2019 年广东暨南大学翻译硕士英语考研真题 A 卷
学科、专业名称:翻译硕士专业
研 究 方 向: 英语笔译
考试科目名称: 翻译硕士英语
考试科目代码:211
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I. Vocabulary & Grammar (30%)
Directions: There are 30 sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there
are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose ONE answer that
best completes the sentence. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
1. Education and work can be restructured to teach and ______ the skills of
concentration and focus.
A. propose
B. propagate
C. propel
D. proceed
2. It's difficult to _________ the demands of my job and the desire to be a good
father.
A. reconcile
B. combine
C. relate
D. integrate
3. Break out of this guilt and let yourself ________ in your sense
of accomplishment
for what you have gotten done
instead of
what there
is
still
to do.
A. absorb
B. indulge
C. involve
D. relish
4. For this, we never ________ the use of force, as it is common aspiration and sacred
mission of the people of China
to safeguard
China’s
sovereignty and
also to
reunify
our motherland.
A. declare
B. renounce
C. announce
D. claim
5. Because of his adventures, he is a person of far greater experience and ________.
A. resourcefulness
B. resources
C. considerations
D. thoughtfulness
6. If a machine, railway line, or bridge
is
________, it is deliberately damaged
or destroyed, for example, in a war or as a protest.
A. exploded
B. bombed
C. bombarded
D. sabotaged
7. Even if we could collect most of what we gave out – which we can't – a scant
_______ of high-powered weapons
in
the
hands
of
bad
actors
can be
disastrous in a place where government control is weak.
A. amount
B. volume
C.
handful
D. number
8. Study the contract thoroughly and carefully, ________
your duties and what
happens if you break the contract.
A. scrutinize
B. watch
C. observe
D. keep
9. Half of those surveyed say that the penalty should be as severe as ________ for
drunk driving.
A. these
B. those
C. this
D. that
10. If you describe someone as
________, you disapprove of them because they are
too proud of their social status, intelligence, or taste.
A. arrogant
B. snobbish
C. conceited
D. contemptuous
11. If Albert Einstein lived today, he would be surprised by what _______ in science
and technology.
A had discovered
B. had been discovered
C. has discovered.
D. has been discovered.
12. ---- Your sister nearly devoted all her time to her course during the three years.
---- That’s right, or she _________ the first place in her school in the 2018 College
Entrance Examination.
A. wouldn’t take
C. hadn’t taken
B. wouldn’t have taken
D. couldn’t take
13. The country has sent up three unmanned spacecraft, the most recent _______ at
the end of last March.
A. has been launched
B. having been launched
C. being launched
D. to be launched
14. A whale is _______ a fish _______ a horse is.
A. no more, than
B. no rather, than
C. not more, than
D. not, rather than
15. Fortunately, a British games and advertising company, Captive Media,
has
________
a solution to cope with the situation.
A. come off
C. come over
B. come up with
D. come on
16. While governments and companies should take ________ measures to stop abuse,
attempts to control the Internet is not the simple solution.
A. sentimental
C. sensational
B. sensitive
D. sensible
17. I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling anxious,
______
and worried when I don't
have my phone with me.
A. in edge
C. at edge
B. on edge
D. off edge
18. What we are suggesting is that a population-wide
________
to reduce salt
intake, even slightly, will have health benefits.
A. effort
B. affect
C. effect
D. efficacy
19.
Experts say that on a hot and humid day we can lose up to four litres of fluid
through
sweating
and
________.
A. inhalation
C. expiration
B. exhalation
D. inspiration
20. For a small number of us, extreme jealousy can lead to
________
behaviour
like stalking and it
can also cause
depression, ________ relationships and even
kill.
A. obsessing ... destroying
B. obsessive ... destroy
C. obsession ... destruction
D. obsessed... destroyed
21. This is the last part of the hike now and it will be difficult. Let’s take a
break to ____________and then keep going.
A. take ourselves
C. go ourselves
B. support ourselves
D. steady ourselves
22. Hundreds of people turned ___ at Sophie's Hair when they saw an advert offering
free haircuts _____ no strings attached.
A. on ... at
C. in ... on
B. up ... with
D. down ... of
23. It found that the high rate of infant brain cell production could
increase forgetfulness, because new cells
____________ existing mental circuits.
A. interfere
with
B. add into
C. affect into
D. result from
24. There's a new system in development which will make it possible to read the unique
maps
of
veins
under
the
surface
of
your
finger,
and
use
them
to
___________
payments – or prove that it's you making the payments.
A. realize
B. engage
C. authenticate
D. appreciate
25. For the lucky few, there's the chance of being plucked from
___________
and
thrown into the glamorous world of modeling.
A. celebrity
C. irritation
B. obscurity
D. integration
26. In 2002, in an
____________ move in the European Union, Germany ________ some
rights to animals in its constitution.
A. incredible ... delivered
B. unbelievable ... relieved
C. indecent ... took
D. unprecedented ... granted
27. Around the world, girls do better than boys at school while
in only three regions
– Colombia,
Costa
Rica
and
the
Indian
state
Himachal
Pradesh –
________________ with boys doing better.
A. was reversed the trend
B. was the
trend reversed
C. the trend was reversed
D. reversed was the trend
28. In Britain, the Equality Act of 2010 makes it _________ for organizations to
make reasonable
__________ for disabled people.
A. obligatory ... development
B. responsible ... changes
C. mandatory ... adjustments
D. significant ... technique
29. A new project wants to use the power of science fiction to
_______ people to
create a better future.
A. inspire
C. expire
B. umpire
D. respire
30. Why you are made to walk down many aisles to reach the
everyday _________ at
the back of the shop?
A. essentials
C. commodity
B. essence
D. base
II. Reading Comprehension (40%)
Directions: This part consists of two sections. In Section A, there are three
passagesfollowedbyatotalof20multiple-choicequestions.InSection
B,therearetwopassagesfollowedbyatotalof10short-answerquestions.
Read the passages and write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
Section A
Multiple-Choice Questions (20%)
Passage 1
Questions 31 to 37 are based on the following passage.
Federal efforts to aid minority businesses began in the 1960’s when the Small
Business Administration (SBA) began making federally guaranteed loans and
government-sponsored management and technical assistance available to minority
business enterprises. While this program enabled many minority entrepreneurs to form
new businesses, the results were disappointing, since managerial inexperience,
unfavorable locations, and capital shortages led to high failure rates. Even years
after the program was implemented, minority business receipts were not quite two
percent of the national economy’s total receipts.
Recently federal policymakers have adopted an approach intended to accelerate
development of the minority business sector by moving away from directly aiding small
minority enterprises and toward supporting larger, growth-oriented minority firms
through intermediary companies. In this approach, large corporations participate
in the development of successful and stable minority businesses by making use of
government-sponsored venture capital. The capital is used by a participating company
to establish a Minority Enterprise Small Business Investment Company or MESBIC. The
MESBIC then provides capital and guidance to minority businesses that have potential
to become future suppliers or customers of the sponsoring company.
MESBIC’s are the result of the belief that providing established firms with
easier access to relevant management techniques and more job-specific experience,
as well as substantial amounts of capital, gives those firms a greater opportunity
to develop sound business foundations than does simply making general management
experience and small amounts of capital available. Further, since potential markets
for the minority businesses already exist through the sponsoring companies, the
minority businesses face considerably less risk in terms of location and market
fluctuation. Following early financial and operating problems, sponsoring
corporations began to capitalize MESBIC’s far above the legal minimum of $500,000
in order to generate sufficient income and to sustain the quality of management
needed. MESBIC’s are now emerging as increasingly important financing sources for
minority enterprises.
Ironically, MESBIC staffs, which usually consist of Hispanic and Black
professionals, tend to approach investments in minority firms more pragmatically
than do many MESBIC directors, who are usually senior managers from sponsoring
corporations. The latter often still think mainly in terms of the “ social
responsibility approach” and thus seem to prefer deals that are riskier and less
attractive than normal investment criteria would warrant. Such differences in
viewpoint have produced uneasiness among many minority staff members, who feel that
minority entrepreneurs and businesses should be judged by established business
considerations. These staff members believe their point of view is closer to the
original philosophy of MESBIC’s and they are concerned that, unless a more prudent
course is followed, MESBIC directors may revert to policies likely to re-create the
disappointing results of the original SBA approach.
31.Which of the following best states the central idea of the passage?
A. The use of MESBIC’s for aiding minority entrepreneurs seems to have greater
potential for success than does the original SBA approach.
B. There is a crucial difference in point of view between the staff and directors
of some MESBIC’s.
C. After initial problems with management and marketing, minority businesses have
begun to expand at a steady rate.
D. Minority entrepreneurs wishing to form new businesses now have several equally
successful federal programs on which to rely.
32.According to the passage, the MESBIC approach differs from the SBA approach in
that MESBIC’s
A. seek federal contracts to provide markets for minority businesses.
B. encourage minority businesses to provide markets for other minority businesses.
C. attempt to maintain a specified rate of growth in the minority business sector.
D. rely on the participation of large corporations to finance minority businesses.
33.Which of the following does the author cite to support the conclusion that the
results of the SBA program were disappointing?
A. The small number of new minority enterprises formed as a result of the program.
B. The small number of minority enterprises that took advantage of the management
and technical assistance offered under the program.
C. The small percentage of the nation’s business receipts earned by minority
enterprises following the programs implementation.
D. The small percentage of recipient minority enterprises that were able to repay
federally guaranteed loans made under the program.
34.Which of the following statements about the SBA program can be inferred from the
passage?