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广州外国语大学翻译硕士考研真题
2014年广州外国语大学翻译硕士考研真题各位考研的同学们，大家好！我是才思的一名学员，现在已经顺利的考上研究生，今天和大家分享一下这个专业的真题，方便大家准备考研，希望给大家一定的帮助。
一:百科名词解释：银监会行政许可独立董事结汇核心资本十八届三中全会生态文明中等收入陷阱改革红利小康社会君主立宪制《自由大宪章》明治维新洋务运动张之洞事业单位计划经济绩效工资养老金“去行政化”中国银行业监督管理委员会（简称：中国银监会或银监会；英文：ChinaBankingRegulatoryCommission，英文缩写：CBRC）成立于2003年4月25日，是国务院直属国务院交办的其他事项。
[6]行政许可，是指在法律一般禁止的情况下，国家突破人均GDP1000美元的“贫困国家的十个方面的特征，包括经济体制，又称指令型经济，是一种经济体系，而这种体系下，国家在经济体制都依赖ZF的指令性计划，因此计划经济也被称为“指令性经济”。
其余的三种经济体系是市场经济体系、传统经济体系和混合经济体系。
绩效工资分为广义绩效工资和狭义绩效工资，广义绩效工资又称绩效加薪、奖励工资（Meritpay)或与评估挂钩的工资（Appraisalrelatedpay）。
绩效工资设计的基本原则是通过激励个人提高绩效促进组织的绩效。
即是通过绩效工资传达企业绩效预期的信息，刺激企业中所有的员工来达到它的目的；使企业更关注结果或独具特色的文化与价值观；能促进高绩效员工获得高期望薪酬；保证薪酬因员工绩效而不同意义：1、由于员工的绩效的不同而导致其工资收入的不同的工资制度，是每一年都有的浮动薪酬，但不是永久增加的固定薪酬。
绩效工资不是局限于流水线工人，可以使用于任何公司的任何岗位，包括银行，会计师事务所，律师事务所等等。
2、其目的是找出和奖赏绩效好的员工并且鼓励每一个人都更加努力，以更好的方法去工作。
3、真正的绩效工资是正规化的而不是想到的时候心血来潮给一些奖励。
2019年考研广外真题回忆版含翻译真题
2019年考研广外真题回忆版含翻译真题政治选择33个，5个大题。
多选题漏选0分（肖四押中了几个）日语题型：选择，日译汉，汉译日一共75个选择，包括: 平假10个片假10个语法选择题，阅读4篇（每篇2-5个选择。
我给老爷爷开门，赏花，爸爸工作，不要打击小孩子梦想）日译汉3个，一段话。
1古屋南北通透2少子化3读报早晨读什么，下班了读什么，原因是汉译日5个，一句话，课文内容改编。
感受：阅读和日译汉难度大，其他基本n3。
水平考试题型：close，gap-filling，改错，阅读close 30个(各种词性，词汇很简单，像because，as，taking，an，other，should，by，of，with，balance，that，making，variety，played，same等）a variety of 空了variety，played an 。
role空了played，，taking measures空了taking)内容是languages dyinggap-filling 20个一组词中可能词性不同，要变形改错20个(注意要求符号删除是斜线还是横线，注意看给的例子) 内容是evolution阅读4篇x5A篇独立生活B篇men and women 的job importanceC篇urban populationD篇id，ego，super-ego个人感觉难度跟六级差不多问题是直球，文中大眼一看就能找到。
时间很充足翻译与写作题型：summary（40分），作文（60分），英译汉（25分），汉译英（25分）summary：内容是conflict相关的，缩写到100词作文：how technology affects your interpersonal relationships，400词左右。
（是改革以前的专八作文题型）英译汉：If I were a boy again, I would school myself into a habit of attention; I would let nothing come between me and the subject in hand. I wouldremember that a good skater never tries to skate in two directions at once. The habit of attention becomes part of our life, if we began early enough. I often hear grown up people say “I could not fix my attention on the sermon or book, although I wished to do so”, and the reason is, the habit was not formed in youth.If I were to live my life over again, I would pay more attention to the cultivation of the memory. I would strengthen that faculty by every possible means, and on every possible occasion. It takes a little hard work at first to remember things accurately;but memory soon helps itself, and gives very little trouble. It only needs early cultivation to become a power.If I were a boy again, I would look on the cheerful side. Life is very much like a mirror: if you smile upon, it smiles back upon you; but if you frown and look doubtful on it, you will get a similar look in return. Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but of all thatcome in contact with it. “Who shuts love out, in turn shall be shut out from love.”汉译英：粤港澳大湾区建设对国际投资者而言也是难得的新机遇。
2010年广东外语外贸大学翻译硕士MTI考研真题解析
2010年广东外语外贸大学翻译硕士MTI考研真题解析各位考研的同学们，大家好！我是才思的一名学员，现在已经顺利的考上研究生，今天和大家分享一下这个专业的真题，方便大家准备考研，希望给大家一定的帮助。
第1卷：基础英语Part 1: Grammar and V ocabulary. （30 POINTS）01. Although she gives badly ____ titles to her musical compositions, they ____ unusual combinations of materials including classical music patterns and rhythms, electronic sounds, and bird songs.A. conventional/incorporateB. eccentric/deployC. traditional/excludeD. imaginative/disguise02. Even though the folktales Perroult collected and retold were not solely French in origin, his versions of them were so decidedly French in style that later anthologies of French folktales have never ____ them.A. excludedB. admiredC. collectedD. comprehended03. In arguing against assertions that environmental catastrophe is imminent, her book does not ridicule all predictions of doom but rather claims that the risks of harm have in many cases been ____.A. exaggeratedB. ignoredC. scrutinizedD. derided04. There seems to be no ____ the reading public’s thirst for books about the 1960’s: indeed, the normal level of interest has ____ recently because of a spate of popular television documentaries.A. quenching/moderatedB. whetting/mushroomedC. slaking/increasedD. ignoring/transformed05. Despite a tendency to be overtly ____, the poetry of the Middle Ages often sparks the imagination and provides lively entertainment, as well as pious sentiments.A. divertingB. emotionalC. didacticD. romantic06. One of the first ____ of reduced burning in Amazon rain forests was the chestnut industry: smoke tends to drive out the insect that, by pollinating chestnut tree, allow chestnuts to develop.A. reformersB. discoveriesC. casualtiesD. beneficiaries07. The research committee urged the archaeologist to ____ her claim that the tomb she has discovered was that of Alexander the Great, since her initial report has been based only on ____.A. disseminate/suppositionB. withdraw/evidenceC. undercut/capriceD. document/conjecture08. Although Heron is well known for the broad comedy in the movies she has directed previously, her new film is less inclined to ____: the gags are fewer and subtler.A. understatementB. preciosityC. symbolismD. melodrama09. Bebop’s legacy is ____ one: bebop may have won jazz the right to be taken seriously as an art form, but it ____ jazz’s mass audience, which turned to other forms of music such as rock and pop.A. a mixed/alienatedB. a troubled/seducedC. an ambiguous/aggrandizedD. a valuable/refined10. The exhibition’s importance lies in its ____: curators have gathered a diverse array of significant works from many different museums.A. homogeneityB. sophistryC. scopeD. farsightedness11. Despite the fact that the commission’s report treats a vitally important topic, the report will be ____ read because its prose is so ____ that understanding it requires an enormous effort.A. seldom/transparentB. carefully/pellucidC. little/turgidD. eagerly/digressive12. Carleton would still rank among the great ____ of nineteenth century American art even if the circumstance of her life and career were less ____ than they are.A. celebrities/obscureB. failures/illustriousC. charlatans/impeccableD. enigmas/mysterious13. Although based on an actual event, the film lacks ____: the director shuffles events, simplifies the tangle of relationships, and ____ documentary truth for dramatic power.A. conviction/embracesB. expressiveness/exaggeratesC. verisimilitude/sacrificesD. realism/substitutes14. When Adolph Ochs became the publisher of The New York Times, he endowed the paper with a uniquely ____ tone, avoiding the ____ editorials that characterized other major papers of the time.A. abstruse/scholarlyB. dispassionate/shrillC. argumentative/tendentiousD. cosmopolitan/timely15. There are as good fish in the sea ____ ever came out of it.A. thanB. likeC. asD. so16. All the President’s Men ____ one of the important books for historians who study the Watergate Scandal.A. remainB. remainsC. remainedD. is remaining17. “You ____ borrow my notes provided you take care of them”, I told my friend.A. couldB. shouldC. mustD. can18. If only the patient ____ a different treatment instead of using the antibiotics, he might still be alive now.A. had receivedB. receivedC. should receiveD. were receiving19. Linda was ____ the experiment a month ago, but she changed her mind at the last minute.A. to startB. to have startedC. to be startingD. to have been starting20. She ____ fifty or so when I first met her at the conference.A. must beB. had beenC. could beD. must have been21. It is not ____ much the language as the background that makes the book difficultto understand.A. thatB. asC. soD. very22. The committee has anticipated the problems that ____ in the road construction project.A. ariseB. will ariseC. aroseD. have arisen23. The student said there were a few Points in the essay he ____ impossible to comprehend.A. had foundB. findsC. has foundD. would find24. He would have finished his college education, but he ____ to quit and find a job to support his family.A. had hadB. hasC. hadD. would have25. The research requires more money than ____.A. have been put inB. has been put inC. being put inD. to be put in26. Overpopulation poses a terrible threat to the human race. Yet it is probably ____ a threat to the human race than environmental destruction.A. no moreB. not moreC. even moreD. much more27. It is not uncommon for there ____ problems of communication between the old and the young.A. beingB. would beC. beD. to be28. ____ at in his way, the situation does not seem so desperate.A. LookingB. LookedC. Being lookedD. To look29. It is absolutely essential that William ____ his study in spite of some learning difficulties.A. will continueB. continuedC. continueD. continues30. The painting he bought at the street market the other day was a ____ forgery.A. man-madeB. naturalC. crudeD. realPart 2: Reading Comprehension. （40 POINTS）Passage AOn New Year’s Day, 50,000 inmates in Kenyan jails went without lunch. This was not some mass hunger strike to highlight poor living conditions. It was an extraordinary humanitarian gesture: the money that would have been spent on their lunches went to the charity Food Aid to help feed an estimated 3.5 million Kenyans who, because of a severe drought, are threatened with starvation. The drought is big news in Africa, affecting huge areas of east Africa and the Horn. If you are reading this in the west,however, you may not be aware of it—the media is not interested in old stories. Even if you do know about the drought, you may not be aware that it is devastating one group of people disproportionately: the pastoralists. There are 20 million nomadic or semi-nomadic herders in this region, and they are fast becoming some of the poorest people in the continent. Their plight encapsulates Africa’s perennial problem with drought and famine.How so? It comes down to the reluctance of governments, aid agencies and foreign lenders to support the herders’traditional way of life. Instead they have tended to try to turn them into commercial ranchers or agriculturalists, even though it has been demonstrated time and again that pastoralists are well adapted to their harsh environments, and that moving livestock according to the seasons or climatic changes makes their methods far more viable than agriculture in sub-Saharan drylands. Furthermore, African pastoralist systems are often more productive, in terms of protein and cash per hectare, than Australian, American and other African ranches in similar climatic conditions. They make a substantial contribution to their countries’national economies. In Kenya, for example, the turnover of the pastoralist sector is worth $800 million per year. In countries such as Burkina Faso, Eritrea and Ethiopia, hides from pastoralists’herds make up over 10 percent of export earnings. Despite this productivity, pastoralists still starve and their animals perish when drought hits. One reason is that only a trickle of the profits goes to the herders themselves; the lion’s share is pocketed by traders. This is partly because the herders only sell much of their stock during times of drought and famine, when they need the cash to buy food, andthe terms of trade in this situation never work in their favour. Another reason is the lack of investment in herding areas.Funding bodies such as the World Bank and USAID tried to address some of the problems in the 1960s, investing millions of dollars in commercial beef and dairy production. It didn’t work. Firstly, no one bothered to consult the pastoralists about what they wanted. Secondly, rearing livestock took precedence over human progress. The policies and strategies of international development agencies more or less mirrored the thinking of their colonial predecessors. They were based on two false assumptions: that pastoralism is primitive and inefficient, which led to numerous failed schemes aimed at converting herders to modern ranching models; and that Africa’s drylands can support commercial ranching. They cannot. Most of Africa’s herders live in areas with unpredictable weather systems that are totally unsuited to commercial ranching.What the pastoralists need is support for their traditional lifestyle. Over the past few years, funders and policy-makers have been starting to get the message. One example is intervention by governments to ensure that pastoralists get fair prices for their cattle when they sell them in times of drought, so that they can afford to buy fodder for their remaining livestock and cereals to keep themselves and their families alive (the problem in African famines is not so much a lack of food as a lack of money to buy it). Another example is a drought early-warning system run by the Kenyan government and the World Bank that has helped avert livestock deaths.This is all promising, but more needs to be done. Some African governments stillfavour forcing pastoralists to settle. They should heed the latest scientific research demonstrating the productivity of traditional cattle-herding. Ultimately, sustainable rural development in pastoralist areas will depend on increasing trade, so one thing going for them is the growing demand for livestock products: there will likely be an additional 2 billion consumers worldwide by 2020, the vast majority in developing countries. To ensure that pastoralists benefit, it will be crucial to give them a greater say in local policies. Other key tasks include giving a greater say to women, who play critical roles in livestock production. The rich world should pay proper attention to the plight of the pastoralists. Leaving them dependent on foreign food aid is unsustainable and will lead to more resentment, conflict, environmental degradation and malnutrition. It is in the rich world’s interests to help out.01. Which of the following CANNOT be concluded from the passage? ____A. Forcing Africa’s nomadic herders to become ranchers will save them from drought.B. The difference between pastoralist and agriculturalist is vital to the African people.C. The rich world should give more support to the African people to overcome drought.D. Environmental degradation should be the major concern in developing Africa’s pastoralism.02. The word “encapsulates”in the sentence “Their plight encapsulates Africa’s perennial problem with drought and famine.”(para.l) can be replaced by ____.A. concludes.B. involves.C. represents.D. aggravates.03. What is the author’s attitude toward African drought and traditional lifestyle of pastoralism? ___A. Neutral and indifferent.B. Sympathetic and understanding.C. Critical and vehement.D. Subjective and fatalistic.04. When the author writes “the policies and strategies of international development agencies more or less mirrored the thinking of their colonial predecessors.”(para.4), he implies all the following EXCEPT that the aid agencies did not ____.A. have an objective view of the situation in AfricaB. understand the unpredictable weather systems thereC. feel themselves superior in decision makingD. care about the development of the local people05. The author’s main purpose in writing this article is ____.A. to evaluate the living conditions of Kenyan pastoralistsB. to give suggestions on the support of the traditional pastoralism in AfricaC. to illustrate the difference between commercial ranching and pastoralismD. to criticize the colonial thinking of western aid agenciesPassage BCivil-Liberties advocates reeling from the recent revelations on surveillance had something else to worry about last week: the privacy of the billions of search queries made on sites like Google, AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft. As part of a long-running court case, the government has asked those companies to turn over information on its users’search behavior. All but Google have handed over data, and now the Department of Justice (DOJ) has moved to compel the search giant to turn over the goods.What makes this case different is that the intended use of the information is not related to national security, but the government’s continuing attempt to police Internet pornography. In 1998, Congress passed the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), but courts have blocked its implementation due to First Amendment concerns. In its appeal, the DOJ wants to prove how easy it is to inadvertently stumble upon pore. In order to conduct a controlled experiment—to be performed by a UC Berkeley professor of statistics—the DOJ wants to use a large sample of actual search terms from the different search engines. It would then use those terms to do its own searches, employing the different kinds of filters each search engine offers, in an attempt toquantify how often “material that is harmful to minors”might appear. Google contends that since it is not a party to the case, the government has not right to demand its proprietary information to perform its test. “We intend to resist their motion vigorously,”said Google attorney Nicole Wong.DOJ spokesperson Charles Miller says that the government is requesting only the actual search terms, and not anything that would link the queries to those who made them. (The DOJ is also demanding a list of a million Web sites that Google indexes to determine the degree to which objectionable sites are searched.) Originally, the government asked for a treasure trove of all searches made in June and July 2005; the request has been scaled back to one week’s worth of search queries.One oddity about the DOJ’s strategy is that the experiment could conceivably sink its own case. If the built-in filters that each search engine provides are effective in blocking porn sites, the government will have wound up proving what the opposition has said all along—you don’t need to suppress speech to protect minors on the Net. “We think that our filtering technology does a good job protecting minors from inadvertently seeing adult content,”says Ramez Naam, group program manager of MSN Search.Though the government intends to use these data specifically for its COPA-related test, it’s possible that the information could lead to further investigations and, perhaps, subpoenas to find out who was doing the searching. “What if certain search terms indicated that people were contemplating terrorist actions or other criminal activities?”Says the DOJ’s Miller, “I’m assuming that if something raised alarms, we would hand it over to the proper authorities.”Privacy advocates fear that if the government request is upheld, it will open the door to further government examination of search behavior. One solution would be for Google to stop storing the information, but the company hopes to eventually use the personal information of consenting customers to improve search performance. “Search is a window into people’s personalities,”says Kurt Opsahl, an Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney. “They should be able to take advantage of the Internet without worrying about Big Brother looking over their shoulders.”01. When the American government asked Google, AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft to turn over information on its users’search behavior, the major intention is ____.A. to protect national securityB. to help protect personal freedomC. to monitor Internet pornographyD. to implement the Child Online Protection Act02. Google refused to turn over “its proprietary information”(para. 2) required by DOJ as it believes that ____.A. it is not involved in the court caseB. users’privacy is most importantC. the government has violated the First AmendmentD. search terms is the company’s business secret03. The phrase “scaled back to”in the sentence “the request has been scaled back to one week’s worth of search queries”(para.3) can be replaced by ____.A. maximized toB. minimized toC. returned toD. reduced to04. In the sentence “One oddity about the DOJ’s strategy is that the experiment could conceivably sink its own case.”(para.4), the expression “sink its own case”most probably means that ____.A. counterattack the oppositionB. lead to blocking of porn sitesC. provide evidence to disprove the caseD. give full ground to support the case05. When Kurt Opsahl says that “They should be able to take advantage of the Internet without worrying about Big Brother looking over their shoulders.”(para. 5), the expression “Big Brother”is used to refer to ____.A. a friend or relative showing much concernB. a colleague who is much more experiencedC. a dominating and all-powerful ruling powerD. a benevolent and democratic organizationPart 3: Answering Questions. （20 POINTS）Passage AMillions of elderly Germans received a notice from the Health&Social Security Ministry earlier this month that struck a damaging blow to the welfare state. The statement informed them that their pensions were being cut. The reductions come as a stop-gap measure to control Germany’s ballooning pension crisis. Not surprisingly, it was an unwelcome change for senior citizens such as Sabine Wetzel, a 67-year-old retired bank teller, who was told her state pension would be cut by $12.30, or 1% to $1,156.20 a month. “It was a real shock,”she says. “My pension had always gone up in the past.”There’s more bad news on the way. On Mar. 11, Germany’s lower house of Parliament passed a bill gradually cutting state pensions—which have been rising steadily since World War II—from 53% of average wages now to 46% by 2020. And Germany is not alone. Governments across Western Europe are racing to curb pension benefits. In Italy, the government plans to raise the minimum retirement age from 57 to 60, while France will require that civil servants put in 40 years rather than 37.5 toqualify for a full pension. The reforms are coming despite tough opposition from unions, leftist politicians, and pensioners’groups.The explanation is simple: Europeans are living longer and having fewer children. By 2030 there will only be two workers per pensioner, compared with four in 2000. With fewer young workers paying into the system, cuts are being made to cover a growing shortfall. The gap between money coming in and payments going out could top $10 billion this year in Germany alone. “In the future, a state pension alone will no longer be enough to maintain the living standards employees had before they retired,”says German Health & Social Security Minister Ulla Schmidt. Says Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti: “The welfare state is producing too few cradles and too few graves.”Of course, those population trends have been forecast for years. Some countries, such as Britain and the Netherlands, have responded by making individuals and their employers assume more of the responsibility for pensions. But many Continental governments dragged their feet. Now, the rapid runup in costs is finally forcing them to act. State-funded pension payments make up around 12% of gross domestic product in Germany and France and 15% in Italy—two percentage Points more than 20 years ago. Pensions account for an average 21% of government spending across the European Union. The U. S. Social Security system, by contrast, consumes just 4.8% of GDP. The rising cost is having serious repercussions on key European nations’commitments to fiscal restraint. “Governments have no choice but to make pensionreform a priority,”says Antonio Cabral, deputy director of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Economic & Financial Affairs.Just as worrisome is the toll being exacted on the private sector, corporate contributions to state pension systems—which make up 19.5% of total gross pay in Germany—add to Europe’s already bloated labor costs. That, in turn, blunts manufacturers’competitiveness and keeps unemployment rates high. According to the Institute of German Economics in Cologne, benefit costs reached a record 41.7% of gross wages in Germany last year, compared with 37.4% a decade before. French cement manufacturer Lafarge says pension cost of $121 million contributed to a 9% fall in operating profits last year.To cope, Germany and most of its EU partners are using tax breaks to encourage employees to put money into private pension schemes. But even if private pensions become more popular, European governments will have to increase minimum retirement ages and reduce public pensions. While today’s seniors complain about reduced benefits, the next generation of retirees may look back on their parents’pension checks with envy.QuestionsParaphrase Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti’s statement “The welfare state is producing too few cradles and too few graves”? What is implied by the last sentence of the passage “While today’s seniors complain about reduced benefits, the nextgeneration of retirees may look back on their parents’pension checks with envy”? Passage BIn the old days, it was all done with cakes. For Marcel Proust, it was a visit to Mother’s for tea and madeleines that provided the access to “the vast structure of recollection”that was to become his masterpiece on memory and nostalgia, “Remembrance of Past Things.”These days, it’s not necessary to evoke the past: you can’t move without tripping over it.In an age zooming forward technologically, why are all the backward glances? The Oxford English Dictionary’s first definition of nostalgia reads: “acute longing for familiar surroundings; severe homesickness.”With the speed of computers doubling every 18 months, and the net doubling in size in about half that, no wonder we’re aching for familiar surroundings. Since the cornerstone of the Information Age is change, anything enduring becomes precious. “People are looking for something authentic,”says McLaren. Trouble is nostalgia has succumbed to trends in marketing, demographics and technology. “Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be,”says Michael J. Wolf, senior partner at Booz-Allen & Hamilton in New York. “These are the new good old days.”Baby boomers form the core of the nostalgia market. The boomers, defined by American demographers as those born between 1946 and 1964, are living long and prosperous lives. In both Europe and America, they remain the Holy Grail for admen,and their past has become everyone’s present. In a study on “entertainment imprinting,”two American marketing professors, Robert Schindler and Morris Holbrook, asked people ranging in age from 16 to 86 which popular music from the past they liked best. People’s favorite songs, they found, tended to be those that were popular when they were about 24, with their affection for pop songs diminishing on either side of that age. Doubtless Microsoft knows about entertainment imprinting, or at least nostalgia. The company hawks its latest Explorer to the strains of Simon and Garfunkel’s “Homeward Bound,”just as it launched Windows 98 to the tune of “Start Me up”by the Rolling Stones. Boomers remember both tunes from their 20s. If boomers are one market that values memories, exiles are another. According to the International Organization of Migration, more than 150 million people live today in a country other than the one where they were born—double the number that did so in 1965. This mass movement has sources as dire as tyranny and as luxurious as the freedoms of an EU passport. But exiles and refugees share one thing: homes left behind. Type in “nostalgia”on the search engine Google, and one of the first sites that pop up is the nostalgia page of The Iranian, an online site for Iran’s exiles, most of whom fled after 1978’s Islamic revolution. Perhaps the savviest exploitation of nostalgia has been the secondhand-book site alibris. com, which features stories of clients’rediscovering long-lost books on it. One John Mason Mings writes of the glories of finding a book with information on “Kickapoo Joy Juice,”a dreaded medicine of his youth. A Pennsylvanian waxes over alibris’s recovery of hisfirst-grade primer “Down cherry Street.”The Net doesn’t merely facilitate nostalgia —it promotes it. Web-based auction houses have helped jump-start markets for vintage items, form marbles to Apple Macintoshes.Cutting-edge technology, designed to be transient, has even bred its own instanostalgia. Last year a $666 Apple I went for $18,000 to a British collector at a San Francisco auction. “Historic! Microsoft Multiplan for Macintosh”crows one item on eBay’s vintage Apple secion. Surf to The Net Nostalgia Quiz to puzzle over questions like “In the old days, Altavista used to have which one of these URLs?”Those who don’t remember their history are condemned to repeat it. Or so entertainment moguls hope, as they market “70s TV hits like “Charlie’s Angels”and “Scooby Doo,”out next year, to a generation that can’t remember them the first time round. If you’ve missed a Puff Daddy track or a “Sopranos”episode, panic not. The megahits of today are destined to be the golden oldies of 2020, says Christopher Nurko of the branding consultant FutureBrand. “I guarantee you, Madonna’s music will be used to sell everything,”he says. “God help me, I hope it’s not selling insurance.”It could be. When we traffic in the past, nothing’s sacred.QuestionsExplain the beginning sentence “In the old days, it was all done with cakes.”What is the other big group besides baby boomers which values memories? What do these people share? What is “nostalgia market”? What do they sell in the nostalgia market?Part 4: Writing. （30 POINTS）Please reflect on the following opinion and write an essay of about 400 words elaborating your view with a well-defined title.Some people believe the key of the reform in the education system is a well-shared awareness that educations is there, instead of simply offering the knowledge important to the students, to improve the students in an all-round way, and especially to guide them to a careful pondering over such fundamental issues as life itself and social responsibility. An undue emphasis on knowledge-education and the resultant ignorance over the guidance to the students to a proper understanding of life will bring us nothing but a large number of “memorizing machines”. We can never expect a group of young people well prepared for the real social life.2014年考研专业课复习安排及方法问题一：专业课复习的复习进度及内容安排回答一：专业课的复习通常在9月或者更早就要开始了，集中复习一般放在11月－12月左右。
广东外语外贸大学研究生入学考试翻译学复试样题
考试复习重点资料（最新版）资料见第二页封面学校代码：11910考生准考证号：广东外语外贸大学高级翻译学院攻读硕士学位研究生入学复试笔试试卷（样题）考试专业： 翻 译 学专业方向：考试科目： 翻译理论与实践考生姓名：考生成绩：试卷评阅人：复试考生须知1.本试卷共 4 页(含本页)，本试卷分 3 大题。
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I. ClozeDirections:The following is a passage with numbered gaps. Choose from the list below an appropriate word to fill in each gap, making CHANGES in form where necessary. Each word given in the list can be used only ONCE and not all of them will be used. (30%)require sweep have provided if reactdevelop culture feel even poor principalcontain do wide locally abroad prevalentthat distinct advances longer from owncanned however bring commit to psychologicallyin what muchIt has been said that ‘we are _____1___ we eat’, and from a physiological point of view it is the food we eat that builds our bodies and influences our general health and disposition.One of the saddest features of the modern world is that millions of people round the globe do not have enough to eat and many more do not have the right kinds of food ___2____ for good health. We are constantly faced with the stark contrast between nations in the developed countries who have more food than they need, and the millions in many ____3_____ countries who are hungry and often starving.In order to be healthy, man needs a balanced diet ____4____ protein, fat, carbohydrate（碳水化合物）, vitamins and minerals. The carbohydrate in bread, rice, potatoes and sugary foods provide energy for the body. Too much carbohydrate, however, results ____5____ obesity（肥胖症）which can endanger health. The fats and oils in milk, cream, butter, cheese and fat meat provide the body's main stored food and contain twice as ____6_____ energy as carbohydrates. The protein in cheese, eggs, meat, fish and milk promote growth and repair damage to the body's tissues. The body also needs small amounts of vitamins and minerals. _____7______ a person's diet consists of a variety of foods such as meat, fish, eggs, milk, green vegetables and fruit, the required amounts of vitamins and minerals are taken in.The kinds of foods people become accustomed ____8____ in the early formative years become an integral part of their psychological make-up. If they move to another country and ___9______, they tend to take their eating habits with them and to cling to the style of food to which they accustomed. It is ____10________ reassuring to eat the foods one is used to; the best way to make a foreign visitor _____11______ 'at home' is to offer them the kind of food they would eat in their own country.When discussing food and diet, it is always necessary to treat the world's population as two ___12_____ sections: those who have food in relative abundance and those who suffer shortages of ____13____ the most basic foods. The inhabitants of developed countries benefit from theirwealth and the ___14_____ in food technology. Refrigeration, food preservation and rapid transport systems allow people in Britain, for example, to enjoy foods from all parts of the world. Unable to grow sufficient food for their needs, the British import a ___15_____ variety of foods,from the humble potato to exotic tropical fruits. Food processing has meant that the seasons no___16_____ dictate diet: vegetables such as peas and beans are ____17______ or frozen and are available the whole year round; soft fruits such as strawberries, which are only produced____18_____ for a short season, can be imported from other parts of the world; citrus fruits and bananas, which do not grow at all in temperate Britain, are ____19_____ in from the Mediterranean and the tropics and are continuously available.The developed countries do, ____20______, pay a penalty for having such an abundance of food: obesity and the concomitant diseases such as heart disease are more ____21______. It has beensaid that the French, for example, who consume a particularly rich diet, ____22______suicidewith a knife and fork. But even in the rich countries, an economic recession can alter eating habits. Although some developed countries have become slightly ___23_____, the result has not been damaging and may even prove to be a good thing in ____24_____ the people in these countrieswill eat a little less. The effects of economic recession on many developing countries, however,have been disastrous, with famine and death _____25______ through vast area of Africa. Although drought is a ___26_____ cause of this famine, the economic pressure to produce cash crops, such as cotton, for export has reduced the ability of these countries to produce food cropsfor their ___27______ people. Already saddled with huge foreign debts, many developing countries cannot buy the food they need from ___28_____. Fortunately, the developed countrieshave ___29_____ to the famine crisis and are providing food aid from their embarrassingly highfood surpluses. Meanwhile, over large parts of the globe, hungry people are wondering not what toeat, but ____30____ they will eat.序号 1 2 3 4 5 6 选项序号7 8 9 10 11 12 选项序号13 14 15 16 17 18 选项序号19 20 21 22 23 24 选项序号25 26 27 28 29 30 选项II. Translation from English to Chinese (30%)He was a man of fifty, and some, seeing that he had gone both bald and grey, thought he looked older. But the first physical impression was deceptive. He was tall and thick about the body, with something of a paunch, but he was also small-boned, active, light on his feet. In the same way, his head was massive, his forehead high and broad between the fringes of fair hair; but no one’s face changed its expression quicker, and his smile was brilliant. Behind the thick lenses, his eyes were small and intensely bright, the eyes of a young and lively man. At a first glance, people might think he looked like a senator, it did not take them long to discover how mercurial he was. His temper was as quick as his smile; in everything he did his nerves seemed on the surface. In fact, people forgot all about the senator and began to complain that sympathy and emotion flowed too easily. Many of them disliked his love of display. Yet they were affected by the depth of his feeling. Nearly everyone recognized that, though it took some insight to perceive that he was not only a man of deep feeling, but also one of passionate pride.III. Translation from Chinese to English (40%)古往今来人类的一切智慧结晶，数百年来一直使人津津乐道的故事，我们都可以轻而易举地在书本中得到，而且也无需很多的花费。
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广东外语外贸大学全国硕士研究生入学考试专业课试题册专业：翻译硕士考试科目：汉语写作与百科知识考生须知1．本试卷共 5 页。
2．答案必须写在答题纸上，写在试题册上无效。
3．答题时一律使用蓝、黑色墨水笔或圆珠笔，用其它笔作答不给分。
4．考试时间为 3 小时，成绩满分150 分。
第一部分百科知识（50分）请用汉语简要解释以下段落中划线部分的名词（共20题，每题2.5分。
）第一段据香港《文汇报》报道，在第61届的（1）法兰克福书展中，（2）Google表示有意透过Goolge Books计划，将数以百万计的书籍电子化，供读者在网上阅读。
书展中的另一热话，即Google 的另一计划──Google Editions，希望通过完善的网络连结设定令读者随时随地能以手提电话或电子书进行阅读，以挑战（3）亚马逊刚于上周推出的Kindle电子书。
正当Google的计划如箭在弦，（4）欧盟却提出在Google现存近100万本的典藏中，有近90万本仍受（5）版权法所保护，亦即是说，Google Books及Google Editions两大计划定必与欧盟法律龃龉。
第二段今年以来全世界主要（6）资本市场IPO的规模，中国的融资额是900亿元，全球所有的融资额加起来是3000亿元，中国当之不让的成为世界最大的（7）IPO市场，第二名是香港，第三名是美国，美国IPO的总额是（8）纽约交易所和（9）纳斯达克，因此我们是远远领先于其他成熟的市场。
分析市场和（10）创业板的时候，关键要看是否可以适应社会和经济发展的需求，换句话说，是否有足够的上市资源。
第三段（11）中国传统文化是一种理性的文化，越是科学发达，人们的文化水准提高，认识能力增强的情况下，越是有利于中国传统文化的传播。
在人们没有文化愚昧的情况下，中国传统文化是不易推广与传播的，因为它不具备传播这种文化的软件与硬件。
在中国历史上，无论什么时候，哪一个（12）封建王朝都没有真正彻底的贯彻中国传统文化，所以，中国的传统文化从来都没有像（13）《圣经》文化和（14）《古兰经》文化那样，左右一个国家的政治经济的命运。
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题１ ．Ｔ ｒ ａ ｎ ｓ ｌ ａ ｔ ｅｔ ｈ ｅｆ ｏ ｌ ｌ ｏ ｗ ｉ ｎ ｇｐ ａ ｒ ａ ｇ ｒ ａ ｐ ｈｆ ｒ ｏ ｍＥ ｎ ｇ ｌ ｉ ｓ ｈｉ ｎ ｔ ｏＣ ｈ ｉ ｎ ｅ ｓ ｅ ． （ 广东外语外贸大学 ２ ０ ０ ３研， 考试科目： 英语写作与翻译） Ａ ｎ ｄｓ ｐ ｅ ａ ｋ ｉ ｎ ｇｏ ｆ ｆ ｒ ｅ ｅ ｄ ｏ ｍ ， ｉ ｓ ｎ ｏ ｔ ｔ ｈ ｅ ａ ｕ ｔ ｈ ｏ ｒ ｆ ｒ ｅ ｅ ， ａ ｓ ｆ ｅ ｗｍ ｅ ｎａ ｒ ｅ ｆ ｒ ｅ ｅ ？Ｉ ｓ ｈ ｅ ｎ ｏ ｔ ｓ ｅ ｃ ｕ ｒ ｅ ，ａ ｓ ｆ ｅ ｗｍ ｅ ｎａ ｒ ｅ ｓ ｅ ｃ ｕ ｒ ｅ ？ Ｔ ｈ ｅ ｔ ｏ ｏ ｌ ｓ ｏ ｆ ｈ ｉ ｓ ｉ ｎ ｄ ｕ ｓ ｔ ｒ ｙａ ｒ ｅｓ ｏｃ ｏ ｍ ｍ ｏ ｎａ ｎ ｄｓ ｏｃ ｈ ｅ ａ ｐｔ ｈ ａ ｔ ｔ ｈ ｅ ｙｈ ａ ｖ ｅａ ｌ ｍ ｏ ｓ ｔ ｃ ｅ ａ ｓ ｅ ｄｔ ｏｈ ａ ｖ ｅｃ ｏ ｍ ｍ ｅ ｒ ｃ ｉ ａ ｌ ｖ ａ ｌ ｕ ｅ ．Ｈ ｅ ｎ ｅ ｅ ｄ ｓ ｎ ｏｂ ｕ ｌ ｋ ｙｐ ｉ ｌ ｅ ｏ ｆ ｒ ａ ｗｍ ａ ｔ ｅ ｒ ｉ ａ ｌ ，ｎ ｏｅ ｌ ａ ｂ ｏ ｒ ａ ｔ ｅａ ｐ ｐ ａ ｒ ａ ｔ ｕ ｓ ，ｎ ｏｓ ｅ ｒ ｖ ｉ ｃ ｅｏ ｆ ｍ ｅ ｎｏ ｒ ａ ｎ ｉ ｍ ａ ｌ ｓ ．Ｈ ｅ ｉ ｓ ｄ ｅ ｐ ｅ ｎ ｄ ｅ ｎ ｔ ｆ ｏ ｒ ｈ ｉ ｓ ，ａ ｎ ｄｎ ｏ ｔ ｈ ｉ ｎ ｇ ｏ ｕ ｔ ｓ ｉ ｄ ｅ ｈ ｉ ｍｔ ｈ ａ ｔ ｈ ｉ ｓ ｏ ｃ ｃ ｕ ｐ ａ ｔ ｉ ｏ ｎｕ ｐ ｏ ｎｎ ｏ ｏ ｎ ｅ ｂ ｕ ｔ ｈ ｉ ｍ ｓ ｅ ｌ ｆ ，ａ ｎ ｄｎ ｏ ｔ ｈ ｏ ｃ ｃ ｕ ｐ ａ ｔ ｉ ｏ ｎｕ ｐ ｏ ｎｎ ｏ ｏ ｎ ｅ ｂ ｕ ｔ ｈ ｉ ｍ ｓ ｅ ｌ ｆ ｉ ｎ ｇ ｏ ｕ ｔ ｓ ｉ ｄ ｅ ｈ ｉ ｍｔ ｈ ａ ｔ ｍ ａ ｔ ｅ ｒ ｓ ． Ｈ ｅ ｉ ｓ ｔ ｈ ｅ ｓ ｏ ｖ ｅ ｒ ｅ ｉ ｇ ｎｏ ｆ ａ ｎｅ ｍ ｐ ｉ ｒ ｅ ， ｓ ｅ ｌ ｆ ｓ ｕ ｐ ｐ ｏ ｒ ｔ ｉ ｎ ｇ ，ｓ ｅ ｌ ｆ － ｃ ｏ ｎ ｔ ａ ｉ ｎ ｅ ｄ 爥Ｎ ｏ ｏ ｎ ｅ ｃ ａ ｎｄ ｅ ｐ ｒ ｉ ｖ ｅ ｈ ｉ ｍｏ ｆ ｈ ｉ ｓ ｓ ｔ ｏ ｃ ｋ ｉ ｎ ｔ ｒ ａ ｄ ｅ ； ｎ ｏ ｏ ｎ ｅ ｃ ａ ｎ ｆ ｏ ｒ ｃ ｅ ｈ ｉ ｍｔ ｏ ｅ ｘ ｅ ｒ ｃ ｉ ｓ ｅ ｈ ｉ ｓ ｆ ａ ｃ ｕ ｌ ｔ ｙ ａ ｇ ａ ｉ ｎ ｓ ｔ ｈ ｉ ｓ ｗ ｉ ｌ ｌ ； ｎ ｏ ｏ ｎ ｅ ｃ ａ ｎ ｐ ｒ ｅ ｖ ｅ ｎ ｔ ｈ ｉ ｍｅ ｘ ｅ ｒ ｃ ｉ ｓ ｉ ｎ ｇｉ ｔ ａ ｓ ｈ ｅ ｃ ｈ ｏ ｏ ｓ ｅ ｓ ．Ｔ ｈ ｅ ｐ ｅ ｎｉ ｓ ｔ ｈ ｅ ｇ ｒ ｅ ａ ｔ ｌ ｉ ｂ ｅ ｒ ａ ｔ ｏ ｒ ｏ ｆ ｍ ｅ ｎａ ｎ ｄｎ ａ ｔ ｉ ｏ ｎ ｓ ．Ｎ ｏ ｃ ｈ ａ ｉ ｎ ｓ ｃ ａ ｎｂ ｉ ｎ ｄ ，ｎ ｏ ｐ ｏ ｖ ｅ ｒ ｔ ｙ ｃ ａ ｎｃ ｈ ｏ ｋ ｅ ， ｎ ｏ ｔ ａ ｒ ｉ ｆ ｆ ｃ ａ ｎｒ ｅ ｓ ｔ ｒ ｉ ｃ ｔ ｔ ｈ ｅｆ ｒ ｅ ｅｐ ｌ ａ ｙ ｏ ｆ ｈ ｉ ｓ ｍ ｉ ｎ ｄ 爥
广东外国外贸大学考研翻译硕士英语真题2010
广东外国外贸大学考研翻译硕士英语真题2010回忆版Part 1: Grammar and Vocabulary. （30 POINTS）1.Although she gives badly ____ titles to her musical compositions, they____ unusualcombinations of materials including classical music patterns and rhythms, electronic sounds, andbird songs.A. conventional/incorporate C. traditional/excludeB. eccentric/deploy D. imaginative/disguise2.Even though the folktales Perroult collected and retold were not solely French in origin, hisversions of them were so decidedly French in style that later anthologies of French folktales havenever ____ them.A. excludedB. admiredC. collectedD. comprehended3.In arguing against assertions that environmental catastrophe is imminent, her book does notridicule all predictions of doom but rather claims that the risks of harm have in many cases been____.A. exaggeratedB. ignoredC. scrutinizedD. derided4.There seems to be no ____ the reading public‟s thirst for books about the1960‟s: indeed, thenormal level of interest has ____ recently because of a spate of popular television documentaries.A. quenching/moderated C. slaking/increasedB. whetting/mushroomed D. ignoring/transformed5.Despite a tendency to be overtly ____, the poetry of the Middle Ages often sparks theimagination and provides lively entertainment, as well as pious sentiments.A. divertingB. emotionalC. didacticD. romantic6.One of the first ____ of reduced burning in Amazon rain forests was the chestnut industry:smoke tends to drive out the insect that, by pollinating chestnut tree, allow chestnuts to develop.A. reformersB. discoveriesC. casualtiesD. beneficiaries7.The research committee urged the archaeologist to ____ her claim that the tomb she hasdiscovered was that of Alexander the Great, since her initial report has been based only on ____.A. disseminate/supposition C. undercut/capriceB. withdraw/evidence D. document/conjecture8. Although Heron is well known for the broad comedy in the movies she has directed previously,her new film is less inclined to ____: the gags are fewer and subtler.A. understatementB. preciosityC. symbolismD. melodrama9. Bebop‟s legacy is ____ one: bebop may have won jazz the right to be taken seriously as an artform, but it ____ jazz‟s mass audience, which turned to other forms of music such as rock andpop.A. a mixed/alienated C. an ambiguous/aggrandizedB. a troubled/seduced D. a valuable/refined10. The exhibition‟s importance lies in its ____: curators have gathered a diverse array of significantworks from many different museums.A. homogeneityB. sophistryC. ScopeD. farsightedness11.Despite the fact that the commission‟s report treats a vitally important topic, the report will be ____ read because its prose is so ____ that understanding it requires an enormous effort.A. seldom/transparent C. little/turgidB. carefully/pellucid D. eagerly/digressive12.Carleton would still rank among the great ____ of nineteenth century American art even if thecircumstance of her life and career were less ____ than they are.A. celebrities/obscure C. charlatans/impeccableB. failures/illustrious D. enigmas/mysterious13.Although based on an actual event, the film lacks ____: the director shuffles events, simplifiesthe tangle of relationships, and ____ documentary truth for dramatic power.A. conviction/embraces C. verisimilitude/sacrificesB. expressiveness/exaggerates D. realism/substitutes14.When Adolph Ochs became the publisher of The New York Times, he endowed the paper with a uniquely ____ tone, avoiding the ____ editorials that characterized other major papers of the time.A. abstruse/scholarly C. argumentative/tendentiousB. dispassionate/shrill D. cosmopolitan/timely15. There are as good fish in the sea ____ ever came out of it.A. thanB. likeC. asD. so16.All the President‟s Men ____ one of the important books for historians who study the Watergate Scandal.A. remainB. remainsC. remainedD. is remaining17.“You ____ borrow my notes provided you take care of them”, I told my friend.A. couldB. shouldC. mustD. can18.If only the patient ____ a different treatment instead of using the antibiotics, he might still bealive now.A. had receivedB. receivedC. should receiveD. were receiving19.Linda was ____ the experiment a month ago, but she changed her mind at the last minute.A. to start C. to be startingB. to have started D. to have been starting20.She ____ fifty or so when I first met her at the conference.A. must beB. had beenC. could beD. must have been21.It is not ____ much the language as the background that makes the book difficult to understand.A. thatB. asC. soD. very22.The committee has anticipated the problems that ____ in the road construction project.A. ariseB. will ariseC. aroseD. have arisen23.The student said there were a few points in the essay he ____ impossible to comprehend.A. had foundB. findsC. has foundD. would find24.He would have finished his college education, but he ____ to quit and find a job to support his family.A. had hadB. hasC. hadD. would have25. The research requires more money than ____.A. have been put inB. has been put inC. being put inD. to be put in26.Overpopulation poses a terrible threat to the human race. Yet it is probably ____ a threat to the human race than environmental destruction.A. no moreB. not moreC. even moreD. much more27.It is not uncommon for there ____ problems of communication between the old and the young.A. beingB. would beC. beD. to be28.____ at in his way, the situation does not seem so desperate.A. LookingB. LookedC. Being lookedD. To look29.It is absolutely essential that William ____ his study in spite of some learning difficulties.A. will continueB. continuedC. continueD. continues30.The painting he bought at the street market the other day was a ____ forgery.A. man-madeB. naturalC. crudeD. RealPart 2: Reading Comprehension. （40 POINTS）Passage AOn New Year‟s Day, 50,000 inmates in Kenyan jails went without lunch. This was not some mass hunger strike to highlight poor living conditions. It was an extraordinary humanitarian gesture: the money that would have been spent on their lunches went to the charity Food Aid to help feed an estimated 3.5 million Kenyans who, because of a severe drought, are threatened with starvation. The drought is big news in Africa, affecting huge areas of east Africa and the Horn. If you are reading this in the west, however, you may not be aware of it—the media is not interested in old stories. Even if you do know about the drought, you may not be aware that it is devastating one group of people disproportionately: the pastoralists. There are 20 million nomadic or semi-nomadic herders in this region, and they are fast becoming some of the poorest people in the continent. Their plight encapsulates Africa‟s perennial problem with drought and famine.How so? It comes down to the reluctance of governments, aid agencies and foreign lenders to support the herders‟ traditional way of life. Instead they have tended to try to turn them into commercial ranchers or agriculturalists, even though it has been demonstrated time and again thatpastoralists are well adapted to their harsh environments, and that moving livestock according to the seasons or climatic changes makes their methods far more viable than agriculture in sub-Saharan drylands.Furthermore, African pastoralist systems are often more productive, in terms of protein and cash per hectare, than Australian, American and other African ranches in similar climatic conditions.They make a substantial contribution to their countries‟ national economies. In Kenya, for example, the turnover of the pastoralist sector is worth $800 million per year. In countries such as BurkinaFaso, Eritrea and Ethiopia, hides from pastoralists‟ herds make up over 10 percent of export earnings. Despite this productivity, pastoralists still starve and their animals perish when drought hits. One reason is that only a trickle of the profits goes to the herders themselves; the lion‟s share is pocketed by traders. This is partly because the herders only sell much of their stock during times of drought and famine, when they need the cash to buy food, and the terms of trade in this situation never work in their favour. Another reason is the lack of investment in herding areas.Funding bodies such as the World Bank and USAID tried to address some of the problems in the 1960s, investing millions of dollars in commercial beef and dairy production. It didn‟t work.Firstly, no one bothered to consult the pastoralists about what they wanted. Secondly, rearing livestock took precedence over human progress. The policies and strategies of international development agencies more or less mirrored the thinking of their colonial predecessors. They were based on two false assumptions: that pastoralism is primitive and inefficient, which led to numerous failed schemes aimed at converting herders to modern ranching models; and that Africa‟s drylands can support commercial ranching. They cannot. Most of Africa‟s herders live in areas with unpredictable weather systems that are totally unsuited to commercial ranching.What the pastoralists need is support for their traditional lifestyle. Over the past few years, funders and policy-makers have been starting to get the message. One example is intervention by governments to ensure that pastoralists get fair prices for their cattle when they sell them in times of drought, so that they can afford to buy fodder for their remaining livestock and cereals to keep themselves and their families alive (the problem in African famines is not so much a lack of food as a lack of money to buy it). Another example is a drought early-warning system run by the Kenyan government and the World Bank that has helped avert livestock deaths.This is all promising, but more needs to be done. Some African governments still favour forcing pastoralists to settle. They should heed the latest scientific research demonstrating the productivity of traditional cattle-herding. Ultimately, sustainable rural development in pastoralist areas will depend on increasing trade, so one thing going for them is the growing demand for livestock products: there will likely be an additional 2 billion consumers worldwide by 2020, the vast majority in developing countries. To ensure that pastoralists benefit, it will be crucial to give them a greater say in local policies. Other key tasks include giving a greater say to women, who play critical roles in livestock production. The rich world should pay proper attention to the plight of the pastoralists. Leaving them dependent on foreign food aid is unsustainable and will lead to more resentment, conflict, environmental degradation and malnutrition. It is in the rich world‟s interests to help out.1.Which of the following CANNOT be concluded from the passage?A.Forcing Africa‟s nomadic herders to become ranchers will save them fromdrought.B.The difference between pastoralist and agriculturalist is vital to the Africanpeople.C.The rich world should give more support to the African people to overcomedrought.D.Environmental degradation should be the major concern in developing Africa‟spastoralism.2.The word “encapsulates” in the sentence “Their plight encapsulates Africa‟sperennial problem with drought and famine.” (para.l) can be replaced by ____.A. concludes.B. involves.C. represents.D. Aggravates.3. What is the author‟s attitudetoward African drought and traditional lifestyle of pastoralism?A. Neutral and indifferent. C. Critical and vehement.B. Sympathetic and understanding. D. Subjective and fatalistic.4. When the author writes “the policies and strategies of international developmentagencies moreor less mirrored the thinking of their colonial predecessors.” (para.4), he implies all the following EXCEPT that the aid agencies did not ____.A.have an objective view of the situation in AfricaB.understand the unpredictable weather systems thereC.feel themselves superior in decision makingD.care about the development of the local people5.The author‟s main purpose in writing this article is ____.A.to evaluate the living conditions of Kenyan pastoralistsB.to give suggestions on the support of the traditional pastoralism in AfricaC.to illustrate the difference between commercial ranching and pastoralismD.to criticize the colonial thinking of western aid agenciesPassage BCivil-Liberties advocates reeling from the recent revelations on surveillance had something else to worry about last week: the privacy of the billions of search queries made on sites like Google, AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft. As part of a long-running court case, the government has asked those companies to turn over information on its users‟search behavior. All but Google have handed over data, and now the Department of Justice (DOJ) has moved to compel the search giant to turn over the goods.What makes this case different is that the intended use of the information is not related to national security, but the government‟s continuing attempt to police Internet pornography. In 1998,Congress passed the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), but courts have blocked its implementation due to First Amendment concerns. In its appeal, the DOJ wants to prove how easy it is to inadvertently stumble upon pore. In order to conduct a controlled experiment—to be performed by a UC Berkeley professor of statistics—the DOJ wants to use a large sample of actual search terms from the different search engines. It would then use those terms to do its own searches, employingthe different kinds of filters each search engine offers, in an attempt to quantify how often “material that is harmful to minors” might appear. Google contends that since it is not a party to the case, the government has not right to demand its proprietary information to perform its test. “We intend to resist their motion vigorously,” said Google attorney Nicole Wong.DOJ spokesperson Charles Miller says that the government is requesting only the actual search terms, and not anything that would link the queries to those who madethem. (The DOJ is also demanding a list of a million Web sites that Google indexes to determine the degree to which objectionable sites are searched.) Originally, the government asked for a treasure trove of all searches made in June and July 2005; the request has been scaled back to one week‟s worth of search queries.One oddity about the DOJ‟s strategy is that the experiment could conceivably sink its own case. If the built-in filters that each search engine provides are effective in blocking porn sites, the government will have wound up proving what the opposition has said all along—you don‟t need to suppress speech to protect minors on the Net. “We think that our filtering technology does a good job protecting minors from inadvertently seeing adult content,” says Ramez Naam, group program manager of MSN Search.Though the government intends to use these data specifically for its COPA-related test, it‟s possible that the information could lead to further investigations and, perhaps, subpoenas to find out who was doing the searching. “What if certain search terms indicated that people were contemplating terrorist actions or other criminal activities?” Says the DOJ‟s Miller, “I‟m assuming that if something raised alarms, we would hand it over to the proper authorities.” Privacy advocates fear that if the government request is upheld, it will open the door to further government examination of search behavior. One solution would be for Google to stop storing the information, but the company hopes to eventually use the personal information of consenting customers to improve search performance. “Search is a window into people‟s personalities,” says Kurt Opsahl, an Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney. “They should be able to take advantage of the Internet without worrying about Big Brother looking over their shoulders.”1. When the American government asked Google, AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft to turnoverinformation on its users‟ search behavior, the major intention is ____.A. to protect national securityB. to help protect personal freedomC.to monitor Internet pornographyD.to implement the Child Online Protection Act2.Google refused to turn over “its proprietary information” (para. 2) required by DOJas it believesthat ____.A. it is not involved in the court caseB. users‟ privacy is most importantC.the government has violated the First AmendmentD.search terms is the company‟s business secret3.The phrase “scaled back to” in the sentence “the request has been scaled back to oneweek‟sworth of search queries” (para.3) can be replaced by ____.A. maximized toB. minimized toC. returned toD. reduced to4.In the sentence “One oddity about the DOJ‟s strategy is that the experiment could conceivably sink its own case.” (para.4), the expression “sink its own case” most probably means that ____.A. counterattack the opposition C. provide evidence to disprove the caseB. lead to blocking of porn sites D. give full ground to support the case5.When Kurt Opsahl says that “They should be able to take advantage of the Internet without worrying about Big Brother looking over their shoulders.” (para. 5), the expression “Big Brother” is used to refer to ____.A.a friend or relative showing much concernB.a colleague who is much more experiencedC.a dominating and all-powerful ruling powerD.a benevolent and democratic organizationPart 3: Answering Questions. （20 POINTS）Passage AMillions of elderly Germans received a notice from the Health&Social Security Ministry earlier this month that struck a damaging blow to the welfare state. The statement informed them that their pensions were being cut. The reductions come as a stop-gap measure to control Germany‟s ballooning pension crisis. Not surprisingly, it was an unwelcome change for senior citizens such as Sabine Wetzel, a 67-year-old retired bank teller, who was told her state pension would be cut by $12.30, or 1% to $1,156.20 a month. “It was a real shock,” she says. “My pension had always gone up in the past.”There‟s more bad news on the way. On Mar. 11, Germany‟s lower house of Parliament passed a bill gradually cutting state pensions—which have been rising steadily since World War II—from 53% of average wages now to 46% by 2020. And Germany is not alone. Governments across Western Europe are racing to curb pension benefits. In Italy, the government plans to raise the minimum retirement age from 57 to 60, while France will require that civil servants put in 40 years rather than 37.5 to qualify for a full pension. The reforms are coming despite tough opposition from unions, leftist politicians, and pensioners‟ groups.The explanation is simple: Europeans are living longer and having fewer children. By 2030 there will only be two workers per pensioner, compared with four in 2000. With fewer young workers paying into the system, cuts are being made to cover a growing shortfall. The gap between money coming in and payments going out could top $10 billion this year in Germany alone. “In the future, a state pension alone will no longer be enough to maintain the living standards employees had before they retired,” says German Health & Social Security Minister Ulla Schmidt. Says Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti: “The welfare state is producing too few cradles and too few graves.”211Of course, those population trends have been forecast for years. Some countries, such as Britain and the Netherlands, have responded by making individuals and their employers assume more of the responsibility for pensions. But many Continental governments dragged their feet. Now, the rapid runup in costs is finally forcing them to act. State-funded pension payments make up around 12% of gross domestic product in Germany and France and 15% in Italy—two percentage points more than 20 years ago. Pensions account for an average 21% of government spending across the European Union. The U. S. Social Security system, by contrast, consumes just 4.8% of GDP. The rising cost is having serious repercussions on key European nations‟ commitments to fiscal restraint. “Governments have no choice but to make pension reform a priority,” says Antonio Cabral, deputy director of the European Commission‟s Directorate General for Economic & Financial Affairs.Just as worrisome is the toll being exacted on the private sector, corporate contributions to state pension systems—which make up 19.5% of total gross pay in Germany—add to Europe‟s already bloated labor costs. That, in turn, blunts manufacturers‟ competitiveness and keeps unemployment rates high. According to the Institute of German Economics in Cologne, benefit costs reached a record 41.7% of gross wages in Germany last year, compared with 37.4% a decade before. French cement manufacturer Lafarge says pension cost of $121 million contributed to a 9% fall in operating profits last year.To cope, Germany and most of its EU partners are using tax breaks to encourage employees to put money into private pension schemes. But even if private pensions become more popular, European governments will have to increase minimum retirement ages and reduce public pensions.While today‟s seniors complain about reduced benefits, the next generation of retirees may look back on their parents‟ pension checks with envy.QuestionsParaphrase Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti‟s statement “The welfare state is producing too few cradles and too few graves”? What is implied by the last sentence of the passage “While today‟s seniors complain about reduced benefits, the next generation of retirees may look back on their parents‟ pension checks with envy”?Passage BIn the old days, it was all done with cakes. For Marcel Proust, it was a visit to Mother‟s for tea and madeleines that provided the access to “the vast structure of recollection” that was to become his masterpiece on memory and nostalgia,“Remembrance of Past Things.” These days, it‟s not necessary to evoke the past: you can‟t move without tripping over it.In an age zooming forward technologically, why are all the backward glances? The OxfordEnglish Dictionary‟s first definition of nostalgia reads: “acute longing for familiar surroundings; severe homesickness.” With the speed of computers doubling every 18 months, and the net doubling in size in about half that, no wonder we‟re aching for familiar surroundings. Since the cornerstone of the Information Age is change, anything enduring becomes precious. “People are looking forsomething authentic,” says McLaren. Trouble is nostalgia has succumbed to trends in marketing, demographics and technology. “Nostalgia ain‟t what it used to be,” says Michael J. Wolf, senior partner at Booz-Allen & Hamilton in New York. “These are the new good old days.”Baby boomers form the core of the nostalgia market. The boomers, defined by American demographers as those born between 1946 and 1964, are living long and prosperous lives. In both Europe and America, they remain the Holy Grail for admen, and their past has become everyone‟s present. In a study on “entertainment imprinting,” two American marketing professors, RobertSchindler and Morris Holbrook, asked people ranging in age from 16 to 86 which popular music from the past they liked best. People‟s favorite songs, they found, tended to be those that were popular when they were about 24, with their affection for pop songs diminishing on either side of that age. Doubtless Microsoft knows about entertainment imprinting, or at least nostalgia. The company hawks its latest Explorer to the strains of Simon and Garfunkel‟s “Homeward Bound,” just as it launched Windows 98 to the tune of “Start Me up” by the Rolling Stones. Boomers remember both tunes from their 20s.If boomers are one market that values memories, exiles are another. According to the International Organization of Migration, more than 150 million people live today in a country other than the one where they were born—double the number that did so in 1965. This mass movement has sources as dire as tyranny and as luxurious as the freedoms of an EU passport. But exiles and refugees share one thing: homes left behind. Type in “nostalgia” on the search engine Google, and one of the first sites that pop up is the nostalgia page of The Iranian, an online site for Iran‟s exiles, most of whom fled after 1978‟s Islamic revolution. Perhaps the savviest exploitation of nostalgia has been the secondhand-book site alibris. com, which features stories of clients‟ rediscovering long-lost books on it. One John Mason Mings writes of the glories of finding a book with information on“Kickapoo Joy Juice,” a dreaded medicine of his youth. A Pennsylvanian waxes over alibris‟s recovery of his first-grade primer “Down cherry Street.” The Net doesn‟tmerely facilitate nostalgia—it promotes it. Web-based auction houses have helped jump-start markets for vintage items, form marbles to Apple Macintoshes.Cutting-edge technology, designed to be transient, has even bred its own instanostalgia. Last year a $666 Apple I went for $18,000 to a British collector at a San Francisco auction. “Historic! Microsoft Multiplan for Macintosh” crows one item on eBay‟s vintage Apple secion. Surf to The Net Nostalgia Quiz to puzzle over questions like “In the old days, Altavista used to have which one of these URLs?”Those who don‟t remember their history are condemned to repeat it. Or so entertainment moguls hope, as they market “70s TV hits like “Charlie‟s Angels” and “Scooby Doo,” out next year, to a generation that can‟t remember them the first time round. If you‟ve missed a Puff Daddy track or a “Sopranos” episode, panic not. The megahits of today are destined to be the golden oldies of 2020, says Christopher Nurko of the branding consultant FutureBrand. “I guarantee you, Madonna‟s music will be used to sell everything,” he says. “God help me, I hope it‟s not selling insurance.” It could be. When we traffic in the past, nothing‟s sacred.QuestionsExplain the beginning sentence “In the old days, it was all done with cakes.” What is the other big group besides baby boomers which values memories? What do these people share? What is“nostalgia market”? What do they sell in the nostalgia market?Part 4: Writing. （30 POINTS）Please reflect on the following opinion and write an essay of about 400 words elaborating your view with a well-defined title.Some people believe the key of the reform in the education system is a well-shared awareness that educations is there, instead of simply offering the knowledge important to the students, to improve the students in an all-round way, and especially to guide them to a careful pondering over such fundamental issues as life itself and social responsibility. An undue emphasis on knowledge-education and the resultant ignorance over the guidance to the students to a proper understanding of life will bring us nothing but a large number of “memorizing machines”. We can never expect a group of young people well prepared for the real social life.。
2016年广东外语外贸大学翻译硕士考研真题,考研大纲,考研复试分数线
2016年翻译硕士考研真题广东外语外贸大学考研真题，育明教育学员回忆1.基础英语（211）一、选择题1*30分难度较高，跟我们平时做的专四词汇不一样，感觉像是从外刊上直接摘抄下来的句子，有几句是从同一篇摘抄出来的。
考点语法点并不是很明晰，做这30道题我用了半个多小时……感觉广外这两年风格越来越偏向务实了。
二、阅读题4篇文章，共40分材料生词较多，内容也比较新颖，感觉还是从外刊上摘出来的文章。
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三、写作30分题目大概是“some people believe that if a couple have a regular job,they will have a more harmonious family relationship,while others have totally different opinion.”让你针对此观点写一篇400词的作文，这里的a regular job个人感觉不好理解，考场上我内心那个纠结的呀……2.翻译基础（357）一、词汇翻译（）【汉译英】1*151大众创业2中澳自贸协定3一带一路4城镇化5世界反法西斯战争6新常态7命运共同体8经济发展快车道9产能过剩10多边贸易体系11千年发展目标12生态足迹13董事总经理14商务部部长助理15区域经济一体化【英译汉】1*151United Nations Economic and Social Council2pro vice chancellor3the ASEAN Community4mutural but distinctive responsibility5corrupt fugitive repatriation6crowdfunding platform7global governance8shale gas9postdoctoral fellow10social inclusiveness11multimodal transportation12credit crunch13White House Chief of Staff14The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine15Commonwealth of Nations二、篇章翻译2*60【英译汉】讲的是有关现金流的现象，有一些词注意一下cash outflow/inflow, negative（负）positive（正），和金融有关系，然后又说你自己本身就是一个project，教育就是你的投资等等。
2015年广东外语外贸大学日语语言文学考研真题,考研重点,真题解析
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论述题在考研专业课中属于中等偏上难度的题目，考察对学科整体的把握和对知识点的灵活运用，进 而运用理论知识来解决现实的问题。但是，如果我们能够洞悉论述题的本质，其实回答起来还是非常简单 的。论述题，从本质上看，是考察队多个知识点的综合运用能力。因此，这就要求我们必须对课本的整体 框架和参考书的作者的写书的内部逻辑。这一点是我们育明考研专业课讲授的重点，特别是对于跨专业的 考生来说，要做到这一点，难度非常大。 2．育明考研答题攻略：论述题三步走答题法 是什么——》为什么——》怎么样 第一，论述题中重要的核心概念，要阐释清楚；论述题中重要的理论要点要罗列到位。这些是可以在书本 上直接找到的，是得分点，也是进一步分析的理论基点。 第二，要分析目前所存在问题出现的原因。这个部分，基本可以通过对课本中所涉及的问题进行总结而成。 第三，提出自己合理化的建议。 3．育明教育答题示范 例如：结合治理理论，谈谈我们政府改革。 第一，阐释“治理”的定义，然后分段阐释“治理理论的核心主张，包括理论主张和政策主张”。 第二，分析目前“政府改革”中存在的问题及其原因。 第三，结合治理理论的理论和政策主张，并结合相关的一些理论提出自己的改革措施。我们育明考研经过 长期摸索，总结了一套考研专业课答题模板。 4．危机应对
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广东外贸2010年MTI硕士入学考试第1卷：基础英语Part 1: Grammar and V ocabulary. （30 P）01. Although she gives badly ____ titles to her musical compositions, they ____ unusual combinations of materials including classical music patterns and rhythms, electronic sounds, and bird songs.A. conventional / incorporateB. eccentric / deployC. traditional / excludeD. imaginative / disguise02. Even though the folktales Perroult collected and retold were not solely French in origin, his versions of them were so decidedly French in style that later anthologies of French folktales have never ____ them.A. excludedB. admiredC. collectedD. comprehended03. In arguing against assertions that environmental catastrophe is imminent, her book does not ridicule all predictions of doom but rather claims that the risks of harm have in many cases been ____.A. exaggeratedB. ignoredC. scrutinizedD. derided04. There seems to be no ____ the reading public’s thirst for books about the 1960’s: indeed, the normal level of interest has ____ recently because of a spate of popular television documentaries.A. quenching / moderatedB. whetting / mushroomedC. slaking / increasedD. ignoring / transformed05. Despite a tendency to be overtly ____, the poetry of the Middle Ages often sparks the imagination and provides lively entertainment, as well as pious sentiments.A. divertingB. emotionalC. didacticD. romantic06. One of the first ____ of reduced burning in Amazon rain forests was the chestnut industry: smoke tends to drive out the insect that, by pollinating chestnut tree, allow chestnuts to develop.A. reformersB. discoveriesC. casualtiesD. beneficiaries07. The research committee urged the archaeologist to ____ her claim that the tomb she has discovered was that of Alexander the Great, since her initial report has been based only on ____.A. disseminate / suppositionB. withdraw / evidenceC. undercut / capriceD. document / conjecture08. Although Heron is well known for the broad comedy in the movies she has directed previously, her new film is less inclined to ____: the gags are fewer and subtler.A. understatementB. preciosityC. symbolismD. melodrama09. Bebop’s legacy is ____ one: bebop may have won jazz the right to be taken seriously as an art form, but it ____ jazz’s mass audience, which turned to other forms of music such as rock and pop.A. a mixed / alienatedB. a troubled / seducedC. an ambiguous / aggrandizedD. a valuable / refined10. The exhibition’s importance lies in its ____: curators have g athered a diverse array of significant works from many different museums.A. homogeneityB. sophistryC. scopeD. farsightedness11. Despite the fact that the commission’s report treats a vitally important topic, the report will be____ read because its prose is so ____ that understanding it requires an enormous effort.A. seldom / transparentB. carefully / pellucidC. little / turgidD. eagerly / digressive12. Carleton would still rank among the great ____ of nineteenth century American art even if the circumstance of her life and career were less ____ than they are.A. celebrities / obscureB. failures / illustriousC. charlatans / impeccableD. enigmas / mysterious13. Although based on an actual event, the film lacks ____: the director shuffles events, simplifies the tangle of relationships, and ____ documentary truth for dramatic power.A. conviction / embracesB. expressiveness / exaggeratesC. verisimilitude / sacrificesD. realism / substitutes14. When Adolph Ochs became the publisher of The New York Times, he endowed the paper witha uniquely ____ tone, avoiding the ____ editorials that characterized other major papers of the time.A. abstruse / scholarlyB. dispassionate / shrillC. argumentative / tendentiousD. cosmopolitan / timely15. There are as good fish in the sea ____ ever came out of it.A. thanB. likeC. asD. so16. All the President’s Men ____ one of the important books for historians who study the Watergate Scandal.A. remainB. remainsC. remainedD. is remaining17. “You ____ borrow my notes provided you take care of them”, I told my friend.A. couldB. shouldC. mustD. can18. If only the patient ____ a different treatment instead of using the antibiotics, he might still be alive now.A. had receivedB. receivedC. should receiveD. were receiving19. Linda was ____ the experiment a month ago, but she changed her mind at the last minute.A. to startB. to have startedC. to be startingD. to have been starting20. She ____ fifty or so when I first met her at the conference.A. must beB. had beenC. could beD. must have been21. It is not ____ much the language as the background that makes the book difficult to understand.A. thatB. asC. soD. very22. The committee has anticipated the problems that ____ in the road construction project.A. ariseB. will ariseC. aroseD. have arisen23. The student said there were a few points in the essay he ____ impossible to comprehend.A. had foundB. findsC. has foundD. would find24. He would have finished his college education, but he ____ to quit and find a job to support his family.A. had hadB. hasC. hadD. would have25. The research requires more money than ____.A. have been put inB. has been put inC. being put inD. to be put in26. Overpopulation poses a terrible threat to the human race. Yet it is probably ____ a threat to the human race than environmental destruction.A. no moreB. not moreC. even moreD. much more27. It is not uncommon for there ____ problems of communication between the old and the young.A. beingB. would beC. beD. to be28. ____ at in his way, the situation does not seem so desperate.A. LookingB. LookedC. Being lookedD. To look29. It is absolutely essential that William ____ his study in spite of some learning difficulties.A. will continueB. continuedC. continueD. continues30. The painting he bought at the street market the other day was a _____ forgery.A. man-madeB. naturalC. crudeD. realPart 2: Reading Comprehension. （40 P）Passage AOn New Year’s Day, 50,000 inmates in Kenyan jails went without lunch. This was not some mass hunger strike to highlight poor living conditions. It was an extraordinary humanitarian gesture: the money that would have been spent on their lunches went to the charity Food Aid to help feed an estimated 3. 5 million Kenyans who, because of a severe drought, are threatened with starvation. The drought is big news in Africa, affecting huge areas of east Africa and the Horn. If you are reading this in the west, however, you may not be aware of it—the media is not interested in old stories. Even if you do know about the drought, you may not be aware that it is devastating one group of people disproportionately: the pastoralists. There are 20 million nomadic or semi-nomadic herders in this region, and they are fast becoming some of the poorest people in the continent. Their plight encapsulates Africa’s perennial problem with drought and famine.How so? It comes down to the reluctance of governments, aid agencies and foreign lenders to support the herders’ traditional way of life. Instead they have tended to try to turn them into commercial ranchers or agriculturalists, even though it has been demonstrated time and again that pastoralists are well adapted to their harsh environments, and that moving livestock according to the seasons or climatic changes makes their methods far more viable than agriculture in sub-Saharan drylands.Furthermore, African pastoralist systems are often more productive, in terms of protein and cash per hectare, than Australian, American and other African ranches in similar climatic conditions. They make a substantial contribution to their countries’ national economies. In Kenya, for example, the turnover of the pastoralist sector is worth $800 million per year. In countries such as Burkina Faso, Eritrea and Ethiopia, hides from pastoralists’ herds make up over 10 per cent of export earnings. Despite this productivity, pastoralists still starve and their animals perish when drought hits. One reason is that only a trickle of the profits goes to the herders themselves; thelion’s share is pocketed by traders. This is partly because the herders only sell much of their stock during times of drought and famine, when they need the cash to buy food, and the terms of trade in this situation never work in their favour. Another reason is the lack of investment in herding areas.Funding bodies such as the World Bank and-USAID tried to address some of the problems in the 1960s, investing millions o f dollars in commercial beef and dairy production. It didn’t work. Firstly, no one bothered to consult the pastoralists about what they wanted. Secondly, rearing livestock took precedence over human progress. The policies and strategies of international development agencies more or less mirrored the thinking of their colonial predecessors. They were based on two false assumptions: that pastoralism is primitive and inefficient, which led to numerous failed schemes aimed at converting herders to modern ranching models; and that Africa’s drylands can support commercial ranching. They cannot. Most of Africa’s herders live in areas with unpredictable weather systems that are totally unsuited to commercial ranching.What the pastoralists need is support for their traditional lifestyle. Over the past few years, funders and policy-makers have been starting to get the message. One example is intervention by governments to ensure that pastoralists get fair prices for their cattle when they sell them in times of drought, so that they can afford to buy fodder for their remaining livestock and cereals to keep themselves and their families alive（the problem in African famines is not so much a lack of food as a lack of money to buy it）. Another example is a drought early-warning system run by the Kenyan government and the World Bank that has helped avert livestock deaths.This is all promising, but more needs to be done. Some African governments still favour forcing pastoralists to settle. They should heed the latest scientific research demonstrating the productivity of traditional cattle-herding. Ultimately, sustainable rural development in pastoralist areas will depend on increasing trade, so one thing going for them is the growing demand for livestock products: there will likely be an additional 2 billion consumers worldwide by 2020, the vast majority in developing countries. To ensure that pastoralists benefit, it will be crucial to give them a greater say in local policies. Other key tasks include giving a greater say to women, who play critical roles in livestock production. The rich world should pay proper attention to the plight of the pastoralists. Leaving them dependent on foreign food aid is unsustainable and will lead to more resentment, conflict, environmental degradation and malnutrition. It is in the rich world’s interests to help out.01. Which of the following CANNOT be concluded from the passage?A. Forcing Africa’s nomadic herders to become ranchers will save them from drought.B. The difference between pastoralist and agriculturalist is vital to the African people.C. The rich world should give more support to the African people to overcome drought.D. Environmental degradation should be the major concern in developing Africa’s pastoralism.02. The word “encapsulates”in the sentence “Their plight encapsulates Africa’s perennial problem with drought and famine.”（para. l）can be replaced by ____.A. concludes.B. involves.C. represents.D. aggravates.03. What is the author’s attitude toward African drought and traditional lifestyle of pastoralism?A. Neutral and indifferent.B. Sympathetic and understanding.C. Critical and vehement.D. Subjective and fatalistic.04. When the author writes “the policies and strategies of international development agencies more or less mirrored the thinking of their colonial predecessors.”（para. 4）, he implies all the following EXCEPT that the aid agencies did not ____.A. have an objective view of the situation in AfricaB. understand the unpredictable weather systems thereC. feel themselves superior in decision makingD. care about the development of the local people05. The author’s main purpose in writing this article is ____.A. to evaluate the living conditions of Kenyan pastoralistsB. to give suggestions on the support of the traditional pastoralism in AfricaC. to illustrate the difference between commercial ranching and pastoralismD. to criticize the colonial thinking of western aid agenciesPassage BCivil-Liberties advocates reeling from the recent revelations on surveillance had something else to worry about last week: the privacy of the billions of search queries made on sites like Google, AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft. As part of a long-running court case, the government has asked those companies to turn over information on its users’search behavior. All but Google have handed over data, and now the Department of Justice（DOJ）has moved to compel the search giant to turn over the goods.What makes this case different is that the intended use of the information is not related to national security, but the government’s continuing attempt to police Internet pornography. In 1998, Congress passed the Child Online Protection Act（COPA）, but courts have blocked its implementation due to First Amendment concerns. In its appeal, the DOJ wants to prove how easy it is to inadvertently stumble upon pore. In order to conduct a controlled experiment—to be performed by a UC Berkeley professor of statistics—the DOJ wants to use a large sample of actual search terms from the different search engines. It would then use those terms to do its own searches, employing the different kinds of filters each search engine offers, in an attempt to quantify how often “material that is harmful to minors” might appear. Google contends that since it is not a party to the case, the government has not right to demand its proprietary information to perform its test. “We intend to resist their motion vigorously,” said Google attorney Nicole Wong. DOJ spokesperson Charles Miller says that the government is requesting only the actual search terms, and not anything that would link the queries to those who made them. （The DOJ is also demanding a list of a million Web sites that Google indexes to determine the degree to which objectionable sites are searched. ）Originally, the government asked for a treasure trove of all searches made in June and July 2005; the request has been scaled back to one week’s worth ofsearch queries.One oddity about the DOJ’s strategy is that the experiment could conceivably sink its own case. If the built-in filters that each search engine provides are effective in blocking porn sites, the government will have wound up proving what the opposition has said all along—you don’t need to suppress speech to protect minors on the Net. “We think that our filtering technology does a good job protecting minors from inadvertently seeing adult content,”says Ramez Naam, group program manager of MSN Search.Though the government intends to use these data specifically for its COPA-related test, it’s possible that the information could lead to further investigations and, perhaps, subpoenas to find out who was doing the searching. “What if certain search terms indicated that people were contemplating terrorist actions or other criminal activities?” Says the DOJ’s Miller, “I’m assuming that if something raised alarms, we would hand it over to the proper autho rities.” Privacy advocates fear that if the government request is upheld, it will open the door to further government examination of search behavior. One solution would be for Google to stop storing the information, but the company hopes to eventually use the personal information of consenting customers to improve search performance. “Search is a window into people’s personalities,” says Kurt Opsahl, an Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney. “They should be able to take advantage of the Internet without w orrying about Big Brother looking over their shoulders.”01. When the American government asked Google, AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft to turn over information on its users’ search behavior, the major intention is ____.A. to protect national securityB. to help protect personal freedomC. to monitor Internet pornographyD. to implement the Child Online Protection Act02. Google refused to turn over “its proprietary information”（para. 2）required by DOJ as it believes that ____.A. it is not involved in the court caseB. users’ privacy is most importantC. the government has violated the First AmendmentD. search terms is the company’s business secret03. The phrase “scaled back to”in the sentence “the request has been scaled back to one week’s worth of search queries”（para. 3）can be replaced by ____.A. maximized toB. minimized toC. returned toD. reduced to04. In the sentence “One oddity about the DOJ’s strategy is that the experiment could conceivably sink its own case.”（para. 4）, the expression “sink its own case”most probably means that ____.A. counterattack the oppositionB. lead to blocking of porn sitesC. provide evidence to disprove the caseD. give full ground to support the case05. When Kurt Opsahl says that “They should be able to take advantage of the Internet without worrying about Big Brother looking over their shoulders.”（para. 5）, the expression “Big Brother”is used to refer to ____.A. a friend or relative showing much concernB. a colleague who is much more experiencedC. a dominating and all-powerful ruling powerD. a benevolent and democratic organizationPart 3: Answering Questions. （20 P）Passage AMillions of elderly Germans received a notice from the Health & Social Security Ministry earlier this month that struck a damaging blow to the welfare state. The statement informed them that their pensions were being cut. The reductions come as a stop-gap measure to control Germany’s ballooning pension crisis. Not surprisingly, it was an unwelcome change for senior citizens such as Sabine Wetzel, a 67-year-old retired bank teller, who was told her state pension would be cut by $12. 30, or 1% to $1,156. 20 a month. “It was a real shock,” she says. “My pension had always gone up in the past.”There’s more bad news on the way. On Mar. 11, Germany’s lower house of Parliament passed a bill gradually cutting state pensions—which have been rising steadily since World War II—from 53% of average wages now to 46% by 2020. And Germany is not alone. Governments across Western Europe are racing to curb pension benefits. In Italy, the government plans to raise the minimum retirement age from 57 to 60, while France will require that civil servants put in 40 years rather than 37. 5 to qualify for a full pension. The reforms are coming despite tough opposition from unions, leftist politicians, and pensioners’ groups.The explanation is simple: Europeans are living longer and having fewer children. By 2030 there will only be two workers per pensioner, compared with four in 2000. With fewer young workers paying into the system, cuts are being made to cover a growing shortfall. The gap between money coming in and payments going out could top $10 billion this year in Ger many alone. “In the future, a state pension alone will no longer be enough to maintain the living standards employees had before they retired,” says German Health & Social Security Minister Ulla Schmidt. Says Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti: “The welfare state is producing too few cradles and too few graves.”Of course, those population trends have been forecast for years. Some countries, such as Britain and the Netherlands, have responded by making individuals and their employers assume more of the responsibility for pensions. But many Continental governments dragged their feet. Now, the rapid runup in costs is finally forcing them to act. State-funded pension payments make up around 12% of gross domestic product in Germany and France and 15% in Italy—two percentage points more than 20 years ago. Pensions account for an average 21% of government spending across the European Union. The U. S. Social Security system, by contrast, consumes just 4.8% of GDP. Therising cost is having serious repercussio ns on key European nations’ commitments to fiscal restraint. “Governments have no choice but to make pension reform a priority,” says Antonio Cabral, deputy director of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Economic & Financial Affairs.Just as worrisome is the toll being exacted on the private sector, corporate contributions to state pension systems—which make up 19. 5% of total gross pay in Germany—add to Europe’s already bloated labor costs. That, in turn, blunts manufacturers’ competitivene ss and keeps unemployment rates high. According to the Institute of German Economics in Cologne, benefit costs reached a record 41. 7% of gross wages in Germany last year, compared with 37.4% a decade before. French cement manufacturer Lafarge says pension cost of $121 million contributed to a 9% fall in operating profits last year.To cope, Germany and most of its EU partners are using tax breaks to encourage employees to put money into private pension schemes. But even if private pensions become more popular, European governments will have to increase minimum retirement ages and reduce public pensions. While today’s seniors complain about reduced benefits, the next generation of retirees may look back on their parents’ pension checks with envy.QuestionsParaphrase Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti’s statement “The welfare state is producing too few cradles and too few graves”? What is implied by the last sentence of the passage “While today’s seniors complain about reduced benefits, the next gene ration of retirees may look back on their parents’ pension checks with envy”?Passage BIn the old days, it was all done with cakes. For Marcel Proust, it was a visit to Mother’s for tea and madeleines that provided the access to “the vast structure of recollection” that was to become his masterpiece on memory and nostalgia, “Remembrance of Past Things.” These days, it’s not necessary to evoke the past: you can’t move without tripping over it.In an age zooming forward technologically, why are all the backward glances? The Oxford English Dictionary’s first definition of nostalgia reads: “acute longing for familiar surroundings; severe homesickness.” With the speed of computers doubling every 18 months, and the net doubling in size in about half that, no w onder we’re aching for familiar surroundings. Since the cornerstone of the Information Age is change, anything enduring becomes precious. “People are looking for something authentic,” says McLaren. Trouble is, nostalgia has succumbed to trends in marketing, demographics and technology. “Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be,” says Michael J. Wolf, senior partner at Booz-Allen & Hamilton in New York. “These are the new good old days.” Baby boomers form the core of the nostalgia market. The boomers, defined by American demographers as those born between 1946 and 1964, are living long and prosperous lives. In both Europe and America, they remain the Holy Grail for admen, and their past has become everyone’s present. In a study on “entertainment imprinting,” two A merican marketing professors, Robert Schindler and Morris Holbrook, asked people ranging in age from 16 to 86 which popular music from the past they liked best. People’s favorite songs, they found, tended to be those that were popular when they were about 24, with their affection for pop songs diminishing on either side of that age. Doubtless Microsoft knows about entertainment imprinting, or at least nostalgia. Thecompany hawks its latest Explorer to the strains of Simon and Garfunkel’s “Homeward Bound,” just as it launched Windows 98 to the tune of “Start Me up” by the Rolling Stones. Boomers remember both tunes from their 20s.If boomers are one market that values memories, exiles are another. According to the International Organization of Migration, more than 150 million people live today in a country other than the one where they were born—double the number that did so in 1965. This mass movement has sources as dire as tyranny and as luxurious as the freedoms of an EU passport. But exiles and refugees share one thing: homes left behind. Type in “nostalgia” on the search engine Google, and one of the first sites that pop up is the nostalgia page of The Iranian, an online site for Iran’s exiles, most of whom fled after 1978’s Islamic revolution. Perhaps t he savviest exploitation of nostalgia has been the secondhand-book site alibris. com, which features stories of clients’ rediscovering long-lost books on it. One John Mason Mings writes of the glories of finding a book with information on “Kickapoo Joy Juice,” ad dreaded medicine of his youth. A Pennsylvanian waxes over alibris’s recovery of his first-grade primer” Down cherry Street.” The Net doesn’t merely facilitate nostalgia—it promotes it. Web-based auction houses have helped jump-start markets for vintage items, form marbles to Apple Macintoshes.Cutting-edge technology, designed to be transient, has even bred its own instanostalgia. Last year a $666 Apple I went for $18,000 to a British collector at a San Francisco auction. “Historic! Microsoft Multi plan for Macintosh” crows one item on eBay’s vintage Apple section. Surf to The Net Nostalgia Quiz to puzzle over questions like “In the old days, Altavista used to have which one of these URLs?”Those who don’t remember their history are condemned to rep eat it. Or so entertainment moguls hope, as they market “70s TV hits like “Charlie’s Angels” and “Scooby Doo,” out next year, to a generation that can’t remember them the first time round. If you’ve missed a Puff Daddy track or a “Sopranos” episode, panic not. The megahits of today are destined to be the golden oldies of 2020, says Christopher Nurko of the branding consultant FutureBrand. “I guarantee you, Madonna’s music will be used to sell everything,” he says. “God help me, I hope it’s not selling insurance.” It could be. When we traffic in the past, nothing’s sacred.QuestionsExplain the beginning sentence “In the old days, it was all done with cakes.” What is the other big group besides baby boomers which values memories? What do these people share? What is “nostalgia market”? What do they sell in the nostalgia market?Part 4: Writing. （30 P）Please reflect on the following opinion and write an essay of about 400 words elaborating your view with a well-defined title.Some people believe the key of the reform in the education system is a well-shared awareness that educations is there, instead of simply offering the knowledge important to the students, to improve the students in an all-round way, and especially to guide them to a careful pondering over such fundamental issues as life itself and social responsibility. An undue emphasis on knowledge-education and the resultant ignorance over the guidance to the students to a proper understanding of life will bring us nothing but a large number of “memorizing machines”. We can never expect a group of young people well prepared for the real social life.。
广东外语外贸大学考研英语真题(网友版)
广东外语外贸大学考研英语真题(网友版)
名词解释
pm2.5
空气质量指数
雾霾
逆温
能见度
四个全面
小康社会
二胎政策
人口老龄化
区域经济伙伴关系协定
跨太平洋伙伴关系协定
亚投行
上海自贸区
论语
和而不同
孔子学院
国学
应用文写作是关于海博会的
大作文是给了三个材料，一个是讲排气污染和新型电动车，一个是烟霾，一个是讲广西一个地方保留传统建筑的
翻译英语
世界反法西斯战争
一带一路
新常态
中澳自由贸易协定
命运共同体
the Commonwealth of Nations
其他想不起来以后补
翻译篇章中译英是讲广州富力地产有限公司的介绍
翻译硕士英语大作文是讲一个和谐的家庭是夫妻双方都有工作好还是其他方式好(其他指一方有另一方没)
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大学翻译硕士MTI历年考研真题-2013广东外语外贸大学翻译硕士MTI考研真题(回忆版)(1)
2013广东外语外贸大学翻译硕士MTI考研试题（回忆版）缩略语1、United Nations Development Program（UNDP）2、Eurobond Market3、The Guardian4、Reuters5、Christian Science Monitor6、zero-sum game7、savings portfolio8、CSR9、intentional homicide10、criminal jurisprudence11、bring an indictment12、global sourcing13、the first-mover advantage14、healthcare interpreting15、the Sound and the Fury16、民政部17、水利部18、对外贸易仲裁委员会19、国务院办公厅20、中华全国工商联21、广外高级翻译学院22、开场白23、企业并购24、农民工25、产学合作26、居安思危27、生产销售假冒伪劣产品罪28、公诉人29、《楚辞》30、字幕翻译名词解释1、国际贸易2、储蓄率3、经济结构4、出口导向5、货币政策6、创业板市场7、退市机制8、借壳9、垃圾股10、“寻租”行为11、西方中心论12、斯宾格勒13、汤因比14、玛雅人15、中央集权16、封建社会17、成文法典18、判例法19、主观能动性20、董仲舒中译英中国烹饪艺术世界中有一种食品，兼具牛肉、家禽和鱼类三种风味，它不仅价廉，而且营养，在代复一代的中国烹饪占有重要的一席。
它为中国帝王和农民所共享，如今又在西方国家中获得某种程度的人缘。
它就是凝乳状豆制品，俗称豆腐。
豆腐之为食品，可以有各种形状、各种硬度或稠度（consistency），制豆腐的副产品是豆浆，是全中国很普遍的饮料。
豆腐较硬的变种，称为豆腐干的，常常加上香料，供作点心。
豆腐经过发酵而成为另一种点心，通常使西方人掩鼻的，称为“臭豆腐”。
广东外语外贸大学考研英语专业真题（回忆版）
广东外语外贸大学考研英语专业真题（回忆版）写作与翻译：SUMMARY：FACEBOOK and LINKIN are powerful tools for job hunter.Writing:borrowing money from a friend can harm or damage friendship. do you agree or not?英译中：关于读书，不光要读小说，还要读其它方面的书。
中译英：21世纪是全球化的世纪。
我们不光要学习全球化的文化，还要把本国的文化推向世界。
如果说东道20世纪是美国，19世纪是英国世纪，18世纪是法国世纪。
从6世纪到13世纪是中国世纪或唐宋世纪。
唐宋六百多年期间，中国的政治制度先进，经济繁荣，文化。
在唐宋全盛时间，中国依靠“礼义”治国。
礼是自然外在的规则，义是自然内在的和谐；礼是义的外在，义是仁的外在；做人要讲仁义，治国要靠礼义。
1、真的，生活并不完全是你看到的样子，很多大事情你经历了却并不知道。
如果你知道了这些，你大概就不会对现在的得与失太在意了。
没错，每个人都不是步步摔跟头的倒霉蛋，更没有人是一帆风顺的命运的宠儿。
看淡那些事情，平静而踏实地经历生活的起落，相信你会生活得更好。
2、男人最酷的时光都在他们还是穷光蛋的时候。
疯狂、理想、执着、孤注一掷、大开大合。
3、距离常是能够产生美，无间的亲密只会令双方窒息，无论朋友还是爱人，别爱的太近。
爱的艺术就像风筝，只有给它风一般的自由，你才会看到它飞舞在蓝天的景致。
4、总有一次流泪让我们瞬间长大。
没有丢过东西的人，永远不会了解失去的感觉。
5、出门在外，不论别人给你热脸还是冷脸，都没关系。
外面的世界，尊重的是背景、而非人本身。
朋友之间，不论热脸还是冷脸，也都没关系。
真正的交情，交得是内心、而非脸色。
不必过于在意人与人之间一些表面的情绪。
挚交之人不需要、泛交之人用不着。
“情绪”这东西，你不在乎，它就伤不到你。
——苏芩6、所谓勇气，就是不断经历失败，但是从不丧失热情。