1 小 （ 重要提示 ：答案必须做在答题纸上，做在试题上不给分） 考试科目代码 211 考试科目名称 翻译硕士英语 Part I Vocabulary and Structure (30%) Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. 1. It is customary for the bride and groom to _ their wedding ceremony the evening before the occasion. A) rehearse B) recite C) relieve D) reiterate 2. The students dormitory is _ to the school campus. A) adjunct B) absent C) adolescent D) adjacent 3. The whole house was in a dilapidated condition; the door _ on its hinges and the floorboards were nearly rotten. A) screeched B) squealed C) squeaked C) sledged 4. After Obama announced that he planned to run for president, the telephone at campaign headquarters rang _. A) incisively B) incessantly C) impartially D) impatiently 5. Because she was a few minutes late, she _ into class and sat in the back of the room. A) crawled B) tiptoed C) rambled D) stumbled 6. During the long _ last year, the farmers had to irrigate their crops. A) drought B) quest C) threat D) sleet 7. Almost every manager needs an assistant whom he can _ to take care of problems that may occur in his absence. A) count to B) count on C) count for D) count of 8. Tom doesnt even know that angles of less than 90 degrees are called _ angles. A) obtuse B) focal C) acute D) converging 9. One of the _at the post office is for local mail and the other one is for out-of-town mail. A) slides B) slats C) slots D) slips 2 10. It is important to boost the morale of the soldiers as low morale can render an army _. A) sterile B) barren C) dissolute D) impotent 11. Schools should not _ poor children of the opportunity for learning. A) deprive B) impress C) improvise D) derive 12. As there were no other choices, we decided to pay for the furniture on the _ plan. A) deposit B) debit C) installment D) credit 13. Larry was so _ in his reading that he forgot about his meat cooking in the oven. A) enlivened B) engrossed C) engraved D) enlightened 14. Finally, the powerful ruler _ a rebellion and punished the instigators. A) supported B) reinstated C) resigned D) suppressed 15. The spy used a _ name while dealing with his counterpart. A) fictitious B) fictile C) fidgety D) fiery 16. Nothing is better than a cup of tea to _ my thirst after playing tennis for two hours. A) quash B) quench C) quit D) quell 17. Christopher Columbus was the first person to _ under the patronage of Queen Isabella of Spain. A) wander B) navigate C) circumvent D) explore 18. After receiving the insulting letter, Ian became _. A) fugitive B) revengeful C) resentful D) furious 19. To some people in the west, marriage is an _ institution. A) obsolete B) ancient C) archaic D) extant 20. The government is engaged in a project to _ the hostile element of society. A) dignify B) pacify C) satisfy D) certify 21. The swimmer _ from the water and climbed onto the boat. A) emerged B) submerged C) merged D) entered 22. The city maintains very many Chinese traditions which are among the highest achievements of those who created the _ we now enjoy. A) inheritance B) genetics C) estate D) heritage 23. She worked _ from a desire to live a full life either in favorable or unfavorable conditions. A) assertively B) persistently C) resiliently D) insistently 24. We have heard that his face was badly _ in the crash last night. 3 A) browsed B) breached C) bruised D) brooded 25. The very idea of your taking part in the beauty competition is _. A) alphabetic B) absurd C) abnormal D) abrupt 26. The clerk in the patent office said to his boss, “Look, I am not drunk. Im as _ as a judge.” A) sober B) steady C) somber D) clear 27. My continual _ kept the other workmen awake at night during the past weeks when we were staying together. A) snarling B) snoring C) sneering D) snoozing 28. It is very convenient for you to replace any part of the machine, for they are all _. A) mechanized B) normalized C) standardized D) modernized 29. She wants to set up a school to _ her skills and knowledge to the young generation. A) impede B) inherit C) impart D) intervene 30. He is considered one of the geniuses in our school, but I think his paintings are quite _. A) meager B) medium C) moderate D) mediocre Part II Reading Comprehension (40%) Directions: There are 5 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Passage 1 Items 31 to 34 are based on the following passage: Perhaps the most challenging is the set of skills required to produce a written assignment, the most common means by which student learning is evaluated. This demands a critical evaluation of a potentially large amount of required reading. The reading required to perform writing tasks requires a set of effective strategies with which many students may be unfamiliar. The texts themselves may vary greatly in both content and style from subject to subject but all require the same critical analysis of conceptually complicated material. Similarly, the experience of speaking before an audience will almost certainly be a new experience for most undergraduates. Again, students are expected to critically evaluate issues and to contribute to the discussion or analysis. Participation in these discussions often forms part of a students course assessment and those who fail to express themselves may gain lower grades. Many students find the experience of attending university lectures to be a confusing and frustrating experience. The lecturer speaks for one or two hours perhaps illustrating the talk with slides, writing up important information on the blackboard, distributing reading material and giving out assignments. The new student sees the other students continuously writing on notebooks and wonders what to write. Very often the student leaves the lecture with notes which do not catch the main points and which become hard even for the student himself to understand. Most institutions provide courses which assist new students to develop the skill they need to be effective 4 listeners and notetakers. If these are unavailable there are many useful study-skill guides which enable learners to practice these skills independently. In all cases it is important to tackle the problem before actually starting your studies. If you leave it until after your course begins, you may find that you are not able to study and to learn how to study at the same time. It is important to acknowledge that most students have difficulty in acquiring the language skill required in college study. One way of overcoming these difficulties is to attend the language and study-skill classes which most institutions provide throughout the academic year. Another basic strategy is to find a study partner with whom it is possible to identify difficulties, exchange ideas and provide support. The acquisition of effective language and study skills is a process which continues throughout undergraduate life and is itself a fundamental component of a university education. 31. The passage is mainly about _. A) the necessity of getting much knowledge B) the training of writing at college C) the importance of acquiring a set of effective study skills D) the training of reading ability 32. When a student has difficulties acquiring language skills, it is advisable for him or her to _. A) turn to the teacher immediately B) exchange ideas with a partner C) seek advice from books D) memorize more words 33. Which of the following is true according to the passage? A) Most students are confused by traditional teaching. B) Most teachers fail to teach students how to learn. C) Taking notes in class is not so important. C) Learning how to learn is just as important as what to learn. 34. When speaking before an audience, it is important for a student to _. A) give his own comments B) speak clearly enough C) show his knowledge from books D) notice others reaction Passage 2 Items 35 to 38 are based on the following passage: Well, no gain without pain, they say. But what about pain without gain? Everywhere you go in America, you hear tales of corporate revival. What is harder to establish is whether the productivity revolution that businessmen assume they are presiding over is for real. The official statistics are mildly discouraging. They show that, if you lump manufacturing and services together, productivity has grown on average by 1.2% since 1987. That is somewhat faster than the average during the previous decade. And since 1991, productivity has increased by about 2% a year, which is more than twice the 1978 87 average. The trouble is that part of the recent acceleration is due to the usual rebound that occurs at this point in a business cycle, and so is not conclusive evidence of a revival in the underlying trend. There is, as Robert Rubin, the treasury secretary, says, a “disjunction” between the mass of business anecdote that points to a leap in productivity and the picture reflected by the statistics. Some of this can be easily explained. New ways of organizing the workplaceall that re-engineering and downsizingare only one contribution to the overall productivity of an economy, which is driven by many other factors such as joint investment in equipment and machinery, new technology, and investment in education and training. Moreover, most of the changes that companies make are intended to keep them profitable, and this need not always mean increasing productivity: switching to new markets or improving 5 quality can matter just as much. Two other explanations are more speculative. First, some of the business restructuring of recent years may have been ineptly done. Second, even if it was well done, it may have spread much less widely than people suppose. Leonard Schlesinger, a Harvard academic and former chief executive of Au Bon Pain, a rapidly growing chain of bakery cafes, says that much “re-engineering” has been crude. In many cases, he believes, the loss of revenue has been greater than the reductions in cost. His colleague, Michael Beer, says that far too many companies have applied re-engineering in a mechanistic fashion, chopping out costs without giving sufficient thought to long-term profitability. BBDOs Al Rosenshine is blunter. He dismisses a lot of the work of re-engineering consultants as mere rubbish “the worst sort of ambulance-chasing”. 35. According to the author, the American economic situation is_. A) not as good as it seems B) at its turning point C) much better that it seems D) near to complete recovery 36. The official statistics on productivity growth _. A) exclude the usual rebound in a business cycle B) fall short of businessmens anticipation C) meet the expectation of business people D) fail to reflect the true state of economy 37. The author raises the question “what about pain without gain” because _. A) he questions the truth of “no gain without pain” B) he does not think the productivity revolution works C) he wonders if the official statistics are misleading D) he has conclusive evidence for the revival of business 38. Which of the following statements is NOT mentioned in the passage? A) Radical reforms are essential for the increase of productivity. B) New ways of organizing workplaces may help to increase productivity. C) The reduction of costs is not a sure way to gain long-term profitability. D) The consultants are a bunch of go-for-nothings. Passage 3 Items 39 to 42 are based on the following passage: The process of perceiving other people is rarely translated (to ourselves or others) into cold, objective terms. “She was 5 feet 8 inches tall, had fair hair, and wore a colored skirt.” More often, we try to get inside the other person to pinpoint his or her attitudes, emotions, motivation, abilities, ideas, and characters. Furthermore, we sometimes behave as if we can accomplish this difficult job very quicklyperhaps with a two-second glance. We try to obtain information about others in many ways. Berger suggests several methods for reducing uncertainties about others: watching, without being noticed, a person interacting with others, particularly with those who are known to you so you can compare the observed persons behavior with the known others behavior, observing a person in a situation where social behavior is relatively unrestrained or where a wide variety of behavioral responses are called for, deliberately structuring the physical or social environment so as to observe the persons responses to specific stimuli; asking people who have had or have frequent contact with the person about him or her, and using various strategies in face-to-face interaction to uncover information about another personquestions, self-disclosures and so on. Getting to know someone is a never-ending task, largely because people are constantly changing and the methods we use to obtain information are often 6 imprecise. You may have known someone for ten years and still known very little about him. If we accept the idea that we wont ever fully know another person, it enables us to deal more easily with those things that get in the way of accurate knowledge such as secrets and deceptions. It will also keep us from being too surprised or shocked by seemingly inconsistent behavior. Ironically, those things that keep us from knowing another person too well (e.g., secrets and deceptions) may be just as important to the development of a satisfying relationship as those things that enable us to obtain accurate knowledge about a person (e.g., disclosures and truthful statements). 39. What do we learn from the first paragraph? A) People are better described in cold, objective terms. B) The difficulty of getting to know a person is usually un