广西民族大学翻译硕士英语考研真题A卷.docx

1、广西民族大学翻译硕士英语考研真题A卷2018年广西民族大学翻译硕士英语考研真题A卷Part I. Basic English Knowledge (30%)Section A: Multiple-choice (20 %)Directions: There are forty multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.1.Her work in genetics won United Stat

2、es scientist Barbara McClintock - - in 1983.A. was the Nobel Prize B. the Nobel Prize was C. the Nobel Prize D. for the Nobel Prize. 2.You can count how many students passed an exam, but psychological and emotional feelings cannot be _ measured.A. preciselyB. preciseC. preciouslyD. precious3.Unemplo

3、yment has come down slightly, but this does not _ the fact that it is still a major problem.A. alert B. alter C. alarm D. altar4.The man breathed a sign of _ when he was told that everything had arrived in good condition.A. receive B. relieve C. relief D. release5.Artificial light _ the respiratory

4、activity of some microorganisms in the winter but not in the summer, in part because in the summer their respiration is already at its peak and thus cannot be _.A. stimulates lessened B. B. elevates quickened C. C. reflects. .expanded D. D. enhances increased6.Because they have been so dazzled by th

5、e calendars and the knowledge of astronomy possessed by the Mayan civilization, some anthropologists have_ achievements like the sophisticated carved calendar sticks of the Winnebago people.A. described B. acknowledged C. overlooked D, defended7.Even those siblings whose childhood was_ familial feud

6、ing and intense rivalry for their parents affection can nevertheless develop congenial and even _relationships with each other in their adult lives.A, scarred by. .vitriolic B, filled with tolerantC, dominated by intimate D, replete with. .competitive8.Working for 10 hours per week or less seemingly

7、 does not take a consistent _ on school performance.A. toolB. tollC. tollerD. tollen9. He said he wished to _ in the army during the last three years.A. be served B. be serving C. serve D. have been serving10. _ much you may dislike it, junk mail comes to most of you anyway.A. Whatever B. Whichever

8、C. Whenever D. However11. The increased use of computers in business has been_ by a costly increase in computer crime.A. accompanied B. disappointed C. matched D. witnessed12.Many animals display_ instincts only while their offspring are young and helpless.A. cerebral B. imperious C. rueful D. mater

9、nal13. Because of its importance in modern living, _in all parts of the world.A. in schools and colleges are algebra studiesB. studying algebra in schools and collegesC. and the study of algebra in schools and collegesD. algebra is studied in schools and colleges14._touching in O Henrys stories is t

10、he gallantry with which ordinary people struggle to maintain their dignity.A. Most isB. Is mostlyC. Is it mostD. What is most15. At the Seventh International Ballet Competition,Femando Bujones won the first gold medal ever_to a United States male dancer. Ato be awarded Bto award Cthat awards Dshould

11、 be awarding 16. I was awfully tired when I got home from work, but a half hour nap _me. A. relieved B. released C. revived D. recovered 17. The new technological revolution in American newspapers has brought increased_ a wider rangeof publications and an expansion of newspaper job. A. reproduction

12、B. circulation C. manipulation D. penetration 18.Geophysicists have collaborated with archaeologists and anthropologists to study the magnetic properties of pottery and fireplaces at sites _by early humans.A. occupied B. occupying C. which D. were occupied19. The story that follows_ two famous chara

13、cters of the Rocky Mountain gold rush days.A. concerns B. states C. proclaims D. relates20.There is a general understanding among the members of the Board of Directors that chief attention_to the undertaking that is expected to bring highest profit.A. is given B. gives C. must be given D. be givenSe

14、ction B: Proofreading and Error Correction (10 %)Directions: The following passage contains 10 errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it. Please write your answers on the Answer Sheet.Dinosaur

15、s, saber-tooth tigers and the dodo bird are famous examples (21) _ _of animals that have become extinct. In case of the dinosaurs, it (22) seems likely that a catastrophic event alters the global climate (23) enough to lead to their disappearance. More recent extinctions and near-extinctionssuch as

16、the blue whales, tiger, panda, and (24) North American bisonhave been the direct result of human activity. By the early 1990s, species were becoming extinct at a rate of three per hour, or 27,000 every day a figure quoted by the American biologist Edward O.Wilson of Harvard University, based on his

17、most conservative estimates. This rate of extinctions carries with it some terrible consequences. Each plant that becomes extinct, for example, may take with it as much as 30 insects and animals (25) that depend on it for food. Habitat loss is one of the most important causes of extinction. For risi

18、ng populations in many countries (26)lead to the clearing of more land, habitats such as raining forest (27)and grasslands disappear. In the East Africa, once renowned for its wildlife, few wild animals (28)remain living outside the boundaries of national parks and game (29)reserves. In other parts

19、of the world, coastal ecosystems are clearing (30)for development. Wetland areas are drying out as a result of water extraction to support farming and tourism. Bird species are among the worst affected by the loss of wetlands. Part II. Reading Comprehension (50 %)Section A (30 %)Directions: There ar

20、e 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D).You should decide on the best choice and write your answers on the Answer Sheet.Passage 1He emerged, all of a sudden, in 1957: the most

21、explosive new poetic talent of the English post-war era. Poetry specialized, at that moment, in the wry chronicling of the everyday. The poetry of Yorkshire-born Ted Hughes, first published in a book called “The Hawk in the Rain” when he was 27, was unlike anything written by his immediate predecess

22、ors. Driven by an almost Jacobean rhetoric, it had a visionary fervour. Its most eye-catching characteristic was Hughess ability to get beneath the skins of animals: foxes, otters, pigs. These animals were the real thing all right, but they were also armorial devicessymbols of the countryside and li

23、feblood of the earth in which they were rooted. It gave his work a raw, primal stink.It was not only England that thought so either. Hughess book was also published in America, where it won the Galbraith prize, a major literary award. But then, in 1963, Sylvia Plath, a young American poet whom he ha

24、d first met at Cambridge University in 1956, and who became his wife in the summer of that year, committed suicide. Hughes was vilified for long after that, especially by feminists in America. In 1998, the year he died, Hughes broke his own self-imposed public silence about their relationship in a b

25、ook of loose-weave poems called “Birthday Letters”. In this new and exhilarating collection of real letters, Hughes returns to the issue of his first wifes death, which he calls his “big and unmanageable event”. He felt his talent muffled by the perpetual eavesdropping upon his every move. Not until

26、 he decided to publish his own account of their relationship did the burden begin to lighten.The analysis is raw, pained and ruthlessly self-aware. For all the moral torment, the writing itself has the same rush and vigour that possessed Hughess early poetry. Some books of letters serve as a persona

27、lized historical chronicle. Poets letters are seldom like that, and Hughess are no exception. His are about a life of literary engagement: almost all of them include some musing on the state or the nature of writing, both Hughess own or other peoples. The trajectory of Hughess literary career had hi

28、m moving from obscurity to fame, and then, in the eyes of many, to life-long notoriety. These letters are filled with his wrestling with the consequences of being the part-private, part-public creature that he became, desperate to devote himself to his writing, and yet subject to endless invasions o

29、f his privacy.Hughes is an absorbing and intricate commentator upon his own poetry, even when he is standing back from it and good-humouredly condemning himself for “its fantasticalia, its pretticisms and its infinite verballifications”. He also believed, from first to last, that poetry had a specia

30、l place in the education of children. “What kids need”, he wrote in a 1988 letter to the secretary of state for education in the Conservative government, “is a headfull sic of songs that are not songs but blocks of refined and achieved and exemplary language.” When that happens, children have “the g

31、uardian angel installed behind the tongue”. Lucky readers, big or small.31The poetry of Hughess forerunners is characteristic of _A. its natural, crude flavor. B. its distorted depiction of peoples daily life.C. its penetrating sight. D. its fantastical enthusiasm.32.The word “vilified” (Line 4, Paragraph 2)most probably means _.A. tortured B. harassed C. scolded D. tormented33According to the third paragraph, Hughess collection of letters are _A. the exact reason responsible for both his fame and notoriety.B. personalized description of his double identit