第 1 页 共 9 页试题科目代码: 211 科目名称: 翻译硕士英语注意：答案必须全部写在考点提供的答题纸上，写在试题上无效；答案要标注题号，答题纸要填写姓名和考号，并标注页码与总页数；交卷时，将答题纸与试题一起装入原试卷袋，用我校提供的密封条密封并签名。Part I Grammar and Vocabulary （30%） （每小题 1 分）Choose the best answers and mark your answers on your answer sheet.1. The town maintains very many Chinese traditions which are among the highest achievements of those who created the _ we now enjoy.A. heritage B. inheritance C. genetics D. estate2. The twin brothers showed great _ to their elder sister, who had acted as sole parent to them since their parents died during the American Civil War.A. allegiance B. devotion C. compliance D. admiration3. Night patrols were sent out to engage the enemy in a series of small _.A. battles B. fight C. skirmishes D. clash4. The old building has an _ air of sadness about it.A. insurmountable B. insuperable C. intangible D. insurable5. For many patients, institutional care is the most _ and beneficial form of care.A. pertinent B. appropriate C. acute D. persistent6. Shes not a very valuable member of the debate team, actually-she loves making speeches, but shes not very good at _ opponents argument.A. rendering B. refuting C. resolving D. impeding7. Martin Luther King, Jr., testified to the _ effect of The Strange Career of Jim Crow on the civil rights movement by praising the book and quoting it frequently.A. pervasive B. wary C. novel D. profound8. Jean Wagners most enduring contribution to the study of Afro-American poetry is his insistence that it be analyzed in a religious, as well as _ , frame of reference.A. scant B. secular C. simultaneous D. salubrious9. If you are an athlete, strong abdominal muscles help you ensure a strong back and freedom from injury during _ upper-body movement.A. valiant B. variable C. vigilant D. vigorous10. You are now not wanted; you are now _ from the work environment that offers purpose and structure in your life.A. included B. concluded C. precluded D. excluded11. There is much I enjoy about the changing seasons, but my favorite time is the _ from fall to 第 2 页 共 9 页winter.A. transmission B. transformation C. transition D. transfer12. After four years in the same job his enthusiasm finally _.A. deteriorated B. dispersed C. dissipated D. drained13. The wings of the bird still _ after it had been shot down.A. slapped B. scratched C. flapped D. fluctuated14. Their diplomatic principles completely laid bare their _ for world conquest.A. admiration B. ambition C. administration D. orientation15. What the correspondent sent us is an _ news report. We can depend on t.A. evident B. authentic C. ultimate D. immediate16. The computer hacker coined the term virtual reality.A. made into coins B. invented C. made a lot of money D. earned money17. Now and in the future, we will live as free people, not in fear and never at the mercy of any foreign powers.A. For the sake of B. at the cost of C. in the interest of D. under the control of18. Most college students in the United States live away from home.A. apart B. down C. elsewhere D. along19. Applicants will be asked to provide information on how they will disseminate information to other students at their university or college.A. disclose B. deliver C. spread D. analyze20. The senator agreed that his support of the measure would jeopardize his chances for reelection.A. benefit B. endanger C. hinder D. disturb21. “It seems that she was there at the conference.” The sentence means that_.A. she seems to be there at the conference. B. she seemed to be there at the conference.C. she seems to have been there at the conference. D. she seemed to being there at the conference.22. Each book and each paper_ found in its place.A. are B. is C. have been D. be23. Unfortunately she married _ .A. a husband of a devil B. a devil of a husband C. her husband of her devil D. a devil of the husband24._ recommendation has so far been made by the technicians. A. Several such B. No such a C. Such no D. No such 25. Come and see me whenever _. 第 3 页 共 9 页A. you are convenient B. you will be convenient C. it is convenient to you D. it will be convenient to you26. The soldier was accused of _ his country.A. betraying B. having betrayed C. being betrayed D. having been betrayed 27.Your aunt invites you to the movies today-I had rather she _ me tomorrow than todayA. tells B. told C. would tell D. had told28. Water enters into a great variety of chemical reactions, _have been mentioned in previous pages. A. a few of what B. a few of which C. a few of that D. a few of them29._ he needed money for a few car, he decided not to borrow it from the bank. (98, 48)A. Much as B. Much though C. As much D. Though much30. China is not _ she used to be. A. that B. which C. like D. whatPart II Reading Comprehension (40%)Section 1 Multiple-choice Questions. (30%) （每小题2分）In this section, there are three passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer and mark your answer on your ANSWER SHEET.Passage OneOf all the components of a good night's sleep, dreams seem to be least within our control. In dreams, a window opens into a world where logic is suspended and dead people speak. A century ago, Freud formulated his revolutionary theory that dreams were the disguised shadows of our unconscious desires and fears; by the late 1970s, neurologists had switched to thinking of them as just “mental noise” the random byproducts of the neural repair work that goes on during sleep. Now researchers suspect that dreams are part of the minds emotional thermostat, regulating moods while the brain is “offline”. And one leading authority says that these intensely powerful mental events can be not only harnessed but actually brought under conscious control, to help us sleep and feel better. “Its your dream,” says Rosalind Cartwright, chair of psychology at Chicagos Medical Center, “if you dont like it, change it.”Evidence from brain imaging supports this view. The brain is as active during REM(rapid eye movement) sleep-when most vivid dreams occur-as it is when fully awake, says Dr. Eric Nofzinger at the University of Pittsburgh. But not all parts of the brain are equally involved; the limbic system (the - emotional brain) is especially active, while the prefrontal cortex (the center of intellect and reasoning ) 第 4 页 共 9 页is relatively quiet. “ We wake up from dreams happy or depressed, and those feelings can stay with us all day”, says Stanford sleep researcher Dr. William Dement.The link between dreams and emotions shows up among the patients in Cartwrights clinic. Most people seem to have more had dreams early in the night, progressing toward happier ones before awakening, suggesting that they are working through negative feelings generated during the day. Because our conscious mind is occupied with daily life we dont always think about the emotional significance of the days events - until, it appears, we begin to dream.And this process need not be left to the unconscious. Cartwright believes one can exercise conscious control over recurring bad dreams. As soon as you awaken, identify what is upsetting about the dream. Visualize how you would like it to end instead; the next time it occurs, try to wake up just enough to control its course. With much practice people can learn to, literally, do it in their sleep.At the end of the day, there's probably little reason to pay attention to our dreams at all unlessthey keep us from sleeping or “we wake up in panic,” Cartwright says. Terrorism, economic uncertainties and general feelings of insecurity have increased peoples anxiety. Those suffering from persistent nightmares should seek help from a therapist. For the rest of us, the brain has its ways of working through bad feelings. Sleepor rather dreamon it and youll feel better in the morning.1. By saying that “dreams are part of the minds emotional thermostat, ” (Para. 1) the researchers mean that _.A. we can think logically in the dreams tooB. dreams can be brought under conscious controlC. dreams represent our unconscious desires and fearsD. dreams can help us keep our mood comparatively stable2. What did Cartwright find in her clinic?A. Most bad dreams were followed by happier ones.B. Divorced couples usually have more bad dreams.C. Ones dreaming process is related to his emotion.D. People having negative feelings dream more often.3. Cartwright believed with much practice we can learn to _. A. control what dreams t dreamB. sleep well without any dreamsC. wake up in time to stop the bad dreamsD. identify what is upsetting about the dreams4. The author points out that a person who has constant bad dreams should _.A. learn to control his dreamsB. consult a doctorC. sleep and dream on it第 5 页 共 9 页D. get rid of anxiety first5. The author most probably thinks that controlling dreams is _.A. a good practiceB. a new discoveryC. helpful for everyoneD. not essential for everyonePassage TwoOne thing the tour books don't tell you about London is that 2,000 of its residents are foxes. As native as the royal family, they fled the city about centuries ago after developers and pollution moved in. But now that the environment is cleaner, the foxes have come home, one of the many wild animals that have moved into urban areas around the world.“The number and variety of wild animals in urban areas is increasing,“ says Gomer Jones, president of the National Institute for Urban Wildlife, in Columbia, Maryland. A survey of the wildlife in New York's Central Park last year tallied the species of mammals, including muskrats, shrews and flying squirrels. A similar survey conducted in the 1890s counted only five species. One of the countrys largest populations of raccoons now lives in Washington D.C., and moose are regularly seen wandering into Maine towns. Peregrine falcons dive from the window ledges of buildings in the largest U.S. cities to prey on pigeons.Several changes have brought wild animals to the asphalt jungles and, vice verse. Foremost is that air and water quality in many cities has improved as a result of the 1970s pollution-control efforts. Meanwhile, rural areas have been built up, leaving many animals on the edges of suburbia. In addition, conservationists have created urban wildlife refuges . The Greater London Council last year spent750,000 to buy land and build 10 permanent wildlife refuges in the city. Over 1,000 volunteers have donated money and cleared rubble from derelict lots. As a result, pheasants now strut in the East End and badgers scuttle across lawns near the center of town. A colony of rare house martins nests on a window ledge beside Harrods, and one evening last year a fox was seen on Westminster Bridge looking up at Big Ben. For peregrine falcons, cities are actually safer than rural cliff dwellings. By 1970 the birds were extinct east of the Mississippi because the DDT had made their eggs too thin to support life That year, scientist Tom Cade of Cornell University began raising the birds for release in cities, for cities afforded abundant food. Cities can attract wild animals without turning them harmful. The trick is to create habitats where they can be self-sufficient but still be seen and appreciated. Such habitats can even be functional. In San Francisco, the local government is testing different kinds of rainwater control basins to see not only which ones retain the cleanest water but which will attract the most birds. 第 6 页 共 9 页6. The first paragraph suggests that _.A. environment is crucial for wildlife B. tour books are not always a reliable source of informationC. London is a city of foxD. foxes are highly adaptable to environment7. Which of the following is NOT a reason that wildlife is returning to the cities?A. Food is plentiful in the cities.B. Wildlife is appreciated in the cities.C. Wildlife refuges have been built in the cities.D. Air and water quality has improved in the cities.8. The underlined word “tallied” in Para.2 means _.A. distinguished B. described C. counted D. excluded9. It can be inferred from the passage that _.A. Londoners are putting more and more wild animals into their zoos.B. Londoners are happy to see wild animals return to their cities.C. Londoners are trying to move wild animals back to the countryside.D. Londoners have welcomed the wild birds, but found foxes a problem.10. What is the passage mainly about?A. Wildlife returning to London.B. Foxes returning to LondonC. Wild animals living in zoo.D. A survey of wildlife in New York.Passage ThreeEvidence suggests that an important stimulus behind the rise of early civilizations was the development of settled agriculture, which unleashed a series of changes in the organization of human communities that culminated in the rise of large ancient empires.The exact time and place that crops were first cultivated successfully is uncertain. Many prehistorians believe that farming may have emerged in dependently in several different areas of the world when small communities, driven by increasing population and a decline in available food resources, began to plant seeds in the ground in an effort to guarantee their survival. The first farmers, who may have lived as long as 10,000 years ago, undoubtedly used simple techniques and still relied primarily on other forms of food production, such as hunting, foraging, or pastoralism. The real breakthrough took place when farmers began to cultivate crops along the flood plains of river systems. The advantage was that crops grown in such areas were not as dependent on rainfall and therefore produced a more reliable harvest. An additional benefit was the sediment carried by the river waters 第 7 页 共 9 页deposited nutrients in the soil, thus enabling the farmer to cultivate a single plot of ground for many years without moving to a new location. Thus, the first truly sedentary (that is, nonmigratory) societies were born. As time went on, such communities gradually learned how to direct the flow of water to enhance the productive capacity of the land, while the introduction of the iron plow eventually led to the cultivation of heavy soil not previously susceptible to agriculture.The spread of this river valley agriculture in various parts of Asia and