翻译硕士英语学位MTI考试中山大学2014年真题_真题-无答案

翻译硕士英语学位MTI考试中山大学2014年真题
(总分100,考试时间90分钟)
Part Ⅰ V ocabulary
There are thirty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Please choose the correct answer that **pletes the sentence and mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.
1. Kate was ______ the experiment a month ago, but she changed her mind at the last minute.
A. to start
B. to have started
C. to be starting
D. to have been starting
2. "You ______ borrow my notes provided you take care of them," I told my friend.
A. could
B. should
C. must
D. can
3. Overpopulation poses a terrible threat to the human race. Yet it is probably ______ a threat to the human race than environmental destruction.
A. no more
B. not more
C. even more
D. much more
4. Had Julie been more careful on the maths exam, she ______ much better results now.
A. would be getting
B. could have got
C. must get
D. would get
5. Men differ from animals ______ they can think and speak.
A. for which
B. for that
C. in that
D. in which
6. I enjoyed myself so much ______ I visited my friends in London last year.
A. when
B. which
C. that
D. where
7. What a nice day! How about the three of us ______ a walk in the park nearby?
A. to take
B. take
C. taking
D. to be taking
8. ______ the boys say, it is unreasonable to ask me to work overtime without pay.
A. Whatever
B. Whenever
C. Whichever
D. However
9. We consider ______ he should have left without telling anyone beforehand.
A. strange why
B. it strange what
C. it strange that
D. that strange
10. Clothing made of plastic fibers has certain advantages over ______ made of natural fibers like cotton, wool, or silk.
A. one
B. the one
C. that
D. what
11. The doctor proposed that she stay for one more week, her discharge from the hospital ______ later on.
A. to be considered
B. considered
C. to consider
D. being considered
12. It is universally acknowledged that he is ______ a musician than his tutor.
A. much of
B. much as
C. more of
D. more as
13. No sooner ______ home than my grandfather asked me to read the newspaper for him.
A. I arrived
B. I had arrived
C. did I arrive
D. had I arrived
14. That customer wanted to return the pens he bought because he said they ______ easily.
A. didn"t write
B. weren"t written
C. were not writing
D. hadn"t been writing
15. ______, he is not capable of teaching all subjects. After all, nobody could be an expert on everything.
A. A teacher as Mike is
B. Teacher as Mike is
C. As Mike is a teacher
D. As is Mike a teacher
16. The painting he bought at the street market the other day was a ______ forgery.
A. man-made
B. natural
C. crude
D. real
17. The bar in the club is for the ______ use of its members.
A. extensive
B. exclusive
C. inclusive
D. comprehensive
18. The tuition fees are ______ to **ing from low-income families.
A. approachable
B. payable
C. reachable
D. affordable
19. Keep this reference book; it **e in ______ one day.
A. handy
B. useful
C. convenient
D. helpful
20. Teddy came to my ______ with a cheque of $200 to pay my room rate, after I phoned him that my wallet had been stolen.
A. attendance
B. assistance
C. rescue
D. safety
21. The questions that the speaker raised were well ______ the average adult.
A. past
B. on
C. beyond
D. through
22. We had a good time there, and the food was plentiful and ______.
A. conducive
B. wholesome
C. helpful
D. appreciative
23. The scientists have made an ______ study of the viruses that cause the disease.
A. exhausted
B. exhausting
C. exhaustive
D. exhaustion
24. Representatives from **panies indicated that they should go on working together in ______.
A. unity
B. entity
C. partners
D. partnership
25. The study says the results are ______ with an earlier research, which showed improved survival of patients with advanced HIV perfection taking the medication.
A. persistent
B. consistent
C. compatible
D. harmonious
26. The housewives would usually ______ the fruit before making their minds up which to buy.
A. pick out
B. pick on
C. pick up
D. pick over
27. Fear ______ us as we approached the old castle which was believed to be ghost-haunted.
A. came upon
B. came by
C. came before
D. came between
28. As we all know, thick forests are the natural ______ for birds, animals and insects, and we must forbid cutting trees without any limitation.
A. habitat
B. resort
C. residence
D. refuge
29. In the war time, some cities were ______ to the ground and thousands of civilians became homeless.
A. demolished
B. destroyed
C. razed
D. annihilated
30. Until now we have ______ many improvements in women"s employment.
A. brought out
B. brought up
C. brought forward
D. brought about
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension
In this section there are five reading passages followed by a total of 20 multiple-choice questions and 5 short answer questions. Please read the passages and then write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.
An allowance is an important tool for teaching kids how to budget, save and make their own decisions. Children remember and learn from mistakes when their own dollars are lost or spent foolishly.
How large an allowance is appropriate? Experts say there is not a right amount. Actual amounts differ from region to region, and from family to family.
To set an appropriate allowance for your child, work up a weekly budget. Allow for entertainment expenditures such as movies and snacks. Next, include everyday expenses such as lunch money, bus fare, and school supplies. "If you make the child responsible for these bills," says Josephine Swanson, a consumer specialist, "he or she will learn to budget for necessary expenditures."
Finally, add some extra money to make saving possible. If you can, keep your child"s allowance in line with that of his friends. A child whose purchasing power falls away below his peers" can feel left out.
It can be tough, but avoid excusing your children when they make a mistake with their allowance. When Brooke Stephens was ten and growing up in Jacksonville, her mother gave her $5 a week, $1.75 of which was for bus fare and lunch. "If you lose your money," Brooke"s mother told her, "you walk home" One week the girl spent all her allowance in a candy store, then she called home for a ride. "Morn made me walk home," recalls Stephens, now a financial planner in Brooklyn. "At first I was angry. But I finally realized that she was trying to teach me an important lesson." Experts advise that an allowance should not be tied directly to a child"s daily chores. Kids should help around the house not because they get paid for it but because they share responsibilities as members of a family. You might, however, pay a child for doing extra jobs at home, which can develop his or her initiative.
1. What does the text mainly discuss?
A. How to develop a child"s initiative
B. How to work up an amount of pocket money
C. How to teach a child to save money
D. How to teach a child about money
2. It can be inferred from the passage that if a child is given an allowance, he or she may ______.
A. spend all the money very soon
B. be spoiled and finally ruined
C. feel responsible and careful about money
D. lose the money and cannot return home
3. In Paragraph 3, the words "his peers" refer to ______.
A. his parents
B. his teachers
C. his financial experts
D. his friends
4. Why does the author mention Brooke Stephens?
A. To question the opinion about pocket money
B. To compare Stephens with other financial experts
C. To explain that parents should be strict when developing children"s good habits about money
D. To suggest that pocket money is useless in developing a child"s sense of responsibility
5. The author implies in the passage that ______.
A. paying children for their housework is no good
B. a child"s initiative can be developed if he or she is paid for all the housework
C. children may feel lost and lonely if they have no pocket money
D. children may learn to put aside some money if they are given a great amount of pocket money Nowadays, a cellphone service is available to everyone, everywhere. Probably thousands of people have already been using it, but I just discovered it, so I"m going to claim it and also name it: Fake Foning.
The technology has been working well for me at the office, but there are infinite applications. In fact in any public space.
Say you work at a big university with lots of talky faculty members buzzing about. Now, say you need to use the restroom. The trip down the hall will take approximately one hour, because a person can"t walk into those talky people without getting pulled aside for a question, a bit of
gossip, a new read on a certain line ofParadise Lost.
So, a cellphone. Any cellphone. Just pick it up. Don"t dial. Just hold that phone to your face and start talking. Walk confidently down the hall engaged in fake conversation, making sure to tailor both the topic and content to the person standing before you whom you are trying to evade.
For standard colleague avoidance, I suggest fake chatting about fake business: "Yes, I"m m glad you called, because we really need to think about the details. What"s that? Yes, I read Page 12, but if you look at the bottom of 4, I think you can see the problem begins right there."
Be animated. Be engaged in your fake fone conversation. Make eye contact with the people passing, nod to them, gesture keen interest in talking to them at a later time, point to your phone, shrug and move on.
Shoppers should consider fake foning anytime they spot a talky neighbor in the produce department pinching unripe peaches. Without your phone at your face, you"d be in for a 20-minute speech on how terrible the world is.
One important caution about fake foning. The other day I was fake foning my way past a colleague, and he was actually following me to get my attention. I knew he wanted to ask about a project I had not yet finished. I was trying to buy myself some time, so I continued lake foning with my doctor. "So I don"t need the operation? Oh, doctor, that is the best news."
And then: Brrrrrmg! Brrrrrmg! Brrrrrmg! My phone started ringing, right there while it was planted on my face. My colleague looked at me, and I at him, and naturally I gasped. "What is the matter with this thing? said, pulling the phone away to look at it, and then putting it back to my ear.
"Hello? Are you still there?"
Oops.
6. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?
A. Cellphone service is popular among people
B. Cellphone has much use in office
C. Fake foning is a new cellphone service
D. Fake foning is a new discovery
7. What is fake foning?
A. A strategy to avoid people
B. A device newly produced
C. A service provided everywhere
D. A skill of communication
8. In the author"s opinion, in order to make fake foning look real one has to ______.
A. talk about interesting matters
B. behave politely to people passing by
C. hold the phone while walking
D. appear absorbed in conversation
9. What does the last example show?
A. One effective way is to fake fone one"s doctor
B. One has to be careful while fake foning
C. Fake foning may not deceive people
D. Fake foning is always quite successful
10. After his phone suddenly began ringing, the author ______.
A. immediately started talking to the caller
B. immediately started talking to his colleague
C. put the phone away and stopped talking
D. continued with his fake conversation
Will there ever be another Einstein? This is the undercurrent of conversation at Einstein memorial meetings throughout the year. A new Einstein will emerge, scientists say. But it may take a long time. After all, more than 200 years separated Einstein from his nearest rival, Isaac Newton. Many physicists say the next Einstein hasn"t been born yet, or is a baby now. That"s because the quest for a unified theory that would account for all the forces of nature has pushed current mathematics to its limits. New math must be created before the problem can be solved.
But researchers say there are many other factors working against another Einstein emerging anytime soon.
For one thing, physics is a much different field today. In Einstein"s day, there were only a few thousand physicists worldwide, and the theoreticians who could intellectually rival Einstein probably would fit into a streetcar with seats to spare.
Education is different, too. One crucial aspect of Einstein"s training that is overlooked is the years of philosophy he read as a teenager—Kant, Schopenhauer and Spinoza, among others. It taught him how to think independently and abstractly about space and time, and it wasn"t long before he became a philosopher himself.
The independence created by philosophical insight is—in my opinion—the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth, Einstein wrote in 1944.
And he was an accomplished musician. The interplay between music and math is well known. Einstein would furiously play his violin as a way to think through a knotty physics problem. Today, universities have produced millions of physicists. There aren"t many jobs in science for them, so they go to Wall Street and Silicon Valley to apply their analytical skills to more practical—and rewarding—efforts.
"Maybe there is an Einstein out there today," said Columbia University physicist Brian Greene, "butit would be a lot harder for him to be heard".
Especially considering what Einstein was proposing.
"The actual fabric of space and time curving? My God, what an idea!" Greene said at a recent gathering at the Aspen Institute. "It takes a certain type of person who will bang his head against the wall because you believe you"ll find the solution."
Perhaps the best examples are the five scientific papers Einstein wrote in his "miracle year" of 1905. These "thought experiments" were pages of calculations signed and submitted to the prestigious journal Annalen der Physic by a virtual unknown. There were no footnotes or citations. What might happen to such a submission today?
"We all get papers like those in the mail," Greene said. "We put them in the junk file."
11. What do scientists seem to agree upon, judging from the first two paragraphs?
A. Einstein pushed mathematics almost to its limits
B. It will take another Einstein to build a unified theory
C. No physicist is likely to surpass Einstein in the next 200 years
D. It will be some time before a new Einstein emerges
12. What was critical to Einstein"s success?
A. His talent as an accomplished musician
B. His independent and abstract thinking
C. His untiring effort to fulfill his potential
D. His solid foundation in math theory
13. What does the author tell us about physicists today?
A. They tend to neglect training in analytical skills
B. They are very good at solving practical problems
C. They attach great importance to publishing academic papers
D. They often go into fields yielding greater financial benefits
14. What does Brian Greene imply by saying "... it would be a lot harder for him to be heard" (Para. 9)?
A. People have to compete in order to get their papers published
B. It is hard for a scientist to have his papers published today
C. Papers like Einstein"s would unlikely get published today
D. Nobody will read papers on apparently ridiculous theories
15. When he submitted his papers in 1905, Einstein ______.
A. forgot to make footnotes and citations
B. was little known in academic circles
C. was known as a young genius in math calculations
D. knew nothing about the format of academic papers
I remember meeting him one evening with his pushcart. I had managed to sell all my papers and **ing home in the snow. It was that strange hour in downtown New York when the workers were pouring homeward in the twilight. I marched among thousands of tired men and women whom the factory whistles hadunyoked. They flowed in rivers through the clothing factory districts, then down along the avenues to the East Side.
I met my father near Cooper Union. I recognized him, a hunched, frozen figure in an old overcoat standing by a banana cart. He looked so lonely; the tears came to my eyes. Then he saw me, and his face lit with his sad, beautiful smile—Charlie Chaplin s smile.
"Arch, it"s Mikey," he said. "So you have sold your papers! Come and eat a banana."
He offered me one. I refused it. I felt it crucial that my father sell his bananas, not give them away. He thought I was shy, and coaxed and joked with me, and made me eat the banana. It smelled of wet straw and snow.
"You haven"t sold many bananas today, pop," I said anxiously.
He shrugged his shoulders.
"What can I do? No one seems to want them."
It was true. The work crowds pushed home morosely over the pavements. The rusty sky darkened over New York building, the tall street lamps were lit, innumerable trucks, street cars and elevated trains clattered by. Nobody and nothing in the great city stopped for my father"s bananas.
"I ought to yell," said my father dolefully "I ought to make a big noise like other peddlers, but it makes my throat sore. Anyway, I"m ashamed of yelling, it makes me feel like a fool."
I had eaten one of his bananas. My sick conscience told me that I ought to pay for it somehow. I must remain here and help my father.
"I"ll yell for you, pop" I volunteered.
"Arch, no" he said, "go home; you have worked enough today. Just tell momma I"ll be late."
But I yelled and yelled. My father, standing by, spoke occasional words of praise, and said I was a
wonderful yeller. Nobody else paid attention. The workers drifted past us wearily, endlessly; a defeated army wrapped in dreams of home. Elevated trains crashed ; the Cooper Union clock burned above us; the sky grew black, the wind poured, the slush burned through our shoes. There were thousands of strange, silent figures pouring over the sidewalks in snow. None of them stopped to buy bananas. I yelled and yelled. Nobody listened.
My father tried to stop me at last. "Nu," he said smiling to console me, "that was wonderful yelling, Mikey. But it"s plain we are unlucky today! Let"s go home."
I was frantic, and almost in tears. I insisted on keeping up my desperate yells. But at last my father persuaded me to leave with him.
16. The word "unyoked" in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to ______.
A. sent out
B. released
C. dispatched
D. removed
17. Which of the following in the first paragraph does NOT indicate crowds of people?
A. Thousands of
B. Flowed
C. Pouring
D. Unyoked
18. Which of the following is intended to be a pair of contrast in the passage?
A. Huge crowds and lonely individuals
B. Weather conditions and street lamps
C. Clattering trains and peddlers" yells
D. Moving crowds and street traffic
19. Which of the following words is NOT suitable to describe the character of the son?
A. Compassionate
B. Responsible
C. Shy
D. Determined
20. What is the theme of the story?
A. The misery of the factory workers
B. How to survive in a harsh environment
C. Generation gap between the father and the son
D. Love between the father and the son
The Working Time Regulations (WTRs) introduced a new right to paid holidays for most workers. However, some workers were not covered when the WTRs came into force in October 1998. Since the regulations were amended, with effect from 1 August 2003, the majority of these workers have been entitled to paid holidays, and since 1 August 2004 the regulations have also applied to junior doctors.
Workers who qualify are entitled to no fewer than four weeks of paid holiday a year, and public holidays (normally eight days in England and Wales) count towards this. However. workers and employers can agree longer holidays.
For the first year of work, special accrual rules apply. For each month of employment, workers are entitled to one twelfth of the annual holiday. After the first year of employment, you can take your holiday entitlement at any time, with your employer"s approval.
Before taking holidays, you must give your employer notice of at least twice the length of the holiday you want to take: for instance, to take a five-day holiday, you must give at least ten days" notice. If your employer does not want you to take that holiday, they can give you counter-notice equal to the holiday, for example, five days" notice not to take a five-day holiday.
If the employer wants you to take holiday at a given time, e. g. when there is a shutdown at the
same time every year, they must give you notice of at least twice the length of the holiday. There is no right for the worker to take that holiday at a different time.
Holiday cannot be carried over to the next year, unless your contract of employment allows this to happen. Nor can you be paid in lieu of your holiday. However, when you leave the job, you are entitled to receive payment for any outstanding holiday, provided your contract specifically allows for this.
It may be that your contract gives you better rights, or your holiday rights might be specified in a collective agreement. Your union representative can advise you on this.
Answer the following questions, using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER from the passage.
21. In what year were the regulations extended to cover most of the workers who were originally excluded?
22. What is the minimum annual paid holiday which workers are entitled to?
23. During a worker"s first year of employment, what proportion of their annual holiday does a month"s work give?
24. What can an employer give a worker to stop them taking holiday that they have requested?
25. What is given as a possible reason for an employee having to take a holiday at a certain time?
Part Ⅲ Writing
While some people claim that a person"s essential qualities are inherited at birth, others hold that the circumstances in which a person grows up are mainly responsible for the type of person he/ she later becomes. What do you think of this? Write an essay of about 400 words on the following topic:
1. Essential Qualities: Inherited or Not?In the first part of your essay you should state clearly your main argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary.
Marks will, be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Write your essay on the ANSWER SHEET.。