MTI翻译硕士英语模拟题2

翻译硕士英语

Part one: multiple choice

1. The two most important in making a cake are flour and sugar.

A. elements

B. components

C. ingredients

D. constituents

2. Cultural indicated that human beings hand their language down from one generation to another.

A. translation

B. transition

C. transmission

D. transaction

3. We must look beyond and assumptions and try to discover what is missing.

A. justifications

B. illusions

C. manifestations

D. specifications

4. No one imagined that the apparently businessman was really a criminal.

A. respective

B. respectable

C. respectful

D. respected

5. If nothing is done to protect the environment, millions of species that are alive today will have become .

A. deteriorated

B. degenerated

C. suppressed

D. extinct

6. The of the scientific attitude is that the human mind can succeed in understanding the universe.

A. essence

B. texture

C. content

D. threshold

7. The old lady has developed a cough which cannot be cured completely in a short time.

A. perpetual

B. permanent

C. chronic

D. sustained

8. What the correspondence sent us is an news report. We can depend on it.

A. evident

B. authentic

C. ultimate

D. immediate

9. Having had her as a professor and adviser, I can tell you that she is an force who pushes her students to excel far beyond their own expectations.

A. inspirational

B. educational

C. excessive

D. instantaneous

10. Some researches feel that certain people have nervous systems particularly to hot, dry winds. They are what we call weather sensitive people.

A. subjective

B. subordinate

C. liable

D. vulnerable

11. The harder the shrub is to grow , .

A. the more higher price is

B. the higher price it is

C. the higher the price is

D. the higher is the price

12. It is that I would like to go to the beach.

A. so nice weather

B. such nice weather

C. so nice a weather

D. such a nice weather

13. Her little car isn’t to seat more than two people comfortably.

A. big enough

B. enough big

C. so big enough

D. big as enough

14. The dress is prettier, but it costs that one.

A. twice more than

B. twice as much as

C. as much twice as

D. twice so much as

15. She can speak in front of Mack, but she can’t eat in his restaurant.

A. free, free

B. free, freely

C. freely, free

D. freely, freely

16. The reason why many people sit before the television is that there will be a show.

A. living

B. live

C. alive

D. lived

17. When the three boys met one another, they found they looked very much .Then they knew they were triplet.

A. like

B. alike

C. likely

D. liked

18. You should spend in the study of the various senses and uses of the common words.

A. much time as you can

B. as time much as you can

C. time as many as you can

D. as much time as you can

19. –When is Tom going to leave?

--He is going to leave this week.

A. sometimes

B. some time

C. sometime

D. somewhat

20. He works .

A. lone

B. lonely

C. alone

D. lonesome

Part two: reading and comprehension

Passage One

There are few more sobering online activities than entering data into college-tuition calculators and gasping as the Web spits back a six-figure sum. But economists say families about to go into debt to fund four years of partying, as well as studying, can console themselves with the knowledge that college is an investment that, unlike many bank stocks, should yield huge dividends.

A 2008 study by two Harvard economists notes that the “labor-market premium to skill”—or the amount college graduates earned that’s greater than what high-school graduates earned—decreased for much of the 20th century, but has come back with a vengeance since the 1980s. In 2005, the typical full-time year-round U.S. worker with

a four-year college degree earned＄50,900, 62% more than the＄31,500 earned by a worker with only a high-school diploma. There’s no question that going to college is a smart economic choice. But a look at the strange variations in tuition reveals that the choice about which college to attend doesn’t come down merely to dollars and cents. Does going to Columbia University (tuition, room and board ＄49,260 in 2007-2008) yield a 40% greater return than attending the University of Colorado at Boulder as an