北京外国语大学翻译硕士英语(样题)

《翻译硕士X语》考试大纲

一、考试目的：

《翻译硕士X语》作为全日制翻译硕士专业学位（MTI）入学考试的外国语考试，其目的是考察考生是否具备进行MTI学习所要求的外语水平。

二、考试性质与范围：

本考试是一种测试应试者单项和综合语言能力的尺度参照性水平考试。考试范围包括MTI考生应具备的外语词汇量、语法知识以及外语阅读与写作等方面的技能。

三、考试基本要求

1. 具有良好的外语基本功，认知词汇量在10，000以上，掌握6000个以上（以英语为例）的积极词汇，即能正确而熟练地运用常用词汇及其常用搭配。

2. 能熟练掌握正确的外语语法、结构、修辞等语言规范知识。

3．具有较强的阅读理解能力和外语写作能力。

四、考试形式

本考试采取客观试题与主观试题相结合，单项技能测试与综合技能测试相结合的方法。各项试题的分布情况见“考试内容一览表”。

五、考试内容：

本考试包括以下部分：词汇语法、阅读理解、外语写作等。总分为100分。

北京外国语大学XX年硕士研究生入学考试试题（样题）

招生专业：翻译硕士（英语口译、英语笔译）

科目名称：翻译硕士英语

（考试时间3小时，满分100分，全部写在答题纸上，答在试题页上无效）Part I Vocabulary and Language Use (30 points, 1 point each)

Directions: For questions 1 through 30, select two answer choices that (1) complete the sentence in a way that makes sense and (2) produce sentences that are similar in meaning.

1. The Atlantic and Pacific Highway was an important connection between East and West coasts in the early years of automobile travel, but it was largely _____by the development of the U.S. highway system, beginning around the mid-1920s.

(A)revitalized

(B)eradicated

(C)depreciated

(D)expanded

(E)eliminated

(F)salvaged

2. Although living benefactors may provide kidneys and bone marrow to patients who need transplants, far more organ donations______ deceased donors than living ones.

(A)start out

(B)set off

(C)embark on

(D)derive from

(E)give to

(F)come from

3. Pioneers used clematis as a pepper substitute, and some Native Americans used small traces to cure headaches; nevertheless, the plant is______ toxic.

(A)by no means

(B)in effect

(C)acutely

(D)essentially

(E)sporadically

(F)rarely

4. The earliest recorded inhabitants of the tiny island off Senegal were the Jola people, and they remain the ethnic group on the island.

(A)crowded

(B)dominant

(C)complex

(D)prevailing

(E)exceptional

(F)established

5. In medieval England, the general population could rarely read or write, so people received news via the______ of the town crier.

(A)proclamations

(B)advent

(C)recordings

(D)announcements

(E)auspices

(F)rejoinders

6. Because the Choctaw adopted many cultural practices of Europeans, they were ________ termed one of the “Civilized tribes” by the very people whose descendants would later see them exiled from their homeland.

(A)callously

(B)sarcastically

(C)insensitively

(D)compassionately

(E)tolerantly

(F)reasonably

7. the school originally known as the Institute of Musical Art was moved, merged, and finally renamed after a great ________ of American music, Augustus Juilliard.

(A)narrator

(B)benefactor

(C)messenger

(D)champion

(E)lecturer

(F)architect

8. the origin of the term Hoosier is unknown; nevertheless, there are dozens of proposed derivations that range from logical to ________.

(A)lackluster

(B)droll

(C)scandalous

(D)convincing

(E)dubious