2015年华东师范大学211翻译硕士英语考研真题及详解【圣才出品】

2015年华东师范大学211翻译硕士英语考研真题及详解

I. Grammar and vocabulary (15 points): Choose one answer that best suits the context.

1. The population ______ problem brings social and economic problems to China and how to better support the country's 132 million elderly has become a big challenge.

A. aged

B. aging

C. age

D. being aged

【答案】B

【解析】人口老龄化的表达为“aging population”。

2. Cloning of human beings should be forbidden, ______ the development and production of chemical weapons.

A. the same as

B. as should be

C. as should

D. as, should be

【答案】D

【解析】句意：人类克隆应当被禁止，就如同化学武器的发展与生产应当被禁止一样。

as这里引导的是方式状语从句，意思是正像……一样,从句里should be后省略了forbidden。

3. Such a difficult problem ______ that I don’t know what to do with it.

A. it is

B. was it

C. is it

D. it was

【答案】C

【解析】这句话是个倒装句。正常语序应该是It is such a difficult problem that I don’t know what to do with it.“such”位于句首时要用倒装。

4. ______ when everyone has to think for himself.

A. There comes a time

B. Here comes a time

C. There a time goes

D. A time comes here

【答案】A

【解析】这句话是个倒装句。句意：每个人都不得不为自己考虑的时候到了。当there 和here位于句首，谓语动词是be, come, go, remain等，而主语又是名词时，用完全倒装。

5. —Do you want to buy this kind of computer?

—Yes, I’d like to buy______.

A. it

B. one

C. this

D. that

【答案】B

【解析】one这里指的是同类事物（this kind of computer）中的一个。

6. The 2008 Sichuan earthquake, ______ 8.0 ______ the Richter scale occurred at14:28 on 12 May 2008 in Sichuan province of China.

A. measuring, on

B. measured, on

C. which measured, of

D. which was measured, of

【答案】A

【解析】earthquake与measure之间构成主动关系，故使用现在分词的形式。“里氏……等级”的地震的表达方法为“measuring/be measured ... on the Richter scale”。

7. ______ by life’s ______, the last emperor of China worked as a lowly ga rdener in the palace over which he had once ruled.

A. Fortified, generosity

B. Deluded, coincidences

C. Humbled, vicissitudes

D. Venerated, survivors

【答案】C

【解析】句意：经历了人生的沧桑后，中国的最后一位皇帝变得谦卑，在他曾经统治的宫殿里成为一名卑微的园丁。humble使卑贱。vicissitude变迁。fortify加强。delude欺骗。venerate崇敬。

8. A born teller of tales, Olsen used her impressive ______ skills to advantage in her story “I Stand Here Ironing".

A. metaphysical

B. diagnostic

C. narrative

D. argumentative

【答案】C

【解析】由句意可知，空白处单词应该与“teller”意思相关。narrative叙事的。metaphysical形而上学的；超自然的。diagnostic诊断的。argumentative好辩的。

9. A hypothesis must not only account for what we already know, but it must also be ______ by continued observation.

A. refuted

B. interrupted