2012华南理工翻译硕士MTI考研真题

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华南理工大学

2012年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试卷（请在答题纸上做答，试卷上做答无效，试后本卷必须与答题纸一同交回）

科目名称：翻译硕士英语

适用专业：英语笔译（专硕）

本卷满分：100分共页Part I. Vocabulary and Grammar (30 points, 1 point for each)

Directions: After each statement there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Select the only one choice that best completes the statement. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

1.Economics applies directly to how we earn our income and ________.

A. how to spend our money

B. how we spend our money

C. the way we spend our money

D. the way our money is spent

2.The product must be priced ________ it competes effectively with rival products in the

same market.

A. as such

B. in such a way

C. so that

D. so

3.I ________ be late for that important meeting than leave this injured old woman here.

A. had better

B. would rather

C. may as well

D. should just

4.________ he ________ that it was to be the president’s last press conference, he would

have filmed the occasion.

A. Should…know

B. If…knows

C. Had…known

D. Were…known

5.It wasn’t until he turned the corner that he realized that he ________ tailed.

A. was

B. being

C. would be

D. was being

6.As a senior professor she should have known better _______ to get involved in such a

scandal.

A. and not

B. but not

C. than

D. than not

7.The health department inspector recommended that all outdoor food stores at the gate

of the school ________.

A. closed down

B. close down

C. be closed down

D. would be closed down

8.The application was blank except for ________ Michael had filled in his name.

A. where

B. what

C. how

D. which

9.Cultural values may be defined as assumptions shared by the members of a society

________ is right or wrong.

A. as to what

B. about whatever

C. on what

D. concerning things that

10.Some scientists think that trial-and-error methods help to show how intelligent

________.

A. is an animal

B. an animal is

C. will an animal be

D. an animal will be

11.We can’t _______ examinations altogether unless we can come up with a better way to

evaluate the students.

A. do away

B. do away of

C. do away with

D. do away from

12.The sudden bankruptcy of these financial giants threw the investors ________ and

caused them to ________.

A. in a panic, stampede

B. in pain, panic

C. in confusion, hold their stocks

D. in despair, withdraw gradually

13.He did everything possible to whip up some support for his decision to________ more

money to his favorite project.

A. allow

B. spend

C. divide

D. allot

14.At that time he kept telling us that final victory was just ________. His optimism saved

us from despair.

A. at the corner

B. around the corner

C. on the corner

D. in the corner

15.If he should fail to ________ the project to a successful close in time, he would be

severely reprimanded.

A. bring

B. take

C. carry

D. put

16.After he ________ power, he was no longer satisfied to be a president. He wanted to

be a king.

A. gripped

B. grabbed

C. seized

D. grasped

17.His sudden blindness ________ him ________ the joy of seeing the beautiful world.

A. robbed; of

B. deprived; with

C. robbed; off

D. denied; of

18.This terrible event ________ of the president, and he ________ all his appointments.

A. drew hold of; called off

B. occupied all the attention;

dismissed

C. demanded all the attention; laid aside

D. took complete hold; cancelled

19.Starting around 7000 B.C., and for the next four thousand years, much of the Northern

Hemisphere ____ temperatures warmer than at present.

A. with experience of

B. experienced

C. experiencing

D. experience