2017年广西民族大学翻译硕士英语考研真题A卷.doc

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2017 年广西民族大学翻译硕士英语考研真题 A 卷 Part I. Basic English Knowledge (30%) Section A: Multiple-choice (20 %) Directions:Therearefortymultiple-choicequestionsinthissection.Choosethe best answer to each question. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. 1.After people have learned that magnets attract things, centuries passed ____ they took note of the fact that magnets sometimes also repel things. A. before C. after B. until D. since 2.Most of North America receives _________ some form of continuous plant cover except in the arid and semiarid Southwest. A. moisture to sustain sufficient B. sufficient moisture to sustain C. to sustain sufficient moisture D. sufficient to sustain moisture 3._________ industries, inventions, and communal endeavors of the Shakers, the best known is their fine furniture. A. Of the many C. Are the many B. Their many D. Many of the 4. A condenser is a heat exchanger _________ steam or vapor loses heat and returns to liquid form. A. what C. in whose B. in which D. that 5. Settled by English Puritans in 1630, Boston became _________. A. so that the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony B. the Massachusetts Bay Colony its capital C. it was the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony D. the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony 6. The scents of the flowers was______ to us by the breeze. A. intercepted C. saturated B. detested D. wafted 7.If you______ something, such as food or drink, you reduce its quality or make it weak, for example by adding water to it. A. adulterate B. moor D. sue C. vaccinate 8. Government loan have been the______ of several shaky business companies. A. tornado C. delinquency 9. She made shorthand notes which she later _ B. salvation D. momentum .

B. Since D. There being B. underdog D. underworld B. described D. transcribed _ either Mary have to leave, or me. A. inscribed C. prescribed He gave me an A. ulcer C. ultimatum 11. _____ no cause for alarm, the old man went back to his bedroom. A. There was C. Being I have never been to London, but that is the city_______. A. where I like to visit most C. which I like to visit mostly D. where I’d like most to visit The experiment requires more money than _______. A. has been put in C. have been put in D. to be put in Fat cannot change into muscle ______muscle changes into fat. A. no more than C. no less than She managed to save _______she could out of her wages to help her brother. A. how little money B. so little money C. what little money 16. A cinema was burnt out in north London last night. Police suspect _ . A. armpit C. arson She trimmed the _ B. any more than D. much more than D. such little money B. arsenal D. artifact B. I’d most like to visit B. being put in of the tulips before putting them in a vase. D. stalks B. spruce A. sprig C. stakes It was as a physician that he represented himself, and_____ he was warmly received. A. as such C. as that While most people would _ positively enjoy it. A. accentuate C. dehumanize 20.Even as a girl, _____to be her life, and theater audiences were to be her best teachers. B. such as D. so that at the prospect of so much work, Daniels seems to B. collate D. blanch A.performing by Melissa were B.Melissa knew that performing was C.knowing that Melissa’s performances were

D.it was known that Melissa’s performances were Section B: Proofreading and Error Correction (10 %) Directions: The following passage contains 10 errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it. Please write your answers on the Answer Sheet. Many witnesses concerning the Chinese have told the truth, but perhaps a few of them have succeeded in telling nothing but the truth, and no one of (21) them has ever told the whole truth. No single individual, whatever the extent of his knowledge, could by any possible know the whole truth about the (22) Chinese. The difficulty of comparing Chinese with Anglo-Saxons will be more (23) strongly felt by those who have attempted. To such it will soon become (24) evident that many things which seem “characteristic” of the Chinese are merely Oriental traits; but in what extent this is true, each reader in the (25) light of his own experience must judge by himself. It has been said that in the present stage of our intercourse with Chinese (26) there are three ways in which we can come to some knowledge of their social life—by the study of their novels, their ballads, and their plays. Each of these sources of information doubtless have its worth, but there is likewise (27) a fourth, more valuable than all of them combining, a source not open to every (28) one who wrote on China and the Chinese. It is the study of the family life of (29) the Chinese in their own homes. As the topography of a district can be much better understood in the country than the city, so it is with the characteristics (30) of the people. A foreigner may live in a Chinese city for a decade, and not gain

as much knowledge of the interior life of the people as he can acquire by living twelve months in a Chinese village. Part II. Reading Comprehension (50 %) Section A (30 %) Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed bysomequestionsorunfinishedstatements.Foreachofthemtherearefourchoices markedA),B),C)andD).Youshoulddecideonthebestchoiceandwriteyouranswers on the Answer Sheet. Passage One Questions 31 to 39 are based on the following passage. My Views on Gambling Most of life is a gamble. Very many of the things we do involve taking some risk in order to achieve a satisfactory result. We undertake a new job with no idea of the more indirect consequences of our action. Marriage is certainly a gamble and so is the bringing into existence of children, who could prove sad liabilities. A journey, a business transaction, even a chance remark may result immediately or ultimately in tragedy. Perpetually we gamble—against life, destiny, chance, the unknown—call the invisible opponent what we will. Human survival and progress indicate that usually we win. So the gambling instinct must be an elemental one. Taking risks achieve something is a characteristic of all form of life, including humanity. As soon as man acquired property, the challenge he habitually issued to destiny found an additional expression in a human contest. Early may well have staked his flint axe, his bearskin, his wife, in the hope of adding to his possessions. The acquirement of desirable but non-essential commodities must have increased his scope enormously, while the risk of complete disaster lessened. So long as man was gambling against destiny, the odds were usually in his favor, especially when he used common sense. But as the methods of gambling multiplied, the chances of success decreased. A wager against one person offered on average even chances and no third party profited by the transaction. But as soon as commercialized city life developed, mass gambling become common. Thousands of people now compete for large prizes, but with only minute chances of success, while the organizers of gambling concerns enjoy big profits with, in some cases, no risk

at all. Few clients of the betting shops, football pools, state lotteries, bingo sessions, even charity raffles, realize fully the flimsiness of their chances and the fact that without fantastic luck they are certain to lose rather than gain. Little irreparable harm results for the normal individual. That big business profits from the satisfaction of a human instinct is a common enough phenomenon. The average wage-earner, who leads a colorless existence, devotes a small percentage of his earnings to keeping alive with extraordinary constancy the dream of achieving some magic change in his life. Gambling is in most cases a non-toxic drug against boredom and apathy and many well preserve good temper, patience and optimism in dreary circumstances. A sudden windfall may unbalance a weaker, less intelligent person and even ruin his life. And the lure of something for nothing as an ideal evokes criticism from the more rigidly upright representative of the community. But few of us have the right to condemn as few of us can say we never gamble—even it is only investing a few pence a week in the firm’s football sweep or the church bazaar “lucky dip”. Trouble develops, however, when any human instinct or appetite becomes overdeveloped. Moderate drinking produces few harmful effects but drunkenness and alcoholism can have terrible consequences. With an unlucky combination of temperament and circumstances, gambling can only become an obsession, almost a form of insanity, resulting in the loss not only of a man’s property but of his self-respect and his conscience. Far worse are the sufferings of his dependents, deprived of material comfort and condemned to watching his deterioration and hopelessness. They share none of his feverish excitement or the exhilaration of his rare success. The fact that he does not with to be cured makes psychological treatment of the gambling addict almost impossible. He will use any means, including stealing, to enable him to carry on. It might be possible to pay what salary he can earn to his wife for the family maintenance but this is clearly no solution. Nothing — education, home environment, other interest, wise discouragement—is likely to restrain the obsessed gambler and even when it is he alone who suffers the consequences , his disease is a cruel one, resulting in a wasted, unhappy life. Even in the case of the more physically harmful of human indulgences, repressive legislation often increase the damage by causing more vicious activities designed to perpetuate the indulgence in secret. On the whole, though

negative, gambling is no vice within reasonable limits. It would still exist in an ideal society. The most we can hope for is control over exaggerated profits resulting from its business exploitation, far more attention and research devoted to the unhappy gambling addict and the type of education which will encourage an interest in so many other constructive activities that gambling itself will lose its fascination as an opiate to a dreary existence. It could be regarded as an occasional mildly exciting game, never to be taken very seriously. 31. According to the author, we gamble regardless of the risk, because we A. want to survive. B. usually win in the gamble. C. don’t know the indirect consequences of the action. D. wish to achieve what may bring us satisfaction. 32. The bringing into existence of children is also a gamble because they may A. be mentally retarded. B. become our disappointment. C. go against us. D. become our opponents. 33. According to the passage, we all take risk in gambling because we are A. born with the tendency of taking risks. B. forced to achieve satisfactory result. C. obliged to achieve what we desire. D. born with the nature of achieving satisfaction. 34. The gambling instinct, according to the author, is reinforced by human’s desire to A. give up unnecessary property. B. add more to their material possession. C. get desirable commodities. D. change their living conditions. 35. Which of the following is true? A. If we dare to gamble, we will usually win. B. If we use common sense to gamble, we will usually lose. C. The luck is usually on our side so long as we have the confidence to change our fate. D. We all have the luck to win the gamble if we use common sense. 36. Which of the following is true? A. The more methods to gamble, the fewer the chances to succeed. B. Common sense plays a role in a gamble. C. The more methods there are, the less profit we will make. D. The more methods there are, the more chances for us to win a gamble.

37. Who get profits from gambling activities with no risks? A. Those who organize the activities. B. Those who often go to state lotteries. C. Those who often go to football pools. D. Those who do not take so seriously. 38.Many people would like to give away a small sum of money because they constantly think the donation may A. not affect their general income. B. bring them unexpected big sums of money. C. help them preserve their temper and patience. D. bring them some pennies from heaven. 39. According to the author, gambling may lose its fascination if we A. create more chances. B. do not take it so seriously. C. organize more other activities. D. help develop an interest in other activities. Passage Two Questions 40 to 45 are based on the following passage. Russia’s new revolution in conservation When naturalist Sergei Smirenski set out to create Russia’s first private nature reserve since the Bolshvik revolution, he knew that the greatest obstacle would be overcoming bureaucratic resistance. The Moscow State University professor has charted a steep course through a variety of foes, from local wildlife service officials who covet his funding to government officials who saw more value in development than conservation. But with incredible dedication, and the support of a wide range of international donors form Japan to the United States, the Murovyovka Nature Reserve has finally come into being. Founded at a small ceremony last summer, the private reserve covers 11000 acres of pristine wetlands along the banks of the Amur River in the Russian Far East. Here, amid forests and marshes encompassing a variety of microhabitats, nest some of the world’s rarest birds—tall, elegant cranes whose numbers are counted in the mere hundreds. The creation of the park marks a new approach to nature conservation in Russia, one that combines traditional methods of protection with an attempt to adapt to the changing economic and political circumstances of the new Russia.

“There must be a thousand ways to save a wetland. It is time for vision and risk, and also hard practicality,” wrote Jim Harris, deputy director of the International Crane Foundation, a Wisconsin-based organization dedicated to the study and preservation of cranes, which has been a major supporter of the Murovyovka project. Dr. Smirenski’s vision has been eminently down to earth. At every step, he has tried to involve local officials, businessmen and collective farms in the project, giving them a practical, economic stakes in its success. And with international support, he is trying to introduce new methods of organic farming that will be more compatible with preserving the wetlands. 40. The Murovyovka Nature Reserve came into being because of A. Russian government officials. B. the International Crane Foundation. C. the determination of one man. D. an unrealistic dream. 41.If one “charts a steep uphill course” (paragraph 2), one A. expects an arduous journey. B. maps out a mountain trip. C. assumes that life will be uneventful. D. sets himself a difficult goal. 42. The preserved “pristine wetlands” mentioned in paragraph 3 are A. unspoiled. C. immaculate. B. precious. D. uncontaminated. 43. The passage states that the Nature Reserve is A. an arid, uninhabited area. B. the only reserve in Russia. C. home to many different birds. D. economically beneficial to local inhabitants. 44. The passage implies that the preservation of wetlands A.can only be accomplished with traditional methods. B.requires imagination, daring and pragmatism. C. is usually a popular concern of politicians. D. limits an area’s development. 45. Where is the headquarter of the International Crane Foundation?

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