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2018年云南昆明理工大学翻译硕士英语考研真题A卷.doc
2018 年云南昆明理工大学翻译硕士英语考研真题 A 卷
Part Ⅰ Vocabulary and Structure
(1x30=30 points)
In this section, there are thirty incomplete sentences. For each sentence four
choicess marked A, B, C and D are given. Decide which of the alternatives best
completes the sentence. Write the appropriate letter on the ANSWER SHEET.
1. Peter is one of the greatest of our public benefactors. He_____ the cathedral
at Hampton.
A. resurrected
B. repaired
C.
saved
D.
restored
2. The last of the sunlight was shining _____ the latticed window.
A. athwart
B. through
C. into
D. over
3. The need of college students to control their own destinies has ______ a new
series of policies
from the administration.
A. moved
B. prompted
C. stimulated
D. seduced
4. The boy had been so mistreated that he was faced with a vast, uncomprehending
___ every
day.
A. hesitation
B.
difficulty
C. unease
D.
uncertainty
5. He ______ under oath that the woman had not been at the scene of the crime.
A. tested
B. contested
C. protested
D.
testified
6. Perspective in drawing gives the ______ of depth.
A. delusion
B. disillusionment
C. disillusion
D.
illusion
7. Ron thanked his ______ for helping him through a tough time.
A. benefactor
B. beneficiary
C. contestant
D.
arbitrate
8. They criticized Martin Luther King for his rigid _______ on non-violence.
A. posture
B. stance
C. attitude
D. approach
9. The budgets of several departments will require pruning. All the following can
replace the
underlined part EXCEPT _______.
A. trimming
B. chopping
C. snipping
D. mincing
10. All of the women _______ at how well formed the baby was.
A. acclaimed
B. declaimed
C. exclaimed
D. proclaimed
11. In Britain, the sovereign _______ but does not govern.
A. reins
B. reigns
C. deigns
D.
feigns
12. These teachers try to be objective when they evaluate the _______ ability of
their students.
A. integrated
B. integral
C. segregated
D.
desegregated
13. A terrible traffic accident happened; people were saddened when they watched
the _______
sight on TV.
A. panic
B. patriotic
C. pathetic
D. periodic
14. The element of nature must be ________ with in any military campaign, which
is a lesson we have learnt from Unit One in our text book.
A. thought
B. considered
C. regarded
D. reckoned
15. Once they have a common goal, nothing ________ their love.
A. stands up to
B. gets along with
C. gets in the way of
D.
faces up to
16. Heavy fighting has been going on after the Red Army had launched their ________
against their enemy.
A. offensive
B. resistance
C. occupation
D.
retreat
17. The talks might _______ for weeks before any concrete result is announced.
A. press on
B. drag on
C. get bogged down
D. hold out
18. Most skin cancers can be cured if ________ and treated early.
A. stared
B. looked
C. studied
D. detected
19. Thousands of ex-army officers have found ________ jobs in private security firms
A. helpful
B. responsible
C. lucrative
D.
academic
20. The doctor ________ Tom’s operation with x-rays and special exercises to make
him stronger.
A. followed up
B. went after
C. started up
D.
swept aside
2`. Friendly contacts between different peoples ________ the cultural and economic
interchange.
A. grill
B. oblige
C. mount
D. facilitate
22. Irene is so incredibly musical and has a natural ________ to perform.
A. instinct
B. conception
C. perception
D.
implication
23. To be ________ with you, I think you’re making a dreadful mistake by refusing
to cooperate.
A. responsible
B. candid
C. efficient
discontent
24. For my own part, I find that appearances are too often ________.
A. feasible
B. insane
C. offensive
D.
D.
deceptive
25(1). The shopkeepers are complaining that business has been reduced to a ________
of what it was before the outbreak of war.
A. section
B. portion
C. trifle
D. fraction
25(2). He should ________ what he’s good at, and not switch to something he knows
nothing about.
A. take on
B. stick to
C. go on
D. live on
26. You can ________ the video camera on a tripod，so that you don’t have to worry
about holding it steady while you ask questions.
A. mount
B. displace
C. carve
D. eliminate
27. They hurried there ______ the meeting cancelled. In fact, they ______ at all.
A. only finding; mustn’t have gone
B. only to find; needn’t have gone
C. only to find; mustn’t have gone
D. only finding; needn’t have
gone
28. He left orders that nothing ______ touched until the police arrived here.
A. should be
B. ought to be
C. must be
D. would be
29. The team can handle whatever ______.
A. that needs handling
C. it needs handling
B. which needs handling
D. needs to be handled
30. His strong sense of humor was ______ make everyone in the room burst out laughing.
A. so as to
B. so that
C. such as to
D. such
that
Part II
Reading Comprehension ( 40 points )
SectionA:Inthissection,therearethreepassages.Eachpassageisfollowedby
5 questions orunfinished statements. Foreach of themfour choices marked A, B,
C and D are given. You should decide on the BEST choice for each question or
unfinished statement and then write the appropriate letter on the ANSWER SHEET.
(2x15 =30 points)
Questions 1-5 are based on the following passage.
Passage 1
The mental consequences of our online info-crunching are not universally bad.
Certain cognitive skills are strengthened by our use of computers and the Net. These
tend to involve more primitive in mental functions, such as hand-eye coordination,
reflex response, and the processing of visual cues. One much-cited study of video
gaming revealed that after just 10 days of playing action games on computers, a
group of young people had significantly boosted the speed with which they could
shift their visual focus between various images and task.
It is likely that Web browsing also strengthens brain functions related to
fast-paced problem solving, particularly when it requires sporting patterns in a
welter of data. A British study of the way woman search for medical information
online indicated that an experienced Internet user can, at least in some cases,
assess the trustworthiness and probable value of Web page in a matter of seconds.
The more we practice surfing and scanning, the more adept our brain becomes at those
tasks.
But it would be a serious mistake to look narrowly at such benefits and conclude
that the Web
is making us smarter. In a Science article published in early 2009,
prominent developmental psychologist Patricia Greenfield reviewed more than forty
studies of the effects of various types of media on intelligence and learning ability.
She concluded that “every medium develops some cognitive skills at the expense
of others.” Our growing use of the Net and other screen-based technologies, she
wrote, has lead to “the widespread and sophisticated development of visual-spatial
skills.” But those gains go hand in hand, with a weakening of our capacity for
the kind of “deep processing” that underpins “mindful knowledge acquisition,
inducted analysis, critical thinking, imagination, and reflection.”
We know that, the human brain is highly plastic; neurons and synapses change
as circumstances change. When we adapt to a new cultural phenomenon, including the
use of a new medium, we end up with a different brain, says Michael Merzenich, a
pioneer of the field of neuroplasticity. That means our online habits continue to
reverberate in the workings of our brain cells even when we're not at the computer.
We’re exercising the neural circuits devoted to skimming and multitasking while
ignoring those used for reading and thinking deeply.
Critics of new media sometimes use science itself to press their case, citing
research that shows how “ experience can change the brain. ” But cognitive
neuroscientists roll their eyes at such talk. Yes, every time we learn a fact or
a skill the writing of the brain changes; it is not as if the information is stored
in the pancreas. But the existence of neural plasticity, does not mean the brain
is a blob of clay pounded into shape by experience.
1. The author of the passage indicates which of the following about the use of
screen-based technologies?
A. It should be thoroughly started.
B. It makes the brain increasingly rigid.
C. It has some positive effects.
D. It should be widely encouraged.
2. The author indicates that becoming adept at using internet can _______.
A. make people complacent about their health
B. undermine the ability to think deeply
C. increase people’s social contacts
D. improve people’s self confidence
3. As used in Para 4, plastics most nearly means________________.
A. malleable
B. artificial
C. creativity
D. sculptural
4. On which of the following points would the author most likely agree?
A. Computer-savvy children tend to demonstrate better hand-eye coordination than
do their parents.
B. Those who criticize consumers of electronic media tend to overreact in their
criticism.
C. Improved vision-special skills do not generalize to improve their skills in
other areas.
D. Internet users are unlikely to prefer reading on screen text to reading actual
books.
5. The main purpose of the passage is to________________
A. compare brain function in those who play games on the internet and those who
grows on it.
B. to report on the problem-solving skills of individuals with varying levels
of Internet experience.
C. take a position on increasing financial support for studies related to
technology and intelligence.
D. make an argument about the effects of electronic media use on the brain.
Questions 6-10 are based on the following passage.
Passage 2
My emotions are complicated and notreadilyverifiable. I feel a vast yearning
that is simultaneously a pleasure and a pain. I am certain of the consummation of
this yearning, but I don't know yet what form it will take, since I do not understand
quite what it is that the yearning desires. For the first time, there is borne in
upon me the full truth of what I myself said to the doctor only an hour ago: that
my motives in this undertaking are not entirely clear. Four years, for a lifetime,
the machinery of my destiny has worked in secret to prepare for this moment; its
clockwork has moved exactly toward this time and place and no other. Rising slowly
from the earth that bore me and give me sustenance, I am carried helplessly toward
an uninhabited and hostile, or at best indifferent, part of the earth, littered
with the bones of explorers and the wrecks of ships, frozen supply caches, messages
scrawled with chilled fingers and hidden in cairns that no eye will ever see.
Nobody has succeeded in this thing, and many have died. Yet in freely willing
in this enterprise, in choosing this moment and no other when the south wind will
carry me exactly northward at a velocity of eight knots. I have converted the
machinery of my fate into the servant of my will. All these I understand, as I
understand each detail of the technique by which this is carried out. What I don't
understand is why I am so intent on going to this particular place. Who wants the
North Pole! What good is it! Can you eat it? Will it carry you from Gotheburg to
Malmo like a railway? The Danish ministers have declared from their pulpits that
participation in polar expedition is beneficial to the soul's eternal well-being,
or so I read in the newspaper. It isn’t clear how this doctrine is to be interpreted,
except that the Pole is something difficult or impossible to attain which must
nevertheless be sought for, because man is condemned to seek out and know everything
whether or not the knowledge gives him pleasure. In short, it is the same unthinking
lust for knowledge that drove our First Parents out of the garden.
And suppose, you were to find it in spite of all, this wonderful place that
everybody is so anxious to stand on. What would you find? Practically nothing. A
point precisely identical to all the others in a completely featureless wasteland
stretching around it for hundreds of miles. It is an abstraction, a mathematical
fiction. No one but a Swedish madman could take the slightest interest in it. Here
I am. The wind is still from the south, bearing us steadily northward at the speed
of trotting dog. Behind us, perhaps forever, like the Cities of Men with their
teacups and their brass bedsteads. I am going forth of my own violation to join
the ghosts of Bering and before Franklin, of frozen De Long and his men. What I
am on the brink of knowing, I now see, is not that ephemeral mathematical spot but
myself. The doctor was right, even though I dislike him. Fundamentally, I am a
dangerous madman, and what I do is both a challenge to my egotism and a surrender
to it.
6. Over the course of the passage, the narrator's attitude shifts from________.
A. fear about the expedition to excitement about it
B. doubt about his abilities to confidence in them
C. Uncertainty of his motives to recognition of them
D. disdain for the North Pole to appreciation of it
7. As used in Para. 1, “not readily verifiable” most nearly means_____.
A. unable to be authenticated
B. likely to be contradicted
C. without empirical support
D. not completely understood
8. The narrator indicates that many previous explorers seeking the North Pole
have________.
A. perished in that attempt.
B. made surprising discoveries
C. failed to determine its exact location
D. had different motivations than his own
9. Which choice best describes the narrator’s view of his expedition to the North
Pole?
A. Immoral but inevitable
B. Absurd but necessary
C. Socially beneficial but misunderstood
D. Scientifically important but hazardous
10. The question the narrator asks in Para. 2 (“Will it …railway”) most nearly
implies that ______.
A. balloons will never replace other modes of transportation
B . the North Pole is farther away than the cities usually reached by train
C. people often travel from one city to another without considering the
implications
D. reaching the North Pole has no foreseeable benefit to humanity
Questions 11-15 are based on the following passage.
Passage 3
Psychologists agree that I.Q. contributes only about 20 percent of the factors
that determine success. A full 80 percent comes from other factors, including what
I call emotional intelligence. Following are two
of the major qualities that make
up emotional intelligence, and how they can be developed.
1. Self-awareness.
The ability to recognize a feeling as it happens is
the keystone of emotional
intelligence. People with greater certainty about their
emotions are better pilots of their lives.
Developing self-awareness requires tuning in to what neurologist Antonio Damasio
calls “gut feelings”. Gut feelings can occur without a person being consciously
aware of them. For example, when people who fear snakes are shown a picture of a
snake, sensors on their skin will detect sweat, a sign of anxiety, even
though
the people say they do not feel fear. The sweat shows up even when a picture is
presented so rapidly that the subject has no conscious awareness of seeing it.
Through deliberate effort we can become more aware of our gut feelings.
Take someone who is
annoyed by a rude encounter for hours after it occurred. He
may be unaware of his irritability and
surprised when someone calls attention to
it. But if he evaluates his feelings, he can change them. Emotional self-awareness
is the building block of the next fundamental of emotional intelligence: being able
to shake
off a bad mood.
2. Mood Management.
Bad as well as good moods
spice
life and build
character. The key is balance.
We often have little control over when we are swept by emotion. But we
can have some say in how
long that emotion will last. Psychologist Dianne Tice
asked more than 400 men and women about their strategies for escaping foul moods.
Her research, along with that of other psychologists, provides valuable information
on how to change a bad mood.
Of all the moods that people want to escape, rage seems to be the hardest
to deal with. When someone in another car cuts you off on a highway, your instant
response may be,
That jerk! He could
have hit me! I can let him get away with
that!
The more you stew, the angrier you get. Such is the
stuff of hypertension
and reckless driving.
What should you do to relieve rage? One myth is that ventilating will
make you feel better. In fact,
researchers have found that's one of the worst
strategies. A more effective technique is “reframing” which means consciously
seeing a situation in a more positive light. In the case of the driver who cuts
you off, you might tell yourself: Maybe he had some emergency. This is one of the
most potent ways, Tice found, to put anger to rest.
Going off alone to cool down is also an effective way to refuse anger,
especially if you can't think
clearly. Tice found that a large proportion of men
cool down by going for a drive---a finding that inspired her to drive more
defensively. A safer alternative is exercise, such as taking a long walk. Whatever
you do, don't waste the time pursuing your train of angry thoughts. You aim should
be to distract yourself. The techniques of reframing and distraction can alleviate
depression and anxiety as well as anger. Add to
them such relaxation techniques
as deep breathing and meditation and you have powerful weapons against bad moods.
11. What are gut feelings?
A. They are feelings one is born with.
B. They are feelings one may be unaware of.
C. They are feelings of fear and anxiety.
D. They are feelings felt by sensible people.
12. According to the author, the importance of knowing one’s gut feelings is that
__________.
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