1、翻译硕士英语模拟试卷 12及答案与解析 一、 Vocabulary 1 He plays tennis to the _ of all other sports. （ A） eradication （ B） exclusion （ C） extension （ D） inclusion 2 She answered with an _ “No“ to the request that she attend the public hearing. （ A） eloquent （ B） effective （ C） emotional （ D） emphatic 3 Everyone who ha
2、s visited the city agrees that it is _ with life. （ A） vibrant （ B） violent （ C） energetic （ D） fun 4 We met Mary and her husband at a party two months ago. _ weve had no further communication. （ A） Thereof （ B） Thereby （ C） Thereafter （ D） Thereabouts 5 The heat in summer is no less _ here in this
3、mountain region. （ A） concentrated （ B） extensive （ C） intense （ D） intensive 6 Could you just give me a hand? Lets _ the car into motion; it got a flameout just now. （ A） shove （ B） nudge （ C） prompt （ D） poke 7 The river was _ with waste from that factory. Some measures must be taken to stop its p
4、roduction. （ A） corrupted （ B） consumed （ C） contaminated （ D） infected 8 This disease _ itself in yellowness of the skin and eyes. （ A） manifests （ B） modifies （ C） magnifies （ D） exposes 9 Is there any possible _ explanation for his bad health since he seems to have no obvious disease? （ A） psychi
5、atric （ B） psychological （ C） surgical （ D） physical 10 The young lovers were not allowed to get married because their two families were _ enemies. （ A） hereditary （ B） congenital （ C） innate （ D） latent 11 _ I like economics, I like sociology much better. （ A） As much as （ B） So much （ C） How much
6、（ D） Much as 12 _ both sides accept the agreement _ a lasting peace be established in this region. （ A） Only if, will （ B） If only, would （ C） Should, will （ D） Unless, would 13 I know he failed his last test, but really hes _ stupid. （ A） something but （ B） anything but （ C） nothing but （ D） not bu
7、t 14 Whats the chance of _ a general election this year? （ A） there being （ B） there to be （ C） there be （ D） there going to be 15 _ you _ further problems with your printer, contact your dealer for advice. （ A） If.had （ B） Have.had （ C） Should.have （ D） In case.had 16 Land belongs to the city; ther
8、e is _ thing as private ownership of land. （ A） no such a （ B） not such （ C） not such a （ D） no such 17 It was _ we had hoped. （ A） more a success than （ B） a success more than （ C） as much of a succes as （ D） a success as much as 18 I am surprised _ this city is a dull place to live in. （ A） that y
9、ou should think （ B） by what you are thinking （ C） that you would think （ D） with what you were thinking 19 The opening ceremony is a great occasion. It is essential _ for that. （ A） for us to be prepared （ B） that we are prepared （ C） of us to be prepared （ D） our being prepared 20 Linda was _ the
10、experiment a month ago, but she changed her mind at the last minute. （ A） to start （ B） to have started （ C） to be starting （ D） to have been starting 二、 Reading Comprehension 20 In the 1960s, medical researchers Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe developed a checklist of stressful events. They apprecia
11、ted the tricky point that any major change can be stressful. Negative events like “serious illness of a family member“ were high on the list, but so were some positive life-changing events, like marriage. When you take the Holmes-Rahe test you must remember that the score does not reflect how you de
12、al with stress it only shows how much you have to deal with. And we now know that the way you handle these events dramatically affects your chances of staying healthy. By the early 1970s, hundreds of similar studies had followed Holmes and Rahe. And millions of Americans who work and live under stre
13、ss worried over the reports. Somehow, the research got boiled down to a memorable message. Womens magazines ran headlines like “Stress causes illness!“ If you want to stay physically and mentally healthy, the articles said, avoid stressful events. But such simplistic advice is impossible to follow.
14、Even if stressful events are dangerous, many like the death of a loved one are impossible to avoid. Moreover, any warning to avoid all stressful events is a prescription for staying away from opportunities as well as trouble. Since any change can be stressful, a person who wanted to be completely fr
15、ee of stress would never marry, have a child, take a new job or move. The notion that all stress makes you sick also ignores a lot of what we know about people. It assumes were all vulnerable and passive in the face of adversity. But what about human initiative and creativity? Many come through peri
16、ods of stress with more physical and mental vigor than they had before. We also know that a long time without change or challenge can lead to boredom, and physical and mental swain. 21 The result of Holmes-Rahes medical research tells us _. （ A） the way you handle major events may cause stress （ B）
17、what should be done to avoid stress （ C） what kind of event would cause stress （ D） how to cope with sudden changes in life 22 The studies on stress in the early 1970s led to _. （ A） widespread concern over its harmful effects （ B） great panic over the mental disorder it could cause （ C） an intensiv
18、e research into stress-related illnesses （ D） popular avoidance of stressful jobs 23 The score of the Holmes-Rahe test shows _. （ A） how much pressure you are under （ B） how positive events can change your life （ C） how stressful a major event can be （ D） how you can deal with life-changing events 2
19、4 Why is “such simplistic advice“ (Para. 3) impossible to follow? （ A） No one can stay on the same job for long. （ B） No prescription is effective in relieving stress. （ C） People have to get married someday. （ D） You could be missing opportunities as well. 25 According to the passage people who hav
20、e experienced ups and downs may become _. （ A） nervous when faced with difficulties （ B） physically and mentally strained （ C） more capable of coping with adversity （ D） indifferent toward what happens to them 25 That summer an army of crickets started a war with my father. They picked a fight the m
21、inute they invaded our cellar. Dad didnt care for bugs much more than Mamma, and he could tolerate a few spiders and assorted creepy crawlers living in the basement Every farm house had them. A part of rustic living and something you needed to put up with ff you wanted the simple life. He told Mamma
22、: now that were living out here, you cant be jerking your head and swallowing your gum over whats plain natural, Ellen. But she was a city girl through and through and had no ears when it came to defending vermin. She said a cricket was just a noisy cockroach, just a dumb horny bug that wouldnt shut
23、 up. She said in the city there were blocks of buildings overrun with cockroaches with no way for people to get rid of them. No sir, no way could she sleep with all that chirping going on; then to prove her point she wouldnt go to bed. She drank coffee and smoked my fathers cigarettes and she paced
24、between the couch and the TV. Next morning she threatened to pack up and leave, so Dad drove to the hardware store and hurried back. He squirted poison from a jug with a spray nozzle. He sprayed the basement and all around the foundation of the house. When he was finished he told us that was the end
25、 of it. But what he should have said was: this is the beginning, the beginning of our war, the beginning of our destruction. I often think back to that summer and try to imagine him delivering a speech with words like that, because for the next fourteen days Mamma kept find dead crickets in the clea
26、n laundry. Shed shake out a towel or a sheet and a dead black cricket would roll across the linoleum. Sometimes the cat would corner one, and swat it around like he was playing hockey, then carry it away in his mouth. Dad said swallowing a few dead crickets wouldnt hurt as long as the cat didnt eat
27、too many. Each time Mamma complained he told her it was only natural that wed be fending a couple of dead ones for a while. Soon live crickets started showing up in the kitchen and bathroom. Mamma freaked because she thought they were the dead crickets come back to haunt, but Dad said these was defi
28、nitely a new batch, probably coming up on the pipes. He fetched his jug of poison and sprayed beneath the sink and behind the toilet and all along the baseboard until the whole house smelled of poison, and then he sprayed the cellar again, and then he went outside and sprayed all around the foundati
29、on leaving a foot-wide moat of poison. For a couple of weeks we went back to find dead crickets in the laundry. Dad told us to keep a sharp look out. He suggested that wed all be better off to hide as many as we could from Mamma. I fed a few dozen to the cat who I didnt like because he scratched and
30、 bit for no reason. I hoped the poison might kill him too so we could get a puppy. A couple of weeks later, when both live and dead crickets kept turning up, he emptied the cellar of junk. Then he burned a lot of bundled newspapers and magazines which he said the crickets had turned into nests. He s
31、tood over that fire with a rake in one hand and a garden hose in the other. He wouldnt leave it even when Mamma sent me out to fetch him for supper. He wouldnt leave the fire, and she wouldnt put supper on the table. Both my brothers were crying. Finally she went out and got him herself. And while w
32、e ate, the wind lifted some embers onto the wood pile. The only gasoline was in the lawn mowers fuel tank but that was enough to create an explosion big enough to reach the house. Once the roof caught, there wasnt much anyone could do. 26 The word“ rustic“ in the first paragraph probably means _. （
33、A） urban （ B） rural （ C） metropolitan （ D） extravagant 27 Which of the following is CORRECT about Dad and Mamma? （ A） Compared with Mamma, Dad was more tolerant of bugs （ B） Mamma took Dads advice to put up with some crawlers. （ C） Dad could bear to have spiders more than bugs. （ D） Mamma often swal
34、lowed her gum in the hous 28 Dad had to go to the hardware store to buy _ （ A） some pesticide （ B） a toxic jug （ C） a spray nozzle （ D） some cigarettes 29 Dad sprayed poison in all of the following places EXCEPT _. （ A） kitchen （ B） basement （ C） bathroom （ D） sitting-room 30 The immediate cause of
35、the fire is _. （ A） the wind （ B） some embers （ C） the explosion of the fuel tank （ D） the materials of the roof 30 The earliest controversies about the relationship between photography and art centered on whether photographs fidelity to appearances and dependence on a machine allowed it to be a fin
36、e art as distinct from merely a practical art. Throughout the nineteenth century, the defence of photography was identical with the struggle to establish it as a fine art. Against the charge that photography was a soulless, mechanical copying of reality, photographers asserted that it was instead a
37、privileged way of seeing, a revolt against commonplace vision, and no less worthy an art than painting. Ironically, now that photography is securely established as a fine art, many photographers find it pretentious or irrelevant to label it as such. Serious photographers variously claim to be findin
38、g, recording, impartially observing, witnessing events, exploring themselves anything but making works of art. They are no longer willing to debate whether photography is or is not a fine art, except to proclaim that their own work is not involved with art. It shows the extent to which they simply t
39、ake for granted the concept of art imposed by the triumph of Modernism: the better the art, the more subversive it is of the traditional aims of art. Photographers disclaimers of any interest in making art tell us more about the harried status of the contemporary notion of art than about whether pho
40、tography is or is not art. For example, those photographers who suppose that, by taking pictures, they are getting away from the pretensions of art as exemplified by painting remind us of those Abstract Expressionist painters who imagined they were getting away from the intellectual austerity of cla
41、ssical Modernist painting by concentrating on the physical act of painting. Much of photographys prestige today derives from the convergence of its aims with those of recent art, particularly with the dismissal of abstract art implicit in the phenomenon of Pop painting during the 1960s. Appreciating
42、 photographs is a relief to sensibilities tired of the mental exertions demanded by abstract art. Classical Modernist painting that is, abstract art as developed in different ways by Picasso, Kandinsky, and Matisse presupposes highly developed skills of looking and a familiarity with other paintings
43、 and the history of art. Photography, like Pop painting, reassures viewers that art is not hard; photography seems to be more about its subjects than about art. Photography, however, has developed all the anxieties and self-consciousness of a classic Modernist art. Many professionals privately have
44、begun to worry that the promotion of photography as an activity subversive of the traditional pretensions of art has gone so far that the public will forget that photography is a distinctive and exalted activity in short, an art. 31 What is the author mainly concerned with? 32 Why does the author in
45、troduce Abstract Expressionist painter? 33 How did the nineteenth-century defenders of photography stress the photography? 34 Could you name a few of the Classical Modernist painters? 35 What does the author want to tell us by saying“ Ironically, now that photography is securely established as a fre
46、e art, many photographers find it pretentious or irrelevant to label it as such.“ ( Para. 2) 35 Pop stars today enjoy a style of living which was once the prerogative only of Royalty. Wherever they go, people turn out in their thousands to greet them. The crowds go wild trying to catch a brief glimp
47、se of their smiling, colorfully dressed idols. The stars are transported in their chauffeur driven Rolls-Royces, private helicopters or executive aeroplanes. They are surrounded by a permanent entourage of managers, press agents and bodyguards. Photographs of them appear regularly in the press and a
48、ll their comings and goings are reported, for, like Royalty, pop stars are news. If they enjoy many of the privileges of Royalty, they certainly share many of the inconveniences as well. It is dangerous for them to make unscheduled appearances in public. They must be constantly shielded from the ado
49、ring crowds which idolize them. They are no longer private individuals, but public property. The financial rewards they receive for this sacrifice cannot be calculated, for their rates of pay are astronomical. And why not? Society has always rewarded its top entertainers lavishly. The great days of Hollywood have become legendary: famous stars enjoyed fame, wealth and adulation on an unprecedented scale. By toda
