1、第 1 页 共 8 页 昆明理工大学 2016 年硕士研究生招生入学考试试题 (A 卷 ) 考试科目代码： 211 考试科目名称 ：翻译硕士英语 考生答题须知 1 所有题目（包括填空、选择、图表等类型题目）答题答案必须做在考点发给的答题纸上，做在本试题册上无效。请考生务必在答题纸上写清题号。 2 评卷时不评阅本试题册，答题如有做在本试题册上而影响成绩的，后果由考生自己负责。 3 答题时一律使用蓝、黑色墨水笔或圆珠笔作答（画图可用铅笔），用其它笔答题不给分。 4 答题时不准使用涂改液等具有明显标记的涂改用品。 Part Vocabulary and Structure ( 30 points，
2、1 for each ) In this section, there are thirty incomplete sentences. For each sentence four alternatives are given. Decide which of the alternatives A, B, C or D best completes the sentence. Write the appropriate letter on the ANSWER SHEET. 1. It is important to boost the morale of the soldiers as l
3、ow morale can render an army_. A. impotent B. disabled C. sterile D. barren 2. The Jacksons are shocked by the managers _indifference to the sufferings of the poor workmen. A. fragrant B. festering C. flagrant D. ignorant 3. After the eruption of the volcano there was a serious _ of typhoid in the a
4、rea. A. outrage B. outcome C. outbreak D. output 4. The proposal was carried by a narrow _. A. verge B. margin C. rim D. fringe 5. He seemed to have a (an) _ of reasons not to take part in our research project. A. profusion B. multitude C. abundance D. pack 6. Martin is considered one of the geniuse
5、s in our school but I think his paintings are quite _. A. mediocre B. medium C. moderate D. meager 7 .The soldiers in the platoon shined their bayonets in _ of the inspection by the general. A. contemplation B. preconception C. anticipation D. meditation 8. My woolen sweater used to be bigger than t
6、his. It has _ in the wash. A. shrunk B. shortened C. reduced D. lessened 9. Do you see _ with James Degnans point of view? A. back to back B. eye to eye C. face to face D. heart to heart 10. John was sentenced to three months imprisonment because he tried to _ taxes by falsifying his returns. A. avo
7、id B. escape C. dodge D. evade 11. _, we shall go out for a picnic on Monday A. Weather permits B. Weather permitted C. Weather permitting D. With weather to permit 12. We think _ possible for them to fulfill their task in a few weeks A. it B. that C. what D. this 13. Not until the game had begun _
8、at the sports ground. A. should he have arrived B. had he arrived C. did he arrive D. would he had arrived 14. There used to be a theater here years ago, _. A. didnt it B. usednt it C. didnt there use to D. didnt there 昆明理工大学 2016 年硕士研究生招生入学考试试题 第 2 页 共 8 页 15. With all the children _ at home during
9、 the holidays, she had a great deal of work to do. A. be B. were C. been D. being 16. The dying soldier had the message _ straight to the headquarter. A. be sent B. being sent C. sent D. to be sent 17. How close parents are to their children _ a strong influence on the character of their children. A
10、. having B. have C. has D. to have 18. Theres _ when we shall meet again. A. no knowing B. not know C. not to know D. never knowing 19. One of the requirements for a fire is that the material _ to its burning temperature. A. heated B. be heated C. to be heated D. being heated 20. Kunming is usually
11、cool in the summer, but Shanghai _. A. is rarely B. is hardly C. rarely is D. hardly is 21. All living creatures have some _ that are passed on from one generation to the next. A. aspects B. attributes C. properties D. faculties 22. The lovely damsel of the court could not _ the temptation of throwi
12、ng glances of admiration upon the handsome young man. A. resist B. obstruct C. conflict D. challenge 23. It is hoped that the person on trail will be released through the _ of the kings daughter. A. interruption B. interrogation C. intervention D. meditation 24. When they were evicted for not paying
13、 the rent, they wept, wailed, and _ their teeth. A. bit B. chewed C. gnashed D. munched 25. Mr. Bright _ down the stairs, trying not to disturb his roommates, but a creaking floorboard woke up his best friend, Tom. A. tiptoed B. limped C. trudged D. strutted 26. Betty liked to have her clothes made
14、to _ but I preferred ready-made clothes. A. medium B. measurement C. standard D. measure 27. The whole area of national and local governments was subjected to a thorough financial_ , and inefficiency and waste were attacked. A. survey B. search C. research D. scrutiny 28. In my younger and more _ ye
15、ars my father gave me some advice that Ive been turning over in my mind ever since. A. frail B. pregnable C. assailable D. vulnerable 29. Formulated in 1823, the Monroe Doctrine_ that the Americas were no longer open to European colonization. A. argued B. asserted C. entreated D. accentuated 30. As
16、we all know, houses are _ to be at rest with respect to the earth but the earth itself is not motionless . A. resumed B. consumed C. assumed D. presumed Part II Reading Comprehension ( 40 points ) Section A: In this section, there are three passages. Each passage is followed by some questions or unf
17、inished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the BEST choices and then write the appropriate answer on the ANSWER SHEET. ( 30 points， 2 for each ) Passage 1 昆明理工大学 2016 年硕士研究生招生入学考试试题 第 3 页 共 8 页 According to a recent publication of the Equal
18、 Employment Opportunity Commission, at the present rate of progress, it will take forty-three years to end job discrimination-hardly a reasonable timetable. If our goal is educational and economic equity and parity, it is then we need affirmative action to catch up. We are behind as a result of disc
19、rimination and denial of opportunity. There is one white attorney for every 680 whites, but only one black attorney for every 4,000 blacks; one white physician for every 659 whites, but only one black physician for every 5,000 blacks; and one white dentist for every 1,900 whites, but only one black
20、dentist for every 8,400 blacks. Less than 1 percent of all engineers or of all practicing chemists is black. Cruel and uncompassionate injustice created gaps like these. We need creative justice and compassion to help us close them. Actually, in the U.S. context, “reverse discrimination” is illogica
21、l and a contradiction in terms. Never in the history of mankind has a majority, with power, engaged in programs and written laws that discriminate against itself. The only thing whites are giving up because of affirmative action is unfair advantage, something that was unnecessary in the first place.
22、 Blacks are not making progress at the expense of whites, as news accounts make it seem. There are 49 percent more whites in medical school today and 64 percent more whites in law school than there were when affirmative action programs began some eighteen years ago. In a recent column, William Raspb
23、erry raised an interesting question. Commenting on the Bakke case, he asked, “What if, instead of setting aside 16 of 100 slots, we added 16 slots to the 100.” That, he suggested, would not interfere with what whites already have. He then went on to point out that this, in fact, is exactly what has
24、happened in law and medical schools. In 1968, the year before affirmative action programs began to get under way, 9,571 whites and 282 members of minority groups entered U.S. medical schools. In 1976, the figures were 14,213 and 1,400 respectively. Thus, under affirmative action, the number of “whit
25、e places” actually rose by 49 percent; white access to medical training was not diminished, but substantially increased. The trend was even more marked in law schools. In 1969, the first year for which reliable figures are available, 2,933 minority-group members were enrolled; in 1976, the number wa
26、s up to 8,484. But during the same period, law school enrollment for whites rose from 65,453 to 107,064, an increase of 64 percent. In short, it is a myth that blacks are making progress at white expense. Allan Bakke did not really challenge preferential treatment in general, for he made no challeng
27、e to the preferential treatment accorded to the children of the rich, the alumni and the faculty or to athletes or the very talented only to minorities. 1. The author is for affirmative action _. A. because it will take 43 years to end job discrimination B. because there is discrimination and denial
28、 of opportunity in the U.S. C. if we aim at educational and economic equity and parity D. when there is no reasonable timetable in the U.S. 2. It requires _ to close the gap between the whites and the blacks in the U.S. A. creative justice and compassion B. a lot more black engineers and chemists C.
29、 education and economic development D. one black attorney for every 4,000 blacks 3. Blacks are not making progress at the expense of whites, according to the author, because _ A. there are 49 percent more white in medical school today already B. what whites give up is only unfair advantage 昆明理工大学 20
30、16 年硕士研究生招生入学考试试题 第 4 页 共 8 页 C. there are 64 percent more whites in law schools today D. whites, the majority in the U.S., will never discriminate against themselves 4. William Raspberry, while commenting on the Bakke case, suggests _ . A. to follow what has happened in law and medical schools. B.
31、to interfere with what whites already have. C. to offer 84 slots to whites and 16 to blacks. D. to offer 100 slots to whites and 16 to blacks. 5. According to the author, _, A. Blacks are not making progress at white expense. B. Affirmative action is an effective way to end job discrimination. C. Th
32、e things whites are giving up because of affirmative action are necessary. D. Under affirmative action, white access to medical training was diminished. Passage 2 I have observed that the Americans show a less decided taste for general ideas than the French. This is especially true in politics. Alth
33、ough the Americans infuse into their legislation far more general ideas than the French, and although they strive more than the latter to adjust the practice of affairs to theory, no political bodies in the United States have ever shown so much love for general ideas as the Constituent Assembly and
34、the Convention in France. At no time has the American people laid hold on ideas of this kind with the passionate energy of the French people in the eighteenth century, or displayed the same blind confidence in the value and absolute truth of any theory. This difference between the Americans and the
35、French originates in several causes, but principally in the following one. The Americans are a democratic people who have always directed public affairs themselves. The French are a democratic people who for a long time could only speculated on the best manner of conducting them. The social conditio
36、n of the French led them to conceive very general ideas on the subject of government, while their political constitution prevented them from correcting those ideas by experiment and from gradually detecting their insufficiency; whereas in America the two things constantly balance and correct each ot
37、her. It may seem at first sight that this is very much opposed to what I have said before, that democratic nations derive their love of theory from the very excitement of their active life. A more attentive-examination will show that there is nothing contradictory in the proposition. Men living in d
38、emocratic countries eagerly lay hold of general ideas because they have but little leisure and because these ideas spare them the trouble of studying particulars. This is true, but it is only to be understood of those matters which are not the necessary and habitual subjects of their thoughts. Merca
39、ntile men will take up very eagerly, and without any close scrutiny, all the general ideas on philosophy, politics, science, or the arts which may be presented to them; but for such as relate to commerce, they will not receive them without inquiry or adopt them without reserve. The same thing applie
40、s to statesman with regard to general ideas in politics. If, then, there is a subject upon which a democratic people is peculiarly liable to abandon itself, blindly and extravagantly, to general ideas, the best corrective that can be used will be to make that subject a part of their daily practical
41、occupation. They will then be compelled to enter into details, and the details will teach them the weak points of the theory. This remedy may frequently be a painful one, but its effect is certain. Thus it happens that the democratic institutions which compel every citizen to take a practical part i
42、n 昆明理工大学 2016 年硕士研究生招生入学考试试题 第 5 页 共 8 页 the government moderate that excessive taste for general theories in polities which the principle of equality suggests. 6. Why do the Americans show less enthusiasm for general ideas than the French? A. In America, the constitution provides checks and balance
43、s. B. The French constitution did not allow for experiment. C. The social conditions in France led to different ideas. D. The Americans have always been in charge of their own public affairs. 7. Some people in different democratic countries prefer general ideas because_. A. in politics it is easier
44、to study general ideas B. general ideas on different subjects are more interesting C. they do not have time to address details. D. mercantile men prefer general ideas on philosophy, politics, science and the arts 8. What does the writer think would inhibit peoples preference for general ideas? A. Te
45、aching them the weak points of the theory. B. Encouraging them to take a practical part in their daily work practice. C. Trying to make them abandon those ideas. D. Compelling them to study details. 9. The writers conclusion is that _. A. peoples taste for general ideas can be diminished through tak
46、ing a practical part in democratic institutions B. general theories in politics should be the most important part of democracy C. citizens should be forced to take part in democratic institutions D. the principle of equality must be paramount 10. According to the passage, which of the following stat
47、ements is true? A. The Americans have a more decided taste for general ideas than the French. B. The Americans introduce far more general ideas into their legislation than the French. C. Some political bodies in the United States have shown so much love for general ideas as the Constituent Assembly
48、and the Convention in France. D. The political constitution condition of the French is helpful for the correction of those ideas by experiment. Passage 3 I have some difficulty in describing why I traveled to West Africa and what I was doing there, since the journey that become so complicated and took me to so many unexpected places seemed in the beginning to be so simple and so clearly defined. I went to Africa to find the r
