川大2012年硕士研究生入学考试试题(翻译硕士英语)

考试科目： 211翻译硕士英语

适用专业：英语口译（MTI）、英语笔译（MTI）

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I. Vocabulary and grammar (30’)

Multiple choice

Directions: Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose the answer that best completes the sentence. Mark your answers on your answer sheet.

1. The forests were very dry because of the dry spell.

A. tree line

B. explorers

C.

draft D. drought

2. Self-denial is one of their tenets.

A. reasons

B. doctrines

C. renters

D. figures

3. The Iranians did not see eye to eye with the Americans about releasing the hostages.

A. view

B. scare

C. agree

D. quarrel

4. The most pressing problem any economic system faces is how to use its scarce resources.

A. puzzling

B. difficult

C. terrifying

D. urgent

5. The firm of Bonnin and Morris in Philadelphia was probably the first American company to manufacture porcelain.

A. silverware

B. crystal

C. china

D. linen

6. Children who come from deprived families are frequently poor readers.

A. without respect

B. without experience

C. without

funds D. without legs

7. They raised a hue and cry just outside the gate.

A. surrendered

B. built a temporary shelter

C. made a great deal of noise

D. flew the flag

8. Carlo showed us his diagram if the machine.

A. insides

B. screws

C. sketch

D. masterpiece

9. The beggar solicited passers-by for money.

A. requested

B. scowled at

C. bargained with

D. chased

10. He took on so much work, he had no time for pleasure.

A. allowed

B. increased

C. accomplished

D. assumed

11. Essentially, a theory is an abstract, symbolic representation of _________reality

A. what it is conceived

B.

that is conceived

C. what is conceived to be

D. that

is being conceived of

12. Using many symbols makes _______ to put a large amount of information on a single map.

A. possible

B. it is possible

C. it possible

D. that possible

13. A vacuum tube is a glass tube from which most of the air has been removed, _______ an almost complete vacuum.

A. creating

B. creates

C. is creating

D. it creates

14. Booker T. Washington, acclaimed as a leading educator at the turn of the century, _____ of a school that later became the Tuskegee Institute.

A. took charge

B. taking charge

C. charge was taken

D. taken charge

15. True hibernation takes place only among _______ animals.