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天津外国语学院天津外国语学院 2010 年攻读专业学位研究生入学考试试题年攻读专业学位研究生入学考试试题 考试科目 翻译硕士英语考试科目 翻译硕士英语 注意 答案必须写在答题纸上 考试时间 180 分钟 总分 100 分 I Vocabulary 20 Directions Choose the one answer that best explains the underlined word or phrase in the sentence Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET 1 U S President Barack Obama announced plans to scrap the controversial missile defense program in Eastern Europe on September 18 A fight B cancel C push D conciliate 2 Demonstrators entered their third day of a building takeover at UC Santa Cruz on Saturday in protest of a tuition increase an undertaking that a school spokesman called futile A useless B constructive C derogatory D negative 3 He said Clinton met for three hours and 15 minutes with the North Korean leader but said he did not know what issues were discussed But he said Clinton s views on a verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula are well known A ambiguous B confirmable C imprudent D unreal 4 Its negotiating habit is to make promises to win concessions and then renege on those promises A miracle B silly image C loud holler D compromise 5 The CDC also said 21 more deaths from H1N1 were reported in the past week bringing the official toll of pediatric H1N1 deaths in the United States to 171 A clinical H1N1 deaths C reported H1N1 deaths B children H1N1 deaths D tallied H1N1 deaths 6 A new Michael Jackson show offers an eye popping look at the King of 第 1 页 共 14 页 Pop s extravagant lifestyle and peculiar private tastes A lavish B liberal C unreasonable D mandatory 7 At the dawn of the G8 summit in early June that year Putin likewise gave a stark warning on the U S deployment of missile interceptors in Eastern Europe A predictive B capricious C blunt D intimidating 8 We saw the stampede at a Wal Mart store in New York last year on Black Friday that led to an employee s death said Burt Flickinger managing director of consulting firm Strategic Resource Group A frenzied rush of panic stricken animals B headlong rush or fight of a crowd of people C sudden action taken by a group of people D impulse on which people act 9 Susan Boyle s debut album I Dreamed a Dream is the most pre ordered CD in Amazon s history A official demonstration C farewell to the public B formal presentation D first public appearance 10 Reporters Without Borders said it has been outspoken in criticizing the culture of impunity and violence in the Philippines especially Mindanao A extreme indifference C exception of examination B extreme barbarism D exemption from punishment 11 The United States has yet to recognize China as a market economy despite its vows to work toward China s market economy status in an expeditious manner months ago Zhou said A hassty B sluggish C arrogant D expressive 12 The derailment killed at least 26 people and injured about 100 but there was no immediate word on who or what group might have been behind the action A doomed plane crash C misfortunate train accident B disastrous car crash D deadliest traffic accident 第 2 页 共 14 页 13 The Copenhagen UN summit between 7 18 December aims to draw up a treaty to succeed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol although observers say this is unlikely A supersede B continue C reverse D mandate 14 In recent years the bureaucratization of China s higher education and the obsession with power among professors have increasingly concerned the public A enthusiasm for C motivation for B tolerance of D phobia for 15 The transportation activity of which the passengers are a part breaks the law In this sense the passengers must be held accountable A legitimate for being taken into account B responsible for the explanation C responsible for the action D responsible for the consequence 16 The vibrant demand for cheaply priced Chinese goods has shriveled as the economic crisis discourages U S consumers from spending A disclosed B remained stable C soared up D dwindled 17 The latest conundrum is that factories cannot find enough workers to resume full capacity as orders resurge A myth B riddle C dilemma D puzzle 18 His claims are so outrageous that they don t deserve any response A trivial B irritable C ridiculous D equitable 19 In April 2009 pyongyang announced its withdrawal from the talks following the UN Security Council s unanimous decision to condemn its alleged satellite launch A confidential B determined C claimed D agreed 20 Day by day the relentless protests have become the most serious challenge to Milosevic in nine years in power A desperate B stressful C intoxicating D unyielding 第 3 页 共 14 页 II Crammar 10 Directions In each of the following sentences there are four underlined parts marked A B C and D Identify the part that is grammatically incorrect Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET 1 The grammatical words which play so large a part English grammar are A for the most part sharply and obviously different from the lexical words B C D 2 As humankind moves into the third millennium it can rightful claim to A B have broken new ground in its age old quest to master the environment C D 3 There are great impediments to the general use of a standard in A B pronunciation comparable to those existing in spelling C D 4 Being equal to other things a man who expresses himself effectively is A B sure to succeed more rapidly than a man whose command of language is C D poor 5 Not all persons arrested and accused with a crime are guilty and the A B C main function of criminal courts is to determine who is guilty under the D law 6 Life insurance before available only to young healthy persons can now A B be obtained for old people and even for pets C D 7 As we see in relation to political and national movements language is A used as a badge or a barrier depended on which way we look at it B C D 8 Never in my life forget the impression made on me by my first visit to the A B C 第 4 页 共 14 页 late Premier Chou D 9 I would have told him the answer had it been possible but I were so busy A B C D then 10 Through the world whose advance has been made in science and A B technology is due to education which brings forth scientists and inventors C D III Reading comprehension 40 Directions Below each of the following 4 passages you will find questions or incomplete statements about the passage Each statement or question is followed by lettered words or expressions Select the word or expression that most satisfactorily completes or answers each question in accordance with the meaning of the passage Write your answers on the Answer Sheet 40 1 This enthusiasm sruprised me since there is virtually nothing about the Olympics that is culturally relevant to China Apart from judo and Tae Kwon Do whose links to China are indirect there are no traditional Chinese athletics in the Games In ancient times the Chinese nobility played cuju a game that is remotely similar to soccer and chuiwan which resembles golf The Forbidden City Museum has a painting of a Tang dynasty emperor Minghuang involved in a polo like game with the palace maidens But the heart of the ancient Chinese athletic tradition and the part of it that was more accessible to common people consists of wushu or traditional martial arts and qigong meditative breathing exercises These activities are as much spiritual and aesthetic as they are physical their goal is artistic expression and self improvement rather than winning The ancient Chinese didn t build stadiums because their athletics were not designed to draw paying crowds The Chinese language didn t even have a term for sports until the nineteenth century when foreigners introduced a more systematic approach to athletics 第 5 页 共 14 页 Chinese historians draw the line between ancient and modern sports at 1840 That summer the first full sized British fleet arrived off Canton accelerating the Opium War and kicking off China s most painful historical era The missionaries and other outsiders who arrived in the late nineteenth century introduced Western ideas of competition to Chinese athletics In the early twentieth century China began to take an interest in the Olympic movement and a single Chinese sprinter competed in the 1932 Games Four years later at the Berlin Olympics China sponsored a delegation of sixty nine athletes among them a mixed gender wushu exhibition team that performed before Hitler By then the Chinese were committed to the Olympics and they had come to see sports as a way in which the country could avenge the injustices of the past century There was a feeling of being the underdog and wanting to prove to the world that the Chinese were strong James Riordan of the University of Surrey who has studied sports in the former Soviet Union and China told me when I called him 1 When the author writes Apart from judo and Tae Kwon Do whose links to China are indirect he means A Judo originated in Korea B Tae Kwon Do originated in Japan C Both sports were introduced into China from other countries D Both sports were introduced into China via a third country 2 That wushu and qigong are not considered a sport according to the author is because A they are not included in the Olympic Games B they are not related even remotely to soccer or golf C they are good to look at D they are not competitive 3 a mixed gender team most probably means that A the team consists of both men and women B the team consists of gendermares C the team consists of athletes of all ages D the team consists of athletes from different parts of the country 第 6 页 共 14 页 4 James Riordan believes that China sees sports as a way A to win medals B to win friends C to show strength of the nation D to win personal reputation 5 A single Chinese sprinter competed in the 1932 Games Give the name of this athlete A Zhang Boling B Liu Changchun C Dong Shouyi D Yan Xiu 2 By now both investigators had a clear vision of what had happened Someone had poured liquid accelerant throughout the children s room even under their beds then poured some more along the adjoining hallway and out the front door creating a fire barrier that prevented anyone from escaping similarly a prosecutor later suggested the refrigerator in the kitchen had been moved to block the back door exit The house in short had been deliberately transformed into a death trap The investigators collected samples of burned materials from the house and sent them to a laboratory that could detect the presence of a liquid accelerant The lab s chemist reported that one of the samples contained evidence of mineral spirits a substance that is often found in charcoal lighter fluid The sample had taken by the threshold of the front door The fire was now considered a triple homicide and Todd Willingham the only person besides the victims known to have been in the house at the time of the blaze became the prime suspect Police and fire investigators canvassed the neighborhood interviewing witnesses Several like Father Monaghan initially portrayed Willingham as devastated by the fire Yet over time an increasing number of witnesses offered damning statements Diane Barbee said that she had not seen Willingham try to enter the house until after the wuthorities arrived as if he were putting on a show And when the children s room exploded with flames she added he seemed more preoccupied with his car which he moved down the driveway Another neighbor reported that when Willingham cried out for his babies he did not appear to be excited or concerned Even Father 第 7 页 共 14 页 Monaghan wrote in a statement that upon further reflection things were not as they seemed I had the feeling that Willingham was in complete control The police began to piece together a disturbing profile of Willingham Born in Ardmore Oklahoma in 1968 he had been abandoned by his mother when he was a baby His father Gene who had divorced his mother eventually raised him with his stepmother Eugenia Gene a former U S marine worked in a salvage yard and the family lived in a cramped house at night they could hear freight trains rattling past on a nearby track Willingham who had what the family called the classic Willingham look a handsome face thick black hair and dark eyes struggled in school and as a teen ager began to sniff paint When he was seventeen Oklahoma s Department of Human Service evaluated him and reported he likes girls music fast cars sharp trucks swimming and hunting in that order Willingham dropped out of high school and over time was arrested for among other things driving under the influence stealing a bicycle and shoplifting In 1988 he met Stacy a senior in high school who also came from a troubled background when she was four years old her stepfather had strangled her mother to death during a fight Stacy and Willingham had a turbulent relationship Willingham who was unfaithful drank to much Jack Daniel s and sometimes hit Stacy even when she was pregnant A neighbor said that he once heard Willingham yell at her Get up bitch and I ll hit you again 6 Liquid accelerant most probably is A a kind of fuel that speeds up the spread of fire B a kind of water that is accessible to tourist C a kind of fluid that makes water flow more quickly D a kind of fuel that makes the car move faster 7 Triple homicide is a complicated phrase each word of which consisting of many Latin affixes such as tri meaning three and cide meaning killing So we may infer that the term means A the murder took place in three different places B the arsonist killed a total of three people C three murderers working in collaboration killed one victim 第 8 页 共 14 页 D three murderers killed three victims 8 Which contradicts the eye witnesses accounts of the fire A Todd Willingham cares more about his car than his children in the burning house B Todd Willingham did nothing at all to save his endangered children C Todd Willingham did not tell the truth judged by his behavor at the fire scene D Todd Willingham did not shed tears seeing his children engulfed in the fire 9 he likes girls music fast cars sharp trucks swimming and hunting in that order means what he likes most is A girls B hunting C fast cars D not clear 10 Driving under the influence or DUI for short means A drunk driving B forced driving C driving by obeying someone s order D driving to an important place 3 Although a grandparent who arrives on the scene after the birth of a child is traditionally pictured cooking dinner for sleep deprived parents or stuffing the freezer with casseroles I can tell you that these days it s mostly takeout That is not simply the narrow view of a male grandparent who admittedly would have little to offer by way of home cooked meals once he d served the second dinner of meat loaf accompanied by a salad of prewashed mesclun and a reminder of his mother s belief that meat loaf is one of the many dishes that always taste better the next day As I was about to leave for San Francisco last spring to inspect my daughter Abigail s first baby my son in law s mother had just completed a similar visit and Abigail reported 第 9 页 共 14 页 to me We had some good sushi while Brian s mom was here Brian s mother is not Japanese Abigail was referring to takeout sushi or carryout as they say in San Francisco since she warned me in advance San Francisco is a place where restaurants are in general happy to prepare food to go but not happy to deliver it In carryout the accepted role of a visiting grandparent is to duck into the restaurant for the pickup while one parent waits behind the wheel of the double parked car and the second parent remains at home holding the baby with one hand and setting the table with the other The one exception Abigail said seems to be Chinese food which does come directly to the door In Manhattan the victuals customarily referred to as Takeout Chinese essentially a separate cuisine if that s the word from the food available in Chinatown tend to make the trip from restaurants to apartment houses dangling in plastic bags from the handlebars of rickety bicycles The proprietors of Chinese restaurants apparently feel about baskets the way proprietors of National Hockey League teams used to feel about helmets sissy stuff The restaurant proprietors still feel that way about helmets Manhattan is essentially flat I ve been riding a bicycle around the city for at least thirty years and I have yet to shift gears but San Francisco is famously not When my mind wandered during the flight from New York I could picture one of those impassive delivery boys from a Manhattan Chinese restaurant trying to make it up a nearly perpendicular San Francisco hill his determination unaffected by breathlessness or leg cramps or the fact that the weird angle has already caused a container of hot and sour soup to burst open on his trousers When my mind wasn t wandering I was thinking about whether to present the home delivery issue to Abigail as one more reason why it made sense to live in New York rather than San Francisco I could imagine myself delivering the pitch Are you saying that you re willing to raise this child this innocent child in a city that has virtually no delivery depriving her of the attention of whichever parent has to make the pickup or interrupting her schedule for a totally unnecessary car journey or God forbid cooking I could also imagine Abigail who works as a legal services lawyer 第 10 页 共 14 页 for children replying that according to the laws and precedents she s familiar with the sort of behavior I d just described would not strictly speaking constitute child neglect 11 A male grandparent in this text refers to A Waizufu 外祖父 in general B Both zufu 祖父 and waizufu 外祖父 C Zufu 祖父 in general D Waizufu 外祖父 in particular 12 To interpret the narrow view of a male grandparent we understand it to mean A a male grandparent s view is limited B a male grandparent s view is near sighted C a male grandparent is looked down upon D a male grandparent is sharp eyed 13 The National Hockey League refers to A a group of hockey teams from across the country working together for a common goal B a group of hockey teams from