211翻译硕士英语试题13

河南科技大学

2013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

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Part Ⅰ Multiple Choice (20%)

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

1. It’s not far, only ___ walk from here to our school.

A. a ten minutes

B. ten minutes

C. a ten minutes’

D. ten minutes’

2. You can find a tower at ___ end of the bridge.

A. both

B. every

C. either

D. any

3. Land to ____ east of ____ Urals is called Asia.

A. the; the

B. /; the

C. /; /

D. the; /

4. Father went to his doctor for ____ about his heart trouble.

A. advice

B. an advice

C. advices

D. the advice

5. Take this medicine and drink plenty of water, you’ll be fine ____ 3 days.

A. in

B. after

C. later

D. since

6. There are ____ students at the sports meeting.

A. tens of thousands of

B. five hundreds of

C. several hundred of

D. five thousands

7. I’m sorry I ____ know you ____ here.

A. don’t are

B. didn’t; were

C. don’t; were

D. didn’t; are

8. ____ the books not properly marked and catalogued, they ____ be so easy to find.

A. If; could

B. Were; couldn’t

C. Had; couldn’t

D. Were; could

9. You must be a writer, ____ you?

A. mustn’t

B. are

C. must

D. aren’t

10. ____ all over the hills and around the lake are wild flowers of different colours.

A. Growing

B. Grown

C. To grow

D. Having grown

11. There could have been a war over it but in the end reason _______.

A. counted

B. mattered

C. conquered

D. prevailed

12. Don't judge a crime until you know all the ________.

A. circumstances

B. situations

C. conditions

D. surroundings

13. I have tried _____ to account for the riddle．What a pity!

A. heart and soul

B. in vain

C. over and over again

D. by all means

14. The doctor allowed him to go home ______ that he remained in bed.

A. with the result

B. in order

C. on condition

D. on the ground

15. No matter how hard we try, we can _______ do only half as much as last year.

A. at least

B. at large

C. at last

D. at best

16. Apart from blue eyes, blonde hair is also ________ of Swedish people.

A. specific

B. characteristic

C. peculiar

D. particular

17. She told us most of the story, but kept _____ the bit about her uncle.

A. off

B. down

C. to

D. back

18. I find it difficult to _____ with him when he complains so much.

A. sympathize

B. approve

C. consent

D. correspond

19. The fire was the worst _______ ever to hit the town.

A. event

B. incident

C. hazard

D. disaster

20. The change was so _______ that we hardly noticed it.

A. invisible

B. intangible

C. gradual

D. inevitable

Part Ⅱ Blank-filling (10%)

Put a word in each blank that is appropriate for the context.

Recently, Congressional Democrats introduced legislation to make it easier for older workers to win age discrimination lawsuits. Age discrimination remains a significant workplace issue.

In recent ten years, 15.79 percent of cases __1__ to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, were described as successful claims. While this number is small given the number of workers covered by the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, many, if not most, instances of age discrimination are never sued, and cases of hiring discrimination often __2__ undetected.

Most of those who do sue are white, male middle-managers who are likely to have lost a sizeable salary and pension. For the most part, other groups do not __3__ because the costs of a lawsuit outweigh the potential benefits. Age discrimination remains a significant workplace issue.

There is strong experimental evidence for age discrimination in hiring, at least for entry-level jobs. Recently, I performed a labor market experiment in Boston __4__ which I sent out thousands of resumes for fictitious entry-level female candidates and measured response rate based on date of high school graduation. Among this group, younger applicants, whose date of high school graduation indicated that they were less than 50 years old, were 40 percent more likely to be called back for an interview __5__ were older applicants.

It is difficult to tell whether employment problems are worse for older workers than for other workers when times are bad. The number of discrimination lawsuits increases during times of high unemployment, but this finding by itself does not indicate an increased level of age discrimination. In times of higher unemployment, the opportunity cost to a lawsuit is lower than __6__ is when times are good.

From the employer's perspective, mass layoffs may seem like a good chance to remove a higher proportion of generally more expensive older workers without the worry of being sued. On the other hand, employers may be less likely to remove protected older workers because they still fear lawsuits. One thing we do know is that once an older worker loses a job, he or she is much less likely to find a new __7__ than a younger worker is.

Unfortunately, the effect of legislation prohibiting age discrimination is not easy to see and may actually be part of