第1页共 1 页 三 峡 大 学 2012年研究生入学考试试题(A卷) 科目代码： 211 科目名称： 翻译硕士英语 考试时间： 3 Hours （考生必须将答案写在答题纸上） Part I PART I GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY SECTION A MULTIPLE CHOICE ( 10′ ) There are twenty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that correctly completes the sentence. Mark your answer on your answer sheet. 1. I wish to change my major in postgraduate study, because I know the competition in the computer department of Qinghua is_______. A. fragrant B. formidable C. fierce D. flexible 2. If the specific attribute is_______, subsequent generations of offspring can be expected to display it more frequently. A. inherited B. inhibited C. imitated D. transmitted 3. As a matter of fact, what impressed me most is Einstein‘s _______， but not his photoelectric theory for which he won the Nobel Prize. A. character B. temper C. quality D. personality 4. The travel agency will make your travel _______ and send your tickets to the office by the end of week. A. release B. experiences C. reservations D. diagram 5. It is generally agreed that economic controls can _______ inflation by preventing overt wage and price increases from taking place. 第 2 页 A. suppress B. impress C. compress D. express 6. The extrovert loves crowds; _______ the introvert is fond of solitude. A. differently B. by contrast C. otherwise D. in contrast 7. To call the music of another music- culture “primitive\_______ on a group that doesn’t recognize them. A. putting B. forcing C. emphasizing D. imposing 8. By computation, he estimated that the _______ repairs on the house would cost him a thousand dollars. A. coarse B. rough C. crude D. rude 9. Because of rush-hour congestion in Farmington, several large corporations are implementing _______ work-hour programs. A. submissive B. inclusive C. tangible D. flexible 10. After the jazz concert, the clean-up crew found the campus _______ with candy wrappers, bottles and cans. A. littered B. covered C. scattered D. dispersed 11. I could see that my wife was _______ having that fur coat, whether I approved of it or not. A. intent on B. adequate for C. short of D. deficient in 12. People of all countries are expected to _______ the principles of the United Nations. A. inspect B. hold up C. uphold D. hold off 13. While both plans were perfectly sensible, only one seemed _______ in China’s particular situation. A. useful B. available C. feasible D. desirable 14. The magician picked several persons _______ from the audience and asked them to help him with the performance. A. by accident B. at random C. on occasion D. on average 15. So many people turned out for the meeting that there were not enough seats to_______ them all. A. sit B. seat C. accommodate D. afford 第 3 页 16. The attorney was warned against trying to _______ the young witness. A. influential B. influence C. influentially D. influencing 17. From ancient times, the valley of the Nile has been made _______ by the river floods. A. famous B. deserted C. attractive D. fertile 18. Most workplace errors _______ careless practices amongst employees. A. stem from B. leave out C. start up D. get into 19. She prefers to have her left _______ photographed, she says that’s her better side. A. veil B. profile C. fringe D. view 20. It wasn’t the largest company. It was ,_______, one of the most highly respected in the field. A. furthermore B. therefore C. additionally D. however PART I SECTION B PROOFREADING & CORRECTION ( 15′ ) The following passage contains TEN 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 in the following way: For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line. For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “∧”sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line. 第 4 页 For an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word with a slash \/\put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line. Hello, my name is Richard and I am an ego surfer. The habit began about five years ago, and now I need help. Like most journalists, I can’t deny that one of my private joys are seeing my (21) ____ byline in print. Now the Internet is allowing me to feed this vanity to ever greater extent, and the occasional sneaky web search has (22) ____ grown into a full-blown obsession for how high up Google’s ranking (23) ____ my articles appear where I put my name into the search box. (24) ____ When I lastly looked, my best effort was a rather humiliating 47th (25)____ place. You know you have a problem how you find yourself (26) ____ competing for ranking with a retired basketball player from the 1970s. Not that I’m lonely for suffering from a dysfunctional techno- (27) ____ habit. New technologies have revealed a whole raft of hitherto unsuspected personality problems: think crackberry, powerpoint- lessness or cheesepodding. Most of us are familiar in sending an (28) ____ e-mail to a colleague sitting a couple of feet away instead talking to (29)____ them. Some go onto the web to snoop on old friends, colleagues or even the first dates. More of us than ever reveal highly personal (30)____ information on blogs or My Space entries. A few will even use Internet anonymity to fool others into believing they are someone else altogether. So are these web syndromes and technological tics new versions of old afflictions, or are we developing fresh mind bugs? 第 5 页 PART II READING COMPREHENSION SECTION A Multiple Choice ( 30′ ) In this section, there are several reading passages followed by a total of fifteen multiple choice questions, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Read the passages and then mark your answers on your answer sheet. Text A If I had been asked more than 30 years ago, which I would prefer, a planned economy or a laissez-faire free market, I would have chosen the latter as the best pick-me-up for the country's abject economic condition at that time. But if asked the same question today, I would not hesitate to say that I would accept neither if they were presented in their extreme versions. I do not necessarily agree with all that David Harvey says in his book, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, about the rise of neoliberal economics as \whose fundamental mission\businesses, multinational corporations, and financial capital\However, the Asian financial crisis in 1997 and the financial crisis on Wall Street with its ensuing global economic meltdown testify to the truth of much of what Harvey says about the nature of neoliberalism. Harvey writes that the rise of neoliberal economics since the late 1970s has mainly benefited the wealthy. In the United States, the richest 1 percent now control 15 percent of the wealth as opposed to 8 percent at the end of World War II. Harvey also points out that the aggregate economic growth during the decades between 第 6 页
2012至2020年三峡大学211翻译硕士英语考研真题合辑
