1、翻译硕士英语学位 MTI 考试-15 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Part Grammar and V(总题数：0，分数：0.00)AFor a Uwrong/U word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.For a Umissing/U word. Mark the position of the missing word with a “ sign and write the word you bel
2、ieve to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.For a Uunnecessary/U word. Cross the unnecessary word with a slash “ and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.Although cosmetic surgery( and non-surgically cosmetic U 1 /U_procedures, such as Botox injections)someti
3、mes procedure negativeoutcomesmedia often highlights surgery“ disasters“ U 2 /U_in the most part, the health risk for cosmetic procedures U 3 /U_is low and patient satisfaction is high. Often, people who have beenhobbled By poor body image all of their life, walk away from U 4 /U_cosmetic surgery in
4、 confidence and the motivation to lead U 5 /U_healthier lives. In addition, reconstructive surgery for burning U 6 /U_and accident victims or to those disfigured from disease restore U 7 /U_self-esteem and well-being in the way that other therapy cannot. U 8 /U_In my professional opinion, it is a ti
5、me for members of the U 9 /U_medical community to examine the benefits and results ofcosmetic surgery with prejudice and jealousy. U 10 /U_（分数：10.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_B1.Because noises Umodulate/U radiofrequency, radio stations use a band of freque
6、ncies to prevent interference with other stations. A. govern B. adapt C. temper D. renovate（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.2.A fossil is a Uremnant/U of a once-living organism. A. bone B. solvent C. picture D. vestige（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.3.When Usquashed/U the stem and the leaves of the jewelweed exude a juice that so
7、othe some skin irritations. A. boiled B. aged C. crushed D. chopped（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.4.The legislative filibuster is a parliamentary Utactic/U designed to delay or prevent action by the majority. A. tradition B. rule C. observance D. maneuver（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.5.Ocean waves can cut Uimposing/U cliffs a
8、long coastlines. A. immobile B. impermeable C. impressive D. imaginative（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.6.Mergers may be effective to revive or rejuvenate failing business by the Uinfusion/U of new management and personnel. A. inspection B. introduction C. evaluation D. concentration（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.7.A fable is a
9、 Udidactic/U tale focus on a single character trail. A. an authentic B. a muddied C. an instructive D. an oldfashioned（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.8.The compact dictionaries published in recent years are not as Uunwieldy/U as some of the older editions. A. complete B. tiresome C. reliable D. cumbersome（分数：0.50）
10、A.B.C.D.9.Author Katherine Sherwood Mcdowell had Ua knack for/U converting almost every experience into marketable prose. A. an aptitude for B. an obsession with C. an alternative to D. a purpose for（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.10.South Carolinas mineral resources are abundant, but not all of them can be Ulucra
11、tively/U mined. A. profitably B. safely C. easily D. extensively（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.11.Ravaged by pollution and war, many famous monuments have become eroded and Ustained/U. A. discolored B. dismembered C. displaced D. distinctive（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.12.Orioles are Uarboreal/U birds, and when they descend
12、to the ground, it is mainly together nest materials A. territorial B. tree-dwelling C. consummate D. grumpy（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.13.Lousia may Alcott s novel Little Women, which Urecounts/U the experiences of the four march sisters during the American civil war, is largely autobiographical. A. praises B.
13、 narrates C. exaggerates D. classifies（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.14.Fertilizer applied to soil can replace Udepleted/U nutrients. A. organic B. acidic C. exhausted D. desirable（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.15.Galena, the chief ore of lead, is a Ubrittle/U mineral with a metallic luster. A. hazel B. dense C. breakable D. s
14、parking（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.16.In Hawaii, Uendemic/U birds, such as the omao and the apapane, dwell in the volcanic highlands and tropical rain forests. A. alluring B. dense C. graceful D. native（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.17.Biologists have Uascertained/U that specialized cells convert chemical energy into mechan
15、ical energy. A. determined B. argued C. hypothesized D. griped（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.18.Pocahomta, a seventeenth century Powhatan Indian, went to the Jamestown colony as her fathers Uemissary/U. A. ward B. attendant C. messenger D. translator（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.19.Neon light is utilized in airport because it
16、 can Upermeate/U fog. A. pass through B. transmit C. suspend D. break up（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.20.Alxender Woollcotts flamboyant personality combined sharpness of wit with sentimentality. A. devious B. humorous C. singular D. showy（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.C21.The form and physiology of leaves vary according to th
17、e _ in which they develop : for example, leaves display a wider range of adaptations to different degrees of light and moisture. A. relationship B. sequence C. patterns D. environment（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.22.Since most, if not all learning occurs through _, relating one observation to another, it would b
18、e strange indeed if the study of other cultures did not also illuminate the study of our town. A. assumptions B. experiments C. comparisons D. repetitions（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.23.He had expected gratitude for his disclosure, but instead he encountered _ bordering on hostility. A. patience B. discretion C
19、. ineptitude D. indifference（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.24.Although Simpson was ingenious at _ to appear innovative and spontaneous, beneath the ruse he remained uninspired and rigid in his approach to problem-solving. A. intending B. contriving C. forbearing D. declining（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.25.Because modern scie
20、ntist find the ancient Greek view of the cosmos outdated and irrelevant, they now perceive it as only of _ interest. A. historical B. intrinsic C. experimental D. superfluous（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.26.In spite of the increasing _ of their opinions, the group knew they had to arrive at a consensus so that t
21、he award could be presented. A. impartiality B. judiciousness C. polarity D. consistency（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.27.Ironically, the proper use of figurative language must be based on the denotative meaning of the words, because it is the failure to recognize this _ meaning that leads to mixed metaphors and
22、their attendant incongruity. A. esoteric B. literal C. allusive D. symbolic（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.28.Although any destruction of vitamins caused by food irradiation could be _ the use of diet supplements, there may be no protection from carcinogens that some fear might be introduced into foods by the proc
23、ess. A. counterbalanced by B. attributed to C. augmented with D. stimulated by（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.29.Data concerning the effects on an small population of high concentrations of a potentially hazardous chemical are frequently used to _ the effects on a large population of lower amounts of the same chem
24、ical. A. verify B. redress C. predict D. realize（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.30.Early critics of Emily Dickinsons poetry mistook for simplemindedness the surface of artlessness that in fact she constructed with such _. A. astonishment B. vexation C. allusion D. cunning（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.31.After a show sales star
25、t early in the year, mobile homes have been gaining favor as _ to increasingly expensive conventional housing. A. a reaction B. an addition C. an introduction D. an alternative（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.32.Although adolescent maturational and development states occur in an orderly sequence, their timing _ wit
26、h regard to onset and duration. A. lasts B. varies C. falters D. accelerates（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.33.Psychology has slowly evolved into an _ scientific discipline that now function autonomously with the same privileges and responsibilities as other sciences. A. independent B. unusual C. outmoded D. uncon
27、trolled（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.34.Noting the murder victims flaccid musculature and pear-like figure, she deduced that the unfortunate follow had earned his living in some _ occupation. A. treacherous B. ill-paying C. illegitimate D. sedentary（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.35.The discovery that, fiction excluded, all bo
28、dies fall at the same rate is so simple to state and to grasp that there is a tendency to _ its significance. A. underrate B. reassess C. praise D. eliminate（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.36.The painting was larger than it appeared to be, for hanging in a darkened recess of the chapel, it was _ by the perspective
29、. A. improved B. diminished C. embellished D. jeopardized（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.37.Because folk art is neither completely rejected nor accepted as an art form by art historians, their final evaluations of it necessarily remain _. A. arbitrary B. estimable C. equivocal D. orthodox（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.38.Althou
30、gh economists have traditionally considered the district to be solely an agricultural one, the _ of the inhabitants occupations makes such a classification obsolete. A. productivity B. diversity C. predictability D. profitability（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.39.Although specific concerns may determine the intent
31、 of a research project, its results are often _. A. unanticipated B. beneficial C. spectacular D. specialized（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.40.The notion that a parasite can alter the behavior of a host organism is not mere fiction; indeed, the phenomenon is not even _. A. observable B. real C. comprehended D. ra
32、re（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.五、BPart Reading (总题数：0，分数：0.00)六、Passage A(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Notation gave western music a means of written record, but at first only for a kind of music, chant, that was believed to have originated half a millennium and more in the pastto be effectively, ageless. Early medieval chan
33、ts sprang from the whole time of eternal sameness, rhythm. Then measure came. And with it came the first identifiable and precisely datable works.Where chant was of a piece with other musical traditions in being self-sufficient melody, working within a modal system, belonging to no creator (but to G
34、od) and designed for worship, the new music of the twentieth century opened a distinctively western path. The measuring of time was the beginning not only of rhythmic notation known, far beyond Europe, to the Indian theorist Sarngadeva in the first haft of the thirteenth centurybut also of music inv
35、olving coordination among singers carrying different melodies, of polyphony. This, too, was by no means confined to the wedge of land between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic: the gamelan music of Bali, a tradition independent of Europe, is comparable with early western polyphony in its superposit
36、ion of different time streams, fast and slow, while the music of many sub- Saharan African peoples often piles up dissimilar rhythmic layers in ways foreign to Europe outside certain special repertories(fourteenth-century song and some music since 1950). But, from the twelfth century to the fifteent
37、h, polyphony in the west gradually moved away from the repetitive structures that were retained on Bali or in central Africa as Europeans discovered how harmony could result in continuous flow.The source, as of so much in western culture, was a misunderstanding of classical Greek knowledge, again ac
38、quired through Boethius. He had nothing to say about harmony in the sense of chords, but he conveyed a Geek satisfaction in the primacy of the octave and the fifth, which medieval musicians took as models of consonance (the euphonious combining notes). Just as essential were dissonant combinations,
39、lacking euphony, for these would intensity the need of for consonance. A dissonance placed immediately before a final consonance would produce a firmly conclusive endinga cadence, such as became an essential of western music. Extending back from the cadence, the forces of harmony, marshaled through
40、relationships between each chord and the next, could amplify the last note. Thus time measured became time decisively having a goal, and music could emulate the progress in every human soul towards eternity.Music mirrored, too, how time generally was being told. Guidos staff notation came roughly wh
41、en water clocks were reintroduced from Byzantium and Islam, enabling monks to know when a service was due from the level reached by water slowly filling a vessel. Thus reading, whether of a chant book or a water gauge, substituted for memory and intuition. Exact synchrony between music and time was
42、lost a little when clockwork mechanisms appeared in the midthirteenth century, half a century later than the gear-driven music produced at Notre Dame in Paris. However, the perfection of hour-chiming with hour-chiming capabilities, in the astronomical clock made by Richard Wallingford for St. Albans
43、 Abbey (1327-1336), strikingly coincided with the perfection of rhythmic notation that spread from Paris and gave music its own machinery of time lengths.Choose the most appropriate from the four choices to answer the question or complete the sentence.（分数：10.00）(1).Which of the following is the most
44、 appropriate title for this passage? A. The development of rhythm B. Time measured C. Notation and time D. Music and civilization（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(2).It can be inferred from the passage that before notation appeared _. A. music was always renewed and could last only as long as memory B. music presen
45、ted people with three times at once : the now in which they heard it, the then in which it was made, and the further then of when the piece was composed C. polyphony had already been developed to such a degree that different melodies carried by different singers could form a coordinated harmony D. m
46、usic mostly was not improvised and was not dated with precision（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The author would most likely consider Western music and the music of non- Western cultures as _. A. respectively revolutionary and conservative B. equal but distinct C. both homogeneous and heterogeneous D. illustrative of advancement and backwardness（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(4).The passage states that _. A. music and civilization complement each other and contradict each other B. rhythmic notation appeared because human beings could tell time in a new
