2018年广西民族大学翻译硕士英语考研真题A卷

2018 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.Her work in genetics won United States scientist Barbara McClintock ---- - in 1983. A. was the Nobel Prize B. the Nobel Prize was C. the Nobel Prize D. for the Nobel Prize. 2.You can count how many students passed an exam, but psychological and emotional feelings cannot be _______ measured. A. precisely B. precise C. preciously D. precious 3.Unemployment has come down slightly, but this does not ______ the fact that it is still a major problem. A. alert B. alter C. alarm D. altar 4.The man breathed a sign of ______ when he was told that everything had arrived in good condition. A. receive B. relieve C. relief D. release 5.Artificial light _______ the respiratory activity of some microorganisms in the winter but not in the summer, in part because in the summer their respiration is already at its peak and thus cannot be _______. A. stimulates… lessened B. B. elevates… quickened C. C. reflects.. .expanded D. D. enhances… increased 6.Because they have been so dazzled by the calendars and the knowledge of astronomy possessed by the Mayan civilization, some anthropologists have_______ achievements like the sophisticated carved calendar sticks of the Winnebago people. A. described B. acknowledged C. overlooked D, defended 7.Even those siblings whose childhood was_______ familial feuding and intense rivalry for their parents’ affection can nevertheless develop congenial and even _______relationships with each other in their adult lives. A, scarred by.. .vitriolic B, filled with… tolerant C, dominated by… intimate D, replete with.. .competitive 8.Working for 10 hours per week or less seemingly does not take a consistent _____ on school performance. A. tool B. toll C. toller D. tollen 9. He said he wished to ______ in the army during the last three years. A. be served B. be serving C. serve D. have been serving 10. ________ much you may dislike it, junk mail comes to most of you anyway. A. Whatever B. Whichever C. Whenever D. However 11. The increased use of computers in business has been_______ by a costly increase in computer crime. A. accompanied B. disappointed C. matched D. witnessed 12.Many animals display______ instincts only while their offspring are young and helpless. A. cerebral B. imperious C. rueful D. maternal 13. Because of its importance in modern living, ______in all parts of the world. A. in schools and colleges are algebra studies B. studying algebra in schools and colleges C. and the study of algebra in schools and colleges D. algebra is studied in schools and colleges 14.______touching in O Henry's stories is the gallantry with which ordinary people struggle to maintain their dignity. A. Most is B. Is mostly C. Is it most D. What is most 15. At the Seventh International Ballet Competition,Femando Bujones won the first gold medal ever_________to a United States male dancer. A．to be awarded B．to award C．that awards D ． should be awarding 16. I was awfully tired when I got home from work, but a half hour nap ____me. A. relieved B. released C. revived D. recovered 17. The new technological revolution in American newspapers has brought increased_ a wider range of publications and an expansion of newspaper job. A. reproduction B. circulation C. manipulationD. penetration 18.Geophysicists have collaborated with archaeologists and anthropologists to study the magnetic properties of pottery and fireplaces at sites _________by early humans. A. occupied B. occupying C. which D. were occupied 19. The story that follows__ two famous characters of the Rocky Mountain gold rush days. A. concerns B. states C. proclaims D. relates 20.There is a general understanding among the members of the Board of Directors that chief attention ____to the undertaking that is expected to bring highest profit. A. is given B. givesC. must be given D. be given 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. Dinosaurs, saber-tooth tigers and the dodo bird are famous examples (21) __ ____ of animals that have become extinct. In case of the dinosaurs, it (22) seems likely that a catastrophic event alters the global climate (23) enough to lead to their disappearance. More recent extinctions and near-extinctions－such as the blue whales, tiger, panda, and (24) North American bison—have been the direct result of human activity. By the early 1990s, species were becoming extinct at a rate of three per hour, or 27,000 every day – a figure quoted by the American biologist Edward O.Wilson of Harvard University, based on his most conservative estimates. This rate of extinctions carries with it some terrible consequences. Each plant that becomes extinct, for example, may take with it as much as 30 insects and animals (25) that depend on it for food. Habitat loss is one of the most important causes of extinction. For rising populations in many countries (26) lead to the clearing of more land, habitats such as raining forest (27) and grasslands disappear. In the East Africa, once renowned for its wildlife, few wild animals (28) remain living outside the boundaries of national parks and game (29) reserves. In other parts of the world, coastal ecosystems are clearing (30) for development. Wetland areas are drying out as a result of water extraction to support farming and tourism. Bird species are among the worst affected by the loss of wetlands. 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 1 He emerged, all of a sudden, in 1957: the most explosive new poetic talent of the English post-war era. Poetry specialized, at that moment, in the wry chronicling of the everyday. The poetry of Yorkshire-born Ted Hughes, first published in a book called “The Hawk in the Rain” when he was 27, was unlike anything written by his immediate predecessors. Driven by an almost Jacobean rhetoric, it had a visionary fervour. Its most eye-catching characteristic was Hughes's ability to get beneath the skins of animals: foxes, otters, pigs. These animals were the real thing all right, but they were also armorial devices—symbols of the countryside and lifeblood of the earth in which they were rooted. It gave his work a raw, primal stink. It was not only England that thought so either. Hughes's book was also published in America, where it won the Galbraith prize, a major literary award. But then, in 1963, Sylvia Plath, a young American poet whom he had first met at Cambridge University in 1956, and who became his wife in the summer of that year, committed suicide. Hughes was vilified for long after that, especially by feminists in America. In 1998, the year he died, Hughes broke his own self-imposed public silence about their relationship in a book of loose-weave poems called “Birthday Letters”. In this new and exhilarating collection of real letters, Hughes returns to the issue of his first wife's death, which he calls his “big and unmanageable event”. He felt his talent muffled by the perpetual eavesdropping upon his every move. Not until he decided to publish his own account of their relationship did the burden begin to lighten. The analysis is raw, pained and ruthlessly self-aware. For all the moral torment, the writing itself has the same rush and vigour that possessed Hughes's early poetry. Some books of letters serve as a personalized