1、2012 年天津外国语大学翻译硕士英语真题试卷及答案与解析一、Vocabulary1 Many of the over-the-top costumes now on display were actually kept in storage though.（A）outstanding（B） futile（C） parsimonious（D）dazzling2 Measures to curb speculative home purchases have proven effective, especially in the land supply and purchase market w
2、here excessive investments have been in retreat.（A）boycott（B） encourage（C） restrain（D）ban3 In the July rain, the run-down street in a Beijing southern suburb even looks a little dreary.（A）dirty and dilapidated（B） small but interesting（C） short but energetic（D）flopping and tiring4 The ministry announ
3、ced at a State Council Information Office press conference on August 11 that 47 medical teams, with 779 members, were in Zhouqu treating patients, sterilizing the environment and drinking water, and ensuring proper disposal of corpses.（A）burying（B） removing（C） processing（D）cleaning5 Chen warned agai
4、nst the possibility of home prices rebounding when low interest rates are adopted to mitigate inflation.（A）suspend（B） increase（C） alleviate（D）endorse6 Risk aversion came to the fore as fears about the European sovereign debt and global economy rattled investors.（A）agenda（B） checklist（C） roster（D）fro
5、nt7 The hapless pair had the misfortune to discover for themselves what any decent guide will inform you: Wangfujing is not the place for better restaurants.（A）unlucky（B） persistent（C） stubborn（D）happy8 The target is multifaceted: the country hopes to gain military strength and be unafraid of foreig
6、n threats, while creating a high standard of living.（A）having many aspects（B） kaleidoscopic（C） colorful（D）crystal clear9 To increase performance and win against Morgan Stanley,Chen decided to forge a short-lived alliance between Yongle and Dazhong Electronics, which brought Yongle to the brink of in
7、solvency.（A）association（B） connection（C） separation（D）disclamation10 I spent hours simply wandering these back streets, looking for photo opportunities and inhaling the unmistakable scent of burning coal.（A）enjoying（B） breathing out（C） breathing in（D）touching11 Lebanese President Michel Suleiman wel
8、comes his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Beirut for an official visit on October （A）match（B） spouse（C） friend（D）foe12 The three referees were detained in March, pushing the credibility of Chinese referees to an all-time low.（A）trustee（B） reliability（C） judgment（D）notability13 Last year 1
9、75 , 000 people flocked to the downtown area for the Thanksgiving Day Parade.（A）swarmed to（B） gathered to（C） centralized in（D）dispersed to14 It is believed that nomadic ancestors considered bumper harvests as bounty form the “God of Sun“ and natural disasters as punishment.（A）victory（B） reward（C） wa
10、rning（D）persecution15 When we talk about giving universities greater autonomy to recruit students, people may be concerned about possible fraud and preferential treatment enjoyed by students from wealthy or powerful families.（A）teach（B） admit（C） fake（D）transfer16 Recently, Joe, a foreign English tea
11、cher in China, said to me, “I feel dazed and disoriented; my students here are unusually quiet. I cant tell if they understand my lessons. “ His plight is not surprising. Many foreign ESL instructors often feel confused when they first step into a Chinese classroom.（A）annoyance（B） depression（C） pred
12、icament（D）disappointment17 This cultural perspective disorients foreign teachers, who misperceive their students as passive and withdrawn.（A）perceive（B） conceive（C） misunderstand（D）process18 Some esoteric fonts used by todays artists emulate monks who copied medieval manuscripts by hand.（A）complicat
13、ed（B） mysterious（C） gibberish（D）cursive19 Tower C of office Park, a dazzling new office building in Beijings Central Business District, has been widely praised in the market for its superior quality and pleasant amenities after it was unveiled to the market at a press conference held in March 20（A）c
14、onvenience（B） regularity（C） sight（D）outlook20 The countrys stability must therefore be based on the reconciliation of the relationships between different ethnic groups（A）rapprochement（B） hostility（C） negotiation（D）war-ceasing二、Reading Comprehension20 What is the charm of necklaces? Why would anyone
15、put something extra around her neck and then invest it with special significance? A necklace doesnt afford warmth in cold weather, like a scarf, or protection in combat, like chain mail; it only decorates. We might say it borrows meaningfrom what it surrounds and sets off; the head with its supremel
16、y important material contents, and the face, that register of the soul. When photograph reduces the reality it represents, they mention not only the passage from three dimensions to two, but also the selection of a point du vue favors the top of the body rather than the bottom and the front rather t
17、han the back. The face is the jewel in the crown oi the body, and so we give it a setting.When people are intensely concerned with something that is obviously impractical, anthropologists take note, for lovely useless things often express archaic to exist in contemporary American houses already heat
18、ed by gas and electricity, yet most people want one and it is still the focus of the living room. This desire testifies, I think, to the hundreds of thousands of years during which we Homo sapiens huddled around a cave fire. We watch ourselves, rather anxiously, vanish backward down those lone tempo
19、rary corridors, as my daughter gazes at her infinitely multiplied small self in the mutually opposed mirrors of the beauty salon, and wonders, is it me? Our fireplaces and necklaces and tombstones say it is, they are.In American culture, an interest in necklaces seems to be rather gender specific. M
20、any men to whom I mention the enterprise feign polite interest and then change the subject, though I know some who admire, construct, and wear necklaces, including the distinguished scientist and poet to whom this essay is dedicated. Most women, by contrast, become mildly or wildly enthusiastic. A d
21、octor in Blois brought out her entire collection of costume jewelry for me, exhibited the most splendid pieces with an account of where and when they were purchased, and then explain them all with the help of a large glossy book on the history of costume jewelry , with dozens of pictures. A former s
22、tudent of mine who had moved to California mailed me six plastic boxes full of beads gleaned from a warehouse managed by an eccentric: friend who just their settings; a feature bead painted with a naked lady; crystal roundels of truly exceptional shine; and tiny silver hematite seed beads. Beads len
23、d themselves to exchange, Beads travel. And clearly these two facts are related.21 The function of the necklace is to _.（A）keep people warm（B） provide people with protection（C） make people beautiful（D）build up peoples confidence22 Lovely useless things, according to the author, serve the purpose of_
24、.（A）decorating the house（B） showing off ones artistic taste（C） reminding people of things past（D）revealing ones tendency to waste money23 “Gender specific“ means_.（A）both men and women（B） either men or women（C） neither men nor women（D）related to one sex only24 From this article we can gather that_.（
25、A）Only women like necklaces（B） Only men like necklaces（C） Most women like necklaces（D）Most men like necklaces25 Some men “feign polite interest“ means_.（A）They are keenly interested（B） They are not interested at all because they are men（C） They are slightly interested（D）They pretend to be interested
26、 out of politeness25 About a dozen years ago my wife and I planted a hedge of twenty-seven arborvitae trees along the border of our backyard, which, although our house sits on nineteen acres of fields and woods, is also the back border of our property. A sloping hayfield with a realtors dream of pan
27、oramic views lies directly behind us. So the hedge was our attempt to secure privacy for the future. The nurseryman who sold us the shrubs assured us they were the best species for our purpose and climate. I measured and marked the planting sites, called in “Chink“ Norris (whose possibly racist nick
28、name Ive not looked into any more than I have the nurserymans credentials) to come with his small back-hoe and dig the holes. As advised, I faithfully watered and fertilized each tree throughout the holes. As advised, I faithfully watered and fertilized each tree throughout the first year, with resu
29、lts that were everything Id been promised: dense, hardy, and luxuriant, a towering bulwark of green. Thus began an episode of great vexation and buffoonery in my life, known and (I have no doubt) merrily recounted in local circles as the tale of “Garret and his trees“ , or as my wife puts it, “Garre
30、t and the deer. “ It so happens that we live next to one of the countys most extensive “ deer yard“ , those areas of canopied woods to which the deer retire in winter, making networks of deeply furrowed tracks and foraging as best they can until theres a declared winner in the yearly race between sp
31、ring and starvation.It also happens that deer find arborvitae a delicacy, related to the cedar that they also love, but thicker and more succulent. By the second winter theyd found and attacked my trees. I fought back, not with a vengeanceI stopped short of thatbut with something close to obsession.
32、 I erected fence structures that made our backyard look like a scene from the Somme. I played recordings of wolves howling, recordings of me howling. I fired pistol shots at random hours of the night. I hung or sprinkled repellents of blood meal, urine, (mine) , and deodorant soap. Hearing that deer
33、 were repelled by the scent of human hair, I asked some hair dressers to set aside their sweepings in a bag with, as the saying goes, my name on it.As any warden will tell you, if deer are hungry enough they will get through anything, which this year included an electric fence hooked to a charger su
34、pposedly powerful enough to deter an elephant. So the farmer whod helped me rig it up assured me. What he did not tell me, because he did not know, was that the insulating snowpack would prevent an animal from completing the circuit with the ground. In came the deer like a school of piranhas. This w
35、as shortly after a man from Connecticut purchased the hayfield behind our house for a price few of my neighbors could afforded and none of them could believe and set about measuring the foundations of a house.26 The author and his wife planted a hedge along their backyard for the purpose of_.（A）prev
36、ent deer（B） protect privacy（C） beautify the surroundings（D）eco-friendly27 The author collects hair in bags to prevent the invasion of deer because he knows that_.（A）deer like the smell of human hair（B） deer can be repelled by the smell of human hair（C） deer die when eating human hair（D）deer flee at
37、the sight of human hair28 Why the author sets up an electric fence?（A）as a safety precaution（B） to prevent the harassment by deer（C） as part of house decoration plan（D）to halt potential thieves and robbers29 Why did the electric fence fail? It is because of_.（A）The deer are smart（B） The winter is co
38、ld（C） The fence is of low quality（D）Snowpack serves as an insulator30 What measure was NOT taken by the author to deter the deer?（A）urine（B） gun shots（C） watchdog（D）deodorant soup30 I was eight years old the first time I fainted. I was at friends house, and a bee stung me on the back of the neck. I
39、had felt nothing but a slight pinch and the bug was soon wiped away and flushed down the toilet, but since I looked pale I was urged to call my mother. As I told her what had happened , I felt myself blacking out, sinking to the floor, vaguely aware that I was still gripping the receiver.Perhaps I w
40、as allergic to the bee stingthe only one Ive ever gotten, although to this day I have a phobia about bees, wasps, and other insects. But the image of an eight-year-old in Keds crumpling to the ground while he describes his injury to his Mommy seems to return us to Freudian territory. Note the umbili
41、cal image of the phone cord.Call me fanciful. Still, Im afraid these undertones are hardly dissipated by the second fainting incident I can recall, which practically reeks of the family romance. This took place one weekend morning while we were gathered in the kitchen to eat breakfast. My mother sto
42、od at the stove making French toast, which she had already served to the kids; my father, seated at the table, was cutting a bagel with a sharp bread knife. Contrary to every principle of kitchen safety, he was holding the bagel in his hand and cutting inward, and eventually he made a neat, shallow
43、incision in his palm. The blood was profuse.Being a hematologist, my father didnt panic: this was just business as usual. But my mother stopped flipping French toast and collapsed to the floor. I, inspired by the blood and my mothers collapse and the powerful odors of syrup and sugar rising from my
44、plate, slumped forward. My forehead went into the syrup. I heard a roarit seemed to me that I was being clutched beneath the armpits and whirled aroundand then my father shook me back into consciousness. He had already attended to my mother.Still think Im fanciful? Then listen to this. Out of curios
45、ity I asked my mother when her first fainting episode had occurred.She paused, thought it over, and came up with the following. At the age of thirteen, she went to visit her father in the hospital, who only the day before had had his appendix removed. Aside from her father, still conked out from the
46、 anesthesia, the other person in the room was a nurse, whowas busy changing the dressing on the patients incision, which hadnt quite closed. For some reason, the nurse had to leave the room. At this point, she asked my mother to hold the soiled dressing in place until she returned. My mother complie
47、d. Standing over her dazed father, gingerly holding a used bandage over a hole in his lower abdomen, the thirteen-year-old grew lightheaded. I assumed the nurse returned before she hit the floor.31 It can be gathered from this article that the tendency to faint most probably is_.（A）genetically deter
48、mined（B） independently developed（C） virus infected（D）emotionally affected32 The faint related to the bee sting led to the authors fear later in her life of_.（A）snakes（B） elephants（C） insects（D）dogs33 The authors mother fainting might be assumed to be related to_.（A）appendix（B） abdomen（C） nurse（D）blo
49、od34 “At this point“ in this article most probably means_.（A）at this moment（B） At this part（C） at this house（D）at this corner35 One most plausible reason that the authors father did not panic when he cut himself is_.（A）He had served in the army（B） He was the head of the family（C） He tried to maintain his authority（D）He was an expert on blood35 A dog cares deeply, which way your body is leaning. Forward or backward? Forward can be seen as aggressive; backwardeven a quarter of an i
