1、翻译硕士英语学位 MTI 考试-12 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BPart Grammar (总题数：20，分数：20.00)1.Though hes slow to learn, his _ makes him an excellent student in our department. A. intelligence B. perseverance C. patience D. prudence（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.2.When she _, her mother was sitting by her bed. A. came round B.
2、 came on C. came over D. came across（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.3.In some remote places, there are still very poor people who cant afford to live in _ conditions. A. positive B. gracious C. honorable D. decent（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.4.If you put up your hand, it will _ that you agree with me. A. indicate B. incline C
3、. identify D. illustrate（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.5.Students from a _ background have an advantage at university. A. previous B. privileged C. private D. principal（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.6.She _ thousands of dollars from the charity while appearing to be its best fundraiser. A. embellished B. embroiled C. embezzled
4、 D. embargoed（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.7.The ship _ at Sydney and we spent a day touring the city. A. berthed B. amassed C. dissuaded D. poached（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.8.He had lived illegally in the United States for five years after his visitors visa _. A. expired B. abolished C. amended D. constrained（分数：1.00）A.
5、B.C.D.9.Sons of high-ranking females may remain at the center of the troop while others are driven to the _. A. periphery B. predict C. propitiatory D. peripheral（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.10.The Vatican condemned the technology as _. A. instructive B. perverse C. rewarding D. salutary（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.11.Acco
6、rding to psychologists, a persons attention is attracted _ by the intensity of different signals as by their context: significance and information content. A. much not so B. not so much C. so not much D. so much not（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.12.All the flights _ because of the snowstorm, we had to take the tr
7、ain instead. A. were cancelled B. had been cancelled C. having cancelled D. having been cancelled（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.13.If you have never planted anything, you wont be able to know the pleasure of watching the thing you have planted _. A. grow B. to grow C. growing D. to be growing（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.14._
8、 of the twins was arrested, because I saw both at a party last night. A. None B. Both C. Neither D. All（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.15.It is necessary that he _ the assignment without delay. A. hand in B. hands in C. must hand in D. has to hand in（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.16.“What courses are you going to do next semest
9、er? I dont know. But its about time _ on something.“ A. Id decide B. I decided C. I decide D. Im deciding（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.17.Mr. White works with a chemicals import the bank sells bonds backed by those deposits and pledges, then lends the money out at a small profit. The other main arm of the World
10、Bank, the International Development Association, gets regular infusions of cash from rich countries and lends funds on near giveaway terms to truly poor countries, mostly in Africa ( the U.S. contribution is just under $1 billion a year, or 0. 04% of federal spending).Lerrick wants the World Bank to
11、 stop lending to middle-income countries and restructure its loans to the poorest nations as outright grants. Nancy Birdsall, a former World Banker who runs a Washington think tank called the Center for Global Development, argues that the bank could have more impact on poverty by making better use o
12、f its best assets : the expertise of its staff and its ability to coordinate global action.“Lending and grant making at the country level should not be the end-all and be-all,“ she says. “It should be the vehicle for advice and constant rebuilding of the banks knowledge.“ Birdsall is a World Bank fa
13、n but agrees with critics like Lerrick that it must become smaller (it has a staff of 10,000) and less bank like to remain relevant.Wolfowitzs allies say he is the victim of backlash from entrenched bank staff upset that he is turning up the heat on an anticorruption campaign begun by his predecesso
14、r, James Wolfensohn. Thats probably overstating things. But the potential backlash against slashing the banks staff and getting it out of lending would surely be epic. Which may explain why no World Bank president, Wolfowitz included, has attempted it.（分数：10.00）(1).According to the author, the World
15、 Banks real problem is _. A. Its corruption B. Its policy on lending C. Its continued existence D. Wolfowitzs romantic relationship（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which of the following can be inferred from the passage about the World Bank? A. Its anticorruption campaign is still going on. B. It should readjus
16、t its role in combating poverty. C. It has satisfied its initial job to finance reconstruction in Europe. D. It is playing a more and more important role in lending to developing countries.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(3).According to the passage, the World Bank should do the following EXCEPT _. A. reducing sta
17、ff B. coordinating global action C. increasing the profit it makes D. offering advice to poor countries（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Which of the following is NOT true according to Nancy Birdsall? A. The World Bank should reduce its staff. B. The World Bank should coordinate global action. C. The World Bank
18、should offer advice to poor countries. D. The World Bank should limit its work to lending and grantmaking.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(5).We can infer from the last paragraph that the author was _ the capability of the World Bank to solve its problems. A. confident in B. indifferent to C. optimistic about D. p
19、essimistic about（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.六、Section B Directions(总题数：0，分数：0.00)七、Text A(总题数：1，分数：10.00)For a man who wants the world to slow down, Carl Honores moment of clarity came in, of all places, an airport. The Canadian journalist was leafing through a newspaper at Romes Fiumicino airport when he spot
20、ted an ad for a collection of condensed, one-minute bedtime stories for kids. At first Honore, a self-described “speedaholic,“ was delighted at the idea of a more efficient bedtime experience for his 2-year-old son. Then he was horrified. “Have I gone completely insane?“ he asked himself, and realiz
21、ed the answer was “probably.“ Out of that epiphany came a best- selling book and a whole new career for Honore as an international spokesman for the concept of leisure.“Im attacking the whole cultural assumption that faster is better and we must cram every waking hour with things to do,“ says Honore
22、, who now lives in London. In a world of bottom-line bosses and results-oriented parents, he dares speak up in favor of the unabridged fairy tale.Its a message people seem to want to hear. Since it appeared in April, In Praise of Slowness has been translated into 12 languages and sold some 60,000 co
23、pies, landing on best-seller lists in four countries; a British production company has bought television rights. Honore celebrates, perhaps a bit prematurely, a worldwide disillusionment with “the cult of speed.“ As evidence he cites the Slow Food rebellion against McDonalds that began in Italy and
24、has spread its gospel of civilized dining and local products even to the unlikely precincts of New York and Chicago. In a world in which some parents send their offspring to prep courses for preschool, a growing number of schools around the worldabout 800are following the advice of the early 20th-ce
25、ntury German educator Rudolf Steiner to encourage children to play and doodle to their hearts content, putting off learning to read until as late as 7. Devotees of tantric sex attempt to emulate the rock star Sting, who once boasted of slowing down his lovemaking to the point where it lasted for eig
26、ht hours. (He later confessed to exaggerating, but the goal is still out there. ) In his own life, Honore has substituted meditation for tennis and for television; he has taken off his wristwatch, which means hes less worried about getting somewhere on time and can drive there without speeding. Thes
27、e tokens of idleness are offset, regrettably, by the demands of being a best-selling author and guru to leisure- starved American executives, single mothers and college students who e-mail him for advice on slowing down and want it now.“Being a spokesman for slow has taken over my whole life,“ he sa
28、ys, before dashing off for another interview.Oddly, though, Honores book has yet to catch on in the country that arguably needs it most, the one that gave the world the assembly line and the one-minute manager. Chained to cell phones and Black Berrys, fueled by junk food and forced to work ever long
29、er hours as their employers cut jobs, frazzled American workers suffer from what the Seattle-based independent television producer John de Graaf called Affluenza in his 2001 book of the same name. It is the collective malaise of a materialistic society that equates the good life with “the goods life
30、. “ “Technology is playing a factor in making lives busier around the world,“ says de Graaf, who runs a slowness advocacy group called Take Back Your Time.“Its all the more necessary to find ways to protect peoples time off because youre on this electronic leash all the time.“By contrast, Europeans
31、and even the famously efficient Japanese are more receptive. Slow Food held its second biennial gastronomic fair in Turin last month, drawing tens of thousands of visitors, including Prince Charles, who took a couple of hours out of a European tour to savor a pint of award-winning pale English ale.
32、The Slow Cities movement has won the backing of municipal officials in more than 100 towns and cities in Europe, Japan and Brazil with a lengthy manifesto urging policies to reduce noise and traffic, preserve the local esthetic and gastronomic customs and establish more pedestrian zones and green sp
33、aces. The Society for the Deceleration of Time held its 14th annual meeting in Austria last month to promote what its organizers call “a more conscious way of living.“ Mastering relaxation isnt something to attempt on your own, according to society member Christian Lackner. “When everyone is telling
34、 you to go faster, as an individual you do it,“ says Lackner.“You need a movement, a way of building a group of people who want to resist in order to make it easier to say, No, I wont. “Perhaps Americans need to be reassured that the slowness movement is not about fleeing to a cottage in rural Vermo
35、nt. Its an effort to strike the right balance between work and leisure. A few enlightened companies like the accounting firm Ernst the bank sells bonds backed by those deposits and pledges, then lends the money out at a small profit. The other main arm of the World Bank, the International Developmen
36、t Association, gets regular infusions of cash from rich countries and lends funds on near giveaway terms to truly poor countries, mostly in Africa ( the U.S. contribution is just under $1 billion a year, or 0. 04% of federal spending).Lerrick wants the World Bank to stop lending to middle-income cou
37、ntries and restructure its loans to the poorest nations as outright grants. Nancy Birdsall, a former World Banker who runs a Washington think tank called the Center for Global Development, argues that the bank could have more impact on poverty by making better use of its best assets : the expertise
38、of its staff and its ability to coordinate global action.“Lending and grant making at the country level should not be the end-all and be-all,“ she says. “It should be the vehicle for advice and constant rebuilding of the banks knowledge.“ Birdsall is a World Bank fan but agrees with critics like Ler
39、rick that it must become smaller (it has a staff of 10,000) and less bank like to remain relevant.Wolfowitzs allies say he is the victim of backlash from entrenched bank staff upset that he is turning up the heat on an anticorruption campaign begun by his predecessor, James Wolfensohn. Thats probabl
40、y overstating things. But the potential backlash against slashing the banks staff and getting it out of lending would surely be epic. Which may explain why no World Bank president, Wolfowitz included, has attempted it.（分数：10.00）(1).According to the author, the World Banks real problem is _. A. Its c
41、orruption B. Its policy on lending C. Its continued existence D. Wolfowitzs romantic relationship（分数：2.00）A.B.C. D.解析：(2).Which of the following can be inferred from the passage about the World Bank? A. Its anticorruption campaign is still going on. B. It should readjust its role in combating povert
42、y. C. It has satisfied its initial job to finance reconstruction in Europe. D. It is playing a more and more important role in lending to developing countries.（分数：2.00）A.B. C.D.解析：(3).According to the passage, the World Bank should do the following EXCEPT _. A. reducing staff B. coordinating global
43、action C. increasing the profit it makes D. offering advice to poor countries（分数：2.00）A.B.C. D.解析：(4).Which of the following is NOT true according to Nancy Birdsall? A. The World Bank should reduce its staff. B. The World Bank should coordinate global action. C. The World Bank should offer advice to
44、 poor countries. D. The World Bank should limit its work to lending and grantmaking.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D. 解析：(5).We can infer from the last paragraph that the author was _ the capability of the World Bank to solve its problems. A. confident in B. indifferent to C. optimistic about D. pessimistic about（分
45、数：2.00）A.B.C.D. 解析：六、Section B Directions(总题数：0，分数：0.00)七、Text A(总题数：1，分数：10.00)For a man who wants the world to slow down, Carl Honores moment of clarity came in, of all places, an airport. The Canadian journalist was leafing through a newspaper at Romes Fiumicino airport when he spotted an ad for
46、a collection of condensed, one-minute bedtime stories for kids. At first Honore, a self-described “speedaholic,“ was delighted at the idea of a more efficient bedtime experience for his 2-year-old son. Then he was horrified. “Have I gone completely insane?“ he asked himself, and realized the answer
47、was “probably.“ Out of that epiphany came a best- selling book and a whole new career for Honore as an international spokesman for the concept of leisure.“Im attacking the whole cultural assumption that faster is better and we must cram every waking hour with things to do,“ says Honore, who now lives in London. In a world of bottom-line bosses and results-oriented parents, he dares speak up in favor of the unabridged fairy tale.Its a message people seem to want to hear. Since it appeared in
