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[考研类试卷]2016年中国海洋大学翻译硕士英语真题试卷.doc

[考研类试卷]2016年中国海洋大学翻译硕士英语真题试卷

一、Vocabulary

1 The great ballplayer and civil rights leader Jackie Robinson was the______of both physical and moral strength.

（A）epitome

（B）episode

（C）animosity

（D）apotheosis

2 Those vicious Hollywood reporters often______movie stars, forever damaging their public images.

（A）absolve

（B）applaud

（C）impair

（D）malign

3 In______disregard of his parents' stated wishes, Steven wore a T-shirt and jeans to their dinner party.

（A）conventional

（B）flagrant

（C）fluorescent

（D）comprehensive

4 Most prisons make little effort to______inmates so that they can lead productive, wholesome lives after their release.

（A）fluctuate

（B）persevere

（C）rehabilitate

（D）recapture

5 Professor Rubin never______during a lecture. Even his jokes related to the day's topic. （A）succumbed

（B）curtailed

（C）distracted

（D）digressed

6 Dr. Segura has a ______ sign on his office door: "I'd like to help you out. Which way did you come in?"

（A）facetious

（B）infamous

（C）grisly

（D）hypocritical

7 Melissa is so______that she wants to be with other people even when she's studying. （A）ostentatious

（B）gregarious

（C）scrupulous

（D）dexterous

8 If you can't afford to travel, reading guidebooks can give you a (n) ______experience of traveling in foreign countries.

（A）optimum

（B）sensory

（C）vibrant

（D）vicarious

9 Bob can't get his boss to say whether or not he intends to give him a raise. When Bob asks him, he ______, saying, "You've been doing good work, Bob."

（A）blurs

（B）equivocates

（C）inundates

（D）disavows

10 When she auditioned for the play, Julie gave a (n) ______performance. She read the lines perfectly.

（A）reprehensible

（B）fortuitous

（C）impeccable

（D）solicitous

11 When she handed in her term paper late, Diane ______ a story that her computer had crashed. The truth is that she doesn't even use a computer.

（A）insinuated

（B）fabricated

（C）misconstrued

（D）derided

12 The writer Thoreau had no liking for______. He wrote in his journal, "That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."

（A）opulence

（B）proximity

（C）affinity

（D）sagacity

13 The building______the earthquake but then______by a fire.

（A）was survived; destroyed

（B）survived; was destroyed

（C）survived; destroyed

（D）was survived; was destroyed

14 I'll be with you in______.

（A）one quarter of an hour

（B）a quarter of one hour

（C）a quarter of an hour

（D）a quarter of hour

15 John was the first person I saw______hospital.

（A）on leaving

（B）by leaving

（C）in leaving

（D）on to leave

16 She was______as anyone could have had.

（A）as patient teacher

（B）a patient a teacher

（C）as patient as teacher

（D）as patient a teacher

17 ______Derek nowadays; he's so busy at the office.

（A）We see hardly ever

（B）We hardly see ever

（C）We hardly ever see

（D）Hardly we ever see

18 If the North Sea______in winter, you could walk from London to Oslo.

（A）happened to freeze

（B）froze

（C）should freeze

（D）should happen to freeze

19 What's the chance______five heads when you toss a coin five times?

（A）of throwing

（B）to throw

（C）of throw

（D）throw

20 I______you can swim so well and I can't.

（A）hate

（B）hate that

（C）hate it

（D）hate it that

二、Reading Comprehension

20 The Asian tiger mom that Amy Chua portrays in her new book may seem like just one more species in the genus Extreme Parent — the counterpart to the hovering American Parents helicopters or the Scandinavian Curling Parents, who frantically rush ahead of their children, sweeping their paths clear of the tiniest obstacles.

The common characteristics include an obsession with a child's success, a reflex to treat kids as extensions or reflections of oneself and patterns of conduct that impartial observers might class as insane if not criminal, if not both. In Chua's case, this famously

includes prohibiting grades lower than an A, TV, playdates and sleepovers, and warning her pianist child that "if the next time's not PERFECT, I'm going to TAKE ALL YOUR STUFFED ANIMALS AND BURN THEM." In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.

But it is the differences between the Tigers and the Choppers that help explain the furor Chua has caused, at least in the U. S. Tigers fixate on success, defined as achievement in precision-oriented fields like music and math; Choppers are obsessed with failure and preventing it at all costs. Tigers operate in a culture of discipline; Choppers, in a culture of fear. Tigers view children as tough, able to take the abuse; Choppers view them as precious, to be raised under glass. Their fury at a bad grade is more likely to land on the teacher than on the child.

And if Chua appears to sentence her children to slave labor, Western parents enshrine their children and crave their friendship. "The thing that impresses me most about America," observed Edward, Duke of Windsor, who knew something about indulgence, "is the way parents obey their children." There is something bracing about Chua's apparent indifference to her daughters' hostility, especially for parents who have learned that even if you let your teenagers spend 50 hours a week on Facebook, they'll still find reasons to hate you.

The reactions to Chua's book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, have ranged from praise for her honesty to scorn for her "extreme, rigid and authoritarian approach," as one critic put it. But in less hysterical precincts, she elicits a more conflicted response. First reaction: My God, she's crazy. Second reaction: Maybe she's right. I suspect one reason the book has touched such a nerve is a suspicion among the Choppers that an excessive fear of failure guarantees it — that if you don't let your kids get clobbered now and then by a tough teacher, they'll never have the resilience to thrive as adults in a competitive economy.

Twenty-first century parenting already seemed like a gladiatorial contest, its battles fought in playgrounds , at book clubs and especially online, with the rise of parenting websites where parents — O. K. , mainly moms — claw and bite. You let your toddler have Froot Loops? You quit karate lessons? Western parents may exalt freedom and self-expression, but in many ZIP codes, parenting is a highly conformist activity, with protocols every bit as strict as Chua's. Commenters spank the moms who appear insufficiently committed to breast feeding.

Some of Chua's critics sound just as smug when they declare that the Tigers' " inside-the-box thinking is why Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell and/or a cure for cancer will never come from China. " Too much discipline, they argue, makes for submissiveness and lack of imagination, because imagination by its nature is subversive; it colors outside

the lines. Likewise, invention, the creation of something utterly new, violates the authority of the present and the tyranny of tradition.

But this much derision, I suspect, reflects some doubts. Western families have no monopoly on happiness, and those of the helicopter variety at least do not exactly encourage wild individuality in their children. Trust your instincts, Dr. Spock advised back in 1946; but that involves a leap of faith that many modern parents find terrifying. Helicopter parents are great believers in expertise: read enough books, consult enough professionals, and you can crack the parenting code. Chua's daughters are, by all accounts, girls any parent would be proud of. But maybe the real appeal is her tone of certainty in discussing something so confounding as child rearing — as if it's a puzzle to be solved rather than a picture to be painted, and there's no way to know what it will look like until it's done.

21 Tiger mothers and Chopper mothers mainly differ in______.

（A）degree of concern

（B）method of parenting

（C）requisite discipline

（D）idea of success

22 According to Paragraph 5, which word can best describe parents' reaction to Chua's book?

（A）Radical.

（B）Normal.

（C）Polarized.

（D）Complimentary.

23 The phrase "in many ZIP codes" in Paragraph 6 can be paraphrased as______.

（A）in terms of ZIP codes

（B）to some extent

（C）in many fields

（D）in many regions

24 The major problem with Chua's parenting (Chinese parenting) is that children

lack______.

（A）discipline

（B）imagination

（C）individuality

（D）happiness

25 In the author's opinion, the real charm of Chua's way of parenting is her______. （A）monopoly

（B）faith

（C）certainty

（D）confidence

25 People say money doesn't buy happiness. Except, according to a new study from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, it sort of does — up to about $ 75, 000 a year. The lower a person's annual income falls below that benchmark, the unhappier he or she feels. But no matter how much more than $ 75, 000 people make, they don't report any greater degree of happiness.

Before employers rush to hold — or raise — everyone's salary to $ 75, 000, the study points out that there are actually two types of happiness. There's your changeable, day-to-day mood: whether you're stressed or blue or feeling emotionally sound. Then there's the deeper satisfaction you feel about the way your life is going. While having an income above the magic $ 75,000 cutoff doesn't seem to have an impact on the former (emotional well-being), it definitely improves people's life satisfaction. In other words, the more

people make above $ 75, 000, the more they feel their life is working out on the whole. But it doesn't make them any more jovial in the mornings.

The study, by economist Angus Deaton and psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who has won a Nobel Prize for Economics, analyzed the responses of 450, 000 Americans polled by Gallup and Healthways in 2008 and 2009. Participants were asked how they had felt the previous day and whether they were living the best possible life for them. They were also asked about their income. The authors found that most Americans — 85% —regardless of their annual income, felt happy each day. Almost 40% of respondents also reported feeling stressed (which is not mutually exclusive with happiness) and 24% had feelings of sadness. Most people were also satisfied with the way their life was going.

So, where does the $ 75, 000 come into play? Researchers found that lower income did not cause sadness itself but made people feel more ground down by the problems they already had. The study found, for example, that among divorced people, about 51% who made less than $ 1,000 a month reported feeling sad or stressed the previous day, while only 24% of those earning more than $ 3, 000 a month reported similar feelings. Among people with asthma, 41% of low earners reported feeling unhappy, compared with about 22% of the wealthier group. Having money clearly takes the sting out of adversities.

At $ 75, 000, that effect disappears. For people who earn that much or more, individual temperament and life circumstances have much more sway over their lightness of heart than money. The study doesn't say why $ 75, 000 is the benchmark, but " it does seem to me a plausible number at which people would think money is not an issue," says Deaton. At that level, people probably have enough expendable cash to do things that make them feel good, like going out with friends.

But in the bigger view of their lives, people's evaluations were much more tied to their income. The more they made, the more they felt their life was going well. The survey asked respondents to place themselves on a life-satisfaction ladder, with the first rung meaning their lives were not going well and the 10th rung meaning it was as good as it could be. The higher their income, the higher the rung people chose. " Importantly, the same percentage increase in income has the same effect on evaluation for everyone, rich or poor alike, even though the absolute dollar amounts differ," the authors write. So every 10% rise in annual income moves people up the satisfaction ladder the same amount, whether they're making $25, 000 or $ 100, 000. "High incomes don't bring you happiness, but they do bring you a life you think is better," conclude the authors. Might it be time for Oprah to give these guys their own show?

Past research on money and happiness has also found that it's not absolute wealth that's linked with happiness , but relative wealth or status — that is, how much more money you have than your neighbors.

It's no surprise, then, that when the same polls are done in different countries, Americans come out as a bit of a mixed lot; they're fifth in terms of happiness, 33rd in

terms of smiling and 10th in terms of enjoyment. At the same time, they're the 89 th biggest worriers, the 69 th saddest and fifth most stressed people out of the 151 nations studied. Even so, perhaps because of the country's general wealth, they are in the top 10 citizenries where people feel their lives are going well, beaten out by such eternal optimists as the Canadians, New Zealanders and Scandinavians.

Right. Now that Princeton researchers have untangled that life mystery, maybe someone at MIT can look into the optimal amount of money required to buy us love.

26 What's the finding of the study from Princeton University?

（A）It's very important to earn $ 75, 000 a year.

（B）The more money you have, the happier you are.

（C）People who earn less than $ 75, 000 a year are unhappy.

（D）There is a relationship between happiness and money.

27 Why it's not the case that the more people make above $ 75, 000, the happier they feel? （A）People who earn more than $ 75, 000 a year are likely to feel stressed.

（B）There is no need for people to earn more than $ 75, 000 a year.

（C）An income more than $ 75, 000 a year only increases one's life satisfaction.

（D）People who earn more than $ 75, 000 a year have little leisure time.

28 The word "sting" at the end of the fourth paragraph means______.

（A）pain

（B）wound

（C）excitement

（D）happiness

29 The increase in income is proportional to the growth of______.

（A）happiness

（B）stress

（C）satisfaction

（D）power

30 What's the tone of the end of the passage?

（A）Ironic.

（B）Serious.

（C）Critical.

（D）Humorous.

30 How fast is your personal computer? When people ask this question, they are typically referring to the frequency of a minuscule clock inside the computer, a crystal oscillator that sets the basic rhythm used throughout the machine. In a computer with a speed of one gigahertz, for example, the crystal "ticks" a billion times a second. Every action of the computer takes place in tiny steps, each a billionth of a second long. A simple transfer of data may take only one step; complex calculations may take many steps. All operations, however, must begin and end according to the clock's timing signals.

Because most modern computers use a single rhythm, we call them synchronous. Inside the computer's microprocessor chip, a clock distribution system delivers the timing signals from the crystal oscillator to the various circuits, just as sound in air delivers the beat of a drum to soldiers to set their marching pace. Because all parts of the chip share the same rhythm, the output of any circuit from one step can serve as the input to any other circuit for the next step. The synchronization provided by the clock helps chip designers plan sequences of actions for the computer.

The use of a central clock also creates problems. As speeds have increased, distributing the timing signals has become more and more difficult. Present day keeping the rhythm

identical in all parts of a large chip requires careful design and a great deal of electrical power. Wouldn't it be nice to have an alternative?

Our research group at Sun Microsystems Laboratories seeks such alternatives. Along with several other groups worldwide, we are investigating ways to design computing systems in which each part can proceed at its own pace instead of depending on the rhythm of a central clock. We call such systems asynchronous. Each part of an asynchronous system may extend or shorten the timing of its steps when walking across rough terrain.

31 What determines the rhythms of the personal computer?

32 What does "synchronous" (Para. 2) mean?

33 For what purpose does the author mention sound in air in the second paragraph?

33 Elephants are the only remaining family in their biological order. There are three living species of elephants. These are the African bush and forest elephants and the Asia. Other species have been extinct since the last ice age.

Elephants are the largest land mammals alive today. Their pregnancy period is 22 months. It is the longest of any land animal. At birth, it is common for an elephant calf to weigh 120 kg. An elephant may live as long as 70 years, and some even live longer. The largest elephant ever recorded was shot in Angola in 1956. It was male and weighed about 12, 000 kg. The smallest elephants were about the size of a calf or a large pig. They were a prehistoric variant that lived on the island of Crete. They existed until between 3000 BC and 5000 BC.

Elephants are increasingly threatened by humans. Human-elephant conflicts are often deadly. They kill 150 elephants and up to 100 people per year in Asia. The African elephant population has gone from 3 million in 1970 to about 600, 000 in 1989. The numbers of this beast then dropped even further. By 2000 the number was down to 272, 000. In recent years, efforts to save these animals have helped it rise. The elephant is now protected around the world. Many restrictions have been enacted for their benefit, strictly limiting their capture and domestic use. Trade in products such as ivory is also controlled. Some scientists believe the elephant family is distantly related to sea cows. They also think there is a link between elephants and hyraxes. The fossil evidence does not offer certain proof while many believe the genetic evidence shows this. One theory suggests that these animals spent most of their time underwater. They would have used their trunks like snorkels for breathing. Modern elephants still have this ability, and they are known to swim like that. They can swim for up to 6 hours and 50 km.

34 Why do people around the world protect elephants?

35 Please paraphrase the sentence "The fossil evidence does not offer certain proof while many believe the genetic evidence shows this".

35 Abraham Lincoln turns 200 this year, and he's beginning to show his age. When his birthday arrives, on February 12, Congress will hold a special joint session in the

Capitol's National Statuary Hall, a wreath will be laid at the great memorial in Washington, and a webcast will link school classrooms for a "teach-in" honoring his memory.

Admirable as they are, though, the events will strike many of us Lincoln fans as inadequate, even halfhearted — and another sign that our appreciation for the 16th president and his towering achievements is slipping away. And you don't have to be a Lincoln enthusiast to believe that this is something we can't afford to lose.

Compare this year's celebration with the Lincoln centennial, in 1909. That year, Lincoln's likeness made its debut on the penny, thanks to approval from the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury. Communities and civic associations in every corner of the country erupted in parades, concerts, balls, lectures, and military displays. We still feel the effects today: The momentum unloosed in 1909 led to the Lincoln Memorial, opened in 1922, and the Lincoln Highway, the first paved transcontinental thoroughfare.

The celebrants in 1909 had a few inspirations we lack today. Lincoln's presidency was still a living memory for countless Americans. In 2009 we are farther in time from the end of the Second World War than they were from the Civil War; families still felt the loss of loved ones from that awful national trauma.

But Americans in 1909 had something more: an unembarrassed appreciation for heroes and an acute sense of the way that even long-dead historical figures press in on the present and make us who we are.

One story will illustrate what I'm talking about.

In 2003 a group of local citizens arranged to place a statue of Lincoln in Richmond, Virginia, former capital of the Confederacy. The idea touched off a firestorm of controversy. The Sons of Confederate Veterans held a public conference of carefully selected scholars to "reassess" the legacy of Lincoln. The verdict — no surprise — was negative: Lincoln was labeled everything from a racist totalitarian to a teller of dirty jokes.

I covered the conference as a reporter, but what really unnerved me was a counter-conference of scholars to refute the earlier one. These scholars drew a picture of Lincoln that only our touchy- feely age could conjure up. The man who oversaw the most savage war in our history was described — by his admirers, remember — as "nonjudgmental", "unmoralistic", "comfortable with ambiguity".

I felt the way a friend of mine felt as we later watched the unveiling of the Richmond statue in a subdued ceremony: "But he's so small!"

The statue in Richmond was indeed small; like nearly every Lincoln statue put up in the past half century, it was life-size and was placed at ground level, a conscious rejection of the heroic — approachable and human, yes, but not something to look up to.

The Richmond episode taught me that Americans have lost the language to explain Lincoln's greatness even to ourselves. Earlier generations said they wanted their children to be like Lincoln: principled, kind, compassionate, resolute. Today we want Lincoln to be like us.

This helps to explain the long string of recent books in which writers have presented a Lincoln made after their own image. We've had Lincoln as humorist and Lincoln as manic-depressive, Lincoln the business sage, the conservative Lincoln and the liberal Lincoln, the emancipator and the racist, the stoic philosopher, the Christian, the atheist —Lincoln over easy and Lincoln scrambled.

What's often missing, though, is the timeless Lincoln, the Lincoln whom all generations, our own no less than that of 1909, can lay claim to. Lucky for us, those memorializers from a century ago — and, through them, Lincoln himself — have left us a hint of where to find him. The Lincoln Memorial is the most visited of our presidential monuments. Here is where we find the Lincoln who endures: in the words he left us, defining the country we've inherited. Here is the Lincoln who can be endlessly renewed and who, 200 years after his birth, retains the power to renew us.

36 Why does the author think that this year's celebration is inadequate and even halfhearted?

37 According to the passage, what really makes the 1909 celebrations different from this year's?

38 In the author's opinion, what did the counter-conference result in?

39 According to the author, what does the image of Lincoln conceived by contemporary people reveal?

40 What does the last paragraph imply?

三、Writing

41 Directions: Based on the information given below, please write an essay of about 400 words on the answer sheet .You have 60 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. Some people spend their entire lives in one place. Others move a number of times throughout their lives, looking for a better job, house, community, or even climate.

Which do you prefer: staying in one place or moving in search of another place? Use reasons and specific examples to support your opinion.

Marks will be awarded both for your linguistic knowledge (i. e. , grammar; vocabulary and organization) and for your ability to achieve the communicative purpose.

四、Cloze Text

41 Invasive weeds are a serious problem in Australia Weeds【C1】______the biodiversity of Australia's unique waterways, National Parks, and National Heritage listed areas. By out-competing native plant species, weeds threaten their survival and reduce the plant diversity needed to【C2】______indigenous insects, birds and animals. Changes to the natural flora cover can【C3】______other negative environmental impacts, including increased soil erosion and greater bushfire intensities that further damage the land and the native organisms that【C4】______ it.

Agriculturally, weed species can reduce or contaminate crop yields【C5】

______poison or injure livestock, decreasing productivity. Farmers are often forced to invest significant amounts【C6】______ controlling invasive species on their properties, adding to the costs of production.

Most weeds in Australia were, and still are,【C7】______introduced for agricultural or ornamental purposes. 【C8】______these plants have formed the basis of important industries and beautiful gardens, many have also gone on to become serious weeds —70% of Australia's weeds are【C9】______garden plants that have "jumped the garden fence" . Some important commercial species, such as the radiata pine and the European olive, are also serious environmental weeds.

More than 27,000 species of【C10】______ plants have been introduced to Australia since European colonization, with new species being introduced every year. About 10% of introduced species become naturalized in their new habitat, meaning they can【C11】______ their populations in the wild without human cultivation. One in ten naturalised plants become weeds, and have a negative【C12】______on native biodiversity, agriculture, or both. The price paid for species which become weeds is tremendous, both in economic and environmental【C13】______.

Economically, weeds have been【C14】______to cost Australian agriculture a total of $ 4 billion every year: One in every seven dollars【C15】______farm income is spent on the control of weeds. The health costs of weeds are estimated at over a billion dollars annually, when medical treatment, drugs and time【C16】______work are added up —and money can't measure the human suffering caused by【C17】______health problems.

Environmentally weeds have caused the【C18】______of four known species of Australian native plants, and 57 more are, or will soon become, threatened because of invasive introduced plants. Species like rubber vine in North Queensland have the potential to destroy entire native ecosystems【C19】______supplanting indigenous vine thickets, threatening native animals as well as plants. Vast areas of Australia and nearly every kind of native ecosystem【C20】______affected by introduced plants, from oceans and waterways to rainforests, grasslands and deserts.

42 【C1】

（A）endanger

（B）risk

（C）threat

（D）destroy

43 【C2】

（A）raise

（B）grow

（C）live on

（D）support

44 【C3】

（A）overcome

（B）arise

（C）result from

（D）lead to

45 【C4】

（A）reply to （B）rely on （C）dependent on （D）live with

46 【C5】

（A）or

（B）and

（C）but

（D）therefore

47 【C6】

（A）for

（B）by

（C）with

（D）in

48 【C7】

（A）illegally （B）purposed

（C）potentially （D）intentionally 49 【C8】

（A）While

（B）Unless

（C）Because （D）Since

50 【C9】

（A）ornamental （B）agricultural （C）environmental （D）imported

51 【C10】

（A）harmful （B）invasive （C）alien

（D）strange

52 【C11】

（A）raise

（B）maintain （C）survive （D）multiply 53 【C12】（A）affect （B）fluency （C）impact （D）reaction 54 【C13】（A）respects （B）basis （C）terms （D）ways

55 【C14】（A）established （B）estimated （C）accounted （D）blamed

2010年中山大学翻译硕士英语考研真题及其答案解析

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2016年英语考研真题及答案 Par`t A Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (40 points) Text 1 France, which prides itself as the global innovator of fashion, has decided its fashion industry has lost an absolute right to define physical beauty for woman. Its lawmakers gave preliminary approval last week to a law that would make it a crime to employ ultra-thin models on runways. The parliament also agreed to ban websites that” incite excessive thinness”by promoting extreme dieting. Such measures have a couple of uplifting motives. They suggest beauty should not be defined by looks that end up with impinging on health. That’s a start. And the ban on ultra-thin models seems to go beyond protecting models from starring themselves to health –as some have done. It tells the fashion industry that it move take responsibility for the signal it sends women, especially teenage girls, about the social tape –measure they must use to determine their individual worth. The bans, if fully enforced ,would suggest to woman (and many men )that they should not let others be orbiters of their beauty .And perhaps faintly, they hint that people should look to intangible qualities like character and intellect rather than dieting their way to sine zero or wasp-waist physiques . The French measures, however, rely too much on severe punishment to change a culture that still regards beauty as skin-deep-and bone-showing. Under the law, using a fashion model that does not meet a government-defined index of body mess could result in a $85,000 fine and six months in prison. The fashion industry knows it has an inherent problem in focusing on material adornment and idealized body types. In Denmark, the United States, and a few other countries, it is trying to set voluntary standard for models and fashion images there rely more on pear pressure for enforcement. In contrast to France’s actions, Denmark’s fashion industry agreed last month on rules and sanctions regarding age, health, and other characteristics of