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华南理工大学考研试题2016年-2018年357英语翻译基础

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2016年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试卷
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科目名称：英语翻译基础
适用专业：英语笔译(专硕)
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2017年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试卷
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科目名称：英语翻译基础
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2018年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试卷
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2012年华南理工大学外国语学院211翻译硕士英语考研真题及详解【圣才出品】

2012年华南理工大学外国语学院211翻译硕士英语考研真题及详解【圣才出品】2012年华南理工大学外国语学院211翻译硕士英语考研真题及详解Part Ⅰ.Vocabulary and Grammar (30 points, 1 point for each) Directions: After each statement there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Select the only one choice that best completes the statement. Write your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.1. Economics applies directly to how we earn our income and _____.A. how to spend our moneyB. how we spend our moneyC. the way we spend our moneyD. the way our money is spent【答案】B【解析】句意：经济学直接运用在我们如何挣钱和如何消费当中。

答案中四个选项的表述都是正确的，但and连接的两个成分是并列的，因此选择与how we can earn our money 结构对称的how we spend our money。

因此，本题的正确答案为B。

2. The product must be priced _____ it competes effectively with rival products in the same market.A. as suchB. in such awayC. so thatD. so【答案】C【解析】句意：这个产品必须要有合理的定价，这样的话它能在同类市场中有效地与对手的产品竞争。

华南理工大学翻译硕士英语学位MTI考试真题2014年

华南理工大学翻译硕士英语学位MTI考试真题2014年(总分：150.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、Ⅰ.(总题数：30，分数：30.00)1.accessible elevator（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：accessible elevator无障碍电梯2.Empty talk is harmful to the nation, while doing practical work will make it thrive.（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：Empty talk is harmful to the nation, while doing practical work will make it thrive. 空谈误国，实干兴邦。

3.IOC（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：IOC (International Olympic Committee)国际奥林匹克组织4.UNESCO（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：UNESCO (United Nations of Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization)联合国教育、科学、文化组织5.GPA（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：GPA (Grade Point Average)平均成绩点数6.Gini coefficient（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：Gini coefficient基尼系数7.white night（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：white night白夜8.high water（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：high water高潮9.eleventh hour（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：eleventh hour最后时刻10.precious stone（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：precious stone宝石11.altitude sickness（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：altitude sickness高原反应12.health care reform（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：health care reform医保改革13.loan prime rate（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：loan prime rate贷款基础利率14.franchise store（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：franchise store专卖店15.to drive one"s pigs to market（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：to drive one"s pigs to market打鼾16.国家安全委员会（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：国家安全委员会National Security Council17.倒逼机制（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：倒逼机制anti-driving mechanism18.正能量（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：正能量positive energy19.主席团（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：主席团presidium20.交易税（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：交易税transaction tax21.中国梦（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：中国梦The Chinese dream22.住房保障（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：住房保障housing security23.债务上限（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：债务上限debt ceiling24.卫星导航系统（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：卫星导航系统satellite navigation system25.三中全会（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：三中全会the third plenary session26.新闻自由（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：新闻自由freedom of the press27.外逃资本（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：外逃资本fled capital28.可支配收入（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：可支配收入disposable personal income29.打造中国经济的升级版（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：打造中国经济的升级版create an updated version of Chinese economy30.打铁还需自身硬（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：打铁还需自身硬To be turned into iron, the metal itself must be strong.二、Ⅱ. (总题数：1，分数：60.00)31.It is a true story which happened during World War II in a certain state in the east of the U.S.A.One day a young man named Jim received an enlistment notice in which he was told to undergo the physical examination the next day. To Jim it seemed like a bolt from the blue. He was troubled so much that he couldn"t get to sleep all the night. In all fairness, Jim wasn"t a coward and he hated the Fascists deeply. But he wouldn"t join the army. Why? It was all because he was in love with a beautiful girl and he would not be separated from his girl friend. "If I could finda way to make the doctors believe there are some defects in my body," he thought, "I would avoid being sent to serve in the army. But how? ..." He thought and thought. Suddenly to his great joy, a good idea crossed his mind.The next morning Jim got to the hospital on time. He was led into a large room where he found an aged medical officer sitting behind a large writing-desk, busy looking through the sheets of paper carefully. "It must be the chief doctor," to himself Jim thought, "and I"d best try not to be paid attention to by that old fellow." With the thought, he hurriedly found a seat to sit down on and took out an out-of-age newspaper, pretending to read it.Not long before that, Jim heard his name called. He knew it was his turn to be examined. When Jim came up to the doctor, the old man raised his head slowly from his papers and took a quick and sharp look at him, then in a whisper he ordered Jim to put his newspaper on the table and take off his clothes at once. Of course, Jim had to do what he was wanted to. After that, he was told to go straight to a corner and sit down on a chair there. But to Jim"s great surprise, no sooner had he seated himself on the chair than he heard the doctor murmuring to his assistants: "Finished! That lad is quite up to the standard.""How can you draw such a conclusion like that before you give me a careful check? It"s too rash!" Still on the chair, Jim shouted at the doctor. "Don"t be impetuous, young man! Get off and put on your clothes, and then I"ll explain it to you." the doctor said calmly.And when Jim stood before the old man, the doctor held out his hand and gave a pat on his broad shoulder. A smile on his face, he said to Jim in kind voice: "My boy, you said we didn"t examine you carefully, didn"t you? But I don"t think it necessary for us to do that. You might be puzzled about this. Now let me tell you how and why." A pause to take a breath, he went on: "When I whispered to you to put down the newspaper and take off your clothes, you did it as I told you. It shows you have good ears. And then when you were asked to go and sit on the chair in that corner, you did it, too. It shows you can see any object within a certain distance. So you are not nearsighted at all. Besides, you were found reading the newspaper just now, and we are certain you are a man of intelligence. In a word, we make no doubt that you are perfect in mind and body. Now I"m glad to say you"ve passed the physical examination, that is to say you"ll be a glorious soldier. Congratulations!"With those words the medical officer stretched out both hands to Jim, and Jim could do nothing but hold them in his own. "I wish you to be a good fighter and fight for the justice and freedom of human beings!" said the old man in an inspiring voice. And Jim was so moved that his eyes were full of tears.Half a year later, Jim was killed in the European battlefield. At this news his girl friend nearly went mad. She dashed down to the shore and stood there, looking out to the boundless ocean. She kept weeping, while calling her lover"s name. "Don"t be like that, my dear." It was an old man"s trembling voice. "Your Jim died a real man. He devoted his life to the people all over the world. It is right that we should be proud of him..." Saving this, the old man, her father, was choked. His only regret was that he had never had Jim know who he was. This old man was no other than the medical officer who had given Jim the health check.（分数：60.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：还没多长时间，吉姆就听到有人喊他的名字。

2016年华南理工大学翻译硕士英语真题试卷

2016年华南理工大学翻译硕士英语真题试卷(总分：102.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、 Vocabulary(总题数：30，分数：60.00)1.If you keep on trying something, the day will come when you can do it well and with great______. （分数：2.00）A.careB.ease √C.tempoD.dignity解析：解析：本题考查名词辨析。

you can do it well意为“你会做好它”，with great______ 与此并列，意义上应该与此接近。

with great care意为“小心翼翼地”。

with great ease意为“轻而易举地”，符合题意，故答案为[B]项。

with great tempo意为“以极大的速度”；with great dignity意为“威风凛凛”。

如果填入care，tempo或dignity，与you can do it well的语义不符，故均排除。

2.She______to find new stories about her homeland, making sure her American-born daughter did not grow up ignorant of Chinese culture.（分数：2.00）A.dropped outB.went out of her way √C.gave wayD.got down解析：解析：本题考查动词短语辨析。

drop out意为“离开，退出”。

go out of one's way意为“不怕麻烦；特地”。

give way意为“撤退；让路；退让；垮掉”。

get down意为“沮丧；落下；吞下；写下”。

本句意为：为了保证她在美国出生的女儿长大后不会对中国文化很生疏，她______找寻有关祖国的新鲜事。

[考研类试卷]2016年华南理工大学翻译硕士英语真题试卷.doc

[考研类试卷]2016年华南理工大学翻译硕士英语真题试卷.doc[考研类试卷]2016年华南理工大学翻译硕士英语真题试卷一、Vocabulary1 If you keep on trying something, the day will come when you can do it well and with great______.（A）care（B）ease（C）tempo（D）dignity2 She______to find new stories about her homeland, making sure her American-born daughter did not grow up ignorant of Chinese culture.（A）dropped out（B）went out of her way（C）gave way（D）got down3 In the past, a woman's world usually______household work and waiting for her children and husband to come home.（A）made up（B）composed of（C）was comprised of（D）consisted of4 Domestic tourists now make up more than 90 percent of the country's totaland______two-thirds of its total tourism earnings.（A）attribute（B）contribute（C）distribute（D）dispatch5 He is a diligent and______teacher, well liked by his students.（A）voluntary（B）conscious（C）conscientious（D）hard6 The doctor tried last time to explain to the Browns that infants and young children are more ______to the effects of secondhand smoke than adults.（A）conducive（B）advantageous（C）delicate（D）vulnerable7 It is absolutely true today that college degrees have become a valuable ______ for jobseekers in the country's developing market economy.（A）asset（B）liability（C）deterrent（D）means8 She is far too______to believe these ridiculous lies.（A）sensational（B）sensitive（C）sensible（D）sensuous9 With______audiences and less financial support from government, Britain's best orchestras must find new sources of income, if they are to continue.（A）shrinking（B）captive（C）withering（D）sympathetic10 On July 1, 1997, China resumed the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong, wiping out 156 years of colonial humiliation______on the Chinese nation.（A）befell（B）imposed（C）afflicted（D）leased11 Johnson______the problem in his mind for two more days before he came to a conclusion.（A）turned on（B）turned over（C）turned out（D）turned to12 Many of the works exhibited in the gallery are______, filled with energy and vitality, bright colors and unique ways of expressing ideas.（A）imaginative（B）imaginable（C）imagined（D）imaginary13 Words fail to______our feelings of great reverence for the hero.（A）imply（B）deliver（C）convey（D）contain14 China is______an ambitious plan to stimulate the domestic economy by investing in infrastructure construction , of which telecommunications are an important part.（A）undertaking（B）supervising（C）foiling（D）compiling15 I have to______time to prepare for the coming sports meet.（A）set about（B）set aside（C）set up（D）set off16 If not properly______, border issues which are always very sensitive and complicated international relations can often trigger conflicts.（A）handled（B）handing（C）handle（D）to handle17 After______seemed an endless wait, it was his turn to enter the personnel manager's office.（A）what（B）it（C）that（D）there18 Every change of season, every change of weather ______ some change in the wonderful colors and shapes of these mountains.（A）make（B）makes（C）is making（D）are making19 There______nothing more for discussion, the meetingcame to an end half an hour earlier.（A）to be（B）to have been（C）be（D）being20 Variables such as individual and corporate behavior______nearly impossible for economists to forecast economic trends with precision.（A）make it（B）make（C）it makes（D）makes it21 Had Jane been more careful on the math exam, she______much better results now. （A）would be getting （B）could have got（C）must get（D）would get22 By the year 2030, it's estimated that more than two thirds of the world's population will be living in cities —______today.（A）twice as many as（B）as twice as many（C）as much as twice（D）as much twice as23 My daughter has walked eight miles today. We never guessed that she couldwalk______far.（A）/（B）such（C）that（D）as24 Much______I like Antonia, I hated the superior tone that she sometimes took with me. （A）although（B）since（C）for（D）as25 Developing friendly ties with neighborly countries is the priority aim of this country's foreign policy and this policy will not be changed______the international situation may be.（A）whichever（B）however（C）wherever（D）whatever26 The snow leopard is a class-one endangered species, ______is the giant panda. （A）as（B）such（C）which（D）that27 Jeremy came to visit me again. It was the second time he______me that afternoon. （A）had been interrupting （B）has interrupted（C）would have interrupted（D）had interrupted28 Grace's eyes were wet with tears as she put her face______she could, gripping my left hand and stroking it.（A）as close as to mine（B）so close to mine as（C）as close to mine as（D）much so close as29 The boys in the family are old enough for______.（A）school（B）schools（C）the school（D）the schools30 Intellect is to the mind______sight is to the body.（A）as（B）what（C）like（D）that二、Reading Comprehension30 [1] T o say that the city is a central problem of American life is simply to know that increasingly the cities are American life; just as urban living is becoming the condition of man across the world. Everywhere men and women crowd into cities in search of employment, a decent living, the company of their fellows, and the excitement and stimulation of urban life.[2] Within a very few years, 80 percent of all Americans will live in cities — the great majority of them in concentrations like those which stretch from Boston to Washington, and outward from Chicago and Los Angeles and San Francisco and St. Louis. The cities are the nerve system of economic life for the entire Nation, and for much of the world.[3] And each of our cities is now the seat of nearly all the problems of American life: poverty and race hatred, stunted education and saddened lives, and the other ills of the new urban Nation — congestion and filth, danger and purposelessness —which afflict all but the very rich and the very lucky.[4] ...The city is not just housing and stores. It is not just education and employment, parks and theaters, banks and shops. It is a place where men should be able to live in dignity and security and harmony, where the great achievements of moderncivilization and the ageless pleasures afforded by natural beauty should be available to all. If this is what we want — and this is what we must want if men are to be free for that "pursuit of happiness" which was the earliest promise of the American Nation —we will need more than poverty programs, housing programs, and employment programs, although we will need all of these. We will need an outpouring of imagination, ingenuity, discipline, and hard work unmatched since the first adventurers set out to conquer the wilderness. For the problem is the largest we have ever known. And we confront an urban wilderness more formidable and resistant and in some ways more frightening than the wilderness faced by the pilgrims or the pioneers.[5] One great problem is sheer growth —growth which crowds people into slums, thrusts suburbs out over the countryside, burdens to the breaking point all our old ways of thought and action — our systems of transport and water supply and education, and our means of raising money to finance these vital services.[6] A second is destruction of the physical environment, stripping people of contact with sun and fresh air, clean rivers, grass and trees — condemning them to a life among stone and concrete, neon lights and an endless flow of automobiles. This happens not only in the central city, but in the very suburbs where people once fled to find nature. "There is no police so effective," said Emerson, "as a good hill and a wide pasture... where the boys...can dispose of their superfluous strength and spirits." We cannot restore the pastures, but we must provide a chance to enjoy nature, a chance for recreation, for pleasure and for some restoration of that essential dimension of human existence which flows only from man's contact with the naturalworld around him.[7] A third is the increasing difficulty of transportation —adding concealed, unpaid hours to the workweek, removing men from the social and cultural amenities that are the heart of the city; sending destructive swarms of automobiles across the city, leaving behind them a band of concrete and a poisoned atmosphere. And sometimes — as in Watts — our surrender to the automobile has so crippled public transport that thousands literally cannot afford to go to work elsewhere in the city.[8] A fourth destructive force is the concentrated poverty and racial tension of the urban ghetto — a problem so vast that the barest recital of its symptoms is profoundly shocking: Segregation is becoming the governing rule; Washington is only the most prominent example of a city which has become overwhelmingly Negro as whites move to thesuburbs; many other cities are moving along the same road — for example, Chicago, which, if present trends continue, will be over 50 percent Negro by 1975. The ghettoes of Harlem and Southside and Watts are cities in themselves, areas of as much as 350, 000 people.Poverty and unemployment are endemic: from one-third of the families in these areas live in poverty, in some, male unemployment may be as high as 40 percent; unemployment of Negro youths nationally is over 25 percent.Welfare and dependency are pervasive: one-fourth of the children in these ghettoes, as in Harlem, may receive Federal Aid to Dependent Children; in New York City, ADC alone costs over $ 20 million a month; in our five largest cities, the ADC bill's over $ 500 million a year.Housing is overcrowded, unhealthy, and dilapidated: the lasthousing census found 43 percent of urban Negro housing to be substandard; in these ghettoes, over 10, 000 children may be injured or infected by rat bites every year.Education is segregated, unequal, and inadequate: the high school dropout rate averages nearly 70 percent, there are academic high schools in which less than 3 percent of the entering students will graduate with an academic diploma.Health is poor and care inadequate: infant mortality in the ghettoes is more than twice the rate outside, mental retardation among Negroes caused by inadequate prenatal care is more than seven times the white rate; one-half of all babies born in Manhattan last year will have had no prenatal care at all; deaths from diseases like tuberculosis, influenza, and pneumonia are two to three times as common as elsewhere.[9] Fifth is both cause and consequence of all the rest. It is the destruction of the sense, and often the fact, of community, of human dialog, the thousand invisible strands of common experience and purpose, affection and respect which tie men to their fellows. Community is expressed in such words as neighborhood, civic pride, friendship. It provides the life-sustaining force of human warmth and security, a sense of one's own human significance in the accepted association and companionship of others.[10]/doc/5d3837163369a45177232f60ddccda 38376be1f5.html munity demands a place where people can see and know each other, where children can play and adults work together and join in the pleasures and responsibilities of the place where they live. The whole history of the human race, until today, has been the history of community. Yet, this isdisappearing, and disappearing at a time when its sustaining strength is badly needed. For other values which once gave strength for the daily battle of life are also being eroded.[11] The widening gap between the experience of the generations in a rapidly changing world has weakened the ties of family; children grow up in a world of experience and culture their parents never knew.[12] The world beyond the neighborhood has become more impersonal and abstract. Industry and great cities, conflicts between nations and the conquests of science move relentlessly forward, seemingly beyond the reach of individual control or even understanding.[13] ...But of all our problems, the most immediate and pressing, the one which threatens to paralyze our very capacity to act, to obliterate our vision of the future, is the plight of the Negro of the center city. For this plight and the riots which are its product and symptom —threaten to divide Americans for generations to come; to add to theever-present difficulties of race and class the bitter legacy of violence and destruction and fear....[14] It is therefore of the utmost importance that these hearings go beyond the temporary measures thus far adopted to deal with riots — beyond the first hoses and the billy clubs; and beyond even sprinklers on fire hydrants and new swimming pools as well. These hearings must start us along the road toward solutions to the underlying conditions which afflict our cities, so that they may become the places of fulfillment and ease, comfort and joy, the communities they were meant to be.31 According to the passage, everywhere men and women crowd into cities in searchof______.（A）employment and race hatred（B）a decent living and stunted education（C）congestion and the company of their fellows（D）the excitement and other advantages of urban life32 It can be learned that within a few years, ______of all Americans will live in concentrations like those which stretch from Boston to Washington, and outward from Chicago and other cities.（A）less than 80 percent（B）about 80 percent（C）more than 80 percent（D）none of the above33 Besides poverty, housing and unemployment programs, Americans need______to attain the kind of society they want.（A）imagination（B）ingenuity（C）discipline and hard work（D）all of the above34 According to the author, the city should be______.（A）the seat of nearly all the problems of American life（B）just houses, stores, schools, businesses, parks, and theaters（C）place where people can live in dignity and security and harmony（D）the nerve system of political, economic, cultural life for much of the world35 The major city problems discussed in the passage include all of the following EXCEPT______.（A）racial tension and the destruction of the sense ofcommunity（B）sheer growth and destruction of the physical environment（C）the difficulty of transportation and concentrated poverty（D）unpaid working hours and a poisoned atmosphere36 The most prominent example of a city which has become overwhelmingly Negro is______.（A）New York（B）San Francisco（C）Chicago（D）Washington37 Which of the following statement is NOT true?（A）20 percent of the children in ghettos may receive Federal Aid to Dependent Children.（B）Male unemployment in some areas may be as high as 40 percent.（C）43 percent of urban Negro housing is substandard.（D）In ghettos, the high school dropout rate averages nearly 70 percent.38 The reason why the plight of the Negro is the most immediate and pressing problem is that it threatens______.（A）to paralyze the American economy（B）to divide Americans for generations to come（C）to destroy the vision of the future generations（D）to use violence in overthrowing the old belief and social system39 According to the author, the sense of community chiefly means______.（A）the ties of family（B）a thousand imaginable strands（C）things which tie men to their fellows（D）the values which once gave strength for the daily battle of life40 In this selection, the author makes______work for him to order the materials so that it is easy to follow.（A）description（B）classification（C）definition（D）narration40 [1] When I first saw Pippa the cheetah, she was sitting pertly on a chair in the tearoom of the New Stanley Hotel in Nairobi. I had gone to meet her owners, an English couple who were leaving Kenya and wanted to ensure that their pet would find a good home. Pippa was wearing a harness and was able to sit at a table, looking as if she might have a soft drink through a straw. She was a thoroughly spoiled cub.[2] Eighteen months later she had returned to the wild. She was living in the Northern Frontier District where she had been born. She had learned to hunt for herself, had mated with a wild cheetah, and was raising a litter of cubs.[3] Pippa's rehabilitation to the wild required patience, perseverance, love, and the same kind of respect for her as a being that I would have offered a fellow human. I had previously shared this love and respect with Elsa the lioness, whom my husband George and I had raised as a cub. But it was not simply a matter of affection — although there was plenty of that. The rehabilitation process was important as an experiment in developing a means of trying to guarantee the survival of endangered species. The cheetah is one of these; the lion maybecome one soon.[4] I learned many things from Elsa and Pippa. They proved always to be interesting and affectionate companions. And I enjoyed the closeness to nature that the rehabilitation process required. But there were raany times when I was working with Elsa and Pippa, and there have been many times since, when I have wondered about another endangered species, a species generally as ignorant of the threat to its survival as these two cats had been. That species is man.[5] Some recent scientific, economic, and political research suggests that the curves for food demand and food supply will cross in a maximum of 60 years. By then, man's overpopulation, increasing pollution, and the diminishing food supply could threaten to end human life on our planet. Being aware of this research, I could not help wondering what steps man could take to ensure his survival. Could he, for instance, learn from animals something about birth control, inter-creature relationships, or thought communication that would help him avoid extinction?[6] Generally, the first reaction to such musings is one of astonishment. The question phrases itself. What can man, the most highly evolved species of animal life, learn from less developed creatures? Astonishment at this question itself suggests a starting place. Perhaps man needs to regain his humility — and his sense of perspective. Perhaps he should look at himself as just another experiment of nature, no more important intrinsically than the thousands of other species evolved on our planet. Man is, after all, a fairly recent development. He has lived on earth only 1. 7 million years — not a very long time compared with the 400 million years of somecreatures.[7] Man's achievements during this stay are astounding. Yet they endanger his own survival. As a result, he may disappear as have other species who became too overspecialized, or outlived their environment. Perhaps more than any other creature man is notable for his constant violations of the eternal law of living in harmony with nature. Man kills everything that competes with him for living space or food. He has irreparably damaged his environment. He has forsaken nature's basic laws, substituting for them his own man-made laws and values. He has, for example, invented money —and now he gauges success, power, and achievement almost exclusively in terms of it. He overestimates his ego and his capacities. He worships status and sacrifices fantastically for it.[8] A more rational perspective would see that all organic life is of equal importance. That every species has its role to play. That nothing survives unless it fits into the balance of nature and lives within its environment. That all life must work together to preserve life and maintain ecology.[9] But man can also learn more specifically from animals. With his research capacity he can ask himself : How were animals able to maintain the balance of nature for more than 400 million years? Once he has unlocked these secrets, he can try to apply them to his own situation.[10] What are some of these secrets? Birth control is one. Animals have very efficient means of controlling their reproduction. We who study animals have learned about it only in the last few years. We don't yet know how it works, but we do know some facts. Most antelopes, for example, can withhold their young for weeks, even months. They do this in order that birthsoccur with the arrival of the rains, the availability of grazing, and the mothers' adequate supply of milk for the young.[11] Elephants seem able to adjust their reproduction in somewhat the same way. On the Victoria Nile, for instance, one bank is extremely eroded; it provides barely enough food for the elephants living there. The opposite bank, on the other hand, is quite well covered with vegetation. Observations indicate that elephants on the grassy bank calve every four years, while those on the eroded bank do so only every nine.[12] My own observations of Elsa and Pippa have revealed some most interesting facts. These cats come into season every five to seven weeks. Once the first litter has been born, they have the capacity to produce a new litter every three and a half months, and some zoo-confined lionesses actually do produce litters this of-ten. But in their natural state, females of these species will not let a male near them — let alone mate with him — while they are engaged in rearing their young to complete independence. Among lions this period lasts two years; among cheetahs it is about seventeen and a half months.[13] When Pippa lost two litters to predators a few days after their birth, she instantly looked for a mate and conceived despite the fact she had hardly recovered from giving birth. Knowing that her unfortunate cubs did not need her anymore, she lost no time in starting a new litter. This also happened with a lioness I knew.[14] Judging from this behavior, I can only assume that some kind of psychological block stops mother lions and cheetahs from wanting to mate while they are preoccupied with training their young.[15] Another secret of animals' survival is telepathy. This sense has become atrophied in man, but a definite thought-communication functions in animals. Elsa the lioness frequently sensed when George and I intended to visit her camp, even though it lay 180 miles from our home in Isiolo. On most occasions when we made our irregular visits she was waiting for us. By following her spoor we discovered that she had sometimes walked 50 or 60 miles to meet us.[16] The same thing happened when I took Elsa's two sisters to Nairobi to be flown to the Rotterdam zoo. Elsa stayed behind with George in Isiolo 180 miles away. He did not know when I was coming back; no person knew. But Elsa knew. On the morning of my return she sat down in the entrance drive and would not budge until I arrived in the evening.[17] I have known this kind of thought-communication with the animals with whomI've lived. When Elsa died, I woke in the night, knowing what had happened, even thoughI was several hundred miles away. The same thing occurred later with one of Pippa's cubs.[18] I don't possess this sensitivity with my own kind. I feel far more in tune with what is going on when I am in the bush than when I am in London or Nairobi. We don't know much yet about this telepathy —from which gland it comes, or how it works. But if men could reawaken or cultivate it in themselves, and then cooperate by trusting each other, rather than fearing and treating one another suspiciously, the world would be a far better place.[19] Another secret of the animals is embodied in a basic law of nature which men often ignore. Every animal has around him a security zone. Within that zone he feels safe. Simple observation shows what happens to creatures whose sense ofadequate living space has been consistently violated, and who have thus become degenerate. You only have to go to a zoo. There you find animals sitting like prisoners, tucked so close togetherthat it is not surprising they become frustrated and sometimes so tense that they try to break out. Then they have to be destroyed.[20] When people see animals in this condition, they get the impression that the animals are either dangerous and aggressive or, if they have fallen into a state of utter despair, that they are lethargic or stupid. But animals that I have known in their natural state are never like this. This illustrates why zoos — even the best zoos — cannot solve the problem of recovering a healthy survival number of presently endangered species.[21] The security-zone sense, the need for adequate living space, is not limited to wild animals. Men once possessed it as well. But now our awareness of it has grown so faint that four or five people can live together in one room, a situation which repeatedly occurs in overcrowded slums. People living in these conditions often become aggressive —sometimes even criminal — for the same reason that animals do in zoos.[22] Man-made values account not only for man's reduced awareness of his own security zone. They have also impaired a whole range of relationships which nature had placed in proper perspective. One of these, referred to earlier, is mating. Another is the relationship of mother to young. So many modern human mothers these days prefer to have jobs and put their children in day-care centers or kindergartens, rather than look after them. In nature this happens only in perverted cases. I have watched many animal mothers with their young. They are devoted to them andtend them with affection — and discipline. But they don't overdo it. Elsa and Pippa loved their cubs, but they also kept strict behavior. There was no nonsense about it.[23] Man's great challenge at this moment is to prevent his exodus from this planet. If he wants to survive — which he can do only if all other forms of life around him survive as well — he simply has to see himself as no more important than his fellow creatures. Since man has a higher intelligence than most animals, he is responsible for insuring their survival and thus maintaining life on our planet.[24] I personally doubt that man can recover his original relationship with all other forms of life unless he reappraises his man-made values, returns again to the rules of nature, and then accepts and obeys them.41 The main idea of this article is that______.（A）people can teach animals how to survive（B）people can learn survival techniques from animals（C）animals can survive in the wild after living in zoos（D）animals can learn from man how to live in tune with nature42 In the sentence "But it was not simply a matter of affection..." (paragraph 3) , "it" refers to______.（A）respect（B）survival means（C）patience, perseverance and love（D）Pippa's rehabilitation to the wild43 In paragraph 6, it is implied, but not directly stated, that______.（A）man has not lived on the earth very long compared to some other creatures （B）man should look at himself as justanother experiment of nature（C）man thinks he can learn something from animals（D）man thinks he is more important than other animals44 In paragraph 7, the writer gives examples of______.（A）how man destroys the balance in nature（B）how man will survive in the future（C）how man uses his environment constructively（D）how man kills animals for food45 The subject of paragraphs 10, 11, 12, 13, and 46 is______.（A）Elsa and Pippa（B）Elephants on the Victoria Nile。

2016年华南理工大学硕士研究生入学考试《英语翻译基础》真题及标准答案

2016年华南理工大学硕士研究生入学考试《英语翻译基础》真题(总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、词语翻译(总题数：27，分数：50.00)1.英译汉2.His son acts a lot of older than his years._________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：(他的儿子年纪轻轻却做事老练。

)3.Lucy is impatient of open questions and irritated at her inability to answer them._________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：(露西无法忍受那些没有定论的问题，无法给出答案让她恼火。

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A. jurisdiction B. institution C. subscription D. conjunction 10. His career was not noticeably ____ by the fact that he had never been to college. A. prevented B. restrained C. hindered D. refrained 11. With food prices soaring, many countries find it a tough job to ____ hunger from their lands. A. contaminate B. eliminate C. discriminate D. stem 12. But if you’re going to be out exercising anyway, you may ____ whether you should go out in the morning, when it is cooler but the relative humidity is higher, or at night, when it tends to be hotter but less wet. A. suspect B. wonder C. doubt D. ponder 13. TV stations have been urged to avoid prompting a worship of violence among children and to ____ the amount of violence they show. A. make up for B. go in for C. crack down on D. cut down on 14. Please do not be ____ by his offensive remarks since he is merely trying to attract attention. A. distracted B. disregarded C. irritated D. intervened 15. Often such arguments have the effect of ____ rather than clarifying the issues involved. A. obscuring B. prejudicing C. tackling D. blocking 16. I have no doubt that ____ all of these people were taught in school that the earth revolves around the sun. A. virtually B. remarkably C. ideally D. preferably 17. Mr. Hawks is quite worn out from years of hard work. He is no longer the man ____ he was twenty years ago. A. which B. whom C. who D. that 18. Asteroids are small and therefore very difficult to identify, even when ____ to Earth. A. quite closely B. are being quite close C. are they quite closely D. they are quite close 19. Bottled water sells at least ____ of tap water, with substantial price differentials between different brands. A. the price of 200 times B. 200 times the price C. as much as the 200 times price D. 200 times more than the price 20. It is not ____ much his attractive appearance as his speech that impresses the audience immediately. A. that B. as C. so D. very 21. Call me back whenever _______. A. you are convenient B. you will be convenient C. it is convenient to you D. it will be convenient to you

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高译教育 - 华南理工大学考研翻译硕士英语真题2011Part 1: Vocabulary and Grammar. （30 POINTS）1.Please explain your statement. I have no ____ what you are talking about.A. contemplationB. normC. notionD. imagination2.On August 18th the president announced a general ____ for political exiles.A. yogaB. adoC. quartetD. amnesty3.When two straight lines meet, ____ an angle.A. formedB. it is formedC. they formD. to form4.It is not ____ much the language as the background that makes the novel difficult to understand.A. thatB. thatC. soD. very5.The machine got somewhat eroded, but this oil will ____ it well.A. extinctB. decorateC. illuminateD. lubricate6.The digestive enzyme pepsin breaks down proteins into components ____ readily absorbed by the human body.A. that can beB. and areC. which theyD. are to be7. ____ the precise qualities of the hero in literary works may vary over time, the basic exemplary function of the hero seems to remain constant.A. WhateverB. Even thoughC. In spite ofD. Regardless8.The baby monkey ____ to its mother all day.A. heldB. graspedC. clungD. stuck9.____ at in this way, the situation does not seem so desperate.A. LookedB. LookingC. To lookD. Being looked10. Because caricature tends to emphasize the peculiarities of a subject, ____ an effective vehicle for pictorial satire.A. which is often C. it is oftenB. and often seen as D. many of which are11. It is absolutely essential that Mary ____ her study in spite of some leaning difficulties.A. will continueB. continuedC. continueD. continues12. Please ____ the staff that the inspectors will be here on Monday and let them make good preparations.A. modifyB. ratifyC. rectifyD. notify13. The meeting took on a different after ____ his moving speech.A. presageB. postureC. travestyD. trauma14. In the nineteenth century, Samuel Gridley Howe founded the Perkins School for the blind, ____for children in Boston, Massachusetts.A. that institutes C. was an institutionB. while instituted D. an institute15.People in prehistoric times created paints by grinding materials such as plants and clay into powder ____.A. water to be added C. and water addedB. for adding water then D. and then adding water16.While she had the fever, she ____ for hours.A . raved B. sniggered C. perforated D. tittered17.Seeing the General coming his way, the soldier stopped and gave him a smart ____.A. toastB. saluteC. tributeD. solution18.Often very annoying weeds, ____ and act as hosts to many insect pests.A.that crowd out less hardy plants than goldenrodsB.crowding out less hardy plants by goldenrodsC.the goldenrods crowding out of less hardy plantsD.goldenrods crowd out less hardy plants19.If you spill hot liquid on your skin it will ____ you.A. scaleB. scaldC. shunD. shunt20.Starting around 7000 B. C., and for the next four thousand years, much of the Northern Hemisphere ____ temperatures warmer than at present.A. with experience of C. experiencingB. experienced D. experience21.Did you get any ____ when you are dismissed from your job?A. fundB. loanC. bonusD. compensation22. When you are suffering from ____ you have red spots on your shin and you feel as if you have a cold.A. apathyB. schizophreniaC. impotenceD. measles23. He was ____ on the telephone so I asked him to speak more clearlyA. mutteringB. grumblingC. gropingD. shuddering24. Now, with the ____ and popularity of the home computer, its advantages and disadvantages have been a subject of discussion.A. adventureB. advanceC. adventD. adult25.They ____ evidence and threatened witnesses not to tell the truth to anyone else.A. producedB. fabricatedC. createdD. manipulated26.Is there any possible ____ explanation for his bad health since he seems to have no obvious disease?A. psychiatricB. psychologicalC. surgicalD. physical27.Many animals display ____ instincts only while their offspring are young and helpless.A. cerebralB. imperiousC. ruefulD. maternal28.____ the bad weather has delayed the flight, so it would be several hours before they could arrive.A. PresumablyB. RespectivelyC. ImaginablyD. Plausibly29.They send information every week, ____ whether it‟s useful or not.A. in consideration of C. with the exception ofB. irrespective of D. with regard to30.Children of poor health are very ____ to colds in winter and should be taken care of particularly.A. willingB. readyC. reluctantD. pronePart 2: Reading Comprehension （50 POINTS）Passage AGiven the lack of fit between gifted students and their schools, it is not surprising that such students often have little good to say about their school experience. In one study of 400 adults who had achieved distinction in all areas of life, researchers found that three-fifths of these individuals either did badly in school or were unhappy in school. Few MacArthur Prize fellows, winners of the MacArthur Award for creative accomplishment, had good things to say about their precollegiate schooling if they had not been placed in advanced programs.Anecdotal reports support this. Pablo Picasso, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, Oliver Gold smith, and William Butler Yeats all disliked school. So did Winston Churchill, who almost failed out of Harrow, an elite British school. About Oliver Goldsmith, one of his teachers remarked, "Never was so dull a boy. " Often these children realize that they know more than their teachers, and their teachers often feel that these children are arrogant, inattentive, or unmotivated.Some of these gifted people may have done poorly in school because their gifts were not scholastic. Maybe we can account for Picasso in this way. But most fared poorly in school because they lacked ability but because they found school unchallenging and consequently not lost interest.Yeats described the lack of fit between his mind and school: “Because I had found it difficult to attend to anything less interesting than my own thoughts, I was difficult to teach.” As noted earlier, gifted children of all kinds tend to be strong-willed nonconformists. Nonconformity and stubbornness (and Yeatss level of arrogance and self-absorption) are likely to lead to Conflicts with teachers.When highly gifted students in any domain talk about what was important to the development of their abilities, they are far more likely to mention their families than their schools or teachers. A writing prodigy studied by David Feldman and Lynn Goldsmith was taught far more about writing by his journalist father than his English teacher. High-IQ childrenin, in Australia studied by Miraca Gross had much more positive feelings about their families than their schools. About half of the mathematicians studied by Benjamin Bloom had little good to say about school. Theyall did well in school and took honors classes when available, and some skipped grades.1.The main point the author is making about schools is that ____.A.they should satisfy the needs of students from different family backgroundsB.they are often incapable of catering to the needs of talented studentsC.they should organize their classes according to the students abilityD.they should enroll as many gifted students as possible2.The author quotes the remarks of one of Oliver Goldsmiths teachers ____.A.to provide support for his argumentB.to illustrate the strong will of some gifted childrenC.to explain how dull students can also be successfulD.to show how poor Olivers‟ performance was at school3. Pablo Picasso is listed among the many gifted children who ____.A.paid no attention to their teachers in classB.contradicted their teachers much too oftenC.could not cope with their studies at school successfullyD.behaved arrogantly and stubbornly in the presence of their teachers4.According to the passage author, the development of highly gifted students is attributed ____.A.mainly to parental help and their education at homeB.both to school instruction and to their parents coachingC.more to their parents encouragement than to school trainingD.less to their systematic education than to their talent5.The root cause of many gifted students having bad memories of their school years is that ____.A.their nonconformity brought them a lot of troubleB.they were seldom praised by their teachersC.school courses failed to inspire or motivate themD.teachers were usually far stricter than their parentsPassage BIt came as something of a surprise when Diana, Princess of Wales, made a trip to Angola in1997, to support the Red Cross‟s campaign for a total ban on all anti-personnel landmines. Within hours of arriving in Angola, television screens around the world were filled with images of her comforting victims injured in explosions caused by landmines. “I knew the statistics, she said. “But putting a face to those figures brought the reality home to me; like when I met Sandra, a 13-year-old girl who had lost her leg, and people like her.”The Princess concluded with a simple message: “We must stop landmines”. And she used every opportunity during her visit to repeat this message. But, back in London, her views were not shared by some members of the British government, which refused to support a ban on these weapons. Angry politicians launched an attack on the Princess in the press. They described her as “very ill-informed” and a “loose cannon”. The Princess responded by brushing aside the Criticisms: “This is a distraction we do not need. All I‟m trying to do is help.” Opposition parties, the media and the public immediately voiced their support for the Princess. To make matters worse for the government, it soon emerged that the Princess‟s trip had been approved by the Foreign Office, and that she was in fact very well-informed about s both the situation in Angola and the British government‟s policy regarding landmines.The result was a severe embarrassment for the government. To try and limit the damage, theForeign Secretary, Malcolm Rifkidnd, claimed that the Princess‟s views on landmines were not very different from government policy, and that it was “working towards” a worldwide ban. The Defence Secretary, Michael Portillo, claimed the matter was “a misinterpretation or misunderstanding.” —For the Princess, the trip to this war-torn country was an excellent opportunity to use her popularity to show the world how much destruction and suffering landmines can cause. She said that the experience hadalso given her the chance to get closer to people and their problems.1. Princess Diana paid a visit to Angola in 1997 ____.A.to clarify the British government‟s stand on landminesB.to establish her image as a friend‟ of landmine victimsC.to investigate the sufferings of landmine victims thereD.to voice her support for a total ban of landmines2.What did Diana mean when she said“……putting a face to those figures brought the reality home to me”?A.Meeting the landmine victims in person made her believe the statistics.B.She just couldn‟t bear to meet the landmine victims face to face.C.The actual situation in Angola made her feel like going back home.D.Seeing the pain of the victims made her realize the seriousness of the situation.3.Some members of the British government criticized Diana because ____.A.she had not consulted the government before the visitB.she was ill-informed of the government‟s policyC.they were actually opposed to banning landminesD.they believed that she had misinterpreted the situation in Angola4. How did Diana respond to the criticisms?A. She made more appearances on TV. C. She rose to argue with her opponents.B. She paid no attention to them. D. She met the 13-year-old girl as planned.5.What did Princess Diana think of her visit to Angola?A.It had caused embarrassment to the British government.B.It had greatly promoted her popularity.C.It had brought her closer to the ordinary people.D.It had affected her relations with the British government.Passage CAt the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, psychology professor Bella DePaulo got 77 students and 70 twonspeople to volunteer for an unusual project. All kept diaries for a week, recording the numbers and details of the lies they told.One student and six Charlottesville residents professed to have told no falsehoods. The other 140 participants told 1,535.The lies were most often not what most of us would call earth-shattering. Someone would pretend to be more positive or supportive of a spouse or friend than he or she really was, or feign agreement with a relative‟s opinion. According to DePaulo, women in their mteracttons with other women lied mostly to spare the other‟s feelings. Men lied to other men generally for self-promoting reasons.Most strikingly, these tellers-of-a-thousand-lies reported that their deceptions caused them little preoccupation or regret". Might that, too, be a lie? Perhaps. But there is evidence that this attitude toward casual use of prevarication is common.For example, 20,000 middle-and-high-schoolers were surveyed by the Josephson Institute of Ethics—a nonprofit organization in Marina de Rey, Calif., devoted to character education. Ninety-two percent of the teenagers admitted having lied to their parents in the previous year, and 73 percent characterized themselves as “serial liars”, meaning they told lies weekly. Despite these admissions, 91 percent of all respondents said they were “satisfied with my own ethics and character”.Think how often we hear the expression “I‟ll call you” or “The check is in the mail” or “I‟m sorry, but he stepped out”. And then there are professions—lawyers, pundits, PR consultants—whose members seem to specialize in shaping or spinning the truth to suit clients‟ needs.Little white lies have become ubiquitous, and the reason we give each other for telling fibs are familiar. Consider, for example, a Southern California corporate executive whom I‟ll call Tom. He goes with his wife and son to his mother-in-law‟s home for Thanksgiving dinner every year. Tom dislikes her “special” pumpkin pie intensely. Invariably he tells her how wonderful it is, to avoid hurting her feelings.“What‟s wrong with that?” Tom asked Michael Josephson, president of the Josephson Institute. It‟s a question we might all ask.Josephson replied by asking Tom to consider the lie from his mother-in-law‟s point of view. Suppose that one day Tom‟s child blurts out the truth, and she discovers the deceit. Will she tell her son-in-law, “Thank you for caring so much?” Or is she more likely to feel hurt and say, “How could you have misled me all these years?”And what might Tom‟s mother-in-law now suspect about her own daughter? And will Tom‟s boy lie to his parents and yet be satisfied with his own character?How often do we compliment people on how well they look, or express our appreciation for gifts, when we don‟t really mean it? Surely, these “nice lies” are harmless and well intended necessary social lubricant. But, like Tom, we should remember the words of English novelist SirWalter Scot, who wrote, “What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.”Even seemingly harmless falsehoods can have unforeseen consequences. Philosopher SisselaBok warns us that they can put us on a slippery slope. “After the first lies, others can come more easily,” she wrote in her book Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life. “Psychological barriers wear down; the ability to make more distinctions can coarsen; the liar‟s perception of his chances of being caught may warp.”Take the pumpkin-pie lies. In the first place, it wasn‟t just that he wanted his mother-in-law to feel good. Whether he realized it or not, he really wanted her to think highly of him. And after the initial deceit he needed to tell more lies to cover up the first one.Who believes it anymore when they‟re told that the person they want to reach by phone is “in a meeting”? By itself, that kind of lie is of no great consequence. Still, the endless proliferation of these little prevarications does matter.Once they‟ve become common enough, even the small untruth that are not meant to hurt encourage a certain cynicism and loss of trust. “when (trust) is damaged,” warns Bok, “the community as a whole suffers; and when it is destroyed, societies falter and collapse.”Are all white lies to be avoided at all costs? Not necessarily. The most understandable and forgivable lies are an exchange of what ethicists refer to as the principle of caring, “like telling children about the tooth fairy, or deceiving someone to set them up for a surprise party,” Josephson says. “Still, we must ask ourselves if we are willing to give our friends and associates the authority to lie to us whenever they think it is for our own good.”Josephson suggests a simple test. If someone you lie to finds out the truth, will he thank you for caring? Or will he feel his long-term trust in you has been undermined?And if you‟re not sure, Mark Twain has given us a good rule of thumb. “When in doubt, tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.”Questions1. Identify other 4 corresponding synonyms or near-synonyms for the word “lie” in the passage.2. Please comment on Mark Twain‟s rule of thumb: “When in doubt, tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.”Passage DOn the whole, books are less limited than ourselves. Often they sit on the shelves absorbing dust long after the writer has turned into a handful of dust—and it is precisely the appetite for this posthumous dimension that sets one‟s pen in motion. So as we toss and turn these rectangular objects in our hands we won‟t be terribly amiss if we surmise that we fondle, as it were, the urns with our returning ashes. After all, what goes into writing a book is, ultimately, a man‟s only life. Whoever said that to philosophize is an exercise in dying was right in more ways than one, for by writing a book nobody gets younger.Nor does one become any younger by reading one. Since this is so, our natural preference should be for good books. The paradox, however, lies in the fact that in literature “good” is defined by its distinction from “bad”. What‟s more, to write a good book, a writer must read a great deal of pulp--otherwise he won‟t be able to develop the necessary criteria. That‟s what may constitute bad literature‟s best defense at the Last Judgment.Since we are all moribund, and since reading books is time-consuming, we must devise a system that allows us a semblance of economy. Of course, there is no denying the pleasure of holding up with a fat, slow-moving, mediocre novel: but in the end, we read not for reading‟s sake but to learn. Hence the need for the works that bring the human predicament into its sharpest possible focus. Hence, too, the need for some compass in the ocean if available printed matter.The role of that compass, of course, is played by literary criticism, by reviewers. Alas, its needle oscillates wildly. What is north for some is south for others. The trouble with a reviewer is threefold: (a) he can be a hack, and as ignorant as ourselves; (b) hecan have strong predilections for a certain kind of writing or simply be on the take with the publishing industry, and (c) if he is a writer of talent, he will turn his review writing into an independent art form—Jeorge Luis Borges is a case in point—and you may end up reading reviews rather than the books.In any case, you find yourselves adrift in the ocean, clinging to a raft whose ability to stay afloat you are not so sure of. The alternative, therefore, would be to develop your own taste, to build your own compass, to familiarize yourself, as it were, with particular stars and constellations—dim or bright but always remote. This, however, takes a hell of a lot of time and you may easily find yourself old and grey, heading for the exit with a lousy volume under you arm.So where is one‟s terra firma, even though it may be but an uninhabitable island? Where is our good man Friday? Before I come up with my suggestion, I‟d like to say a few words about my humble self—not because of my personal vanity, but because I believe that the value of an idea is related to the context in which it emerges. Indeed, had I been a publisher, I‟d be putting on my books‟ covers not only their author‟s names but also the exact age at which they composed this or that work, to enable their readers to decide whether they care to reckon with the views contained in a book written by a person so much younger—or so much older—than themselves.The source of the suggestion to come belongs to the category of people for whom literature has always been a matter of some hundred names: to the people who feel awkward at large gatherings, do not dance at parties, tend to find metaphysical excuses for adultery, and are finicky about discussing politics: the people who dislike themselves far more than their detractors do; who still prefer alcohol and tobacco to heroin or marijuana—those who, in W. H. Auden‟s words, “one will not find on the barricades and who never shoot themselves or their lovers”. If such people occasionally find themselves swimming in their blood on the floor of prison cells or speaking from a platform, it is because they object not to some particular injustice but the order of the world as a whole.They have no illusion about the objectivity of their views; on the contrary, they insist on their unpardonable subjectivity. They act in this fashion, however, not for the purpose of shielding themselves form possible attack. Taking the stance opposite to Darwinian—they consider vulnerability the primary trait of living matter. This has less to do with masochistic tendencies than with their instinctive knowledge that extreme subjectivity, prejudice, and indeed idiosyncrasy are what help art to avoid cliche. And the resistance to cliche is what distinguishes art from life.Now that you know the background of what I am about to say, I may just as well say it; The way to develop good taste in literature is to read poetry. If you think that I am speaking out of professional partisanship, you are mistaken: I am no union man. The point is that being the supreme form of human locution, poetry is not only the mostconcise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation—especially one on paper.The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity. A child of epitaph and epigram, poetry is a great disciplinarian to prose. It teaches the latter not only the value of each word but also the mercurial mental patterns of the species, alternatives to linear composition, the knack of omitting the self-evident, emphasis on detail, the technique of anticlimax. Above all, poetry develops in prose that appetite for metaphysics which distinguishes a work of art from mere belles letters.Please, don‟t get me wrong: I am not trying to debunk prose. The truth of the matter is that literature started with poetry, with the song of a nomad that predates the scribblings of a settler. All I am trying to do is to be practical and spare your eyesight and brain cells a lot of useless printed matter. Poetry, one might say, has been invented for just this purpose.All you have to do is to arm yourselves with the works of poets in your mother tongue, preferably from the first half of this century, and you will be in great shape.If your mother tongue is English, I might recommend to you Robert Frost, Thomas Hardy, W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop.If, after going through the works of any of these, you drop a book of prose picked from the shelf, it won‟t be your fault. If you continue to read it, that will be to the author‟s credit: that will mean that this author has something to add to the truth about our existence. Or else, it would mean that reading is your incurable addiction. As addictions go, it is not the worst.Questions1. According to the passage author, what sets one‟s pen in motion?2. The passage author suggests that the way to develop good taste in literature is to read poetry. Why?3. Paraphrase the sentence “Since we are all moribund, and since reading books is time-consuming, we must devise a system that allows us a semblance of economy.”Part 3: Writing. （20 POINTS）Please write an essay of about 400 word son the following topic: What TranslationMeans to Me.。

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211华南理工大学2016年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试卷（试卷上做答无效，请在答题纸上做答，试后本卷必须与答题纸一同交回）科目名称：翻译硕士英语适用专业：英语笔译(专业学位)211华南理工大学2017年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试卷（试卷上做答无效，请在答题纸上做答，试后本卷必须与答题纸一同交回）科目名称：翻译硕士英语适用专业：英语笔译（专硕）211华南理工大学2018年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试卷（试卷上做答无效，请在答题纸上做答，试后本卷必须与答题纸一同交回）科目名称：翻译硕士英语适用专业：英语笔译(专硕)A. People could explain well why they made their choices.B. Only a few of participants had choice blindness in making decision.C. Usually participants were aware of the limits of their skills.D. Most participants didn’t realize that their choices had been switched.44. Change blindness refers to the phenomenon that_________________.A. many people fail to notice the big change around themB. people tend to ignore the small changes in the surroundingsC. people’s choices can be easily interrupted by a big changeD. quite a few people do not have a good sense of directions45. What do researchers think is the drive for many everyday preferences?A. The haste judgment.B. The mechanism of self-feedback.C. The interaction with others.D. The expectation for the future.Passage fourRicky Gervais’s new film, The Invention of Lying, is about a world where lying doesn’t exist, which means that everybody tells the truth, and everybody believes everything everybody else says. “I’ve always hated you,”a man tells a work colleague. “He see ms nice, if a bit fat,” a woman says about her date. It’s all truth, all the time, at whatever the cost. Until one day, when Mark, a down-on-his-luck loser played by Gervais, discovers a thing called “lying” and what it can get him. Within days, Mark is rich, famous, and courting the girl of his dreams. And because nobody knows what “lying” is? he goes on, happily living what has become a complete and utter farce.It’s meant to be funny, but it’s also a more serious commentary on us all. As Americans, we like to think we value the truth. Time and time again, public-opinion polls show that honesty is among the top five characteristics we want in a leader, friend, or lover; the world is full of sad stories about the tragic consequences of betrayal. At the same time, deception is all around us. We are lied to by government officials and public figures to a disturbing degree; many of our social relationships are based on little white lies we tell each other. We deceive our children, only to be deceived by them in return. And the average person, says psychologist Robert Feldman, the author of a new book on lying, tells at least three lies in the first 10 minutes of a conversation. “There’s always been a lot of lying,” says Feldman，whose new book, The Liar in Your Life, came out this month. “But I do think we’re seeing a kind of cultural shift where we’re lying more, it’s easier to lie, and in some ways it’s almost more acceptable.”As Paul Ekman, one of Feldman’s longtime lying colleagues and the inspiration behind the Fox IV series “Lie To Me”defines it，a liar is a person who “intends tomislead,”“deliberately,”without being asked to do so by the target of the lie. Which doesn’t mean that all lies are equally toxic: some are simply habitual –“My pleasure!” -- while others might be well-meaning white lies. But each, Feldman argues, is harmful, because of the standard it creates. And the more lies we tell, even if they’re little white lies, the more deceptive we and society become.We are a culture of liars, to put it bluntly, with deceit so deeply ingrained in our mind that we hardly even notice we’re engaging in it. Junk e-mail, deceptive advertising, the everyday pleasantries we don’t really mean –“It’s so great to meet you! I love that dress”– have, as Feldman puts it, become “a white noise we’ve learned to neglect.” And Feldman also argues that cheating is more common today than ever. The Josephson Institute, a nonprofit focused on youth ethics, concluded in a 2008 survey of nearly 30,000 high school students that “cheating in school continues to be rampant, and it’s getting worse.” In that survey, 64 percent of students said they’d cheated on a test during the past year, up from 60 percent in 2006. Another recent survey, by Junior Achievement, revealed that more than a third of teens believe lying, cheating, or plagiarizing can be necessary to succeed, while a brand-new study, commissioned by the publishers of Feldman’s book, shows that 18-to 34-year-olds--- those of us fully reared in this lying culture --- deceive more frequently than the general population.Teaching us to lie is not the purpose of Feldman’s book. His subtitle, in fact, is “the way to truthful relationships.”But if his book teaches us anything, it’s that we should sharpen our skills — and use them with abandon.Liars get what they want. They avoid punishment, and they win others’ affection. Liars make themselves sound smart and intelligent, they attain power over those of us who believe them, and they often use their lies to rise up in the professional world. Many liars have fun doing it. And many more take pride in getting away with it.As Feldman notes, there is an evolutionary basis for deception: in the wild, animals use deception to “play dead” when threatened. But in the modem world, the motives of our lying are more selfish. Research has linked socially successful people to those who are good liars. Students who succeed academically get picked for the best colleges, despite the fact that, as one recent Duke University study found, as many as 90 percent of high-schoolers admit to cheating. Even lying adolescents are more popular among their peers.And all it takes is a quick flip of the remote to see how our public figures fare when they get caught in a lie: Clinton keeps his wife and goes on to become a national hero. Fabricating author James Frey gets a million-dollar book deal. Eliot Spitzer’s wi fe stands by his side, while “Appalachian hiker” Mark Sanford still gets to keep his post. If everyone else is being rewarded for lying，don’t we need to lie, too, just to keep up?But what’s funny is that even as we admit to being liars, study after study shows thatmost of us believe we can tell when others are lying to us. And while lying may be easy, spotting a liar is far from it. A nervous sweat or shifty eyes can certainly mean a person’s uncomfortable, but it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re lying. Gaze aversion, meanwhile, has more to do with shyness than actual deception. Even polygraph machines are unreliable. And according to one study, by researcher Bella DePaulo, we’re only able to differentiate a lie from truth only 47 percent of the time, less than if we guessed randomly. “Basically everything we’ve heard about catching a liar is wrong,”says Feldman, who heads the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.Ekman, meanwhile, has spent decades studying micro-facial expressions of liars: the split-second eyebrow arch that shows surprise when a spouse asks who was on the phone; the furrowed nose that gives away a hint of disgust when a person says “I love you.” He’s trained everyone from the Secret Service to the TSA, and believes that with close study, it’s possible to identify those tiny emotions. The hard part, of course, is proving them. “A lot of times, it’s easier to believe,” says Feldman. “It takes a lot of cognitive effort to think about whether someone is lying to us.”Which mea ns that more often than not, we’re like the poor dumb souls of The Invention of Lying, hanging on a liar’s every word, no matter how untruthful they may be.46. What do we know about Mark in the film The Invention of Lying?A. He looks too thin for his date.B. He is the most honest man.C. Lying changes his life completely.D. He lives in a lying world.47. According to Robert Feldman, the author of The Liar in Your Life, Americans now_____________________.A. regard the truth as very importantB. tend to lie more often than beforeC. start a conversation with three liesD. hate to be deceived by their children48. How does Robert Feldman see little white lies?A. They do harm to both people and the society.B. They are more acceptable than habitual lies.C. They are necessary in the social relationships.D. They are good-intentioned and thus harmless.49. The survey of the Josephson Institute revealed in 2008 that____________.A. most students passed the examinations by cheatingB. few students realized the harm of deceivingC. lying had become a habit of many studentsD. cheating was spreading unrestrainedly in schools。

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河南科技大学2011年硕士研究生入学考试试题考试科目代码：211 考试科目名称：翻译硕士英语（如无特殊注明，所有答案必须写在答题纸上，否则以“0”分计算）Part ⅠGrammar and Vocabulary (30%)A. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence (20%).1. ____ in the past, at the moment it is a favorite choice for wedding gown.2. ____ for a long time, theC. There having been no rainD. There being no rain3. The millions of calculations involved, ____ by hand, would have lost all practical value by the time they were finished.A. had they been doneB. they had been doneC. having been doneD. they were done4. Televisions enable us to see things happen almost at the exact momentgC. which they happenD. when they have happenedA. to leaveB. leavingC. to have leftD. leave6. As the train will not leave until one hour later,8. Betty advised mA. Concerning C. In terms of D10. A well written composition ____ good choice of words and clear organization among other11. It is ____ with the customer not to let the shop assistants guess what she really likes and wants until13. George was introduced to ____ activities at a young age, when she was hire to act as a lookout for drug dealers.14. An institution that properly carries the name university is a more comprehensive and complex institution tA. settlementB. establishmentC. constructionD. structure16. JacA. strengthB. directionC. traditionD. tre18. Outside my office window there is a fire ____20. The electricA. pauseB. breakC. interruptionD. breakdownB. Put a word in each blank that is appropriate for the context (10%).Ah, daydreaming. Is 1 anything more pleasant than sitting back and letting your thoughts drift? Well, yes: 2 letting your thoughts drift, for one. Because according to a study published in the journal Science, people are least happy when their minds wander. [M. Killings and Daniel Gilbert, A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind]Humans, to a degree unmatched by other 3 , are capable of thinking about things outside the here and now— 4 that happened yesterday, or something they hope will happen tomorrow. It’s that sort of itinerant intellect 5 allows us to plan and to learn. But at what cost?Psychologists at Harvard used an iPhone app to find out. 6 random times throughout the day, the program asked some 2,200 participants what they were doing, what they were thinking about and 7 they felt. It turns out that people spend nearly half their waking hours thinking about something other than what they’re doing. And8 whether and where their thoughts tend to 9 is a better predictor of their feelings than what they’re actually up to. The scientists conclude that a wandering mind is an unhappy mind.10 try to focus on, and live in, the present. You might discover that happiness is just being where it’s happening.Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (40%)A.Read the following passages and answer the questions by choosing A, B, C, or D (20%)1.Bragging about your fancy new cell phone is a fleeting pleasure; after all, today's coolest modelsmeasured in years. So if you really want to be ahead of the tech curve, forget the cell-phone wars and check out the new 5.8-GHz cordless phones.Named after the frequency of the radio wave (measured in billions of cycles per second) that carries the signal between the handset and the base station, 5.8-GHz phones promise more clarity because there are fewer devices that operate on the same frequency and thus fewer to cause interference. If you have a cordless phone that is a couple of years old or even a new one that costs less than $50, chances are it is a 900-MHz model that is highly susceptible to static or buzzing from baby monitors, wireless speaker systems and your neighbors' 900-MHz phones. The newer 2.4-GHz units, introduced as an improvement over the 900-MHz models, do get less static, but wireless home networks and microwave ovens can still trigger a snap-crackle-pop effect. Not so the 5.8 GHz. So far, only a few companies sell the new models, and they don't come cheap. Uniden's TRU5865 costs $149, while the Vtech 5831 is $179. I preferred the Uniden because it was static free both inside my apartment and up to a block away. Its compact design hides the antenna inside the handset, and the glowing orange keys and display look sharp. The Vtech got equally clear reception indoors, but I could stray only a few buildings down the block before buzzing set in.But is it really worth an extra $100 (or more) to step up to 5.8 GHz? Maybe, when I tried out the Panasonic KX-TC1481B, a $39 900-MHz model, I could hear other conversations and even music coming through the phone. I got much clearer reception with the Motorola MA351, a $60 2.4-GHz model--except when I turned on my microwave oven and was assaulted by weird vibrating noises coming through the handset. Still, the Motorola is a decent option at a fair price.No matter which kind of phone you're considering, a few other factors are worth keeping in mind. First, ask about battery life. While I liked the reception best on the Uniden, for example, it can go only four hours between charges vs. eight on the Vtech.Next, find out if the phone is analog or digital. Both 5.8-MHz phones are digital, but that's not always the case with the models that use other frequencies, and this makes them an easier target for eavesdroppers. The best digitals use digital spread-spectrum (DDS) technology, which sends the signal down a broad range of frequencies to ensure that it gets through.Finally, shop at a store that offers a money-back guarantee. That way you can torture test the phone for a few days. Then, once you're certain everything's O.K., go ahead and start bragging about it to all your friends.1. How does the author introduce the topic?A. Explaining a phenomenonB. Justifying an assumption.C. Posing a contrastD. Making a comparison.2. Which of the following can be an advantage of Vtech over Uniden?A. A longer battery lifeB. Free of static interference.C. Fashionable outlookD. Compact design.3. The expression “susceptible to” (Line 5, Paragraph 2) most probably means __________.A. relevant withB. adaptable toC. immune fromD. sensitive to4. What is the most distinctive feature of5.8-GHz phones?A. Fairer priceB. Higher clarityC. More attractive modelD. No easier target for eavesdroppers.5. Which of the following is true according to the text?A. It is worthwhile to buy any of 5.8-GHz phones.B. Battery life determines your selection of the phone.C. The earlier you bought the phone, the more static interference you got.D. 5.8-GHz phones are becoming popular with consumers.2As colleges and universities send another wave of graduates out into the world this spring, thousands of other job seekers with liberal-arts degrees like Martin's find themselves in a similar bind. True enough, this is an era of record-breaking lows in unemployment. But technology companies, which are contributing the lion's share of new jobs, are simultaneously declaring a shortage of qualified workers. The emphasis is on the word qualified.It's no surprise that high-tech companies rarely hire liberal-arts graduates. "Our people, our marketers, even our attorneys have technical talent," says Tracy Koon, director of corporate affairs at Intel. The need for technical expertise is so pervasive that even retailers are demanding such skills. "Company-wide, we're looking for students with specific information-systems skills," says David McDearmon, director of field human resources at Dollar Tree Stores. "Typically we shy away from independent-college students who don't have them."Fortunately for Martin, some invaluable help was at hand when he needed it. The Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, a network of 15 liberal-arts colleges in the state, has teamed up with local companies to bridge the learning gap faced by its members' graduates. VFIC invited 30 companies, including First Union and Electronic Data Systems, to link the needs of businesses with the skills being taught in college classrooms. With grants from corporate sponsors like AT&T, VFIC asked 20 information-technology managers to help its members create an exam, based on the work students will be expected to do in the real world, to test and certify their technological proficiency.The result, Tek-Xam, is an eight-part test that requires students to design a website, build and analyze spreadsheets, research problems on the Internet and demonstrate understanding of legal and ethical issues. Says Linda Dalch, president of VFIC: "If an art-history major wants a job at a bank, he needs to prove he has the skills. That's where this credential can help." This year 245 students at VFIC's member colleges have gone through the program. The long-term hope is that Tek-Xam will win the same kind of acceptance as the LSAT or CPA for law or accounting students. "To know a student has taken the initiative and passed could mean that less training is needed," explains John Rudin, chief information officer at Reynolds Metals, one of the corporations that helped create the test.All this begs an important question: Has the traditional liberal-arts curriculum become obsolete? College presidents naturally argue that the skills their schools provide are invaluable. A B.A. degree, says Mary Brown Bullock of Atlanta's Agnes Scott College, "gives graduates the ability to reinvent themselves time and time again...and the knowledge and thinking skills that transcend a particular discipline or time frame."Martin is finding that to be the truth. "It would be nice to have computer classes on my transcript,"he says, but Tek-Xam has armed him with the power to learn those skills on his own--and a credential to show he has done so. He's now waiting to hear when his job as a network-support assistant for a large Boston firm will start.6. The main problem many liberal-arts students face in job seeking is ____________.A. too much competition in job marketB. their lack of technical expertiseC. company’s discrimination against liberal-arts studentsD. the recording-breaking unemployment rate7. It can be inferred from the text that _____________.A. in the modern era, technical talent means everything in securing a jobB. independent colleges are not giving their students proper educationC. retailers are following the fashion only to promote salesD. there is a big demand for students with technical skills8. Tek-Xam is designed to _____________.A. offer VFIC members’ graduates more job opportunitiesB. compete with LSAT and CPAC. help students cope with real world problemsD. test students’ technical skills9. We can draw a conclusion from the text that ____________.A. liberal arts education still proves valuable to studentsB.Tek-Xam is gaining wide acceptance among employers and students alikeC. technology companies are eager to promote Tek-XamD. computer classes will be excluded from the curriculum of liberal-arts students10. From the text we can see that the writer seems____________.A. positiveB. suspiciousC. pessimisticD. disapprovingB. Read the following passage and decide whether the statements are TRUE, FALSE, or NOT GIVEN (10%).3There's a dimmer switch inside the sun that causes its brightness to rise and fall on timescales of around 100,000 years - exactly the same period as between ice ages on Earth. So says a physicist who has created a computer model of our star's core.Robert Ehrlich of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, modelled the effect of temperature fluctuations in the sun's interior. According to the standard view, the temperature of the sun's core is held constant by the opposing pressures of gravity and nuclear fusion. However, Ehrlich believed that slight variations should be possible.He took as his starting point the work of Attila Grandpierre of the Konkoly Observatory of theHungarian Academy of Sciences. In 2005, Grandpierre and a collaborator, Gábor Aacute calculated that magnetic fields in the sun's core could produce small instabilities in the solar plasma. These instabilities would induce localised oscillations in temperature.Ehrlich's model shows that whilst most of these oscillations cancel each other out, some reinforce one another and become long-lived temperature variations. The favoured frequencies allow the sun's core temperature to oscillate around its average temperature of 13.6 million kelvin in cycles lasting either 100,000 or 41,000 years. Ehrlich says that random interactions within the sun's magnetic field could flip the fluctuations from one cycle length to the other.These two timescales are instantly recognisable to anyone familiar with Earth's ice ages: for the past million years, ice ages have occurred roughly every 100,000 years. Before that, they occurred roughly every 41,000 years.Most scientists believe that the ice ages are the result of subtle changes in Earth's orbit, known as the Milankovitch cycles. One such cycle describes the way Earth's orbit gradually changes shape from a circle to a slight ellipse and back again roughly every 100,000 years. The theory says this alters the amount of solar radiation that Earth receives, triggering the ice ages. However, a persistent problem with this theory has been its inability to explain why the ice ages changed frequency a million years ago."In Milankovitch, there is certainly no good idea why the frequency should change from one to another," says Neil Edwards, a climatologist at the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK. Nor is the transition problem the only one the Milankovitch theory faces. Ehrlich and other critics claim that the temperature variations caused by Milankovitch cycles are simply not big enough to drive ice ages.However, Edwards believes the small changes in solar heating produced by Milankovitch cycles are then amplified by feedback mechanisms on Earth. For example, if sea ice begins to form because of a slight cooling, carbon dioxide that would otherwise have found its way into the atmosphere as part of the carbon cycle is locked into the ice. That weakens the greenhouse effect and Earth grows even colder.According to Edwards, there is no lack of such mechanisms. "If you add their effects together, there is more than enough feedback to make Milankovitch work," he says. "The problem now is identifying which mechanisms are at work." This is why scientists like Edwards are not yet ready to give up on the current theory. "Milankovitch cycles give us ice ages roughly when we observe them to happen. We can calculate where we are in the cycle and compare it with observation," he says. "I can't see any way of testing [Ehrlich's] idea to see where we are in the temperature oscillation."Ehrlich concedes this. "If there is a way to test this theory on the sun, I can't think of one that is practical," he says. That's because variation over 41,000 to 100,000 years is too gradual to be observed. However, there may be a way to test it in other stars: red dwarfs. Their cores are much smaller than that of the sun, and so Ehrlich believes that the oscillation periods could be short enough to be observed. He has yet to calculate the precise period or the extent of variation in brightness to be expected.Nigel Weiss, a solar physicist at the University of Cambridge, is far from convinced. He describes Ehrlich's claims as "utterly implausible". Ehrlich counters that Weiss's opinion is based on the standard solar model, which fails to take into account the magnetic instabilities that cause the temperature fluctuations.11. The ice ages changed frequency from 100,000 to 41,000 years a million years ago.12. The sole problem that the Milankovitch theory cannot solve is to explain why the ice age frequency should shift from one to another.13. Carbon dioxide can be locked artificially into sea ice to eliminate the greenhouse effect.14. Some scientists are not ready to give up the Milankovitch theory though they haven't figured out which mechanisms amplify the changes in solar heating.15. Both Edwards and Ehrlich believe that there is no practical way to test when the solar temperature oscillation begins and when ends.C. Choose the sentences marked A to E to complete the following passage (10%).________16______.The survey, conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, showed that blog readership has shot up by 58% in the last year._______17________. Despite the explosive growth, more than 60% of online Americans have still never heard of blogs, the survey found._______18_______. Companies such as Google and Microsoft provide users with the tools to publish their own blogs.Reading blogs remains far more popular than writing them, the survey found. Only 7% of the 120 million US adults who use the internet had created a blog or web-based diary. _________19________. Just under one in 10 of the US's internet users read political blogs such as the Daily Kos or Instapundit during the US presidential campaign. Kerry voters were slightly more likely to read them than Bush voters.Blog creators were likely to be young, well-educated, net-savvy males with good incomes and college educations, the survey found. ________20________.A. Getting involved is becoming more popular though, with 12% saying they had posted material or comments on other people's blogs.B. Blogs, or web logs, are online spaces in which people can publish their thoughts, opinions or spread news events in their own words.C. This was also true of the average blog reader, although the survey found there was a greater than average growth in blog readership among women and those in minorities.D. Americans are becoming avid blog readers, with 32 million getting hooked in 2004, according to new research.E. Some of this growth is attributable to political blogs written and read during the US presidential campaign.Part Ⅲ Writing (30%)Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic.What Difference Does Having Money Make to You?。

2016年华南理工大学翻译硕士入学考试《英语》真题及详解

2016年华南理工大学翻译硕士入学考试《英语》真题(总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、 Vocabulary(总题数：30，分数：60.00)1.If you keep on trying something, the day will come when you can do it well and with great______.A.careB.ease √C.tempoD.dignity【解析】本题考查名词辨析。

you can do it well意为"你会做好它"，with great______ 与此并列，意义上应该与此接近。

with great care意为"小心翼翼地"。

with great ease意为"轻而易举地"，符合题意，故答案为[B]项。

with great tempo意为"以极大的速度"；with great dignity 意为"威风凛凛"。

如果填入care，tempo或dignity，与you can do it well的语义不符，故均排除。

2.She______to find new stories about her homeland, making sure her American-born daughter did not grow up ignorant of Chinese culture.A.dropped outB.went out of her way √C.gave wayD.got down【解析】本题考查动词短语辨析。

drop out意为"离开，退出"。

go out of one's way意为"不怕麻烦；特地"。

give way意为"撤退；让路；退让；垮掉"。

2015年华南理工大学外国语学院211翻译硕士英语考研真题及详解【圣才出品】

2015年华南理工大学外国语学院211翻译硕士英语考研真题及详解Part Ⅰ.Vocabulary and Structure (30 points, 1 point for each)Directions: After each statement there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Select the only one choice that best completes the statement. Write your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.1. The eventual _____ of nuclear experiments takes time.A. abandonmentB. repressionC. exhaustionD. adaption【答案】A【解析】句意：最终放弃核实验是需要时间的。

abandonment抛弃，放弃。

repression 抑制。

exhaustion枯竭；耗尽。

adaption适应；改编本。

2. The student can no longer bear the new burdens _____ on him.A. carriedB. imposedC. enforcedD. transferred【答案】B【解析】句意：这个学生再也不能忍受强加在他身上的新负担了。

impose强加。

carry携带。

enforce实施，执行。

transfer使转移；调任。

3. Mr. Smith had to resign _____ his age.A. in the light ofB. on the basis ofC. in regard toD. on account of【答案】D【解析】句意：史密斯先生不得不因他的年龄而辞职。

on account of因为，由于。

【华南理工 2011-2013 翻译硕士真题】翻译硕士英语2013

becoming depressed.
A. detect
B. design
C. influence
D. predict
21.To make sure their demands would be heard, the coal workers went on
strike to protest the _______ lack of safe precaution in the mines.
D. What
29.Although company styles vary, _______ that all successful firms
possess the ability to tap the potential of their employees.
A. what certain is
in the banquet.
A.lot B. an abundance C. great deal D. a number
13. Healthy people have a slightly lower ________ of carrying
disease-related variations.
more ________ in the world than ever before.
A. depressed B. depressive C. depressing D. depression
4. The local government has ________ the task of constructing the huge
A. obese
B. obesity
C. fat
D. fatness

14年华工翻硕英语真题答案解析TIPS

1.Subsequently adv.其后，随后，接着;“subsequent”的派生;嗣后;尔后Successively adv. (in proper order or sequence)先后;依次;接连着，继续地E.g. He successively won the British, European and World championships.他一口气拿下了英国、欧洲和世界冠军。

Predominantly adv.占主导地位地;显著地;占优势地Preliminarily adv.初步地2.practically adv.几乎;实际上;事实上E.g. My essay is practically finished now.我的论文现在差不多写完了。

It sounds like a good idea, but I don't think it will work practically.这个主意听起来不错，但我认为它实际上行不通。

Permanently adv.永久地，长期不变地(for a long time without essential change)3.Contrive vt.策划;设计，发明;创造;设法做到vi.计划或谋划(If you contrive an event or situation, you succeed in making it happen, often by tricking someone.)Consolidate vt.统一;把…合成一体，合并;巩固(to make a position of power or success stronger so that it is more likely to continue)，加强;合计金额vi.合并;统一;联合Heave vt.举起;投掷;使起伏;呕吐vt.& vi.喘息;呕吐vi.起伏;（山丘等）隆起;拖;气喘n.隆起;举起;波动;呕吐Intensify vt.& vi.（使）增强，（使）加剧;增加（照片图象）的对比度;变强或增强（使）加强，增强，加剧to increase in degree or strength; to make sth increase in degree or strength同义词：heighten4.Takeover n.收购;（事业等的）接管;（经营权等的）接收;验收Turnover n.翻滚，翻倒，弄翻，逆转，转向;半圆形的小馅饼;营业额，成交量，证券交易额;[体育运动] 易手，失球adj.可翻下的，或折转的Overtake vt. 压倒;追上，赶上;（不愉快的事）突然降临Overturn vt.& vi.（使）翻倒vt.使垮台，推翻;撤销（判决等）n.推翻，垮台;瓦解;灭亡，毁灭5.Set up :①to formally establish a new company, organization, system, way of working, etc.E.g She plans to set up her own business.②to arrange for an event or activity to happen:We need to set up a meeting to discuss the proposals.set apart 隔离开；突出(If a characteristic sets you apart from other people, it makes you different from the others in a noticeable way.);留出，以备特定用途：The room is set apart for smoking.这间屋子是专门为了人们吸烟而备的。

2011年华南理工大学翻译硕士MTI考研真题答案解析

A. water to be added
B. for adding water then
C. and water added
D. and then adding water 16．While she had the fever, she raved for hours.
句义：她发烧时胡言乱语了好几个小时。答案：A 考点：词义辨析分析：
14. In the nineteenth century, Samuel Gridley Howe founded the Perkins School for the blind, an
institute for children in Boston, Massachusetts. 句义：19 世纪，塞缪尔·格里德利·豪尔建立了帕金斯盲童学校。这所学校位于马萨
preparations. 句义：检察人员将于周一到达，请通知全体员工做好准备。
答案：D 考点：词义辨析
分析：
A. modify B. ratify C. rectify D. notify
修改，更改正式批准改正，矫正通知
13. The meeting took on a different posture after his moving speech. 句义：在他激动人心的演讲之后，会议呈现出了完全不同的立场。
句义：看见将军朝他走过来，士兵停下来敬了个漂亮的军礼。
答案：B
考点：词义辨析
分析：
A. toast
敬酒
B. salute
致敬，敬礼
C. tribute
致辞，哀悼
D. solution
解决方法
18. Often very annoying weeds, goldenrods crowd out less hardy plants and act as hosts to

2016年华南理工大学外国语学院211翻译硕士英语考研真题及详解【圣才出品】

2016年华南理工大学外国语学院211翻译硕士英语考研真题及详解Part Ⅰ.Vocabulary and Structure (30 points, 1 point for each)Directions: After each statement there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Select the only one choice that best completes’ the statement. Write your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.1. If you keep on trying something, the day will come when you can do it well and with great _____.A. careB. easeC. tempoD. dignity【答案】B【解析】句意：如果你一直在尝试某件事，总有一天你可以出色且轻松地将它完成。

care 关怀；照料。

ease轻松，舒适。

tempo速度，发展速度。

dignity尊严；高贵。

2. She _____ to find new stories about her homeland, making sure her American-born daughter did not grow up ignorant of Chinese culture.A. dropped outB. went out of her wayC. gave wayD. got down【答案】D【解析】句意：她开始寻找关于自己祖国的新故事，以确保她出生在美国的女儿不会对中国文化一无所知。

drop out退出；退学。

go out of one’s way特地；不怕麻烦。

give away 放弃；泄露。

get down to开始认真考虑；着手处理。

华南理工大学翻译硕士英语学位MTI考试真题2013年

华南理工大学翻译硕士英语学位MTI考试真题2013年(总分：150.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、Ⅰ.(总题数：30，分数：30.00)1.PDA（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：PDA (Personal Digital Assistant)个人数字助理2.UPI（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：UPI (United Press International)合众国际社3.OEM（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：OEM (Original Equipment Manufacture)初始设备制造商4.NYSE（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：NYSE (NewYork Stock Exchange)纽约证券交易所5.IAEA（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency)国际原子能机构6.ObamaCare（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：ObamaCare奥巴马医改7.box office（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：box office售票处8.audience rating（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：audience rating收视率9.null and void（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：null and void无效的10.force majeure（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：force majeure不可抗力11.insurance policy（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：insurance policy保险单12.bill of exchange（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：bill of exchange汇票13.well-informed source（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：well-informed source消息灵通人士14.inflation-proof deposit（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：inflation-proof deposit保值储蓄15.export-oriented economy（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：export-oriented economy外向型经济16.工业明胶（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：工业明胶industrial gelatin17.行政审批（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：行政审批administrative approval18.版税收入（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：版税收入royalty income19.医疗卫生机构（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：医疗卫生机构medical and health organization20.固有领土（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：固有领土inherent territory21.学术诚信（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：学术诚信academic integrity22.国际仲裁（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：国际仲裁international arbitration23.空气质量监测（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：空气质量监测air quality monitoring24.佛经（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________正确答案：()解析：佛经Buddhist sutra25.逾期贷款（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________正确答案：()解析：逾期贷款overdue loan26.衔接与连贯（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________正确答案：()解析：衔接与连贯cohesion and coherence27.司法公正（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________正确答案：()解析：司法公正judicial fairness28.重大疾病保险（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________正确答案：()解析：重大疾病保险critical illness insurance29.大陆架（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________正确答案：()解析：大陆架the continental shelf30.运载火箭（分数：1.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________正确答案：()解析：运载火箭carrier rocket二、Ⅱ. (总题数：1，分数：60.00)31.George Washington, wealthy planter and fox hunting sportsman, was without a trace of Puritanism. He was so completely indifferent to its pious irascibilities that he appears never to have made any comment on them. Indeed, he seemed, according to the evidence, to have had no instinct or feeling for religion, although he attended church twelve or fifteen times a year.The name of Jesus Christ is not mentioned even once in the vast collection of Washington"s published letters. He refers to Providence in numerous letters, but he used the term in such a way as to indicate that he considered Providence as a synonym for Destiny or Fate. Bishop White, who knewhim well for many years, wrote after Washington"s death that he had never heard him express an opinion on any religious subject. He added that although Washington was "serious and attentive" in church, he never saw him kneel in prayer.Nevertheless, he believed in the stabilizing power of religion. He had no religious feeling himself, but thought religion was a good thing for other people—especially for the common people. Anyone who understands American life will recognize the modem captain-of-industry attitude in this point of view.In his Farewell Address, which unquestionably represents his most mature opinions, the name of God does not appear, but he had a good word for religions, to wit: "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports." Reading this, we pause and reflect. He considered religion a matter of policy. Of that we might have been sure—knowing, as we do, his type of mind. But the statement does not come up to expectations; he has not tied religion up to property. Any modem captain of industry would do that. However, we are not yet at the end of the statement. In the same paragraph, a few lines further on, he says:Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.（分数：60.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________正确答案：()解析：乔治·华盛顿不仅是一个富有的种植园主，也是一个猎狐专业户，但他跟清教主义一点儿都不沾边儿。

2012年华南理工大学翻译硕士翻译硕士英语考研真题

B. 10 minutes of D. 10-minute
22. ________ is always the case, the darkest hour comes before the dawn.
A. That
B. It
C. As
D. What
1668816048 23. We have a long way to go ________ we can invent truly intelligent machines.
B. do away of D. do away from
1668816048 12. The sudden bankruptcy of these financial giants threw the investors ________ and
caused them to ________.
A. in a panic, stampede C. in confusion, hold their stocks
answer sheet.
1. Economics applies directly to how we earn our income and ________.
A. how to spend our money C. the way we spend our money
B. how we spend our money D. the way our money is spent
A. allow
B. spend
C. divide
D. allot
9 14. At that time he kept telling us that final victory was just ________. His optimism saved

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