1、2014 年对外经济贸易大学翻译硕士英语真题试卷及答案与解析一、Vocabulary1 The packing of goods offered does not meet our standards. Could you use packing which is _ breakage?（A）secure from（B） secure about（C） secure for（D）secure under2 All employees will be_to learn and use the new computer system if we want to increase our produ
2、ctivity.（A）objected（B） obstructed（C） obliged（D）obtained3 Non-Americans have a long way to go before they reach that level720 L of soft drinks a year and that would_booming business for the two giants.（A）operate（B） update（C） recruit（D）translate into4 They have mutually agreed that Party A_Party B wit
3、h the manufacturing of television sets in Shenzhen with all necessary parts and components supplied by Party A.（A）authorizes（B） entrusts（C） offers（D）appoints5 Please make sure that your L/C will reach us well before the shipment month so that we can _shipping space for the goods with ABC Line.（A）boo
4、k（B） preserve（C） conserve（D）retain6 The wide variation_prices for some brands cannot be explained by these factors.（A）in（B） to（C） on（D）for7 Although international logistics is discussed as a movement or flow of goods, a stationary period is involved when merchandise becomes_stored in warehouses.（A）i
5、nventory（B） goods（C） cargo（D）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.（A）cost（B） expense（C） expenditure（D）spending9 Marks and Spencer admits that trading in recent weeks has shown_improvement
6、.（A）no signs of（B） no tracks of（C） no marks of（D）no evidences of10 Most people have a bank account which allows them to_checks.（A）open（B） take（C） write（D）charge11 After merger, the two companies are going to collaborate_car manufacture.（A）with（B） from（C） in（D）of12 All quotations are subject to our f
7、inal_. Unless otherwise noted or agreed upon, all prices are commission inclusive.（A）order（B） confirmation（C） terms（D）decision13 Due to her excellent performance in this project, Miss Lin was_to the Sales Director.（A）chosen（B） raised（C） promoted（D）forwarded14 Female customers are the_buyer of Fords
8、new model.（A）progressive（B） prospective（C） proper（D）perspective15 Every one-year plan must be_in relation to longer-term plans, and it should contain the stages that are necessary to achieve the final goals,（A）handed over（B） drawn up（C） made up（D）written off16 Since the price you quoted would leave
9、us no margin of_, we must do business with other suppliers who are offering lower prices for Dinner Sets of the same quality.（A）sales（B） choice（C） benefit（D）profit17 Coca-cola has overcome Pepsis_edge in Eastern Europe.（A）absolute（B） comparative（C） definite（D）competitive18 We shall be pleased to off
10、er you other items which might be of interest to you upon_ of your specific inquiries.（A）notice（B） receiver（C） arrival（D）receipt19 A business owned and operated by one person is called a_proprietorship.（A）one（B） sole（C） only（D）unique20 Urban wage earners use credit to help them purchase the vast arr
11、ay of_goods, such as automobiles, washing machines, and refrigerators.（A）durable（B） endurable（C） bearable（D）tolerable21 The candidate enjoys wide support from the voters because of his record he will probably be elected.（A）fragment（B） run on（C） choppy（D）correct22 Covent Garden is Londons big wholesa
12、le market where you can buy many things. For example, fruit, vegetables and flowers.（A）fragment（B） comma splice（C） choppy（D）correct二、Structure and Rhetorie23 The hospital decides when patients sleep. It dictates when they eat. It tells them when they may be with family.（A）correct（B） run on（C） comma
13、splice（D）choppy24 My company is House Furnishing Corporation, there is a ready market for kitchenware in our area.（A）choppy（B） fragment（C） correct（D）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
14、 been mapping the iconography of American politics.（A）fragment（B） correct（C） comma splice（D）run on26 The report, which was completed by the April 15 deadline only through the hard work and long hours of the entire staff.（A）correct（B） fragment（C） run on（D）comma splice27 Different purposes for which m
15、oney is borrowed result in the creation of different kinds of financial assets, having different maturities, risks, and other features, thus different financial markets.（A）comma splice（B） correct（C） fragment（D）run on28 Our results were inconsistent. The program obviously contains an error. A revisio
16、n of the program is required.（A）choppy（B） run on（C） fragment（D）correct29 It will further help the church in Asia, Africa and Latin America a new pope emerges from those areas.（A）fragment（B） correct（C） comma splice（D）run on30 After we studied the technical aspects of the proposal and our contracts of
17、fice reviewed its financial aspects. The proposal, although innovative, does not meet our immediate needs.（A）correct（B） run on（C） fragment（D）choppy三、Reading Comprehension30 It might be easier to do something about North Koreas nuclear truculence if we could make head or tail of the cryptic videos it
18、 has been posting on the web. The latest shows a dreaming man, some Korean 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 stat
19、ement? Should it post a video of its own? It is hard to know. Our traditional 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 i
20、n The Age of the Image, published this week, that it is possible to 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 gl
21、obal. While it still relies on words, they are increasingly wrapped up with images, and it is the images people remember. Elizabeth Daley, dean of the University of Southern Californias School of Cinematic Arts, believes writing today is like Latin on the eve of the Renaissance-the language of a sch
22、olarly establishment. YouTube clips and other visuals are the equivalent 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 preside
23、ntial debates against John Kennedy, so unkempt did the Republican 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 e
24、motional wallop can now be broadcast more widely. Video of the shooting of Neda Agha-Soltan, 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 milita
25、ry in a manhunt for a Ugandan warlord.Eyesight is the most trusted 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 arguab
26、ly what happened Somalia in 1992, with Americas poorly planned military response to the African countrys famine. In future, Mr. Apkon says, we are likely to need “ a combination of scepticism and incisiveness“ , enabling citizens to “critiquewhat is put in front of them with some level of sophistica
27、tion“.That is unlikely. When the passions provoked by visual imagery 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 states
28、manship, scholarship and justice to purge strong emotion from 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 aro
29、und “hidden mental hungers“ , easily manipulating voters.Citizens 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 id
30、entity. You believe a sales tax should replace income tax, so you vote for the candidate who shares that opinion. But todays image-based communication has litde 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 obviou
31、s solution. Even if we acquire the scepticism Mr. Apkon speaks 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 prerequisi
32、te for Protestantisms rise. Likewise, our own democracies, 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 mome
33、nt. Once you find that lever, isnt democracy bound to lose a bit of its appeal, rather like a detective story in which you have been told the ending?31 Which of the following is INCORRECT according to the author?（A）Images do not always matter in public arguments more than we admit.（B） Videos on poli
34、tical issues are the most popular among all.（C） Videos carrying messages with a great emotional wallop can attract attention.（D）Activists must use street language to appeal to the audience.32 What does the author mean by saying “writing today is like Latin on the eve of the Renaissancethe language o
35、f a scholarly establishment?“（A）Videos are like Italian that served as the street language.（B） A video is worth more than a thousand words“.（C） Writing would face extinction, just as Latin.（D）Writing would be less popular among common people.33 What is the authors attitude towards “seeing is believi
36、ng?“（A）Positive.（B） Dangerous.（C） Negative.（D）Useful.34 According to the author, what may “image-based communication“ influence voters behavior?（A）People might vote on their identities.（B） People might vote on their “hidden mental hungers“.（C） People might vote on arguments, independent of identity.
37、（D）People might vote on political advertisers who have better stories.35 Which of the following constitutes the best title for this passage?（A）In the unthinking age, seeing is believing.（B） Images matter less today than in the past.（C） Democracy has lost its appeal nowadays.（D）Images in the Informat
38、ion Age.35 One November evening in 1989 I was 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 headqu
39、arters and Nelson Mandela walked out of jail. Two lines from Wordsworth about the French Revolution, which Id read in some article about thel989 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
40、ve lived through, my generations version of 1945 or 1968.【R1 】_.Now were 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 H
41、ouse of Representatives vote to repeal “Obamacare“ for the 41st time?【R2】 _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 fa
42、iled since the invasion of Iraq a decade ago. 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 wouldnt agree to combat climate change. Now th
43、e Arab spring is eating its own children, the Russian demonstrators have gone home, and hardly anyone believes in the European project any more.【R3 】_, even before its intellectual underpinning was revealed as an academic paper whose authors had accidentally left important bits of data off their spr
44、eadsheet.The western liberating impulse-previously directed at Iraq, Iran and Cuba-has died too. Myan-mar finally opened up, and ethnic conflict promptly began. Even people who believed in al-Qaeda are now presumably disillusioned.Its hard to find a self-proclaimed political messiah anywhere: Hugo C
45、havez is dead, and Fidel Castro himself says Cubas revolution has failed. Politicians have been reduced to celebrities who can gain our attention only with Anthony Weineresque private antics.【 R4】_Meanwhile a rash of TV series like House of Cards, Veep and The Thick of It portray politics as a greed
46、y, narcissistic pursuit. No wonder political parties are shedding members at record speed. The last emotion that still animates lots of western voters is rage at immigrants-an archetypal expression of pessimism. Andrew Adonis, leading thinker of the UKs Labour party, says: “ Were in one of those per
47、iods like the 1970s where politicians manifestly dont 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.【R5 】_The latter took time to decide how to use their new
48、might. Nicole Boyer, director of the Adaptive 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: Googles Erie Schmidt
49、negotiates with North Korea, Jeff Bezos tries to save newspapers, Mark Zuckerberg plots to get the worlds poor online and Bill Gates fights infectious disease. “They have something of the white knight about them,“ muses Adonis. “There is a profound tech-optimism. “In this budding tech-utopia, government scarcely features. Great technological achievements of the pastthe atomic bomb, the moon landing and even the internetbegan within t
