翻译硕士英语2014(211)【试题+答案】

2014年江西师范大学外国语学院211翻译硕士英语考研真题及详解

I. Vocabulary: (1×1, 10 points)

Direction: For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence.

1. —Why, this is nothing but common vegetable soup!

— _____, madam. This is our soup of the day.

A. Let me see

B. So it is

C. Don’t mention it

D. Neither do I

【答案】B

【解析】根据“哎呀，这只是普通的蔬菜汤！”这句话来判断，顾客是在抱怨，而答语是服务员对顾客的话做了“确认”回答，“确实如此，这就是我们今天的汤”。

2. The couple _____ their old house and sold it for a vast profit.

A. did for

B. did in

C. did with

D. did up

【答案】D

【解析】句意：这对夫妇修理了旧房子，然后卖了高价。do up刷新；修缮。do for适合。do in 欺骗；搞垮。

3. —Mother, you promised to take me out.

—Well. _____

A. So I did!

B. So did I.

C. So I do!

D. So do I.

【答案】A

【解析】第一个人抱怨妈妈说话不算数，第二句话用了一个语气词well表明她承认自己曾经许诺过这事。“so+主语+助动词”表示说话人认同对方的看法。

4. Rumors are everywhere, spreading fear, damaging reputations, and turning calm situations into _____ ones.

A. turbulent

B. tragic

C. vulnerable

D. suspicious

【答案】A

【解析】句意：谣言无处不在，散布恐惧，损毁名誉，把平静的局势弄得十分动荡。根据“turn...into”可知，空白处单词应该与calm意思相反。turbulent混乱的。vulnerable易受攻击的。suspicious可疑的。

5. The student said there were a few points in the essay he _____ impossible to comprehend.

A. has found

B. was finding

C. had found

D. would find

【答案】C

【解析】句意：这个学生说，他发现这篇文章里有几点很难理解。这句话中“发现”这个动作发生在“said”之前，因此应该用过去完成时。

6. Overpopulation poses a terrible threat to the human race. Yet it is probably _____ a threat to the human race than environmental destruction.

A. no more

B. not more

C. even more

D. much more

【答案】B

【解析】句意：人口过剩对人类构成了可怕的威胁。然而这可能不仅是对人类的威胁，更是对于环境的破坏。用于比较两件事物时，no more ...than表示对两者都否定，意为“同……一样不”。而not more...than指两者虽都具有某种特征，但程度不同，意为“不如”“不及”。

7. The decline of _____ and good manners may be worrying people more than crime, according to Gentility Recalled, edited by Digby Anderson, which laments the breakdown of traditional codes that once regulated social conduct.

A. politeness

B. civilization

C. civility

D. greeting

【答案】C

【解析】这句话中，空白处应该与and后的“good manners”意思相近。civility礼貌；礼仪。

8. A new laptop costs about _____ of a second-hand one.

A. the price of three times

B. three times the price

C. as much as the three times price

D. three times more than the price

【答案】B

【解析】此题考查倍数的表达方法。①倍数+the size/height/length/width. etc.+ of+其他。②倍数+as+形容词或副词的原级+ as +其他。③倍数+形容词（或副词）的比较级+ than +其他。

9. The government is advising _____ as a means of improving the present economic situation.

A. thrift

B. frugal

C. thrifty

D. thrive

【答案】A

【解析】句意：政府建议节俭作为改善目前经济状况的一种手段。thrift节俭；节约。frugal节俭的；朴素的。thrifty节约的；茂盛的。thrive繁荣，兴旺。

10. They disliked each other too much to meet, so they conducted all their business through an _____.

A. intermediary

B. interloper

C. interlocutor

D. interpreter

【答案】A

【解析】句意：他们彼此不愿相见，有事均通过中间人处理。intermediary中间人。interloper闯入者。interlocutor对话者。

Ⅱ. Cloze (1×1, 20 points)

Directions: For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.

How men first learned to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, somehow invented certain (11)______ to express thoughts and feelings, actions and things, (12)______ they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed (13)______ certain signs, called letters, which could be written to represent those sounds, and which could be (14)______. Those sounds, whether spoken, or written in letters, we call words.

The power of words, then, lies in their (15)______—the things they bring up before our minds. Words become (16)______ with meaning for us by experience; (17)______ the longer we live, the more certain words (18)______ to us the happy and sad events of our past: and the more we (19)______, the more the number of words that mean something to us (20)______.

11. A. sounds

B. gestures

C. signs

D. movements

12. A. such that

B. as that

C. so that

D. in that

13. A. in

B. with

C. of

D. upon

14. A. written down

B. handed down

C. remembered

D. observed

15. A. functions

B. associations

C. roles

D. links

16. A. filled

B. full

C. live

D. active

17. A. but

B. or

C. yet

D. and

18. A. reappear