翻译硕士英语学位MTI考试-13_真题无答案

1、翻译硕士英语学位 mti 考试-13 ( 总分 100,做题时间 90 分钟)part grammar and vocabularydirections: there are forty 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 *pletes the sentence. mark your answers on your answer sheet.1.?*ing of

2、the runways in the 1830sour society and economic life.a. transformed?b. transported?c. transmitted?d. transferredsss_simple_sinabcd2.he has been resistingpressure to resign as the head of the organization.?a. extensive?b. external?c. extrovert?d. exteriorsss_simple_sinabcd3.it is well-known that the

3、 retired workers in our country are free medical care.?a. entitled to?b. associated with?c. involved in?d. assigned tosss_simple_sinabcd4.4, my students found the book; it provided them with an abundance of information on the subject.?a. enlightening?b. distracting?c. confusing?d. amusingsss_simple_

4、sinabcd5.she should beand not make unreasonable demands.?a. sensational?b. sensible?c. sensitive?d. sensualsss_simple_sinabcd6.she claimed that the government had only changed the law in order to their critics.?a. appease?b. quash?c. swelter?d. maltreatsss_simple_sinabcd7.our football coach has work

5、ed hard toa team spirit into the players.?a. inculcate?b. incapacitate?c. inflate?d. infuriatesss_simple_sinabcd8.because it takes an interest in anything thaton the health of travelers, this emerging medical speculums invariably cuts across the traditional disciplines.?a. impinges?b. jolts?c. shock

6、s?d. concussessss_simple_sinabcd9.spread the cream evenly over your arms and legs andit into the skin.?a. mastermind?b. massacre?c. massage?d. messagesss_simple_sinabcd10.you had thesituation in which luxembourg had more listed public bathing beaches than the whole of the united kingdom.?a. luminous

7、?b. luculent?c. lubricant?d. ludicroussss_simple_sinabcd11.this collection of short stories is saidinto at least five foreign languages in the years to come.?a. to translate?b. to be translated?c. to have been translated?d. being translatedsss_simple_sinabcd12.he would have paidfor his fridge had th

8、e salesman insisted because he really needed it.?a. as much twice?b. twice as much?c. as twice?d. two timessss_simple_sinabcd13.the leaders were seenin the hall but they didnt make known the problems?a. be assembling, discussed?b. assembling, discussed?c. assembled, discussing?d. be assembled, discu

9、ssingsss_simple_sinabcd14.they were given nothingdry bread and water for their evening meal.?a. other than?b. more than?c. less than?d. rather thansss_simple_sinabcd15.rebeccahome, for i saw her just now at the canteen.?a. mustnt have gone?b. shouldnt have gone?c. cant have gone?d. couldnt have gone

10、sss_simple_sinabcd16.the clarks havent decided yet which hotel ?a. to stay?b. is to stay?c. to stay at?d. is for stayingsss_simple_sinabcd17.by the next month wethis assignment.?a. will finish?b. will be finishing?c. will have finished?d. have finishedsss_simple_sinabcd18.the bank is reported in the

11、 local newspaperin broad daylight yesterday.?a. to be robbed?b. robbed?c. to have been robbed?d. having been robbedsss_simple_sinabcd19.?the great wall is the placealmost all tourists would like to visit when *e to china.a. where?b. to which?c. in which?d. whichsss_simple_sinabcd20.paul was lying on

12、 the lawn, his handsunder his head.?a. were crossing?b. were crossed?c. crossing?d. crossedsss_simple_sinabcdpart reading comprehension section ain this section there are two passages followed by 10 questionsor unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked a, b, c and d.choose the o

13、ne that you think is the best answer. mark your answers on your answer sheet.text alow-level slash-and-bum farming doesnt harm rainforest. on the contrary, it helps farmers and improves forest soils. this is the unorthodox view of a german soil scientist who has shown that burnt clearings in the ama

14、zon, dating back more than 1,000 years, helped create patches of rich, fertile soil that farmers still benefit fromtoday.most rainforest soils are thin and poor because they lack minerals and because the heat and heavy rainfall destroy most organic matter in the soils within four years of it reachin

15、g the forestfloor. this means topsoil contains few of the ingredients needed for long-term successful farming.but bruno glaser, a soil scientist of the university of bayreuth, has studied unexpected patches of fertile soils in the central amazon. these soils contain lots of organic matter.glaser has

16、 shown that most of this fertile organic *es from black carbonthe organic particles from camp fires and charred wood left over from thousands of years of slash-and-bum farming. thesoils, known as terra preta, contained up to 70 times more black carbon than the surrounding soil, says glaser.unburnt v

17、egetation rots quickly, but black carbon persists inthe soil for many centuries.radiocarbon dating shows that the charred wood in terra preta soils is typically more than 1,000 yearsold.slash-and-burn farming can be good for soils provided it doesnt completely burn all the vegetation, and leaves beh

18、ind charred wood, says glaser.it can be better than manure. burning theforest just once can leave behind enough black carbon to keep the soil fertile for thousands of years. and rainforests easily regrowafter small- scale clearing.contrary to the conventional view that human activities damage the en

19、vironment, glaser says: black *bined with human wastes is responsible for the richness of terra pretasoils.terra preta soils turn up in large patches all over the amazon, where they are highly prized by farmers. all the patches fall within 500 square kilometers in the central amazon. glaser says the

20、 widespread presence of pottery confirms the soils human origins.the findings add weight to the theory that large areas of the amazon have recovered so well from past periods of agricultural use that the regrowth has been mistaken by generations of biologists for virgin forest.during the past decade

21、, researchers have discovered hundreds oflarge earth works deep in the jungle. they are up to 20 meters high and cover up to a square kilometer. glaser claims that these earth works, built between ad 400 and 1400, were at the heart of urban civilizations. now it seems the richness of the terra preta

22、 soils may explain how such civilizations managed to feed themselves.sss_simple_sin1.we learn from the passage that the traditional view of slash-and-burn farming is that.?a. it does no harm to the topsoil of the rainforest?b. it destroys rainforest soils?c. it helps improve rainforest soils?d. it d

23、iminishes the organic matter in rainforest soilsabcdsss_simple_sin2.most rainforest soils are thin and poor because.?a. *position of the topsoil is rather unstableb. black carbon is washed away by heavy rains?c. organic matter is quickly lost due to heat and rain?d. long-term farming has exhausted t

24、he ingredients essential to plant growthabcdsss_simple_sin3.glaser made his discovery by.?a. studying patches of fertile soils in the central amazon?b. examining pottery left over by ancient civilizations?c. test-burning patches of trees in the central amazon?d. radiocarbon-dating ingredients contai

25、ned in forest soilsabcdsss_simple_sin4.what does glaser say about the regrowth of rainforests?a. they take centuries to regrow after being burnt.?b. they cannot recover unless the vegetation is *pletely.c. their regrowth will be hampered by human habitation.?d. they can recover easily after slash-an

26、d-bum farming.abcdsss_simple_sin5.from the passage it can be inferred that.?a. human activities will do grave damage to rainforests?b. amazon rainforest soils used to be the richest in the world?c. farming is responsible for the destruction of the amazon rainforests?d. there once existed an urban ci

27、vilization in the amazon rainforestsabcdtext bsake wa ten no biroku, goes the japanese saying: sake is heavens reward. for more than a thousand years, the japanese have relished the delicacy of their fermented rice brew and built their sociallives around it. on ceremonial occasions they break open a

28、 cedar cask, and the exchange of ritual sake toasts seals wedding vows. in a less formal tradition, workers ease the days stress at red lantern- lighted watering holes that collectively offer thousands ofvariations of the beverage.says tokyo management consultantmasataka takada: sitting at the bar,

29、sipping sake sake side by side with a colleague lets the conversation flow.at least that is how it used to be. nowadays fewer and fewer drinkers seem to agree with takada. a growing preference for just 15% of japans alcohol market, while beer makes up 70%; as recently as 1970 sake had a 30% share. t

30、hat trend plus high land and labor costsare pushing smaller sake brewers out of business.among the 2, 000 companies still brewing, about half are losing money.for the koyama brewery, the sake crisis threatens a family business that began in 1885. the sole remaining sake producer in the city of tokyo

31、, it is tucked into four ancient vine-covered warehouses near a local highway and sits over an abundant underground water supply. a large ball made of cedar needles, once a sign to the public that the years brew was ready, now hangs year round near *pany entrance next to a sake vending machine. four

32、th-generation president kozo koyama is struggling to combine mechanization and tradition in a bid to survive.from the winter months of october through april, five kurabito, or brewers, and their toji, or leader, hole themselves up in the koyama warehouses. farmers from the niigata prefecture, north

33、of tokyo, they work in the breweries while snow covers their rice paddies.from large paper sacks, the kurabito pour out special large-grained varieties of rice that have been polished down to 70% or less of their original size to get rid of fat and increasesolubility. they wash and steam the rice, m

34、ix it with yeast, maltedrice and water pumped up from 13 m. underground. the pasty white mixture is left to gurgle and ferment in 8,000-l green vats for 25 days, after which the brew is pressed, filtered andpasteurized.the toil, isaburo koyama (no relation to the founding family), free-tunes the pro

35、cess, deciding when to stir the brew and how much to adjust its fermentation temperature.during and after world war, sake make rs mixed their brewwith large amounts of alcohol to increase volume.that proved popular, but it dulled the subtle aroma of various regional flavorsof sake and killed conoiss

36、eurship. desensitized by the alcohol-reeking concoctions, many japanese knew little beyond the genetic term sake and its traditional container, the 1.8 l brown glass bottle called an issho-bin.when producers realized they were brewing up a calamity, many decided to revive sakes distinct tastes, furt

37、her polishing theconstituent rice to bring out a fruity aroma and adding alcohol onlyto adjust the flavor. the process became costlier, but sake could nowbe marketed as a higher-grade drink.the industry then came up with promotional campaigns to make sake more fashionable, such as servingit chilled

38、like white wine or offering limited editions.sleeker, smaller bottles or convenient paper cartons are replacing the issho-bin. qualifications have even been established for sake sommeliers to guide gourmet drinkers through the 5,000 available brands. in the past few years, these image efforts have s

39、tarted to pay off. the designer brews currently make up close to 20% of the sake market.to improve their return, some firms have turned tocomputers.gekkeikan, japans largest brewer, with about 6% of the market, make nine-tenths of its sake with machinery using fuzzylogic chips rather than the experi

40、enced judgment of a toji.our technology will even improve on tradition, says yukio matsumoto, deputy director of the tokyo branch. gekkeikan and other largeproducers also brew sake in the u.s.for the local market; they can capitalize on rice that is about one-fifth as expensive as that athome. but s

41、o far, none have announced plans to export from theircalifornia breweries back to japan, partly for fear of antagonizing the powerful rice lobby.though he has sought to be more efficient and now manufacturesa variety of upscale brews, kozo koyama doesnt think his brewery will be among the lucky surv

42、ivors. he complains that real estate taxes take away 8% of his revenues and fears that in a tight labor market it will be difficult to find an eventual replacement for his long time toji, now 69.i cant continue in the city even if i wantto, say koyama. in a conflict that he views as prophetic, his n

43、eighbors last *plained about the leaves falling from the towering trees that grace the small plot of ground at the brewery dedicated to sake gods; koyama was forced to clip the trees. such a lack of respect does not augur well for an embattled tradition, however heavenly.sss_simple_sin1.what is rela

44、ted to sake?a. rice paddies, fruits, get-together of colleagues.?b. wedding ceremonies, rice, revenue.?c. fermented rice, alcohol, water.?d. farmers, large-grained rice, a large ball made of cedar needles.abcdsss_simple_sin2.one reason for the declining business of sake in japan is that .?a. the pri

45、ce of rice rise so dramatically in japan that sake brewers can not make profit any more?b. the introduction of mechanization in the process of brewing lowers the qualities of sake so that people no longer like the flavor?c. people in japan dont get together as often as they used to, which leads to a

46、 decreased demand on sake?d. japanese people tend to like beer and drinks with less alcohol and the costs of labors are increasedabcdsss_simple_sin3.which of the following statement is true?a. kurabito wash and steam the rice in order to reduce fat and increase solubility when they make sake.?b. sak

47、e, which has a history of nearly a thousand years, is mainly produced as family business.?c. now the market share of the national drink is less than 1/5 as much as the market share of beer.?d. koyama brewery, japans largest and the sole remaining brewer, transfers its market from japan to the overse

48、as.abcdsss_simple_sin4.in order to survive in the present market, sake brewers.?a. try adding more alcohol into sake to attract more consumers?b. are struggling to combine mechanization with tradition, and some even have turned to computers?c. market the traditional sake as a higher-grade drink and

49、make it more fashionable by offering sake in the convenient issho-bin?d. produce sake in the u. s. , for rice there is comparatively cheaper, and they export their breweries back to japanabcdsss_simple_sin5.what is the main idea of the article?a. japans rice wine is losing appeal, prompting brewerie

50、s to try new ways to win back beerloving consumers.?b. japanese people no longer like sake and sake brewers are losing their business.?c. gekkeikan was forced to cut down the tree dedication to sake gods, which augurs an unfortunate prospect.?d. no longer preferred in ceremonial occasions in japan,

51、sake is doomed to extinction.abcdsection bdirections:in this section there are two passages followed by a number of questions.you are required to give a brief answer in two or three lines to each of the questions.text ain the 1939 classic western stagecoach , a villainous banker with a bag of embezz

52、led cash in his lap frets about the state of the american economy: our national debt is something shocking! he complains. that year american public debt was just over two-fifths of gdp. this year, the imf reckons, it will be just over 98% , rising to over 102% in 2012. were he still around, the unsc

53、rupulous banker might have struggled to express his outrage, although he might have found solace in the fact that americas august 2nd deal to increase the debt ceiling envisages $2.4 trillion in spending cuts but no tax hikes. this strikes many, both outside the united states and within it, as odd.

54、a democratic congressman called the debt deal a sugar- coated satan sandwich.it does, however, loosely reflect longstanding differences between americans attitudes to taxation and those in much of the rest of the rich world. america is far less inclined than many of its rich-world peers to use taxat

55、ion and redistribution to reduce inequality. the oecd, a think-tank, reckons that taxation eats up a little less than 30% of the average americans *pensation, comparedwith nearly 50% in germany and france. americas top federal income- tax rate of 35% is lower than in many other advanced economies (a

56、lthough most americans also pay state taxes). britains top taxrate is50%.swedes and danes acquiesce to tax rates that would outrage many americans: swedens top rate is 57%and denmarks is 55%.unsurprisingly, the american state is also less generous tothe poor. unemployment benefits in the united states replace a smaller share of income, and run out more quickly, than in most european countries.the