1、翻译硕士英语模拟试卷 8及答案与解析 一、 Vocabulary 1 Though hes slow to learn, his _ makes him an excellent student in our department. （ A） intelligence （ B） perseverance （ C） patience （ D） prudence 2 When she _, her mother was sitting by her bed. （ A） came round （ B） came on （ C） came over （ D） came across 3 In some
2、 remote places, there are still very poor people who cant afford to live in _ conditions. （ A） positive （ B） gracious （ C） honorable （ D） decent 4 If you put up your hand, it will _ that you agree with me. （ A） indicate （ B） incline （ C） identify （ D） illustrate 5 Students from a _ background have a
3、n advantage at university. （ A） previous （ B） privileged （ C） private （ D） principal 6 She _ thousands of dollars from the charity while appearing to be its best fundraiser. （ A） embellished （ B） embroiled （ C） embezzled （ D） embargoed 7 The ship _ at Sydney and we spent a day touring the city. （ A）
4、 berthed （ B） amassed （ C） dissuaded （ D） poached 8 He had lived illegally in the United States for five years after his visitors visa _. （ A） expired （ B） abolished （ C） amended （ D） constrained 9 Sons of high-ranking females may remain at the center of the troop while others are driven to the _. （
5、 A） periphery （ B） predict （ C） propitiatory （ D） peripheral 10 The Vatican condemned the technology as _. （ A） instructive （ B） perverse （ C） rewarding （ D） salutary 11 According to psychologists, a persons attention is attracted _ by the intensity of different signals as by their context: signific
6、ance and information content. （ A） much not so （ B） not so much （ C） so not much （ D） so much not 12 All the flights _ because of the snowstorm, we had to take the train instead. （ A） were cancelled （ B） had been cancelled （ C） having cancelled （ D） having been cancelled 13 If you have never planted
7、 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 14 _ of the twins was arrested, because I saw both at a party last night. （ A） None （ B） Both （ C） Neither （ D） All 15 It is necessary that he _ the assig
8、nment without delay. （ A） hand in （ B） hands in （ C） must hand in （ D） has to hand in 16 “What courses are you going to do next semester? I dont know. But its about time _ on something.“ （ A） Id decide （ B） I decided （ C） I decide （ D） Im deciding 17 Mr. White works with a chemicals import the bank
9、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 Development Association, gets regular infusions of cash from rich countries and lends funds on near giveaway terms to truly poor countries, mostly in
10、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 countries and restructure its loans to the poorest nations as outright grants. Nancy Birdsall, a former World Banker who runs a Washington thi
11、nk 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 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-al
12、l,“ 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 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 o
13、f backlash from entrenched bank staff upset that he is turning up the heat on an anticorruption campaign begun by his predecessor, 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. Whic
14、h may explain why no World Bank president, Wolfowitz included, has attempted it. 26 According to the author, the World Banks real problem is _. （ A） Its corruption （ B） Its policy on lending （ C） Its continued existence （ D） Wolfowitzs romantic relationship 27 Which of the following can be inferred
15、from the passage about the World Bank? （ A） Its anticorruption campaign is still going on. （ B） It should readjust 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 coun
16、tries. 28 According to the passage, the World Bank should do the following EXCEPT _. （ A） reducing staff （ B） coordinating global action （ C） increasing the profit it makes （ D） offering advice to poor countries 29 Which of the following is NOT true according to Nancy Birdsall? （ A） The World Bank s
17、hould reduce its staff. （ B） The World Bank should coordinate global action. （ C） The World Bank should offer advice to poor countries. （ D） The World Bank should limit its work to lending and grantmakin 30 We can infer from the last paragraph that the author was _ the capability of the World Bank t
18、o solve its problems. （ A） confident in （ B） indifferent to （ C） optimistic about （ D） pessimistic about 30 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 airpor
19、t when he spotted 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 himse
20、lf, and realized 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
21、,“ 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 April, In Praise of Slowness has been translated into 12 languages and sold
22、 some 60,000 copies, 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 bega
23、n in Italy and 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 800 are following the advice of t
24、he early 20th-century 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 i
25、t lasted for eight 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 withou
26、t speeding. These 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 wh
27、ole life,“ he says, 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
28、to work ever longer 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 wit
29、h “the goods life. “ “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 co
30、ntrast, Europeans 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
31、pale English ale. 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
32、zones and green spaces. 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 e
33、veryone is telling 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 cot
34、tage in rural Vermont. Its an effort to strike the right balance between work and leisure. A few enlightened companies like the accounting firm Ernst some movement has been supported by the government; people are called on to be aware of their life style. 35 【正确答案】 It implies that Americans fight ag
35、ainst the cult of speed tends to be a task that depends on their own efforts to complete for there is little hope for them to get government help. 36 【正确答案】 The lower timberline is likely to be found in an area that has little water. Both upper and lower timberlines mark forest boundaries. 37 【正确答案】
36、 The trees in the middle and upper latitudes begin to become twisted and deformed and tend to have greater heights on ridges, exposed to strong winds and barren soils and the tree growth is negatively affected by the snow cover in valleys. 38 【正确答案】 To present several environmental factors that may
37、contribute to a satisfactory explanation of that phenomenon. 39 【正确答案】 Because they are low, they are less exposed to strong winds and the winter snow cover gives them more protection from the extreme cold. Moreover, their low growth form keeps them closer to the ground, where there is more heat tha
38、n further up. 40 【正确答案】 Timberline Vegetation On Mountains. 三、 Proofreading 41 【正确答案】 isare. 42 【正确答案】 largelargely 43 【正确答案】 the(age)去掉 the 44 【正确答案】 hashave 45 【正确答案】 involved后面加 in 46 【正确答案】 Japanese前面加 of 47 【正确答案】 countries前面加 other 48 【正确答案】 mechanicmechanical 49 【正确答案】 eyebroweyebrows 50 【正确答
39、案】 offor 四、 Writing 51 【正确答案】 The Biggest Disadvantage of Microblog Microblog is gaining widespread popularity in China in the past few years. While being praised by many, microblog have its own downside. As far as I am concerned, the biggest disadvantage of Microblog lies in the destabilizing facto
40、rs it brings about for netizens and the society. This point will be justified in three aspects. First of all, the Microblog is likely to be the source of rumors. Inappropriately tackled, these rumors might mislead netizens and spread panic among whole society. An research which was conducted by Shan
41、ghai Jiaotong University displays that microblog has become the main source of mass media that produce groundless allegations in 2010. As is widely known, the news that Jingyong, a famous martial arts writer, have passed away washed in a foaming way into the Chinese peoples scope and raised great gr
42、ief among netizens. As with Jingyongs issue, there are large amounts of rumors such as the earthquake in Shanxi province that caused great shock and tension. Secondly, microblog is being capitalized as a form of venting anger by radicals which is closely connected to irrational outburst, even person
43、al attack. For instance, the girl Guo Meimei closely related to Red Cross was said to have received many blackmailing letters and suffered from verbal attack in public places. Likewise, those who participated in the hot matchmaking show If you are the one in Jiangsu was reported to be verbal hurt by
44、 some radical netizens through weibo. The girl Zhangminys life was totally disordered by some netizens merely because she explained on a variety show that she was keen on Japanese culture, which, generally speaking, was just a personal issue. It goes without saying that unproper utilization of Micro
45、blog highlights its downside. Another point in case is that microblog is vulnerable to be used by people bearing illegal purposes which result in the disorder of Internet environment as well as netizens interests. It is often the case that many netizens encountered personal information piracy and su
46、ffered great loss or received many nuisance calls everyday. Furthermore, the real name registration system are worsening the Internet environment in terms of the information leakage. To draw the above-mentioned into a conclusion, the biggest disadvantage of microblog are the unrest factors it may ca
47、use for both netizens and the society in terms of microblog-generated rumors, unreasonable outburst of anger and resentments and also the illegal behaviors such as disclosure of personal information. However, we still cant stop eating because weve got chucked. What we really need is a feasible and comprehensive system of Internet management. With regard netizens ourselves, what really counts is trying to use microblog more rational and also learn to maintain our legal rights.
