高译教育-北京大学考研真题-翻译硕士英语真题2013

2013年北京大学翻译硕士考研真题回忆版

翻译硕士英语

注意事项：

1．本试卷共 6 道大题（共计 61 个小题），满分100 分；

2．本卷属试题卷，答题另有答题卷，答案一律写在答题卷上，写在该试题卷上或草纸上均无效。要注意试卷清洁，不要在试卷上涂划；

3．必须用蓝、黑钢笔或签字笔答题，其它均无效。

I. There are 15 sentences in this part. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose the right one. (30points)

1. The streets of the Dual Springs neighborhood, a migrant-worker hub in northern Beijing, . That’s no surprise; more than 13,000 people have been quarantined in China s capital to halt the insidious spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

A. deserted

B. vacated

C. unlived in

D. removed

2. In many a lack of direction prompted the Republican Guard to call it a day.

A. occasions

B. cases

C. events

D. days

3. They did considerable work to the masses of the United States with the elementary problems of Latin America.

A. allow

B. acquaint

C. notify

D. propagate

4. My mother says a teaching machine has to be to fit the mind of each boy and girl it teaches and that each kid has to be taught differently.

A. modified

B. considered

C. adjusted

D. remanufactured

5 The big retailers are starting to think small, too. Sainsbury's and Tesco have launched convenience-store chains, called local and Express, respectively — that have fast become, in British towns.

A. ubiquitous

B.established

C. frequented

D. known

6. The solidarity among the young, especially the 386 Generation, is so strong that it s helping to the country’s deep-rooted regional divide.

A. enhance

B. dissolve,

C. weaken:

D. move

7. The Wright brothers continued their flying in France and all who saw them.

A. saddened

B. frightened

C. astonished

D. alarmed

8. We are well aware of the responsibilities that necessarily to our office.

A. attach

B. confronts G. given D. face

9. People say that what we are all is a meaning for life, but I don’t think that s what we all look for.

A. seeing

B. seeking

C. watching

D. looking

10. When Joe was left to live with those people, he found that they were so

of life that he couldn’t stay with them.

A. painful

B. disdainful

C. meaningful

D. fruitful

11. A survey asked British mums who work outside the home what they would most like for Mother’s Day. And what did they reply? “Flowers? Chocolates? Dinner in Paris?” No, what 72% wanted was this: a little bit of time for mother.

A. to myself

B. to mom

C. for mom

D. by myself

12. Of course, nobody ever thought the prime minister’s job shall be easy.

A.would

B. could

C. will

D. should

13. Downing Street is fighting fiercely for something it hopes it shall control: its reputation. “[The BBC] is now saying, ‘Nobody ever said the prime minister told a lie, but that’s exactly what they’re saying，’，Alastair Campbell, Blair’s director of communications, told Newsweek. “That’s pretty heavy.”

A. could

B. would

C. can

D. will

14.The made-in-America idea of the global brand has built a name that people will buy on faith, and the pioneer was Coca-Cola.

A. is building

B. is to build

C. was to build

D. was building

15. For the least, American roots are no longer an easy selling point. Through much of the postwar period, US brands could play off this cachet; Levi’s ad campaigns used wholesome themes of boy-meets-girl in a heartland American setting until the early 1990s.

A. At least

B. At the least

C. At most

D. At the most

II. Comprehension

Passage 1

Role of Play in Development

Play is easier to define with examples than with concepts. In any case, in animals it consists of leaping, running, climbing, throwing, wrestling, and other movements, either along, with objects, or with other animals. Depending on the species, play may be primarily for social interaction, exercise, or exploration. One of the problems in providing a clear definition of play is that it involves the same behaviors that take place in other circumstance--dominance, predation, competition, and real fighting. Thus, whether play occurs or not depends on the intention of the animals, and the intentions are not always clear from behaviors alone.

Play appears to be a developmental characteristic of animals with fairly sophisticated nervous systems, mainly birds and mammals. Play has been studied most extensively in primates and canids (dogs). Exactly why animals play is still a matter debated in the research literature, and the reasons may not be the same for every species that plays. Determining the functions of play is difficult because the functions may be long-term, with beneficial effects not showing up until the animal's adulthood.

Play is not without considerable costs to the individual animal. Play is usually very active, involving movement in space and, at times, noisemaking. Therefore, it results in the loss of fuel or energy that might better be used for growth or for building