翻译硕士考试《翻译硕士英语》样题及参考答案

1、翻译硕士考试翻译硕士英语样题I. Vocabulary and grammar (30')Multiple choiceDirecti ons: Ben eath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B,C. and D. Choose the an swer that best completes the sen ten ce. Mark your an swers on your an swer sheet1. Thousa nds of people turned out into the streets

2、 toaga inst the localauthorities' decision to build a highway across the field.A. con tradict B. reform C. coun ter D. protest2. The majority of nu rses are wome n, but in the higher ranks of the medicalprofessi on wome n are in a.A. minority B. scarcity C. rarity D. minimum3. Professor Joh nson

3、's retireme ntfrom n ext Janu ary.A. carries into effect B. takes effect C. has effect D. puts into effect4. The preside nt expla ined that the purpose of taxati on was togover nment spe nding.A. finance B. expa nd C. enl arge D. budget5. The heat in summer is no lesshere in this mountain regi o

4、n.A. concen trated B. exte nsive C. intense D. inten sive6. Taking photographs is strictlyhere, as it may damage the precious cavepain ti ngs.A. forbidde n B. rejected C. excluded D. denied7. Mr. Brow n's con diti on looks very serious and it is doubtful if he will.A. pull back B. pull up C. pul

5、l through D. pull out8. Since the early nin eties, the trend in most bus in esses has bee n toward on-dema nd,always-available products and services that suit the customer'srather tha nthe compa ny's.A. ben efit B. availability C. suitability D. convenience9. The priest made theof the cross

6、whe n he en tered the church.A. mark B. sig nal C. sig n D. gesture10. This spacious room isfur ni shed with just a few articles in it.A. lightly B. sparsely C. hardly D. rarely11. If you explained the situation to your solicitor, heable to advise youmuch better tha n I can.A. would be B. will have

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12、 are wasteful, we will have toin stallsolar heat ing device in our home.A. some type of B. some types of aC. some type of a D. some types of17. I went there in 1984, and that was the on ly occasi on whe n Ithe journeyin exactly two days.A. must take B. must have madeC. was able to make D. could make

13、18. I know he failed his last test, but really he'sstupid.A. somethi ng but B. any thi ng butC. no thi ng but D. not but19. Do you know Tim's brother? He istha n Tim.A. much more sportsma n B. more of a sportsma nC. more of sportsma n D. more a sportsma n20. That was not the first time heus.

14、 I think it's high time westrong actions aga inst him.A. betrayed take B. had betrayed tookC. has betrayed took D. has betrayed takeII. Readi ng comprehe nsion (40') Sectio n 1 Multiple choice (20') Directi ons: In this secti on there are readi ng passages followed by multiple-choice que

15、sti ons. Read the passages and the n mark your an swers on your an swer sheet. Passage AThe Welsh Ianguage has always been the ultimate marker of Welsh identity, but a generation ago it looked as if Welsh would go the way of Manx, once widely spoken on the Isle of Man but now extinet. Government fin

16、ancing and central planning, however, have helped reverse the decli ne of Welsh. Road sig ns and official public docume nts are writte n in both Welsh and En glish, and schoolchildre n are required to learn both Ianguages. Welsh is now one of the most successful of Europe's regional Ianguages, s

17、poken by more than a half-million of the country's three million people. The revival of the Ian guage, particularly among young people, is part of a resurge nee of national identity sweeping through this small, proud nation. Last month Wales marked the sec ond anni versary of the ope ning of the

18、 Nati onal Assembly, the first parliame nt to be convened here since 1404. The idea behi nd devoluti on was to restore the bala nce with in the union of n ati ons making up the Un ited Kin gdom. With most of the people and wealth, En gla nd has always had bragg ing rights. The partial tran sfer of l

19、egislative powers from Westmi nster, impleme nted by Tony Blair, was desig ned to give the other members of the club - Scotla nd, Norther n Irela nd, and Wales - a bigger say and to coun ter cen trifugal forces that seemed to threate n the very idea of the union.The Welsh showed little en thusiasm f

20、or devoluti on. Whereas the Scots voted overwhel min gly for a parliame nt, the vote for a Welsh assembly scraped through by less tha n one perce nt on a turnout of less tha n 25 perce nt. Its powers were proporti on ately limited. The Assembly can decide how money from Westmi nster or the Europea n

21、 Union is spe nt. It cannot, uni ike its coun terpart in Edin burgh, en act laws. But now that it is here, the Welsh are growing to like their Assembly. Many people would like it to have more powers. Its importance as figurehead will grow with the opening in 2003, of a new debating chamber, one of m

22、any new buildings that are tran sformi ng Cardiff from a decay ing seaport into a Baltimore-style waterfr ont city. Meanwhile a grant of nearly two million dollars from the European Union will tackle poverty. Wales is one of the poorest regi ons in Wester n Europe - only Spa in, Portugal, and Greece

23、 have a lower sta ndard of liv ing.Newspapers and magaz ines are filled with stories about great Welsh men and wome n, boosti ng self-esteem. To familiar faces such as Dyla n Thomas and Richard Burt on have bee n added new icons such as Catheri ne Zeta-J on es, the movie star, and Bryn Terfel, the o

24、pera sin ger. I ndige nous foods like salt marsh lamb are in vogue. And Wales now boasts a n ati onal airli ne, Awyr Cymru. Cymru, which mea ns“la nd ofcompatriots ” , is the Welsh n ame for Wales. The red drag on, the n ati on's symbol since the time of King Arthur, is everywhere - on T-shirts,

25、 rugby jerseys and even cell phone covers.“ Un til very rece nt times most Welsh people had this feeli ng of being sec on d-class citizens,” said Dyfan Jones, an 18-year-old student. It was a warm summer night, andI was sitt ing on the grass with a group of young people in Lla nelli, an in dustrial

26、tow n in the south, outside the rock music venue of the National Eisteddfod, Wales's annual cultural festival. The disused factory in front of us echoed to the sounds of new Welsh ban ds.“ There was almost a gen etic tendency for lack of con fide nce,” Dyfan continu ed.Equally comfortable in his

27、 Welsh ness as in his membership in the En glish-speak ing, global youth culture and the new federal Europe, Dyfan, like the rest of his gen erati on, is grow ing up with a sense of possibility uni magi nable ten years ago.“ We used tthink. We can't do anything, we're only Welsh. Now I think

28、 that's cha nging.”1. Accord ing to the passage, devoluti on was mai nly meant toA. maintain the prese nt status among the n ati onsB. reduce legislative powers of En gla ndC. create a better state of equality among the nationsD. grant more say to all the nations in the union2. The word “ centri

29、fugal ” in the second paragraph meansA. separatistB. conven ti onalC. feudalD. political3. Wales is differe nt from Scotla nd in all the followi ng aspects EXCEPTA. people's desire for devoluti onB. locals' tur nout for the vot ingC. powers of the legislative bodyD. status of the n ati on al

30、 la nguage4. Which of the followi ng is NOT cited as an example of the resurge nce of Welshn ati onal ide ntity?A. Welsh has wit nessed a revival as a n atio nal la nguage.B. Poverty-relief funds have come from the Europea n Union.C. A Welsh national airline is currently in operation.D. The n ati on

31、al symbol has become a familiar sight.5. Accord ing to Dyfan Jones what has cha nged isA. people's men talityB. pop cultureC. tow n's appeara neeD. possibilities for the peoplePassage BThe miserable fate of Enron's employees will be a Ian dmark in bus in ess history, one of those awful e

32、ve nts that every one agrees must n ever be allowed to happe n aga in. This urge is un dersta ndable and n oble: thousa nds have lost virtually all their retirement savings with the demise of Enron stock. But making sure it never happens aga in may not be possible, because the sudde n impoverishme n

33、t of those Enron workers represents something even larger than it seems. It's the latest turn in the unwinding of one of the most audacious promises of the 20th century.The promise was assured econo mic security - eve n comfort - for esse ntially every one in the developed world. With the explos

34、ion of wealth, that began in the 19th century it became possible to thi nk about a possibility no one had dared to dream before. The fear at the cen ter of daily liv ing since cavema n days - lack of food, warmth, shelter - would at last lose its power to terrify. That remarkable promise became real

35、ity in many ways. Gover nments created welfare systems for anyone in n eed and separate programs for the elderly (Social Security in the U. S.). Labour unions promised not only better pay for workers but also pensions for retirees. Gia nt corporati ons came into being and offered the possibility - i

36、n some cases the promise - of lifetime employme nt plus guara nteed pensions? The cumulative effect was a fun dame ntal change in how millions of people approached life itself, a reversal of attitude that most rank as one of the largest in human history. For millennia the average person's stance

37、 toward providing for himself had been. Ultimately I'm on my own. Now it became, ultimately ril be take n care of.The early hints that this promise might be broke n on a large scale came in the 1980 s. U. S. bus in ess had become un competitive globally and bega n restructuri ng massively, with

38、huge Layoffs. The trend accelerated in the 1990 s as the bastions of corporate welfare faced reality. IBM en ded its no-layoff policy. AT&T fired thousa nds, many of whom found such a thi ng simply in comprehe nsible, and a few of whom killed themselves. The other supposed guara ntors of our eco

39、no mic security were also in decli ne. Labour- union membership and power fell to their lowest levels in decades. Preside nt Cli nton sig ned a historic bill scali ng back welfare. America ns realized that Social Security won't provide social security for any of us.A less visible but equally sig

40、 nifica nt trend affected pensions. To make costs easier to con trol, compa nies moved away from defi ned ben efit pension pla ns, which obligate them to pay out specified amounts years in the future, to defined contribution plans, which specify only how much goes into the play today. The most com m

41、on type of defined-contribution plan is the 401(k). the significance of the 401(k) is that it puts most of the resp on sibility for a pers on's econo mic fate back on the employee. Within limits the employee must decide how much goes into the plan each year and how it gets invested - the two fac

42、tors that will determine how much it's worth when the employee retires.Which brings us back to Enron? Those billi ons of dollars in vaporized retireme nt sav ings went in employees' 401(k) acco un ts. That is, the employees chose how much money to put into those acco unts and the n chose how

43、 to in vest it. Enron matched a certa in proporti on of each employee's 401(k) con tributio n with compa ny stock, so every one was going to end up with some Enron in his or her portfolio; but that could be regarded as a freebie, since no thi ng compels a compa ny to match employee contributions

44、 at all. At least two special features complicate the Enron case. First, some shareholders charge top man ageme nt with illegally coveri ng up the compa ny's problems, prompti ng inv estors to hang on whe n they should have sold. Second, Enron's 401(k) acco unts were locked while the compa n

45、y cha nged pla n admi nistrators in October, when the stock was falling, so employees could not have closed their acco unts if they wan ted to.But by far the largest cause of this huma n tragedy is that thousa nds of employees were heavily overweighed in Enron stock. Many had placed 100% of their 40

46、1(k) assets in the stock rather than in the 18 other investment options they were offered. Of course that was n't prude nt, but it's what some of them did.The Enron employees' retireme nt disaster is part of the larger trend away from guara nteed econo mic security. That's why preve

47、nting such a thi ng from ever happening again may be impossible. The huge attitudinal shift to I'll-be-taken-care-of took at least a generation. The shift back may take just as Iong. It won't be complete un til a new gen erati on of employees see assured econo mic comfort as a 20 th-ce ntury

48、 quirk, and un dersta nd not just in tellectually but in their bones that, like most people in most times and places, they're on their own.6. Why does the author say at the begi nning“ The miserable fate of Enron'semployees will be a Ian dmark in bus in ess history” ?A. Because the compa ny

49、has gone ban krupt.B. Because such eve nts would n ever happe n aga in.C. Because many Enron workers lost their retireme nt sav in gs.D. Because it signifies a turning point in economic security.7. Accord ing to the passage, the comb ined efforts by gover nmen ts, layout unions and big corporatio ns

50、 to guara ntee econo mic comfort have led to a sig nifica nt cha nge inA. people's outlook on lifeB. people's life stylesC. people's liv ing sta ndardD. people's social values8. Chan ges in pension schemes were also part ofA. the corporate lay-offsB. the gover nment cuts in welfare s

51、pe ndingC. the econo mic restructuri ngD. the warni ng power of labors unions9. Thousa nds of employees chose Enron as their sole inv estme nt opti on mainly becauseA. the 401(k) made them responsible for their own futureB. Enron offered to add compa ny stock to their inv estme nt.C. their employers

52、 inten ded to cut back on pension spe ndingD. Enron's offer was similar to a defined-benefit plan.10. Which is NOT see n as a less on draw n from the Enron disaster?A. The 401(k) assets should be placed in more tha n one inv estme nt opti on.B. Employees have to take up resp on sibilities for th

53、emselves.C. Such eve nts could happe n aga in as it is not easy to cha nge people's mind.D. Econo mic security won't be take n for gran ted by future young workers.Section 2 An sweri ng questio ns (20')Directi ons: Read the followi ng passages and the n an swer IN COMPLETE SENTENCES the

54、questi ons which follow each passage. Use only in formatio n from the passage you have just read and write your an swer in the corresp onding space in your an swer sheet.Questio ns 13For 40 years the sight of thousa nds of youn gsters strid ing across the ope n moorla nd has been as much an annual f

55、ixture as spring itself. But the 2,400 school pupils who join the grueli ng Dartmoor Ten Tors Challe nge n ext Saturday may be among the last to take part in the May tradition. The trek faces growing criticism from en viro nmen talists who fear that the prese nee of so many walkers on one weeke nd t

56、hreate ns the survival of some of Dartmoor's in ternatio nally rare bird species.The Ten Tors Challe nge takes place in the middle of the breed ing seas on, whe n the slightest disturba nee can jeopardize birds' cha nces of reproduci ng successfully. Experts at the RSPB and the Dartmoor Nati

57、 onal Park Authority fear that the walkers could frighte n birds and eve n crush eggs. They are now calli ng for the eve nt to be moved to the autu mn, whe n the breed ing seas on is over and chicks should be well established. Orga ni sers of the eve nt, which is led by about 400 Territorial Army vo

58、lun teers, say moving it would be impractical for several reas ons and would mean pupils could not train properly for the 55-mile trek. Dartmoor is home to 10 rare species of ground-n esti ng birds, in cludi ng golde n plovers, dun li ns and lapw in gs. In some cases, species are either down to thei

59、r last two pairs on the moor or are facing a n ati on wide decli ne.Emma Parkin, South-west spokeswoma n for the PASPB, took part in the challe nge as a schoolgirl. She said the society had no object ions to the eve nt itself but simply wan ted it moved to ano ther time of year.“It is a won derful activity for the childre nwho take part but, hav ing thousa nds of people walk