2016年华南理工大学翻译硕士英语真题试卷
(总分：102.00，做题时间：90分钟)
一、Vocabulary(总题数：30，分数：60.00)
1.If you keep on trying something, the day will come when you can do it well and with great______.（分数：2.00） A.care B.ease C.tempo D.dignity
2.She______to find new stories about her homeland, making sure her American-born daughter did not grow up ignorant of Chinese culture.（分数：2.00） A.dropped out
B.went out of her way C.gave way D.got down
3.In the past, a woman's world usually______household work and waiting for her children and husband to come home.（分数：2.00） A.made up B.composed of C.was comprised of D.consisted of
4.Domestic tourists now make up more than 90 percent of the country's total and______two-thirds of its total tourism earnings.（分数：2.00） A.attribute B.contribute C.distribute D.dispatch
5.He is a diligent and______teacher, well liked by his students.（分数：2.00） A.voluntary B.conscious C.conscientious D.hard
6.The doctor tried last time to explain to the Browns that infants and young children are more ______to the effects of secondhand smoke than adults.（分数：2.00） A.conducive B.advantageous C.delicate D.vulnerable
7.It is absolutely true today that college degrees have become a valuable ______ for jobseekers in the country's developing market economy.（分数：2.00） A.asset B.liability C.deterrent D.means
8.She is far too______to believe these ridiculous lies.（分数：2.00） A.sensational B.sensitive
C.sensible D.sensuous
9.With______audiences and less financial support from government, Britain's best orchestras must find new sources of income, if they are to continue.（分数：2.00） A.shrinking B.captive C.withering D.sympathetic
10.On July 1, 1997, China resumed the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong, wiping out 156 years of colonial humiliation______on the Chinese nation.（分数：2.00） A.befell B.imposed C.afflicted D.leased
11.Johnson______the problem in his mind for two more days before he came to a conclusion.（分数：2.00） A.turned on B.turned over C.turned out D.turned to
12.Many of the works exhibited in the gallery are______, filled with energy and vitality, bright colors and unique ways of expressing ideas.（分数：2.00） A.imaginative B.imaginable C.imagined D.imaginary
13.Words fail to______our feelings of great reverence for the hero.（分数：2.00） A.imply B.deliver C.convey D.contain
14.China is______an ambitious plan to stimulate the domestic economy by investing in
infrastructure construction , of which telecommunications are an important part.（分数：2.00） A.undertaking B.supervising C.foiling D.compiling
15.I have to______time to prepare for the coming sports meet.（分数：2.00） A.set about B.set aside C.set up D.set off
16.If not properly______, border issues which are always very sensitive and complicated international relations can often trigger conflicts.（分数：2.00） A.handled B.handing C.handle D.to handle
17.After______seemed an endless wait, it was his turn to enter the personnel manager's office.（分数：2.00） A.what B.it C.that D.there
18.Every change of season, every change of weather ______ some change in the wonderful colors and shapes of these mountains.（分数：2.00） A.make B.makes C.is making D.are making
19.There______nothing more for discussion, the meeting came to an end half an hour earlier.（分数：2.00） A.to be B.to have been C.be D.being
20.Variables such as individual and corporate behavior______nearly impossible for economists to forecast economic trends with precision.（分数：2.00） A.make it B.make C.it makes D.makes it
21.Had Jane been more careful on the math exam, she______much better results now.（分数：2.00） A.would be getting B.could have got C.must get D.would get
22.By the year 2030, it's estimated that more than two thirds of the world's population will be living in cities —______today.（分数：2.00） A.twice as many as B.as twice as many C.as much as twice D.as much twice as
23.My daughter has walked eight miles today. We never guessed that she could walk______far.（分数：2.00） A./ B.such C.that D.as
24.Much______I like Antonia, I hated the superior tone that she sometimes took with me.（分数：2.00） A.although B.since C.for D.as
25.Developing friendly ties with neighborly countries is the priority aim of this country's foreign policy and this policy will not be changed______the international situation may be.（分数：2.00） A.whichever B.however C.wherever D.whatever
26.The snow leopard is a class-one endangered species, ______is the giant panda.（分数：2.00） A.as B.such C.which D.that
27.Jeremy came to visit me again. It was the second time he______me that afternoon.（分数：2.00） A.had been interrupting B.has interrupted C.would have interrupted D.had interrupted
28.Grace's eyes were wet with tears as she put her face______she could, gripping my left hand and stroking it.（分数：2.00） A.as close as to mine B.so close to mine as C.as close to mine as D.much so close as
29.The boys in the family are old enough for______.（分数：2.00） A.school B.schools C.the school D.the schools
30.Intellect is to the mind______sight is to the body.（分数：2.00） A.as B.what C.like D.that
二、Reading Comprehensio(总题数：2，分数：40.00)
[1] To say that the city is a central problem of American life is simply to know that increasingly the cities are American life; just as urban living is becoming the condition of man across the world. Everywhere men and women crowd into cities in search of employment, a decent living, the company of their fellows, and the excitement and stimulation of urban life. [2] Within a very few years, 80 percent of all Americans will live in cities — the great majority of them in concentrations like those which stretch from Boston to Washington, and outward from Chicago and Los Angeles and San Francisco and St. Louis. The cities are the nerve system of economic life for the entire Nation, and for much of the world. [3] And each of our cities is now the seat of nearly all the problems of American life: poverty and race hatred, stunted education and saddened lives, and the other ills of the new urban Nation — congestion and filth, danger and purposelessness — which afflict all but the very rich and the very lucky. [4] ...The city is not just housing and stores. It is not just education and employment, parks and theaters, banks and shops. It is a place where men should be able to live in dignity and security and harmony, where the great achievements of modern civilization and the ageless pleasures afforded by natural beauty should be available to all. If this is what we want — and this is what we must want if
men are to be free for that \of happiness\which was the earliest promise of the American Nation — we will need more than poverty programs, housing programs, and employment programs, although we will need all of these. We will need an outpouring of imagination, ingenuity, discipline, and hard work unmatched since the first adventurers set out to conquer the wilderness. For the problem is the largest we have ever known. And we confront an urban wilderness more formidable and resistant and in some ways more frightening than the wilderness faced by the pilgrims or the pioneers. [5] One great problem is sheer growth — growth which crowds people into slums, thrusts suburbs out over the countryside, burdens to the breaking point all our old ways of thought and action — our systems of transport and water supply and education, and our means of raising money to finance these vital services. [6] A second is destruction of the physical environment, stripping people of contact with sun and fresh air, clean rivers, grass and trees — condemning them to a life among stone and concrete, neon lights and an endless flow of automobiles. This happens not only in the central city, but in the very suburbs where people once fled to find nature. \pasture... where the boys...can dispose of their superfluous strength and spirits.\restore the pastures, but we must provide a chance to enjoy nature, a chance for recreation, for pleasure and for some restoration of that essential dimension of human existence which flows only from man's contact with the natural world around him. [7] A third is the increasing difficulty of transportation — adding concealed, unpaid hours to the workweek, removing men from the social and cultural amenities that are the heart of the city; sending destructive swarms of automobiles across the city, leaving behind them a band of concrete and a poisoned atmosphere. And sometimes — as in Watts — our surrender to the automobile has so crippled public transport that thousands literally cannot afford to go to work elsewhere in the city. [8] A fourth destructive force is the concentrated poverty and racial tension of the urban ghetto — a problem so vast that the barest recital of its symptoms is profoundly shocking: Segregation is becoming the governing rule; Washington is only the most prominent example of a city which has become overwhelmingly Negro as whites move to the suburbs; many other cities are moving along the same road — for example, Chicago, which, if present trends continue, will be over 50 percent Negro by 1975. The ghettoes of Harlem and Southside and Watts are cities in themselves, areas of as much as 350, 000 people. Poverty and unemployment are endemic: from one-third of the families in these areas live in poverty, in some, male unemployment may be as high as 40 percent; unemployment of Negro youths nationally is over 25 percent. Welfare and dependency are pervasive: one-fourth of the children in these ghettoes, as in Harlem, may receive Federal Aid to Dependent Children; in New York City, ADC alone costs over $ 20 million a month; in our five largest cities, the ADC bill's over $ 500 million a year.Housing is overcrowded, unhealthy, and dilapidated: the last housing census found 43 percent of urban Negro housing to be substandard; in these ghettoes, over 10, 000 children may be injured or infected by rat bites every year. Education is segregated, unequal, and inadequate: the high school dropout rate averages nearly 70 percent, there are academic high schools in which less than 3 percent of the entering students will graduate with an academic diploma. Health is poor and care inadequate: infant mortality in the ghettoes is more than twice the rate outside, mental retardation among Negroes caused by inadequate prenatal care is more than seven times the white rate; one-half of all babies born in Manhattan last year will have had no prenatal care at all; deaths from diseases like tuberculosis, influenza, and pneumonia are two to three times as common as elsewhere. [9] Fifth is both cause and consequence of all the rest. It is the destruction of the sense, and often the fact, of community, of human dialog, the thousand invisible strands of common experience and purpose, affection and respect which tie men to their fellows. Community is expressed in such words as neighborhood, civic pride, friendship. It provides the life-sustaining force of human warmth and security, a sense of one's own human significance in the accepted association and companionship of others. [10] ...Community demands a place where
2016年华南理工大学翻译硕士英语真题试卷.doc
