unusual
[D] typical
51. [A] messages
[B] stimuli
[C] signs
[D] impulses
52. [A] at first
[B] at all
[C] at large
[D] at times
53. [A] subjected
[B] left
[C] drawn
[D] exposed
54. [A]
ineffective
[B]
incompetent
[C] inefficient [D]
insufficient
55. [A] introduce
[B] summon
[C] trigger
[D] create
56. [A] still
[B] also
[C] otherwise
[D]
nevertheless
57. [A] sure
[B] stick
[C] aware
[D] tired
58. [A] tolerate
[B] repel
[C] neglect
[D] notice
59. [A] suitable
[B] reliable
[C]
identifiable
[D] available
60. [A] aside from
[B] such as
[C] along with
[D] similar to
PART III PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION
[10 POINTS]
Directions: The passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of
ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and
correctit in the followingway:
For a wrong word,
underline the wrong word and write the correct
one in the blank provided at the end of the line.
For a missing word,
mark the position of the missing word with a
“∧” sign and write the word you believe to be missing
in the blank provided at the end of the line.
For an unnecessary word,
cross out the unnecessary word with a slash “/”
and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the
EXAMPLE
line.
When ∧art museum wants a new exhibit,
(1) an
it never buys things in finished form and hangs
(2) never
them on the wall. When a naturalhistory
museum wants an exhibition, it must often build
(3) exhibit
it.
Recently, a possible alternative way of producing paper
has been suggested by agriculturalists and environmentalists: a
plant called hemp.
Hemp has been cultivated by many cultures for thousands of
years. It produces fiber which can be made paper, fuel, oils,
textiles, food, and rope. For many centuries, it was essential
to the economies of many countries because it used to make the
ropes and cables used on sailing ships; colonial expansion and
the establishment of a world-wide trading network would have
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been possible without hemp. Nowadays, ships’ cables are usually
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made from wire or synthetic fibers, and scientists are now
suggesting that the cultivation of hemp should be revived for
the production of paper and pulp. According to its proponents,
four times as that much paper can be produced from land, using
hemp rather than trees.
However, there is a problem: hemp is illegal in many
countries of the world. This plant, so useful for fiber, rope,
oil, fuel and textiles, is species of cannabis, related to the
plant which marijuana is produced. In the late 1930s, a movement
to ban the drug marijuana began to gather force, resulted in the
eventual banning of the cultivation not only of the plant used
to producing the drug, but also of the commercial fiber-
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producing