考试科目：翻译硕士英语科目代码：211 考试时间：月日
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I. Multiple Choice
Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
1. You will be ______ the fine if you tell us who else was involved.
A. spared
B. revealed
C. forgiven
考研各科考试时间D. given
2. He has been ______ every mail as he cherishes a hope that one day his missing
brother will contact him.
A. watching out
B. watching at
C. watching for
D. watching in
3. Some people enjoy talking about their fears while others ______ being asked to
discuss their personal feelings.
A. refuse
B. decline
C. resent
D. promote
4. He was arrested and sentenced to 10 years’imprisonment for ______ several
crimes.
A. committing
B. making
C. conducting
D. undertaking
5. As you are married, you are required to fill in this form with the names of you and
your ______.
A. partner
B. spouse
C. husband
D. wife
6. In order to prevent corruption, the top leaders of government are required to announce their income ______.
A. on time
B. on cue
C. in public
D. at ease
7. With the development of our national economy, more and more people ______ the
market economy.
A. believe in
B. take on
C. put off
D. put on
8. The vegetarian restaurant makes its dishes resemble meat in every way except
______.
A. contents
B. insides
C. ingredients
D. Tastes
9. Nowadays, the ATM machine is very popular because people can get money almost
______ when the code number is put in.
A. instantaneously
B. spontaneously
C. intentionally
D. marginally
10. Students who always do things ______ might lack of creativity.
A. on the book
B. with the book
C. by book
D. by the book
11. The best moral ______ is that of conscience, the worst is the fear of punishment.
A. sanction
B. function
C. operation
D. acquisition
12. My friends and I don’t like to see his films because they have been criticized for
being ______ violent.
A. excitedly
B. overly
C. usually
D. absolutely
13. Some problem students who were always in low spirit were diagnosed as suffering
from ______ crisis.
A. identify
B. idealism
C. identity
D. status
14. We should carefully plan the process of negotiation and any ______ acts will be
harmful to the result.
A. impulse
B. impulsion
C. instinct
D. impulsive
15. Life was pure ______ last month; the children were ill and I had little money.
A. misery
B. merriness
C. mythic
D. merit
16. His friends ______ him on the back when he said he was getting married.
A. stroke
B. hit
C. beaten
D. slapped
17. Many people feel worried that foreign goods such as cars and appliances may
______ through the Chinese market after China enters the World Trade Organization.
A. run amok
B. run out
C. run off
D. run away
18. When kids become grown-ups and independent, they sometimes feel that their
mothers are ______ old women.
A. meddlesome
B. troublesome
C. dynamic
D. prudent
19. He is really jealous when his girlfriend ______ a friendship with another young
man.
A. strikes on
B. strikes at
C. strikes up
D. strikes with
20. He is so conservative that he is ______ with modern life.
A. out of fashion
B. out of step
C. going back
D. is based
II Cloze
Directions: There are 10 blanks in the following passage. Fill in each blank with the word in the follow
ing that best fits into the passage (fifteen choices are supplied). Write down your choices on the Answer Sheet.
Yet crime has certainly not decreased in ___1___ to the rise in imprisonment. Experts say the law of diminishing returns is ___2___ work here: As judges send more and more people to jail, a greater proportion of prisoners will ___3___ be less-frequent offenders. What’s ___4___, most criminologists agree ___5___ the steep rise in incarceration rates has been ___6___ largely by low-level drug offenders. Giving them more and longer ___7___ has done ___8___ to stop the drug trade, scholars say, since there always seem to be others ___9___ on the street to ___10___
their place.
III. Error Correction
Directions: There is one error in each line marked in number, correct them and write the right on the Answer Sheet.
An outstanding example of hardwired capabilities with great
flexibility for programming by us is language. Specialists agree that
“the human brain genetically programmed f or language 1 development,” and that “speech can be explained only on the basis
of an innate language-processed capacity within our brain.” Unlike 2
the rigidity that is displayed in the instinct behavior of animals, 3 therefore, there is tremendo us flexibility in a human’s use of this 4 hardwired capacity for language.
A specific language is not hardwired into our brains, and we are 5 preprogrammed with the capacity for learning languages. If two
language are spoken in the home, a child can learn both. If exposed 6
to the third language, the child can learn it also. One girl was 7
exposed to a number of langu8ges from babyhood. By the time she
was five she spoke eight fluently. In the view of such innate abilities 8
it is not surprise that a linguist said that chimpanzee experiments 9
with sign language “actually prove that chimps are capable of even 10
the most rudimentary forms of human language.”
IV. Reading
Section One Reading Comprehension
Passage 1
David Frost ——Autobiography
David Frost
Looked at one way, it is faintly ludicrous that Sir David Frost should be writing his autobiography already. That he should have written just the first 30 years’ worth might be thought strange. Here he is, not yet 55 years old, producing a volume of 528 pages that takes us no further than l969.
It is, true, the period of his life that established his name and fortune, that swift rise from undergraduate cabaret turn to star host on both sides of the Atlantic, joint founder of an ambitious ITV company and long since able to invite show business stars, business tycoons and a British Prime Minister to breakfast at three days’ notice.
(An event recalled in his book with such empty indifference that you cannot decide whether the comprehensive name-dropping is intended to impress or just a habit. ) And yet David Frost, a significant figure in British television, certainly in the rapidly changing environment of the 1960’s, remains something of a mystery. Never far from positions of influence, wealthier from his broadcasting activities than all but the biggest moguls, he is in many ways on the edge of things.
His book, like his career, perhaps, is as fascinating as it is unsatisfactory. The 1ength is due to its liberal resort to program transcripts, which yield verbatim exchanges with his many interviewees as well as detailed recall of the highs and lows of That Was The Week That Was and the scripting process that achieved them.
The private Frost is to be caught only in passing, as he remains true to his preface: “Where there was a choice between a’60s tale and a persona l one I have tried always to include the former.”
The outcome is, I think, an insider’s book, dependent on remembering the times or knowing the people. But at that level, it is highly suggestive of its era, offers a view from a unique angle, yields some new insights -- into the formation of London Weekend Television, for instance ——and earns its place in the history of British Television. Like its author.
1. The autobiography covers the author’s
A. last thirty years.
B. life after 1969.
C. life before 1969
D. first 55 years.
2. David Frost is
A. an inf1uential TV host.
B. a famous movie star.
C. an ambitious politician.
D. a fascinating novelist.
3. The autobiography is described as an insider’s book because i t requires a knowledge of
A. all his personal experiences.
B. his unique insights into British history.
C. the development of British television.
D. what was really happening in the 1960s.
Passage 2
He Came in on Cat Paws
Quietly, almost unnoticed by a world sunk into the Great Depression, Germany on Jan. 30, l933, was handed to a monster. Adolf Hitler arrived, not in jackboots at the head of his Nazi legions but on cat paws, creeping in the side door.
The president, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, 85 and doddering, hated Hitler and all he represented. In 193l, after their first meeting, Hindenburg said Hitler “might become minister of posts but never chancellor”. In l932 Hitler challenged Hindenburg. The president ——Protestant, Prussian, a conservative monarchist --
won with the votes of Socialists, Unions, Centrist Catholics and Liberal Democrats. Hitler ——Catholic, Austrian and a former tramp-carried upper ——class Protestants, Prussian landowners and monarchists.
Nearly senile and desperate for any way to establish order in the fractious environment, Hindenburg fel1 prey to intriguers. Papen began plotting to bring himself to power and his supposed friend Schleicher to the top of the army. Papen offered Hindenburg a government with Hitler’s su pport but without Hitler in the cabinet. Hindenburg made Papen chance11or and Schleicher defense minister.
In the July 1932 parliamentary elections, the Nazis won 230 of 608 seats, and Hitler demanded the chancellorship; Hindenburg refused. Papen lost a confidence vote in August, and his government fell after losing in the fourth election in a year in November. Schleicher, whose very name means “intriguer”, turned on Papen, persuading Hindenburg to name him chancellor. Hitler’s propagandist Joseph Goebbels noted: “He won’t last long.”
To get revenge, Papen proposed sharing power with Hitler in January 1933; Hitler agreed, but with Papen as vice chancellor. Ever eager for order, Hindenburg shifted once again and fired Schleicher. “I am sure,” the president said “I shall not regret this action in heaven. Schleicher replied bitterly, “After this breach of trust, sir, I am not sure you will go to heaven.”Schleicher would later say: “I stayed in power only 57 days, and on each and every one of them I was betrayed 57 times. Don’t ever speak to me of German loyalty!
At noon on Jan. 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was sworn in as chancellor. Within one month, the Reichstag burned and civil liberties were suspended. Within two months, the Enabling Act stripped parliament of power and made Hitler dictator. On April 1, Hitler decreed a boycott of Jewish business. On April 4, he created the Reich Defense Council and began secretly rearming Germany. On July 14, Hitler made the Nazi Party “the only political party in Germany”.
As they sowed, so they reaped. In the Blood Purge of 1934, a Nazi SS squad murdered Kurt von Schleicher in the doorway of his home. Franz von Papen lingered on, so powerless an errand boy for Hitler that he was acquitted at the Nuremberg trials.
4. The author says that Hitler came into power “On cat paws” because
A. he seized power illegally.
B. he seized power by military force.
C. he quietly took advantage of the internal conflict.
D. he cleverly took advantage of the Depression.
5. Hitler first asked to be made chancellor when
A. Papen lost a confidence vote.
B. Hitler had won a third of the votes.
C. Hindenburg fired Schleicher.
D. Schleicher was fired.
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