1、翻译硕士英语学位 MTI 考试对外经济贸易大学 2014 年真题及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Part Vocabulary an(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、Section One(总题数：20，分数：20.00)1.The packing of goods offered does not meet our standards. Could you use packing which is _breakage?（分数：1.00）A.secure fromB.secure aboutC.secure forD.secure under2.All employe
2、es will be _ to learn and use the new computer system if we want to increase our productivity.（分数：1.00）A.objectedB.obstructedC.obligedD.obtained3.Non-Americans have a long way to go before they reach that level720L of soft drinks a yearand that would _ booming business for the two giants.（分数：1.00）A.
3、operateB.updateC.recruitD.translate into4.They have mutually agreed that Party A _ Party B with the manufacturing of television sets in Shenzhen with all necessary parts and components supplied by Party A.（分数：1.00）A.authorizesB.entrustsC.offersD.appoints5.Please make sure that your L/C will reach us
4、 well before the shipment month so that we can _ shipping space for the goods with ABC Line.（分数：1.00）A.bookB.preserveC.conserveD.retain6.The wide variation _ prices for some brands cannot be explained by these factors.（分数：1.00）A.inB.toC.onD.for7.Although international logistics is discussed as a mov
5、ement or flow of goods, a stationary period is involved when merchandise becomes _ stored in warehouses.（分数：1.00）A.inventoryB.goodsC.cargoD.packages8.The seller shall, at his own _, carry out at the place of manufacture all such inspections of the equipment as are specified in the contract.（分数：1.00）
6、A.costB.expenseC.expenditureD.spending9.Marks and Spencer admits that trading in recent weeks has shown _ improvement.（分数：1.00）A.no signs ofB.no tracks ofC.no marks ofD.no evidences of10.Most people have a bank account which allows them to _ checks.（分数：1.00）A.openB.takeC.writeD.charge11.After merger
7、, the two companies are going to collaborate _ car manufacture.（分数：1.00）A.withB.fromC.inD.of12.All quotations are subject to our final _ Unless otherwise noted or agreed upon, all prices are commission inclusive.（分数：1.00）A.orderB.confirmationC.termsD.decision13.Due to her excellent performance in th
8、is project, Miss Lin was _ to the Sales Director.（分数：1.00）A.chosenB.raisedC.promotedD.forwarded14.Female customers are the _ buyer of Ford“s new model.（分数：1.00）A.progressiveB.prospectiveC.properD.perspective15.Every one-year plan must be _ in relation to longer-term plans, and it should contain the
9、stages that are necessary to achieve the final goals,（分数：1.00）A.handed overB.drawn upC.made upD.written off16.Since the price you quoted would leave us no margin of _, we must do business with other suppliers who are offering lower prices for Dinner Sets of the same quality.（分数：1.00）A.salesB.choiceC
10、.benefitD.profit17.Coca-cola has overcome Pepsi“s _ edge in Eastern Europe.（分数：1.00）A.absoluteB.comparativeC.definiteD.competitive18.We shall be pleased to offer you other items which might be of interest to you upon _ of your specific inquiries.（分数：1.00）A.noticeB.receiverC.arrivalD.receipt19.A busi
11、ness owned and operated by one person is called a _ proprietorship.（分数：1.00）A.oneB.soleC.onlyD.unique20.Urban wage earners use credit to help them purchase the vast array of _ goods, such as automobiles, washing machines, and refrigerators.（分数：1.00）A.durableB.endurableC.bearableD.tolerable三、Section
12、Two Identify(总题数：10，分数：10.00)21.The candidate enjoys wide support from the voters because of his record he will probably be elected.（分数：1.00）A.fragmentB.run onC.choppyD.correct22.Covent Garden is London“s big wholesale market where you can buy many things. For example, fruit, vegetables and flowers.
13、（分数：1.00）A.fragmentB.comma spliceC.choppyD.correct23.The hospital decides when patients sleep. It dictates when they eat. It tells them when they may be with family.（分数：1.00）A.correctB.run onC.comma spliceD.choppy24.My company is House Furnishing Corporation, there is a ready market for kitchenware
14、in our area.（分数：1.00）A.choppyB.fragmentC.correctD.comma splice25.Ever since the 19th century cartoonist Thomas Nast to pin a donkey on the Democrats and the elephant on the Republican, cartoonists have been mapping the iconography of American politics.（分数：1.00）A.fragmentB.correctC.comma spliceD.run
15、on26.The report, which was completed by the April 15 deadline only through the hard work and long hours of the entire staff.（分数：1.00）A.correctB.fragmentC.run onD.comma splice27.Different purposes for which money is borrowed result in the creation of different kinds of financial assets, having differ
16、ent maturities, risks, and other features, thus different financial markets.（分数：1.00）A.comma spliceB.correctC.fragmentD.run on28.Our results were inconsistent. The program obviously contains an error. A revision of the program is required.（分数：1.00）A.choppyB.run onC.fragmentD.correct29.It will furthe
17、r help the church in Asia, Africa and Latin America a new pope emerges from those areas.（分数：1.00）A.fragmentB.correctC.comma spliceD.run on30.After we studied the technical aspects of the proposal and our contracts office reviewed its financial aspects. The proposal, although innovative, does not mee
18、t our immediate needs.（分数：1.00）A.correctB.run onC.fragmentD.choppy四、Part Reading Compr(总题数：4，分数：40.00)It might be easier to do something about North Korea“s nuclear truculence if we could make head or tail of the cryptic videos it has been posting on the web. The latest shows a dreaming man, some Ko
19、rean script and a video of rockets flying through space while fires burn in skyscrapers and a pianist plays “We Are the World“ at dirge tempo. Is this a harmless fantasy? A thrown-down gauntlet? Should the west respond with a statement? Should it post a video of its own? It is hard to know. Our trad
20、itional media are being “replaced“ by the internet. But the “information“ coming out of the information economy is often hard to decipher, and composed for purposes that are hard to discern. The film academic Stephen Apkon argues in The Age of the Image , published this week, that it is possible to
21、speak of a new kind of literacy, one built on figuring out such non-verbal messages. At its humblest level, his book is about the “language“ of film, but Mr Apkon has a larger philosophical point, too. Our culture is growing more global. While it still relies on words, they are increasingly wrapped
22、up with images, and it is the images people remember. Elizabeth Daley, dean of the University of Southern California“s School of Cinematic Arts, believes writing today is like Latin on the eve of the Renaissance-the language of a scholarly establishment. YouTube clips and other visuals are the equiv
23、alent of vernacular Italian. They are the street language, and the medium for much new and creative thinking. Images have always mattered in public arguments more than we admit. Few people cared that Richard Nixon won the 1960 presidential debates against John Kennedy, so unkempt did the Republican
24、look. Mr Apkon quotes a neuroscientist who says people are so attuned to picking up subtle signals that they make decisions about whether they like or dislike politicians “immediately“. And unsubtle, non-verbal messages with a great emotional wallop can now be broadcast more widely. Video of the sho
25、oting of Neda Agha-Sohan, captured during June 2009 protests against irregular Iranian elections, spread round the world. In the gut-wrenching Kony 2012 video (100m views in six days), American activists sought to enlist the US military in a manhunt for a Ugandan warlord. Eyesight is the most truste
26、d sense, Mr. Apkon notes, and that means we need to be careful with it. There is a standing danger that the public will grow so upset by images of mistreatment that it will demand the government send the army off to war. This is arguably what happened Somalia in 1992, with America“s poorly planned m
27、ilitary response to the African country“s famine. In future, Mr. Apkon says, we are likely to need “a combination of scepticism and incisiveness“, enabling citizens to “critique what is put in front of them with some level of sophistication“. That is unlikely. When the passions provoked by visual im
28、agery lead to the same conclusion as the logic of a verbal argument, people are generally comfortable coming to a decision. But when passion and logic are at odds, one of them must be favoured. Until recently, it was the essence of statesmanship, scholarship and justice to purge strong emotion from
29、our deliberations. Images today, though, are so plentiful and sharp that they dominate our thought processes. Although Mr. Apkon relishes the immediacy of YouTube, he fears that political advertisers will soon be able to craft stories around “hidden mental hungers“, easily manipulating voters. Citiz
30、ens tend to think about voting in one of two ways. First, you base your vote on your identity. You are a farmer, so you choose the candidate best disposed towards farmers. The second theory is that you vote on arguments, independent of identity. You believe a sales tax should replace income tax, so
31、you vote for the candidate who shares that opinion. But today“s image-based communication has little to do with identity or arguments. It has to do with the lowest-common-denominator traits that mark you as a human animal. There is no obvious solution. Even if we acquire the scepticism Mr. Apkon spe
32、aks of, certain institutions “go with“ certain styles of perceiving, absorbing and interpreting information. You would not think that there was anything “Protestant“ about the printing press. And yet the press seems to have been a prerequisite for Protestantism“s rise. Likewise, our own democracies,
33、 imperfect though they may be, are the culmination of the culture of the written word. Mr. Apkon notes how Kennedy, in those 1960 debates, “tapped into a lever in the psyche more primal than mere facts“. In retrospect, that was an ominous moment. Once you find that lever, isn“t democracy bound to lo
34、se a bit of its appeal, rather like a detective story in which you have been told the ending?（分数：10.00）(1).Which of the following is INCORRECT according to the author?（分数：2.00）A.Images do not always matter in public arguments more than we admitB.Videos on political issues are the most popular among
35、allC.Videos carrying messages with a great emotional wallop can attract attentionD.Activists must use street language to appeal to the audience(2).What does the author mean by saying “writing today is like Latin on the eve of the Renaissance the language of a scholarly establishment?“（分数：2.00）A.Vide
36、os are like Italian that served as the street languageB.A video is worth more than a thousand words“C.Writing would face extinction, just as LatinD.Writing would be less popular among common people(3).What is the author“s attitude towards “seeing is believing?“（分数：2.00）A.PositiveB.DangerousC.Negativ
37、eD.Useful(4).According to the author, what may “image-based communication“ influence voter“s behavior?（分数：2.00）A.People might vote on their identitiesB.People might vote on their “hidden mental hungers“C.People might vote on arguments, independent of identityD.People might vote on political advertis
38、ers who have better stories(5).Which of the following constitutes the best title for this passage?（分数：2.00）A.In the unthinking age, seeing is believingB.Images matter less today than in the pastC.Democracy has lost its appeal nowadaysD.Images in the Information AgeOne November evening in 1989 I was
39、loafing in my room at university when a friend began thumping on the door. “What is it?“ I shouted irritably. “The Berlin Wall just fell,“ he shouted back For months afterwards I walked around in a daze of wonder, as crowds ransacked secret-police headquarters and Nelson Mandela walked out of jail.
40、Two lines from Wordsworth about the French Revolution, which I“d read in some article about the1989 revolutions, kept going through my mind: Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven! It was the most optimistic political moment I“ve lived through, my generation“s version
41、 of 1945 or 1968. 6 . Now we“re at the peak of political pessimism. The political year is opening with almost nobody on either right or left expecting anything good. The great questions seem to be: how will an intervention in Syria go wrong? And will the US House of Representatives vote to repeal “O
42、bamacare“ for the 41st time? 7 The utopian urge persists; it has just migrated from politics to technology. Instead of developing a political policy to solve a problem, people now develop an app. In politics, you can hardly count all the lights that have failed since the invasion of Iraq a decade ag
43、o. Faith in unregulated capitalism died with Lehman Brothers. Then Barack Obama, the Occupy movements and the Tea Party all rapidly disappointed their followers. In 2009 in Copenhagen, it became clear the world wouldn“t agree to combat climate change. Now the Arab spring is eating its own children,
44、the Russian demonstrators have gone home, and hardly anyone believes in the European project any more. 8 , even before its intellectual underpinning was revealed as an academic paper whose authors had accidentally left important bits of data off their spreadsheet. The western liberating impulse-prev
45、iously directed at Iraq, Iran and Cuba-has died too. Myanmar finally opened up, and ethnic conflict promptly began. Even people who believed in al-Qaeda are now presumably disillusioned. It“s hard to find a self-proclaimed political messiah anywhere: Hugo Chavez is dead, and Fidel Castro himself say
46、s Cuba“s revolution has failed. Politicians have been reduced to celebrities who can gain our attention only with Anthony Weineresque private antics. 9 Meanwhile a rash of TV series like House of Cards, Veep and The Thick of It portray politics as a greedy, narcissistic pursuit. No wonder political
47、parties are shedding members at record speed. The last emotion that still animates tots of western voters is rage at immigrants-an archetypal expression of pessimism. Andrew Adonis, leading thinker of the UK“s Labour party, says : “We“re in one of those periods like the 1970s where politicians manif
48、estly don“t have the answers. “ But meanwhile a group of people has stood up who do claim to have answers: technologists. In 2007, just as western economies began to crumble, Apple launched the iPhone. 10 The latter took time to decide how to use their new might. Nicole Boyer, director of the Adapti
49、ve Edge consultancy in San Francisco, explains: “Tech was late to the game for social problems. It took a generation of tech entrepreneurs to make money and then say, “OK, what are we going to do?“ Now they are busy remaking the world: Google“s Erie Schmidt negotiates with North Korea, Jeff Bezos tries to save newspapers, Mark Zuckerberg plots to get the world“s poor online and Bill Gates fights infectious disease. “They have something of the white knight about them,“ muses Adonis. “T
