2017年广西民族大学翻译硕士英语考研真题A卷

2017 年广西民族大学翻译硕士英语考研真题 A 卷 Part I. Basic English Knowledge (30%) Section A: Multiple-choice (20 %) Directions: There are forty multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. 1.After people have learned that magnets attract things, centuries passed ____ they took note of the fact that magnets sometimes also repel things. A. before B. until C. after D. since 2.Most of North America receives _________ some form of continuous plant cover except in the arid and semiarid Southwest. A. moisture to sustain sufficient B. sufficient moisture to sustain C. to sustain sufficient moisture D. sufficient to sustain moisture 3._________ industries, inventions, and communal endeavors of the Shakers, the best known is their fine furniture. A. Of the many B. Their many C. Are the many D. Many of the 4. A condenser is a heat exchanger _________ steam or vapor loses heat and returns to liquid form. A. what B. in which C. in whose D. that 5.Settled by English Puritans in 1630, Boston became _________. A. so that the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony B. the Massachusetts Bay Colony its capital C. it was the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony D. the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony 6.The scents of the flowers was______ to us by the breeze. A. intercepted B. detested C. saturated D. wafted 7. If you______ something, such as food or drink, you reduce its quality or make it weak, for example by adding water to it. A. adulterate B. moor C. vaccinate D. sue 8. Government loan have been the______ of several shaky business companies. A. tornado B. salvation C. delinquency D. momentum 9. She made shorthand notes which she later _ . A. inscribed B. described C. prescribed D. transcribed He gave me an _ either Mary have to leave, or me. A. ulcer B. underdog C. ultimatum D. underworld 11. _____ no cause for alarm, the old man went back to his bedroom. A. There was B. Since C. Being D. There being I have never been to London, but that is the city_______. A. where I like to visit most B. I’d most like to visit C. which I like to visit mostly D. where I’d like most to visit The experiment requires more money than _______. A. has been put in B. being put in C. have been put in D. to be put in Fat cannot change into muscle ______muscle changes into fat. A. no more than B. any more than C. no less than D. much more than She managed to save _______she could out of her wages to help her brother. A. how little money B. so little money C. what little money D. such little money 16. A cinema was burnt out in north London last night. Police suspect _ . A. armpit B. arsenal C. arson D. artifact She trimmed the _ of the tulips before putting them in a vase. A. sprig B. spruce C. stakes D. stalks It was as a physician that he represented himself, and_____ he was warmly received. A. as such B. such as C. as that D. so that While most people would _ at the prospect of so much work, Daniels seems to positively enjoy it. A. accentuate B. collate C. dehumanize D. blanch 20.Even as a girl, _____to be her life, and theater audiences were to be her best teachers. A.performing by Melissa were B.Melissa knew that performing was C.knowing that Melissa’s performances were D.it was known that Melissa’s performances were Section B: Proofreading and Error Correction (10 %) Directions: The following passage contains 10 errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it. Please write your answers on the Answer Sheet. Many witnesses concerning the Chinese have told the truth, but perhaps a few of them have succeeded in telling nothing but the truth, and no one of (21) them has ever told the whole truth. No single individual, whatever the extent of his knowledge, could by any possible know the whole truth about the (22) Chinese. The difficulty of comparing Chinese with Anglo-Saxons will be more (23) strongly felt by those who have attempted. To such it will soon become (24) evident that many things which seem “characteristic” of the Chinese are merely Oriental traits; but in what extent this is true, each reader in the (25) light of his own experience must judge by himself. (26) It has been said that in the present stage of our intercourse with Chinese there are three ways in which we can come to some knowledge of their social life—by the study of their novels, their ballads, and their plays. Each of these sources of information doubtless have its worth, but there is likewise (27) a fourth, more valuable than all of them combining, a source not open to every (28) one who wrote on China and the Chinese. It is the study of the family life of (29) the Chinese in their own homes. As the topography of a district can be much better understood in the country than the city, so it is with the characteristics (30) of the people. A foreigner may live in a Chinese city for a decade, and not gain as much knowledge of the interior life of the people as he can acquire by living twelve months in a Chinese village. Part II. Reading Comprehension (50 %) Section A (30 %) Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D).You should decide on the best choice and write your answers on the Answer Sheet. Passage One Questions 31 to 39 are based on the following passage. My Views on Gambling Most of life is a gamble. Very many of the things we do involve taking some risk in order to achieve a satisfactory result. We undertake a new job with no idea of the more indirect consequences of our action. Marriage is certainly a gamble and so is the bringing into existence of children, who could prove sad liabilities. A journey, a business transaction, even a chance remark may result immediately or ultimately in tragedy. Perpetually we gamble— against life, destiny, chance, the unknown—call the invisible opponent what we will. Human survival and progress indicate that usually we win. So the gambling instinct must be an elemental one. Taking risks achieve something is a characteristic of all form of life, including humanity. As soon as man acquired property, the challenge he habitually issued to destiny found an additional expression in a human contest. Early may well have staked his flint axe, his bearskin, his wife, in the hope of adding to his possessions. The acquirement of desirable but non-essential commodities must have increased his scope enormously, while the risk of complete disaster lessened. So long as man was gambling against destiny, the odds were usually in his favor, especially when he used common sense. But as the methods of gambling multiplied, the chances of success decreased. A wager against one person offered on average even chances and no third party profited by the transaction. But as soon as commercialized city life developed, mass gambling become common. Thousands of people now compete for large prizes, but with only minute chances of success, while the organizers of gambling concerns enjoy big profits with, in some cases, no risk at all. Few clients of the betting shops, football pools, state lotteries, bingo sessions, even charity raffles, realize fully the flimsiness of their chances and the fact that without fantastic luck they are certain to lose rather than gain. Little irreparable harm results for the normal individual. That big business profits from the satisfaction of a human instinct is a common enough phenomenon. The average wage-earner, who leads a colorless existence, devotes a small percentage of his earnings to keeping alive with extraordinary constancy the dream of achieving some magic change in his life. Gambling is in most cases a non-toxic drug against boredom and apathy and many well preserve good temper, patience and optimism in dreary circumstances. A sudden windfall may unbalance a weaker, less intelligent person and even ruin his life. And the lure of something for nothing as an