翻译硕士英语考试试题

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C. husband

D. wife

6. In order to prevent corruption, the top leaders of government are required to announce their income ______.

A. on time

B. on cue

C. in public

D. at ease

7. With the development of our national economy, more and more people ______ the

market economy.

A. believe in

B. take on

C. put off

D. put on

8. The vegetarian restaurant makes its dishes resemble meat in every way except

______.

A. contents

B. insides

C. ingredients

D. Tastes

9. Nowadays, the ATM machine is very popular because people can get money almost

______ when the code number is put in.

A. instantaneously

B. spontaneously

C. intentionally

D. marginally

10. Students who always do things ______ might lack of creativity.

A. on the book

B. with the book

C. by book

D. by the book

11. The best moral ______ is that of conscience, the worst is the fear of punishment.

A. sanction

B. function

C. operation

D. acquisition

12. My friends and I don’t like to see his films because they have been criticized for

being ______ violent.

A. excitedly

B. overly

C. usually

D. absolutely

13. Some problem students who were always in low spirit were diagnosed as suffering

from ______ crisis.

A. identify

B. idealism

C. identity

D. status

14. We should carefully plan the process of negotiation and any ______ acts will be

harmful to the result.

A. impulse

B. impulsion

C. instinct

D. impulsive

15. Life was pure ______ last month; the children were ill and I had little money.

A. misery

B. merriness

C. mythic

D. merit

16. His friends ______ him on the back when he said he was getting married.

A. stroke

B. hit

C. beaten

D. slapped

17. Many people feel worried that foreign goods such as cars and appliances may

______ through the Chinese market after China enters the World Trade Organization.

A. run amok

B. run out

C. run off

D. run away

18. When kids become grown-ups and independent, they sometimes feel that their

mothers are ______ old women.

A. meddlesome

B. troublesome

C. dynamic

D. prudent

19. He is really jealous when his girlfriend ______ a friendship with another young

man.

A. strikes on

B. strikes at

C. strikes up

D. strikes with

20. He is so conservative that he is ______ with modern life.

A. out of fashion

B. out of step

C. going back

D. is based

II Cloze (10*1 point)

Directions: There are 10 blanks in the following passage. Fill in each blank with the word in the following that best fits into the

passage (fifteen choices are supplied). Write down your choices on the Answer Sheet.

Yet crime has certainly not decreased in ___1___ to the rise in imprisonment. Experts say the law of diminishing returns is

___2___ work here: As judges send more and more people to jail, a greater proportion of prisoners will ___3___ be less-

frequent offenders. What’s ___4___, most criminologists agree ___5___ the steep rise in incarceration rates has been

___6___ largely by low-level drug offenders. Giving them more and longer ___7___ has done ___8___ to stop the drug

trade, scholars say, since there always seem to be others ___9___ on the street to ___10___ their place.

III. Error Correction (10*1 point)

Directions: There is one error in each line marked in number, correct them and write the right on the Answer Sheet.

An outstanding example of hardwired capabilities with great

flexibility for programming by us is language. Specialists agree that

“the human brain genetically programmed f or language 1 development,” and that“speech can be explained only on the basis

of an innate language-processed capacity within our brain.” Unlike 2

the rigidity that is displayed in the instinct behavior of animals, 3 therefore, there is tremendous flexibility in a human’s use of

this 4 hardwired capacity for language.

A specific language is not hardwired into our brains, and we are 5 preprogrammed with the capacity for learning languages. If

two

language are spoken in the home, a child can learn both. If exposed 6

to the third language, the child can learn it also. One girl was 7

exposed to a number of langu8ges from babyhood. By the time she

was five she spoke eight fluently. In the view of such innate abilities 8

it is not surprise that a linguist said that chimpanzee experiments 9

with sign language “actually prove that chimps are capable of even 10

the most rudimentary forms of human language.”

IV. Reading (40 points)

Section One Reading Comprehension (30*1 point)

Passage 1

David Frost ——Autobiography

David Frost

Looked at one way, it is faintly ludicrous that Sir David Frost should be writing his autobiography already. That he should

have written just the first 30 years’ worth might be thought strange. Here he is, not yet 55 years old, producing a volume of

528 pages that takes us no further than l969.

It is, true, the period of his life that established his name and fortune, that swift rise from undergraduate cabaret turn to star

host on both sides of the Atlantic, joint founder of an ambitious ITV company and long since able to invite show business

stars, business tycoons and a British Prime Minister to breakfast at three days’ notice. (An event recalled in his book with

such empty indifference that you cannot decide

whether the comprehensive name-dropping is intended to impress or just a habit. ) And yet David Frost, a significant figure in

British television, certainly in the rapidly changing environment of the 1960’s, remains something of a mystery. Never far from

positions of influence, wealthier from his broadcasting activities than all but the biggest moguls, he is in many ways on the

edge of things.

His book, like his career, perhaps, is as fascinating as it is unsatisfactory. The 1ength is due to its liberal resort to program

transcripts, which yield verbatim exchanges with his many interviewees as well as detailed recall of the highs and lows of

That Was The Week That Was and the scripting process that achieved them.

The private Frost is to be caught only in passing, as he remains true to his preface: “Where there was a choice between a

’60s tale and a personal one I have tried always to include the former.”

The outcome is, I think, an insider’s book, dependent on remembering the times or knowing the people. But at that level, it is

highly suggestive of its era, offers a view from a unique angle, yields some new insights -- into the formation of London

Weekend Television, for instance ——and earns its place in the history of British Television. Like its author.

1. The autobiography covers the author’s

A. last thirty years.

B. life after 1969.

C. life before 1969

D. first 55 years.

2. David Frost is

A. an inf1uential TV host.

B. a famous movie star.

C. an ambitious politician.

D. a fascinating novelist.

3. The autobiography is described as an insider’s book because it requires a knowledge of

A. all his personal experiences.

B. his unique insights into British history.

C. the development of British television.

D. what was really happening in the 1960s.

Passage 2

He Came in on Cat Paws

Quietly, almost unnoticed by a world sunk into the Great Depression, Germany on Jan. 30, l933, was handed to a monster.

Adolf Hitler arrived, not in jackboots at the head of his Nazi legions but on cat paws, creeping in the side door.

The president, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, 85 and doddering, hated Hitler and all he represented. In 193l, after their

first meeting, Hindenburg said Hitler “might become minister of posts but never chancellor”. In l932 Hitler challenged

Hindenburg. The president ——Protestant, Prussian, a conservative monarchist -- won with the votes of Socialists, Unions,

Centrist Catholics and Liberal Democrats.

Hitler ——Catholic, Austrian and a former tramp-carried upper ——class Protestants, Prussian landowners and monarchists.

Nearly senile and desperate for any way to establish order in the fractious environment, Hindenburg fel1 prey to intriguers.

Papen began plotting to bring himself to power and his supposed friend Schleicher to the top of the army. Papen offered

Hindenburg a government with Hitler’s support but without Hitler in the cabinet. Hindenburg made Papen chance11or and

Schleicher defense minister.

In the July 1932 parliamentary elections, the Nazis won 230 of 608 seats, and Hitler demanded the chancellorship;

Hindenburg refused. Papen lost a confidence vote in August, and his government fell after losing in the fourth election in a

year in November. Schleicher, whose very name means “intriguer”, turned on Papen, persuading Hindenburg to name him

chancellor. Hitler’s propagandist Joseph Goebbels noted: “He won’t last long.”

To get revenge, Papen proposed sharing power with Hitler in January 1933; Hitler agreed, but with Papen as vice

chancellor. Ever eager for order, Hindenburg shifted once again and fired Schleicher. “I am sure,”the president said “I shall

not regret this action in heaven. Schleicher replied bitterly, “After this breach of trust, sir, I am not sure you will go to heaven.”

Schleicher would later say: “I stayed in power only 57 days, and on each and every one of them I was betrayed 57 times.

Don’t ever speak to me of German loyalty!

At noon on Jan. 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was sworn in as chancellor. Within one month, the Reichstag burned and civil liberties

were suspended. Within two months, the Enabling Act stripped parliament of power and made Hitler dictator. On April 1,

Hitler decreed a boycott of Jewish business. On April 4, he created the Reich Defense Council and began secretly rearming

Germany. On July 14, Hitler made the Nazi Party “the only political party in Germany”.

As they sowed, so they reaped. In the Blood Purge of 1934, a Nazi SS squad murdered Kurt von Schleicher in the doorway

of his home. Franz von Papen lingered on, so powerless an errand boy for Hitler that he was acquitted at the Nuremberg

trials.

4. The author says that Hitler came into power “On cat paws” because

A. he seized power illegally.

B. he seized power by military force.

C. he quietly took advantage of the internal conflict.

D. he cleverly took advantage of the Depression.

5. Hitler first asked to be made chancellor when

A. Papen lost a confidence vote.

B. Hitler had won a third of the votes.

C. Hindenburg fired Schleicher.

D. Schleicher was fired.

6. The chancellor was held by

A. Papen, Schleicher, and then Hitler.

B. Schleicher, Papen, and then Hitler.

C. Hindenburg, Schleicher, and then Hitler.

D. Hindenburg, Papen, and then Hitler.

Passage 3

Mercedes-Benz Gets Turned Upside down

Iris Rossner has seen eastern Germany customers weep for joy when they drive away in shiny, new Mercedes-Benz sedans.

“They have tears in their eyes and keep saying how lucky they are,”says Rossner, the Mercedes employee responsib1e for

post-delivery celebrations. Rossner has also seen the French pop corks on bottles of champagne as their national f1ag was

hoisted above a purchase. And she has seen American business executives, Japanese tourists and Russian politicians

travel thousands of miles to a Mercedes plant in southwestern Germany when a classic sedan with the trade mark three-

pointed star was about to roll off the assemb1y line and into their lives. Those were the good economic miracle of the l960s

and ended in l99l.

Times have changed. “Ten years ago, we had clear leadership in the market,”says Mercedes spokesman Horst Krambeer.

“But over this period, the market has changed drastically. We are now in a pitched battle. The Japanese are part1y

responsible, but Mercedes has had to learn the hard way that even German firms like BMW and Audi have made efforts to

rise to our standards of technical proficiency.”

Mercedes experienced one of its worst years ever in 1992. The auto maker’s worldwide car sales fell by 5 percent from the

previous year, to a low of 527, 500. Before the decline, in 1988, the company could sell close to 600,000 cars per year. In

Germany alone, there were 30, 000 fewer new Mercedes registrations last year than in 1991. As a result,production has

plunged by almost 50,000 cars to 529,400 last year, a level well beneath the company’s potential capacity of 650, 000.

Mercedes’competitors have been catching up in the United States, the world’s largest car market. In 1986, Mercedes sold

l00, 000 vehicles in America; by 1991, the number had declined to 59,000. Over the last two years, the struggling company

has lost a slice of its US market share to BMW, Toyota and Nissan. And BMW outsold Mercedes in America last year for the

first time in its history. Meanwhile, just as Mercedes began making some headway in Japan, a notorious1y difficult market,

the Japanese economy fell on hard times and the company saw its sales decline by 13 percent in that country.

Revenues will hardly improve this year, and the time has come for getting down to business. At Mercedes, that means cutting

payrolls, streamlining production and opening up to consumer needs--revolutionary steps for a company that once

considered itself beyond improvement.

7. The author’s intention in citing various nationalities’ interests in Mercedes is to illustrate Mercedes’

A. sale strategies.

B. market monopoly.

C. superior quality.

D. past record.

8. Mercedes is having a hard time because

A. it is lagging behind in technology.

B. Japan is turning to BMW for cars.

C. its competitors are catching up.

D. sales in America have dropped by 13%.

9. In the good years Mercedes could sell about

A. 527,500 cars.

B. 529,400 cars.

C. 600,000 cars.

D. 650,000 cars.

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